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| First published May 7, 2003 |
| From Baghdad to Haiti, so goes the war against
murderous tyrants |
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| At a time when Haitians should
be seriously questioning themselves as to the reasons why after two hundred years of
so-called independence from France still Haiti continues to know only totalitarian
dictatorship, dehumanizing poverty and many more of the same nature and gravity - a true
effort to help transport the nation to democracy and an acceptable quality of life - but
unfortunately, a large number of them are making a fool of themselves by celebrating, and
proudly so, they say, a so-called 200th anniversary of Haiti's flag next week, and sadly,
less than nine months from now, Haiti's bi-centenary. |
Cambridge, Massachusetts - The United States' war against murderous tyrants is not
complete. It has long been clear that Haiti's de facto regime, if not necessarily tin-pot
totalitarian dictator Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is as cruel as Saddam Hussein was. Sure must
President George W. Bush now further stake his political future on the adventure ending
right, with the consignment to the archives of history a murderous dictator, right in the
U.S. own backyard.
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Photos, ABC News via The New York Times |
| The faces of evil - From left to
right, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Saddam Hussein. Only
Aristide does not have a mustache, but sure he has his necklace, which has been long used
to exterminate, and ferociously so, even presumed political opponents (More relevant
photos / Amnesty International Report 2003). |
In truth, there are reasons for so. And they are numerous, as the scale of atrocities
practised by the tyrant suggests.
The past three years or so well publicized political murders, among many others, in the
dirt-poor Caribbean nation of Haiti were those of Jean Léopold Dominique, a revered radio
journalist and political commentator, whom more than ten fatal shots were pumped into his
small body, in the early morning of April 3, 2000, in the capital city of Port-au-Prince.
Yet, Brignol Lindor, a young provincial radio journalist was hacked to death, on Dec.
3, 2001, in the l'Acul district, near the provincial city of Petit-Goâve, 30 miles west
of of Port-au-Prince.
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| Some of tin-pot vicious tyrant Jean-Bertrand
Aristide's Haitian victims: From left to right, an assumed male political
opponent burned alive after he was severely beaten; Michel Montas says a final goodbye to
her brutally assassinated husband, Jean Léopold Dominique; and, Brignol Lindor, the young
radio journalist hacked to death. |
Horrific though these crimes were, so far the murderers, including their intellectual
authors, of Dominique and Lindor have yet to be taken out of the circulation and charged
with the crimes.
As the virtual impunity that the perpetrators - government paid thieves, drug dealers,
rapists, and many more of the same nature - of the odious crimes continue to enjoy might
suggest, at the time they were all and, still are they members of Lavalas (Flood), the
political party, or the party of Satan, of Haiti's uncommonly vicious tyrant,
Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Secure in the knowledge that since they were simply the hit-men for Haiti's madman and
psychopath, Aristide, as his often erratic behavior suggests, and that they will never
face the bar of justice for their crimes, now are the same murderous criminals and newly
hired ones, commonly known as Chimères (After the firebreathing monsters in Greek
mythology), vowing to add another longtime and prominent Haitian radio journalist,
Lillianne Pierre-Paul, to their long list of victims.
The history behind the murderous bandits' latest death threats tells of a Ms.
Pierre-Paul, the owner of Haiti's Radio Kiskeya, who has vehemently refused to join
bestial Aristide in his recently launched campaign to extort $21.7 billion (reparations?)
from France, "a rapacious, racist and criminal Western European nation,"
theatrically said Aristide, "that must pay Haiti, one of its former colonies, for
subjecting Haitians' forefathers to slavery, and for centuries so," in an April 7
speech, marking the 200th anniversary of Haiti's independence precursor, François
Dominique Toussaint Louverture.
