WAKE UP SPECIAL COURT The question in place is simply what approves a man guilty or not? Is it a libral dictatorship of ones will or an international conspiracy? I do plead to speed up the the case of Chalse Taylor people I presume will not like to hear the old story like that of Foday Sankoh or any of the leaders who played a role in the civil war in Sierra Leone. Let justice be hasten up and if the man is convicted let him face the reality of life or let him be relised. Dont waste water on the ducks back. If there is no reason of keeping Taylor let him go free instead of punishing him to death. GIVE THE CAKE OF ONE TO HIM OR COOL IT WITH SOME ICE WATER. May this be applied to Taylor. May justice be justice. SPEED UP SPECIAL COURT WE DONT WANT THE SAME OLD STORY. dont dehumanised Taylor before he is found guilty wait for the proper time. Paul Turay.

Once again the Ellen johnson's goverment is not respecting itself. This goverment sold taylor in exchange for the election.We know that George weah won the 2005 election. But because ellen was the candidate of the west, there where no stronge action or words compare to zimbabwe,and kenya.I feel so iretated when i hear the lib goverment making comments in taylor issue. Ellen should be the first to know that Sierra leone was one of the country who distroy liberia. We know that, 1985 coup was supported by their president. read this carefully:

Monrovia, August 22, 2008: A participant of the November 12, 1985 abortive invasion, Joe Wyllie told commissioners of Liberia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) how the Government of Sierra Leone supported the insurgents to cross into Liberia.

Mr. Wyllie said then Sierra Leonean President Siaka Stevens was reportedly angry with Head of State Samuel K. Doe because Doe had a love affair with one of his young wives.

As a means to apparently get even with Doe, Wyllie said, President Stevens supported insurgents led by former commanding general Thomas Quiwonkpah to cross the Sierra Leonean frontier to topple the regime.

“I think they developed some differences because of some social problems. President Siaka Stevens had a young girl by the name of Bendu or Bintu who came to visit Monrovia and I heard Doe had an affair with her”,

Then opposition politician Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf would have become minister of finance if the 1985 abortive invasion had succeeded, Joe Wyllie, one of those who participated in the failed coup said.

• Mr. Joe Wylie Mr. Wyllie said Madame Johnson-Sirleaf, now President was included on a list of Liberians who would have been named by the invasion leader, then People’s Redemption Council (PRC) commanding general, the late Thomas G. Quiwonkpah to the cabinet following the success of the invasion.

Mr. Wyllie said Mrs. Johnson-Sirleaf and other prominent Liberians were instrumental in financing the failed invasion planned to oust then Master Sergeant Samuel Kanyon Doe following the holding of the 1985 general elections to abort his inauguration.

Wyllie named late commerce minister James Holder, slain civil engineer Robert Phillips, Liberia Petroleum Refinery Corporation (LPRC) managing director Harry Greaves as prominent Liberians who collaborated with Madame Johnson-Sirleaf to ensure that the invasion was implemented.

“James Holder, Robert Phillips, Harry Greaves and Madame Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf herself were working 24 hours to put everything in place for the invasion,” Wyllie, then deputy minister of defense in the Gyude Bryant led power sharing National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL) said.

Wyllie said the lives of those on the list would have been endangered if Gen. Quiwonkpah was in possession of the list during the coup. He said he was in possession of the cabinet list while Quiwonkpah was in possession of the military list.

PUBLIC SERVICE He said following the aborting of the invasion by loyalist government troops he tore the list and threw it in the Du River before going underground to escape the country.

Under the theme: “Understanding the Conflict Through its Principal Events and Actors,” the ongoing hearings will address the root causes of the conflict, including its military and political dimensions.

Liberians need to know that sierra leone brought this on their self.

A prudent maxim of communicative interactions is to affirm content only withing the scope of evidentiality that reasonably supports the averred or asserted content. That means or should mean in 'layman's' terms: speak appropriately!

Applying both formulations, I inqire: Sir, you affirm categorically, sans argument, relatively attested historical facts, or even informed speculation that there was "a civil war in Sierra Leone" [in my lexicon, the demo-fascist soupist occupied territory of Sierra Leone].

Please do your readers an intellectual, ethico-communicative favor, which, truth be told, is really a mandate of intellectual responsibility and intellectual rigor: PRODUCE YOUR INTERPRETATION of historically attested facts AND THEORETICAL postulates that would induce a reasonable reader to affrim to the same degree of categoricality, the same degree of unequalified assertability that your assertion that there---staying neutral now---"was a civil war in Sierra Leone."

Unless you believe, wrongheadedly, in my opinion, that your assertion is 'obvious', you are obligated to provide your readers your interpretation of the evidence on which your assertion piggybacks.

In this context, as I see it, may I remind you that it is well known in the history of "statement making" or reflective discourse that the 'obvious' is, in numerably overwhelming cases, the OPAQUE itself?

If it isn’t the case of the pot calling the kettle black; Jallohlaw asking someone else to speak appropriately when the ubiquitous Jalloh himself sometimes gets lost comprehending his own writing. For all the “laymen” out there, this is what Jallohlaw is trying to say above: if you are going to speak, speak based on facts. That’s it, cut and dried. What can be inferred, however, from his writing above is that he thinks that there was no civil war in Sierra Leone, but an invasion by Charles Taylor’s forces because that country allowed Ecomog’s peace keepers to use its soil to attack Liberia. For some reason, Mr. Jallohlaw believes that using long and run-on sentences and words and using phrases from other languages that somehow he is operating on a higher intellectual plane than the rest of us; which, of course, is definitely not the case. Mr. Jallohlaw is not better anyone and no one is better than him. But “laymen” everywhere rest assured, from now on I’m going to be Mr. Jallohlaw’s shadow. Anywhere he pops his intellectual head on this internet I will be waiting with a sledge hammer ready to smash it. So go ahead, “laypeople” and have your lay discussions and leave Jallohlaw with me.

Typical 'African' big, big, talk, Herr Stalker; typical obsfuscatory verbiage, vintage modus 'African"; typical personalization of rock solid ideational problematics: alas, a typical bumbler, sadly.

Ecce Homo:

Consistently and doggedly dodging the issues crisp and clear, the self-characterized Stalker of "jallohlaw," waxes in the sewer of pandering: laymen bunkum, intellectual bunkum, and other rhetorical tropes describable, and only describable, as childish babble.

Your chest beating shall be ignored herein as the cris de couer of a cornered opponent; accordingly, I shall revert to the question posed, the question that encapsulates the substance of this exchange: PRESENT AN UNEQUIVOCAL PROPOSITION IN THE SUBJECT POSTING WHERE I OPINED ON CHARLES TAYLOR'S CULPABILITY!

Instead of doing that, instead of satisfying that easy and perspicuous directive, you recklessly and self-destructively morph from a responsbible opponent into a self-proclaimed allafrica. com stalker. Silly.

