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PAMPHLET # 4 PRODUCED BY: THE PLAIN TRUTH REVOLUTION

(Compiled: January 2013 January 2016; Drafted: February-December 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.

Unspeakable Ethnic Suppression, Liberias Original Sin:


Who Accounts And Makes Amends For It Now!!
FROM THE QURAN
The Quran makes us to understand that to stand up FROM HISTORIANS AND EDUCATORS
for Gods principles, especially the truth, we must be (1) Life must be lived forward, but it can ONLY be
prepared to go the extra mile; thus for example: (1). understood backward. Soren Kierkegaard, Danish
Surat/Quran 2:42 And do not cloak (or confuse) Philosopher(2) Those who dont know their History
the truth with falsehood. Do not suppress the truth are probably not doing well in their English and Maths
knowingly.(2) Surat/Quran 2:193 Keep on Patrick JOrouke, American Journalist.(3) History
fighting against them until mischief ends, and the is who we are, and why we are the way we are David
way prescribed by God prevails. But if they desist, McCullough, American Historian(4) To forget
then know that hostility is only against history is a betrayal [of the pains and sacrifices of those
wrongdoers.(3) Surat/Quran 4:75 And why who lived before us] and to deny past crimes is to [keep
should you not fight in the cause of Allah, and of repeating them, like DULL and STUPID Liberia]
those who, being weak, are ill-treated (and President Ching Jing Ping, China....(5) A good
oppressed)? Men, women, and children whose cry is, book[or article] is an education of the heart; it enlargens
Our Lord, rescue us from this town, whose people your sense of human possibility; [it educates you about]
are oppressors, and raise for us from thee, one who what the human nature is, [it also educates you] about
will protect, and raise for us from thee, one who will what happens in the world. [For] it is a creator of
help. [Courtesy of several scholarly interpretations] 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 (PARENTAL) BLENDED FAMILY contd
FAMILY MEMBERS 16. Helena Mango (*)
# Name Relationship 17 Helena Mentee
18. Augustine Kotee Uncle
1. Tarkpor Kartee Father
2. Moinma G. Kartee Mother (*) IN-LAW RELATIVES
3. Martha Kartee Stepmother # Name Relationship
4. Leahmon Karatee Sister 1. Solomon Wamah Father-in-Law
5. Zaye Kartee (current relationship)
6. Parlone Kartee 2. Mary Wamah Mother-in-law
7. Zlanwohn Kartee ()
8. Rufee Kartee (*) 3. Irene Wamah Sister-in-law
9. Mama Kartee ()
10. Yarkernah Kartee Brother 4. Linda Julius Sister-in-law
11. Zota Kartee ()
12. Joseph Kartee 5. Mary David Sister-in-law
13. Zlanser Kartee ()
14. Mama Kartee Sister 6. Solomon Wamah, Jr. Brother-in-Law
()

IMMEDIATE (NUCLEAR) TWO PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS


FAMILY 1. Deborah Cringar - former fiance
# Name Relationship a. Ruth Sherman - Mother
1. Alice Wamah Partner/Fiance b. Sam Cringar - Father (*)
2. Joyful (Preston) Kartee Son c. Robert Tarpeh Uncle
3. Courage Kartee Daughter d. Saturday Tarpeh Aunt
4. Stamina Kartee Son 2. Massa Kennedy former fiance
5. Festus Johnson Foster Son a. Hawa Kennedy Mother
b. Mr. Kennedy - Father
BLENDED FAMILY c. Bunch Kennedy Brother
# Name Relationship d. Larry Kennedy - Brother
1. Nathaniel Doeward 1st Foster Fthr (*) e. Bill Kennedy - Brother
2. Beatrice Kor 1st Foster Mthr
3. Ma Filani Kamara Foster Grandma EXTENDED RELATIVES
(Danane, La Cote
1. Peat Norman 5. Paul Fanyen
dIvoire, *)
2. Henry Mango 6. Rachel Nuah
4. Soree Kamara 2nd Foster Fthr
3. Mendin Mango 7. Allen Subah
(Abidjan, La Cote
4. Lehmie Mango
dIvoire)
5. Ma Yeilieh Mangoe Paternal GrandMa
6. Ma Menkapoe Tomah Maternal GrandMa OTHER RELATIVES
7. John Leabeh Uncle # Name
8. Meiway Barlea 1. Isaac Dahn, Sr. (*)
9. Augustine Kotee 2. Isaac Dahn, Jr.
10. Lohnpea Mentee 3. Michael Dahn
11. Austin S. Kartee 4. Dahnboy Dahn
12. Dearzrua Deemi Cousin 5. Gbeahn Fahngalloh
13. Histin Deemi 6. John Harmon
14 Alice Fahngalloh Aunty
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VERY SPECIAL RECOGNITION ALL-WEATHER FRIENDS (WORKMATES etc.)
# Name Relationship 1. Victor Badio
2. Bobby Brown
1. Doris Zor Landlady 3. Andrew Gibson
a. Gloria (Daughter) [This is a woman of 4. Veronica Kinapoe
b. Delcontee () very exceptional 5. Joseph Dennis
c. Prince son patience and consi- 6. Philip Sassie
ration] 7. Isaac Karmon
2. Tony T. Bleh Beyond Friend 8. Paul Jappah
a. Ladia Bleh (Wife) 9. Sam Fannie
10. William Morris 17. Alex C. Knuckles
ALL-WEATHER FRIENDS (GENERAL)
11. Darlington Gbeior 18. Timothy Holt
# Name
12. Robert Beer 19. McDonald Wlemus
1. Alphonso Togba
13. Charles Sherman
2. Manju Kamara
14. Augustine Williams
3. Musa Barry
15. Samuel Musa
4. Nulleh Ngafuan
16. Patrick Wreh
5. Samuel Wallace, Sr
6. Esther Wallace
MIND MOLDERS/MORAL COACHES/
7. Samuel Wallace Jr.
DIRECT MENTORS
8. Saah Joe
9. John Mulbah # Name
10. Steven Chea 1. The Seventh Day Adventist Church
11. Abdulai Yen 2. All of the Instructors under whose voices
12. Morris Paye I have sat (R. S. Caulfield, Unification
Town, Margibi County; Protestant
Methodist Resource Center, Danane,
US PRESIDENTS THAT HAVE GREATLY
La Cote dIvoire; University of Liberia;
IMPACTED OUR LIVES Cuttington University Graduate School
etc.)
1. George Washington
3. Kamau M. Lizwelicha, USAID/GEMAP
2. Thomas Jefferson
4. Sophie Hobbs, USAID/GEMAP
3. Abraham Lincoln 5. John M. Dukuly
4. Franklin D. Roosevelt 6. John K. Wangolo
5. John F. Kennedy 7. Harry A. Greaves, Jr.
6. Lyndon B. Johnson
7. Barack Obama THOSE WHO HAVE PROFESSIONALLY
IMPACTED OUR LIFE ONE WAY OR THE
OTHER WORLD LEADERS THAT HAVE OTHER
GREATLY IMPACTED OUR LIVES # Name
1. S. Alfred P. Harris, II 7. Edwin M. Snowe, Jr.
1. Ho Chi Minch 13. Nelson Mandela 2. Richard B. Devine 8. Aaron J. Wheagar
2. Vladimir Lenin 14. Robert Mugabe 3. Aletha K. Hoff 9. T. Nelson Williams,II
3. Mao Zedong 15. Hifikepunye Pohamba 4. Belle Y. Dunbar 10. Jackson F. Doe, Jr.
4. Deng Xiaoping 5. B. Felix Zeekeh 11. McDonald Wlemus
5. Chi Jing Ping 6. Timothy Holt 12. Alexander Knuckles
6. Gus Hall
7. Eugene V. Debbs FOUR COUNTRIES THAT HAVE INSPIRED US
8. Steward Alexander THE MOST
9. John Bachtell 1. The United States of America
10. Felix Houphoet Boigny 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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GENERAL REVOLUTIONARY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


THOSE WHO HAVE PROVIDED THE D. ACADEMICIANS/PROFESSIONALS
ENLIGHTENMENT, PLUS THE i. LOCAL
OPPORTUNITIES, AND THE CONDITIONS TO # Name
MAKE THIS REVOLUTION POSSIBLE 1. Jacob Zumah Jallah
2. Samuel Toweh
A. INDIVIDUALS 3. Martin Kollie
i. LOCAL 4. Jacob Massaquoi
# Name
1. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf ii. INTERNATIONAL
2. Dr. Elwood Dun # Name
3. Dr. Amos Sawyer 1. Karl Marx
4. Dr. Yarsuo Weh-Dorliae 2. John Maynard Keynes
ii. INTERNATIONAL
# Name E. HISTORIANS
1. President Barack Obama i. LOCAL
2. Michelle Obama # Name
3. Amb. Deborah Malac 1. Joseph Saye Guannu
4. Karin Langrin 2. Professor Tuan Wleh
3 Prof. Alhaji G. V. Kromah
B. INSITITUTIONS ii. INTERNATIONAL
i. LOCAL # Name
# Name 1. Hugh Mason Brown
1. Coalition for the transformation of Lib. 2. Dr. James Ciment
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
1. League of Nations F. REVOLUTIONARIES
2. United Nations/UNMIL # Name Identities
3. Global Witness 1. George Washington US
4. Amnesty International 2. Mahatma Gandhi India
5. Transparency International 3. Martin Luther King, Jr. US
6. U S Department of State 4. Nelson Mandela South Africa
7. Conciliation Resources 5. Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe
8. Publish What You Pay Coalition 6. Mao Zedong China
9. Finance Uncovered, UK 7. Deng Xioping China
10. US Department of Justice 8. Che Guevara Cuba/Bolivia
9. Jose Mujica Ecuador
IT FIRMS/NETWORKS 10. Fidel Castro Cuba
i. LOCAL
G. THE PRESS
# Name
i. LOCAL (ELECTRONIC AND PRINT)
1. Lone Star Cell MTN
# Name Type
2. Cellcom Communications
1. Liberia Broadcasting
3. Nova Phone
Corporation/Sys. (LBS/ELBC) Electronic
ii. INTERNATIONAL 2. Farbric FM 101.1
# Name 3. Voice FM 102.7
1. Google 3. Microsoft 4. Truth FM 96.1
2. Facebook 4.YouTube 5. Twitter 5 Sky FM 107
6. Love FM
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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
9. Ali Krayee Muslim
15. Jones Nhinson Williams

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

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
understanding of the human experience, the better designs we will have.

With this exhortation from Mr. Jobs, we disclose here that on the overall, our motivation to embark on
this revolutionary project was at first primarily inspired by a quest to do something about our countrys
NASTY, SHAMEFUL history, but then we needed a strong backing too from current events, so, we had
to painfully take 4 round years to see if our convictions from historical researches could be strongly
backed by enough of empirical proofs from todays realities knowing that this time span was
reasonable enough conventionally, for such a serious research work. Consequently, the below current
event accounts, opinions, experiences, realities etc. have helped us truly connect the dots and thus
strengthened our case for this inescapable revolution. We doubt it, that any well-meaning person would
read the current event accounts of these narratives, sufficiently backed by history, and still think that
we, as a people, can use reforms or gradualist approaches to handle our countrys deadly problem and
redeem ourselves from this untold nightmare called nationhood, gain our rightful human status, and
make our Creator proud of making us too in His own image. The list below constitutes our Plain Truth
Revolutions revered heroes and heroines through whose inputs our revolution has finally become
JUSTIFIED God willing, and we recognize and celebrate them as our special acknowledgements
forever. Their collective message to us, in short is: Plain Truth Revolution, please go ahead, we join
you, and stand by you, whichever way possible.

Those heroes and heroines therefore are as follows, among many more to come up in later publications
by the grace of God. Weve placed their contributions under different subheadings. We will start with
the historical accounts of how the Black Americans Liberia was pronounced DOOMED by its
conceivers and designers even before it was established, and how this curse has been acutely
pronounced, warned about, and decried by different actors, including prominent people in world affairs
up to this point. This will be followed by different accounts of the NASTY state of Liberia from current
event realities. Please note that apart from numbered or bulleted names, bolded names of individuals
and institutions within any of the text in this section represent some of our special acknowledgements.
Welcome to our very special acknowledgement section:
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I. SOME OF THE GREATEST SOURCES INDIVIDUALS contd
FROM WHICH WE DRAW OUR MOTIVATION 35. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
A. INDIVIDUALS 36. Mr. Harry Greaves
37. Ambassador Miatta Fahnbulleh
1. Jensen Wallace 15. Vladamir Lenin 38. Makita Redd/Wreh,
2. Pastor Simeon Dunbar 16. John Batchel 39. Jonathan Pay-Lay Leh
3. Pastor Sirleaf, Presenter, 17. Eugene Debbs 40. Rep. George Mulbah
4. Pastor Friday Oravbiere, 18. Pank Yan Zeeahoe 41. Rep. Alex Grant
5. Pastor Rick Warren 19. Sheila Paskman 42. Isaac Redd
6. President Barack Obam 20. E. Johnson Sirleaf
43. Rep. Gabriel Nyenkan
7. President Chi Jing Ping 21. Julius Jeh
8. President John F. Kennedy 22. Nagbe Sloh 44. Minister Gyudee Moore
9. President Thomas Jefferson 23. Lewis Brown 45. Jerelimick Piah,
10. Barry Goldwater 24. Jacob Zuma Jallah 46. Nagbe Sloh
11. Hillary Clinton 25. Irasmus Gaye 47. Senator Henry Yallah
12. Lee Kuan Yew 26. Jah Johnson 48. Mr. Tarbarosa Tarponweh
13. Karl Marx 27. John S. Morlu 49. Liberian Girls trafficked to Lebanon
14. Mao Zedong 28. Eratus Bortu 50. D. Maxwell Kemayan
29. Sam Webb
51. Dr. Randolph McClain
B. INSTITUTIONS 52. Cllr. Afian Sherman
1. Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS/ELBC) 53. John S. Morlu
2. World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 54. Samora Wolokollie
II. HISTORICALS ACCOUNTS + PROOFS FROM
CURRENT EVENTS OF LIBERIAS MESSY B. INSTITUTIONS
FOUNDATION 1. Global Witness
2. UN Security Council
A. INDIVIDUALS 3. Farbric F.M.
1. By James Ciment (2x) 28. Min. Moses Jackson 4. Liberias Truth & Reconciliation
2. Nancy Oku Bright (2x) 29. Miatta Fahnbulleh Commission
3. Pastor Solomon Juah 30. Sen. Dallas Gweh 5. US Congress
4. Dr. Charles Johnson 31. Aagon Tingba III. SITUATIONS OR REALITIES THAT
5. John Randolph, 32. Cllr. Benedict Sannon FURTHER JUSTIFY LIBERIAS
6. US Pres. Abraham Lincoln 33. Jonathan Gant
DOOMED FATE
7. Jerome J. Verdier 34 Jonathan Paye-Layleh
8. Dede Dolopei, A. INDIVIDUALS
9. Oumu K. Syllah,
10. Bishop Arthur F. Kulah, 1. Steve Kolubah,
11. Sheikh Kafumba F. Konneh, 2. Amb. Chigozie Obi-Nnadozie,
12. Pearl Brown Bull, 3. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (2x)
13. Gerald B. Coleman, 4. Rep. Richmond Anderson
14. John H. T. Stewart, 5. Mo Ibrahim, 18. Musa
15. Massa Washington, 6. Menipaket Dumoi 19. John S. Morlu
16. Henrietta Joy Abena Mensa Bonsu 7. Rep. Gabriel Smith 20. Julius Jeh
17. Hugh Mason Brown 8. Sen. Thomas Grupee 21. R. Bhofal Chambers
18. Dr. James Ciment 9. Karin Langrin 22. Sen. Oscar Cooper
19. Wikipedia/History of Liberia 10. Deborah Malac 23. Saah Gborlie
20. Koffi Woods 11. Amb. Tina Intelmann 24. Nicolas Cook
21. Dr. Amos Sawyer 12. Ismail Serageldin 25. Dr. James Ciment
22. Dean Johnson 13. Dr. Amos Sawyer 26. Tycon J.
23. Wilfred Bangourah 14. Nathaniel Barnes 27. Sir John Simon
24. Darious Dillon 15. Keith Morris 28. Darious Deylon
25. Jim Hunt 16. Dayboy 29. Lawrence Yealue
26. Brad Henry 17. Prof. Dr. Ibrahim K. Sundiatta
27. Min. George Werner
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INDIVIDUALS contd VI. PEOPLE OR INSTITUTIONS WHOSE


