ADDENDUM, I: TO MAIN PAMPHLET # 2 COMPILED: Jan – Mar. 2016
DRAFTED: April 2016
17 SOLID REASONS FOR WHY WE MUST TALK INDEPENDENCE NOW, RATHER THAN TAKE PART IN ANOTHER USELESS AMERICO-LIBERIAN POLITICAL ELECTIONS, COME 2017!! FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Luke 5: 36 – 39 – (36) He (Jesus) told them this parable: “No one tears a piece of a new garment to patch an old one. Otherwise, they will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. (37) And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. (38) No, new wines must be poured into new wineskins. (39) And no one, after drinking old wine wants the new, for they [will] say, “The old is better.” “There are two primary choices in life: [they are], either to accept conditions as they exist [no matter how NASTY they are], or [as a true child of God], to accept the responsibility for changing the [bad conditions] – Dr. Dennis Waitley, American Motivational Speaker
“Without deviation from [what everybody considers] the norm, progress can [never] be possible”- Frank Zappa,
American Song Writer and Guitarist
Surat/Quran 14:24 – 26 – “Art thou not aware how God sets forth the parable of a good word? [It is] like a good tree, firmly rooted, [reaching out] with its branches toward the sky, and yielding its fruits at all times, by its Lord’s leave. And [thus it is, that] God propounds parable unto humanity so that they may bethink themselves [of the truth]. And the parable of a corrupt word is that of a tree, torn up [from its roots] onto the face of the Earth, wholly unable to endure. (Courtesy of an American Islamic Commentator, Hesham A. “A lie gets halftranslation) way around the world before Hassaballah’s
the TRUTH can have the chance to put on its pants”- Sir Winston Churchill, former
British Prime Minister “A good sermon should be like a woman’s skirt: short enough to rouse the interest, but long enough to cover [all] the essentials-
Ronald Knox, British Author
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies of this world, and that is the idea whose time has [finally] come”-
Victor Hugo, French Poet
PUBLISHED: JANUARY 2017
PREPARED BY: THE PLAIN TRUTH REVOLUTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Introduction (highlights about education and its practical use to our day-to-day lives)…………1 Intro (The biggest requirement for shareholding in the Plain Truth Revolution)..………………1 Intro (The need for the creation of massive awareness in our country right now)………………2 Instead of the noise of elections, elections, 2017, what should we yearning for now…………3-4 List of reasons why we should be yearning for independence rather than voting now………4-16 a) Liberia was pronounced doomed by its conceivers or crafters even before it was established, and we can’t keep struggling in vain with a doomed structure – voting now will not change this sad, and very damaging reality…………………………………6 b) No entity, no structure, no nation etc. can stand, survive and progress without a sound or solid foundation. Liberia does not have a JUST and sustainable foundation, and as such, can NEVER flourish – going to the polls this year won’t build us this much needed foundation to get us on our feet once and for all………………………7 c) Voting this year means obeying the current 1986 Constitution. We just can’t keep obeying a constitution that works against our lives and our interests, PERIOD!!!...........................................................................................................7 d) We can’t go to vote again with the same national emblems we have here (flag, seal, motto etc.), that STUPIDLY neglect all the interest of our Native people……………….8 e) We need a legitimate independence now because the first one declared in 1847 was fake and illegitimate………………………………………………………………….9 f) Liberia is a formally known structure set up to officially promote lies and all sorts of criminal activities – we can’t undo this by going to the polls again in this 2017………………………………………………………………………...10 g) What we have here is not a JUST and LEGITIMATE Government, but rather a structure set up to prosecute white-collar terrorism. In fact, because the country, beyond all doubts, was established by criminals, it has almost always been, and it will continue to be governed, and sustained by criminals – voting this year will only keep this painful reality in tact………………………………………………...10 h) No sound person or entity does the same thing over and over, applying the same formula, and then expects a different, positive result. Going to the polls next year, instead of finding a different formula to solving our huge problem will paint us as a very STUPID people who are out of options in life……………. …...11 i) Liberia currently understands democracy as only voting – we say no…………………..12 j) We are currently suffering under two badly self-interest seeking masters as double slaves – voting right now means prolonging this pain…………………………..13 k) There is ABSOLUTELY no trust between government and citizens in this country and going to vote now will NOT reverse this deadly situation…………………...,…….14 l) We, the Natives, were given citizenship rights because the Americo-Liberian Government was jammed for money and was demanded by her lenders to give us citizenship, so to keep voting without correcting this messy news means we are a STUPID People………………………………………………………………………….14 m) We have been collectively reduced to an object of mockery for people in the international world – voting now ONLY finishes us once and for all...……………..14 n) We have been left too far behind in life, and therefore need to radically employ different shades of ideas to make up for lost time – only independent people can do this, which voting will help us accomplish now………….14
o) Liberia’s current posture puts it in a very dangerous position to reverse all of Africa’s enormous gains against colonialism – 2017 elections will even deepen this mess……………………………………………………………………….15 p) Liberia remains currently the BIGGEST violator of all international covenants, protocols and conventions – when we prioritize elections now, this reality will even turn worse………………………………………………………………………..15 q) We can’t keep moving with a terribly faulty car (Liberia), and expect to fix it while in motion – this is what going to the polls 2017 means………………..……….17 6. Our country is still being criminally colonized by America through her AmericoLiberians – check out some of America’s track records in modern day colonialism and imperialism…………………………………………………………...….18 7. Our Plain Truth Revolutionary Pamphlets and some proposals for debate at our currently demanded National Convention………………………………………………...24 8. How and where to access our works………………………………………………………25 9. The 7 constituencies that the Plain Truth Revolution represents………………………….26 10. Parting comments……………………………………………………………………….....26 11. Special tributes to those who have gone extra-mile in inspiring our revolution one way or the other…………………………………………………………………………………27
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Although we tried to inspire you with a couple of strong quotations on the cover page above, let’s not forget to acquaint you with this last one, which is truly a great source of motivation for the Plain Truth Revolution. This astute American Minister and Author, Norman Vincent Peale has told us that: “Empty pockets NEVER hold anyone back. [But] it’s only empty heads, and empty hearts, that can do so. We are truly moved by this exhortation from Mr. Peale. We thought to bring this encouragement because everything being discussed here might be regarded by many as far-fetched and impossible for fear of lack of resources, including human and material, to achieve these huge goals, but we like to affirm that ideas, faith, and determination come first before resources, including finances, to accomplish great goals. Welcome to the Plain Truth Revolution’s world of massive reading, discerning analyses, and well-informed decisions and actions.
Before reading our 17 reasons for why we the ‘original’ people of this country MUST now prioritize true independence rather than another round of STUPID political elections, coming from out of the provisions of a stupid constitution (with all due respect however to Dr. Amos Sawyer and other hardworking people who wrote this constitution), let us take up a little bit of time to put ourselves into the right frame of mind. One of the all-time heroes of true liberation and human independence, Mr. Nelson Madeba Mandela, after all of the struggles against Apartheid, and a painful 27 years of imprisonment, concluded that the ONLY, and MOST powerful tool to change a people, no matter how chronic and BAD their situation; the ONLY dependable tool to change our world and make it a livable, decent place for all is EDUCATION. Now, please get this point clearly. What proudly distinguishes our peaceful revolution and its arguments from other revolutionary agendas is our ability to break down blanket theories and concepts into simple interpretations and ideas – what the professional people call, “putting things into context.” With this said, when Nelson Mandela was referring to EDUCATION, he was not blindly making reference to our mere memorization of people’s theories and concepts, or, to forcing ourselves to speak stupid “series” and big terminologies all around the place, or yet still, to be reciting our Quadratic Equation formula (ax 2 + bx + c = 0) all around the place to prove that we know Math so much etc., BUT INSTEAD, Mr. Mandela was referring to how we can use those original theories handed down to us through education, to put our current realities and situations into them – or in other words, to tweak these theories and concepts to match our environment – and make our country, our world etc. a livable and decent place. This practicalization of education also means respecting and incorporating ideas from every area of human knowledge – beginning with History and going on to Math, Science and so on to apply them adequately to our day-to-day life challenges. As such, the biggest requirement for holding share in our Plain Truth Revolution is to Read, Read, and Read because Reading is the first step and the First major skill to acquiring any form of education. You can call it the “ABC” of that Education that Mr. Mandela referred us to. We therefore encourage all well-meaning people who want good for this country now, to read, read, and Re-read ALL articles of the Plain Truth Revolution. Even if you can’t read – a very crippling situation that America and her Americo-Liberians have sadly subjected more than 90% of our population to, for almost 200 years now, we encourage you to take these articles to
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family members, friends, loved ones and neighbors that can read, to help you out, but ALL must take part, and be informed about everything in this positive storm that is about to sweep across our country like a wildfire by the grace of God. We are stressing this point because we have unconditionally established that ALL must be informed in order for us to start thinking for our very selves, and not for America, UN, World Bank, EU and the likes to keep thinking for us in this life; we all MUST read so that we all begin, first in our life’s time, to eat well and live well; we must all read now so that together, we can create a new country that will provide Quality Education – the very first step in life – for all of our current children, our future generations, and even for our elderly ones of today – as a Matter of Compulsion; we must all read now, so that each one of us can share in the process of constructing, by ourselves, and for ourselves, a true, new capital city, and real 4-lane streets and roads across our country at least in this 21st century. We must all read now so that everyone, not a few can know what true and fair justice means for each citizen, and not for a few; we MUST all read now so that everyone knows the importance of the resources that God has blessed us with, and how criminals are stealing and damaging them right before our own eyes, thereby robbing our current and future generations of everything; we must all read now so that we can seek true justice for the blood and sufferings of our people from 1822 to present, at the hands of America and her AmerioLiberians – something which when we overlook, we will NEVER experience peace, talk less about anything called prosperity and development in this country; and to pause for now, we must all read now, in order to PREVENT another NASTY round of bloodbath that is already hanging over our country again – the only result that a joint America and Americo-Liberian leadership of the Johnsons, Tubmans, Barclays, McClains, Bernards etc. has always been able to bring to this country since 1822. History has ENOUGH proofs of this claim. So the challenge is yours now, fellow compatriots, to Read and Re-read these articles which have been made freely available for you at various social media websites and at almost all media houses in Monrovia and others abroad. Remember, the innocent blood and sufferings of our poor people are banging too much now at the Gate of Heaven, and God is about to deliver His Children out of this modern-day “Spiritual Egypt” called the “Republic of Liberia”, but we must know that God’s work for humanity is a two-way street – that is, we have a compulsory role to play too. In our country’s case right now, we ALL have some responsibilities – some decisions and some actions to take so that God’s perfect will for us is finally realized. But the big question is how do we make these decisions and take these appropriate actions if at first, we are not well educated (we’re not referring to the big, big book here), and we are not well informed about ourselves, our situation, and our environment. Providing the much needed education is the role that the Plain Truth Revolution has sought God’s permission, His guidance, and His power, to play for our people, and you too, the rest of our compatriots, will equally have a responsibility to read, get informed and act well. There is no standing on the fence in this country again, everyone must be a part of this process for change, for two major reasons: (a) we, the people, the citizens of this country, are like an 11-men football team, that every player’s input counts so much, and we are now seeking a new national arrangement that every citizen’s interest and well-being (starting from Cape Mount to Maryland, and from Lofa and Nimba to Montserrado etc. no matter who and where), will be sought equitably unlike the current Americo-Liberian country which only seeks the interest of less than 1% of its citizens; and (b) Since God is quite involved with this new national endeavor and He needs everyone’s input, those refusing to take part in a positive way, will bear on their hands and heads direct responsibility for any more blood that ever wastes in this country again owing to our refusal to act now, and act well.
