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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