[Also, listen to Mumia Abu Jamal on Black August, 2004:

http://www.prisonradio.org/audio/mumia/7_18_04august.mp3

http://www.sfbayview.com/2009/black-august-1791-bwa-kayiman/]

Until she spoke, no Christian nation had abolished Negro slavery.

Until she spoke, no Christian nation had given to the world an organized effort to abolish slavery.

Until she spoke, the slave ship, followed by hungry sharks, greedy to devour the dead and dying slaves flung overboard to feed them, ploughed in peace the South Atlantic, painting the sea with the Negro’s blood.

Until she spoke, the slave trade was sanctioned by all the Christian nations of the world, and our land of liberty and light included.

Men made fortunes by this infernal traffic, and were esteemed as good Christians, and the standing types and representations of the Savior of the World.

Until Haiti spoke, the church was silent, and the pulpit was dumb.
Slave-traders lived and slave-traders died.

Funeral sermons were preached over them, and of them it was said that they died in the triumphs of the Christian faith and went to heaven among the just.

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May 18 Flag day essay: Haiti is Africa’s soul and not for sale

By Ezili Dantò, May 18, 2012, for the FreeHaitiMovement

^{Chalermangne Peralte, assassinated by US Marines during the first U.S. occupation and then nailed to a door (Source: The Crucifixion of Emmanuel Drèd Wilmè during second US occupation of Haiti, April, 2005)}

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May 18, 2012 marks Haiti’s 209th flag day. The first Haitian flag lifting up Haiti’s independence was on May 18,1803 at Arcahaie. Those of us with conscience will spend the day exposing the Haitians helping in the imperial exploitation of Haiti and defending Haiti against this brutal US re-colonization. (See video, We would rather die standing.)

Haitians own more land than any other nationality in the Caribbean. But their lands are now being robbed. The Haitians from the Diaspora provide the platform
for Clinton, Bush, Obama and other members of the US-Euro corporatocracy to take Haiti lands. Haiti belongs to Haitians. It is our legacy. A sacred land, paid for in combat, in oceans of blood, rivers of sweat and tears and a thousand terrors. Paid for, in hard centuries of labor. Paid for in hard cash, again and again, even after independence. Paid for in centuries of struggle against neocolonoliasm, centuries of possession against all odds.

Haiti has provided sanctuary to the oppress, defended and freed many nations from Euro-US enslavement.

There is less violence in Haiti than in Washington D.C., Brazil, Mexico, Columbia, Bahamas, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Honduras. Than in most of the countries in the Western Hemisphere. (See UN Global Study on Homicide at pg 93.)

What’s a Chapter 7, peace enforcement UN mission doing in Haiti for over 8-years when there is no peace agreement to enforce, and when there’s more violence elsewhere in the hemisphere, including much more in Brazil who heads the UN mission?

Other than to maintain the white savior’s narcissistic, racist and very profitable narrative of white supremacy, the occupation of Haiti is for plundering Haiti’s Riches – oil, gold, silver, copper, iridium, deep water ports, fertile lands and to control Haiti’s strategic position. It’s been so, since 2004 with the current US occupation behind UN guns and Paul Farmer’s tool-of-war NGO missionaries.

But these perennial liars’ indecency and hypocrisy are boundless. So, since before the fall of the US-supported Duvalier dictatorships in 1986, the US has been bringing “hope,” democracy, development and human rights to Haiti. As intended, it has systematically manifested the exact opposite.

The newest, profit-over-people sweatshop hoax is Caracol, a sweatshop project masking US colonial expansion in the Northeast – its appropriation, in post-earthquake Haiti, of fertile lands and construction of a deep water port at Caracol, just 9 miles from Canada’s  flourishing gold mining operations.

The exploitation of Haiti’s riches – gold, copper, silver, deep-water ports, oil, natural gas, iridium, offshore Island like Latòti, Lagonav, Ilavach, Lanavaz; northern ports such as Fò Libète, Mòl-Sen-Nikola, Labadi – and the destruction of fertile lands in Haiti, continue in this second occupation unabated. There’s no dissent from the world’s moral arbiters like the religious institutions, the universities, the investigative establishments like the media or trend setters like the arts or the so-called progressive political parties. Until Haiti’s freedom fighters speak again, as in 1791, it seems that Haiti shall remain surrounded in an ocean of colonized nations and peoples who mostly accept the story they’re fed about Haiti and accept their own “better conditions” as the height of humankind’s marvelous progress.

The United Nation itself, the international arbiter of human rights in the world, gives the US its firepower cover and benevolent pretext in Haiti. The UN mercenary force is paid nearly $1 billion per year and gives over 14,000 jobs to foreigners in Haiti. Bill Clinton has been dispatched by Hillary Clinton at Obama’s State Department to fulfill Leclerc’s imperative through debt, privatization, unfair trade, UN occupation and wage slavery.

The US-Euros, descendants of the greatest enslavers to ever walk planet earth are back, since 2004, occupying the country that first abolished slavery and colonialism. They have mercilessly shocked, traumatized, pummeled and brought UN imported disease, Clinton-famine and Clorox hunger to Haitians while taking Haiti lands, riches and destroying the ecosystem.

Their foreign imported filth and indecency goes unabated.

The use of schooled Haitian-Americans and African- Americans – pretty smiling black faces like Michaëlle Jean (Special Envoy to Haiti for the United Nations), Cheryl Mills (Chief of Staff to Hillary Clinton), Susan Rice (United States Ambassador to the United Nations) -  cover up nicely the foreign robbery, such as the Caracol Parc larceny. Institutional racism and the all-consuming white supremacist’s philanthropic narrative does the rest.

More local Haitians are being muscled out of their fertile lands by blan – foreigners – than since the slavery era. The Clinton-Bush invaders are using the Haiti and black elites, colonized minds created in foreign lands, schooled by their colonial masters, who readily facilitate the continued plunder of Haiti – the buying of large tracts of Haitian lands.

The Caracol hoax, like SHADA (Haitian-American Society for Agricultural Development) during the first US occupation, is theft hidden behind the colonial pretext of giving jobs to disenfranchised Haitians. The fact that the 2004 US regime change disenfranchised Haiti is not a factor to consider.

In essence, there’s little difference between the Haitian-American collaborators (technocrats) in the first US occupation of Haiti (1915 to 1934) or in this on-going one (2004 -). Between Caracol or SHADA. (See a historical perspective on our website at “Caracol, SHADA: Hoax masking foreign appropriation of fertile Haiti lands. See also Corruption uninterrupted ; Haiti’s Hotel Boom: Only for the Rich ; Not voting for Obama: We’re not even buying a voting ticket to the show and Haiti servants of colonial power: The mercenary families.)

The graveyard or touted dream “development” of the US-Euros and their black servants is to make Haiti in the image of their other Caribbean tourist spots. A place where Haiti’s best lands are foreign owned and gated up from local intrusion and where the locals are simple backdrops, props for vacationing Northern tourists and for their sexual tourism. This is where Obama and the Clintons are taking Desalin’s Haiti.

Creating violence by killing and disappearing real Haiti community leaders, like Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, then allowing the arming of the disenfranchised and disillusioned youths and jobless former military, gives the US-Euros an enemy in Haiti for their UN guns.

The former army soldiers and Martelly’s youth militia are not criminalized as Emmanuel Drèd Wilmè and the Lavalas supporters were because they serve empire’s interests. Right now, for the eugenicist’s purposes, they will serve well the colonial blueprint to create conditions like Jamaica’s Trench Town.

The ex-soldiers are allowed to gather and assemble because this serves the “violent-Haiti” colonial narrative, deflect from the earthquake donation
dollars stolen or misused by the Clinton/Farmer/USAID NGO cadres. Gives their rapacious corporate media a Black evil to focus on instead of the UN murderers, pedophiles and the corrupt aid workers. Something to focus on until the fleecing is done. Then you won’t hear so loudly the media cries about Haiti’s violence. Just as you don’t hear there’s more violence in the Bahamas and Dominican Republic than there is in Haiti.

Creating Trench Town in Haiti means lots of guns and drugs shall be made available to the hungry, jobless and disenfranchised as it is in Brazil, Mexico, Columbia. Washington DC, Bahamas, and the Dominican Republic. The US-Euros simply won’t stop until they have raised Haiti’s violence levels for real. Once Haiti’s best lands, islands and resources are all stolen away from the poor and mostly foreign-owned as it is in the rest of the colonized Caribbean, then Haiti will no longer be a failed nation. No. It will be developed like the rest of the Caribbean. The “locals” will invisibly exist in virtually the same area as gated luxurious compounds, protected by heavily armed security, offering the latest in modern comforts and high-tech pleasures for tourists. This is the bourgeois graveyard or “development” the US-Euros and their servants want for Haiti.

But this is DESALIN’s descendants they’re facing.
Se pa kado, blan te fè nou. Se san Zansèt nou yo ki te koule - We didn’t get our independence through Paul Farmer’s NGO charity but in combat with the hard core Euro-US enslavers hidden behind the missionary’s false benevolence.

Haitians have been fighting from one generation to the next for their own
freedom. May 18 marks another flag day under occupation. But resistance is not futile. Nou pap bay legen – we shall never give in. (Photos: Transcending the 2002 Ottawa Initiative for Haiti ; Haiti reMEMBER victims of 2004 US Regime Change& US/UN occupation.)

Serving maids, gardeners and butlers for blan (foreigners). Clinton/Obama and the Haiti Oligarchs “development” for Haiti is Caribbean-style tourism where Haiti’s huddled masses are exotic backdrop, convenient bodies and props for privileged Northern tourists and Paul Farmer’s false benevolence. In the picture, Haiti Oligarch, Grégory Brandt, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Franco-haïtienne : “Mes enfants ont étudié à l’étranger mais ont choisi de revenir à Haïti malgré la situation. Et j’en suis très fier…” Crédits : Paolo Woods / Institute (Source: Les Nantis D’Haiti) ****

When people with integrity re-establish some conscience, justice and law in the US and in the world; when the US occupation of Haiti behind UN guns is duly removed. Then, Haiti UN cholera victims, coup d’etat victims, Paul Farmer’s poverty-pimping and money laundering NGOs, along with all their false progressives, now begging for “Haiti rights” from the UN killers and murderers, will also be duly judged and convicted.

The road to justice for Haitians seems endless. But sometimes we glimpse the light of conscience.

At last week’s war crimes tribunal in Malaysia, former UN Assistant Secretary General, Denis Halliday, who attended the trial, later told Press TV that the UN had been too weak during the Bush administration to enforce the Geneva Conventions.

“He said: ‘The UN is a weak body, corrupted by member states, who use the Security Council for their own interests. They don’t respect the charter. They don’t respect the international law. They don’t respect the Geneva Conventions… A redundant, possibly a dangerous, and certainly corrupted organization.’

Following the hearing, former Malaysian premier Mahatir said of Bush and
others: ‘These are basically murderers and they kill on large scale.’” –War Tribunal Finds Bush, Cheney Guilty of War Crimes

Maybe generations from now, maybe tomorrow, a Desalin Haitian will make a way out of no way to lay out Haiti’s case against the UN, the US regime changers, the Paul Farmer NGO rapists and the sniveling Haiti collaborators. On that day, we shall overcome all the May 18th flag days we’ve endured under US occupation behind UN guns.

In the meanwhile, Haiti’s defenders submit that Haiti lands are a sacred legacy. More inviolable than Harvard’s legacy admissions. Haiti belongs to Haitians and must stay that way so to also give refuge to those fleeing oppression as outlined in Desalin’s 1805 Constitution.

The earth, mountains and lakes in Haiti are the hearts, sinew and bones of the Ancestors. Their Descendants’ communal (Lakou/Konbit) ownership is paid for, in full.

This sacred highland we own wasn’t bought on passive income from the slave trade. It was paid for in Africa souls going back to lè marasa, lè mòt e lè mistè. Haiti is a protected legacy, birthed in liberty, not for sale.

Ezili Dantò
Larouze fè banda toutan soley pa leve
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN)

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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
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“The white saviors and corporate media have ignored HLLN’s points made about Haiti riches for 8-years, summarily ignoring the Haiti grassroots concerns about the economic reasons for the 2004 Bush Regime change. To acknowledge Haiti riches available to be used to elevate the people from containment in poverty would not promote their poverty pimping and colonial narrative for “saving” poor-and-without-resources-Haiti.

In particular, HLLN has been the only human rights and public advocacy organization to warn of the one-percenters’ desire to take Caracol, Fort Liberte and other Northern Haiti ports, Islands and Northern riches. All, in complicity with the UN, Haiti technocrats from abroad, Duvalierist puppets and the local oligarchs. The US occupation behind the NGO invasion and UN military. allows the likes of Bill Clinton, George Bush and their global partners to carry forth with the old US notion of building oil refineries and use of Fort Liberte as a transshipment terminal for US supertankers. (See, Article on Majesco Haiti mining proves a point only Ezili’s HLLN has made and Majescor mining flourishes in post-quake Haiti .)

As a result of these US free trade policies, over 830,000 rural Haitian jobs were lost and hundreds of thousands of Haitians were forced into the capital looking for work, where they would eventually meet up with the massive earthquake and death on January 12, 2010 at 4:53. Today Obama, the Clintons, Suzan Rice and Cheryl Mills want Haitians to be grateful for PROMISES of future 20,000 sweatshop jobs built on fertile Caracol lands that displaced more small farmers.

Displacing Haiti farmers enriches US and DR farmers as Haiti must import its food. Thousands of tons of rice, wheat, chickens , eggs, beef, pork, cheese is imported, each year, from the United States or from the Dominican Republic. An estimated $800million is spent by Haiti on imported food, mostly monies coming from Diaspora remittances going directly to the Haiti oligarchy overlords who never reinvest their capital (the Diaspora remittances) locally. But immediately repatriates this capital back into the US-Euro corporatocracy or offshore banks.

Haiti food doesn’t need mass infrastructure build-up, could easily be mass produced. But such an effort would not benefit foreign farmers, large-agribusiness, the NGOs nor the shipping companies. It’s not in the interest of US businessmen and Dominican farmers. Hence, Haiti spends 70% of its income on importing food.

Disenfranchise the huddled masses with US regime change, destroy Haiti’s manufacturing base and its food sovereignty, then fool the schooled and panting-for-Western-approval-Haitian, like the UN’s Michael Jean, Gary Conille or Gerald Latortue, that its their job to convince a starving and impoverished population that serving Pina Colada to clueless tourists is a dream opportunity. To not jump at this sweet opportunity is shameful, definitely evidences a lack of insight on the part of the huddled masses, opines the collaborators! The Chalabies of Haiti con their patrons to believe that all he/she has to do is get them into a well-paid public position in Haiti or abroad and they’ll bring the country to him lock, stock and barrel. Their success is an incremental, piecemeal affair, likewise Haiti’s slow, agonizing  death.