32. Tamba Johnny 39. Samora Wolokollie IDEAS JUST MATCH OURS
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
3. Joseph Kartee 7. Stamina Kartee
V. THE ENDURING DANGERS THAT 4. Tony T. Bleh
LIBERIA POSES TO ITSELF AND THE
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
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5. Gladys Johnson 17. Carl Victor
1. Dejure Members: All members of our 7 big
6. Senator Comany Wisseh 18. Farbric NightTime
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 2. Defacto Members (*have all right to decline
11. A. A. Walters 23. United Fruit Comp
publicly if not convicted or interested): All those we
12. North Western University 24. Andrew Preston
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
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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 ONLINE COMMUNITIES)
31. William Blum 45. Brownie Samukai
32. Nicolas Cook, 46. Martin K. N. Kollie 3. Facebook.._____
33. Library of Congress 47. Donald Trump, now
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

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. Preface: A short profile of the author...1
5. How the less than 5% minority Americo-Liberians have successfully managed
to stupefy and corner the huge indigenous population of this country.4
6. A short account of the power of the Truth4
7. The incredible puzzles of the Americo-Liberian embarrassment that we still
dodge today...5
8. How history and the masters of the Americo-Liberians describe them...5
9. Did these so-called freed slaves really come from this very part of Africa.....6
10. How really do the Americo-Liberians consider the indigenous people...6
11. Some accounts of the devilish treatments of the Natives of this land..7
A. The Mcgill and Seton saga..7
B. The official wave of selling out the Bokais, Yarkpawolos and Dolos
of this land as slave or like domesticated animals..7
C. Some of the terrible excerpts of the League of Nations Cuthbert Christy
Report on the treatment of our people.....9
D. How Government of Liberia Officials treated their own people
from Maryland once..10
12. The Black Americans explicit mission against the Natives.......................10
13. Britains 1904 demands for interior policy reform from the Americo-Liberians...11
14. Barclay and his indirect rule of 1906..12
15. How the Americo-Liberians use a British-established Liberia Frontier Force
(now AFL) to further terrorize and dehumanize our indigenous population.12
16. How criminal resource exploitation has been the only goal of Americo-Liberians
through their structure called Government.13
17. How President Anthony Gardner confirmed this goal of criminally exploiting
our resources...13
18. How Liberias integration and unification policies have mainly targeted
trying to ward off possible French or British encroachment, apart from
massively stealing our resources, and thats it!..........................................................13
19. Siahyonkon Nyanseors accounts of the settlers cruelty over trade and
tax issues.....14
20. How the LFF/AFL further forced our people into exile in the sub region.........14
21. What caused few miles of dirt roads to ever extend into Liberias interior...14
22. Why is quality education always hidden from Liberia vast indigenous
majority...14
23. How Liberia never had a high school even for some time after independence..15
24. The sad story of the beginning and subsequent running of the Liberia College,
now University of Liberia...15
25. The Americo-Liberians and their entrenched slave mentality16
26. How Firestone made hundreds of thousands of our people homeless without
any compensation...17
27. How Firestone criminally and cruelly exploited their labor force from among our
people..18
28. Firestones dreadful treatment of our people who worked for them, like complete
slaves..18
29. How Portugal disgraced Liberia over the treatment of our Native people.18
30. Amara Konneh pinpoints the causes of ethnic rivalries and animosities.......18
31. The two periods of Americo-Liberian elitism ...18
32. How Americo-Liberians have been successfully destroying perceived Native
threats to their political supremacy.....19
A. The D. Twe story...20
B. The Momolu Dukuly experience...20
C. The long and sad Jackson F. Doe tale20
33. Ellens links to Liberias major bloodbaths and her governments
handling of Liberias Truth and Reconciliation Commission Reports.23
34. Ellen, as a more convincing example of all Americo-Liberian flops.25
35. More on how prominent indigenous keep being fatally
targeted...25
A. Prince Johnsons suspicion about the Americo-Liberian agenda...25
B. Taylors extermination of Sam Dokie and Nowai Flomo..26
36. The beginning of a new palliative move by Americo-Liberians to make
Natives their Vice Presidents..26
37. How the Boakais, Konnehs, Samukais, etc. are unfortunately mere stooges
for the Americo-Liberians, or, have become one themselves26
38. George Weahs share of the Native Camp destruction ploy..........26
39. The cruelty about Liberias Thanksgiving Day..28
40. Some legacies of the so-called settlers actions on our country.28
41. A sample of views on the Americo-Liberian-Native debacle28
A. Dr. James Ciment of New York 28
B. Dr. Joseph Saye Guannu29
C. Conciliation Resources of the UK.29
D. Cllr. Tiawon Gongloe29
E. The League of Nations...30
42. Some questions or concerns to be addressed by those who think that all
these issues should swept under the rug or be left unresolved...30
43. How resolved we are to use the positive side of Ethnicity to change our
situation, God willing.32
44. How others have effectively laid blames to solve their problems..35
45. How Ethnic delineation, profiling or mapping (however we call it) has been
used constructively by others to solve their chronic problems...36
46. John Rawls on the concept of ideological enemies........37
47. What signs are we waiting for to come to ourselves..37
48. How positive ethnicity has historical, religious, and contemporary sociological
backing37
49. Ibn Al Qayyims strong admonishments about working with the Truth38
50. King Solomon and Master Jesuss inputs about the Truth.........39
51. A memorable Inprofile Dailys editorial about the power of Truth...39
52. What did French Poet Victor Hugo say about an idea whose time has come39
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INTRODUCTION

I, the author of this article, Roland S. Kartee, do hail form the Dan (Gio) Ethnic group, from
Northeastern Liberias Nimba County, specifically from a little farm settlement that my
father has usually encouraged us to refer to as Karteesville, near a village called Lontuo,
around the Liberian-Ivorian border. My father, Roland Kartee, Sr. who prefers the name
Tarkpor Kartee instead, had taught for years at both junior and senior secondary schools in
the key provincial towns of Karnplay and Sanniquellie in Nimba County, but strangely
decided to early retire himself to get back to the soil in his home village in the very late
1970s. Apart from his desire to own and run a farm, he said however, he had retired back to
his home village this soon, as a way of escaping what he perceived as an inconceivably
failed and corrupt educational and overall national system that he now felt helpless to
impact after several failed, lonesome attempts.

From Karteesville, I was adopted by my foster father, Mr. Nathaniel Doeward, a relative of
my biological father, and taken to Unification Town, Robertsfield, Margibi County, in
1983, around 7 years of age, where I continued my schooling until we fled Liberias
Uncivil War from that part of the country to become internally displaced in our own
Nimba County in 1990. Mr. Doeward is now sadly deceased, and peace be unto his ashes.
We got to Karteesville on July 24, 1990, when my young mother was already closed to
experiencing delivery pains for her last child, who eventually would not have survived. As
if my mother was only waiting to see me after almost 7 years of being apart, Aunty
Moinma, as she was affectionately called, took onto delivery pains the next day, July 25,
1990, after we had just had a whole day of celebrating my save home coming during
terrible war days.

Here came the mystery: Aunty Moinma, who was by then 38, usually delivered at health
centers under the supervision of relatively professional nurses or registered midwives, but
on this fateful July 25-26, 1990, where could one find an operational health center nearby in
the midst of guns, guns and guns? And even if one were opened somewhere around, which
normally would be more than 10 miles away, where would have a means of transportation
ever come from? Could a woman in pain walk those miles away? My father, against his
will, was constrained to call in some unprofessional traditional midwives without any
prejudice to these people whom I consider mothers of mine however from the nearby
village, and in their hands, young mom passed away on the morning of July 26, 1990, just 2
days after my arrival. A productive, relatively educated, and young woman, not used to
such form of delivery, had just lost her life as a direct result of the effects of a war planned
and executed by one Charles Taylor, along with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tom Woewiyu,
according to www.wikipedia.org all based in the United States of America.

Apart from this major loss suffered by the Kartees as a result of the mayhem orchestrated
chiefly by the Johnsons and the Taylors from their bases and save havens in America, Mr.
Kartee, who during his self-imposed early retirement to the bushes in the 1970s, as
mentioned earlier had anticipated making huge progress in his Agricultural endeavors, has
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up to this 2016, almost 36 to 37 years on, never been able to achieve anything materially
due to the enduringly appalling conditions of social services (roads, transportation, other
infrastructure etc.) in the country; again, an outcome of the failed and cruel policies of the
Warners, Colemans, Kings, Tubmans etc. still being sustained by the Johnsons, Tylers, and
McClains today.

Continuing with my own ordeal, I too, feeling that the Uncivil War would have ended
soon for us to return to Robertsfield, Margibi, where I would continue my education, was
waiting in Nimba endlessly until four consecutive school years slipped me by. Determined
never to allow a fifth school year come and go by the grace of God, I tearfully left lonesome
widower, Tarkpor Kartee and my other young siblings back in Nimba and took off for
Danane, La Cote dIvoire late 1993 to continue my education at the refugee school.

I enrolled at the Mountain View Academy for a short while; and then later entered the
Protestant Methodist Resource Center, where I remained until my graduation from high
school in 1997. I returned to Liberia in 1998, enrolled at the University of Liberia in 1999,
where I took a semester to do a remedial course in English.

Then came 2003, when the news of Liberias so called World War III engulfed the whole
of Monrovia. The fearful aspect of these news was that the key faction in this 2003 Liberian
Uncivil War, LURD (Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy) comprised
mainly Mandingo elements, an Ethnic group I recalled how bitter the feud stage managed
by the Americo-Liberians between them and my group, the Dans, was in the early 1990s,
as a result of the actions of the NPFL (National Patriotic Front of Liberia). Living in the
slum community of Logan Town in Monrovia by then, when I heard that LURD was just a
few blocks away, I decided to flee to Central Monrovia (New Port Junior High School
Displaced Center, on Newport Street).

At that displaced camp on Newport Street, I narrowly survived a terrible round of


indiscriminate shelling that LURD had undertaken early morning, July 25, 2003, the very
date, 13 years back, that that fateful delivery pain which would take away my young
mothers life started. At an open well on the Newport Junior High School Campus that July
26 eve of 2003, where we had all gathered to fetch water, LURD dropped two giant-sized
rockets (bombs) that instantly killed eight persons and seriously wounded several others
including me, in a group of poor, helpless internally displaced persons that were sharing
jokes that morning while awaiting one another to get hold of the single available draw
bucket just to manage to fetch a bucket or gallon of water. I got hard hit by particles from
the double explosions, some of which pierced my buttock, one nearly penetrated my rib
towards the heart, but was blocked by a bone, one hit my spinal cord right around the neck
etc., but God spared me, thanks to an MSF ad hoc clinic operating in the Mamba Point Area
that morning that cleverly extracted those particles from our bodies in the midst of even
more shelling still being done by LURD that day.
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I mention all this because lately (in 2014) did I again discover in a WikiLeaks article that
this whole idea of LURD was something once more masterminded by Madam Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf, after I had discovered just in 2013 that this same woman was a key founder
and fund raiser of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia, through the effect of whose war,
my young loving mother died before reaching age 40.

Now, imagine the combined toll that all of these wars have had on my person, apart from
the loss of a precious mother and a complete shattering of fathers and familys dream for
decades. In grade school, I had to sit for 4 consecutive years before resuming and
completing high school; it took almost 2 years to enter college, and it took 10 consecutive
years to earn a normally 4-year Bachelor Degree from the University of Liberia because
semester breaks sometime lasted for whole calendar years, apart from other constraints.

Even before coming across the separate blog posts of Joseph B. Wirthlin and Joseph Persico
which stress the realities of life being comparable to a marathon race and the importance of
being conscious of making up for lost time respectively, I have had this natural intuition
about lost time in life, and have, as such, lived (in terms of academic and professional
preparations) as if there was no tomorrow. That specter of being left behind terribly in
life has always haunted me in all that I did, and do today, even though despite all these
setbacks, I have always been considered relatively the youngest, or one of the youngest in
almost all of my activities by the grace of God.

At the Liberia Petroleum Refining (Storage) Company (LPRC), where I spent four year as
both casual worker and cadet before getting fully employed during the final few days of
2003 after nursing my LURD bombshell injury (Mr. Paul S. Jappah current Assistant
Product Delivery Manager at the LPRC is a living witness), I received some form of job
promotion every year from 2004 to 2010, when I finally became that somewhat
conservative Americo-Liberian companys relatively youngest full-fledged manager,
Business Applications Manager, a senior level Information Technology (IT)-related
position recommended by the USAID GEMAP program, before their disengagement. That
same year, 2010, I entered the Cuttington Graduate Program and completed my MBA
studies in Accounting in 2013, at the time I was already in trouble with my Americo-
Liberian employer, the LPRC, from some witch hunt action. The most interesting thing to
note here is that this trouble, with a Thomas Nelson Williams Management, a Rev. Dr.
Herman Browns Board of Directors, and under an Ellen Johnson Presidency (lets not
forget Sirleaf is a married name), which fell in January 2013, had come about because a
Native Roland Kartee was now becoming hypersensitive in their view to the always
twisted modus operandi of the so called ruling elite, and his (Rolands) moves, talks, or
actions seemed to be taking a trend that could adversely affect the current spoiled economic
and political status quo inaugurated since 1822 by the American Colonization Society
through their Agent Jehudi Ashmun, and so-called legitimized in 1847 by Joseph Jenkins
Roberts. Please note that full details of this revolutionary case can be found in at least two
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of our Plain Truth Revolutionary pamphlets, including Why Is This Case Considered A
Revolutionary And Game-Changing One, and The LPRC Case Sent to the LACC.

To begin our discussions of how things stand at the national level, or to get into our bigger
picture discussions, the mind boggling thing about this whole Settlers marginalization tale
of the Natives in this country (which is referred to by an American Historian, Dr. James
Ciment as Liberias Original Sin) is the level of success with which these Black Settlers or
the Americo-Liberians, the Johnsons, Weeks, McClains, Tubmans etc., the absolute
frontrunners of this society, who constitute only less than 2% of this countrys population,
have been able to inculcate STUPIDITY and COWARDICE into the vast indigenous
population for up to 194 years now. We speak here with all due respect to our tribal,
indigenous or native people, who we know have been to a huge extent pushed into this
situation primarily for survival, but hugely against their own will. The Americo-Liberians
have cunningly implanted into us, the indigenous (even our educated ones, our so-called
politicians, and civil society activists) a mindset that to speak the truth about this NASTY
situation, which will go against them, is equivalent to being tribalistic or discriminatory.
They have slyly led us into a state of mind in which most of us are informed about the
embarrassing realities about them either completely or to some extent; yes, but we are either
afraid or unwilling to speak the real truth about this nightmare, and to act radically to
change it. Social Scientists do describe this kind of sad and strange unwillingness to get out
of ones comfort zone of lies as being maladaptive.

Note, maladaptive here means that we are intentionally refusing to make the proper societal
adjustments, though we see the compelling need to do so before we can ever be stable and
make progress as a people. One would then wonder how possibly could a mere 2% or less
minority manage to either charm, cajole and or coerce a whole 98% majority including their
educated elements into believing certain myths, and then place this majority into a painful
permanent state of sincere ignorance and conscious stupidity for all this long (194 years
now), which however adversely affects the common interests of both groups, though
unequally.

