Liberias damaging mockery out of justice by plaintruth

PAMPHLET # 5

PRODUCED BY: THE PLAIN TRUTH REVOLUTION

(Compiled: January 2013 – January 2016; Drafted: February – Dec. 2016; Published: January 2017)

As we put ourselves in the right frame of mind, God willing, for this great revolution, these are some little, but power food for thought, words of advice, or words of inspiration etc. from very key sources, including the Bible, the Quran, Revolutionaries/Philosophers, and Historians/Educators. Please take them seriously. They include: FROM THE BIBLE As you place your faith in God to make these strong decisions and take their corresponding strong actions, (1) Matthew 6:31-33 say- (31) Therefore take no thought saying, what shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or what wither shall we be clothed (32) For after all these things do the Gentiles seek. (33) For your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have needs of all these things. But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you…..(2)Romans 12:18 – If possible, as far as it depends on you, be peaceful with all men….(3) I. Kings 22:3 – Then the King of Israel said to his servants. Do you really know that Ramoth Gilead belongs to us? Yet we are hesitating to take it out of the hand of the King of Syria?...(4) Eccle. 4:5 – The stupid one folds his hands while is flesh wastes away. Etc.

FROM REVOLUTIONARIES AND PHILOSOPHERS (1) Without deviation from the norm, progress can [NEVER] be possible – Frank Zappa, American Song writer and guitarist…(2) As we approach the great social challenges of our time, we MUST acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions that we [direly] need. These [new] solutions [though] will be uncomfortable, hard to sell, and risky to execute, but the cost of not [selling and] executing them will be even much greater – Simon Mainwaring, Australian-American Brand & Advertising Consultant….(3) The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it; ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. – Winston Churchill, British Premiere…(4) Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable – John F. Kennedy, American President..(5) Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted, the leader must be doubly vigilant. – Gen. Collin Powell, former Secretary of State etc.

How Liberia Sadly Makes Mockery Out Of The Divine Concept Of Justice FROM THE QURAN The Quran makes us to understand that to stand up for God’s principles, especially the truth, we must be prepared to go the extra mile; thus for example: (1). Surat/Quran 2:42 – And do not cloak (or confuse) the truth with falsehood. Do not suppress the truth knowingly….(2) Surat/Quran 2:193 – Keep on fighting against them until mischief ends, and the way prescribed by God prevails. But if they desist, then know that hostility is only against wrongdoers….(3) Surat/Quran 4:75 – And why should you not fight in the cause of Allah, and of those who, being weak, are ill-treated (and oppressed)? Men, women, and children whose cry is, “Our Lord, rescue us from this town, whose people are oppressors, and raise for us from thee, one who will protect, and raise for us from thee, one who will help. [Courtesy of several scholarly interpretations]

FROM HISTORIANS AND EDUCATORS (1) Life must be lived forward, but it can ONLY be understood backward. – Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher…(2) Those who don’t know their History are probably not doing well in their English and Maths – Patrick J’Orouke, American Journalist….(3) History is who we are, and why we are the way we are – David McCullough, American Historian…(4) To forget history is a betrayal [of the pains and sacrifices of those who lived before us] and to deny past crimes is to [keep repeating them, like DULL and STUPID Liberia] – President Ching Jing Ping, China....(5) A good book[or article] is an education of the heart; it enlargens your sense of human possibility; [it educates you about] what the human nature is, [it also educates you] about what happens in the world. [For] it is a creator of inwardness. –Susan Sontag, American Writer

In direct connection to Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion, Liberia’s incredible level of mischief, coupled with the level of excessiveness of its confusion MUST be confronted with massive Truth Telling and detailed solution options, so please sacrifice your time to read and re-read these articles well. Thanks.

Note: Apart from other smaller articles for your ongoing reading, we have 7 main revolutionary pamphlets, with four addendums or extensions, totaling 11 revolutionary pamphlets. To save time for reading the main contents in each of the 7 main pamphlet, we urge you to only bother yourself with the reading of the acknowledgement sections of only two of these 7 BIG pamphlets – these two include the pamphlet, “Why is this case considered a revolutionary and game-changing one for Liberia”, which is a stand-alone and a ‘MUST read pamphlet” in its entirety, and the pamphlet, “Why Do We Need a Complete Revolution and How can we go about it”. The remaining 5 pamphlets carry the same content in those preliminary sections, which you don’t necessarily have to go through, once you have done so for the two pamphlets named above. Meanwhile, these preliminary or introductory sections (i.e. the acknowledgements and the dedications) are relatively the same across all of our pamphlets, especially the last 5, which are entirely homogeneous. Thanks for helping to save time, and enhancing your revolutionary reading experience. SPEICAL NOTES:  Because of our incapacity to verify every name by its exact spelling or to get the full names of some of our sources for one reason or the other, we are placing single quotes around names whose spellings we were unable to verify and names we also failed to get in full. We apologize if any of your names fall into this category.  Entries on our table of contents don’t necessarily suggest subtitles in the main work. They are basically meant to provide clues for what ideas form part of the content on each page  Because we are not Liberians, talk less about being Americo-Liberians, who ABSOLUTELY hate to ‘right’ their wrongs wherever they fall short, and will prefer to go on living in their MESS forever, we, of the Plain Truth Revolution, are open to corrections and updates to these documents or articles every step of the way. We therefore encourage you to please feel free to send your corrections, comments, opinions etc. to any of our articles at plaintruthrevolution@gmail.com or plaintruthrevolution@yahoo.co.uk etc. and we will assess those points, and where necessary make the appropriate corrections and updates to our work, then repost the affected material to our internet sites, and inform ALL about such development.  Being people of faith in God, we are highly influenced by an argument presented in one blogpost from a social counsellor called Maria Lourdes Macabasco which suggests that every human being, and by extension every nation or every unit of people, is a house with four rooms – a physical room, a mental room, an emotional room, and a spiritual room. The beautiful argument stressed in Macabassco’s blogpost, which our revolution absolutely agrees with, is that unless we go into each of these four rooms every day to do some clean up, we are never a complete person or entity. Considering these four key dimensions of our national lives, and after having thoroughly dissected our country’s problems, the Plain Truth Revolution is completely convicted that our problem is more spiritual in nature and weight than it is with the other three dimensions, thus, requiring our battle at hand for freedom and the deliverance of our country to be a battle of wills, spirit, and soul, rather than a battle of AK 47s and Rocket Launchers. As such, we back almost all of our arguments with concepts from God’s Holy Scriptures – be it the Bible, the Qu’ran etc. in all of our work because this is our most suitable weapon of choice in this very crucial war without violence for the redemption of the dead soul of our dear country. We believe in the Word of God because all through history it has 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. 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 battle requires a close-range engagement.  Again, based upon our background of faith, and with the Word of God being our weapon of choice, we are massive in our information gathering, information dissemination, awareness creation, and all of our other civic actions for that matter because the Word of God has instructed us to do so. For instance, in the Book of Proverbs Chapter 18, verses 13, 15, and 18, we are thought and instructed respectively that the first step, and yea the first principle, to solving any [gigantic] problem, like our country’s problem at hand, is to gather all the facts first, NOT some; the second step is to open up to new ideas, or to invite more ideas in solving the problem, and the third step is to create room for hearing from all, or the both sides of the divide, or parties to the problem. Our writings therefore are massive because they are not intended merely for sensation; they are meant to speak for every generation of our country (past, current and future); they are intended to provide useful leads for all of the 7 big constituencies that our revolution represents etc.  Parts of our presentation may appear rather unconventional; some of the facts and arguments we present may appear overemphasized or oversimplified; our article titles also may appear too long and verbose etc. whichever the case, to your inconvenience. If this ever happens, we beg your pardon to muster the courage and read on; make your own sense out of the work. For we are revolutionaries, battling by all means to change a terrible situation, God willing, that sadly no one in our country wants to ever bother themselves trying to solve from the very root, for 2 centuries now. We therefore have vowed never to be restricted – though in a positive and constructive sense – too much by conventions, norms, or protocols. One of our big time inspirations, President John F. Kennedy, America’s 35th President has told us, “Conformity is the jailer of progress and the enemy of growth”, while another compatriot of his, American guitarist and music writer, Frank Zappah says, “Without deviation from the norm, there can never be any progress.” We are inspired by these admonishments to use our common sense in going to the extra mile to make our points very clear and the arguments granular . And sometimes single facts presented many times only serve to support different arguments. The Acknowledgement Section for each one of the pamphlets is divided into three – (a) the personal acknowledgement section, which highlights units, individuals, institutions, and nations that the vision bearer of this enterprise and the primary author of these literatures himself has decided to give credit to for impacting his life; (b) the general revolutionary acknowledgement section, which features every entity, individual, institution, and nation whose influence and activities have facilitated the right knowledge, enlightenment, conditions and so forth to make this revolutionary idea possible; and (c) the Special Revolutionary acknowledgement section, the last section of our acknowledgment which brings in each party that has helped verify all of our historical research findings by adding the current reality flavor to them. (This is a MUST read section as it serves as the main trigger to kindle your final decision about whether to buy in to the Plain Truth Revolutionary idea or to reject it). Welcome on board.

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PERSONAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT CONJUAL (‘PARENTAL) FAMILY MEMBERS

Name

Relationship

Tarkpor Kartee Moinma G. Kartee Martha Kartee Leahmon Karatee Zaye Kartee Parlone Kartee Zlanwohn Kartee Rufee Kartee Mama Kartee Yarkernah Kartee Zota Kartee Joseph Kartee Zlanser Kartee Mama Kartee

Father Mother (*) Stepmother Sister “ “ “ “ (*)

2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

Brother “ “ “ Sister

# 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

# 1. 2. 3.

5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14

Name Alice Wamah Joyful (Preston) Kartee Courage Kartee Stamina Kartee “Festus Johnson”

Relationship Partner/Fiancée Son Daughter Son Foster Son

BLENDED FAMILY Name Relationship Nathaniel Doeward 1st Foster Fthr (*) Beatrice Kor 1st Foster Mthr Ma Filani Kamara Foster Grandma (Danane, La Cote d’Ivoire, *) Soree Kamara 2nd Foster Fthr (Abidjan, La Cote d’Ivoire) Ma Yeilieh Mangoe Paternal GrandMa Ma Menkapoe Tomah Maternal GrandMa John Leabeh Uncle Meiway Barlea “ Augustine Kotee Lohnpea Mentee “ Austin S. Kartee “ Dearzrua Deemi Cousin Histin Deemi “ Alice Fahngalloh Aunty

“IN-LAW” RELATIVES Name Relationship Solomon Wamah “Father-in-Law” (current relationship) Mary Wamah “Mother-in-law” (“) Irene Wamah “Sister-in-law” (“) Linda Julius “Sister-in-law” (“) Mary David “Sister-in-law” (“) Solomon Wamah, Jr. “Brother-in-Law” (“)

# 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

IMMEDIATE (NUCLEAR)

FAMILY

BLENDED FAMILY cont’d Helena Mango “ (*) Helena Mentee “ Augustine Kotee Uncle

16. 17 18.

TWO PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS Deborah Cringar - former fiancée a. Ruth Sherman - Mother b. Sam Cringar - Father (*) c. Robert Tarpeh – Uncle d. Saturday Tarpeh – Aunt Massa Kennedy – former fiancée a. Hawa Kennedy – Mother b. Mr. Kennedy - Father c. Bunch Kennedy – Brother d. Larry Kennedy - Brother e. Bill Kennedy - Brother

EXTENDED RELATIVES 1. 2. 3. 4.

# 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Peat Norman 5. Paul Fanyen Henry Mango 6. Rachel Nuah Mendin Mango 7. Allen Subah Lehmie Mango OTHER RELATIVES Name Isaac Dahn, Sr. (*) Isaac Dahn, Jr. Michael Dahn Dahnboy Dahn Gbeahn Fahngalloh John Harmon

VERY SPECIAL RECOGNITION Name Relationship

Doris Zor a. Gloria (Daughter) b. Delcontee (“) c. Prince son

Landlady [This is a woman of very exceptional patience and consiration]

Tony T. Bleh a. Ladia Bleh (Wife)

“Beyond Friend “

# 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

ALL-WEATHER FRIENDS (GENERAL) Name Alphonso Togba Manju Kamara Musa Barry Nulleh Ngafuan Samuel Wallace, Sr Esther Wallace Samuel Wallace Jr. Saah Joe John Mulbah Steven Chea Abdulai Yen Morris Paye

US PRESIDENTS THAT IMPACTED OUR LIVES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

HAVE

# 1. 2.

GREATLY

George Washington Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln Franklin D. Roosevelt John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Barack Obama

OTHER WORLD LEADERS THAT GREATLY IMPACTED OUR LIVES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

iv ALL-WEATHER FRIENDS (WORKMATES etc.) 1. Victor Badio 2. Bobby Brown 3. Andrew Gibson 4. Veronica Kinapoe 5. Joseph Dennis 6. Philip Sassie 7. Isaac Karmon 8. Paul Jappah 9. Sam Fannie 10. William Morris 17. Alex C. Knuckles 11. Darlington Gbeior 18. Timothy Holt 12. Robert Beer 19. McDonald Wlemus 13. Charles Sherman 14. Augustine Williams 15. Samuel Musa 16. Patrick Wreh

3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

HAVE

Ho Chi Minch 13. Nelson Mandela Vladimir Lenin 14. Robert Mugabe Mao Zedong 15. Hifikepunye Pohamba Deng Xiaoping Chi Jing Ping Gus Hall Eugene V. Debbs Steward Alexander John Bachtell Felix Houphoet Boigny Thomas Sankara Jomo Kenyatta

# 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

MIND MOLDERS/MORAL COACHES/ DIRECT MENTORS Name The Seventh Day Adventist Church All of the Instructors under whose voices I have sat (R. S. Caulfield, Unification Town, Margibi County; Protestant Methodist Resource Center, Danane, La Cote d’Ivoire; University of Liberia; Cuttington University Graduate School etc.) Kamau M. Lizwelicha, USAID/GEMAP Sophie Hobbs, USAID/GEMAP John M. Dukuly John K. Wangolo Harry A. Greaves, Jr. THOSE WHO HAVE PROFESSIONALLY IMPACTED OUR LIFE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER Name S. Alfred P. Harris, II 7. Edwin M. Snowe, Jr. Richard B. Devine 8. Aaron J. Wheagar Aletha K. Hoff 9. T. Nelson Williams,II Belle Y. Dunbar 10. Jackson F. Doe, Jr. B. Felix Zeekeh 11. McDonald Wlemus Timothy Holt 12. Alexander Knuckles

FOUR COUNTRIES THAT HAVE INSPIRED US THE MOST 1. The United States of America 2. China 5. Japan 8. The UK 3. Russia 6. Switzerland 9. France 4. Ivory Coast 7. Republic of Ireland 10. Israel

GENERAL REVOLUTIONARY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS THOSE WHO HAVE PROVIDED THE ENLIGHTENMENT, PLUS THE OPPORTUNITIES, AND THE CONDITIONS TO MAKE THIS REVOLUTION POSSIBLE

A. INDIVIDUALS i. LOCAL # 1. 2. 3. 4.

ii. # 1. 2. 3. 4.

# 1. 2. 3. # 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

# 1. 2.

INTERNATIONAL Name President Barack Obama Michelle Obama Amb. Deborah Malac Karin Langrin

E. HISTORIANS i. LOCAL # Name 1. Joseph Saye Guannu 2. Professor Tuan Wleh

LOCAL Name Coalition for the transformation of Lib. Liberia Institute for Public Integrity Center for the exchange of intellectual opinions ii. INTERNATIONAL Name League of Nations United Nations/UNMIL Global Witness Amnesty International Transparency International U S Department of State Conciliation Resources Publish What You Pay Coalition Finance Uncovered, UK US Department of Justice

IT FIRMS/NETWORKS i. LOCAL # Name 1. Lone Star Cell MTN 2. Cellcom Communications 3. Nova Phone

ii. INTERNATIONAL # 1.

# 1. 2. 3. 4.

Name President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Dr. Elwood Dun Dr. Amos Sawyer Dr. Yarsuo Weh-Dorliae

B. INSITITUTIONS i.

D. ACADEMICIANS/PROFESSIONALS i. LOCAL Name Jacob “Zumah” Jallah Samuel Toweh Martin Kollie Jacob Massaquoi

Name Google

3. Microsoft

ii. INTERNATIONAL Name Karl Marx John Maynard Keynes

Prof. Alhaji G. V. Kromah

# 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

ii. INTERNATIONAL Name Hugh Mason Brown Dr. James Ciment Dr. Ibrahim K. Sundiatta Hezekiah Niles Jo Sullivan F. REVOLUTIONARIES Name Identities George Washington US Mahatma Gandhi India Martin Luther King, Jr. US Nelson Mandela South Africa Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe Mao Zedong China Deng Xioping China Che Guevara Cuba/Bolivia Jose Mujica Ecuador Fidel Castro Cuba G. THE PRESS i. LOCAL (ELECTRONIC AND PRINT) Name Type Liberia Broadcasting Corporation/Sys. (LBS/ELBC) Electronic Farbric FM 101.1 “ Voice FM 102.7 “ Truth FM 96.1 “ Sky FM 107 “ Love FM “

# 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

# 1. 2. 3. 4. 5 6.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. ii. # 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

THE PRESS cont’d Love FM “ Power/Red Power FM “ National Chronicle/Hot Pepper Newspaper Print/online FrontPage Africa “ In Profile Daily “ Public Agenda “ Daily Observer “ Focus “ Heritage “ Spirit of Truth “ INTERNATIONAL (ELECTRONIC AND PRINT) Name Type British Broadcasting Corp. Electronic Radio France International “ China Radio International “ Cable News Network “/TV Al-Jazeera “ New York Times Print UK Guardian “

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INDVIDUAL JOURNALISTS A. LOCAL # Name Type 1. Rodney Sieh Local 2. Julius Jeh Local 3. Henry Costa “ 4. T. Max Jlateh “ 5. Mary Williams “ 6. Tetee Gebro “ 7. Tamba Johnny “ 8. Darious Zinnah “ 9. Jordan Poronpea Diaspora 10. Christian Nelson “ 11. Toyouwa Harris “/Analyst 12. George Fahnbulleh “/Analyst 13. Jah Johnson Editor 14. Jerry Wehtee Wion Contributor 15. Jones Nhinson Williams “ B. 1. 2. 3.