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^{“…although the oppressed often do revolt, the object of their hostility is misplaced. They vent their fury on a political puppet, someone who masks colonial power, a despised racial or ethnic group or an apostate within their own political class. The useless battles serve as an effective mask for what Gamer calls the “patron-client” networks that are responsible for the continuity of colonial oppression. The squabbles among the oppressed, the political campaigns between candidates who each are servants of colonial power, Gamer writes, absolve the actual centers of power from addressing the conditions that cause the frustrations of the people. Inequities, political disenfranchisement and injustices are never seriously addressed.”
( Colonized by Corporations )}

5% in Haiti own 98% of wealth #Haiti Oligarchy & the World Profit-Over-People
System http://bit.ly/aKkrR4

The Subcontracted Haitians – #Haiti overseers
http://bit.ly/efu95l

Une Bourgeoisie déracinée!
http://bit.ly/L1irJE

Haiti servants of colonial power:
The mercenary families
http://bit.ly/8Mz4Z

Not voting for Obama: We’re not even buying a voting ticket to the show
http://bit.ly/IMdxoL

HLLN analysis of Times’ cholera article

Corruption uninterrupted in Haiti

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Haiti Oligarchy- Mercenary Families
Haiti’s Enslavement: The Ruling Oligarchy and World Profit-over-People System, Part 1. ;
Some of the Coup D’etat Haitians – The Subcontracted Haitians
Inside the CIA (Covert Action in Haiti, Guatemala

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Mexican activist : We didn’t have a violence problem until the government intervention, until a war was declared on drugs.”

Not voting for Obama: We’re not even buying a voting ticket to the show

I speak my heart and mind on this. In 2008, Ezili’s HLLN supported a vote for Obama, not because we entirely believed the Obama fairytale (See, The America I Know, 2008.)

We supported a vote for Obama in 2008 for both pragmatic and idealistic reasons. But more so because eight years of Bush and the application of the Wall Street deregulation excesses left over from Bill Clinton and others had reached a crescendo point that was shockingly, brutally horrible and demoralizing for the entire world. But we also campaigned and urged a vote for Obama, despite his apparent selection by one-percenter forces, because the symbolic victory and metaphoric narrative of “The Whitehouse: From Sally Hemings to Michelle Obama” was a powerful and compelling vision we wished to participate in bringing to a reality for the human race. (That sentiment was expressed in this essay - I Don’t Know this America…But I’m Most Happy to Meet It .)

So, Ezili’s HLLN actively campaigned for getting rid of the Republicans that had presided over the 1991 and 2004 unconstitutional regime changes in Haiti. We campaigned so that Obama would give Haiti temporary protected status (TPS), end deportations, stop unfair trade, promote democratic elections in Haiti, value and invest in the Diaspora remittances for reform in Haiti instead of tied-aid to NGOs, end the US occupation of Haiti behind UN guns, provide relief to Main Street in America, universal health care, social justice, stop torture, end the resource wars abroad. (See, Towards A New US-Haiti Partnership: What Haitian Americans Ask of the New US President and Congress.)

Instead, for instance, it took the earthquake which ended the lives of 310,000 Haitians before front man, Barack Obama, deigned to give limited TPS and stop deportations. Then less than a year later he re-started deportations even with UN-imported cholera ravages and failed aid to the earthquake victims. But

George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton

Obama would soon destroy even the tiny scraps of good he brought with TPS by unleashing Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton on Haiti’s head for the duration, not to mention the Bush-Clinton partnership for earthquake “relief”. (Corruption uninterrupted and Haiti’s Hotel Boom: Only for the Rich.)

We wrote then our dissent. “Give us a 100 hard right-wing Republicans to face any day. Keep the namby pamby Democrats or progressive left selling their constituents out in the name of some mythical, so-called bipartisanship. They are the worst and most dangerous enablers of neoliberal globalization masturbating on the poor’s imposed pain, poverty and suffering.” (See Obama’s offered HOPE is sweatshop slavery ; Since before the fall of the US-supported Duvalier dictatorships in 1986, the US has been bringing “hope” to Haiti. The newest, profit-over-people sweatshop hoax is Caracol, a sweatshop project masking the foreign appropriation of fertile Haiti lands and deep water ports.)

Today, any politician who uses the word “hope” and “change” – as in, “I am the change you’re looking for” – is unable to waste our time with US perverted elections whatsoever. The whole system is corrupt. Integrating with injustice is no longer an option. Obama was the straw that broke the camel’s back for us. Truly, his tenure has hurt our hearts in so many ways. Not least of which is the fact that a Black man has become number one superpower overseer of the profit-over-people paradigm.

Ezili’s HLLN will not be supporting Obama’s reelection. We suggest conscious folks nix the political theater of the Republicans and Democrats, concentrate on local self-reliance, local community building, local people empowerment, local building of relevant educational, health care, local food sovereignty, local production, local work and local communication self-sufficiency infrastructures. Don’t count on any government to “save you”.  Not happening folks, not with perverted electoral politics, whether you’re in the US or Haiti.

The corporations have bought out the politicians and they’re about servicing Wall Street, giving corporate welfare, maintaining their jobs at ALL cost.

Obama’s betrayal of core justice values, cuddling Wall Street instead of making it accountable, just to get re-elected cannot sufficiently be offset by general fear of the Republican’s Supreme Court nominations. We must speak truth to power, live without fear. And the Supreme Court has presided over a judiciary that disproportionately favors the wealthy, puts more Black men into the prison system than anywhere else in the world for nonviolent crimes such as being addicted to “inhaling.”

Moreover, what has the Supreme Court done for Main Street lately anyhow? Or, to preserve its objectivity, its reputed sacredness? Like the Democratic and Republican members of Congress, the folks at the Supreme Court are a reflection of the times. They have simply become an arm of the global corporatocracy, giving more human rights to corporations than to human beings. Supreme Court appointments are simply not a sufficiently important issue to vote Democrat.

The old dog – “vote-for-the-lesser-of-the-two-evils” argument no longer has traction – won’t hunt. People, of all ethnicities, are tired of dealing with evil. Period.

If being a “pragmatist” or a “realist” means choosing only amongst evil, count us OUT.

The US-Euro pragmatic philosophy has a place, brings lots of comfort, but it is also responsible for the myopic resource wars and prevalent loss of the human soul amongst the schooled peoples worldwide, not to mention the rut and perennial impasse we’re in with perverted US electoral politics. Fact is, the US voting rights our Ancestors fought and died for, are redistricted out of legitimacy at the whim of the more wealthy and more powerful. And that’s LEGAL!

I am envisioning another world.

Not integrating with injustice.

Obama betrayed the American voters who expected he would not gut the US Constitution. But he has. And, some of us here at HLLN are lawyers.

This writer herself is a member of two US State bars where the oath I made was to protect the US Constitution. Moreover, as a born-Haitian -  with a legacy to reach for  -  who has spent what seems a lifetime advocating against the US destruction of legitimate elections in Haiti, against the US and the wealthy’s support of apartheid and ethnocide in Haiti, against US destruction of the 1987 Haiti Constitution with illegal US regime changes in Haiti, as an advocate who has had to deal with the poor Haitians’ indiscriminate indefinite detention simply because the US and Haiti’s repugnant undemocratic forces suspect these poor voted and supported Lavalas, I find NOTHING redeeming about the Constitutional lawyer, named Barack Obama. (President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Into Law ; Activists sue Obama, others over National Defense Authorization Act ; Obama’s abysmal record on civil liberties; Obama re-authorizes the Patriot Act ; Obama Supports – sweeping intelligence surveillance -FISA Legislation ; Obama preserves renditions ; Obama Endorses Bush Secrecy On Torture And Rendition.)

It’s simply unforgivable on so many levels that Barack Obama went further than George W. Bush in denying human rights and social justice to US and world peoples, like Haitians. Under the Obama tenure, indefinite military detention of U.S. citizens is lawful in the land of the free and home of the brave and Haitians are saddled with George W. Bush and Bill Clinton to help us become more a democratic and stable Black nation! Susan Rice takes over the role Colin Powell played for the Bushes while Cheryl Mills is out there pushing the Duvalierist agenda in Haiti previously championed by Bill Clinton’s commerce secretary, the late Ron Brown.

Yes racism against Obama exist. No doubt. But, Obama ruined his own integrity by betraying the hopeful world who wished respite from empire’s invasions, narcissism, resource wars, denial of social justice and land grabs behind the do-gooder facade. Obama especially betrayed the weary American people who voted for him. Yes, Obama probably will win again over Romney. The powers that be are very satisfied with the pretty Black family mask of US imperialism and Americans, of all ethnicities, are programmed for the fairytale narrative and for suburban amnesia; would rather have comfort to liberty.

Obama will most likely win again because denial is easier than the hard reality of Obama’s betrayal of Main Street and championing of corporate welfare for Wall Street. Under Obama, like it was under Bill Clinton, the one-percenters continued their white supremacist and land/resource grabbing invasions and betrayal of Africa, continued the perennial US war in Haiti, against the poor worldwide, against countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, et al…

Obama did not bring American soldiers home but started other wars. Both parties are the same. And, in a world of infinite possibilities we choose not between the lesser of two evil. In fact, those of us who are not into denial and work at the human-rights front lines prefer to face the Republican snake head-on then the confused and gutless Democrat chameleon whining about being a progressive when it is NOT.

There’s no difference between the two US political parties, except one is more direct in its tyranny against the most vulnerable amongst us. The other hides behind pseudo liberalism and gives us Clintonesque deregulation, NAFTA unfair trade and loss of US jobs, gutting Glass-Steagal to serve the Goldman Sachs cadres, Welfare-to-Work when all work has flown overseas where US superpower might makes sure there’s no minimum wage, no human rights, unions or respect for Black and Brown life.

Whoever is in charge of the profit-over-people paradigm, Democrat or Republican, Ezili’s HLLN will be confronting 24/7. Full time. Frankly we prefer watching the Democrats in the opposition to the Republicans opposing EVERYTHING that they sat by and watch OBAMA preside over. There’s much less emotional tie-in for me there. If that means facing Romney, and that is some sort of Armageddon, so be it. Bring it on.

But there are other choices, like everyone NOT showing up for this theater and nullifying the elections. Envision that. A courageous electorate that stops believing things must stay as they are with the duopoly. Just imagine it.

Yes indeed I am a dreamer. Nothing changes without risk. Pragmatism is just a cop-out. Since it doesn’t matter who we vote for, best to make a statement. I think that’s pragmatic. More so than voting for Obama, the more effective evil servicing U.S.-Euro neo-feudalism.

Share your thoughts with us on this position.

With respect,
Ezili Dantò
May 4, 2012
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See: May 5th: [ezilidanto] 12 Ezili Listserve comments on : Not voting for Obama
May 10th: [ezilidanto] Comment #13 to 21  on : Not voting for Obama
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The Obama Deception
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln is quoted to have said the following: “The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarch, more insolent than autocracy and more selfish than a bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at the rear is my greatest foe.” Today, the PRIVATE Federal Reserve Bank runs the US economy and is above the law – no other agency of the US government can overule its actions – according to Alan Greenspan.

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Zeitgeist Addendum

“We send this out yearly for those who haven’t yet watched it, mostly because of the first part of the  documentary that details how the monetary system and corporatocracy works; how the profit-over-people system is fueled by artificially-kept scarcity in an abundant world. This, to get you re-thinking some of what you were taught. Take what you can, leave what you can’t fit into your mind or reference points. The posting is not meant to confer our support to the notion, espoused in the latter parts of the video, that technology is the only agent for sustainable world change. Universal comfort and technological consumption cannot replace human ethics, conscience or values that define human-ness such as compassion, empathy, elevation of beauty, community, universal connection, fairness, justice, equality and the importance of public engagement, purpose and service to human dignity. Besides, having a global economic system that would put people-before-profit, perhaps a legal structure where human beings and not just capital had human rights and maybe could freely move around the globe without undue restraints. Just a thought. There may be many agents working together that might bring about a better world. Life is not static, reality is constantly in motion – emergent – as the video points. Old patterns, obsolete and illogical assumptions should not still be readily accepted.” –Ezili Dantò of HLLN

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The Washington Post reported that “At least seven hotels are under construction or are in the planning stage in Port-au-Prince and its surrounding areas, raising hopes that thousands of investors will soon fill their air-conditioned rooms looking to build factories and tourist infrastructure that will help Haiti bounce back from a 2010 earthquake that officials say claimed 300,000 lives. Some damaged hotels are undergoing renovations.” Some of the new hotels currently under construction include the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund’s pet project, the Royal Oasis hotel, in addition to a Best Western, Marriott International, and perhaps most controversially, a proposed hotel and conference centre built and maintained by the Red Cross.

The proposed hotel is to be located on part of a $10.5 million property that was purchased after the 2010 earthquake. The organization stated that it hopes that the profits generated from the hotel would sustain the work of Haiti’s own Red Cross in the future. Daniel Borochoff, the president of CharityWatch—an organization which monitors and evaluates non-profit organizations said that the plan for the hotel is not only unusual, but also risky due to the chance of the property losing money. Furthermore, Borochoff discussed the fundamental lack of transparency involved in a charitable organization undertaking such a project, remarking that “What would happen if donors learned that instead of giving money to treat cholera or build shelters, it’s going to build a hotel? I understand it’s an investment, but that takes some explaining.”

The $10.5 million that went towards the purchase of the property is highly questionable on many levels, especially when the Red Cross’ primary responsibility is delivering humanitarian assistance during emergencies—and one would think that Haiti’s ongoing cholera epidemic would qualify as such. Without a doubt, the money would be better directed to building permanent housing for those still in the tent camps, or as part of a larger initiative to bring clean water and sanitation services to the most affected areas. The development of such a system is the only sustainable way that Haiti will be able to rid itself of the UN-imported epidemic which has to date claimed more than 7,000 lives.

Looking for news stories detailing any progress in reducing the housing emergency for the Haitian people and not the investors are few and far between, with the most recent announcements by U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Merten about the construction of two housing projects hiding some important details. Ambassador Merten was recently on hand to announce the awarding of two construction contracts to USAID, the first concerning the development of 750 units of earthquake and hurricane resistant, housing on the Caracol-Ekam site in Haiti’s Northern Development Corridor, and 156 units in Cabaret, to the north of the Port-au-Prince.

In a separate article in USA Today, it became much clearer why Caracol-Ekam was chosen as a site for the housing development, as “One of the biggest foreign investments in Haiti is an industrial park under construction in the north that’s scheduled to begin garment production in September. The giant $300 million Caracol industrial park will be run by South Korean manufacturer, Sae-A Trading Co. Ltd., and is expected to bring an initial 20,000 jobs to the remote area.”

The vast majority of the 20,000 jobs at Caracol will be low paying, garment assembly positions, where workers will struggle to make a new beginning on $3 per day (the current minimum wage for Haitian sweatshop workers). In many ways the dire economic situation of the half million displaced, in addition to the country’s high unemployment rate provides an unfortunate situation where there is significant competition over these jobs, providing little political incentive to raise the minimum wage.

In many ways, the earthquake created a situation that will lock in the unfavorable conditions that U.S. and Haitian garment manufacturers had been fighting for many years. Wikileaks cables published by Haiti Liberté and The Nation revealed that in 2009, “Contractors for Fruit of the Loom, Hanes, and Levi’s worked in close concert with the U.S. Embassy when they aggressively moved to block a minimum wage increase for Haitian assembly zone workers, the lowest-paid in the hemisphere, according to secret State Department cables.”

The reconstruction effort in Haiti has revealed through the prioritization of upscale hotels and housing for sweatshop workers that it is not about addressing the needs of the vulnerable first, but of wealthy multinational and Haitian investors first, and perhaps the people a very distant second, only if profitable and convenient. With the team of Bill Clinton, who helped to destroy the Haitian rice industry, and Caribbean agriculture more generally—and George Bush, whose economic track record speaks for itself—it becomes more clear that the reconstruction effort in Haiti is faithfully following trickledown economic policies that have worked wonders in increasingly inequality across the globe.