Although we hinted an answer in the paragraph immediately above, further clues to helping
us answer most of the tricky questions relating to how this Liberian Original Sin
continues to flourish unabated, and how this maladaptiveness propping this sin continues to
reign forever, are presented in the rest of this pamphlet, so please tighten your seat belts to
read more. As you will discover in the reading notwithstanding, the common point of
failure that has sustained all these years of illusion has been both groups refusal to accept
and leverage the undefeatable power and light of the word TRUTH. The around 2%
minority has used lies to subjugate the huge 98% masses to a second class population, while
elements from the 98% group have consciously accepted the tricks of the 2% lying so-
called elites, as a means of survival and easy societal integration.

An African proverb however says, The truth is like a precious piece of gold, or mineral,
no matter how long it stays in the mud, it can never lose its color and power. Then
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former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill says, The truth is incontrovertible;
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. And so in our
case fellow citizens, the TRUTH must now be told, and remedial actions must be taken
now, to finally deliver us from almost two centuries of bondage to lies; 194 years of slavery
to barrenness and unproductivity, and countless decades of mental captivity to the paradox
of extreme deprivation in a vast ocean of natural wealth etc. Here are the incredible puzzles
we still consciously dodge today:

1) Who told you that it is a secret to our educated ones (both Natives and Congoes) that the
founding fathers of this failed country, the Americo-Liberians, who have always
pretended to be the best stock of ethnic breed; the most civilized; the most educated; the
most sophisticated; the superior social class etc. and have been doing everything
humanly possible to remain at this elitist and first class social level in this country,
while working out all of the secret policies to subjugate the vast indigenous population
to a permanent second class level, are indeed the worst breed of citizens in this society
and the major cause for why we have been, and continue to remain a horrible
warning to other countries on the globe? When you visit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Colonization_Society, fellow citizens, you will
find out that the key proponents of the American Colonization Societys Back to Africa
Project, and key founders of this society, who were mainly American Southerners,
planters and slave owners, with both business and racist motivations, had used four key
and dangerous adjectives to describe the elements they were targeting to weed out of the
American Society, especially their plantation South, which heavily depended on
productive Black Slaves. And so the overall goal of the ACS was to stabilize their
plantation environment and keep their entire society safe and productive by rounding up
proven hardcore criminals and unproductive elements from among the huge Black
population in America by then a rounded group of bad apples that unfortunately turned
out to be the founders and builders of what would be referred to today as Liberia a
terribly failed state, as the whole world can now attest. The story is long, but these are
the 4 dangerous adjectives or descriptions that the ACS founders and other Southerners
used to label those they were shipping here to establish and run their Liberia:
Promoters of mischief
Morally lax
Mentally inferior
Criminally oriented

So in short, one had to possess all or some of these qualities before being rounded up for
shipment (on the Mayflower, Nautilus, and Harriet etc.) bound for Liberia. Pleases do
further research of how Congressmen like John Randolph and Henry Clay were so
emphatic about their passion and resolve to rid these selected Blacks out of the
American Society.
Now, fellow countrymen, we all, one way or the other serve God. Liberia is
predominantly Christianic or Islamic professedly, whether one likes it or not. For those
from Christian background, we ask, When Jesus Christ, in Luke 6:43-45, among other
things said that, A healthy tree does not bear bad fruit, nor does a poor tree bear good
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fruit; or, you do not pick figs form thorn bushes, or gather grapes from bramble bushes,
etc., what do we think he meant here? Put it in the context of our countrys embarrassing
debacle. Fellow compatriots of Islamic background, lets quote from astute Islamic
Scholar, Hesham A. Hassaballa, who directly cited or paraphrased Surat 14:24-26 as
follows: Art thou not aware how God sets forth the parable of a good word? (It is) like
a good tree, firmly rooted, (reaching out) with its branches towards the sky, and yielding
its fruits at all times by its Lords leave. And (thus, it is that) God propounds parables
unto humanity, so that they may bethink themselves (of the truth). And the parable of a
corrupt word is that of a corrupt tree, torn up (from its roots) onto the face of the Earth,
wholly unable to endure. Again, fellow citizens, what do we think God was saying
here, through His prophet? Are we saying that our CREATOR is a God of lies or jokes,
or do we think we can continue to make mockery out of him forever? God forbid!!!! A
hint to the wise is quite sufficient.

2) Who told you that a good number of this countrys educated people dont know that a
major problem faced by us, as a country, is that the so called key decision and policy
makers; those that influence the course of events and history in our country; those that
are always at the highest echelons of power; the movers and shakers in all times of our
countrys history; the guys that call the shot; etc., the Black American Settlers and their
descendants, are people who sadly can really never trace their natal origins to this land;
and as such, and obviously, they care less about what happens outside of their little
village called Monrovia? Who told you with all of the noise we cause around here, our
Executive Mansion under a purely Liberian Arrangement has ever, and will ever
sincerely care for what is happening up there in Gborplay, Namba County or Gbogonjay
in Rivergee County?
In history, when the American Naval Officers were coercively and criminally taking
away Cape Mesurado (the piece of land which started the failed state, Liberia) from our
tribal forefathers, the Native Kings, Captain Robert Field Stockton and Eli Ayres put the
Kings under a false impression that they were acquiring the land for a while to settle
their bad apples temporarily, at which time, they would trace the immigrants actual
origins at different locations on the African Continent before later shipping them to their
rightful destinations. This promise hasnt yet been fulfilled with 195 years gone by.
Additionally, what love for mother land would a person have for a place that he
cannot actually trace his historical roots to? Isnt this a serious double trouble for us
i.e. a criminally oriented resident alien in control of you country, what good will ever
come out of that country? A big hint to the wise is quite sufficient!!
3) Who told you that it is a secret that even before getting here, the so called Americo-
Liberians had a preconceived notion about the tribal people as some other low class
animals that they were coming to treat just anyhow? In fact, they perceived the Native
tribal people as wild animals that they, the Black American Settlers would domesticate
in another sense. This point was proven by Liberias first President, Joseph Jenkins
Roberts, the man with no formal educational background who became both national and
university Presidents and Professor, when he referred to the vast tribal community of the
Deis, Krus, Bassa etc. as a Barbarous Country/Nation in his first inaugural address
of 1848. According to Dr. James Ciment of the City of New York, the Settlers and their
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descendants viewed/view their tribal African counterparts as Savages (meaning,


brutes, beasts, monsters, barbarians, sardonists or wild animals). This perception
continued on, and still lives on today, in sometimes more intelligent forms. As closer to
the 21st century as 1966, Madam A. Doris Banks Henries, in her book, Civics for
Liberian Schools; a text book approved by the Ministry of Education to be taught in
Liberian schools, had it that when the Black American immigrants arrived in the early
19th century, they met SAVAGES, NOT human beings, and that through the Settlers
great efforts, these SAVAGES started getting transformed into human beings.
Fellow citizens, the question remains, If you were formally considered mere beasts and
wild animals just in the 1960s and 70s, what makes you think you are now off the hook
this 2016? Please open your eyes, my countrymen!! Here are some proofs of the
Americo-Liberians true convictions that members of the Ethnic African communities
are mere animals:
a) Because we were, and are considered mere savages and wild animals, here are some
of the befitting treatment the tribal people of this country (the Krus, Bassas, Vais,
Lormas, Manos, Gios, Kpelle etc.) have been receiving at the hands of their so-called
civilized superiors from North America:
i. Mr. George R. McGill, an African American Educator, around the late 1820s or
early 1830s was reported to have been rudely ex-communicated from the
Methodist Church for deciding to marry an indigenous Liberian woman. Mr.
McGills ex-communication from the church was not enough, but he was pursued
to the newly established colonial school where he was teaching, and subsequently
dismissed (for such an unsavory act of intermarrying with a savage). This
historical account can be found on page 89 of the book, A Short History of the
First Liberian Republic, Joseph Saye Guannu.
ii. During the 1800s Liberia, the Settler elite selected a few loyalists from among the
indigenous population and conferred citizenship upon them. Discretionally, they
would select from among the indigenous turned citizen loyalists and appoint
them to their Colonial Legislature to serve at the settlers will and pleasure as so-
called representatives of their tribal people. In the 1880s according to the book,
A Short History of the First Liberian Republic, Samuel W. Seton, a Grebo and
baptized Episcopalian, handpicked by the ruling elite to represent some section of
his Grebo people received the greatest shock of his political live when he decided
to proffer a bill that would unconditionally grant citizenship to indigenous
Liberians. His bill was rudely thrown out of plenary and there are some historical
accounts that he was expelled from the Legislature like what D. Twe experienced
in the late 1920s, as you will discover later. The apparent unannounced argument
in the settler community at that time was What a Fool that wants to grant
Savages citizenship in our precious country?
iii. During the first ten years of their nationhood, the Settlers, whom US Congressman John
Randolph had claimed were promoters of mischief, were taking off time to find a
suitable labor market to start selling these Savages (elements from Grain Coasts 16
indigenous tribes). As early as 1857, during the regime of Mr. Stephen Allen Benson,
(the man for whose private boats seizure 10 years back failed Liberia demanded
independence and got it), indigenous able-bodied young men were now being sold out
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formally by the Liberian Government for slave work in the French West Indies. This
trade became so intensified that on one of their long sea journey from Monrovia to the
West Indies, conditions became very bad that the rounded up workers revolted and
killed the entire white crew on the ship. These human market transactions continued on
in Liberia from this year, 1857, with contract signatories changing periodically.
In 1892, this time under President Joseph J. Cheeseman or Hilary R. W. Johnson, the
French again signed another contract with the Liberian Government under which
government recruited Liberian indigenous men to work on the Panama Canal, and in
Latin America, to serve in the French Colonial Army (In the Cause of The People, Tuan
Wleh, p.38). By 1900, during the regime of Garretson Wilmot Gibson, Spain began to
recruit slave labor from Liberia to work her plantations on the Island of Fernando Poo.
So inhumane was the treatment given the Liberian indigenous guys working there that
President Daniel E. Howard, between 1912 and 1920, was compelled to take some
action to keep their human trafficking business in tact without noise. In his inaugural
massage of 1913, President Howard stated that in order to put an end to the (so called)
injustice going on against his people in Fernando Poo, it was necessary for the
Government of Liberia to have a diplomatic representation stationed on the Island. So,
in 1914 a convention was entered into between Spain and Liberia, which among other
things, called for a resident Liberian Consul at Fernando Poo and a Labor Agent at every
point of disembarkation on the island (A Short History of the First Liberian Republic,
p.24), instead of stopping such a NASTY and UNCIVILIZED ACT of selling our poor
indigenous forefathers (the Boakais, the Flomos, and the Nyanquehs.) into slavery
altogether.
In that same year, 1914, Liberia renewed or signed a new Labor Contract with the
Government of Spain to supply more Samukais, Massaquois, Sannons, and Sirleafs to
Fernando Poo. The inhumane treatment of these country guys there again (i.e. when it
gets to the attention of others in the international community) led to the suspension of
the contract in 1919. Nevertheless, shipment of indigenous laborers to the twin Islands
of Fernando Poo and Rio Muni (the two of which became one independent nation,
Equatorial Guinea, in 1968) continued under cover in the same inhumane conditions. In
1928, another labor agreement was entered into between a group of prominent Liberians
and another Spanish Company, the Syndicato Agricola de los Territories Espanoles
del Golfo de Guinea for the service of Liberian indigenous workers in Fernando Poo;
this time, the laborers were on every occasion forcibly recruited by the Liberia Frontier
Force on the orders of government officials since resistance to their constant rounding
up of these innocent young indigenous men to separate them from their families and
loved ones so cruelly to unknown locations was now increasing. (A short history of the
first Liberian republic, p.75). For instance key government officials who recruited
indigenous able-bodied men for this Spanish Company in the late 1920s included former
Vice President Samuel Ross and incumbent Vice President Allen Yancy.

To get a feel of how these cruel recruitment exercises used to go on, lets get a gist of
some of the radio communications that took place during their operations, sometimes
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between or among conscious and unconscious government officials, according to the


League of Nations 1930 and 1931 reports:
For example, in a radio message session from Sinoe County dated October 5, 1927
that was before the contract was formalized in 1928 the Post Master General or
Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Reginald Sherman complained to the
Secretary of State (Foreign Minister) Edwin Barclay, as follows: Referring to VP
Samuel Ross, Minister Sherman tells colleague Minister Barclay, Ross wired yesterday
asking for boys to be shipped through Spanish steamer, which request, please deny. I am
informed that boys are decoyed from the hinterland under promise of bringing rice for
sale, which is taken from them, and they are forced aboard ships just as in slave days.
Over 300 boys here with rice now across the river are being guarded to await ship by
government soldiers. Is it in accordance with the terms of our contract that soldiers
should be used to guard free men and force them out of this country as laborers to build
up another country? Is it not a reflection on our motto, The love of liberty brought us
here? Shall we, whose fathers founded this country to secure liberty for their sons
encourage this blighted and cursed practice which is running our country? (Christy
Report, 1931, p.110)

Reginald Sherman again sent another radiogram to Secretary Barclay in less than one
hour as follows. Further to radiogram concerning shipment of boys to Fernando Poo, I
have been across the river and have seen the boys. Oh, Secretary Barclay, in very truth,
we have slave trade in this place. Boys told me that they were chased, caught and forced
down here under a purported order from headquarters. They were flogged and I saw
with my own eyes the fresh scars on their backs and the rope marks on their
hands....... (Idem).

On that same day, the County Attorney, William Witherspoon, radiogrammed the
Attorney General (Justice Minister) in Monrovia on the seriousness of the matter,
stating, among others that, Natives are being forced for shipment to Fernando Poo; they
are being maltreated and made prisoners, shall I proceed against the perpetrators, and is
government interested? Reply immediately (Idem).

Secretary Barclay acted swiftly and decisively. To Postmaster General, Sherman, he


radiogrammed, Thinking Ross acting bona fide, I granted him permit for shipment of
300 laborersetc. He continues on: These were supposed to be men voluntarily
engaging for service. Your message reveals iniquity. Am cancelling contract, you will
instruct Grigsby in my name and in the name of government to have man who is
involuntarily held released immediately. If necessary, have everybody concerned
prosecuted. This is peremptory. Blackett must be dismissed. (Idem)

Notwithstanding all the above, history has got no accounts that any of these actions
instructed by Secretary of State Barclay were ever prosecuted or implemented, or that
the threatened dismissal (s) were ever effected.
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To prove that these acts plus many many more were systematic campaigns of mayhem
orchestrated by the Setters elite in line with their hereditary trait of mischief making,
here is another account of how the indigenous were being treated or how officials of the
Liberian Government went about getting their slave manpower out of the hinterland, and
this implicates Presidents King and Tubman. It is said that in one of their rounding up
exercises, Vice President Allen Yancy assembled the chiefs and elders in Maryland
County and informed them that they had been ordered by President Charles King to
provide him (Yancy) 60 men each (i.e. each one chief in that meeting should provide 60
living Yarkpawolos) for service in Fernando Poo. Yancy also informed the chiefs that if
they were hesitant they could go to Monrovia to confirm the truth from the President
themselves. Not satisfied with such huge request, the chiefs led by one Chief Broh took
the VP to task and sent a two-man fact finding team to Monrovia. According to the
Christy Committee Report, President King denied Allens statement before the chiefs
messengers. When the messengers returned with the news, there was a reported sigh of
relief and a lot of jubilations for the poor tribal people in Maryland that day. But
unfortunately, three political leaders were around, including County Superintendent
Brooks, County Senator William V.S Tubman, and Representative McBorrough. This
triplet decided to inquire from chief Broh whether he in fact sent to challenge the V.P.s
claim or request. When Chief Broh answered in the affirmative, the three officials
ordered the imprisonment of the Chief (using the Liberia Frontier Force and they still
carried on their recruitment exercise and got their required number of indigenous men
for their human trafficking partners). President King, according to the report never did
anything about this embarrassment in response.

