Kalilu:  I like your piece and it reminds me of a poem I read a few years
ago.  Can you polish the edges (show the actual stanzas etc) and resend it?
Do you remeber the title?  Thanks!

Essa


>From: kalilu camara <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: RE (There is beauty in diversity)
>Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 16:54:29 GMT
>
>My Dear Brother,
>Can i agree with you more, no ,noway.There is beauty in diversity,
>both in look and deed!What seem to be the missing link here is trust.
>My dear sister wants to learn? Well this is how you can tell.
>You can tell the tree by the fruit that it bears. We need a system so that
>no body will mess us up either my thwist or sear ignorance.We need armed
>forces that will not tolerate being molded by false decrees
>and everchanging constitutions.We want to protect you my sister.We are so
>far away in abroad we could sit still and say nothing and let young
>flesh bake in the oven. But we can imagine and our conscience will
>not allow us to be silennt anymore! This is not always of our free will
>all the time to scream and shout from a distance.My dear sister i suggest
>this song (From a distance God is Watching Us)? I dont know the singer but
>someone up in here knows.My sister if we want to dance the dance we have to
>work the work.Work has we have discovered is not
>a muscular strain alone even Donkeys do that!What we need is a collective
>application of our God given presence to make an urgent
>difference we need you and your kind to trust in our endeavour.
>Nothing is going to come without our collective spirit.Many more are on
>death row!Its so apparent and yet still so invisible like the infamous
>statue! If  the fruit  is testated stinky and offensive then the time to
>remove the tree is now.How many more Young Gambians lives
>do u want us to sacrifice in silence; now dont shake your head tell me!
>How many 12 !00,?100? the oven is bought and portable! It is new and never
>been used the fingers are itching and uncertain!The natural
>course of action is to find the sense inwards and say forgive me for i know
>not the pain i cause you,the natural response is yes you are forgiven for
>the sake of God! And wisedom of time you a free to leave!
>Now away go and find the soldier within u! Give him that.God is the
>council.
>NO one is going to reduce me to their level!I have seen big
>lights deem in the distance, i have seen stars die young, riches
>reduced to same and anger, I have nothing to proof to no one including
>myself! I have a painful conscience that is dogging my souls, while statues
>of fools swallow the young, can you imagine that!!!None is made of wood
>everyone hurt all the same.Let Yaya do his own laudary and leave us alone
>there are much more things in life more fulfilling than being
>the"President"
>that he is, he keep saying i dont want that title. Then resign! dont you
>have the guts to face the uncertainty!This is the uncertainty you are
>unknowingly subjecting more than a million others like yourself to!Dont
>deny
>our emotins because u dont live in us we do!
>And dont dare talk about you understand us better than bla bla bla....
>
>
>
>
>
>>From: saiks samateh <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: RE (There is beauty in diversity)
>>Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 06:24:14 PDT
>>
>>Dear Sister,
>>
>>Your mail was brought to my attention yesterday almost at the same time
>>when I
>>was informed of the arrest and detention of the General(Momodou Domo
>>Saho)who
>>could have also been another SOS or another commissioner if he wanted,but
>>will
>>never  identify himself with a regime that goes on murdering defenceless
>>students,he spent must of his time and energy giving support to students
>>who
>>have been drop-outs from school because they either did not have money to
>>pay
>>their fees or something else,such people will never be spear by a fascist
>>regime.
>>To your points,at one moment I decided not even to reply since it was too
>>personal,nothing political,nothing objective.
>>See here, you said;
>>Being anxious like Pa Dacosta I want to know who gave the orders...
>>
>>Hmm ,is it not ridiculous if we have an army that can shot and kill
>>innocent
>>students and yet we do not know "who gave the Orders"what type of army is
>>this?should  such and army not be dissolved immediately before it happens
>>again since the order of command could come from no where,lets call for it
>>now
>>before some else close to us becomes a victim,my dear sister.
>>
>>You wrote;
>>You believe in your self.You believe that you are incorruptible.Why are
>>you
>>not able to recognize the fact that somebody else might be in possession
>>of
>>a
>>similar positive trait....
