12862: Re: 12851: aristide's person - Arthur lets off steam (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Tttnhm@aol.com

This is pathetic. Why don't the IRI and Lynn Garrison go all the way and
recycle the Aristide 'Voodoo pajamas' story? Or what about the fictitious
'psychiatric clinic in Montreal', again? Come on, some people missed this
shit the first time round.

There is nothing like avoiding the important issues is there?

And what about that Democratic Convergence? Hey you US tax payers, that's
money well spent, no?

As an unknown Convergence leader acknowledged, the only thing they have in
common is a hatred of Aristide. Maybe that's the only criteria for receiving
IRI funding. Who knows? No transparency here.

Now the Convergence appears to be falling apart - what a surprise. The right
wing faction (De Ronceray) is calling for a US invasion, the right-centre
faction (Evans Paul) is calling for a national mobilisation to remove
Aristide, and the centrist/social democratic faction (OPL and KONAKOM) is
calling for power-sharing with Aristide. What an investment! Does anybody
check on value for money?

As for the so-called Civil Society Initiative Group - Rosny Desroches and
ANADIPP (Hi there Olivier) - it's 700,000 Euros the richer, thanks to the
European Commission Human Rights and Democracy budget line. Like Hyppolite
Pierre, I'd like to know where the money is going and why. (By the way,
wasn't it Lynn Garrison and ANADIPP who together schemed to break the UN
petrol embargo in 1993/94?)

And just to show how even-handed I am: What a shower that Lavalas Family
Parliament has turned out to be. I understand that the Senate might have some
difficulty getting a quorum, when 7 Senators have resigned and Yvon Neptune
has left to become the PM, but now the Deputies don't even bother to show up.
Well worth holding on to the May 2000 election results and suffering the
latest sanctions in order to end up like this, don't you think!


Hey-ho, the end result will almost certainly be that the Haitian electorate
will not want to waste their time voting next time round, and maybe, after
all, that's exactly what was wanted ever since 'too many people' voted the
'wrong way' in December 1990. The less people voting, the easier they are to
manipulate. What's good for the U.S. should be good for Haiti too, no?

(These views are those of Charles Arthur. They do not necessarily reflect the
views of the Haiti Support Group.)

Release ALL the Guacimal prisoners NOW!