Mr Ceesay,
                I'll start with your objections of the labels I put on this
President and his regime. I have called him a murderer, a thief, a thug and
outside of the polite confines of Gambia -L I would use an expletive to
describe him. I use all of those adjectives with all the emphasis I can
muster for justifiable reasons. This is a government that has murdered
innocent people in cold blood and treated the families and memories of the
victims with absolute churlishness and contempt. This is a government that
has shamelessly and maliciously stolen from the near destitute Gambian
population and used the money to lavish it on themselves. This is a
government that unleashes terror on innocent people. Don't you see these are
unforgivable crimes that ordinary human beings cannot tolerate. Your
President most recently abducted people from Kiang and brought them to his
doorstep in Kanilai to torture them for no absolute reason other than the
fact that he has thugs at his beck and call who can drag these people from
their families and subject them to inhuman treatment. Doesn't this cruelty
bother you not because you know or care about the victims of this kind of
lawlessness but because you are human being, a Muslim and someone from and
with a family? Have you no sense decency or even right and wrong? Why is all
of the atrocious behavior of these regime insufficient for you to conclude
that our people deserve their liberties and dignity? I don't like Yahoo
Jammeh and folks around him because they are collectively drenched in the
blood of my fellow citizens. And while I can afford to take care of my
family's needs I am incensed that the rest of my fellow citizens are right at
the doorstep of destitution and have to also live with terror and denial of
rights. Why can't you honestly say that a lieutenant who in 1994 can hardly
afford an apple cannot be in a position to cynically queue the very people he
has by designed impoverished and pretend to be giving them gifts. why aren't
you bothered by the fate of the people in the part of Nuimi you purport to
come from. Tell me what you think is going to happen to a pregnant woman
taken ill in the middle of the night in your village. She doesn't have a
prayer because she is unlikely to go to a clinic with anything other than the
sympathetic face of a demomaralised nurse and she is not likely to have any
money to go to private clinics. How many people in your area are scrounging
on poor and inadequate food? Somehow you relegate all of these important
existential questions affecting people you know and can entirely identify
with because they are your own people. Not only are you unwilling to
acknowledge their predicament, but you spend all your time to publicly
rationalize all the additional wrongs brought on them by a government you
know demonstrably doesn't give a hoot about them. I don't know what your
reasons for supporting this bad group of people are and I frankly don't care.
I just find your disagreements insincere and driven mainly by selfishness.
Why should I even attempt to constructively engage you about politics when
your initial approach is that infact these people aren't bad and those of us
describing them thus are somehow guilty of heresy? I am a committed democrat.
all I want is for the Gambian people to able to forge ahead in their own
country under the rule of law and full democracy. The politicians I don't
philosophically agree with will make me a better informed voter if I have the
opportunity to hear them out. That is exactly what I want for our people. You
cannot even bring yourself to say that our entire country deserve to hear all
the contestants in their bid for leadership. While I will not vote for this
regime I will sincerely and respectfully view them as the legitimate leaders
of our country if the Gambian people of their own volition choose to elect
them. Then they would have won fair and square in an open validation of the
people's wishes. Then all of us on the other side can begin to constructively
engage a government with a clear and unsullied mandate. Our nation and our
system would be better of because everyone can feel they fully participated.
The repressive and brutal nature of this regime's tactics is what lies at the
core of our problems. We are left with either putting up with terrible
injustice or doing away with it. I opt for the latter
Karamba

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