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A worldwide alliance for peace, truth, justice, rule of law, freedom, liberty, equality, absence of corruption, development of a
civil society, and government of the people, by the people and for the people in the DRC. We seek to encourage ideas to
improve the quality of life for all Congolese, especially for our children who are the future. June 2, 2015 edition.
20 Point DR Congo Diaspora Peace Plan Draft
The first step in helping people is to have empathy for them as human beings. To
humanize the kind of African DR Congo (shaded green) war victims we are helping with
this plan, I urge you to watch this USA CBS 60 Minutes News Peabody Award winning 13
minute segment, by famous journalist Bob Simon, titled "Joy in the Congo: A Musical
Miracle" http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/joy-in-the-congo-a-musical-miracle-3/ and you
will have a better understanding who Congolese are and why they are worth saving. (CBS
may ask you to sign up for free to view it). You will not be sorry and it has brought many
to tears of joy.
Congo Freedom is an alliance of prodemocracy Congolese and others, who
contribute thousands of hours pro bono publico (in the public good) in the USA and
around the world. We seek dreamers who imagine how wonderful the country can be
for all Congolese, rather those who choose the same evil path of the past that has
brought nothing but death, injury and misery to most all Congolese for centuries. Like
in Nazi Germany, someone gave the orders to turn on the machine of death –
otherwise the cogs in the wheel of mass death will not work. But even the cogs who
obeyed the orders from the top are guilty, when the accused mass murders used the
argument in war crimes trials: “I was just taking orders.” If no one gave the orders or
no one obeyed unlawful immoral orders, and if there had been separation of powers
and checks and balances among those powers – war crimes would never happen, and
certainly would be minimized.
For so long innocent Congolese victims have looked for good coming out of centuries of darkness ruled
by evil self-centered people – hoping for a ray of light to illuminate a different path. The failure of our country's
governments past and present for centuries, whether called the ancient Kingdom of Kongo, Leopold’s Congo
Free State, Belgium Congo, Lumumba’s Republic of Congo, Mobutu’s Zaire, or the Kabilas’ Democratic
Republic of Congo, were and are not competent enough to solve the basic problems of Congolese. The most
vicious war lord predators on earth and their allies are blocking needed reforms. Thus, this is legitimate reason
enough for the war victims to insist on a dramatic change to a different path that will begin to solve our
problems.
Congolese need a leader team that places the peoples’ interests first. Who and what new government
system will be the new Congo guardians of peace, natural human rights, justice, rule of law, freedom, liberty, a
happy civil society, and how can we war victims create a new system from the ashes caused by others, that will
be the defender of those who in the past have had no defender? We Congo war victims work tirelessly for
peace, truth, justice, rule of law, freedom, liberty, equality, checks and balances, separation of powers, other
accepted good governance concepts absent of corruption necessary to reform the Democratic Republic of the
Congo (see this DRC map),1 and at long last a new Congo government of all the people, by all the people and
for all the people in the DR Congo – rather than just for the elites of the past and present who have plundered
our country and made the Congolese people victims of everything.
Our team’s specific plan has been offered by no others, and is recognized as an excellent starting place
for the convention debate. Many Congolese have waited for the world to fix our DRC problems for us, and that
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http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/drcongo.pdf
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A worldwide alliance for peace, truth, justice, rule of law, freedom, liberty, equality, absence of corruption, development of a
civil society, and government of the people, by the people and for the people in the DRC. We seek to encourage ideas to
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has not worked. Thus, it is clear that Congolese must take action to solve our own problems. This agenda
represents the first real democratic reform hope for all Congolese people, and we cannot allow obstacles to stop
it, no matter whether they be hostile self-serving countries or individuals.
Our Congolese diaspora war victims and other Congolese in the DRC opposition team are not asking for
world financial handouts to accomplish DRC reform objectives, but we realize we will need some assistance in
the beginning (perhaps just a re-prioritization of available resources). We want to use our $24 trillion in
national wealth (equal to GDP of USA, Germany, France and the UK combined) to build our country.2 We
realize once peace is achieved, it will take some time to develop incentives, send out RFPs and award contracts
to create responsible profitable businesses in a regulated free enterprise environment. The Congo’s share, such
as taxes, will be used to build the DRC. Since this will take some time, the DRC will need to carefully
inventory its present minimal budget (a mere $4.7 billion) and control it to prevent corruption theft. Next, we
will use zero based budgeting to prioritize how we redirect our scarce resources for the basic welfare survival
needs of our people, such as food, water, power, medicine, and security, as well as to adequately train and pay
public servants responsible for implementing the peace plan and building our country. Initially we calculate
available funds will not be enough, and we will need some assistance from the world to jump start this effort. In
time, as soon as possible, we will never again be on world welfare and we will use our extraordinary wealth to
help other African countries and the world. A grand achievable dream.
Convention Purpose. Thus we need a convention to give voice to Congo civilian war victims, who have had no
voice in the past, and we believe with much evidence that world leaders, including the
USA, former colonial powers, and the UN, prefer to negotiate with the predator pirates
who caused the genocide wars, rather than with we war victims and our needs.3 Why
do world leaders care more about what architects of holocaust murders think, by
travelling to DR Congo to pay homage to them, and even invite these maestros of
death to the UN, and to former colonial official state visits, and even to recent White
House state dinners, while ignoring Congolese civilian war victims’ concerns?
We even got the support of a former U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives (once next in line to
be POTUS after the VP) to write letters, on war victims behalf, endorsing meetings between the Administration
and Congo war victims. The packages included specific details of concerns and recommendations and were sent
to the POTUS, the VP, Secretary of State, the US Ambassador to the UN, the UN General Secretary, and even
included a heartfelt letter from a young female Congolese American citizen, and recent graduate of the
University of Texas, who as a 5 year witnessed the slaughter of her family in Kinshasa. Her letter was
addressed in the packages to the POTUS – never any answer – not even the Speaker ever got answers to his
several letters from any USA leader. The Speaker was surprised that his friends, who he has known for decades,
would not answer him and because of that he advised us that “something unusual was going on.”
“Something unusual was going on.” It was the same stonewall Congo war victims have always faced.
We are like pesky mosquitoes to world leaders. So, having been ignored for 20 years, Congo war victims have
no choice, for self-preservation, and we intend to gather together to discuss our own solutions and to plan our
own specific society reforms to prevent future bad DR Congo government and to prevent future violence to our
Congolese families, regardless of world government leaders’ and multinational corporate indifference caused by
their own agendas. They should have listened to our specific war victim pleas for help for decades, but they did
not, so now we must help ourselves. Now they must choose: get out of the way, or choose sides whether to be
with us or against us. We will no longer continue to be helpless war crime victims without fighting back every
legal way we know how to end our nightmares. In 1941 after attacking Pearl Harbor, Japanese Admiral
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See http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24396390 and http://theotcinvestor.com/mining-companies-could-see-big-profits-in-congo855/
3 http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/05/30/bishops-in-eastern-congo-say-un-is-ignoring-genocide-threat
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civil society, and government of the people, by the people and for the people in the DRC. We seek to encourage ideas to
improve the quality of life for all Congolese, especially for our children who are the future. June 2, 2015 edition.
Yamamoto said: "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." The
war victims/diaspora/opposition plan is committed to reprioritize and devote the nation’s extraordinary
resources to solve the following issues as soon as possible:
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(1) End horrific violence and provide citizen protection; a basic function of any government is to
protect its people and Congo governments past and present have failed. This is of highest priority
because none of the other reforms can work without basic security. We need a new government code of
honor to tell the truth, be honest and not accept corruption, protect all Congolese, especially the
vulnerable and weak, and to champion the law, what is right and good. The new government must stop
and defeat injustice and evil. Government will be competent, courteous, respectful, or considerate to the
citizens they serve and who are their masters.
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(2) Achieve real lasting peace.
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(3) End starvation. Many who survived the conflict are lucky to find one non-nutritious meal a day.