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For these grave reasons, the initiators and enunciators of the Plain Truth Revolution, fearing God, and loving their fellow compatriots as themselves have for the past 4 years now been fasting from material desires and other comforts, sifting through 60,000 to 70,000 pages of rough information and documents, listening to all major local and international radio programs and talk shows, getting all of the major local and international dailies’ headlines, especially those relating to our country, just to research this country well, adequately establish its problems, design solution options for these problems, and bring these details to us, as a people, for our education and input. We are all simple, poor, and struggling human beings, like a vast majority of you, fellow compatriots out there – sometimes pushing wheelbarrows with small waiter markets to conduct small trade activities, or even begging friends at times etc. in order: (a) to get daily bread on the table; (b) to pay children school fees (though we know the schools will always remain ill-equipped and poorly staffed in the meantime), (c) to keep candles burning every night to enable us read and write, (d) to get our US$1 Cellcom or Lonestar Cell data plan in tact regularly just to keep us downloading new information from the Internet, and constructing our social media sites etc. – ALL in an effort to live our side of this highly MORAL, CIVIC, and SPIRITUAL obligation of contributing to the betterment of society. And with all these and many constraints, God has helped us in 4 years to sift through this mammoth stockpile of information: reading, writing, re-reading, summarizing etc. and have now been able to produce and bring to you 11 revolutionary pamphlets, several mini revolutionary articles etc., covering all of the perceived major issues that are holding our common destiny down, along with their attending solution options, one of which is this simple 33-page article pertaining to the need for our country’s true independence right now rather than political elections. The pamphlets and other articles, everything combined will sum up to less than 400 pages of highly summarized materials, as we said earlier, coming from out of 60,000 to 70,000 pages of rough work, different radio programs, news magazines, newspaper articles and so forth. The ball now is in every citizen’s court to read these less than 400 pages of work about the country that they so love; about the only home that they have on this planet etc., so that we all, together, can avoid maybe another 25 years of carnage and bloodbath that could befall us again, if we keep insisting that we are unable (if that’s what it takes) to take two straight weeks of what we now regard as our precious time, to read, re-read, listen out there again, connect the dots from history etc., and be able to decide and act well for ourselves and our country etc., even though Madam Marisa Mayer, current CEO of Yahoo!, has told us that “Geeks are people who love something so much, [put another way, who love their country so much], that all the details [matter to them].” A hint to the wise is quite sufficient. Thank you so much for going through this long prelude with patience. Let us now get to the main theme of this article. In this literature we are saying, instead of making all the noise about Elections, Elections, Elections 2017 as it sadly seems to be the case everywhere right now, an election which in reality will not do us any good, but will be a way of keep prolonging our misery and agonies in this country, especially for us the Natives, the original 16 African Ethnic groupings of this land etc., our Plain Truth Revolution is calling on us to instead please focus our entire attention on how we can use this year, 2017, to first demand and establish a true independence in this place, as a country and people. This call may sound too strange for those who don’t understand what’s happening; and on the other hand, for those who know what’s happening, this call or endeavor may seem too difficult, if not impossible, to embark upon. But we boldly would like to inform
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all of you that it is possible only if we are determined to do so, and then invoke God’s power and guidance right now, but the price we must pay at present is to speak and accept the bold, clear truth, and allow all of our actions in this endeavor to be informed by the Truth and only the Truth. Here, meanwhile, is how the Plain Truth Revolution is encouraging us, citizens, to go about the process of executing this very important and lifesaving civic activity for ourselves and our future generations. We call on everyone to now demand an “all-citizens” convention to be held early 2017, a sitting which we have already titled as a National Rebirth and Constitutional Convention. At this convention, to be completely organized by us, and financed by our country’s own resources, we must then discuss boldly among ourselves, all of the pressing issues which continue to hold our common destiny and fate down so disgracefully as a people, and what we must do at the moment to overcome some of these grave problems , one of which is a compulsory demanding of our country’s true independence from America and her Americo-Liberians so that we are finally delivered from this huge “Hell of Mess” called country, by the grace of God. Such genuine independence will enable us to think for ourselves, act and fend for ourselves; and with this new, cherished development, we will now begin to command genuine respect from peers, and not the respect they give us at the moment, which is either inspired by some corrupt action of our [“criminal”] leaders, or respect given out of flattery, just to have some piece of the pie they continue to steal from us. (Please read our other revolutionary articles and listen to some of the available podcast for more details on how we want this national convention to be structured and what issues initially to discuss. This will put in the right frame of mind for positive change) Wondering why so much emphasis is being placed on the 16 indigenous African Ethnic groups of this country, and why independence should be a MUST right now at all costs, please read below SOME of the many justifications that the Plain Truth Revolution has compiled to inform and motivate this entire agenda. Before we begin to elaborate on each of our 17 solid reasons for why we MUST now be talking about independence in this place rather than another round of silly Americo-Liberian political elections, let’s now bring you a summarized listing of them as they appear in the table of contents above. Again, our reasons for demanding that we don’t prioritize elections now are as follows: 1. Liberia was pronounced doomed by its conceivers and crafters even before it was established, and we can’t keep struggling in vain with a doomed structure, and one that was not designed by ourselves – voting now will not change this sad, and very damaging reality 2. No entity, no structure, no nation etc. can stand, survive and progress without a sound and solid foundation. Liberia does not have a JUST and solid foundation, and as such, it can NEVER flourish – going to the polls this year will NEVER build us this much needed foundation to get us on our feet once and for all 3. Voting this year means obeying the current 1981 – 1983/1986 Constitution. We just can’t keep obeying a constitution that works against our lives and our interests, PERIOD!!! 4. We can’t go to vote again with the same national emblems we have here (flag, seal, motto etc.), that STUPIDLY neglect all the interest of our Native people 5. We need a legitimate independence now because the first one declared in 1847 was fake and illegitimate
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6. Liberia is a formally known structure set up to officially promote lies and all sorts of criminal activities – we can’t undo this glaringly SHAMEFUL fact by going to the polls again in 2017, and it MUST be undone now! 7. What we have here is not a JUST and LEGITIMATE Government, but rather a structure set up to prosecute white-collar terrorism. In fact, because the country, beyond all doubts, was established by criminals, based on certain social science concept, it has almost always been, and it will continue to be governed and sustained by criminals – voting this year will only keep this painful reality intact. 8. No sound person or entity does the same thing over and over, applying the same formula, and then expects a different, positive result. Going to the polls this year, instead of finding a different formula to solving our huge problem now will paint us as a very STUPID people who have completely gone out of options in life, and must disprove this. 9. Liberia currently understands democracy as only voting – we say no 10. We are currently suffering under two horribly self-interest seeking masters as double slaves – voting right now means prolonging this pain 11. There is ABSOLUTELY no trust between government and citizens in this country and going to vote now will NOT reverse this deadly, counterproductive situation 12. We, the Natives, were given citizenship rights because the Americo-Liberian Government was jammed for money to credit, and was demanded by its lenders to grant us citizenship before getting this loan; and so, to keep voting without correcting this messy news means we are a STUPID People. If you read about the concessions made by Liberia’s Arthur Barclay before qualifying for Erlanger & Company’s $500,000 loan extended to Liberia in 1906, you will discover more about some of the very FOOLISH concessions always made by Americo-Liberian Governments, which are always clutching at straws in their own country. 13. We have been left too far behind in life, and therefore need to radically employ different shades of ideas to make up for lost time – only independent people can do this, which voting will help us accomplish now 14. We have been collectively reduced to an object of mockery for people in the international world – voting now ONLY finishes us once and for all 15. Liberia’s current posture puts it in a very dangerous position to reverse all of Africa’s enormous gains against colonialism – 2017 elections will even deepen this mess 16. Liberia remains currently the BIGGEST violator of all international covenants, protocols and conventions – when we prioritize elections now, this reality will even turn worse 17. We can’t keep moving with a terribly faulty car (Liberia), and expect to fix this car while in motion – this is what going to polls 2017 means With this outlining, let’s now begin to elaborate in small details what we mean by each of the above. 1. Independence has become a matter of MUST right now for us by the grace of God because the 4.5 million people of this country, including our countless future generations deserve quite better in life than to keep suffering as a direct result of some doomed and gloomy fate that America (with some authority) intentionally imposed upon our country about 200 years ago. It may interest you, fellow citizens, and the world at large, to know that the terrible things that have been happening here since 1822, and the ‘hell of mess’ still persisting in
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this place, so-called country, unabated, have NEVER, and are NEVER strange to America and her surrogates, the Americo-Liberians. To prove these strong points, at the US Congress’ sitting of February 11, 1817, in their debate to respond to an American Colonization Society’s communication calling on them (i.e. the US Congress) to provide financial contributions to the ACS’ “Back to Africa” Project – a project that became so pressing when criminal Blacks were now on the rampage terrorizing the American society through different waves of mischievous activities, this is how Congress debated the issue at its concluding point, to make room for the American Government’s first $100,000 contribution to the ACS, to come later. Referring to the targets of this American Colonization Society’s “Back to Africa” campaign, Congress argued, “…..Hence, it seems manifest that these people [i.e. the Johnsons, the Bernards, the McClains, the Weeks, the Joneses, the Tubmans etc., and by extension their descendants today,] cannot be colonized within the limits of the United States. If they were not far distant [meaning, if we don’t dump them far off], our rapidly extending settlements would soon reach them, and the EVIL NOW FELT would be renewed, probably with aggravated mischief…..” Meanwhile, all of America’s antebellum South, the region of the United States from where almost all of the repatriated Blacks came, and where almost all of the founders of the ACS came from, especially people like Congressman John Randolph, Henry Clay etc. had these four grave adjectives to describe the targets of their “Back to Africa” ACS campaign; and the adjectives included: Morally Lax, Mentally Inferior, Criminally Oriented, and Promoters of Mischief. This means, people had to match these adjectives before being rounded up for ACS ships bound for present day Liberia. To further strengthen this argument, at no time, and nowhere on the pages of American History, has she so systematically disposed or rid herself of useful human beings like what happened during the establishment of Liberia. America has ALWAYS wanted useful people all along, and the DV program and other immigration programs of today etc. are our proofs. - (This, and many more troubling information about Liberia’s societal frontrunners, according the US Congress’ perspectives, can be found in the Niles’ Weekly Register, Vol. XII, No. 7, page 103, under the topic: “Free People of Color, lower half of left column, to upper half of right column; Saturday, April 12, 1817 edition, printed from Baltimore, Maryland, the USA.) Now here are just two of the many interpretations of the US Congress’ February 11, 1817’s prediction of the level of mischief that would be to where they were dumping their Johnsons, Tubmans, Williams, Bernards and the likes, which is Liberia: (a) Imagine a small group of less than 1% manipulating a huge group of around 99% of a country’s population to work against themselves for almost 200 years now, and still dead set to go further. (b) Imagine people being quite conscious that this route; that is, this way of nation building can never work, but they continue to put their subjects, their citizens, their slaves, i.e. mainly the Natives, and the world at large under the impression that this formula can work, and that they have stuck to this cruel determination unbending, for almost 200 years now, and are ready and determined to keep it so until God comes back to judge this world – all because they (the Americo-Liberians and their America) enjoy the spoils coming from out this evil and cruel design, called a country. 2. According to www.islamweb.net, a certain section of the Hadith (or Hadeeth), one of the Islamic Faith’s Holy Writings, teaches that our intentions form or establish the very foundation of our actions. It is said that many Islamic scholars begin their books with this Hadith. Imam Al-Bukhari for example commences his book with this Hadith, and he
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explains that every action that is done or taken without seeking Allah’s (or God’s) pleasure is invalid and void of reward. Imam Ash-Shaafi’i for his part is quoted as saying that this Hadith constitutes a THIRD of all of mankind’s knowledge. Putting this powerful Hadith into context with the Liberian foundation story; for example, you cannot establish a country with the primary intention that one small segment of the society (that is, the Americo-Liberians) are the superiors, and the only human beings, while the rest of society that forms the large mass of indigenous people are the savages and slaves, who are only good when they join you in cohort (under some devilish structure you call Government) to work against their own people. Proofs abound for all these statements. Check them out in all of our Plain Truth Revolutionary articles. Such foundation can NEVER stand, it will always crumble; that’s why Liberia can NEVER prosper until redo its foundation. In addition to the fact above, the current treacherous national foundation was laid by criminals to mock God, and we all know that our CREATOR is NEVER mocked, God forbid! Liberia was established by Black American criminals to respect and fear their America more than God, and any attempt by anyone under the current “Liberian State” to change this mode of living, but wanting to do this under the name Liberia, will be strongly resisted, and that person even risks being gruesomely murdered, if care is not taken, as the proofs are enough; and so, the best thing to do NOW is to declare our independence from America and her Americo-Liberians, so that we can obtain the uninterrupted chance and opportunity to serve our God with the TRUTH, and with a clear and bold conscience. This will also enable us to live our lives to the fullest of our huge potentials by the grace of God. None of these can happen under the Johnsons, the Bernards, the McClains, the Tubmans etc. under the influence of their America. We therefore demand independence now so as to enable us peacefully breakdown the current rotten national foundation to rebuild a new, better one. It should now take no one in this country any rocket science knowledge to establish beyond all doubts that this current Liberian foundation was built on the pillars of DECEIT, ETHNOCENTRISM and a whole bunch of Dirty, Evil tricks that we just can’t allow ourselves to keep struggling with unsuccessfully forever. We must now build a new national foundation on the rather Godly principles of Truth, Love, fair and equitable Justice, and mutual respect for ALL. Only through genuine independence can this happen because the less than 1% of our citizens enjoying the current ‘spoils’ will do all they can to maintain the status quo through their fake elections and other deadly tricks. 3. We say voting this year means obeying the current 1981 – 1983/1986 Constitution. We just can’t keep obeying a constitution that works against our lives and our interests, PERIOD!!! We of the Plain Truth Revolution don’t respect this 1986 constitution because it does not respect our people; it is recipe for chaos; it promotes impunity; it promotes perversion of the law; it promotes selfishness; it was used as a tool to kill and re-kill almost 1 million of our citizens though war and through the EVER-Corrupt Supreme Court of Liberia; it was used as a tool to send more than 1 million of our people into exile, making them suffer and face humiliating situations outside home; it was used to shield President Tolbert and his government officials’ killers forever; it was used to deny our people reparations after criminals took advantage of its loopholes to set our people’s lives back for scores and decades; it has been used to perpetuate the sufferings of our people by
