Hello, Joe, the human rights abuses, murder, corruption, etc., by the
Jammeh government are well-documented for all to see. It's not an
issue of people being "ignornat" or "just listening to people who want
to spread lies", etc. You've got reputable human rights, press
freedom, and other concerned groups, who are expressing concern and
outrage on an almost daily basis, regarding the outrages of the Jammeh
government. And I'd hardly think that these people or organizations
can be called "ignorant" or "misguided" or whatever.
It's far past the time when any criticism of Jammeh can be blamed
on "the opposition being Jealous", or whatever you want to call it.
There comes a time when you just have to call a spade a spade.
Yes, the emperor has no clothes indeed, and I guess sometimes it takes
the killing of one's own friends, family members, and colleagues, by
Jameh and / or his lackies, before people start to realize it, if they
even realize it at all. How sad it is indeed.
Ginny
On 7/19/06, Joe Sambou <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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]>
> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
> ><[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: FWD: Opposition parties aim for the national cake
> >Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:18:26 -0700
> >
> >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 na鴳e 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >(c) Copyright Progressive Africans..
> >
> >
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