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(Editor’s Note: Scroll down for the French original of this article. English translation by Doumafis Lafontan for HLLN, May 1, 2012.

The article outlines the similarities between SHADA (Haitian-American Society for Agricultural Development) clear-cutting, stripping fertile Haiti forests and lands to plant rubber and sisal for US market , creating hunger, destroying peasantry, their farms and Haiti’s ecosystem during the first US occupation with today’s second US occupation and Bill Clinton(UN)/Obama administration’s Caracol development in the North of Haiti. In the new book SHADA: Chronicle of an extravagant scam, Haiti scholar, Professor Myrtha Gilbert details US destruction of Haiti domestic agriculture, forest lands, peasantry wealth and ecosystem beginning with SHADA. See Ezili Dantò’s counter-colonial narrative on Haiti’s deforestation ; The Avatar Movie from a Black perspective by Ezili Dantò and Article on Majesco Haiti mining proves a point only Ezili’s HLLN has made. Since before the fall of the US-supported Duvalier dictatorships in 1986, the US has been bringing “hope” to Haiti. The newest, profit-over-people sweatshop hoax is Caracol, a sweatshop project masking the foreign appropriation of  fertile Haiti lands and deep water ports.)

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Haiti / USA: The story of Shada, a reflection of an immediate reality of dependence

By Karenina Francesca Théosmy for AlterPress
April 27, 2012, Source: AlterPresse

English translation by Doumafis Lafontan for HLLN, May 1, 2012

P-au-Prince, April 27, 2012 [Source: AlterPresse] — “Shada, chronicle of an extravagant scam” is the title of the new book by Myrtha Gilbert, a university professor and researcher, who tries to breakthrough to the roots of poverty and economic dependence in Haiti.

Photos of the Zili Dlo project on the EziliNetwork, our FB pages, Flickr and on our blogs, taken August 2011 for our Bwa Kayiman.

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This summer, for Bwa Kayiman 2012

Join Ezili’s HLLN in partnership to help transfer skills to form new Haiti solar engineers producing renewable energy-powered products; to educate our Haiti communities on prevention, boiling their water if possible and if not, on the four ways of solar disinfecting water, killing pathogens including cholera, with solar power.

Be part of the solution to create infrastructure in Haiti: clean water, sanitation solutions, electricity, communication with Haiti rural women as solar engineers. (See, Bunker Roy: barefoot movement.

Our project, Zili Dlo: Clean Water for everyone in Haiti, uses a solar run water filtration and purification system that has the capacity to make 30,000 gallons of clean water per day. Our system is integrated. Could supply electricity and communication but we use it for filtration and purification only at the moment, which we’re fundraising to maximize by getting water trucks to increase distribution (Photos of project – Support Zili Dlo: Dlo pwòp pou tout moun – Zili Dlo: clean water for everyone in Haiti. Make a donation at this link.)

Ezili’s HLLN proactively pushes solar power to make Haiti’s rural women and urban poor less dependent on the NGOs and non-renewable energy.

WATCH THIS VIDEO and envision barefoot solar engineers for Haiti.

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Be part of solution: Support Zili Dlo’s solar programs for clean water and generating power from the sun. (See,  Zili Dlo – Clean Water for Haiti ;  Zili Dlo Photos .)

Zili Dlo wishes to expand, not only  the Zili Dlo water cleaning with sun-powered filtering and purification, but the type of training and skills transfer, for instance, that the Barefoot College in India has done. We’ve reached out to their contact person and are studying their process. Ezili’s HLLN envisions Haiti grandmothers planting and pressing Jathropa for biofuel, grandmothers building necessary appliances like solar cookers to cook without

charcoal, batteries, wood or kerosene; having a renewable energy way  (solar panels) to re-charge cell phones, light a desk lamp, run radios, TVs, make easier mobile phone money transfers. We envision Haiti grandmothers having the training to build solar panels, solar powered lamps and promoting Haiti solar programs such as their rural electronic workshops,  Rain Water Harvesting, rooftop rain water harvesting, solar powered desalination and other barefoot college training for Haiti women. We envision that Haiti’s impoverished women will know how to electrify their  households with solar lighting units and assume the responsibility of repair and maintenance in rural and urban communities. (The women bringing solar power to Sierra Leone; African Huts Far From the Grid Glow With Renewable Power; Video: Alternative Pour Haiti Energie Solaire ;  Mobile Money in Haiti.)

Clean Water is life and Health for Haiti: Support Haiti-led, Haiti-capacity building. Support Zili Dlo – Clean Water for Everyone in Haiti.  An education on the use of the sun’s renewable energy would bring forward a self-confident and self-reliant Haiti. Zili Dlo envision harnessing the power of Haiti’s sun for clean water, electricity, communication, domestic production and relevant jobs.  This summer, help Ezili’s HLLN provide opportunities and transfer relevant skills to form new Haiti solar engineers. Envision barefoot solar engineers for Haiti.

Join our fundraising committee or book an Ezili Dantò presentation to learn more about Zili Dlo. Help Ezili’s HLLN raise funds to finance education for Haiti’s solar engineers and water trucks for more clean water delivery for our communities. Write to
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The Haiti women who run and benefit from Zili Dlo

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Human Rights lawyer Ezili Dantò is dedicated to correcting the media lies and colonial narratives about Haiti. A writer, performance poet and lawyer, Ezili Dantò is founder and president of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN). For updates, join the Ezili HLLN’s Listserve. Learn more at the website .

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An Indian college has trained 12 Sierra Leonean women to become solar engineers as part of a drive to bring electricity to rural communities

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Une autre vision sur Jean-Jacques Dessalines

Par Jacques Casimir (Pasteur d’Amoulio), majac14@hotmail.com
(Another vision of Jean-Jacques Dessalines by Jacques Casimir)

Les Vaincus n’écriront jamais l’histoire des vainqueurs. S’ils le font, c’est d’une manière hideuse, tronquée et falsifiée, pour nous montrer qu’ils ont toujours le dernier mot. Ils ont mis en avant Toussaint Louverture captif au fort de Joux où la France a décidé de son sort

Ils l’ont surnommé le Spartacus noir, avec raison, puisque Rome a eu la tête de Spartacus, comme Napoléon et la France ont eu celle Toussaint Louverture. Ce que la France n’avait pas compris, c’est que les racines étaient profondes et nombreuses . Pour une fois regardons l’histoire avec nos propres yeux et non pas avec ceux du colon. Exemple: Le bon vieux roi Dagobert a mis sa culotte à l’envers on ne portait pas de culottes au VII° siècle, ces dernières étant apparues vers le XVI° siècle, soit près de 1000 ans après le règne de Dagobert ». Si les français ne disent pas la vérité sur leur propre histoire. Qu’en ont-ils fait et que feront-ils de la nôtre?

Qu’en est –il de Jean Jacques Dessalines ou Jean Jacques Des salines? Celui, sur qui la France a toujours essayé de porter ombrage, parce qu’il les a vaincus militairement. Il a forcé le général Rochambeau des Armées de Napoléon à la reddition. Qui était vraiment cet homme? Jean-Jacques Dessalines a marqué l’histoire de l’humanité, il est le premier à faire tomber le mythe de l’invincibilité de l’homme blanc . Il fut le vainqueur qui n’a pas fait de compromis et qui ne devait rien à personne. Il vécut une jeunesse particulièrement difficile. Ce fut un esclave rebelle, illetré souvent marron. Son corps, dit-on, était couvert des cicatrices laissées par les verges cloutés. Il se révolta constamment contre l’inégalité qui régnait à Saint-Domingue et se révéla d’une brutalité impitoyable. Bien que dépourvu de formation intellectuelle, c’était un homme sauvage»: C’est le point de vue colonial Français

Ordonnance concernant les salines de la colonie de St Domingue. Du 26 mai 1788 – (Port-au-Prince : Imprimerie De Mozard, 1788). Par Vincent, Alexandre De Maréchal et François Barbé De Marbois, conseiller du Roi. Ce prospectus unique, indique le départ de l’esclave Jean-Jacques Des Salines, charpentier et lettré pour les plantations à l’intérieur des terres, un agitateur rebelle qu’il faut surveiller. Donc nous savons qu’il travaillait dans les salines d’où la provenance du nom Dessalines. Et les marques sur son corps était le résultat du sel au contact avec sa peau. L’esclave n’a pas de père, il prend le nom du maître de la plantation, il a travaillé dans les salines. Donc, Des salines est devenu Dessalines.

Le manuscrit suivant indique le recensement des esclaves artisans d’où figure le nom du charpentier Jean-Jacques Des salines qui pouvait calculer la traverse et la charpente des toits. A croire ce qui est écrit, le mythe qu’il était illettré vient de tomber. (REF: Extrait des registres du Conseil Supérieur de Saint-Domingue, Du 30 janvier 1789, Port-au-Prince: Chez Bourdon, Imp. Du Roy, 1789. p.15 Note: Concerne l’obligation de l’inventaire et vérification de chaque année des relevées des registres. Donné au P-au-P. Signé par De Marbois et Fougeron. )

Pompée Valentin Baron Vastey, surnommé le Baron de Vastey, cousin d’Alexandre Dumas, est le premier historien haitien à écrire un livre sur l’histoire d’Haiti après l’indépendance en 1819 – Auteur, le baron de Vastey , titre Essai sur les causes de la révolution et des guerres civiles d’Hayti 1819 – Cette publication et certaines notes compilées de l’auteur confirment que l’empereur savait lire et écrire. Ce manuel d’histoire est considéré comme une oeuvre majeure dans l’histoire d’Haiti.Tous ces archives Rares sont consignés en plusieurs volumes dont certains sont cachés volontairement ou disparus, pour que les falsificateurs vaincus puissent continuer à diffuser que nos ancêtres qui ont mis dehors les armées de Napoléon étaient des illétrés et des sauvages. (REF: LOIS ET CONSTITUTIONS DE SAINT-DOMINGUE/VOLUME 7 par Moreau de St Méry EXTRAIT DES REGISTRES DU CONSEIL SUPÉRIEUR DE SAINT-DOMINGUE. REF: Thomas Madiou, Titre Histoire d’Haiti, tome VI, 1847.)

Une lettre diplomatique d’une valeur inestimable que Dessalines a écrit lui même au président Thomas Jefferson en février 1804, pour demander la reconnaissance de l’indépendance d’Haïti et l’établissement des relations diplomatiques resta sans réponse. Le président Thomas Jefferson n’y a jamais donné suite. Ce manuscrit se trouve sous scellé aux archives de la présidence des États-Unis. Il est classé hors temps. Sous aucun prétexte, personne ne peut le déclassifier.

Pour votre gouverne, il y a 3 types de documents classifiés: Les documents secrets qu’on peut déclassifier après 50 ans. Les documents top secrets, généralement militaires, rarement déclassifiés. Les documents classifiés hors temps, sous scellés, que nul ne peut jamais déclassifiér pour raisons d’État.

Jefferson était un anti-haïtien notoire reconnu. Il avait aligné les puissances européennes, dans un effort pour isoler Haïti. Ainsi, son administration a envoyé de l’aide pour les blancs français de St Domingue bien avant de de débattre de l’opportunité de l’embargo des États-Unis sur Haïti. Ce qui fut imposé en 1805. Il a initialement exprimé au chargé d’affaires français Louis A. Pichion, envoyé par Talleyrand pour entreprendre une campagne de désinformation contre Dessalines, à savoir : que les États-Unis étaient opposés a l’indépendance de l’ile sous domination noire. «Je voudrais voir, disait-il, que l’autorité de la France soit rétablie à Saint-Domingue». (REF: Matthewson, Tim (Summer 1982). REF: Auteur Abraham Bishop, Titre “The Rights of Black Men,” and the American Reaction to the Haïtian Revolution. The journal of negro REF: Auteur – Matthewson, Tim , Jefferson et la non reconnaissance d’Haiti Actes de l’américan philosophical society (Mars 1996). Voir: Ma chronique: Où est la malédiction..)

Le livre mentionné ci-haut en Pièces jointes, Titre: Etude et solution nouvelle de la question Haitienne par Le Pelletier De Saint-Rémy, Auditeur du Conseil d’Etat édité en Deux tomes en 1846 où l’auteur confirme sa correspondance et des lettres écrites des mains de Dessalines lui-même prouve encore une fois que l’empereur n’était pas un sauvage illétré. Mentionnons que Le Pelletier De Saint-Rémy, procureur du roi de France, est resté après l’indépendance et a servi comme avocat des cours impériales de l’ouest et du sud d’Haiti. Encore une preuve qu’il n’avait pas massacré tous les français restés en Haiti. Document numérisé le 1er juin 2007 par L’Université de Havard.

Voici un autre ouvrage extrêmement rare, de plusieurs tomes : Les mémoires de Toussaint Louverture écrit par lui-même. Le général Louverture avait choisi Dessalines comme premier lieutenant et adjoint, disait-il, parce qu’il était le plus apte à transmettre ses ordres par écrit. Toussaint Louverture ne voulait pas l’indépendance d’Haïti. Il voulait l’égalité des droits de tous les citoyens de St Domingue en devenant gouverneur général de l’île et en restant au service de la France. D’ailleurs les accusations portées contre lui, ne font aucunement mention de sécession. Il voulait rétablir l’ordre ancien, c’est à dire le rétablissement de l’esclavage. Lors de son arrivé en France, l’une de ses premières demandes était de rencontrer le général en chef Napoléon Bonaparte, qu’il reconnaissait comme son supérieur Hiérarchique. (REF: Mémoires de Toussaint Louverture écrit par lui-même rapporté par Saint Rémy, avocat des cours impériales de l’ouest et du sud (Pagnerre Librairie Editeur 18 rue de Seine1835. REF: Mémoire de Napoléon écrite sous sa dictée par un de ses valets de chambre (Paris – Librairie Rue Dauphine, No 30, An-1829.)

Le film Toussaint Louverture est un scandale qu’il faut dénoncer. C’est une intoxication trafiquée de l’histoire pour encore discréditer l’empereur J-J.Dessalines sous les trait de l’assassin de Biassou. Comment des historiens haitiens ont pu cautionné cette farce? Dessalines n’a jamais exécuté Biassou et voici les preuves:

En 1796 quand Toussaint Louverture a changé de camp en changeant d’allégeance de l’Espagne à la France, certains combattants qui sont restés fidèle à l’Espagne ont été chassé par Louverture, tels que: Biassou, Jean francois, Marc saint Dié qui est devenu Marcos Sanchez Diaz le fondateur et gouverneur de la ville de Livingston au Guatémala. (VOIR, ma chronique: Nos frères d’Amérique centrale.)

Les Espagnols décidèrent alors de les utiliser en Amérique centrale, où la présence noire était presque inexistante en comparaison avec les Antilles, pour défendre les côtes du reino de Guatemala contre les incursions anglaises menées depuis le Belize et la Jamaïque. Ces chefs noirs de Saint-Domingue et leurs troupes, appelés negros franceses, incorporés en 1796 à la milice de Trujillo, au Honduras, y furent rejoints par les Caraïbes noirs un an plus tard, en 1797. De telles troupe d’élites noires habituées à la lutte armée contre les puissances coloniales aux Antilles, que ce soit contre les Français (negros franceses sur Saint-Domingue) ou les Anglais (Caraïbes noirs à Saint-Vincent), firent ensuite rapidement leurs preuves au service de l’Espagne en Amérique centrale. (Auteur, Nicolas Rey, Titre: Quand la révolution aux amériques était nègre, Préface- Elikia M’Bokolo.)