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maintaining a criminal gang called government and keep bringing criminals to power to inflict more harms on our people forever; we will NEVER respect this constitution, that’s why our revolution demands the writing of a new constitution under a new state structure. We need a new constitution because the current one is fake. If you intentionally put provisions within your organic law book that you know you are not ready to implement, but have them there for mere formality, than you are a dangerous person, wanting to stir confusion because every provision of an organic law book is compelled to be considered important as all else and MUST ready for full implementation as all others. Anything to the contrary should gain the approval of the people through a formal process. You cannot say that some provisions or some articles must be kept on hold until we are ready for them in the future. No. For example our religious teaching, especially James 2:10 from the Bible tells us that if we obey all the provisions of the law, but yet decide (especially intentionally in this case) to violate one, then we are guilty of all the rest. We can’t just keep joking here. We must get serious for business. We came on this planet, made in God’s image and His likeness to live amply and work assiduously, but not for mere joke and play like the hell going on in this rogue state called Liberia. It’s better to get a small law book that all of its provisions will be equally and rigorously implemented than to get one big one just to be picking and choosing from among provisions for what to implement in the interest of the elite or so-called well-educated. Don’t forget laws are sacred; they come God, whether you have 90 articles or 10 articles in your constitution, they are all derivatives of God’s Ten commandments, and God does not joke, neither does He joke with Justice, for He is not mocked. For example in our constitution, Article 26 says we will have a Claims Court to pursue damages against the criminal structure here called government and any of its officials, or workers, this has been a lie all through; Article 10 of this constitution says all MUST be taught the constitution, since no one is innocent before the law, but this continues to remain a big SCAM in Liberia etc… Please go to other articles of revolution for some of the mess in this constitution that was written under the rain of blood and under the influence of the barrels of guns in the early 1980s, when our country’s most innovative and productive president had just been murdered in cold blood through some huge international and Americo-Liberian cruel conspiracy. We say all this without any prejudice to hardworking and astute Dr. Amos Sawyer and his team, who did their best in this work, but the powers that be would not give them any fair chance to be objective. 4. We can’t go to vote again with the same national emblems we have here (the flag, the seal, the motto etc.), that STUPIDLY neglect all the interest of our Native people. Creed, Symbols, Emblems, Awards and so forth are more to a country like mission/vision statements and and logo are to a business enterprise. In business, just as it is supposed to be in our civic life, mission and vision declarations steer everyone within an organization in the same direction in fulfilling a common agenda. Logo, mission and vision statements on the one hand for a business entity, like flags, other symbols, emblems or awards etc. on the other hand for a nation, hold the mirror to the core values and aspirations of the unit, and they help to instill confidence in, and to gain the commitment of everyone to work for a common purpose. Dull Liberia again, has missed the mark big time in this direction as all of its symbols, the flag, motto, and even the name of the country, ALL neglect the
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interests of 16 out of the questionable 17 groups - conditions ripe enough always to invite war! Who all in this place will disagree with the fact that we can NEVER go to the polls with a red, white and blue, 11-stripe flag, that squarely indicates that our country is only owned by the Johnsons, Grippons, Lewises, Wilsons, etc. and that the Boakais, Samukais, Massaquois, Sendolos, Sannons, Cherues and Konnehs are wild animals that didn’t deserve to talk at a national convention that laid the foundation of their own country in 1847. Going to the polls now to vote under such flag will mean that the AmericoLiberian statements about the Natives are ALL true, and that this curse should continue forever. We can only change this ‘damnable’ situation when we prioritize gaining our true independence first, over going to elections to promote and sustain this same BIG LIE and grave INSULT to ourselves and our forefathers. The current Americo-Liberian status quo will never change this flag because it keeps them as the superior over us, and it keeps their backer, America’s economic interest in tact at the expense of our blood and our future. Take for example, George Turner’s latest report on Liberia being America’s outpost of financial secrecy etc. A typical justification of all this is when astute History Professor Elwood Dun warned the present Americo-Liberian authority in 2013 to review these symbols for possible change because, as he suggested, they were recipes for conflict, disunity, backwardness, bloodbath, [and by extension, God’s fury against us]., but they (i.e. the Americo-Liberian Ellen Johnson Sirleaf-led Government, backed by America) acted as if they were agreeing to the professor’s call, just in the end, to have allegedly gone up to the Masonic Craft Temple, come back, and kill this all-important Warning. This same NASTY reality applies to the seal, and its motto that lies that, ‘The Love Of Liberty Brought All Of Us Here’. Everybody knows that the Bassas, Mendees, Gios, Krus etc. came here for different reasons, ranging from Agriculture to trade. Only independence from America and her Americo-Liberians can help us correct these stupid LIES to set our records straight, to now begin to move forward, with the grace and blessings of our Almighty Creator. Their declaration of independence document also lied, that all of us here came from North America. WHAT A CURSED LIBERIAN FOUNDATION, MAKING MOCKERY OUT OF GOD, but GOD FORBID, as His Truth does not remain under cover forever!!!! 5. We need a legitimate independence now because the first one declared in 1847 was fake and illegitimate. We MUST now declare our independence anew because what was declared here in 1847 was a fake one requested by a group of poor, illiterate and lazy criminals, sitting at some illegitimate convention, and wanting this status just for mere personal enrichment and aggrandizement, and to further be empowered to suppress our poor traditional forefathers. Moreover, the source of the authority of this independence, the socalled American Colonization Society, a purely racist and business organization that later went bankrupt and closed down, can NEVER be the one granting us independence right now. The one truly colonizing our country, although in different cunning manners, is the American Government, and this is the source from which we demand our independence now. This independence will be pronounced at a legitimate gathering of representatives from our current ‘17’ Ethnic groups, including other major strictly restricted stakeholders sitting at a legitimate National Rebirth and Constitutional Convention in 2017, God willing, as is now being demanded by the Plain Truth Revolution. We demand this independence to enable us smoothly transform our country into a paradise for all, because the current one, Liberia, as we have repeatedly proven, was established as,
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and continues to run as a Black American Colony, (sadly intended to accommodate America’s perceived “Human Wastes”), but not for us, the Boakais, Pajiboes, Nagbes, Weahs etc. Under this Liberia, we, the Natives, are only good to be their (the Black Americans’) foot soldiers, their stooges, their cannon fodders, their accomplices, their partners in crime etc., but we are NOT to INDEPENDENTLY live to the fullest of our very great potentials, with clear conscience and clean records – ABSOLUTELY NOT! It has NEVER been so since 1822, and it WILL NEVER be so, even if God were to give Liberia 1 billion more years to come. 6. Liberia is a formally known structure set up to officially promote lies and all sorts of criminal activities – we can’t undo this glaringly SHAMEFUL fact by going to the polls again in 2017, and it MUST be undone now! This country is biggest structure known to be set up by America purposely to fabricate, accommodate, and sustain official lies on this planet, Earth, at present. This sad reality makes our country a very big threat to world peace because our Creator, God, badly hates lies (for example, read Prov. 6:16 – 19; Surat 2: 42 etc. to find out how all point out God’s intense hatred for lies). The argument that went into the establishment of Liberia, as designed by the so-called American Colonization Society, was a BIG, but cleverly presented LIE, intended to get proven and would-be trouble makers, including very unproductive elements, off the back of the American Society, so that their citizens can go to bed in peace. 19th century US Congressman John Randolph of Roanoke County, Virginia, and Hon. Henry Clay of the Kentucky among others are a few of our strong historical backers here. Under no circumstances can rounded up criminals and societal outcasts ‘Christianize’ and ‘Civilize’ a dark continent, as the Americans claim. This lie brought some temporary relief to the United States, but in the end, it now sadly blows up in every one’s face today, as Liberia is at current, the darkest and faithless corner left on the African continent. Based upon this one big lie, the whole Liberian Society has turned out to be a huge paragon of LIES, as BBC’s Robin White once pronounced the name of this country, “Lie be here”. As such, Liberia’s culture of lies has now disgracefully ensnared even the world’s superpower, and has terribly belittled the United States, which has been putting aside all of her beautiful, Godly principles and defiling herself with Liberia just for economic gains. Let’s see how, for example, America disgraced herself through the Millennium Challenge Corporation to grant prize money to the EVER-criminal and corrupt Liberian Authorities in 2015, for what the MCC terms as the country’s improvement at good governance…. Our going to the polls this year instead of sitting around the table to set these ugly past record straight will be a CURSE to ourselves. 7. What we have here is not a JUST and LEGITIMATE Government, but rather a structure set up to prosecute white-collar terrorism against our people – voting this year will only keep this criminal structure intact, and prolong the already excruciating agony of our people. We have never had anything called a just government since the terrible Black Americans established their rogue state here in 1822 called Liberia. According to the American Heritage Dictionary and other sources, 4 of the very key criteria of a just government are as follows: (a) it must be honorable, fair, and consistent with what is morally right in its dealings and actions; (b) it must place the interest of its citizens above all else; (c) it must impartially give to all men what they truly deserve; and (d) it must make it a binding duty to protect all lives and property of every kind – tangible and intangible. Even a 3 year-old child knows very well that all these are not the case in this place. In fact, because the country, beyond all reasonable doubts, was established by criminals, based on certain political or social science theory called historical institutionalism, it has been, and it will continue to be
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governed and sustained by criminals, and elections will not change this. If you think we are lying here, then we will urge you to please honestly compare the records of grandpa Joseph Jenkins Roberts with some of his latest successors such as Bill Tubman, Samuel Doe, Charles Taylor, and Ellen Sirleaf. In fact, the big question that anyone wanting to go and stand on line this year to vote will have to answer is, who else, more crooked, more deceitful and more criminal will you find on the 2017 ballot paper to head your AmericoLiberia again, than the current Harvard-trained, World Bank, HSBC, Citibank etc. seasoned “Snake Oil” hoax, in the reading of the Global Witness, that you now have in charge. Should this not mean that Americo-Liberia, plus all of her governmental arrangements, plus their so-called democratic elections etc. have now come to an end, and as such, we must now redesign a new, better, national arrangement, whose heads will henceforth be people of high moral standing? Maybe we sadly want drums to be beaten into our ears before we can wake up to smell this coffee. According to the founding fathers of America, governments are established to pursue purposes as the ones mentioned earlier, but when they do not flow in these directions, just as Liberia’s situation has always been, then the best option is to remake or redesign the government. In our case, going to the polls 2017 to vote will not remake or redesign this criminal structure in our country called government, but will perpetuate it. It is only a true independence from the influence of America and her corrupt and cruel Americo-Liberians that will help the undiluted Gongars, Dolos and Musas to set up a just government that will honestly and adequately cater for all of our fathers, mothers, and siblings there in Tajuwon, Glorgarkpa, Lontuo, and Salala just as it will do for those in Monrovia. 8. No sound person or entity or group does the same thing over and over, applying the same formula, and then expects a different, positive result. Going to the polls this year, instead of finding a different formula to solving our huge problem now will paint us as a very STUPID people who have completely gone out of options in life, and this not so. For there are very productive and smart people still in this place. In one of President Obama’s engagements with the press over his decision to renew friendly ties with Cuba after more than half a century of strained relationships, he is quoted as saying that “when we try one thing over and over for 50 years and it does not seem to work, then it makes no sense to keep doing it the same way.” This is the argument of the Plain Truth Revolution. We are saying that it is time that we think out of the box and redesign our own workable form of democracy and government, instead of keep struggling in vain with a specific style imposed upon us by America. We must learn to break free of old traditions that were imposed upon us in the past and think out our own design, though with the same bigger picture objective. Every sound country wishes all the best for ALL of its citizens in a free, productive, comfortable and democratic environment, but democracy is not tied to the American model alone. And going to the polls again in 2017 without radically advancing new, better ideas of how we can turn the table on subjection to slavery, poverty of ideas, poverty of materials etc. will mean just what we have said above. But to get more insight on an alternative option being demanded by the Plain Truth Revolution, please read, and listen to the remaining of our articles. 9. Liberia currently understands democracy as only voting – we say no. There is more and more to democracy than mere voting, and if you don’t set those other sides to democracy right from the beginning, voting becomes very USELESS, and in fact very HARMFUL like it is now in Americo-Liberia.