We believe the correct plan to end starvation and millions who only get one partially nutritious meal a
day is to continue with foreign aid while at the same time aggressively ending conflict and developing a
plentiful nutritious stable commercial food supply.4
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(4) End poverty. The GDP in DR Congo is $700 (purchasing power divided by 77 million
population).5 While GDP numbers vary due to who does them and which year they use, as bad as this
number is, it does not tell the real story because the same source cites that 63% of Congolese live in
great danger below the poverty line. Many Congolese are lucky if they have a job earning only 50 cents
US per day, and most are unlucky to earn nothing each day as the country is plagued with 73%
unemployment and citizens have a life expectancy of 49 years of age, if die naturally rather than by war
earlier. 43% of the population is under 14 years of age and 21% of Congolese are aged 15 to 24. Thus,
64% of the population are youngsters, tens of millions unemployed and millions of orphans due to
genocide, living on the street with no social services. This is a ticking time bomb as 86% of this
population is dependent on support it cannot get. One Congolese told me that many of his countrymen
are lucky to get one meal a day. While the DRC may not be Darfur in its worst times over the entire
country, it is bad, and in places worse. Therefore if something is not done quick to provide for the basic
needs of this young population, as well as education, they will not be able to support themselves and
could be a catalyst for instability for several generations.
Enough. Somebody make a decision and do something to stop this madness. Congolese have to
unite or they will continue to fail. Somebody make something good happen for the good Congolese
people. USA President Franklin Roosevelt in the American Great Depression of the 1930s crisis, at a
time of disunity about what to do, made bold decisions, and convinced Congress to make others, to try
many new programs never tried before to make something good happen for Americans. Many programs
worked, and some failed and were abandoned. The key was bold action taken to solve the peoples’
problems. If the economy is in shambles, and there is more than 70% unemployment among youth aged
15 to 14 and 73% of the population is unemployed6 then the government should be putting our people to
work with programs like the USA Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the USA Great
See https://www.wfp.org/countries/congo-democratic-republic and https://www.wfp.org/stories/10-facts-about-hunger-democraticrepublic-congo
5
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cg.html
6 See page 15
http://www.africaneconomicoutlook.org/fileadmin/uploads/aeo/PDF/Congo%20Democratic%20Republic%20Full%20PDF%20Country
%20Note.pdf
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civil society, and government of the people, by the people and for the people in the DRC. We seek to encourage ideas to
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Depression in the 1930s when only 25% of Americans were unemployed.7 These American unemployed
were put to work as federal government employees to doing a variety of useful tasks needed by the
USA, including the arts, and in trade the government gave them a small living wage, three meals a day,
health care, education, and a place to stay.8 Read how its Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was used
to build America.9 The Congo can use its wealth to do the same and Congolese will love that they for
the first time have jobs and hope. As the free market economy improves and Congolese are taught new
skills, they will be transitioned to career private enterprise and career government jobs.
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(5) Health care: develop effective health care system necessary because disease is epidemic and
USAID reports that 148 of 1,000 DRC children will not reach age 5 and is 5th highest in the world. 1 in
10 infants die unnecessarily. This has to stop. See http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/87/1/09020109/en/
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(6) Education. 43% of the population is under 14 years of age and 21% of Congolese are aged 15 to 24.
Thus, 64% of the population are youngsters 64% of the population of the 77 million population are
youngsters and half have no access to any education.10 This must change so these young people have
the skills to compete in a modern Congo. We Congolese believe we have to do a better job of educating
our citizens for many reasons, but for one we do a poor job teaching the basics of government and
history to citizens to arm them with necessary knowledge to survive in a successful constitutional
democratic republic. If we want fair justice, rule of law, freedom, liberty, and equality in the DRC, we
must start now to imprint these values in our nation’s children so they appreciate these values as they
grow up and take over leadership in society. In America, Thomas Jefferson said: "I know of no safe
depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not
enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it
from them, but to inform their discretion by education." James Madison said: “A popular government,
without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy... a
people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge
gives." Why do we need government? Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican USA president said:
"The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have
done, but cannot do, at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves in their separate, and individual
capacities." Paraphrased, government should do for the people what the people cannot do or do not
want to do for themselves. Thomas Jefferson said: "In questions of power, then let no more be heard of
confidence in man, but bind him from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." Abraham Lincoln
said: "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
We need to be thoughtful about our communications regarding the ingredients needed to create a
successful constitutional democratic republic. Edmund Burke said: “All the forces of darkness need to
succeed … is for the people to do nothing.”
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(7) Elections. Build honest & fair election systems, which includes an accurate census of the
population. Our country’s leaders’ positions of power were obtained by military conquest, violence,
threats of violence, collusion of elites, nepotism, and by sham elections influenced by fraud, bribery,
corruption, and denial of opposition citizen voting rights of Congolese living in the DRC, as well those
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration and http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/generalarticle/dustbowl-wpa/
8 See this fascinating video about the WPA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq5UiGdje8U
9 Watch this very important 53 minute PBS video about the Civilian Conservation Corps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btpSoyPWAkA and read about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps
10 See http://www.irinnews.org/report/94196/drc-millions-miss-out-on-basic-education and see
http://www.unicef.org/education/drcongo_70708.html
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A worldwide alliance for peace, truth, justice, rule of law, freedom, liberty, equality, absence of corruption, development of a
civil society, and government of the people, by the people and for the people in the DRC. We seek to encourage ideas to
improve the quality of life for all Congolese, especially for our children who are the future. June 2, 2015 edition.
who fled abroad to avoid this government’s oppression. Maximum eligible citizens will be encouraged
to register to vote and to vote regardless of whether they live inside or outside the DRC. Real
democratic countries permit all eligible citizens to vote. The exchange of good ideas matter and is
where free speech and press and quality education pays a dividend. Informed knowledge matters.
Knowledge and truth are critical to successful democracy. Representative democracy will not work
without it.
The Kabilas have now been in power since 1997 and insist on continued power by using bribery
and violence in shame elections to give the illusion of legitimacy. When African leaders take
office, they never give up power, unless violently over thrown, and this cycle must be broken
forever. Human Rights Watch said at least 18 voters killed and 100 seriously wounded in 2011
election violence. Murdered and injured by President Kabila’s foreign “Republican Guard”
Rwandan soldiers, identified by the red berets and sunglasses they wear, or their allies. They are
viewed as his most trusted warriors charged with protecting him with heavy weapons at all cost.
Can you imagine how USA citizens would react if their government did such to voters in any
American city, much less in the Washington, D.C. capital? Another 24 Congolese voters were
killed protesting between 12/9/11 and 12/14/11.11 The election was so violent, with poll workers
slugged in the face and polling stations burned to the ground, that it may be difficult to ever know
who truly won. Countless ballots were reduced to ashes; many others were tampered with. Election
observers said that the official tallying centers looked like disaster zones, with ballots dumped in the
mud and tabulation sheets fluttering loose in the wind.
The Carter Center’s 10/30/12 final report on its monitoring of the Congo (DRC) election stated:
“The legitimacy of the Congo’s fragile democratic institutions - the office of the president, the
National Assembly, the election commission, and Supreme Court - has been undermined rather than
strengthened by the 2011 election experience.”12 On 12/13/11 Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo
Pasinya said that the official election results “do not conform either to truth or to justice.”13 On
12/13/11 the Carter Center said the DRC election was fraudulent (documented during interviews
with both this San Francisco Chronicle interview and one in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution).14 On
1/13/12 Catholic bishops (35 of them) denounced the election.15 On 2/16/12 religious groups
protesting the elections peacefully were violently stopped by the military.16 Kabila has a long
history of violently suppressing peaceful protests against his rule from the beginning to the
present.17
How can Kabila get 100% of the vote in polling places? It defies logic unless there was no
opposition. Elections are a celebration of democracy, and neither an excuse for a tyrant to rig the
election and violently suppress peaceful protest to dishonest results, nor an excuse for the violent
mob to impede or overthrow the results of an honest election. The peaceful transition of power is
the hallmark of true democracies, which is a respect for the supremacy of law and the will of the
people. George Washington said what is most important is not the first election, but the 2nd election
peaceful transition of power. When African leaders take office, they keep it by use of extreme
violence and oppression for the rest of their lives, rather than by the consent of the governed. They
never give up power unless violently over thrown. Congolese must change this. The current DR
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http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/africa/111222/hrw-24-congolese-killed-drc-kabila-election
See page 8 http://www.cartercenter.org/resources/pdfs/news/peace_publications/election_reports/drc-112811-elections-final-rpt.pdf
13 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/world/africa/congo-president-kabila-denies-reports-of-election-fraud.html?_r=0
14 http://www.sfgate.com/world/article/Congo-president-insists-re-election-is-legitimate-2399896.php
15 http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/africa-emerges/congo-election-catholic-church-reject-poll-results
16 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gHdkOpK1tC0TMa73STLBFk39W3A?docId=CNG.5e7f9005a39de113b5e3d1a5dc717680.b81
17 http://www.hrw.org/news/2008/11/25/dr-congo-president-brutally-represses-opposition and
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/10/congo-election-result-violent-protests and
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/12/us-congodemocratic-politics-idUSKBN0KL1A920150112
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Congo government, representing Rwanda, does not tolerate free speech protest over Kabila trying to
hang on to power, and it has cracked down hard killing peaceful protesters, and others, including
Congolese who just vanished. Recently a mas grave was found close to the capital, Kinshasa, and
there are world demands to investigate.18 Perhaps it’s the missing protesters. Since the foreign
caused wars began in Congo, human life is treated as less valuable than a chicken. Thus,
due to the well documented illegitimacy of DRC’s 2011 elections, we do not know who won
because of wide spread corruption, and due to past and present violence that can explode again into
another African World War, and due to continued oppression and denial of basic rights and human
needs … proactive efforts must be initiated immediately to cool the flames by employing an
election system that is transparent and honest.
