My dear brother,
May i ask you if its ok to agree to disagree ?If that is find
i want to proceed, ok iam assuming that this forum is democratic in all
its pusuits.I have in principle never admired Mr. Jammeh. I almost got run
by a bus the day i had about the 1994 stealing of "our demogracy".I say this
not to be provocative but to be realistic it was skewed! But we had the
right at least to insult the Father of our nation then but now we cannot
even blow our noses without this guy waving a sword at our eyeballs! But
back in 1994 some of my friends were very supportive of Yaya,i was most
against him among my friends and i did not hide it.
But today they all regret why they liked him then! The reason why i
dont advocate violence is that it hurts the wrong people who have got
nothing to do with the nations government.In fact the reason why i am here
talking is because my conscience would not leave me alone to sit and just
watch,iam sure thats why we are all here.War is not good nothing good can
come from war especially in The Gambia.
I think of some weird idea today, how about a joint government between
Yaya's camp and the opposition should the the electoral process
fail.I think that some kind of peaceful interaction between Yaya ,Mr.Darboe
and some other political parties is indicated.Or is this not a possible
working group? I dont know but maybe some teaching
each other can be muscled.Really i just want some peace and the removal of
threat of war altogether. This is just a suggestion any comments?
For me anything but war!
>From: saul khan <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: What The Situation Calls For: New Tactics For New Situations
>Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 14:57:03 GMT
>
>Hamjatta,
>
>One thing is becoming abundantly clear: the Ebou Collys and Kebba Damphas
>are in plain English, the most realistic camp of our struggle. And who's
>making them that? Yaya Jammeh! You see, Yaya is his worst enemy. I mean,
>this guy is so uncultured, he simply has no clue as to how to attract and
>keep people. Look at the amount of goodwill (if you'll let me quantify
>goodwill,) that he has squandered. And how about the anti-Jawara alliance
>he
>built in '94? They're all gone. And even as the softies are treating him
>with padded gloves (nice/rational letters, etc) he's digging himself into a
>deeper hole. His behavior is becoming so irrational, and alarming that even
>the so-called pacifists, (who are nothing but closet supporters of this
>man,
>or "UDP is the same as PPP proponents" if you ask me,) are beginning to
>realize that something needs to be done. And very quickly at that. Every
>extra day this man spends as head of state, is a day too long. And like I
>said a few days ago, if we had an honorable parliament, there won't even be
>any crisis. They need to do what the Equadorians did to Bakharam. If you're
>unfortunate to have a mad person at the helm, you need to act quickly in
>order to cut your losses. Where else on this planet do you hear a president
>make such serious threats on national TV? And he follows through! If anyone
>doubts the man's insanity, please explain to me how one pays half a Million
>dollars to "clean" one's image in Wash DC, and while those efforts are
>underway, that same person goes on national TV to threaten his opponents
>with execution, and urge his supporters to defy the rule of law! As crude
>and uncouth as Yaya is, I doubt he'll do that if he were of sound mind. So,
>what we have here is a totally deranged individual who simply can't keep
>track of his own utterances, commitments, or the need to observe basic
>rules
>of peaceful human co-existence. Thanks to him, we're now an acephalous
>society!
>
>But somehow, "reasoning" with him will do it. First he butchers all those
>within the army who he considers as threats. Then he gradually went after
>civilians. What happened in April to little school children was very
>predictable as far as I'm concern. It's just a natural progression of
>things. There's a certain symmetry about this man's daring brutality. And
>some of us have been trying to sound the alarm for some years now. Yet, all
>we've ever gotten is dismissal as being "paranoid," or "people with an
>agenda." Well, who's eating their words now? The strategies/approaches that
>have been adopted by ALL the parties back home against Yaya, are simply not
>working! Common sense should tell these parties to try something different.
>I wish this wasn't the case, but it is.
>
>I'll gladly buy a copy of the 19th Century American writer Henry Thoureau's
>"Civil Disobedience" for the three parties back home if they'll promise to
>study it. The painful irony here is that Thoureau was agitating against a
>system then, that is much better than what we're up against -today. There
>won't be any need for guns. All people need to do is to stop recognizing
>the
>govt: no tax payment, no govt work, etc. Like many have already alluded to:
>People Power. Pure and simple. I mean, what the hell will Yaya do? Send his
>thugs to force every govt employee to go to work? Jail all Gambians who
>refuse to pay taxes? The Apartheid govt in S. Africa who are a Million
>times
>more powerful than Yaya could EVER be, tried this and failed! And if Yaya
>dares to kill innocent people for refusing to recognize his illegitimate
>govt, I bet you my life that some country will remove him. There is a
>precedence for this: Marcos in the Phillipines, the former Eastern block
>leaders in Europe. The International community will not stand by and
>witness
>such a crime. But the impetus has to come from Gambians.
>
>If rational approaches were enough, we won't be hearing about this latest
>nationally broadcast threat of chopping up opponents, and burying them six
>feet deep. Too many people have died at the hands of this monster including
>children, too many careers destroyed, some very good and decent folks have
>been publicly humiliated, the economy is all but in tatters, the education
>system is a joke, the national treasury is synonymous with Yaya's personal
>checking account, while he continues to chase out educated Gambians at a
>rate that parrallels that of Ethiopia in the mid-80s. The simple question
>now is whether the civic leaders have the courage and determination to
>stand
>up and lead people in an "enough is enough" coup that would bring sanity to
>that little place we all call "home."
>
>Saul.
>
>
>>From the outset, when the tyranny of Jammeh manifested itself again
>>through
>>ther murder of our school children, mainly three schools of thought
>>
>
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