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While election in itself is good, it also has its other side of the coin, whereby, cruel people could just use it to perpetuate their wickedness, and then try to formalize these acts of wickedness to the rest of the world, through some official process, like elections in this case. An election alone does not constitute democracy, and it is just a small exercise performed in choosing leaders (already made leaders etc.) or deciding courses of actions (already well-defined, or well-aided actions) in almost all forms of government, and not in democracies alone. So elections are NEVER the first step to solving a people’s problems – but instead, going back to the drawing board; going back to their foundation, and putting their national act together well, which requires true independence. If the process of elections were enough, then by now, Liberia would have been having no major troubles again because, people started voting here since 1822. When the country got its Mickey-Mouse independence in 1847, which we are now bent on undoing by the grace of God, they conducted their first post-independence elections, just few days later, September 27, 1847. Afterwards, Liberians went to the polls to vote every 2 years; then in the early 1900s, it changed to every 4 years; then in 1975, the politicians changed it to every 8 years; then in the 1980s, it changed again to every 6 years etc., yet and still, this fake Liberia, since 1822, has gone nowhere closer to the meaning of a true, liberal democracy, or just any form of elementary democracy for that matter. Here is how the experts define a true, working democracy. Mr. Guillermo O’Donnel, a great Argentino-American political and social science authority, conceptualized the human being as an agent endowed with 3 attributes: (a) an autonomy (i.e. freedom) for decision-making; (b) a cognitive (rational, mental etc.) ability for reasoning; and (c) a responsibility for taking actions [on his own]. He says, in line with these three basic human attributes, the concept of Democracy, and the Quality of Democracy, are based on the two key principles of Human Development and Human Rights. Mr. O’Donnel says Human Development focuses on the basic conditions and capabilities that enable individuals to act as Agents [on their own]. He says human development issues emphasize how every individual is succeeding progressively at achieving his most elementary capabilities such as living a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable [through some form of mass quality education], and enjoying a decent standard of living. He then placed the human rights dimension into the trio of political rights, civil rights and social rights. Mr. O’Donnel’s concept of democracy is being supported or backed one way or the other by almost all prominent scholars, think tanks, and authorities working around the clock to define true democracy, including the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Freedom House, the Polity IV, the Vanhanem Index of Democracy, and the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Index of Democracy. When you place all of these beautiful arguments and interpretations of democracy into their practical context, it becomes 100% clear that Liberia is sadly NOT practicing one inch of democracy, but is instead practicing what the social scientists call “Ochlocracy” or “Mobocracy”, which rides on the “Tyranny (painful, raw, brutal power) of a huge ignorant majority” to perpetuate the wickedness of a small group of both insiders and outsiders. In the process of all this, our people have instead, turned into objects of insult from the mouths of Americo-Liberian politicians and opinion leaders. Independence now, will stop the further insult received by our poor, illiterate people, and will afford us time to develop them. We need to prioritize our independence now rather than some STUPID political election because majority of our people are not adequately prepared for true democracy – due to our lack of the requisite authority and resources to develop their lives in the way it is supposed to be for participation into a true liberal democracy. When we keep forcing them
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into our criminal games called elections instead of developing them adequately, the only thing our good people – our mainly deprived and dehumanized Native population – will keep receiving at the hands of politicians and others in this country, will be INSULT, INSULT and INSULT etc. – something which is now very UNACCEPTABLE for God’s children to keep enduring. We CAN’T just continue in this route, and it is only an unconditional declaration of independence under the right, God-approved leadership that can help us change this NASTY trend right now. 10. We are currently suffering under two horribly self-seeking masters as ‘double’ slaves, that’s why nothing seems to be in order, and no one seems to be in control, except unproductive repressors, oppressors and suppressors showing their heavily misguided strength under the canopy of the sacred name of government. We need our true independence now because we are in a very sad, complex or mixed up, and deadly situation; and this situation is, by being currently ‘colonized’ implicitly by two very self-seeking masters - the two being, (a) America (just for the purpose of obtaining cheap and sometimes absolutely free economic resources from our land), and (b) Americo-Liberians (just for their power, power, power, and their coercion and repression, making sure that they prove their original argument right, that we, the Natives, the 16 indigenous African ethnic groups of this country, are mere subhumans and wild beasts, and that we remain so until God comes back - God forbid!!!!). No country runs and succeeds the way we have been, and continue to proceed, and in order to abort this current status quo, we NEED true freedom of thought and action, none of which can be exercised without true independence. We need to think and act properly for ourselves right now, that’s why this demand for independence must NEVER be taken for joke by anyone. The Johnsons, Tylers, Findleys, McClains, Tubmans and so on have been, and continue to run our country criminally (although this is obvious, because they are predominantly born criminals), and making our country look like an animal farm that has no human owners, while in actuality, we, the full blooded Yarkpawolos, Kollubas, Ngafuans, Samukais, Massaquois, Sirleafs, Does, Piahs etc. are the true human owners, who, acting on our own, and under no STUPID foreign influence, will turn our home into a paradise and a civilized place for living because it has been proven that we are industrious, hardworking and honest in deeds than the Americo-Liberians, who only claim these qualities and virtues falsely on paper, but have unfortunately and ironically been referring to us, and treating us, to date, as Savages and wild beasts. Thank goodness that time has now proven their claim to be the opposite. But we demand our unconditional independence and statehood now so that we can prove our true industrious and civilized colors outside their dirty, mischievous influence, to everyone now, but voting in 2017 will NOT achieve this proud objective of the Natives of this land. 11. There has been, and there is even badly now, ABSOLUTELY NO trust within the Liberian society between government and its citizens, and so, going to vote 2017 will just mean an extension of this dangerous embarrassment because this lack of trust has even now reached into our homes between husbands and wives, and between siblings. The explicit cause of this dangerous lack of generalized trust in our society is the amount of hatred that went into the fake foundation of the country, which we continue to struggle with today. Only a true independence from those who establish their Liberia and its fake foundation, can help us remove this hatred and instill the very significant social capital, called generalized trust, into our new society.
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12. We, the Natives of this current illegitimate arrangement, called country, were granted some STUPID and CURSED citizenship when the Americo-Liberians, through one President Arthur Barclay, were jammed for money to credit, and the creditor demanded them to change their NASTY policy towards us, the Natives, the original owners of the land. What this grave INSULT means is that, in this country, we can NEVER enjoy any sustained and clear-conscience prosperity under this arrangement until we rise up and reclaim our country from America and her Americo-Liberians by just simply declaring our independence at some National Get Together now, as is being demanded by the Plain Truth Revolution. Citizenship attained just because someone is pressed against the wall and needs money, but not because you are a human being, you own the very land etc. is NEVER any citizenship to be proud of continuously. It’s in fact an INSULT, and going to the polls this year will mean that we agree to this INSULT forever. 13. We are tired living our entire national lives on this planet as a mere object of mockery, or a people only good to play all sorts of funny political games out of. This course has been deeply institutionalized by the Americo-Liberians against us in this country, for their own benefit, and they are smoothly succeeding with it through the help of numerous accomplices and collaborators out there in the international world, again, for people’s personal, corrupt gains at the painful detriment of millions of our precious human beings of today’s generations, and the countless generations of our people to come. Independence will put a halt to this ugly reality now, or drastically minimize it. For example, while almost all the US State Department’s Justice and Human Rights Reports on Liberia categorically speak of a clear lack of justice and working systems in this country; while numerous international think tanks, including America’s own Freedom House, the Fund for Peace etc., are all decrying huge governance and rule of law deficits in Liberia, the US Millennium Challenge Corporation, as we disclosed to you some time ago, has just dished out $256.7 million to the Liberian Government in prize money for doing good job at management and governance in the country. The European Union and others are following America’s footsteps and doing the same thing, though bit by bit. This sad narration is too long, but it is no doubt that true independence can put a halt to it. 14. We have remained too far behind in life as a people, and it is only by taking radical decisions and much more giant steps, or by uncomfortably adopting quite different and new ways of doing things, that we will be able to pick up steam and make some mark in this race of life. For example, we MUST not continue with this funny, thwarted version of the already lazy and unproductive 18th century Laissez-Faire Capitalism that Liberia claims to be practicing, and we MUST adopt our own forms of politico-economic systems in order to speedily start from Ground Zero with our economics and other aspects of life. We MUST also take power from the hands of an all-powerful, all-imperialist, one-person, colonial master-surrogate president, under some fake presidential democracy, and place power instead into the hands of some sizable group of an all-educated, all-undiluted, representatives of every one of our ethnic groups in this country in a parliamentary democracy, that will speedily and more authoritatively move our poor, broken country forward etc., but none of these and many more productive ideas, will ever find breathing space in this “Liberia”, that’s why the cry and demand for an unconditional independence has now began to take over our country. Moreover, the next time we go to the polls in this country, we want to vote for ideas, and not merely for personalities, as it has sadly always been since 1822. But this present country only organizes elections for promoting personalities – and the worse thing is that those personalities must either be criminals, or
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people with some criminal intent, or still, people easily converted to criminality in end, not because they are bad, but because that’s what the current system dictates. PERIOD!!! Therefore we demand this independence so that we can put our national house in order, so for example, our people, now well-guided, well educated (not normally with the big, big, books etc.), can be able to stand on line to vote for ideas such as capitalism, socialism, communism etc., and things like that, instead of only always voting for John Brown or Peter Paul to go and form part of some criminal gang called “government” here, which in the end, will turn him or her into another criminal or lawless person. 15. Africa has done a great job now at decolonization, but Liberia is 100% dangerously poised to reverse these great gains, and return the continent gradually to status quo ante, with respect to colonialism. Liberia is completely tied to America and the West’s apron string, and can NEVER do anything on her own since 194 years now of being around as a socalled political entity. This foolish Americo-Liberian country wants everything (even down to batons) for its police officers, as gift or some false loan that she can NEVER pay back, but authorities will criminally mortgage natural resources for these gifts and loans behind the scenes. We demand independence to change all this NASTY situation God willing. 16. We need our independence now because remaining under the influence and leadership of these Black Americans, will continuously, sadly, present our country as the BIGGEST VIOLATOR of all international covenants, protocols or conventions on the rights of the human being, and therefore keep this country as an enduring threat to world peace; in that, because the frontrunners of this society, the Americo-Liberians, with huge backing from America, as we will always say, have long established this perception about us, the Natives of this land, as “Savages”, “Sub-humans”, “Wild Beasts” etc., which has become very rooted, and is being demonstrated in different forms up to today, sometimes in subtle manners and other times in very crude forms, NOTHING called affording a people sound education; affording them opportunities to decent standards of living; affording people opportunities to fair justice etc. WILL EVER be realized in this Liberia, PERIOD!!!. This is simply because doing so will prove Americo-Liberians and America wrong with their initial hypothesis about the Natives, which they will not allow. For example, Liberia is an original signatory to the great Universal Bill of Rights of 1948, which only three African countries (Liberia, Egypt, and Ethiopia) voted for, from Africa; she is an original signatory to the two key extensions of this Universal Bill of Rights; namely: the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the both of which were adopted on December 16, 1966, and made it internationally binding and legal in 1976. All of these beautiful instruments, among other things obligate all governments to provide every essential human need and care for every citizen in very practical ways (NOT TO CARE FOR SOME, IN CENTRAL MONROVIA, as foolish Liberia does). This foolish country has NEVER, and will NEVER be able to put up such care for all of its citizens alike, not because there are no resources to do so, but just because the terrible black Americans that are in control of things in this country, are on some dangerous revenge agenda (for what no one knows yet) against the original 16 Ethnic groups of this land. Just to mention two points from the covenants mentioned above, parts of Article 13 of the 25-articled International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which recognizes the right of everyone (every citizens’ right) to education, read thus: “…..Education is seen both as a human right and as "an indispensable means of realizing other human rights", and so, this is one of the longest and most important articles of the Covenant…… [Some actions] parties are required to pursue to realize the right to education for every [soul]…. include the
