22155: erilidanto: Latortue says, U.S. troops (Louis Jean Boje) cannot bring security to Haiti (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Erzilidanto@aol.com

The Tale of Louis Jean Boje
 by Ezili Danto
May 30, 2004 (revised)


The Bush administration (s) turned Haiti upside down since 2000 and before.

Destabilized it, starved the poorest of peoples out for years with a
humanitarian embargo, waged a smear campaign against President Aristide, funded a tiny
economic elite opposition against the masses' thirst for democracy. Refused
to provide help to the Constitutional government to shore up the civilian
police, even stopped delivery of needed supplies to Haiti's civilian police
including tear gas shipments and other needed equipment. And, on Feb. 5, 2004, opened
the Dominican Republic border, where 900 US troops guard alongside the
Dominican army, to allow FRAPH and former disbanded soldiers and mercenaries to come
in to massacre the civilian police and population. Then, because millions of
Haiti's young men surrounded the Haitian National Palace as body armor to
prevent the entrance of these death squads into Port-au-Prince. Foley, the U.S.
Ambassador and his agents used the U.S. Marines to ambush President Aristide in
the dead of night AT HOME where there's less security and thus carried out the
Coup D'etat themselves.

Then, the Administration got their House Butler, Kofi Annan, to approve the
Coup D'etat with U.N. Res. 1529 for the occupiers. Foreign troops, from the
world's most powerful, skilled and wealthy, stood by as 3,000 Haitian prisoners
were set FREE in Port-au-Prince and the Coup supporters burned and trashed ALL
advancements made under the poor PEOPLE's governments in ten years. In the
meantime, MIF guns protected the assets of the economic elites in La Boule and
Kenskoff while MIF used their SHOW OF FORCE in Bel Air and Cite Soley to
solidify and support the U.S.-created and funded opposition and its armed-wing death
squad's rule. Said powerful country is complicit in the death of thousands
upon thousands of Haitian CASUALTIES since it forced President Aristide on that
plane on February 29, 2004 after it had destabilized and turned Haiti into a
killing field. Since February 29, 2004, the U.S., France and Canada have made
Haiti a thousand times worst to live in for the majority of Haitians than it
EVER was under the Constitutionally elected Haitian government. And now, and now,
their imported dictator, Latortue says, the U.S. cannot bring security to
Haiti!!!

To underline this point, recently the State Department issued a travel
advisory against going to Haiti. So, the key question, inquiring minds wanna know
is, what then was the role of the U.S. in going to Haiti on February 29, 2004 in
the first place, if not to bring security and peace? What? To kidnap
President Aristide and kill off, arrest his supporters, bring further chaos, release
prisoners, murderers, drugdealers and rapists from prison? And now, and now
that this is DONE. It's too painful for Louis Jean Boje** to get up, or else His
gut will fall out?? Is that it? But what, pray tell, happens now to the poor
shoemaker?

Ezili Danto
(Legend of Louis Jean Boje is below, after the article where Latortue found
the nerve to say
it's too painful for the U.S. forces to disarm people in Haiti and bring
security back.!!!)
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Haiti to wait for U.N. troops to disarm rebels

05/29/2004

GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) -- Haiti will count on U.N. troops to disarm the
nearly 16,000 armed ex-rebels and government police forces on the war-wracked
Caribbean island, Prime Minister Gerard Latortue said Friday.

"It is easier to do it with the U.N. troops because with the Americans with
the situation in Iraq, to try to disarm people" would be perhaps too painful
for the U.S. forces, which have suffered casualties in Iraq, Latortue said.

Speaking at a separate news conference, French President Jacques Chirac said
he will send Michel Barnier, his foreign minister, to Haiti to assess the
country's aid needs after a week of torrential rains, flash floods and mud slides
that he said had killed at least 1,200 people.


On the sidelines of a Latin America-EU summit, Chirac spoke with Latortue as
well as Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, whose country is
providing 1400 peacekeeping troops. Chirac said Chile would send 600.

The U.N. troops are expected to arrive in Haiti in June to aid the process of
restoring complete peace and rebuild the government following the Feb. 29
ouster of ex-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Latortue said there currently are about 15,000 armed pro-Aristide forces and
about 800 ex-rebels, although he said "there are more rumors than complete
information."

Haitian police and the U.S.-led peacekeeping force have struggled to disarm
Haiti's population, well-armed after years of rebellions. Recent disarmament
programs have had little success, and Haiti has looked for a way to try to
persuade residents to begin trusting the country's often partisan police force
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The Tale of Louis Jean Boje (continues from above.)

*LOUIS JEAN BOJE is the quintessential Haitian legend about a bully.
According to this Haitian legend, there was once a man, perhaps a military man in
Haiti. He was always flexing his muscles and terrorizing the smaller guy. Louis
Jean Boje he was called. He was big, taller than everyone and stronger than a
dozen oxens. He did whatever he wanted, always hi-stepping, looking for trouble
and creating havoc.

One day, a tiny shoemaker perhaps looked  at him wrong. Louis Jean Boje
started hitting the man, beating him into a pulp. The tiny shoemaker was flat on
the grown, but still, Louis Jean Boje wouldn't stop hitting him. The people
passing by were afraid of Louis Jean Boje's wrath turning on them. They knew Louis
Jean Boje was well-connected, had powerful friends who could arrest and abuse
them with impunity. But the people just couldn't watch the tiny shoemaker
suffer and die like that. So altogether they started crying "abu," "abu," "abu!"
Yet, Louis Jean Boje wouldn't stop hitting the tiny shoemaker. Finally, some
courageous Haitian woman (it's always a Haitian woman), not afraid of arrest or
to die, stepped out from the crowd and yelled: "Mr. stop beating up that poor
man. Right now!" Louis Jean Boje, still seating on the tiny shoemaker, turned
his huge head around and said, "Madame, if I could get up, I would."

Turned out, the tiny shoemaker had his tiny sharp knife he used to cut
leather in his pocket. And when, in his blind rage to inflict pain, Louis Jean Boje
fell on top of the tiny shoemaker, he speared himself on the tiny shoemaker's
knife - cut open the underside of his own belly. The bully had intended to
used his weight to suffocate the shoemaker. Now he was on top of the tiny man
hitting him uncontrollably because he could not get up without opening his own
stomach and bleeding to death. That's the Haitian lesson about what happens to
bullies. In Haiti, when someone is besides themselves and out-of -line, the
wise expression and warning of that long ago Haitian woman is: Ki es ou ye? Louis
Jean Boje! (Who do you think you are? Louis Jean Boje!)


Ezili Danto
Li led li la
May 30, 2004 (revised)

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Forwarded by the Haitian Lawyers Leadership
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