26872: Jepiem: (reply) Fwd: Re: 26856:(a reply) against elections as a first priority (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Jepiem@aol.com

This poster is telling us that elections must be take place  as scheduled. Is
it really Haiti's true priority right now? And is anyone  really convinced
that conditions have been set in place to guarantee free  and fair elections
and more, credible elections that the majority will be  satisfied with, that
will really bring about theconditions for the long delayed  meaningful changes
to
start Haiti on the road to recovery, like equal Justice  for all, reliable
services like garbage pick up, electrical power,  affordable,  modern phone
services,not expensive cell phones that suck up  the resources of the poor and
aren't really affordable to all, dependable  and non corrupt police that the
citizenry can feel comfortable  calling in case of trouble, environmental
reforms
to stop or slow the  destruction of the land, easily accessible health care
and heath maintainance  services and programs, reform of the education system
rehabilitation of the  country's true culture not through demagogic official
pronouncements but through  meaningful and well advised reforms, reevaluation
of

the country's resources and  steps towards their development for the benefit
of all and not of a minority,  legislative and judicial reforms to start
opening the way towards this elusive  democracy that everyone talks about so
much,
and more...  The mission  of this provisional government when stated to be to
"prepare  elections" really should have been to establish a complete list of
priorities  and grade them and get started with the most urgent, since
obviously

the task is  so enormous that a temporary government could not tackle it all.
At least this  government should have had the vision to determine what were
the first letters  of this alphabet and start writing them. Instead this
parachuted government came  in with no vision whatsoever. Rather the Prime
Minister
in his first months and  up to now seem to be haunted by the ghost of Aristide
whom he is always busy  trying to exorcise by his pronouncements. Having been
parachuted in from  Boca Raton which in his delusion he must think is Heavens
 he  thinks himself above every possible authority and there is no obstacle
his  omnipotence and omniscience does not surpass or cannot  surmount except of

course the heavenly  power who dropped him on the  Haitian scene. He doesn't
have to answer to a President since there is really  none of substance to
speak of, or to Legislature which has vanished  into obsolescence or caducity
for
sundry reasons  and   now no Judiciary since the Supreme PM has showed the
whole country that you can ignore the verdict of the highest court in  the land

as long as you have the power to get away with it. As for the  Constitution,
the ultimate authority when all else fails, really there isn't  one. To me the
Constitution is all or none. May be it is my US learned  bias, but there out
to be an instance to decide on the interpretation of the  Constitution and
authority of that instance should not be vested in those who  have a vested
interest in the result of that interpretation, namely a less than  impartial
prime
minister. In my logic, this current constitution is null and  void, it has been

violated to consistently. It has been torn to shreds by those  who have tried
to remove from it pieces that were not to their liking There is  no way you
can put this doll back together. Those damaged parts are  damaged forever. My
bias at this time is that Haiti needs a fresh start,  with a new revised
Constitution that everyone agrees to abide by. Elections at  all costs? Yes
that

will satisfy the immediate aspirations and the ambitions of  a few, will bring
them closer to the table where the meager haitian pig is being  sacrificed, but

I am afraid the cost is going to be to high for mother  Haiti in the long run.
Math Jay