"JOBE"

With all due respect, I think you should call it quits, in order to save
your self from further embarassment. I think you made a serious mistake to
have indulged your self in this intellectual discourse without preparing
your self thoroughly, though you sounded brilliant in the beginning. You
can't challenge excellent debaters like KB, HAMJATTA(the hammer), EBRIMA
CEESAY, EBOU COLLY, SAUL KHAN and many other bright contributors in this
forum. Each of these folks is always ready and well prepared to debate
anybody, any where. As brother HAMJATTA put best, your contribution is
getting stupider and sillier with the stroke of every letter on your
keyboard. The principal reason for this is that since in the inception, you
have been BOXING from the TINNIEST RING created for you by your boss; and
consequently, you lack the stamina and impetus to jab your opponents
effectively. And also the tinniest nature of the Ring does not allow you to
retreat back few steps in order to escape counter-jabs. To put it plainly,
"JOBE", your contributions to the discourse have suffered from DIMINISHING
MARGINAL SENSIBILITY, with every piece you NOW produce, your ability to
inject sense in it shrinks proportionally.

To state it plainly, you have been hammered, jabbed and pinned down at an
"INTELLECTUAL DISCOURSE RED CORNER", and the referee's count down has found
you unconscious; now there is nothing left but for you to accept defeat and
surrender. With all the crucial questions Ebrima asked you, you could not
still refute any of them effectively, instead you meander around the edges
of the discourse. At this point of the debate, your debate becomes a
MELANCHOLIA, a debate full of great depression of spirits and excessive
brooding without apparent or sufficient cause to continue. To that end, MR.
"JOBE", I opine that you should call it quits.

Ansumana.


>From: Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: My Reply To Kebba Jobe!
>Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 01:07:36 EDT
>
>"Jobe": << However your conviction that I want to absolve Yaya of any
>wrongs
>done in his name of on behalf of his government is absolute rubbish. The
>essence of
>putting the NAMs and Security forces in the thick of things is to highlight
>some inherent flaws in our system. **The president has so much power that
>he,
>singlely, is the government, dominating everyone and everything else. This
>I
>consider very unhealthy**. >> Emphasis mine.
>
>Hamjatta: Good grief, "Jobe"! What the blazes are you talking about here?
>Seems you are getting stupider and sillier by the second! By your  own
>admission, Jammeh has **absolute powers** which you deem makes stuff that
>makes up the Gambian polity "very unhealthy"! But this is precisely why
>Jammeh thinks and believes he can run amok with Gambian lives and
>everything
>within his reach, unchecked. Yet, if you believe all these stuff about
>Jammeh's ineligibility as a leader [well, you admitted that he gave the
>orders for the students to be  murdered, that he is an incorrigible liar
>and
>a dictator amongst others!], then why are you still picking the cudgel up
>for
>him? Are you trying to say that Jammeh is all there is for Gambians? That
>Gambians can't come up with a better leader? As KB quizzed ealier, can you
>say why you still believe we ought to stick with Jammeh after all the
>indictments we charged him with and virtually all of which you agreed to?
>What is so special about Jammeh that we ought to still stick with him after
>he gave the orders to murder the school children? Are you implying that
>murderers are eligible to run for public office in the Gambia?
>
>The more i read the drivel that oozes from your pen, the sillier and
>cowardlier you get. Since you appeared on this List, all you seemed to be
>doing is to masturbate intellectually each time you intervene or give your
>take on the crucial issues by continuously making circles around issues
>that
>bespoke of blatant hypocrisy and sophistry. Your sophistry reminds me of a
>tack employed by the so-called Oxford philosophy in its hey days of the
>40s,
>50s, 60s and 70s; that of take-no-prisoner style of reasoning. Each time
>logic pushes you in a direction which heavily indicts Jammeh, you attempt
>to
>wriggle out of it by saying: hey, look Jammeh is but just another component
>of our society and he is not be blamed for everything! Yet, you turn around
>that in today's Gambia, the flow of power is not only asymmetrical but
>largely revolves around the whims and caprices of the same very man whom
>you
>wish desperately to clear of the mess he has brought to our country. And
>virtually any issue of real magnitude has to actually be resolved directly
>by
>his office or indirectly by his trusted lieutenants - who are part of his
>inner coterie of evil. How can we change such general state of affairs by
>sticking with the same guy whom you admit to be at centre of virtually all
>the mess going on in that place? Do you see how stupid and silly this
>take-no-prisoner style of reasoning - as you wilfully attempt to apply it
>to
>Jammeh's case in order to absolve him - is portraying you? I've always said
>right from the onset you got here that the best adjectives that best
>describe
>your risible attempts at exonerating Jammeh of the mess that is the Gambia,
>is not just gullibility, cowardice and or dishonesty but sophistry,
>hypocrisy
>and a chimeric logic clogged with mendacity. Take it from me - and contrary
>to received wisdom on this List - you are not a smart lettered guy but a
>freaked out lettered bumpkin.
>
>
>
>Hamjatta - Kanteh
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