18253: anonymous: 18226: Dilize: Yes, there is a Bush campaign

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

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From: Dilize@aol.com

MADAM,

PLEASE, FORGIVE THE ANONYMITY, REASON IS AT THE END...
PLEASE FORGIVE ALSO MY USING ALL CAPS... THE CYBER CAFE DOES NOT ALLOW A CORRECT EDITING...
HERE ARE SOME COMENTS YOUR INTERESTING POST DREW FROM MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, AND LOVE FOR HAITI...

Marguerite Lauren wrote:

"if there is no chaos, political impasse or violence in Haiti, how would they be able to take advantage and continue to fleece dry the Haitian people. Fact is, authentic participatory democracy, which is where Haiti's peoples want to take their current electoral democracy, certainty would not provide a good USAID-US/Euro "business climate. "

"For, when big-business, profit-over-people US/Euro interests come to the developing world, they are looking for the greatest pool of available labor at the lowest wages imaginable. That means, they are looking for developing nations, such as Haiti, where high unemployment, poverty, malnutrition, misery and desperate needs automatically generate low  wages - 30 cents an hour or lower in
Haiti.  The lowest, cheapest labor in the Western Hemisphere!

DEAR MADAM, YOU SEEMS FORGETTING THAT LAVALAS GOES PERFECTLY WELL WITH THOSE BIG BUSINESSES (EVER HEARD ABOUT OUANAMINTHE?... ARISTIDE AND NOT APAID GAVE PART OF THE NATIONAL TERRITORY TO GRUPPO M... THAT SEEMS RELUCTANT TO HAVE HAITIAN WORKERS HAVING SYNDICATES...)
AS FOR THE HAITIAN BUSINESSMEN, SEVERAL OF THE BIGGESTS HAVE MORE THAN FRIENDLY AND INTERESTED RELATIONS WITH ARISTIDE...
ARE YOU SURE THE TOILET SYSTEMS AND EXTENSIVE PAINTINGS DONE AROUND PALAIS NATIONAL FOR JANUARY 1st PUT MONEY IN SMALL ARTISANS POCKETS? LESS THAN IN SOME BIG BOURGEOIS...

BUT MORE GENERALY, ARE YOU SURE THAT PRO OR ANTI LAVALAS BUSINESS MEN IN HAITI WOULD NOT RATHER PAY THEIR WORKERS MORE, SHOULD THEY HAVE CORRECT SECURITY PROVIDED BY THE POLICE? SHOULD THEY HAVE NORMAL OPERATING PORT FACILITIES? SHOULD PORT-AU-PRINCE PORT, ONE OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE OF THE CARIBBEAN, PUT SOME OF THE MONEY IT COLLECTS IN RENOVATING OR ONLY MAINTENANCE OF ITS FACILITIES AND NOT IN PAYING PRO-ARISTIDe MOBS, CARNIVAL, AND SOME VERY PRIVATE WEALTHS?
ARE YOU SURE THEY WOULD NOT WELCOME HAVING ROADS, NOT HAVING CONTAINERS HIJACKED, AND TO PREVENT THE LATER HAVING TO PAY BOTH THE POTENTIAL THIEVES and THE POLICE?
ARE YOU SURE THEY ARE HAPPY TO PAY THE HIGHER RATE TO STATE ELECTRICITY COMPANY, WHILE THEY ARE ALMOST THE ONLY PAYING CUSTOMERS (STATE OFFICES DO NOT PAY, MAIN OF THE PEOPLE CONNECTED, LEGALLY OR NOT NEITHER...)?
ARE YOU SURE THEY WOULD NOT WELCOME PAYING ELECTRICITY BUT THEN HAVING THE SERVICE AND NOT HAVING TO PAY ALSO GENERATORS, GAZOIL AND INVERTERS?

CAN YOU TELL THEY WOULD NOT RATHER MAKE MONEY EASILY RATHER THAN SAVING SOME MONEY FOR SURE BUT WITH SO MANY THREATS AND TROUBLES AND COUNTERPRODUCTIVITY?




"what counts above and beyond the shenanigans of the above two sectors tearing Haiti apart. And that is, that the nation of Haiti, the overwhelming majority of Haitian peoples, the mass Haitian electorate just want to live free of these daily demonstrations and strikes and have their 2000 presidential vote for Aristide respected!"

I THOUGHT, AND SEE THAT, THEY WANT, ABOVE EVERYTHING, JUST LIVE... JUST LIVE!!! NOT BEING BEATTEN BY THE POLICE, KILLED BY THIEVES, AND, ESPECIALLY FOR WOMEN, RAPED WITHOUT ANYONE TO COMPLAIN TO EXCEPT HUMAN RIGHT NGOs THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT WANT TO HEAR FROM...
THEY WOULD LIKE TO, WHEN ARESTED BY THE POLICE, BE SURE NOT TO BE FOUND DEAD IN TITANYEN... OR IN JACMEL AS WAS THE FATE OF A YOUNG GUY LAST NOVEMBER... AND HE WAS ARESTED AND JAILED IN PETION-VILLE...
THEY WOULD LIKE TO, WHEN THE POLICE CONTROL THEM AT THE HOTTEST HOUR OF THE DAY, NOT BEING FORCE TO LIE ON THE BOILING ASPHALTE... NOT ONLY SOME DIE THIS WAY... BUT, HAVE YOU EVER MET AN HAITIAN? THEY WOULD RATHER BE BEATEN THAN BEING HUMILIATED HAVING TO DIRTY THEIR ALWAYS PERFECTLY CLEANED CLOTHES AND LYE ON THE GROUD LIKE A BEAST IN FRONT OF OTHER PEOPLE...
THIS IS DAILY LIFE IN HAITI, FOR NORMAL PEOPLE, NOT FOR BOURGEOIS, STRANGERS, DIPLOMATS AND NGO STAFF...
THE POORS ARE AFRAID, ROBED, HUMILIATED, ATTACKED, BEATTEN, RAPED, TORTURED, KILLED, AND OFTEN LEFT TO THE BEASTS...

