25665: (reply) Chamberlain: 25654: Kondrat (reply) Re: 25644: (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Greg Chamberlain <GregChamberlain@compuserve.com>

>  The anti-popular, anti-constitution forces in Haiti

You use this to describe the anti-Aristide forces, but very many people who
fervently supported and worked with Aristide from the beginning now (and
well before he was overthrown) describe(d) his "forces" in exactly the same
way, and there is plenty of evidence, concealed from no-one and all in the
public domain, to back up their view.

The problem with these discussions is that the rent-a-revos are desperately
pretending that history began on 29 Feb 2004, so they don't have to be
confronted with the dirty details of Aristide's rule.  And, as ever, there
are plenty of takers for this simplistic and dishonest approach, because
it's much more "stirring"  ("French-US Black holocaust" ... "10,000 dead"
etc).

It also does a criminal disservice to Haiti, because the solutions these
people propose are based on lies and illusions about the past.  I'm talking
about Aristide's regime, not the thugs, gangsters and murderers who helped
to overthrow him.   In fact the thugs, gangsters and murderers his regime
freely used (and some of whom switched camps, like "Cubain" Métayer and
plenty of others).  This is what the rent-a-revos will not confront.  They
aren't interested in building institutions or any of that "sissy" or
"boring" stuff, they just sign on to the latest version of the
"smash-and-grab" brigades that have ruined the country (with some
assistance, but mostly not, from smash-and-grab brigades orginating in
foreign countries).


        Greg Chamberlain