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and Despots in Haiti dressed-up by the Internationals (Neocolonialists)
as peacemakers and police "cleansing" Haiti of
"bandits, Ezili Danto,
HLLN Haitian
Perspectives, Jan. 2007
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Children's
prison reflects Haiti's woes
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Haitian Nights, Again: Haiti's
Children Suffer More under the Bushes' policies and Colonial
Regime changes by Ezili Dantò
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Blowing
Away the stereotypes: Site
School and student wins top 2006 academic honors in Haiti:
Jean Claude Bien Aime, Laureate of Laureates in the 2006
national exams
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Massacre
in Haiti by Jafrikayiti
(Jean St. Vil)
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Martin
Luther King and the Man on the Road to Cite Soleil : The
cry is always the same "we want to be free" by
Jafrikayiti (Jean St. Vil)
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HLLN
media campaign and campaign denouncing UN occupation and
slaughter of Site Soley civilians, dissenters and UN complicity
in the wholesale incarceration of only political opponents
to the bicentennial coup detat and foreign occupation under
the usual neocolonial masks of "policing/peacekeeping"
and "securing democracy"
Slavery
on the New Plantation, American Torture Chamber: A Report
on Today's Prisons and Jails, Part 1 and Part
2 by Kiilu Nyasha, Guest commentator, The Black
Commentator, Feb. 15, 2007
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Cops:
America's #1 employment agency goes headhunting
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Record
7 million Americans in Justice System
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Dessalines Is Rising!!
Ayisyen:
You Are Not Alone!
Open
Letter to the Little Girl in the Yellow Sunday Dress
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Ezili
Dantò's Response to Stu
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Africa:
In Solidarity with Site Soley by Jacques Depelchin
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Demand A stop to the foreigners violence in Haiti and the Release
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"...These
poor people are being punished because they have the audacity
to hold a huge MIRROR to the face of hypocrites who come to lecture
them about democracy with machine guns in their hands....It
is a KNOWN FACT that the POLICE IS A CORNESTONE OF THE KIDNAPPING
INDUSTRY." Jean (Jafrikayiti) St. Vil speaking
out on the December 22nd Massacre in Site Soley, Dec. 30, 2006
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Africa:
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Tyrants and Despots in Haiti dressed-up by the Internationals (Neocolonialists)
as peacemakers and police cleansing Haiti of "bandits":
The UN Security Council sent
UN troops to Haiti to support a coup d'etat against Haiti's duly
elected government and President Aristide by
Ezili Dantò, HLLN Haitian
Perspectives, Jan. 2007
"They
came here to terrorise the population," said Rose Martel,
a (slum dweller) Site Soley resident, referring to the police
and UN troops. "I don't think they really killed the
bandits, unless they consider all of us as bandits."
(regarding UN assault on Dec. 22, 2006 on Site Soley residents)-
Reuters
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Double standards, racism and imperialism: Haiti, only place
in the world where the main job of soldiers of war from
the UN is to "police" local, city criminals to
get their paycheck and endless UN extensions of that war
check. When will it be acceptable to pay these "proud,
UN warriors" killing Haitians over $70 million per
month, as in Haiti, to come rid LA, NY, Paris, London, Italy,
Germany of its local city gangs? |
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today's world where everyone is being called to globalise
or else in the wake of a system which has relentlessly modernised
itself since the days of industrialised Atlantic slavery,
should we not be proud to have amongst us people who are
saying no to such a call? In these times of addiction to
wealth seeking, is it not admirable to have people, known
and unknown, who are refusing to be seduced by the promises
of a system, the annihilating capacity of which, physical
and spiritual, has reached incomensurable proportions?.."
Africa:
In Solidarity with Site Soley by Jacques Depelchin
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With the 2004 bicentennial coup
d'etat, the Western powers led by Bush-the-son, have re-established
their dominance in Haiti. They have restructure the Haitian police
with (more than 800 of) the former bloody Haitian officers, emptied
the jails of criminals and put uniforms on them and called them
"police."
This foreign-implanted Haitian cadre of "police," along
with their UN guns, have created more chaos, more instability,
more violence and committed more massacres against Haitian citizens
than Haiti has seen since (Bush-the- father's) Cedras coup d'etat
from 1991 to 1994. No! Since the first US Marine occupation of
Haiti (1915-1934). This so-called "new” police and
their paramilitary auziliaries such as Lame Timanchet, are responsible,
since February 2004 for slaughtering
peaceful demonstrators, shooting children, pregnant women, by-standers,
journalists, and poor Haitians resisting the reoccupation, remilitarization
of Haiti - young and old- and forms the
cornerstone for the kidnapping reign of terror, that
gives the UN and the neocolonials-internationals (Canada, US,
France, Vatican) a pretext to maintain their Kosovo-like "protectorate"
or endless "peacemaking" in Haiti. (See the
Ottawa Initiative - on the International's plan for
genocide in Haiti. At this meetings foreign ministers indicated
Haiti's population would be over 20 million in 2019 and that was
a "time bomb" ( white supremacy could, perhaps, not
afford? Therefore had) to "defuse immediately.")
