Posted Saturday at 5:59 a.m., March 29, 2001

Our Excellency Gourgue eloquently addresses nation on Constitution Day                                                                                                                                                                                           Gerard Gourgue, a Haitian provisional president, who was installed in that post on Feb. 7th by Haiti's democratic opposition, better known as the Convergence Democratique, after the Caribbean country's chief bandit Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his political godson Rene Preval, an unarticulated man with a reputation for drinking vodka for breakfast, held a series of largely fraudulent elections last year, in a Constitution Day national address Thursday indirectly blamed radical leftist Aristide for last week political violence in Haiti.                                                                                                                                                                                               The violence nearly claimed the lives of about 200 children who were attending classes at a grade school owned by our Excellency Gourgue after it was ordered burned to the ground by radical leftist Aristide, and left many Haitians either paralyzed or dead.                                                                                                                                                                                                 In addition to millions of dollars lost because businesses remained closed for days, the country further experienced  environmental problems, resulting from the large number of used car tires burned by radical leftist Aristide's bandits.                                                                                                                                                                                              And so, a few months earlier radical leftist Aristide's bandits attacked a Roman Catholic priest and parishioners in the town of Cavaillon. The even ordered them to stop praying thinking that they were asking God to kill him.                                                                                                                                                                                                   In that speech, attention was first paid to the number of times the constitution had been violated since it was first voted by Haitians in a referendum on March 29, 1987.                                                                                                                                                                                               Our Excellency Gourgue called on all Haitians to make violence history. "Only when all the sons and daughters of this country  sit together and work out their differences can they talk about national reconciliation. In so doing Haiti can become a free country, an independent country," he said.                                                                                                                                                                                                As the speech progressed, our Excellency Gourgue said: "I am letting you all my brothers and sisters know, those of you who have been talking about the possibility of a civil war in this country that it will not prove beneficial at all for us. A civil war will bring us back to the violence this country experienced, from 1806 to 1915."                                                                                                                                                                                             From 1806 to 1915 tens of thousands of Haitians had lost their lives through political violence, which ultimately led to the first U.S. occupation of the country. That occupation lasted 19 years.                                                                                                                                                                                             After informing the nation that he had days ago formed a Negotiation Committee, he said "I am still opened to serious and honest negotiations so together we Haitians can rescue Haiti from the mess it has long been in."                                                                                                                                                                                              "We are for peace! Not violence! Not civil war! We hope those responsible for the last week violence make an effort to understand the meaning of peace, what we all Haitians can gain from peace," said our Excellency Gourgue, as he concluded his remarkable address.                                                                                                                                                                                           

Posted at 12:39 a.m., Thursday, March 29, 2001

Haitian-American medical doctor and professor files claim against Los Angeles Police                                                                                                                                                                                              Dr. Angelo E. Gousse, 37, a Haitian-American Miami physician and one of the few physicians trained in pelvic flow reconstruction, filed a claim Tuesday with the Los Angeles City Attorney against the Los Angeles Police, which he said pulled him over on Feb.11th on interstate 10, then falsely arrested him.                                                                                                                                                                                                 The claim called for unspecified damages for wrist and arm nerve damage, which it said resulted from the handcuffs that were tightened on Dr. Gousse by the arresting officer.                                                                                                                                                                                              The injuries suffered, said the claim, have since left Dr. Gousse unable to drive, play with his two children, including performing the surgical procedures in which he specializes.                                                                                                                                                                                              The Feb.11th arrest took place while Dr. Gousse was enroute from the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was a participant in a tribute to an urology professor, to his Los Angeles International Airport-area hotel room.                                                                                                                                                                                              Dr.Gousse, who is also an assistant professor of Urology at the University of Miami said racial profiling, according to the claim, was what prompted the officer to first pull him over and then took him out of the circulation in handcuffs.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Dr. Gousse, who seems determined to push as hard as possible his case against the Los Angeles Police and also obtains justice for others said outside Los Angeles Superior Court Tuesday "I want to stand up for justice, to stand up for an end to racial profiling." Added Dr. Gousse, "We cannot allow this to continue."                                                                                                                                                                                              