Every 'layman' following this 'thread' will note that I did attach momentous consequences---intellectual and moral---to your anticipated failure to "present the evidence."

I NOW ASSERT, following the logic of consistency, THOSE CONSEQUENCES, for you have abnegated your responsiblity as a seasoned and rational opponent.

I await your next cris de couer, which I shall crush with a tsumnami of well-deserved CORRECTIVE measures in verba expressly efficient for eviscerating intellectual juvenile tantrums.

And, unfortunately, self-proclaimed Stalker of allafrica.com, you won't find the lexeme "verbum" in Webster; you'll have to consult a Latin Lexicon. And when you do that, and your genetic habitus suggests you won't, I'll add Greek, Arabic and German lexemes to my lexicon.

Verstehen Sie?

Bring it on, dude!

Let’s be clear, sir, nowhere on these web pages have I ever claimed or even suggested that you said Charles Taylor is guilty. I believe what you are referring to is my comment that whatever you, or for that reason anyone else, think or say has no bearing on the outcome of Taylor’s trial. That, to my best recollection, is what I said. Now going back your gibberish above; I said before and I will say again, the plethora of knowledge you claim to possess is meaningless and does no good to yourself or anyone else if you cannot convey it for the least amongst us to grasp. Again, I will let you know that your long and run-on sentences, multi-syllables words and foreign-language phrases do not show your intelligence; on the contrary, they exemplify what a buffoon you are. So suit yourself and write, in your reply, in any language you wish, but I will let you know that I only speak two languages- my native dialect and English. So, if you want me or anyone to understand you and if your goal is to COMMUNICATE in the true meaning of the word, I would suggest you keep it in English. But if the opposite is your aim, then by all means, continue to marinate in your own stupor.

Your interpretation of your intention is porous, perspicuously and self-servingly, porous: the context of my post unambiguously and decisively excludes your interpretation, which is beyond gibberish: it rocks in planet intellectual dishonesty.

A second point: you aver that you speak "two languages": English and a dialect. The last time I checked a dialect does not a language make.

Accordingly, either you don't know what a language is or what a dialect is; or you don't know what a language AND a dialect mean?

Perhaps, excavating the posited rubble will, to sample Kant, yank you from your cognitive slumber.

Sir, regurgitating information does not make one smart; for God sakes, even an inanimate object like a mirror or any school-age child can do the same. The real challenge is to create new knowledge based on available information. So, you quoting Kant, Socrates or Machiavelli may impress the little girl who lives around the corner whose attention you seek, but in the eyes this old man, it is in inconsequential. And let me remind you once again, Sir, I refuse to discuss or argue semantics with you; not now, not ever. This medium is used for concern citizens to discuss important issues facing our beloved nation, Liberia. So, if your aim is debate the nuances between a language and a dialect or to compare your IQ with others, you are on the wrong site.

Man, what a ball I am having with this dude, who earlier called himself "a goat." Better than the soupist occupied territory of Sierra Leone's bubu chords and unique African rhythmic base, is my rumble with "me fren" from the equally soupist occupied territory of Liberia.

Unleash the talking drums or, as the Yanks say, "strike the band."

First my fren, do you not see how unreflexive you are? Were you not the champion of the theory of "nothing new under the sun" a few posts earlier? And now, having been cornered, you yab yab about "new information"? Information? Should you not have stammered "knowledge"?

A mirror can "regurgitat[e]" information? Only the dude who says he is a "goat" would cook this soul searing sour soup, and rock it in his 'personal' anthem (for he hails from a country that ain't no nation) of "settled centuries ago" claptrap.

And now, having blundered in the realm of political theory, grammatical theory, he now stumbles, deaf, dumb and blind, into the perverse introduction of sexuality, African Big Man style, into a discourse that is devoid of the faintest echo of the odious phenomenon. How silly!.

Dude: there, where you wish to "tombawlaw" this verbal cleansing, ain't no there there. Get it?

May I remind you "me fren" that 'sampling' Kant---you still have not followed my 'frenly' advice to you to learn how to read closely---is not equivalent to "quoting" Kant.

Furthermore I CHALLENGE YOU, to posit any text of mine in which I quoted the opportunistic Italian 'humanist" Machiavelli or the ugly, boy chaser Socrates, and I'll perform the miracle of molding the 'tribes' of the territory of Liberia into the nation of Liberia, a nation that only exists, understandably, but wrongheadedly, in your dreams.

Man, you need some serious, African bottom belleh intellectual therapy.

Go get it NOW, ME FREN.

Yab? Unreflexive? Huh!? There's a difference between knowledge and information? What? Oh, my fault, I forgot, I promised not debate nuances with you; I think I know what you mean. Anyway, Sir, if you actually believe that calling me a Liberian or an African is an insult, then you must be dumber than I originally thought. But more interestingly, sir, your negative remarks about my Liberian and African-ness have allowed me a much needed and awaited peek into your soul; rhetorically (please don't take it literally). And I see that you are a lost soul. It seems to me that your life long goal has always been to "cleanse" yourself of your African-ness, this is why you have immersed yourself into Western Literature, to impress your friends from other races that your perceive to be better than yours. This is why you come across as cunning, when you tried to sound cool and regular like in your posting above and even more ridiculous when tried to act like you are intelligent when you quote Kant, Engel and the rest of the Western Socialists. I feel sorry for you, I really do and I will keep you in my prayers. Malcolm X once said that the greatest crime the United States has committed against its Black citizens is to teach those citizens to hate themselves and I think you are a classic victim of such crime. By the way, I AM MAKING INFERENCES BASED ON YOU NUMEROUS POSTINGS; I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE FIND A DIRECT QUOTE OF YOU SAYING, "I HATE THE AFRICAN IN ME." I must stop here and await your yapping, I mean, your response.

Dude, please find my respnse to your irrational rantings and yaba yaba in the Sierra Leone Discussion Topics.

Soul cleansing stuff is to be found therein. Lonta!

Now who is cornered and trying to lure the other into a Sierra Leonean ambush? Plus, I promised only to confront you on this site and nowhere else. Thanks, but no thanks

YOU are cornered, dude.

By the way, next time, please insert a comma after "cornered" and after "Now" in the clause "Now who is cornered and trying to lure the other into a Sierra Leone ambush."

Fellow, your sentence, accordingly, should have been written thus: NOW, [look](as is required by idiomatic American English) who is cornered, and trying {a cleaner formulation would have been to delete the "and") to lure the other into a Sierra Leonean ambush?

Secondly, "plus" is a vulgar rendition of a variant of the lexeme "addition," namely, "additionally," or, now, raising the level of verbal sophistication, "moreover."

You second sentence is devoid of rythm, african rhythm, that is. You should try to write with an ear for the rythm of soul Africa. I suggest you listen---intelligently---to the rythmic base of Bubu, the best music from the soupist occupied territory of Sierra Leone or, maybe, some riffs from Empire Bakuba, Madilu System and, perhaps, Zaiko Langa Langa.