The UN and Internationals, with the complicity of the embedded
mainstream media, are selling themselves to the world as "peacemakers"
and "humanitarians" in Haiti. Yet, Haiti before their
arrival was a more secure place for Haitians in general. The statistics
don't lie.
In 2004, before the coup d’etat, when Haiti was free of
foreign troops and tutelage, Haiti had roughly 3,000 appointed
policemen, half of whom didn't have proper equipment or side arms
to do their job because of the US's embargoes (arms and humanitarian
aid) against Haiti's peoples and their elected government, which
government these Internationals where trying to topple. Yet and
still, even with roughly 3,000 police officers for the entire
nation, the crime rate in Haiti was relatively small.
Today, almost 3 years after the Internationals took over Haiti
by kidnapping its President, imposing Bush regime change with
the Boca Raton regime from Florida, and the continuing coup-d’etat-power-grab
under Preval, Haiti is more corrupt than ever. Foreign aid to
the Boca Raton regime of over $965 million has gone missing and
unaccounted for. Virtually no basic services were working in Haiti
during the Boca Raton regime's two year tenure; literacy center,
health clinics and most schools for the poor stayed closed. And,
over $70 million to the still-in-place-under-Preval-Foreign-Ministry
has also gone unaccounted for. In fact, Haiti in 2005 under the
Neocon’s-Latortue regime was ranked as the most corrupt
country in the World by Transparency International (TI), followed
by Burma and Iraq.
Yet, Haiti now has been thoroughly militarized, with over 9,000
foreign soldiers on its soil, most of its former policemen were
murdered during the foreign-sponsored and orchestrated Bicentennial
coup d'etat in 2004, (3,000) criminals were let out of prison.
Today, the national Penitentiary which has a capacity for only
800 prisoners, has over 2,000 prisoners, most of which have been
in prison for over two years without formal charges or trial.
Yet the criminals that were convicted before the coup d’etat
and let out of prison by the foreign-agents in Haiti, these criminals
and the former Haitian military (also granted ten years back pay
by the Florida regime) are reincorporated in the current so-called
Haitian "police" - which is the former US-supported
bloody Haitian army in "police" mask, retrained by the
UN/Canada/France/US to look after the neocolonial interests of
these foreigners in Haiti. (See, Expose
the Lies and Children's
prison reflects Haiti's woes and Haitian
Nights, Again: Haiti's Children Suffer More under the Bushes'
policies and Colonial Regime changes.)
The US protested a tabulation error in the 2000 Legislative elections
that made no difference as to the election outcomes and actually
brought down the elected government of President Aristide for
this so-called "corruption."
Yet, said US government itself, presided over Haiti for two years
with its proxy Florida regime, and that Boca Raton regime is only
known to Haitians for: its rank unconstitutionality; for promoting
electoral fraud, actually burning ballots and dumping them in
the garbage; for saddling Haiti with gross debts; signing off
Haiti's sovereignty to the UN, World Bank and the IFIs; for illegally
and amorally paying off the bloody Haitian military and those
that brought it to power with ten years back pay for their "time
off" when Haiti had duly elected authorities; for giving
three years tax break to the richest; for cutting the minimum
wage by almost half; for virtually enslaving the Haitian worker;
and, in general, for making the lives of the poor majority in
Haiti much more miserable and intolerable with massive imprisonments
of political opponents, bloody massacres of demonstrators and
other civilians, gross embezzlement, rape, pillage, blatant oppression
and incompetence.
Haiti's majority want their freedom back and foreigners off their
backs and a respect for Haitian right to govern themselves without
the former slaveowners and colonizers reoccupying Haiti through
a UN proxy and through the remobilized, disreputable Haitian military-
now in the internationally-formed mask of “do-gooder police."
The lies being extended about what is happening in Haiti today
while tyrants dress up as “peacekeepers” and “police”
are similar to the way, before the 2004 coup d’etat, the
old Duvalierists where re-imaged with Group 184 as "civil
society" by the Internationals in order to help give a trumped-up
"legitimate" Haitian face and "broad base"
approval to the foreign orchestrated and financed bicentennial
coup d'etat. These lies must be exposed and the Internationals,
UN and new mobilized Haitian death squads operating as "Haitian
police" brought to light and justice. To that end, demands
for an investigation of the UN slaughters in Haiti, of the fleecing
of Haitian assets during the illegal tenure of the Florida regime
and Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s bill H.R. 351, which is
bill that proposes to
establish the Independent Commission on the 2004 Coup D'Etat in
the Republic of Haiti, should be supported.
