1. Why did the Bush administration consider the removal of Aristide to be a U.S. national interest?

Aristide had eliminated the Haitian army, which traditionally protected the interests of the right wing business elites in Haiti. Their interests are U.S. big business interests. Also, Aristide refused to fully implement Washington's neo-liberal economic policies when he returned to Haiti in 1994. Also, Haiti's cheap labor force, whether actually used or not, can be used as a threat - as leverage - against other labor forces. When the Chinese or Koreans unionize, then all you need is the threat to move to cheaper labor in Haiti to put their demands in check and save millions of dollars. President Aristide had raised, more than doubled the minimum wage in Haiti, not once but twice. The first time in 1995 he raised it from 18 gourdes to 36 gourdes per day for an 8-hour day. And, in 2003 he again doubled the minimum wage from 36 to 70 gourdes (or about $1.60) a day, despite the strong disapproval of Haiti’s business elites and their US contractors. Because of inflation, the $1.60 a day, was lower than what the minimum wage had been 10 years earlier.

Ezili's Note, 2005: Paying Haitians a paltry (70 gourds) - $1.60 (depending on exchange rates) for an 8-hour day was deemed too much by these repugnant international business folks in Haiti. So, under the pretext that they had the best interests of the Haitian poor at heart and that Aristide was a vile dictator responsible for massive Haitian murders and international crimes, sweatshop kingpin and US citizen Andre Apaid, Jr (Group 184), and other such US-protected business elites in Haiti, gathered together with the Bush-the-Junior's Neocons (with the complicity of the international corporate barons who now own the mainstream media and major "news" outlets) to ouster the Aristide/Neptune government and then imposed their own Boca Raton Prime Minister from Florida. Some of the first acts of this imposed Bush Haiti regime in 2004 were aimed at decimating Haiti's reforms made under President Aristide and implementing a neoliberal economic, otherwise known to Haitians as the "death plan." Under the cover and back-up of thousands of UN guns - who acted as the military proxies for the Washington ruling elites and to disguise the colonial invasions there soley to legitimize the 2004 Bi-centennial coup d’etat in Haiti - Bush's Haiti regime immediately imprisoned, forced into exile or slaughtered all the Lavalas supporters in sight, gave three years tax break to Haiti's business class, dropped the Haitian demand that France pay the $22billion Independence Debt it extorted from the Haitian people at gun point, cut the minimum wage in half, gave ten years back pay to the Haitian army soldiers demobilized by President Aristide back in 1995, signed Haiti to endless new IFM/World bank debts; proceeded to fleece Haiti of its gold mines, uranium, copper, emeralds, gas reserves, its iridium, underwater treasures, et al and to set in motion the wheel for such continued massive "privatization" of Haiti's remaining state enterprises and country's assets.

2. In your opinion, what was the involvement of the United States in the removal of Aristide? (Possibly discuss how the U.S. withheld humanitarian funds and why, etc.)

The U.S. financed the first 1991-1994 coup d'ètat against Aristide. They returned him after three years to stem the flow of Haitian refugees landing in Florida, and incarcerated in the offshore U.S. penal colony known as Guantanamo Bay.

The U.S. continued their destabilization campaign against the Haitian peoples' struggle towards development by forcing Aristide, as a condition of return, to give asylum to the coup leaders and integrate high FADH and FRAPH officials back into the new civilian police. These corrupt people led to more corruption and made it even more unwieldy for Aristide to clean up past corruption or develop a Haitian justice apparatus to crack down on corruption and bring people to justice.

Then the U.S. promptly began to try to turn the new innocent police recruits against Aristide. The U.S. rep running the center quit because of the interference. The U.S. did not want eliminated the old Haitian army it held under its thumb to do its bidding.

Guy Philippe, for instance, trained by the U.S. Special Forces in 1994 in Equador, was put in, by Aristide, as chief of police of the North at U.S. insistence. Guy Philippe later led three coup attempts. The first one against the Preval administration and two, one in 2000 and the other in 2001, against Aristide. Many people died. The U.S. is also implicated in these previous Guy Philippe attempts.

The fact that Guy Philippe could not have freely entered Port-au-Prince in February, 2004, despite the opposition, without the U.S. Marines first removing Aristide is testament to Aristide's popularity and solidarity with the Haitian people.