In the final Christy Commission Report, it was pointed out that President Charles King,
Vice President Allen Yancy, and several other top officials of government (todays
GOL) were receiving US$45 for each living head of indigenous men and boys exported
to Fernando Poo, and that the Liberia Frontier Force (transformed into AFL for the
same purpose today) was used to round each of these boys up. The report also carried
that GOL officials abused their offices by using the LFF to recruit workers to Fernando
Poo, among other gruesome acts, all perpetrated against the poor indigenous population
of this country.

4) Who told you it is a secret that the Black American Migrants or Settlers came here to
pursue a NASTY campaign of vendetta against the poor Native people? These guys,
whose slave masters and deporters had described as morally lax and mentally inferior
mischief makers etc., and for these grave reasons decided to ship them out of America to
save the American Society, made it known that they were out for revenge formally by
the provisions they enshrined in their so-called Declaration of Independence and the first
constitution of their so-called new republic. A group that had come to this country and
met on ground 16 well-established different ethnic groups of their own kind and
complexion, according to history, were boldly cruel enough to lay the basis for their
current and future treatment of the indigenous population and their subsequent
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interactions with these Native people in this preamble that introduced both the
Declaration of Independence and the first Liberian constitution as follows: We the
people of the Republic of Liberia were originally the people of the United State of North
America. In some parts of that country, we were debarred by law from all the rights
and privileges of men in other parts, public sentiment, more powerful than law,
frowned us down. We were everywhere shut out from all civil office. We were excluded
from all participation in the government. We were taxed without our consent. We were
compelled to contribute to the resources of a country which gave us no protection... (A
Short History of the First Liberian Republic, P.2).

This preamble now laid the foundation for the subsequent cruel treatment of members
from the tribal communities of Liberias 16 Ethnic groups. Lets catalogue just a few of
these inhumane treatments for the sake of space:

a) As weve been mentioning repeatedly in this text, members of the 16 ethnic groups
have been considered lower in quality than human beings. For this reason, the
Settlers did not have any reason to ever grant them (the Natives) citizenship in their
Liberia. Later, for economic and other reasons, they started incorporating a few
indigenous within their ranks and making use of them, one of such Natives, made
citizen to seek or advance the Settlers interest among his people was Samuel W.
Seton. They appointed Seton to represent few of his country Grebo men in the
Settlers Colonial Legislature. Seton, mindful of his background and embarrassed
about the plight of his tribal community, proffered a bill to grant unconditional
citizenship to all tribal Liberians, but as we said earlier, Seton met the shock of his
political life for making such proposal, and other historical accounts even reported
that Seton was expelled from their Legislature as a result. This condition endured for
over 50 years until 1904, when Liberias economic crisis terribly deepened that the
so-called country, was now clutching at straws. As such, newly elected Arthur
Barclay coming to the Presidency with all of the strategies to resuscitate his
countrys dead economy, had two major economic plans on his agenda to do
everything possible to acquire new foreign loan for the country after the ill-fated
1871 loan, which the country could never pay a cent back out of.
So as one of his strategies, Barclay had to design an effective tax collection
mechanism that will cover the entire country, and he had to also put the right
conditions into place for implementation. Liberia could not effectively and legally
(in the eyes of the international community, as usual,) impose taxes on all Natives
when these people were not citizens. For the second strategy, Britain, the only lender
Liberia had at the time, had always complained about Governments poor and cruel
handling of the hinterland and its population, and was demanding interior policy
reforms before discussing any issues of loans with this Black American country.
Fighting every way possible to qualify for an upcoming 1906 loan of US$500,000
from a British Financial Institution, Erlanger & Company, Arthur Barclay
pretentiously and shrewdly extended unconditional citizenship to the Natives in
1904. According to www.liberiapastandpresent.org, Barclay finally got his
US$500,000 loan in 1906, and after some time of planning, finally commenced the
implementation of his new that tax regime ($1.00 per every hut in the hinterland).
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But what we are interested in here is this. As if this constrained conferment of


citizenship on the so-called Savages really struck a raw nerve in the Settler
Community, the campaign of unspeakable repression against the indigenous people
really took up new momentums, especially when the British-organized Liberia
Frontier Force ( currently AFL) was now turned over to the Government of Liberia
around 1909 or 1910. Mr. Barclay, the grantor of indigenous citizenship instituted
an interior governance policy called the Indirect Rule in 1906, apparently upon
receiving his loan. According to this policy, as originally used by Britain in their
colonial administration, the tribal people were governed directly by their traditional
leaders but these traditional leaders were directly accountable to the Monrovia-sent
District Commissioners who in turn were accountable too to Monrovias greedy and
cruel elite. The Monrovia-handpicked District Commissioners, heavily backed by
soldiers of the Liberia Frontier Force, coercively coordinated the activities of the
traditional leaders in meeting the Settler elites demands.

As there were no roads, or even plans of constructing them in the vast interior
regions as is almost the same up to date, LFF soldiers selected able-bodied
indigenous young men to carry by head in hammocks the District Commissioners (or
some of them) from one location to another, as they implemented their Monrovia
assigned tasks. The LFF was used by these District Commissioners to forcibly
collect government taxes and other illegal fees, fines and dues in cash and kind,
imposed on these totally devastated, impoverished and grossly disadvantaged rural
dwellers, that government had absolutely nothing to offer in terms of basic social
services and other social amenities (In The Cause Of The People, Tuan Wleh, 2010).
In fact, according to Prof. Tuan Wleh, also called Dew Mason, up to 1980, about
70% of the countrys population lived in the rural areas, but these people lived in
abject poverty, just as today, with subsistence annual earnings on the overall of
around $70 per family. With this sad reality, it is reported that fines, dues, or
collections, sometimes as high as $100 were imposed upon these poor and helpless
people, to be forcibly collected by the Liberia Frontier Force, instead of Americo-
Liberian soldiers being encamped in military barracks awaiting external threats. The
taxes, dues and collections etc. imposed on our indigenous forefathers included hut
taxes, independence day collections; self-help project collections, rally time
collections, compulsory collections of chickens, goats, and other cattle, red oil for
government officials traveling in these areas, and many more. At the same time,
very draconian penalties and inhumane treatments awaited any soul who refused, or
one way or the other was unable to pay any of these dues, taxes, collections or fines.
The penalties and ill-treatments inflicted upon our suffering tribal forefathers by the
Americo-Liberian-instructed military force included, but were not limited to forcible
detentions under squalid conditions, sitting in the sun all day, kneeling over palm
kernel shells all day in the open etc. These ill-prepared military personnel, apart
from inflicting these and many more pains on our people in enforcing these multiple
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illegal collections, were also responsible to forcibly recruit from among our
atrociously privated tribal populations young men and women to be used by the
elites for multiple purposes including:

The construction of so-called public roads and buildings (without compensation)


The cultivation of farms for government officials (without any compensation)
The rounding up of young men for involuntary shipment to foreign lands to
perform slave labor
This campaign was so terrifying and pitiful that it is reported in
www.liberiapastandpresent.org that villages along the coast were virtually deserted
as tribal people fled into deep bushes in the interior where the absence of roads made
it difficult for LFF personnel to chase them in pursuit of government taxes. These
campaigns also made our people to flee to neighboring West Africa countries to seek
refuge.

b) It has never been the intention of the ruling Americo-Liberian elites and their tribal
collaborators and accomplices to ever sincerely seek the general welfare of the
Liberian masses, which comprises the indigenous people. In fact, this incredibly
myopic group of people called the Settlers had only wished to live in ancient
Monrovia and its immediate surroundings without any plans to even stretch out with
a little semblance of development. Remember however, that through these narrations,
we will almost always exempt President William R. Tolbert from these sweeping,
but proven assertions about the Americo-Liberians. With this clarity, the reasons
behind expanding inwards into indigenous territories have been for different selfish
interests other than improving the lives of the inhabitants of those areas. These
reasons ranged from the exploitation of the human resources in those areas to be
employed into forced labor or auctioned out into slavery, the exploitation of high
quality economic goods in these territories, an attempt to ward off or discourage
French and British colonial encroachments which could have highly affected the
security of the Americo-Liberians themselves, and later for the exploitation of the
precious natural resources in these areas.
For example in his first inaugural address of 1878, this is what President Anthony W.
Gardner said: . I shall endeavor to give an impetus to our commerce by
penetrating the interior and inviting the trade to our market as well as to protect the
legitimate trader in the prosecution of his business. I believe, if the interior trade is
properly managed and well-guarded, it will be of more real profit than the coast
trade. The immense quality of produce and cattle immediately in the rear of Liberia
can, with little effort and perseverance, be turned into our market. Musardu, the
great mart of cattle, baniseed, rice, cotton, country cloth and gold..is not too far
for the Liberian merchants to make a bold effort to turn this trade into Liberia at all
hazards.
According to the book, A Short History of the First Liberian Republic P.53,
Encroachments by the British and French also compelled Liberia to increase efforts
at integration and unification. Rules to govern the hinterland were written and
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revised periodically. Government officials, especially those assigned in the interior


toured the country side and explained government policies to the Native people.

In his article, The Mandingo People of Liberia: A Historical Fact Most Liberians
Overlook, Siahyonkron Nyanseor mentioned that the Mandingoes had several bitter
encounters with the Americo-Liberians over commerce, a monopoly these Settlers
held along the coastal areas. Nyanseor said these Setters picked similar fuss at the
Kru fishermen who traded with European commercial ships on the ocean. At that
time, he quotes, Indigenous Africans were not considered citizens, yet the
government wanted them to pay port duties in the area. As a result, fights broke up
when the tribal men felt they were not obligated to paying taxes to a government that
provided no services, no security etc. and had no legal jurisdiction over them.

Again, according Joseph Saye Guannu, the period of these settler territorial
expansions was one of social and political injustice in the hinterland. The rights of
the interior inhabitants were gruesomely violated as expressed, for example, in
forced labor. Officers of the LFF intimidated, harassed and imposed undue fines as
we mentioned earlier, and all these treatments led to an exodus of tribal Liberians to
colonies in the sub region like Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Guinea etc. to live as
refugees. As a consequence of the damaging report and strong recommendations of
the League of Nations in 1930, the ill-conceived Liberian Settler Government
ignominiously bowed to pressure and introduced a number of haphazard reforms in
the administration of the hinterland. Few substandard schools and clinics were built
in the interior and few dirt roads were constructed, all because Britain and America
had threatened to strip dirty Liberia of her so-called independence and take over the
running of the country, mainly due to the Americo-Liberian elites terrible lack of
interest to develop the interior and their unwillingness to improve the lives of the
indigenous populations, coupled with the kind of cruel treatment being meted out
against these poor, helpless people (A short history of the first Liberian Republic, P
78-79)

c) The Americo-Liberian marginalization machinery has worked out every possible


secret strategy to hide quality education from the countrys larger population, which
again, consists of over 97% country or native, tribal people. It is often said that the
pen, or knowledge is mightier than the sword; meaning, what knowledge can
accomplish in a short time, can be very useful and longer lasting than what arms,
cruelty, dirty tricks etc. can take decades and centuries to falsely accomplish.
Education increases an individuals knowledge and understanding about his
environment. Sound education enables one to think critically about the social and
economic conditions of his/her society. The Americo-Liberian elite understands this
reality very well, and that is why they have never given the necessary support to
expand and improve the quality of education nationwide (bearing in mind that if this
is done, vast majority of the beneficiaries will be the Native Savages). As such,
because they, the Amerio-Liberians, have always been, and continue to remain in
control of all of the countrys wealth and resources, they prefer sending their
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children and those of few Native loyalists abroad to obtain quality education to
return and strengthen the political and economic status quo. (A Short History of The
First Liberian Republic pp. 91,-96).
Bizarrely, Liberia gained her independence when she never even had a high school.
After independence, the only high school to start operating in the country was a
private Presbyterian school that ran solo for long years, the Alexander High School,
founded or established in 1849. Government depended almost entirely on religious
bodies through their private schools to provide education for the Liberian people
because government claimed it lacked financial resources, meanwhile political
elections were been held on schedule after every two years, whether or not there
were contenders in those regular elections that cost money.

When their colonial master, the American Colonization Society, advanced to the
Settlers the need for at least one higher institution of learning, the Settlers
Legislature authorized the creation of a state-owned college in 1851, but because
education was/and continues really never to be a major concern in their country, it
took 7 years after this enactment to have laid the first cornerstone of the Liberia
College, which would later be called the University of Liberia in 1951. This 7 year
delay to start building the school was based upon two reasons: first, and mainly
because; yes, government authorized the establishment of one higher institution of
learning, but it never had one cent to commit to such a useless project and was
awaiting philanthropic funding, which eventually started coming in by 7 years later,
that is, in 1858; and secondly because long political arguments were ensuing in the
background about a suitable location of this school, with one of the groups wanting it
outside of colonial Monrovia, but the other group bitterly rejecting this because
doing so would create easy admission/access to people from the country side or the
interior, most, or all of which would be Natives something that will be very
counter-productive to the Settlers. In addition to financing from groups like the ACS,
the New York Colonization Society, the Trustees of Donations For Education in
Liberia etc., colleges and private individuals in the United State donated books and
even bricks and lumbers to construct the new school. Classes at the Liberia College
began in 1863, 12 years after this Legislation, with 7 students and the line of courses
taught at the school for more than 80 years before the introduction of new courses
included Rhetoric, Moral Philosophy, Intellectual Philosophy, Political Science, Law
Greek, Latin, Arabic and Theology. There is no historical account of anything such
as Math, the Sciences, and Business ever taught from the onset of the University and
decades and decades of its full-fledged operations.

Complaints of the colleges poor standards of education, coupled with governments


continuous cries about lack of money to run the school, made the Liberia College to
always run on an off and on basis, sometimes closing for up to 5 consecutive
years before reopening. In 36 years, 1866 to 1902, the school was able to put out
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only 10 graduates according to www.wikipedia.org... The College of Agriculture and


Forestry was added 79 years later; Science and Technology, as a unit, was
introduced in the 1960s; Masters in Business Administration was introduced in
2007, in the 144th year of the Universitys existence, with no signs yet in sight for
the introduction of Masters in the Sciences much less to talk about PhD programs.
Computer used in the Universitys only substandard computer lab were provided by
a private company; and the Fendell Campus that hosts the Universitys two key
colleges and some of its constituent institutions is a Chinese US$21.5 million good
will gesture.

Up to today, according Liberias Ministry of Education Sources, children still sit on


the bare floor in schools, with whole regions comprising more than two counties
absolutely having no Science and Math teachers in their secondary schools. The
current President of the country, Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is on record several
times for describing the countrys education system as a Complete Mess, but she will
interestingly never improve this mess because doing so will be going against
Liberias fundamental social design or creed. The bottom line continues to remain
that it is in the interest of the Johnsons, McClains, Moores, Williams, Weeks etc. to
keep the system like this because in a state where the rate of illiteracy is very high,
and even the so-called literate ones are half-way educated and half baked, the few
privileged and educated ones wield horrific influence over the masses and can easily
exploit and suppress this huge ignorant majority every time. But to close on this
section, lets leave with them a quote from President John F. Kennedy, slightly
paraphrased here, that says, In a society in which a few persons decide to hijack
wealth and education to the exclusion of the vast majority, there can never be
peace!!!! A hint to wise is quite sufficient here.
d) According to www.freepublic.com, the religious practices, social customs, and
cultural standards of the Americo-Liberians had their roots in the antebellum
America South. Note: Antebellum means before war, meaning here, Americas
South before their Civil War of 1861-65, which firmly resisted the abolition of
slavery; in fact, this was the main reason for which they went to war with the North
to maintain their slave labor culture. These slave-master related ideas strongly
influenced and continues to influence the Americo-Liberians attitudes towards the
Natives. They set up this rigid social system that made themselves the Master Class
and the over 98% indigenous population the Slave Class. This determination had
been so grave that American Historian, Dr. Ciment described it as Liberias Original
Sin.
Here are some of the additional ways, apart from the numerous accounts already
mentioned, that this determination has been working:
Apart from selling our people out into slavery consistently, the inalienable rights of
our people at home were steadily violated while they were made domestic slaves in
their own home. Let us look at some of the biggest accounts thus far.
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According to http://alhajikromahpage.org/alhajifirestone.htm, the planting agreement


between the Government of Liberia and the worlds largest rubber plantation at the
time, Firestone, that gave Firestone 1 million acres of land at 6 cents per acre, did
not take into account any benefit or even any dignified way of relocating the tens of
thousands of Native Liberians that would be displaced to make room for rubber
planting. The 99 year, 1 million acre agriculture concession from which it is
reported the government only benefited about $6,000 with the rest of the land rental
and other fees going against Liberias old, useless debt payments, only designated
the Government of Liberia as the recipient of any form of income on this concession
agreement. The tribal inhabitants were massively displaced out of their centuries-old
inherited lands to make room for Firestones operations.

