Am I to be “indicted” for my views and soon a political prisoner in today’s Liberia?

Not that I did not expect a lot of STRANGE things to happen in Liberia while I carry on my historic duty to my country.

 

I knew from day one, someone and/or something was going to distract me from my pro bon work and historic mission to the country. And that thing or person would be drag me into high level politics and brand me as a “wanted” man.

 

The day prior to my one-man protest march for “Positive Action” against police brutality, Tuesdays, August 13, 2013, having received negative information that my request for Permission to protest was going to be DENIED, confirms this.

 

One day before my March, I met a man; he’s working in the government. He voluntarily gave me some information.

 

He said an “indictment” by the Liberian government is hanging over me.

 

I did not understand what s/he meant by such serious revelation. Yet and still, I did not throw a “Cockrum” on him. I mean I did not record the voice.

 

Why am I to be indicted was the major question?

 

From all I discovered, it is because of my political and ideological views. I strongly and vividly expressed them over the past few months when police brutality forced my humanitarian, philanthropic and patriotic work to a standstill thus leaving me in Monrovia in quest for justice.

 

Here is one example that makes me believe this attempt to indict me is true:

 

In 2010, closed to 20 citizens and a resident were arbitrarily arrest and detained on false charges of ritualistic killings in Maryland County.

 

This act was not the first, the second nor the third in Maryland. In each case, most of the victims were executed by the Liberian government or killed by mob.

 

Coming out of that experience, I felt obliged to help bring this practice to a complete halt. For too many innocent people had been executed by the Government and more had been killed mob.

 

So I organized different types of protests to express our disapproval, distaste and discontent of the continued false incrimination of citizens and residents by the Government. This practice demoralized the county and its people.

 

Our protest efforts made it impossible for the Government to use this sort of backward political practice and approach to humiliate perceived political enemies.

 

We were successful.

 

Those who were arbitrarily arrested and detained were released, set free and charges dropped. All of those who were executed by the government and those killed by mob will never have a chance to vindicate themselves. Their children will forever live with this chilling experience.

 

Here is how I knew that I was a “wanted” man:

 

During the different protests in Maryland, a man within National Security, quietly and secretly informed and warned me of a possible government sponsored assassination of me. Being the man I am (properly informed on intelligence and counterintelligence) I took the information seriously. So I managed to control the situation. How? I readjusted my movements in the community.

 

By 2012, the police brutalized me. The manner in which it took place and the way the Government has been treating the matter makes it clear that this level of police brutality was premeditated.

 

Today, another person from within the Government has quietly informed and warned me of a pending “indictment” by the Liberian government.

 

Coming out of the experience of police brutality as a resolve of my ideas and ideological direction in the country, I am not taking this information and warning on my pending “indictment” by the Liberian government as a joke.

 

Believe me; the Government is serious in terms of its involvement in shutting out and keeping me off track. But I will not be deterred in the service to my country. It is a historic mission. I will give a day-to-day accounting of my experiences as long as I remain in Liberia.

 

I’m sure, if Mandela, Gandhi, Che, Lumumba, Nkrumah, Castro (of course Castro is authoring his “Reflection” on the Internet now) had the Internet as a tool as I do today, they would have done exactly what I am doing: exposing and/or preempting the Government in its every move.

 

At least by so doing, the world can know my troubles that I am faced with dealing with the Liberian government.

 

If the Government forcibly removes me from doing charity in my country and tries to drive me on the political periphery for confrotation, she can be my “guest.”

 

 

 

I am Thomas G. Bedell, a volunteer worker; working and speaking on the ground in Liberia, a victim of police brutality and candidate citizenship repudiation.