In 2004 the corporate media’s half-truths, lies and propaganda
about Haiti fostered the environment that made acceptable little
official outrage over the ouster of Haiti’s Constitutional
government. This embedded media had propped-up the fake group
"184 civil society" in Haiti, as legitimate when they
were no more than the same reactionary, Duvalierists, morally
repugnant Haitian elites exploiting Haiti’s masses since
the assassination of Haiti’s founding father.
These same elites, the so-called "ruling class" that
have no class and have never been able to rule Haiti are again
in power in Haiti as the black overseers for the foreign feudal
lords in the US, France and Canada. (See, The legacy of impunity
of one sector-Who
Killed Dessalines? Petion/Gerin- the
Insurgent Generals - under Petion and Boyer's long rule (37yrs),
the name Dessalines was not allowed to be spoken
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/kangamundele.html#impunity
and
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/dessalines.html )
This Group 184/'private sector'/civil society where fake civil
society fronts with no large popular support because even with
the 2004 coup d'etat, with all their political opponents in exile,
dead, in hiding or in prison, even with all the odds on their
side, and all the electronic advantages in their realm and the
UN forces helping to “pacify” their opponents, they
(Manigat/Baker) simply could not garner more than 8% to 12% of
the Haitian vote in the Feb. 7, 2007 election, that brought back
to power, President Rene Preval as a means to show support for
the return of President Jean Bertrand Aristide.
Today with 9,000 UN troops in Haiti and 6,000-plus*
fully-armed Haitians as “police,” (most high ranking
Haitian officers are remobilized soldiers) - Haiti has the GREATEST
crime and official violence rate its ever recorded in its whole
200-years HISTORY. And more daily massacres than its seen since
the first bloody US military occupation of Haiti (1915-1934).
The current “peacekeepers,” just like those US Marines
of old from the first occupation "to secure democracy in
Haiti," keep conducting “operations” to apprehend
"bandits" and “criminals,” they say. That
these "operations" are primarily to silence, simply
execute, Haitian resisters to the foreign occupation is not to
be uttered. (See the Lancet
Report, Harvard
Law School report on the UN in Haiti and The
Small Arms Survey at the Graduate Institute of International Studies
in Geneva, which survey outlines how the rich minority,
not the poor majority calling for the return of President Aristide
("bandits") own most of the weapons and small arms in
Haiti. Most private gun ownership is concentrated in the hands
of Haiti's wealthy bourgeoisie, and the University
of Miami School of Law study.)
Yet, it's a known fact that in Haiti today the kidnapping networks
are run by the very UN-coddled and protected, and Canadian-trained
Haitian "police" and their death squad vigilante militias
and paramilitaries. With Lame Timanchet, which is nothing less
but the newly-formed-by-foreigners'-FRAPH paramilitary running
freely; with Guy Phillip, a known saboteur, assassin, and even
a DEA accused drug-trafficker roaming Haiti and bold enough to
even run for President of Haiti under the Florida regime's reign;
with Louis Jodel Chamblain and Jean Tatoune at large, and high
ranking Haitian military in power positions, it is no surprise
that the wishes of the people of Haiti are effectively countered
and the UN uses the corruption it has strummed in Haiti as a reason
to stay in Haiti "perpetually" to "secure"
things and continue putting a target on Haitian resisters backs
as “bandits,” “kidnappers” and even as
“terrorists” and “human traffickers.”
All, in the effort to discredit Haitians, to minimize Haiti’s
historic feats against the white settlers, enslavers and colonists,
to continue to isolate Haiti’s peoples in order to fleece
the country of its unexploited resources (natural gas, coltran,
iridium, gold mines, underwater treasures), while undermining
the Haitian peoples’ ability to govern themselves and painting
themselves and rewriting history, and reinforcing their own myths
as the “do-gooders” and “civilized” and
democratic white saviors.....
To Haitians, this horrific international crime going on against
a defenseless Haitian population, the most hated and feared folks
in the Caribbean, seems easily covered up and discounted. So-called
“decent folks” simply turn away from the depravity
of the Internationals hidden behind their empty humanistic talk.
Meanwhile, Haitians are facing and experiencing extermination,
humiliation, daily UN terror, rapes and police terror, in addition
to the brutality of a sleuth of opportunistic common criminals
embolden by the chaos, and for some, the harsh economic depravities,
who are presented with the ever-useful and readily accepted fall-guy
to blame - the "Lavalas" and/or "gangs in Site
Soley" scapegoats.
If the Ottawa Initiative is to
be taken seriously, Haiti’s population, that is, Haiti’s
BLACK population must not be allowed to grow, according to the
Ottowa Initiative's white supremacists ideologies and as reiterated
by Canada's
FOCAL group report, and UN consultant and US State
Departnment prodigy, Johanna
Mendelson who takes every opportunity and public conference to
stress how Haiti is "a menace to its neighbors."
