25549: Hyppolite (reply) Re: 25547: from LeGrace FW: Threat to National Archives / Menaces contre les Archives Nationales (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Hyppolite Pierre <hpierre@irsp.org>

Burning of the National Archives? Not just insane but inhumane and plainly 
stupid. But now that such plot seems to have been discovered, it is simply time 
to pass to preventive action. 
It should therefore not be that hard for MINUSTHA and PNH to protect the 
Archives, since there seems to be actual knowledge of such a plot. Hopefully, 
they have a simple strategy:

-protect the National Archives;
-identify the culprits and arrest them;
-make known to the public their political affiliation.

I would even go further. If true, that a political party is involved in this 
mad plan, the Electoral Council (CEP) should at least ban the leadership of 
that party -individually- to participate in the next elections, fine them for 
the cost of MINUSTHA and PNH protecting the National Archives' perimeter, and 
also perhaps even ban that party from functionning unless and until reformed 
with a whole new and different leadership. That new leadership would have to 
express publicly and explicitly their disavow of violent political maneuvering, 
as they would also have to, legally, understand that any future participation 
in any form of violence will mean the permanent dismantling of their party. 
Short of those sorts of measure, power-hungry Haitian politicians will continue 
to destroy the country and its patrimony, believing correctly that violence is 
the way for them to achieve their political goal.

Hyppolite