The U.S. conducted the coup d'ètat against Aristide on Feb. 29, 2004, themselves. Louis Jodel Chamblain and Jean Tatoune, both of FRAPH, and part of what CNN calls a "rebel force," are convicted of massacres during the first (1991-1994) CIA-sponsored coup d'ètat against President Aristide. The U.S. played a pivotal role in helping Louis Jodel Chamblain flee Haiti and get asylum in the Dominican Republic. All three - Chamblain, Tatoune and Guy Philippe - are CIA assets who refused, like Toto Constant, to be subject to Haitian criminal laws and its courts of justice and got away with this because of their U.S. intelligence and diplomatic connections.

Nine hundred (900) U.S. soldiers patrol the Dominican Republic with the Dominican Guard. Yet, on Feb. 5, 2004, convicted murderers Chamblain and Philippe managed to cross the border into Haiti with U.S. weaponry such as M16s, M60s, armored vehicles, grenade launchers, etc.

The United States DEA charged Guy Philippe as a drug trafficker. Today he walks side by side with U.S. Marines in Port-au-Prince while the constitutionally elected Haitian president is flown out of Port-au-Prince under heavy U.S. coercion, if not outright gunpoint by U.S Marines.

Toto Constant, FRAPH founder, to whom the U.S. gave asylum in Queens, N.Y., while indefinitely detaining his Haitian victims on Guantanamo Bay and other INS holding pens, is now reportedly back in Haiti.*(See update, Aug. 2007)

Guy Philippe and his gang's first order of business after they were escorted into Port-au-Prince by U.S. soldiers was to "liberate" 2,000 prisoners - murderers and felons - in the Haitian National Penitentiary, including Proper Avril, and unleash them onto Haitian society.

Today, the disinformation about Aristide's lack of popularity and lies about Haiti being more corrupt under Aristide/Preval/Aristide then under the old Duvalierist guard, which is now back, is fairly visible, and in graphic, bloody technicolor. But it's too late. All the small successes of Haitian democracy since 1990 have been trashed in one fell Feb. 29, 2004, U.S. coup d'ètat swoop.

Aristide built more schools in Haiti during his term than had been built in the entirety of Haiti's history under the old guard. Now that old guard is retaking power thanks to 10 years of U.S. destabilization, then outright coup d'ètat. They could not have won without the Feb. 29 shock and awe, dead-of-night campaign, against Aristide and his innocent wife.

Who is keeping the marginal flame and movement towards structural peace alive now in Haiti? Aristide eliminated the old army, helped bring illiteracy from 85 percent down to 48 percent, improved the health system, built public parks, started to decentralize power by establishing local governance through town meetings and local town governance, more so than any of the old guard for the almost 200 years it was in charge.

This done despite the U.S. embargo, obstructions and extortion, which forced Aristide to pay the IMF/World Bank $30 million in loan interest due from old dictatorship governments. Loans that were never requested back from the Duvaliers, who are now in golden parachute retirement on the Riviera, or Raoul Cedras, now in Panama, or Guy Philippe, the real beneficiaries of U.S. aid in Haiti. In addition, the old army was not demilitarized and was shadowing Aristide's every move.

The Haitian people's daily struggles were made even harder by the U.S. financing of opposition groups to Aristide who relentlessly challenged his legitimacy and exercised, with the help of the IRI, USAID, NED, the U.S. Embassy, OAS and the European Union, a virtual de facto veto of any legitimate Haitian government policies, plans and reforms.

Most notably, they blocked every effort to hold parliamentary elections, even though this tiny opposition, according to COHA and U.S.'s own polling, make up less than 4 percent of the Haitian electorate.

Despite all this, President Aristide was able to keep his popular support, so his opponents simultaneously ran a media disinformation campaign fabricating that Aristide had lost popular support and that those who supported him where "thugs." That is equivalent to saying that a little less than 8.5 million Black people are thugs.

The Haitian people have been brutalized, beaten and devastated by U.S. power for a century, beginning in 1914 when the U.S took over from the French, by "helping" to refinance "for Haiti" the 1825 French indemnity, and then invaded Haiti for missing payments to protect U.S. bank interests, fleecing dry the Haitian national gold reserves. France, of course, is helping the U.S. to depose Aristide because he has requested their repayment of $22 billion.

