Kejaw,
It is not only Mathew, that is the "MO" of the opposition camp. If my
friend is dining and wining with the Professor, I'll argue that he or she
is there to change the system. Others in my world are opportunists and ripe
for gossip and name calling.


On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:40 AM, kejau <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Suntou.
> You can see the flaw in that logic that says go serve th dictatorship
> afterwards just make sure you speak against it. As you rightly said, most
> accept the ultimate short career jobs with the despot for subsequent high
> profile careers at the expense of our people. I like LJD logic that anyone
> who serves Jammeh after 2000 does not deserve neither our sympathy or
> support.
> Kejau.
>
>
> Sent from Samsung Mobile
>
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: suntou touray <[log in to unmask]>
> Date:
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [G_L] BRILLIANT COMMENTARY FROM MATHEW K JALLOW
>
>
> Kejau
> I'm Not speaking for Mathew, but his friends have now resort to speaking
> out and joining the protest against the system. Whilst the names he mention
> are not anywhere attacking the system they serve. This may be his logic. I
> don't support the idea of serving Jammeh, get some profile as a senior
> government official and then leaving to use those same portfolios and apply
> for NGO's jobs. That is the terrible selfishness our folks manifest. LJD
> and Mboge are a thorn in the sight of the run away Jammehrites. LJ, don't
> you think you are too hard on the brothers??
> Suntou
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:05 AM, kejau <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>   Exactly my reaction too. Why does Mathew and others just chose to
>> ignore their friends association. As Joe, I also hope its not based on
>> tribe or other such sinister association.
>>
>>
>>  Sent from Samsung Mobile
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Modou Mboge <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date:
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [G_L] BRILLIANT COMMENTARY FROM MATHEW K JALLOW
>>
>>
>>   LJD,
>>
>> I chuckled when i read Mathew's piece on Maafanta earlier.  I thought
>> this is good but why the omission of his friends.  Anyway, no need to
>> apologise to me.  Just wondering what caused this latest epiphany .
>>
>> Best,
>> Mboge
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Lamin Darbo <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>>
>>>   All
>>>
>>>  I'm not in the habit of forwarding material by Mathew K Jallow, but I
>>> proudly make an exception on this occasion. Even with his stark
>>> omissions, this is a brilliant piece, and please feel free to insert
>>> the names that are shouting for inclusion in this Professor Jammeh
>>> luminaries list including "... Sarjo Jallow, Nene Macdolle, Fatoumata
>>> Tambajang, Nana Grey-Johnson, Bala Garba-Jahumpa and Mbemba Tambedou ..."
>>>
>>> Will our good brother now do the honorable thing and apologize to M O
>>> Mboge, Joe Sambou, and myself for saying the very same thing only months
>>> ago, and in the process needlessly incurring his substantial wrath. Mathew
>>> has come of age, and I am now willing to consider him for President of the
>>> Third Republic.
>>>
>>>
>>>  LJDarbo
>>>
>>>
>>> *
>>> *
>>> *
>>> *
>>> *
>>> *
>>> *The Gambia: The new mind of a people and the color of betrayal*****
>>> * *
>>> *By Mathew K Jallow*****
>>> ** **
>>> To digress from the nastiness of politics for a moment, this focus,
>>> instead, on human nature in Gambia, is a fundamental component of the
>>> changes in our cultural landscape. This plunge into the complexity of human
>>> nature attempts to contextualize the enormous lapses in judgment to which
>>> many Gambians have become willing victims. And, this is not in reference to
>>> theoretical psychology, but on the facts of our lives that respond to our
>>> moral groundings. It is our lived experience, groomed by society’s norms,
>>> and distinguish our capacity to rationalize from the other forces in
>>> nature; animals. At one critical level, our countrymen and womens’ fickle
>>> minds lend themselves to fall into the dreadful entrapment of the promises
>>> of power and prestige, but perhaps the most significant motivating factor
>>> is the power of economics; the bottom-line. In short, it is purely an issue
>>> of self-preservation dictated by a need for political power and economic
>>> self-protection, and over the past eighteen years, it has devalued our
>>> concepts of society, but even more importantly, our perception of our
>>> fellow countrymen and women is hopelessly entangled between the clearly
>>> opposing contradictions of moral obligation and our Darwinian primordial
>>> instincts for survival. The most recent intense public castigation campaign
>>> and moral marginalization of Nana Grey-Johnson, typify the stark division
>>> among Gambians; a division explainable primarily by simple environmental
>>> factors. I was tongue-tied, of course, during Nana’s ordeal, not because of
>>> an innate desire to protect a friend, but rather because of the awareness
>>> of how economic conditions at home provide a powerful force for
>>> malleability and utter indifference to moral rationality.****
>>> ** **
>>> Clearly, Nana Grey-Johnson deserved the loud criticisms too, for failing
>>> the moral test, but, with that story now behind us, Nana Grey is not
>>> unmindful that he is wedged between the dangerous company of Imperial King,
>>> Yahya Jammeh and the unforgiving indignation of the vocal Gambian minority.