(See also, Coincidence
or Intentional? - Is there an International plan to depopulate
and exterminate a large portion of Haiti's population?)
Thus, it is no surprise that no strenuous objections are heard
from these Internationals as their foreign-sponsored UN troops
rape Haitian girls and women on a daily basis, to help perhaps,
create a new class of Haitians? A more “lightened”
and “white” Haitian majority? A culturally confused
Haitian, in the manner of the Sudan rape campaigns by the enslaving
Arabs? (See, 'We
Want to Make a Light Baby'- Arab Militiamen in Sudan Said to Use
Rape as Weapon of Ethnic Cleansing; Sudan:
Rape as a Military Weapon By Eric Reeves,)
Perhaps this apparent international project in Haiti, this diabolical
"Black" cleansing project in Haiti, as expressed by
the Ottowa Initiative and as so-far experienced by Haitians since
the 2004 coup d'etat and the occupation of Haiti, could garner
the successes Argentina had in "whitening" Argentina
by deliberately getting rid of 30% of its Black population more
than a hundred years ago.....
- Stop the genocide in Haiti
Sign Petition demanding UN leave Haiti
UN : MINUSTAH - OUT OF HAITI
SAY NO TO THE HAITIAN GENOCIDE BY THE UN SOLDIERS
SAY NO TO THE HOLOCAUST AGAINST THE HAITIAN PEOPLE!
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stoptheholocaust
- See Expose
the lies
- The
Legacy of Impunity
(The Neocolonialist inciting political instability is the problem.
Haiti is
underdeveloped in crime, corruption, violence, compared to other
nations)
"Political security
is Haiti biggest problem. It is this political instability that
is primarily responsible for the legacy of impunity, endemic poverty
and violence in Haiti. This political instability is due to what
HLLN calls neocolonialism - the diplomatic, military and economic
efforts of the former colonists and enslavers, who with their
black opportunists in Haiti, work feverishly to limit Haitian
independence and sovereignty, binding Haiti to endless foreign
debt, dependency and domination....
- Write your Congressional representatives ask they Support Congresswoman
Barbara Lee's H.R.
351: To establish the Independent Commission on the 2004 Coup
d'Etat in the Republic of Haiti
*Revised from "over 4, 500"-member
police to 6,000-plus) on Feb. 2, 2007 (See, US.
Haiti join to fight gang violence by Pablo Bachelet; some reports
put the figure at 7,000)
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Haitian Nights, Again: Haiti's Children Suffer more under the
Bushes' policies and Colonial Regime Changes by
Ezili Dantò (See, Haitian
Nights, the performance poetry piece)
In 1991 Bush-the-father sponsored a coup d'etat against Haiti's
elected government and more than 7,000 Haitians were slaughtered
by Cedras' army and Toto Constant's FRAPH. Back then I wrote Haitian
Nights, the performance poetry piece.
In an encore performance, Bush-the-son sponsored a second coup
d'etat on February 29, 2004 against President Aristide to complete
his father's unscrupulous initiative, masterfully trading on racist
fears and the image of the US being utterly uninterested in resourceless
Haiti. By heavily trading on its "integrity card" and
skillfully edited half-truths the US sold the gullible but well-programmed
American public on cruel lies about a Black country - that is,
President Aristide's "lost popular support" because
he was a bad and vastly "corrupt" leader whose wilful
neglect of the plight of the Haitian poor led to a "popular
uprising that ousted Aristide." Such lies were par for the
course for a U.S. government that had also sold the public on
the Iraq war with the "weapons-of-mass-destruction"
big lie.
The 2004 coup detat in Haiti was preceded by a media coup d'etat
which portrayed the foreign-supported, McCain/IRI-created-Haitian-oppositon,
as a legitimate and broad-based "civil society" and
not just the same-old-same authotarian Duvalierist/macoute/bourgeois
despotic forces (acting as agent for the neocolonialists) that
the Haitian majority have been struggling to overcome since 1806
and by other skillfully edited half-truths the public were fed
ad nauseam in mainstream newspapers. For instance, the corporate
media would "mistake" the 2000 trumped up charges of
a "contested" parliamentary elections with the 2000
uncontested Presidential election of Aristide and switch them,
so that magically Aristide's 2000 elections was reported by many,
including the powerful New York Times as "flawed" and
"contested." The retractions for the "errors"
where never as prominently displayed as the lies. ( http://www.haitiaction.net/News/NYT.html
; and The
Washington Chimères Reloaded by Ezili Dantò.
)
In essence, newspapers like the New York Times distorted reality,
emboldened Haiti's undemocratic forces at defining moments, encouraging
coup d'etat thugs and kidnappers, and decisively pushed the Bush-State-department-narrative-on-Haiti
by labeling, for instance, the millions President Aristide addressed
during the January 1, 2004 bi-centennial as a "small crowd."
