Well put, Laye. No one can say it better. I was thinking along the same
lines and wanted to write about this breed of Gambians following Yaya around
like slaves. Then I thought to myself that some slaves were even better than
these vermin. See stories about slavery are replete with accounts about
slaves running away and fighting their masters. You did NOT have people with
OPTIONS begging their masters to enslave them. That is what we have back
home. You have morons willingly slaving for child murderers and some are
even proud of it. Simply obscene.

I am sure you do NOT buy this crap about ‘patriotism’. ‘We must help them to
develop the country’ and all the nonsensical jargons these prostitutes use
in order to rationalize their despicable behavior. Don’t believe any of
those ridiculous excuses. These people are NOT interested in helping anybody
but themselves. They all know that Yaya is a vicious Dictator. They know
that they CANNOT sway Yaya’s diabolical views. They know when push comes to
shove they will NOT tell Yaya the truth and put their ‘cozy’ jobs in
jeopardy. These people CANNOT even protect themselves against Yaya let alone
protect the defenseless Gambian.

Even when Yaya fires them unjustifiably, they do NOT have the guts to say
so. Yaya fires their husbands and they still slave for the moron. They
instead crawl to Yaya to beg for another job. You think during slavery a
freed slave will beg his master to further enslave him? Brother we have a
lot of sick people back home. Inmates running the asylum. Retards. And like
you said, they do NOT want anybody to point that out. When you try to tell
these vermin that it is WRONG to support a child murderer to lead us, they
do NOT want to hear it. The most misguided among them will try to blame our
children for getting slaughtered by Yaya’s trigger-happy thugs. The rest of
the Yaya sycophants will just pretend that our children were never
slaughtered. They would instead want to focus on Yaya’s ‘developments’ and
the benefits they (the sycophants) are reaping from the status quo.

And those of us that are pointing out the blatant abuses to them, like you
said, they will brand you with all sorts of names: ‘haters’, ‘threatening
national security’ etc. The latest and most ridiculous label is the one they
threw at Muhammad Sillah (Human Rights Activist): ‘Inciting Genocidal
Confusion’. All these people want is for us to stay quiet while they
annihilate our people. These people are sick and we MUST treat them as such.
As I said yesterday, you do NOT pet a mad dog with rabies just because he is
a dog. In other words, you do NOT treat Yaya as a DECENT human being just
because he is a human being.

Last night on American TV Tony Blair was asked about how to deal with Bin
Laden in light of comments from a British Minister saying that Bin Laden was
a mad man. The thrust of the questioner was that, one cannot possibly
negotiate with someone that one regards as mad. Blair answered aptly by
saying something to the effect that you CANNOT negotiate with Bin laden. You
have to DEFEAT him. I submit that Gambians CANNOT ‘negotiate’ with Yaya and
his cohorts. We have to DEFEAT them.

Laye, thanks again for a superbly written piece.
KB



>From: Abdoulie A Jallow <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: The Mind Of Jammehs' Prostitutes - What Patriotism?
>Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 09:48:49 -0600
>
>Here’s to an attempt in understanding the mind bugging behavior of some
>of our seemingly intelligent technocrats zooming into how they are
>being used, abused and refused by the fascist – Jammeh - only for them
>to turn around and declare their unflinching dedication to the
>perpetuation of his establishment. They call it patriotism.
>
>A tacit patriotism! That is to say a wordless, and consequentially a
>thoughtless and will-less patriotism, a revolting nonsense! An absurd
>dream and what is more, a wicked dream! An unworthy deception! For
>their patriotism assumes that while they are in a state of not being
>able to will, to think for themselves, they bound themselves and
>possibly all their descendents – only by virtue of having let
>themselves be abused and refused without raising a finger – into
>perpetual slavery.
>
>They all remain isolated in their newfound liberty or absolute right,
>paying no attention to the moral freedom and dignity of others except
>in those cases wherein such attention is dictated by their weakness and
>self-centeredness – in other words, by their own imprudence and
>personal interest. As we speak, egoism is the supreme law,
>unfortunately, the only extant right in the Gambia. The good is
>determined by success in their version of patriotism and largesse, the
>bad only by failure to join the club and become perpetual slaves and
>prostitutes, and justice is simply the political enthronement of
>Jammehs’ wishes, however horrible, cruel, or infamous it might be.
>Consequently, by good in this group of prostitutes is meant only the
>greatest satisfaction given to Jammehs’ ego, which, being accomplished
>upon the real sacrifice of the moral conscience of each member of the
>group. This excludes form its midst, the “threats to national
>security”, saboteurs, natural enemies, the vast majority of Gambians
>within and outside the country. The “dogo-dogo” goes on!
>
>The distinction between the patriot and the saboteur, according to
>their twisted logic, lies in how much of the degrading abuse one can
>take from Jammeh. All those who have been recognized as willing and
>interested in perpetuating the fascist, regardless of the humiliation
>and everything they do against a drop of moral and ethical conscience,
>are declared patriots and everything contrary to that, the bad,
>unpatriotic saboteurs - a “threat to national security”. Members of the
>seemingly elite group of Jammeh prostitutes who entered this compact
>having become what they are, having bound themselves by insatiable lust
>for pleasure, recognition and quick loot, assume thereby the duty of
>subordinating their moral obligations/conscience and their individual
>rights for the common weal. Their ultimate duty to the society they
>live in. The Gambian society. They have helped Jammeh become the most
>negation, the most callously calculated and complete negation of
>humanity. He rends apart the social solidarity, as we knew it, of all
>Gambians, and clustered some of the most vulnerable - the seemingly
>intelligent – in order to destroy, humiliate and enslave the rest in
>his own way. He takes under his protection, for his protection, only
>his tribesmen and he recognizes and gives respect and humanity only
>within the confines of his own boundary of special friends. Since he
>does not recognize any right outside of his confines, he quite
>logically arrogate to himself the right to treat with the most
>ferocious inhumanity all those he perceives as a threat to his
>established confines. When he displays generosity or humanity towards
>the rest, he does so in no case out of any sense of duty. That is
>because he has no sense of duty to those he is obliged to serve as a
>head of state. Think about it!
>
>
>Abdoulie A. Jallow
>(BambaLaye)
>
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