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Africa’s War Lord Queen; The Bloodstained Career of Liberia’s Eleanor
Sirleaf Johnson

Eleanor Sirleaf Johnson is the Harvard educated, Nobel Prize winning
President of Liberia with a long bloodstained history of support for
warlords both past and present.

She used to be the de facto foreign minister for that most
bloodthirsty of warlords former Liberian “President” Charles Taylor,
and she addressed the US Congress in his support.

President Johnson is the queen of the warlords, for she has granted
fiefdoms to many of Charles Taylor’s top Capos in todays Liberia. This
is the Charles Taylor that is an incarcerated war criminal having been
found guilty of crimes against humanity by that pack of western
lickspittles enthroned at the International Criminal Court.

Thats right, the ruling President in Liberia was the right hand woman
for a serious killer and today is surrounded by many of his most
notorious warlords.

Interestingly enough, Charles Taylor was convicted by the ICC of
crimes against humanity for crimes he committed in…Sierra Leone? But
wasn't Charles Taylor President of Liberia? Yes, and he committed all
sorts of terrible acts in Liberia for much longer than he did during
his invasion of Sierra Leone during its bitter civil war, but the ICC
couldn't touch anything Liberian for it would leave Eleanor Sirleaf
Johnson with blood on her hands for the world to see.

You see President Johnson was hand picked by the USA and it lackeys at
the UN to rule Liberia when the Charles Taylor regime finally
collapsed, doing so under the rubric of “democracy”, never mind Ms.
Johnson tends to run unopposed?

To give you an idea just how rotten things are, the Liberian Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, in front of which Ms. Johnson testified,
issued an opinion calling for Ms. Johnson to be barred for life from
Liberian politics.

When one speaks of warlords it is meant literally, for the lords of
war under Charles Taylor now rule much of the Liberian economy and
critical government departments.  John T. Richardson was appointed
head of the Housing Authority and was a top commander for Charles
Taylor and is infamous for being the commander of the operation where
5 American nuns were murdered. Eugene Nagbe was a senior commander
under Taylor and was appointed Minister of Information.  Roland Dou
was a senior frontlline commander and is now head of special
operations at the National Security Agency along side President
Johnson’s step son Fomba Sirleaf. Charles Taylors wife, Jewel
Howard-Taylor has been a Senator and is being touted as the next Vice
President.  And the list goes on and on, exposing how some of the
worst criminals in neo colonial Africa are ensconced as warlords high
up in the national crime syndicate that rules Liberia.

In the mining industry, a mainstay of the economy,  many undercover
documentaries have exposed how Liberia’s “government” is little more
than an extortion racket run by gangsters. Pay to Play? Cash and
Carry? Anything goes, never mind the environment and disaster for the
locals.

As the Ebola epidemic exposed, there is little in the way of
government services for ordinary Liberians, How could there be when
corruption and graft are so entrenched?

For years now, while the capital city Monrovia lacked such basic
services as electricity and running water, the western banksters,
their minions in government and the media kept up a cacophony of
praise for the Queen of African Warlords, going so far as to anoint
Eleanor Sirleaf Johnson with the Nobel Peace Prize. And this for
someone who stood front and center in the ranks of those who supported
Charles Taylor?

Charles Taylor was a warlord who did what ever it took to preserve his
power, and always worried that his mentors, if convenient, would hand
him over to the ICC without qualms, which is what they did. His
“trial” was fully sanitized and the automatic guilty verdict
pronounced with the necessary pomp and circumstance. And the African
Queen of the Warlords, Eleanor Sirleaf Johnson, would escape scott
free, and remain on her throne, overseeing so much misery and
suffering that Liberia should rightfully be considered a failed state,
as exposed by the Ebola epidemic.

Yet Ms. Johnson is regularly welcomed in black American churches
across the USA, held up as an example of “a good African” to those
with the same skin color but no affinity for any real connection to
the African motherland.

The Liberian diaspora in the USA has been active in educating the
public about what really happened during the terrible Charles Taylor
times and the present regimes links to him. Maybe the real story will
see the light of day and Ms. Johnson will no longer be honored with
such adulation, instead see the inside of a prison where she belongs.

Thomas C. Mountain is and independent journalist in Eritrea, living
and reporting from here since 2006. See thomascmountain on Facebook or
best contact him at thomascmountain at g mail dot com