( http://www.haitiaction.net/News/NYT.html.) And when, for instance,
the New York Times finally wrote on an angle outside of the Neocon-narrative,
it simply put all the blame for the 2004 coup d'etat on Haitian
overseer, Stanley Lucas' providing "mixed signals" and
completely ignored his US bosses including Ambassador Foley, Senator
John Mc Cain, Timothy M. Carney, IFEs, USAID and the Haiti Democracy
Projects' other powerful Republican benefactors. (See, Mixed
U.S. Signals Helped Tilt Haiti Toward Chaos By WALT
BOGDANICH and JENNY NORDBERG, New York Times, January 29, 2006).
Back in January, 2005 when "Mixed
U.S. Signals Helped Tilt Haiti Toward Chaos" made
the New York Times front page, I wrote, for HLLN that:
"The New York Times article is a start, it at least gives
a launching point for more interest in the US corrupting role
in Haiti amongst the general world population who customarily
take Times coverage as gospel. However, it is also very misleading,
even racists, in that it merely scapegoats a Haitian, (Stanley
Lucas) working for the State Department, and not the Bush State
Department itself or even IRI chairperson, as the primary culprit
to undermining Haiti's democracy with Bush regime change. This
Haitian-on-Haitian violence line is still used to keep the truth
at bay and make non-blacks, like Dean Curran, heroes. (See
New York Times should apologize to Haitians
for untruths By Ezili Dantò, and New
York Times editorial "No help for Democracy" falls short
by Ezili Dantò )
Thus, from 2004 through to today,
the brutal Western-sponsored Haitian nightmare continues, goes
virtually un-reported. The world doesn't seem to want to know
that under Bush-the-son's Haiti-regime-change, starting with Gerard
Latortue's Boca Raton government held up with UN occupation forces
and the embedded corporate media's indifference and outright support,
Haiti has been turned into a (penal) colony for Haitian children,
for Haiti's people.
In fact, Duvalier's bloody Fort
Dimanche dungeon-of-death
are back in business with a children's prison in Haiti for the
first time in Haitian history. Raoul Cedras, Toto Constant, Guy
Phillip, the Duvaliers and Gerald Latortue, all were thugs and
assassins financed and held up and kept in power in Haiti, over
the protest of the majority of Haitians, by the Western powers
led by the US. This pattern continues today as Andre Apaid's brother
was given charge of the electoral machines presumably for the
Apaid family's successful role in giving a plausible "Haitian-facade"
to Bush regime change in Haiti. Most of the unelected officials,
foreign collaborators and traitorous mindsets who were put in
place by the US-imposed Boca Raton regime in 2004, including its
foreign ministry, are still in place today, either through Apaid-run
parliamentary, municipal and local "elections," or,
are still holdovers without Constitutional confirmation under
the Preval/Alexi government. The Haitian Constitution requires
the President to submit his slate of ambassadorships and diplomats
for parliamentary hearings and confirmation of diplomatic post.
But in view of the great efforts it took for the people of Haiti
to force the coup d'etat forces to declare Preval the rightful
winner of the 2006 Presidential elections, it is no wonder folks
in the know say that the Preval/Alexi government remains mum on
much that touches on the will of the majority of Haitians for
fear of inciting the wrath of Empire, and being labeled "pro-Lavalas,"
that is, pro-Haitian-people, instead-of, "pro-private-sector!"
Nothing is as frightening as the night facing Haiti's children
under this current foreign occupation. When the US marines where
in Haiti back in 1915-34, they practically brought back slavery
with the corvee. Today, under the UN, Duvalier's infamous Fort
Dimanche prison, the "dungeon of death," is back in
business. (See, " Forgive - Do not Forget Fort-Dimanche:
Dungeon of Death by fordi9.com - http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/fortdimanche.html
). Haitians estimate that over 14,000 innocent Haitians have been
slaughtered since the 2004 Bush regime change. There are over
3,000 political prisoners currently incarcerated in Haitian jails
while Haiti is under UN tutelage and the US/France/Canada are
heralding to one and all how Haiti is now much better off than
under the "tyrant" Aristide.
There's so much to say, I never know where to begin. No words
I can write suffices. How can one explain how devastating it is
to know that little 6-year olds, little 8-year old Black Haitian
boys are not free but are "State property" again, and
on Dessalines' land! I don't know what to say.
