Mr Sey, Your expression of outrage is understandable. Nobody indeed deserves the acts of brutality we have been witnessing in the Gambia since July 22nd 1994. You are a poet, and here is a poem for you and folks : EVIL ON THE RAMPAGE Quiet, quiet, be quiet! Darkness has taken pre-eminence As all evil shadows have enmassed And light has made it's withdrawal Waiting for its convenience Quiet, quiet, oh be quiet! I hear sounds coming From the thicket of darkness Speaking of evil machinations Quiet, quiet, please be quiet! Those weird sounds heralded Issue from evil bodies That mean no good to society But evil only to all of us Ssh, ssh, be quiet! The owl king of the night Has since retreated away To his nocturnal secret sanctuary Yet shaking with fear therein As evil displays his strength Ssh, ssh, oh be quiet! Hear those infernal sounds Depicting human movements But hasty in their nature Hurrying away and away From the traps of evil As he tries to make his triumph Ssh, ssh, please be quiet! The village drums are silent The maiden have no songs The young men are rubbing their hands The elders are in perpetual retreat Mothers' breasts alert For fear of disturbing evil peace But I see shadows in the dark Creeping crawling and running Too dark to be defined Though projecting shapes human So ugly and provoking fear Come day the shadows disappear As the darkness receeds Becoming less threatening Fears fly away And pretense abounds While the beauty of twilight persists These fears do not return But with darkness of night they return Hurting like a sharpened sword Purported to maim and murder Tonight they take their true colours Shedding their fake identities for daylight Making evil schemes to destroy So evil they make haste For fear of revelation by day But see them all crowned Incarnations of Judas and Brutus Who survive only though Through acts of sin and treason Living and not allowing to live But how cowardly they are Their war cry always mutted And their manoeuvres of satanic sagacity Heinous strategy worked out To deliver the blow from behind BY: Omar Joof. >From: ESSA BOKARR SEY <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >To: [log in to unmask] >CC: [log in to unmask] >Subject: [>-<] Lawyer Ousman Sillah shot! >Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 13:09:49 -0800 (PST) > >Fellow country men and women please lend me your ears and open up your >hearts for the next five minutes and please read my piece hereunder.... > >Am really sad and seriously concerned.This man has been doing a good job as >a lawyer and he represented a lot of my family members-some in Swedena and >others in other countries now.This news is sad and bad for me and those >family members and for all those who wish Gambia well. Lawyer Sillah does >not deserve being shot not at all! >I think it's gone time that those who use the trigger start thinking twice >because HE WHO LIVES BY THE GUN OR THE SWORD SHALL PERISH BY THOSE VERY >WEAPONS.If anyone thinks that death or threats can silence people you are >making a very big mistake! We will see and very soon time will tell! >Am very very angry and sad because no group of people should hold all those >courageous citizens hostage just because they have access to gun butts and >used armoured cars.That is stupid and crazy. >Between death and shame some choose the former and time will tell! >Compromises cannot be forced into the minds of people we must live to >disagree to agree but why should politics be mixed with killings,killings >and killings all the time!!!!!!! >Why?!!!!!!!!Anyway one day some people will know that actions speak louder >than words we will see! >After all many are silent and avoid unecessary confrontations not because >they are scared but because we inherited traditional teachings and values >thats all! Who cares about stupidity when there is no way to talk to people >who have out wax in the ir ears and madness in their hearts?!!!!! Some >people sya that most of those who write on the internet just talk and if >they are brave let them meet us in The Gambia ok! Yes! there is an answer >to every threat or mad rhetoric so we will see and one day some stupid >bastards!!!will lean on their own faeces! Am not a bloody diplomat here >because diplomacy should be reserved for people and not mules and donkeys >period! >WHY INTERRUPT JUSTICE AT THIS CRUCIAL TIME AFTER AL?!!!WHY?!!! I will send >an article to all gambian news paeprs on these latest developments and i am >ready to confront any bastard who thinks that you can stop people from >talking.PEOPLE ARE SICK AND TIRED!!!!!!!!!!! > ESSA BOKARR SEY AND OTHERS MAY DIE AND BE BURIED ALONG THE WAY BUT THOSE >WHO THINK THAT THEY CONTROL LIFE IN THE GAMBIA SHOULD ALSO KEEP THEIR EYES >WIDE OPEN. >i AM READY OPPOSE PEOPL BUT I DO LIKE SEEING PEOPLE DYING BECAUSE OF MAD >POLITICS AND AM WAITING FOR ANY DIRTY MOUTH FROM BANJUL TO COUNTERATTACK ME >VERBALLY THEN THAT WILL BE THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING UNTHINKABLE!!! >Please tell those who shoot to continue provoking some us time will tell! >I have been informed by reliable sources that the shooting will continue in >the same manner but we will see if all people are easy targets! >Essa Bokarr Sey. > > >Think before you sink! >"Pessimists see difficulty in every opportunity and optimists see an >opportunity in every challenge" >"Suits cannot be made without scissors and niddles,so decent minds disagree >to agree" > >--------------------------------- >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! 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