An anticipated large protest against radical leftist Aristide on Haiti's constitutional day                                                                                                                                                                                              Since Haiti voted its constitution, the 24th in its nearly 200 troubled years history, on March 29th, 1987 the country, like in previous years, has known only dictatorship, suggesting that most of its 298 articles have been repeatedly violated.                                                                                                                                                                                                The constitution, which was written to help Haiti bury its horrible past, was not long ago considered like a shirt, not suit, which military tyrants like Henrie Namphy and Prosper Avril and many others could put on and took off at their whim.                                                                                                                                                                                              Unfortunately, what Haitians have been hearing from radical leftist Jean-Bertrand Aristide who first came to power in 1991 and has since he himself seen the constitution as a statement of aspirations rather than bidding declarations of principles is "The Constitution is what I say it is." For example, last year he held a series of largely fraudulent elections. Still, opposition leaders were prevented from participating in those elections. Many opposition leaders and supporters alike were either kidnapped or killed for speaking out against him.                                                                                                                                                                                              The continuing violation of the constitution by radical leftist Aristide, as the events of last week suggest when he attempted to burn a school building that belonged to Gerard Gourgue, Haiti's provisional president, and where about 200 children were attending classes clearly demonstrates the laws, as it provides for, are neither institutional nor implemented, they are useless, but not when he needs to use them against opposition leaders and others assumed to be his opponents.                                                                                                                                                                                                As radical leftist Aristide was threatened opposition leaders with arrest, torture, and death last week he compared himself to Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43), a Roman and statesman, a leading figure during the last years of the Republic.However, he completely forgot that the brutal assassination of Cicero was the result of his dictatorial habitudes.                                                                                                                                                                                              Given the track record of Aristide, one can easily consider him as a brigand, a chief bandit and backwater state tyrant. But in a brief message last night he urged Haitians to peacefully celebrate Constitutional Day. That's a trap, that's dangerous because he had previously appealed for peace and minutes later killed a great many of his political opponents                                                                                                                                                                                                   A given number of Haitians are expected to respond to Haiti's democratic opposition call, better known as the Convergence Democratique, today, Constitutional Day, for an anti-radical leftist Aristide's protest in the trash-filled and pothole capital city of   Port-au-Prince, especially to say down with his dictatorship of the proletariat! Down with his nurtured abject poverty!.and many others.                                                                                                                                                                                             Also, Convergence Democratique leaders, including supporters, will convene at their headquarters, which radical leftist Aristide's bandits nearly burned to the ground last week, to reflect on all the violations of the constitution by radical leftist Aristide.                                                                                                                                                                                             Their moment of reflection on the constitution, which they call "Constitution Reflection Day," however, is not expected to pass without regrettable incidents since radical leftist Aristide's bandits said Wednesday they, too, will organize their own meeting and take to the streets.                                                                                                                                                                                                 In another development, several foreign ambassadors, stationed in Haiti, or the diplomatic corps, as it is known in diplomatic jargon, met Wednesday with radical leftist Aristide in the nation palace, where he has since Feb. 7th taken illegal residency, expressing their concerns and also blaming him for instituting a climate of terror in the country, where darkness a few days ago further became the norm because Venezuela applied the money recently sent by de facto authorities to pay for a new shipment of petroleum product to a previous account that was long overdue. Not a surprise at all when it comes to radical leftist Aristide and predecessor Rene Preval, his inept and always inebriated political godson.                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Our spokesperson and executive editor, Prof. Yves A. Isidor, to appear on Boston's Haitian-American radio magazine show Saturday                                                                                                                                                                                              Prof. Yves A. Isidor and Mr. Jean Borgat, a senior member of RDNP, a serious Haitian political party will appear on the Boston's Haitian-American radio magazine show called Tout Moun Ladan, literally translated "We are all included," this coming Saturday.                                                                                                                                                                                              Their appearance on the said radio show, which is broadcast on the 1600AM band, is expected to last about two hours, from 11 p.m to 1:00 a.m. (EST). Their subjects of discussion will include politics and economics in Haiti.                                                                                                                                                                                                The last time they appeared on "Tout Moun Ladan," which is hosted by Mr. Mathieu and Madame Gerthy Lahens, was on March 17th, 2001. So educative was that show listeners immediately demanded that they again appear on the air.                                                                                                                                                                                             

