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 FROM REVOLUTIONARIES AND PHILOSOPHERS
strong decisions and take their corresponding (1) Without deviation from the norm, progress can
strong actions, (1) Matthew 6:31-33 say- (31) [NEVER] be possible Frank Zappa, American Song
Therefore take no thought saying, what shall writer and guitarist(2) As we approach the great social
we eat, or what shall we drink, or what wither challenges of our time, we MUST acknowledge that old
shall we be clothed (32) For after all these thinking will not provide the new solutions that we [direly]
things do the Gentiles seek. (33) For your need. These [new] solutions [though] will be uncomfortable,
Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have needs of hard to sell, and risky to execute, but the cost of not [selling
all these things. But seek ye first the Kingdom and] executing them will be even much greater Simon
of God and His righteousness, and all these Mainwaring, Australian-American Brand & Advertising
things shall be added unto you..(2)Romans Consultant.(3) The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may
12:18 If possible, as far as it depends on you, attack it; ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
be peaceful with all men.(3) I. Kings 22:3 Winston Churchill, British Premiere(4) Those who make
Then the King of Israel said to his servants. Do peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution
you really know that Ramoth Gilead belongs to inevitable John F. Kennedy, American President..(5)
us? Yet we are hesitating to take it out of the Never neglect details. When everyones mind is dulled or
hand of the King of Syria?...(4) Eccle. 4:5 distracted, the leader must be doubly vigilant. Gen. Collin
The stupid one folds his hands while is flesh Powell, former Secretary of State etc.
wastes away. 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 Gods 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 dont know their History
are probably not doing well in their English and Maths
Patrick JOrouke, 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 Newtons 3rd Law of Motion, Liberias 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.
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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 dont 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 dont 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 Macabasscos 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 countrys 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 Gods Holy Scriptures be it the Bible, the Quran 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 humanitys 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.
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It is the ultimate tool in helping us learn the best possible life to live. Gods 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. Gods 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 mans heart. The Word of God,
our Plain Truth Revolutions weapon of choice, is the only best weapon used for very close
range combats rather than long range warfare, and our countrys 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 countrys 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, Americas 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
VERY (PARENTAL)
SPECIAL RECOGNITION BLENDED FAMILY contd
# Name FAMILY MEMBERS
Relationship 16.ALL-WEATHER
Helena Mango FRIENDS (WORKMATES
(*) etc.)
# Name Relationship 1.
17 Victor Badio
Helena Mentee
1. Doris Zor Landlady 2.
18. Bobby Brown
Augustine Kotee Uncle
1. Tarkpor
a. GloriaKartee
(Daughter) Father
[This is a woman of 3. Andrew Gibson
2. Moinma G. Kartee
b. Delcontee () Mother (*)
very exceptional 4. Veronica Kinapoe RELATIVES
IN-LAW
3. Martha Kartee
c. Prince son Stepmother
patience and consi- 5.
# Joseph
Name Dennis Relationship
4. Leahmon Karatee Sister
ration] 6.
1. Philip Sassie
Solomon Wamah Father-in-Law
5.
2. Zaye
Tony Kartee
T. Bleh
Beyond Friend 7. Isaac Karmon (current relationship)
6. Parlone Kartee
a. Ladia Bleh (Wife) 8.
2. Paul Jappah
Mary Wamah Mother-in-law
7. Zlanwohn Kartee 9. Sam Fannie ()
8. ALL-WEATHER
Rufee Kartee FRIENDS (GENERAL)
(*) 10. William Morris 17. Alex C. Knuckles
3. Irene Wamah Sister-in-law
# Name 11. Darlington Gbeior 18. Timothy
9. Mama Kartee ( ) Holt
1. Alphonso Togba 12. Robert Beer
10. Yarkernah Kartee Brother 4. Linda Julius Sister-in-law Wlemus
19. McDonald
2.
11. Manju
Zota Kamara
Kartee 13. Charles Sherman ()
3.
12. Musa Barry
Joseph Kartee 14. Augustine Williams
5. Mary David Sister-in-law
4.
13. Nulleh Ngafuan
Zlanser Kartee 15. Samuel Musa ()
5.
