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we call government here, against the economic and other interests of our country and people. 3. Our case, our ordeal, our plight etc. has been brought to the attention – one way or the other – of both the Speaker of the House of Representatives (in this case, two of the most recent ones, including Hon. J. Alex Tyler and Hon. J. Emmanuel Nuquaye) and the President Protemp of the Senate (in Senator Armah Z. Jallah), along with selected members of the Legislature. We say one way or the other here because the communications that we sent to these officials were not limited to our case alone, but were broader-scoped, linking our ordeal with happenings within the greater society, and our family’s stance and actions thus far, in handling this gruesome injustice, as a national issue, since we have always considered this experience of ours with AmericoLiberia’s INJUSTICE as an epitome of all of the very grave vices that have been holding our collective future hostage, and sending us down the dumps, as a people, since these mischievous Black Americans that we locally call ‘Congoes’ or the Americo-Liberians, set their foot on our soil here, on January 7, 1822. Then finally, 4. Being conscious that we will always encounter the police whenever we decide to conduct any peaceful civic action or assembly in the reinforcement of our search for redress to these issues, we wrote the police authorities on January 24, 2014, formally highlighting our plight and the motivation that we have drawn from this ordeal, from its very inception, to change our country, God willing, while calling on the police to intervene in putting that particular aspect between us and the LPRC regarding their NASTY, faulty dismissal letter, under control. Please also note here that our peaceful search for redress to this matter has not been restricted to these kinds of engagements with GOL actors and institutions alone, but instead, we had also staged two prior direct civic actions or peaceful protests before the LPRC PST Compound on the Bushrod Island in Monrovia – the first dated April 22, 2013, and the second, December 10, 2013, before this one under review, at the US Embassy, that was started March 29, 2017 and relatively concluded on April 19, 2017 etc, an action coming only after we had drawn the Embassy’s attention thrice through different forms of written communications and documents, with the first, being some courtesy copy intended to draw their attention, and this document was received and signed for, by Precious Zeagar on March 10, 2014. The second was a follow up communication to the March 10, 2014 document, received and signed for too, by the same Precious Zeagar, on April 3, 2014, and the 3rd and final one, before our March 2017 action, was a direct communication seeking their explicit intervention, which was addressed to Amb. Mark Boulward, who was by then the Acting Ambassador after the departure of Madam Deborah Malac, and this 4-page letter was dated


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