16010: Goodman Re: 16004: Saint-Vil: Foreing Gang Playing dangerous games

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Brian Goodman <bdgoody2002@yahoo.com>
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I am sorry that you feel that way about the US, Canada, and France.  I am
an
American and I love the country of Haiti and its people.  People think I
am
nuts here for wanting to go to Haiti all of the time but we take things
for
granted here in the States and it is good to get away from that.  However,
the
racial tone in your letter is disheartening.  The cheap shots on Mayor
Guiliani
and the NYPD were uncalled for.  Don't bite the hand that feeds you.  The
US,
Canada, and France have for years have all tried to help Haiti better
itself.
I am only speaking of the nineties to the present.  If the world did not
care
for Haiti, they would not have taken out the militant military that was
Murdering Haitians daily.  Haiti's problem is the mistake of a leader that
we
put in place in 94.  Aristede is a Clintonian.  He cares only for himself
and
not the country of Haiti.  I really enjoyed the 2.2 million US dollars
that
Aristede and his cronies used to fix the national highway north of PAP.  I
am
sorry... I meant fill the potholes and stick FLAGS up out in the middle of
nowhere.  The problem is Aristede takes the money that those countries
give him
and misuses it.  I work for DOT and I can tell you that 2.2 million
dollars
covers a lot more than potholes.  They could have stripped the road down
and rebuilt a good portion of it, if they needed to for less than the 2.2.

I love the country of Haiti.  Haiti has a lot of potential but as long as
corrupt people are in power...it will be hard to prosper.  It will take
years
to undo wrongs that have been occuring for decades.  Please refrain from
verbally attacking the countries now.  I agree that France, the US and
others
prior to the modern era treated Haiti with disrespect.  That was in the
past,
but let bygones be bygones.  I love Haiti and pray that they will see the
fruits of a prosperous government but I assure you that kicking the
"foreigners' out will not help Haiti.

Brian G.