14. SamuelKartee
Mama Wallace, Sr Sister 16. Patrick Wreh
6. Solomon Wamah, Jr. Brother-in-Law
6. Esther Wallace
()
7. Samuel Wallace Jr. MIND MOLDERS/MORAL COACHES/
8. Saah Joe
IMMEDIATE (NUCLEAR) DIRECT MENTORS
TWO PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS
9. John Mulbah # Name
FAMILY 1. Deborah Cringar - former fiance
10. Steven Chea 1. a. Ruth
The Seventh
# Name Relationship ShermanDay Adventist Church
- Mother
11. Abdulai Yen 2. b. Sam
All ofCringar
the Instructors under
1. Alice Wamah Partner/Fiance - Father (*) whose voices
12. Morris Paye I have sat (R. S. Caulfield, Unification
2. Joyful (Preston) Kartee Son c. Robert Tarpeh Uncle
3. Courage Kartee Daughter Town, Margibi
d. Saturday TarpehCounty;
Aunt Protestant
US PRESIDENTS THAT HAVE GREATLY Methodist Resource Center, Danane,
4. Stamina Kartee Son 2. Massa Kennedy former fiance
IMPACTED OUR LIVES La Cote dIvoire; University of Liberia;
5. Festus Johnson Foster Son a. Cuttington
Hawa Kennedy Mother
University Graduate School
1. George Washington b. Mr.
etc.)Kennedy - Father
2. BLENDED FAMILY
Thomas Jefferson 3. c. Kamau
Bunch Kennedy Brother
M. Lizwelicha, USAID/GEMAP
#3. NameLincoln
Abraham Relationship 4. d. Larry Kennedy - Brother
Sophie Hobbs, USAID/GEMAP
1.
4. Nathaniel Doeward
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1st Foster Fthr (*) 5. e. John M. Dukuly - Brother
Bill Kennedy
2.
5. JohnBeatrice Kor
F. Kennedy 1st Foster Mthr 6. John K. Wangolo
3. Ma Filani Kamara Foster Grandma 7. Harry RELATIVES
EXTENDED A. Greaves, Jr.
6. Lyndon B. Johnson
7. Barack Obama (Danane, La Cote
1.THOSE
Peat Norman 5. Paul
WHO HAVE Fanyen
PROFESSIONALLY
dIvoire, *)
2. Henry Mango
IMPACTED OUR 6. Rachel
LIFE ONENuah
WAY OR THE
4. Soree Kamara 2nd Foster Fthr
OTHER WORLD LEADERS THAT HAVE 3. Mendin Mango OTHER
7. Allen Subah
(Abidjan, La Cote
GREATLY IMPACTED OUR LIVES # 4. Lehmie
Name Mango
dIvoire)
5. Ma Yeilieh Mangoe Paternal GrandMa 1. S. Alfred P. Harris, II 7. Edwin M. Snowe, Jr.
1. Ho Chi Minch 13. Nelson Mandela
6. Ma Menkapoe 2. Richard OTHER
B. DevineRELATIVES
8. Aaron J. Wheagar
2. Vladimir Lenin Tomah Maternal
14. Robert Mugabe GrandMa
7. #3. Name
Aletha K. Hoff 9. T. Nelson Williams,II
3. MaoJohn Leabeh
Zedong Uncle Pohamba
15. Hifikepunye
8. Meiway Barlea 1.
4. Isaac Dahn, Sr. (*)
Belle Y. Dunbar 10. Jackson F. Doe, Jr.
4. Deng Xiaoping
9. 2.
5. Isaac Dahn,
B. Felix Jr.
Zeekeh 11. McDonald Wlemus
5. Chi Augustine
Jing Ping Kotee
10. 3.