Posted at 7:35 p.m., Monday, March 26, 2001                                                                                                                                                                                          Radical leftist Aristide orders Gourgue burned alive                                                                                                                                                                                                  A press release received from Haiti's democratic opposition, better known as the Convergence Democratique, Sunday said during a meeting organized and presided by Haiti's radical leftist Jean-Bertrand Aristide Saturday at his private residence in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Tabare he ordered his bandits to burn alive Gerard Gourgue and than drag his body on the streets of the capital city of Port-au-Prince.                                                                                                                                                                                                   The plan, said the press release, beginning Sunday night bandits will first be stationed at all strategic points (east, west, north, and south) of the capital city of Port-au-Prince.                                                                                                                                                                                             They will burn used car tires, including the private residence of Gourgue, a provisional president who was installed on Feb.7th by Haiti's democratic opposition after a series of largely fraudulent elections held last year by radical leftist Aristide and his political godson Rene Preval. Two schools owned by Gourgue will also be burned to the ground. Peaceful citizens will be stoned and empty bottles thrown at them, further said the press release.                                                                                                                                                                                           However, if the capital city of Port-au-Prince were calmed today but in many provincial cities radical leftist Aristide's bandits shot peaceful citizens, destroyed private properties, and burned used car tires..                                                                                                                                                                                                    In the western provincial city of Petit-Goave, bandits Saturday opened fire and wounded five opposition supporters who were participating in an anti-dictatorship, but peaceful demonstration. In Gonaive, they stoned and smeared with human excrement several churches on the assumption that their reverends were not supporters of radical leftist Aristide.                                                                                                                                                                                            Bandits also burned used car tires in both cities, including a truck, which was set ablaze, and its two drivers wounded by gun shots after they ignored the criminals' warning to stop.                                                                                                                                                                                               The latest wave of violence came just a few days after radical leftist Aristide ordered his bandits to burn to the ground a primary school owned by Gourgue while about 200 children were inside the building attending classes.                                                                                                                                                                                        

Only in Haiti, radical leftist Aristide forces Judge out of office

Ossagnol Servil was the judge de paix (justice of the peace) in the town of Maissade, in Haiti's Central Plateau. In October 2000, he issued an arrest warrant for men accused of theft. The men were supporters of the town's mayor, Wilo Joseph, who reportedly began threatening to kill M. Servil. In October, the mayor and his supporters led a demonstration outside the courthouse, burning car tires, ransacking the judge's offices and reportedly demanding that he be sacked and replaced with someone more sympathetic to the mayor's political party. Two months later, M. Servil was dismissed by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security. On 27 February, M. Servil's cousin was reportedly attacked by three relatives of another local official. Police reportedly arrested the three but released them later after Mayor Joseph and a group of his supporters came to the police station and demanded that they be freed.

Many of the newly-elected mayors, such as Wilo Joseph, have formed armed gangs to help run the areas they control, who act in the name of Fanmi Lavalas, or Lavalas Family.As in Maissade, these groups threaten to destroy the rule of law and the authority of the police. Although they claim to represent Fanmi Lavalas, they are controlled only loosely, if at all, by central government. The new mayors and their gangs have recently closed courts in several towns in the Central Plateau.                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

A Haitian-American reportedly on his way to the White House                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Haitian-American Pierre Richard Prosper, 37, a graduate of Boston College and Pepperdine Law School, reportedly will soon be appointed Special Adviser for war crimes by U.S. President George W. Bush.                                                                                                                                                                                               Until recently, the son of two New York City Haitian medical doctors was a prosecutor for the International Tribunal. In Rwanda, where he was assigned, he was not only instrumental to the Tribunal's procedural efforts to find Jean-Paul Akayesu, a former Rwandan Prime Minister, guilty of crimes against humanity, but himself read the verdict.                                                                                                                                                                                              

Posted at 12:01 p.m., Sunday, March 25, 2001

Radical leftist Aristide's de facto Minister of Justice reportedly resigns his post                                                                                                                                                                                                  In a serious country, the role of parliament is to vote into law bills submitted by its members or committees. Unfortunately, not so in Haiti.                                                                                                                                                                                              Late last week, Haiti's de facto parliament issued an ultimatum, which it called resolution, ordering de facto Justice Minister Gary Lissade to take Gerard Gourgue, a provisional president, who was installed on February 7th by the democratic opposition, out of the circulation.                                                                                                                                                                                                De facto Justice Minster Lissade, who also received a direct order from radical leftist Aristide, after he ordered his bandits to burn alive about 200 children who where attending classes late last week at a school owned by Gourgue, reportedly resigned his post Saturday.                                                                                                                                                                                            

Haiti reportedly to be the subject of discussion at the U.S. State Department Monday                                                                                                                                                                                               A few days after radical leftist Jean-Bertrand Aristide ordered his bandits to burn alive about 200 children who were attending classes at a school owned by Gerard Gourgue, a provisional president who was installed by Haiti's democratic opposition on February 7th, and kidnap opposition leaders, the United States State Department reportedly will meet Monday on Haiti, and a decision about what (i.e. a blanket of economic and political sanctions) exactly to be done about the dirt poor country is expected.                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Posted at 2:27 p.m., Friday, March 23, 2001

