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at https://is.gd/9jOtdA or https://is.gd/BEYmKd for those interested in finding out how some of the very messy economic situation that this country finds itself in today can be incubated and hatched at those criminal chambers that we call State Owned Enterprises (or SOEs) in this place. d. This move, we were convinced, was revolutionary for our environment. What we were telling these over 40 stakeholders, including Liberia’s President, the major Universities, the Legislature, some of the key civil society organizations, our key international partners, our top religious authorities, the Press Union of Liberia etc. was that the circumstances we had experienced at the LPRC – with respect to how carelessly and criminally this Dirty, Old and Failed Rogue State is managing its resources (economic, human and otherwise at the LPRC), which is just symptomatic of what is going on at every institution, and just everywhere in the country, is more than enough to spell a complete DOOM for both the current and all future generations of this country; and as such, need to be dealt with collectively and holistically. So, for example: (1) by furnishing the students of almost all the major universities in Monrovia, we were saying that fighting any act of corruption anywhere was everyone’s business, but to truly make it everyone’s business, everyone must have all the details to make them move. … We also meant to spread the message that the quality of their education depends squarely on how wisely LPRC, Freeport, RIA etc. manage the resources of our country and how aggressively they create wealth for all of us, instead of these state-owned business enterprises turning into liability on us as we see presently, due to the lack of management and nationalism in this country In addition, we were telling the students in these tertiary institutions that it is the prudent and productive management again of LPRC, RIA, Freeport, FDA etc. and the government in general that will ensure that more jobs are out there waiting for them as they walk out of the walls of those universities etc. (2) To the religious authorities we fought to get to, we made the point that the same God who created all of us, is the ONE that placed us into separate units called countries, endowed us with the right kinds and amounts of resources to sustain us, generations after generations, until He comes back at the time we don’t know, and He (God) instructed us to be good managers (stewards /khalifas) of these resources (material and human) so that they serve each one of us adequately – whether in government or not. Now, if one group comes (in the case of Liberia for instance, calling themselves AmericoLiberians and superiors) or one generation, among the countless to come after us, decides to just mismanage all of the resources from the rest of the future generations through greed, cruelty, and criminality etc. and you sit and continue to behave neutrally and passively, then we must go back on the drawing board and redefine religion. …We tried also to push these questions to them and to each of us equally. We ask: (a) Is it possible that we can make it in this life by only attending to our spiritual needs, while leaving out our physiological, educational, economic etc. and other needs? (b) Do we think that it is God’s will, that we, His servants go on lacking the basic needs of life and languishing in scourging poverty and misery, only because a less than 1% of our population deserves all of the good at the expense of 99.5% of the population? (c) Do we think that by adopting this posture (acting unconcerned about the situation or remaining neutral etc.), we will be securing more tickets among our worshippers for Heaven?...(3) And to the political parties we tried to raise in them the consciousness that we can never build a better nation and society only by waiting to become ministers, senators and presidents before we act against issues that are evidently tearing down our society into pieces. We tried to build the argument that if democracy meant, for instance, “allow John Brown to go steal for the 12 years he was elected” unchallenged and