Whole communities with rich reservoirs of traditions were made to disappear by the
stroke of a pen between Firestone and the Government of Liberia. President Charles
King did not, and could not lawfully exercise the Doctrine of Eminent Domain
because the property was not being acquired by the government for public use in
which the government would have been ordinarily required to provide compensation.
The Government never included any form of relief in the contract for the tribal
people (the Kpelles, the Bassas predominantly) for this massive, dehumanizing
human displacement. At the same time, Firestone, with the full backing of the
Government of Liberia, using the Liberia Frontier Force (now AFL), gave quotas to
the indigenous chiefs to produce workers for their planting and subsequent tapping.
As a form of carrot and stick, Firestone set up a compensation scheme for the chiefs,
giving each of them 15 cents per month for every worker recruited during the rice
growing season (January to June) and 10 cents from July to December. That
summed up to $1.50 per one indigenous young man per year, not paid to himself, but
to his chiefs, who in turn would have to unofficially make report to the District
Commissioners, for onward report to the seat of Government in Monrovia. A
Firestone Agent would be sent to the villages to enforce this quota.

When Firestone started its operations newly, according to the book, In the Cause of
the People, the company in the late 1920s was paying its workers 14 cents per a day
of 12 or more hours of work, meaning $3.00 to $4.00 per month. The secret was that
the Liberias Settler elite had warned Firestone not to pay these savages closer or
above 25 cents per day for two main implicit reasons. Firstly, few of the Settler elites
had started their private rubber plantations and needed more workers too. And
secondly, it was Liberias pride at the time to boast, among the comity of nations,
about a very cheap and inexhaustible labor force of free savages. As for working
conditions, it is recorded that sometimes two to three men, sometimes more than one
family was obliged to share a single one-room hut. No compensation was paid to
workers during sickness. There was hospital treatment available, but no food was
given to patients, and when the workers had an accident or even died on the job,
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there was no compensation paid the family. Meanwhile Firestone had been, and
continues to be a billion dollar company.

Firestone had employed more than 10,000 laborers by 1930, but according to official
document sources however, more than 8,500 of these workers had not come to the
company voluntarily. A Liberian old man, one Paul, interviewed by the author of this
article, FVDK, in the 1970s confirmed the forcible character of the recruitments as
follows: I was a small boy when Firestone came to Liberia, he stated, and
continued During the King Administration, soldiers of the Liberia Frontier Force
would come to the villages and compel people to leave for the Firestone planation to
work there. This recruitment system for Firestone continued until the early 1960s.
In 1961, the Government of Portugal, in retaliation of Liberias strong professed
anti-colonial position, filed a complaint with the International Labor Organization,
concerning the failure of the Liberian Government to observe The Forced Labor
Convention of 1950. Before the commission, which had been appointed by the ILO
to investigate the complaint could publish its findings in 1963, a grossly dishonest
and double standards-riddled Liberian Legislature, as it continues to be today,
condescendingly enacted a law hastily regulating the recruitment of labor in Liberia
(1962). It was only then that the recruitment system that had supplied Firestone the
so called cheap and inexhaustible indigenous labor force since 1926 became out
lawed on the books.
e) Liberias Finance Minister, Mr. Amara Konneh revealed the enduring key objective
of the Settlers here in this excerpt of his proposal, Liberia: Rebuilding for Growth
and Development as follow: The origins of the Liberian conflict can be traced
back to various forms of exclusion and marginalization, which have characterized
the country for most of it existence. The founding constitution was designed for the
need of the Settlers population, which subjugated the indigenous people for over a
century. The political and economic elite controlled the countrys resources for their
own use and to consolidate their power. These factors led to wide gaps in the
distribution of the nations wealth and fuelled ethnic and class animosities and
rivalries.
This is a good point struck by Minister Konneh, but if he were man enough, he
would have cared less about his current Americo-Liberian overall boss, and would
have used all of the five key verbs bolded above in their present and/or present
progressive forms instead of limiting them to their past tenses, as if the situation had
ever changed. More to his argument though, Wikipedia reports or insinuates that the
framers of Liberia had designed it to be governed by a small minority of African
American colonists and their offspring, while suppressing the large indigenous
majority of the countrys population.
Americo-Liberian elitism has evolved into two periods now, since 1847, with a very
slight interruption for ten years, between 1980 and 1990. These two periods of
Americo-Liberian elitism to date have successfully upheld their key objective and
reason for the state i.e. to remain on top and make the key decisions while first
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crudely and then later intelligently doing everything possible to keep the Natives
down at certain levels. According to the book, A Short History Of The First
Liberian Republic, the two main elitist periods have been: (a) Period One (from
1847 to the early 1920s, during which the Settlers held unto every major political
office in the land), and (b) Period Two (the book says from the 1920s to the 1980s,
but we would safely say from the 1920s to the 1980s with a 10 year interruption,
then resumed from the 1990s to present), during which time the Settlers have
incorporated a few loyalist indigenous elements and other wealthy resident aliens).
The old elite maintained that only members of the Settler Community had the right
to every office in the land. For example they controlled access to education; they
made all the policies on education to champion their core cause and implemented
those policies as such.

Incorporation into the New Elite has been based on ones personal loyalty to the
President and the True Whig Party, or now, the ruling party instead. Membership
into the New Elite was, or has also been based upon ones willingness to join settler
fraternities like the Masonic Craft (considered the 4th branch of government), The
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the United Brothers of Friendship etc.
Educated and skilled immigrants from the sub region also have joined the New Elite.
Notwithstanding all this, the key decision makers remain the Americo-Liberians and
their descendants, as it has always been in the past. According to Dr. James Ciment,
Tubmans policies (and we would say here Americo-Liberian Governments policies
during the Tubman regime) tried educating and integrating the Natives into
mainstream society. But it became evident that based on their education, these few
Natives started demonstrating some revolutionary ideologies, something that
indicated, it would now be difficult to control these indigenous subject as before.
When Tubman started realizing this he was quoted as saying, I am committing a
political suicide.

f) There have always been some crude, systematic and sometime intelligent effort from
the Settlers camp to either weaken or totally extinguish any perceived heavy weight
from among the indigenous population who could pose some serious threat to their
grip on power and turn the tide on them. They would either directly cripple that
would-be political threat representing the Native community or orchestrate a
criminally intelligent scheme to destroy that person totally behind the scenes. Here
are a few illuminating examples:
i. Mr. Dihdwo Twe, a Kru, born April 14, 1879, who had gained his high school
education from the Cuttington Collegiate and Divinity School in Harper; his
Bachelors and Masters respectively from the Rhode Island University in the
United States, while also achieving separate academic credentials at both the
Columbia and Harvard Universities in the U.S. was elected (or appointed) to the
Colonial House of Representatives in 1927 to represent New Kru Town, but was
cruelly expelled from there in 1929 for introducing a bill that was intended to end
the forced labor been suffered at the time by his indigenous people in the country.
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Opposition to D. Twe for introducing such a laughable and stupid bill from the
Americo-Liberian perspective, grew so strongly in Monrovia that he had to
escape to Freetown, Sierra Leone to save his own life. After sometime in self-
imposed exile, D. Twe returned to the country and prepared himself for the 1951
Presidential Election against William V. S. Tubman.
Mr. Twe campaigned on the issues of general corruption in government,
mismanagement of the interior of the country, the forced recruitment of
(indigenous Liberians) for Fernando Poo, plus the private use of indigenous
Liberians by government officials and their foreign capitalists etc. for which he
was advocating sweeping social and political reforms in the country. Because of
these embarrassing revelations from Mr. Twe, the 1951 presidential campaign
grew so violent, his party members and sympathizers in government (which were
mainly indigenous people) were targeted and sacked; some of them jailed, and
Mr. Twe himself again had to flee for his life back to Sierra Leone, where he
remained until few days left for his death before returning home to die. William
Tubman professedly won that election of 1951 with reportedly over 200,000
votes in a race that opponent D. Twes name was not even placed on the ballot.
Thats how cruel and immoral the Settlers have been and will continue to be in
their Liberia unless radically rehabilitated (A Short History of the First Liberia
Republic, p. 41 etc.).
ii. Before 1980, only very few Native Liberians had ever occupied notably top
positions in the Settlers National Government; among them, Mr. H. Too
Wesley, a Grebo, who was Vice President from 1924 to 1928 and Momolu
Dukuly, the first known indigenous of Islamic background to have held a key
position by then, Secretary of State although we must be fast to register here
that Natives were only preferred or allowed to hold these kinds of positions based
on their extra-mile willingness to serve as useful idiots and stooges all the way,
again, without prejudice to these people. American-based Liberian blogger
Siahyonkon Nyenseor narrates that according to some source, Momolu Dukuly
had to denounce his Islamic Faith and declare himself Christian in order to join
the upper echelons of the Liberian Government, even though he still did his
Islamic worship in secret. The same source has it that one evening when
Dukulys boss, President Tubman took an unannounced visit to his office, lo and
behold, there was Mr. Dukuly praying in the corner of his office on a mat facing
east and that was how Dukuly lost his job. Who can ever build a democratic
country on such bigotry?
iii. Another shining example of a high-impact indigenous Liberian who was
unfortunately marginalized over and over until he was alleged killed finally by a
crude Americo-Liberian ploy was Jackson F. Doe, a Dan (Gio), reared by the
Grimes, a progressive West Indian Immigrant family. Upon graduation from
college, Doe entered the teaching profession and was later elected or selected to
the Colonial House of Representatives. A fine orator, Mr. Doe soon won the
admiration of the new Settler elite. When Vice President Tolbert became
President in 1971, he appointed Jackson Doe as Education Minister in the midst
of rumors that Jackson was favored by the President to be made his Vice
President in 1972. But as the True Whig Party Old Guards were very resistant in
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allowing an indigenous to rise that far, Doe was by passed in favor of James E.
Green of Sinoe County. Doe was again tipped in 1975, but Green was
reappointed. Green unfortunately died two years later and with everybodys
attention now focusing on Jackson Doe, Methodist Bishop Bennie Warner was
preferred over him again.
To be one of the key indigenous Liberians in government, as a precondition, Doe
also had to become a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and a
high official in the True Whig Party. In 1979, he was Second National Vice
Chairman of the Party, and therefore second in line for Chairmanship proper.
When Chairman James N. Anderson resigned in 1979, Doe should have
automatically become First National Vice Chairman in line with the partys
ascendency requirements, but instead, Clarence L. Simpson was called from
private life to be made First National Vice Chairman, and Minster of State,
Reginald Townsend was promoted to Chairman proper. It was later in October
1979, when even a child could sense that an imminent dark cloud was hanging
over Liberia when Progressive Natives were getting more aggressive that the
True Whig Party decided to give Jackson Doe his rightful First National Vice
Chairman position at a congress in Buchanan at which they purported they were
taking their party to the indigenous masses (A Short History Of The First
Liberian Republic, p. 90).
Doe became more and more prominent even after Liberias coup of 1980, and
established and bore the standards of his own political party, the Liberian Action
Party (LAP). At the 1985 presidential polls, Doe was heavily cheated by the
military junta of Samuel Doe reportedly. Jackson and his high political ambitions
remain alive until the Liberian Uncivil War came.

In a sad story from www.thenewdispensation.com, one J. K. K. Peah on August


29, 2011 second-narrated a strange news surrounding Jackson Does death from
Patrick P. Tamba, an alleged old fighter of mainly Charles Taylors and Ellen
Johnson Sirleafs National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL). Lets get a few
baths of the story quoting Patrick P. Tamba: Because of my close
relationship with these two (Gambian) Generals (Generals Jesus and Domingo), I
found myself very close to the NPFL [top] leadership. Charles Taylor was the
military leader and Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was the political leader of the
NPFL. In early August of 1990, the Military Leader, CIC Taylor received
information that Jackson F. Doe was located in Firestone. Taylor then ordered his
generals to go and get Jackson form firestone; take him over to Buchanan, and
place him under house arrest until further orders.

Taylor told us that the leader of the revolution, Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was
on her way to the country from the U.S. In that Mid-August of 1990, Ellen
arrived at CARI (Central Agriculture Research Institute) for a meeting. She was
escorted by Grace Minor. I was with Gen. Jesus at the time on Taylors Executive
Grounds and it was my first time seeing the Liberian Iron Lady. I was in the
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meeting room listening to the discussions and I saw everything that went on. I
remembered that Taylor, Woewiyu, Grace Minor, Foday Sankor, Gen. Jesus,
Gen. Domigo, Gen. Casius Jacobs and a few other top officers of the NPFL were
present at that meeting. Taylor opened the meeting with words of prayer. Ellen
was first on the agenda. She told Taylor to speed up the Sierra Leone and Gambia
operations so as to have ECOWAS and the international community take their
focus off Liberia. Taylor then promised a speedy and successful takeover of the
two countries as Foday Sankor, Gen. Jesus, and NPFL Generals and fighters were
ready for the showdown. Ellen thanked Taylor and the generals for their hard,
diligent, and patriotic work for Liberia and Africa.

Ellen then asked Taylor about Jackson Doe they had talked earlier about him
(Doe) surfacing in Firestone. Taylor replied saying, Doe was in Buchanan under
house arrest. Ellen asked to speak to the old man (Doe) before she departed for
Libya. Gen. Jesus, Gen. Jacobs and other strong NPFL fighters including myself
were ordered to bring Jackson Doe to CARI immediately. By midnight, we
arrived at CARI from Buchanan with Jackson. Mr. Doe was wearing a blue safari
(higher heights) suit with a pair of regular slippers. Taylor and Ellen were on the
Executive Grounds in the Medium Room when I arrived. You could sense fears
in Jackson Does eyes as we were over nine heavily armed men with two
generals present with Taylor and Ellen. Ellen asked Jackson about his health, and
he replied, I am fine Ellen. She then asked Jackson to join the Movement
because they all wanted Samuel Doe to be removed from power. Jackson Doe
said he was not interested in a process that will kill the Liberian people. Ellen
insisted, but Jackson refused and said the Liberian people knew him to be a
peaceful man. He was ordered out of the room for a moment by Taylor.

Ellen told Taylor that the revolutionary fighters were made predominantly of
people from Jackson Does tribe from Nimba County; thus, he (Doe) was a threat
to her political future as well as Taylors leadership of the NPFL. She said the
logical thing to do was to get rid of him. Taylor ordered Gen. Jesus, in the
presence of Ellen, to finish Jackson Doe before day light came and burn his body
without any trace. Gen. Casius Jacobs pleaded for Jackson to be given at least a
week to decide. Ellen said it was too risky to keep Jackson alive for all that long,
so Taylors orders had to be followed. Jackson Does hands were tied behind his
back (tabby style). His eyes were blinded with red clothes and he was taken
behind the Phoebe Hospital in Gbarnga and shot in the head by Gen. Jesus.