6. Michael Dahn
Timothy Holt 12. Alexander Knuckles
6. GusLohnpea
Hall Mentee
11. Austin S. Kartee 4. Dahnboy Dahn
7. Eugene V. Debbs
12. Dearzrua Deemi Cousin 5. FOURGbeahn Fahngalloh
COUNTRIES THAT HAVE INSPIRED US
8. Steward Alexander
13. Histin Deemi 6. John Harmon THE MOST
9. John Bachtell
14 1. The United States of America
10. FelixAlice Fahngalloh
Houphoet Boigny Aunty
2. China 5. Japan 8. The UK
11. Thomas Sankara
3. Russia 6. Switzerland 9. France
12. Jomo Kenyatta
4. Ivory Coast 7. Republic of Ireland 10. Israel
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D. ACADEMICIANS/PROFESSIONALS
THOSE WHO HAVE PROVIDED THE i. LOCAL
ENLIGHTENMENT, PLUS THE # Name
OPPORTUNITIES, AND THE CONDITIONS TO 1. Jacob Zumah Jallah
MAKE THIS REVOLUTION POSSIBLE 2. Samuel Toweh
A. INDIVIDUALS 3. Martin Kollie
4. Jacob Massaquoi
i. LOCAL
# Name
ii. INTERNATIONAL
1. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
# Name
2. Dr. Elwood Dun
1. Karl Marx
3. Dr. Amos Sawyer
2. John Maynard Keynes
4. Dr. Yarsuo Weh-Dorliae
ii. INTERNATIONAL E. HISTORIANS
# Name i. LOCAL
1. President Barack Obama # Name
2. Michelle Obama 1. Joseph Saye Guannu
3. Amb. Deborah Malac 2. Professor Tuan Wleh
4. Karin Langrin 3 Prof. Alhaji G. V. Kromah
ii. INTERNATIONAL
B. INSITITUTIONS # Name
i. LOCAL 1. Hugh Mason Brown
# Name 2. Dr. James Ciment
1. Coalition for the transformation of Lib. 3. Dr. Ibrahim K. Sundiatta
2. Liberia Institute for Public Integrity 4. Hezekiah Niles
3. Center for the exchange of intellectual opinions 5. Jo Sullivan
ii. INTERNATIONAL
# Name F. REVOLUTIONARIES
1. League of Nations # Name Identities
2. United Nations/UNMIL 1. George Washington US
3. Global Witness 2. Mahatma Gandhi India
4. Amnesty International 3. Martin Luther King, Jr. US
5. Transparency International 4. Nelson Mandela South Africa
6. U S Department of State 5. Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe
7. Conciliation Resources 6. Mao Zedong China
8. Publish What You Pay Coalition 7. Deng Xioping China
9. Finance Uncovered, UK 8. Che Guevara Cuba/Bolivia
10. US Department of Justice 9. Jose Mujica Ecuador
10. Fidel Castro Cuba
IT FIRMS/NETWORKS G. THE PRESS
i. LOCAL i. LOCAL (ELECTRONIC AND PRINT)
# Name # Name Type
1. Lone Star CellGENERAL
MTN REVOLUTIONARY1.ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Liberia Broadcasting
2. Cellcom Communications Corporation/Sys. (LBS/ELBC) Electronic
3. Nova Phone 2. Farbric FM 101.1
ii. INTERNATIONAL 3. Voice FM 102.7
# Name 4. Truth FM 96.1
1. Google 3. Microsoft 5 Sky FM 107
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THE PRESS contd H. POLITICIANS/OPINION LEADERS

6. Love FM i. LOCAL
7. Power/Red Power FM # Name Identity
8. National Chronicle/Hot 1. Prince Johnson Senator
Pepper Newspaper Print/online 2. Henry Yallah
9. FrontPage Africa 3. Dallas Gweh
10. In Profile Daily 4. Emmanuel Nuquay Representative
11. Public Agenda 5. Tiawon Gongloe Lawyer
12. Daily Observer 6. Negbalee Warner
13. Focus 7. Christiana Tah
14. Heritage 8. Koffi Woods
15. Spirit of Truth 9. Harry Greaves (*) Economist
ii. INTERNATIONAL (ELECTRONIC AND 10. Sam Jackson
PRINT) 11. Simeon Freeman Politician
# Name Type 12. Amara Konneh
1. British Broadcasting Corp. Electronic 13. Darious Dailon
2. Radio France International 14. Mary Lorene Brown Educator
3. China Radio International 15. Zayzay Pewee Other
4. Cable News Network /TV 16. Francis Tamba
5. Al-Jazeera 17. Tabarosa Tarponweh
6. New York Times Print ii. INTERNATIONAL
7. UK Guardian # Name
1. Dr. Charles Johnson 5. George Schuyler
iii. INDVIDUAL JOURNALISTS
2. Sir John Simon 6. Mr. A. E. Yap
A. LOCAL
3. Prof. S. Raymond Buell 7. Neils Haghns
# Name Type
4. Dr. Fred P.M. Van der Kraij
1. Rodney Sieh Local
2. Julius Jeh Local I. CLERGIES
3. Henry Costa i. LOCAL
4. T. Max Jlateh # Name Faith/Religion
5. Mary Williams 1. Solomon Juah Christian
6. Tetee Gebro 2. Jensen Wallace
7. Tamba Johnny 3. Simeon Dunbar
8. Darious Zinnah 4. Evangelist Charles
9. Jordan Poronpea Diaspora 5. Pastor Sirleaf
10. Christian Nelson 6. Kortu Brown
11. Toyouwa Harris /Analyst 7. Samuel A. Brewer
12. George Fahnbulleh /Analyst 8. Rev. Gontee
13. Jah Johnson Editor 9. Pastor Gemini Getteh
14. Jerry Wehtee Wion Contributor 10. Rev. Foday Karpeh