Mendacious One: revisist your boastful and vacuous post. Therein, you unambiguously vomited the your toothless 'resolve' to "sledge hammer" my posts on the "internet."

I warned you earlier: it is immoral and socially indecent to fib, for when you are a Liar, you are capable of launching any and all acts of evil.

Hence, stop fibbing. "Speak true," as they say, in the soupist occupied capital of the soupist occupied TERRITORY of Liberia: Monrovia, a funky city.

I recall some great partying with my newphews and nieces, the Barnes (if I am not mistaken their father was Liberia's ambasssador to the UN in the late sixties).

Check your spelling, Prof.

The last time I checked your favorite Webster (FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE), the word is listed as "professor," not "Prof." Moreover, your punctuation is evidently improper.

Please find INFRA, HERR STALKER, a PROPER expression of your text: "Check your spelling, Professor!"

Delighted I would be, if you would refrain from dumping such elementary linguistic blunders in your future postings.

This post was deleted because it contravenes AllAfrica's commenting guidelines.

Incapable of defending against the verbal rockets rocking in planet grammar, Chappie, the dude from the soupist occupied territory of Liberia, shows his real hand: A RAVING XENOPHOBE. What a pity!

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UN is rapidly becoming a Dog eat Dog world, and Taylor is presumed guilty till he dies or proven innocent.They have no apology for Hinga Norman's untimely death under their custody, though he was never proven guilty.

President Charles Gahngay Taylor: A victim of the New World Order. God’s Willing, He’ll Be Back.

Charles G. Taylor's treatment by the West is a double game that is often the style Rich White Western countries have used in handling African leaders they disagreed with. Although he has a colorful past, he is no different from Western cronies like George W. Bush and Tony Blair who are guilty of the same, but were never charged. Mr. Taylor is a victim of the manipulations of former colonial powers who try to redirect and re-colonize Africa through networks of global organizations like NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa’s Development ) AFRICOM (United States Africa Command), the WTO (World Trade Organization), and the new world order which is gradually shaping under the United Nations, sponsored by the United States and the European Union. These two global geo-political groups of nations who are responsible for carnage in Africa and started the Tans-Atlantic Slave trade of Black Africans to the West, show no respect whatsoever for the sub-regional political groups of African nations, i.e., the ECOWAS/EASRDC, nor the overall unifying body established to promote growth and development; and to resolve African affairs in Africa, by Africans, the African way. Our efforts to establish a firm body of African states capable of handling its affairs continentally and internationally is often weaken by Rich White Nations who continue to funnel millions and billions of dollars all in the name of promoting democracy, yet dividing the people, by creating fear and distrust, regionally, nationally and on a continental level that the African Union may die prematurely like the OAU, to prove that Africans are unable to govern themselves.

Although the West can not be entirely responsible for every human disaster in Africa, they are often the orchestrators in many different ways, because of their hunger and thirst for control of our natural resources.

The reorganization of African States from OAU (Organization of African Unity) to the African Union has always been portrayed as a powerless, helpless group of nations with leaders selfishly pushing their personal agenda, stealing billions and caring less for their own people. Of course what is not reported by western media is the millions and billions of dollars the West spend through the CIA, British Intelligence Services, Paramilitary organizations, professional criminal enterprises like the London Club, some NGOs like the Peace Corp, USAID and many so-called Christian organizations organized purposely to spread an ideology that promotes Western Democracy as a Godly form of government that cares for the poor, sick and hurting people of the world, when they are in fact largely the root of nearly all of the civil wars in Africa. Many of the leaders of the so-called Conservative Christian Right have benefited from some of the most brutal wars in Africa, like the war in Congo, Sierra Leone and Liberia. These organizations and foreign governments have successfully sabotage many efforts by Africans to unify themselves and to become more independent instead of relying on the west.

The arrest and detention of President Charles Taylor and now the arrest warrant issued for the seating Sudanese President shows the mindlessness of the West in their approach to Africa. They always never consider the ramifications of their actions toward Africa, because they do not care for us for the lives involve. The West is still in indirect control of Africa, and is responsible for chaos in Africa, at the same time pretends to be agents of change. The importation of toxic Western divisive politics that segregate tribes, religion and families has infested the entire continent to the extent; even the educated intelligent few who we expect to fight for the best interest of the people are themselves playing the game of our oppressors.

Although I believe in the rule of law, I disagree with those who supported the arrest of former President Charles G. Taylor who willfully stepped down, left his country and started a new life in Nigeria.

While it is true some sort of peace and stability have come to the region of West Africa, the question is was it due to the arrest of Charles Taylor? Or was it because he willingly stepped down? In my view, the arrest of Charles Taylor made no difference, as long as the West continue to support terrorist groups across the continent, continue to finance the assassinations of presidents they deem evil, issuing arrest warrants for elected or seating presidents, sponsoring chaos and introducing new drugs and conducting medical experiments on the Black population of Africa at large. In short we are living the age of Black Genocide. These and many more are some of the many instances clear to us that shows Rich White Western Countries, companies and organizations are doing every thing possible to keep Africa in chaos while they rush to seize control of the very resources they accused Mr. Taylor of stealing. The British are back in control of Sierra Leoneans diamond mines, the Americans are back in control of Liberian natural resources i.e. iron ore, timber, diamond, gold, silver, and newly discovered off shore oil.

The United States and Britain invaded Iraq for Oil. Charles Taylor supported rebels in Sierra Leone for diamonds. Both shed innocent blood for natural resources. Both committed crimes against humanity. Two White men from the West (George W. Bush and Tony Blair) committed the same crimes, but one Black man form Africa (Mr. Taylor) was charged. And Only the Blackman is arrested and detained as a criminal nearly two years after stepping down as president. The two White men did not resign, but remain in power and issued an arrest warrant through the UN for Mr. Taylor. They were praised for spreading freedom and democracy in the Middle East after killing nearly 500 thousand innocent Iraqis, executed a seating President, and continued to sponsor Israelis Terrorists who are killing innocent Palestinians daily.

At what point do we realize that we’ve been fooled by the West? When will we stop allowing Rich White Nations from interfering in the matters of Poor Black African Nations? Do we not realize that much of our problems are due to slavery, racism and the demarcation of Africa by the West? The constant manipulation, indirect and direct control of Africa by the same colonial powers and now new rising empires like China and Russia is crippling and must be condemn by all who love this great continent. None have demonstrated any good will for us and should not be allowed any participation in the shaping of our economic and political future with these intensions. Instead we must embrace the African Union, empower our leaders, and at the same time hold them responsible, that our union may be perfected by our actions to work together, despite our differences. We have more in common then we realize.

