Yes, don't read or respond. Crackpot!
Joe Sambou
>From: Modou Ceesay <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Some Gambians caught at the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport.
>Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 05:56:26 -0800
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>--- Gibby Cham <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > My Ceesay, I'm not going to sit here and make what is
> > illegal to be legal,
>
>Thank you for your rationality. There are some who would still
>argue that the ends justifies the means: even "accidentally" or
>intentionally overstaying when they know what the rules are.
>That is the worst kind of sin because they know the truth but try
>to twist and rationalize the situation. They say, "oh, when you
>look at it like this it is not really against the letter of the
>law I suppose" -- even though they know full well the spirit of the
>law. Then hundreds and thousands of others get punished because
>Gambians earn the label of liars. This is a terrible thing
>because their pride and self-centerdness gets in the way of them
>confessing that they were wrong. I'm glad to see you are more
>smart than that.
>
> > but we have all at once did
> > something illegal in our life and never got caught.
>
>And sometimes we hide the fact. That is the act of a boy. A man
>admits it, turns himself in, makes re-payment on his honor. Doesn't
>your beloved atlanta have a story about the first USA president as
>a boy saying "I cannot tell I lie" and admiting on his own free will
>that he cut down a neighbor's tree? Isn't that a parable? That is
>the act of a man. People who don't develop that honor are still
>children, despite their age.
>
> > Mr Ceesay, today if you pick an apple for example that
> > is not yours but you were not given permission to take
> > it. May be it belong to a friend or roommate. What
> > would you call that? stealing I should believe
>
>Yes. As a man I will not do it. This is the most basic of
>laws. If I find out later that I have possibly made an error I will
>immediately go and pay well for that Mango etc. People who cannot
>believe that are beyond hope. Their bad nature does not let them belive
>that there are good people. They assume that "everybody" takes bribes.
>That "everybody" has a price. Then society pays for the sins of those
>few. What is horrible becomes normal.
>
> > If you were in the situation that these people are in,
> > we would feel saddened by it.
>
>If I had done wrong I would say I had got what I deserved. The
>wicked man will try to fight and argue and justify it, however.
>
> > So people,
> > let's ignore this negativeness ...
>
>When people call the commandments of the Koran or Bible negativeness
>then we are in trouble. "Do not lie." That is a simple absolute thing,
>and it doesn't matter the situation or what others have done to you.
>It brings an interesting question = are many people willing to lie
>and steal because their country/family is poor. OR => are their
>countries and families poor BECAUSE they are wicked?
>The lucky and educatedt escape and never go back even if they have
>to lie and cheat to get away. They then act concerned by sending a
>bit of their money home to mother, or writing on the internet. ARen't
>they grand? Then they act surprised when they get caught because they
>are in a land where "the rule of law" means something. Then they
>turn to heaven and pray for themselves. Too late now! Yundum
>airport is in your future!
>
>This is all I will say. I will reply no more. I will read no more
>comments or respones on this subject. It is an absolute matter.
>Read your Koran or Bible. You overstayers just be sure to have your
>white-out ready when you get to the parts you don't like.
>
>MC
>
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