In Haiti, a de facto Senate calls for the arrest of democratic opposition leaders                                                                                                                                                                                            Haiti's de facto Senate (15 of the 27 members) Thursday passed a resolution, calling for the arrest of  President Gerard Gourgue and other democratic opposition leaders on the so-called ground "Usurpation of title, within the next 24 hours.                                                                                                                                                                                         President Gourgue was installed on Feb.7th as an alternative President of the Republic of Haiti's by the country's democratic opposition, better known as the Convergence Democratique.                                                                                                                                                                                               Private Radio Metropole reported Thursday the de facto Senate, which counts many drug baron, such as Dany Toussaint, Florel Celestin and Joseph Medard as its members, will call for the resignation of de facto Justice Minister Gary Lissade and de facto Interior Minister Henry Claude Menard, who is said was the the one leading a group of terrorists responsible for the kidnapping of Clinton Knox, the U.S. Ambassador stationed in Haiti, in the 1960s, if they did not abide by the contents of the resolution.                                                                                                                                                                                               In the meantime, President Gourgue, who looked relaxed, and whose wife Paula Castor Gourgue is the sister of Suzy Castor, the wife of prominent professor Gerard Pierre-Charles, who heads the Organization of People in Struggle, the dominant member of the Convergence Democratique, was walking in the backyard of his home Thursday, as armed men watched over him and his family. Students and supporters referred to him as "Your Excellency."                                                                                                                                                                                                   "I am the president of all Haitians, including Aristide," he said. Certainly, he is.                                                                                                                                                                                            Added Gourgue, arresting me would be the most beautiful gift Aristide could give me and the other Haitians who cannot wait for democracy to arrive in this country."                                                                                                                                                                                                As an incalculable number of supporters continued to stop by President Gourgue's 400-students-plus school Thursday to pay respect, the former professor of international law, who counts among his former students de facto Prime Minister Jean-Marie "Ponpon" Cherestal and de facto Justice Minister Gary Lissade, said:                                                                                                                                                                                              "This would be the last drop of water that breaks the dam. They can't come here and tell me what the laws are. I've spent more than 30 years teaching law. I'm an encyclopedia."                                                                                                                                                                                             "Acta, non verba" (acts, not words)," further said President Gourgue, using Latin quotes and verses from 17th Century French playwrights, as he called on radical leftist Aristide to stop behaving as a backwater state tyrant.                                                                                                                                                                                                 As we were finishing writing this piece a press release received from the Convergence Democratique said an warrant for the arrest of President Gourgue was signed on Mars 21st, about 9:15 p.m, by de facto government commissioner Josue Pieere-Louis.                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Updated at 8:35 p.m., Thursday, March 22, 2001

Abner Louima to receive nearly $9 million from New York City

If you will soon be looking for a big loan, and we mean big, big loan, Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant, who was sodomized with a plunger and broom-stick, kicked and punched several times by four New York City police officers, on August 9,1997, after he was mistakenly arrested by an officer from that city police force who believed he was the one who punched him in the face while trying to reestablish order at a Brooklyn nightclub, where a fight ensued after an argument between two female patrons, will certainly be the man to go to.                                                                                                                                                                                          Louima,  the City of New York, the police union, along with the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, today reportedly reached an agreement over the September 1997 police brutality case, permanently putting an end to the civil lawsuit brought against the latter three by his celebrity and lead-attorney Johnnie Cockran.                                                                                                                                                                                       According to the lawsuit, "The union and several of its officials had adopted a strategy of obstruction after the assault and had suppressed admissions of criminal behavior from police officers."                                                                                                                                                                                                  It also contended that the city and the police union have promoted an atmosphere in which the very worst police officers feel assured that evidence of misdeeds depriving citizens of their civil rights, no matter how awful, will be hidden by P.B.A. representatives and the 'code of silence.'"                                                                                                                                                                                              After a conference before Magistrate Judge Cheryl L. Pollack of United States District Court in the New York City section of Brooklyn, involving several of Louima's lawyers, Wednesday, an agreement will be signed, said Thursday the City of New York and attorneys involved in the high profile case. He will then be paid nearly $9 million, mainly for injuries received from one of the most police brutalities case ever in the United States. The City's of New York's share will be $7 million, and the police union's nearly $1.6 million.                                                                                                                                                                                               The police officers who sodomized and tortured Louima in a Brooklyn station house in 1997, which left him partially paralyzed, were all convicted, including the chief perpetrator, Justin Volpe, who afterward was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison                                                                                                                                                                                          