I am calling on our presidents, governments and sub-political bodies, to refrain from the West; listen to their people, lest we’ll find ourselves in total chaos, especially as global economic situations get worse due to the high demand for fuel and other natural resources. Any part of Africa that embrace the Anglo-Saxon Europeans and Americans tradition and ideology of exploitation that have crippled this continent for centuries will find itself in ruin if it refused to stand with Black nations declaring an end to White Supremacy in Africa. Remember that a house divided can not stand. But in Union Strong, Success is sure.

God Bless Africa. And Long Live the Mother Land. Dr. Naboth Bahnsaideh Zondo is a political writer and African historian, a Liberian Christian who resides in the United States of America. He is married with four children and founded the Liberian Center for Growth & Development, Inc. a civic-political organization which is based in the U.S, dedicated to working for change, by providing educational opportunities, social welfare programs, economic and Healthcare services to Liberians at home and abroad. He is also a minister of the Gospel, and is the host of “True Democracy” a weekly radio and Webcast program. Visit www.liberiancenter.org or www.nabosco.com . For more information, e-mail rrzondo@yahoo.com.

Mr ZONDO, You my friend are a paranoid schizophrenic...you blame everyone else in the world for Africa's problems except the actual people committing the problems. You speak of a New world Order? which we know is an old myth.... No single group is ever going to control the world. Now that we have gotten that debunct lets talk about Mr.Taylor...You don't need a special Court to see that Taylor set up a murderous regime that almost buried every Liberian. Charles Taylor is a War criminal, he violated every recognized international law regarding human rights, including the Geneva convention. He meddled in and supported the civil war in Sierra Leone and perpetrated mayhem on his own people. The NPFL was a movement that was all about greed, not an ideology for justice or civil rights....These guys were thugs, gangs, Mafia like monsters whom raped Liberia of everything. TAYLOR got what he deserves...exiled, arrested and soon to be convicted. If anything should bring us Africans together it should be Honesty, Integrity, and rule of Law so that ALL may have Justice done unto them.

Hey, Krobar, how did you get your name? I hope it's not from using that tool, crowbar, to open doors and warehouses to loot during the war.

CHANGING THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT THE WEST.

To my good friend Krobar Toe, and all who found it difficult to understand my point, I will for the second time simplify my position for you and all who are stuck with a one-sided view of Africa’s calamities. Hopefully this time we’ll get it or chose to remain dogmatic to the end.

I am personally a victim of the Liberian Civil war. Therefore, I need no lecture on this matter. I lost my dad and sister around the Co cola Factory area and up the Hill in ELWA. It is absurd and foolish for anyone in their right mind to assert that I am in support of chaos and carnage or endorse the heinous acts of mass murderous like President Taylor and other war criminals still in Liberia, currently free; roaming the very streets they committed crimes against humanity. Worse of all, most were elected by the very people they tormented few years ago. Is this the kind of democracy you are advocating? And if I am out of my mind, please tell me, how did we get here in the first place? Was Mr. Taylor not apprehended and detained in the U.S, awaiting extradition for funds embezzled from Liberia? Is it also not true that the U.S and Mrs. Sirleaf refused to give sincere explanations of the released of Mr. Taylor from U.S custody and their involvement with this alleged criminal who ended up in Africa and initially received assistance from the very people who now demonize him? Have we forgotten so soon that Mrs. Sirleaf praised the murder and slaughter of innocent men, women and children by calling for Mr. Taylor’s NPFL to destroy Monrovia and she will rebuild it? Or am I really the “paranoid schizophrenic” person my friend KrobarToe has describe? Think for yourself before talking, least you may sound immature to many who believe this war was foolish and should have not occur in the first place.

Here is my assertion. There would have been no war had Mr. Taylor remained in U.S custody, and extradited to Liberia in accordance with international law. But the U.S and Mrs. Sirleaf interested in resurrecting the Americo-Liberian control of the political system, where in indigenous Liberians are often under-represented decide Taylor being partially that heritage, was the best choice to regain that control, until they found out that he could not be controlled nor control himself. He embarked on a mission that left almost 500 thousand people dead, damaged the entire infrastructure of this once peaceful, prosperous country, leaving it totally devastated and bankrupt. Even today, civilians are still seeking refuge in other parts of Africa and around the world. “Mission Accomplished”. Years later, with the help of the West, especially the United States or “United States of Hypocrites” forged her way into the executive mansion, praised her heroisms and polish her as an example to African women. How in God’s name we have become so complacent that we refuse to reject wrong? If my interpretations of these historic events indicate that I am a “paranoid schizophrenic”, call me whatever you may, but the facts can not change. You can not befriend a terrorist and support his actions and when convenient, switch positions when it doesn’t benefit you. Labeling works well when one can not see beyond their nose. So I do not blame KrobarToe for insulting me.

The fact is that Life for many Liberians has been very difficult since Mrs. Sirleaf endorsed Mr. Charles Taylor during the rise of his criminal enterprise. The same women many now praise was the same Harvard educated women who thought it wise to support a terrorist movement that nearly engulfed the entire West Africa, whose affiliates were connected to funding Al-Qaeda, a global terrorist network allegedly responsible for the 9/11 bombing of the World Trade Center. With the blessings of the U.S and support of Libya Mr. Taylor franchised war for diamonds that was traded mainly in the West, flaming chaos in Liberia, and Sierra Leone and causing unrest in three other neighboring countries. This self-described iron-lady, thirsty for power was a supporter of this well known criminal who embezzled from Liberia and was a fugitive. Her participation by supporting Mr. Taylor is exactly my criticism for both African Leaders and Rich White Western countries that finance these criminal enterprises, exploiting the already existing ethic, tribal or religious divisions to gain control of the land and resources. This is not just my assessment. It is a proven fact everyone is aware of, but have different interpretations as to how it can be resolved. Most of the leaders educated in the U.S and Britain return with are polluted Western ideals that blame the victim for being the victim and so-called Western democratic ideals that are incompatible in African democracy are often pushed down the throat of poor Africans concern about farming, and living their simple lives as they’ve done for ages. My premise remains the same regardless of how one interprets my position. Educated or not, White or Black, African or non-African, it is my belief that whoever work against the interest of Africans, especially those of Black decent ought to be eradicated, removed, or defeated at all cost. The existence of some puppet regimes and governments in African are still the very danger posing Africa today, even as the West continue to expand its control of African wealth, media and economy.

This is why I have consistently condemn Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi who have sponsor more than 15 different rebel groups across Africa, including Liberia. Anyone who destroys Africans is evil and ought to pay for their crimes regardless of nationality. However, the historic effects of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, racial discrimination against Black Africans, colorizations and post colonial fight for economic control and the demarcation of African land by White Western Countries are certainly major contributions to chaos in Africa. This is my point and I think it is very simple to understand. You can make little or more out of this if you wish, but it does not change the facts. Most of our Black brothers and sisters in the West are helping to accomplish what slavery and colonization did not do. I do not deny that we must hold African leaders fully accountable, but the constant manipulation and interference by the West in African Affairs is one my critics will agree is a major part of our problem.

