THIS WEEK IN THE STRUGGLE ( A look at topics, issues and personalities in The Struggle) VOL. #18, NOVEMBER 27TH TO DECEMBER 4TH, 2014: Like a drowning man will clutch at a straw, politicians will indulge in all kinds of games to regain lost credibility. A politician whose only ever credibility is as can be found in lets wait and see is even worse off. He never had it, and he lied to get a mere semblance of it. The masses start to thinned away as his desperation soars. And he pumps tons of money into maintaining his fragile authority only to discover lack of sustainability in that method. His desperation mounts and so does his lies! THE GAMBIA EU DEBACLE; This debate has been going on for a while now. We all try to get our best out of it and the truth gets muddled up in that combination of a variety of actions and postures. The government of The Gambia under the stewardship of dictator Yaya Jammed, does the worst in this regard. FIRSTLY, what is going on at the EU, is not only a Gambian issue. It is more a continental issue in which response is being sought at the continental level. But The dictatorship in The Gambia carries on its narrative of what is unfolding as if it is an exclusively Gambia/EU affair. This tantamounts to nothing but appealing for empathy and support from Gambians , particularly as a result of the state of international isolation, that the regime has found itself in recently. SECONDLY, The EU demands are in a package. The package has a series of demands including the one on rights issues. For its convenience, The dictatorship in The Gambia chooses the issue of gays and lesbians for punlic consumption. It is deliberately made to look as if this is the only issue on the agenda. Here again, we see the dictatorship trying very hard to mislead Gambians. Its problem with the EU is purely differences over political values, but dictator Jammeh and his lead surrogates are projecting it as exclusively a cultural issue and by extension a religious problem. The responses recently manifested by our sister and brother Pan Africanists, Africanists and Nationalists in regard of this debate are therefore understandable. However, they have all fallen victim to the politics of lies, hypocrisy and selective information which has always constituted the core of vices on which the dictatorship in The Gambia operates. Yaya Jammeh and his lead surrogates continue to use Islam as a means of pulling the wool over our faces when we all know he is a pretender. Why should we trust Yaya Jammehs mere bluff to legislate against rape when in April 2000, his government procrastinated on subjecting rapists to the due process of the law until there was a nation wide demonstration of students? If he has changed and redeemed himself, fair enough. But he has not as much as expressed remorse for his barbaric response to those sublime demonstrations. Lets keep our eyes open because even the clown, does try to play games on the people. So THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES!
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:38:39 +0000
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