INDIVIDUAL JOURNALISTS (INT’L) Robin White Elizabeth Blunt George Turner

vi H. POLITICIANS/OPINION LEADERS i. LOCAL # Name Identity 1. Prince Johnson Senator 2. Henry Yallah “ 3. Dallas Gweh “ 4. Emmanuel Nuquay Representative 5. Tiawon Gongloe Lawyer 6. Negbalee Warner “ 7. Christiana Tah “ 8. Koffi Woods “ 9. Harry Greaves (*) Economist 10. Sam Jackson “ 11. Simeon Freeman Politician 12. Amara Konneh “ 13. Darious Dailon ” 14. Mary Lorene Brown Educator 15. Zayzay Pewee Other 16. Francis Tamba “ 17. Tabarosa Tarponweh “ ii.

INTERNATIONAL Name Dr. Charles Johnson 5. George Schuyler Sir John Simon 6. Mr. A. E. Yap Prof. S. Raymond Buell 7. Neils Haghns Dr. Fred P.M. Van der Kraij

# 1. 2. 3. 4. I. i. # 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 9. ii. # 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

CLERGIES LOCAL Name Solomon Juah Jensen Wallace Simeon Dunbar Evangelist Charles Pastor Sirleaf Kortu Brown Samuel A. Brewer Rev. Gontee Pastor Gemini Getteh Rev. Foday Karpeh Ali Krayee

Faith/Religion Christian “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ Muslim

INTERNATIONAL Name Faith/Religion Ibn Al Qayyim Muslim Hesham A. Hassaballa “ Mohammed Banonleat “ Friday Oravbierre Christian Rick Warren “

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SPECIAL REVOLUTIONARY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The Chief Executive Officer of Apple, Steve Jobs once said, “A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences, so they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem.” He then concludes, “The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better designs we will have.” With this exhortation from Mr. Jobs, we disclose here that on the overall, our motivation to embark on this revolutionary project was at first primarily inspired by a quest to do something about our country’s NASTY, SHAMEFUL history, but then we needed a strong backing too from current events, so, we had to painfully take 4 round years to see if our convictions from historical researches could be strongly backed by enough of empirical proofs from today’s realities – knowing that this time span was reasonable enough conventionally, for such a serious research work. Consequently, the below current event accounts, opinions, experiences, realities etc. have helped us truly connect the dots and thus strengthened our case for this inescapable revolution. We doubt it, that any well-meaning person would read the current event accounts of these narratives, sufficiently backed by history, and still think that we, as a people, can use reforms or gradualist approaches to handle our country’s deadly problem and redeem ourselves from this untold nightmare called nationhood, gain our rightful human status, and make our Creator proud of making us too in His own image. The list below constitutes our Plain Truth Revolution’s revered heroes and heroines through whose inputs our revolution has finally become JUSTIFIED God willing, and we recognize and celebrate them as our special acknowledgements forever. Their collective message to us, in short is: “Plain Truth Revolution, please go ahead, we join you, and stand by you, whichever way possible.” Those heroes and heroines therefore are as follows, among many more to come up in later publications by the grace of God. We’ve placed their contributions under different subheadings. We will start with the historical accounts of how the Black Americans’ Liberia was pronounced DOOMED by its conceivers and designers even before it was established, and how this curse has been acutely pronounced, warned about, and decried by different actors, including prominent people in world affairs up to this point. This will be followed by different accounts of the NASTY state of Liberia from current event realities. Please note that apart from numbered or bulleted names, bolded names of individuals and institutions within any of the text in this section represent some of our special acknowledgements. Welcome to our very special acknowledgement section:

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SOME OF THE GREATEST SOURCES FROM WHICH WE DRAW OUR MOTIVATION A. INDIVIDUALS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

‘Jensen’ Wallace Pastor Simeon Dunbar Pastor Sirleaf, Presenter, Pastor Friday Oravbiere, Pastor Rick Warren President Barack Obam President Chi Jing Ping President John F. Kennedy President Thomas Jefferson Barry Goldwater Hillary Clinton Lee Kuan Yew Karl Marx Mao Zedong

15. Vladamir Lenin 16. John Batchel 17. Eugene Debbs 18. Pank Yan Zeeahoe 19. Sheila Paskman 20. E. Johnson Sirleaf 21. Julius Jeh 22. Nagbe Sloh 23. Lewis Brown 24. Jacob ‘Zuma’ Jallah 25. Irasmus Gaye 26. Jah Johnson 27. John S. Morlu 28. Eratus Bortu 29. Sam Webb

B. INSTITUTIONS 1. Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS/ELBC) 2. World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) II. HISTORICALS ACCOUNTS + PROOFS FROM CURRENT EVENTS OF LIBERIA’S MESSY FOUNDATION A. INDIVIDUALS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27.

By James Ciment (2x) 28. Min. Moses Jackson Nancy Oku Bright (2x) 29. Miatta Fahnbulleh Pastor Solomon Juah 30. Sen. Dallas Gweh Dr. Charles Johnson 31. Aagon Tingba John Randolph, 32. Cllr. Benedict Sannon US Pres. Abraham Lincoln 33. Jonathan Gant Jerome J. Verdier 34 Jonathan Paye-Layleh Dede Dolopei, Oumu K. Syllah, Bishop Arthur F. Kulah, Sheikh Kafumba F. Konneh, Pearl Brown Bull, Gerald B. Coleman, John H. T. Stewart, Massa Washington, Henrietta Joy Abena Mensa Bonsu Hugh Mason Brown Dr. James Ciment Wikipedia/History of Liberia Koffi Woods Dr. Amos Sawyer Dean Johnson Wilfred Bangourah “Darious Dillon” Jim Hunt Brad Henry Min. George Werner

INDIVIDUALS cont’d 35. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 36. Mr. Harry Greaves 37. Ambassador Miatta Fahnbulleh 38. Makita Redd/Wreh, 39. Jonathan Pay-Lay Leh 40. Rep. George Mulbah 41. Rep. Alex Grant 42. Isaac Redd 43. Rep. Gabriel Nyenkan 44. Minister Gyudee Moore 45. Jerelimick Piah, 46. Nagbe Sloh 47. Senator Henry Yallah 48. Mr. ‘Tarbarosa’ ‘Tarponweh 49. Liberian Girls trafficked to Lebanon 50. D. Maxwell Kemayan 51. Dr. Randolph McClain 52. Cllr. ‘Afian’ Sherman 53. John S. Morlu 54. Samora Wolokollie B.

INSTITUTIONS

1. 2. 3. 4.

Global Witness UN Security Council Farbric F.M. Liberia’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission 5. US Congress III. SITUATIONS OR REALITIES THAT FURTHER JUSTIFY LIBERIA’S DOOMED FATE A. INDIVIDUALS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.

Steve Kolubah, Amb. Chigozie Obi-Nnadozie, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (2x) Rep. Richmond Anderson Mo Ibrahim, 18. ‘Musa’ ‘Menipaket Dumoi’ 19. John S. Morlu Rep. Gabriel Smith 20. Julius Jeh Sen. Thomas Grupee 21. R. Bhofal Chambers Karin Langrin 22. Sen. Oscar Cooper Deborah Malac 23. Saah Gborlie Amb. Tina Intelmann 24. Nicolas Cook Ismail Serageldin 25. Dr. James Ciment Dr. Amos Sawyer 26. Tycon J. Nathaniel Barnes 27. Sir John Simon Keith Morris 28. Darious Deylon ‘Dayboy’ 29. Lawrence Yealue Prof. Dr. Ibrahim K. Sundiatta

ix INDIVIDUALS cont’d 32. Tamba Johnny 33. Francis Tamba 34. Robert A. Sirleaf 35. Austin Kawal 36. Darious Zinnah 37. Indi Cal 38. Blamo Nelson

VI. 39. Samora Wolokollie 40. Acarious Gray 41. Augustine Ngafuan 42. Thomas Doe-Nah 43. Dr. Amos Sawyer 44. Cllr. Elijah Saah 45. Rodney Sieah 46. Rev. Lurther Tarpeh

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

B. INSTITUTIONS 1. Conciliation Resources/CR 2. The League of Nations IV. 1. 2. 3. 4. V.

LIBERIA, A HUGE 21ST CENTURY ECONOMIC WASTE Mr. Karl Marx 5. Sam Jackson Common Sense Analyst 6. President Obama Wikipedia 7. Linda Yu President Sirleaf 8. ‘Hewyikoo Kaiyuma THE ENDURING DANGERS THAT LIBERIA POSES TO ITSELF AND THE REST OF THE WORLD

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

Global Witness 14. Common Sense Cllr. Thompson Adibayo Analyst (5x) Cllr. Dempster Brown, 15. Abraham Lincoln Bishop Wilmot ‘Burbroh 16. Oku Bright Gladys Johnson 17. Carl Victor Senator Comany Wisseh 18. Farbric NightTime George Dalton 19. President Obama Mulbah Morlu 20. Tom Woewiyou Robert W. Clower 21. Sam Zemurray Mitchel Harwitz 22. Lee Christmas A. A. Walters 23. United Fruit Comp North Western University 24. Andrew Preston Oxford University 25. Maj. Gen Smedley Butler 26. Com. Matthew Calbraith Perry

27. Cornel R. West 28. J. Yanqui Zaza, 29. Sarah Chayes 30. Noam Chomsky 31. William Blum 32. Nicolas Cook, 33. Library of Congress 34. Dana J. Hyde 35. Wendell Nimley 36. Evangelist ‘Charles 37. Min. Amara Konneh, 38. President Nhuru Kenyatta 39. President Barak Obama 40. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

41. Cllr. Gloria Scott 42. John Morlu 43. Rebecca Murray 44. Philibert Brown 45. Brownie Samukai 46. Martin K. N. Kollie 47. Donald Trump, now US President Elect 48. Mulbah Morulu 49. Robert W. Clower 50. Benedict Sannon 52. ELBC Chris Sirleaf 53. Sen Jewel H. Taylor 54. Dr. Togba Tipoteh 55. Radio France

PEOPLE OR INSTITUTIONS WHOSE IDEAS JUST MATCH OURS Thomas Jefferson Tarkpor R. Kartee

7. Hassan Kiawu 8. Simeon Freeman Prof. Wilson Tarpeh, 9. Antonio Gutierrez Sen. Geraldine D. Sheriff Melvin ‘Tayglay’ Weah Johnson Bhofal Chambers (formerly Jallah ‘Langlin’) VII.

WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT

1. 2. 3.

President Abdou Fattah Al Sessay Antonio Gutierrez 4. Mr. Peter Graaf President Barack Obama 5. Rebecca Nanyou ABOUT OUR MEMBERSHIP

FOUNDING MEMBERS OF THE PTR 1. 2. 3. 4.

Roland S. Kartee Alice Wamah Joseph Kartee Tony T. Bleh

5. Preston Kartee 6. Courage Kartee 7. Stamina Kartee

FIRST NEW MEMBERS OF THE PTR 1. Jamel Constance OUR CURRENT DIRECT/INDIRECT MEMBERSHIP STRENGTH 1. Dejure Members: All members of our 7 big constituencies, mentioned in the “Dedication Section” of every written work or article of our revolution 2. Defacto Members (*have all right to decline publicly if not convicted or interested): All those we have acknowledged in our works. For they have always believed in us, and will no doubt believe in our dreams for the country we all equally own. OUR ONLINE MEMBERSHIP FIGURE (PEOPLE THAT HAVE AGREED WITH OUR DEBATES ON SOCIAL MEDIA INCLUDING JOINING OUR GROUPS AND ONLINE COMMUNITIES) 3. Facebook…………….._____ 4. YouTube…………….._____ 5. Google +……………._____ 6. Twitter………………._____ **These figures will be revealed subsequently.

DEDICATION Our Plain Truth Revolution represents seven (7) big constituencies of God’s children (including past, current and future generations of our country and all of our well-wishers elsewhere) to whom we are very proud to always dedicate every work or article we write, and action we take. Our distinguished constituencies include: (a) Millions in their graves today who have died at the direct cause of Americo-Liberian statesponsored 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 this Plain Truth Revolution for God’s children.

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Acknowledgment………………..………………………………………………….....i 2. Dedication…………..…………………………………………………………….......x 3. References…………………………………………………………………………….a 4. Introduction: Personal motivation for researching the Liberian Justice System……..1 5. Dispensation of Justice: line of demarcation being humans and animals…………....1 6. Three layman definitions of the word justice………………………………………...2 7. The building blocks of justice: ethics, rationality, man-made law, natural law etc….2 8. Lady Justice’ 3 symbols that equip justice: the sword, human scale, and blindfold....2 9. What are the components of a true justice system…………………………………....2 10. Four methods employed by/in punishment mechanisms………..…………………....2 11. Retributive Justice/punishment……………………………………………………….2 12. Examples of isolation, imprisonment and ban………………………………………..2 13. The two sources from which deterrence derives……………………………………..2 14. The most important purpose of punishment………………………………………….2 15. How utilitarianism considers lawbreakers …………………………………………...2 16. Impunity as the greatest threat to justice……………………………………………..2 17. John Rawls, on Truth being the best and the strongest foundation pillar for all thoughts and concepts, including justice…..…………………………………………3 18. John Rawls’ claim of justice being the first virtue for all social institutions………...3 19. How Fairness translates to neither being good nor bad……………………………....3 20. Fair treatment is the bedrock of ALL search for justice……………………………...3 21. Two academic researches that prove both animals’ and humans’ instant consciousness to fairness, or to being treated fairly …………………………………3 22. Some hallmarks and characteristics of the American Justice System – a place where the founders of Liberia ‘claim’ they come from………………………………4 23. How the Black Americans that established Liberia inaugurated a different form of Justice………………………………………………………………………..4 24. Few instances that laid Liberia’s Justice System’s foundation………………………5 25. The interconnectedness of Natural Law, the Golden Rule, and Inequity Aversion….6 26. Breach of the Golden Rule in establishing Liberia, and the adoption of everything about the so-called new nation…………………………………………………….....6 27. Lack of fairness even among the settlers themselves: the case of E. J. Roye………..6 28. How Liberia’s acts of indecencies and blatant disregard for justice culminated into the 1980 – 2003 rounds of blood bath – the uncivil war………………………...7 29. How Ellen and her government commenced a new round of indecencies and the same disregard for justice right after the ‘Uncivil’ War………………………….7 30. The legacy of a criminal Legislature and Dr. John Paul Kotter’s argument about the crucial requirements of modern-day leadership……………………………8 31. The sad Americo-Liberian design of their National Legislature…………………......8 32. How the post ‘Uncivil’ War Americo-Liberian Legislature has failed to get

its priorities right again……………………………………………………………….9 33. Enormous flaws with the current constitution………………………………………..9 34. Liberia’s careless handling of her constitution and symbols review processes…….13 35. Some of the very sad examples of how Liberia dispenses ‘her part’ of justice…….14 A. Justice Wolokollie flops in an Ecobank case……………………………...15 B. Thompson Ade Bayor’s grim picture about Liberia’s future owing to its endemic culture of impunity……………………………………........15 C. The story of Journalist Rodney Sieh……………………………………….16 D. V.P. Warner’s view of what the peasants (Liberia’s poor people) deserve..17 E. Some examples of how President Sirleaf dispense her part of Administrative justice…………………………………...................17 F. How Ellen categorizes her subjects……………………………..................18 G. How Ellen understands the fight against corruption………………………18 i. The case of Donzo, Toe, and the Broplehs…………………………….19 H. How Ellen’s corruption fight’s dragnet quickly catches only Junior Ministers – especially Natives……………………….......................20 I. How Ellen places her neck on the chopping board for other officials of criminal interest.........................................................................21 J. Two cases involving Ellen’s ‘untouchables’ and ‘unpunishables’..............21 K. The striking lesson of injustice from the EU’ $13 million grant case.........21 L. The Harry Greaves, Wilson Tarpeh and Negbalee Warner’s cases…..…...23 M. How Dr. Herman Brown and T. Nelson Williams flocked well together at the so-called Liberia Petroleum Refining Company…………..23 36. Miscellaneous short accounts of concerned people’s/institutions’ views about the Liberian Justice System……………………………………………27 37. Judge Korboi Nuta………………………………………………………….28 38. Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, herself...……………………………………29 39. Cllr. Juma Karnley………………………………………………………….29 40. Human Rights Watch……………………………………………………….29 41. Jefferson Knight, United Methodist Human Rights Boss.………………….29 42. Amara Konneh’s update on justice-related issues in the country.………….29 43. Ellen Corkrum………………………………………………………………29 44. Len Linstrom……………………………………………………..................29 45. US State Department’s own assessment of the Liberian Justice System……….......30 46. Some earlier Government of Liberia’s response to these US assessments…………34 47. How there’s no generalized trust in Liberia due to lack of justice………………….35 48. A culmination of Liberia’ lack of justice and its crippling social capital deficit shows up in the disgraceful number of peace accords and current UN spending, just to end one set of its uncivil wars……………………………………………….35 49. Drawing parallels between the Liberian national foundation and that of America, her so-called stepmother…………………………………………..36 50. Thomas Jefferson’s description of the mission or theme of America………………41

51. The key warnings from President George Washington’s farewell speech………….41 52. Archibald Robertson’s description of President Washington……………………….43

INTRODUCTION I got increasingly motivated to do this little research about my country’s overall perspective about justice after encountering some crude experience with a form of “jungle justice” at the hands of my Americo-Liberian bosses at the Liberia Petroleum Refining Company in the year 2013 – though this company only stores products for mainly foreign capitalists and does not refine a thing, which makes its name a big SCAM. The story is long, and is being covered extensively in some of our revolutionary articles, but what really attracted me to wanting to research the whole issue of Justice in Liberia, including accounts of the workings of the country’s Judiciary thus far, is the emphasis with which my Managing Director, Mr. Thomas Nelson Williams and my company’s Board Chairman, Rev. Dr. Herman Brown, referred me to the courts after they had intentionally taken a cruelly illegal and bogus action against me. Their consistent emphasis on this threatening instruction, “Go to Court” at some point during the close of my search for redress with them made it now appear to me as if courts in Liberia were a means of punishing a perceived adversary or enemy, or even destroying them utterly, depending on the situation. All these threatening instructions were being made, as said above, mainly at the close of my almost seven (7) months of trying to amicably, but uprightly, settle the dispute about this ‘jungle justice’ experience I faced at their hands. I was also getting concerned why would I persistently be requested by these two officials to litigate when I don’t know them, my superiors, to be people who frequented the roads to Liberian Courts in handling many situations that came their way at the company or even in their private lives, since the Liberian Courts were a good place to go in search of solutions. Being an adventurous and ambitious person however, I decided to place the whole issue of justice in Liberia under my research microscope in a comprehensive way that has been examining “why this 194 year old country would still embarrassingly be the way it is, during this Golden Age of the Silicon Valley. Before taking on the Liberian Justice tale specifically however, let us throw some light on the universal concept of justice and the importance of fair justice to our peaceful and dignified human existence and coexistence. In fact, it will interest you to note how justice serves as the demarcation or point of differentiation between human beings and other animals. This is how the Greek Philosopher, Aristotle put it: “At his best, man is the noblest of all animals, [but] separated from law and justice, man becomes the worst of all animals.” The word Justice itself has three basic or “layman” definitions as follows: (a) the right action taken, or the right treatment given to another person or to oneself; (b) the carrying out (or the execution, or the dispensation) of the law; and (c) the quality or concept of moral rightness (righteousness), based on ethnics, morality, rationality, manmade law, natural law, religion, equity and fairness.