15. Jones Nhinson Williams 9. Ali Krayee Muslim

B. INDIVIDUAL JOURNALISTS (INTL) ii. INTERNATIONAL

1. Robin White # Name Faith/Religion
2. Elizabeth Blunt 1. Ibn Al Qayyim Muslim
3. George Turner 2. Hesham A. Hassaballa
3. Mohammed Banonleat
4. Friday Oravbierre Christian
5. Rick Warren
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SPECIAL REVOLUTIONARY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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The Chief Executive Officer of Apple, Steve Jobs once said, A lot of people in our industry havent
had very diverse experiences, so they dont 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 ones
I. understanding
SOME OF ofTHE GREATEST
the human SOURCES
experience, the better designs we will have.
FROM WHICH WE DRAW OUR MOTIVATION INDIVIDUALS contd
With this exhortation from Mr. Jobs, we disclose here that
A. INDIVIDUALS 35. on the overall,Ellen
President our motivation to embark on
Johnson Sirleaf
this revolutionary project was at first primarily inspired 36. by a questMr.to Harry Greaves about our countrys
do something
1. Jensen Wallace 15. Vladamir Lenin
NASTY, SHAMEFUL history, but then we needed a strong 37. backing
Ambassador
too fromMiatta
currentFahnbulleh
events, so, we had
2. Pastor Simeon Dunbar 16. John Batchel
to painfully take 4 round17. years to see 38. Makita Redd/Wreh,
if our convictions from historical researches could be strongly
3. Pastor Sirleaf, Presenter, Eugene Debbs
backed
4. Pastor by Oravbiere,
Friday enough of empirical
18. Pank proofs from todays 39.
Yan Zeeahoe realitiesJonathan
knowingPay-LaythatLeh
this time span was
reasonable
5. Pastor Rick Warrenenough conventionally, for
19. Sheila Paskman such a serious 40.
research Rep.
work. George Mulbah
Consequently, the below current
event accounts,
6. President Barack Obamopinions,20.
experiences,
E. Johnson realities 41. Rep. Alex Grant
Sirleaf etc. have helped us truly connect the dots and thus
7. President Chi Jing Ping 21. Julius Jeh
strengthened our case for this inescapable revolution. We 42.doubt Isaac Redd
it, that any well-meaning person would
8. President John F. Kennedy 22. Nagbe Sloh 43. Rep. Gabriel Nyenkan
read the current event accounts of these narratives, sufficiently backed by history, and still think that
9. President Thomas Jefferson 23. Lewis Brown 44. Minister Gyudee Moore
we, as
10. Barry a people, can use reforms
Goldwater 24. JacoborZuma
gradualist
Jallahapproaches to handle our countrys deadly problem and
45. Jerelimick Piah,
redeem
11. Hillary ourselves from this
Clinton 25. untold
Irasmusnightmare
Gaye called nationhood, gain our rightful human status, and
46. Nagbe Sloh
12. Leemake
Kuan ourYew
Creator proud of 26.making us too in His own image. The list below constitutes our Plain Truth
Jah Johnson
47. Senator Henry Yallah
13. Karl Marx
Revolutions revered heroes27. John
and S. Morlu through whose inputs our revolution has finally become
heroines
14. Mao Zedong God willing,28.and Eratus 48. Mr. Tarbarosa Tarponweh
JUSTIFIED we Bortu
recognize and celebrate 49. them as our
Liberian Girlsspecial acknowledgements
trafficked to Lebanon
29. Sam Webb
forever. Their collective message to us, in short is: Plain 50. TruthD.Revolution, please go ahead, we join
Maxwell Kemayan
B. you, INSTITUTIONS
and stand by you, whichever way possible. 51. Dr. Randolph McClain
1. Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS/ELBC)
52. Cllr. Afian Sherman
2. World
ThoseSummit
heroeson theheroines
and Information Society
therefore are(WSIS)
as follows, among many more to come up in later publications
53. John S. Morlu
by the grace of God. Weve placed their contributions under 54. different subheadings. We will start with
Samora Wolokollie
II. HISTORICALS ACCOUNTS + PROOFS FROM
the historical
CURRENT accountsOF
EVENTS of how the Black
LIBERIAS Americans Liberia was pronounced DOOMED by its
MESSY
conceivers and designers even before it was established,
FOUNDATION B. and how this curse has been acutely
INSTITUTIONS
A. INDIVIDUALS
pronounced, warned about, and decried by different actors, including prominent people in world affairs
1. Global Witness
1. By upJames
to this point.