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provision of free, universal and compulsory primary education, "generally available and accessible" secondary education in various forms (including technical and vocational training), and equally accessible higher education. All of these must be available to all, without discrimination. …. Parties are required to make education free at all levels, either immediately or progressively; "[p]primary education shall be compulsory and available free to all"; secondary education "shall be made generally available and accessible to all by every appropriate means, and in particular, by the progressive introduction of free education"; and "[h]higher education shall be made equally accessible to all, on the basis of capacity, by every appropriate means, and in particular, by the progressive introduction of free education…..etc.". Let’s just pick one article from the 53-articled International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights too. Article 19, of this convention reads: “…. Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information, and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing, or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice…” Our country, under the Americo-Liberians, backed by America, has NEVER, and will NEVER attain excellence at providing any of these rights to all of its citizens. In addition to the big protocols mentioned above, in the year 2000, the United Nations, which crazy Liberia formed part of its establishment way back in October 1945, just for mere recognition and assistance, launched their Millennium Development Goals to push all nations to do just 8 basic things for every one of their citizens, in an effort to ensure dignified life for all, but with a time tag of 15 years as deadline. Liberia failed to live up to all this commitment to its citizens, again by year end 2015. Last year, upon the expiration of the MDGs, the UN again moved from 7 to 17 good things required of all responsible governments to do for ALL their citizens (NOT ONLY TOP GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AS AMERICO-LIBERIA WILL ALWAYS INTERPRET THINGS), once more, with another 15-year deadline set. The fact that the feedback or result from pursuing these SDGs will be an even massive failure, owing to the Americo-Liberians’ deep seated hatred for fellow humans, i.e. the Natives of this country, is already a foregone conclusion. What all this does is that it keeps reinforcing Liberia’s position as a serious threat to world peace in the end, because as President Thomas Jefferson of the United States once said, “God’s justice doesn’t sleep forever.” So you cannot keep suppressing and oppressing one set of people like what’s happening in this country forever, and expect any better results in the end – whether for the oppressed, the oppressors, the oppressors’ supporters, or the global spectators. Everyone’s peace is at stake on the issue of this enduring Liberian trouble. Let’s not forget also what Mr. Antonio Gutierrez said the last time about politicians creating the mess and waiting for humanitarians to come in every time to solve the problem. He didn’t stop there, he gave a stark warning that the international community was losing its authority at controlling conflicts, which presumably meant that they are either showing lack of will power to stop the rot, or they are one way or other part of the rot. The biggest cue to take from all this is that the need for individual countries to govern themselves well has never been so demanding than this time in the history of mankind, and for our case, we can NEVER get any such leadership with America’s influence and with Americo-Liberians in the “leadership crew”, talk less about them being in the driver’ seat. So we say, Yarkpawolos, Konnehs, Sannons, Samukais, Dolos, Massaquois, Nyenkans, Nagbes, Korkpors, Norgehs, Karnweas etc. and etc. please wake up and let’s take our country peacefully from the hands of these people that armed robbed it. For we can manage it better for ourselves and our children to come. For this is where God sent our forefathers - some, more than 8 centuries ago, and scores of our past generations’ navel strings are buried here. This is our land. Let’s not make God’s wrath beat us badly. For He hates people who don’t
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take care of their possession, or who let it lay waste to their enemies/detractors’ hands, probably for personal gains, or for the fear for man rather than for Him, God!!!!! Let it not take drums to be beaten into our ears before we wake up and smell coffee, as Mr. Gandhi once said. 17. We can’t keep moving with a terribly faulty car (Liberia), and expect to fix it while in motion – this is what going to polls 2017 means again. Reporter Julius Jeh of Farbric FM in Monrovia once said, “If you establish that a car has major problems while moving, you can’t keep moving or going with that car, and expect to repair it while in motion.” This is exactly one of the very key arguments of the Plain Truth Revolution, that’s why we have included it in most of our writings or articles. We contend and demand that there be some constructive intrusion or disruption of all the current activities so that we sit down and discuss, know ourselves, know all that’s happening, and then decide a next course of action together. We demand a National Rebirth and Constitutional Convention for the redesigning of our country and the relaying of its foundation. We do NOT want this process spearheaded in anyway or overseen or directed by government, but instead by a group of seasoned, undiluted citizens under the banner of the Plain Truth Revolution, although with some government involvement and participation because they are in control of things right now and also because we now seek an All-inclusive solution to our nation’s massive problems. Let’s not forget that drastic times call for drastic measures.
Talking about National Convention or some kind of national soul-searching and solution-seeking dialogue, this should not be strange, as many out there, even in toplevels of government, have been strongly proposing for some time now. We are only reinforcing it, and making it a demand now instead, with some radical attachments or conditions appended. For example, Atty. Koffi Woods has been calling for a National Consultative Dialogue (Sky FM. June 20, 2014); Vandarlark Patricks has been calling for a National Reconciliation Convention (July 8, 2014, local radio news etc.); Lofa County Senator Steve Zargo stressed the need the last time for some National Security Dialogue (Local Radio News, and the Local Dailies); The Catholic Justice and Peace Commission (JPC) has called for a national civil society dialogue to discuss the current security situation in the country. (Inquirer Newspaper, February 2016); The European Union (EU) Delegation accredited near Monrovia proposed and held a political dialogue with Liberia in light of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) planned drawdown and the upcoming presidential and legislative elections this year. On the upcoming presidential and legislative elections, the head of the EU Delegation said they were interested in political dialogues among and between political parties on one hand, and political parties and the government on the other (20 March 2016: FrontPageAfrica (Monrovia) : Liberia: EU Delegation Proposes Political Dialogue With Liberia); and Liberia’s former interim president Dr. Amos Sawyer is strongly recommending that the country holds a political summit before heading to elections in 2017.” (http://www.nanews.net/ Liberia: Dr. Sawyer calls for political summit, Thursday, January 28, 2016) etc. and etc. To close on this narration, may be people will consider the claim that we are being cunningly and half-heartedly colonized up to this point, this very 2017, as strange and impracticable, but anyone who has a pair of civic eye glasses on in this country knows that the only power holding our destinies down in this place is America, and they are bent on holding it down forever just
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for the unfair, exploitative benefits and advantage of their big Wall Street or multinational companies. Unless we rise up peacefully, design our own game plan, and demand our independence, as the Plain Truth Revolution is requesting all of us to do NOW, NOTHING WILL EVER CHANGE in this place. In fact, things will only turn worse and worse as time goes by. America will NEVER release our common destiny by themselves because they are harvesting tremendous economic benefits from our country, the primary reason however, for which they are around us. Astute former President Abraham Lincoln did not mince words about this US’ primary objective, though he presented it in a rather subtle manner when he engaged Congress in 1862, to recognize Liberia’s fake independence, according to the New York Times, after 15 years of insisting vehemently that Liberians (the Americo-Liberians in this case) lack all abilities of self-governance, a claim that has been proven more than tenfold today, nevertheless. Our best bet now is to demand our independence from them and their AmericoLiberians so that we prove to the world that we, the Nyenkans, Sendolos, Boakais, Konnehs, Massaquois, Samukais, Jallah, Gwehs, Dargosehs etc. acting on our own, without any corrupt foreign influence, can work wonders because we are a naturally progressive and innovative people. All this, even though, does not suggest that America is bad, or Americans are a bad people, but simply confirms that the relationship between us and this great nation is cursed, and the Bible and Quran say, anything about us that we find cursed, with the potential of bothering us for life, we MUST CUT IT OFF, no matter how dearly or darling it may deceitfully seem to us, Period!!! Worrying about firstly substantiating this claim that America has a big Imperialist Government, sometimes practically bent on holding a whole people’s future hostage forever (as it is sadly in the case of Liberia), or destabilizing other continents and countries (if that’s what it takes) just for their big multinational companies (like the Firestones, the Chevrons, the Exxon Mobils, the Microsoft etc.), or put simply, “Wall Street”, to gain unfair upper hand in business and trade over other competitors, and then secondly to substantiate the claim that America is still, during this age and time, cleverly colonizing other territories and unduly exploiting their economic and other vital resources, then welcome to this short narrative about the United States’ activities in these respects: According to Wikipedia, by the late 1800s, 3 American Multinational Companies [just as we have the likes of Firestone, Chevron, Exxon Mobil etc. in Liberia as mentioned above], the United Fruit Company (UFC), the Standard Fruit Company (SFC, also called the Dole Food Company) and the Cuyamel Fruit Company (CFC) dominated the cultivation, harvesting, and exportation of bananas, and controlled the road, rail, and port infrastructure of Honduras, a Latin American Country. These American fruit companies were dealing mainly in bananas. Among the Hondurans for example, the UFC was known as the El Pulpo, meaning the Octopus. This was because UFC’s influence had come to pervade their society, controlled their country’s transport infrastructure, and sometimes violently manipulated their politics – same thing done repeatedly in Liberia since its establishment. The man credited with truly creating this banana republic stereotype was US Businessman, Sam Zemurray of New Orleans, Louisiana, founder of the Cuyamel Fruit Company, who had entered into the banana business by buying overripe bananas from the UFC to sell in New Orleans. In 1911, Sam entered into an illegal business and political alliance with Manuel Bonilla, an ex-Honduran President. This Sam Zemurray-led clique then staged a coup d’état against sitting President Miguel R. Davila (1907 – 11) and installed Gen. Manuel Bonilla as the new President of Honduras (1912 – 13). The US
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Government turned a blind eye on this unlawful deposition of an elected government through an American-citizen engineered coup, using a private army, with the US State Department seeing ousted President Davila as too politically liberal, and as a poor businessman, whose management decisions had caused Honduras to become too indebted to Great Britain – an unacceptable geopolitical risk for the United States in light of the Monroe Doctrine. US Mercenary Lee Christmas, who technically executed the coup, then became Honduras’ new President’s choice for the position of Honduras’ Chief of Military. Still this indispensable, ‘utility player’ Lee, was later appointed by Washington again as America’s Consular General to the Republic of Honduras….. The next victim of this campaign by the US MNCs to take charge of Latin and Central America was Guatemala. Guatemala [had been manipulated behind the scenes] into a state with gross inequality, with respect to the country’s inequitable distribution of agricultural land and its natural wealth, uneven economic development, and an economy heavily dependent upon a few export crops – coffee, sugar cane, and bananas. 90% of Guatemala was involved in subsistence farming that yielded insufficient foods to feed their households, while 2% of the country’s other farmers occupied over 65% of the fertile land – operating huge farms and plantations that belonged to the oligarchy (the people in power, or the wealthy elite) and their mainly foreign interests. Because President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman expropriated unused company lands to landless peasants, the UFC of Andrew Preston and others convinced the Administrations of Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower (1945 – 1953 and 1953 – 1961 respectively) that the Guatemalan President was secretly pro-Soviet or pro-Kremlin. Influenced by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, President Eisenhower ordered and authorized “Operation Success” – the 1954 Guatemalan Coup – by means of which the US Central Intelligence Agency deposed democratically elected Jacobo (1950 – 1954), and installed the pro-business [or one may say, pro-American MNCs)’s Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas (1954 – 57), who was later assassinated by a presidential guard. This event ushered in a long period of turmoil in Guatemala; in fact, a course of 36 years of Civil War in Guatemala. Note: These different bananas or fruit companies, through their manipulation of the producing countries’ national land use laws, were able to buy large tract of fertile lands for banana plantations in the countries of the Caribbean Basin, the Central American Isthmus, and the tropical South American countries – and, having rendered the Native peoples landless through a policy of legalistic dispossessions of their land, while employing them (the dispossessed Natives of these countries) as low-wage workers –
(www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Republics....) Here is how a few other political commentators on a California-based question & answer site, called Quora, presented their part of the story about America’s Imperialism hullaballoo: (a) One of them wrote: “….It's true that the US wasn't out there sending military expeditions to remote parts of Asia and Africa like the British and French were doing, but that's not to say that they weren't [or they aren’t] out there colonizing too. If you take a look at the US in 1783, [he meant here the time Britain formally recognized America’s 1776 independence], after they gained independence from the British, their territory only extended to the eastern half of the Mississippi River, and apart from the coastal areas, most of this was vastly unorganized territory. During the rest of the 19th century, the US proceeded to acquire the rest of what has since become the continental United States, through purchases and conquests from various Indian tribes and European powers. During this time, the idea of "Manifest Destiny", that it was the God-given duty of Americans to settle North America, began to emerge. And if "we-
