I can breath a sign of relief after reading your posting that there are Liberians not only in Liberia but all over the world who are concerned with Justice not only for Liberia but for Sierra Leone. Maybe our own saors makes us cry out for justice, maybe many of us see justice in Sierra Leone as justice for Liberia, I certainly do, and I’m not ashame to say it.

Mr. Taylor had many highly educated people around him and in his government. Mr. Blah may have been one of the under educated person in a high position in government. Because of the NPFL military elements requesting and receiving the vice president position when the group won the war and election, could be why he became Vice President. The first vice president under Mr. Taylor government what was his educational background?

I myself assumed that Mr. Blah was a highly educated person because he was Vice President, but now hearing that he was not and the arraignment that Mr. Taylor and the NPFL fighters made about the vice president position, this sound to be true. Mr. Taylor made the point that Mr. Blah never went to the ninth grade, which is something that can be easily proven, if it was not true.

Mr. Taylor has said he was not a military person. Therefore, he could not directly lead the military elements of the NPFL. Mr. Taylor while in Libyan said he was train to run a government after a war and the personal that was going to fight was train in fighting a war.

All uneducated persons that is being talk about and the prosecution brought to court as insiders are all from a military element. They do not know anything about the working of Mr. Taylor government. Mr. Blah even said he did not know anything about the working of Mr. Taylor government and he was Vice President. How would bodyguards and someone else bodyguard be classified as insiders to a president.

I believe it is important to put this trial into perspective. The issue at hand is not a debate in support of, or against Taylor. The issue as you and I are aware is whether Taylor stands accountable for the accusations levied against him as contained in the 11 count indictment.

However your respective honorable post above seem not to address any of the issues that are object to this case. My impression of your comments is that you have disdain for Taylor and you dwell triviality. The issues that you passionately addressed are not unique to Taylor. Poverty rate in Liberia is 80% and literacy rate is 15% or 85% illiteracy rate. These have been the figure when I was a child some half a century ago. And I believe they would be the same another two centuries from now. Do you think those figures are accidents? Leaders who demonstrate clear visions to lift their people out of dungeons of poverty are usually eliminated. You forgot how Tolbert was eliminated? Tolbert had joined the NAM(non-align movement), established diplomatic ties with mainland china, planned to stop the importation of american parboiled rice because liberia was producing enough local rice.

Like Tolbert, Taylor stopped the monopoly over our maritime funds by ITC, revised the firestone contract, refused mobil one-sided bid to take over Liberia petroleum industry. Did you read the blackmail account that if Taylor allowed mobil doors would open to Liberia with IMF AND WORLD BANK. Yes, that is the new criterium to be awarded world bank and imf funds.

And what is interesting is how you guys play blinds eyes on these glaring issues. Do you believe this trial is about the life, of Taylor, ordinary liberians or the behavior of african leaders? You and I know this trial is about the political, economic and security and international interest of america and the west.

If the interest here was to uphold international laws, those who committed human rights violations in Iraq would have been on trial by now. But they hardly bring their own to trial that is why they have not ratified the icc charter.

Look brother, let stop.

In these statements alone it is clear why the war in Liberia and Sierra Leonne proliferated to the extent they did and Taylor hit it on the nail by pointing the finger and forgot to realize 5 more were pointing back at him.

To use an anecdote of “uneducated people” of Liberia and have that be the culprit to why he is on trial and furthermore attempt to call it racist reflects so much about Taylor, and others who were lucky enough to be “educated” and thus usurp most of the power in Liberia. People fail to realize that passing the ninth grade or earning a degree from Harvard does not alone make you suitable to lead a nation. It certainly does not make you a person clean of bigotry or ignorance, it does however allow you the skill to manipulate the minds and thinking of those not privy to the same knowledge base that you may have been privy to.

On that note, Mr. Taylor stop blaming the US and Britain and regime change for why you are at trial. It is your thinking that you are one tiny leader in one tiny country that actually cushioned alot of your thinking that perhaps you were off the radar of international justice and thus could get away with whatever you chose. You seriously think that the US cares enough to devote time about one tiny little person place or thing if there isnt something larger and monstrous going on? Iraq was not just about Hussein as it has been made clear now. Similarly the problem of Sierra Leonne and Liberia, as much as you would like to think it’s about you, it’s more about the monstrous abuse of power some African leaders in general have exercised at the expense of EDUCATING these illiterate people you are now pointing the blame at; the screwed up thinking being its better to keep them uneducated so that they may never someday see the light and challenge you.

Perhaps if you spent more time providing public education for these people and not throwing money here and there to help RUF or show them a good time in Liberia during an all out war, then maybe these same illiterate people wouldnt even have the time to deal with your immoral behavior and accuse you of anything…

It is this same thinking, coupled with unequal opportunities and the major thought that being educated or *gasp* having ancestry from former slaves in America somehow made you a moral and better human being than someone who hasn’t passed the ninth grade or was indigenous to the land we call the Republic of Liberia today.

Thanks Mr. Taylor for pointing those five fingers at yourself and once again for failing to uphold a strong African institution on the continent. You are merely the example, it is my hope that you have also helped to point the fingers at others as well, but you are surely not innocent. Your crime is clear in those you choose to lay blame on.

“At this particular time in the world when there was Iraq and regime change, it was good to go into Africa, snatch one little leader from a small country, let’s set an example of him to show there is no impunity.”

My goodness Taylor to think that you’re “one little leader” . Little you. Poor you. Get over it. Again here you are blaming America, but didnt you also claim that it was America that helped free you from their jails and sent you back to Liberia for this “regime change”….

It’s frustrating to think that whenever someone is being brought to justice for human rights abuses not cannibalism but widespread use of soldiers under the age of 15…its the West against Africa. Get over it! And start doing the right thing, b/c the West didnt tell you to use children in this war.