Posted at 2:52 a.m., Thursday, March 22, 2001

In troubled Haiti, first a chief bandit appeals for peace; then contradicts himself when he threatens democratic opposition leaders with arrest, torture, and death                                                                                                                                                                                            Under pressure from the international community, including the United States and France, Haiti's former colonial power, which in a communiqué distributed Wednesday by its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, blamed radical leftist Jean-Bertrand Aristide for the four-days violence in Haiti, the poorest in the Americas, by dirt port fanatics, many of them paid supporters, demanding the arrest of Gerard Gourgue and other members of the Caribbean country's democratic opposition, better known as the Convergence Democratique, on the so-called ground of "usurpation of title."                                                                                                                                                                                             Hours after France urged radical leftist Aristide to prove that he had a sense of responsibility, he apparently appealed for peace Wednesday in a taped speech, which was distributed to radio stations in the capital city of Port-au-Prince.                                                                                                                                                                                                As usual, the speech was badly written and structured, but did not condemn the four-days violence, which began Saturday, and left four people dead and more than 18, many of them badly injured.                                                                                                                                                                                               The speech, which seemed was, rather, written by a fifth grade student, also came after continuing severe criticism by the international press.                                                                                                                                                                                           "Haitian people because you want peace that does not mean you have the right to violate the law. The law is the law. Peace and justice are the two tires of the democracy," said radical leftist Aristide, who sounded more like a fifth class comedian.                                                                                                                                                                                                But more than that, radical leftist Aristide said: "I want all political parties to continue, but peacefully, to fight for their rights."                                                                                                                                                                                               "Members of any political party who want to meet with their president he will be willing to do so," further said radical leftist Aristide, who most likely will never be able to bring himself to behave like a democrat other remaining a tyrant worthy of Stalin, Castro, Hussein, to name only these ones, that he has always been.                                                                                                                                                                                              But in a direct attack on Convergence Democratique members radical leftist Aristide called its members "enemies of the Republic," and vowed to move against them if they continue to refuse to recognize him as president.                                                                                                                                                                                                   The speech, delivered Wednesday by radical leftist Aristide, as usual, significantly lacked in substance. Its contents gave no reasons to Convergence Democratique members and others, to thrust the man, the tyrant, who orchestrated the four-days violence in the Caribbean country.                                                                                                                                                                                               In a prompt rebuttal, Convergence Democratique, through President Gourgue, had a few harsh words, if you may call them so, for tyrant Aristide.                                                                                                                                                                                                  "The words of Aristide, whose sole purpose is turning Haiti into a jungle, as the four days of violence orchestrated by him further suggest, are meaningless to us members of the opposition."                                                                                                                                                                                               In a communiqué issued afterward by radical leftist Aristide he said "The enemies of the Republic have refused to lay down their weapons, and they will be forced to do so."                                                                                                                                                                                            Gourgue was installed on Feb.7th as an alternative president by Convergence Democratique. His ascendancy to the office of the presidency was the result of fictive results published by radical leftist Aristide, also a drug baron, and his political godson Rene Preval, for a series of largely fraudulent elections held last year, including the Nov. 26th presidential election, which he claimed to win with nearly 92 percent of the vote cast. Less than 5 percent of Haitians who were of voting age participated in the presidential masquerade.                                                                                                                                                                                               Not a surprise at all. Then came a press conference given by radical leftist Aristide's de facto Interior Minister, Henry Claude Menard, who is said to have been the one leading a group of terrorists responsible for the kidnapping of U.S. Ambassador Clinton Knox, stationed in Haiti in the 1960s. He has for more than a third time in a week threatened Convergence Democratique senior members with arrest, torture, and death.                                                                                                                                                                                                  "I am warning members of the opposition. They better shut their mouths. This is my last warning to them. If they refuse to shut up and continue to speak out against President Aristide I will be forced to act against them. They will be the only ones responsible for whatever happens to them," he said.                                                                                                                                                                                           Asked by a journalist to explain what he meant by "They will be the only ones responsible for whatever happens to them." He said "Anything, including death is possible."                                                                                                                                                                                             There was a prompt explicit reaction from Convergence Democratique leaders.                                                                                                                                                                                               "We are not going to let ourselves be intimidated by threats made by a criminal, a tyrant, and bandit like Aristide. We will continue to mobilize against the dictatorship of Aristide until there is democracy in this country. We ask all countries, friends of Haiti, to support the democratic cause in this country," said Paul Denis, a Convergence Democratique spokesperson.                                                     &nbs