July 20, 2013
IT’S TIME FOR “POSITIVE
ACTION”!!
On Wednesday, August 14, 2013,
my one-man peaceful, nonviolent protest demonstration on Monrovia begins at 9am
ending at 1pm. It takes off from Downtown Monrovia to the US Embassy, EU,
ECOWAS, UNMIL and lastly to the Capitol Building to interface with my
Congressional Caucus to deliver a Statement on my police brutality case.
On June 29, 2012, the
notorious and murderous arm of the Liberia National Police – ERU – brutalized,
robbed and psychologically tortured me in the city of Pleebo, Maryland County.
I spent four days at J.J.Dossen Hospital
in Harper for medical treatment and airlifted to J.F.K Hospital in Monrovia as
a referral on July 4, where I stay for three days. Effective August, I
complained to the Liberian government. Twelve months ago, the Government is
still stonewalling and launching a campaign of silence.
I have no choice but to cry
out to the International community and good citizens of Liberia. Thus, my
one-man March.
I will summon all peaceloving
and anti-police brutality groups and persons and those who have a practical
nature, all who possess idealism, dynamism and immense sense of patriotism and
human rights, all who believe in goodness, truth and justice, to unite to
support my antipolice brutality campaign and call for justice so together we
can built a new society where each of us will have a peaceful and tolerant
future. My intent is for all of us to work
for ourselves and enjoy what the Creator has bequeathed to us, those things
that until now we have been deprived of by the Government of Liberia which
holds judicial power in its hands.
I have arrived at a decisive
moment in time when it is no longer possible to go on sustaining injustice.
We all have the right to live
without the fear of injury or being killed by the police!
This peaceful demonstration
will compel the Justice Ministry to quit distorting and hiding from the truth
and depriving people of justice. For Truth is the most important Core
Democratic Value. Our democracy should depend on it! We expect the truth from our
government and its citizens. We expect to establish a bond between the
Government and the people in which Truth MUST be the glue of that bond.
The right to live is a human
right! The Liberian government's primary responsibility is to protect lives and
safety of its citizens not to destroy it. The opposite is true with the Liberia
Police. THIS MUST STOP!
I want to thank all those who
have been working with me, including the Media. I will EXERCISE one of my
CONSTITUTIONAL and DEMOCRATIC FREEDOMS. Under The UN Universal Declaration of
Human
Rights I will EXPRESS my
DISCONTENT and PAIN. On that day, I will cry out to a CIVILIZED world! I will
cry out to CHRISTENDOM & ISLAM! I will cry to all international
governments, nongovernmental organizations on human rights to help me achieve
JUSTICE for those of us who have been brutalized by the murderous and notorious
Liberia National Police.
Enough is Enough!
THE KILLINGS AND POLICE BRUTALITY MUST STOP NOW!!!
I am Thomas G. Bedell, a
social justice advocate; working and speaking on the ground in Liberia, a
victim of police brutality and a candidate for repudiating Liberian citizenship
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