29904: Emmanuelle Re : 29896: Pierre (Reply) )Re: 29883: Kathleen (term misuse)Re: 29876: Pierre (question) (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Emmanuelle Gilles <manugi28@yahoo.fr>

By the way, Mr. Kawonabo, you mention that the masses hold the key to the 
permanent solution of all Haiti’s century – May I correct you to say that the 
choices that the political decision makers make to bring the masses from their 
level of poverty and ignorance is key to the development of the country.  I 
don’t see where the so-called masses can hold the key to a “permanent solution 
of all Haiti’s century-old and present problems when they are not given 
opportunities to be educated, to be included. There are no permanent solutions 
– we can talk about sustainability of results from a model that works. 
Referring to the masses, those are the people who destroyed a 200-year old 
cathedral without knowing its value.  Those are the people who burn houses 
rather than demanding to live in them.  Those are the people who are killing 
because they have been programmed to kill by their president when they were not 
given food and decent shelter. Are you nut?   Perhaps, you
 might say that 1 million people like Aristide who himself arose from the 
masses did hold the key to a permanent solution of Haiti’s problems – then the 
country would have been in deeper trouble than it has even been.  Rather than 
blaming the bourgeois and the imperialists for Haiti’s misfortune, you should 
reflex about your own mentality which leaves you behind.  While I do believe 
that other countries’ foreign policy can affect the internal stability of a 
country – we cannot entirely put the blame of your own people’s mismanagement 
on the account of foreign influence and the bourgeois.  If each of our Past 
presidents and Government officials had put national interests before their 
own, we would have been able to reach out for the masses a long time ago 
thereby providing them with the necessary choices for their own development. 
Our middle class has shrunk because a President from the mass did not 
understand the need to expand it. In fact, the proletariat you
 were referring to has been expanded more than ever because you had a 
semi-literate mass in power who distribute soup to some of them on New Year's 
eve and the mass think that they are included truly as a result of this yearly 
gesture.  This is where the problem lies.   Aristide was no bourgeois but he 
ran the country like his personal business.  You can avoid foreign interference 
if you can use your brain to become self-sufficient like Luxembourg did with no 
resources. For many decades, the Bourgeois did not run the country, if they 
were able to exercise so much influence on the government, then there was 
definitely a governance and authority issue with those in  power.   The 
Haitians can develop or perhaps impose a tax system to better integrate the 
masses.  They can spend less money on themselves and educate all the children 
as they are tomorrow’s future.  The country can only succeed when it invests on 
its children so that they become better, well educated,
 responsible citizens – and not criminals.