Le général George Biassou devenu «Jorge Biassou » est mort en 1801 en Floride qui était à cette époque une colonie espagnole. Il dirigea la milice noire de Floride. Dans le document, «Les mémoires de Toussaint Louverture écrit par lui même», l’auteur affirme clairement avoir fait déporter Biassou et tous les autres généraux restés fidèles à l’Espagne, quand il est retourné dans les girons de la France. En conséquence, Dessalines n’a pas tué Biassou. De nos jours, une rue de la Floride porte le nom du Général Jorge Biassou, en souvenir de la demeure qu’il habitait dans ce quartier. Tous ces documents sur Biassou sont consignés au State University of Nebraska. Ils ont inventé des thèses,des thèses folles pour ne pas dire des foutaises, qu’il faut énergiquement dénoncer (REF: Auteur- Roger Bastide , Titre: Les amériques noires 3 Mai 2000.)

Cet autre grimoire ancien et très rare de plusieurs tomes confirme que Dessalines était le conseiller principal et stratège de Toussaint. D’ailleurs, il l’avait conseillé de ne pas répondre à l’invitation du général Brunet, dont il était aussi l’invité. Mais Toussaint, imbu de lui même, n’a pas écouté. Il s’est fait arrêter et déporté en France. En apprenant l’arrestation du général Louverture, il prononca cette phrase célébre que jusqu’ici les évenements historiques ont confirmés. (La parole française est toujours sujette à caution, REF: Histoire de Toussaint Louverture chef des insurgés de St Domingue – Chez Pillot frères, librairie le Point-neuf No5 an-1802).

Comment expliquez-vous que nos frères Africains connaissent Toussaint mais pas Dessalines?

Jean-Jacques Dessalines, le vainqueur, quelle place doit-il mériter? Peut être devrions nous réécrire l’histoire pour le placer en contexte. Je viens de bouleverser ce que l’on vous avait appris à l’école: vos croyances et vos repères historiques avec des preuves vérifiables et documents rares et inédits à l’appui.

Nous avons perdu notre dignité. Notre peuple a été dévasté. Le pays est entrain de foutre le camp sous les yeux de ses fils qui s’entredéchirent. En tant qu’historien et gardien de la mémoire, je me dois de sauver quelque chose au risque de tout perdre. Je retiens mes larmes pour rétablir l’empereur Jean Jacques Dessalines dans ses droits, honneurs et dignité en tant que père de la nation haitienne et vainqueur des armées de Napoléon. Nous venons de faire tomber le mythe que Dessalines était un barbare et illetré. Depuis quand le gagnant n’était pas le premier? – Jean Jacques Dessalines le premier des noirs et Toussaint Louverture à vous mes frères de lui trouver une place dans le panthéon de nos ancêtres et dans vos coeurs.

Vous pensez en avoir fini avec l’histoire passée, mais le passé et l’histoire n’en n’ont pas encore fini avec vous et je me porte garant de vous révéler des faits historiques cachés et inédits. Amen.

Jacques Casimir
(Pasteur d’Amoulio)
majac14@hotmail.com

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Some Ezili Dantò/HLLN on Janjak Desalin

The Story of Janjak: The Greatest Hero who ever Lived

Three ideals of Dessalines

Dessalines’ Law

The Words of Dessalines

What’s in a name? Some names horrify enslavers, tyrants and despots, everywhere…

I Want the Assets of the Country to be Equitably Divide

“I want the assets of the country to be equitably divided“–Jean Jacques Dessalines

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Three Historical Documents on Dessalines’ Assassination

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Who killed Dessalines?>
Petion/Gerin- the Insurgent/Reactionary Mulatto Generals more allied to French/colonial economic and cultural interests than the Haitian majority.
Following Dessalines’ assassination, under the long Mulatto and Eurocentric presidencies of Petion (12years) and Boyer (25years), the name Dessalines was execrated, declared loathsome, cursed, not allowed to be spoken. Neocolonialism had begun in Haiti, would be formalized with Boyer’s “Independence Debtand the legacy of the impunity and undemocratic offenses of one class and sector of Haitian society, continues to this day…This treasonous Haiti oligarchy with their foreign megolomaniac allies cannot accept the principal of one citizen-one vote because it would mean that they would lose their privileges and influence.
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Fulfilling Leclerc imperative under Obama/Clinton/Bush with UN occupation, debt, unfair trade, wage slavery, Paul Farmer’s NGOs imposed on Haiti.

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Evidence of Desalin’s great mind and enlightenment.

This video is posted for the historical significance of Fond des Blancs, meaning “white enclave” in Haiti

White soldiers from Europe, especially Poland, even some from France, who  left Napoleon’s army and fought with the African warriors were allowed to live in Haiti in peace after Independence in 1804. Haiti’s founding father Janjak Desalin did not slaughter all whites as the colonial narratives boasts.

Unlike the acts of French General Rochambeau and General Lercler under Napoleon who slaughtered indiscriminately and fought for the total brutal slaughter, torture and genocidal extermination  of all Africans in Haiti:

“It is not everything to have removed Toussaint, there are two thousand other
chiefs here to have taken away…Here is my opinion of this country. It is
necessary to destroy all the negroes of the mountains, men and women, sparing
only children under the age of twelve, and destroy half of those of the plain,
without leaving a single colored man in the colony who ever wore an epaulette.
Without that, the colony will never be at peace.” —French General Charles
Victor Emmanuel Leclerc     (Genocide in Haiti: Fulfilling Lecler’s imperative
through debt, unfair trade, privatization/corporate welfare, occupation,
illegitimate elections, NGO invasion, imported disease, wage slavery,
containment-in-poverty  )

But Jean Jacques Dessalines (Janjak Desalin) afforded the whites who fought on the side of liberty and freedom civil rights and Haitian citizenship under the 1805 Constitution. Also, other whites who had certain trades such as doctors, engineers, architects,et al.. – whites who were in the non-soldiering professions – where protected from harm by Desalin’s laws and orders as long as these Europeans were providing the Haitian community with a useful trade and recognized the liberty and equality of the Black masses. All whites (blan) in Haiti where known by the appellation “Black.”  This took out the class issue under slavery of Mullato, Whites, Blacks. All Haitians were Black. To distinguish them as “Lovers of Liberty” no matter skin color. Valuing also CHARACTER not mere skin color, even after the structural and institutional racism of three centuries of enslavement by whites. Thus as codified by Haiti’s founding father in Haiti’s first Constitution, the Haitian revolution was anti-racist, anti-imperialist, anti-slavery, anti- forced assimilation, anti-colonialism and recognized the equality of all Black people, awarding whites who fought with the African warriors and stayed to practice a useful profession rights Haitian citizenship. This, after 300 years of racist European enslavement, rape, torture, brutal oppression and dehumanization of Blacks in Haiti.

The towns of Fond Des Blan, Casale and other such enclaves in Haiti are, to this day, living monument of Janjak Desalin’s humanity, wisdom and enlightenment . For more read Ezili Dantò/HLLN – Dessalines Three Ideals http://bit.ly/g6FGrK

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The 1804 Declaration of Haiti’s Independence, translated in English by Laurent Dubois and John Garrigus. Source: Slave Revolution in the Caribbean 1789 – 1804: A Brief History with Documents. For Kreyol translation and other translations, go to Ezili/HLLN site.  Download a copy of the original document.

Haiti Declaration of Independence, Jan 1, 1804 – Jean Jacques Dessalines (Janjak Desalin)

The Commander in Chief

to the People of Hayti

Citizens,

It is not enough to have expelled the barbarians who have bloodied our land for two centuries; it is not enough to have restrained those ever-evolving factions that one after another mocked the specter of liberty that France dangled before you. We must, with one last act of national authority, forever assure the empire of liberty in the country of our birth; we must take any hope of re-enslaving us away from the inhuman government that for so long kept us in the most humiliating torpor. In the end we must live independent or die.

Independence or death… may these sacred words bind us and be the signal for battle and our reunion.

Citizens, my countrymen, on this solemn day I have brought together those courageous soldiers who, as liberty lay dying, spilled their blood to save it; these generals who have guided your efforts against tyranny have not yet done enough for your happiness; the French name still haunts our land.

Everything revives the memories of the cruelties by this barbarous people: our laws, our habits, our towns, everything still carries the stamp of the French. Indeed! There are still French in our island, and you believe yourself free and independent of that Republic which, it is true, has fought all the nations, but which has never defeated those who wanted to be free.

What! Victims of our own credulity and indulgence for 14 years; defeated not by French armies, but by the pathetic eloquence of their agents’ proclamations; when will we tire of breathing the air they breathe? What do we have in common with this nation of executioners? The difference between its cruelty and our patient moderation, its color and ours the great seas that separate us, our avenging climate, all tell us plainly that they are not our brothers, that they never will be, and that if they find refuge among us, they will plot again to trouble and divide us.

Native citizens, men, women, girls, and children, let your gaze extend on all parts of this island: look there for your spouses, your husbands, your brothers, your sisters. Indeed! Look there for your children, your suckling infants, what have they become?… I shudder to say it … the prey of these vultures.

Instead of these dear victims, your alarmed gaze will see only their assassins, these tigers still dripping with their blood, whose terrible presence indicts your lack of feeling and your guilty slowness in avenging them. What are you waiting for before appeasing their spirits? Remember that you had wanted your remains to rest next to those of your fathers, after you defeated tyranny; will you descend into their tombs without having avenged them? No! Their bones would reject yours.

And you, precious men, intrepid generals, who, without concern for your own pain, have revived liberty by shedding all your blood, know that you have done nothing if you do not give the nations a terrible, but just example of the vengeance that must be wrought by a people proud to have recovered its liberty and jealous to maintain it let us frighten all those who would dare try to take it from us again; let us begin with the French. Let them tremble when they approach our coast, if not from the memory of those cruelties they perpetrated here, then from the terrible resolution that we will have made to put to death anyone born French whose profane foot soils the land of liberty.

We have dared to be free, let us be thus by ourselves and for ourselves. Let us imitate the grown child: his own weight breaks the boundary that has become an obstacle to him. What people fought for us? What people wanted to gather the fruits of our labor? And what dishonorable absurdity to conquer in order to be enslaved. Enslaved?… Let us leave this description for the French; they have conquered but are no longer free.

Let us walk down another path; let us imitate those people who, extending their concern into the future, and dreading to leave an example of cowardice for posterity, preferred to be exterminated rather than lose their place as one of the world’s free peoples.

Let us ensure, however, that a missionary spirit does not destroy our work; let us allow our neighbors to breathe in peace; may they live quietly under the laws that they have made for themselves, and let us not, as revolutionary firebrands, declare ourselves the lawgivers of the Caribbean, nor let our glory consist in troubling the peace of the neighboring islands. Unlike that which we inhabit, theirs has not been drenched in the innocent blood of its inhabitants; they have no vengeance to claim from the authority that protects them.

Fortunate to have never known the ideals that have destroyed us, they can only have good wishes for our prosperity.

Peace to our neighbors; but let this be our cry:

“Anathema to the French name! Eternal hatred of France!”

Natives of Haiti! My happy fate was to be one day the sentinel who would watch over the idol to which you sacrifice; I have watched, sometimes fighting alone, and if I have been so fortunate as to return to your hands the sacred trust you confided to me, know that it is now your task to preserve it. In fighting for your liberty, I was working for my own happiness. Before consolidating it with laws that will guarantee your free individuality, your leaders, whom I have assembled here, and I, owe you the final proof of our devotion.

Generals and you, leaders, collected here close to me for the good of our land, the day has come, the day which must make our glory, our independence, eternal.

If there could exist among us a lukewarm heart, let him distance himself and shudder to take the oath which must unite us. Let us vow to ourselves, to posterity, to the entire universe, to forever renounce France, and to die rather than live under its domination; to fight until our last breath for the independence of our country.

And you, a people so long without good fortune, witness to the oath we take, remember that I counted on your constancy and courage when I threw myself into the career of liberty to fight the despotism and tyranny you had struggled against for 14 years. Remember that I sacrificed everything to rally to your defense; family, children, fortune, and now I am rich only with your liberty; my name has become a horror to all those who want slavery. Despots and tyrants curse the day that I was born. If ever you refused or grumbled while receiving those laws that the spirit guarding your fate dictates to me for your own good, you would deserve the fate of an ungrateful people. But I reject that awful idea; you will sustain the liberty that you cherish and support the leader who commands you. Therefore vow before me to live free and independent, and to prefer death to anything that will try to place you back in chains. Swear, finally, to pursue forever the traitors and enemies of your independence.

Done at the headquarters in Gonaives, the first day of January 1804, the first year of independence.
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The Deed of independence

Native Army

Today, January 1st 1804, the general in chief of the native army, accompanied by the generals of the army, assembled in order to take measures that will ensure the good of the country;

After having told the assembled generals his true intentions, to assure forever a stable government for the natives of Haiti, the object of his greatest concern, which he has accomplished in a speech which declares to foreign powers the decision to make the country independent, and to enjoy a liberty consecrated by the blood of the people of this island; and after having gathered their responses has asked that each of the assembled generals take a vow to forever renounce France, to die rather than live under its domination, and to fight for independence until their last breath.

The generals, deeply moved by these sacred principles, after voting their unanimous attachment to the declared project of independence, have all sworn to posterity, to the universe, to forever renounce France, and to die rather than to live under its domination.

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Haiti’s first Constitution as an Independent Nation. Source: Webster.edu

THE 1805 CONSTITUTION OF HAITI

SECOND CONSTITUTION OF HAITI (HAYTI) MAY 20, 1805.

PROMULGATED BY EMPEROR JACQUES I (DESSALINES)

The document below was printed in the New York Evening Post, July 15, 1805.

It was transcribed into the version below by Bob Corbett on April 4, 1999. I did not translate it, only transcribed. It was printed in 1805 in English. There is no mention in the newspaper who translated it. But, given that Henri Christophe was involved in the publication and that he had a strong liking of English, perhaps he is responsible. Unless American English has changed in this regard, I suspect a British translator given the use of “colour” and “honour” in the document.

The original newspaper is in the library of Bob Corbett.

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CONSTITUTION OF HAYTI

We, H. Christophe, Clerveaux, Vernet, Gabart, Petion, Geffard, Toussaint, Brave, Raphael, Roamin, Lalondridie, Capoix, Magny, Daut, Conge, Magloire, Ambrose, Yayou, Jean Louis Franchois, Gerin, Mereau, Fervu, Bavelais, Martial Besse…

As well in our name as in that of the people of Hayti, who have legally constituted us faithfully organs and interpreters of their will, in presence of the Supreme Being, before whom all mankind are equal, and who has scattered so many species of creatures on the surface of the earth for the purpose of manifesting his glory and his power by the diversity of his works, in the presence of all nature by whom we have been so unjustly and for so long a time considered as outcast children.

Do declare that the tenor of the present constitution is the free spontaneous and invariable expression of our hearts, and the general will of our constituents, and we submit it to the sanction of H.M. the Emperor Jacques Dessalines our deliverer, to receive its speedy and entire execution.