3. What type of relationship do you believe exists between the Democratic Platform and the rebel army?

There is nothing "democratic" about the old guard. They are oppressors, who practice social exclusion and apartheid akin to the KKK. They simply refused to be subject to paying taxes or put under any Haitian law. Group 184 was created in a meeting in the Dominican Republic, which gives shelter, arms and training camps to ex-Haitian soldiers and FRAPH murderers. Guy Philippe has said publicly, the Haitian business elite financially supports him.

4. How involved do you believe Aristide was in the various pro-Aristide groups that used violence against Haitian opposition groups, such as the chimeres, etc.?

Haiti was not demilitarized when Aristide returned in 1994. Old enemies of the people were allowed to keep their guns and have a space in Aristide's government. It was impossible then for Aristide to tell certain Lavalas opportunists to put down their guns when FRAPH/FADH were still armed. Then, the jostling for turf just went underground but was nonetheless alive and well.

Aristide tried to negotiate some of these people out of Haiti and some into harmless position. The corruption continued. Besides, corruption was endemic before Aristide took over leadership.

No democracy in the world does not have corruption in it - as we well know in the U.S. But Aristide's problems where exacerbated, since the Haitian people didn't have a justice system capable of holding powerful or monied prisoners.

Amiot Metayer, for instance, a Lavalas hero, was eventually put in jail. But he broke out and resented the punishment and turned, joining Jean Tatoune, convicted of a massacre in Amiot Metayer's own Gonaive and further complicated the government's crackdown. Butler and Amiot Metayer were always playing off both sides and were simply mercenaries.

Aristide cannot be blamed for people's criminal predilections. For no one who is a real revolutionary for Haitian justice and empowerment would EVER throw their lot in with murderers like Guy Philippe, Jean Tatoune, Louis Jodel Chamblain, or the old Duvalierist guards. Period, no question marks.

All this slaughtering happening in Haiti today could have been prevented if the U.S. had really wanted to help democracy back in 1994 and given the Haitian people the police help President Aristide asked for to demilitarize the whole of Haiti, and if the U.S. had just supported, or simply had not obstructed the constitutionally elected president and Haitian governments. Now the old guard with the U.S. guns has won the fight that's always been going on.

The people are back in hiding. Democracy is dead in Haiti, flown out when the U.S. took away Haiti's peacekeeper. To date, President Aristide has survived 14 assassination attempts. Today, because of U.S./Euro control in Haiti with their FRAPH/FAHD enforcers and because of their neo-colonialist, pre-emptive regime-change policymakers and diplomats throughout the world, President Aristide's safety as well as the safety of the majority of Haitian people, both in the U.S. and in Haiti, are right now in serious jeopardy.

Email Marguerite Laurent at erzilidanto@aol.com.
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*Ezili Dantò's August 2007 note: Media Lies and the Real Haiti News,August 12, 2007

These media lies, "...it's that old ripped yarn, spinning played out stories in different colors when not flying on Coast Guard boats sailing our ancestor's tear-filled sound waves..."Red, Black & Moonlight - Carnegie Hall performance clip

From the beginning of the 2004 foreign intervention in Haiti to the UN occupation under the Preval/Alexis government, Ezili's Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network ("HLLN") has given an international voice to the Haitian struggle that was not on the terrain before, debunking the stereotype and view of Haiti as a place doomed by Vodun and cyclical patterns of political instability initiated by violent and corrupt Haitians.

We have shown how simplistic, racist, misleading and terrorizing the cliches ingrained in people's minds when they think of Haiti are. We have shown, over and over again, that Haiti, a Black country existing within a hostile and racist American Mediterranean is poor because it is deliberately made so and kept contained in poverty by the US-Euro powers who initiate, finance and maintain civil unrest, injustice, corruption, chaos and political instability in Haiti in order for their economic hit men, defense cartels, fraternity of corporate, government, and banking heads and various "donors" to make quick riches restoring order and incessantly "saving Haiti." (Debt Breeds Dependency Equals Foreign & Corporate Domination by Marguerite Laurent, January 4, 2005
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/payingthugs.html ; Haitian Nights, Again; Tyrants and Despots dressed up as "peacemakers," and "police" cleansing Haiti of "Bandits" http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/despots.html#despots ).

