This is professional bullshit to the limit, your lack of understanding of
what PDOIS stands for and your self gratifying attitude with the boasting
clearly affirms  the suspicion of the complex you suffer. The chest pounding
and verbose attitude that is constantly manifested, through the persitant
efforts to impress with high sounding irrelivant cacophony of words is a
testimony to  your inflated ego. PDOIS if anything unlike you, does not
recycle any old garbage, as highly educated and very critical, they are very
original. They do not delve into materials produced by Kruga to defend
whatever assertions they make because they have a dialectical approach to
things whatever they say, they relate it to a concrete situation. This is
why the message they convey is powerful and  ignoramous of your sort  will
never appreciate it. The fact that youths and an overwhelming number of them
are warming up to them proves this fact. If you insist that you are more
intelligent than all these young men and women who have read and endorse the
programmes of PDOIS, then I will rest my case, for you would be
acknowledging your arrogance, however, if you say that their programmes do
no suit your aspirations that is fair enough becuse the world no matter how
we may wish to interprete it is dichotimised. We either choose to be
oppressors or align our selves with the oppressed, some of us if we choose
to can easily join the ruling class, but we choose to toil with the masses
and endure with them in other to cooperate to liberate and humanize those
who persit on operating a system that will privilege a few and enslave the
rest. In the struggle of course there would be shmeless harpless objects
like you who would at every juncture try to distract the people whenever
they collaborate with a working class party to ensure their liberation.
People like you have existed in the past and they will continue to exist in
the future but they can never detter the genuine struggle to liberate the
people from those that oppress them.  All things may be said, but the
struggle for political enlighthenment which  seem  trouble you  so much is
like a jinn out of a bottle, it is an irrevesable process you only have to
look at history to see this truism. The existence of PDOIS is the making of
concrete historical circumstances it cannot be helped because for far too
long Jawara has kept the people in the dark, there was never any form of
civic education. People just danced and sang his praises, thus he built a
personality cult around him, hence negating the very reason why we had
struggled to gain Indepence.

From its inception the party took it upon itself to explain the implications
of a Senegambia Confederation, a union that was crafted at the back of the
Gambian people. During the period of the debate a state of emmergency was
imposed nobody had the right nor the opprtunity to critically appraise this
ill-fated marriage. It was during such an oppressive era that PDOIS
emmerged, eversince its emmergence it made  it's vocation to explain the
meaning certain fundamental issues; such as what a constitution was, what
and government revenue came from, the meaning of elections, the role of the
electorate  as the king makers, these wre issues that awaken the people in a
way has forever change the country. These and many other issues are as
relivant today as they ever were. The empowerment of the people is the
primary objective of PDOIS, hence fundamental to their actions is constant
dialogue with the people, this way learning occures in which the people will
become very critical of their situations, instead of attributing thier
destitution to fate they come to realise that a system operates in which
some oppress to sustain their life styles whiles others toil to sustain
their pomp and extravaganza. This exposure is what makes elite aspirants
hate PDOIS, for they stand to expose their tricks. Without the myth they can
no longer exist as  a class, hence the vehemence, innuendos an castigations.
The reality is reflected in the fact members of UDP can easily join APRC,
and the reverse could happen but it is difficult if not impossible for
members of PDOIS to join either UDP or APRC, the principles are
fundamentally different, whiles in the case of APRC or UDP essentially they
are the same.

This is why apart from the insults Hamjatta is never critical of their
policies, after all it is the same technocrats with the same policy
programmes who worked under Jawara that are now collaborating with Jammeh.
Remember the adamance the AFPRC had for recalling BB DARBO, so that there
will be continuity of the status quo and that is precisely why many sceptics
believe that Darbo or UDP will only restore the status quo- ante.

Therefore to make a difference that is superlative to what is and what
obtained people should vote for PDOIS, a party that will make not a symbolic
change but a change in essence and substance.