So I copy below "Open
Letter to the Little Girl in the Yellow Sunday Dress"
written in 2002 and dedicate it to the young Haitian boys warehoused
in Fort Dimanche right this minutes, in UN-occupied Haiti, some
for over two years and not much older than 6-years old. (See,
"Children's
prison reflects Haiti's woes", "Haiti's
Lost Boys," Slavery
on the New Plantation, American Torture Chamber: A Report on Today's
Prisons and Jails, Part 1 and Part
2 by Kiilu Nyasha, Guest commentator, The Black Commentator,
Feb. 15, 2007, Turning
Haiti into a (Penal) Colony: Criminalization of Haiti's Children,
Record
7 million Americans in Justice System;
Cops:
America's #1 employment agency goes headhunting,
and Africa:
In Solidarity with Site Soley by Jacques Depelchin.)
In its entire 200-year history, Haiti never had a child prison
until Bush-the-Lesser's 2004 regime change. And, not satisfied
with the US's centuries of death and containment-in-poverty policies,
fatigued at the constant rebellion against their brutal tyranny,
now the white domination attempts to silence the men of Haiti
by warehousing them early, at practically infancy, criminalizing
poverty, so that when the predator mindset is firmly inculcated
in these boys of Haiti, then who will object to containing such
lifelong criminals behind bars? "Bandits," and "terrorists"
may "morally" be indefinitely detained in prisons and/or
summarily executed, exterminated by the UN-"law-and-order"-forces
or the Haitian faces of neocolonialism. I mean everyone is against
crime, right?
What's critical to recall and tell to all is that Haiti did not
have a prison-for-profit culture, nor a kidnapping-for-profit
epidemic combined with a system of indefinite detention without
a hearing or trial, until the US/Canada/France brought it to Haiti
from 2004 to now. (See, Slavery
on the New Plantation, American Torture Chamber: A Report on Today's
Prisons and Jails, Part 2 of 2 by Kiilu Nyasha, Guest
commentator, The Black Commentator, Feb. 15, 2007 ; "...From
1995 to 2003, inmates in (U.S.) federal prison for drug offenses
have accounted for 49 percent of total prison population growth..."
Record
7 million Americans in Justice System
)
The game is old. And Haitians are not neophytes at it. The schemes
and the perfidy of tyrants, despots and sadists, who dress themselves
up as "peacemakers," "abolitionists" or "humanitarians"
are as old to us as the Triangular trade they kept up.
Back in 2002 when "Open
Letter to the Little Girl in the Yellow sunday Dress"
was written, it struck a deep chord and Haitians throughout the
Diaspora and in Haiti wrote to thank Ezili Dantò and to
say how well it reflected their general sentiments.
Nothing is as frightening as the fury of US empire builders intent
on corralling all the world's wealth, resources and power and
blaming their victims as the "thugs," "bandits,"
"terrorists," "criminals," and sociopaths
that they themselves have no peer at emulating or in originating.
The thing is, it's all been written and said (See also the references
below). Yet the world refuses to change for the better. Officialdom
has convinced the public that their projected fears are real.
That the victims of Empires' brutality are the real sociopaths
not the three-piece-suited neocolonialists and their agents. Not
many want to rise above these lies because it's not comfortable
living outside the box and having to face the unremitting wrath
and inhumanity of Empire.
The truth is harsh and uncomfortable. Not many want to understand
or even imagine why the immensely privileged - the richest country
in the world - would attack, wage total clandestine war on one
of the poorest countries in the world. It is well nigh impossible
to rationalized how the world superpowers could be so calculatingly
cruel, so unbearably malevolent, so revoltingly spiteful as to
carry forth two coup d'etats against the first popularly and democratically
elected Haitian President of impoverished Haiti. I mean the US
is rich, virtuous, genuine and honorable, right? Not cold-bloodedly
conniving, arbitrary, manipulative and vengeful, right? That is
what all "educated folks" know, are told by our good
schools, right?
I've been trying to locate this
quote from CLR James where he says the systemic and horrid cruelties
of the privilege far, far surpass those brief moments of rage
of their victims. (The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James). The point
though is fairly indisputable in the history of Haiti/US-Euro
relations.
The US-Euro governments and neocolonial powers have dished out
unremitting
terror and inhumanity throughout the globe in their quest for
geopolitical and economic domination. To that end, poverty
has been criminalized, the addict victims of the drug trade criminalized
and, in the US alone, a record 7 million people are in the justice
system-- one in every 32 American adults -- were behind bars,
on probation or on parole by the end of 2006, according to the
Justice Department. From 1995 to 2003, inmates in (U.S.) federal
prison for drug offenses have accounted for 49
percent of total prison population growth." (See,
Slavery
on the New Plantation, American Torture Chamber: A Report on Today's
Prisons and Jails, Part 2 of 2 by Kiilu Nyasha, Guest
commentator, The Black Commentator, Feb. 15, 2007; Record
7 million Americans in Justice System)
.
The US' "war on drugs" is more aptly described as the
war against young Black U.S. males.