Mrs. Sirleaf colossal error of judgment to support a criminal enterprise is enough to question her credibility and her mysterious selection by the West in a rerun election is an effort by the U.S to create satellite state. One can imagine what else awaiting us, as our country receives millions of American and Western dollars under the umbrella of AFRICOM, NEPAD and other criminal professional enterprises who now represent governments and corporation egger to regain control of our nation’s natural resources. When it was convenient, Mrs. Sirleaf supported Mr. Taylor. When it was inconvenient she called for the arrest of Mr. Taylor as if she had always been on the right side of history. She known Mr. Taylor and his criminal enterprise “NPFL” had demonstrated to the people of Liberia and the world, their agenda for the Country was not to promote Life, Liberty and Prosperity. Hence, I need no one to neither lecture me about the horrific effects of the civil war nor educate me on African’s problem.

Yes, it is a shame that most of our leaders have contributed to the destruction of Africa just as Rich White Western nations, and there is no need to magnify one more then the other. Maybe we abroad can do the right thing to correct history. ____________________________________________________________ God Bless Africa. And Long Live the Mother Land. Dr. Naboth Bahnsaideh Zondo is a political writer and African historian, a Liberian Christian who resides in the United States of America. He is married with four children and founded the Liberian Center for Growth & Development, Inc. a civic-political organization which is based in the U.S, dedicated to working for change, by providing educational opportunities, social welfare programs, economic and Healthcare services to Liberians at home and abroad. He is also a minister of the Gospel, and is the host of “True Democracy” a weekly radio and Webcast program. Visit www.liberiancenter.org or www.nabosco.com . For more information, e-mail rrzondo@yahoo.com.

let us face the fact that mr.Taylor is in good hand no one should even talk about his bad treament he is now enjoying life.let us pray for those he killed so God will receive them in heaven without cndition.

you should start praying for yourself bro.

you should start praying for yourself bro S.G.M.Tee

You are free, free as a bird, to opine on Taylor's "guilt" vel non. Your bird song carries no weight in a court of law.

Accordingly, almost all the commenets on this issue are boneheaded: a waste of words, and thus life.

Hold your horses until the matter is adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction, and whatever the result, only a fool would regard it as "settled," for philosophically, justice dispensed by any and all courts of law is never absolutely valid, but only RELATIVELY INTERSUBJECTIVELY VALID. The direct consequence thereof is that a verdict in favor or against Taylor WILL NOT settle the matter in the realm of "public opinion," which is precisely what "relative intersubjective validity" entails.

After a verdict is rendered, life will go on, as it always has.

Meanwhile, take care of your life, by which I mean be prudent in the way you "spend your life on earth."

Likewise, my friend, yours carries no consequence either, so why bother?

Posted by Choppie: "Likewise, my friend, yours carries no consequence either, so why bother?"

This wild rocket, lauched from the jungle of non-understanding or refusal to understand, by the named correspondent, is apparently intended as a sober response to a posting in which I offered NO OPINION on the guilt vel non of the former President of the TERRITORY of Liberia, Charles Taylor, now on trial on alleged crimes against humanity in the Hague.

Even the most uncouth interpretation of my posting cannot unearth therefrom my opinion about whether or not Taylor is guilty or not. Moreover, I strategically refused to tender a "personal" position on Taylor's culpability.

Accordingly, the mentioned correspondent's response is soul searing silly and, frankly, boneheaded and obscurantist because either the correspondent CANNOT READ INTELLIGENTLY or CANNOT EXPRESS HIMSELF INTELLIGENTLY.

Read my post: if you find therein an opinion that can carry a the tag of "consequence or no consequence" predicate, then the mentioned correspondent rocks in planet smart.

Unfortunately, you will find no such opinion in my post: no opinion therein on which you can tag a consequentialist predicate.

Accordingly, dude, next time, before you hit the mouse, may I urge you, to preserve your intellectual capital and creditlity and plain vanilla intellectual rigor and moral decency, to read carefully, reflectively and level-headedly the object of your response.

And, commence with this post! Lonta.

Mr. Jallohlaw, before I begin, first get my name right, it’s Chappie and not Choppie. Secondly, perhaps it is you who do not comprehend my writing. I was simply replying to what you wrote before, basically (and I’m power phrasing here) saying that every one should keep their comments themselves until Taylor’s fate is decided in court because no matter what anyone says has no effect on the outcome of the trial. To which I simply replied, “Likewise, my friend, yours carries no consequences either, so why bother?” Meaning, your comment had no bearing on the trial either. How did that simple retort manage to escape your superior mental acuity is beyond me.

Fellow, look: you are an ocean of mendacity. The thematic of my post was opinions about Taylor's culpability or lack thereof. THAT WAS THE ISSUE ON THE TABLE, not my comment on the issue, namely that every opinion about Taylor's culpability vel non carries no weight with the court vested jurisdiction.

Logically, my comment is qualitatively oceans apart from culpability opinions. Truth be told, whether the subject court or you or a goat acknowledges it or not, my comment does carry weight with the court, for the court's juridical legitimacy is founded directly on the the content of my comment, namely to follow competently adduced evidence wherever it may lead, AND IGNORE, SYSTEMATICALLY IGNORE, THE NOISE OF THE CROWD, YOUR NOISE ABOUT TAYLOR'S "CRIMES," INCLUSIVE.

I had urged you ealier to learn how to read carefully. Please do so PROMPTO, before you cross the line into intellectual buffoonery AND irrefragable illogical pronouncements anchored in the habitus of unreflected emotional turmoil.

Sir, please set your ego aside and read my posting again, I strongly believe that on this point, you and I are in harmony. Take your time and read carefully, please.

I have "carefully" read your post.

I have reflected on it; I have tried to attach to it EVERY reasonable interpretation that could establish a chord of "harmony" between your interpretation of your post and my interpretation of the same. I find your interpretation and my interpretation to be in total discord, total disharmony, total incompatibility.

Accordingly, I NOW maintain, even more strongly, my interpretation of your post.

Hence, no "harmony" subsists here: rather, reflective discord and dombolo do.

You declared reflective war on 'jallohlaw,' and I riposte: reflective war unending SHALL rock. I don't forgive or forget unprovoked attacks.

To the mat of relfective rhetorical war, you and I are destined to nook it out WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THE RULES AND REGULATIONS of the owners of allafrica.com

Get ready, to SAMPLE a famous riff from a famous Yankee funk group.

