Dave, I must say that it is refreshing to read you after being bombarded with all sorts of rubbish about ‘compromising’ with APPPRC, and that people that are hard on this government (criticizing them constantly) are ‘unpatriotic’ and do not have the interest of the country at heart. This is so insulting coming from people that support murderers and thieves running our country. But reading Gambian newspapers today, I thought to myself that some of us being called unpatriotic should NOT feel too insulted. Can you believe the nerve of Baabaa (Blood Diamond Dealer) Jobe standing in Parliament and calling Halifa Sallah ‘unpatriotic’? These people are in denial and anybody that wants to open their eyes is ‘unpatriotic’. They want us to just lay down and let Yaya and his cohorts walk all over us. Just witness the tragic happenings at Barra/Banjul. As damage control now they talk about some ferries coming from Ukraine. Before Yaya stole our money to go buy a plane from Ukraine, they should have fixed our ferry problem. But no! Innocent Gambians will just lose their lives like that while Yaya steals our money, buys a plane from Ukraine and sends his wife to America for shopping. But Yaya and his apologists do NOT want to hear that. They do NOT even want to recognize that this is going on in the country and the man is stealing from us. Now, what is going to happen to the families of the victims of this tragic accident? Are we to just keep quiet about such disasters because some in Nuimi ‘voted’ for Yaya? Is it unpatriotic to point out that the first time the vermin had dealings with Ukraine, instead of buying a plane they should have bought several ferries? Is it unpatriotic to fight for the victims’ families to gain compensation from those responsible for the tragedy and to tell the government to stop wasting money on planes for Yaya? Like you said, Dave, you CANNOT reason with these people. There is very little you can do to a grown-up that is in denial. Just last week Gassama was jumping up and down accusing people of exaggerating the plight of Gambians. The man himself CANNOT live comfortably on his salary. How can you force such a man to acknowledge the plight of others if he is not even prepared to acknowledge his own predicament? When they do NOT have arguments to show how they are developing the country and reducing the poverty of the people, they resort to giving people some ridiculous labels. Dave, thanks again for seeing the stealth attacks and debunking them. Kabir, I saw your piece on (whiner) Gassama. The man CANNOT ‘make’ people see in Gambia stuff that is NOT in the country. He should have asked his side-kick (Essa ‘snob’ Sey) about you before ‘engaging’ you. I just saw Mboge send us Halifa Sallah’s take on the ‘development’ in the country and the ‘reality on the ground’. I wonder what Gassama is going to accuse Halifa Sallah of this time. He cannot say that the man does not live in the country and is being fed false information. These APPPRC sycophants live in denial. KB >From: Dave Manneh <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Patriotic actions or rather attempt to muzzle opposing views???? >Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:25:01 +0000 > >Dear all, >Sadly, of late attempts are being made (some covertly, i have to admit) to >gag >the opponents of Jammeh regime on the distro. I personally do not have a >problem with anyone wanting to shut me up verbally or otherwise, but I am >finding it real hard to control my fury anytime i see the attempt to muzzle >by the use of words like unpatriotic. Why should one be labelled >unpatriotic >just because he/she hate a murderous, thieving regime? > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>> To view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] <<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>//\\<<//\\>>