An array of self-serving, white-world international organizations, foreign diplomats, neocolonial journalists, institutionalized NGOs, governmental leeches ("experts") and poverty pimps, services this bloody industry built on Haitian life, death and unbearable suffering - pontificating on Haiti's "problem," producing self-aggrandizing neocolonial "news" articles, crazy summaries of events in Haiti, patriarchic UN/OAS resolutions, foreign policy and "aid packages" that cyclically reproduces Haiti's dependency-for-profit, negative stereotypes, civil unrest, injustice, poverty, corruption, and political instability.

The sum effect of these international interventions and organizations, their point of convergence, trap Haitian life, death and existence to always service the white superiority persona, white profit, godly image and US-Euro hegemony.

The U.S./Euros, their corporatocracy, economic hit men, U.N./OAS proxies, their Haitian minions and death squads (trained by U.S. intelligence or at the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia), are, and have been, the main purveyors of Haiti's poverty, dictatorship, injustices, instability and insecurity. (Legacy of Impunity: The Neoconlonialist inciting political instability is the problem. Haiti is underdeveloped in crime, corruption, violence, compared to other nations).

Yet, whenever Haitians speak out about the racism and colonial blueprint in Haiti or, if the mainstream medias do finally mention the context of the institutionalized underdevelopment of Haiti, there is never any white world self-examination of the criminal role of any U.S./Euro key policymakers, because, as usual the topic is quickly switched to black-on-black crime (the "troubled" Haitians) and the ever ubiquitous and virulent of overstatements, for instance, that "it's not an issue of white people versus black people," - "the U.S. is not full of hatred for what Haiti stands for, not inherently racist, that's past history. There's just been some "mixed signals," "isolated incidents" and "mistakes." (See, Mixed U.S. Signals Helped Tilt Haiti Toward Chaos).

This cop-out deflects and diminishes the real issue of U.S./Euro institutionalized inadequacies, while simultaneously paralyzing most institutionalized, in-the-beltway-Black-"leaders" and black professionals with embarrassment, instead of a commitment to address the deliberately-planned-with-malice-aforethought, institutionalized white violence against Haiti and Haitians from the white world's powers, their poverty-pimp-cottage-industries, and numerous human rights "experts on the Haitian problem" (from both the "liberal" and conservative political spectrums), perpetuating the manipulated images of Haiti, the dependency, racism and advising on more governing and policing for the Black- "troubled"-Haitian majority, preferably white-controlled governing and policing.

They say the truth will set you free. But Haitians have been writing and speaking truth-to-power and detailing the white world's malevolence towards Haiti for centuries. Only General Jean Jacques Dessalines' military prowess once dented the white world's denials. Most whites will still straight up maintain that there's no continuing U.S./Euro patterns of invasions and occupations in Haiti combined with a projection of a false-innocence and pure persona for white folks and a projection of all blame and abhorrent behaviors conveniently imposed on the Haitians and Dessalines' accomplishments.

Militarily and economically defenseless and media-voiceless Haitians are convenient scapegoats and easy prey for these tyrants and bullies. Haitians are dehumanized and Haiti is browbeaten, terrorized and contained in misery - suffering coup after U.S./Euro-organized coups and civil unrest - in order that the white nations may appease their own vain and feeble need to prove superiority and hide the inadequacies (genocide, greed, slavery, exclusion, crimes-against-humanity-and-the-natural-environment) upon which most of their life and cultures are founded on.

HAITIANS REJECT NEOCOLONIALISM

The people of Haiti are fighting against formidable odds, as all around them in the Caribbean exist only U.S. or Euro colonies, client states and territories, also hostile to Haiti's Afrocentricity and refusal to be quietly re-colonized.

The tiny nation of Haiti has valiantly struggled, for over two centuries, for its sovereignty, its own language, Vodun sacred values and most importantly to not end up a colonial enterprise, like the Dominican Republic and as the rest of the Caribbean islands where mostly Eurocentric-black overseers manage their Black and brown populations for the benefit of the white superpower nations. And where the Island peoples are set off as props in their own homeland - maids, butlers, prostitutes, gardeners, entertainers and housekeepers - servicing the foreign-owned white tourist industry while their masses live in abject poverty and total deprivation; their island resources exported to feed and further enrich said same foreign white countries as in the times of slavery.

