15653: Dorce: Re: 15607: Casimir: Fwd: From Baghdad to Haiti (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: LAKAT47@aol.com

In a message dated 5/19/03 4:51:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time, jcasimir
@hotmail.com By YVES A. ISIDORwrites:

<< The United States' war against murderous tyrants
 >is not complete. It has long been clear that Haiti's de facto regime, if
 >not necessarily totalitarian dictator Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is as cruel
 >as Saddam Hussein was.   Sure must President George W. Bush now further
 >stake his political future on the adventure ending right, with the
 >consignment to the archives of history a murderous dictator, right in the
 >U.S. own backyard. >>
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Right out of the gate this author tells us how the rest of the article is
going to go.  I believe the better tactic would be to tone down the rhetoric
a bit so as to be somewhat believable.  In no way could Aristide be compared
to Saddam Hussain, except that both men have had their governments taken over
by a foreign country (the same one in fact!).  During the coup, when FRAPH
members made a fuss at the docks to turn back the US military ship that was
steaming towards Port-au-Prince, they used the same tactic to evoke the image
of Somalians dragging a dead US soldier around, which horrified the American
people.  It is very effective with an apathetic and nearly moribund American
public.  Compare Aristide with a hated foe and you can make your work easier.

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>>The past three years or so well publicized political murders, among many
>others, in the dirt-poor Caribbean nation of Haiti were those of Jean
>Léopold Dominique, a revered radio journalist and political commentator,
>whom more than ten fatal shots were pumped into his small body, in the
>early morning of April 3, 2000, in the capital city of Port-au-Prince.
>
>Yet, Brignol Lindor, a young provincial radio journalist was hacked to
>death, on Dec. 3, 2001, in the l'Acul district, near the provincial city of
>Petit-Goâve, 30 miles west of of Port-au-Prince.>>
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Well that's two.  AND you can't say for certain who killed Jean Dominique.
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>>As the total impunity that the perpetrators - government paid thieves, drug
>dealers, rapists, and many more of the same nature - of the odious crimes
>continue to enjoy might suggest, at the time they were all and, still are
>they members of Lavalas (Flood), the political party, or the party of
>Satan, of Haiti's uncommonly vicious tyrant, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.>>
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The use of hyperbole is again offputting and does nothing to sell the
author's point of view.  Satan?  Uncommonly vicious tyrant....oh please.  Let
me guess; Professor Isador wants to see Baby Doc back in power along with the
Haitian Army.
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>>  Like Saddam Hussein has been
>referred to as a murderous tyrant, because he killed an incalculable number
>of his fellow Iraqi citizens and others, is such a characterization applies
>to Aristide, who has burnt alive, defrauded and kidnapped thousands of his
>fellow Haitian compatriots. <<
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Burnt alive?  Can we see names and numbers?  More outrageous nonsense.
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>>Certainly, killing of say,
>Haitians, and brutally so, may soon not be the only province of dictator
>Aristide.  The best way to understand this as the ferocious dictator sinks
>into grandiose illusions, that he shares some personality features with
>Stalin <<
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Stalin no less!!  Well this Aristide is certainly a bad one!  I am quoting
all this junk for a reason.  It's a life lesson for us all to remember.
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>> Yves A. Isidor, who teaches economics at the University of
Massachusetts-Dartmouth, is spokesperson for We Haitians United We Stand For
Democracy and executive editor of wehaitians.com<<
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Having impressive academic credentials does not a scholar make.  People, we
are paying this man of questionable intelligence and judgement good money to
teach our children.  Scary.

Kathy Dorce~