We badly need election reform in the DR Congo. If democracy is so important to the people,
then government must make it easy for citizens. There are many countries on earth who do
elections so much better than in DR Congo and we can learn from them.
Consider how America treats its citizens travelling or living in other countries. In DR Congo
citizens are not permitted to vote unless they travel back to DR Congo. However, America law
mandates that all American citizens living and travelling anywhere on earth be given the
opportunity to vote. There is the Federal Voting Assistance Program19 designed to help uniformed
service members, their families, and other citizens living outside the USA due to work, school,
business, or other reasons. The Federal MOVE Act of 198620 also improved Americans chances to
vote. This article describes historical problems with overseas voting and recent improvements.21
The Association of American Residents Overseas help citizen voters too.22 We should do the same
in DR Congo.
Another reform is to reduce voting pressure on election day, like in the USA is to have early
voting at polling places - where voting is over a 10 day period from 7 AM to 7 PM in the evening.
This gives everyone a chance to vote at their convenience, rather than just permitted on one election
day.
Another reform is many countries permit voting by mail for all citizens. Some restrict it only to
seniors, the disabled, and those who are away from home for just election day and the early voting
period. In the USA, in some states like Oregon and Washington State one cannot vote at an election
polling place. Everyone MUST vote by mail. Voter registration is easy in some countries. In
Oregon 2015 signed a law making voter registration AUTOMATIC and the State automatically
mails a ballot to your home every election.23 A citizen voter need not “discover” how to register or
remember when the election will be and “discover” where he can vote because he now votes over a
several month period before the votes are counted by the State, and his ballot is counted as long as
mailed back to the State and received by election evening. Those advocating for greater
participation love mail registration and mail voting, but some hate it because it makes it too easy for
opponents to vote.
• Arguments why state election administrators LOVE this - no poll workers includes: no
recruitment; no notices to be sent; no classes to conduct to train paid election workers; no
distribution and retrieval of election day supplies; no last-minute cancellations from workers who
had agreed to serve; no paychecks to cut and mail; no W-2’s to send; no pre-dawn election-day
hours to line up replacement workers. No polling places includes no polling place leases,
telephones, utilities; no searching for or preparation of accessible locations; no frantic phone calls
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32197742
http://www.fvap.gov/
20 http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/October/10-crt-1212.html
21 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/us/politics/internet-and-federal-act-ease-overseas-us-voting.html?ref=global-home&_r=2&
22 https://www.aaro.org/?font-size=smaller&catid=0&id=261
23 http://news.yahoo.com/oregon-first-state-adopt-automatic-voter-registration-190300538.html
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about locked doors; no preparation, set-up, tear-down, or emergency repairs of voting machines or
devices; no confusion about where people must go to vote. This all saves tax payers millions of
dollars.
• Result (1) it is cost effective. (2) it has resulted in increased participation among voters. (3), it is
easier for election officials to conduct. (4) it allows for a more accurate picture of eligible voters, by
keeping voting lists up-to-date. (5) it gives voters a longer opportunity to study the ballot and find
answers to their questions rather than be confined to a brief time in a voting booth. Every statistic
shows that voting by mail is more convenient for voters and that it increases turnout. Voters
experience no inconvenience of travelling to polling places and long lines. Victory for the people!
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(8) Corruption. Denmark and New Zealand are rated as the least corrupt countries, and while the
United States is the seventeenth least corrupt country, it still is not bad compared to the DRC that ranks
as one of the most corrupt countries on earth. https://www.transparency.org/cpi2014/results This is
embarrassing, shameful, and humiliating that our government employees require bribes in
order to provide a government service taxpayers already paid for. This is destructive to our
society and prevents us from progressing to a higher happier society, and it must be
terminated immediately. This corruption is the source of economic injustice where most in
the country are the poorest of the poor in the world while elites in and out of the country
enjoy Congo’s extreme wealth.
Congolese reformers oppose and will make illegal all bribery, extortion, fraud, embezzlement,
nepotism, cronyism, appropriation of public assets and property for private use, and influence peddling.
Corruption - bribes are an insidious tax on productive activity.
Congolese know their government officials are corrupt. There is a saying that if it is perceived
it is real whether in fact it is; thus when our people perceive government is corrupt it causes loss of faith
in government. Therefore we have to take extraordinary steps not only to ensure that government is in
fact honest, but it must be perceived by the people to be honest to restore their faith in their
governments. This will only change when government employees take extraordinary steps to interact
with Congolese to show they are fair and lawful.
Bribes buy elections causing all sorts of negative consequences to the well-being of the
population. In Uganda, researchers compared the amount of money given out to schools with money
government received (such as taxes and aid), and discovered about 90% of the money disappeared in the
transfer (ending in the hands of government officials and politicians and cronies). There is no doubt if
we studied bribes in the DRC education system we would find the same. Money cannot help education
our children when it is stolen! This is hardly the most effective way to educate our children.
The first step to reduce corruption is to create an accounting system that prevents theft from
government. Congolese must have new tough anti-corruption and government ethics laws and a
national police/prosecutor unit to best protect our Congolese people from any corrupt government
officials from the highest to the lowest levels of government, as well as those interests who would
corrupt them. The DRC is one of the richest countries on earth, but yet has the poorest citizens on earth.
Extraordinary extremes. It is government employees and its cronies who benefit from the wealth, but yet
they want more and shake down poor people for bribes.
We must have a structure of more independent just federal prosecutors and national police,
highly screened and hired and trained based on merit rather than politics, empowered to investigate and
prosecute all crimes in their jurisdiction including corruption in all branches of government at all levels.
This legal watch dog will ensure that all abide by the rule of law with the power to make anyone in or
out of government fearful that if caught violating the law, including bribery, he will be prosecuted,
convicted and punished.
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Congolese reformers propose aggressively participation in the Anti-Bribery Treaty.24 The
culture of corruption must be defeated the same as an enemy on the battlefield and is a more daunting
opponent that our war enemies. Extortion, swindling, bribery, and fraud together are a pervasive
problem from the bottom to the top of government. The culture of corruption affects all parts of society.
Too many government officials are not viewed as public servants but more like a criminal mafia who
are leeches on society.
Bribery causes many problems. Bribery permits construction contractors to use inferior building
materials that do not meet safety standards, because bribed inspectors ignore the higher standard of law,
and thus endangers the public with shoddy construction of building and bridges that result in death and
injury. Bribery destroys our ability to improve government and business, it demolishes the public's faith
in our institutions, and it prevents people from trusting government.
Bribes are used to stop government authorities from taking action, and to look the other way,
especially when private parties engage in activities that are in violation of existing laws, rules and
regulations such as those relating to controlling pollution, preventing health hazards, or promoting
public safety as in the case of building codes and traffic regulations.