>>> Today, Gambia is in the grip of an intellectual degradation unlike anything
>>> Africa has experienced since the seventies, and the customariness with
>>> which many Gambians have fallen victims to Imperial King, Yahya Jammeh’s
>>> power and the lure of political status is an object of ongoing debate among
>>> Gambians. The long list of Gambians deserving case studies to provide
>>> empirical evidence in understanding the cruelty of Gambian politics under
>>> Imperial King, Yahya Jammeh, include, but is not limited only to; Sarjo
>>> Jallow, Nene Macdolle, Fatoumata Tambajang, Nana Grey-Johnson, Bala
>>> Garba-Jahumpa and Mbemba Tambedou, all relatives and close friends, among
>>> the other eighty cabinet appointments under Yahya Jammeh. But, this failure
>>> of moral obligation to Gambians has a religious dimension, further
>>> complicating the enormous challenges of moral uprightness. The fact that so
>>> many Gambians choose to disregard the failure of leadership under Imperial
>>> King, Yahya Jammeh, is itself stunning, but that so many of them can endure
>>> the indignities of arrests, tortures and recycleing back into the system,
>>> is mind-blowing and absurd. But, what obsesses the Gambian mind most is the
>>> calculations of accepting temporary appointment in any position under Yahya
>>> Jammeh even while Gambians continue to be murdered, to disappear and to be
>>> reduced in their aspirations and limited in their freedoms.****
>>> ** **
>>> Intellectual uprightness dictates the assumption of moral superiority in
>>> our patriotic obligations to our fellow citizens, but the utter failure to
>>> live up to that ideal, will compel my friend Nana Grey-Johnson and all the
>>> others to endure the cloud of bitterness and indignant distaste likely to
>>> hang over their heads in the coming years. That said, the complete collapse
>>> of the moral moorings of fellow citizens back home; from the senior cabinet
>>> positions, to civil servants and to other levels of society, more than
>>> being tantalizing, is slowly reconfiguring the psyche of our people and
>>> changing the values inherited for our noble past. And for now, Gambians
>>> still disappear; the murders still escalate; prison once an anathema, is
>>> now almost a rite of passage; executions still concealed by the darkness of
>>> night, and the terror of a people speaks loudly in its silent eloquence.
>>> Still, Gambians, from cabinet appointees to senior civil servants and
>>> political activists, remain unbothered by the tremendous criminality of the
>>> regime, but most specifically, of Imperial King, Yahya Jammeh. The
>>> unflattering nature of the regime typify a loss of credibility that borders
>>> on illegitimacy and the reduction of an entire society into a permanent
>>> underclass signals the saturation our endurance and the inevitable need for
>>> political change. But, whether Imperial King, Yahya Jammeh will move out by
>>> his own freewill or by the devastating force of cold lead through his
>>> brain, is another matter altogether. The suffering people of the Gambia
>>> have time on their side. For, even the longest nightmare has its day of
>>> freedom, and the Gambia is no different. As it is, the new Gambian mindset
>>> lacks the basic tenets of morality, and Nana Grey-Johnson, like other who
>>> serve Yahya Jammeh, speaks to that moral deficit and that color of betrayal.
>>> ****
>>> ** **
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