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An African Dictator

An African Dictator. Charles Taylor once you were a big beast in the jungle, you had blood diamonds and sold weapon to Sierra Leon, and you were complicit in invading another country. What in earth made you think you were an imperial power? So now you are in prison where other bad buggers sit like tiny ants in a hole. And you bitterly know that in the world justice is not relevant for the really big guys, they can drone whoever they want and sell weapon to whomever they like and they will never join you in Haag, but become elders and rich enough to buy diamonds for their wives. Charles Taylor, you are in a good company and you can spend time playing poker with burnt out matchsticks and glass beads.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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Date: 5/4/2012 5:18:00 AM
that last line paints a picture not so nice, but mild compared to the deeds of the evil. love, Kathy
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Jan Oskar Hansen
Date: 5/4/2012 5:51:00 AM
nice but humiliating

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