Ciment This will 28.
(2x) be followed
Min.by different
Mosesaccounts 2. of the UNNASTY
Securitystate of Liberia from current
Council
event
Jackson realities. Please note that apart from numbered or
3. bulleted names,
Farbric F.M. bolded names of individuals
2. Nancy Oku Bright within
and institutions (2x) any29.ofMiatta Fahnbulleh
the text in this section represent
4. some of our
Liberias special
Truth acknowledgements.
& Reconciliation
3. Pastor Solomon Juah 30. Sen. Dallas Gweh
Welcome to our very special acknowledgement section: Commission
4. Dr. Charles Johnson 31. Aagon Tingba
5. US Congress
5. John Randolph, 32. Cllr. Benedict Sannon
6. US Pres. Abraham Lincoln 33. Jonathan Gant III. SITUATIONS OR REALITIES THAT
7. Jerome J. Verdier 34 Jonathan Paye-Layleh FURTHER JUSTIFY LIBERIAS DOOMED
8. Dede Dolopei, FATE
9. Oumu K. Syllah, A. INDIVIDUALS
10. Bishop Arthur F. Kulah,
11. Sheikh Kafumba F. Konneh, 1. Steve Kolubah,
12. Pearl Brown Bull, 2. Amb. Chigozie Obi-Nnadozie,
13. Gerald B. Coleman, 3. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (2x)
14. John H. T. Stewart, 4. Rep. Richmond Anderson
15. Massa Washington, 5. Mo Ibrahim, 18. Musa
16. Henrietta Joy Abena Mensa Bonsu
6. Menipaket Dumoi 19. John S. Morlu
17. Hugh Mason Brown 7. Rep. Gabriel Smith 20. Julius Jeh
18. Dr. James Ciment
8. Sen. Thomas Grupee 21. R. Bhofal Chambers
19. Wikipedia/History of Liberia
20. Koffi Woods 9. Karin Langrin 22. Sen. Oscar Cooper
21. Dr. Amos Sawyer 10. Deborah Malac 23. Saah Gborlie
22. Dean Johnson 11. Amb. Tina Intelmann 24. Nicolas Cook
23. Wilfred Bangourah 12. Ismail Serageldin 25. Dr. James Ciment
24. Darious Dillon 13. Dr. Amos Sawyer 26. Tycon J.
25. Jim Hunt 14. Nathaniel Barnes 27. Sir John Simon
26. Brad Henry 15. Keith Morris 28. Darious Deylon
27. Min. George Werner 16. Dayboy 29. Lawrence Yealue
17. Prof. Dr. Ibrahim K. Sundiatta
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VI. PEOPLE OR INSTITUTIONS WHOSE