The Bushes', father and son, have helped turn Haiti back into
a (penal) colony with two coup d'etats against President Aristide
and a Kosovo-like UN protectorate or endless "peacekeeping."
(See, Larry
Rosin, Head of UN Kosovo Protectorate Moves to Haiti - Veye Yo
by Ezili Dantò). The US has done as it does to Black folks
in the US: criminalized Haiti's children and incarcerated dissent
by criminalizing the dissenters and victims of Imperialism's neoliberal
death-and-destruction economic policies. So the people of Site
Soley suffer, die mercilessly. Haiti's small children suffer,
are now placed in dank prisons early to feed the prison-culture
the Westerners want to inculcate into Haiti in order to keep Haiti
contained-in-poverty while giving US "reform" contractors
another easy permanent income stream, just as the prison-culture
in the US provides for corporate America and bankrupt white towns
in U.S. hinterlands.
There's no mainstream journalistic "exposè" centering
on the U.S. governments' crime-against-humanity being perpetrated
in Haiti, its peoples. None. So I write, from this Haitian body
and soul, to witness and engraft their despotism even though it's
almost intolerable to have to continually dissect how the Haitian
people are evidently deemed, by these-powers-that-be, as worthless
and disposable; how we are the most hated of peoples in the Western
Hemisphere because of Dessalines' revolutionary legacy, because
we won't quietly allow for our re-enslavement and re-colonization.
Still, for Haitians, there's nothing to do but live free or die.
So we fight on, from
one generation to the other, leaving behind a legacy
that will someday- when the history of humankind is duly recorded
- outshine the repulsive legacies being written today in action
and inaction by the New York Times' "journalists", the
Bushes' "humanitarian" crusaders and their ilk.
Pointing out the manipulative, blood curdling death-policies of
the U.S. government in Haiti, the disinformation of its mainstream
media or the dependency policies of both the Left and Right-angled
and self-described "humanitarian" foreigners involved
in Haiti, is not too clever or healthy since it opens one up to
the stresses, alienations and dangers of being labeled "anti-American"
or worst, "anti-white." I touch on part of this in the
last sentences of Open
Letter to the Little Girl in the Yellow Sunday Dress when
I wrote: "...Be smarter than me. Don't let them see. Smile.
Be who you are without wanting to set them to the fires they lay
you in, eternally. Don't hit your head against Satan's iron will
little Haitian girl. Let me."
In the world we inhabit, CNN reporters, US ambassadors and their
cuddled Black overseers herald known thugs, assassins and human
rights abusers in Haiti as "freedom fighters" - remember
how Wolf Blitzer characterized Guy Philippe on TV as he was murdering
innocent Haitians in 2004, or how Latortue and Ambassador Foley
called the coup detat commandos "freedom fighters."
That's just simply the way of the US drones who are merely doing
what's necessary to keep their jobs. Ours, is to make a way out
of no way and set our little children, our people free.
(To read a sample of some of the reactions to Ezili Dantò's
"Open
Letter to the Little Girl in the Yellow sunday Dress"
and Ezili Dantò's "Response to Stu", click on:
http://winterludes.net/talk/139.html.
The "Response
to Stu"
from WindowsonHaiti
Readers reactions to the Poem is also copied below.)
Marguerite 'Ezili Dantò'
Laurent
Chair and Founder, Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN)
March, 2007
Reference
Notes:
Haitian
Nights,
the performance poetry piece
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/writings/Haitiannights.html
Turning Haiti into a (Penal) Colony:
Criminalization of Haiti's Children
The systemic criminalization of black males in Haiti by the Haiti's
US-imposed Miami government parallels U.S. habits
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/damocles.html
Slavery
on the New Plantation, American Torture Chamber: A Report on Today's
Prisons and Jails, Part 2 of 2 by Kiilu Nyasha, Guest
commentator, The Black Commentator, Feb. 15, 2007
"...From 1995 to 2003, inmates in (U.S.) federal prison for
drug offenses have accounted for 49 percent of total prison population
growth..." Record
7 million Americans in Justice System
Cops:
America's #1 employment agency goes headhunting
By Jane Stillwater http://blogspot.com
Tyrants
and Despots in Haiti dressed-up by the Internationals (Neocolonialists)
as peacemakers and police cleansing Haiti of "terrorists"
and "bandits": The UN Security Council sent
UN troops to Haiti to support a coup d'etat against Haiti's duly
elected government| http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/despots.html#despots
Children's
prison reflects Haiti's woes
By Manuel Roig-Franzia | The Washington Post, March 8, 2007
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/despots.html#children
The
Crucifixion of Emmanuel "Dread" Wilme by U.N. Troops:
A historical
perspective by Marguerite Laurent| Haitian perspective
| April 21, 2005
The
Legacy of Impunity: The Neoconlonialist inciting political instability
is
the problem. Haiti is underdeveloped in crime, corruption, violence,
compared
to other nations
by Marguerite Laurent, Haitian Perspectives, October 30, 2006
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/impunity.html
Expose The Lies
Of The International Community About Haiti, its People and
Resources. Demand The International Coup Detat Countries (France/US/Canada)
and enforcers (UN/OAS) not President Rene Preval, Set all the
political prisoners free, end the UN military occupation, began
a Humanitarian and true civil exchange with Haiti; And Return
Stolen Haitian Assets
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/expose.html
Dessalines
Is Rising!!
