13923: Mason: Amended Version of "Jumpstart to New Year Predictions for Haiti" (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: MariLinc@aol.com

Corbetters,

I recognized an error in the text of my note "Jumpstart to New Year
Predictions for Haiti" almost as soon as I had sent it.

Time is really passing us by quickly! What I referred to in the original note
as a 2-year "window in time" is really now only a 1-year "window in time".

Below is the amended text, wherein I also added a short paragraph at the
beginning and the end of the message.

Marilyn

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So much has been said and written lately about the current crisis in Haiti
that I feel compelled to add my two cents' worth.

Let's -- for the sake of "flannen"-ing a bit -- just suppose that:

(1) the U.S.-sponsored and U.S.-orchestrated "Haiti Regime Change" (such
terminology has been used by the Bush Administration with regard to other
sovereign nations) freight train has already left the station (put on the
fast track since the U.S. mid-term election assurance of the ongoing reign of
Bush II, with no annoying Congressional interference),

(2) its brakelines were severed before the train took off, and

(3) Washington DC's long-term "Republican Haiti Agenda" is already a foregone
conclusion.

What will Bush's reinvented / rescued / docile Haiti look and feel like?

If we can put our fingers on that kind of a scenario, we might be better able
to identify Washington DC's / Baby Bush's Haiti collaborators who might like
to "Trojan-horse-like" deliver Haiti into the "trustworthy?" hands of U.S.
Elite Forces [military troops such as are already stationed at the Dominican
/ Haiti border to safeguard the U.S.'s newly-declared "third frontier?" (when
has Haiti EVER BEEN that important -- IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING Canada and Mexico
in strategic geographical importance -- except when Haiti came BEFORE them in
order to keep out ALL potential immigrants to the U.S. who had reasonable
fears of persecution BUT were of the wrong color OR of the wrong parentage OR
of the wrong class in Haitian society?), in collaboration with INS and DEA
and CIA / FBI agents (the lines have been blurred between the two entities
since 9/11 and Ashcroft's ascendency, so who can tell the difference?), State
Department hacks, above-the-law Homeland Security stormtroopers, et al.], so
that the "good life" and "corporate profits" can be more efficiently managed
by and ensured on behalf of Haiti's "chosen few" and their U.S. corporate /
government sponsors ("no problemo" for their 401k's; unlike for the rest of
us poor working stiffs!).


Just think about it.

What's coming up in a little over 1 year's time?

Haiti 2004!

Who would MOST benefit from a sanitized presentation of a "tourist-safe,
spend-your-dollars-euros" Haiti during the fleeting, transitory moments of
the celebration of her 200 years of (joke???) "independence" and even pass
out the free condoms and Jacko-like face masks (with corporate logos
prominently placed), as visitors exit the tour ships and visit the
"designated (Haiti-)free zones"?

Follow the past, current and upcoming money trails. Just like with any other
mounting conspiracy.

[Yes, I know, whenever the word "conspiracy" is uttered, the utterer is
declared an official "nut" (but, hey, give some Haiti players a couple of
weeks, let them shell out a few bucks along the way, and a list of the drugs
prescribed to nutty old me will probably magically appear in print! (i.e.
Nadal's posting of Aristide's supposed drug-taking list to the Bob Corbett
Haiti List). However, let me save all of us some time and let me freely
disclose my drug list to all of you ahead-of-time: I take Zocor for my high
cholesterol. And that's it for prescription drugs! But, oh yes, I regularly
take the "over-the-counter" medication Aleve (to reduce the arthritic
swelling to my joints) and, when necessary to ward off a stuffy nose, I take
Tylenol Allergy-Sinus!). And, it's quite likely that within a few weeks I'll
be taking anti-cancer drugs, maybe even radiation- or chemo-therapy, so it's
hardly worth your time, energy or money to mount a campaign to "off" me!]


What a joke it would be if the Year 2004 Independence Celebration of Haiti
were to be "brought to us by" ta-da-a-a: the U.S. Military!

Just so that "Haiti's chosen few" can be assured of pocketing ALL or MOST of
the financial proceeds. And so that some Haitians can feel a bit better about
the Haiti which would be presented in "prime-time" to tourists from around
the globe.

Good Lord, if one can create a "virtual" island (off a tip of the Haiti
mainland) for cruise ships to visit during their Caribbean rounds -- without
admitting any stopover in infectious Haiti -- why NOT create a "virtual"
Haiti?


My Haitian friends, WHO but the American Military can mount the planning,
supply and transport of equipment and building materials, foreign labor force
at no cost to Haiti's "chosen few", and guaranteed ontime delivery of the
much-needed reconstruction of key sites of Haiti's patrimony (which will, as
a result, be privatized), buildings (including hotels), and roads -- ALL in
less than a 1-year period, just to prepare the receiving ground? With a
military-mandated curfew AND trigger-happy "contracted" zenglendos to show up
at all the right places and at all the right times in order to scare off any
possibility of "local dissent" -- to boot?

Such a strategy has worked exceedingly well for the secretive extraction of
minerals from the earth beneath Haiti over recent decades. Why NOT elaborate
upon such a tried-and-true strategy to extract a "photo op" from Haiti's
surface "moment in the sun", in order to maintain for a little while longer a
fabricated "dream sequence" to counter Haiti's sadder, more miserable,
everyday reality?


Wake up, my friends on all sides of such an equation.

If there is one thing you can be sure of, it's this: Make this kind of a deal
with the devil (from whatever side) and Haiti and her destiny will NEVER be
in the hands of Haiti's people to determine (ends DO NOT justify the means)!

Forget about freedom. Forget about ordinary people having a voice. Forget
about Haiti's peasants being anything more than they've ever been allowed to
be in the past: unpaid slave labor serving a few overlords and their more
powerful foreign masters, but mostly those who traffic in getting their goods
to market at much-inflated selling prices and selling to them imported goods,
also at much-inflated prices.

The middlemen are the ones I'd be monitoring right now. The high-level
enablers / collaborators and their corporate sponsors will be quite careful
to guarantee their deniability or else be in a position to destroy the
incriminating paperwork / evidence. The idiots in the middle, however, will
be the ones caught "holding the bag". Mark my words.


To those who would sell Haiti out at this pivotal moment in her history
(thinking they are doing Haiti a favor), I would say this: Be careful of that
for which you wish! You will most certainly get that wish. But the terms will
most likely NOT be those which were promised to you "upfront".


My pessimistic prediction for Haiti? Promised freedoms for the general
population will MOST PROBABLY NEVER materialize and the "chosen few" will
lose whatever freedoms they have somehow managed to temporarily achieve in
the process of "collaborating" -- just as soon as Baby Bush doesn't need you
anymore.

And if Haiti 2004 can be co-opted by the Bushies, can Mole St. Nicolas be far
behind?


I wish I could predict better, but I insist upon learning from the past in
order to try to predict the future.

The only dynamic I can foresee which can defeat my pessimistic prediction
would be this:

If those who really love Haiti will do as my son and I have done over many
years and say (in the spirit of the woman depicted in the Biblical account of
Esther; see the Creole rendition in:
http://hometown.aol.com/mit2haiti/EstIPN.pdf): "If I perish, I perish", BUT
NEVERTHELESS I still will do the right thing for Haiti, even if it spells my
own personal doom....

Maybe, then, the best-laid plans of highly-placed mice and men can be
over-turned and everyday Haitians will have half a chance at experiencing the
independence and freedom their forefathers sacrificed so much to achieve
almost 200 years ago.

Marilyn

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