From the three basic definitions above, the Roman goddess of justice (commonly called Lady Justice), depicts justice as equipped with three symbols: (a) A sword, symbolizing the courts’ coercive power; (b) A human scale, weighing competing claims in each hand; and (c) A blindfold, indicating impartiality. Base upon the definition of this concept, and Lady Justice’s specifications of its key constituent components, one can further explain the concept of a true justice system as follows: a) A true justice system MUST punish for all crimes and wrongdoings. b) A true justice system MUST employ nothing but the TRUTH in line with laid down standards. c) A true justice system MUST treat everyone equitably or impartially (i.e. given each what they deserve) We can now briefly throw light on each of the three constituent components of a true justice system (i.e. Punishment, Truth/Truthfulness, and Fairness/Impartiality) as follows: A. PUNISHMENT – Punishment lies at the HEART of every true justice system. Punishment fights crime and wrongdoings four different ways as listed below: i. ii. iii. iv.

Retribution – giving criminals or lawbreakers exactly what they deserve practically or tangibly. Isolation – keeping criminals or lawbreakers away from the general public. Deterrence – making law breakers or potential lawbreakers to think twice Rehabilitation – making or changing the criminals or lawbreakers into abiding citizens

Retribution ensures that certain physical or tangible punitive actions are taken against the lawbreaker, including either a fine, a sentence, a ban etc. depending on the magnitude, frequency, or other characteristics of the crime or offense. Isolation is a punishment of last resort because it basically means giving up on an offender. It comes in the form of an imprisonment or a ban. Imprisonment is largely intended to protect the society from people who are simply too dangerous to remain free. It is also retributive. Deterrence can be explained in two senses here; first, it refers to using credible threats of punishment from the backdrop that well designed threats of punishment will lead people to making choices that maximize the general welfare; and second, deterrence is also the essence of all punishments. In Rehabilitation, the punishment turns the bad person into a good person. It is mainly utilitarian in concept. For the utilitarian, or from the utilitarian view, all that a bad person means is a person who is likely to do or cause bad things. So, utilitarianism recommends punishment that changes someone so that they are less likely anymore to cause bad things. Punishment is so important to the concept of justice such that when it is weak or absent a terribly dreadful threat to all of justice steps in, and this threat is called IMPUNITY. Impunity has several strong definitions, two of which are as follows: (a) exemption

from punishment or loss of something, or escape from fines; (b) the impossibility (dejure or defacto) of bringing perpetrators of violence or lawbreakers in general to account for their actions and be penalized when found guilty etc. But impunity arises from the failure of an authority or state to meet up with their due obligations of investigating violations in order to take the appropriate measures in respect to perpetrators, by ensuring that those suspected of criminal responsibilities are prosecuted, tried and dully punished. It also results from an authority’s failure to provide victims with effective remedies and to ensure that they receive reparations for the injuries they suffer. With impunity, authorities fail to ensure that people enjoy their inalienable rights to know the truth about violations, and to take other necessary steps to prevent a recurrence of violations. B. The TRUTH – to this key ingredient of justice, British Politician and Social Scientist John Rawls builds a premise that says, while justice is the first virtue of all social institutions, TRUTH is the first virtue for all systems of thoughts, meaning that truth should be the first virtue upon which all worthwhile thoughts, including Justice itself must be constructed or based. C. FAIRNESS/IMPARTIALITY – if you are truthful to your conscience and oath, you will NEVER favor one party over the other in dispensing justice; you will apply the rules equally as if you don’t know any of the parties in person. As so someone put it that, you will neither be good nor bad, once you are fair or impartial. With respect to fair treatment, which is the quintessence or soul of justice, studies conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008 indicated that reactions to fairness are “wired” or stuck into the brain, and that fairness activates that same part of the brain that responds to food in rats ….. This is consistent with the notion that being treated fairly satisfies a basic human need, and/or that human’s hungers for fair treatment just as they ‘hunger’ for food. Another research conducted, though earlier, in 2003 at the Emory University involving capuchin monkeys demonstrated that other cooperative animals also possess such a sense, and that “inequality aversion” (meaning, hating to be unfairly treated or mistreated) may not be uniquely human, further indicating that the ideas of fairness and justice may be instinctual or spontaneous in nature. The explanation above establishes that even animals have a natural and instinctual feeling of wanting to be treated fairly, talk less about human beings. Looking at the Liberian scenario, considering where the Settlers (Americo-Liberians) came from before establishing this country, Justice, rooted in the foundation of conscious sincerity and honesty, is the bedrock and hallmark of that society, the American Society. In America, trust is the watchword for each institution or system, especially the Justice System, although they have had their own problems with some general issues including racism and ethnicity, which almost every country faces at some point in time of their history. As

a guide to the America mentality and orientation, Steve Tisch says, “Any foundation you build, if trust is part of that foundation, whatever you are building, whatever you are creating, is going to have a rock-solid foundation.” This is the MANTRA of America. In that country, most judges, especially at the state level, are elected, and impeached if found guilty for misconduct; they don’t serve at the will and pleasure of some surrogate colonial master called President siting in some Executive Mansion, no matter how great that person may be. Because of the trust in their Justice System, even a little teenager, having a good argument, can take his/her parents to court and win with ease, let alone another person. As an example, a Texas teenage girl, called by her initials R.E.K won an injunction against her parents in a Texas Family Court in February 2013 after her lawyers had argued that her parents were violating her constitutional rights to carry her pregnancy by coercing R.E.K. to have abortion with verbal and physical harassment, according to www.abcnews.com. In America, a single individual, regardless of his/her financial status or social class can take a state or the entire Federal Authorities to court and win once they have a substantial or genuine case. For example, according to the U.S. Statutes At Large, Volume 1, 1st Section, Ch.33, the individual right to bear arms for self-defense was affirmed in the landmark U.S Supreme Court cases of: District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008, which over turned a handgun ban in the Federal District of Columbia, and McDonald v. The City of Chicago in 2010, which incorporated the right to apply to the state as well as the Federal Government for gun licenses etc. Even further, members of minority groups, no matter how people feel society looks down upon them, or no matter how small their groups are, can still have their fair days in court. A classic instance is the experience of Mr. Barak Obama. Before winning the Democratic Party candidacy, this young Black American had won several lawsuits challenging his natural born citizenship claim, with references to such cases as Ankeny v. the Governor of Indiana, and Tisdale v. Obama etc., all involving individuals against state or Federal Authorities. Unfortunately in Liberia’s case, in confirmation of Virginian Congressman John Randolph’s and other Southerners’ claims that the Americo- Liberians, the Settlers, or so-called freed slaves were a careful selection of criminally-oriented, morally tax, mentally inferior, and mischief making elements that they resolved to purge out the American Society through the American Colonization Society, these people, the founders of Liberia, brought and inaugurated a quite different and unorthodox concept of justice based mainly on lies, partiality, bigotry and perversion. They, in an initial collaboration, with the encouragement of their American bosses, built the legal foundation of their country, Liberia, on coercion, inconceivable mockery to morals and justice, and a consistent perversion of available natural and manmade rules and laws. Let’s outline a few accounts of instances that inaugurated the settlers’ Liberia’s system

of Justice that would unfortunately continue through the lifespan of this failed national arrangement: a. The first lie and major breach of morals reportedly initiated by the US Government, that influenced their agents on the first settler ship, Elizabeth the Mayflower, which subsequently influenced the discussions held with Native African Kings for the acquisition of Cape Mesurado, the land on which the Black American ‘pariah’ Immigrants first settled, was that, all the so-called Freed Slaves would settle down on this West African Cape (or any land they managed to acquire) for a while to determine where they had originally come from, on the continent, before taking off for those various locations. In short, they were not settling down at Cape Mesurado permanently. This cleverly presented chicanery can be found on page 29 of the book “Liberia History Up to 1847”. b. Another breach of morals, or gross breach of natural law that characterized the founding of Liberia was the role played by US Military Officer, Captain Robert Field Stockton of the American Battleship, USS Alligator, purportedly acting on behalf of the American Colonization Society or the US Government itself. At the time of the acquisition of the land on which the building of Liberia began, Cape Mesurado, it was forbidden in the tribal culture to sell land. This cultural prohibition dragged discussions between the Native Kings on the one hand, and the ACS Agent and Captain Stockton on the other hand. It became a bone of contention so much that Captain Stockton reportedly pointed his pistol at the head of the African King Peter to forcibly agree to give up the land permanently. While this was going on, the US Warship, the Alligator, was seen drawing closer to the site of the discussions in a rather belligerent and threatening fashion. Out of fear, Cape Mesurado was finally surrendered to the Americans in a so-called business deal that saw $300 worth of assorted stale goods like old shoes, salt, smoke fish etc. given to our Native forefathers and promised a conclusion of this deal’s payment in an unspecified cash amount that never ever came. The first false impression that these people would settle down for a while and get relocated later, the second lie of an unspecified cash payment for Cape Mesurado that never came, plus a grave concern among the Natives about how these unfriendly strangers who were considered squatters started aggressively expanding their domains further inland, ultimately culminated into tensions between the Natives and these criminal American Settlers, at which time, the Natives armed themselves with bow and arrows and went on the rampage in protest against their ill-treatment and their being deceived by the Black Americans. The outcome was a massive killing of these bow and arrow carrying Natives by a deceitful community of Black American Settlers equipped with sophisticated weaponries supplied by their White masters. The date for this mass killing of the poor, helpless and cheated tribal people who were rampaging for their own abused rights was set aside in the Settlers’ history as Thanksgiving Day, a National Holiday for all alike, Settlers and Natives, to go to

Churches and sing praises to our Unshakable Shaker and Unmovable Mover, God Almighty, who is unfortunately NEVER mocked as this STUPID national arrangement has been doing for these countless years and is bent on continuing to do. When we explained the universal concept of justice earlier, we mentioned that justice was also based on Natural Law. A key root of Natural Law is the Golden Rule, which instructs humans to treat others as they themselves would love to be treated, and we further made mention that “Inequity Aversion” was also an instinctual characteristic of other animals, talk less about human beings. The accounts in this ‘point b’ can be found from two main sources: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Colonization_Society and Liberian History Up to 1847. c. Still another grave breach of Natural Law, thus an abuse of justice, occurred at the founding of Liberia, and this third account is the main premise laid for all future acts of sectionalism and bigotry. That is, the naming of Liberia and the adoption of all of its national symbols, emblems, creed etc. were all done to the cruel neglect of the interests of all the country’s original 16 ethnic groups. The so-called independence arrangement was also done with a complete exclusion of ethnic Africans, and signed in a church that would later today hold tithes and offerings from indigenous elements (i.e. the Providence Baptist Church currently at the corners of Ashmun and Center Streets, down town, old, dirty 1822 Monrovia). d. When the settlers gained their so-called independence, Natives were not considered human beings, let alone citizens, so it would be unnecessarily time and resource consuming here to want to provide explanations of the kinds of treatment that were meted out against Natives all through history. Members of the 16 tribes have had no value in the eyes of the Liberian laws, so let’s look at an example of how they, the Americo-Liberians themselves, even failed to dispense justice fairly among themselves. When for example Liberia was faced with a constitutional crisis in 1871, during the presidency of Mr. Edward James Roye, a group of civilians, armed themselves with a manifesto at a town hall meeting and deposed this sitting, somewhat ‘legitimate’ President on October 26, 1871; set up by themselves a provisional government called the Chief Executive Committee to steer the affairs of the state until already impeached Vice President James Skirving Smith returned from some trip back home. Smith, after having been impeached earlier, was in Bassa awaiting the Senate’s return from recess to be tried, but when this illegal group of citizens carried out their action, he was called back, with his impeachment hanging over his head, and was made by the Legislature to serve deposed President Roye’s unexpired term, while the somewhat ‘legitimate’ President was being imprisoned, to be later killed reportedly by this illegal group with the acquiescence of the so-called National Legislature. The secret behind all this was that there was a color crisis in the country. The Mulatto Settlers were more in control of the country than the Black-

skinned Settlers, and deposed President Roye was unfortunately the country’s first Black-skinned President, something seriously at the displeasure of the Mulattos, and so, already in firm control, they took every aspect of the law into their own hands to get Roye out. A second observed reason has also been that Roye had a clearer and more tangible developmental agenda for the country as compared to his predecessors. Presidential term during those days was for two years, but they overthrew Roye even before his first two years could expire. Then a one-man election of Mulatto Joseph Jenkins Roberts, the country’s first President, and at the time President of the country’s highest institution of learning, the Liberia College, was quickly and criminally conducted to replace dead Black-skinned Roye. All these conspicuously unconstitutional developments – the unlawful removal of a sitting, elected President, the unlawful killing or confusing death account of this same sitting President, the reinstatement of an already impeached Vice President to complete the unexpired term of this illegally removed somewhat ‘legitimate’ President, the holding of some dubious one-man presidential poll by a Mulatto just to replace this dead Black-skinned President, were all approved by the so-called Legislature between 1871 and 1872. The reason was simple: The Legislature was predominantly Mulattos and all these illegal actions served the interest of the Mulattoes. That’s how the Settlers have been building their Liberia in terms of justice – everything works in favor of those in authority or the elite. Note: The account of all this can be found on pages 16 – 18 of the book, “A Short History of the first Liberian Republic”, among other sources. e. These kinds of crude indecencies, as the one above, and unthinkable acts of immorality and gross show of the lack of civilization had characterized the country’s history of serving justice for scores of years, culminating into 23 years of barbaric bloodletting (from 1980 – 2003), when the international community risked billions of dollars of their tax payers’ money to bring about some level of peace, decency and stability to the Settlers’ failed Liberia. This process ushered in the first somewhat democratically elected government to power in 2006; that is, 26 years after the 1980 formal commencement of barbarism. As if this new government coming to power in this new millennium, shamefully through the huge risking of international tax payers’ money, and under the stewardship of the country’s most educated and most experienced Americo-Liberian politician (although she at times tries to reject her Americo-Liberian background reportedly) did not know that the crux of this nation’s problem was its gross disregard for fair and civilized justice, began another painful round of sowing seeds of discord that will eventually lead to an already failed state’s final apocalypse. To begin with this section, this is a country that consistently demonstrates its doom by terribly refusing to change any of its old ways of doing things. For example, all