Ayisyen: You Are Not Alone!
Join HLLN's Free Haiti Movement. Plan on sponsoring a May 18,
Aug. 14,
July 6 and/or Oct 17th Haiti event in 2007
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/solidarityday/infoforsponsors.html
Ezili
Dantò's comments on the Peter Hallward's interviews of
Ben Dupuy and
President Aristide
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/dupuy.html#tootolerant
Answers
to media questions about Haiti by Marguerite Laurent,
Esq.
Chair, The Haitian Lawyers Leadership, March 2, 2004
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/sfbayview.html
Shocking Lancet Study: 8,000 Murders, 35,000 Rapes and Sexual
Assaults in Haiti During U.S.-Backed Coup Regime After Aristide
Ouster
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/31/144231
We
Will Fight From One Generation to the Next: Remembering Genevieve
'Kòkòt' Laguerre, her living legacy, Remembering
a proud Haitian Continuum | Sept. 9, 2006
Haitians must look outwards together!
Define the current pressing issues of Haiti for ourselves
by Ezili Danto
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/kokot.html#outwards
Open
Letter to the Little Girl in the Yellow Sunday Dress
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/writings/littlegirl.html
Ezili
Dantò's Response to Stu
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/despots.html#stu
Larry
Rosin, Head of UN Kosovo Protectorate Moves to Haiti - Veye Yo"
by Ezili Dantò |http://haitiforever.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=14292&sid=
601ad46a20b62d8a5385b6f1453594bd#14292
Mixed
U.S. Signals Helped Tilt Haiti Toward Chaos By WALT
BOGDANICH and JENNY NORDBERG, New York Times, January 29, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/international/americas/
29haiti.html?ex=1296190800&en=803d683287507b6f&ei=5089New
New
York Times should apologize to Haitians for untruths
By Ezili Dantò
http://haitiforever.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=13593&sid=
601ad46a20b62d8a5385b6f1453594bd#13593
New
York Times editorial "No help for Democracy" falls short
by Ezili Dantò, February 3, 2006 http://haitiforever.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=
13664&sid=601ad46a20b62d8a5385b6f1453594bd#13664
What
White People Feed on is not so eye opening, just typically parasitic,
fearful, self-serving, narcissistic and delusional: Ezili Dantò
Responding to two racest articles on Haiti
Hochschild's
Neo-Colonial Journalism. Response to Adam Hochschild article in
SF Chronicle by Marguerite Laurent, May 30, 2004
http://www.ishmaelreedpub.com/june_2004/art_6_04_laurent.htm
Napoleon
was no Toussaint: Spare us the insult! by Jean Saint-Vil (Jafrikayiti)
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/dupuy.html#spareus
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Africa:
In Solidarity with Site Soley by Jacques Depelchin
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Children's prison reflects Haiti's
woes
By Manuel Roig-Franzia | The Washington Post, March 8, 2007
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – In a small, walled courtyard ringed
by coiled razor wire, a scrappy little boy punched and kicked at
the humid air.
Mackenzy Sonson strutted one moment, cowered the next. Acted like
a big man, then slipped into baby talk.
"I'm not tough," he said on a recent afternoon. Then he
smacked a kid twice his size.
Mackenzy, better known as "Little Baron," lives in Cell
C-4, back wall, bottom bunk, at Fort Dimanche prison in Port-au-Prince.
Cellmates dubbed him Baron because his dark black skin reminds them
of Baron Samedi, the Vodou spirit who is believed to guard passage
to the underworld.
This place where Little Baron is growing up, where he discovered
Donald Duck cartoons and is learning to read, is a gallery of Haiti's
woes. The boys at Fort Dimanche are the products of poverty, abandonment,
homelessness and an educational system that has failed to enroll
1 million school-age children.
Hardly any of the 120 boys at Fort Dimanche know when they will
be released. Some were undoubtedly recruited to be child soldiers
in gangs that lured them with food and shelter in return for help
in kidnappings and robberies. Others are imprisoned for years for
minor crimes or are innocents nabbed in neighborhood sweeps by a
notoriously corrupt police force, children's advocates say.
"This is where you see the total failure of the justice system,"
said Maryse Penette-Kedar, head of PRODEV, a foundation that is
trying to improve conditions in the children's jail. "I | |