Dampha,

I'm with you all the way! All I'll advice you is to get used to such
outrages. When you really try to be truthful in our culture, you get called
"a hater," "envious," "a loser," "crazy" etc, etc, only because people don't
want to hear the truth. A few months ago, Abdu Kabir Njie posted a master
piece (in my opinion) to the L titled "Good v. Evil" in which the gentleman
spelt out exactly what we're dealing with here:"good" V. "evil." The simple
question then is: where do YOU stand? Are you sticking with "good" or are
you joining "evil" regardless of WHO symbolizes that? Those who are still
ambivalent could learn a few things from Jabou Joh when she declared very
poignantly that as it is, there simply can't be any more "fence-sitting":
You're either "for" or "against" the evil going on back home. Jabou is no
friend of mine, but I have tremendous respect for her stance considering
that she has sacrificed personal relationships to speak out against the
madness we're dealing with here. Now, that's something to look up to!

Regarding Ebrima Manneh's response, we can argue about whether Makalo was
killed or not, or where he was buried. But, what is an established FACT is
that, the guy's father Alh. Tabora Manneh is a major supporter of Yaya
Jammeh to this day! At the very least, Alh Tabora is one of a few
businessmen who continue to give comfort to this evil govt that does nothing
but kill, rape, loot from and maim our people. But instead of the "decent"
Tabora Manneh's behavior being the issue, his son who cares so much about
justice that he's willing to go home and investigate himself, is accusing
someone else of impugning his father's name. What an intrigue! Why can't
Manneh Jr. use his siblings to exert pressure on their dad to distance
himself away from this Yaya monster? But then, if you want to take advantage
of a govt's "For Sales" - compounds, hotels, etc, it's hard to snub the
president. Isn't it? Some people are just unbelieveable!

So KB, do like I do: go buy one of those "Soothing/Calm" Herbal Tea packs
and cool down. Pretend you've never heard of this guy. If people like him
can live with the fact that their parents are on the side of the DEVIL, then
people like us should be able to live with their ridiculous distractions.
That's all I can tell you.

Saul.


>Elhajj, I regret bringing this thing to G_L. Mr. Manneh sent us this
>correspondence in private and I think that he might have had his own reason


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