Our Mother's Day Message of Hope and Peace: What is the True Hope for Liberia Post 2020?
May 9, 2021 (March 28, 0009 CIG)
A. HDH:
I thought of you when I read this quote from "Cheon Seong Gyeong: The Holy Scripture of Cheon Il Guk" by Sun Myung Moon, Hak Ja Han Moon, The Committee for the Compilation of True Parents' Teachings -
"True love penetrates heaven and earth. It pierces through even the world of death and ascends. It can penetrate and travel anywhere. There is nowhere love cannot go. Love can enter even secret places"
B. Abstract:
Today is Mother's Day in Liberia and the Christian Global Society. In memory of the "Holy Spirit of Heavenly Parents" who gave birth to Humankind, and Her incarnation as our beloved True Mother, Dr Hak-ja Han Moon, the "Only Begotten Daughter of God" allow us to share a Peace Message of New Hope this day.
This month of May always reminds us (True Love Family Circle) of human responsibility given to us in Gen 1:28 as the three great blessings of Heaven. This responsibilty can be called the Rule of Love (ROL) in contrast to the Rule of Law (ROL). Today a major topic in our Liberian society is justice and accountability. But very few understand that our human rights and free will bear consequences which Heaven holds us responsibility for. A group of Liberians believe our future is linked to Retributive Justice through the establishment of a Special Court here in Liberia to judge war criminals, especially those responsible for the greater atrocities of our Liberian 27 year Civil War Period spanning from 1979 with the rice riot, to 2006 marking the beginning of TRC'S mandate period. In this article we would like to express why we disagree with retributive justice at this time for Liberia.
C. Retributive Justice vs Restorative Justice Post Liberia 2020:
Retributive justice strives to remove criminal elements from a society with the hope of preserving civil order and peace in the society as a whole. In a humane society such criminal elements are seperated from the society to provided them an opportunity to reform themselves prior to being allowed to interact with their peers again as normal citizens. This period of reformation was meant originally to be an act of Restorative Justice not Retributive Justice. However due to human immaturity and ignorance it became retributive justice to the extent of adding the death sentence. Originally during this restorative justice process such criminals, in a state of isolation (in Prison) from the so call normal citizens, were given an opportunity to reconcile their past behavior centered on the ideal of TRUTH as in GOD'S WORD; thus, we have the concept of restorative justice via Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRC).
But what should a nation do when the whole society are a bunch of criminals? Should everyone be place in prison as retribution for their crimes? Obviously not. From a governance perspective a FAILED STATE can be compared to one where the majority are criminals. It is a state that has lost its ability to govern itself in harmony with the ROL. The first core sign of such a state is Civil Conflict, especially a repetitive state of conflict as in Liberia's 27 year period of civil conflict 1979 to 2006. During this period we became a model case of lawlessness, corruption and immorality.
D. Restorative Justice as an Accountability Mechanism:
It is in such a unique case study like Liberia that the value of restorative justice as an accountability mechanism can be best understood. As part of the various transitional justice agreements developed for Peace in Liberia, the TRC as a restorative justice mechanism was accepted by the Liberian people as compared to retributive justice linked to Special Courts. We believe this was possible because of the unique nature of our society and the values of our founding Spirit as a nation. First of all, we are a closed society of one race of people with 16 tribal divisions. Secondly, we are a highly polygamous society with blood ties spread everywhere. Thirdly, we are a society with a trinity group of religious values: Christianity, Islam and Traditional family values. Therefore, on the foundation of these three premises there is no way we as a nation of people could have self destruct the way we did without "outside interference" (what we also call hidden-hands). This point was validated by the TRC Report.
So while the majority of the Liberian people saw restorative justice as the way forward for peace, a small minority had alternative ideas. Before I discuss this minority let's remember the following:
1. Our post civil conflict period left us as a Failed State... meaning we were all collectively criminals as was the whole nation of Israel who collectively murdered Lord Jesus Christ their Anointed Savior. Today they are still bearing the consequences.
2. Such a nation of mutually guilty people are not qualified to judge their peers without first reconciling with their own past... meaning we are not qualified for retributive justice since we are equally guilty. This is like the situation in the bible (John 8:7) when Lord Jesus asked the guiltless person in the crowd to throw the first stone on the percieved guilty woman.
3. In our earlier premise we said there was no way we could have self destruct without outside support (hidden-hands). I should have also said this outside support would manifest through Judus like characters...meaning unpatriotic Liberians. One of our nation's greatest faults is our ignorance of who we are as a "Nation of Destiny for Africa". We are the oldest independent nation in Africa built on Religious Principles and ruled solely by people of negro descendants. Yet due to this ignorance of our God given destiny we have been Dominated by Evil outside forces and adjendas.Why? Because we lack a Liberian Leadership Class (LLC) of patriotic God-centered citizens. We lack a True Abel Leadership Party who can beyond "Hoping In God", like the former True Whig Party, can exhibit Absolute F.L.O.W. [Faith, Love, Obedience and Widom) with God's Holy Spirit.
E. The Inside Judus Group:
Now let us discuss this minority group of LLC. History will show that it was the ignorance of our LLC, as a minority group, which led us into the past 40 years of tribulations and needless suffering... simply because they lacked the VISION of God's Love and the ability to absolutely FLOW with that LOVE. We are a Church, Mosques and Traditional Society on the outside but slaves to S.I.N.(Selfish Individual Nature) on the inside.