Bribes acquire or speed up undeserved licenses or permits necessary to engage in lucrative
economic activities and this creates unfair competition. This is the so-called “grease money” to turn the
wheels of bureaucracy to avoid important rules and regulations necessary to protect society.
Bribes influence who gets contracts, not in the best interest of taxpayers. Bribes permit
unqualified applicants to be admitted to education, to obtain good grades, and to obtain diplomas. No
one wants an incompetent doctor or other professional to provide unqualified services. Bribes are used
to avoid taxes, fees, dues, custom duties, and electricity and other public utilities. Bribed customs &
immigration officials permit criminals and diseased things to enter the country to endanger the
population. It prevents the ability to control a country’s borders.
Bribery damages efforts to establish "rule of law" because to government employees, law is not
supreme, money is supreme, and bribery infects all institutions. Wealthy are immune from the law if
they have enough money. Bribes are given to favor one party over another in court cases, they prevent
the ability to control crime, and influence outcomes of legal and regulatory processes. Corruption is a
cancer that prevents freedom by permitting those with money to attack the innocent, and prevents justice
by permitting the guilty to go free. Likewise, rogue corrupt prosecutors, police, and judges are as serious
a threat to justice as the criminals they are supposed to bring to trial due to bribery and malicious
prosecution of the innocent. Even in the United States incompetent or malicious lawyers, police,
prosecutors and judges have convicted and punished the innocent. See the Innocents Project25 that has
exonerated those wrongfully convicted in the United States. If that can happen in a free country, what
do you think happens in DR Congo?
The criminal justice system should have major goals in mind when it proceeds with a case and
those are truth, due process and justice. Corruption and bungling circumvent those goals. Those
operating outside the law will be met with swift and certain justice. By instituting such laws and ethical
standards, our government employees will be "untouchable" by criminals, and our public servants will
be respected by our people for being professional and impartial and recognized for being helpful friends
to the good Congolese people. Criminal bribery does nothing to ensure that the DR Congo and our
taxpayers get the best value. It is robbing the people's scare tax assets and it is sapping the wealth
necessary to build our country.
This bribery system is opposed to merit hiring, where applicants get their jobs due to what they
know through rigorous civil service tests and their total package making them the most likely to do the
best work, rather than getting jobs because of who they know and how much they are willing to bribe to
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http://ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=31443
http://www.innocenceproject.org/
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get jobs. It is insidious. The name of the game is to buy your position. The best people for jobs are too
often passed over for others less competent who bribed to get their positions. The job holder looks at
bribing as an investment he intends to recover with profit by using his position to solicit bribes and the
cycle continues. The result is that the better honest applicant was not hired. If you are an honest
employee, the dishonest ones see you as the enemy of their corrupt practices and it can get you fired, or
killed. The public knows this and is why they have little trust in Congolese government institutions.
There is an old saying that "if it is perceived it is real" meaning that if the public thinks bribery is a
problem, then it is a problem that destroys trust. To earn that trust we must change.
Government employees must be fairly compensated and held to high public service standards.
Thus, any government employee found guilty in court of accepting anything of value in trade for a
government favor (bribery) will be dismissed from government public service, indicted and prosecuted,
as well as those who do the bribing. Regarding businesses of the world who wish to win government
contracts, we will announce "requests for proposals" for competitive bids and will award contracts based
on the companies who will provide the best quality and performance at the best price. Contracts will not
be awarded based on bribery. We must stop it. We must have accountability over incompetent
government performance and criminal misconduct perpetuated by bribery. While a serious problem in
all countries, at least there are aggressive USA independent efforts to fight corporate26 and government
employee corruption,27 unlike in the DRC. Thus we propose providing for a separate independent
prosecutor office, like in the USA, armed with law, resources, investigators, and lawyers necessary
enough to be able to fight the most powerful financial & political corruption in society. These cases
will be decided before neutral independent judges proposed in our “justice – rule of law” plan. This will
minimize the corrupting influence of money and you can click on these topics at this site
http://www.transparency.org/topic to see why corruption is so damaging to humanity’s well-being.
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(9) New constitution. Write an effective new constitution that will permit strong effective government
institutions, and supreme rule of law over all. A supreme constitution will aid in settling arguments
among us with many different views on many issues. We Congolese war victims know that none of our
proposed wonderful reforms will ever happen, unless we convene a national constitutional convention,
composed of the most talented well-meaning citizens among us, to debate and draft a well-crafted
document that will be the supreme law of the land to govern all Congolese. The same as the authors of
the US Constitution discarded the Articles of Confederation that did not effectively govern the new
country, Congolese wish to write a new constitution. It will authorize government and give it
legitimacy based on consent of the governed, it will outline the structure of government, it will carefully
define & limit powers, it will establish a legal contract between the people & government and will
identify rights of the people. It will carefully outline political affairs. We know we need government
because only government can be big enough to solve big national problems, including national defense
to protect people.
As James Madison mentioned in Federalist # 51: “But what is government
itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no
government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external
nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a
government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty
lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and
in the next place oblige it to control itself.”
http://www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/corruption
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The new Constitution will build a national government best to protect & maximize the
peoples’ liberty. Authors will imbed principles as obstacles in the Constitution to blunt
wishes of majority whenever the majority would threaten individual rights and the public
good. Implementing a republic form of government, separation of powers between the
executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, judicial review, checks and
balances, and federalism will help achieve this goal. This will help to control conflict that is
part of human nature created by “factions.” Government’s role will be to enforce the law
and beyond that to referee natural conflicts that develop among “factions” in society. The
national constitution, the supreme law of the law, will arbitrate disputes among people with
fundamentally differing views and protect rights. All members of all governments, both
civilian and military, as a condition of employment, will be required by oath or affirmation,
to support the national Constitution and there will be legal consequences for any who violate
the Constitution. The proposed oath for all government officials is:
"I, (name), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support, obey, and
defend the Constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo against all
enemies, foreign and domestic, as defined by law; that I will bear true faith and
allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental
reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge
the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. I will administer justice
without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and
that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties
incumbent upon me under the Constitution and laws of the Democratic
Republic of the Congo. I will accept nothing, other than my government salary
and benefits, even of the slightest value, including favored treatment of any
kind, from anyone on my own behalf or behalf of any other person, recognizing
that acceptance may result in a conflict, or give the appearance of a conflict,
with my official duties or in my effectiveness as a government employee,
which could cause actual or perceived corruption by the public.”
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(10) Freedoms
What is freedom? We want freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control,
freedom from external or foreign rule whether external governments or multinational corporations;
we want freedom to be independent, freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, or
hampering conditions, freedom to think and express our views in speech and print without
punishment by a dictatorial autocratic government, freedom from unlawful government captivity,
confinement or physical restraint or slavery that is epidemic in DR Congo, and freedom to travel
anywhere we want in our own country minus current fear of death, injury or robbery.
We must identify and embed freedoms of the people such as religion, speech, press, peaceful
protest assembly, and the right to complain about government without government persecuting the
complainers, and identify other limits on the power of government: self-defense, search and seizure
rights, grand juries, double jeopardy, procedural and substantive due process and the presumption of
innocence until proven guilty by a court of law, the right to remain silent and freedom from torture,
right to a speedy public trial in an impartial court judged by a jury of citizen peers, government
eminent domain power, right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation and the right
to be confronted by witnesses against the accused, right of compulsory process (subpoena) for
obtaining witnesses in the accused’s favor, the right to have the assistance of competent counsel for
one’s defense and in the case of poor people who cannot afford a lawyer for the State to pay for
competent counsel to in part level the playing field in any case where jail time can be assessed,
prohibitions against excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel & unusual punishment. Congolese
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also want constitutional protection that they do not give up any right just because a right is not
specifically on the constitution list, as long as it is in the spirit of the constitution, such as right to
privacy. Congolese also want the right for provincial and local governments to make their own
decisions based on the consent of the governed, as long as those actions do not conflict with
national law.
(11) Liberty.
US Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said it is the liberty of the citizen
to do as he likes so long as he does not interfere with the liberty of others to do the same.
All should have a right to exercise a right or freedom as long as it does not hurt another or
the public good.