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| Two of Jean-Bertrand Aristide victims, Aristide's
opulent life: From left to right, Lilianne Pierre-Paul, the longtime
prominent radio journalist who has been told by proxy by hell-sent totalitarian dictator
Aristide 'her days are numbered,' unless she reverses course; a little girl, whose daily
life is defined by the abject poverty she experiences, contrary to the opulent life
enjoyed by bestial and pre-historic dictator Aristide, as one of his many helicopters and
fleet of ultra-luxurious SUVs, right, suggest. |
More importantly, "for forcing Haiti to pay an agreed 90 million gold Francs, long
before its January 1, 1804 proclamation of independence was ultimately recognized, in
1838," dictator Aristide accentuated, punctuated by shoots of "France, you owe
us, and pay right now," during the April 7 de facto government choreographed
mass demonstration, giving many the impression that he was, rather, putting on an almost
imperial show of power, he had the military capability to attack France and ultimately
force it to come to terms.
There were songs of protest, including an almost rendition of Haiti's proclamation of
independence that promptly brought the de facto government window-dressing
neo-revolutionaries and assassins to their feet with fists raised.
To see how they (the bandits) meant business, that they were not simply playing with her
mind, in the envelope containing the April 30 death threat letter, ordering Ms.
Pierre-Paul to reverse course, no later than May 6, they specified, also was a hunting
riffle bullet.
By the contents of the bandits' death threat letter, they will, too, destroy, and
ferociously so, the bodies of French citizens residing in Haiti unless France writes a big
check, and within days so.
Like Saddam Hussein has been referred to as a murderous tyrant, because he killed an
incalculable number of his fellow Iraqi citizens and others, is such a characterization
applies to Aristide, who has burnt alive, defrauded and kidnapped thousands of his fellow
Haitian compatriots.
Millions of other Haitians, mostly the vast majority of poor men and women, hell-sent
dictator Aristide long claims to be the champion, though they have yet to meet a brutal
end, but abject poverty continues to define their daily lives, as the dictator, who was
born in a mud hut, and his large number of partners in crime, continue to enrich
themselves and lavish millions of narco-dollars on ostentatious displays of status -
private helicopters, luxury homes and states
Certainly, killing of say, Haitians, and brutally so, may soon not be the only province of
dictator Aristide. The best way to understand this as the ferocious dictator sinks into
grandiose illusions, that he shares some personality features with Stalin, too, for
example, he must do more than repeatedly throwing rhetorical hand grenades at the United
States, especially President George W. Bush, whom he has accused of blocking foreign aid
money for Haiti, his cruel and sadistic behavior may also be expressed against American
citizens residing in Haiti.
In 1991, Aristide prided himself in the philosophy of juche, or self-reliance. Ironically,
today the man who seems unable to understand donors' fatigue with him and his corrupt de
facto regime continues to be confident he will again milk the international community,
which since his return to the office of the presidency, in 1994, after three years in
exile, in Washington, D.C., the imperialist capital, as he used to call it, has, globally,
lent more than U.S.$2 billion, including more than U.S.$200 million in French aid, mainly
to his first and current governments, de facto though the latter may be.
Yes, the epitaph of Saddam Hussein and his long reign of terror has been sung. But the
trust of the world will further come to believe that the remaining dictators must begin to
understand the need to commence conforming their behavior, that is playing by the
international democratic rules, only after the United States ceases to turn a blind eye on
the barbarous acts of a little Caribbean de facto regime, long known to be deeply
trafficking in narcotics, with the United States as one of its major markets, will
Haitians be delivered from terror: Government sponsored killings have stopped; murderous
gangsters, hiding under the cover of members of popular organizations, who, too, run their
own, but paralleled criminal networks and murdering, add raping, become history.
And, so will clandestine voyages in perilous waters to Florida from Haiti cease to be
orchestrated, hopefully, with the intent of forcing the United States' hands to give the
dictator millions of dollars, in foreign aid.
One final note: Booting out Caribbean Adolf Hitler's surrogate dictator, Aristide, will be
the happy side-effect for United States' citizens and residents alike, add other nations'
ones, who long have been led to believe their hard earned tax moneys have been used to aid
the destitute Haitians, but sadly abetting murders - once again attested dictator Aristide
this week, with the assassination of two young Protestant ministers highly critical of his
brutal rule.
Yves A. Isidor, who teaches economics at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, is
spokesperson for We Haitians United We Stand For Democracy and executive editor of
wehaitians.com.
Correspond with professor Yves A. Isidor via electronic mail: wehaitians@gis.net.com.
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