27228: Dailey (Reply) to 27220 (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

Dailey (Reply) to 27220

The response to Daniel Simidor is a perfect example of the contempt for the 
truth that for years has been the distinguishing hallmark of the Haiti-Progres 
editorial page.

The Batay Ouvriye's memorable statement in December, 2003 that Fanmi Lavalas 
and the Group of 184 were "two rotten buttocks in the same torn pair of 
trousers," came rather late in the game and paled in comparison to the 
sustained campaign of criticism that the Haiti Prog directed at Aristide and FL 
during that paper's relatively brief Prague Spring. If the U.S. State 
Department was sending out checks to those who helped to bring Aristide down 
then Ben Dupuy would have received and cashed his long ago, with no more 
compunction than he showed when he was selling out the Abner Louima movement.

Contrary to Kim Ives's assertion, the Dennis Report contained irrefutable 
evidence that between 2001-04 the Aristide Foundation and other 
Aristide-controlled entities were used as a vehicle for laundering at least $17 
million- which Ives describes as "virtually nothing"- paid in by the Haitian 
Government and paid out to fictitious, non-existent entities and from them to 
off shore accounts. Another report establishes that during the same period $56 
million went missing or was misappropriated from the funds allocated to the 
Presidency. And these reports barely scratch the surface. Virtually everything 
Aristide, Mildred Aristide, and Mildred's brother-in-law Lesly Lavlanet were 
able to touch became riddled with corruption.

Although the Foundation books, such as they are, do not contain a list of 
payments to Rene Civil or Dupuy under the category "Political Thuggery," when 
Dupuy teamed up with Rene Civil in January, 1999 and sent the JPP out to 
strongarm shopkeepers and crack heads, the young activists readily admitted 
that they were being paid.

Why would we take money when we have our trust funds, Ives coyly asks? Who 
knows or cares. Dupuy's private income didn't prevent him from selling out the 
Abner Louima campaign to the New York City Police Department for chump change. 
Aristide knew exactly who he was dealing with.

My first glimpse of Chairman Ben was in New York approximately 25 years ago 
when he was a common sight prancing around Haiti-related meetings in his Nehru 
suit. Thanks to money from Ives's family, Dupuy was assured of never having to 
work another day in his life, and was already launched on his freelance career 
as a self-promoting bloviator. The Prog, Dupuy's tiny New York cult, and the 
non-existent political party in Haiti have never had a single purpose other 
than to provide a screen onto which Dupuy's ludicrous self-aggrandizing 
fantasies of political power and revenge could be projected.

And guess who's the little man behind the screen?

Peter Dailey