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need-to-settle-the-entirety-of-this-continent-because-God-said-so" doesn't this sound like colonialism, I don't know what does. In the later part of the 19th century and into the 20th century, the US continued acquiring territory out of what is currently the continental United States, including many islands in the Pacific. America’s overthrow and subsequent takeover of the Hawaiian kingdom was a textbook example of colonialism. Furthermore, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, policy makers, most prominently Teddy Roosevelt, began to exert their influence on various countries in the West Indies and in Latin America. What made American colonialism much more different from the British was that they did a great job at homogenizing (standardizing, regulating and integrating) the areas they conquered. If you look at territories in the British or French Empires, their populations are generally made up of a large native population ruled by a small, white elite (there are of course some exceptions to this, namely Canada and Australia, but this was overwhelmingly the norm in Asia and Africa). When the US acquired new territories, however, large numbers of American settlers quickly poured into the area, quickly outnumbering preexisting populations (whether those were Indian, Creole, Hawaiian or Hispanic)….” (b) Jesse Jones, Armchair foreign policy analyst, commented, “…..Some U.S. leaders had ideas of invading Canada and/or Cuba, to add these territories to those of the United States, but this would have involved conflict with European powers (Great Britain and Spain) which would have been too risky. Instead, the U.S. left Cuba alone, and the Oregon Treaty in 1846 peacefully demarcated the boundary between the U.S. and British Canada. In 1854, the American Commodore, Perry, "opened" Japan to trade through a display of force, but America never "colonized" Japan. In 1867, Alaska was purchased from Russia on peaceful terms…..By 1898, the U.S. had become a world power in terms of industrial and military strength, and the "closing of the frontier" meant further expansion would have to come from overseas. The Spanish-American War in 1898 marked the beginning of the "American Empire." The U.S. crushed the Spanish Empire and added the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico, gaining its first overseas territories, as well as acquiring a temporary protectorate over Cuba. In a separate action, Hawaii was annexed from the native Hawaiian kingdom in 1898. Even so, this American Empire was still quite limited in scope compared to the European Empires……After World War II, decolonization meant that the U.S., Great Britain, France, etc. relinquished many of their colonies. The U.S. granted the Philippines independence. However, America remained in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and several Pacific islands (Guam, the Virgin Islands etc.) by the consent of the locals, similar to continued British rule in Bermuda & the Falkland Islands, or the French in French Guiana….In the Cold War, the Americans and Soviets engaged in a geopolitical struggle for influence around the world, but this is generally not considered "colonialism." We can debate whether "colonialism" still exists today. The U.S., as the world's sole remaining superpower today, maintains military bases all over the world. In the early 2000's, [for example], America invaded and occupied Afghanistan and Iraq. However, I disagree that this amounts to evidence of an "American Empire." The U.S. maintains military bases in countries such as Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia, etc. via alliances….As for Afghanistan and Iraq, these invasions were fundamentally about national security and not resource exploitation as in true colonialism…..Iraq's ownership of large oil reserves may have been another motivating factor (as it is in all, or many of the U.S.'s dealings with Middle Eastern countries), however, it's patently obvious that Iraq was not purely a "war for oil" as some critics suggest… (c) Quora User - America participated in European-style colonization in the late 19th century, particularly as American naval strength increased to parity with European nations, and during WW1. The Philippines, Hawaii, Guam, and a few other Pacific islands were acquired.
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Denmark sold its holdings in the Virgin Islands to the U.S. during WW1. (The U.S. wanted to preclude German seizure of the islands, and Denmark had been trying to sell them to the U.S. for several decades.)…… (d) Another Quora User, Reader – “……Here we run into a pretty gargantuan (gigantic, massive) difference between American and British patterns of colonization. The British colonized without the expectation that the colony would become part of the metropole - in other words, India would never become part of the UK, Canada would never become part of the UK, et cetera. On the other hand, the US colonized - at least in the westward expansion - with the expectation that the colonies would mature into states, which would formally become part of the US. Just because you call your colonies "territories" and just because you expect to one day formally annex them doesn't mean you're not colonizing, it just means you're not using the jargon. So the US started out as a colonial enterprise of England, became independent of Great Britain, and then became its own colonial enterprise. Alaska was originally a Russian colony that was cheaply purchased without reference to the wishes of the indigenous peoples living there, and the US bought the Virgin Islands from Denmark in much the same manner. [Indigenous Liberian ethnic groups could learn a very big lesson from this clue]. The US assumed control over several Spanish colonies after the SpanishAmerican War, including the Philippines, Cuba (as a protectorate) and Puerto Rico. Most American textbooks also do a miserable job of covering the Philippine-American War, which lasted from 1899 to 1902 and was the result of the US wanting to crush the Philippine independence movement. The Kingdom of Hawaii ended up getting colonized by Dole (yeah, the fruit guy) and annexed by the US. And getting really on the nose, the African nation of Liberia was founded as an American colony of freedmen, virtually none of whom had come from that part of West Africa. [What a great cue here again for Liberians of the 16 original ethnic backgrounds.] Also, the US was a tremendous bully to other nations in the Western Hemisphere during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We can talk about how America uses its influence now in the Western Hemisphere, but it's small potatoes compared to how it used to do it. Consider this 1935 quotation by US General Smedley Butler: [He says], “I spent 33 years and four months in active military service, and during that period, I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Businesses, for Wall Street, and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902–1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China, in 1927, I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents….” There were nastier examples - the Congo Free State comes to mind - but we are dealing [with] nasty, savage behavior on the part of the settlers. Scalping was primarily done by the settlers, for example. Roughly three years longer than the Spanish-American War, with three times as many American casualties, not to mention some 210,000 to 220,000 dead Filipinos. Then-US President William McKinley talked of "Christianizing" the Philippines - which the Spanish had
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mostly seen to be that point. Again, the Christianizing point gets brought up in textbooks, the obvious rejoinder (reply, answer, riposte etc.) gets brought up much less frequently. This isn't to say that the US has become [a sort of] kind and gentle in recent years, just that it used to be much, much worse….” Dear readers, especially our countrymen, in addition to stories like these, as we speak today, America, for the love of imperialism and colonialism, has a total of 5 inhabited colonies, including those mentioned earlier – and they refer to these 21 st century colonial arrangements as unincorporated or insular territories. They also have numerous uninhabited ones. The full list of the inhabited ones again include: Guam, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands of the United States. Guam, a Western Pacific Ocean Island, is being governed under the US Organic Act of 1950; Puerto Rico, part of a Northeastern Caribbean archipelago, is currently administered under the US Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act; the Northern Mariana Islands, located in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean, is at present run under the US 1977 Covenant of Administration; American Samoa is located in the South Pacific Ocean, and is governed too under the authority of the US Department of Interior; while finally, the US Virgin Islands, located in the Caribbean, are regulated under the US Revised Organic Act of 1954. Every attempt by all, or a majority of these territories, backed by UN resolutions, to gain their full-fledged independence, or gain some form of clear political autonomy, has been squashed by America. For example, In the 1980s and early 1990s, there was a significant movement in favor of Guam becoming a commonwealth, which would give it a level of self-governance similar to Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands, although these latter islands too are currently in search of greater autonomies. However, the US Federal Government rejected the version of a commonwealth arrangement that the government of Guam had proposed, due to it having clauses, in the words of Washington, that are incompatible with the Territorial Clause (Art. IV, Sec. 3, cl. 2) of the U.S. Constitution. Other movements are advocating U.S. statehood for Guam, union with the state of Hawaii, union with the Northern Mariana Islands as a single territory, or independence, but none of them is succeeding. Guam is generally thought of as conservative, on the political spectrum. For Puerto Rico, the United States Congress legislates over many fundamental aspects of Puerto Rican life, including citizenship, the currency, the postal service, foreign affairs, military defense, communications, labor relations, the environment, commerce, finance, health and welfare, and many others….In 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011 the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization passed resolutions calling on the United States to expedite a process "that would allow Puerto Ricans to fully exercise their inalienable right to selfdetermination and independence," and to release all Puerto Rican political prisoners in U.S. prisons; to clean up, decontaminate and return the lands in the islands of Vieques and Culebra to the people of Puerto Rico, to perform a probe into U.S. human rights violations on the island and a probe into the killing by the FBI of pro-independence leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios – all of these have yet to be realized. Then next, and in a nutshell, is the case of American Samoa, a place noted for having the highest rate of military enlistment of any U.S. state or territory. As of September 9, 2014, the local U.S. Army Recruiting Station in Pago Pago was ranked first in production out of the 885 Army recruiting stations and centers under the United States Army Recruiting Command (USAREC), which includes the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Korea, Japan, and Europe….Although technically considered
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"unorganized" since the U.S. Congress has not passed an Organic Act for the territory, American Samoa is [somewhat] self-governing under a constitution that became effective on July 1, 1967. However, the Island is still on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories, a listing which is disputed by the territorial government officials, who do consider themselves to be self-governing. It is though still being administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, U.S. Department of Interior. Finally, on May 26, 2009 the U.S. Virgin Islands’ Fifth Constitutional Convention adopted a proposed Constitution of the Virgin Islands, which was submitted by President Barack Obama to Congress on March 1, 2010. On June 30, 2010, President Obama signed Pub.L. 111–194 in which Congress urged the constitutional convention to reconvene [because apparently, provisions in their new constitution did not match Congress’s wishes for the Island]. etc. and etc. Former territories of the United States also include Philippines, who fought America for her independence for about 3 years, but her independence was formerly recognized by the United States way later on July 4, 1946. Cuba was an American colony, or territory, as they love to refer to theirs, whose independence America recognized on May 20, 1902; and the Panama Canal Zone, under an effective joint Panama-U.S. control based on provisions of the Hay– Bunau-Varilla Treaty from 1903 to 1979, eventually gained some freedom under different arrangements after this time. Note that all of these accounts come from Wikipedia. The big concern after all this reality has been established is that “If America has all these, and even more records about colonialism and imperialism in the respected Whiteman’s world, even up to this point, then think about what she would care about in a sadly perceived, cowardly, insignificant, disrespected. Blackman’s Liberia? But with God above, however, and with our strong determination to constructively engage them, our only all-time friend, with some people even referring to them as our stepmother, we all can together turn this very ugly page around for the BETTER, and that’s what the Plain Truth Revolution advocates right Now, God willing. Thank you fellow citizens and everyone else for mustering the civil courage to change your world by joining or supporting the Plain Truth Revolution to demand this National Rebirth and Constitutional Convention to convene by all means in 2017 by God’s grace. Before we close however, because we want every citizen, especially those who might make it as delegates to this demanded convention, and all of our well-wishers etc. to be information-wise, wellequipped in advance of this demanded get together, we, as said earlier, have prepared 11 revolutionary pamphlets and a couple of smaller revolutionary articles for your reading. These literatures endeavor to acquaint you with ALL of the established major problems of our country, according to the research findings of the Plain Truth Revolution. This, we are confident, will get everyone quite aware of almost ALL that this society MUST now concern itself with, if we are to ever change our story around for the better, God willing. The 11 pamphlets (with 7 being main pamphlets, and 4 being addendums to the original 7), including this one, are as follows: # 1 2
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https://web.facebook.com/plaintruth2013, Why Is This Case Considered A Revolutionary https://is.gd/cO3rbV, And Game-Changing One for Liberia https://is.gd/cyZm54, and https://SnsihD Liberia: A Small, Failed, And Dirty Country, “ Built On The Pillars Of Corruption, Here Are
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The Proofs Unspeakable Ethnic Suppression (Liberia’s Original Sin): Who Accounts And Makes Amends For It Now How Liberia Sadly Makes Mockery Out Of The Divine Concept Of Justice Liberia: A Name Associated With Misery, Poverty, Failure And Trauma Etc. It Must Be Changed Now! Liberia’s Overwhelming Justifications For Claiming Reparations From America Now Liberia: Why Do We Need A Complete Revolution And Not Reforms, And How Can We Conduct It? ADDENDUMS How Based On Its Origin, And Today’s Realities, The Structure Called Government of Liberia Is A Big Criminal Gang, That Must Be Peacefully Dismantled Now, For A Better One, Based On Better Principles. How Based On Its Origin, And Today’s Realities, The Structure Called Government of Liberia Is A Big Criminal Gang, That Must Be Peacefully Dismantled Now, For A Better One, Based On Better Principles. 17 Solid Reasons Why We Should Demand Independence Now, Rather Than Going To Stand On Line Again In 2017, In Another Stupid Americo-Liberian Elections. How, Based On Her Ancestry, And All Her Current Performance Profile Thus Far, Americo-Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Has Got No Moral Authority Over Any Native Person For That Matter.
