Burama
Those that definition fit in your framing of Sir Dawda as a dictator. Controlling state power showing no respect to constitutionality and rule of law. You want to tell me that under PPP our judiciary is not independent?  Judges are fired if their ruling was not favourable to the Government of the day?  If that happened under the rule of Sir Dawda you are free to give me example. I am botn in the 1960s and have witness 1981 and the treason trial of Sheriff Mustapha Dibba Lamin Danso and step father Bully Sanneh et al. Those PPP under the rule SIr Dawda a one man show? Burama  me and you and many in this forum are post 1965 generation of Gambian citizens we should be honest to distinguish chaff in the winds
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Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 08:57:52 -0400
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: What makes a dictator?
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Ousman

English Lanfuage definition - a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force.
 
Not mind!

Burama

On Wednesday, May 21, 2014, ousman ceesay <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Wow... You guys find dictators lurching around every corner. I doubt, you will find any politician who fit your definition of a democrat.

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From: "Burama Jammeh" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: May 21, 2014 5:34 AM
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Subject: Re: What makes a dictator?

Kwame was very harsh on his opponents. In his mind opposing him is not a civic responsibility and right but unpatriotism. 

He also like to seek refuge under anti-colonial sentiment.

Sure he's. Pan African leader but that's not exactly democracy.

Burama

On Wednesday, May 21, 2014, Kejau Touray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Most dictators run an autocratic government, with no real checks and rule totalitarian regimes, staying in power by controlling the mass media, using the state police and spy agencies, restricting or removing the rights of the citizens. Dictators often cultivate a cults of personalities, using propaganda declaring them flawless, with school children taught to sing their praises.  

So on a scale of 1 to 10, where will you put Yaya (I put him at 10), Jawara, Nkrumah and even Sekou Toure?

Kejau



Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 10:10:34 +0200
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Subject: Re: PDOIS unveils Agenda 2016 party manifesto
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Brilliant agenda from PDOIS,  encompassing all and every democratic principle known to man, amd infact with the most progressive economic, gender and human rights policies, known to man. 
Who said PDOIS 'nyom den pdois'?
Kejau


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From: Kejau Touray
Date:20/05/2014 22:47 (GMT+01:00)
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Subject: PDOIS unveils Agenda 2016 party manifesto

africa » gambia

Monday, May 19, 2014

Halifa Sallah secretary-general of PDOIS on Saturday briefed the press on “Agenda 2016” which has been launched in The Gambia by the opposition political party. Agenda 2016 “a provisional manifesto” of the People’s Democratic Organisation for Independence and Socialism, PDOIS, was formally launched at a mass meeting held in Wuli Barrow-kunda village in the Upper River Region, on Sunday 11 May 2014. PDOIS issued a summary of the contents of Agenda 2016, as follows:

A Third Republic Ushering in the Sovereignty of the People

PDOIS Agenda 2016 Publication Launch was graced by thousands of residents of Wuli Barrow Kunda , URR, and its environs on Sunday , 11TH May 2014 – see photos.

Strategic Objective of PDOIS Agenda 2016

The strategic objective of PDOIS AGENDA 2016 is to build a Third Republic ushering in the era of the sovereignty of the people commencing in 2016. PDOIS is of the view that the highest political expression of the right to self determination and Independence is the founding of a sovereign Republic on the basis of the consent of the people, which legitimises their equality in citizenship and sovereignty.

Hence, before 2016, PDOIS has the aim to conduct sensitisation sessions nationwide to ensure that all Gambians are cognisant of the fact that citizenship under a Republic guarantees the sovereignty of the person.

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