Ezili's HLLN gives voice and visibility to Haiti as a place for Dessalines and his rejection of neocolonialism and a place for Ezili Dantò, the irreducible essence of the African/Haitian warrior mother, that rarely was part of the international conversation on Haiti.

"Because of the Western narrative about Haiti, Haitians are the most persecuted human beings in the entire Western Hemisphere, bar none." (See, The Western vs Real Narrative on Haiti; Haiti, We're Sorry, and Africa: In Solidarity with Site Soley, Haiti.)

So, our intent is to counter the media's neocolonial journalism on Haiti, its myths, cliches, traditional bias and opportunistic American narrative on Haiti. That is, their projection of racist stereotypes onto Haiti to serve the hero or savior myth that upholds white privilege.

Fact is, the mainstream medias are constantly suturing together the flag that Dessalines ripped in two.

Their take is older than 1804's media stereotypes on Haiti. (See, "...it's that old ripped yarn, spinning played out stories in different colors when not flying on Coast Guard boats sailing our ancestor's tear-filled sound waves...")

Ezili's HLLN attempts to give another voice to Haiti, tell how the media uses the good public's trust to put over the scams of the U.S. State Department in Haiti - that Haiti's civil unrest is originated by Haitians alone with no official white world instigators' meddling.

Through writings, campaigns, the Ezili Dantò Witness Project and Listserve, HLLN has shown how their manipulation of the facts of Haiti-U.S. relationship continually and fraudulently perpetrates and promotes the idea that it's all about the black-on-black crime pattern in Haiti defined by the West as the troubled, “fighting Haitians,” who can’t get along, can't rule themselves, and who are inferior and incompetent blacks.

This vain and self-serving colonial blueprint promotes white privilege and racism by failing to point to the imperialist hand in Haiti’s destabilization - the imperialist hand that armed death squads; promoted impasse; financed and carried out the 2004 foreign intervention/coup d’etat; and, the US/Euros criminal role in burdening the Haitian nation in debt, dependency and foreign domination to maintain a perpetually underdeveloped Haiti. Their criminal role in making it impossible for any authentically sanctioned Haitian leader, not into massively PRIVATIZING Haiti for the US-Euro global elites, to make a go at eradicating the misery of the masses. (Matters to be Investigated).


THE MOST AWESOME OF UNTOLD MACHIEVELLIAN DRAMAS BEING PLAYED OUT ON PLANET EARTH

"With the 2004 bicentennial coup d'etat, the Western powers, led by Bush-the-son, have re-established their dominance in Haiti. They have restructured the Haitian police with (more than 800 of) the former bloody Haitian military, emptied the jails of criminals and put uniforms on them and called them "police." Then, extra-constitutionally appointed, through their imposed Latortue/Boca Raton regime, new Supreme Court justices, police chiefs and court functionaries beholden to the foreign business interests that gave them their jobs.

Now, with President Preval rendered a mere puppet leader under the weight of 9,000 U.N. troops occupying Haiti and this foreign restructured Haitian police, the Internationals (US/UN/Canada/France and their extra-constitutional Haitian police force, technocrats and justice appointees) are the ones busy eradicating corruption and injustice in Haiti, in the police, and in the Haitian judiciary to the tune of billions in "peacekeeping" and billions in "aid" debts and loans, all, piled on the heads of the objecting but defenseless Haitian masses! This bloody US/Euro profit industry, built on unbearable Haitian pain, is the most awesome of untold Machiavellian dramas being played out on planet earth.

ANSWERING TO MEDIA QUESTIONS ABOUT HAITI

HLLN first laid out the reasons for the white world's disenfranchisement of the Haitian people in 2004, in an article entitled "Answers to media questions about Haiti,"written the day after the 2004 foreign intervention in Haiti. This was in response to questions from independent media outlets the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network ("HLLN") fielded.

In that article we indicated that Emmanuel "Toto" Constant, a known CIA asset and head of the FRAPH death squad, may possibly already be in Haiti doing his masters' biddings.