Casius Jacobs was sad and was not in favor of the killing of Mr. Doe. Jackson
Does body was burned to ashes. We then returned to confirm that the operation
was carried out. However Gen. Jacobs facial expression did not appear pleasing
to Ellen She told Taylor she was not satisfied with Jacobs and asked Taylor to
keep a close watch on Jacobs. Ellen left the country the next day through Ivory
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Coast. Later on, not satisfied with Gen. Jacobs, Taylor ordered Jacobs execution,
on grounds that Jacobs was planning to overthrow the Taylor regime in
Gbarnga.

This story about Jacksons death is too unsavory, barbaric and uncivilized to be
told of a 21st century president that has won so many key international accolades
for peace and other praiseworthy things. The timing of the story, though could
make one think that it had some political underpinnings, but come to think about
it again, there could be no other better time for the author to have brought it up
other than during a season of heated political debates and engagements if he
wanted more reading audience in this Liberia due to the countrys very poor
orientation to reading. Even at this, one could still bet their bottom dollar that a
good 10% Liberians did not read this story or article.

Be that as it may however, Madam Sirleaf has been afforded up to ten years now
in the drivers seat to prove critics right or wrong about their attacks on her
sincerity, integrity and civility, but unfortunately what this woman has
persistently and consistently demonstrated is an incredible pattern of lies and
conspicuous acts of insincerity and dishonesty. What will then make one to doubt
the dirty veracity of this alleged gruesome and barbaric killing of one of the
finest indigenous sons of this soil by a marauding band of Americo-Liberian
power and wealth seekers calling themselves national leaders who have had a
very long pedigree of pursuing NASTY vendettas against the Natives for
nothing? Does this kind of horrendous account of mayhem not draw ones
memories back to those strong descriptions of the likes of the original Johnsons,
Colemans, Barclays, Kings, Tubmans etc. by American Congressman John
Randolph of Roanoke County, Virginia, as promoters of mischief among other
criminal links or descriptions?

According to a www.publicagendanews.coms article, President Ellen Johnson


Sirleaf Somersaults from Giving Humanitarian Support to Removing a Dictator,
the seemingly last of this countrys Americo-Liberian Presidents really proved to
the world to be a remorseless liar. Here is an excerpt of this newspapers online
article: .At long last, the President of Liberia has confessed her support
given to Charles Taylor to remove the democratically elected government of
President Samuel Doe in the early 1990s. The Liberian Leader had earlier
denied any link with the former rebel leader, Charles Taylor. Appearing before
the Truth and Reconciliation Commission months ago, the Liberian President
said she only made a minimum contribution of US$10,000 for humanitarian
purposes. With the latest confession by President Sirleaf, analysts suggest, she
has lied under oath by not saying the truth when she appeared before the TRC.
Sirleaf is on record for ordering the Taylor rebels to burn down the Executive
Mansion. At the time of her order, NPFL rebels had surrounded the Mansion
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while Does Forces were holding on inside. She told a BBC Focus on Africa
interview at the time that if it meant burning down the Executive Mansion, the
rebels should go ahead and that the Mansion would be rebuilt in 3 months.
During the 2005 presidential election campaign, Sirleaf denied any links with the
rebels until the former Defense Minister of the NPFL, Tom Woewiyu wrote in an
open letter outlining her role in the rebel faction. She angrily reacted to the
publication and threatened a lawsuit against Mr. Woewiyu. Upon her election,
the President stated that she was withdrawing her threat of lawsuit against
Woewiyu because of appeals from some clergymen.

Another Liberian who spoke of President Sirleafs link with the former NPFL
Rebels was (one) Alieu Swaray. During his testimony to the TRC, Mr. Swaray
said he remembered seeing Madam Sirleaf in military uniform with Charles
Taylor behind the rebel lines during the height of the Uncivil War. The Liberian
President in response said, Swaray might have mistaken her for one of Taylors
wives (Agnes) who she said has a fair skin complexion like hers. Sirleaf denied
ever going behind the rebel lines, and challenged any one to prove it. But during
(another appearance at the TRC, President Sirleaf reluctantly admitted traveling
to the rebel held territory to meet with Mr. Taylor. The President indicated that
she went to a town not far from the Ivorian Border and made a US$10,000
contribution for humanitarian services. She failed to say what kind of
humanitarian services were given so at the time. The whole Ellens NPFL link
was further exposed when Mr. Taylor, during his second days appearance at the
War Crimes Trial in the Hague said Ellen was not just a founding member of the
NPFL, but also a major fundraiser, and she served as the rebel groups
international coordinator.

Apart from these and many other accounts of her very clandestine political
maneuvers, this womans handling of the process that could have brought a little
sigh of relief to the predominantly native people of this country who lost their
family members, relatives, love ones etc. in a war for power and wealth that took
away over 500,000 mainly Yarkpawolos, Varplahs, Konnehs, Bartequahs,
Tingbas etc. is too troubling for her own integrity. This President, who during the
opening of the TRC Process at the Centennial Pavilion said any report from the
process would be respected has again masterminded an unprincipled Supreme
Court ruling against the most material recommendation of the process that placed
a 30 years ban on her and a couple of her top officials from politics for their
proven complicity in the mayhem orchestrated against the poor people of this
country that took away their lives in the hundreds of thousands. Their Settlers
masterminded Supreme Courts ruling against this ban simply just indicates that
the over 500,000 mainly Native people that were murdered in cold blood by an
Americo-Liberian engineered killing spree in this country did not have anything
too to be referred to as their parts of inalienable human rights, talk less about
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their constitutional rights. It is only Madam Sirleaf and her few loyalists and
partners in crime who are entitled to constitutional rights in this country. There is
a final judgment and more SUPREME ONE however still ahead!!!

Moreover, Madam Sirleaf lies are too countless to make anyone in their sound
mind to doubt accounts of heinous acts committed by her. For example again,
here is a woman, on record, that promised her people electricity in six months of
her presidency, she lied; she promised to fight corruption systematically, she lied;
she promised to create 20,000 jobs per annum, she lied etc. What can we believe
then from the tongue of this woman? In our opinion, the most dangerous thing in
a principle-agent or master-servant relationship has happened, which is A
COMPLETE BREAK DOWN OF TRUST!! The people of this country have
totally lost faith and trust in this woman and her presidency, and yea the
presidencies or governance of all Americo-Liberians at least for now. Oh what a
great loss of something that could have been a magnificent and celebrated legacy
if she had stood up for principles; but again, owing to what we now know about
her ancestry, they would have proven our CREATOR a liar God forbid!!

So conclusively here, this is not strange, it just came as the most convincing
evidence to the people of this country, that this fate of Madam Sirleaf is the
general fate that runs down the generations of Americo-Liberians. A hunt to the
wise!!!
iv. Apart from Mr. Jackson Doe, there were reports or accounts of how other very
prominent indigenous elements were eliminated sometimes intelligently by the
Americo-Liberian death squad under the cloak of the NPFL. Even Mr. Prince
Yormie, who for reasons best known to himself adopted an Americo-Liberian
surname, Johnson, according to sources, established the fact that there was
something much deeper going on in the NPFL high commands more than just
getting President Samuel Doe out, for which he Prince had to part ways with
Taylor. According to Mr. Prince Yormie Johnson, who is currently a Senator of
his home county, Nimba, Taylor had a hidden agenda (Liberian History Since
1980, p.28). Former Armed Forces of Liberia Lieutenant Johnson (Prince
Yormie) probably wanted to sound a little diplomatic about the main issue, but
the bottom line remains that the Settler elites and their descendants, surfacing in
different forms and under different names are always either on a revenge
campaign or on a hidden mission to ensure that anything resembling a threat to
their absolute grip on Liberian political power does not survive to tell the story.
Depending on the weight of the Native political threat concerned, you are either
disorganized or made incapable or useless; or, you are completely annihilated.
Take for example Mr. Taylors action against another key political personality of
Native background, Samuel Saye Dokie.
Charles Taylor had many outstanding political rivals (defacto and dejure), even
including his own Americo-Liberian counterpart, Madam Sirleaf, whose DNA of
shrewdness and dreadful political maneuvering were not strange to him (Taylor),
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as evidenced by her maneuvering that landed him in a 50-year imprisonment


today, but Taylor was instead more interested in extinguishing political
oppositions that came from the indigenous camp, no matter how high or low
profile they were. First off, in the case of Jackson Doe, there were some accounts
that Taylor, after consciously committing this act secretly, decided to clean up his
sheet by ordering an investigation into Jacksons death; but as usual from the
Settlers ranks, the result of this investigation has yet to be released while he now
serves this 50 year jail sentence, which everyone knows, is another result of how
biasedly Americans and Americo-Liberians dispense their justice when it comes
to issues pertaining to Liberia or Liberians. Additionally six months into his
administration, according to the Liberian History Since 1980, p.46, Taylor
allegedly eliminated or mischievously killed Samuel Saye Dokie (in a gruesome
terrorist operation that reportedly wiped out almost the entire Dokies family).
Talylor didnt stop there, he was also reported to have killed a market woman and
political opposition, Nowai Flomo of tribal descent again.
To cover up for their sharp, but already exposed moves at completely decimating
the indigenous political camp, the criminally shrewd Americo-Liberian elite
(through Taylor and Madam Sirleaf) began a palliative campaign to bring some
small sense of relief to the Native Community which they had made maximum
use of, against themselves (i.e. the Natives) by allowing indigenous to occupy
one of the most figure-headed and ceremonial positions in the country, the Vice
Presidency. This new strategy now began with Mr. Taylor, the main Americo-
Liberian frontline commander in the campaign of unspeakable havoc against the
indigenous brain camp; and, Madam Sirleaf, a part of this Americo-Liberian
machinery, is continuing with this cunning implementation. But common
knowledge still proves that it is quite this same Setters elite that continues to
enjoy their grip on real power, as they have planned and orchestrated from the
very beginning of their Liberia. So despite the presence of some loyalist
Boakais, Konnehs, Ngafuans etc. in some key positions; in reality, it is the
Johnsons, Bernards, Weeks, McClains, Tylers, Finleys and the likes who
continue to call the shots, and who are in the true corridors of power in this
country. The decisions about how and where their Liberia goes are all made in
some other places and at some other time when the Bcakais, Konnehs, and the
Nagbes are asleep.
v. It is a broad knowledge that celebrities are heavy weights in any electioneering
contests. In the case of Liberia, former world best footballer, George Weah, a
Native of the land, appalled and awfully disappointed about the persistent mis-
governance of his country by these Americo-Liberians, decided to put aside his
political inexperience and other handicaps and jump into the presidential race to
provide a more caring and sincere leadership for his country. Apparently ignorant
of the fundamental problems of the country and the tricks of these Black
American mischief makers, Mr. Weah, in the spirit of good neighborliness and
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national integration decided to open up to elements from this group, and began
even counting on their advice and entrusting them with key positions in his
political party (although there is this formality that some process is followed).
By these actions, Oppong, as he is popularly called, didnt know that he had
invited upon himself his total political demise because of what others would refer
to as his own lack of faith within himself. There are reports that Mr. Weah was
advised to, which he heeded, and joined the Settler fraternity, the Ancient and
Accepted Free Masons, one of the fraternities that have been allegedly used as
staging grounds from which the Settlers devastating wars against the Natives are
launched.

Mr. Weah, who claimed to have been cheated at the 2005 presidential polls didnt
subsequently remain committed to his convictions and his agenda. As he allowed
his camp to be intruded into by these strange bedfellows, Weah, in 2011, turned
his standard bearership over to one of the Americo-Liberian intruders, Mr.
Winston Tubman, the son of a man that governed this country for 27 unbroken
years, with a record of complicity in selling our indigenous forefathers out into
slavery; mortgaging our precious natural resources for peanuts; crudely
suppressing indigenous political dissent, among others. Weah sadly did not know
that instead of killing him directly, which the Americo-Liberians could not do
under the prevailing atmosphere, they had invaded his camp, and now rendered
him totally useless politically. He is no more a threat now as he appeared to them
in 2005. An initial political giant due to his sporting popularity, who had placed
his eyes firmly on the countrys presidency in 2005 so as to be able to radically
undo this rotten Liberian foundation, now disgracefully ran instead, as a Vice
Presidential Candidate in 2011, and at current, has even more shamefully run for,
and won a Senatorial Post to sit in the Settlers rotten and cursed Legislature,
with jokes around that his next course of action would either be to eye a House of
Representatives position. This Americo-Liberian-Native subjugation machinery
is indeed really working, but we will close on this section with the adage, that
ninety-nine days are for a rogue, but one day is for the master, and we are
confident this masters one day is already at its dawn God willing.

To conclude this section, in a somewhat different development, in pursuit of this


NASTY vendetta we mentioned earlier, the Settlers also have, for more than one
and half centuries now, maintained in their constitution that the Whites in general
whether from Asia, Europe, Oceania etc. would never become citizens in their
Liberia, even if they were born on this soil. They hold this position because of
what they refer to as the ill-treatment Whites accorded them (the Black
Americans of todays Liberia) while in North America during slave days. What a
twisted argument!! Apart from violating a universal citizenship right concept
called Jus Solis (i.e. citizenship right owed to place of birth), these predominantly
less intelligent criminals are also arguing that Whites from all walks of life would
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suffer this fate because of alleged acts committed against them by Whites from
North America or Europe. The more disgraceful thing however is that these same
people and their descendants are so much obsessed with obtaining citizenship
from the Whitemans home, including the very North America they claim ill-
treated them centuries back. America, apparently, is not bothered with this dull
constitutional argument which is still on the books, this 21st century, of their so-
called offshoot, Liberia, because no American has one interest in being citizen of
a practical hell on Earth. America is only interested in getting her part of the vast
important natural resources from here virtually free of charge perpetually.

5) Who told you that it is a secret to the learned people of this country that the
Settlers and their American masters crooked and duped our Native forefathers out
of the piece of land, Cape Mesurado, on which these Black Americans decided to
lay the foundation of their failed state, Liberia? Who told you that it is a secret to
the learned people of this country that, as a result of this chicanery by the
Americans, when our poor, unsophisticated tribal Liberians tried to rampage for
how their land was crookedly taken away from them, the cruel and cunning
Settlers, instead of amicably handling this legitimate claim, decided to massively
destroy the Natives with sophisticated weaponries that had been supplied by their
American masters, and then later declared this date of their unconscionable
onslaught on our poor and grieving tribal communities as a National Holiday,
called Thanksgiving Day, for all of us to go the churches and celebrate every
November? And sadly, 194 years on, this kind of iniquitous celebration is still
going on, invoking more curse on their country on a yearly basis. Can anyone
imagine this kind of collective stupidity?

We will pause here on these countless accounts of how this cantankerous and
uncivilized group, called the Americo-Liberians, has wreaked havoc on the lives
and generations of the poor tribal people of this country, and we will now begin
to delve into some of the effects and legacies of their actions on the entire fate of
this country. We, in addition will suggest some workable solutions, and then
finally conclude this revolutionary pamphlet.

