When Vice President Joseph N. Boakai served as chief launcher of the Tom Kamara Foundation Saturday exactly on the first anniversary of versatile Liberian journalist Tom Kamara’s death, he said the deceased fearlessly and impartially used the might of the pen to resist attempts to trample on the inalienable rights of humankind.

The poor in developing countries affected by sudden rise in food prices not only change or reduce their diets; they are likely to engage in riskier but better paid occupations such as alluvial gold mining and prostitution for young women.

When Boston based Liberian refugee Torli Krua lost a lawsuit against the American government over the plight of thousands of undocumented compatriots threatened with deportation during the second term of President George W. Bush, the plaintiff was probably unaware that the White House uses constitutional powers over foreign policy rights to grant temporary protection status to aliens, including Liberians, deemed needing protection from war or persecution at home.

It is doubtless that President Tubman’s declaration of national unification and integration as policy of his government in 1960 derived from an overriding concern pouring from indigenous Liberians who felt marginalized by the True Whig Party’s hegemony in almost every sector of national life.