Is that about the sum of it?
Well, “allow me to retort.”
1. Please provide some sort of documentation that the article is wrong.
2. It’s a great big world, and I am only a single little animal walking, talking and typing on it. My purpose in pointing to something that is wrong and tell you it’s wrong, is to get you to fix it. If you can’t take constructive criticism, then you can wallow in poverty and despair when Jameh is done persecuting Gay men and comes for your soon to be sorry ass. And he will. He’ll self-destruct and turn on his allies when he runs out of easy targets. The pattern is pretty common among dictators.
3. Some speech is freer than others. Your speech is less free than mine. The most powerful speech is not free speech, but speech that is provocative, intelligent, coherent and well placed in both time and space to make a difference. Free speech is designed to give you practice, exercising your rights and to remove any barriers that might prevent the right person from saying the right words at the right time, regardless of when the wrong person, says the wrong words, at the wrong time.

4. Put up or shut up. How’s that for free speech?

5. Let me make a clear statement. I don’t care about your country. I care about people. I don’t care much about Gambia, her tribes or even her history, BUT I care about the people who are Gambians.
My Ulterior motive is that no nation on Earth has failed to provide some person of worth or merit. There are good people from every nation. Some of these good people, are worthy to be called great people. These great people sometimes excel and provide exceptionalism as a gift from what I can only describe as their spirit. Someone I know from Gambia is one of those Exceptional people, and I’d trade a thousand Jamehs for her any day. Jameh is persecuting a people, a culture and a population that’s probably 10% of Gambia’s population. On top of that, he’s belittling and obscuring the actual treatment that is trying to combat HIV, through a power grab. That plague is killing too many Gambians and Africans in general. Stop hurting your country and the human race, and stop this madman before more people get infected and die. We need more exceptional people from Gambia.

6. Your leader is a poopy head.

I can write an abstract class that roughs in some methods, overrides another and can be used by a few others to help move my project along. I did that this morning.

I can read a book, research a topic, know the “life cycle” of HIV and understand that the compass by which these diseases are actually treated, requires more than the randomness of the false claims of dictator. Polio was not cured by a medicine man clinging to a rifle, in order to continue to be a dictator. Malaria is being eradicated by a rich man who made his money writing software, a one-term American president and 20,000 other like minds, who apply methods that work in the face of methods that do not. They’re not slaughtering albinos for their feet and supposed magical powers, raping virgins or grinding rhino horn into a laxative to cure HIV. These methods have been tried and they failed.

I am no more a “full” than I am foolish for believing Jameh’s supporters should work harder to educate themselves and thus liberate themselves from the very heart of darkness Conrad imagined. This is foolishness that kills, and that makes it both criminal and drives those who observe it to ridicule the people who support it.

In simple words, it makes me more likely to point at you and call you a monster.