14412: Pierre-Louis: Miami Herald: Tell M. Stotzky (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Serge Pierre-Louis <spierrelouis2000@hotmail.com>

                        Herald editor: please, tell M. Stotzy

                  By Serge Pierre-Louis
Jan. 8, 2003

I know nothing more lugubrious, more depressing than populism without
popularity. It is even more pitiful for a used-to-be popular populist. The
discourse lost substance and the charisma is nothing but caricature. Please,
tell sir Irwin P. Stotzky.

Even though, he will answer the way answer all of those who are making
fortune out of the infrahuman misery of the Haitian people. In its 01-02-03,
Miami Herald published an article of M Stotzky. What a text! One can be sure
-without questioning the intellectual capabilities of a University
professor- it is a story cooked in Aristide kitchen. As a matter of facts,
one feels stupefied in front of the following paragraph: “There have not
been ''tens of thousands'' of people demonstrating against the government.
Police estimates  [when? author’s note] indicate that there were between
4,000 and 6,000 people who demonstrated against the government in Cap
Haitien. The news reports also failed to acknowledge that as soon as that
demonstration ended, several thousand supporters [even the more virulent
propagandists of the regime dared not, that day, whisper such a number!
author’s note]   of the government peacefully demonstrated there.”
Well, it is petty and trivial, the story of numbers, the rebuff (or the
choice for convenience) of the words such ‘‘several thousands’’, tens of
thousands etc. No wonder the Haitian regime translated M. Stotzky’s text,
sent it to all Haitian medias and gave them the veiled order to “give to it
a large echo (diffusion)”. What is not only unethical but also scandalous.
Without mentioning the daily utilization, the state television is making
with it, including the whole evening of the 8th of January.

So, M. Stotzky echoes the dirty propaganda of the regime, which would like
to believe or make believe the ras-le-bol (saturation) and the dissent of
the students are a matter of false students. In that case, why more than ten
students of the Ethno faculty are in hiding, after being attacked in the
school premise by Aristide militiamen, the 3rd of December 2002? Why the
regime, after having, for many months, illegally fired the University
Chancellor and installed its own de facto one, in an attempt to subjugate
the whole sector, had to swallow the decisions? Why a 3rd
year-medical-student, Eric Pierre is assassinated past Tuesday 7, the day of
the successful general strike in all big cities, including Port-au-Prince
and Cap-Haitien?

M. Stotzky -like the sterile propaganda of the regime- talks about “blocked
assistance, international embargo imposed to the country in its fourth
year…” Here, M. Stotzky, halte-là! There are two important facts you must
know: a) The international community under the leadership of Bill Clinton
(not Bush) had effectively imposed sanctions (not embargo) against the
Aristide/Préval regime because of flawed elections they put through in 1997,
specially the ones held in May 21, 2000. b) The OAS and the rest of
community had stated clearly to Aristide, the boss and to Préval, the
‘president’ that ‘‘corrections are indispensable; if not, sanctions will be
called; therefore the crisis ought to be solved before taking the
presidential elections.” What did the dictator and his proxy do? Well, they
rushed to organize the 26th of November “party unique” elections, of course
without international observation… They were trying to force everybody to
accept the fait accompli. The funny part is when one remembers that the 1990
elections that brought Aristide legitimately into power took place a
December 16th, and Préval’s, the 17th of December 1995. In 2000, where were
you, M. Stotzky, to pull the break? You may not volunteer to look for the
reasons of the cascade of fraudulent elections and crazy expenses to feed
the rich lobbyists, and the criminal use of the Lumpen terrorizing the whole
population.

M. Stotzky, you must know that Duvalier showed off 300.000 militiamen, but
he flew. Aristide, from time to time, shows off a few thousands of miserable
thugs (sometimes co-opted peasants, blackmailed by his contested senators,
deputies and mayors) spending madly public money, he, too, will leave. He’ll
leave like any regime using crimes and intimidation to survive:  young
people are killed everyday. He’ll leave like any regime trying to hold onto
power through lies and intrigues: one proof among thousands is the
publication (in the state paper L’Union) of a pseudo-petition for elections
with phantom names, false names, repeated names and so on. He will leave
like any regime that relies only on one sector: the Lumpen.
                             Serge Pierre-Louis, Haiti, 2003-01-02