Preliminary Declaration.

Art. 1. The people inhabiting the island formerly called St. Domingo, hereby agree to form themselves into a free state sovereign and independent of any other power in the universe, under the name of empire of Hayti.

2. Slavery is forever abolished.

3. The Citizens of Hayti are brothers at home; equality in the eyes of the law is incontestably acknowledged, and there cannot exist any titles, advantages, or privileges, other than those necessarily resulting from the consideration and reward of services rendered to liberty and independence.

4. The law is the same to all, whether it punishes, or whether it protects.

5. The law has no retroactive effect.

6. Property is sacred, its violation shall be severely prosecuted.

7. The quality of citizen of Hayti is lost by emigration and naturalization in foreign countries and condemnation to corporal or disgrace punishments. The fist case carries with it the punishment of death and confiscation of property.

8. The quality of Citizen is suspended in consequence of bankruptcies and failures.

9. No person is worth of being a Haitian who is not a good father, good son, a good husband, and especially a good soldier.

10. Fathers and mothers are not permitted to disinherit their children.

11. Every Citizen must possess a mechanic art.

12. No whiteman of whatever nation he may be, shall put his foot on this territory with the title of master or proprietor, neither shall he in future acquire any property therein.

13. The preceding article cannot in the smallest degree affect white woman who have been naturalized Haytians by Government, nor does it extend to children already born, or that may be born of the said women. The Germans and Polanders naturalized by government are also comprized (sic) in the dispositions of the present article.

14. All acception (sic) of colour among the children of one and the same family, of whom the chief magistrate is the father, being necessarily to cease, the Haytians shall hence forward be known only by the generic appellation of Blacks.

Of the Empire

15. The Empire of Hayti is one and indivisible. Its territory is distributed into six military divisions.

16. Each military division shall be commanded by a general of division.

17. These generals of division shall be independent of one another, and shall correspond directly with the Emperor, or with the general in chief appointed by his Majesty.

18. The following Islands are integral parts of the Empire, viz. Samana, La Tortue, La Gonave, Les Cayemites, La Saone, L’Isle a Vache, and other adjacent islands.

Of the Government

19. The Government of Hayti is entrusted to a first Magistrate, who assumes the title of Emperor and commander in chief of the army.

20. The people acknowledge for Emperor and Commander in Chief of the Army, Jacques Dessalines, the avenger and deliverer of his fellow citizens. The title of Majesty is conferred upon him, as well as upon his august spouse, the Empress.

21. The person of their Majesties are sacred and inviolable.

22. The State will appropriate a fixed annual allowance to her Majesty the Empress, which she will continue to enjoy even after the decease of the Emperor, as princess dowager.

23. The crown is elective not hereditary.

24. There shall be assigned by the state an annual income to the children acknowledge by his Majesty the Emperor.

25. The male children acknowledged by the Emperor shall be obliged, in the same manner as other citizens, to pass successively from grade to grade, with this only difference, that their entrance into service shall begin at the fourth demi brigade, from the period of their birth.

26. The Emperor designates, in the manner he may judge expedient, the person who is to be his successor either before or after his death.

27. A suitable provision shall be made by the state to that successor from the moment of his accession to the throne.

28. The Emperor, and his successors, shall in no case and under no pretext whatsoever, have the right of attacking to their persons any particular or privileged body, whether as guards of honour, or under any other denomination.

29. Every successor deviating from the dispositions of the preceding article, or from the principles consecrated in the present constitution shall be considered and declared in a state of warfare against the society. In such a case, the counselors of state will assemble in order to pronounce his removal, and to chose one among themselves who shall be judged the most worthy of replacing him; and if it should happen that the said successor oppose the execution of this measure, authorized by law, the Generals, counselor of state, shall appeal to the people and the army, who will immediately give their whole strength and assistance to maintain Liberty.

30. The Emperor makes seals and promulgates the laws; appoints and revokes at will, the Ministers, the General in Chief for the Army, the Counselors of State, the Generals and other agents of the Empire, the sea offices, the members of the local administrations, the Commissaries of Government near the Tribunals, the judges, and other public functionaries.

31. The Emperor directs the receipts and expenditures of the State, Surveys the Mint of which he alone orders the emission, and fixes the weight and the model.

32. To him alone is reserved the power of making peace or war, to maintain political intercourse, and to form treaties.

33. He provides for the interior safety and for the defense of the State: and distributes at pleasure the sea and land forces.

34. In case of conspiracies manifesting themselves against the safety of the state, against the constitution, or against his person, the Emperor shall cause the authors or accomplices to be arrested and tried before a special Council.

35. His Majesty has alone the right to absolve a criminal and commute his punishment.

36. The Emperor shall never form any enterprize (sic) with the views of making conquests, nor to disturb the peace and interior administration of foreign colonies.

37. Every public act shall be made in these terms: “THE EMPEROR I. OF HAYTI, AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMY BY THE GRACE OF GOD, AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF THE STATE.”

Of the Council of State.

38. The Generals of Division and of Brigade, are of right members of the Council of State, and they compose it.

Of the Ministers

39. There shall be in the Empire two ministers and a secretary of state. The ministers of finances having the department of the interior, and the minister of war having the marine department.

40-44. [Interior regulations respecting the ministry.]

Of the Tribunals.

45. No one can interfere with the right which every individual has of being judged amicably by arbitrators of his own choosing whose decisions shall be acknowledged legal.

46. There shall be a justice of peace in each commune. Any suit amounting to more than one hundred dollars shall not come within his cognizance. And when the parties cannot conciliate themselves at his tribunal, they may appeal to the tribunals of their respective districts.

47. There shall be six tribunals established in the cities hereafter designated, viz. At St. Marc, at the Cape, at Port au Prince, Aux Cayes, Lanse-a-Vaux, and Port-de-Paix… The Emperor determines their organization, their number, their competence and the territory forming the district of each. These tribunals take cognizance of all affairs purely civil.

48. Military crimes are submitted to special councils and to particular forms of judgement.

49. Particular laws shall be made for the national transactions, and respecting the civil officers of the state.

Of Worship

50. The law admits of no predominant religion.

51. The freedom of worship is tolerated.

52. The state does not provide for the maintenance of any religious institution, nor or any minister.

Of the Administration

53. There shall be in each military division a principal administration, whose organization and inspection belongs essentially to the minister of finances.

General Dispositions.

Act. 1. To the Emperor and Empress belong the choice, the salary, and the maintenance of the persons composing their court.

2. After the decease of the reigning Emperor, when a revision of the constitution shall have been judged necessary, the council of state will assemble for that purpose, and shall be presided by the oldest member.

3. The crimes of high treason, the dilapidations of the ministers and generals shall be judged by a special council called and presided by the emperor.

4. The armed force is essentially obedient: no armed body can deliberate.

5. No person shall be judged without having been legally heard in his defense.

6. The house of every citizen is an inviolable asylum.

7. It cannot be entered but in case of conflagration, inundation, reclamation from the interior, or by virtue of an order from the emperor, or from any other authority legally constituted.

8. He deserves death who gives it to his fellow.

9. Every judgment to which the pain of death or corporal punishment is annexed shall not be carried into execution until it has been confirmed by the emperor.

10. Theft shall be punished according to the circumstances which may have preceded, accompanied or followed it.

11. Every stranger inhabiting the territory of Hayti shall be, equally with the Haytians, subject to the correctional and criminal laws of the country.

12. All property which formerly belonged to any white Frenchmen, is incontestably and of right confiscated to the use of the state.

13. Every Haytian, who, having purchased property from a white Frenchman, may have paid part of the purchase money stipulated in the act of sale, shall be responsible to the domains of the state for the remainder of the sum due.

14. Marriage is an act purely civil, and authorized by the government.

15. The law authorises (sic) divorce in all cases which shall have been previously provided for and determined.

16. A particular law shall be issued concerning children born out of wedlock.

17. Respect for the chiefs, subordination and discipline are rigorously necessary.

18. A penal code shall be published and severely observed.

19. Within each military division a public school shall be established for the instruction of youth.

20. The national colours shall be black and red.

21. Agriculture, as it is the first, the most noble, and the most useful of all the arts, shall be honored and protected.

22. Commerce, the second source of the prosperity of states, will not admit of any impediment; it ought to be favored and specially protected.

23. In each military division a tribunal of commerce shall be found, whose members shall be chosen by the Emperor from the class of merchants.

24. Good faith and integrity in commercial operations shall be religiously maintained.

25. The government assures safety and protections to neutral nations and friends who may be desirous of establishing a commercial intercourse with this island, they conforming to the regulations and customs of the country.

26. The counting houses and the merchandize of foreigners shall be under the safeguard and guarantee of the state.

27. There shall be national festivals for celebrating independence, the birth day of the emperor and his august spouse, that of agriculture and of the constitution.

28. At the first firing of the alarm gun, the cities will disappear and the nation rise.

We, the undersigned, place under the safeguard of the magistrates, fathers and mothers of families, the citizens, and the army the explicit and solemn covenant of the sacred rights of man and the duties of the citizen.

We recommend it to our successors, and present it to the friends of liberty, to philanthropists of all countries, as a signal pledge of the Divine Bounty, who in the course of his immortal decrees, has given us an opportunity of breaking our fetters, and of constituting ourselves a people, free civilized and independent.

Signed

H. Christophe, & (as before)

Having seen the present constitution:

We, Jacques Dessalines, Emperor I of Hayti, and Commander in Chief of the Army, by the grace of God, and the constitutional law of the state, Accept it wholly and sanction it, that it may receive, with the least possible delay, its full and entire execution throughout the whole of our Empire. And we swear to maintain it and to cause it to be observed in it integrity to the last breath of our life.

At the Imperial Palace of Dessalines, the 20th May 1805 second year of the Independence of Hayti, and of our reign the first.

DESSALINES

By the Emperor, Juste Chanlatte, Sec. Gen.

Published on Apr 12, 2012 by frantzetienne1

Mouvman Pou Libète Ak Egalite Tout Ayisyen , ( MOLEGHAF) Etranje yo ak doub nasyonalite pran yo peyi a ann otaj , koripsyon , trafik dwog , ensekirite , nèg ame k ap taye banda yo nan peyi a, Pandan plizyè milye moun kontinye ap viv nan kondisyon kote bèt pa ta dwe ap viv , nan kan yo ak nan katye popilè yo .

Negosyasyon , konpwomisyon , magouy ap fèt adwat agoch sou do mas yo , kote plizyè milyon dola ap brase e y ap toufe pèp la ak manti , blòf elatriye .

MOLEGHAF ap makonmen vwa l ak tout lòt òganizasyon popilè , pwogresis ak pèp ayisyen an pou Declare anbasadè Etazini an , Kenneth Merten pèsona non grata .

Fòk Kenneth Merten rache manyòk li bay bout tè papa Dessaline te mouri kite pou nou an blanch

Fòk tout etranje ki nan tèt peyi a retounen lakay yo . Konstitisyon 1987 la klèsous a , etranje pa ladan l .

Pou n mete etranje yo deyò nan tèt peyi a , pou kenneth Merten al fè wout li , bay ayisyen lape l . MOLEGHAF ak plizyè lòt òganizaasyon konsekan pra l òganize yon sitin devan anbasad Etazini , ki chita nan taba , pou n al Declare Kenneth Merten pèsona non grata ak katon wouj . N ap tann tout militant konsekan yo

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Forwarded by Ezili’s Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
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17-months later… The best that can be done by the NGO/UN/USAID plunderers, thieves and demons feeding on Haiti’s pains.

UN-Paul Farmer’s new Tuskeegee cholera experiment in Haiti begins 17-months later…http://n.pr/Irx7qD

Paul Farmer begins his vaccinations in Haiti- cholera victims as laboratory rats for Farmers’ Partners in Death, WHO and UN #Haiti rather than sustainable change in form of clean water and sanitation infrastructure…just perpetual NGO/Paul Farmer dependency continuing. Testing new products for Farmer’s next Tracey Kidder Tarzan narrative. (See below “Vaccination Against Cholera Finally Begins In Haiti : NPR”)

Ezili Dantò
Without the pen of Thomas Paine (‘Common Sense’), the sword of George Washington would have been raised in vain. –John Adams

“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” ― Malcolm X

“Recall everything I have sacrificed to fly to your defense – relatives, children, wealth, so that now the only riches I possess is your freedom. Recall that my name horrifies all those who are slavers, and that tyrants and despots everywhere only bring themselves to utter it when they curse the day I was born. Remember, if you should ever discard or forget the law that the God who watches over your well being has dictated to me for your happiness, you will deserve the fate that inures to ungrateful peoples. ” —Jean Jacques Dessalines, Haitian Act of Independence, January 1, 1804.

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If the New York Times applied the “follow the money” journalistic adage, the picture effortless falls into place. The Haiti truth, the names and credentials of who benefits from letting cholera ravage Haiti, earthquake victims die – from all Haiti crisis – their intertwining Boards of Directors, job positions, current and former employers, University alliances, corporate and business connections – would have made this piece Pulitzer prize worthy material…As much as we see the effort for non-bias reporting, NYT still could not transcend what animates the Left-Right game of neutral imperialism and philanthropic white supremacy.

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HLLN analysis to NYT’s cholera article: Playing the Left-Right game of neutral reporting

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1. HLLN major points

HLLN major points on the New York Times’ April 1, 2012 article, Global Failures on a Haitian Epidemic, by Deborah Sontag.

1. The original New York Times (NYT) title’s description of the cholera in Haiti as tainting the UN is not only subliminal racism but an egregious insult to the 7,000 dead Haitians and 539,000 infected with UN cholera. They killed with the most virulent strain of a contagious disease, but Haitians are the ones described in the title as “tainting” the UN.

New York times managed to sprout the standard neocolonial stigmatization of the “diseased” Haitians who “TAINTED” the UN despite their Left and Right game of neutral imperialism and philanthropic white supremacy.

Notice how UN Special Envoy to Haiti, Bill Clinton, is missing in action in this article. Perhaps to deflect from the notion that, in Haiti’s case, the UN is a branch of the U.S. State Department and Secretary of State, Mrs. Clinton State Department policies? Instead, a US lawyer, spoke for the UN. Anthony Banbury, the Acting Principal Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).

2. The article begins with the first case of cholera and how it killed, goes on to talk about the millions spent by the international community to help the sick. But I don’t believe it mentioned what the UN is doing in Haiti in the first place.  There is less violence in Haiti than in Washington D.C., in Brazil, Mexico, Bahamas,  Jamaica, Dominican Republic. Haiti is not at war and has less violence than most countries in Western Hemisphere. (See UN Global Study on Homicide at pg 93.)

What’s a Chapter 7, peace enforcement UN mission doing in Haiti for 8-years when there is no peace agreement to enforce? The piece also didn’t dwell on what happened to all the collected earthquake monies. If it was about Haiti corruption there most likely would have been at least a mention of this. But Bill Clinton, the over-funded Paul Farmer and the NGOs, nothing about the for-profit hotels they’re building on earthquake monies. Not a word was written about the endemic UN sexual abuse of Haiti children. (See, Girls as young as 13 were having sex with U.N. peacekeepers for as little as $1.) Or, the UN’s continuing negligence, impunity, uselessness and accidents in Haiti. (See, from our archives, in 2008 noting UN troops whose containers negligently and with complete impunity hit the Mirebalais bridge, brought it down, cutting the last land route into the starving city of Gonaives, exacerbating the Gonaives hurricane victims’ sufferings.  “Letter to New York Times Demonizing the Gonaive  Hurricane  Victims.”)

