18370: Brown: Viviane Boulos letter (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: "Brown, Stephen D. GG12" <brownst@soc.mil>

Subject: FW: AN OPEN LETTER TO CARICOM / by Viviane N.
> Boulos
> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 09:44:26 -0500
>
>
> Gentlemen,
>
> In regard to the Haitian situation, I understand that
> negotiations and compromise are the politically
> correct way to do things in this day and age;
> nevertheless, I hope you'll agree that a gangrened
> member must be amputated for a body to live. The
> stench of the corruption institutionalized by
> Jean-Bertrand Aristide should make the world gag.
>
> For the past three years, you have been trying to find
> a band-aid large enough to apply to a situation that
> requires urgent and drastic surgery. I humbly suggest
> that you try to view the situation from a different
> angle.
>
> Do you even come close to realizing how angry the
> Haitian people are and how fast this country is moving
> towards an irreparable catastrophe?
>
> Gentlemen, the people are angry because they have been
> duped by a self-proclaimed Messiah who turned out to
> be nothing but a vile opportunist and a thug and a
> compulsive liar. I strongly disagree with the attitude
> that we, the Haitian people, need to be treated
> condescendingly like unreasonable children seeking
> pity. No Sirs, we need to recover our dignity so that
> we can handle our own destiny with a capable and
> sincere Government. What the Haitian people don't need
> are more lies, theft, rape, murders and more
> demagoguery. What they need is peace, a government
> with a vision and a mission, and the possibility of
> sleeping at night without fear of intrusion by devils
> in human form subsidized by their Government with
> their own tax monies. They don't need to bury more of
> their children because their tax monies are used to
> arm gangs to terrorize them into submission to the
> idol president. I could go on forever but I think I
> made my point.
>
> Gentlemen, eleven years of chaos and misery created by
> the Lavalas party should be more than sufficient for
> the world to see that Mr. Kissinger was right in his
> assessment of Mr. Aristide in the '90s; he is indeed a
> madman of the most dangerous kind.
>
> I hope you really give some serious thought to
> avoiding a massacre and that you come to understand
> that Aristide has gone too far, he must go and he must
> go now...
>
> Please receive my heartfelt good wishes and my best
> regards, may God assist you in your reflections.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Viviane N. Boulos
> February 3, 2004