through Liberia’s history as we mentioned earlier, the Natives who constitute over 98% of the population, have been considered by the founders of the country (the Americo-Liberians) as a little lower than human beings. As such, the issue of the importance of representation in Liberia has never been of any priority. The Legislature has NEVER been, and is still sadly not yet, considered a place of the best brains, and a place of objective, highly critical thinking, to be able to come up with lasting solutions to the country’s chronic problems. The Settlers never thought it this way, as you will discover below, and will NEVER EVER think it this positive way, even if afforded a million years’ time, to come to their senses because of their short sightedness and gross lack of nationalism, underpinned primarily by their criminal nature, and then secondly by the fact that they are mere resident aliens – no matter how long they might have stayed around. When leaders, or people in general, respect justice, they take every little opportunity available to fix all of the sticky issues surrounding clear and fair justice, so that justice looks transparent, representative of all, and that it portrays the most convincing picture of the virtue of TRUTH. This though, can only be accomplished by forward-looking, far-sighted, level-headed and selfless leaders who are determined to leave behind great and lasting legacies. Unfortunately, this is not the case with Liberia where almost all of it national leaders, greatly influenced by an overall criminal culture, mainly pursue temporary personal fame and wealth. The law making branch, the first branch of government, which custodes the constitution, makes or facilitates amendments to it, or at least approves/guides all amendments to it etc., should by all means be the most astute and discerning branch of government. This of course would mean that its members should be highly educated and very perspicacious in these times of human existence when knowledge and wisdom have unimaginably increased. This is how a veteran Harvard Law School Professor, Dr. John Paul Kotter further strengthens our argument. He says, “We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates [in this world], there is [also] a natural and greater need for effective leadership”. Our very naïve Americo-Liberian elite didn’t know this fact or decided to ignore this fact. The new Legislature they established in 1945 to accommodate one person each from Liberia’s 16 indigenous groups (depending on tribes that paid their extra $100 for representation) was not intended to think and derive critical decisions. It was instead intended to create some sort of political accommodation for their jobless family members and closed affiliates from tribal backgrounds. That is why the requirements for becoming a legislator in Liberia was set at a very minimal: 25 or 30 years old, one year residency in constituency or county to represent; no moral requirement, no educational requirement etc.; meaning, even if one didn’t speak English well, they could be elected, or as was done before, selected to go to a body that uses English as it official language for day to day business, and that a 3 rd or 7th grader, or even a kindergarten or non-school material can be elected to champion the

dreams and aspirations of the master’s and doctorate degree holders within his/her constituency, and also to determine what was best for the country in 100 years to come. These appalling eligibility requirement remain basically the same today, almost 70 years after 1945, and into a new millennium when day to day activities (such as tasks, projects or programs, all office engagements etc. are being planned electronically with different forms of audio and visual reminders, and available on palmtops, laptops, iPad etc. The lineup of Liberia’s Legislature today, at a very crucial time when the country should be busy making up for lost years with terrific speed, is sadly predominantly uneducated or half-educated elements as depicted by the output coming from that body – all because of this country’s strong adaptation to the mantra: “Things Must Always be done the same old ways” – what a terrible mishap!!! Having made all these strong points, let’s come back to the issue of fixing the law, as being a first priority so that everybody uses it as a mirror to see themselves as belonging to a country of laws rooted in fairness, in order for all to work diligently and satisfactorily together in taking their country to its benefited destiny. In this direction, and as the first branch of government, responsible for all the laws, and being very smart enough to leverage the little opportunity for making a huge and quick comeback that has been granted to us by God through the immense sacrifices of our international partners, these are some of the key issues one would expect members of the 52nd and 53rd Legislature to have quickly tackled before taking any major steps ahead. Our current constitution is very messy, and this is where all of the laws governing the country come from. The national symbols of the country are an unfortunate recipe for national disintegration, and these are the tools that validate and strengthen the laws. To have waited for Dr. Elwood Dun to be the first to harass an already reluctant Madam Ellen Johnson Shirleaf to see the need for reviewing the constitution and to see the need to reviewing the national symbols of the country 7 and 8 years respectively into the running of the Liberia’s post war government before a little talk could be heard in the corridors of power about these grave national issues speaks volume of the curse of lack of vision that characterizes almost all of Liberia’s leaderships, and continue to do so today. It is not enough to pronounce a messy constitution and unrepresentative national symbols and emblems. We will have to delve into some of the substantives together, but let’s establish these fundamental facts first off before delving into these analyses. Liberia has proven over and over and again that in terms of addressing the issue of justice, it is a land of the sustained perversion of laws. At first glance, although the idea by the People’s Redemption Council to have crafted a new constitution was not bad, the current 1981 – 1986 constitution was largely designed to serve the interest of the military junta that wrote it; moreover, this constitution still maintains some of the old, unreasonable and flawed provisions of the 1847 “Apartheid” constitution,

even if it decided to maintain the name Liberia, which in our opinion, it should NEVER have done. But let’s now analyze these points together: 1) What we write in our organic law book or the constitution is supposed to be a guide or an example for current and future generations to learn from. The philosophies, concepts, ideals, and arguments proffered in our constitution should serve to motivate future actions of citizens. As such, the continuous recognition of that uncivilized and barbaric act of 1980 as a Revolution in the preamble of our constitution for current and future generations to keep referencing in a positive sense is in our opinion counterproductive. That event, though could be branded a violent revolution, was rather a violent insurrection that didn’t offer us any sustained benefit that we can boast of today, but just brought us shame and disgrace as usual. A civilized people, no matter how deep-seated their differences, should not be found in the act of constant bloodletting as this country has adopted. The word revolution, from the Latin word ‘revolutio’, according to Wikipedia is a significant turnaround that results into major changes in the culture, economy, and the social and political institution of a country or region. Every true revolution must have a strong positive vector; that is, a powerful urge, and a sustainable roadmap or formula for making things better in the society at least for good. And finally, revolutions, especially in 21 st century definitions are not necessarily violent insurrection as many people may mistakenly see it. In this age, a true political revolution can achieve its objectives through peaceful means, or with very minimal violence, depending on the reaction of the power that be. When for example, Martin Luther King, Jr. and his Civil Rights Movement revolutionized the United States in the 20th century, they didn’t have to go into the forests setting arm bushes or orchestrating mass killings and mayhem; when Mahatma Gandhi revolutionized India, he was not preaching guns and summary executions, Ayatollah Khomeini changed Iran’s political course of events in 1979: the campaign was largely peaceful and only experienced minimal violence, among many other peaceful revolutions around the world. The bottom line of a revolution, whatever the method, duration, motivating ideology, and the number of participating actors therefore, has principally been a palpable and sustained positive change in certain key aspects of society, including culture, economics, social, political etc. If all the foregoing are true, then even a child born yesterday will disagree with the argument of revolution within our 1986 constitution’s preamble. It should then rather be referred to as an uncivilized armed insurrection, so that current and future generations gain a positive understanding of it as something to avoid since a true revolution is more necessary, positive and justifiable. 2) A sound and reliable constitution that would set the basis for future stability and prosperity must be written, or at least its writing process must be headed by experienced, objective and unbiased legal and civil society professionals that

should be representative of all, and selected by a balanced cross section of the society. This qualm is however without prejudice to those who took part in the writing process of the country’s 1981 to 1986 constitution, Liberia’s current constitution. A sound constitutional process cannot be headed and controlled by politicians alone with experienced legal minds and civil society experts taking the back seats. This is one of major faults with the 1986 constitution that makes it compelling for any nationalistic and productive government to prioritize its rewriting, not necessarily reinventing the whole wheels. For example, the 1986 constitution was drafted by a committee chaired by a politician, Dr. Amos Sawyer, who had a short-term political ambition for the presidency as evidenced by the establishment of his Liberia People’s Party to run in any upcoming elections at the time. Another 59-member National Constitutional Advisory Assembly appointed to review Dr. Sawyer’s work was set up by politician Samuel Doe and chaired by another politician, Mr. Edward B. Kessely, appointed by the same Mr. Doe. Mr. Kessely too had a near-term presidential ambition. After all their work, the overall approving authority was Mr. Samuel K. Doe, and his People’s Redemption Council, a group of primary and secondary school-level educated elements with absolutely no commanding and constructive ideas and solutions for what was going on in the country. THIS ALONE WAS A DISASTER THAT KEEPS HOVERING OVER ALL OF US TODAY!!! 3) An objective national arrangement, like a constitutional process, that leads to long term fruitful results must happen under a peaceful and cordial atmosphere and must involve the compulsory, but democratic, un-coerced, and unperturbed participation of all national stakeholders. This was not the case with the 1986 constitution, whose writing process started from April 19, 1981 to March 1983. The head of the whole constitutional process, President Doe, had just brutally killed 27 or more senior and junior officials of the old government he was succeeding, according to official historical accounts, 13 of which he disgracefully naked and publicly executed through firing squad at a beach in Monrovia – what a traumatic national memory!!!. By the year the constitutional committee was convening to start its work in 1981, just few months after the coup, things had already started going haywire because secret beheadings, mischievous disappearances and unwarranted harassments of old government officials and perceived old government supporters were massively going on, as Mr. Doe, by 1981, had already killed 7 out of his 17 PRC members on suspicion of them plotting to overthrow him (www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Liberia). Meanwhile the constitution committee was working for this man and his already disorganized and fear-stricken group to do the final editing and approval of the work – the New Constitution of Liberia. The question remains what objective work can be done under such a dreadful atmosphere?

4) The overriding perception, and thus the pillar upon which the Liberia Second Republic (the object of this 1986 constitution) was laid, was that after 133 years of failed leadership, cruelty, and embarrassment to nationhood conducted by Americo-Liberians, it was now time for indigenous Liberians to govern. The Plain Truth Revolution believes that this was, and continues to remain a terribly distorted analysis of the real situation and problem. While it is true that the Americo-Liberians had dismally failed over and over – as failure is a gene in their DNAs – the lasting solution to the country’s problem continues to remain a more foundational or rudimentary one, requiring a more holistic approach other than just enthroning an indigenous element into the presidency as the PRC and others at the time saw it. Little did they know that by just enthroning a Native and just any Native for that matter over this fake national structure, and still moving ahead with its incredible falsehood, was more like adding additional story/storeys over an eerie old building already at the precipice of massively crumbling anytime. 5) The first four major points above are just some of the many issues surrounding the constitution itself, but within it, there are also numerous other flaws worth immediate thrashing out, including for example, i.

The biased and lazy argument for unjustifiably denying Whites their due “Jus Solis (right to citizenship by the law of place, or place of birth). The arguments for denying citizenship to Whites born on this soil are dull, uncivilized and undemocratic.

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Another uncivilized provision is the ill-justified exemption or legal immunities granted the PRC explicitly in Article 97 of the 1986 constitution. This unscrupulous and dishonest provision alone should have led to the ever since nullification of the 1986 constitution entirely despite some of its good provisions. We should never encourage the idea of people making laws for our country for the sole intent of protecting and satisfying the interest of only the incumbents in terms of power. Perversion is no civilized act.

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In the same spirit above, and also just to prove some of the extreme dangers encountered when the entire process is controlled by the political community alone, imagine below some of the alterations made to the 1986 constitution’s draft by the politicians of the day:  Presidential term was 4 years; the politicians changed it to 6 years.  Representatives’ term was 4 years, the politicians change it to 6 years  Senators’ term was 7 years, the politicians made it to 9 years.  There was a provision to immediately set up a Claims Court, in which government officials would be made to account for personal damages they cause the state or any of its people. The politicians deleted this provision

FOR EVER and EVER, and later only brought something on the books for formality, as usual etc. With all these and many more glaring problems with what we call the organic laws of the land, the 52nd and 53rd Legislatures, with a glorious opportunity afforded them after these long years of senseless bloodbath, largely owing to the country’s lack of respect for law and justice, have sat there again and ignored these grave issues, and waited for reluctant President Sirleaf, shamefully based on the strong instruction of Professor Dr. Edward Dun to set up a Constitution Review Committee, 7 years into her presidency. What a shame! This is not sufficient. Here is another bombshell. Everybody in Liberia, even up to the current president strongly decries a poor justice system, but people are sadly overlooking these fundamental issues, as follows: a) Which sound mind in this country will dispute the fact that a judge sitting behind a national flag with 11 stripes, sadly indicating a brutal exclusion of the forefathers of the Kartees, Konnehs, Wlimongars etc. during the flag’s fabrication process, will NEVER accord these names fair justice, even if that judge wants or wanted to do so personally? b) Which sound mind in this country will argue against the fact that a president, sitting behind a big seal with an inscribed motto, “ The Love Of Liberty Brought Us Here ” and a big ship, loaded with LIES, TRICKS, TRIBAL SUPPRESSION, OPPRESSION AND MARGINALIZATION coming at sea, will never ever be able to craft sincere, ambitions, and sustainable policies and workable programs that will practically impact the lives of the descendants of the Bahns, Dahns, Nyenetues, Worjlohs etc. way there in Gborplay and Tarjuwon in Nimba or Sinoe Counties etc. respectively, even if that president had the personal passion to do so like William R. Tolbert for example? c) Which level-headed person in this country will deny the painful fact that a police force under the name of Liberia National Police (LNP), or an army bearing the name Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) will only always, and forever be more preoccupied with putting up the maximum of protection for the Johnsons, Tylers, Williams’ elite more than the interests of the Garvlein, Kollie and Taryon peasants in Grand Bassa, Lofa or Grand Gedeh, owing to the fact that the argument sustaining the name “Liberia” derives from a line in the country’s Declaration of Independence and the first Constitution’s preamble that reads, “We the people of the Republic of Liberia are originally the inhabitants of North America” etc. Just as we said with the constitution, the 52nd and 53rd Legislatures have again rather been busy with the issues of the lobby fees to grant more faulty oil concessions and other natural resource concessions, to the deliberate and sad neglect of key, crippling deficiencies with our national make up, such as the grave faults with our national symbols and emblems, some of which are listed above. The objective review and redesigning of our national symbols and emblems, including other forms of common

identify should have been a first or second year priority of an astute and forwardlooking Legislature for a country like this, that has blundered for more than a century and half, and then just coming from out of another senseless round of bloody war. But again, it was Dr. Elwood Dun, cognizant of the damaging repercussions attached to overlooking these kinds of grave national issues that strongly blew an alarm that pushed again, a reluctant President Sirleaf to set up, as usual for formality, a National Symbols Review Committee late 2013, 8 round years into her presidency. As the sad lack of political will to tackle these kinds of grave national issues has conspicuously manifested itself with this current failed breed of National leaders, this gigantic burden now heavily rests upon the shoulders of our younger generations to be properly carried out, no matter the dangers attached. With a little overview of Liberia’s justice foundation having been done above, including what overall justice currently looks like in our country during this 21 st century, let’s now delve into some case by case accounts of how justice is dispensed in both the legal and administrative realms in Liberia, even at the level of highest office of the land, the presidency: 1) The current Liberian authorities and so-called elite demonstrated their gross lack of morals, which translated into their lack of respect for the natural rights of fellow human beings, and an ultimate manifestation of their appalling lack of honesty in handling critical issues pertaining to the fair treatment of fellow compatriots (whether dead and gone or not) in the handling of the country’s recent Truth and Reconciliation Process. According to the Accra Comprehensives Peace Accord of 2003 that brought little sigh of relief to the country, Liberia was to create (which she did) a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) as some special arrangement, to probe into the numerous accounts of atrocities committed against citizens during 26 years of barbarism and civil unrest, and to make appropriate recommendations to curb such unsavory behaviors or campaigns in the future. After tens of millions of international tax payers’ U.S. Dollars had been spent on the process, and the commission went ahead with their hearings and investigations, and came down with some ban on a couple of prominent war actors, most of which are current government officials, including President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf herself from politics for 30 years based on their established complicity in the evils of these wars that took away the lives of over 500,000 persons, almost all Natives, and displaced over 750,000 citizens, the Liberian criminal’ elite immediately recognized the importance of human and constitutional rights in their own favor. As if this ban didn’t come from a special arrangement like the elections that Madam Sirleaf and her government won twice, that put aside key constitutional prerequisites or requirements; and as if the over 500,000 persons that lost their lives as a result of these Americo-Liberian sponsored non-ideological ‘uncivil’ wars didn’t have their parts of human and constitutional rights that were brutally violated, Madam Sirleaf and her government managed to manipulate the unprincipled and belly-driven