>From: Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Old & Decisively Repudiated Ideas Recycled Anew
>Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:04:06 EDT
>
>The multiplicative nature of the current programmed fanatic virus feeds
>from
>the manifestly manipulative tutelage of a host organism, which is
>stationed,
>of course, in Churchill's Town. This is not stuff lifted from a futuristic
>sci-fi flick or bestselling nevel; but a basic scientific truth. I once
>used
>to entertain the fantasy that caricaturing the earnest emptiness of the
>so-called PDOIS/Foroyaa 'enligthenment' would help disarm its
>potentialities
>of turning young and old minds alike into unthinking robotic members of
>society. Seems with programmed fanatics, it will always be back to the
>drawing board. Whenever their popular myths have been decisively
>repudiated,
>and like the obstinacy of one those multiplicative viroids, more of such
>popular myths doggedly re-surface to take their places. Sometimes it can be
>plain frustrating. I'm not all alone in waxing perplex over the stubborn
>streak of bad ideas not to die forever and or never to re-emerge in the
>mainstream again. Paul Krugman knows all about it. Let him explain the
>frustration:
>
>"An experienced and therefore cynical government economist once described
>to
>me his vision of his job. "It's mostly a matter of getting rid of bad
>ideas,"
>he explained, " but it's like flushing coachroaches down a toilet - sooner
>or
>later they just come back." The role of the economist who cares about
>policy
>can be dispiriting: one may spend years devising sophisticated theories or
>carefully testing ideas against evidence,  then find that politicians turn
>again to ideas that you thought had been discredited decades or centuries
>ago, or make statements that are flatly contradicted by the facts."
>
>The current spate of the outbreak of the programmed fanatic virus affirms
>just what Krugman's government economist told him. Just when we thought
>that
>decisively repudiated economics like State contrived agricultural
>collectivisation is dead and buried, programmed fanatics are busy and
>doggedly marketing the idea anew. And, be it noted, most of the economic
>nonsense now being recycled anew has been dealt with comprehensively in an
>earlier essay on PDOIS' economic agenda; and one would assume then that
>they
>would at least have the decency to go back to the drawing board again to
>reformulate and rethink policy. Rather, the party unabashedly brought to
>the
>fore again the same economic nonsense i have earlier debunked effectively.
>For the purposes of clarity, let us revisit the central plank or thrust of
>PDOIS' economic agenda. According to them, they are committed to enhancing
>personal income through the agricultural economics of cooperative societies
>like the ones you find in Bakau where women have their horticultural
>gardens.
>Well, that is it. I'm all ears.
>
>Now, for economic simpletons - as most programmed fanatics are anyway - and
>unreconstructed leftists, this is the magic formula for that idyllic
>egalitarian paradise leftists hanker for. But for sophisticated folks, the
>equation that purports to undergird this policy thrust doesn't simpy add
>up.
>Let us take for instance the feasibility of anchoring a party's main
>economic
>drive on such rural or agricultural economics. As i pointed out before,
>such
>an economic calculation rests on the presupposition that demographically
>the
>Gambia is ruralising and have arable land in plenitude to accomodate the
>demands of such a policy thrust. Yet, the reality is the reverse. Stuff is:
>according most development economists, in a decade or so, demographically,
>the Gambia would be a full-blown urbanised society. The realisation that
>the
>Gambia is on the brink of full-blown urbanity demands a rethink of policy
>thrust and or application vis-a-vis factoring to what extent should policy
>reflect and accomodate this reality. Such a realisation, would then follow
>a
>very familiar and orthodox course in economic thinking: that of properly
>meted out industrial policies and a  liberal macro-economic framework that
>can ably accomodate the Gambia's new socio-economic realities.
>
>But PDOIS would have none of it. Instead, they are ready to wager the
>Gambia's economic future to tested and failed State contrived
>collectivisation that even Lenin and Stalin in their infinite lunacy
>wouldn't
>dare impose on Russians in this day and age. Perhaps, PDOIS takes its cue
>from the stubborn-ness of the North Korean dictatorship to continue with
>the
>same economic nonsense that continues to register zero economic growth and
>abject poverty for the masses they have literally forced against their
>wills
>into these State contrived cooperative societies. Which brings me to a
>question i've always asked myself since i realised the absurdity of PDOIS'
>economic thinking: which trained economist helps formulate the party's
>economic policy? Which professional economist with the appropriate
>credentials does policy thinking for them? I certainly don't know of any
>professional Gambian economist that is part of the PDOIS elites. On the
>contrary, what we have is mainly a trio assemblage of a sociologist, a
>linguist and a physics teacher. Physics + Sociology + Linguistics = Good
>Economics? I don't think so. Perhaps, as one irrational programmed fanatic
>frantically intimated - in defense of the party's economic thinking - their
>training in the field of economics is as a result of torturous and late
>night
>seminars at the party's Churchill's Town HQ dissecting Karl Marx' Das
>Kapital. All the more reason for responsible folks to shun the party and
>it's
>repudiated ideas.
>
>A palatable, well-measured and liberal economic alternative is on offer.
>The
>Alliance headed by Mr Darbo presents a policy thrust that in all essence
>represents a macro-economic framework that factors greatly the current
>socio-economic realities of the Gambia. More to the point, instead of the
>Alliance relying on a group of jacks-of-all-trades-but-masters-of-none, the
>Alliance brims to the top with the creme de la creme of Gambian
>technocracy.
>From the fiscal and financial wizardry of Amadou Sanneh to Yaya Jallow's
>agricultural credentials to Amadou Taal and Ebou Manneh's capable and
>experienced hands in public policy and administration. Here, i'm not
>talking
>about technocrats who just opened a Frank Wood textbook in Accounting and a
>fortnight later declared themselves accountants. I'm talking of people with
>both the academic training and the appropriate experience to demonstrate
>prowess in their fields of speciality. Clearly, with such a vast assemblage
>of talent and experience to pick an able and just administration from,
>Gambians are better off voting for Mr Darbo and the Alliance - come October
>18th. It is the surest way Gambians can start the difficult but rewarding
>Odyssey - with Mr Darbo and the Alliance - of reclaiming their country
>again
>after it has been reduced to a tragic wreckage by Jammeh and the APRC.
>
>Hamjatta Kanteh
>
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