INDIVIDUALS contd
IDEAS JUST MATCH OURS
32. Tamba Johnny 39. Samora Wolokollie
33. Francis Tamba 40. Acarious Gray 1. Thomas Jefferson 7. Hassan Kiawu
34. Robert A. Sirleaf 41. Augustine Ngafuan 2. Tarkpor R. Kartee 8. Simeon Freeman
35. Austin Kawal 42. Thomas Doe-Nah 3. Prof. Wilson Tarpeh, 9. Antonio Gutierrez
36. Darious Zinnah 43. Dr. Amos Sawyer 4. Sen. Geraldine D. Sheriff
37. Indi Cal 44. Cllr. Elijah Saah 5. Melvin Tayglay Weah Johnson
38. Blamo Nelson 45. Rodney Sieah 6. Bhofal Chambers (formerly Jallah Langlin)
46. Rev. Lurther Tarpeh
VII. WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT
B. INSTITUTIONS
1. Conciliation Resources/CR 1. President Abdou Fattah Al Sessay
2. The League of Nations 2. Antonio Gutierrez 4. Mr. Peter Graaf
3. President Barack Obama 5. Rebecca Nanyou
IV. LIBERIA, A HUGE 21ST CENTURY
ECONOMIC WASTE ABOUT OUR MEMBERSHIP
1. Mr. Karl Marx 5. Sam Jackson
FOUNDING MEMBERS OF THE PTR
2. Common Sense Analyst 6. President Obama
3. Wikipedia 7. Linda Yu 1. Roland S. Kartee 5. Preston Kartee
4. President Sirleaf 8. Hewyikoo Kaiyuma 2. Alice Wamah 6. Courage Kartee
V. THE ENDURING DANGERS THAT 3. Joseph Kartee 7. Stamina Kartee
LIBERIA POSES TO ITSELF AND THE 4. Tony T. Bleh
REST OF THE WORLD FIRST NEW MEMBERS OF THE PTR
1. Global Witness - 14. Common Sense 1. Jamel Constance
2. Cllr. Thompson Adibayo Analyst (5x)
3. Cllr. Dempster Brown, 15. Abraham Lincoln OUR CURRENT DIRECT/INDIRECT
4. Bishop Wilmot Burbroh 16. Oku Bright MEMBERSHIP STRENGTH
5. Gladys Johnson 17. Carl Victor
6. Senator Comany Wisseh 18. Farbric NightTime 1. Dejure Members: All members of our 7 big
7. George Dalton 19. President Obama constituencies, mentioned in the Dedication
8. Mulbah Morlu 20. Tom Woewiyou Section of every written work or article of our
9. Robert W. Clower 21. Sam Zemurray revolution
10. Mitchel Harwitz 22. Lee Christmas
11. A. A. Walters 23. United Fruit Comp 2. Defacto Members (*have all right to decline
12. North Western University 24. Andrew Preston publicly if not convicted or interested): All those we
13. Oxford University 25. Maj. Gen Smedley have acknowledged in our works. For they have
Butler always believed in us, and will no doubt believe in
26. Com. Matthew our dreams for the country we all equally own.
Calbraith Perry
OUR ONLINE MEMBERSHIP FIGURE
27. Cornel R. West 41. Cllr. Gloria Scott (PEOPLE THAT HAVE AGREED WITH
28. J. Yanqui Zaza, 42. John Morlu OUR DEBATES ON SOCIAL MEDIA
29. Sarah Chayes 43. Rebecca Murray
INCLUDING JOINING OUR GROUPS AND
30. Noam Chomsky 44. Philibert Brown
31. William Blum 45. Brownie Samukai ONLINE COMMUNITIES)
32. Nicolas Cook, 46. Martin K. N. Kollie
33. Library of Congress 47. Donald Trump, now 3. Facebook.._____
US President Elect
4. YouTube.._____
34. Dana J. Hyde 48. Mulbah Morulu
35. Wendell Nimley 49. Robert W. Clower
5. Google +._____
36. Evangelist Charles 50. Benedict Sannon
37. Min. Amara Konneh, 52. ELBC Chris Sirleaf 6. Twitter._____
38. President Nhuru Kenyatta 53. Sen Jewel H. Taylor
39. President Barak Obama 54. Dr. Togba Tipoteh **These figures will be revealed subsequently.
40. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 55. Radio France
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DEDICATION
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Our Plain Truth Revolution represents seven (7) big constituencies of Gods 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 state-
sponsored and state-promoted mischief, mayhem, atrocities and other criminal activities;

(b) Millions in their graves today who have died completely unaccomplished, even though they
had vast potentials, but these potentials could never be explored and exploited due to Americas
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 whats 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 Gods 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 from4
23. How the Black Americans that established Liberia inaugurated a different
form of Justice..4
24. Few instances that laid Liberias Justice Systems foundation5
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 Liberias 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 Kotters argument
about the crucial requirements of modern-day leadership8
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. Liberias 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 Bayors grim picture about Liberias future owing
to its endemic culture of impunity........15
C. The story of Journalist Rodney Sieh.16
D. V.P. Warners view of what the peasants (Liberias 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 corruption18
i. The case of Donzo, Toe, and the Broplehs.19
H. How Ellens corruption fights 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 Ellens 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 Warners 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 peoples/institutions
views about the Liberian Justice System27
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 Konnehs update on justice-related issues in the country..29
43. Ellen Corkrum29
44. Len Linstrom..................29
45. US State Departments own assessment of the Liberian Justice System.......30
46. Some earlier Government of Liberias response to these US assessments34
47. How theres 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 Jeffersons description of the mission or theme of America41
51. The key warnings from President George Washingtons farewell speech.41
52. Archibald Robertsons description of President Washington.43
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INTRODUCTION

I got increasingly motivated to do this little research about my countrys 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 countrys Judiciary thus far, is the emphasis with
which my Managing Director, Mr. Thomas Nelson Williams and my companys 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
dont 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.
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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 Justices 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. Retribution giving criminals or lawbreakers exactly what they deserve

practically or tangibly.
ii. Isolation keeping criminals or lawbreakers away from the general public.
iii. Deterrence making law breakers or potential lawbreakers to think twice
iv. 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
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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 authoritys 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 dont 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 humans 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
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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 dont 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 Liberias case, in confirmation of Virginian Congressman John

Randolphs 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.
Lets outline a few accounts of instances that inaugurated the settlers Liberias system
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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 deals 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