Liberian Court System to turn down the 30 year ban. The Supreme Court, conscious of the fact that this was a special arrangement in the first place, and that over half a million of our mainly poor, indigenous people’s inalienable rights had been deadly violated by the very people requesting a turn down of the ban, was made to declare this remedial TRC provision as unconstitutional. Where was this constitution in the first place, when thousands were beheaded, chopped to death, and killed in cold blooded massacres etc. remains a big question that the Americo-Liberian Supreme Court continues to care less about answering. The open secret here however remains that those killed were all, or over 99% of them were Natives, people considered little lower than human beings in the dictionary of Liberia. Moreover, as if the Americo-Liberian Chief Justice, Johnny Lewis had been brought on board to execute this mission, Justice Lewis resigned a few months after handing down ruling against the TRC ban. NO COUNTRY CAN EVER SURVIVE AND PROSPER THIS WAY! Meanwhile, peers that fought civil wars or suffered other forms of civil tragedies like genocide etc. are busy pursuing justice for their people and bringing perpetrators to book one by one and adequately punishing them in line with laws to serve as deterrence. Countries like Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and Ivory Coast, among others, are doing well in this direction, but again, Liberia has now failed due to its thwarted vision of what constitutes justice, as the frontrunners of this society are historically and statistically proven criminals. Can hardcore criminals ever fight crimes, is the simple question that confronts all of us today. 2) In one of the hearings to determine a case between Ecobank (petitioner) and Bassam Jawhary (respondent), it was observed and reported by the Independent Civil and Human Rights Commission (ICHRC) that Liberia’s Supreme Court Justice, Jamessetta Howard Wolokollies’s actions in those proceedings amounted to a “Broad Day Murder of Justice” and an attempt to undermine all local and international efforts at building a viable and confidence-driven post war justice system….According to the ICHRC, this development confirms statement made by outgoing UN Secretary General Special Representative to Liberia, Amb. Ellen Margarett Loj that Liberia still has much more to do in order to achieve total peace and security. The human rights group further described Justice Wolokollie’s action as “Firing Fatal Bullets in the Head of Justice”. According to the story published in the National Chronicle Newspaper of January”. 30, 2012, the Associate Justice lost jurisdiction in the case when she granted a writ of certiorari (instructing a lower court to review a case) on the same date (January 27, 2012), which venued the case to be heard before the [Supreme Court’s] full bench on February 6, 2012. The paper says further that her January 27, 2012’s action of interpreting jurors’ verdict in an earlier hearing of the case, and ordering the Judge of the Civil Law Court to disband the jury – according to the commission – shocked all the stakeholders witnessing the event. [This is how one legal analyst interpreted the scene that day: “Implicitly, Justice Wolokollie was granting a writ of certiorari to the Civil Law Court when a

date had already been set for the Supreme Court to hear the same case.” In addition, she was also ordering the Judge of the Civil Law Court to disband a jury whose verdict had earlier been acted upon in a case whose appeal process was still on. – WHAT A TOTALLY CONFUSING SCENE FROM THE HIGHEST COURT OF THE LAND!! 3) According to the People Newspaper edition of Friday, July 19, 2013 in a story entitled, “Lack of Respect for the Rule of Law Perverts Justice”, the Director of the Regional Watch for Human Rights, Tola Thompson Ade Bayor says that the lack of respect for the rule of law and the continuous perversion of the course of justice has been the obstacle to the attainment of lasting peace and sustainable democracy in Liberia. According to him, it is pensive to note that Liberia continues to suffer injustice after several years of atrocious wars born out of the same injustice since the nation gained its independence in 1847. He said lasting peace and other dividends of democracy will remain elusive as long as Liberia stands stubborn always to bring those who commit crimes to book. Mr. Ade Bayor mentioned that always avoiding justice at the altar of peace will only prepare injustice in readiness to over throw peace. According to him, Sierra Leone is enjoying peace and development now because she has given justice its rightful place by the establishment of a war crimes court and a genuine implementation of its part of TRC process. He said, disappointingly, Madam Sirleaf who should have been in the vanguard of fighting injustice considering her political chauvinism in the past now happens to be the chief protagonist of impunity. 4) Liberia’s former Agriculture Minister, Dr. Chris Toe sued a local daily, FrontPage Africa for US$2 million damage to his character in 2010 when the paper published findings of an official government inquiry that accused him, Dr. Toe, of corruption. Meanwhile in connection to his accusation from this official government inquiry, the minister later resigned and was never charged or prosecuted. Minister Toe, who denied the allegations however, claimed that these FrontPage Africa reports on his story were libelous because he was never convicted in court – although the truth of the matter remains that government was never interested in carrying one of their ministers, in person of Dr. Toe to court, as usual in Liberia. In few months, ruling was quickly handed down in the case in February 2011 in favor of Dr. Toe, when other cases of similar nature would spend years on the court’s docket unattended to. This poor newspaper that sells few copies daily at around US$0.40 per copy had lost in a US$2 million libel case because it wanted to report against corruption, but the jurors reduced the fine to US$1.5million. The paper editor, Mr. Rodney Sieh said he never had such amount [and he was not even dreaming of when he could ever get such an amount as a Liberian newspaper man]. The alternative to this fine was an over 5,000 years jail sentence, and the entire court system, including the Supreme Court approved Sieh’s going to jail for over 5,000 years, and Seih went to jail in August 2013, according to a www.gnnliberia.com’s article. A Committee for the

Protection of Journalist (CPJ) West Africa Consultant, Peter Nkanga said Sieh did not deserve to spend a moment in prison, but if the Liberian authorities would concentrate on investigating and prosecuting for corruption allegations, they might find someone who deserves to be jail other than Mr. Sieh. Meanwhile heavy pressure came to bear on government from both international and national fronts that secured the release of Mr. Sieh later. 5) The little semblance of law or justice in Liberia continues to remain selective or lopsided (i.e. heavily leaning on one side) against the citizens of Native descent, which constitute over 98% of this country’s population. Remember in one of our revolutionary pamphlets, we revealed that Liberians of indigenous background or the Natives, were not considered ‘full-fledged’ human beings for over half a century in this country, and strangely, they only began to be considered a little bit of human beings in response to international pressure, mainly coming from Great Britain, which the Americo-Liberians had to be succumbed to because their government was pressed against the wall for money at the time and needed some loan from a British Company. When they started recognizing us as human beings, although countless times lower than them in importance, the Americo-Liberians, through their GOL, conferred some pretentious, but constrained citizenship on us, the Natives, in 1904. But as if this fake conferment of citizenship on us really got people mad in the settler community, two years later, we got forced into another kind of formal subjugation and oppression. In 1906, Arthur Barclay placed the indigenous community under something called the “Indirect Rule”, a form of colonial administration; and from 1964 onwards, these suppressive acts graduated from their glaringly official levels to a new stage where they began to be implemented more subtly and unofficially – a stage or reality that continues to date, i.e. up to this 2016. For example, one of Liberia’s Vice Presidents, Bishop Bennie D. Warner, in the late 1970s was quoted as saying, “The peasants and workers in the interior are not interested in the debates of the Legislature; they are not interested in the talks of freedom of speech, or freedom of the press” etc. Apparently, what the Honorable Bishop and Vice President was driving at was that there was no need for being concerned about the human and constitutional rights of the indigenous people; again, a community that constitutes over 98% of this country’s population. What then will ever work for such a country? After Liberia’s almost 23 years of uninterrupted bloodletting as a result of this same lack of respect for fair justice, or its lack of will power to dispense justice with impartiality, let’s catch a glimpse of how the current highest office of the land, the presidency, takes administrative actions during this 21st century. As far as the president’s track records in this direction have been suggesting, two key motivations influence or propel all of her administrative actions against people (her subjects) – it is either that one is a Native, or that the first family or some higher up elite does not have some vested interest in what an accused has done. In either or both cases, the person concerned will definitely receive the whip of President Sirleaf. If one were to

just cleverly categorize how this current Americo-Liberian President groups and handles her officials (junior and senior) with respect to administration, and taking into account, among other things, the two key motivating factors that push her into taking punitive actions as presented above, there are three groups of officials (subjects) in this Unity Party led government, as follows: a) The easily touchable (s) & punishable (s), b) The touchable (s) but unpunishable (s), and c) The completely untouchable (s) and unpunishable (s). Let’s look at a few selected cases that fall within groups (a) and (b) as follows: A. Apart from the unquestionable fact that President Sirleaf has turned into a disappointing protagonist of corruption as voiced out by Cllr. Ade Bayor above, with government officials exploiting the opportunity and enriching themselves all over the place, unperturbed, and even sometimes with the glaring complicity and support of the President herself, Madam Sirleaf is on record for remorselessly confirming this reality repeatedly, though in subtle manners. For example, in a Monday, August 6, 2012 exclusive interview with the FrontPage Africa Newspaper, the President admitted that she was only trying to prevent corruption, but was not punishing for it. Late 2013, at the UN General Assembly in New York, the President confessed that her government was not punishing for corruption, or as she usually puts it, not punishing much. Meanwhile even a junior secondary school student knows, that when placed in the context of ‘cause and effect’ or Rational Choice Theory, the simple Law of Demand in Economics could otherwise be stated as “The higher the cost of doing something, the less likely people will do it.” Even everyone from Christian background understands what King Solomon meant when he said “No one should spare the rod and spoil the child.” Moreover, when we defined and elaborated on the basic concept of justice from the beginning of this pamphlet, we discovered that any system that does not have an active scheme of punishment at its central point, or its most basic point, is not a justice system. In some instances, this President’s understanding of punishing for corruption has implicitly meant a transfer or reshuffle; or, a dismissal without any prosecution, much less, the recovery of stolen assets, which translates into a form of systemic impunity. For example, according to a Daily Observe, Monday, September 7, 2009 report, the Unity Party led government had developed a culture whereby, they either reshuffled, allowed an honorable resignation of alleged or proven corrupt officials, or turned over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, culprits and suspects of corruption. A few cases listed by this Newspaper included those of Rennie Jackson, then Superintendent of Bong County, who was suspended for having mismanaged “County Development Funds” in the tone of around US$500,000. He was later reinstated to the position after the dust settled down,

but without ever going through any prosecution. Moreover, former Public Works Minister, Luseni Donzo and former Agriculture Minister, Dr. Chris Toe, were all never prosecuted for crimes of fiscal mismanagement that they were found guilty of through some administrative processes. Donzo, who was accused of mismanaging several road development projects, was reshuffled to the position of Infrastructure Advisor to the President (implicitly indicating that the Executive Mansion or someone within the higher echelon of power had some vested interests in these so called mismanagement of funds at Luseni Donzo’s Public Works Ministry). For Dr. Toe, in addition to separate allegations of bribery at his ministry, he was also accused of emptying the Rubber Planters’ Association’s entire bank account of US$400,000, but this man was allowed to resign honorably. In fact, it is reported that he actually requested the opportunity to tender in his resignation (without being prosecuted), and he was indeed granted his wish – what a successful mission guy of the Executive Mansion or some senior Americo-Liberian elite members!!! But in the midst of this wide opened corruption floodgate, let’s see what befell two senior members (two Broplehs) of this same government, under this same President, probably because of their surnames or because other senior elite members didn’t have some underhand share in what these Brophlehs were allegedly doing. This was selective justice 101: i.

Sometime around late 2010 or early 2011, Mr. Albert Bropleh, then Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) was accused and indicted for a couple of economic crimes including the misuse of public money, the illegal disbursement and expenditures of money etc. deriving from his financial transactions between 2007 and 2008 at the LTA. The total amount of all this alleged misappropriation was a reported US$72,000. This man, according to one local daily, was on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 shamefully arrested, cuffed and disgraced in the streets of Monrovia, specifically Carey Street, and taken to a Court in Bomi County to answer to these charges. What has happened next is not too much of our concern now, but the point is that, if everyone accused and/or indicted for corruption, regardless of their position, was treated this same way (provided it is legal), then Liberia proudly would not have won world’s most corrupt country twice in just three (3) years (2010 and 2013)

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Another Bropleh, a renowned world prelate, who had come down to serve his country, Rev. Dr. Lawrence Brophleh, a Native again, and probably acting outside of the personal interest of the first family or some of the higher-ups in their aristocratic class, was fired out rightly on some corruption allegation and not even suspended to be afforded time for investigation. Fortunately for the Rev. Dr., he was investigated later and he was reportedly acquitted, although there is a sad fact in Liberia that no big fish is ever “normally” found guilty of corruption,

even if his/her hands were caught in the cookies jar, except the person is being used as some scapegoat to accomplish something else. Let’s still continue with few that fall in either the easily touchable (s) & punishable (s) or the touchable but unpunishable (s)’ group: Junior Ministers, especially those of tribal backgrounds are very easy preys to be consumed by President Sirleaf in this touchable(s) and punishable(s) group. Here is a small sample of five:

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 In 2009, a committee was setup by the President to probe alleged flaws in LPRC’s $24 million rehabilitation project. The committee was headed by an AmericoLiberian, Henry Reed Cooper, and it comprised other key personalities. Deputy Minister of State for Legal & Economic Affairs, Aloysius Jappah, a Native, was on this committee. According to credible reports, Native and easily manipulated Jappah was sent by the committee to go and solicit $300,000 from the then LPRC boss, Mr. Henry Greaves so as to place the committee’s report in his (Greaves’) favor. Jappah was recorded by Mr. Greaves and the tape was exposed to the public. Madam Sirleaf only ‘rushingly’ dismissed Mr. Aloysius Jappah, but maintained credibility in the already infected and corrupted committee, and she heeded to its recommendation to sack Greaves and cancel a Greaves – negotiated international contact on which closed to US$1 million had already been spent to initiate. This is according to several local dailies including some September 2009 edition of the Daily Observer Newspaper.  On Thursday, March 22, 2007, according to www.panapress.com, President Sirleaf instantly dismissed Deputy and Assistant Land & Mines Ministers, Messrs. Charles Dagoseh and James Konuwa respectively for their alleged involvement in granting bogus licenses for diamond mining operations – the both being Natives. Meanwhile, these are junior ministers who have bosses to report to.  In an allaffica.com article of May 9, 2013, it was reported that Madam Sirleaf dismissed Assistant Minister for Trade Union Affairs at the Ministry of Labor, Michael Wah [for alleged corruption supposedly]. There was again no prosecution. This is another Native. 

In this same www.allafrica.com article above, the President reportedly fired the principal of the Booker Washington Institute, BWI, Mr. Mulbah Jackollie, and also suspended the Deputy Minister for Administration at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Mr. Levi Demmah – all of these being Natives.

 The Public Agenda Newspaper some time ago reported the outright dismissal of Agnes Kaamon, Assistant Minister for Administration at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs without any explained reasons – another Native, etc.

But this SAME President can be grateful to, and very supportive of other accused officials, and even fight to place her neck on the gallop for them, as follows, for example: iv.

According to the Public Agenda Newspaper, a HIPC Audit conducted on 5 ministries [some time in 2010 or so] unveiled massive financial irregularities covering sprawling “bogus transactions” and other forms of irregularities amounting to over US$20 million, of which the Ministry of Finance alone, was responsible for over $5 million. This was an accumulative amount whose status required explanation from both the then Minister of Finance, Mr. Augustine Ngafuan and his predecessor, Dr. Antoinette Sayeh, who were explicitly implicated for misappropriating this cumulative over $5 million. Instead of allowing the Ministry’s authorities to be made to exonerate themselves, the President herself, apparently owing to some vested interest in these development at the Finance Ministry, was reported to have condescendingly interfered with the process by quickly expressing her unqualified confidence in these officials, as if anyone ever asked for such intervention from her. She went as far as laying the blame squarely at the feet of the system at the Ministry, referring to it as “System Failure, Simply Things”. This prompted a stinging reaction from the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC), declaring that it was not the prerogative of the President to be clearing audit indictees, but rather called for the officials to be suspended and given their day in court, while calling on the president to refrain from such practices. After some time, she laterally interfered Minister Ngafuan to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Let’s close this section with a sample of two of the many “Untouchable(s) and Unpunishable(s)” for time and space sake:

It became very clear in 2013 that the Ministry of Finance diverted desperately needed European Union (EU) funding of $13 million to the dying healthcare sector of the country to an unknown location in the 2012/2013 National Budget, when, on February 7, 2013, then Finance Minister Amara Konneh notified Health Minister Walter Gwenigale that the Finance Ministry was in receipt of this US$13 million from the European Union, which was intended for the Health Sector (July 1, 2013 report of the Corruption Watch Newspaper). Few months later, the Finance Ministry diverted the funds underhand and the Minister, Mr. Konneh, began embarrassingly lying under oath about what actually happened to the money, with an implicit support from the Executive Manson. Under pressure from different quarters, including people from within the EU itself to give a definite account of the money, the Finance Ministry [criminally] raised US$13 million and infused it into the 2013/2014 budget. This scheme with the apparent interest and support of the Executive Mansion had succeeded. To share the dividends, by year end 2013, President Sirleaf remorselessly declared the Health Ministry as The Most Performed Ministry of the Year, according to an ELBC late December 2013 report, despite all of the embarrassing news of health workers rampaging, or going glow for pay, with

patients unwarrantedly dying in 2013. Note: ELBC is the nation’s radio station. As if their criminal network can form some collusion with foreign partners, an always reportedly inexperienced or ‘ineptly’ performing Finance Minister, Amara Konneh (this is honestly without any prejudice to Mr. Konneh), was declared by the Bankers’ Magazine, a European Economic Magazine, as Africa’s Best Finance Minister of the year, 2013, at the time when high authorities within the EU were on record for complaining about an increasing wave of corruption within the Union. For instance, top EU official Cecelia Malstroom was specifically at this same time reporting staggering levels of corruption within the EU which she said was costing the community a loss of US$160 billion in their annual budget, according to the BBC. Note: This narration was actually meant for our pamphlet justifying Liberia’s foundation being laid on the pillars of corruption, but we just thought to include it here because it has a serious implication on the dispensation of justice. When key members of government, including the head, are behaving this way, why then would someone come down hard on other members of society caught doing wrong? What is the moral authority of the president here to act against other officials of government? Where then is justice? ii)

Lastly, very result-oriented Harry A. Greaves had left an unquestionably indelible mark on the Liberia Petroleum Refining (though should be Storage) Company (LPRC) in 3 years, from 2006 to 2009. You can please read more about some of Mr. Greaves’ 3 year’s achievement in our case/pamphlet, “the LPRC Case reported to the LACC”, but just to give you a gist of this man’s track records, Greaves is the man that took LPRC from a company with a bloated payroll of 650 employees, 16 functional departments, and 3 management layers to one of a lean and efficient workforce and company structure of 235 employees, 6 functional departments and 3 management layers, with very improved salary and incentive regimes. Mention should also be made quickly here of the fact that the 415 employees laid off by his management received the relatively fattest amounts ever in the economic empowerment history of private Liberian citizens, when employees were made redundant with packages ranging from US$1,500 to over US$100,000 per person depending on tenure. He also took the company from an operating deficit of -US$2.5 million; gross revenue per annum undefined; to an aggressive revenue generating company, “grossing’ around US$12.9 million in the midst of major post-war expenditures, projects, and regularly paid contributions to the national budget (LPRC _Times, August – October 2008). Mr. Greaves, apparently was not moving in line with the “You Eat, I Eat” corruption tune of the criminal Liberian Government, and then his ambitious plans would have started in the short-term to immensely benefit the masses, again, over 98% of which are Natives, so he met up with the least expected shock of his work life in early September 2009, just one more month to begin his seriously anticipated 36-month rehabilitation project, after promising the LPRC workforce and the public at large that by year end 2013, Liberia would have been boasting of a well rehabilitated and expanded LPRC. This would have opened

up the economy and benefited more people (majority of which would be indigenous Liberians) against the wishes of the secret Americo-Liberian Old Guards, so Harry Greaves was sacked by the President on September 7, 2009 in consultation with her short-sighted and rubber-stamped Americo-Liberian Legislature, and in accordance with recommendations from an already condemned Henry Reed Cooper Committee (Inquirer Newspaper, September 7, 2009 and Daily Observer, same date), whose member had been caught and publicly disgraced and sacked for soliciting bribes on behalf of the committee. Mr. Greaves was replaced with his deputy, Mr. Thomas Nelson Williams, someone apparently prepared to violate the dictates of his conscience and dance according to the Executive Mansion’s corruption tone, on September 9, 2009. Here are two interesting developments associated with this darling son of the President and the Americo-Liberian Legislature’, Mr. Williams’ 6 year long stay at the LPRC, that clearly demonstrate the extent to which justice or the treatment of human being is very selective in this Black American Settlers’ country: a. Mr. Williams initially faced two critical Board chairmen. His first critical Board Chair was Prof. Wilson Tarpeh, a financial expert, instructor and authority at the University of Liberia, and a Native. Prof. Tarpeh obviously was not allowing many, or all of Mr. Williams’ shady deeds to go through. He was critical of Williams’ style of management, which implicitly means that Prof. Tarpeh was obstructing a lot of deals meant to benefit the first family or some higher ups in the elite, as Mr. Williams had demonstrated to be a financial corruption “mission man” for these people, planted at the LPRC. Prof. Tarpeh was already treading a dangerous path. Few months into his job, President Sirleaf in mid-2011 out-rightly dismissed Board Chairman Wilson Tarpeh for what the Executive Mansion said was the President’s way of complying with recommendations from the General Audit Commission (GAC), although this is a commission whose audit reports the government usually condemns or ignores. The claim, according to the GAC, was that the Wilson Tarpeh’s Broad had breached their fiduciary duty to the shareholders by amending the company’s bylaws to perform services to LPRC’s business partners for compensation. Good to be this rigid. The issue of this compensation, described as conflict of interest however, had actually derived from something done by only two Board members (Cllr. David Jallah and one Jackson). This duo performed consultancy contracts for companies partnering with LPRC, and received compensation from these services while sitting on the Board, according to the GAC report. The Chairman himself, Prof. Tarpeh, was not implicated according to the report, but had to receive this boot from the President for allowing this conflict of interest to flourish on his board. In fact, for this reason, his entire board was dissolved by the President, according to the Thursday, July 7, 2011 edition of the FrontPage Africa Newspaper.

