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
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>Sent: Sep 8, 2006 4:11 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: THE ALLIANCE for REGIME CHANGE/Sidibeh
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> 
>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
>
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