25567: Simidor (reply) Re: 25551: Saint-Vil RE: Archives threatened with arson (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: daniel simidor <danielsimidor@yahoo.com>

Saint-Vil?s hardcore denial of Lavalas involvement in
the recent threat against the National Archives is
simply not credible.  For one thing, there are
precedents ? and I don?t just mean the burning down of
the CRESFED library and research center.  The sacking
of the military archives (a pristine, thus immensely
valuable resource, for reasons most readers will
understand) happened under Aristide?s watch.  CRESFED,
the attack against the University, the burning down of
the Port-au-Prince Old Cathedral, these are just a few
instances of an aversion to culture that ties Lavalas
to fascism.

On the other hand, the Lavalas Gwo Zouzoun (bigwigs)
only have to speak up ? that is if they are not
implicated or do not condone the barbaric acts
committed in their name.  Crimes are committed daily
in Lavalas? name in Haiti.  The Lavalas bosses have an
absolute obligation to condemn those crimes publicly
and to distance themselves from their perpetrators, if
they are not complicitous in those crimes. So I ask
you, where are the condemnations, from the like of
Samba Boukman, Jonas Petit, Gerard Jean-Juste, or from
the leader himself, Jean-Bertrand Aristide?

Not a word of condemnation is to be expected from
these Lavalas gentlemen, so anxious are they not to
turn the infamous Dread Wilme and his followers into
another Cannibal Army situation.  On the other hand,
the Lavalas machine is not about to publicly endorse
Mr. Wilme and his actions, and that?s where Saint-Vil
and other Lavalas fellow travelers come in.  It?s all
a matter of timing, because Wilme and co. are the
first line of concession that Lavalas is ready to make
in negotiating Aristide?s return with the powers that
be in Washington.

Saint-Vil as usual is way off the mark when he talks
about being stabbed in the back.  From Papa Doc to
Aristide, it?s quite obvious who?s being stabbing the
people in the back in the last 50 years.  But no one
is blinder than the man who doesn?t want to see.  I
for one have no patience for the silly color-based
politics of resentment that some provincial
stuck-in-the-past, stuck-in-lily-white-Canada cultural
nationalists (the Black Panthers used to call them
?pork chop nationalists? out of respect for Malcolm X)
still indulge in.

Another remark and then I?m done.  The gangs/
militias/ hoodlums operating in Bel-Air, Cité Soleil,
Fort National, Delmas 2, and other so-called outlaw
areas (?zones de non-droit?) in Port-au-Prince, are
not the resistance heroes that the folks at Workers
Word and Haiti-Progrès would have us believe.  The
rules of engagement that separate guerilla warfare
from terrorism and hooliganism are pretty clear.  For
one thing you don?t cowardly hide behind women and
children for protection.  You don?t ambush enemy
forces (MINUSTAH, PNP) where the people live and then
vacate the area when those enemy forces come back for
retaliation.  This is setting up the people for
murder, regardless of the blood money the gangs spread
around in those areas.  The Chinese used to insist
that politics must always be in command.  So I ask you
what are the politics behind the kidnappings, the rape
of women and children, the torture and killing of
innocent people, the wanton disruption and destruction
of resources and institutions that primarily serve the
people (schools, markets, hospital, etc)?




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