Mr. Jarju,

As someone who has lived over half his life in the West, I'm a little
disappointed that you don't see anything wrong with how the Independent
reporters were treated at Jammeh's orders. If you know of an instance where
Dr. King, Malcom X, or Farrakhan was ARRESTED in a libel case, I'm all ears.
I bet you won't find a single such case! Neither does any Hollywood
celebrity send police officers to pick up reporters b/c of what they've
written. Even if this is tabloid journalism as you're claiming it is, the
treatment meted out to the Independent reporters is unfair and illegal!

I understand and respect that it's your right to support Jammeh blindly. But
just as an advice, take a second look at some issues. Like they say, "what
goes around, comes around." Some day, it might be Mafy Jarju, or  his
brother/friend who gets treated so unjustly. Just remember that. It wouldn't
kill you to be objective - just once.

Saul.

>From: Malafy Jarju <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Tabloid/ Newspaper, Jammeh V. The Independent
>Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 11:59:02 -0800
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>The dictates of democracy tells us that freedom of speech is one of its
>corner stones.  With that in mind, one assumes that one is free to say and
>write about anything. Folks, that only exists in a perfect democracy to
>which there is no such thing.  I have lived in the west for over half of my
>life and have seen countless instances where ci
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