I will defer with the PDOIS perspective on the 22nd July celebrations.  
Never mind your party gripes about praise singers who have played a 
role in our cultural history...a role far more significant than 
your “scientific” socialist dogma can ever acknowledge.  Let’s just 
analyze one of your lopsided propositions about state security: 

"President Jammeh should realize that the best form of state security is
political maturity and integrity. When an office has integrity, when it 
is held in high esteem it receive protection from the people. When an 
office is brought into disrepute it becomes vulnerable."

What in the world is your party definition of “political maturity” 
and “integrity”? What do these purported virtues have to do with the 
security of the state?  We have learned harsh lessons in history from 
political philosophers like Hobbes, Machiavelli and even Marx himself 
that a political citizenry in reality is nasty and brutish.  And 
governments have to exact necessary measures to establish their 
authority to secure peace and order.  But no, a government by PDOIS 
will lecture us that the state shall rely on the good will of the man 
in the street to bring order out of chaos.  The PDOIS will then proceed 
with a far reaching agenda to define the meaning of “integrity” to the 
Gambian citizens.  Does this not sound like the precursor to another 
communist dictatorship?  This is the agenda that all socialists, 
including PDOIS, believe in-political evolution through “political 
education” not to secure individual property rights but a collectivist 
economy by which they, the socialist elites of the PDOIS will dictate 
to ordinary folks to wear the same Jackson-Five Afro haircut, and pay 
heavy taxes to the state just like Halifa and Seedia are “surrendering” 
their hard earned incomes to their constituencies.  This in effect is 
the socialist agenda and the vision that PDOIS has for the Gambia. 

The 22nd July celebrations amongst other things does jubilate the few 
positive achievements of the APRC in many areas of Gambian life.  The 
United States of America celebrates 4th July every year to commemorate 
an armed revolt against a political order of the day some 200 years 
ago.  In Europe, France celebrates every year the bloodiest revolution 
in mankind’s history.  In Asia, China does the same every year. Tell 
me, why not the Gambia when the legends of a similar history are still 
in power and still alive?  What all these celebrations have in common 
is a salient message.  A message that glorifies the human spirit (not 
men in army uniforms) that triumphs doubt and fear with a solid moral 
fortitude. A message that further teaches that if you want to lead Mr. 
Opposition Leaders, you must be a real MAN with guts and not just 
academic degrees.

Ebou

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