FRAPH was created by US operatives during the first Bush coup detat against Haitian democracy in 1991 to eradicate political opponents to the Bush military regime in Haiti that oustered President Aristide the first time. (See, Bush Blockhead By John Maxwell, July 2006; Prime Minister Yvon Neptune's explosive and condemning August 23, 2004 letter from Prison to US Ambassador James Foley; Randall Robinson's Eyewitness (Frantz Gabriel) account of the abduction of President and First Lady Aristide of Haiti by the United States Special Forces).

As it happened, Toto Constant had stayed in the US where he was later incarcerated on unrelated bank fraud charges. Subsequently, in a separate case in 2006, a U.S. judge determined that Emmanuel "Toto" Constant “founded and oversaw an organization that was dedicated principally toward terrorizing and torturing political opponents of the military regime” and ordered "the Haitian strongman to pay $19.5 millions to rape victims." Toto Constant was ruled "liable for torture, attempted extra-judicial killing and crimes against humanity.

Overall, even after more than three years of occupation, the answers to media questions about Haiti, released by HLLN at the beginning of the 2004 foreign intervention, is still relevant and provides answers to the US/international intervention in Haiti which are, in spite of everything, in direct opposition to the corporate media's main lines about Haiti - that President Aristide either resigned or was oustered by an autonomous and weighty "Haitian" "civil society" in a "popular revolt," and had "no support in Haiti," because he had become a dictator (similar to the US-supported Duvaliers!).

"For Instance, the U.S. State Department's own expert, own translator, Bryant Freeman, said President Aristide did not resign. Yet, every mainstream media reporting on Haiti since the 2004 foreign intervention either omits this fact and reports of president Aristide "fleeing" Haiti or resigning voluntarily. (See:Pdf of Letter in Kreyol Original , PDF of Letter in English; The Smoking gun: Aristide Didn't Resign. See also, Matters to be Investigated).

The UN "peacekeepers" continue, in relative media silence, to target, eliminate and/or indefinitely incarcerate Aristide's and the Lavalas Movement supporters in the poor and populous neighborhoods.

BRINGING SECURITY TO HAITI

When Haiti was free of foreign troops, "...(t)he most disingenuous claim used repeatedly by the (anti-democratic Haitian) opposition and the U.S. was that the 'security situation' was not sufficient to maintain a fair election."

But during the 2006 (s)elections, "when the internationals had firmly taken over Haiti, the OAS, in fact, cheered on the exclusion of Haiti's masses from the elections by giving contracts (printing and for digital voting machines) for the elections, to the Haitian coup detat implementers - the Boulos and Apaid families. No OAS 822-like-Haiti-resolution expressed concerned that "all parties take part in the formation a credible, neutral and independent Provisional Electoral Council (CEP)." (See, The February 29th Coup d’Etat Against President Jean Bertrand Aristide and the Role of the United States in the Coup (Second of two articles)", Haiti Progres, March 24, 2004 .)

In the name of bringing security to Haiti, thousands of young Haitians were and are labeled "gangsters and kidnappers" for political purposes and disenfranchised. And, to this day, the US and world citizenry are taking as gospel the corporate medias' fairytales about what the UN is doing in Haiti, about who it came to uphold; are being mislead and manipulated through media lies, half-truths and disinformation and by the uses of Empires' financial, diplomatic and military muscles that perpetually extends the racist American narrative about Haiti and its peoples.

Still, it is arguable that the informed and conscious have no doubt that the mainstream multi-national media corporations (like the, New York, Times, LA Times, Miami Herald, Washington Times, Sun Sentinel, et al.) used their pens and power to foster the bicentennial coup d’etat in Haiti that adversely affected all Haitians. These media outlets lied by trumpeting the 2004 foreign intervention in Haiti as a “popular revolt;” by painting President Aristide as a dictator in the same way as the US-sustained-Duvalier dictatorships; by tagging and converting, with one stroke of their pens, convicted Haitian thugs and death squad leaders, into "freedom fighters" and Haiti's freedom fighters into "gangsters and thugs." (From Thugs to Freedom Fighters to Thugs Haiti is Unraveling and No One is Saying Anything by LARRY BIRNS and SETH DeLONG, COHA, Dec. 14, 2004).