I guess that’s what makes you Jallowlaw and what makes me Chappie; where you find discord, I find harmony. But as far as you saying that I attacked you unprovoked is a fallacy. Do you remember the following exchange? I originally wrote (this is before I even knew you existed):

There are two very significant obstacles that lay in the path of our beloved nation's future: first, the day that the Liberian Armed Forces and the Liberian National Police completely take over the security and protection of Liberia; and two, the day when a clear change and transition of power from one administration to another occurs. I believe the quicker we Liberians get to these obstacles and tackle them head-on the better. For those of us who are familiar with the history of Liberia, we know that there has never been a smooth and seamless transition of power in Liberia in modern times; beginning with the day that President E.J. Royce's Administration was toppled by the True Whig Party at the start of the 20th century to the day in August 2003 when Charles Taylor was forced out of power by U.S. Marines. Likewise, the Armed Forces of Liberia, through out our history, have been an impotent and inept one especially in the face of a coup d’état or a strict out invasion. Examples of these are numerous, beginning once again, with President E.J. Royce to April 12, 1980, when a 17-member team PRC marched unmolested to the bedroom of the President to December 24, 1989, when the drag queens of the NPFL systematically seized one village and town after another, unopposed, from the hinterland to the capital. Maybe it is for these and other reasons that the current administration is unwilling and understandably afraid to let the AFL and LNP to completely take over the security of our nation. But we all know that foreign security forces cannot stay in Liberia forever; after one, five or even ten years they would have to leave and turn things over to the Liberians. This is why it is imperative for the government of Liberia to allow the security forces of Liberia to start that process. Our personal life experiences tell us that the more one spoon feeds another, the more the one that is been spoon fed will depend on the one doing the spoon feeding. Life also tells us that the more we do something, the better we become at it. Instead of leaving a full blown security force in Liberia, the Ecomog, UN and U.S. need to leave key personnel and experts to advise the Liberians. By the same token, a referendum must be had to reduce the tenures of government officials. It is dangerous and simply ridiculous for a country that has never had a real election and peaceful transition of power to wait six long years to elect its president and representatives and nine years to have elections for its senators. If these ladies and gentlemen cannot do the jobs they were elected to do in a shorter time then they don't need to have their jobs. At the same time, we must have frequent elections to fine tune and make the process familiar to us. Generally too, we must completely do away with the comprehensive peace agreement; it was signed by war lords to benefit them.

To which you responded (and notice that your comment had nothing to do with what was been discussed):

Where is your empirical evidence that Liberia is a "nation"? You dogmatically posit the category, yet all the evidence indicates that Liberia, similar to most African countries, is merely a territory occupied by so-called 'tribes.' May I suggest that "nations" and 'tribes' are like cats and mice: the 'twain shall never co-exist, period.

Someone wrote in my defense:

Mr. Jallohlaw, what are you alluding to? Are you saying that Liberia is not a nation? If you do not know that Liberia is a nation here are some empirical evidence: defined boundries and population and an elected government in which the international community supported including Nigeria. Besides, not only Liberia or all African countries are merely territories and are occupied by tribes,but every other nation on earth. Moreover, why are you disputing Chappie's, comments? Isn't it the fact that the war lords were the ones who signed the comprehensive peace pact in Ghana for their own benefits while the victims remain at their mercy? Which civilized nation besides africa wants to have president in power for six years for the first time, while house of representatives and senators, six and nine years respectively, especially when these people have questionable characters. Please, Mr. Jallohlaw, know that the British, the French and other European countries occupied africa for some times and that moment came when they had to leave. If you are a beneficiary of the nightmare in Liberia, so be it but let us voice our desire.

To which I responded:

Amen, brother. You know, it's easy to spot the difference between those of us who only ate sugarcane for an entire week, who didn't know which checkpoint our lives were going to end, or those of us who took baths in a stream with dead bodies floating upstream. When we speak or write, we do so with conviction and enthusiasm whose likes those who experienced the war through news streams on television and news paper articles can only dream of. When we speak or write, we do so from the visceral and not from the point of Mr. Jallohlaw who we argue about nuances such as, "...Empirical evidence...," or discuss irrelevant topics like, 'what is a nation?', for we are the empirical evident you seek, Mr. Jallohlaw. I thank you, brother xxxxxx, for the word of support.

Now my initial questioning to you was not because of this exchange, it was after I found out that you were asking a similar question to another writer was when I pounced. I say all this to say that your claim that I attacked you unprovoked is false. By the way, the full exchange can be found under the heading, “Liberia: Nigerian Troops to Remain Beyond 2011- Gen. Yusuf Leadership.”

If your beef is that Liberia is a nation, you are shipwrecked, for Liberia is a soupist occupied territory, similar to Sierra Leone.

You want it to be a nation; but a nation it never was, and a nation it ain't NOW.

A nation my toe: you call a concantenation of ossified 'tribes' a nation? If Liberia is a nation, then the moon is the earth.

That is your beef, is it not? You wish that Liberia were a nation. Laudable, but laughable; understandable, but flat wrong: LIBERIA IS A SOUPIST OCCUPIED TEERRITORY.

Given your evasive ethos, I shall refrain, religiously refrain from engaging your botobata wobbly attempts at theorizing the empirical determinations of nationhood. The formalism you posit was anticipated: UN recognition, bla, bla, bla.

I don't suppose you imagine that I hang my cognitve hat at the door of that idle crowd of paper pushers in New York City.

Once more, and all together now: LIBERIA IS A SOUPIST OCCUPIED TERRITORY; A NATION, IT HAS NEVER BEEN.

By the way, don't forget: I am still on the grammatical, semantical, syntactical and idiomatic crusade.

If and when you choose to 'reply'---you never reply, but hop from one unrelated theme to an even more remote, unrelated theme--please pay careful attention to your diction. My "proper English usage bulldozer is rocking in modus "operation clean up."

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Mr Borra, i hope you expose your true name one day if hope to continue distorting events that have occured in Liberia. It will be a total waste of time for one to subject themselve to your senseless arguement. Come what may, Taylor will have to pay for his malicious acts committed in the sub-region (West Africa)either at the hague or by some devine means!!

Mr Borra, i hope you expose your true name one day if you hope to continue distorting events that have occured in Liberia. It will be a total waste of time for one to subject themselve to your senseless arguement. Come what may, Taylor will have to pay for his malicious acts committed in the sub-region (West Africa)either at the hague or by some devine means!!

I know that you are using your real name, that's while you are writing nonsense here.In liberia we say talk da free.Go ahead a hang taylor so those who hands were cut off will grow again. What we are talking about is knowledge off,those funny looking persecutors who ride busses to go to look for job in Europe and America should be the one to address our sitting presidents like a privit in the army.While can't they do these thinks to their leaders.Are you monitoring the TRC, You need to close your mouth and follow it closely. My name is not borra. It's borri from lofa.

Dr. Naboth B. Zondo there is one clear problem that you seem to overlook in your statement. One that is very important and, to me, far more disturbing then the new world order. One that I cannot look past when I see the mayhem that grips many African countries and has had a strong hold on Liberia for a long time, and that is the role of the Africans in the destruction of their own people. Make no mistake; Taylor is not a victim on anything. He willingly got in bed with the creators of your "new world order" because it benefited him. And now, now that they have (supposedly) turned on him, now that he is (supposedly) being treated unfairly. Now that his plan has failed and his evils (that the west did NOT put him up to) have come back to haunt him. NOW is when we as Africans, as Liberians, should look for justice for this one man. I beg to differ.

