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kajaw
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 Posted - 06 Dec 2005 : 23:21:52
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Some of the postings are definately optimistic. more optimistic than i certainly will be. First of all, i do not think the arrests are a blessing in disguise. These are my reasons: As a tactic of intimidation, it seems to be working. It seems like appart from prominent members of the opositition and Gambians in the diaspora, i do not see any other person attempting to do something about it. The lettter to Condi is also overly optimistic. I do not expect the US to pay much attention to what is happening in the gambia. I think they are getting mixed messages. I was told that the US ambassador in the gambia is in Jammehs pockets. If this is the case, he certainly is not going to give the state department the truth about this regeme.
The fact of the matter is that gambians are being cowered by this gang. and it is going to take a lot to get the peopele the courage to confront these criminals. Pasivity is not going to get us there. What happened when Juwara was arrested, wasnt it the same thing. We have all seen the pictures. What we need to do as a country is take the risk and go out in the street. We cannot guarantee our safety but we must be willing to share the risks with those arrested. Fear of what is going to happen to us should not be a reason for not doing what is right. I am going to gambia in January and i consider myself taking a risk. Every one in the forum knows me as kajaw but many know that this is a nickname my full name is Ansu Seesay. So i see no reason why the NIA should not know but i am going in january. All i did was speak out for my country. I have nothing to hide. If in january people are willing to go out and demonstrate in the streets, i will be one of them. I have not commited any crimes and i need not be afraid. Every one that is involved in this endavor is taking some measure of risk but it a risk that we should gladely take and if we die doing so, we would have died doing something nouble. Do you ever wander why someone who is not yet even 40 yrs old, and barely educated could could have a whole country by its nose? it is because we are not willing to take the risk to free ourselves. The fact of the matter is that the few who are willing to take the risks are killed totured and imprisoned. The rest of us are sitting on our hands hoping for a mericle. If the people of the Ukrain or Libanon and other countries sat on their hands, they will still be under the yolk of opression. They came out and risked everything for the sake of liberty and they archieved it. The former libanese PM was assasinated in a bomb blast but the people were not cowered. I do not buy the argument that for the sake of peace, we should not take to the streets. This kind of peace is never peace, it is peace in desguise. It is an illusion. It is the kind of illusion the people of Iraq lived under. It is the kind of peace that defers death and distruction. It is the kind of illusionary peace that Liberia, Searra Leone and all other dictatorships live under. IT is the pease of an active volcano. When it erupts on its own accord, its destructive pottentials are great. It is time to puncture the bubble before the air in it becomes too hot. I do not agree to the passive methods they have not worked. When Boris Yalsin faced off with the communists, they brought in tanks. He approached him not knowing whether they will kill him and stood on top of the tank. That is courage. Sidia should be leading a mass protest to demand freedom and the rest of the population should follow. He should first make sure measures are in place to prevent violence. If the government want, he could even coordinate it with them but gambians should and must have the right to freedom of assembly.
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Rainbow
Gambia
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Posted - 07 Dec 2005 : 09:52:52
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| Fact Fact Fact Fact Fact - well stated. Thank you Kajaw! Gambians are too scare to die. I don't know why? |
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Mandela 1
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Posted - 07 Dec 2005 : 19:45:57
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Hello Kajaw!
You couldn't have said it any better. I fully uphold your words and hoped people would emulate those examples (Lebanon etc)you mentioned.
However, I believe whole-heartedly that you would have seen or heard something from the United States had it not been the Iraq war.
Again, lets keep doing the kind of DC demonstrations. For those of us that cannot go to Washington, let us phone a senator, congressman, or a talk show host on either radio or TV. Radio hosts like Jim Bohanon on West wood 1 (ABC Radio)1 800 545 4626, Ross Limbaugh, TV host like Bill O'Reilly on Fox. It will help our cause. I personally called Jim Bohanon and he is more into political and daily issues. Sometimes he has Congressmen and women come to his show. Therefore, lets do what we are doing. The calls we make to different individuals will collectively add up, and we will be surprise that indeed these people pay attention to such international issues. Trust me that no Senator would want to see a repeat of Rwanda. But they will not be able to perceive another Rwanda coming unless we tell them.