No mention was made of the Haiti riches, minerals, oil, gold, iridium and resources being plundered behind this US occupation masked as a UN “peace enforcement” mission. The UN leaked the cholera disease into Haiti’s water supplies, but no mention was made that amongst the first victims of this environmental poisoning, where hundreds of thousands of healthy agricultural workers losing their lives, health, livelihood or meager food source. No mention that the Clinton Global Initiative sponsors a cholera insurance plan to squeeze monies out of the bare hands of Haiti’s hurting market women and agricultural workers. No mention was made that the first action of UN/USAID was not filtering Haiti water and environmental clean up, but making profit by buying 200,000 body bags from overseas. No mention that the UN-MINUSTAH mission was approved for Haiti with the signature of a former career UN employee, Gerard Latortue, living in Florida who hadn’t live in Haiti for 40years. The real Prime Minister of Haiti was illegally put in jail for two years.

If the New York Times applied the “follow the money” journalistic adage, the picture effortless falls into place. The Haiti truth, the names and credentials of who benefits from letting cholera ravage Haiti, earthquake victims die – from all Haiti crisis – their intertwining Boards of Directors, job positions, current and former employers, University alliances, corporate and business connections – would have made this piece Pulitzer prize worthy material.

Another example of non-neutrality, though perhaps not consciously done is the way Ms. Sontag failed to comment on the fact that the UN’s investigative panel, along with Harvard and the CDC, failed to do a DNA whole genome test on Nepal cholera to compare the bacteria in Haiti despite Haitian eyewitness testimonies of Nepal unsanitary standard at the Mirebalais base. (Read Dady Chery’s Why It Took Eleven Months Instead of Three Weeks to Show that Haiti’s Cholera Is Nepalese: a Tale of Noble and Ignoble Scientists, Harvard, and the U.N. )

“Without exaggerating, one might say, for example, that the cholera study by Harvard (Paul Farmer‘s territory) was analogous to using the most sensitive instruments and best-trained scientists to test for Fukushima radiation everywhere in the globe except Japan, reporting that the meltdowns had probably happened somewhere in Asia, and then proposing that a commission from the nuclear-power companies finish the investigation.” (Why It Took Eleven Months)

The Nepalese soldiers, according to the townspeople,  defecated in the river, were letting their run-off from toilets, leaking pipes and septic tanks go directly into the river for years.

3. Worst, Ms Sontag ended the article by subliminally underlining for us the UN defense.

Sontag’s piece leaves the reader with the image of this animalistic piece of poetry describing : “a naked 6-year-old girl, Magalie Louis, defecated by the bank, gnawed on a stalk of sugarcane and then splashed into the water to brush her teeth.”

Her essay did not end by pointing out that Haiti pollutants or naked 6-year-old Haiti girls defecating could not have caused the cholera outbreak. No.  It gave the opposite message. The fact remains Haitians have antibodies for their own pollutants. Ms.  Sontag, as much as we see the effort for non-bias reporting, still could not transcend what animates the Left-Right game of neutral imperialism and philanthropic white supremacy.

It’s evident in how the article ends with the UN’s often-cited DEFENSE  and not the Haiti counter to that defense that there’s a subliminally projected judgement here in this neutral, investigative reporting. The UN wrongdoers must take their victims as they find them, cannot escape liability for the harms they caused by pointing to the vulnerability of the Haiti victims they came supposedly to protect. That just defies logic and all principles of law and equity.

However, minus the double standard, structural and subliminal racism, the article is the most chronologically thorough and high level mainstream media reporting on the matter to date.

Here’s how we see the situation at HLLN.

2. The Set Up. Act 3 to follow

It’s the set up. It’s like watching, in slow motion, a horrific accident. First, former President Bill Clinton comes out and admits the UN brought cholera.

Then NYT finally writes a notable investigative report but quotes Paul Farmer as if he’s just a doctor not a mouthpiece for the UN.

The scrubbing of the Nepal contingent is done. They’re not at the base anymore and a new, more hygiene-conscious UN group replaced them, so the article notes. What’s left except for Farmer to give his IDJH Board of Director buddies, who filed a petition for compensation, a UN mea culpa where the reparation monies goes back into the hands of the same NGOs-UN folks like back in Trouilliot days when the victims of the 1937 Dominican Republic massacres where played by the Haiti government and the international vampires.

Haitians don’t exist unless employed by the vampires – both in the Left and Right game of neocolonialism. They’ve got all the resources and white supremacy allows they’re the only ones who are credible to raise funds for THEIR “cause and case” – meaning Haiti sufferings, disease, poverty and pains the system and their alliances mostly are responsible for. (See also, The White Saviors of Haiti vs. Haitian Self-determination and Actualization by Ezili Dantò, Sept. 17, 2005.)

3. I Feel your Pain

Next time someone who just got to Haiti or has been going there off and on for twenty, thirty years tells you how they’re more Haitian than the native Haitian or “know” what it’s like to BE Haitian. Tell them they don’t.

Describe what you’re feeling from me. They don’t know the shock after shocking humiliation a Haitian suffers in this merciless world – two Bush Regime Changes, 8-endless years of US occupation behind UN guns, the dependency forced upon Haiti with privatization of public assets, US efforts to keep China sweatshop wages lower and lower by using threat of moving their sweatshops to Haiti, the ravages of earthquake, inhumane deportations or indefinite detentions, white saviors from the Left and Right US “democracy” game speaking for Haitians, the UN imported cholera and denial of responsibility, the destruction of Haiti food sovereignty with Clinton Arkansas rice. The soul deep fire and pain. The weight of three hundred years of European beatings, rape, disembowelment and two hundred years of neocolonialism and containment in poverty coupled with victim blaming white supremacy gloating. The agony of working so hard and never being visible or credible unless you stand for Officialdom or work as an employee for their narcissistic Tarzan/Jane shuffle.  (See also, Embedded AP releases a State Department bulletin as “news” on Haiti.)

Si’m pa rele, m’ap toufe.  But we bend, don’t break – nou se rozo. Endure. Use what’s in our hands. Ours, at HLLN, is this writing, defending and political analysis.

Without the pen of Thomas Paine (‘Common Sense’), the sword of George Washington would have been raised in vain. –John Adams

See below the comments Ezili’s HLLN made on the New York times comment section to give the Haiti non-colonial perspective. (See also, Zili Dlo – HLLN’s Haiti-led, Haiti-run relief with human rights, healing and dignity.)

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4. The Four Comments New York Times posted submitted by Ezili’s HLLN, April 1, 1012

Photo: REUTERS/Allison Shelley (See, Haiti Message on UN responsibility for importing cholera)

1. We posted the NYT article on FB and Twitter when the article came out but noted HLLN had to change the NYT title to “Global Failures with UN-imported Cholera to Haiti”

The unlikely happened, NYT originally had the title for this front page, Sunday article, it seems, as “Haiti’s Cholera outraced the Experts and Tainted the UN.”

HAITI’s cholera – TAINTED THE UN? Swear to the Ancestors, that was the title, no lie. I wasn’t going to read the darn thing at all. But noticed a kind soul was also as offended. So I started making comments, calling out the stigmatization of the “diseased” Haitians who “TAINTED” the UN. For whatever reason, Deborah Sontag’s New York Times feature seemed to have changed title alternatively from:

1. Haiti’s Cholera outraced the Experts and Tainted the UN, to
2. Global Failures on a Haitian Epidemic,
and now it’s online as
3. In Haiti, Global Failures on a Cholera Epidemic

Already established is how Ms. Sontag failed to notice the UN, Harvard, CDC cover-ups, overlapping and tight connections, including how the UN’s investigative panel DID NOT immediately do a whole genome test on Nepal’s cholera to compare that bacteria with the bacteria ravaging Haiti. All these are bunched in, if at all, as “delays” not fraud, or cover-up. Simple internal bickering that stymied efforts despite the clearly available evidence of the Paul Farmer sort of NGO conflicts. Funded and holding a job with the wrongdoers but also being the “neutral” doctor and to-go-to person on the UN epidemic.

The Nepalese contingent of UN soldiers, according to the townspeople, had defecated in the river, were letting their run-off from toilets, leaking pipes and septic tanks go directly into the river for years. There was a drainage canal running inside the camp above the toilets running directly into the river tributary, not to mention that all five Nepalese camps in Mirebalais brought their waste to be buried in one spot, not too far from the river, in a shallow landfill.

The Mirebalais U.N. camp where of the Nepalese soldiers lived is built on a tributary to the Artibonite River

The Nepalese negligent contamination was on-going for many years, even prior to the cholera-infected sewage spills and raw feces dumping. But Deborah Sontag certainly ended her article REPEATING, subliminally, that Haitians continued to defecate in the river. This is a verbatim repetition of the UN defense. Though that defense is BESIDES the point. This is what the New York Times’ article leaves the reader with, though she may not have consciously meant to. Like with the title: “Global Failures on a HAITIAN EPIDEMIC.” These choices, say something to the reader even before they read the article. The ending, no matter how seemingly “balanced” the NYT wants to look, also points to the UN’s defense as legitimate. Never mind that Haitians defecating in the river did not give Haiti UN-imported cholera.

Still, HLLN is thankful for small favors.

NYT actually allowed our comment on the title. It’s inaccuracy, subliminal racism, judgement and stigmatization of Haitian to be printed. In 8-years of solidly writing to NYT, this is the FIRST time they’ve made a change in favor of the non-colonial narrative on Haiti.

We’re thankful and appreciative NYT allowed our comments. This may seem a small thing but not in our experience.

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Comment #2.

“Water and sanitation is the only permanent answer. Agreed wholeheartedly. But traditional Western NGOs like the World Bank, IMF and IFS are tools of war for the World War II winners at the UN Security Council, most there holding the old colonial lines and spheres of influences intact.

Haiti doesn’t need any more such “help.” It is not the arrogant-Harvard elitist-Paul Farmer and his WHO/WB pharmaceuticals buddies who save Haitians from disease imported by foreigners like AIDS or cholera. No.

Deport all the 42,000 “charitable” NGOs out of Haiti. End the US occupation behind UN guns that’s only there to help depopulate, use relief monies to build profit-making hotels, like Clinton-Bush Fund and the Red Cross are doing as the people die under tarps, tents, rockslides, mudslides, cholera and floods in the rainy season. Only there to take, such as taking Haiti’s deep water ports up North for the oil, gold, iridium the 99% have been plundering in Haiti behind this humanitarian imperialism since 2004 and now cholera democracy.

Those who would like to support a Haiti-led, Haiti-capacity building work that has NO involvement with the UN or its Paul Farmer Deputy Envoy, consider supporting Zili Dlo: Clean Water for Everyone in Haiti project and our cholera case against the UN for justice. Go to ezilidanto.com/zili and Zili Dlo info at http://bit.ly/qd9Omw and http://bit.ly/vx1X1l.

Haiti doesn’t need charity, Haiti needs justice.”

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Comment #3.
Haiti doesn’t need charity or a hand-out. Haiti needs justice and to get rid of all the NGO and UN saviors. In the 1900s before the US’s first occupation, most Haiti household in the Cap Haitian, for instance, had clean drinking water. We are descendants of the people who built the Citadel and Sans Sousi. Today I read NYT writing that a great stride is made with one water treatment center. It’s good to see this NYT investigative reporting FINALLY some 17 months later. But I wonder if the blame for UN delay and disdain for Haiti life should not also be shared by the media  that works for the Oligarchy which helped take down Haiti’s democracy and bring in the UN for US oligarchy?

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Comment #4

“Haiti crisis, poverty, deaths and foreign-sponsored regime change/coup d’etat is an ATM for the world’s most educated and powerful “leaders.”

The non-colonial narrative on Haiti is that the World Bank through Bill Clinton at the UN presides over more than $2.3 billion dollars raised supposedly for earthquake relief that mostly returns back to the “donor.” This fund is called, by Washington insiders, the “Bill and Hillary” fund. Foreign aid is corporate welfare for the well-connected Washington insider and tied-aid for Haiti. The billions of dollars collected by private charities and donor countries do not ever reach the Haitian people. Only 1cent of every dollar gets to Haiti. Once the cameras are gone the trickle down is used mainly by the light-skin mercenary Haiti subcontractor families to the US-Euro oligarchs, or for giving a local “Haiti face” to the pillage. Consider reading HLLN’s “Corruption Uninterrupted in Haiti” – http://bit.ly/HbrRW3; “Haiti: A time bomb which must be defused immediately ” http://bit.ly/GTBHao or “Bill Clinton admits UN brought cholera, Haiti raped again” at http://bit.ly/yxXZpt .

Those who would like to support a Haiti-led, Haiti-capacity building work that has NO involvement with the UN or its Paul Farmer Deputy Envoy, consider supporting Zili Dlo: Clean Water for Everyone in Haiti project and our cholera case against the UN for justice. Go to ezilidanto.com/zili and Zili Dlo info at http://bit.ly/qd9Omw and http://bit.ly/vx1X1l.”

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The Ezili Dantò comment not posted by NYT is this:

Comment #5

“Haiti is a farming nation on a tiny Island – 70 to 80% of Haitians are small farmers and entrepreneurs – who could live in peace and prosperity if Haiti was allowed to use the assets of its own nation for the public health and nation building of its own people. Not to feed US-Euro oligarchs’ market and narcissistic needs, or Wal-Mart, JC Penny profit margins or the arrogance, security paranoia of the racist and fearful interested in PROFIT at all cost.

HELP for Haiti would be authentic IF the bankers would help to maximize the use of the nearly $2.5billion per year of direct aid the Haitian Diaspora sends to Haiti. If the politicos, world bankers, Haiti Oligarchy and Western Union financing houses would stop taping into it. Allow a Haiti development bank from these remittances the collateral credit from these yearly remittances – perhaps $1billion dollars for Haitians to build water and sanitation infrastructure, rebuild roads and agricultural self-sufficiency. That would take out the need for MOST of Paul Farmers’ pharmaceuticals and supplements and oral vaccines being washed down with foul or foreign-bought purification tablets, chlorinated water to be swallowed on empty Haitian stomachs.

Next, change the US predatory trade policies, stop dumping Clinton’s Arkansas rice, Monsanto hybrid seeds and don’t block the Haiti Diaspora from investing in the Haiti farmers -providing help with modern tractors and equipment to produce and regain Haiti’s food sovereignty.”

Ezili Dantò of HLLN
April 2, 2012
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United Nations Still Denies its Troops Brought Cholera to Haiti
by Jonathan M. Katz, The Daily Beast, Apr 4, 2012

“..there will probably never be a smoking gun–a thermal video, one might imagine, of the index Vibrio cholerae microbe sloughing out of the base into the Artibonite River system. That is in large part because, as soon as the U.N. base was implicated, principal agencies including the U.N. World Health Organization and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention refused to investigate during the critical months when such evidence might have still been present. (Many major U.S. news outlets followed their lead, ignoring the story for weeks and then blasting the very idea of trying to pinpoint the epidemic’s origin.)”

