25327: (reply) Chamberlain: 25307: Holmstead: (comment) 25297 (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Greg Chamberlain <GregChamberlain@compuserve.com>

> Chamberlain's contribution doesn't exactly address the content of Esser's
post


I dealt with the fabrications (to be polite) and fantasies put about by the
rent-a-revo people which were the core of Esser's post.  Hard to discuss
anything fruitfully when the proposed basis is falsehoods and absurd
exaggeration.

Several people on this list have over the years tried to get discussion
going about various practical and immediate ways that might help Haiti move
forward and escape the vicious circle it's in.  In nearly every case, such
suggestions have been met by resounding silence, notably from the
rent-a-revos, who appear only interested in peddling tired slogans, failed
ideologies and failed gods, while Haitians continue to suffer. These bogus
radicals are aggressively hindering a solution by covering up Aristide's
disastrous rule and remaining silent about, for example, his nonsensical
"10,000 deaths" of his supporters and a "US-French black holocaust."

They are also actively delaying a solution by effectively telling Haitians
they are not in any way responsible for the current situation since it is
all the fault of external forces.  In fact, creating a new and crippling
dependence on these foreign ideologues to replace the exaggerated imperial
dependence they denounce.  This is a crime against any group of human
beings, and especially again a country as poor and needy as Haiti.

The return of a failed and flawed political leader (Aristide) is all the
rent-a-revos (some of whom have milked the Haitian treasury of enormous
"legal fees" for many years) offer to solve this difficult and urgent
situation.  No interest in encouraging either side to attempt
reconciliation or dialogue, just in goading them on to straight and deeply
satisfying confrontation as ordained in the holy political scriptures.

I write this from Cambodia, which has had a far worse fate than Haiti of
being occupied and bombed by foreign powers (the US and Vietnam) in recent
years.  Also a poor country with a deeply corrupt political class and with
its former Duvaliers (the murderous Khmer Rouge) still walking free.  Yet
something is being built here, with people's energy, economic effort and
sense of reconciliation and the country is on the move.  These key elements
have not yet taken hold in Haiti, and the rent-a-revos are doing everything
they can to prevent this happening by promoting a mindless saviour politics
that leads nowhere and is holding Haiti back.  The interests of Haitians
are clearly their least concern.


Greg Chamberlain