We Congolese demand maximum liberty to control our own lives. We insist on greater
ability to govern ourselves, rather than no liberty permitted us by all the totalitarian dictators who
ruled us for longer than a century. Nor do we choose anarchy that would provide us complete
liberty, but would be disastrous. We will vigorously debate the proper roles and responsibilities of
the individual in society. DRC liberty will be a carefully designed balance. The irony is that it is
necessary for us to give up some liberty for the well-being of the society, such as prohibiting crimes
or polluters.
Negative liberty defines when one may act unobstructed by others. Just because there are
restrictions on the freedom to act does not mean one is not free. Preservation of negative liberty
requires positive action on the part of society and government to prevent some individuals from
taking away the liberty of others. When society guarantees free speech, it does not mean one has
the legal right to falsely slander and injure another, and thus slander laws are a reasonable restriction
on liberty. The wealthy few in the DRC have long dominated the poor. A progressive view argues
that unrestrained concentration of wealth and the means of production in the hands of a few negates
liberty. When society permits concentrations of money and its power in the hands of a few, it
results in the domination by the wealthy and the subjugation of the poor denied a higher station in
life. With negative liberty the individual is better protected from tyranny and abuse of authority.
We Congolese believe in a social contract in the spirit of John Locke, where our people
willingly come together to agree not to harm each others' lives and property, and to form our
government necessary to defend us against those seeking to harm us. Without a benevolent well
controlled "neutral" government, protecting the rights of the poor equally with the rich, Congolese
will have no security and will live in a constant state of fear from more powerful individuals and
gangs who would jeopardize our lives, liberty, and property. Rather than each man acting as his
own judge, jury, and executioner (anarchy), the government acts as an impartial, objective agent to
do all the things for the people they cannot do themselves. DRC government's legitimacy will come
from our citizens' delegation to the government, such as leaders in the executive, legislative, and
judicial branches. Thus it is critical that we have a well educated population, participating in civics
and making wise decisions regarding who represents us as leaders of government.
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(12) Equality for all, especially women who have had 2nd class status in society, and terminate the
vicious cycle of violence against women;
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(13) Justice, supreme rule of law, fair courts and a competent criminal justice system.
Congo Freedom Alliance has a detailed position paper on this topic found at
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We seek to create an effective impartial “for life appointment” national court system, as well as
a professional federal and local career prosecutors and professional federal and local police – all
designed to enforce the law and protect individuals.
Justice is the act of being fair, the equal application of law, and thus it must be absent of
corruption and bribery. Examples debating how to protect the innocent date back to ancient times
and must be considered by DRC reformers. In the Bible (Genesis 18:20-33) Abraham and God
discussed the evil that saturated Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham asked whether God will destroy
the cities to fix the problem, even though there were righteous among them. God said no, not even
if he found just ten righteous will he destroy the cities. In other words, he refused to “burn down
the barn to get rid of the rats” because it would destroy both the good and bad - the innocent and the
guilty alike.
How do we Congolese construct a criminal justice system that avoids punishing the innocent
while at the same time rightly convicting those guilty of breaking the laws of the State? See this
outrageous case about Texas prosecutor misconduct that caused an innocent person to be
convicted.28 Texas taxpayers had to pay the convicted innocent Mr. Morton $2 million dollars to
compensate him for the wrongful conviction and for the 25 years he spent in a prison environment.
Loss of freedom for something he did not do. Criminal justice misconduct for any reason,
especially to win elections as a tough on crime politician and the voters who elect them is revolting
to reasonable persons. It is estimated that some 2% or 30,000 convicted and currently serving
prison time in the USA are innocent due to criminal justice misconduct or incompetence. See the
Innocents Project for more details as an example how DR Congo needs its own innocent project.29
If this can happen in the modern free USA, do you think it can happen in an undeveloped country
like the DRC?
We Congolese want honest, efficient and effective government and the controls to ensure it.
We seek truth, justice, and we seek to construct a system that will avoid convicting any innocent
person. We must be careful to construct a system that “does to others as we would have them to do
to us.” Government is so much more powerful than the individual and the innocent can be easily
overwhelmed by unjust power. Mohammed said: "Government is the guardian of those who have
no guardian." In the Hindu religion, the kshatriya is a class dedicated to military and criminal
justice service. Members have a strong sense of honor and they view their morals and ethics as
ideals so valuable that they cannot be traded for any price. It is dishonorable for a member to be
corrupted. They are trained to lay down their lives to protect the weak and innocent alike.
Mahatma Gandhi said this defines a true Hindu. This kind of ethics must be cultivated in DRC
public servants.
So the question is how do we best create a criminal justice system to protect the weak and avoid
punishing the innocent in the DRC so that only the guilty are convicted and punished justly? Not an
easy task due to human imperfections.
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(14) Reorganize & train government employees
Government must be reorganized into the most efficient and effective institutions. Employees
need to be retrained with skills necessary to help Congolese, so government workers are true public
servants welcomed and trusted by Congolese rather than the feared oppressors too many of them are
now. After quality training and establishing specific expected performance benchmarks to rate
employees, government employees who fail to perform will be terminated and others will be
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/opinion/nocera-a-texas-prosecutor-facesjustice.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121113
29 http://www.innocenceproject.org/
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recruited based on a merit hiring system rather than the political crony hiring system of the present
where who you know gets you a job.
The USA went to a merit hiring system in 1883 with the passage of the Pendleton Act.30 The
merit system converted government hiring from one based on party affiliation or tribes called the
spoils system – also called “to the victor goes the spoils” where a winning politician could reward
campaign workers, contributors, friends, and family members with good government jobs). The
merit system required by the Pendleton Act required a rigorous process of applications, background
checks and reference checks, exams, medical and physical fitness exams where required,
psychological exams where required, and interviews. Each step is scored and each applicant gets a
combined score and all applicants are rated from top to bottom. The theory is the applicant at the
top will give the taxpayer citizen (the country’s ruler) better bang for the buck rather than a
candidate at the bottom, and it has worked well.
Also consider the good reasons why USA federal civilian & military employees prohibited from
partisan political activity. Why are federal civilian and military employees by law prohibited from
engaging in partisan political party activity? Think about it. (a) it protects a federal worker from
political superiors who might coerce him into partisan political activity for those he is personally
opposed to. If several million federal workers could be ordered by political party superiors to
support one political party, it would be a mighty political campaign organization difficult to beat,
and it would give unfair advantage to the party in power. (b) it better ensures a more neutral and
independent federal work force, supported by tax dollars from all taxpayers of all political beliefs.
(c) federal workers would not have the support from the American people if the public believed
them to be partisans of one party. Parties out of power would not have faith in partisan federal
workers. (d) federal workers’ job is to execute law in a non-partisan way and they serve our nation’s
civilian political leaders – no matter who is in power - representing all political parties.
• Members of the military cannot show disrespect for anyone in their chain of command. Under
the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Article 89, authorized by Congress and the President by law,
members of the military must show respect for superiors to maintain military discipline and
effectiveness. Behaving with disrespect toward superiors is punished by court-martial. The
following Marine was critical of his commander in chief and could have been prosecuted by court
martial and sent to prison, but was kicked out of the USMC with a less than honorable discharge
(damages him for civilian career options)31
In the USA what political activity is authorized by federal civilian employees? The federal
Hatch Act regulates federal civilian employees by law and specifies what you can do and cannot
do. In general federal employees:
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May register and vote as they choose.
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May assist in nonpartisan voter registration drives.
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May participate in campaigns where none of the candidates represent a political party.
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May contribute money to political campaigns, political parties, or partisan political
groups.
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May attend political fundraising functions.
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May attend political rallies and meetings.
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May join political clubs or parties.
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May sign nominating petitions.
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May campaign for or against referendum questions, constitutional amendments, or
municipal ordinances.
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May be a candidate for public office in a nonpartisan election.
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http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/449725/Pendleton-Civil-Service-Act
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74334.html
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May express opinions about candidates and issues. If the expression is political activity,
however – i.e., activity directed at the success or failure of a political party, candidate for
partisan political office, or partisan political group – then the expression is not permitted
while the employee is on duty, in any federal room or building, while wearing a uniform or
official insignia, or using any federally owned or leased vehicle.
