28291: (reply) Chamberlain: 28276: Esser: Re: 28274 (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Greg Chamberlain <GregChamberlain@compuserve.com>

> You mention the film by a collaborator (relative?) of Jørgen Leth, the
disgraced Danish film maker
> According to a October 7, 2005 news release by the Danish foreign
ministry, which consequently revoked Mr. Leth's status as a Danish Consul
in Haiti and severed ties with him.


What has this got to do with the Cité Soleil film?

But since he mentioned J.Leth, Esser needs (as ever) to get his facts
straight.

The Danish foreign ministry pointed out in a statement as long ago as 11
January that the news release was NOT from the ministry but from an
independent, privately-owned news agency (Ritzau) and had simply been
posted routinely on Denmark's official information website, www.denmark.dk,
along with other daily material supplied by Ritzau.

It said the Ritzau release had been removed from the website because the
allegations in it were, in the view of the ministry, "not justified by the
contents" of Leth's book "or substantiated by any other information
available to us."  It said Leth "was relieved of his post at his own
request."

As for the rest of Esser's post and his familiar attempts to build
conspiracy theories and thus whitewash Aristide's regime, it's not worth
arguing with those who thirst only to believe and to fit facts to theories.


And we are still none the wiser about the origin of the absurd "Haiti death
project" nickname undoubtedly invented by "left-wing" foreigners keen to
instruct Haitians.  "The Uses of Haiti" indeed, as Paul Farmer wrote.

Ignored, as ever, is the very inconvenient fact that virtually the entire
Haitian Left who worked with Aristide broke with his regime.  But the
opinions and often courageous stands of these people are obviously worth
nothing beside those of the white foreign Left (WFL) comfortably living in
the US.  The WFL sadly can't use Wyclef's popularity for their own purposes
since he too appears to have taken an "incorrect line."



                Greg Chamberlain