Testimony at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Wednesday was so verbose and dense I felt like I was working through a reading comprehension section on a GRE test. The New Democrat article describing the testimony was equally jargony, with phrases like “marred with invectives.”
Here’s an excerpt of testimony from Lewis Brown, a former security advisor and interim Minister of Foreign Affairs under Charles Taylor:
Mr. Brown further accused the progressives, saying one group of the progressives “found themselves to a dogma of philosophical reasoning that unless and until one of them gain stewardship the others were obstructionist and they assigned onto themselves the position for only pursuing wealth at their (’low level’) expense.
“What they wanted was leadership essentially for themselves and all others had either moral or compelling patriotic reason to provide leadership for the country. So low level charade and foot soldiers like Mr. Stewart and others remained un-abidingly to some of these top level officials that they look up to as the only people who can provide answers” Brown averred.
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Here we have yet another example of one of the root problems throughout the Republic’s history.
Us v. Them
The ruling class sees themselves as above the “common” people. Just listen to a few speeches of the senators and appointed officials. This is verbosity on a comical scale leading to partition on a tragic scale. Language is as much a divider as geography. Here in the United States when my wife and I celebrate July 26, it is invariable that people say, “I’m from Monrovia.” Few take pride in admitting that they are from up-country, “the hinterland”.
Anthropogenicagent