By Cpt. S. B. Sabally
GOD’S HAND IN HISTORY!!! BY AN ACT GOD!!!
Many people are afraid that honesty in speech will cost them friendship, love, or respect. So they either keep their lips zipped or say something other than what they mean.
Other factors that may impede straight talk are shyness, lack of confidence, fear of displaying ignorance, trying to avoid criticism, and not wanting to hurt someone’s feelings. M.K. Jallow thanks a million times for not keeping silent! It’s a “Freedom of Opinion. & Speech” in a Democratic world or so I’d say.
Yahya Jammeh - Gambia's Historical Accident
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Wisdom! WISDOM IS KNOWING WHEN TO SPEAK YOUR MIND AND WHEN TO MIND YOUR SPEECH. “It’s true! People often hide their feelings behind a wall of words. They use a kind of double-talk in which words and feelings do not agree. Trying to be both loving and truthful can be difficult. We need the supreme gift of wisdom-first, learn to listen. Wisdom judges every thought or action by one standard: “Is this wise?” Wisdom is above all practical and down to earth. Wisdom teaches you how to live. It combines understanding with (self-) discipline---the kind of discipline an athlete needs in training. It also adds a healthy dose of good common sense---except that common sense isn’t, and never has been common. And there is a famous saying: “Speech is silvery but silence is golden.” Even truthful words can damage other people. Yet they can also save a friend from going wrong. There’s a saying: “The tongue has a power of life and death.” Some people talk about rights to privacy---but those people who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear. One must always try to speak effectively and honestly. As always honesty pays. Mr. M.K. Jallow’s article- is, “first pure, gentle, and good, without partiality and without envy or hypocrisy.””
Having attentively read “The Gambia Echo’s GUEST EDITORIAL, titled “THOSE WHO LIVE BY THE GUN DIE BY THE GUN,” by Matthew K. Jallow, posted on Sunday 10 December 2006 6:27 PM by E.G.Sankara,” I wish to register my agreement (REF: Choosing Yahya Jammeh as Chairman) with the author when he says, “It was an accident of history,” but I disagree with him saying, “… but not an act of God.” It is Allah’s Will. Please, allow me to here quote Allah’s Statement, “Say: “O Allah! Lord of Power (and Rule), Thou grivets Power to whom Thou pleaset, and Thou strippest off power from whom Thou pleasest: Thou enduest with honour whom Thou pleasest, and Thou bringest low that Thou pleasest: in Thy hand is all-Good. Verily, over all things Thou hast power.” [Q3: 26]
Mr. M.K. Jallow, just as you might ask me directly; many have before asked the same question: “From very reliable sources in the Forces, they said that you were the sole architect of 22nd July 1994. How did it happen then that Yahya Jammeh became the Chairman / President of the AFPRC-the Gambia government?”
I’ll begin by saying, “As the insurance policies say “By an act of God.” Allah Knows best what is right. Yes, I was the sole architect. But Yahya Jammeh became the head only by the Will and Power of Allah, ---and that’s because he was the most senior among the lot, period! It is as the famous saying goes, “In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eye man is the king.” Heroes act while others stand and watch.
“If I may digress (from my answer) for a moment, the following story may interest you. I will question you, and you’ll answer me. Who was the first president of the United States of America? [I have no doubts that, “George Washington.” was the answer.] “It’s no surprise! I expected to hear that name---George Washington. And do you know anything about Samuel Huntington of the United States? Maybe. “Yes or “No!” “Most people think George Washington was the first president of the United States, but that honor actually belongs to Samuel Huntington. He never achieved fame because the States he presided over weren’t united. They had no Constitution, only Articles of confederation that made them 13 independent nations loosely linked together.
Samuel Huntington – (1731-1796) was the signer of the Declaration of Independence, president of the Continental Congress (1779-1781) and governor of Connecticut.
Two years after Samuel Huntington took office, on June 21st, 1783, 500 unpaid Federal soldiers laid siege to Congress in Philadelphia, breaking windows and shouting threats because Congress, which was supposed to pay them, had no money. The jealously independent States had given them none. Driven out of town by the soldiers, Congress became nomadic, meeting in Princeton, Annapolis, Trenton, and New York City. That same June, George Washington wrote, “It is yet to be decided whether the Revolution must ultimately be considered a blessing or a curse.”
Troubles continued. In Shay’s Rebellion, 1,500 hostile farmers surrounded courtrooms, refusing to let courts meet. The army should have quickly dispersed them, but the national army consisted of only 700 men. Shay’s Rebellion made obvious the need for a stronger central government. The next year a constitutional convention met in Philadelphia to hammer out the document that still unifies Americans. George Washington was elected president.”
If you get me right, about George Washington and Samuel Huntington, I am saying that Yahya Jammeh is George Washington and I, Sana-Bairo SABALLY is Samuel Huntington! Meaning, Yahya JAMMEH became the Chairman / President of the AFPRC-The Gambia, but that honor actually belongs to me, [Sana-Bairo SABALLY.]
“Yes! Yes! Yes! That’s exactly what I mean. We can only be true to ourselves by being true to what we are… and be true to what history has made us. The climax of the United States Declaration of Independence is not the glowing words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident.” It is the list of names at the end of the document---men who were willing to stake their fortunes, their sacred honor, and their lives on a few convictions that changed the world.
And others have further asked, “Why is Jammeh then always saying [quoting his words-] “I laid down my life for this country on 22nd July 1994.”
“What a searching picture of worldly wise! He’s only (for now) trampling on Allah’s Truth, and enthroning false standards of “believe in me-Jammeh!” He is only taking credit for virtues he does not possess and seeming successes that come in spite of his despicable deceptions. He only wants to be praised for what he has not done.”
IT DOESN’T TAKE GREAT PEOPLE TO DO GREAT THINGS---JUST UNSELFISH ONES.”
SB SABALLY.
Monday, December 25, 2006