To prove that we are not just making up stories or engaging in mere academic
show off, but that these are very grave issues that continue to hang as serious
milestones on our necks as a people, and that we must confront at all costs, let us
bring you below how key personalities and institutions both domestic and
international, have strongly raised concerns about these appalling realities:

(a) Dr. James Ciment of New York, according to an article on http://online.wsj.com,


described the Liberias Settlers v. Natives debacle these ways:
He declared the tension between the two opposing groups as Liberias
Original Sin, claiming, there were [and we would say here, there are] vast
cultural differences between the two groups.
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Dr. Ciment insinuated, a damaging culture that the settlers had introduced,
which has terribly permeated the Liberian Society, is an idea of putting
Survival ahead of Idealism. This implicitly means that the Settlers have
taught the society how to put survival for today far ahead of key virtues such
as morals and principles etc. a very horrifying situation for any nation.
(b) According to the book, Liberian Civics, P.81, there is a strong definitive claim
that, Liberias nasty uncivil conflict, was caused by injustice. It argues that, in
any unjust society, the relationship between citizens is one of inequality; that is,
there is a concept of an upper class and a lower class, which among other things,
translate into an (unjustifiably) uneven distribution of the nations wealth among
members of the society.
(c) In the book, A short History of the First Liberian Republic, it is mentioned that
based on the Liberian social structure, there was [and we would say here, there
are] very little opportunities or chances for many citizens (again, 98% of which
are indigenous) to ever be able to improve professionally or otherwise, so as to be
able to advance their own standards of life.
(d) This research has established that the settlers brought with them a slave mentality
that they had adopted from Americas antebellum South. What this suggests is
that they have been able to thoroughly inculcate into the population of our
country what the Social Scientists refer to as the Live For Today attitude, a
damaging mindset or way of life that keeps people so myopic, parochial, nave
and painfully narrow minded about their community, environment and their
society at large. For example, with this mentality, when people build or work,
they build for today; they look at present delight; they neglect what happens in
the future; they consume everything for todays survival, because for them,
tomorrow is not of a major concern.
(e) According to www.c-r.org/accord-article/bringing-peace-liberia, Liberia has a
serious unresolved past. This is how the site puts it; Looking beyond its
immediate triggers, the Liberian Conflict can be seen as a brutal culmination of
the countrys UNRESOLVED PAST. For almost a century and a half, the
Americo-Liberians dominated the political, social, and economic life of Liberia
..They achieved this through the institutions they created such as the churches,
judiciary, business associations, and other clubs and societies, notably, the
grand lodges of the Free Masons. The True Whig Party, the Americo-
Liberians ultimate source of wealth, status, and employment, governed Liberia
for over a century. Under the rule of the Settlers, indigenous Liberians were
treated (we would say here, are treated) as second class citizens. Although
comprising over 95% of the population, they were consistently excluded from the
decision making process that affected their lives.
(f) The treatment meted out against the Natives is so clearly a noticeable
phenomenon to the point that by 2003, in a speech delivered by one of the
countrys best human rights advocates, and lawyer, Cllr. Tiawon S. Gongloe, at
the 34th Annual National Educational Conference of the A. Philip Randolph
Institute in Atlanta, Georgia, he referred to the situation as a Black Apartheid,
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when he said that Liberia, a nation according to its founders [professedly] meant
to be a country of freedom from abuse, a human rights paradise in Africa etc. was
still struggling to live up to its meaning, as all of these big dreams remain far
illusive after more than one century and a half
(g) No account can cap all of these up more than what the League of Nations, UNs
predecessor, said about this ugly scenario in their 1930 Cuthbert Christy Report
on Liberia. According to the report of the Commission, on which Liberia was
also adequately represented, the League admonished (or strongly cautioned) the
Liberian Government for what it termed or described as ..Systematically
fostering and encouraging a policy of gross intimidation and suppression of the
Native in order to prevent him from realizing his powers and limitations, and to
prevent him from asserting himself in any way whatsoever, for the benefit of the
dominant and colonizing race, although originally of the same African stock as
themselves...
Now fellow citizens, what else can be said about this disgusting situation that
confronts us as a people today? People who feel that we can leave all these issues
unresolved or left under the carpet in the name of peace and reconciliation, we
are afraid, still need to address themselves to the following unanswered questions
and concerns, as follows:

1. We speak every day about the issues of corruption, corruption, and


corruption. If corruption primarily constitutes moral impurity and a deliberate
deviation from an ideal or standard, or policy, then how can we move this
country forward if its very foundation sits on the pillars of corruption and its
able lieutenants of selfish greed, cruel and savage ethnic suppression, and
marginalization etc., as we have thoroughly established in this piece of work?
2. We speak all day about the bad culture of impunity and claim to be fighting
impunity in order to create a law-abiding environment and society. But fellow
citizens, if impunity truly means the impossibility (whether dejure or defacto)
of bringing perpetrators of violations to account for their actions; or, if
impunity also means the exemption of people from punishment and the
payment of fines or settlement of losses and damages; and if, in summary,
impunity arises from the failure of our governments to meet their obligations
of investigating violations and taking appropriate actions against perpetrators
with respect to having them tried and duly punished if found guilty in order to
provide victims due remedies and reparations for injuries and damages they
suffer etc., then who in this country will ever argue that Liberia is still a
billion years away, if it is even possible, to ever attain a law-abiding and
civilized society?
3. We hear politicians in this country overly using the terms accountability and
transparency as their modern-day clich; if for example, accountability truly
means answerability for all actions (past or present), taking responsibility and
accepting liability where compelling or established, then fellow countrymen,
would not even a child born yesterday know that this is a country of
ridiculous lip service? Can people ever survive on mockery and lip service?
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4. People, evidently fearful about the looming specter of the terrible mayhem
they have repeatedly committed and continue to cleverly orchestrate against
the vast indigenous majority of this countrys population, including the
countless harms done by their fathers and forefathers to us etc., keep singing
the chorus of theoretical peace and reconciliation all around the place as of it
is just enough to talk peace and reconciliation. We ask them first off, what
peace can ever be attained in the absence of justice, and what justice can ever
be realized in the presence of an extreme abundance of lies and falsehoods?
And if people will even be charmed or cajoled into accepting these empty
talks of peace and reconciliation, then how do current and future generations
come to terms with the following grave issues, among others:
i. The literature of Americo-Liberian v. Native coexistence, as we have greatly
explored here is unbelievably characterized by terrible accounts of tribal
suppression, cruelty, bigotry and so on that even continue in fine-tuned forms
up to date, this 2016, a situation that did, and continues to debar or impede
people of Native backgrounds from adequately reaching their fullest
potentials in life. The big question remains, how and when does the
indigenous community ever recover from these huge past and present
devastations in the absence of tangible reparation?
ii. We have established through these studies that the Americo-Liberians have
tearfully inculcated into our past, current, and going towards our future
generations, this very counterproductive mentality of Live for Today. This
social culture as we described above has made our society sadly a
predominantly shortsighted, barren and parochial one. This is very
devastating. The question here is, If we are to just jokingly buy in to these
mere talks of peace and reconciliation being trumpeted around here, then who
takes the cumbersome responsibility of uprooting this deadly unproductive
mentality from our population, and by what means, and when, especially
when the social and political status quo remains unchanged?.
iii. Imagine, as we discovered above, it took 82 years (few generations, 1822 to
1904) for tribal Liberians to be extended some STUPID form of so-called
citizenship in their own country. Then right after this development, the
Americo-Liberians placed the Natives under another kind of colonial rule
from 1906 to 1964. Up to today, we, the Natives still suffer either direct,
indirect or other forms of oppressions, suppressions and marginalization, after
having been treated like animals and regarded as private property by
Americo-Liberians and their foreign collaborators for all these long decades
in the past. The question then will be, how long would it take Native
Liberians to ever make a comeback to catch pace with their 21st century
peers elsewhere on the globe (which is our inalienable right) if no tangible
extra-mile recovery agenda is advanced, but instead a big empty talk of
reconciliation?
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iv. On the overall, who accounts for all these countless historical and present day
evils that have convincingly placed the Natives almost 200 years back in life
and have also culminated into an overall desperately backwards country?
v. A certain blog post explains the following about accumulated grief. It says,
with each new traumatic experience; with each act of devastation in the lives
of a people, a resulting feeling of sorrow, anger, shock, disbelief, bitterness
etc. seems to buildup on top of each other so that processing a new sad event
calls up all the existing bad feelings of the past. Accumulated grief, the blog
post says, can be described as an emotional cholesterol, and for the Liberian
scenario; it must now be deflated appropriately, as citizens of Native
backgrounds can no longer allow it to accumulate. The big questions are: (a)
how will we finally dissipate all these pungent feelings of animosity? (b) how
will we appropriately diffuse this huge dossier of past and present damages?
(c) how can we peacefully coexist, reconcile and prosper with all these
numerous painful issues of the past left materially unresolved? Fellow
citizens, its time for all of us to find answers to these serious national
questions.
Having stressed all of these vital points, let us boldly project our convictions to
those who will brand these deliberations as preaching negative ethnicity or
tribalism, and regard us as discriminatory, as people normally would do in this
country. We say to them that every coin has two sides, and just as corruptions
advantageous side for example has evidently benefited thousands of people one
way or the other in this country and continues to do so today, we as a people, can
now leverage the positive sides of ethnicity and tribalism, in a civil fashion, to
make a lasting positive U-turn, if thats how people will describe it, although we
will say that we are pursuing a painful, but rightful path to justice, that will
benefit ALL in the end, God willing. So for example:

1. If it means that we employ the positive side of ethnicity in order to inaugurate


once and for all the culture of truth telling and to lay a new national foundation
that will sit on the pillars of honesty, justice, righteousness (moral rectitude) and
hard work etc., then of course we are now ready to do so.
2. If it means that we employ the civil side of ethnicity to once and for all boot out
the political Jonahs on our ship headed for Tashish on which they have forced
themselves, and hijacked for almost two centuries, when they are actually headed
for Ninevah instead, then we are ready to do so in order to inaugurate sanity,
stability, and progress on our ship once and for all, as time is fast spent.
3. If it means that we employ the positive sides and arguments of ethnicity and
tribalism in order to liberate ourselves from the bondage and yoke of stupidity,
under which over 98% of our entire country has been incredibly kept for over 190
years now, made to believe that things are destined to remain as they are, and that
there is no need for some drastic national U-turn, when the need for such
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unavoidable change is so glaring and compelling, then we are ready for some real
21st century ethnic and tribal debate now.

4. If it means that we constructively engage the positive side of ethnicity and


tribalism in order to create a new social and political structure and culture that
will promote truth telling and ensure strong social capital among our people
instead of being kept in a state of perpetual subscription to lies and falsehoods,
wherein small truth telling looks so big like a revolutionary act, then we think the
time is now ripe for such debate.
5. If it means that we employ the good arguments of ethnicity and tribalism to
enable us build and maintain multiple world-class international airports and
seaports instead of perpetually and disgracefully depending on one makeshift
airport and one makeshift seaport constructed through a foreign military quick
impact project, then this is the best debate for us now.

6. If it means that we are compelled to engage into a civil ethnic and tribal debate
before we can ever manage to provide quality basic social services for all of our
citizens, no matter what part of the country they live, then no one in their right
mind will ever stop this debate now.

7. If we must confront a constructive ethnic debate before the stewardship of our


countrys almost entirely depleted precious natural resources can be permanently
taken out of the hands of people (who sell or lease our lands for 6 cents per acre
for 99 years; give out our iron ore for an encumbered 16 cents out of every
willing dollar declared by foreign friends; pay depletion fees to their foreign
friends exploiting our resources instead of the foreign friends paying the
depletion fees to our country; give out 10 or more of our precious oil blocks, all
under shady arrangements with no clear future benefits for current and future
generations, etc.) and placed into the hands of its rightful owners who will
manage them wisely, then it only takes Gods direct intervention to stop this
debate now.
8. If it means that we promote the productive side of an ethnic debate to ensure that
our hundreds of thousands of school going children have access to widespread
and good educational facilities including superior quality education under a
conducive atmosphere, then we are proud to get involved with this ethnic debate
now.

9. If we cant dodge some form of constructive ethnic debate to ensure that


countless jobs are made available for both our skilled and unskilled populations,
including creating an environment that will ensure that thousands of entry-level
professional jobs are awaiting our thousands of university graduates as they step
out of our tertiary institutions every year, then of course, the need for such a
debate is now worth the salt.
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10. If it means that we be branded tribalists or ethnic advocates to make a way for
morality, honesty, righteousness, a fairness of justice etc. to be inaugurated, and
made to take firm root in our society, and then reign supreme for good, then we
believe God Himself will help us in this debate now.

11. If it means that we get engaged into a worthwhile tribal debate in order to create
the corridors for our citizens to take control of their own economy which also
means securing true independence and sovereignty, then this debate is the
proudest thing to engage into now.
12. If it means that we have to peacefully excuse a certain failed ethnic group out of
our public sector in order to create a lasting atmosphere for our national football
teams and other sporting clubs to take their rightful places and positions in
regional and international competitions and programs, after 194 years of national
existence, and over 75 years of formal sporting programs, then its better now to
promote this debate.
13. If it means that certain form of ethnic debate must be escalated to help us dispel
the notion that the group of people who have kept us under the impression that
they are the most civilized of social classes etc., are on the contrary, the most
uncivilized; the most cruel; the most unintelligent and the most myopic of our
social stocks, and therefore our countrys major problem, then the time is too ripe
now for this debate; and,
14. If it means that we must now peacefully remove the DIRTY influence, and
therefore somewhat part ways with a certain group of people who have hijacked
and polluted our society for centuries now, in order for our small resource rich
country to ever realize genuine peace, attain lasting reconciliation and experience
world class development and prosperity, then we advise all well-meaning
compatriots to now join us lets escalate this ethnic-centered or tribal-centered
debate. For every coin has two sides, no matter what critics may say.

Fellow citizens, not because an inescapable issue looks difficult and life threatening
to confront means that it must beat our times forever. In order to tackle certain
sticky challenges, policy or decision makers need to formally define racial and ethnic
groups, and identify their members appropriately. Ethnic characterization is
synonymous with race characterization and all of these have been employed in
almost all civilized societies in trying to solve their chronic problems. Liberia will
neither be the first nor the last to constructively engage into an ethnic or racial
debate.

Every productive society has had to reach a certain point in their existence when an
unavoidable national blame-game (though been dodged for very long time in some
cases), will keep rearing up its ugly head, and it must be maturely and honestly
conducted, and concluded before any worthwhile progress can ever be made. For
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example, when that time reached for our most important historical partner, the
United States of America, Martin Luther King, Jr. and his collaborators took matters
into their own hands and stood up against the Whites for segregation; and they
succeeded despite the storms they encountered; when this time reached in South
Africa, Africas most illuminating example, Nelson Mandela and his allies took
matters into their own hands and stood up against the Whites to demand equality and
justice, and they succeeded in the midst of trials and tribulations; when this time
reached in Zimbabwe, Robert Gabriel Mugabe and his able lieutenants took matters
into their own hands and demanded equal rights and opportunities for the Black
Community, and many more examples in history, including Iran, France, Britain and
so on, where certain groups (party, race, ethnic group, political group sect, etc.)
were brought to book to account for major ills in society. In each case, we are told
by history, blames were squarely placed on specific groups of people or complete
sets of political and economic status quos were rooted out. The blames were not
general blames; no, indeed they were specific.

For general blames are lazy arguments, they dont take people anywhere. Nothing
happens in a vacuum, and everybody cant be active at the same time. Nothing
happens, or no action goes on without an actor. When for example, five counties,
constituting an entire nation by then, were mortgaged out to a British Firm, Liberia
Rubber Company (turned Liberia Development Company) of sir Harry Johnston to
exploit wild rubber, but with the exclusive rights to also exploit every mineral
resource available for free in some or all of the counties based upon Johnstons
capacity, it was not under the instruction of the Boakais, Kollies and Yarkpawolos,
etc.; when a billion dollar company was granted 99 year lease over 1 million acres of
our land at 6 cents per acre and made to pay our helpless Native Fathers and
forefathers $3.00 per month for over 300 hours of work a month of planting and
tapping rubber, history says it was under the Kings, Barclays, and Tubmans, but not
the Ngafuans, Does, and Nyensuahs; when our 250 million tons of natural iron from
virgin ore deposits were being mortgaged out in the 1950s and 60s with our so-
called government ironically paying depletion fees to the concession companies
instead of receiving such fees, we are told it was under the Tubmans, Tolberts, and
Simpsons, and not under the Gonkartees, Payes, Kollies or Kolubas, no, no; when
over 500,000 mainly innocent indigenous were gruesomely murdered in cold blood
at the hands of ghastly misguided compatriots, it was never under the premium
initiatorship of the Yormies, Kromahs, or Konnehs, but our research says it was
instead mainly initiated by the Taylors, and Johnsons; and when more than 10 blocks
of a countrys precious oil resources were rashly auctioned out for peanuts with no
clear explanation of what current and future generations stand to benefit
economically, it was never under the prime stewardship of the Teahjays, Nagbes,
Sendolos, Nyenaboes, or Jallahs, but our research says it was under the overall and
commanding leadership of a Johnson, flanked by a Findley and a Tyler.
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Ladies and gentlemen, in our local parlance, it is said, You cannot eat crab with
shame. Why cast a general blame that this curse is being caused by all of us, or at
least all of us equally, when we know that that old lady sitting way there in Gborplay
doesnt even know whats happening here at all, and we didnt prepare her in
advance to know what is going on around her? Why also equally blame young, poor
Dolo struggling at the Science College of the U.L. in the absence of even lab
facilities when he really doesnt have any means to impact this nasty entrenched
status quo, especially in the absence of the right Civic Education, when we know
sound Civic Education was in fact hidden from him all along etc. and etc.?