Guy Philippe, Andre Apaid, Jr, Stanley Lucas, Charles Baker, the Boulos brothers, Butler Meyater, Jean Tatoune, Group 184, et al, could not have carried out the bicentennial coup d’etat without the help of their imperialist masters and various insiders (ie. Danny Toussaint) within the Lavalas government pressured or co-opted by the almighty U.S. visa, dollar, Eurocentric-ism and otherwise supported by foreign monies. (See, Answers to media questions about Haiti; Haiti as Target Practice: How the US Press Missed the Story by Heather Williams - Counterpunch, March 1, 2004).

HAITIAN OPERATIVES/TRAITORS DISCREDITED

But ironically most of the Bush State Department's prominent Haitian operatives (Chamblain, Philippe, Tatoune, Butler Metayer, Stanley Lucas) of the 2004 foreign intervention have been discredited and exposed by the US itself. Though, invariably the mainstream media has failed to connect the dots and reasses their statements about most of these folks and their characterization of the foreign intervention of 2004 in Haiti as a the "popular revolt."

Louis Jodel Chamblain was arrested in Haiti for massacre convictions but then promptly set free by the Bush-imposed-coup-d'etat government after a sham trial. Ambassador James Foley publicly and hypocritically decried the blatant sham trial. (See, The Delahunt Letter).

Three years later, in 2007, Guy Philippe (who ran for president of Haiti garnering less than 1% of the vote even with US and the Internationals financing his candidacy) was again charged by the DEA on drug charges. The mainstream press ignored all the significance of these news stories and U.S. complicity in destroying Haiti's democracy. For, the United States had backed terrorists, death squad leaders and drug dealers over the Haitian peoples' choice for leaders and labeled all dissenters corrupt or "bandits", "criminals and gangsters."

The major media outlets ignored that foreign-trained and created Haitian thugs and career criminals, who were agents of the US in destabilizing Haiti, were set free to traffic in drugs, illegal arms, murder, rape, plunder and create havoc that compelled the ordinary Haitian citizen to resist in self-defense or flee Haiti on rickety boats in search of asylum. Ignored that the contrived U.S. situations forever allows the US/Euros the opportunity to intervene to "rescue" Haiti from a "bloodbath." (See, The Issue With US-DEA War on Drugs in Haiti-Partisan Bias/enforcement and Arbitrary and Capricious rules of "justice" and defamatory, simplistic and unfair mainstream media reporting apply to the poor in Site Soley, Haiti - Site Soley Update April 19, 2007; Moving On ; LA Times on a Haitian Army - An example of how LA Times spins the truth, manipulates information, promotes the views of the Haitian elites and sell's it to their unwary readers as "Haiti's view" ; It's Neither Hope nor Progress When the International Community is Running Haiti and Examples of Neocolonial Journalism.)

The informed and conscious have no doubt about the lies, half truths, media disinformations and State Department manipulation of public opinion on Haiti.

The point is if Haitians were not the descendants of Toussaint Louverture, the "opener," there would be no door out when the powers-that-be contrived the foreign-runned 2006 digital elections to put in their repugnantly un-electable black overseers.

There would be no door out when the powers-that-be have so thoroughly vilified Aristide and narrowly defined Haiti's foreign-made problems and manufactured conflicts as "the Aristide problem," the corrupt, divisive and "fighting Haitians'" problem and thus anyone who stands for Aristide's return, or, for an end to foreign support of the tiny economic elites, are also painted with the same brush as Aristide and dubbed "chimeres", "corrupt" and divisive.

Haitians have been facing Empire's traps for a long time. The majority are unschooled by the West and therefore live by what they experience and not what the New York Times write about their realities. Thus, don't fall into their programming as the schooled Haitians and unwary U.S. public do, but rather lead from source - African source.

THE HAITIAN SOURCE

For most Haitians, even those who deny it consciously, source is still that Vodun mythological place, that sacred other place which Haitians created, that validates Black folks at their soul forever and from the beginning to eternity, countering racism, slavery, white privilege, endless debt and neocolonialism.

This "other place" is found somewhere on this planet where authority is not truth, but truth is authority for one and all.

