Before I move to Gassama’s latest irrational rattling, let me give a heartfelt welcome to brother George Sarr. George, I hope you are back to stay. Some of us really missed your invaluable contributions and look forward to seeing more. We always need that extra voice we can get that would be driven by principles, intelligence and a clean conscience. Welcome back. Now to the mental midget. Gassama, I am NOT surprised that now you have resorted to some goofy satire in order to peddle more AFPRC/APRC sycophantic nonsense. You read people quite well when you decided that no one was taking your LIES seriously anymore; and therefore, you mocked yourself and your cohorts. This silliness will NOT disarm me. Believe it or not, it dragged a chuckle or two from me and then I realized that you were up to your games again. You will say or do anything to be in Yaya’s good books. But you should always be rest assured that you will be taken on in your LIES. You are darn right that the High School drop-outs and mental midgets are RUINING our country and the country needs urgent rescue. As Ngorr succinctly pointed out to you, the plight of our people is well-documented by none other than the government you slavishly support. It was NOT Dampha or Ngorr that made up the numbers Famara Jatta put in his budget. The Opposition is NOT responsible for the FACT that you (Gassama) CANNOT make ends meet while thugs like Baabaa (Blood Diamond Dealer) Jobe are living large. The FACT that Gambians live in ‘ABJECT POVERTY’ (to quote you) is out there glaring for even mental midgets like you to see. You can mock yourself and in the process pretend that you and other Gambians are living better lives than the deplorable state you are in. Be my guest. Those of us NOT living in denial work very hard here in the Diaspora to send our folks money so that they can live semi-decent lives. We do NOT buy into the crap you want to feed people here and leave the lives of our folks into the hands of mental midgets that turn people into slaves and praise-singers. You know, now I somewhat understand why you think that you can sit in Banjul before a computer and tell LIES about the ‘reality’ in the country and get people to swallow your LIES willy-nilly. The other day, in response to Sanusi, you exposed yourself again. You said that you were not in the country around the time of the coup and you did not know what was going on in the country. Even during times you were in the country, you were at times so preoccupied with your ‘work’ at Gamtel that you did not know what was happening in the country. See Gassama, you CANNOT think beyond your nose. There are people out here that are very interested about what is going on in the country; especially after the heinous massacre of our children on April 10 and 11, 2000. Those people are constantly in touch with their folks and HONEST Gambians that are NOT living in denial like you. I know more about what is going on in that country than you. If I wanted to find out what color shirt you wore to work today, it would NOT take me five minutes to find out. Now, imagine how long it would take me to find out if we have a FINISHED road from Westfield to MandinaBa or whether we have CSE pouring gravel on the road to fool mental midgets like you. I know people that live through the hazardous dust that CSE poured there. Now you are admitting for the whole world that you are a LIAR and it was justified for me to set the record straight when you wanted to LIE to people here and pretend that we have a finished road from Westfield to MandinaBa. Now, your story is that bulldozers are moving in yet to commit another fraud on gullible Gambians. Remember that you are on record explicitly admitting that there is NO Westfield/MandinaBa Road. That road only exists in your dreams and on drawing boards at CSE. Between me and you (who is in Gambia) who LIED about Westfield/MandinaBa? If you had any sense at all, you will NOT fall for Yaya’s and CSE’s shenanigans. You would have looked at government’s spending to check whether they have the will and the MEANS to finance a road from Westfield to MandinaBa. That is how you project about the existence of roads. Like I told you before, CSE and African Dictators are adept at this type of gimmicks. They can fool mental midgets like you, but they CANNOT fool me. When you said that this week the mental midgets ‘allowed’ another petrol station to open its doors, you again revealed your sick mindset. Here we have you again scavenging for something positive to say about the illegal government. You are hugging the successes of other people to try and exaggerate the dismal record of the AFPRC/APRC. A better word for you to have used would have been: Encouraged or Facilitated. But you CANNOT use those words because the illegal government has NO sound policies to encourage a vibrant private sector. The Dictators RUINING our country think that they do people a favor by ‘allowing’ them to set up businesses in the country. See why we are in a quagmire? See what OJ was alluding to? You do NOT even understand how this sector of our economy works. You know NOTHING