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In general, they are prohibited from other political involvement. For more details on
less restricted federal employees see http://www.osc.gov/haFederalLessRestricted.htm and
for more restricted federal employees see
http://www.osc.gov/haFederalFurtherRestricted.htm
In the USA what political activity is authorized by USA military personnel? A member of the
Armed Forces on active duty:
 May register, vote, and express a personal opinion on political candidates and issues,
but not as a representative of the Armed Forces.
 May promote and encourage others to exercise their voting franchise, if such promotion
does not constitute use of their official authority or influence to interfere with the outcome of
any election.
 May join a partisan or nonpartisan political club and attend its meetings when not in
uniform, subject to certain restrictions.
 May serve as an election official, if such service is not as a representative of a partisan
political party, does not interfere with the performance of military duties, is performed when
not in uniform, and the military branch Secretary concerned has given prior approval. The
Secretary concerned may NOT delegate the authority to grant or deny such permission.
 May sign a petition for a specific legislative action or a petition to place a candidate’s
name on an official election ballot, if the signing does not obligate the member to engage in
partisan political activity and is done as a private citizen and not as a representative of the
Armed Forces.
 May write a letter to the editor of a newspaper expressing the member’s personal views
on public issues or political candidates, if such action is not part of an organized letterwriting campaign or a solicitation of votes for or against a political party or partisan political
cause or candidate. If the letter identifies the member as on active duty (or if the member is
otherwise reasonably identifiable as a member of the Armed Forces), the letter should
clearly state that the views expressed are those of the individual only and not those of the
Department of Defense (or Department of Homeland Security for members of the Coast
Guard).
 May make monetary contributions to a political organization, party, or committee
favoring a particular candidate or slate of candidates, subject to certain limitations and other
applicable law.
 May display a political bumper sticker on the member’s private vehicle.
 May attend partisan and nonpartisan political fundraising activities, meetings, rallies,
debates, conventions, or activities as a spectator when not in uniform and when no inference
or appearance of official sponsorship, approval, or endorsement can reasonably be drawn.
 May participate fully in the Federal Voting Assistance Program.
 For details see http://www.dod.gov/dodgc/defense_ethics/ethics_regulation/134410.html
Government must also control DR Congo borders with effective military, law
enforcement, and customs ports of entry.
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(15) Free market economy
We must develop prosperity by creating a vigorous free market economy, regulated by law, to
provide good careers for our Congolese work force. We seek to transform the DRC economy by
partnering with responsible companies to help us utilize our resources, which will provide the
financial resources necessary to accomplish our rebuilding plan.
DRC resources ($24 trillion equal to GDP of USA, Germany, France and the UK combined) are
presently helping Brazil, Russia, India, China, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, North Korea, but only a few
USA businesses. This needs to change so America has an aggressive business role in DR Congo.
This will help the American economy grow.
See these stories China investing heavily in the Congo,32 as well as Russian, Brazil, and India,33
and Israel.34 However, those other countries make a few Congolese wealthy while the rest of our
people remain the poorest, those countries take DRC resources abroad, and do little to end the war,
or bring peace, or build democratic institutions or construct needed infrastructure.
USA companies desire to do business in the DRC, and doing so can help the USA rebound at a
faster rate from its own economic crisis. See these examples of such American corporate interest on
the web, OTC35 & the Financial Policy Council,36 and they, and others, just need stability in the
DRC to risk their investment.
UN and World Bank studies confirm enormous business potential in the DRC. Congolese
prefer a close relationship with the USA, and trust it more than others to take a fair profit from
resources, but in trade to lead it to the correct path of freedom, democratic institutions and to help
build infrastructure. Besides the ways the DR Congo can help the American economy, if the USA
takes a greater role in stabilizing the DRC, it will benefit its own national security by preventing
uranium at Shinkolobwe from continuing to fall into the hands of terrorists that threaten world
peace.
Stabilizing DRC will eliminate the USA’s need to contribute to the UN peacekeeping mission,
and a peaceful DRC would be a stabilizing influence to neighboring countries and the African
continent.
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(16) Develop infrastructure
We must develop safe air and ground transportation systems. Lack of adequate transportation is a
major problem affecting the development of the Congo’s vast area. Thus there has to be an
aggressive campaign to correct it.
The US State Department warns to avoid travel in DR Congo at all costs because travel is not
safe.37 How can we develop the country with a third world transportation system? We cannot –
thus it must be corrected.
 Aircraft transportation system. DR Congo – the 11th largest land mass country in the
world – only has 26 airports with any paved runway – the rest are dirt. DR Congo air
safety has one of the highest accident rates outside the former Soviet Union, and
accidents are due to lack of training, and the unknowing or willful lack of crew and
maintenance following procedures, and rarely accidents are caused due to equipment
http://www.chimpreports.com/index.php/news/news-as-it-happens-around-the-east-african-region/6961-congo%E2%80%99s-$6bnchina-accord:-deal-of-the-century-or-africa%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cgreat-chinese-takeout%E2%80%9D?.html
33 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/african-and-mideast-business/africa-next-the-quest-forafricas-riches/article4562456/?page=all
34 http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/dec/09/enrc-congo-mining-billionaire
35 http://theotcinvestor.com/mining-companies-could-see-big-profits-in-congo-855/
36 http://www.financialpolicycouncil.org/articledetails.aspx?id=26
37 http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/alertswarnings/democratic-republic-of-the-congo-travel-warning.html and see
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/06/travel/10-things-about-congo/
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failure alone. There needs to be better safety oversight, effective oversight agencies,
better training, qualified technical flight inspectors and maintenance systems, and better
air traffic control systems.38
Railroads. No single railroad runs the full length of the country. The CIA reports only
about 2,329 miles of track, much of it narrow gauge, and is much less track than when
the Kabilas took power in 1997.39 Reliability is poor.40 Congo railroads are filthy,
crowded and dangerous.41 See this brief You Tube video in this footnote to understand
how primitive the rail travel is in DR Congo.42 DR Congo needs to expand service to
all major sections of the country for mass transit of the people and for troops – national
security. The rail system needs to be transformed into a world class mass transit system
for our poor people. This will have an enormous impact on Congolese being able for
the first time to travel to any section of the country for any need, and it will be critical
to business and the economy by linking all parts of the country and to other countries.
Inland waterways.
Rivers and unconnected
lakes are the main
channels of
transportation for 2/3’s
of the DR Congo; the
CIA reports there are
9,000 miles. While the
rivers, particularly the
Congo and its
tributaries, are mostly
navigable, they are
blocked at various points
from through navigation
by cataracts and
waterfalls, (that stopped Stanley’s continuous water navigation in the 1800s) making it
necessary to move goods by rail or road between the navigable sections. The chief deep
water port is Matadi (above photo) on the Congo River, 92 mi from the Atlantic Ocean.
Why not develop the minor Banana Seaport at mouth of the Congo River into a major
seaport?43 If we did, and constructed a road system and rail system and an airport near
the port – goods and people could travel via this port of entry to DR Congo.
All weather roads & highways – even though DRC is the 11th largest country
(equivalent to one fourth of the USA or 5.3 times the size of Texas or as big as Western
Europe) and is the 19th largest population with 77 million – it only has 1,398 miles of
all-weather roads; look at the photos lower on this footnote home page to understand
why roads in DR Congo are very different than in any modern country.44 CIA states it
has 1,676 miles of paved roads, which includes big city streets.45 The basic point
though is the vast interior of DR Congo is totally vacant of paved roads and any dirt
http://www.eu-africa-infrastructure-tf.net/attachments/library/aicd-background-paper-16-air-trans-summary-en.pdf
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cg.html
40 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-15859686
41 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/04/world/africa/04congo.html
42 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNfUbgpXGR8
43 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana,_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo
44 http://basementgeographer.com/why-you-cant-drive-across-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo/
45 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cg.html
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road is useless when encounter deep sand or when it rains, which is frequently in many
parts of the country, one is not going anywhere – even if you have an emergency. Thus
one cannot drive across DRC to get to work, to go to schools, to respond to emergencies
or conflict, or go for medical help, or to engage in commerce because most are one lane
dirt paths in bad shape and when it rains (it rains a lot) roads become impassible.
