KB,
You are spot on about how "Jobe's" alibis, sophistry and hypocrisy have been
grazed to the ground. "Jobe" is damaged goods and i'll be surprised to see
him on the List again touting foolishly idiotic APRC "projects" in his
attempts to rationalise the evilry of Jammeh. His mission has completely
failed - as i warned him earlier. Now, the Dictatorship would be advised to
pull him away from the scene before it is too late; they can't afford gaffes
like the one "Jobe" has been pulling off of late. I noticed that Essa
"Bokassa" Sey has returned to the List again under the nom de guerre of Paul
Gomez. Good luck to him in his chimeric pursuit of Samsudeen Sarr. I wonder
what this Samsudeen Sarr fellow has done to him? Have you noticed his bizarre
obsession with Sarr? It has that dreaded and horrible acute low inferiority
complex written all over it. Where are these people from?

In any event, I'm glad i have on my side, patriots with the calibre of
giants, in the fight against the criminal syndicate running the show in the
Gambia. In you,  Brother Saul Khan and else, i take comfort in the knowledge
that the Gambia still has patriotic and conscientious sons who wouldn't
mortgage their souls for the gains of this world. Patriots that are
hard-working and conscientious; never flinching from doing the Good as their
consciences  and beliefs dictate to them. Patriots who are smart and have
better alternatives to the madness imposed upon us by this bunch of rag tag
fraternity of slimeballs, acute low inferiority complex ridden vagabonds, and
philistines thanks to who we have a system of gov't in the Gambia called
MEDIOCRACY, i.e., gov't based on the whims and caprices of mediocrities and
in which mediocrity has a greater moral value than anything else.

Brother, when "Jobe" under pressure and or interrogation from Saul Khan made
this Freudian Slip by stating this give-away prize: "I personally believe
that as commander in chief the
president must have given the order to shoot or his VP, Mrs. Isatou Njie
Saidy, as Ag. Commander in chief then", i believe it was mischieviously
uttered and indeed intended for an applicable purpose. See, my hunch is that
Jammeh is readying another sacrificial lamb come the next general elections.
And Njie-Saidy  is the perfect candidate. Her reputation amongst the
metropolitan "feminists" or middle class female dissenters, their radical
male allies and other fellow travellers, is at an all time low. She is simply
dispensable in the current scheme of things - especially the re-eclection bid
. And to correct the huge "error" of not prosecuting anyone for the April
Massacres, Jammeh knows a big fish has to be fried. Since those who are part
of the inner coterie of his evil - like Badgie, Jatta, Jobe, et al - are
still indispensable, logic points towards Njie-Saidy, who circumstantial
evidence heavily incriminates in the April Massacres. This is why "Jobe"
deliberately flew that kite and admitted to Njie-Saidy's culpability in the
scheme of things.

But this misses a fundamental point: the procedure leading to the
PREMEDITATED order to shoot at the children. As i understand it, the Veep,
i.e, Njie-Saidy, CANNOT make unilateral decisions the magnitude of the order
to shoot at the children; this requires delegation of duties from the
president to the Veep or such other juniors. And in so doing, the Veep has to
deliberate/consult cabinet colleagues in a "National Security Council"
meeting. Hence the culpability of ALL those who had prior information that
orders had been given to shoot at the school children and lend their credence
to it by staying mute and or trying to defend the gov't despicably in public
after the shootings. I will stretch it to include those proxies of evil like
tenured civil servants, cabinets members and the rest of the  sycophantic
Jammeh crowd who continue to peddle lies and cover-ups in these heinous
crimes against the Gambian peoples. All these people bear a measure of
responsibility and should as you pointed out earlier, face such charges like
accessories to murder, trying to stymie the cause of justice, contempt of
court for lying to the toothless commission and coroner. Be that as it may, i
seek not to exenorate Njie-Saidy but to point to the despicable attempts to
deflect and indeed disarm charges against Jammeh that "Jobe" is hell-bent on.
Njie-Saidy, bears a measure of responsiblility for the callous murder of
these school children and for this, she shall be indicted by both the present
and posterity.

