A Response to Mr. Robert Thompson

 

•  I am not a citizen of the United States of America. I am proud to be a Liberian.

• Yes, I support dual citizenship! I also understand the concerns being raised. But I don’t agree with them

• Yes, I helped in the investigation of Dr. George Boley’s massacre of poor innocent, handicapped, elderly, babies, youths, teachers, leaders, citizens and residents of Maryland County. The US Homeland Security asked me to do the probing. Some of those massacred by Dr. Boley were my early day school teachers: Teacher Cooper, her husband, her son, Clarence Cooper (also my high school teacher affectionately known as “Vope, Vap, Vopolo-Vap). Others were parents of my former schoolmates and neighbors. If I had to do it again, I would. Because I believe in justice.
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• I am not a “communist” or a “socialist.” Of course, I acquired some of my academic education from few communist and socialist countries at my own financial and personal security expense.

• Traveling and living in a communist country cannot make one a communist 

• Traveling to a socialist country does not make one a socialist.

• Traveling to and working in a capitalist country does not make one a capitalist. One has to meet certain economic thresholds. These socioeconomic concepts rely on particular economic factors, variables and dynamics.  

• So I am not qualified to be a socialist, capitalist and/or a communist. 

• As far as military training is concerned, yes, I am trained. I never hid this information. I submitted it to The TRC. I acquired the training on my own and at my own request and financial expense.  I felt Liberia would end up being be a dangerous place to live as far as personal security is concerned. And because of that, I thought I needed to prepare myself militarily for any eventuality. I was right. Few years later, war broke out and innocent people who were not prepared for that situation died pitifully. I wasn’t going to let myself live and/or die at the mercy of any human person. For I rather die as a man on my feet then on my knees begging for mercy.

•   In terms of my popularity and trust from my people on the ground in Maryland, I paid for it. 

•  My people support me because I speak to them in their language. And by speaking to them in their language, it goes to their hearts! Mandela once observed, “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language that goes to his heart."
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•   It took me seven long and hard working years to win the gratitude of my people in Maryland. I traveled throughout the Hinterland, ghettoes, squalors of the land, shanty towns, villages, slums and the cities working pro bono helping to empower communities, build and make peace, and as well, advocate on their behalf. I ate and slept in desolate places too. The police brutalized me for all that. Thus, my popularity has nothing to do with politricks. It’s through sacrifice. Ernesto Che Guevara once observed, “The greatest remuneration to win is the gratitude of the people.”

•   I do not work for the CIA. 

•   How do I live and eat, you ask? 

•   My life in Liberia is based on my minimalist practices. I do not invest in social degeneracy. I dress simple; eat right, yet simple. As such, I have no high demand for money in my life. I’m spiritual! My life profoundly rests in the hands of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Any more concerns and/or questions?

I am T. Gbuo-Mle Bedell, The Alternative! I have been petitioned by the people of Maryland to vie for the office of Senator. I have humbly accepted the people’s call!