Brothers, please quit this indecent language and personal acts on each other. It is important to respect each other's political affiliation and private life. I don't think non of you is a silly brat! You are all good people and admitt your mistakes. Cheers Lamin PF Manneh >From: Hamjatta Kanteh <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Attn: ESSA BOKARI SEY >Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:29:42 EDT > >Mr Ousman Jallow Bojang, > >I'm not surprised you came out to defend Essa Bokarr Sey. Of course, i knew >all along that you and Essa are friends. What, however, surprised me is the >despicable manner in which you distorted certain parts of my piece in the >name of defending Essa. Calling your defence of Essa dishonest would be to >put it mildly.You were either extremely ignorant or downright dishonest >when >you wrote some of the false things you wrote in your defence of Essa. >Anyway, >having read your pathetic attempts to rebut my piece, i think you are the >wrong person to defend Essa on this. Besides, my quarrel is not with you >but >with Essa and all corrupt APRC apparatchiks and it would be counter >productive to take you on that primarily doesn't concern. Or are you now >officially an APRC apparatchik on Gambia-L? Can you answer why APRC >functionaries like Essa are class obsessed and plundering Gambia's scarce >resources in the vain pursuit of class and social status? If you can't >answer >this question, then i'm afraid it would be a total waste of my time to take >you and your objections seriously. > >Then as now, Essa is in this forum writing under the nom de guerre of >"Lamin >Ceesay" - why hasn't he DIRECTLY refute the gist of what i've written? Then >as now, who is in a better position today than Essa to refute all that i've >written? He merely and indirectly raised a few demurrers about private >ethics >and foolishly tried to convince himself that the alibi he has created for >"Lamin Ceesay" is still intact. See the other problem i've noticed about >your >friend is that when he is caught in the act, he behaves like an ostrich on >the run that believes that by burying its head in the sand it would in >effect >be remain hidden from its pursuers. In other words, whilst people are >staring >at its butt, the ostrich tries to persuade itself that it still remains >invisible from the eyesight. You just couldn't make it up! > >As it is, i stand by what i have written in my last piece. Since the piece >in >question is satirical, it is bound to be laced with hyperboles. Other than >that, i stand by everything i said in that piece. If the veracity of the >piece is still the case, none is in a better position than Essa himself to >refute what i have said. As i have said in the piece, the story i narrated >was neither intended to be malicious nor was it personal. Believe me if i >wanted to be personal with Essa, you would be surprised about the things i >know about Essa's private life that i can mischieviously parade around. But >those things are irrelevant to my agenda. Even if they are relevant, my >liberal inclinations tell me that there is a private sphere as well as a >public one; and what is private ought to be respected as private and vice >versa. What i narrated is very crucial to understanding the mess Gambians >currently find themselves in. I had deliberately left out family names to >avoid being personal. And believe me there were juicy bits and pieces that >i >could have added to the story but refused to do so on the grounds that it >would tantamount to being vindictive and personal. > >I will repeat again: insofar as the objections are not related to the >hyperboles invariably inherent in satirical works, i stand by everything >i've >written in my piece. In conclusion, i challenge Essa Bokarr Sey to DIRECTLY >refute all that i've written about him in that piece. > > >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. >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------