25082: Kondrat (response) Re: 25025: Raber (discuss) Neptune (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

Reply-To: kondr8@gmail.com

Alluding vaguely to sources in Haiti, "Raber" tells us
that :

<<it sounds that Neptune is not even wanting
to go through the legal process that he is entitled
to. >>

Strange, this notion that there can be a "legal
process" under an obviously illegal government ...
much less that such a legal process could be trusted.
I don't think I would want to have a parking ticket
adjudicated in a Haitian "court" right now; forget
about a capital crime.

Stranger, as Boswell noted recently in another post,
that a prisoner incarcerated by Haiti's "interim"
"government" gets to determine where he will and will
not be brought. In fact, this defies credulity.

Stranger still, that "three Haitian doctors including
a psychiatrist" automatically become the authoritative
sources over the OAS doctor. "The OAS does not
recognize the current government" is an odd statement,
since the "current government" has no legitimacy in
the eyes of most nations or international bodies.

Strangest, that the post ends with "anyone heard
anything about this?" About the only thing that
appears still to be running in Haiti is the rumour
mill. Similarly, another writer buttresses her
shot-in-the-dark hypotheses abot Neptune's
intransigence by claiming that she "heard it on the
radio." (Same thing that Rush Limbaugh's dittoheads
chant when spouting his misinformation). In addition
to all the other elements of a democratic society that
are lacking in Haiti now, dependable sources of
information can be added to the list. It is at least
as hard to get reliable information about Haiti when
one is in Haiti as when one is outside Haiti, perhaps
harder. I'd really like to see those in-country take a
little more sceptical look at their "reality," and not
be so prone to finding "facts" to fit their theories.
Being so disdainful and dismissive of blans quickly
morphs into a kind of no-nothingism, where
international organizations and global news channels
become no more than ignorant outsiders, and the only
truth you believe is the one that you see as you
squint in the dark out your little keyhole.

When you read history, you know that a certain
distance (spatial and temporal) can enhance analysis.
The man in a burning house knows best how desperate
and dangerous it is inside ... but he doesn't
necessarily know the best way out of the inferno.

The blind men who examined the elephant were very
"close to the action" as well.

Peter Kondrat