November 19, 2013
T. Gbuo-Mle Bedell
CANDIDATE APPARENT/SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCATE/FOUNDER/COPRESIDENT/KNPIF
Reevy Street, Harper City,
Maryland County, R. L.
Email: osygefo@hotmail.com, geesayfannokon@yahoo.com
Email: osygefo@hotmail.com, geesayfannokon@yahoo.com
Cell: +231.886.920.151
Amb. H. Dan Morias
SENATOR/CHAIR
Maryland Congressional Caucus
Capitol Building, Republic of
Liberia
Dear Chairman Morias:
I trust you are enjoying God’s
grace and doing well with your varied responsibilities.
On November 7, 2013, I
submitted heartfelt congratulations to you via SMS on your ascendancy to the
chairmanship of our Congressional Caucus. The greetings came from the depth of
my heart and abyss of my soul on behalf of my revolutionary comrades at home
and abroad! It is our ardent hope and wish you will wield the mantle of
leadership properly! If you followed, the SMS was sent to hundreds of
Marylanders in Liberia and in the Diaspora. By so doing, most Marylanders far
and near are aware of your chairmanship. Thus, we can all now agree that we
have passed the threshold of bickering and divisiveness and that now we are
heading in the direction of county development and progress.
The occasion of this letter is
three-fold: 1st to duly inform you that the people of Maryland including
youth, elders, traditional leaders and other pressure groupings that are several
thousand men-strong, have petitioned me to seek the office of Senator of
Maryland County come 2014 Midterm election.
2nd, After sober
reflections, balancing all things against the past and present with respect to quarrel
in the Maryland leadership which wrought untold sufferings on our people and
county, I have no other choice but to wholeheartedly humble myself and with
great enthusiasm accept the Petition as a new assignment to serve my people and
county at a different level. I am confident I can make a significant difference
and contribute to my people and county in this strict sense. Therefore, on my
honor, I promise to do my best in justifying the confidence they have reposed
in me.
Sir, the people of Maryland
have spoken and consolidated the Petition. Being the voice of the people it is
also the voice of God! For whatever God has put together, no one can put
asunder and what He has blessed, no man can curse. Therefore, please join The
Bedell for Senate Exploratory Committee to extend sincere gratitude and warm
sentiments to all Marylanders and friends alike, far and near, for joining this
social mass movement that is now taking place throughout Maryland.
Please be advised, The Glebos
of the Western belt of the Glebo Peninsula known as the Kudemoweh Chiefdom, met
in Rocktown on Saturday, October 26, 2013. Equally so, the Glebos of the Eastern
belt of the Glebo Peninsula known as the Kudemoweh also converged in Wortekeh
on Saturday, November 8 to reinforce, enhance and consolidate the Petition. All
things considered, such convergence of our people with one solid goal of this
nature will go into history as the first of its kind in most recent time. Indeed,
it exemplifies the reunification of our people in concrete terms that our
nongovernmental organization, KudeNumo Peace Initiative Foundation, Inc.
(KNPIF) has been pursuing recently.
Hon. Senator, we are honestly
thankful to the two Paramount chiefs of both Chiefdoms: Hon. Dweh Sunday Prowd
of the Numoweh Chiefdom and Hon. Nathaniel N. Huskin of the Kudemoweh Chiefdom including
all clan, town chiefs, youths, women, elders and people of both Chiefdoms. Thus,
we tip our hats to their farsightedness and vision in- choosing me as their
candidate.
Special thanks to the Clan
Chief, Hon. Mle Wah Prowd, General Town Chief, Hon. Dweh Hodge, the Speaker,
youth, women leaders and elders of Bigtown Clan. Thanks to Hon. Clan Chief Hon.
Budu Clarke, General Town Chief, Hon. Alphonso Hne Wallace and a four-man
delegation comprising leaders of youth, women, and elders of The Whole Graway
Clan. The same goes to Clan Chief, Hon. Wade Harris and his four-man delegation
comprising of youth, women leaders and elders of The Half Graway Clan. Our
heartfelt thanks to the leaders, youth, women, elders and people of SpringHill.