It exists only where it is created when one claims the parts of history that have been systematically written out of history by the Catholic Monarchs, Western founders, their Judeo-Christian culture and Breton Woods organizations. ( Mumia Abu-Jamal at prison radio, August 19, 2007 - The Power of History: Haiti Recorded August 19, 2007 - MP3-3:34 )

Haiti's majority non-schooled Haitians understand well why the endless Haiti-gravy-train of "foreign aid" being lapped up by US State Department cronies and ex-USAID, OAS, UN and IDB mission directors and employees; why the enormous war-profits being made, for centuries, in Haiti by U.S. do-gooder "experts," defense contractors, big-business, the NGOs, the foundation heads and employees and other such New World profiteers, and now the U.N. ($1billion a year alone to the UN for their troops), big-business, in the name of "benevolence," "reform," "peacekeeping" and "charity," are purposely never analyzed by the international press and their talking heads.

Mumia Abu-Jamal has brilliantly observed "...Black suffering and death (in Haiti has always) meant white profits and sweets... And we note that just as slavery and brutality was good for business for the Europeans, in these times, coup d'etats, civil unrests, misery, insecurity, illiteracy, death and poverty in Haiti, means millions to billions in reform, aid and "investment" dollars for the Breton woods contingent, the world corporate robber barons and their NGO sidekicks.

MASTURBATIN ON BLACK PAIN

Between 1994 and 1996, US governmental "reformers" made over $3 billion dollars in Haiti as a result of the first Bush, Sr.'s Haiti coup d'etat. The big corporate and "investors" class profited from their governmental privileges to make many more than that quick amount.

Bush, Jr.'s 2004 Haiti intervention appears to be more sustainable and even more profitable for the reformers and defense contractors. Blackwater Security got its piece of the warmongers' bloody billlions. And, the UN "peacekeepers" are making upwards to $1 billion a year, and providing jobs to soldiers from countries where they are hired to butcher their own civilians; where there is no work; no justice or fledging democracy. The life of the chosen foreign "other" (Pakistani, Chinese, Brazilian, Chilean, Mauritanian, et al soldier as well as the civilian paper pushers from North America who get to suck up to 80% of any allocated monies, resources or "profits" made in these regular let's-make-a-quick-buck-Haitian-interventions) vastly improves when "law and order" must be "restored" to Haiti. The life of the ordinary Haitian has never improved under foreign intervention.

Under the first US occupation from 1914 to 1934, Haitians were put back in slave chains under the pretext of re-establishing the corvee, and under the 2004 occupation with the U.N. acting as US military proxy, Haitians have been summarily disenfranchised, disappeared, subject to U.N. searches, rapes, and indefinitely detained in prisons. (See U.S. Patterns in Haiti.)

AN UNBROKEN AGONY

The US/Euros' masturbating on black pain continues unabated as Empire's warmongers in three-piece suits and other of their recognized authorities plunder, terrorize and impoverishes Haiti under the rubric of "bringing security, democracy and justice" to Haiti. (See also: Randall Robinson on " An Unbroken Agony: Haiti: From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President; Eyewitness (Frantz Gabriel) account of the abduction of President and First Lady Aristide of Haiti by the United States Special Forces).

As a keen observer of media lies and Western contrivances once said, here’s the imperialist divide and conquer motif:

“If you wish to destroy an area, how do you do it? Well, there are two ways. You can go in there and bomb it and so forth. But that is not very efficient. What you do is try to get the people in that area to kill each other. And to destroy their own territory, their own farms. And that’s what been done (in that area). The way in which you destroy and bomb, is get him to destroy himself by dividing his ranks against one another. Then you feed both sides. You have agents feeding both sides, inflaming both sides. And they kill each other off. It’s time that some of us woke up to this reality. To understand that people who try to maintain empires and create empires, do it by manipulating the people they are trying to conquer.” (http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ (1:56:23 ) a movie exposing the lies of the mass media, Catholic Church and ruling elites, EVERYONE should make the time to watch, or, go directly to Zeitgeist – Part 11 to quickly get to the above quote http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w61uQtTUKGQ )


NEOCOLONIAL JOURNALISM BUT THE HAITIAN RESISTANCE CONTINUES...

In August 2007, the LA times, in an apparent effort to continue to manufacture consent and consolidate the gains of the 2004-Bush Regime change, even wrote that the HAITIAN PEOPLE wanted the bloody Haitian army returned to Haiti. (See,