>From: Mr Makaveli <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Jammeh's Bizzarre 7 Years Ago Speech: Rated R >Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 03:14:38 -0500 > >Folks, >I don't know about you all but what I saw and heard from this moron is just >4^>I'm taking about addressing all those dignitaries and the entire audience

>as boys and girls and god knows how many doggone times he keeps repeating

>"7 years ago". For a moment I thought he was making a mockery of our elders and he was funny at some point, and he kind of reminded me of Chief

>Zebudia (Nigerian comedian) with his "7 years ago" speech. He said, "7

>years, Gambians were ashamed to show visitors the old Yundum airport for

>it look more like a cattle ranch and not an airport. And that today we

>gambians would go to the extent of waking up those visitors, if they were

>asleep, just to make sure they see our new state-of-the-art Yundum airport.

>

>You have to see it and hear speech for yourself, then you'll agree that

>the guy should have pursued a career as a standup comedian than becoming

>a president for any country. Yes, he maybe the president for now but

>Jammeh is not presidential. You should have seen the reaction from the

>crowd. One guy had to adjust his pair of glasses when Jammeh said without

>any regard for diplomacy that the opposition and their alliance "can go to

>hell" and anyone trying to instigate any kind of trouble "will not even be

>able to regret it, because he or she will be six-feet deep". I know what

>some of you might be thinking and hey, I probably would say it's a hearsay,

>but that's why I think his website is a blessing in disguise for those in

>the opposition and we thank him for making such speech available online,

>unedited, raw and uncut.

>

>I tell you, you got to give him dues. The guy renders his speech writers

>useless. No notes, no draft, no speech-writer needed. No wonder he went

>bezerk. I mean the guy has added a new meaning to dictatorship and you

>forget Hitler, considering how small Gambia is compared to Germany. He can

>have his troops perform routine around the country in less than five minutes just to show you small gambia is.

>

>His speech didn't stop there. A Jammeh's speech is off record without him

>disrecpecting our parents and people old enough to be his grandpa. Noooo!

>He went on telling parents how they should raise their kids, blaming

>gambian workers for letting foreigners take their jobs, on and on he went.I

>asked why the double standard ladies and gentlemen? For starters, the guy

>is married to a foreigner( Moroccan to be expilicit). Why then did he said

>we cannot allow the foreigners to feed the nation. Curious minds would then

>hasten to ask Who is feeding him then? A gambian woman? Well, as he said in

>his closing comments, he is the president and he has the right to exercise

>his freedom of speech. Therefore I would give him the benefit of the doubt.

>Nonetheless, I wished others were allow that same freedom of expression he

>valued so much.

>

>Anyway, I'm not even going to stoop any lower than I already have into

>this but I just found this mansa in his white oversized 'nyeti abdou' with

>a samurai sowrd on one hand and sheik's prayer beads on the other, quite

>contradicting to say the least. Hell, we may not have a glittering airport

>to show off 7 years ago but we had peace and without peace and stability,

>that very airport he is bragging about may fall into bits and pieces if all

>indications are that what happened in Liberia and Sierra leone might

>invariably and God forbid happen in the Gambia come doomsday.

>

>Looking through the crowd, one could easily identify some 50 to 80 yr olds

>being addressed as boys and girls. Never did I hear him refer the crowd as

>ladies and gentlemen but boys and girls. So what if the vast majority were

>students. Just look around the number 50 years sitting at the edge of

>their seats." Yahya Jammeh, Gadu Gna Bakarr". To him, they are just boys

>and girls and it's either his way or six-feet deep. What gave me cramps in

>my stomach was that people were cheering for him. God help us all.

>As the saying goes, " Video means Wadi Whut" in wolof and here is the

>'Wadi Whut' nicely packaged by his excellency for public consumption. GOTO>

>

>http://www.jammeh2001.org/realvideo/j22speech/j22speech2.rpm

>AND http://www.jammeh2001.org/realvideo/j22speech/j22speech3.rpm

>

> Mr Makaveli! (o-:)

>PS: Normally, I'm a little leery about hearing Jammeh speak because not

>that it's the embarassment I'm bound to stomach but the fact that I'm

>simply allergic to him speak, period. But try it just once like I just did.

>4^>

>

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