17903: (Hermantin)Sun-Sentinel-letter to the editor-Haiti a school bus taken over by ki (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: leonie hermantin <lhermantin@hotmail.com>

Haiti a school bus taken over by kids

Jean F. Colin
cooper city
Posted January 13 2004



Re the Jan. 7 letter, "Urge Aristide to step down": There is nothing
peaceful about overthrowing a government. The United States, the
Organization of American States, the United Nations and the rest of the
international community should re-evaluate the situation in Haiti and compel
Jean-Bertrand Aristide to step down. It is misleading to talk about
"[students] who were peacefully gathered to demand his [Aristide's]
resignation."

Who is kidding whom? Even Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. never asked George
Wallace to resign. Get real!

Haiti during the past 30 years is like a school bus taken over and driven by
a group of unruly kids abandoned by their bus driver who was intimidated by
some macoutes, chimeres, attachés or gang leaders who ran him into exile.

The Haitian middle class -- which in this metaphor represents the bus driver
-- is just watching from a distance the destruction and chaos in his "bus"
(his country) and praying that the Americans will be dumb enough to send
their own young Marines to re-establish law and order and hand him the "key"
(presidential powers). That is irresponsible and unpatriotic. We know
better.

Elections or revolution, the ballots or the bullets are the only choices in
any country. Haitians should be able to talk to one another, especially
those who live here in Florida and who, contrary to our pledge, have chosen
to live under "white domination" again.

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