Kablakeh was well represented by its Honorable Commissioner and Town Chief as
well as the youth, women and elders delegation. We are grateful to the leaders,
youth, women, elders and people of Wortekeh who hosted the Confab. Without
them, this Confab would not have been as successful as it was. Thanks to our
donors. We couldn’t have made it without them!
We cannot but thank Hon. Meshach
Mle Bryant, chair of The Bedell for
Senator Exploratory Committee, the Cochair, Daniel “The Educator” Appleton,
Secretary Henry Kimba, Domestic & External Relations Chief, Phillip Mle Moore,
Logistics, Robert H. Moore and Kuno Bedell, treasurer.
The 2nd purpose of
this letter is to seek your indulgence in submitting my call for peace, full
human understanding and compassion with love for our Parents’ land to the Honorable
Caucus. You will agree, I’m sure, gone are the days when our leaders bickered
and go into catfights.
Please relay this call of ours
to the Caucus. Having worked on the ground free-of-charge for our county and
country, we have to emphatically state here for the record that politics is not
is not a war. So we must be our guns into ploughshare and learn war no more.
Our past has been a Kaleidoscope
of hopes, failures and rebuffs.
In 1979, a group of our
leaders were placed on the gallows and executed by the Liberian government on
charges of ritualistic killing. Whether or not those charges are true, becomes
another question. And we will never know the truth. Following that sad incident,
Prof. Joseph Bush, John Williams et al met their untimely fate. The sole of the
Prof’s feet were slashed with razor blade. Whether or not the charges against
those citizens are true becomes another question. Evidently, we will never know
the truth.
Then it was another sad incident
of Hon. David Clarke and Dr. Joshua N. Bedell. All of them are dead now. They
died of broken heartedness. They are gone forever. Their children, relatives
and friends will never see them again. Whether or not the charges against them are
true, becomes another question and we will never know that truth. In any case,
they all are in their graves turning over for want of justice.
The last case was that of
yours. I was present. I saw the humiliation and the injustice. Thank God for
our presence as human rights and social justice advocates. You all are still
alive and well.
All things considered, most of
these charges were and are politically motivated. There’s evidence that some
members of the Caucus were a part and parcel of the false charges against their
citizens. We don’t want that happening again. Election politics is opposition,
not enemy venture. If we disagree on issue it should not be because we hate
each other; let it be because we see the world differently. It must be
ideological, not personal. This being the case, we are seeking your help to
place this sort of practice under control. Let us vie for leadership
democratically and not through personality destruction. I do not have money
like others do, but I have the people and God on my side. With them, I am sure
we will triumph. Otherwise, why would Peter say, “Silver and gold have I none,
but in the name of Jesus, get and walk” and the cripple got up and walked?
3rd, Amb. Morias, I
am here to also seek your unconditional and unwavering support for my
candidacy. Because it represents a new dawn and dispensation, peace and unity
in Maryland! It comes out of the voice of our suffering people and God’s divine
promise to Maryland!
Mr. J.A. Froude, an English
writer, once observed, “When the air is heavy with impostors, and
men live only to make money,… and the kingdom of heaven is bought and sold, and
all that is high and pure in man is smothered by corruption, fire of the same
kind bursts out in higher natures with a fierceness which cannot be controlled;
and confident in truth and right, they call fearlessly on the seven thousand in
Israel who have not bowed the knee to Baal to rise and stand by them. They do
not ask whether those whom they address have wide knowledge of history or
science or philosophy; they ask rather that they shall be honest, that they
shall be brave.… They know well that conscience is no exceptional privilege of
the great or the cultivated, that to be generous and unselfish is no
prerogative of rank or intellect.”
In conclusion, allow me to
borrow Revolutionary Karl Marx’s words and feelings regarding the revolution.
He once observed, “If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all
work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for
the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy,
but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but
perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble
people.”
I am,
Respectfully,
T. Gbuo-Mle Bedell