 But the most damning point about DR Congo leadership failures past and
present is that in the USA there are 4,064,000 miles of useable all weather
roads (paved roads or gravel useable in foul weather) and 2,646,000 miles of
paved roads.46 The USA had a roads problem too but viewed correcting it as a
national security priority in 1956 and now have the finest roads in the world.47
 Thus we believe there should be about one million miles of all-weather roads
and paved highways in DR Congo. The delta between what we have (1,398
miles of all-weather roads) and what we need (one million miles of all-weather
roads and paved highways) alone demonstrates the incompetence of all
government leaders past and present. If they were employed by any good
corporation and performed that way they would be immediately fired. This
problem is too serious to permit their continued incompetent performance as it
is negatively effecting the lives of every person in our country. Fire current
leaders and replace them with competent ones who will get the job done!
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http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/national_transportation_statistics/html/table_01_04.html
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/history.cfm
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Lastly, think about this transportation problem for most Congolese. To move self or goods from the
Atlantic Ocean to the Matadi river port to Bukavu in eastern DR Congo what would you likely need to do?
Look at the below map and the red transportation path representing shipment of goods from the Atlantic in
the west to Bukuvu in the east. The Congo River is 2,900 miles long. This journey is the equivalent of
something like travelling from the USA west coast to its east coast. From the Atlantic Ocean you travel up
the Congo River to Matadi, get on a train to Kinshasa, then by riverboat travel from Kinshasa up the Congo
River to Kisangani. From Kisangani get on a train to Ubundu, where you get on a by river boat to Kindu,
where you get on a train to Kalemie, where get on a boat on Lake Tanganyika to travel north to the port at
Uvira, where you get off and then by pubic bus or by car to travel less than 90 extremely bumpy miles in
good weather that takes perhaps 4 hours to Bukavu, where in bad weather bridges may be out or high water
at low water crossings or there is a war warning. Militias move a lot, they stay in the forest and attack
suddenly to the roads, trains, rivers, villages. Thus a place which today is calm can be the object of an attack
tomorrow. During this trip, goods are loaded and unloaded eight times and the total journey likely will take
months to get your package to Bukavu, if it ever arrives at all, whereas in the USA an equivalent trip by car
would be about 3 days. All along the way – anywhere – expect to deal with incompetent mismanagement,
to pay bribes, deal with poor schedules, thieves, and maximum violence in a lawless land.
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(17) Water and sanitation.
The World Bank reports that at least 75% of 77 million population does not have access safe
drinking water, and it reports that 80 to 90% of the population does not have access to basic sanitation
systems, both of which impacts disease and life span.48
 Zaire/DRC governments of the past and present were and are not competent enough
to protect our people, nor can government even provide basic services like clean
drinking water to 51 million (75 percent of population) for its citizens.49 Lakes and
standing rain water are unsafe.50 And there are no public water treatment plants like
in the USA. All that wealth; where does it go?
 It is so outrageous that Congolese are without the very basics of life when there is so
much wealth that could deliver the needs of the people. Imagine when the good guys
take office and prioritize basic needs first (society projects): security, safe water, food,
sanitation, hospitals, disease vaccinations & immunizations, solar power/cell phones
for emergency calls and light, schools for children, and transportation. Teams in each
area will be selected to mobilize the effort. Orders will be given to repair the problems
or officials will be fired and will find those who can accomplish the job. Imagine how
the people in the smallest villages would react when seeing for the first time in history
government getting something done that actually helps the people - like water wells
drilled, or piping from rivers and streams connected to water purification systems.
Sewers, kids getting health care, and so forth. Is a wonderful dream that can come
true for all Congolese. There are so many clever solutions to the safe drinking water
problem.51
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(18) Electricity.
We must provide electricity to our entire 77 million Congolese population. Most Congolese
live without any electricity, and while just 6% of the country has it, it is unreliable. We cannot
develop as a nation without electricity for every Congolese and we will do it while protecting our
extraordinarily valuable environment. The CIA reports that DR Congo produces 7.8 billion kWh,
uses 6.6 kWh and exports 171 kWh of electricity at the very time its people have none!52
Today only 6% of the DRC’s 77 million population have access to electricity, even though the
Congo is blessed with enormous water energy that should have long ago powered every home in the
Congo, as well as in each home on the African continent.53 Government decisions have been
grossly incompetent and contrary to the interests of the people.
Many propose the Grand Inga dam on the Congo River constructed with environmental
concerns addressed, that will be the largest in the world and as a condition, should for the first time
in history electrify rural Congo.54 Engineers have said that Grand Inga could produce enough
https://www.wsp.org/sites/wsp.org/files/publications/CSO-DRC-En.pdf
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37850&Cr=dr+congo&Cr1
50 http://www.irinnews.org/report/96858/DRC-No-power-little-safe-water-in-Goma
51 See http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37850&Cr=dr+congo&Cr1 and
http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/article/2013/05/20130531148265.html#axzz2juNU5TOf and http://thewaterproject.org/waterin-crisis-congo.php and http://www.rei.com/product/860034/lifestraw-water-filter?preferredSku=8600340001&cm_mmc=cse_PLA-_pla-_-product-_-8600340001&mr:trackingCode=9DAD3E03-EDAD-E211-9C7CBC305BF82162&mr:referralID=NA&mr:adType=pla&mr:ad=20834196640&mr:keyword=&mr:match=&mr:filter=39033374920&msid
=vOEAPHMq_dc|pcrid|20834196640|&{copy:s_kwcid} and http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/blog/pennsylvania-church-helps-bringclean-drinking-water-thousands-dr-congo and http://www.waterworld.com/articles/2010/11/clean-water-for-congo.html
52 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cg.html
53 http://www.photius.com/rankings/electrification_by_country_2007_2008.html
54 http://www.internationalrivers.org/africa/grand-inga-dam
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energy for every home and business in DR Congo, enough to develop all of Africa and have left
over electricity to export to Europe. It will transform not only the Congo with rural electrification
for the first time so school children can study, so doctors can operate, and so industry can blossom,
but it will also transform the continent from 3rd world status to a modern one. But the Grand Inga
will not be on line for years.
There are clever ideas to place power in every village now. Imagine if we put inexpensively
electric power in rural Congo so Congolese could power cell phones, at least a few in each village.
When bad predators come to cause harm, villagers could call 911, and then if DRC had rapid
reaction forces in helicopters (UN or well-trained Congolese police/army) stationed strategically,
they could immediately respond to stop the attacks and catch the predators and prosecute, like
police do in American cities. Portable Solar technology has become inexpensive and would
dramatically improve the lives of rural Congolese.55 There are other NGOs, like Kopernik, with
realistic plans how to transform the lives of our poorest people in many dramatic ways for little
money.56 This has worked in other developing countries. Surely the government of one of the
richest country on earth (DRC’s $24 trillion) can find the will and the means to enact this
transformation to make Congolese lives better now!
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(19) Gross Domestic Happiness. We Congolese view the purpose of government and rule of law is to
provide for the safety, tranquility and happiness of the maximum numbers of our people, and the
protection of our communities and our country. The specific content of the law will be determined by
what things constitute happiness and the wellbeing for the greatest numbers of our Congolese people.
Our future government will be bound by bringing the maximum number of our Congolese people (the
ultimate rulers of society) to true happiness. Just laws cultivate happiness for the mutual benefit of
society. We Congolese will have village meetings nationwide to collect the best ideas from our people
how best to achieve these goals and intermediate objectives. How can the new Congo government
create an environment to assist its citizens to accomplish their hopes and dreams? The principle goal
that drives us is giving our children and their children better lives that are as good or better than any
country on earth.