Fellow citizens, in statistics, there is a concept of statistical inference that attributes


the common characteristics of a sample to a whole population. In dialectics or logical
debates, there is a similar concept of inductive reasoning, according to which
conclusions are reached about all the members of a given set by examining just a few
members of that set, especially repeatedly. When for example the Catholics, accused
of perpetrating violence [especially frequently], were singled out and banned from
politics for more than 50 years in Northern Ireland according to Dr. Johanna Kristin
Birnin, it was not all members of the Catholic Denomination that had perpetrated
violence in Northern Ireland, but obviously their frontrunners and leaders; in Italy,
for some reason, the Sardinian and South Tyrolinian Ethnic groups have been out of
public service for 50 years each; when the Kurdish (ethnic group)-backed
Democratic Society Party (DTE) was banned through court orders from politics for
being a focal point for terrorism against the integrity of the state in December 2009
according to the CNN, it was obviously not all party members that were guilty, but
instead it was party co-chairs and parliamentarians that were x-rayed and punished;
when right-winged parties in 2013, according to www.insideserbia.info voted to ban
the Cyrillic Language from being taught in schools in the City of Vukovar, Croatia
because of what the city suffered when it was besieged and destroyed by Serb forces
in 1991, it was obviously not all members of the Cyrillic Speaking Community that
had wreaked havoc on Vukova during the Yugoslavian Wars. And to pause these
numerously available examples for now; when the Greek Government decided to
ban the far right Golden Dawn Party through the courts, for among other things, the
partys link to the murder of a leading left-wing Musician, Pavlov Fyssas (CKA
Killah P) in 2013 according the UK Guardian, it was not all of the Golden Dawn
Party members that were obviously responsible for these acts, but the natural laws of
inferential statistics and inductive reasoning had to take their rightful places.

Fellow citizens, are we saying that we are more intelligent and more civilized than
all of these people, for which we dont want to take this route, and nothing seems to
be working for 200 years now?
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In John Rawls book, Political Liberalism, 1993, p. 328, he said free political
speech, together with the just political procedure specified by the constitution
provides an alternative to revolution (he was referring to violent revolution) and
the use of force, which can be destructive to civil liberties. A democracy thus,
should not punish its ideological enemies unless they directly commit criminal acts.
When they do, they should be punished appropriately. In our situation fellow
citizens, we still wonder what levels of societal devastation and moral decadence do
we want to see obtaining before taking matters into our own hands to stand up for
the truth? We still wonder what fate should befall us first, what teachers should walk
us through, what tragedies should bang at our doors first, what painful and shameful
experiences should come our way first as a people, before we can wake up and smell
the coffee that ABSOLUTELY under no circumstances can a people (thoroughly x-
rayed, quarantined and declared by their sound masters as promoters of mischief,
morally lax, mentally inferior and criminally oriented) ever build a nation that can
survive, be stable, and prosper? We wonder what time are we waiting for to do this
unavoidable, compulsory and indispensable assignment of undoing what we have
here, so as to start rebuilding a new and better foundation and structure of our
country in order to move forward in our collective lives? Let us not forget though,
that time is not under our control.

Before closing, let us not forget to remind and further inform you with emphasis that
the issue of ethnicity or tribalism is historical, religious, and even a global
phenomenon today, in terms of the positive side of the coin, and Liberia or this
country, as we prefer calling it other than Liberia, will neither be the first nor the last
to ever leverage the positive side of ethnicity to rise once and for all from what
seems to be an eternal dungeon.

To explore a little on the religious and historical accounts of the importance of tribal
identity and characterization, lets see what this Rabbi said, that also comes from the
Bible and World History. According to Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman of Israel, when the
Hebrews left Egypt, they left as tribes. When they camped at Mount Sanai, they
camped as tribes. When they entered and settled the land of Israel, they settled as
tribes. Each tribe had its own allotted portion of land. Each tribe had its own flag, its
colors, its particular tasks, and even its unique personality traits. Referring to the
Hebrew names of the tribes, Rabbi Kleiman said, the Zevalums were on the seashore
and they engaged in commerce; the Yissachars concentrated on full time Torah
(Law) scholarship; the Dans were known for their judicial practices; the Menashes
had, and took care of cattle; the Ashers produced oil; the Levis were responsible for
temple service and spiritual instructions; and the Yehudas (the Judahs) provided
kingship and national leadership etc.

Dear countrymen, in our case, even if Rabbi Kleimans narration of the Hebrews
scenario doesnt apply directly to this country, or even if we dont know exactly
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which one or which combinations of our different tribes are destined for kingship
and good national leadership, one undisputable truth that has convincingly proven
itself out repeatedly is that this countrys questionable 17th ethnic group, the Settlers
(c.k.a. Congoes, Americo-Liberians, Pioneers etc. and their descendants) were never
meant for kingship and national leadership, but they continue to force themselves
onto this noble calling, all because they came here from the beginning more
sophisticated than the original 16 ethnic groups on ground, and so the Americo-
Liberians stole the show merely for their personal gains. But as we can all see today,
we continue to reap the sad and painful harvest of their failed and cursed leadership.

Yes, indeed, ethnicity has its own positive sides, of among other things, helping us
determine each groups unique personality traits. According to a 21st century
research, ethnic identity development is related to psychological well-being. It is
linked to positive self-evaluation and self-esteem. Numerous studies show how
many positive outcomes are associated with strong and stable ethnic identities,
including increased self-esteem, improved mental health, decreased self-destructive
behaviors, greater academic achievement and increased constructive competition
etc.

But finally, fellow compatriots, in order for us all to leverage all these immense
benefits from ethnic identity, we must first be honest to our consciences and now be
unconditionally prepared to face the TRUTH and only the TRUTH. This is the tramp
card to all of our real successes in life. For our country to now experience her long
awaited and much desired positive change, the process must start with the Truth and
be sustained by the Truth. PERIOD!!!!!!!

We cant afford to end this section without making some religious and philosophical
references to back our claim about the indispensability of the concept of truth for
total deliverance and healing, as we have implied above. A great Syrian Islamic
scholar, Ibn al Qayyim, while elaborating on a Quranic verse that instructs mankind
to be truthful in all their deeds said the following strong words of encouragement
about truthfulness. Qayyim said, Ask the average person to define truthfulness and
the answer will most likely be restricted to something about truthful speech. Islam
however, teaches that truthfulness is far more than having an honest tongue. In
Islam, truthfulness is the conformity of the outer with the inner, the action with the
intention, the speech with the belief, and the practice with the preaching. As such,
truthfulness is the very cornerstone of the upright Muslims character and the
springboard for his virtuousness in deeds. Qayyim further stresses, Truthfulness is
the greatest of stations, from it sprouts all the various stations of those traversing the
path to God; and from it sprouts the upright path which, if not trodden, perdition (or
eternal punishment) is that persons fate. He goes on, Through it the hypocrite is
distinguished from the believer and the inhabitant of paradise from the denizen of
hell. It is the sword of God in His Earth; it is not placed on anything except that it
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hunts it and cuts it; it does not face falsehood except that it hunts and vanquishes it;
whoever fights with the truth (as their weapon) will not be defeated; and whoever
speaks it, his words will be made supreme over those of his opponents. It is the very
essence of deeds and the well-spring of spiritual states; it allows a person to embark
boldly into dangerous situations, and it is the door through which one enters the
presence of the ONE possessing majesty. . By practicing truthfulness, a person
betters himself, his life is made upright; and due to the truth, he is elevated to
praiseworthy heights, and raised in ranks in the sight of God as well (as his fellow
human beings).
The worlds wisest man on record, King Solomon, according to the Bible, listed lie
and mischief making at the top among Gods most hated sins. The greatest
philosopher and teacher of all times, Jesus Christ, puts all this very simply, when He
said in John 8:32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

When we place these powerful admonishments squarely to match our countrys ugly
scenario, this is what a certain newspaper article had to say, The truth has been
tested and proven to be the gateway to freedom. When the truth is established and
embraced, the solutions to problems normally emerge; harmony ensues, while
reconciliation becomes an inevitable way forward. In the absence of the truth
however, there can never be any atmosphere of cordiality and peace because
hearts will continue to be loaded with sour feelings in addition to the spirit of
vindictiveness. The Truth must therefore be confessed now, because it is through it
that lasting solutions to our national problems will be harvested. The truth will
lead us to justice and freedom; it will also lead us to genuine unity and national
reconciliation; the truth will provide us healing and stability; the truth will lead us
to sincere forgiveness, harmony, and a renewed sense of togetherness.

Yes indeed fellow citizens, the time for change in this country, using the plain truth
as our ONLY TOOL or weapon has finally come. In the words of French Poet Victor
Hugo, There is one thing stronger than all the armies of this world and that is the
idea whose time has come. Lets leverage the Truth now and make our CREATOR
proud.

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 also entertaining any historical
documentaries or any other worthwhile articles intended to further encourage us, or
strengthen our case for this revolution, and any other concerns, using the address
above. We also have other social media sites. Our Facebook page is
https://web.facebook.com/plaintruth2013. We have three discussion groups: a
Facebook group and a Google+ Community, both under the name Grain Coast
(Liberia) Independence Movement (GIM), and at https://is.gd/cO3rbV and
https://is.gd/cyZm54 respectively, plus Google+ Page named plaintruthliberia, and at
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https://is.gd/SnsihD. We moreover have a Twitter and a YouTube presence, with our


Twitter handle being @plaintruthrev, and on YouTube, we are at
http://youtu.be/cTCeDYD8gw. You are also encouraged to Google out any of our
key documents or pamphlets by titles as a last option.
Thank you so much for helping to change our country and making our world a safe
place for current and future generations, as Liberia now truly poses a major threat to
its own people and the rest of the world due to its dangerous lack of the presence of
leadership and governance.

May God bless us all.

To be updated as necessary..
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REFERENCE

BOOKS
Guannu, J. S. (1997). Liberian History Up To 1847. Monrovia: Sabanoh Printing Press, Ltd.

Guannu, J. S. (2010). A Short History of the First Liberian Republic. Monrovia: Star Books

Guannu, J. S. (2010). Liberian History Since 1980. Monrovia: Star Books

Guannu, J. S. (2010). Liberian Civics. Monrovia: Star Books

Mayson, D.T.W. (2010). In the Cause of the People. *.Benin, *.Lagos, *.Abuja, *.Aba: Mindex
Publishing Co. Ltd.

Wild, J. J. (2007). Financial Accounting Fundamentals. New York..: McGraw-Hill Irwin

Wilson, C. A. (- ). Public Policy: Continuity and Change, Second Edition.

McConnel et al ( -). McConnel Brue Flynn Macroeconomics 19th Edition


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MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLES


Staff. (2012, August 6). Dr. Elwood Duns 2012 National Indepedence Day Oration: Sugar Coating 133
years of Americo-Liberian Dominance?. FrontPage Africa. Vol.6, No. 230; 3

Staff. (2011, July 7). Ellen Dissolves Entire LPRC Board: Jallah, Jackson Ordered to Restitute
Thousands. FrontPage Africa. Vol.5, No. 67; 6

Staff. (2011, July 15). Bropleh Arrested, Dragged to Jail for Corruption. National Chronicle. Vol.17,
No. 99; 1, 6

Dessie, T. E. (2013, January 28). Witch-Hunt At LPRC- One Dismissed, Others to follow. Microscope.
Vol.1, No. 63; 8

McClain, N. (2013, August 27). Dismissed LPRC Employee Opens Up. In Profile Daily Vol.5, No.
196; 1, 14

Alis, L. A. (2013, August 27). Commentary: President Ellen Johnson Sirleafs Failed Project to weaken
the fight Against Corruption In Liberia. In Profile Daily Vol.5, No. 196; 1, 13

Staff. (2013, April 16). LPRC Concurs With Whistleblowers Graft Claims. New Democrat. Vol.20,
No. 070; 1, 3

Staff (2013, April 17). LPRC Chief Admits to Conflict of Interest. New Democrat. Vol.20, No. 071; 1,
3

Staff. (2013, April 17). Trends of vicious lies and gossip abhorred. Concord Times. Vol.11, No. 170; 1,
4, 5

Staff. (2013, August 28). LPRC Board, Management, Linked to Double Payments, GAC Recommends
Punishment. Heritage. Vol.18, No. 199; 1, 10

Staff. (2013, September 2). LPRC Admits Blunder, But GAC Recommends Punitive Actions. Heritage.
Vol.18, No. 202; 1, 10

Staff. (2012, February 17). LPRC Board Releases Detailed Facts on Allegations. New Democrat.
Vol.19, No. 032; 1, 8, 9

Staff. (2014, March 21). LPRC shamelessly threatens Chronicles with lawsuit. National Chronicles.
Vol.20, No. 22; 1, 10

Staff. (2014, March 21). Wikleaks exposes Ellens dubious deeds. National Chronicle. Microscope.
Vol.2, No. 107; 1, 6

Staff. (2012, January). Charles Taylor worked for the CIA in Liberia. British Broadcasting Corporation.
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WEBSITES AND WEB PAGES


gnnpost. (2013.August 27). GNN: FPA Managing Editor vows to remain in prison, rejects
compromised settlement. Retrieved March 2014, from www.gnnliberia.net

Liberia: Fixing Liberias education system Sirleaf clarifies mess at Education Ministry. (n.d).
Retrieved January 2014, from www.allafrica.com

Headline News from Liberia: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a dangerous and bloody political power seeker
not an advocate for justice in Liberia. (2011, June 7). Retrieved September 2013, from www.limany.org

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf somersaults from giving humanitarian support to removing a dictator
(n.d.). Retrieved September 2013, from www.publicagendanews.com

Peah, J. K. K. (2011, August 29). Prez Sirleaf ordered former presidential candidate Jackson Does
Execution. Retrieved January 2014, from www.thenewdispensation.com

Gongloe, T. S. (2003, August). Speech: Liberia: A nation still struggling to live up to its meaning.
Retrieved March 2013, from www.theperspective.org/philiprandolphinstitute.htm

Kromah, A. G. V. (n.d). Capital Inflow and sovereignty: Performance of Firestone in Liberia: 1926
1977. Retrieved June 2013, from http://alhajikromahpage.org/alhajifirestone.htm

Vande Kraaj, F.P.M. Dr. (2013, April 30). _______ . Retrieved June 2013, from
http://blog.liberiapastandpresent.org

The American Colonization Society (n.d). Retrieved March 4 2013, from


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_colonization_society

History of the United States (n.d). Retrieved March 2014, from


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States

History of Liberia (n.d). Retrieved April 2013, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Liberia

A Country Study, Washington D.C: Americo-Liberians and the Indigenes. (n.d). Retrieved December
2014, from http://www.globalsecurity.org

Sullivan, J. M. (2003).Revision of Book This is our Dark Country: The American Settlers of Liberia
(Catherine Reef). Retrieved December 2014, from http://www.h-net.org

Liberia: Past and Present of Africas Oldest Republic. (n.d.). Retrieved December 2014, from
www.liberiapastandpresent.org

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