Al, some how you guys could not see the murderer and criminal in Jammeh.  I 
guess until he is nabbed, will you folks accept that your emperor is naked.  
Chei!

Chi Jaama

Joe

>From: Alieu Sanyang <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: FWD: Opposition parties aim for the national cake
>Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:18:26 -0700
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>Curled from the progressiveafricans.com written by Ebou Jallow.
>
>   Alieu.
>
>“NADD wanted positions; they wanted the cake that is not yet baked. This is 
>the problem.”  Hamat Bah, UDP/NRP.
>
>   Let us not forget that the Gambian opposition has always been in 
>politics of suspicion trim with occasional irruptions of loathing and 
>demagoguery.  Hamat Bah has upped the ante to some new heights with just 
>one operative word in his latest madness: Want; a word that means in this 
>context the one-dimensional, asocial, and selfish desire for personal gain 
>by any means.  Incidentally, NADD as a political institution was or is a 
>means to an end for a cabal of interests whose rhetoric of “democracy”, 
>“rights” and “rule of law” is nothing but a chimera before some sinister 
>ambitions to gain wealth and glory.
>   However, the natures of the personalities leading the opposition deploy 
>interesting schemes that correspond with their burning desires.  NADD led 
>by Halifa Sallah strives for some collective insurance of power based on 
>anticipated obligations towards the “political entity’s” Memorandum of 
>Understanding.  Halifa has a repressed and submissive ego that can only 
>function by complete submission to external influence (the MOU, 
>Constitution, African Charters, etc., etc.)  The UDP, led by Ousainou 
>Darboe, is consumed by an unbridled impulse to dominate regardless of any 
>external influence.  The NRP, led by Hamat Bah, is perfidious, unprincipled 
>and a fraud that survives by slipping through the cracks.  Halifa is 
>pathologically naïve and politically foolish; Darboe a degenerate 
>narcissist; and Hamat Bah is mad as hatter.
>   President Jammeh shall always win beyond a doubt, and that is why he is 
>the most important stakeholder in the coming September elections as long as 
>politics is all about effective strategic actions to gain the popular vote. 
>  Winning is only one side of the political game since the potential losers 
>also do have a reactionary stratagem: Visceral hatred towards the APRC, IEC 
>and President Jammeh true to Henry Adams’ definition of politics as “the 
>systematic organization of hatreds.”  The fissures that Gambians witness 
>within the opposition today is nothing but psychodrama triggered by some 
>repressed power struggle that has been latent amongst these misguided 
>public figures.  The UDP/NRP mistakes ethnic supremacy for political 
>strength whilst NADD aims to achieve power through a subterfuge in order to 
>make up for its political weakness.  The heterogeneity of these motivations 
>has been ignored by NADD’s grand constitutional design to their detriment.  
>And it seems that Halifa
>  has still not learned from this bitter lesson yet.
>   Building a viable democracy goes beyond populist sloganeering about 
>human rights.  Democracy demands credible political parties to compete for 
>the public trust, socio-economic reforms, and legal advances that allow 
>space for modernization.  This takes a lot of time and effort which the 
>APRC rightfully recognized in its Vision 2020 political platform.  The 
>Gambian opposition on the other hand has been busy undermining, weakening 
>and supplanting the will of the people with political fraudsters and ethnic 
>supremacists who have nothing to offer but perverse cynicism, hatred, 
>suspicion and alarmist rhetoric.
>
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