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Hostile
Intellectualism: The Case of Another Mis-educated Liberian Lawyer.
By
Chorphie Charlie
December 6, 2004
In his consuming emotional
outbursts, "What Court Has the Power to Try Taylor," which
is scampered with disjointed streams of consciousness, dysfunctional
thought process, and illogical reasoning, one of Liberia's [il] legal
minds, Cllr. Frederick A. B. Jayweh, LL.M reinforced the prevailing
thinking among ordinary Liberians that the so-called educated Liberian
class are responsible for the horrendous social dislocation, biting
realities of aching poverty, and political tyranny governing Liberia.
Cllr. Jayweh's piece was a rebuttal to an earlier article I had
written, "Does the Sierra Leonean Court Has Jurisdiction over
Liberia's
Sovereignty?" which appeared on the New Democrat website. Against
an earlier decision, the attempt here is neither to defend my paper
nor to debunk Jayweh's rationale for persecuting Taylor, as he
indicates in his tirade. Rather, the wisdom of this opus provokes a
serious inquisition into the hostile intellectual culture in Liberia,
for the sake of those interested in the political, psychological, and
sociological health of our dear matrimony--Liberia.
Therefore, the more urgent and pressing issue that needs to be address
in Cllr. Jayweh's article, is an examination of Jayweh's legal state
of mind, which represents the troubling and dangerous clique of educated renegades in the political debacle of Liberia.
Jayweh is a good case study because he appears to share a distorted,
comforting and mis-educated messianic view about himself as the
know-it-all Liberian lawyer. In one part of his delusional discharge
lacking understanding of the Liberian complexities, he argued,
"Trust me" as if to suggest he is the sole fountain of
truth.
Cllr. Jayweh actually believes in the manifest destiny theory, and so,
he condemns my humanity into the abyss of satanic doom as a
"natural and constitutionally" evil personality. What a
leap? Just by me expressing a different thinking concerning the
authority of the Sierra Leonean War crime court, our dear Liberian
Cllr. indicts, tried, and convicts my humanity as an irredeemable
agent of the devil-the being called Satan. Oh my God!!! Is this the
kind of lawyering Jayweh practiced in Liberia? However, this is an
interesting insight into the mindset that has ruled Liberia since its
inception as a nation. Ill-tempered, intolerant, and tyrannical
personalities marry in the convenience of terminal degrees: mis-educated
Liberians.
The term mis-educated Liberian applies to hostile intellectuals, the
likes of Jayweh, lacking understating about their own culture,
tradition, and history. Appearing very arrogant, intolerance to
alternative viewpoints, and who continues to boast about their past
connections (failure) of primitive fiefdom where they wield
uncontrollable power, which has wretched our motherland into moral
bankruptcy and lawless fiefdom. No wonder ordinary Liberians received
harsh and undue [in]justice, due to the hollow [il]legal ritual in
Liberia that ignores due process and fair treatment. For to disagree
with the likes of Cllr. Jayweh, a mis-educated Liberian, meant the
rapid deployment of doggy minions baptized by a brigade of
intellectual terrorists professing to know-it-all. Thus, the current
monumental humiliation that public rejection has inflicted on the
bloated ego and repulsive vacuity of hostile intellectualism, in
Liberia, echoes the degenerate sense of mis-educated Liberians.
There are almost an infinite number of questions that could be raised
concerning the legal and political system of Liberia. By simply
highlighting Cllr. Jayweh's rumbling, babbling, and repetitious
hostility and intolerant behavior to free thinking and critical
analysis, as demonstrated in his critique against me. For example: Why
does the Cllr. believed that disagreeing with the SL's Court
mandate equals being evil? Why the Cllr. seems to suggest that once
accused of a crime, a person has no right to disagree with the court's
authority unless that person was evil?
Unfortunately, the juvenile amplification of Jayweh despicable
manifestation of hostile intellectualism towards questioning the SL's
court could be trace back to the opprobrium visited upon his power
structure in Liberia. I am referring to the illegal practice of theft
and corruption by mis-educated Liberians. Thus, faced with double
barrels of social defects, lacking control over the instruments of
duplicity and undergoing psychological tensions, as a result of
hedonistic characteristic, Jayweh resorts to a new display of judicial
terrorism, hostile intellectualism. This is an absurdity.
Without prejudice, it appears that our mis-educated Liberian lawyer,
Cllr. Jayweh stands in needs of evaluation. It does become
our responsibility as good citizens to recommend help for our brother,
Cllr. Jayweh. For the disease of mis-education, as we are all
testaments to, is dangerous to our national health because it is
intolerant, vindictive and creates chaos [warfare], which in term
leads to the destruction of life and property, especially of our poor
and suffering people.
Finally, let me restate that the intent of this piece excuses the
issues raised concerning whether Jayweh piece's " Which Court Has
the Power To Try Taylor" was relevant or not. The intent here was
to expose the thought process and mind elements of hostile
intellectuals, as demonstrated in Jayweh's piece. And so, it is
important that Liberians remove themselves from the mis-educated
Liberian's mindset of hostile intellectualism and seek a catalyst for
drastic reforms of Liberia's socionomic fabric that will save us from
perpetual social catastrophe.
About
the Author: The author is a social and political critic who resides in
Philadelphia.
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