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“Aid from the U.S. to Haiti in particular, and the Third World in general, is a way of laundering government paybacks to industry, with USAID usually serving as the intermediary. The aid is not intended to help the recipient but to assist U.S. companies that cannot sell their goods.” – Dady Chery (Poison Seeds, Herbicides, Pushed Again on Haitian Farmers in Spring 2012.)

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How the shock of Martelly ascending to the National Palace, the 2010 earthquake, UN cholera and US regime change 2004 is being used to recolonize and privatize Haiti though death and dependency programs of the World Bankers, UN/US military, 42,000 NGOs

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We Would Rather Die Standing

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United Nations Still Denies its Troops Brought Cholera to Haiti

by Jonathan M. Katz, The Daily Beast, Apr 4, 2012

Picture this: soldiers from a foreign army are stationed near the headwaters of the Mississippi River. Sewage running from their base has long polluted the waterway, but the authorities never paid attention. One day a new rotation of soldiers arrives, carrying a deadly bacteria never before seen in the U. S. It enters the water. People get sick, then die. The infection spreads from St. Louis to Memphis to New Orleans, explodes along the Gulf Coast, and from there to every state in the union.

Overwhelmed health responders watch in horror as family after family succumbs. Within a year, five percent of Americans have fallen seriously ill and thousands have died. The president tells a terrified and exhausted nation that it will cost more than the annual national budget to control the disease. Yet no court can hold the soldiers accountable for negligence, or even get them to acknowledge their role in causing the outbreak. “It doesn’t matter,” an army spokesman says.

Such a nightmare is happening right now in Haiti. Cholera erupted on the shores of the country’s most important river in the fall of 2010, downstream from a base that housed U.N. soldiers from Nepal. The disease has sickened half a million people and killed at least 7,000. As health officials and bureaucrats bicker over the best response, the disease is surging again with the spring rains. Haitians are left struggling to deal with the unending epidemic, caused by the very soldiers dispatched to protect them.

A year and a half ago, that last sentence would have been incendiary. Most foreigners assumed that cholera was part of the impoverished country’s landscape, a result of the squalid living conditions that many Haitians found themselves in after the country’s massive 2010 earthquake. Suggesting otherwise was seen as an exercise in reckless scapegoating. But as the Associated Press correspondent in Port-au-Prince, I quickly realized that there was more to the story. For one thing, the outbreak had first been noticed outside of the quake zone in the country’s rice-growing heartland. More startlingly, no one had ever before recorded an outbreak of cholera in Haiti. Our resulting investigation in late 2010, along with those of Harvard microbiologists, a French-led team of epidemiologists, and others would uncover a mountain of evidence pointing to the U.N. base as the source of the outbreak. Today Bill Clinton, the U.N. Special Envoy to Haiti, can casually link the peacekeepers to the epidemic. A summary of the facts to date can sit comfortably as the lead story in Sunday’s New York Times.

Demonstrators dance around a fake coffin during a recent protest against the UN in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Ramon Espinosa / AP Photo

“Homeless quake victims get evicted in the hurricane season while the Bush-Clinton fund builds a new $29 million shelter for Westerners with donation dollars to help quake victims. Once a vagabond always a vagabond -vagabon toujou vagabon, “bourik Sendomeng te mèt abiye. Kou midi sonnen, lap tonbe ranni.” It’s their nature. Fòk li ranni.” – Ezili Dantò, excerpted from I pay this price for you

Corruption uninterrupted: Red Cross misuse quake monies to buy land, build hotel like Clinton-Bush Fund

They dare so much injustice. The powerful in suits or in well-appointed dresses, some with PhDs from the best Western schools.

Their tyranny, indecency, and greed are boundless and without shame. It seems fòk li ranni -  it’s their nature?

What happens to a dream deferred, a black man once asked? Does it explode?

Will Desalin’s descendants also shamelessly, completely ignore Desalin’s Law:

“…No white man of whatever nation he may be, shall put his foot on this territory with the title of master or proprietor, neither shall he in future acquire any property therein…” (Jean Jacques Dessalines, Haiti founding father, 1805 Haitian Constitution, Art. 12.)

There are over 800,000 earthquake victims still homeless, some reshuffled or evicted out of the tents and tarps. There are over 526,000 sick from UN-cholera, over 7,000 dead from UN-cholera. There’s no shelter for the majority poor in Site Solèy. No clean water for the suffering public.

But, the Red Cross uses $10.5 million in quake money to buy land in Haiti. Now they’re proposing building a hotel, like the Clinton-Bush fund did, on their ill-gotten land purchase in Haiti.

They’re not investing donation monies to provide clean water infrastructure and sanitation. No. There’s no PROFIT in that. The Red Cross is considering building a hotel and conference center.

“The hope is that profits could sustain the work of Haiti’s local Red Cross in the coming years, the head of the international group’s Haitian delegation said Monday.” (Red Cross Weighs Decision to Build Hotel in Haiti.)

This, from the organization that is first in line to beg for “crisis” monies with each new crisis in Haiti and mostly does not spend monies from one crisis for another. Keeping the storm monies raised in 2008. Collecting new monies for the earthquake and holding it in the bank, they claimed, for “reconstruction” for Haiti. Providing hotels to foreigners apparently is reconstruction for Haitians. (Video: How did the Red Cross spend $106 Million Dollars in Haiti? and When will the Western value system be not about PROFIT but humanity?)

How did the Red Cross spend Million of Dollars in Haiti?****** Ezili Danto’s Note: Haitians were complaining that the Red Cross was giving the quake victims foul,  untreated water even before the UN imported cholera to Haiti.HLLN posted this video evidence on April 2010, two months after the earthquake.  We noted that “(a)mongst some of the testimonies that’s not clearly translated in this most valuable video referenced above: a woman points to a water drum with a “Red Cross” sign on it and says that the water they give is not treated. She drinks it because she has no money to buy good drinkable water but suffers right now from a stomach ache from drinking the Red Cross polluted water gift…” (The Plantation called Haiti: Feudal Pillage Masking as Humanitarian Aid.)          *********** Ezili Dantò, Feb. 27, 2010 That’s our blood pouring down there:  “If only their inhumanity, narcissism and vulgarity could be held in abeyance while heart sore human beings, living under water-logged tents, old cardboard and wet sheets, people with damaged and inflamed limbs, some also tear-gassed by the UN for protesting their conditions; if only their inhumanity, narcissism and vulgarity could be held in abeyance as Haiti tries to recover from the ravages of the US/Euro neoliberalism and despotism that exacerbated a 7.0 earthquake so that it took the lives of over 300,000?” No. We are shocked,  shocked and shocked again.

Instead of building housing for the earthquake victims or the people in Site Solèy, who are living in filth, primarily because the US-promised jobs in the 1980s were never sustainable.

Instead of USAID making amends for slaughtering the peasants’ livestock, killing 1.3 million indigenous Haiti pigs on a with-hunt to force the peasants into the Port-au-Prince capital to work at their non-jobs (Rebuilding Haiti” — the Sweatshop Hoax.)

“As a result of these US free trade policies, over 830,000 rural Haitian jobs were lost and hundreds of thousands of Haitians were forced into the capital looking for work, where eventually they would meet up with the massive earthquake and death on January 12, 2010 at 4:53.” –Ezili Dantò, Vision of Plantation Haiti .

Instead of Bill Clinton’s apology for destroying centuries of rural subsistence livelihood in Haiti with dumped Arkansas rice, as well as dumping US infertile seeds that depleted the land being made meaningful with new shelter and housing and reparations in the form of real investment in sustainable agriculture, the Clintons – one leading USAID, one leading the UN mission in Haiti – are building hotels in Port au Prince and in the North of Haiti.

But worst, over 300 farmers’ family-plots in the Northeast of Haiti were converted into the industrial zone for Korean textile giant Sae-A Trading. The “Korean” factory is built on good agricultural lands taken from Haiti peasants farmers without their approval and further destroys Haiti food sovereignty. ( Video: A Brief History of Haiti that Every American Should Know.)

US citizens are the project’s biggest investor and main owners, not Haiti. The Korean cover is useful to deflect the Clinton and US oligarchs’ intentions. The US one percent, make it a practice to use subcontractors, such as the Korean conglomerate, to deflect and preempt decent US consumer complaints of human rights abuses and unfair labor practices against the giant American companies the complex will service, such as GAP, Wal-Mart, Target and other major US retailers.

The 600 acre Caracol industrial complex is built on one of the most fertile and mineral rich areas in the Northeast Department. (I pay this price for you: Haiti is open for business; The Plantation called Haiti: Feudal Pillage Masking as Humanitarian Aid and, Tell The Truth About Haiti Forum with Ezili Dantò of HLLN.)

Having lost Haiti 830,000 rural jobs, resulting in the US-created Site Solèy slum in the capital, this new “development” effort offers Haitians a mere 20,000 sweatshop jobs and opens the possibility of turning another part of Haiti, living relatively with less misery, into becoming a slum when the foreigners finish excavating whatever they’re taking of the Trou du Nord River watershed and mineral rich Northeast. (Declarations made by Prime Minister Bellerive about the presence of gold, oil, iridium in Haiti -Video in French.)

The post-earthquake US factory wrecked the homes and rural subsistence livelihood of at least 300 families who had some means of taking care of their loved ones, even the ones suffering from the earthquake in the capital.

The Korean factory is empty up in the North. But the Clintons and the Obama Administration are spending earthquake monies to build 5000 new homes for the anticipated factory workers.

I say “anticipated” because responsible Haitians know the new housing up North won’t be for Haitians to live in.

The housing up North, as well as, the university the US just helped build in Limonade in the North  (as opposed to using earthquake relief monies where the earthquake happened and repair the University of Haiti in Port au Prince) are, in fact, for the foreigners who need housing for their enterprises up North including the mining, oil drilling, Fort Liberte and other deep water ports they’re stealing. (See,  Oil Refinery – an old notion for Fort Liberte as a transshipment terminal for US supertankers.)

Recall there is seven times more violence in the Dominican Republic than in Haiti. But the university up North is being, uhmm “safeguarded,” by the Dominican military. The Dominicans wish a piece of the pie if the world bankers and corporate oligarchy want their military arm to put down any Haiti resistance.

But you know, the propaganda is that they are on Haiti territory – them, Clinton, Farmer, the UN and the 37,000 to 42,000 NGOs to “heal,” “help” and “protect” Haitians.

“For 500 years the whites (settlers/colonists) have tried to erase us. Today they want us to believe they’re the only ones who can save us” — Edike by Daniel ‘Dadi’ Beaubrun (See HLLN’s Desalin page and The Untold Story.)

Healing Haitians and providing jobs and education are the reasons these racist evil abominations, blan kolon, always give to idiot and cowardly Haitians who are into denial. Laura Silsby and the US church group kidnapping Haiti kids by the busload immediately after the earthquake were also going to provide education while they sold the “orphans” in the Dominican Republic to North American couples at $10,000 a head. ( US missionaries charged with child kidnapping in Haiti, Case Stokes Haiti’s Fear for Children, and Itself and We are the Haitians: From womb to tomb our lives are struggle.)

US missionaries arrested and charged with child kidnapping and trafficking in Haiti

So, under the rubric of healing, protecting, providing relief, jobs and education, the colonial enterprise against Haiti marches forward.

There’s no shelter, no clean water, no sanitation but blan kolon has lots of idiot Haiti technocrats put up front to manage the peasant and patriot’s resistance against the expansion of their retarded selves onto Haitian territory. (See, Haiti: A time bomb which must be defused immediately.)

This is the receivership US Congress openly talked about, after the earthquake, presumably since the Haitian government is too weak to take care of its own people? (See HLLN’s “Message to Paul Farmer, the Senate, Dobbins & Francois, Jan. 30, 2010″)

Meanwhile, pick up the mainstream news reporting on Haiti and it’s filled with the propaganda that the Haiti government is “ordering” the ex-soldiers to clear out of the old bases they have taken over. Or, they are running some tripe about Gerald Latortue/Jeb Bush’s Florida, about to indict President Aristide on corruption charges. Talk about projecting?

The US had cut off all its tied-aid from the Aristide/Neptune government. Influenced world IFIs to stop credit and loans to Haiti for clean water, sanitation and road infrastructure and used US tax dollars to finance Aristide’s civil and military opponents.

No one in the mainstream media is doing any real reporting work, investigating the corruption of Gerald Latortue, the US-imposed Prime Minister from 2004 to 2006. His looting, even after he was gone from Haiti, and the pillage reported of $964 million in tied aid dollars from 2004 to 2006.

Yvon Neptune, the legitimate Haiti Prime Minister was thrown in jail for two years under the US puppet Gerald Latortue regime. (Legacy of Impunity of the world powers in Haiti, 2006.)

The US made sure their boy,  Gerald Latortue, was given a cushy UN job after he finished doing their bidding in Haiti.

The disgraced Republican Congressman, Mark Foley of Florida proposed a bill in US Congress to honor Latortue for a job well done in Haiti. Foley would resign from Congress over “improper conduct” with a teenage boy.

Latortue, a career UN employee, was the Haiti face who signed the 2004 Status of Force agreement for Haiti, allowing the UN-MINUSTAH mission into Haiti. SOFA provides the UN with complete immunity for all crimes, including, it seems, giving Latortue’s UN colleagues a nice venue for the pedophiles from the UN right now sodomizing Haiti boys with stark impunity.

With his many powerful Western friends and partners in crime, is it any wonder that Gerald Latortue has not  been asked to account for the $964 million dollars in foreign aid?

“What happened to $964 Million dollars entrusted to Alexandre/Latortue/Henri Bazin et al on behalf of the Haitian people. This is the equivalent of $1,320,547 dollars spent each day of the 730 days (2 years) Latortue and his entourage spent in Haiti?” –Harry Fouche at Ezili Listserve Archives, Aug. 14 2006

Miami Herald is not about to scrutinize this larceny, nor the evidence of sexual abuse of teenage boys in Haiti by UN personnel. Nor their high level Washington and political connections.

Douglas Perlitz, Father Jeffrey von Arx, Dr. Paul Farmer. Farmer, UN Deputy Envoy under Bill Clinton gives thumbs up to Perlitz. Perlitz was sentenced to nearly 20years in Federal prison for sodomizing homeless Haiti boys for 10 years. Ezili's HLLN works on dozens of these abuse cases. This one for 6-years to help with this rare instance of justice for the children. They remain in misery still. Farmer and UN are pushing profit-making pharmaceuticals and vaccines to earthquake and cholera victims as "healing."

The media also turns a blind eye to the corrupt Bush administration that ousted a democratically elected President, the NGO’s systemic failures and misuse of donation dollars in Haiti, the UN’s continued denial of liability even though the US’s Bill Clinton admits they brought cholera. Not one talks about the UN hiding behind organizational, super-state immunity to commit crimes with impunity. (Bill Clinton admits UN brought cholera, Haiti raped again).

The mainstream media doesn’t question the use of American tax monies for the CIA to create the FRAPH death squad in Haiti during the first Bush-the-father coup in 1991, or the Guy Phillipe ex-soldiers’ “rebellion” and Lame Ti-Manchet group in 2004, nor the US involvement in kidnapping Aristide in 2004 under Bush-the son. (Video: Haiti the Untold Story.)

Oh no, they’re back to the witch-hunt and grandstanding with the Miami suit against Aristide. (Aristide’s return and the Historical Amnesia in the International Media about Haiti and Haiti: Political fallacy that Aristide is like the Duvaliers serves U.S., NGO, foreign & Haiti Oligarchy interests.)

