22222: Anonymous Re: 22154: erzilidanto: Statement by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

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Statement by President Aristide
May 30, 2004 Kingston, Jamaica

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"on the other side, more than 2,000 people
lost their lives because of the ecological
disaster that we all recently witnessed."

This is truly a confession of an important problem Haiti faced for years...
President Aristide posing as a witness...

As a priest, he was, it's OK...
As a writer if he is, it's OK...

But as a chief of State, it is not his first job...
And the dead of Mapou, Fond Verrette and other places owe their death to the
witnessing and not acting of many Haitian presidents... For years, nothing
was done...
But the last witness surely shares the biggest part of this, because never
ever an Haitian president had had such a power to change things; but from
the beginning, he contented himself to be, at the best, the witness
(compassionate, smiling, tender, close, in love with the poor etc. but only
a witness) of Haitian people suffering and its quickening pace to hell on
earth...

Witness in front of his people he showed a witness also in front of other
chiefs of State, quoting over ad over UNDP, WFP and FAO statistics about
poverty and deforestation...

Will the witness ever realize that
"To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven"
Ecclesiastes 3:1
and that when you are elected it is for action and not for witnessing?

Perhaps one of the tragedies of Aristide is the job confusion... He never
left the priesthood aura (still signing with the small cross in his name,
behavior, quotations, references...) Perhaps the problem was well identified
by his superiors when they thought he was melting to much of a political job
in his priest service...
He played the politic while a priest and the priest while a president...
Should have read Ecclesiastes twice!