Show Down on Buduburam

 The ongoing gang war between the infamous Nigerian/Ghanian and Liberian thugs on the Buduburam Refugee Camp have once again intensified, as the rival gangs clashed in an all out machetes war on the gap field that saw the leaders of the two groups seriously injured on Monday afternoon. The episode which actually broke out on Sunday when the leader of the Liberian thugs was caught, after several weeks of hiding, by members o the Nigerian/Ghanian group in the ghetto, and was severely flogged and chopped to the head with an ask. The violent thugs then threatened to beat up any Liberian friendly with the Liberian thugs' leader known as Dogg Pound, and put words to action the following Monday by invading the home of a friend of Dogg Pound, Mr. Willie, whom they beat up severely till his head burst open from the mortal pistol they used. They then decided to dragged the wounded body of Mr Willie through the Gap field which sparked an angry outburst from Liberians who had gathered to witness the troubling scene. It was then that a group of Liberian vigilantes came and arrested the scene, but before they could put things under control, the group of angry Liberians took hold of the leader of the Nigerian/Ghanian thugs known as Bangee, a Nigerian internet schemer, and flogged him with sticks and rocks till he went unconscious. 

However, the group of vigilantes were able to finally control the situation by turning the case over to the police who are now holding the wounded Bangee as suspect for attempted murder, while Mr. Willie, Dogg Pound, and some other members from both groups who were also caught up in the fight seek medical attention at the Buduburam health facility. According to Mr. Willie, who i met in  a very critical condition at the hospital in agony, he is going to pursue the matter legally. But many Liberians doubt that anything is going to come out of the matter, as they claimed that Bangee have boasted on several other occasions, after being let out of a police station for other serious crimes, that he has a very strong connection with the police.

With several hidden members of the Nigerian/Ghanian thugs threatening to retaliate, Liberians are now worry about  what may further unfold. The leader of the Liberian thug, Dogg Pound was also seen around the scene later with his wounds, and heard saying, he is going to make sure that Bangee and his group pay severely for his wound when he find any one of them. Meanwhile, another Nigerian member of the group known as Biggie Small is on the run from both the police and the Land guard members for flogging one land-guard last week.

 With all the uncertainty around this latest gang war on the Liberian refugees camp, many Liberians, especially those refugees who have no ID to enable them take part in the ongoing UNHCR's repatriation process are expressing their fear of what may happen when UN finally withdraw from the camp.

London's Glorious Moment: Igniting the Flame of Brotherhood

London has not only stunned its critics, but has scintillated to its glorious moment by successfully staging the world most spectacular sports festival.Certainly , the the London's 2012 Olympic and Paralympic  events have  justified it's billion dollars budget that was questioned by critics who saw it as being wasteful. The success of the London's Calling was its ability to bring together more than 200 nations, and close to a thousand athletes to compete in several exiting games under the most peaceful atmosphere. Even in the midst of constant terrorist threats, the harmonious aura of the games put to rest doubts from critics like the American politicians Mitt Romney. The friendly presence of the British military, called in at the last moment did even more better to assure the athletes and supporters of their security, after the failure of the private security firm to live up to it's mandate to provide security for the games.

But the real magic came from the British people; their enthusiasm, insatiable appetite, and wild spirit for sports made them the perfect host for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games, which saw a record sales of tickets. With the unity  displayed by both athletes and supporters for six weeks, and with the infusion of the African music festival, London had seemed like Paradise on earth. And for once the idea of global peace seemed a reality achievable. As the crowd chanted names like Usain Bolt, Mo Farrah, Jessica Ennis, Katie Ledecky, Michael Phelps, and Oscar Pistorius , the Blade Runner, nothing could be compare to the excitement that engulfed the 80,000 seats Olympic Stadium. And there couldn't have been any better scene in the world than London.

Indeed, London has changed the history of these games, and have raised the bar to another whole new level that many nations are going to find difficult to reach. But most importantly London will be remember for the way it has redefined peace in our time, ignited the flame of the spirit of brotherhood in a world full of hate, segregation and mass terror by successfully hosting both the Olympic and Paralympic games. Surely this was London in its glorious moment!
      

Mitt Romney's Scary Sermon: Taking America back to it's Conservative Past

 

Face of the KKK

As an admirer of the American Democracy, I was quite flabbergasted when I listened to Republican candidate, Mitt  Romney's speech, rallying the Republicans. Mr. Romney's antipathy of the current course of of the US' economic was inconspicuously crafted in his well staged ramble of returning America's to it's conservative past, outlining his illusion of the American dream. According to Mr. Romney, they(Republicans) were firing the president off the job, because he had done little or nothing to take the country out of the load of economic problems, inherited from the very Republican led government in 2008. Mr. Romney well planned show even got a grace of appearance from the legendary Dirty Harry, actor Clint Eastwood, who took to the stage before the Republican candidate, lambasting the President in a fictitious conversation to keep the Air Force One.

What I couldn't understand was why would Clint choose to cap his Oscar performances over the years with a racist play directed by Mitt Romney. And as Mr. Romney talked about his kind of American dream, and returning America to its conservative past, I couldn't stop my mind from wandering into that conservative past along with the Republican man. And what I saw disturbed me greatly. I saw a past deep with the wounds of racism inflicted by the Ku-Klux-KLan which was a religion and law unto themselves. I saw a past filled with the deceit and hypocrisy bred by the CIA which proudly orchestrated series of clandestine operations that ended up in fiasco that led to the death of several thousand people around the wold, including Americans themselves.I saw a past when America's allies like Israel, wary of its continuous paranoia and trauma from the Holocaust, heartlessly violate human rights with impunity.

Whatever Mr. Romney means, with his  suburb class act in Florida, one does not need a special gift of discernment to get his actual message, which sequentially connected every act: " It's time to take our county back from these modern immigrants, and continue from where we stopped!" Of course, MR. Romney represents the conservative Republicans that labeled itself 'The Tea Party Movement', a brand of fiery white majority that believed that America committed a grave offense against it self when it elected Mr. Obama, a back man, to the presidency. A white friend of mine from America, visiting Liberia, told me on the day that Barrack Obama was sworn into office that she strongly believed that he was the wrong man, in the wrong place, at the wrong time. As a student of history, I strongly opposed her view, because I saw the decision coming a long time.

Let me take your minds back to the 60's, the period of the civil rights Movement. A young, smart Black American named Dr. Martin Luther King made a startling revelation that would change the course of the American society forever. He discovered a powerful truth hidden in a simple sentence inscribed by the Founding Fathers of America in the American Constitution: " We hold these truth to be self evidence that all men are created equal." And using it as his only justification for the right to exist as a man, he went on to win his non violent war against racism and inspire millions of people, not only in America, but from around the world.

A black protester being dragged by US police

So today, people like Mr. Obama can decide to run for the presidency in a nation that calls for equal opportunity for all people regardless of you religious creed, sex, or ethnic background, as long as you subscribe to the American democracy. And this was suppose to be the American Dream.

And Mr. Obama is not a wrong man, in the wrong place, at the wrong time; he is part of the very American Dream that Mr. Romney keeps alluding to.But Mr. Romney and his associates thinks it's a curse, so they are set to launch the most ruthless campaign against the Democrat, accusing the black president of not doing anything to solve the American's job problem and fixing a Republican damaged economic.