Our LLC were given 133 years to transform Liberia into a "Nation of Destiny for Africa" and they failed. Our special 33 year redemption period was meant to be under the True Whig (We Hope In God) Party leadership from 1947 (after WWII) to 1980. But instead of redemption we cut off our National Head of State as John the Baptist!? This was one of the reasons TRC'S recommended the True Whig Party HQ be donated as part of the national Reparation Funds to support the reconcilation process of Liberia.
F. The True Hope for Liberia Pist 2020:
These past 40 years (1980 to 2020) of suffering under the "Dominion of Evil" (D.O.E.) has been our unique national indemnity course for the failure of our political leaders representing our heritages as a Nation. So to hear people talk about Special Courts and Retributive Justice as the way forward at this time of our national history is painful and reflects our collective spiritual ignorance as a "Nation of Destiny for Africa". Clearly our only way forward to truely reconcile with our past mistakes is not retributive justice as in local special courts, it's too late for that. We need to forgive, love and unite as one people under God and together focus on building our Heavenly Parent's New Jerusalem here on Earth. This was my personal reason for signing the TRC report with reservations. I didn't see Special Courts as the way forward for Liberia.
The next seven years until 2027 are Global Years of Grace for all humankind to reconcile their past lives under the Dominion of Evil. Why? Because the promise of Christ's return has manifested through the physical appearance of God in our mist (Rev 21:1-5) as the True Parents of Heaven, Earth, and Humankind...the Rev Dr & Mrs Sun Myung Moon. They have destroyed Satan's "Dominion of Evil" on Earth and via a Cosmic Restorative Justice Mechanism they have established Heavenly Parent's Eternal Peace Kingdom on Earth and in Heaven. It is called "Heavenly Parents Holy Community on Earth". We the members of the "True Love Family Circle" represent the Eldest member of this society here in Liberia.
So in conclusion we believe Liberia does not need a Special Court on our soil. We are not qualified to judge ourselves in that we have all SINNED and fallen short of our Heavenly Parents expectations. Our national focus should instead be Restorative Justice as Heaven has done. This will require each Liberian citizen to know and attend their True Parents before leaving this earth. How? You must be reborned by them via a ceremony called the Holy Marriage Blessing (Rev 19:6-8).
If the International Community wants to Judge those War criminals amongst us, who they have evidence on for breaking international war crime laws, then let them do it outside of Liberia, maybe in the Hages. Like Pilate let us wash our hands of retributive justice here in Liberia and Africa and instead open the gates wide for Heavenly Parent's Restorative Justice via True Love Way of Life taught to us by True Parents.
Remember the "outside interference" we mentioned earlier. These are the same people who have plundered Africa using our weakness of #CCIMS (A Culture of Corruption, Impunity to the ROL and Selfishness) to create "inside Judus" amongst us centered on their greed for wealth, political power and immortality. This is why most African are living in a D.I.P. (Disease, Ignorance and Poverty Striken) State today in the mist of abundance, while their Leadership Class enjoy the 30 pieces of SILVER as "Inside Judus ". How else do you think Tolbert was Killed sparking the rise of Satan's Dominion of Death in little Liberia. It is these "Inside Judus" who betrayed our national founding Spirit and destroyed our nationhood as "Liberty In Africa" (Liberia). For us to judge them would be acting like the Left-hand thief ( hypocritically). Let us instead act like the Right-hand thief ( Restorative) and support Heaven's Peace Strategy. Let us Forgive our "inside Judus", Love God and each other and Unite as one people under Heavenly Parents Holy Community of True Love. Aju. Love you all forever... a peace and reconciliation message from truelovefamilyfoundation.org
PS: While we 100% believe we should FORGIVE, LOVE, AND UNITE as one people under Heavenly Parent's ideal of life; we also believe we need to seperate from our #CCIMS infested leadership class come election 2023. We need to elect a leader with the Heart of God. Thus more than retributive justice we need restorative justice to reconcile with our collective past. For as long as men and women of violence (Mt 11:12) continue as our National Leaders without reconciliation, the nation and the majority will never advance or truly develop. This is the nature of a Culture of Corruption, Impunity to the Rule of Love and Selfishness (C-CIMS). Without Restoration Justice we can never separate from such leaders. This is the meaning of separating our society from Satan's Dominion of Evil (D.O.E.), not by violence as we tried in the past but by TRUTH AND LOVE.
The true hope for Liberia's development and that of every nation is to inherit the heart of God as in "living for the sake of others". This is the meaning of the True Love Way of Life. Today science has discovered the existence of Darkness all around us as in Dark Energy( + subject partner) and Dark Matter(- object partner). They believe this Darkness is 95% of Matter as we know it. But what they have not understood is "Darkness is the fruit of human ignorance about God". In the Holy Book John 1:1-5 we are told: "and the light shines in the darkness and the Darkness comprehended it not".
Let us wake up Global Peace Loving Citizens. Let us remove the veil from our spiritual EYES. We are the Children of our Heavenly Parents (whose Divine Presence is symbolized as the ~75% Dark Energy all around us). Our Spirits (symbolized as the ~21% Dark Matter all around us) are the LIGHT shining in the DARKNESS OF EVIL. As we are awakened to the Living Words of our beloved Heavenly Parents in our mist as True Parents, the veil before our eyes will be removed and we will be able to see through the DARKNESS OF EVIL (as the Light of NIGHT) into the LIGHT OF DAY.
