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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------