13258: ANONYMOUS - Lavalas faux pas (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

First we have this:

"PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Riot police halted a concert by one of Haiti's most popular musical groups... Wednesday night concert by the band Boukman Eksperyans took place on the Champs de Mars... As the band launched into its song "Revolution," which lists the country's ills and contains the line "Mr. President, I'm talking to you," officers from the Haitian National Police's crowd-control division appeared on stage and told the band its performance was finished." "

Lunacy!  Idiocy!  Don't these folks have memories?  What does Aristide think, his presidency will crumble if someone sings a song about him?  Is he afraid of Boukman Eksperyans' "pwen", or what?  It's laughable.

Recently, Haitian law enforcement supposedly aided by the United States DEA went to the homes of Jacmel's Commissaire de Justice, a very distinguished young man; and also to the home of Jacmel's leading businessman - but not on social or official calls.  Rather, they were looking for cocaine!  (There has been a spate of cocaine recoveries along the beaches from Jacmel to Marigot.)  This comes on the heels of a DGI (tax) swoop through town, resulting in some whopping levies.

Marc Bouzen's resignation as "minister in charge of bridging the 2-year-old electoral impasse between the government and
opposition parties" means nothing, he was a whore from the start.  But when Martissant is up in arms against the Lavalas folks, I mean...

....Okay, let's play a game.  Let's pretend you're a populist president.  Now annoy and harass your leading citizens with DGI audits and charges, make financial demands on them, and then send the narcs to their houses.  In the meanwhile, alienate your power base in the neighborhoods.  Then see how long you stay in power.

::snort::