Bro Saikss,
APRC  is THE PEOPLE'S PARTY.
Bye Sis Hon FJC

saikss wrote:

> Sister,
>
> What was the Tep or the Bloodp.?dont take such so seriouly,the Gambia is too
> small.
>
> For Freedom
> Saiks
>
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> >In a message dated 8/4/02 8:41:40 PM Central Daylight Time,
> >[log in to unmask] writes:
> >
> >
> >> As a matter of fact the majority of the Gambia-l members are now APRC
> >> supporters.
> >
> >Tombong.
> >
> >Please post a list of the majority of G-L members that are now members of the
> >APRC.
> >This is utter nonsense, and yes, those who join do so out for survivial
> >reasons because even the civil servants who are not members get preyed upon.
> >It is a matter of coercion for the helpless, but for those who know the truth
> >and still choose to join this murderous regime, they do so to feed their own
> >greed.
> >You and the others keep talking about these sturctural improvements and the
> >hospitals and schools. Well, these are good, but they are part of what a
> >government does with the people's money. It is just that in Africa our
> >leaders tend to sprend the dough on themselves so that if they direct it
> >where it belongs sometimes, they then present this as major accomplishments.
> >
> >In the case of Yaya Jammeh, the hospitals and the schools are empty, and even
> >his wife flies to Washington for a routine pediatric visit for her child, so
> >what is the point?
> >Surely she should be able to partake of the wonderful improvements in our
> >medical care to stay home these visits.
> >These empty structures you  and others constantly point at goes to prove the
> >poor planning skills of the APRC government because some of the resources to
> >erect these structures should have gone to improving the existing schools and
> >hospitals and equiping them, with perhaps additions of a few new ones.
> >
> >However, for the APRC regime, the emphasis is on visual effects, i.e, as many
> >new structures as possible so they can be pointed at for the gullible to be
> >impressed.
> >Structural improvements are not the only issue in the development of a
> >country. Even as you and other s continue to try to sell this garbage about
> >the APRC, there are more and more decrees designed to by-pass our
> >constitution,  and journalists are being detained by the NIA for printing a
> >story that the VP got married for heavens sake among other stupid reasons?
> >Paranoia is the order of the day, and people who are confident in what the
> >yare doing and who know that they are competent and are serving the people
> >well do not display this kind of paranoia,  nor do they employ devious
> >tactics to divide the people.
> >Here si a fact that everyone with a brain cannot miss. HUMAN RIGHTS
> >VIOLATIONS ARE WORSENING BY THE DAY IN GAMBIA, WHILE WE HAVE MORE NEW
> >STRUCTURES? WE WANT IMPROVEMENTS ON BOT HFRONTS, AND WE WANT THOSE WHO HAVE
> >COMMITTED CRIMES AGAINST THE PEOPLE TO BE TRIED AND WE WANT THE UNSOLVED
> >MURDERS AND THE POLICE STATE TO STOP.
> >WE WATN OUR CONSTUTUTIONAL RIGHTS NOT TO BE ABBROGATED AND DONE AWAY WITH BY
> >THE APRC REGIME. THEN WE WILL AGREE THERE IS REAL AND TRUE PROGRESS
> >
> >We have the structures while people are starving in The Gambia,  farmers who
> >depend solely on their crops being unable to sell those crops for years now.
> >Civil servants are being fired illegally daily, and even the Judiciary is
> >under the grips of the APRC. The saddest part of it is that people like you
> >who know the truth are still  trying to sell this garbage to us.
> >Perhaps we over-estimate the APRC and assume that when we complain about the
> >human  rights violations, they are intelligent enough to understand that we
> >are trying to tell them that the improvements have to be in all areas, not
> >just the structural improvements. That we want the murders solved and the
> >human rights violations stopped.Tombong, how do you and the rest of the APRC
> >gang explain the human rights violations that continue even today? Will you
> >tell us that the Gambian people deserve that and that we are to substitute
> >our freedoms for structures?
> >
> >PEOPLE, UNDERSTAND THAT THIS TACTIC OF STATING THAT MANY HAVE JOINED THE APRC
> >BUT ARE SILENT ABOUT IT IS ANOTHER DEVIOUS TACTIC EMPLOYED BY THESE THUGS.
> >
> >Those of us who used to write amost daily about this regime  but do less of
> >that now realize that these are not people to reason with simply because they
> >were not motivated by high ideals to serve their country,  but were and are
> >motivated by what they can do for themselves in the guise of serving their
> >country.
> >
> >However, rest assured that this does not mean that we will ever compromise
> >our principles and join those whom history will not laud as the best amongst
> >us,  but rather those  amonsgst us who will always choose their own interest
> >over the truth,  and there is nothing honourable or even sensible in that,
> >,and time will prove this. Rest assured that not writing about this regime
> >daily translates to selling our souls and joining the devil or that we have
> >given up exposing this regime for what they are.
> >
> >To the  statement about silent members of the APRC, I say,  if someone joins
> >a political party and feels a need to hide that fact, then something is
> >wrong, ,and if it was my party,  I would not want such membership unless if I
> >was desperate for members or simply engaged in a false campaign to sell the
> >nonsense that people are joining the APRC by the drones. To anyone who joinss
> >he APRC, I feel a deep sense of sadness not just because of the character
> >trait it unfolds, but also because the yhave    that day given up their self
> >respect and their ability ot hold their head high in our society in the long
> >run.
> >
> >Why? Because joining the APRC is not just exercising the constitutional right
> >to join a party which would have been fine if the party was not one with the
> >record of the APRC. Joining the APRC is signing on to be identified with the
> >present regime who have the blood of Gambians on their hands and are
> >flaunting this fact before us daily by refusing to investigate these criminal
> >acts, ,and who also violate our rights daily and have turned our country into
> >a police state. Who have incarcerated Gambians without any charges they can
> >prove and who refuse to let these people have their rights under our
> >constitution., and who engage in silencing anyone who dares to complain about
> >these illegal acts they are engaged in. Who have tured our country into a
> >place where even members of the judiciary cannot make  rulings in a case
> >according to the law without being harassed or terminated from their
> >positions. Man, I would say anarchy has come to be the rule of the day in The
> > Gambia, and yet, Tombong Saidy and company come daily to tell us we shoudl
> >be dancing the jig because the government of  Yaya Jammeh has built some
> >structures while they continue to also built an ever worsening police state?
> >
> >THIS ALLEGATION OF PEOPLE JOINING THE APRC IS JUST ANOTHER TACTIC OF DIVIDE
> >AND CONQUER. TOMBONG AND HIS LIKES WHO MAKE THESE STATEMENTS HAVE AN AGENDA
> >TO PLANT DISTRUST AND CHAOS EVEN AS THEY APPEAR TO BE PEACE MAKERS AND JUST
> >ANOTHER WELL MEANING MEMBER OF THE LISTS.
> >
> >Tombong, produce your list of APRC members or cease and desist from your
> >devious tactics.
> >
> >Jabou Joh
> >
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