Then the President appointed Cllr. Negbalee Warner to succeed Prof. Tarpeh around the same July of 2011. This was the other one of Williams’ two critical Board Chairmen we talked about earlier. According to Cllr. Warner, from the beginning of his tenure to the point that he decided to resign, just within a period of about 7 months, he was overwhelmed with the incredible level of dishonesty, incompetence and criminality of the T. Nelson Williams’ Management. This is how the FrontPage Africa, Monday, February 13, 2012 edition reported Cllr. Warner’s narration of his ordeal with the William’s LPRC Management. Warner was quoted as saying in summary: “I resigned [for the following key reasons]:”  Because I did not want to serve as the head of the highest decision making body of a corporation that is characterized by undisciplined financial management and patent waste of public resources when I could do nothing or little [acting alone, or through others] to stop that.  The level of competence, accountability, reporting, and transparency at LPRC leaves much to be desired.  The are several questionable contracts and transactions that the corporation signed prior to (my) ascendency And in reference to this 3rd count, the Councilor, among other shady deals and transactions, made specific mention of a rehabilitation contract signed by Mr. Williams with a foreign firm (Motherwell Bridge Limited), which had the following astounding characteristics:  The contract had an amendment signed during the same date the main contract was signed (October 22, 2010)  In the amendment, the Williams’ Management agreed to be responsible for all tax obligations, as well as duties, fees, and other charges payable to Liberia by this foreign firm.  And this amendment, almost nine months old at the time of Cllr. Warner’s encounter with it, was NEVER presented to his predecessor, Prof. Wilson Tarpeh.  And, many more surprising revelations Cllr. Warner, after trying and trying to correct these faults, and seemingly uncorrectable situations without help, decided to finally give up and resign late January of 2012, just about 7 months into playing this role. Then the President appointed Rev. Dr. Herman Brown to replace Cllr. Warner around February of 2012, and this was during MD Williams’ third consecutive year of leadership at the LPRC. It was now time for birds of the same feather to brilliantly flock together. In just few years of their flocking together, here is just a drop in the ocean of the countless corruption allegations, and cries that came against the duo from the general public, whistleblower, civil society organizations, and a bona-fide senior insider etc., with the Executive Mansion turning a blatant deaf ear to all:

a) The very General Auditing Commission (GAC) whose recommendations the President acted upon to fire “Native” Wilson Tarpeh and his entire Board, did issue a couple of recommendations and indictments in their audits against Mr. T. Williams’ Management and his Board as follows, which are inclusive of some things that Rev. Brown inherited but did nothing to correct, and just instead aided and abetted: i.

GAC accused the Williams’ Management of not conducting business in the interest of the Government and People of Liberia in how they [criminally] handled the 2011 Japanese Oil Grant given to Liberia, and among other things, recommended that LPRC’s partner in this very shady and corrupt oil deal be made to restitute over US$5 million. Nothing was ever done about these recommendations for almost 5 years; then to play some criminal games called political games, as usual for formality, this whole case about the mismanagement of a huge oil grant like this was placed through the ever-corrupt Liberian Court System in late 2016, just in the end to acquit ALL the parties involved of any wrongdoings. If careful calculations are done in this transaction, the Nelson Williams’ Management and her business partner, and partner in crime during this Japanese oil grant deal, Aminiata & Sons, stole over US$7 million of fund intended for the poor Liberian people from a caring sisterly country, Japan. LPRC’s disingenuous reactions to these GAC claims and recommendations are featured in the August 31, 2012 edition of the Daily Observer Newspaper.

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GAC indicted the LPRC Board and Management for fraudulently dishing out doubled payments in settlement of a case involving the accidental killing of one little child in 2010 by a company driver. In connection with this same case, GAC also accused a current Board member of the LPRC, Madam Nowai Gbilia of conflict of interest for requesting and accepting some payment for services rendered the LPRC in the resolution of this child’s death case. The LPRC management and Board, all admitted to these criminal acts, but used Liberia’s current corruption and impunity cliché, “procedural error” to describe or give excuse for their actions. All these can be found in the Heritage Newspaper of Wednesday, August 28, 2013, Heritage, September 3, 2013, and a www.gnnliberia.com’s post of September 3, 2013 etc. Note: In these and many more instances, the GAC reports and recommendations had become inauthentic to be acted upon by the Americo-Liberian elite.

b) In this company’s 37 years of corporate history, no management and Board of Directors had ever consistently exposed LPRC to public disrepute by their persistently unwarranted and negative appearances in the press both at their own invitation or as a result of their own actions as compared to the Herman Brown and T. Williams’ combination, according to our own research, and the Liberian public would honestly attest to this research finding of the Plain Truth Revolution. Their many press releases and reactions to issues had mostly childish and unprofessional, owing to minds clouded with corruption and selfishness, but they still held on,

according to the will and pleasure of the President, to the point that Mr. Williams became one of the only two longest serving MDs of the company, with the other having been deceased Mrs. Aletha Johnson Francis – a probable relative of Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – who, like Williams, served the company for six unbroken years during the military Junta administration of Samuel K. Doe in the 1980s. Let’s look at two cases in point, among the countless accounts of this Management’s and Board’s recorded lies in the press: i.

On Monday, January 28, 2013, a whistleblower story came up in the Microscope Newspaper gravely accusing the LPRC Management of several abominable things including effecting a witch-hunt dismissal (specifically naming the affected employee as one Roland Kartee, the author of this work), allegedly bribing media houses to keep a low profile on the company’s multiple corruption practices, unprofessionally and illegally demoting some senior staff of the company based mainly on sectional and ethnic lines etc. LPRC, the next two days, went to the press and dismissed all the whistleblower claims as false, misleading, reckless etc. and with no iota of truth. This story appeared in the Wednesday, January 30, 2013’s edition of the People Newspaper. Few months later, LPRC was announcing that this same employee, whose dismissal they had vehemently denied few months earlier, was no more in their employ, but with no mention made of the termination or severance date and the reason. These childish announcements were made in the Wednesday, July 24, 2013 editions of the Microscope and Nation Time Newspapers, among others. Employee Roland Kartee was able to convincingly validate all of the whistleblower’s claims above in his current case against LPRC at the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission, in addition to the remaining whistleblower claims and other major issues, with all of this made known to the President (Madam Sirleaf) on more than two occasions, but just to persistently fall on deaf ears.

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In the March 19, 2013 edition of the New Democrat Newspaper, another whistleblower outlined a barrage of grave corruption allegations against this same LPRC Management and Board. They (the LPRC) used the Concord Times Newspaper in its Wednesday, April 17, 2013 edition to respond to these March 19, 2013 allegations, putting up all sorts of childish and flimsy arguments. In two laughable accounts of their response to the whistleblower’s claims that the LPRC MD used bribery money from the company’s stalled rehabilitation project to renovate his parent’s home in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County at US$210,000 etc., MD Williams and his Board explained that his parents’ home in Buchanan was renovated, but instead at less than US$75,000 of T. William’ and his undisclosed business partners’ money. Then came another claim that out of the same Mothewell Bridge Ltd. rehabilitation project bribery money, MD Williams had renovated another of his parents’ home on the SKD Boulevard in Monrovia at US$65,000. In response, MD Williams and his Board said the house in

question has never been renovated since it was constructed in 1972 (admidst all the storms that Liberia had experienced for more than 20 years now). All these embarrassing news and lies came and went unattended to with a sitting President and a ‘functioning’ Legislature working hard to ensure that justice is done to all, in line with Article 11 of their rotten 1981 – 1986 Constitution. c) In an April 10, 2013 National Chronicle article, a group of civil society organizations, claiming to have sufficient evidence of among other things, MD Williams’ numerous administrative excesses, for which they argued that the MD should no longer hold on to the job, issued an ultimatum to the President to get Mr. Williams’ out. All this fell on deaf ears. d) Then came the most convicting and embarrassing development surrounding LPRC when on March 10, 2014, an insider and senior staff of 10 years of employee services to the company (the author) compiled a 17 count corruption allegation caseload, documenting some of the astounding firsthand accounts of numerous acts of impropriety, abuse, mismanagement and immorality etc. taking place at the entity and took this caseload to the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission, distributing about 41 complimentary copies of this key document to key societal stakeholders including the President, the Legislature, student groups, religious authorities, intellectual centers, international partners etc., and requesting all these stakeholders’ intervention in ensuring that the issues at hand are investigated preliminarily by the LACC and then subsequently prosecuted, in line with the Collective Action Approach to tackling the Liberian style corruption (i.e. endemic corruption). In more than 36 months of this report’s going to the LACC and the over 40 other stakeholders, it is only one foreign embassy, the US Embassy near Monrovia to be specific, one diaspora-based Liberian journalist, Jordan Poronpeaye, Baltimore, USA, and one intellectual center – Center for the Exchange of Intellectual Opinion that ever made contact with the author expressing their concerns about the crippling national issues presented in the document. No government authority, including the principal party, the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission, has EVER made contact even acknowledging receipt of this document, much less to talk about commenting on the issues, as if nothing in the report made any sense. Mr. Nelson Williams was pet by the President to leave LPRC in 2015 after 6 long years of serving the President and her inner circles’ interests so fantastically there, and his dream ticket, Board Chairman, Dr. Herman Brown reportedly left in 2016, almost at his own volition too, after quietly ‘legitimizing’ Mr. Williams’ and his bosses’ criminal deeds for almost 5 unbroken years. Late, 2016, that is, in November, news broke up in the press that the ever-biased and criminal Liberian Court System had (as usual, for formality) finally acquitted President Sirleaf’s LPRC Mission man, Mr. Williams, and all of his criminal accomplices while serving at LPRC (both internal and external), for all other wrong acts.

This is how justice continues to be handled in Liberia, and the bottom line here is that all of these complaints and actions outlined in the last 5 or 6 pages above were coming against one set of the “Untouchable (s) and unpunishable (s)” – i.e. (Rev. Dr. Herman Brown and T. Nelson Williams – and to add insult to injury, these complaints were almost all coming from people of Native backgrounds, such as a Winsley Nanka’s GAC, a Cllr. Negbalee Warner’s protesting Board of Directors (a reportedly Native with an adopted or borrowed surname, as sometimes is the case in Liberia), an Archie Sannon umbrella of civil society organizations, and a Roland Kartee senior LPRC insider etc. Who are these names by the way to influence any major action against an original Brown or Williams in a “Liberia”? Your can find out more in our revolutionary pamphlet about Liberia’s original sin, ethnic subjugation. 6. Speaking during the November 2013 Term of Court in Monrovia, Judge Korboi Nuta of Criminal Court ‘A’ outlined some of the major faults within the country’s Judicial System, among which he mentioned the over-crowdedness of court dockets and disclosed that it was still yet a challenge for the Judiciary to take a coherent, uniform approach in handling the country’s justice needs, something he said should not have been so. At the same time, Judge Nuta was advancing some salient recommendations to improve the situation. Excerpt of his speech was played during an ELBC news cast in early November 2013. 7. On the Farbric FM’s Bits and Pieces Program of Wednesday, December 11, 2013, the reporter or host read an allafrica.com’s story, quoting President Sirleaf, while on a visit to Kuwait and Dubai as saying, among other things, that the Judiciary was too slow in fighting corruption, as according to her, the prosecution of alleged corrupt officials took too long. Even earlier than this, the President, in some news article of Wednesday, October 26, 2011 explicitly blamed the Judiciary for the slow pace at which corruption is being fought. 8. Cllr. Juma Karnley of the Bomi County Magisterial Court said, in an ongoing court proceeding on December 17, 2013, that five jurors, 2 sheriffs and a bailiff were caught receiving bribes from the defense (Fabric 101 Mid-day News, December 17, 2013). This is a regular phenomenon in Liberia. 9. According to a local radio program, the head of Human Right Watch’s Africa Division, on August 22, 2013, declared that there was no justice in Liberia. 10. The head of a local non-governmental organization belonging to the Methodist Church in Liberia, Jefferson Knight, or the Church’s Human Rights Officer, is on record for also declaring that the Liberian Justice System was very corrupt and didn’t worth going to. 11. In the Ministry of Finance’s September 2013 Economic Update, it acknowledged that the judicial system needed further improvement [to make it viable, or to place things in real context, to make it worth for people to go to].

12. In Ellen Corkrum’s recording with Defense Minister Brownie Samukai, according to the Informer Newspaper of August 14, 2013, she questioned the credibility of the Liberian Judicial System, saying, “How can we respect a justice system that itself does not go through the “proper system [sic]”. 13. In his book, “Corruption 101, the Liberian Style”, Canadian Businessman Len Lindstrom documents key facts, events and laws pertaining to the case of his company, Liberty Group of Companies v. Government of Liberia (Ministry of Lands, Mines & Energy) in which his company fights for justice in the midst of gross corruption, extortion, economic sabotage, impunity, violation of court injunctions, bought-off lawyers, tampering with court official documents and repeatedly flagrant assault on the sanity of the courts – all of which he describes as illegal actions ……….. According to Lindstrom, the MLME Executives, in their insatiable greed and sense of impunity ignored the orders and rulings of the courts and continued with their clandestine operations of secretly selling off his company’s properties as though the executives of this ministry were a law and gospel unto themselves and could get away with “spitting in the face of justice”. Lindstrom said, during the court process, government officials attempted to bribe the judges as well as his company’s (Liberty’s) General Manager, all to no avail; but said the story later changed when they [agents of the government] were eventually able to buy off his company’s original lawyer as it was now been discovered that critical transcripts were removed from the official court records on two separate occasions and that this unscrupulous lawyer, who had eaten almost US$200,000 in legal fees from his company had also made secretive, arbitrary and very damaging changes to the original Apelles’ Brief files in the Supreme Court, which was obviously an overt attempt to undermine his client (Liberty) and to sabotage the entire Liberty case against the Government of Liberia etc. [This is how miserably the Liberian Justice System works, but this sadly was not to the knowledge of Canadian businessman Lindstrom.] Lindstrom said that while the final outcome of this case had remained stalled in the Supreme Court for almost three years simply because of what many believe as the difficulty for government to pronounce itself guilty, the entire matter should be of very grave concern to the Government of Liberia, as such highly documented exposure of this kind of flagrant abuse of power by government officials serves as a clarion call to all international investors, organizations and foreign governments that Liberia has been, and unfortunately continues to remain, a very unsafe and dangerous country to [honestly] invest in. 14. Even up to this 2017, nothing much seems to ever be improving in the Liberian Justice System, although this evaluation applies to almost every other aspect of civilized life in this failed and dirty country. The most objective institution thus far that evaluates the Liberian Justice System is the U.S State Department. Let’s get a clearer picture of how the Liberian Justice System currently stands with almost