Developing our “gross domestic happiness” is perhaps more important than developing our “gross
domestic product.” We Congolese seek happiness encouraged by UN Resolution 65 309,57 and while
defining this will be the subject of contentious debate, a broad consensus unites us around what we fear
--- violence in all forms, death and oppression at the hands of others, including at the hands of our own
government. Our future constitution and statutory laws will create an environment best to protect us
from war, which is characteristic of certain men who have a natural proclivity to hurt others unjustly
when there is no greater power to restrain them. In the Congo there is a saying that human life is worth
no more than a chicken. In the new Congo, all human life will be treated as the most precious resource
in society.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD, founded in 1961, has
helped governments design better policies for better lives for their citizens. More recently, the OECD
has been keenly involved in the debate on measuring human well-being. Based on this experience,
OECD has identified the following 11 topics as essential to human well-being in terms of “material
living conditions” (housing, income, jobs) and “quality of life” (community, education, environment,
governance, health, life satisfaction, safety and work-life balance), and this organization has measured
these items in OECD countries and can be found at the OECD Better Life Index.58 These will guide our
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/25/science/earth/25fossil.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
http://kopernik.info/page/about-us and http://cdkn.org/2012/08/new-south-africa-study-access-to-electricity-for-all-has-minimalimpacts-on-the-climate/
57 http://www.congofreedom.org/UN%20Resolution%2065%20309%20Happiness.pdf
58 http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/#/11111111111
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new government and Congolese society. We Congolese believe that every action that government takes
must be based first on what the people want and what is in the best interest of the maximum number of
Congolese, and secondly what is in the best interest of the nation. This will not be mob rule, because
we understand that pure democratic majority rule can be just as despotic as the dictator of one. We will
not trade the tyranny of the dictator for the tyranny of the mob. Numerous principles will be imbedded
within our new constitution to blunt and thwart the wishes of the majority whenever they threaten
individual rights or the public good. However, our laws will maximize individual liberty and best
ensure the happiness of our people.
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(20) Truth & reconciliation conferences. National and international tensions/politics are one
component that drives the conflict and must be solved, but local problems must be solved too. Truth &
reconciliation conferences, planned for every community, will be the listening ears to understand local
grievances, and these will be consolidated nationally to provide the blueprint for national peace.
*Note, the above list of 20 does not preclude the addition of other society projects to this list.
Dr. George Rupp, scholar and theologian, past president of Rice University and later Columbia University
and now the respected president of the International Rescue Committee since 2002, said: "Unless there is rapid
and bold international investment in strengthening this peace process, all that has been gained in Congo could be
lost. We hope the findings in this report compel the international community to take action. The IRC urges a
diplomatic and humanitarian response in proportion to the magnitude of this crisis. The fighting must come to
an end. The IRC supports and encourages rapid implementation of the peace accords. Regional governments
must end their backing of militia groups, and support the formation of a transitional government. The
international community needs to demand and verify the departure of all foreign troops and insist that armed
groups and militias cease attacks on civilian populations. And it is vital that the mandate and resources of the
UN peacekeeping mission be enhanced to ensure compliance of all parties in the conflict."
http://www.rescue.org/news/conflict-congo-deadliest-world-war-ii-says-irc-3730 (data old but good at the time)
We agree with Dr. Rupp.
After American independence, its first constitution, the Articles of Confederation was debated and
finally ratified in 1781, but it miserably failed to solve the new country’s problems. Continuing crises forced the
confederate states to send delegates to debate its modification in 1787, but during so realized it could not be
repaired to adequately solve problems, so it was discarded, and a new Constitution was drafted and then ratified
by the states in June 1788, and the signing ceremony was September 1788. It and its amendments created the
longest surviving constitutional democratic republic in the history of earth. We liken our DRC situation to this.
Our constitution, laws and institutions are not working in the best interest of Congolese, but does work for the
robber barons just like under Leopold. If we continue on our present path doing the same failed policies that
killed and wounded millions, and ruined our cities and villages, our beloved people and homeland will be totally
destroyed. We can wait no longer. Congolese have to take a stand to put an end to this madness by placing the
country on a good path. We know the real problems in the DRC that must be solved. Thus, because the 2011
DRC elections failed to improve Congolese problems as hoped, Congo Freedom Board of Trustees, and its
allies, adopted a detailed reform agenda.
The Congo solution cannot come from Rwanda or Uganda, or any other hostile country, or from their
agents and militias inside or outside Congo, but must come from Congolese. The Congolese diaspora war
victims and other Congolese in the DRC opposition will never accept the balkanization of eastern Congo,
because if it happened, it would not bring peace and would be a perpetual source of future conflict, like found
else where in the world. It would be like Congolese saying: “I want to give up the wealthy part of my country,
critical to the future building of our country, to hostile smaller weaker countries, because I would rather their
people prosper more than our own people.” This is Congo land and our resources are presently being stolen by
foreign thieves. We do not encourage any talk of “balkanization” of our country. It will not work.
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We are opposed to irrational behavior on the part of all parties. Our “DRC society rebuilding team”
seeks bold and dramatic change to end our country’s nightmare and to prevent it from ever happening again, in
the same way Germany and Japan were reformed after WWII. We seek to make the DRC a fairer true
democratic country. The plan outline offers the best solutions for the DRC offered by no others to date inside or
outside the DRC. Each objective is essential to reach our goal of a peaceful and prosperous DRC. Our
objectives are ambitious, as we are determined to remodel Congo with a specific plan for real and lasting
change. We have authored detailed position papers on many critical objectives, and we are developing others.
Congo Freedom uses the palm tree as a symbol of the alliance of Congolese working to reform the
Democratic Republic of the Congo. Why? Today the palm tree is a symbol of many good things to Congolese
essential to our culture. There are many species of palm around the world,
including coconut and date palms, and fossils of them date back 80 million
years. Palm trees are essential to Congolese, as others around the world, and
one of the most beneficial plants in tropical Democratic Republic of the
Congo.59 In addition to fruit, like coconut, and seeds, some species have an
edible center. The white meat of the palm heart is delicious.
Palm trees are symbolic of employment and necessities of life that they
can provide. From palm one can make baskets, carpets, decorative panels and
hats, for their own use or to sell to merchants. People create handmade objects
by braiding tough fiber that comes from the palm, and use the large leaves and
stem (stipe) of palms as construction material. Raffia palm fibers have many
uses, such as for ropes, sticks, and supporting beams. With the dried leaves, one can make thatched roofs. One
can trim the stipe into boards, make walls and floors of houses. By hollowing out longs strips of stipe, one can
make irrigation pipes. The membrane on the underside of the leaf is taken off to create a long thin fiber which
can be dyed and woven as a textile used to make ropes, string, hats, shoes, brushes, mattresses and decorative
mats. From a palm fruit resin yields dyes, varnishes, and incense. Some palm species possess therapeutic
virtues to aid illness recovery. Raffia palm also provides an important cultural drink. The sap contains sugars, is
collected and fermented over a few days. The raffia wine tends to be sweeter than oil palm wine and both can be
distilled into strong liquors. Palm oil, heart of palm and palm wine are all eaten or drunk in different parts of the
world. Palm oil is commonly used in cooking, food ingredients, and cosmetics. In some countries they shred
palm leaves as a cheap source of food for hoofed animals.
The palm trees are symbolic of a tropical island paradise or an oasis, sunny skies and relaxing vacations.
During ancient Rome, the palm branch was a symbol of triumph and victory, rewarded to games champions, and
used to celebrate success in war. Jews carried palm branches during festivals. Palms appear on the flags and
seals of some countries. The palm has many meanings in both ancient and modern religions. Early Christians
used the palm branch to symbolize the victory of the faithful over enemies of the soul, or celebrating Jesus entry
into Jerusalem. Martyrs were shown holding palms representing the victory of spirit over flesh, and where a
martyr was buried there was a picture of a palm on the tomb. In Judaism, the palm represents peace and plenty.
The palm symbolizes life in Kabbalah teachings. The Prophet Muhammad built his home of palm; the tree
represents rest and hospitality. In ancient Egypt, palm stems represented long life, and their gods often shown
holding a palm stem. To the ancient Assyrians, the palm tree was sacred connecting earth to heaven. In ancient
Greece, the palm tree was a sacred sign of Apollo.
Edmund Burke said: "All the forces of darkness need to succeed is for the people to do nothing.” Or in French: “Les forces des ténèbres
ne peuvent tout réussir que face à l’inaction des hommes de bien.”
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On this hyperlink see this excellent current UK map travel advisor to understand how bad the violence
situation is in DR Congo still to this day https://assets.digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/5436953de5274a1326000011/FCO_355__Democratic_Republic_of_Congo_Travel_Advice_Ed2.pdf and the below map gives the reader a quick picture
too.
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