27011: Saint-Vil (publication) My Haitian Brothers: Santa is a Sham ! says Kebindayiti (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

Abandon this Neocolonial Adventure!
by Jean St.Vil, December 24, 2005

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=55&ItemID=9392

"We cannot abandon Haiti again" wrote former Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister 
Barbara McDougall in a December 15th Globe & Mail article. However, far from 
abandonment, Canadian policy towards Haiti speaks of betrayal.

McDougall is with the Haiti International Assessment Committee established by 
the International Republican Institute (IRI), a Washington-based organization 
that is deeply implicated in the Haitian crisis.

In February 2001, as many as 5 days before Jean-Bertrand Aristide took the 
presidential oath in Haiti, the Washington Post revealed that IRI's 
"Convergence Democratique" is lobbying for a CIA-backed coup against the 
elected president .

« Convergence was formed as a broad group with help from IRI...it also includes 
former backers of the hated Duvalier family dictatorship and of the military 
officers who overthrew Aristide in 1991 ...The most determined of these 
men...express their desire to see the U.S. military intervene once again.... to 
get rid of Aristide and rebuild the disbanded Haitian army... the CIA should 
train and equip Haitian officers exiled in the neighboring Dominican Republic 
so they could stage a comeback themselves» (Washington Post, February 2, 2001).

Incredibly, this is exactly what happened 3 years later, in February 2004 ! A 
group of thugs trained and equipped by the CIA, led by Guy Philippe and 
Louis-Jodel Chamblain, crossed the Haiti - Dominican Republic border and 
prepared the way for U.S. Marines to enter the Haitian President's residence 
and complete the regime change, discussed and planned years in advance. 
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/marzo/mier31/14haiti.html

All the while the Canadian Armed Forces secured the Toussaint Louverture 
Airport to facilitate the U.S. Marines' dirty work.

The participation of IRI in the bloody February 2004 coup was so deep that the 
matter was debated in the U.S. Congress and, eventually, it did cost a U.S. 
Ambassador his job.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/history/2004/0716otherchange.htm

In her December 15th Globe & Mail article, Mrs. McDougall suggests that "the 
Haitian people deserve the continuing support of outsiders such as Canada". 
However, it was precisely in Canada that, one year prior to the coup, 
"outsiders" invited by Denis Paradis (Canadian Minister for la Francophonie) 
further elaborated on January 31 and February 1, 2003 how Haiti's President was 
to be overthrown, the country put under U.N. Tutelage, and the military 
resurrected (Vastel, L'Actualité, March 2003).

It would seem that "outsiders" have already contributed more than enough to 
Haiti's fortune !

Now, elections which were supposed to have taken place within 90 days of the 
change in government are facing major difficulties.

Last April, Ron Gould, a consultant with the Canadian International Development 
Agency (CIDA), wrote "the voter registration process is technology driven as a 
result of a decision of the Organization of American States." Gould, who openly 
worried about the "the high cost, high risk nature" of this decision given 
Haiti's lack of infrastructure, concluded still "there is no turning back.". 
Yet, as we had predicted, now that it is painfully obvious that the election 
registration process is a dismall failure, the benevolent "outsiders" are 
pointing the fingers of blame towards any and all Haitians, including the 
puppet regime they have imposed on the Haitian people. Tarzan can do no wrong 
in the jungle! (see Fair Elections in Haiti: Imagine the Possibilities, August 
2005 http://www.embassymag.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2005...)

Mrs. McDougall wrote: "the candidates list is being purged of drug dealers and 
other criminals... but it is hard to tell whether all the criminal elements 
have been eliminated". Definitely, Mrs. McDougall needs to be better informed 
about her organization and its relationship with known drug trafficker turned 
presidential candidate, Guy Philippe. During the lead up to the coup, in a May 
2003 article of Haiti-Progrès, one can read that "Stanley Lucas, an 
International Republican Institute operative based in the Dominican Republic, 
met with Philippe and his gang on Dominican soil". Then, earlier this morning, 
the Miami Herald published an article by Joe Mozingo where he states: "Two of 
Haiti's best-financed presidential candidates - Guy Philippe and Dany Toussaint 
- have long been linked to cocaine trafficking by U.S. Drug Enforcement 
Administration (DEA) officials. And a Senate candidate who's a nephew of 
interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue has close links to a gang that controls 
drug smuggling in the port of Gonaives, according to the Haitian and U.S. 
officials". http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13469273.htm

Really !? Who is fooling who here?

It is so hypocritical for Haiti's self-appointed foreign saviors to pretend 
that they are only now becoming aware of the credentials of their long time 
partners in crime, including the notorious Guy Philippe.

(please find out more about IRI's Stanley Lucas, Guy Philippe and the 2004 
Coup: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stanley_Lucas)

Some who are still puzzled by this ugly mess are, no doubt, asking themselves 
why in the world then, the United Nations would partake in what is evidently a 
shameful cover-up for a multinational and racist coup d'état?

The wise elder, Nelson (Madiba) Mandela, warned us in his farewell speech of 
May 10, 2004: "We see how the powerful countries, all of them so-called 
democracies, manipulate multilateral bodies to the great disadvantage and 
suffering of the poorer developing nations."

In less diplomatic terms, it is sad but safe to say, the U.N. has become 
nothing but a tool in the hands of crazy little men from rich countries who 
fantasize about establishing their own little colonies East, West, North and 
South.

"Tonton Nwèl se Malatchong tande timoun !" (kids you must know this: Santa 
Clauss is nothing but a sham !) said my wide-eyed 5 year old son. Good for him!

I would like one day to teach Kebindayiti how to sing happily "what a wonderful 
world!", but it would also have to be sincerely so.