everything it does, in these excerpts from one of the State Department’s most recent, assessments of Liberia’s 194 year old Justice System, featured in this www.frontpageafricaonline.com’s February 28, 2014 edition. Introduction “…The most serious human rights abuses were those tied to the LACK OF JUSTICE: judicial inefficiency and corruption; lengthy pretrial detention; denial of due process; and harsh prison conditions. Other important human right abuses included police abuse, harassment, and intimidation of detainees and others; arbitrary arrest and detention; official corruption; human trafficking; racial and ethnic discrimination.” Key points highlighted under different sections include: a. The constitution prohibits practices such as torture and inhumane treatment; however, police officers and other security officials allegedly beat, abused, harassed, and intimidated persons in police custody, or on the streets in attempts to extort money. For example, while a citizen was waiting to use an air pump at a service station, uniformed Liberia National Police (LNP) officers ordered him to move. The officers, directed by top ranking LNP Officer, Gbor Phil Toubay (Assistant Director of Police for Administration and Professional Standards) assaulted and beat [their victim], removed his car battery, tore his clothes, handcuffed him to the back of their police pickup truck, threw him in the truck bed, and jailed him overnight. The same Inspector General of Police [i.e. this same Assistant Director] was also involved in abusing a lower rank officer during the year and remained under investigation for both incidents. Also during the year, an Inspector at a local police station reportedly raped a women who was visiting someone being held for questioning. The case was being prosecuted, and a trial date was set [although all this will go in vain once the officer is well connected in the Liberian sense]. b. Violent police action during arrests was the most common complaint of misconduct c. Prison conditions were harsh, and at time life threatening. d. The local press, as well as Prison Fellowship Liberia, reported that prison officials threatened prisoners’ life and prisoners were raped by other prisoners. Inadequate food, sanitation, ventilation, cooling, basic and emergency medical care, and potable water contributed to harsh, sometimes life threatening conditions in the 15 prisons and detention centers across the country. Many prisoners supplemented their meals by personally purchasing food at the prison or receiving food from visitors. The Bureau of Corrections reported 7 prisoners’ deaths during the year. e. According to the Bureau of Corrections, approximately half of the country’s 1,825 prisoners were at the Monrovia Central Prison (MCP); that is, over 900. This prison operated at more than twice its capacity because of the large number of

pretrial detainees. The MCP capacity was an estimated 400, but it held 922 prisoners or individuals at yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end. The MCP population included 17 women and 16 juveniles. Prisons remained understaffed, and prison staffs were poorly paid. The average wage of an officer was L$7,200 or US$90.00, [which means others earn less than this amount in this 21st century]. f. The MCPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one dedicated vehicle was not operable; as a result, the prison facility was unable to transport prisoners and detainees to court or to hospitals. Prisoners were transported to and from court through the private support of judges or Prison Fellowship Liberia. The UN and others continue to provide medical services and improve basic sanitary conditions. Medical care at the MCP and other facilities was inadequate. NGOs provided medicines to treat seizures, skin infections, and mental health conditions, but other necessary medications, including those for Malaria and Tuberculosis were replenished only when the stock of the medication was completely depleted. Since replenishment sometimes took weeks or months, imamates went without medication for lengthy periods. Observers noted that the national health care sector remained underfunded, and most persons lacked basic health care and medications. g. In some counties and cities with just one detention center, officials held juveniles with adults, and pretrial detainees with convicts, although the ICRC said this practice was not too widespread h. Internal reports and investigations into allegations of inhumane conditions were not made public. i. Although the law provides for the right of defendants to receive an expeditions trail, lengthy pretrial and pre-arraignment detention remained serious problems. An estimated 83% of prisoners were pretrial detainees, despite the release of 968 during the years by the Fast Track Court and the release of an unknown number of prisoners by the Probation Program to reduce overcrowding. The length of time police [or the authorities] held detainees in pretrial detention exceeded the maximum length of sentence that could be imposed for the alleged crime. Judicial inefficiency, corruption, inefficient transport and court facilities, and poorly trained attorneys and judges contributed to trail delays. j. The constitution and law provide for an independent judiciary; however, judges and magistrates were subject to influence and corruption. Uneven application of the law and unequal distribution of personnel and resources remain [major] problems throughout the judicial system. k. Juries are used in Circuit Court trails, but not at the Magistrate level. The pool of jurors remained limited by the low literacy rate. Jurors also were subject to influence and corrupt practices, which undermined their effectiveness and neutrality. Under the constitution, defendants have the right to be present at their trails, consult with an attorney in a timely manner, and have access to government

held evidence relevant to their case. These rights however, were not usually observed. l. Under the penal code, defendants have the right to be informed of their charges promptly, and in detail. If a defendant, complainant, or witness does not speak or understand English, the court provides interpreters for the trail. Defendants have the right to a trail without delay and to have adequate time and facilities to prepare their defense. These rights often were not observed. Defendants enjoy a presumption of innocence, and they have the right to legal counsel, but defendants unable to afford or unwilling to pay bribes were not, or did not have access to an attorney. m. No specialized court exists to address lawsuits seeking damages for human rights violations. There is a separate Civil Law Court in Monrovia, but Circuit Court in each county functions as both criminal and civil courts. Specialty courts, such as the Tax Courts, Probate Courts, and Labor Courts, also addressed Civil matters. As with Criminal Courts, Specialized Courts were inefficient, and in some cases corrupt. The Specialized Court for Sexual Violence prosecutes very few perpetrators, with most suspects released. The release often were related to lack of evidence and suspected bribes. n. Libel and national security laws placed some limits on freedom of speech. o. It was common to charge a fee to publish articles, and the accuracy of statement was not always checked. There were also payments to newspapers not to print stories. p. Journalists were sometimes subject to harassment. For example, in May, the head of the Presidential Executive Protection Service allegedly referred to journalists as “terrorists” and told journalists, “Be careful, because you have your pens and we have our guns”. In response, many newspapers in Monrovia printed black front pages, and radio and television stations halted programming for two hours. q. A radio talk show that accused the government of corruption and inefficiency was taken off air twice during the year but was allowed to resume broadcasting after a few days. Although generally able to express a wide variety of views, some journalists practiced self-censorship. r. Outdated libel laws and corrupt judicial system constrained the work of some journalists and media outlets reporting on high profile government or public figures. In August, a prominent journalist was jailed for failing to pay a judgment of L$1.2 billion (US $1.5 million) against him in a civil libel case filed by a former Agriculture Minister. The suit was eventually withdrawn before government highlighted the need to amend libel laws, which President Sirleaf reaffirmed.

s. Local and national law enforcement restricted in country movement with numerous roadblocks and checkpoints. LNP and Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization (BIN) officers occasionally subjected travelers to arbitrary searches and petty extortion at checkpoints. t. The law does not provide criminal penalties for official corruption, although criminal penalties exist for economic sabotage, mismanagement of funds, and other corruption-related acts. Officials engaged in corrupt practices with impunity. Low pay levels for the civil service, minimal job training, and few court convictions exacerbated corruption and a culture of impunity. The government dismissed officials for alleged corruption and recommended others for prosecution. The Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission and the Ministry of Justice are responsible for exposing and combating official corruption. The LACC is empowered to prosecute any case that the Ministry declines to prosecute; however, the LACC remained a weak option because of underfunding, understaffing and judicial bottlenecks. During the year, the LACC received 25 cases, investigated 23, and recommended four for prosecution, resulting to no convictions. u. In July 2012, over the LACCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s objections, the Ministry of Justice dropped charges against a former Inspector General of Police [a Native] for irregularities in the procurement of uniforms. The LACC decided to prosecute and subsequently obtained a conviction; however, the case was under appeal before the Supreme Court. And in a different development, although an investigation continued into alleged irregularities in the FDA (Forestry Development Authority)â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s issuance of permits for timber harvesting, no indictments were issued against either the private use permit operators or former FDA personnel. Despite the suspension of all private use permits, some logging companies continue to operate without other types of permits or licenses. v. There are report currently of serious sodomy and homosexuality going on at the MCP. w. Judges were susceptible to bribes to award damages in civil cases. Judges sometimes requested bribes to try cases, release detainees from prison, or find defendants not guilty in criminal cases. Defense attorneys and prosecutors sometimes suggested that defendants pay bribes to secure favorable rulings from the judges or to appease judges and prosecutors. etc. We have been keenly assessing these U.S. State Department Human Rights Reports on Liberia beginning with their 2010 release and continuing to date, with almost absolutely no improvement on the part of this country when it comes to dispensing credible justice. Reacting to one of the reports, which as usual, among other things declared corruption, a non-criminal offense in Liberia, to be widespread and exacerbated in the country, the then Solicitor General Cllr. Wilkins Wright said that

one of the major obstacles in fighting corruption was the nature of the country’s jury system, stressing the need for reforms. The reports have always stressed that judges and jurors do demand money for ‘not guilty’ verdict and also to free prisoners. Cllr. Wright admitted to these claims, stating that the government faces challenges in prosecuting cases in the courts with one major constraint being the role of the jury system in combating corruption. Cllr. Wright’s reactions were compiled by the APA News edition of Friday, April 15, 2011 and republished by the National Chronicle Newspaper’s Wednesday, May 9, 2012 edition. Now fellow citizens, after almost 200 years of setting up and operating a Judicial or Justice System, this is the scorecard that comes out of the system during this 21 st century, and the NASTY thing about all this is that you will get the same kind of scorecard coming out over and over again without any significant improvement in subsequent ones. And even more traumatizing is that what you are reading here about the Justice Sector might even be better than what is happening in food security, economics, education, health etc. and the list goes on – i.e. a completely barren society. What is the essence of life then, if we can’t improve in anything? What a dull and useless Liberia that MUST be peacefully dismantled now to make room for a new civic arrangement on our beautiful soil!! We placed strong emphasis on the Judiciary and the police in the last part of our analysis of Liberia’s concept of Justice above because according to modern-day social scientists, institutions of law and order have the heaviest influence on citizens’ perception of generalized trust within a society. Levi, 1998 mentioned once, “The police and the courts have one particularly important task: to ensure general safety by detecting and punishing people who break laws and do other countless noncooperative things, and as such should not be trusted. Therefore, if citizens think that these institutions (the Courts and the Police) are doing their work fairly and efficiently, there is an improved atmosphere of general trust among society members because citizens are assured that even if someone decided to act to them in a treacherous manner, that person will surely be dealt with for that treacherous behavior. But if the opposite is true, whereby the Courts and Police are observed and established to be inefficient, unfair and corrupt, then the society is no doubt in a very serious trouble because everybody now tries to provide safety and security for themselves at all times, and no one would even want to trust the person lying next to them in bed. This is Liberia’s unfortunate fate!!! The same thing about the Police and the Courts has its other side of the coin with general governmental administration. A dysfunctioning, corrupt, biased and unfair administrative system does not allow any kind of trust to rise, and it particularly prevents the development of trust between people. Michael Woolcook Writes, “Rampant corruption, frustrating bureaucratic delays, suppressed civil liberties, failure to safeguard property rights and uphold the rule of law, force communities back on themselves, demanding that they apply privately and informally, what

should be delivered publicly and formally. This unfortunately too continues to be Liberia‘s fate since 1822!!!! Somewhere from the beginning of this text, we brought in the assessment made by Mr. Tola Thompson Ade Bayor that Liberia’s lack of respect for the rule of law and its continuous perversion of the course of justice has been the obstacle to the attainment of lasting peace and sustainable democracy in the country. To prove the Watch Director’s point right, Liberia, between 1980 and 2003, according to some research conducted, sadly demoralized herself by allowing sisterly countries and the international community to use their meager cash and other resources to organize up to 21 separate and expensive peace conferences and accords between and among Liberia’s belligerent parties and greedy politicians. More to this very shameful point, taking into account all of the major activities and faults that consumed or lost money during Liberia’s search for peace, up to this 2016, a staggering US$40+ billion has been expended from international tax payers’ money, plus a small amount of Liberia’s own share of losses apart from the countless lives, properties, and time that went into thin air. After all these wastes, up to present, the actual dividends of peace and democracy still remain elusive, as the country continues to prove stubborn to adopting the culture of bringing people to took uncompromisingly for alleged or even proven crimes and wrongdoings. All of these unbearable tales and realities we’ve presented above, including many more not mentioned here, are paradoxically being told about the only African country that brags about owing its direct roots to the world’s greatest nation and most exemplary democracy, the United States of America. Everyone on this planet to some extent knows that Liberia is an offshoot of the United States of America, and thus, America’s child and direct representative in Africa. In addition to these realities, too many coincidental or very similar historical narratives surround the establishment of the both nations, but unfortunately as you will discover below, one of these two countries with said similar history, Liberia, is a very HORRIBLE WARNING to the rest of the world for the purpose of emulation, while the other, the United States, is an EXCELLENT EXAMPLE for those who want the best out of this life. So let’s close here with a comparative analysis of the foundations of Liberia and her historical mother, the United States of America, with respect to how each common historical event consistently demonstrates marks of distinction between a bad example on the one hand, and a good one on the other hand. And a very important secret worth noting here is that all this huge mark of difference has been facilitated, or can be accounted for MAINLY by how the both countries care for, and respect each one of their citizen’s worth and dignity. Get this gist: A. Just as Elizabeth the Mayflower was the first ship to sail to Liberia through Sierra Leone with the first batch of 88 Black American immigrants and a few Government and American Colonization Society Agents in early 1820 according to the “Liberia

History Up to 1847”, the same ship [probably by name], Elizabeth, or Mayflower, was the ship that took the first batch of Settlers or Pioneers from Great Britain to the New World, North America, or the United States in 1607, according to Wikipedia, although there are other historical accounts that speak of 1620 as the year associated with America’s part of Mayflower. These British Immigrants established their first colony, the New England, in 1607 on the James River at Jamestown, Virginia, which began the American Frontier. Points of Distinction  The British Immigrants that came to the New World to establish what today is called America were mainly and initially a group of religious refugees, called the Puritans. Additionally, settlers that augmented the Puritans’ strength in number were called the Pilgrims – all religious people or religious refugees, before many other immigrant started to pour in, including a record 50,000 convicts (convicted criminals) shipped by Britain to the colonies. What is worth noting here is that, it is the good and productive breed of the immigrants (i.e. the Puritans, the Pilgrims etc.) that held onto the leadership roles of the colonies and subsequently the new nation, and never part of the later 50,000 convicts.  While the immigrants on Liberia’s Elizabeth and subsequent ships were poor and illiterate slaves, who had damagingly been described by their deporters as promoters of mischief, morally lax, mentally inferior and criminally oriented selected Blacks, according to Wikipedia, those on Britain’s Elizabeth bound for America were reported to be highly educated and highly religious pioneers. This is the description of those who established Liberia and took on all of its leadership roles forever, or to this point. B. When the Puritans, Pilgrims and others arrived in the New World, they met a few Natives on the soil, who as usual, had to put up some form of resistance for further American expansion inland. Although the American Settlers greatly outnumbered the Natives in short time, these Natives, referred to mainly as the American Indians, put up more resistance from the beginning. To ensure that they succeeded, the American Indians joined the British Colonial Forces and fought alongside them in the American Revolutionary War (the War of Independence) of 1775 – 1781, although concluded officially in 1783, against the American Settlers. During the peace treaty that ended this 8 year Revolutionary War which the Americans won, the British ceded vast Native territories to the Americans without informing the Indians, something the Indians considered a betrayal. With these and other accounts of relationships between the two sides, the Americans initially treated the Natives as a conquered people who had lost their land, especially by their fighting alongside Britain in that lost war, but this policy became impossible to sustain, so it was quickly abandoned, and the Americans began only purchasing

Native lands through treaties. Still there became hitches when the American authorities tried to acquire desperately needed lands for their territorial expansion. This caused Congress in 1830 to pass the Indian Removal Act, which authorized presidents themselves to negotiate treaties that exchanged Native Tribal Lands in the Eastern States for lands West of the Mississippi River. Its goal primarily was to remove Native Americans, including the Five Civilized Tribes, from the American Southeast because they occupied lands that Settlers desperately wanted. Jacksonian Democrats demanded the forcible removal of Native populations who refused to acknowledge state laws to reservations in the West; Whigs and religious leaders on the other hand opposed this move as inhumane. Thousands of deaths resulted from these relocations, as seen as in the Cherokee Trail of Tears for example. Many of the Seminole Indians refused to move west; they fought the army for years in the Seminole Wars etc. Similar experiences took place in Liberia. As early as the beginning of the 1820s, Liberia’s first Agent, Jehudi Ashmun began acquiring lands from the Natives either through force or through some form of treaties, according to Wikipedia, although its proven that Liberia’s pioneers were criminals and so even their reported treaties would heavily have been marred by criminal tricks and deceit obviously, as done with the acquisition of Cape Mesurado through their bosses. This mode of territorial expansion continued up to the 1960s when Liberia’s Indirect Rule was abolished. On the overall however, Liberia’s part of territorial expansion was characterized largely by cruelty, when serious battles raged between the Natives and the criminal Black American Settlers that sometimes prompted foreign interventions. Points of Distinction  The intent of America’s territorial expansion was to develop the territories by cultivating the land for farming, building factories, and building new colonies and cities. For example, it is reported that American entrepreneurs, mainly farmers, became so productive and prosperous that people flocked in from Britain and other parts of the world and came to find job in the New World, when they (America) were still not yet independent. On the NASTY side of history however, Liberia’s part of territorial expansion was for these major reasons, according to history: (1) to prevent imperial Britain and France from claiming more colonial territories in a spade of encroachments that spelt a serious threat to the Americo-Liberians’ habitat; little undeveloped Montserrado, and one or two surrounding counties; and (2) To exploit the vast economic, natural and human resources of the hinterland; and, these human resources were only exploited to be sold off into slavery or traded for forced labor. That’s all!!!  Because of some of the unavoidable frictions that ensued during these territorial expansions, America has had to adopt a more reconciling approach towards handling Natives’ issues. In the late 19 th century for example, reformers, in an effort to

assimilate the Indians into mainstream society, as opposed to relegating them to second class citizens, opened boarding schools in all Native communities to educate all American Indian children at these mission schools [probably free of charge]. To address the housing needs of Native Americans, Congress has had to pass special housing acts. For instance, in replacing an already existing 1937 Housing Act Program directed towards Indian Housing Authorities, Congress passed the Native American Housing Act in 1996, with now a block grant program directed toward tribes. ď&#x192;ź Because of the openness, sincerity, and highly democratic nature of the American Society, even with the fact that the American Government has repeatedly made amends and taken concrete steps to pacify the Indians for anything that might have gone wrong during those age-old territorial expansions that on the overall have brought pride to all alike, Native Indian descents, still not satisfied with historical accounts, so much trust the American Justice System that they can take the Federal Government to Court for damages or inconveniences that their forefathers reportedly endured during those expansion campaigns. Several cases have been adjudicated in this direction and won transparently by Native American plaintiffs. For example, the Alaska Natives in 1971 won a $1 billion + 44 million acres of land reparation against the U. S. Government in the Alaska Native Land settlement Deal; the Klamaths of Oregon won an $81 million reparation case against the U. S. Government in 1980; the Seminoles of Florida won a $12.3 million reparation case against the American Government in 1985 etc. We will not forget to mention here a controversial 1985 victory of the Sioux of South Dakota in a case that ended up with a US$105 million reparation payable to them by the U.S. Government. But interestingly this case continues to remain the longest legal battle ever in U.S History owing to the fact that the indigenous Indian Sioux have refused to take delivery of this $105 million awarded them by the Supreme Court as compensation for the illegal loss of their historic site, called the Black Hills to Government in the 1860s. Since that 1985 ruling in their favor, in the case the United States v. the Sioux Nation of Indians, the Indians have refused the money on grounds that they are not selling their sacred land and that the U. S. Government should return to them the black Hills and pay the money additionally as compensation for the billions of dollars in wealth that had been extracted and the damages done while Americans illegally occupied the Black Hills. This whole Sioux of South Dakota case stems from the Indiansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; claim that the American Government breached a treaty with them, or their forefathers, referred to as the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. This 1985 $105 million reparation victory of the Sioux, which has not been received yet, is reported by reliable sources to be accruing interest on a yearly basis, and by yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end 2012, it was reported that the Sioux already had in reserve over $1 billion in reparation from this case.