"Smart" people like Njie-Saidy, Sarjo Jallow, Joseph Joof, Dr Sedat Jobe and
our mutual friend "Kebba Jobe" today represent what shall call the
intellectual rationalisers and proxies of evil in the Gambia and against the
Gambian peoples. When Jammeh pillages, murders and maims, these people will
come and tout such absurd "projects" like the Arch 22 to vouchsafe the
legitimacy of Jammeh's illegal gov't. These people have more than
anyone/thing - Jammeh himself included - contributed in strengthening, aiding
and rationalising all the evil that Jammeh has and continues to wreak on the
Gambia and the Gambian peoples. These people like their intellectual proxies
of yesteryears, especially during the Cold War in the West, think that evil
through, what Michael Oakeshott, the leading Conservative thinker in Britain
of that period, aptly labelled as "constructivist rationalism". By
"constructivist rationalism", Oakeshott meant it to mean the attempts made by
leading Leftists, socialists and their fellow travellers to rationalise the
evilry inherent in the Soviet system by touting such ideals like social
justice, equality, etc, etc, which they claimed albeit the Gulags, the Soviet
system embodied. But Oakeshott courageously argued, against such leading
luminaries like Brian Barry, Harold Laski, G.D.H Cole, etc, etc, that evil is
evil. Period. Evil cannot be rationalised. It must be isolated and
exterminated. Any attempts to make it look or feel benign will fail
miserably.

Similarly, the same rationale is what is given/provided by those whoring
their intellects to the killer of our brothers and sisters. This is quite
understandable: virtually all of the sophisticated intellectual defence that
attempts to act as a credible bulwark against us battling against the tyranny
comes from people who in their youth cut their teeth in Leftist agitation
against Jawara. That people like Sarjo Jallow can rationalise the continued
illegal detention of former comrades like Dumo Sarho is reminiscent of
Leftist apologia for the barbarity of the Communist menace during the Cold
War. If you ask me, people like Jallow are barbarians in the Schumpeterian
interpretation of that term. Let Schumpeter argue for me on what
differentiates a civilized man from a barbarian: "to realize the relative
validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what
distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian."

If people like Sarjo Jallow had the tiniest measure of human civility in them
and indeed still adhere to the ideals that propelled them to agitate against
Jawara, the least they could do, is to resign in disgust at the injustices
meted out to a former colleague. This is simply too much to ask of these toe
hypocrites and Leftist turn coats. All they are engaged in basically is to
tell us: yes Jammeh has downsides but hey look he has built roads and
bridges. I say: Poppycock! No amount of material is measurable to the
dignified existence of a human life. No amount of materail gain warrants the
callous and heinous crimes Jammeh has and continues to unleash on the Gambian
peoples. Come to think of, what has these so-called "improvements" done for
the average Gambian? Zilch! By their own admission, Gambians are now poorer
than when Jawara was there. So what significant " improvement" is there to
tout as indicative of the benevolence of this prehistoric gov't or measurable
to the ills it has and continues to wrought on the Gambian peoples? Yet
proxies of evil like Dr Jobe persist in their damnable and despicable
attempts to rationalise the evilry of Jammeh. Do these peoples sleep at
night? How do they manage with life knowing fully well that they aiding and
abetting with a man who callously ordered the slaughter of children as young
as three and whose departure from this world was not only a tragic
interference with young lives, but a heavy indictment of the Gambian peoples
willingness to let an imbecile to ruin our nation.

As you rightly pointed out in your original message - which "Jobe" has
shabbily tried to disfigure with his sophistry - the onus is on us adults to
say to Jammeh that we want our country back. If children can go out in the
streets and boldly send out a message to our meat head "president" that
liberty is liberty and that our freedoms belong to none but us, then  it is
incumbent on us adults to take on evil and uproot it from our midst. The
children have done their part. Our lack of collective resolve in assaulting
the dictatorship is an indictment and betrays the trust of the fallen young
ones. The ghosts of these fallen young ones are restless and hovering over us
stupefied that we can stay largely complacent with Jammeh's evilry after what
he has visited on us.

As my intellectual hero, Isaiah Berlin, wrote of his hero, Chaim Weizman,
"...... when great public issues are joined one must above all take sides;
whatever one did, one must not reamain neutral or uncommitted, one must
always - as an absolute duty - take part in the world's affairs with all the
risk and blame and misrepresentation and misunderstanding of one's motives
and character which this almost inevitably entails." I brought this
specifically to your and Colley's attention because i noticed how your
motives and characters has been under constant attack by those whom you aptly
call vermins. Please take comfort in the knowledge that you are acting out of
an **absolute duty** to your beliefs and conscience and a common humanity
with those fallen ones whom you probably never knew in real life. Again, to
paraphrase Schumpeter, in your attempts to realize the relative validity of
your convictions and stand up for them unflinchingly you have made it
abundantly clear to all that yours is distinguishable from the spineless
barbarians who intellectually rationalise evil and thus act as its proxy.

Hamjatta Kanteh

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