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The titles, arguments, opinions and so forth of, and in these literatures, are truly long and strong; some may even view them as insulting and otherwise, but they are sincerely meant to snap us out of our inertia and push us into the unconditional urgency to rise up and act positively in this country now. So we urge all, including the few personalities mentioned by name, our Americo-Liberian comrades, our good friends of the United States etc. to please pull the emotions out, and x-ray the facts that have been presented, so as to enable all of us to adopt the right approach for handling these very grave issues that continue to hold the lives and destinies of millions of fellow human beings down in this country forever. Let us NEVER forget that based on the gravity of the issues we have at hand in this place, others could even take up arms and justifiably go to war. This should suggest that just plain words, with the sole intent of bringing some forceful, peaceful change, should NEVER cause people to go bananas in this place, and start thinking about hunting others down because of the plain truth. Let us also NOT forget we can never make omelets without breaking eggs, as some old folks say, and
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that drastic times, as our country is faced with now, call for drastic measures, which in our modus operandi dictates strong, but factual words, to get everybody on their feet etc. and etc. As we close, we send out this caveat that anyone unfortunately wishing to throw a monkey wrench into this worthwhile agenda, as mischief making politicians or other cruel detractors would want to do, must think twice because, apart from the established fact that God is ready to deliver the longsuffering people of our country through this project, Our Plain Truth Revolution represents seven (7) constituencies of God’s children (including past, current and future generations of our country and our well-wishers elsewhere) to whom we are very proud to always dedicate all of our work: They include: (a) Millions in their graves today who have died at the direct cause of Americo-Liberian state-sponsored and state-promoted mischief, mayhem, atrocities and other criminal activities; (b) Millions in their graves today who have died completely unaccomplished, even though they had vast potentials, but these potentials could never be explored and exploited due to America’s imperialist activities here and the Americo-Liberians’ explicit vendetta campaign against us; (c) Millions alive in our country who have missed out, or given up on the realization of their dreams and fullest potentials in life, all because their country works out every policy behind the scenes to stifle such possibility under the guise of running government; (d) The millions who have suffered untold kangaroo justice at the hands of the ever rotten Americo-Liberian Justice System in this country, and continue to suffer this same fate over and over today; (e) Our entire future generations for whom this cruel national arrangement has laid no foundation, but yet expects all of the magic of nation-building and society-stabilization etc. to be performed by them (i.e. these hopeless, “deprived and destroyed in advance” future generations); (f) citizens in the diaspora who worry a lot about what’s happening to their country, but are just unable or incapacitated, one way or the other, to impact the situation, and (g) foreign friends who love our country, and love us personally as friends, but keep worrying, what the causes are, that this country will not wake up to the true meaning of nationhood, especially for the benefit of all of its citizens etc. All this means that it is only the devil, or the strongest of his lieutenants, who would want to thwart such a great agenda like our Plain Truth Revolutionary agenda for God’s children in this place, and if they are ever tempted to do so, they should watch out for the attending consequences. We have drawn for all of us here a very clear battle line. There should now be a set of citizens who love and believe in the present societal order, and are therefore now prepared to fight for it, and another distinct group of citizens, who absolutely disagree with the current status quo, and are ready to take actions now for change. At present there should be nothing in our national dictionary called standing on the fence, or standing in the middle, or remaining neutral. This is because God Himself is now ready to intervene in our country’s chronic situation, but He needs every citizen’s input, one way or the other, as the country is for
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every citizen and not for any single persons. Mr. John F. Kennedy, one of our big time inspirations, and America’s 35th President, gave this warning some time ago to people who love neutrality in difficult times, when he said, “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” We don’t want to be caught up in this situation. We must contribute something. We must take a definite side, although we encourage all to take the side of positive change; that is to take the side of the oppressed in this place, so as not to prolong our well-intentioned agenda for genuine change. To reemphasize the key message of this narrative, we say, the 2017 elections will be one of the greatest mistakes in Americo-Liberia’s history again if we were to ever be tempted to go this STUPID way once more as a people, and the result for making such consciously foolish mistake will be very catastrophic if not point blank apocalyptic (meaning, finishing us once and for all) than any other collective mistakes we have ever made before in our shameful 194 year of existence in dullness, fear for man rather than God, laziness to think and act for ourselves, and extreme barrenness etc. Some points that will prove us very SILLY (that we want, to resonate with you in your secret corners) when we go this route of election in 2017 include, but are not limited to the following: (a) We will be agreeing with this current constitution that the blood of our over 500,000 fellow compatriots and human beings that were killed during the most recent AmericoLiberian War of revenge, and for power, are “insignificant and useless” because it is this same constitution that was used to defend our people’s killers against the TRC’s recommendations for punitive actions and reparations. We will be demonstrating our agreement with this constitution by obeying it to go stand on line and vote again to prolong our own agonies, and deepen our own woes; and, let’s not forget that this FOOLISH mistake on our part will NEVER go unpunished, if we dare do it. (b) We will be proving to the world that we are a very dull people who do not think for themselves, and as such, do the same thing over and over again, even if it is NOT yielding the desired results. Being people of faith in God, as demonstrated in all of our writings thus far, we will also like to leave you here with a strong caveat from the Word of God. Rich Deem, a religious authority, countering some argument from one atheist that “God Is A Murderer”, says, with Biblical backings, that God is not a murderer, but that instead, God being both a Creator and Destroyer in His own right or according to His own standards, sometimes allows a whole people to be wiped away or destroyed for a justifiable reason to Himself. Deem says when all, or majority of a people become so corrupted, or blinded in doing the wrong things over and over, and are continually planning evil things, or comporting themselves in an embarrassing manner, God chooses among them His righteous elements, and then completely wipes away the rest of them to clean the slate for a brand new breed of people. He gave some examples in the Bible including what happened during the days of Noah. Considering such scriptures like Deuteronomy 9:5, it is said that because of the wickedness of a people, God also drives them from their land or destroys them completely. In Genesis 18 for instance, God and Abraham were in conversation about His plan to destroy a whole people that had become so corrupted; in Joshua chapter 6, God was instructing Joshua whom to spare as He ordered Joshua to wipe out Jericho. Similar
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discussions and instructions continued in regards to different groups of people in the books of Samuel, Kings, Numbers, Judges, and Chronicles etc. in the Bible. Such wickedness like in our country’s situation could be likened to sins such as having utter disregard for fellow human beings, as in the case of our TRC saga in this place, destroying all of our future generations by depriving them of every resource well advance, while leaving them with no working systems upon which to survive and flourish and so forth. Bringing in a more modern time example, Mr. Deem then said in recent times, Nazi Germany suffered similar fate when almost a whole society welcomed the wanton killing of Jews; in Canaan, Joshua, acting on God’s order went ahead and wiped out all men, women, and children for their worshipping of false gods. According to him, the big argument here is that corruption literally breeds more corruption, and depending on the scale, God sometimes just [takes a deep breathe] and wipes out a whole society, while sparing only His righteous, even if He finds just one. He says Our God also visits the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the 3rd and 4th generations of them that hate Him; and hating God, fellow citizens, in this instance, could just simply mean respecting and fearing man more than Him, or having little or no faith in Him, that with Him, nothing doable by others can be impossible with us. In the Bible book of Acts 17, nations were established by Him, to seek His face exclusive, with an implication that He gave them resources to sustain themselves, and these resources must be used wisely for the benefit of all generations. The idea of borders demarcating nations were all designed by Him, and in the end we are supposed to seek His face and place our faith in Him. In the book of Ezekiel 14, it is said because of ‘faithlessness’ God delivers a people in slavery to other forms of harsh treatments as punishment. We bring you all this not to preach a sermon, but to let you know that whether we like it or not, there are spiritual implications to everything that we do in this life, and one can never overlook this reality if they are to ever make progress. In fact, in one blogpost written by a Filipino Accountant and social counsellor Maria Lourdes Macabasco Yanuaria, she indicated that every human being is a house with four rooms – a physical room, a mental room, an emotional room, and a spiritual room. She said, unless we go into each of these rooms every day and do some clean up, even if it is just to open the window and keep it ventilated, we are NEVER a complete person or human being. And this very powerful reality also refers to a people, a nation or country, whatever entity. Taking Miss Macabasco’s statement into serious consideration and reading beyond the lines, our country’s problem is more spiritual in nature and weight than it is in the remaining 3 dimensions or rooms as we mentioned above, thus requiring a very strong battle of wills, spirits, souls etc., and not a battle requiring AK 47s, 103 howitzers, rocket launchers or F16 warplanes, neither is it a battle requiring too much of academic theories such as Stoichiometry, Marchov Analyses, or Historical Institutionalism. Our battle in this country against untold corruption, ethnocentrism, unspeakable poverty, mass illiteracy, and deadly ignorance and stupidity and the likes is one that truly requires strong spiritual weapons in order to be fought successfully and won, according to the observations of the Plain Truth Revolution. With that said, according to the Bible, Apostle Paul listed many defensive pieces of the armor (shield, protective clothing etc.) of God, but only one of these pieces he is said to have declared as a weapon to be used in going on the offensive, and this is the sword, in the context of spirituality, the Word of God, the Sword of the Spirit. And people MUST
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go on the offensive in order to truly test and demonstrate their faith and beliefs in God, a step without which we can NEVER enjoy the complete favor of God. True children of God are not only a defensive people in their actions and approaches. They do, and MUST, go on the offensive at times to solve key problems. In this vein, Apostle Paul revealed the weapon for offensive, the Sword of the Spirit in Ephesians Chapter 6 to be Word of God, and in our case, for the Plain Truth Revolution, no matter which Scriptures of God bring these spiritual weapons to bear, be it the Holy Bible, be it the Holy Qu’ran etc., we use it to go on the battle front. In addition to the Word of God having been adopted as our weapon of choice in this huge battle at hand for the deliverance of our country, the Word of God has all through history demonstrated itself as the best lamb to humanity’s feet and the best light to our paths, according to King David. The Word of God illuminates; it clearly reveals to us what is good and what is bad; it shows us who is wise and who is unwise. It is the ultimate tool in helping us learn the best possible life to live; a life free from the restraints of darkness. God’s Word is true, plain and simple. It is the only thing that can sanctify or clean up a very DIRTY, NASTY and DANGEROUS situation like ours in this country. God’s Word is living, active, powerful, and sharper than any double-edged sword – piercing even to the division of the soul and spirit, and of the joint and marrow, and it is the discerner of the thoughts of man’s heart. The Word of God, our Plain Truth Revolution’s weapon of choice, is the only best weapon used for very close range combats rather than long range warfare, and our country’s current battle requires a close-range engagement. With true knowledge and application of the Word of God in every aspect of our lives, we are winners and champions, even in advance of our engagements. But without this knowledge, as a people, we remain in perpetual confusion, running around in a vicious cycle, talking vain talks of peace and reconciliation all the days of our collective lives while others make huge progress and headways in achieving their Domain Mandate. Based on this weapon of choice we have, we are therefore massive in our information gathering, dissemination and actions because the Word of God has instructed us to do so. In the Book of Proverbs Chapter 18, verses 13, 15, and 18, we are thought and instructed respectively that the first step, yea, the first principle to solving any [gigantic] problem is to gather all the facts first; the second step is to open up to new ideas, or put another way, to invite more ideas in solving the problem, and the third step is to create room to be able to hear from all, or both sides of the story, or parties to the problem, a process which also encourages the casting of some honest and constructive blame. Anyone doubting the truth of these expressions should take the side of the oppressors now in this battle, and see what God can do when He is ready to deliver His children from their Spiritual Egypt. Wanting to know the oppressors in our scenario here, they are those who give our precious resources out in very criminal and careless manner every time while we suffer and die in poverty under their watch; they are those whose two-century old governmental policies can only see poor quality electricity, distributed through soft wooden poles, reaching only Central Monrovia, New Georgia Estate and Sinkor in a 43,000 squaremile country; the oppressors are those who must only contract huge World Bank and EU loans before our country can ever pave a few miles of substandard one-lane roads in our big land territory; our oppressors are those under whose watch our pregnant women are delivered in poorly-staffed, poorly-equipped health centers using flashlights; our broad day
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oppressors are those under whose leadership guidance, we have only been known to the world as people who don’t think and act for themselves and in their own best interests, but everything else must be handed over to them either through gifts, grants, loans etc. and even ideas and concepts must be imposed upon them or dictated to them etc.; and finally, our oppressors are those hell bent again to keep this cruel status quo intact through their senseless activity called democratic, popular votes or elections coming up again in 2017 because this is the only way we can solve our national problem in their reading. Finally, we want to encourage all Whites born on this soil, especially our Lebanese brothers, although with emphasis too on Whites from all backgrounds, and all Muslims, including any other religious minorities, who like the Natives of our country too, continue to suffer all kinds of untold marginalization and suppression in different forms in this Liberia since 1822, to see reason to actively take ownership in our peaceful revolutionary agenda, let’s peacefully get our beautiful country out of the hands of America and her cruel and criminal Americo Liberians, and establish a new, forward-looking, civilized, and positively diversified nation, that will first respect the dignity and worth of all of its citizens and all human beings – Natives, Blacks, Whites, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists etc. Having made all the points above, we therefore urge you to please download all of the pamphlets listed earlier from the sites that we have made available to you below. After reading one, or any combination of these pamphlets, or even all of them, which we highly encourage you to do, please share your thoughts with us at plaintruthrevolution@gmail.com, plaintruthrevolution@yahoo.co.uk, or plaintruthrevolution@hotmail.com. We are also entertaining any historical documentaries or any other worthwhile articles intended to further encourage us, or strengthen our case for this revolution, and any other concerns, using the address above. We do have other social media sites. Our Facebook page is https://web.facebook.com/plaintruth2013. We have three discussion groups: a Facebook group and a Google+ Community, both under the same name: Grain Coast (Liberia) Independence Movement (GIM), which is at https://is.gd/cO3rbV and https://is.gd/cyZm54 respectively, plus a Google+ Page named plaintruthliberia, and at https://is.gd/SnsihD. We moreover have a Twitter and a YouTube presence, with our Twitter handle being @plaintruthrev, and on YouTube, we are at http://youtu.be/cTCeDYD8gw. You are also encouraged to Google out any of our key documents or pamphlets by titles as a last option.