On the crudely opposite side of history, the Liberian Society was designed by a cruel Settlers’ group to be so uncivilized, opaque, parochial, savage, undemocratic, and unlawful to the extent that no “Soul” of indigenous background has ever thought on taking the Government to task for all of the blatant and heinous havoc that the Americo-Liberians wreaked on the 16 indigenous communities of this country, and they continue to wreak on them today in different forms, that have led these communities to remain terribly crippled and handicapped for all of their lifetime sojourn on this planet. But thank God that the time has come for one of the greatest U-Turns in mankind’s history – put into our local parlance, “99 days for rogue, and one day for master. For this master’s one day has finally come by the grace of God.  While the Americans were building free boarding schools for all Native children and while Congress was passing Housing Acts in favor of American Natives as we mentioned above, Liberia, for almost 200 years now, has busy been devising policies to cruelly subjugate the Natives, and even devastate their lives further by denying them sound education, sound healthcare, and every kind of social service, while at the same time selling them out like animals into slavery and forced labor etc. even in this Golden Age of the Silicon Valley.  America has a Federal form of Democracy that gives individual states elevated autonomy to do a whole range of things for themselves independently, including, controlling their own economies and legal systems etc., but more to that, America has given so much privileges to Native tribes to afford them all the opportunities to preserve their heritage, explore their fullest individual and collective potentials, while also enjoying the general American Dream. According Wikipedia, there are 516 Federally recognized tribal governments in the United States. These tribes preserve the rights to form their own governments, to enforce laws, (both civil and criminal), to impose and collect taxes, to establish memberships, to license and regulate activities, to zone and exclude persons from tribal territories etc. Their only limitations, like those of the states, include the power to make war, engage in foreign relations, and to coin money. On the terrible opposite, everything in Liberia’s 15 counties is exclusively for the wicked and greedy, unproductive Monrovia Settler Government, that has got no plans to even develop their own dirty, and old Monrovia, talk less about the interior areas. C. As of a 2005 U.S Census Bureau report, the American Native Community constitutes about 1% of the U.S overall population. At the extreme opposite, Liberia’s Native population has repeatedly been reported at over 95%, some say over 98% of the country’s citizenry. Points of Distinction  As seen above, the American Native population is almost a negligible minority that could easily be marginalized by a diabolical breed of politicians like it is done in

other parts of the world, but that’s not the American modus operandi. But for Liberia, a record 16 ethnic African groups, constituting over 98% of a population, have been consistently and systematically relegated and denigrated to nothing, on their own soil.  As result of America’s responsible and careful leadership, especially domestic leadership, a country with over 500 different recognized tribal governments, has never come close to ever being considered for any negative measure of ethnic diversity. But Liberia, a country of 16 indigenous ethnic groups and 1 ‘devilish’ and still questionable Settler group, totaling 17 ethnic groups, was designated in a 2002 survey done by the Harvard Institute for Economic Research and featured in the Washington Post, as the World’s Second Most Ethnically Divided (Diversified) Country after Uganda. According to the survey, Liberia, a small country, the size of Ireland and with a population of about 4 million would normally not have earned such [negative] classification over grossly populated and ethnically diversified countries like Kenya (with about 40 different ethnic groups), Nigeria (with over 250 different ethnic groups), Papua New Guinea (with over 850 ethnic groups) etc., but taking into account different indices or perspectives, Liberia deserves this [negative] designation. For example, some of the variables employed by the surveyors included:  The implication for ethnicity of foreign control of the economy  The consequences of prolonged hegemonic rule (i.e. the Americo-Liberians’ control over government forever)  The country’s historical background  The country’s old age [with less or no substantial achievement]  The nation’s poor capacity to manage ethnic conflicts  The hysteria (frenzy or fever) of the 1980 coup etc. D. America allowed herself to remain colonized by Great Britain, even in the midst of the 13 colonies’ unmatched prosperity at the time for 169 years (from 1607 – 1776). It was after the British Parliament passed the Stamp Acts of 1765, imposing some taxes on the colonies without going through the American Colonial Legislature, that the battle lines were drawn between Britain and the New World for a serious confrontation that would eventually culminate into America’s Declaration of Independence in 1776. The nationalistic question that aroused was, “Did the British Parliament ever have the right to tax the Americans, who were not represented in it? Crying, “No Taxation without Representation”, the colonists refused to pay the taxes as tensions escalated in the late 1760s and early 1770s. The Boston Tea Party in 1773 was a direct action by activists in the Town of Boston, Massachusetts to protest against one of the colonial taxes, the new tax on tea. The British Parliament responded the next year with the Coercive Acts, stripping Massachusetts of its

historic rights to self-government and putting it under British Army Rule, which sparked outrage and resistance in all the 13 colonies. All this culminated into the Revolutionary War that began at Concord and Lexington in April 1775 when the British tried to seize ammunition supplies and arrest Patriot Leaders. On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia declared the independence of the United States with the document called the “Declaration of Independence”. The new nation was founded on Enlightenment ideals (or logical reasoning) of liberalism, in what Thomas Jefferson called the “unalienable” rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, dedicated strongly to the ideals of Republicanism, a governing principle that emphasizes sovereignty; demands civic duty, fears corruption and immorality, and rejects any form of aristocracy. Liberia on the other hand, was never conventionally colonized, but was instead kept under a funny form of trusteeship or protectionist arrangement under the American Colonization Society, a restriction the Liberian colonists could never bear for more than 25 years, owing their indiscipline and rebellious pedigree. The only means the founders of Liberia and its frontrunners (the Settlers) have known and will continue to know is survival through government money - no industrious innovation other than this. Because of their greed to extort monies from everywhere every time under the umbrella of government collections, Britain challenged their weak authority by refusing to pay a dime in the name of customs’ duties in a trade encounter. They (the cruel, greedy, and criminal Settlers) then decided to seize a British vessel, the Little Ben on April 15, 1845 as if they had the power to do this. When the British responded by forcibly retrieving their seized vessel and moreover teaching them sense by seizing a parked vessel nearby to carry along with them, the Liberian settlers got mad. Through this little seized vessel, the John Seys (a private vessel, owned by alleged human trafficking criminal, Stephen Allen Benson), which was later released by the British in Freetown, the less intelligent Settlers had found the object upon which to build their case for independence, and this mickey mouse independence was granted them by an already bankrupt American Colonization Society on July 26, 1847 (Liberian History up to 1847). E. The architect or designer of building matters so much to the future of that building, or commands a huge authority in analyzing the fate of that building. In the sense we seek to advance here, we are referring to the first presidents of both countries, and we will close on this 5th count of comparisons for the sake of time, although the revolutionary comparisons of these twin examples are overwhelming and alarming. The US first president was George Washington, born in 1732 in the state of Virginia to a wealthy plantation owner. Of all the subjects studied in school, George loved Math the most. This prompted young George to apprentice as a surveyor of Virginian lands in his youth. He walked miles and miles through his home state surveying lands. In that process he learned about the natural environment and developed a deep passion for his native Virginia. George later joined the British Colonial Army and

rose to the rank of Colonel at the age of 22. During the American Revolutionary War of Independence (1775-1783), George was made Commander of the Continental Army, who in 1775 were either called the Patriots, the Rebels (against British Rule), the revolutionaries etc. The war was ongoing when America declared her independence on July 4, 1776. Mr. Washington never cared to take over the political leadership of the new nation, although there are historical accounts that he was offered the job to become the first political leader after independence and under the Confederacy Arrangement. Washington commanded the American Patriot Forces against the British Colonial Army that he was once part of. His biggest challenge was logistics, since neither Congress nor the 13 colonies or states had the funding to provide adequately for the equipment, munitions, clothing, paychecks etc. or even food supplies for the soldiers, especially on a sustained basis. When Washington won the war in 1783 finally, he astonished the whole world, when he, instead of seizing power for himself, quietly retired to his farm in Virginia. The governing framework of the United States at the time was called the Articles of Confederation or Confederacy. Four years later, by 1787, leading nationalists, concerned that the political government of the new nation was too fragile to withstand an international war, or even a strong national revolt, organized themselves in every state and convinced Congress to call the Philadelphia Convention in 1787. Remember the Nationalists were predominantly war veterans. The delegates from every state gathered, now wrote a new constitution that created a more powerful and efficient central government, one with a strong president, and powers of taxation. The Nationalists had called Washington from his Virginia farm to head this convention, and at the end of the gathering, he was overwhelmingly elected or chosen to be the first president of the new national arrangement which took effect in 1789, according to the new constitution. According to some sources, he was approached to stay on because of his strong leadership and the vulnerability or fragility of the new state, but Mr. Washington refused to serve for more than two terms – setting a major precedence. In his famous farewell address, he extolled or celebrated the benefits of a federal government and the importance of ethics and morality, while strongly warning against foreign alliances and the forming of multiple political parties. Today, all of his warnings, pieces of advice, and acts of precedence are still being heeded to by the USA. Here is how one artist, Archibald Robertson of Philadelphia described Washington’s legacy: “Few figures loom as large in American History as George Washington. His powerful leadership, unflinching determination, and boundless patriotism would be essential to the winning of the Revolutionary War, the creation of the new United States Constitution, and the establishment of a new government as the nation’s first president. As time passes on, his legacy has grown:  Honesty – he could not tell a lie, we are told

 Strength – he could throw a coin across the Potomac, the legends declared  Humility – he was offered an American Crown, but he turned it down in the name of democracy Time may have made great myths out of small truths, but the contributions that this man made to the creation of the American nation cannot be denied” Now, let’s bring in Liberia’s first president, Joseph Jenkins Roberts. First off, he was not born on the Grain Coast (the land criminally renamed Liberia to deny its original owners share in its resources). This man was born in a foreign land, Norfolk, Virginia, the USA, in 1809. His mother, Amelia was a Mulatto, and a slave mistress or concubine. Roberts and his siblings were estimated to be 7/8 th European in ancestry. As the Liberian Historian, Abayomi Karnga noted in 1921, Roberts was not really Black; he was an Octoroon, and could have easily pass for a Whiteman. As a boy, Joseph began to work in his stepfather’s business establishment, handling goods on a flatboat that transported materials from Petersburg to Norfolk on the James River. While helping his stepfather in the business, Joseph served also as an apprentice in a local barbershop in Petersburg, where the family had moved. The owner of the shop, William Colson gave Roberts access to his private library which provided much of Robert’s early education. In 1829, at age 20, Roberts and his family sailed to Liberia on the Harriet. In 1833, Roberts became a high sheriff in the Liberian Colony. He headed a militia that passed through the bushes to get to Liberia’s poor indigenous to terrorize them for so-called government taxes. Roberts was the last Governor of the Commonwealth of Liberia and the first President of the new Liberian Republic. He got so-called elected four times between 1848 and 1856 and got elected two times between 1872 and 1876. He was president of the University of Liberia (then the Liberia College) from 1862 to 1876. He developed or pioneered the country’s dependency and begging culture by spending 9 consecutive months of the first year of a 2 year term going from country to country seeking assistance for his new ‘mickey mouse’ independent Liberia. In Roberts’ first inaugural address of 1848, he referred to the very indigenous communities that he had been leading militias to go extort money from in the name of taxes as a “Barbarous Nation” or Community. Points of Distinction  It is spelt out in George Washington’s profile that he formally went to school and he loved Math the best, but there’s no mention made that J. J. Roberts ever sat in class formally at his early age or even throughout his life time. It is only mentioned that William Colson encouraged Roberts to learn how to read in his (Colson’s) private library.  Washington apprenticed and worked as a surveyor owing to his Math background, while Roberts apprenticed as a barber and flatboat boy owing primarily to his illiterate background

 Washington was born, schooled; and, he worked in the country that he governed, meaning that he was incentivized or motivated with that natural love for home country. On the other side of the coin, Roberts was born in a foreign country; he apprenticed in that foreign country before he immigrated to the country that he governed. It’s common knowledge that he really lacked the natural love for his new second home country, where his navel string was not buried as we say in our local parlance  History says Washington was a paragon of truth, honesty, humility, power, excellence, patriotism, bravery etc., but history only told us that America’s South, from where Roberts had immigrated had this American Colonization Society’s socalled Black Repatriation Scheme to get rid of the “rotten apples” from among their midst, a group to which Roberts unfortunately belonged.  Washington left behind the legacies and examples of standing for principles; discouraging unprincipled love for power; a definite form of democracy; a strong instruction for adherence to ethics and morality; a strong instruction never to connive with foreigners in exploiting Mama country; a strong instruction against establishing too many political parties just for mere power; and a good example of an all-interest inclusive constitution and a strong government, while his counterpart Roberts of Liberia left behind a legacy of extreme greed for power, wealth, and authority (for example he alone became president 6 different times in a country he was building, with a presidential term limit on the books, of two). Roberts was president of the country’s highest institution of learning, the University of Liberia while he was at the same time president of the country, although no one knows yet where he acquired his formal education to have headed a whole university. Roberts left behind a terrible disregard for merit in that point of not having any sound formal educational background but then rushing to become president of the University of Liberia. Joseph left behind a culture of mutual disdain – he referred to the very Natives he collected tax from as mere “barbarians.” He left a culture of systematic dependence and begging for assistance – he took 9 consecutive months in his first two year term going from country to country to beg for assistance, and at the end of the long months he brought home old boats, used clothes, money and other assorted materials. Joseph left behind a culture of gross dishonesty and shady administrative maneuvers – he masterminded the ousting of dark-skinned Edward James Roye in 1871 and dubiously ran a one-man presidential poll just to replace this man and bring back the Mulatto elite to power in 1872 etc. Fellow citizens and the world at large, we went to this great length explaining all these, just to bring us to a very key concept as follows: In life, everything we do is either praiseworthy or blameworthy, there’s nothing like an action that falls in between. Moreover, if we fail to be a good example for others to follow, then we must accept with honesty that we are a horrible warning for others to avoid. And once we accept that we are a horrible warning, the next thing to do is to ask

ourselves whether we want to change this status or characterization of ourselves; and if yes, then we must now find space in the biggest room on Earth, called the Room of Improvement to change this untenable status. But the sticky thing is that before entering this status change process, or life enhancement Room of Improvement, WE MUST PERSONALLY CHANGE BIG TIME. And this is not just change in theory, but a drastic practical process that make us put the bad past behind us for good; a change that makes us alter the normal make up of our family and national bedrooms, changing for example, the location of the dresser, if that’s what it takes; changing the location of the bed, if that’s what it takes, changing the location of that little table etc. altogether. For it is necessary to change totally in life at times. Yes, it is called for; it works; and it has worked for others before. As US Computer Scientist and Naval Officer, Grace Hopper once said, “The most damaging phrase of our language is the phrase, ‘It has always been done that way.” Then J. W. Von Goethe says, “We must change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.” Liberia has hardened to a deeply ugly situation. We are a bad and outrageous example, no mincing word about this reality. We now need a complete new foundation because our problems are just squarely foundational, no if and then. The Plain Truth Revolution, through God’s grace, has a workable roadmap for a total national rebirth of this country, that proposes drastic changes ranging from a radically re-declaration of our independence to a complete national name change that will see us throw behind this traumatic and agonizing name called Liberia, but all these MUST be debated and concluded at some national convention that we are currently demanding. We encourage you to please go to our social media sites as listed below and begin reading more about how we all have a role in making this direly needed change possible. We all have a role to play, but all these roles must be thoroughly informed, that’s why we are encouraging everyone to find the time, download our pamphlets and other articles and begin to read. Our Facebook page is https://web.facebook.com/plaintruth2013. We also have three discussion groups: a Facebook group and a Google+ Community, both under the name Grain Coast (Liberia) Independence Movement (GIM), and are at https://is.gd/cO3rbV and https://is.gd/cyZm54 respectively, plus 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. After reading this pamphlet, or any of the other pamphlets, or even reading 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 further 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. May God bless us all.

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