>>
>>Sister,I have gone again through what I wrote and I found nothing there of
>>such statement,this is your own story.I have many friends and political
>>friends,it is a question of being a schizophrenic to believe that one is
>>the
>>only "incorruptible"person in the Gambian with a population of more than
>>one
>>million people.I have no personality problem to the extend of seeing my
>>person
>>in this light.
>>You wrote:
>>I can contribute some crowns to the funds,order Soffie Ceesays Gamsu
>>T-shirt
>>to name a few.At the same time allowing others too to do their duty.Saiks
>>where is your collective spirit.
>>
>>Sister,history could sometime be very short,believe me but it is only life
>>human beings who make history !!!Sofie is part of a collective,it is a
>>collective spirit that produce those T-Shirts and not Soffie as an
>>individual,there are no "Soffie Ceesays Gamsu shirt" but Gamsu T-shirts
>>produce by the labour of a collective spirit and for the collective
>>struggle
>>against this fascist regime.I am also a member of that collective.
>>You see the struggle is not a struggle for collection of charities,it a
>>struggle to bring about social change in the interest of our people.Sister
>>this is an issue concerning among other things the brutal murder of
>>innocent
>>children,the torture and illegal arrest and detention of ordinary people.
>>
>>You wrote again,
>>
>>During your stay abroad what in the name of the struggle you doing in
>>London-Oslo?During your stay abroad what contacts have you made during
>>your
>>studies to be able to channel medical resources Home?
>>
>>If perhaps you dont know I leave in Oslo and not in London.We perhaps have
>>agree here that we have a different interpretation of what the struggle is
>>all
>>about.If you have the liberty to ask me what I have done to better the
>>condition of that dirty and poor RVH and yet still demand from me not to
>>question those who collect tax monies,go the world round taking loans in
>>the
>>name of the Gambian ,only to use that money to buy bullets and murder
>>children
>>instead of incubators,or x-ray machines, build bunkers and palacess or buy
>>an
>>airplane instead of creating jobs,by bandage and medicines for the
>>hospitals,give our children a better education,then my dear sister the
>>intention of your response have a hidden agenda.
>>One of my boss received this letter from the RVH,reference
>>nr.RVH/36VOL.II,dated16 july 1998,
>>
>>......On behalf of the Hospital management board,I seize this opportunity
>>to
>>extend my sincere gratitude for the generous donations.......
>>
>>Sister even though these things were sent to the Gambia,they never changed
>>the
>>condition of the people,in fact in the same letter there was the demand
>>for
>>more.Who should you bring to accountability ,me ? because I am speaking
>>against the brutality of this fascist regime ?
>>
>>You wrote again:
>>
>>You were home guess during the crisis,where you at the hospital to render
>>your
>>service ?
>>
>>Yes my dear Sister I was home then.No I was not at the hospital but right
>>there where does children were brutally murdered under my very eyes,one of
>>them was even dying in my own hands,I hope you get this because I have
>>said
>>this before.And I will tell you if not good luck who knows I might have
>>been
>>another victim,that does not concern this forum and I will not go into
>>details
>>here,but I wash my hands and feet from blood stain of the innocent
>>children
>>at
>>the Red Cross ground.
>>
>>To conclude my dear sister,the struggle is something permanent,there are
>>no
>>short cuts to victory,the masses them selves must come to that end,to
>>believe
>>that one can make a revolution through military coups is wrong.Why did we
>>not
>>learn from Burkina Fasso,from Liberia,from Chana,fron Grenada etc.The
>>consequences are the very one we are having,the murder of Ousman Koro
>>Ceesay,the murder of innocent students,the farmers ground-nuts,the
>>bunker,the
>>zoo,the palace,the roots coming home festival,the lack of jobs,the
>>unlawful
>>arrest and detention,how can we defend all these things.Or do we have to
>>conclude with what  C.L R James said,that "The question of men who carry
>>out
>>certain progressive agitation and then betray the cause is a commonplace
>>of
>>history" The struggle continues.
>>
>>For freedom
>>Saiks
>>
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