23106: Esser: John Maxwell on relations with Haiti and the NCHR (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: D. Esser <torx@joimail.com>

September 6, 2004

Rumble in the Jungle
by John Maxwell

[in a well written column, but unfortunately  partly off topic for
this list, John Maxwell concludes:]

...

Dancehall rules for Haiti

The US Admimnistration speaks about progress in Afghanistan and Iraq,
but never about Haiti. It appears to be ashamed of what has happened
there. The Organisation of American States is being pressed to do
what the UN does in Europe, Asia and Africa, clean up the mess after
the Americans. That is why our eminent Caribbean boobies are doing
their damnedest, undercover, to sell out the Haitians and the cause
of Haitian liberty.

While Mr Bush boasts about taking Liberty to the world and his right
to Liberate anywhere he thinks needs it, 8 million Haitians languish
in a situation in which even the most anti-Aristide of the Haitian
civil rights groups feels uncomfortable. The National Council for
Haitian Rights has no issued warnings about the return of the
attaches, the old Tontons Macoute. If they can see the signs, perhaps
Mr Patterson and Mr Knight might be able to see them too, if there is
anyone who can wake up these worthies and the Premiers of Barbados
and Trinidad.

Copyright@2004 John Maxwell
maxinf@cwjamaica.com