It should come as no surprise to anybody that outsiders may not care about Africans, but it sickens me to the core what these people, under the misguided "love" of their own country and people will do to have power over these same people. And yes it is in an effort to seek power. Nobody in the history of man has fought a war simply to bring about freedom for their own country, it has always been the freedom to have themselves (and their people) come in to power. This is never more the case then when civil wars arise. It is one thing when a strangers rapes a daughter, he has no ties to her, is not supposed to love her, and see her as something other then human. But when it is her father that rapes her, this is when the true tragedy begins.

The fact of the matter remains that war brings death and destruction and any person that brings war they too are a bearer of death and destruction. Until you can prove to me that the west is forcing the hands of these "presidents", "leaders", and "warlords" to plunder Africa, rape its children and plunder its resources. Your point is mute.

well my comments is on the body of formail president Doe, were is his body because we do have most of the formail president grave and people know about them,but were did not know were mr Doe was berry and why is it looking like that?, the gov of liberia dont have chagres agaisn prince johnson and samuel vannie, because i saw the movies how they kill mr doe, im a liberian here in canada due to the same wicket killing lead me to ghana on a refugee camps for many years and now and still i read news on liberia lot of kiling still going on, so what the goverrnment of liberia doing about these thing? is there no security in the country? beause we are here and we want to come back home and build our lovely ma ma liberia but we are in fear those that kill our mom and dad some of them are still in power .

so liberia gov, need to do some thing because we dont want to go to another near by country in africa to build we love our country liberia so much.

well that is all i want to say for now.

Mr,Sylvester Dennis C,KA, p40

What is going on between Messrs. Chappie and Jallohlaw at Allafrfica.com? It would appear that instead of the two discussing the substance of an issue at hand, they seem to be truly showing their intelletucl ability. Let's discuss the issue to the point, clear and precise to the larger audiance who may not have the same learning ability like you. With that of Mr. Taylor's issue at the Hague, I greatly agree with Dr. Zondo on number of points mainly the role of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.Contrary,I defer with him on the old premise that what ever happening in Africa is manipulated by some outside forces order than our own making. When that palance going to be erased among us? Imagine, from slavery, to colonializing now neo-colonializing and on and on. That new order for Africa,he talked about, can be changed only and only when every Flomo, Zondo,Saye and the likes who had gained some western education begin to translate this education into an improvement of African certain rather than everyone seeking the presidency of his country-Liberia 21 political parties for example.

Garmack, I really don't know and to be honest, I'm not even sure how the arguement got started. All I can say is that if you have the time and patience, read some of mr. Jallohlaw's postings on this website and you will know the kind of man he is. But for a brief synapse of his soul: he is a man who feels that in order for him to stand up, he must throw others to the ground and in order for him to show his intelligence, he highlights others shortcomings. He also writes with a sense of intellectual superiority which on closer analysis is as empty as his soul and is derived from a lower self regard. For example, he attempted to insult me be calling me a Liberian and an African; can you believe that? It was for these and other reasons, that I felt the need to confront him. But, now I know that that was a mistake, I should have treated him like others have on this website; ignored him. All in all, I now know that Mr. Jallohlaw is a troubled soul that needs salvation from itself; I pity him. I must now heed the words of the wise who said, "Don't argue with fools cause from a distance, no one knows who is who." So, if he (Mr. Jallohlaw)is reading this, this is the last time he and I will exchange words. I will, however, give him the last word on this matter.

And, the last word I shall have, HERR XENOPHOBE, and the editors of allafrica.com agree with my characterization, since your xenophobic post has been, under the mandate of due diligence and following the rules laid, INDELIBLY DELETED, forever and ever characterizing you, thereby, as a rule breaker.

You remind me of some folks at the Cocorioko Forum, a site where mothers are abused, a site where profanity is profusely proffered. Not so, here. Even the shadow of xenophobia gets a post deleted. Here, all profanity, even if disguised, shall be nipped in the bud, according to the rules of this entity.

What a great opportunity? Finally, a website where one can boldy theorize the problems and opportunities of Africa. Bravo, allafrica.com.

Since it appears that your control of the language of this site is, at best, problematic, I shall TEMPORARILY suspend my semantical, syntactic and idiomatic reformatory crusade.

There is something very strange about SOME Africans and SOME non-Africans: a self-destructive drive to psychologize. Now, methodologically, pyschologism, as the intellectuals dub it, is completely, all-sidedly impotent in knowledge or gnoseological matters.

No one can 'see' anyone's "soul," for no one KNOWS that there is a phenomenon that carries the tag "soul." To be sure, there are ideal realities, such as mathematical or mathematical-physico theories that can be 'seen' by and through material heuristics---an equation written on a blackboard---but no competent mathematician or physicist would conflate the equation on the board with the "idealized" equation. That means that the truth of the equation, from the perspective of a physicist or mathematician, is true, if it be true, independently of the modus of its expression.

Not so the soul. First, it is a contestable concept: nobody has seen a "soul." Moreover, 'it' cannot be "idealized," as most mathematical entities, which are also unseen, can be.

The book religions talk about the "soul." Of course, they talk about it in a certain, easily determinable way: the discourse of "faith."

Additionally, no book religion makes sense without postulating the 'existence' of the 'soul.' Accordingly, everything hangs on the EXISTENCE of the SOUL: God, the last day, judgement day, whatever.

A level headed approach to this dicey situation is to refrain from passing on the state of the 'soul' of another human being in loci or places or sites that are not designed to accomodate such 'judgments,' such as THIS WEBSITE.

Far more prudent would be to deploy such 'judgments' in sites of BELIEF: mosques, churches, synagogues, or 'animist' centers of worship or supplication.