about government policies vis-à-vis this sector. Yet you willingly come here to peddle half-truths again. Did you stop to ask yourself about the taxes oil companies in the country pay? Did you stop to ask yourself the environmental concerns that were taken into consideration before commissioning this outfit? You are clueless. In your own field, you CANNOT even hold your own. No wonder you will come here and mock yourself when talking about issues you know little if anything about. Trying to give your illegal government credit for the vibrancy of Kairaba Avenue is yet further proof of your sycophancy and your inability to find something positive to say about the murderous outfit RUINING our country. Don’t you know that even if ten-year-olds were leading the country Kairaba Avenue would still be vibrant? Gassama, I will give you a clue and point you to the turmoil that was in Liberia and Sierra Leone in the late eighties and the nineties. Again what you should be busying yourself with is how this illegal regime stifled the economic development Gambia could have seen had they not stolen power in 1994. They came in and wrecked the Re-export Trade. The millions of dollars institutions such as the USAID used to bring into the economy disappeared. Strong companies like Alimenta got kicked out of the country in favor of hustlers Baabaa (Blood Diamond Dealer) Jobe brought into the country. In short, the mental midgets took us BACKWARDS. Gassama, eradicate your ALES and realized that had it not been for the mental midgets, Kairaba Avenue would have been MORE vibrant. Had it not been for the High School drop-outs, we would have meaningful development that would NOT render our people POORER. In other words, HEIGHTEN your EXPECTATIONS. A ‘qualified engineer’ like you does NOT deserve to live like a pauper and think that he has to lick boots in order to survive. This illegal government does NOT deserve credit for Kairaba Avenue. If you give them credit, it comes out as if you are celebrating the plight of the Liberians and the Sierra Leoneans. I know you people are shameless, but you who pretends to be a decent person would surely not want to be seen as being happy about what happened in Liberia and Sierra Leone to drive their businessmen to Gambia. Kairaba Avenue has NOTHING to do with Yaya and his cohorts. The nonsense you talked about some ‘gala night’ and PPP does NOT even deserve a response from me. Keep living in the past. Yaya is the one hugging Jawara and making up with him. If you want to talk about PPP, tell that to your cohorts like Buba Baldeh and Fatoumatta Jahumpa that were die-heart members of PPP and part of the PPP outfit and now part of APPPRC. Like I told you before, I only discuss PPP with you when you LIE about their record to make Yaya look good. You can criticize PPP all you want. Now if you criticize PPP, you are unwittingly criticizing APPPRC. It does NOT bother me. I am looking to the future. You also boasting about a foreign ‘policy’ that can only deliver Taiwan says a lot about the stage you guys are in. Again you show what an ignoramus you are in these things when you try to prop up Blaise. Did you know that the man was at the UN when Baabaa (Blood Diamond Dealer) Jobe was proscribed as an international criminal? Gambia has NEVER suffered such a slap in the face in its entire history. You read between the lines of the UN Report, you are left with no doubt that the UN knows that our country is being led by a bunch of thugs and criminals. We all know that the plane that necessitated Baabaa (Blood Diamond Dealer) Jobe’s proscription belongs to Yaya. So who is the real culprit here? What did Blaise Jagne’s ‘clout’ do to save Gambia from that predicament? It is pathetic how you scavenge for positives for this illegal government. Now, after-the-fact (of NEPAD) when Senegal is clearly in the forefront, we have the AFPRC/APRC morons piggy-backing on the Senegalese ideas. These people ought to be ashamed of themselves. If we had a serious government in place, we would NOT be plagiarizing Senegalese ideas and be snubbed by the civilized countries bankrolling NEPAD. A serious Gambian government would have been at the drawing board from day one. The recent erratic moves shown by Wade shows that it does NOT take much to spearhead such endeavors. All this ludicrous talk about Gambia and Senegal adopting a common strategy for NEPAD is nothing but the APRC mental midgets saying that they are going to wait in the wings and copy Senegalese ideas. That’s all. The morons are too lazy to think for themselves. Our country is in urgent need of rescue. The High School drop-outs do NOT have the wherewithal to move us forward. Their OWN records show us that Gambians are POORER under their watch. No one can LIE that away. KB >From: Jungle Sunrise <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: The reality in The Gambia today. >Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 10:10:17 +0000 > _________________________________________________________________ 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 To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~