Dampha,

The narrow mindedness and vulgarity you tried on Kebba Jobe did not work and
so will not work for Gassa. You may jump into the gutter with Yus and
whoever wishes. Fact of the matter is that the past few days have shown the
whole L what your idea of a free Gambia is. The archives of the L are there
for all to see your inconsistencies about your opposition to this regime.
You have accused me in the past of trying to sow discord within your ranks
while conveniently ignoring short comings of the opposition. This is plain
hypocrisy. If some of the short comings of the opposition that I had raised
in the past were honestly looked into, some of the inconsitencies showing up
now and all this hulla balloo would not have been the case. The narrow
mindedness, dishonesty, lies and naivety that you and Yusupha Jow displayed
these past days is enough to satisfy some of us that atleast some of you are
begining to see through your twisted logic.

It is very ironic that some of you who accuse this government of
intollerance to disenting views and dictatorship, cannot even accept
constructive critism from within your own ranks? What sort of democracy are
you people yearning for the country? Remember ALES? But don't worry, I have
already made arrangements with Makaveli for some of you to have your heads
examined.

Finally, do you rmember when I cautioned you about jubilating too soon when
you received insider information that there was an all opposition party
coalition? You LIED here that indeed there was a unified opposition
coalition. What is the reality now and who has been lying here then. When I
predicted here that there will not be an opposition coalition/alliance I
said so knowing how blinded by fury and desperation some in the opposition
were. This October will be a very significant mildstone for Gambians and it
is incumbent upon all of us to ensure that it is handled in the best
interest of our country. Angry utterances and incitement is the last thing
we need. If, instead of selling a programme to uplift us from the depth of
poverty and ignorance, you instead want to wallow in empty rhetorics such as
Jammeh is the worst that has ever happened to Gambia, so lets close our eyes
replace him with anyone. Are you for real? If you want to get rid of Yahya,
you must offer us more than rhetoric. People want development and not
stagnation. Narrow minded bigotry will not create the atmosphere needed for
Gambians to brainstorm for solutions to our woes. I was quite busy browsing
through the archives and guess what, most of the meaningless squablings had
you in the thick of things. You seem to think that you have a monpoly of
ideas and the truth. That is the problem with you. it is just unfortunate
that even Yus who back in may was cautioning against this "herd mentality"
is now in the thick of things.

Yus, I will not follow you to the gutter for now for reasons best known to
me. However it is in your best interest to maintain whatever crdibility you
had as you never know when you will need it. By now, you should have a very
good idea of how I think. I just don't speak for the sake of speaking, I
research whatever I say here and refrain as much as possible from getting
involved in what I don't know much about. I advise you do the same. Gambia
is a very small place and believe you me, "do not take lids off cans of
worms, for everything is connected to everything else". I know when some of
you are cornered, instead of doing the honorable thing by acknowledging the
facts you tend to resort to name calling and personal insults. Always
remember that nobody has a monpoly of that.

Have a good day, Gassa.

>From: Dampha Kebba <[log in to unmask]>
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Calling All Comrades To Please Cease Fire
>Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:13:07 -0400
>
>Yusupha, I would first of all urge you NOT to pay heed to Gassama’s
>desperate attempts to pit you against me. As I write this, I am laughing
>out
>loud at this man’s childish ploys. I bet he is just getting back from
>‘Come-In’ intoxicated with beer and sycophancy. The vermin is in so much
>denial that he has to get high before he opens his G_L mails. He does NOT
>want to face truth. So, he turns to alcohol first.
>
>Yusupha, as you know by now, I do NOT hold grudges against brothers and
>sisters in this struggle because of what was said on G_L. I put my points
>forward vigorously and take anything that comes my way in the proper
>perspective. Once it is all said and done, I know I will be able to open my
>mails and face reality everyday without getting drunk from beer, like the
>vermin, Gassama. So, pay him no mind.
>
>I hope people see what is going on with this desperate man and their
>desperate Party. They know they CANNOT win the elections by themselves.
>Now,
>their best bet is to try and bring discord to the Opposition and split the
>Opposition vote. Did people forget that this very vermin (Gassama) was here
>few days ago insisting that Jawara was going to run in the coming
>elections.
>This was all meant to bring up anti-Jawara sentiments and make PPP (rather
>than Yaya and Ousainou Darboe) the focus of the campaign. I tried endlessly
>to show seemingly intelligent people in the Opposition that we are dealing
>with a desperate and incorrigible lair in Gassama. Jawara was NOT going to
>run. Now, time has proved the vermin wrong. Did anyone hear him admit that
>he was lying between his teeth?
>
>Now that they failed in using Jawara’s name to scare the Gambian voters,
>they went to their second ploy. Now they are arguing that PPP is out to
>dominate the Alliance. Ask them why they think so. How has PPP manipulated
>Darboe so far? But what is more mind-boggling is the fact that Opposition
>members CANNOT see through this blatant gimmick and look at the bigger
>picture and for once lose sight of Jawara.
>
>Darboe has shown the Gambian people nothing but independence. We have Bakau
>where the UDP favored a former NCP candidate (Dembo Bojang) over a former
>PPP candidate (Sam Sillah). There is no evidence whatsoever that the PPP is
>taking over UDP or UDP has merged with PPP. That is simply ridiculous. If
>UDP merged with PPP, why would PPP insist on registering their Party? Why
>did PPP not do like GPP and say that they would NOT register? These are the
>simple commonsense things I cannot understand why people are missing them.
>Instead what we have, are people happily swallowing APRC LIES and attacking
>fellow allies.
>
>Is it so hard to see that APRC is NOT talking about Darboe at all. They
>want
>to scare Gambians about the restoration of PPP. But who is saying that PPP
>is going to be restored? Only APRC and some in the Opposition that bought
>into the APRC LIES. They are spreading all sorts of stories. All those
>stories are as FALSE as the story Gassama was spreading here about Jawara
>wanting to lead the Coalition.
>
>Darboe wants an administration that is BETTER than both the PPP and the
>AFPRC/APRC regimes. The man is looking FORWARD.
>KB
>
>
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