If Aristide is out of Haiti, the US will have reason to keep the majority from participating in elections.

Bringing back this baseless, capricious and arbitrary Miami suit when Haitians lack jurisdiction, the embedded media, Haiti progressives and conservatives opine, to sue the UN or US policymakers in US courts for legitimate wrongs is just another example of  blatant racism, injustice and lack of equality under the law.

The threat of Miami federal power is another way to further silence and terrorize Haiti’s majority. Keeping the NGOS, the UN and the pharmaceutical companies flush on Haiti’s poverty and agony. No democracy, no justice, no due process, no rule of law, no access to equal legal redress under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Just vampires gorging themselves on Haiti blood, bodies and soil with impunity.

They’ve bitten deep into our flesh. Keep Haiti contained in poverty, endless debt, coup d’etat and disease to keep feeding on Haiti.

Douglas Perlitz/AP –   Douglas Perlitz, US charity worker is in jail, serving a 19-year, seven-month sentence at federal prison in Seagoville, Texas, for sexually abusing Haiti boys. He terrorized and threatening the students with expulsion or withholding benefits if they did not comply with the sodomizing and sexually abuse. Part of his defense was that he had a 20-year sexual relationship with Jesuit priest and University of Fairfield chaplain, Paul Carrier. Carrier introduced Perlitz to “missionary” work in Haiti when Perlitz was a student at Fairfield University in Connecticut. He was the fundraiser for Perlitz. The well-connected Catholic priest is free, has not been charged with wrongdoing.(Ezili HLLN’s campaign to protect Haiti children.)       After the trial, Fairfield University gave monies to Kids Alive, a US NGO, to help school the youths instead of finding Haiti-led assistance as HLLN strongly urged. The NGO spent the money, did not help the children not even with counseling and a year later admitted they failed. Rev. Paul E. Carrier

Their racist claws, profit-orientated talons and disaster capitalism incisors are addicted to the tasty blood of the Black woman’s child.  They’re so bold about it under Barack Obama, Susan Rice and Cheryl Mills.

Even more so than under the George W. Bush tenures of Colin Powell and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. These employees – subcontracted Black overseers – set the imperial precedent in the US for the high-level use of Black skin with Western schooled minds.  Cheryl Mills and US Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, are perfecting the traditional do-gooder, charitable mask hiding the re-enslavement and plunder of Black countries like Haiti. There’s no profit in remembering Black is also a culture with soul and spiritual imperatives not to become what the Ancestors fought against, or integrate with injustice. (See, Three ideals of Dessalines.)

When the embedded Washington Post, Miami Herald, ABC news, CNN or AP are not telling us about the puppet president’s efforts (who, by the way, has no government since the Prime Minister resigned) to clear the ex-soldiers out of their old bases. The biggest “news” on Haiti today. They’re running op-eds on how the US and UN don’t want Michel Martelly to revive the old Haitian army. (Haiti government orders former soldiers to clear old bases .)

Tell me please no one believes this rubbish? This CIA-made pretense?

Remember the US and UN slaughters in Site Solèy, Bel Air, Solino, Martissant, Gran Ravine? Recall the straight up execution, when they didn’t tow the imperial line, of ex-soldier Remissainthe Ravix and Grenn Sonen by the US forces hidden behind UN guns? Come on folks. Both were executed when they stopped supporting the US occupation and coup d’etat Boca Raton government then in Haiti.

There are over 13,000 foreign soldiers on Haitian soil and their puppet government can’t get some rag-tag ex-soldiers and their new guns out of old bases? (Haiti: The Handwriting on the Wall for Martelly and the US.) You believe that and I’ve got the Brooklyn bridge to sell you.

Truly, the embedded media is a travesty. They’re shoveling plain manure into the brains of their unsuspecting readers.

All the while billions in quake monies are stolen or being used to make Haiti a tourist haven for rich Westerners. Defenseless Haiti women, boys and girls are the bodies they invade, not just our lands are being raped. (Humanitarian workers, UN soldiers sexual abusing Haiti children and Caracol Haiti Industrial Park With Projected Adverse Environmental Impact.)

And so it is with this latest Red Cross straight up stealing from the earthquake victims. (Red Cross Weighs Decision to Build Hotel in Haiti; How did the Red Cross spend $106 Million Dollars in Haiti?)

Are American taxpayers not yet tired of the perversion of good-hearted American intentions? The charity industry’s scams. Their bait and switch? (Western Traditional NGOs: Tools of War.)

Did Americans know the Red Cross was soliciting monies to build a for-profit luxury hotel when they reached into their pockets, text monies, to the Red Cross to bring relief to the Haitians they saw, on TV, with crush limbs being amputated without anesthetic?

“They’re open for business on top of our decomposed dead bodies, on top of our crushed bones, on top of our intense grief. Open for business on top of our ground water contaminated by their diseased feces. They’ve made so much money.” –Ezili Dantò, I pay this price for you

Ezili’s HLLN urges the Haitian government, if you politicos have any, any shred of dignity left, void the SOFA agreement and deport all NGOs from Haiti now.

Ezili Dantò
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN)
March, 2012

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“Boukman o nan Bwa Kayiman
Nou lonmen non w
Nou pa denounen w, nan Bwa Kayiman
Papa Boukman o, nou wè ase
Papa Boukman o, nou rive nan tobout o
Peyi nou divize, lafanmi doz-a-do.
Nou pate fè Bwa Kayiman
Pou n sèvi etranje.”

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BACKGROUND INFO
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“I don’t know why it is…but since the beginning of time Haitians have been suffering” —Haitian migrant , 2009

The Price of Sugar – Documentary on the treatment of poor Haitians in the Dominican Republic.

Bill Clinton admits UN brought cholera, Haiti raped again

Seismic shifts.  Freestyling to murder Tarzan, Jane and their Uncle Toms.

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“Haiti pains are a good capital asset for this industry. They wouldn’t have a job, salaries and tropical vacations and the illicit black sex they crave from Africans, without our pains, indignities, death, submissions and sufferings. Imagine swallowing the nutritional supplements, vitamins, vaccines and the other pharmaceuticals USAID insist are “aid to Haiti,” when you’ve not eaten in four days? And the HIV drugs you have to swallow are also washed down with toxic ground water, in some ways also from US/Euro/Canada gold, copper, oil, iridium, uranium, coal, marble, granite, limestone, aggregate and other mining companies who pollute Haiti’s shores and riverbeds.”  – Ezili Danto, May 17, 2010 (Poverty Pimps Masturbating on Black Pain:Monsanto Joins pack .)
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In the essay, Aristide’s return and the Historical Amnesia in the International Media about Haiti,” Nick Stratton points out how the media’s – “illusory history of US-Haitian relations, provides a self-affirming, self-justifying, and self-begging rhetorical tool to only further validate US intervention in Haitian democracy—that is, obstruction and destruction thereof.”

Reviewing the top five US (WSJ, USA Today, NYT, LA Times and Washington Post) media outlet’s coverage of Aristide – mostly before the March 18, 2011 return. Stratton points out, most critically, that:

“Moreover, the mass media’s normalization of the 1991 and 2004 coup d’états effectively dismisses these moments of intense political instability as effects of Haitian internal politics. By “forgetting” well-documented history of US involvement in both—the extent to which is beyond the scope of this article, this “journalism” constructs a dangerous and illusory precedent for US military intervention and external command and control. The implications of such ideology reach far beyond any question of Aristide. Invade in 1994 to restore order to the “failing-state’s” democracy? No problem. Fund violent opposition groups in 2000 to execute the 2004 coup d’état? Nature dictates we must. Kidnap the democratically-elected president and banish him into exile on a US Air Force plane while claiming to have “saved” him from the political violence? The universe begs of us. Occupy the country with Marines after the earthquake? “History” tells us this works. Appoint Clinton as the chief architect for the future of Haiti’s reconstruction? Why not? Silence always is a more effective polemical tool of propaganda than is speech…”
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Red Cross Weighs Decision to Build Hotel in Haiti
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 26, 2012 at 9:09 PM ET

http://nyti.ms/HghcYO

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is considering building a hotel and conference center in Haiti on part of a $10.5 million property that it bought after the 2010 earthquake.

The hope is that profits could sustain the work of Haiti’s local Red Cross in the coming years, the head of the international group’s Haitian delegation said Monday.

The 10-acre compound, known as the “Hilton Property,” was purchased from Comme Il Faut, Haiti’s local cigarette company, in the months after the quake, Eduard Tschan told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

The charity paid in a single payment, using funds donated by national Red Cross agencies for quake recovery. At the time, Haiti’s recovery was the largest operation in the organization’s history, with 3,000 people working here.

Now that its work is winding down, the international Red Cross is putting together an exit strategy and as part of that process is trying to figure out what to do with this property.

The Haitian Red Cross, which works closely with the Haitian government as almost a branch of its health department, has a rebuilt headquarters on the property and that will remain.

It’s a valuable spot, near the international airport in a growing city. Tschan said two ideas are being studied: selling the acreage not being used by the Haitian Red Cross or finding a business partner and building a hotel and conference center that would provide profits to sustain the Haitian Red Cross.

“There is great potential with this property,” Tschan said.

He said that if a marketing feasibility study determines a hotel or conference center seems viable, the Red Cross will open the project to bidders.

“Ideally it would be a local company,” he said.

CharityWatch president Daniel Borochoff, who evaluates nonprofit organizations, said the hotel plan is risky and highly unusual. More typically, charities invest in low risk securities, he said.

“It’s not clear it would work,” he said. “And if they lose the money it’s going to be a problem.”

Borochoff said a hotel and conference center could tie up funds that might be needed quickly in future disasters, and noted donors hadn’t been informed.

“What would happen if donors learned that instead of giving money to treat cholera or build shelters, it’s going to build a hotel? I understand it’s an investment, but that takes some explaining,” he said.

Raymond Joseph, a former ambassador to the United States, welcomed the project, saying it would expand the number of hotel rooms in Haiti and create employment opportunities in a country where there are few.

“I’m applauding what they’re doing,” Joseph said by telephone. “It will help Haiti by creating jobs for quite a few people.”

Should the hotel happen, it would join other efforts to build hotels and lure visitors to Haiti in the aftermath of the quake, which devastated the capital and other cities in the south.

Best Western International Inc. is building a seven-story hotel with 105 guest rooms, a restaurant and lounge, a full spa and a swimming pool. The inn, aimed at business travelers, bankers and diplomats, is scheduled to open this summer in the heart of Petionville, a hillside city southeast of the capital.

Similarly, Marriott International Inc. is planning to build a $45 million, 173-room hotel in partnership with the Digicel mobile phone company. The hotel is slated to open in 2014 in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince.

There is precedent for the Red Cross building a hotel. The Red Court Hotel, a four-star hotel in Kenya, is owned by the Kenya Red Cross Society and all proceeds go toward the charity.

The international Red Cross has spent $754 million in Haiti since the earthquake, with an additional $114 million spending planned for 2012. Other Red Cross organizations also have their own relief operations in Haiti.

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Associated Press writer Martha Mendoza reported this story from Santa Cruz, California, and Trenton Daniel reporting in Port-au-Prince.
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A Brief History of Haiti that Every American Should Know

Western Traditional NGO’s: Tools of War

by  Ali Cordoba , Source: World Future Online / Wfol.tv

NGO’s or non-governmental organizations or commonly known as ‘non-profit’ making organizations. What are they really used for? Well, if they are from the Western hemisphere or

if they are ‘third world’ generated but financially supported by the West, are they really ‘humanitarian’ in nature?

In the past, not that remote altogether but some 30 to 40 years ago, Western based NGO’s were used as weapons carrier and were also ‘spy’ offices for the CIA, Mossad and what other killing agencies from the West.

Recently, NGO’s were used in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and now Syria. In Libya, they carried weapons for the rebels, they assisted in the murder of 100,000 Libyans and they were present when Nato hit the Gaddafi convoy in Sirte!

Examples from the past were rampant: Nigeria conflict (Biafra) where American NGO’s were used to carry weapons for the anti-Nigerian rebels, instead of medicines or food for the starved and needy.

This is but one example and there are others. Uganda under Iddi Amin: NGO’s were used by the Israeli army to penetrate deep into the Amin quarters in a clear attempt at eliminating him. The killers were used their ‘volunteer’ undercover to organize attacks against Amin.

In Indonesia, more recently, NGO’s and even ‘business centres’ owned by Americans and Europeans (including Australians) were used as spy ‘fronts’. This happened mostly during the Megawati Sukarnoputri era as President of Indonesia. Most of the activities of these NGO’s were in remote areas of Indonesia, including the hotspots like in Maluku and don’t forget Madera. In Madera, in one of the reports I made, it was about a ‘U.S. owned car rental’ business joining a well known NGO to collect data and other information on the children, wives and other members of the family of ‘mujahideen’ fighters who died in Afghanistan fightning the Soviet invasion.

The results of these spy-ops were handed to the American embassy in Jakarta which then submitted names to the Megawati regime, names that they Americans said were to be barred from everything ‘as these names were names of children’ of the dead mujahideen. The memo to the Megawati government from the U.S. embassy stipulated that these ‘children’ were ‘would be terrorists’ and the USAID were to ‘handle’ them and their ‘mothers’ in clear attempts at ‘christianizing them’.

All these institutions and other organizations that are “Trojan horse”, working for Western hegemon. As said above,, already during the war ‘biaffra’ weapons and mercenaries were transported through the red cross.

Recently I stumbled on a blog that shouted loud about the criminal acts by the NGO’s, mostly western, who used their freedom to assist Nato in Libya. “believing that justice, freedom and especially the respect for others can be expected from these organizations is crappy swim in the ocean of darkness and live in error. They are evil instruments, set up to tackle in depth with moral, intellectual and cultural of other peoples, to cultural uniformity in the style “” Oxidant way of life “, the blogger said.

He wrote: UNICEF, the ICRC (Red Cross), the AICF (Action against Hunger), UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees), FAO (Food & Agricultural Organization), Organization of the United Nations specializing in agriculture and food, WFP (World Food Programme) and other so-called Western “humanitarian aid agencies” are for decades, the real accomplices of Western states with their food processing industries, trade, finance and members who are responsible for this disastrous situation in Africa.

He lambasted that “acording to a Canadian expert to save those children PERMANENTLY of poverty (caused by the West with the help of African leaders) should be three million € uros. But these (combined) and have now collected more than 260 billion € uros. Affect their bosses (on average) 28,000 €uros per month (staying & cars)!”

“The Senegalese Jacques Diouf (FAO boss) affects € 23,000 EUROS per month and is to FAO for 19 years! The patron of UNICEF, Ann Veneman key UROS € 42,000 per month, WFP boss key UROS € 26,000 per month, the UNHCR Antonio Guterres key UROS € 35,000 per month!”

USAID, a well known NGO from the U.S. is sometimes praised as the group that helps Muslims in Mindanao, Pattani, Aceh and so on. The truth behind USAID is that it is virtually a CIA front end camouflaged as an NGO. Most of the ‘NGO’ heads from the Muslim world who dealt with USAID have either turned into CIA informants or American spies.

This tells you more about the undercover ‘war’ agencies called NGO’s that are so called ‘humanitarian’ agencies!

Quotes taken on the site http://www.hackermocking-cartel.com/diaporama91.php