Mr. KB:
You are really hitting the nail. Your courage
and determination cannot be challenged.
Keep up the good work. You are one special
Gambian.
Naphiyo,
Comrade ML Jassey-Conteh
------Original Message------
From: Dampha Kebba <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: April 4, 2001 8:26:54 PM GMT
Subject: Acute Low Expectation Syndrome (ALES)
APRC supporters and sympathizers want to condemn Gambians to this lethal
ailment for ever. It is incumbent upon us not to fall for this ploy. The
intelligent closet APRC supporter recognizes that the overwhelming majority
of the actions of this government are indefensible. Some of the actions of
the APRC government are illogical, some unethical and others downright
criminal.
The intelligent APRC supporter, having mortgaged his soul to the Devil, and
with a mindset of an impotent intellectual prostitute, will not have the
guts to challenge the APRC leadership to do what is right. They will not
have the decency to look Yaya or Yankuba or Edward in the eye and tell the
mental midgets that it is wrong to order the massacre of our children or to
burn down private radio stations or to abduct innocent citizen and falsely
accuse them of crimes they did not commit.
What this Yaya supporter will do, is come out to decent folks, parade the
token projects the government has been engaged in, and then tell them to
just focus on the projects. This Yaya supporter if put on the spot, would
confide in good folks and tell them that he condemns thuggery, corruption
and dislikes all the evil things the government is doing. But when pressed
further, this supporter will not be able to tell you how he protested to
Yaya that it is wrong to massacre our children in broad daylight.
This supporter will always try to cloud very clear issues. When you ask them
about the plight of our farmers, they tell you it is not the government's
responsibility to buy the groundnuts. When you tell them about classrooms
without teachers and supplies, they tell you it is a start and there are
bigger and better things to come. When you tell them about the rampant
unemployment with our youths, they point to the number of people that
graduated from Yaya's university. When you tell them about poorly equipped
hospital facilities, they tell you that they have more hospitals now than
during the Jawara regime.
In other words, they want Gambians to have very low expectations from our
government. Unfortunately, I do not get to talk to these supporters very
often or when we talk, they avoid such issues like death. They know I will
point out their gullibility in the bluntest terms. They know that I will
question them about the basis of their loyalty to Yaya. They know that I
will not let them get away with compartmentalizing Yaya and saying that let
us accept the 'developments' and stay mute about the horrendous human rights
abuses. The average Gambian does not have that luxury. When Yaya forced
himself onto us in July 1994, we got him with all his baggage. We got a
callous, semi-illitrate, inferiority complex-ridden vermin. We did not have
a thinker that was just going to embark on development projects. We also had
a dictator that would murder children as young as three in order to stay in
power and continue to loot our treasury.
By feeding the public this low expectation garbage, Yaya's intellectual
prostitutes are telling Gambians that we should trade the lives of our
children for some ill-equipped hospital clinic. We should expect more from
our government and our leaders. We should expect to get thinkers that can
move the country forward without visiting untold misery to the citizens. To
the prostitutes that parade the 'development projects', I ask you, would you
compartmentalize if you were in Dumo's shoes? Would you say that the level
of lawlessness is acceptable to you so long as a road running from the
airport to the hotels (a road you do not use) has been constructed from aid
money? Why can't we ask for someone who will build better and more
meaningful roads and who would not murder innocent citizens?
Why are these prostitutes trying to cover the eyes of Gambians with wool and
trying to sit on both sides of the fence? "We condemn the human rights
abuses, but Yaya is a great leader". This is an oxymoron and smart and
decent Gambians must not fall for it. Yaya cannot be a murderer and a
benevolent leader at the same time. Let us not listen to hypocrites in our
midst that want to convince us otherwise. Next time they bring to you this
double talk, ask them to go tell it to Yaya. Ask them to tell Yaya that it
was wrong to massacre our children or to continue to incarcerate Dumo or for
Yaya to steal the people's money while the average hardworking farmer is
rendered destitute.
These prostitutes (one who sells his name or abilities to an undeserving
cause) might see nothing wrong in trading the lives of their children in
order to have a government job or other petty luxuries. The rest of us
should not allow these prostitutes to bamboozle us into thinking that Yaya
and his cohorts are doing us a favor. These are leeches after our blood. The
bloodsuckers cannot be trusted to point us to the right direction. We
deserve lot better than Yaya and we can have lot better than Yaya. Let us
raise our expectation and refuse to compartmentalize. If the best these
people can do, with all their callousness and corruption, is to slightly
outdo Jawara, then we do not need them. Let us get people that will do a lot
better in terms of development and safeguarding our human rights.
KB
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