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Garmack, thanks, for your compliment. I am well informed about the negligence of African Governments and am a strong advocate for government accountability. Over the years I served in the U.S Military Intelligence Business, where I learned enough to tell you that no political incident occur by chance in the continent of Africa without the aid of the West directly or indirectly orchestrating through governments, politics, religious movement, rebels and social movement for the complete re-colonization creating a state of codependency by African states through economic means. I will phrase this as the “ African Gold Rush”. In short, the more unorganized African is, the easier it is for the West and rising Empires like China to step in and act like saviors at the same time rob us while we sing their praises. This new radical clandestine approach to manipulate all systems of government in Africa gain momentum since the Bush-Blair era of our age that sought every means to compel African countries to accept a “New Deal “ that was promised to bring economic development, boosting the way for entry into the global market highly promoted by what I call “Rich White Nations” who earn billions during the trans-Atlantic slave trade for the advancement of their civilization. They are back again forcefully with radical new agenda in the name of peace, democracy and worse, under the umbrella of the World Court , World Bank, WTO and the newly formed AFRICOM which was organized by these White European thugs and their American counterparts who benefit from the so-called tyrants they stand to judge after equipping and providing training. The evidence of their crimes against humanity was never indicted by any court nor did White People pay for the pre-conditioning of Africa, which is impart the bed rock of most of the chaos we know and see in what was once the cradle of human civilization. I have always indicated and simplify in my writing that I acknowledge that African leaders and people must be responsible for their people and resources. I have never ignore the enormous responsibility each of us have to serve God, Love our Families, offer to serve our Country and continent in whatever capacity we are qualified for, seizing the moment least we find ourselves rushing to those very “Rich White Nations” that once enslaved nearly 20 million Black Africans, rape our women, divided our land, armed brothers against brothers, tribe against tribe, and introduced a new religion and a book they barely obey. As a Liberian, I take no pleasure in trying to demonstrate my intellectual and academic eloquence about our problems as some do on this site. My position is simple and clear. If you are not doing anything to solve our problem, you are part of the problem. Many Liberians who were fortunate to come to the United States pursued their education but refused to return, or give financially like the Nigerian Community, Ghana, and to our embarrassment, Sierra Leone. These communities are often pursuing business and educational opportunities with the intent on returning with their achievements to be part of the solution, instead of arguing with each other online as if it can change the life of a poor Bassa or Kpelle women selling potatoes greens in Red Light market. Let’s get real. Words mean nothing. This is why in my previous statements I condemned both Mr. Taylor and Madam Johnson-Sirleaf for the destruction of Liberia. Both are still alive, but hundreds of thousands died. Both can eat, but the innocent children born during and after the war still go to be hungry. They have securities, but young women continue to feel the pain of rape and abuse many talk about, but little is done. Liberia appears to be on the right track to many who think the President is a good American-Puppet. People have return to business as usual. As politicians continue to abuse their people, spend recklessly regardless of the so-called anti-corruption plan of this administration. They continue to buy big cars, even though the road they driving on is so bad a pregnant women could go into labor from the bumps, flying abroad to visit new girlfriends on with diplomatic passport, on government time and money, while this government continue to lie to the people that it is fighting corruption. Liberians again are getting wearing of this same old politic Monrovia politicians are replaying. Out of desperateness, the people may again respond violently, and it should not surprise us. This is no endorsement for new violence in Liberia, but an assessment anyone with common sense will agree. A hungry man is an angry man. In my view, government empowered by the people must never become more powerful than the people. But it seems like Ellen is listening to special interest groups above the poor innocent Liberia who tries hard just to feed his family, and given his children some form of education. We hear about donations from different types of governments and NGOs. We should never forget that nothing is free from the White man . We will pay or are paying by giving up our rights to our natural resources. For now, some people may think it wise for us to get as many help in rebuilding, but this is exactly why the West supported the War in the first place. Simply, it is to add up to our debt. No debt is ever erased. You will pay for it somehow. The rich live from the poor and the survival of those Rich White nations depend on how much they can exploit from so-called poor countries. In conclusion, I have demonstrated my love and desire for my Country Liberia without any political intention of one day running for office. This is not to say that if the opportunity comes and I am called, most of all, if I am qualified for the position, I will humbly accept my people and country’s request to serve in whatever capacity it may be without complaining. My contribution to solving our problem is seen on the faces of 50 smiling students who were told their tuition was paid for the whole year. I refuse to say the names of the schools or students who were blessed, least some may think I am trying to show off. Every year my wife visit Liberia’s poorest towns and places many Liberians have forgotten, to give a young boy or girl the opportunity to experience the “Liberian Dream”. It is a dream that have been tented with the shedding of innocent blood by greedy politicians like some on this site who are fighting to demonstrate that they are too smart. It is a dream that has become myth to millions who have never experience it nor believe it is ever possible. I am a strong believer in the dream. It is a dream of freedom and prosperity, for which our forefathers labored and died for. This dream is possible, but many have been denied the opportunity to dream, not only by politicians but by some members of their own families who treat their kind worse than the slave master himself. It is my conviction that if we can put away the lies we’ve been told about each other that creates fear and distrust, we can once again start dreaming. This time our dream can be the dream of that boy or girl living far far away in the village, somewhere in Liberia or Africa, who neither speak your tribe, nor is related to you. Yes maybe it is the best and wisest way to spend our time. Not demonizing, or trying to proof that you know it all, but just simply being human enough to love and care for the least among us.

Sir, and just what is YOUR solution to "the" problem of the "New Gold Rush" by the "Rich White Nations"?

My solution is that we begin by changing the way we think of ourselves, our governments, resources and future. For too long, we've been focused on the wrong solutions, i.e., Western Aide, Donations and interventions in African Affairs by the same corporations who benefit from the sufferings of our people. Our dependency on those colonial powers is an expression of our inability to care for ourselves, provide and defend our people. The mindset of our people is infected with self inferiority, distrust, and fear which is the bedrock for disunity among Africans, especially Liberians. Even our educated folks are stuck in the old ways we've been programmed. I have made it clear that we cannot totally and exclusively blame the so-called "Rich White Nations" or the Whiteman for our problems, because we now have the ability to change our direction. However, the evidence of our past horrific history has shape our frame of mind and is a major contributing factor for some of the disastrous wars and poor management of natural resources we’ve seen all over this great continent since the end of active colonialism. It is now much easier to resist foreign entities who intend to restore the old game of “exploit and control” since we have Africans leading Africans and not the other way around. In short, a good government will stand up for its people despite the many lobbying by the West and barbing of elected officials. This is not new to some of us living in America. We see Senators, Congressmen/women doing it every day. But it is done to the extreme in Africa, where in some countries 80% of the population live in poverty, 6% employed and the rest are farmers. This is justifiable ground for war and disaster. It is again our responsibility to change what the other generation did not change. Now is the time. Now each of us can help in simple ways to reshape the destiny of Black Africa, that the next generation of Liberians and Africans will not face the calamities we've experience. You my friends, hold the key to solving Africa's problems. Enough said about what the White man did to us. The question is what are we doing to ourselves? Now that we know our history, at least some of it, what are we personally doing to CHANGE THE FUTURE?

Thanks for your reply.

Now, your solution , as I interpret it, is that a change of attitude is mandated, a change of cultural consciousness, whether that consciousness is attributable to a nation or a territory or, worse, a hegemonic 'tribe' or whatever one might take to be ground zero of socio-political analysis in the context of African cultural traditions.

You solution is pregnant with "whats." African approriation of some of the responsibility of what you deem a deplorable social situation; the role of multi-national capitalist corporations in African terrritorial states, and similar essentialist determininations.

Unfortunately, it is impossible, in my view, to reasonable assess your solution absent a clear EMPIRICAL DESCRIPTION of HOW you will implement the proposed game changing policies, namely, the above mentioned "Whats."

Best wishes on a difficult project, or, perhaps, an easy descriptive project! Or, something between the two extremes.