I was spending some time looking over the comments section of The Trial of Charles Taylor website, which might as well be my new homepage. Excerpts from the comments I found most interesting are below. (I seem to be going through a bullet point phase.) Obviously, I do not support all/any of these comments.

• If today Taylor is facing justice which is a welcome news for his support to the rebels in my country Sierr leone,Why not Kabba who also supported the Cdf?
• it is amusing that Charles Taylor who had no regard for law is talking about the constitution of a court set up by the united nations.
• While I do not oppose Taylor being tried in Europe, it is a shame that those who created him are now pretending to be “clean,” especially so when they instructed him and Thomas Woewiyu to level Monrovia and they would rebuild it. Go back to the early days of the massacre when Liberia’s current president made the statement on BBC. Hypocrisy must be exposed to heal the land.
• We have been told categorically how Sierra Leone and Guinea armed and supported the war in Liberia as perpetrated by ULIMO, LURD and MODEL. Please someone tell me why is Charles Taylor the only person being held here for fostering war in the region? What happened to the Guinean and Sierra Leonean presidents at the time and even Ellen who actively supported LURD?
• There can be no good judgement when the complainant is the judge. What the United Nations is trying to do is simply to divide Liberia and Sierra Leone. Don’t forget, we are all Africans. There is one thing that holds us together: OUR BLACK SKIN. Forgive Charles Taylor
• Charles McArthur Taylor, a Skip Goat. I see the trial of former president Taylor as a cover up by the American for all the wrongs they have done to Liberia and a punishment for not following their original plan before his release from prison.
• Victor Bout, the 37 year old Russian arms merchant who sold the guns to Taylor and bought the diamonds from him, was also the Pentagon’s favourite private air transport contractor in Iraq until very recently. He was also a favoured United Nations contractor to ferry humanitarian supplies in Africa even while he was running guns for Taylor (and I should add for Savimbi and for all sides in the Congo war). I beg, read Douglas Farah’s new book, “Merchant of Death.”

And, I beg, Acts of Faith.