Thank you for your efforts. We are united in this and we shall redeem our country from the evil claws of the generalismo and his gang. |
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Rainbow
Gambia
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Posted - 08 Dec 2005 : 11:39:33
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Thank you Mandela!
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Originally posted by Mandela 1
Hello Kajaw!
You couldn't have said it any better. I fully uphold your words and hoped people would emulate those examples (Lebanon etc)you mentioned.
However, I believe whole-heartedly that you would have seen or heard something from the United States had it not been the Iraq war.
Again, lets keep doing the kind of DC demonstrations. For those of us that cannot go to Washington, let us phone a senator, congressman, or a talk show host on either radio or TV. Radio hosts like Jim Bohanon on West wood 1 (ABC Radio)1 800 545 4626, Ross Limbaugh, TV host like Bill O'Reilly on Fox. It will help our cause. I personally called Jim Bohanon and he is more into political and daily issues. Sometimes he has Congressmen and women come to his show. Therefore, lets do what we are doing. The calls we make to different individuals will collectively add up, and we will be surprise that indeed these people pay attention to such international issues. Trust me that no Senator would want to see a repeat of Rwanda. But they will not be able to perceive another Rwanda coming unless we tell them.
Thank you for your efforts. We are united in this and we shall redeem our country from the evil claws of the generalismo and his gang.
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Amna
Gambia
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Posted - 13 Dec 2005 : 14:36:44
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| My dear Brother Kejaw, I salute and appreciate all your sentiments. But what I meant by blessings in disguise is that Junkung and his clowns have gotten away so far because they just stop short of outraging practically everyone. Junkung I have called a cowardly but intelligent hyena. Right now, no one is intimidated. The rightful leaders of our people are showing their mettle, even their valiant wives are showing that Gambians are not cowardly. I want to give some perspective. The ANC was formed in 1912. It was in and around 1957 when Nelson Mandela declared armed struggle, justified and the only possible way as a legitimate tool of the struggle against apartheid and for freedom. If you read the preamble to the US constitution,it acknowledges candidly that humankind suffers tyranny for a long time before it organizes to defeat that tyranny and The Gambia and Gambians are no different. But finally, Gambians are organizing and rising to defeat that tyranny. I have consistently since 1994 decried and opposed this tyrannical regime in The Gambia but I have also appreciated the feelings of a lot of people against the perceived lethargy of the erstwhile PPP government. Today, we have learnt as a people the worth of rule of law, even if not democracy. Noone is afraid of Junkung and the APRC otherwise he will not be resorting to the deadly and draconian measures. Infact Junkung has become our infamous clown and it would have been funny where not lives lost and destroyed. The arrests of the NADD 3 may be the final straw that breaks the proverbial camel's back. There are only two ways to redeem The Gambia 1] through the ballot or 2] the bullet. We eschew as a matter of principle the bullet and therefore the ballot remains our only option as at now. But the demise of the monstrous clown regime can only be brought about if the elections are legitimate, free and fair. NADD has set up to achieve this. But without international observers and support, Junkung and his paid up prostitutes currently in the guise of Ndondi Njie and Sulayman Mboob, there cannot be free and fair elections. The Western world will continue to pay lip service to freedom and democracy. But it is only through our organization and actions that we can force the World to also live up to their commitments to the Gambian people. If this fails, then God Forbid, the only remaining option is confrontation and it is not farfetched that we can end up the route Sierra Leone, Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire took. So again, let us continue to organize and galvanize against the cowardly clown and his thugs. The end is nigh. The security forces are divided and Junkung is only in power by inertia. But mostly we have to be strategic and tactical. The East Timorese were fewer with less supporters and organization, yet they defeated the Indonesia militocracy backed by the US Commercial Interests, then represented by Henry Kissinger and today Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld. Today, Junkung is isolated, friendless, reviled and derided nationally and internationally. We can remove him and we will in an orderly legitimate and democratic manner. That is the voice of the people and by God's Grace, God's Will. Peace |
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Amna
Gambia
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Posted - 13 Dec 2005 : 14:42:26
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| May I add, all the countries mentioned in your piece and responses above from Ukraine, Russia or the former Soviet Union, to Lebanon, suffered decades of dictatorship, servitude, civil war before the people rose up, hence bostering my point. I pray we dont as long as they did to defeat our tyrant. And by God's Grace, we will not. PEACE |
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