EVER WALKED NEAR TITANYEN THOSE DAYS? SO MANY CORPSES ARE LEFT THERE, OFTEN WITH SEVERED HANDS OR FEET...

IT IS TRUE PRESIDENT ARISTIDE EXPLAINED THEY ARE A FEW FALSE POLICIMEN... BUT TO HAVE SUCH A SMELLY RESULT, IT TAKES MORE THAN A FEW PERSONS... DOES PRESIDENT ARISTIDE WANT TO SAY HE IS NOT IN CONTROL OF THE POLICE ANYMORE?

IT IS IN TITANYEN, IN CITE SOLEIL, IN POOR AREAS AND IN RAVINES, IN THE HOPITAL GENERAL MORGUE YOU CAN SEE THE REAL HAITI AND THE FATE OF THE POOR... NOT ON CHAMP THE MARS, AFTER MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ARE GIVEN TO BOURGEOIS IN ORDER THE FEAST LOOKS PRETTY...

IF YOU WANT TO HEAR THE HAITIAN PEOPLE, SPEAK WITH THOSE WHO EARN 40 OR EVEN 100 US A MONTH, AND NEVER GO OUT THEIR HOME AFTER 4:30 pm BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID...
AND, BELIEVE ME, THEY ARE NOT AFRAID OF APAID, USAID OR OEA... THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW THEIR NAMES!

"free of those daily demonstrations" COME ON... DEMONSTRATIONS DO NOT AFFECT POPULAR AREAS... EXCEPT DELMAS 40 AND CANAPE VERT, WHEN PEOPLE FROM THE CONCRETE POOR HOUSES SUPPLY THE WALKERS WITH WATER, AND WOULD PROBABLY JOIN THE MARCH SHOUD THEY BE SURE NOT TO BE KILLED THE NIGHT OR THE DAY AFTER, AS WAS THE NICE SPEAKING,ALWAYS SMILLING PARALYSED BEGGAR IN WHEEL-CHAIR, SHOT YESTERDAY IN PETION-VILLE... PROBABLY WAS HE WRONG GOING TO THE OPPOSITION DEMONSTRATIONS... WOULD YOU ACCUSE APAID AND CONVERGENCE OF HIS KILLING?

"At the demonstrations I attended in Dec. 2003-January 2004, the overwhelming Haitian people's consensus was, "

HOW CAN YOU CATCH THE "OVERWELMING HAITIAN PEOPLE'S CONSENSUS"?
PROBABLY NOT INTERVIEWING THE PEOPLE WHO, THE FRIDAY AFTER THE MAIN DECEMBER 2003 PRO-LAVALAS DEMONSTRATION, WERE INSDE THE PORT TO RECEIVE THEIR SALARY... IF THEY WERE NOT THEIR TO RECEIVE A SALARY FOR DEMONSTRATING BUT A REGULAR SALARY FOR WORKING AT THE PORT, I HOPE THEN YOU WILL SUE THE HAITIAN GOVERNEMENT FOR CHILD LABOUR!

"Does this crowd supporting Aristide look "small" to you, as the New York Times reported! Do the Haitians in these pictures look like their are being as oppressed as we are told by the minority opposition? See for yourself -
http://www.shutterfly.com/osi.jsp?i=67b0de21b3443592e4d3 .
As Jean Saint Vil say's these are "true pictures (of Haiti as it is today)not opinions."
ARE WE SUPPOSED TO HAVE AN OPINION FROM PICTURES? SHOULD THE GOVERNMENT BE WILLING TO SHOW THOSE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, HE SHOULD PROVIDE US WITH PICTURES TAKEN FROM HELICOPTER...
BESIDES, MANY PEOPLE IN THE CROWD WAS, AS ALWAYS, PAYED... SAYING GOES THROUGH TELEDYOL THAT SEVERAL SCHOOLS HAD ALL THEIR PUPILS COMING IN ORDER THEY COULD RECEIVE THEIR INSCRIPTION BULLETIN TO THE NATIONAL EXAMS...


I REGRET I CANNOT EXPRESS THIS WITH MY NAME ON IT... UNFORTUNATELY, I AM NOT LIVING IN THE STATES AND, WHEN SPENDING WEEKS IN HAITI, I STAY IN POPULAR AREAS, WITH NO PROTECTION, AND THE PEOPLE I STAY WITH MIGHT PAY A HEAVY PRICE FOR WELCOMING ME, NOT TO SPEAK ABOUT MY BEING KILLED... YOU WOULD BE SORRY ABOUT THIS RESULT, AND I PROBABLY ALSO WOULD.

BUT, NEXT TIME YOU MAKE A TRIP TO AYITICHERI, DROP A LINE TO THE LIST AND IF I AM THERE AT THE SAME TIME I HOPE WE COULD ARRANGE A MEETING AND VISIT SOME ASPECTS OF THE REAL HAITI, TREASURES AND MISERIES ALTOGETHER...

WITH THIS HOPE...