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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 countrys 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 lets 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 Senates 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 Royes
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-
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skinned Settlers, and deposed President Roye was unfortunately the countrys 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 countrys first President, and at the time President of the
countrys 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. Thats 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 countrys
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 countrys 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 nations 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 states 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
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through Liberias 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 countrys 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 nave Americo-Liberian elite didnt know this fact or decided to ignore this
fact. The new Legislature they established in 1945 to accommodate one person each
from Liberias 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 didnt 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
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dreams and aspirations of the masters 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 Liberias 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 countrys strong adaptation to
the mantra: Things Must Always be done the same old ways what a terrible
mishap!!!
Having made all these strong points, lets 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 Liberias 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 Liberias
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 lets 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 Peoples 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,
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even if it decided to maintain the name Liberia, which in our opinion, it should
NEVER have done. But lets 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 didnt 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 didnt 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 Irans 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 constitutions
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
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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 countrys 1981 to 1986 constitution, Liberias 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 Peoples Party to run
in any upcoming elections at the time. Another 59-member National
Constitutional Advisory Assembly appointed to review Dr. Sawyers 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 Peoples 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?
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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 countrys 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.
ii. 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.
iii. 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 constitutions
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
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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 countrys 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 flags 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 countrys Declaration of Independence and the
first Constitutions 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
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identify should have been a first or second year priority of an astute and forward-
looking 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 Liberias justice foundation having been done above,
including what overall justice currently looks like in our country during this 21 st
century, lets 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 countrys 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 didnt 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 didnt 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
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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 peoples 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 Liberias Supreme Court Justice,
Jamessetta Howard Wolokolliess 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 Wolokollies 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 Courts] full bench on February 6, 2012. The paper
says further that her January 27, 2012s 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
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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) Liberias 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 courts 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 Siehs going to jail for over 5,000 years, and Seih went to jail in
August 2013, according to a www.gnnliberia.coms article. A Committee for the
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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 countrys 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
Liberias 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 countrys population. What then will ever work for such a country?
After Liberias 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, lets 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
presidents 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
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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).
Lets 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 Presidents 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,
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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 Donzos 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 Associations
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, lets 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 didnt 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
worlds most corrupt country twice in just three (3) years (2010 and 2013)
ii. 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,
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even if his/her hands were caught in the cookies jar, except the person is being
used as some scapegoat to accomplish something else.
Lets still continue with few that fall in either the easily touchable (s) & punishable
(s) or the touchable but unpunishable (s) group:
iii. 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:
In 2009, a committee was setup by the President to probe alleged flaws in LPRCs
$24 million rehabilitation project. The committee was headed by an Americo-
Liberian, 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 committees 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.
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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 Ministrys 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.
