Sister Jabou:
I want to take a moment in commending you relative to your statements below. We also have to
refrain from attacking each other. By engaging in such, we are directly helping the APRC dictatorship.
As much as we would like an opposition victory, we cannot afford to give Jammeh weapons that I
believe he will use against us for our ultimate destruction. No comparison should be made as to
whether Halifah is better than "Darboe and Hamat put together." As a matter of fact, no Gambian is better than
any other Gambian.
Naphiyo,
Comrade Jassey-Conteh
-----Original Message-----
>From: [log in to unmask]
>Sent: Sep 8, 2006 4:11 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: THE ALLIANCE for REGIME CHANGE/Sidibeh
>
>
>Brother Sidibeh,
>
>I agree with you. Lack of a united opposition plus all the other factors you
>have mentioned are why the people have been failed and we indeed ought to
>scrutinize the politicians and that is precisely what some of us are doing, from
> the lack of commitment to agreements signed to the refusal to cooperate
>behind a united front that would have encompassed both the necessary numbers to
>unseat the APRC as well as the know how to propel our people towards true
>liberty. So we are just following through with the necessary scrutiny of our
>leaders and in that effort, we will point out all the places where they are
>wanting every time this is manifested and in order to move forward, we can never
>afford to rationalize any of their short comings because then we become part
>of the problem..
>
>
>Sister Jabou Joh
>
>In a message dated 9/8/2006 2:37:45 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
>Sister Jabou Joh,
>
>Not that there should be no policy documents or election manifestoes
>authored partly to win sympathy or support from the literate constituency.
>But rather, to question and even provoke a rethinking of the ways we look at
>and judge political processes in our polity.
>
>Because the efforts for a broader coalition of the Opposition has failed,
>supporters of different alliances are now busy demonising one another, even
>though it is clear as noon day that neither NADD nor the UDP/NRP are the
>major obstacles to social reform. So my position is that those who should
>place these policy documents and their presenters under scrutiny ought
>temselves be the initial objects of some such scrutiny.
>
>Independent-minded journalists whose critique would have been most
>welcomed are now almost effectively silenced. When once the respected corps
>of journalists demonstrated in paying tribute to Deyda Hydara, gunned down
>by thugs, not a single politician - unless I am grossly mistaken - joined
>their ranks to vent their anger at such brazen political assasination. But
>perhaps of even greater import, is the fact that ordinary people again,
>managed to remain unmoved by yet another outrage. Just as all the anger
>fizzled away after the April 2000 massacre, as a great number of Gambians
>voted the APRC into office after 18 months, inspite of the made-in-Gambia
>election gimmickry.
>
>My point is that ordinary tired workers, poorer peasants, angry students,
>tried journalists, pauperized women, brutalised civil servants, taciturn
>intellectuals and disgruntled politicians all constitute a national
>community of descent that since independence in 1965, never found a common
>historical mission to pursue with relentless zeal.
>I say it is time we rethink the entire dynamics of political processes in
>Gambia and how to alter them for the better. The divisions within the
>Opposition is reflective of the divisions within the larger community of
>descent.
>
>When the politicians failed to cobble a coalition after so much work by
>many Gambians, especially diasporan Gambians I should say, some documents
>for regime change will prove to be little more than academic material. There
>is great probability that the Opposition will fail to unseat the APRC. Yet
>again.
>
>Cheers,
>sidibeh
>
>
>To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L
>Web interface
>at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html
>
>To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to:
>http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l
>To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to:
>[log in to unmask]
>
>
>
>
>
>
>いいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい
>To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface
>at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html
>
>To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l
>To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to:
>[log in to unmask]
>いいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい
いいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい
To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface
at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html
To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l
To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to:
[log in to unmask]
いいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい
|