# 879: LET'S CHAT WITH BILL CLINTON TONIGHT ABOUT HAITI! (fwd)

[Robert Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>]

From: JEAN-BERNARD SYLVAIN <sylvainjb2000@hotmail.com>
Subject: LET'S CHAT WITH BILL CLINTON TONIGHT ABOUT HAITI!

IT'S TONIGHT! PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON WILL CHAT WITH US ONLINE FROM 
WWW.TOWNHALLMEETING.EXCITE.COM. BETWEEN 7:00-8:30p.m. EST. LET'S MAKE SURE 
THAT HAITI IS PART OF HIS AGENDA. JUST CUT AND PASTE THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE 
AND SEND IT WITH YOUR NAME TO THE PREZ. JUST ONE CLICK! OUR PEOPLE IN HAITI 
NEEDS IT!

Dear President Clinton:

In October of 1994, the international community, under your enlightened 
leadership, joined forces with the people of Haiti to allow President Jean 
Bertrand Aristide to return to his land and to continue his legitimate 
mandate.

Today, five years later, Haitians from across the social and economic 
spectrum share a profound disillusionment with the evolution of the 
political process in our country. Our hope for a democratic and a more 
modern society has been killed. Jean Bertrand Aristide and actual President 
Rene Preval have undermined all attempts to take Haiti to a brighter spot.  
Since the beginning of this year, Father Aristide and his “bands” have 
clearly demonstrated that they primarily rely on violence to meet their 
political ends. Father Aristide’s current posture against free and 
democratic elections in the country is a source of anxiety for all of us who 
still have family leaving in Haiti.

President Clinton, as a member of the Haitian-American community in New 
York, I want to call your attention, on the danger that the next elections 
will pose for our people in Haiti if Mr. Aristide and his thugs are left 
unchecked.  The memories of the bloody events that surrounded our first 
attempt to hold democratic elections in our country in 1987 are still fresh. 
Mr. President, once again, the Haitian people, inside and outside of the 
country,  would like to count on your solidarity to mobilize broad support 
against what used to be a popular leader who has now turned mad, and against 
the other round of violence that awaits the Haitian people on Election Day, 
in March of 2000.

Sincerely,


Jean Bernard Sylvain
SYLVAINJB2000@HOTMAIL.COM

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