Thank you so much for helping to change our country and making our world a safe place for current and future generations, as Liberia now truly poses a major threat to its own people and the rest of the world due to a dangerous lack of the presence of leadership and governance.
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TRIBUTES TO OUR EXTRAORDINARY FRIENDS
While we have acknowledged a long list of people and institutions in all of our work, that truly deserve our honest acknowledgement, there are those who went beyond the call of duty in either inspiring us, or supporting us one way or the other, or comporting themselves, or taking actions that contribute to the compulsory nature of this revolution for our country right now. In short, the list below, which constitutes our defacto Plain Truth Revolution members won their place in this list either because they motivated us through their great excellence or through their gross negligence, the both sets of behaviors which all contributed to our desire to ask God to grant us all the courage and other virtues we needed to change our country through this civic agenda. They deserve our extra-ordinary recognition, and are thus acknowledged here as follows: INDIVIDUALS 1. Thomas Nelson Williams, II and Jackson F. Doe, Jr. – MD and DMD/A of the Liberia Petroleum Refining (Storage) Company respectively 2. Aaron J. Wheagar, DMD/O, LPRC 3. Elizabeth M. Tubman, Comptroller, LPRC 4. Rev. Dr. Herman Brown, Board Chairman, LPRC 5. All LPRC Board Members of my time: Dr. Herman Brown, Mr. T. Nelson Williams, Mr. George Kpawulu, Mrs. Ophelia Freeman, Dr. Henrique Tokpa, Mr. Manyu Kamara, Atty. Tupee Enid Taylor, Mr. Nohn Rebecca Kidau, and Rev. Emmanuel Bowier 6. Mr. Kamau M. Lizwelicha and Mrs. Sophie Hobbs 7. Messrs. John M. Dukuly and John K. Wangolo 8. The Seventh Day Adventist Church
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9. Mr. Mitchel Markowitz, former American Peace Corps Volunteer to Liberia in the 1970s, and Physician, Mr. Tomah Mahn (deceased) 10. Mr. Tarkpor R. Kartee and Mrs. Moinma Gweh Kartee (deceased) 11. All those that played guardianship roles in our upbringing: (1) Mr. Nathaniel M. Doeward (deceased) and family, including Mrs. Beatrice Kor Doeward, Maureen Doeward, Olie, Tetee, Florence, Agnes etc. (Unification Town, Margibi County, Liberia); (2) Ma Filani Kamara (deceased), including son, Mr. Soree Kamara and family (Danane and Abidjan respectively in the Ivory Coast); (3) Mr. John A. K. Leabeh and family, including Mrs. Anna W. Leabeh, Duanyen, Marnue, Laytopoe, Menmond etc. (Monrovia, Liberia) 12. All of the Instructors under whose voices we have sat, including those from the R. S. Caulfield Elementary & Junior High, Unification Town, Margibi, Liberia; Protestant Methodist Resource Center School System, Danane, La Cote d’Ivoire; the University of Liberia, and the Cuttington University Graduate School etc. 13. Mr. & Mrs. Solomon and Krubah Wamah, Mr. & Mrs. Sylvester and Linda Julius, and Mary David: 14. Victor G. Badio, Bobby G. Brown, Philip S. Sassie, Augustine W. Williams, Paul S. Jappah, Patrick Wreh, Andrew G. Gibson, Al Lewis, and Musa Barry etc. 15. Doris Zor and her children (Delcontee, Gloria, Prince etc.) of Bardnersville 16. My Significant Other, Miss Alice Wamah and our 3 children: Preston Merciful Kartee (or Joyful), Courage Kartee, and Stamina Hero Kartee 17. ‘President’ Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 18. [Nyezee Baway, Isaac Taryon, Stephen Gloto, Prince Youty, Emmanuel Mah, Moses Baryee, Moses Sarpee, Sam Tarley, Jacob Saydee, Mohammed Massaquoi, and the 3 borrowed/adopted surnames of James Lee Cooper, Morris Cole, and Alfred James]; (Fred Saye, Yei Dokie, Prince Zeaduah, Jerome Zumeh, Wilson Gondo, Wuo Gballah, Peter Zuweh, William Gbanda, Saye Jebolo, Saye Garteh, and Oretha Gono); {30 motorcyclists arrested in April 2015 for protesting for the wrongful murdering in cold blood of their fellow riders at the hands of Americo-Liberian security forces wearing batches and other insignias that absolutely neglect the interest of the forefathers of the bike riders, the Yarkpawolos, the Janjays, the Yormies etc. which still continues to be so today; the 20+ protestors arrested and jailed in Greenville, in 2015 as a result of the government-provoked Butaw, Sinoe County Golden Veroleum riots etc.}; ([Mr. Albert Bropleh, Dr. Lawrence Bropleh, Professor Wilson Tarpeh, Mr. Moses Wogbeh, Lusu Sloghn, Jenkins Yonley, Jonathan Geegbaye, Patrick Akinrenmi, Anthony Nyole, John Kamara, Benedict Sargbeh, David Blayee, Torwon Yanty, Aloysius Jappah, Wesley Jlue; Humphrey Karn, and Varnie Massallay etc.]); Charles Taylor, Chuckie Taylor, and Tom Woewiyou etc. 19. George McGail, Samuel W. Seton, Didhwo Twe (also D. Twe), Magbay Boyah, T. J. R. Faulkner, Presidents William R. Tolbert and Samuel K. Doe, Jackson F. Doe, Sr., and current Senator Oscar Cooper of Margibi County 20. Dr. Elwood Dun 21. Our Plain Truth Revolution’s 7 big constituencies 22. Representative Emmanuel Nuquaye, Margibi County, former Ways, Means, and Finance Committee Chairman and current Speaker of the House 23. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama 24. Tony T. Bleh and family 25. Cllr. Tiawon Gongloe
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26. Jordan Poronpeea (cka Jordan P)– a US-based Liberian Journalist 27. Jerald – a US Monrovia Embassy Staff (0777084337) 28. LPRC Whistleblowers 1 and 2 (Kabineh Sumawolo) 29. Sir John Simon of the British Foreign Service – 30. Dr. Charles Johnson of the League of Nations’ Investigation team – 31. Hugh Mason Brown, Washington D.C.-born African American Educator and Gospel Minister 32. Prof. Dr. Ibrahim K. Sundiatta of the Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA 33. Dr. James Ciment, New York-based History Professor 34. Nancy Oku Bright, Producer of several films on Liberia now, including: Liberia: America’s Stepchild (2002); Liberia: An Uncivil War (2004), and Liberia: The Promised Land etc. 35. Nicolas Cook, US Congressional Specialist on African Affairs 36. Neil Hahn, British Researcher and Lecturer in Political Economy at the London University School of Oriental and African Studies 37. Robert W. Clower, George Dalton, Mitchel Horwitz, and A. A. Walters – all reportedly of North Western University in the United States and the Oxford University in the United Kingdom respectively 38. Dr. Amos C. Sawyer, Lecturer of Political Science at the University of Indiana, and current head of the Americo-Liberia’s Good Governance Commission 39. Mr. John S. Morlu, Former Auditor General of Liberia 40. Dr. Togba Nah Tipoteh and Senator Jewel Howard Taylor 41. Mr. Donald J. Trump, 2016 Republican Candidate for President, now President Elect of the United States 42. Hezekiah Niles and Robert Field Stockton 43. Cornel R. West, William Blum, Noam Chomsky, Smedley D. Butler, and Edward Snowden etc. 44. Antonio Gutierrez – UN Refugee Boss 45. Senator Steve Zargo, Atty. Koffi Woods, Activist Vandarlark Patricks, Dr. Amos Sawyer, and even the EU etc. INSTITUTIONS/ENTITIES 46. Microscope Newspaper, The People Newspaper, National Chronicle Newspaper, and the New Democrat Newspaper 47. In Profile Daily Newspaper 48. The New York Times 49. The United Nations 50. The Great United States Government 51. The UK and its Government 52. US Department of State 53. US Monrovia Embassy 54. Conciliation Resources or CR 55. The League of Nations 56. Global Witness 57. Moor Stevens Auditing Firm, UK 58. ProPublic and PBS Frontline: (represented by a few of their journalists/employees: Jonathan Jones, T. Christian Miller and Marcela Gaviria etc. respectively)
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SOME OTHER POWERFUL COUNTRIES WE SHOULD LEARN FROM 59. France and The Republic of Ireland 60. Russia and China 61. Japan and Switzerland 62. Israel and Ivory Coast CONTINUATION OF INSTITUTIONS/ENTITIES 63. The Liberia National Police (LNP) in general, through the following top officials, in particular: (Cols. Chris Massaquoi, A.B. Kromah, and Sonkarley; and Officer John Saah) 64. Center for the Exchange of Intellectual Opinions (CEIO) 65. Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) 66. ELBC, Voice FM, and Farbric Radio 67. Google Search Engine 68. Samuel Wallace’s Family & Home, Al Lewis’ Winn Business Center, and Nulleh Ngafuan’s Internet Café