Tuesday, 3 April 2018

REQUEST FOR PERMIT TO PEACEFULLY DEMONSTRATE AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY ON MAY 24, 2013


July 11, 2013

Thomas G. Bedell
SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCATE/COPRESIDENT/KNPIF
Harper City, Maryland County
C/O Maryland Congressional Caucus
Capitol building, Monrovia, Liberia

Ministry of Justice
Ashmun Street, Monrovia, Liberia

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

RE: REQUEST FOR PERMIT TO PEACEFULLY DEMONSTRATE AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY ON MAY 24, 2013

I, the supra mentioned, a social justice advocate, founder & copresident of KudeNumo Peace Initiative Foundation, Inc. (KNPIF) – the author of peace in the Glebo Peninsula in Maryland County, founder & chair of The Shipwreck Victim Action Committee of Maryland County that won REPARATION from the Liberian government in 2012 for poor women & men, cochair, Concerned Citizens Action Committee of Maryland, and a volunteer worker from the US to Liberia as an answer to President Sirleaf's call for Liberians to return home and help in the reconstruction effort, do HEREBY HUMBLY REQUEST a PERMIT  to carry on a PEACEFUL, NONVIOLENT PROTEST MARCH on Monrovia on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 from Downtown Monrovia to The American Embassy, Capitol Building and other key locations including UNMIL offices to seek assistance in addressing and resolving my case of police brutality.

This POSITIVE ACTION will begin Friday, May 24 with an issuance of STATEMENTS. I begins from Downtown Monrovia to the American Embassy, UNMIL offices and ends at The Capitol Building when I interface with The Maryland CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUS.

I do not desire police escort and/or protection during this Peaceful March; I am a serious victim of police brutality and a trauma patient as a result. Therefore, police presence could trigger a flashback.

I am not against the police. But you can rest assure I am against police brutality! It is a VIOLENT ACT; more so, when the Government supports and endorses  such violence against citizens and residents alike! It is UNHEALTHY to our National Patrimony!

Thanks for your anticipated PERMISSION for me to EXERCISE one of my CONSTITUTIONAL and DEMOCRATIC FREEDOMS and The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights to EXPRESS my DISCONTENT and PAIN to cry out to a CIVILIZED world, call on all international governments, nongovernmental organizations on human rights to help others and I who have been brutalized by the police out of my misery.

We will summon all peaceloving and anti police 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 beauty, 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.  Intent in this new society for 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. We have arrived at a decisive moment in time when it is no longer possible to go on sustaining injustice.
We have the right to live without the fear of injury or being killed by the police. Our peaceful demonstration will compel the Justice Ministry that it MUST quit distorting and hiding from the truth and depriving people of justice. For Truth is the most important Core Democratic Value. Because our democracy depends on truth, our government and its citizens MUST tell the truth and establish a bond between the citizens and its leaders. Truth MUST be the glue of that bond.

The right to live is a human right. The Government's primary responsibility is to protect lives and safety of its citizens not destroy it.

I look forward to your response as soon as possible. I am,

Thomas G. Bedell a volunteer worker, speaking and working on the ground in Liberia and a victim of police brutality.


CC:         Maryland Congressional Caucus
                Superintendent of Maryland County
                Maryland University Students
                Independent National Human Rights Commission (INHRC)
                UNMIL
                Media
                Human Rights Watch (USA)
                Liberian Human Rights Groups
                American Embassy
                European Union

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