Lets close this section with a sample of two of the many Untouchable(s) and
Unpunishable(s) for time and space sake:
i) 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
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patients unwarrantedly dying in 2013. Note: ELBC is the nations 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 Africas 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 Liberias
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 years achievement in our case/pamphlet, the LPRC Case reported to
the LACC, but just to give you a gist of this mans 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
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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 Mansions 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 Presidents
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 Tarpehs
Broad had breached their fiduciary duty to the shareholders by amending the
companys bylaws to perform services to LPRCs 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.
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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. Warners narration of his
ordeal with the Williams 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 3 rd 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. Warners 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:
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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 LPRCs 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.
LPRCs disingenuous reactions to these GAC claims and recommendations are
featured in the August 31, 2012 edition of the Daily Observer Newspaper.
ii. 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 childs death case. The LPRC
management and Board, all admitted to these criminal acts, but used Liberias
current corruption and impunity clich, 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.coms 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 companys 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,
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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. Lets
look at two cases in point, among the countless accounts of this Managements and
Boards 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 companys 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, 2013s 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 whistleblowers 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.
ii. 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 whistleblowers claims that the LPRC
MD used bribery money from the companys stalled rehabilitation project to
renovate his parents 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
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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 reports 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 Sirleafs LPRC Mission man, Mr. Williams,
and all of his criminal accomplices while serving at LPRC (both internal and
external), for all other wrong acts.
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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 Nankas GAC, a Cllr. Negbalee Warners 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 Liberias 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 countrys 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 countrys 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 FMs Bits and Pieces Program of Wednesday, December 11, 2013,
the reporter or host read an allafrica.coms 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 Watchs 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 Churchs Human Rights Officer, is on
record for also declaring that the Liberian Justice System was very corrupt and
didnt worth going to.
11. In the Ministry of Finances 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].
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12. In Ellen Corkrums 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 companys
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 companys (Libertys) 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
companys 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. Lets get a
clearer picture of how the Liberian Justice System currently stands with almost
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everything it does, in these excerpts from one of the State Departments most recent,
assessments of Liberias 194 year old Justice System, featured in this
www.frontpageafricaonline.coms 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 countrys 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
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pretrial detainees. The MCP capacity was an estimated 400, but it held 922
prisoners or individuals at years 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 MCPs 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
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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.
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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 LACCs 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)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
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one of the major obstacles in fighting corruption was the nature of the countrys 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. Wrights reactions were compiled by the APA
News edition of Friday, April 15, 2011 and republished by the National Chronicle
Newspapers 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 cant 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 Liberias 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 non-
cooperative 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 Liberias 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
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should be delivered publicly and formally. This unfortunately too continues to be

Liberias fate since 1822!!!!

Somewhere from the beginning of this text, we brought in the assessment made by
Mr. Tola Thompson Ade Bayor that Liberias 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 Directors 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
Liberias 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 Liberias 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
Liberias 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 weve 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 worlds 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, Americas 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 lets 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 citizens 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
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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 Americas 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 Liberias 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 Britains 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
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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,
Liberias 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 Liberias 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 Liberias Indirect Rule was abolished. On
the overall however, Liberias 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 Americas 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, Liberias 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. Thats 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
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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.

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 Indians 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 years end 2012, it was reported that the Sioux
already had in reserve over $1 billion in reparation from this case.
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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 mankinds history put into our local parlance, 99 days for rogue, and
one day for master. For this masters 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 Liberias 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,
Liberias Native population has repeatedly been reported at over 95%, some say over
98% of the countrys 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
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other parts of the world, but thats 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 Americas 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 Worlds 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 countrys historical background
The countrys old age [with less or no substantial achievement]
The nations 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 Americas 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
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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
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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 Washingtons
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 nations first
president. As time passes on, his legacy has grown:
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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, lets bring in Liberias 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 stepfathers 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 Roberts 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
Liberias 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 countrys 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 Washingtons profile that he formally went to school and he
loved Math the best, but theres 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 (Colsons) private
library.
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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. Its 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 Americas South,
from where Roberts had immigrated had this American Colonization Societys so-
called 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
countrys 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
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either praiseworthy or blameworthy, theres 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 thats what it takes; changing the
location of the bed, if thats 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 Gods 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,
thats 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.
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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. ***To be updated as necessary...

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