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26872: Jepiem: (reply) Fwd: Re: 26856:(a reply) against elections as a first priority (fwd)
From: Jepiem@aol.com
This poster is telling us that elections must be take place as scheduled. Is
it really Haiti's true priority right now? And is anyone really convinced
that conditions have been set in place to guarantee free and fair elections
and more, credible elections that the majority will be satisfied with, that
will really bring about theconditions for the long delayed meaningful changes
to
start Haiti on the road to recovery, like equal Justice for all, reliable
services like garbage pick up, electrical power, affordable, modern phone
services,not expensive cell phones that suck up the resources of the poor and
aren't really affordable to all, dependable and non corrupt police that the
citizenry can feel comfortable calling in case of trouble, environmental
reforms
to stop or slow the destruction of the land, easily accessible health care
and heath maintainance services and programs, reform of the education system
rehabilitation of the country's true culture not through demagogic official
pronouncements but through meaningful and well advised reforms, reevaluation
of
the country's resources and steps towards their development for the benefit
of all and not of a minority, legislative and judicial reforms to start
opening the way towards this elusive democracy that everyone talks about so
much,
and more... The mission of this provisional government when stated to be to
"prepare elections" really should have been to establish a complete list of
priorities and grade them and get started with the most urgent, since
obviously
the task is so enormous that a temporary government could not tackle it all.
At least this government should have had the vision to determine what were
the first letters of this alphabet and start writing them. Instead this
parachuted government came in with no vision whatsoever. Rather the Prime
Minister
in his first months and up to now seem to be haunted by the ghost of Aristide
whom he is always busy trying to exorcise by his pronouncements. Having been
parachuted in from Boca Raton which in his delusion he must think is Heavens
he thinks himself above every possible authority and there is no obstacle
his omnipotence and omniscience does not surpass or cannot surmount except of
course the heavenly power who dropped him on the Haitian scene. He doesn't
have to answer to a President since there is really none of substance to
speak of, or to Legislature which has vanished into obsolescence or caducity
for
sundry reasons and now no Judiciary since the Supreme PM has showed the
whole country that you can ignore the verdict of the highest court in the land
as long as you have the power to get away with it. As for the Constitution,
the ultimate authority when all else fails, really there isn't one. To me the
Constitution is all or none. May be it is my US learned bias, but there out
to be an instance to decide on the interpretation of the Constitution and
authority of that instance should not be vested in those who have a vested
interest in the result of that interpretation, namely a less than impartial
prime
minister. In my logic, this current constitution is null and void, it has been
violated to consistently. It has been torn to shreds by those who have tried
to remove from it pieces that were not to their liking There is no way you
can put this doll back together. Those damaged parts are damaged forever. My
bias at this time is that Haiti needs a fresh start, with a new revised
Constitution that everyone agrees to abide by. Elections at all costs? Yes
that
will satisfy the immediate aspirations and the ambitions of a few, will bring
them closer to the table where the meager haitian pig is being sacrificed, but
I am afraid the cost is going to be to high for mother Haiti in the long run.
Math Jay