Ezili Danto's Open Salon Blog

Haiti: The soul of Africa, not for sale

Fri, 18 May 2012 03:05:50 -0400

May 18 Flag day essay:
Haiti is Africa’s soul, not for sale

By Ezili Dantò, May 18, 2012, for the FreeHaitiMovement

^{Chalermangne Peralte, assassinated by US Marines during the first U.S. occupation and then nailed to a door (Source: The Crucifixion of Emmanuel Drèd Wilmè during second US occupation of Haiti, April, 2005)}

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May 18, 2012 marks Haiti’s 209th flag day. The first Haitian flag lifting up Haiti’s independence was on May 18,1803 at Arcahaie. Those of us with conscience will spend the day exposing the Haitians helping in the imperial exploitation of Haiti and defending Haiti against this brutal US re-colonization. (See video, We would rather die standing; Hear Prof. Bayyinah Bello explain history of Haiti flag- Ezili's May 18th Kreyòl feature.)

Haitians own more land than any other nationality in the Caribbean. But their lands are now being robbed. The Haitians from the Diaspora provide the platform for Clinton, Bush, Obama and other members of the US-Euro corporatocracy to take Haiti lands. Haiti belongs to Haitians. It is our legacy. A sacred land, paid for in combat, in oceans of blood, rivers of sweat and tears and a thousand terrors. Paid for, in hard centuries of labor. Paid for in hard cash, again and again, even after independence. Paid for in centuries of struggle against neocolonoliasm, centuries of enduring unendurable cruelties, centuries of possession against all odds.

Haiti has provided sanctuary to the oppress, defended and freed many nations from Euro-US enslavement.

There is less violence in Haiti than in Washington D.C., Brazil, Mexico, Columbia, Bahamas, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Honduras. Than in most of the countries in the Western Hemisphere. (See UN Global Study on Homicide at pg 93.)

What’s a Chapter 7, peace enforcement UN mission doing in Haiti for over 8-years when there is no peace agreement to enforce, and when there’s more violence elsewhere in the hemisphere, including much more in Brazil who heads the UN mission?

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2010 Homicide Rates (Pg 93)
^{Haiti - homicide rate 6.9 per 100,000 for 2010.}^{Washington D.C. 21.1 /100,000 for 2011; New Orleans homicide rate is 52/100,000 and USA - 5.0/100,000 (for 2009).}^{Brazil (22.7/100,000), Mexico (18.1/100,000) Columbia (33.4/100,000), Bahamas (28.0/100,000), Jamaica (52.1/100,000), Dominican Republic (24.9/100,000), Trinidad and Tobago (35.2/100,000) , Honduras (82.1/100,000)}^{. "Also there's more HIV/AIDS in Washington, DC/USA (3.0) and in the Bahamas (3.0) than there is in Haiti (2.2), but Haiti is the one whose HIV rate is constantly recalled... the Western country's paternalistic narrative uses Haiti to boost their egos. Their cruel projections mostly don't survive objective inspection." -- To Tell The Truth About Haiti Forum} ; ^{Trinidad and Tobago now rivals Jamaica as the most violent country in the Caribbean}

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Other than to maintain the white savior’s narcissistic, racist and very profitable narrative of white supremacy, the occupation of Haiti is for plundering Haiti’s Riches – oil, gold, silver, copper, iridium, deep water ports, fertile lands and to control Haiti’s strategic position. It’s been so, since 2004 with the current US occupation behind UN guns and Paul Farmer’s tool-of-war NGO missionaries.

But these perennial liars’ indecency and hypocrisy are boundless.

So, since before the fall of the US-supported Duvalier dictatorships in 1986, the US has been bringing “hope,” democracy, development and human rights to Haiti.

As intended, it has systematically manifested the exact opposite.

The newest, profit-over-people sweatshop hoax is Caracol, a sweatshop project masking US colonial expansion in the Northeast – its appropriation, in post-earthquake Haiti, of fertile lands and construction of a deep water port at Caracol, just 9 miles from Canada’s flourishing gold mining operations.

The exploitation of Haiti’s riches – gold, copper, silver, deep-water ports, oil, natural gas, iridium, offshore Islands like Latòti, Lagonav, Ilavach, Lanavaz; northern ports such as Fò Libète, Mòl-Sen-Nikola, Labadi – and the destruction of fertile lands in Haiti, continues in this second occupation unabated.

There’s no dissent from the world’s moral arbiters like the religious institutions, the universities, the investigative establishments like the media or trend setters like the arts or the so-called progressive political parties. Until Haiti’s freedom fighters speak again, as in 1791, it seems that Haiti shall remain surrounded in an ocean of colonized nations and peoples who mostly accept the story they’re fed about Haiti and accept their own “better conditions” as the height of humankind’s marvelous progress.

The United Nation itself, the international arbiter of human rights in the world, gives the US its firepower cover and benevolent pretext in Haiti.

The UN mercenary force is paid nearly $1 billion per year and gives over 14,000 jobs to foreigners in Haiti.

Bill Clinton has been dispatched by Hillary Clinton at Obama’s State Department to fulfill Leclerc’s imperative through debt, privatization, unfair trade, UN occupation and wage slavery.

The US-Euros, descendants of the greatest enslavers to ever walk planet earth are back, since 2004, occupying the country that first abolished slavery and colonialism.

They have mercilessly shocked, traumatized, pummeled and brought UN imported disease, Clinton-famine and Clorox hunger to Haitians while taking Haiti lands, riches and destroying the ecosystem.

Their foreign imported filth and indecency goes unabated.

^{Since the UN brought in the most deadly cholera bacteria to Haiti in Oct. 2010, 7,128 Haitians have died, 540,145 infected, 290,491 hospitalized as of May 5, 2012. On top of this, no one knows where $6 billion in earthquake relief funds has gone. That's after losing over 310,000 loved ones, in 33 seconds in the apocalyptic Jan. 2010 earthquake. Two years on, over 500,000 quake victims are still living under tarps - homeless under the hot sun, and in the flooding, rainy, muddy and windy hurricane seasons. There's no clean water to drink, even outside the quake zone. The UN poisoned Haiti's water with cholera. But the Red Cross, Obama, Hillary and Billy are building hotels for foreigners with quake donation dollars.}

The use of schooled Haitian-Americans and African-Americans – pretty smiling black faces like Michaëlle Jean (Special Envoy to Haiti for the United Nations), Cheryl Mills (Chief of Staff to Hillary Clinton), Susan Rice (United States Ambassador to the United Nations) - cover up nicely the foreign robbery, such as the Caracol Parc larceny. Institutional racism and the all-consuming white supremacist’s philanthropic narrative does the rest.

More peasant Haitians are being muscled out of their fertile lands by blan – foreigners – than since the slavery era. The Clinton-Bush invaders are using the Haiti and black elites - colonized minds created in foreign lands, schooled by their colonial masters - who readily facilitate the continued plunder of Haiti, the buying of large tracts of Haitian lands. (How can Africa prevent the plunder of its lands by Western powers.)

The Caracol hoax, like SHADA (Haitian-American Society for Agricultural Development) during the first US occupation, is theft hidden behind the colonial pretext of giving jobs to disenfranchised Haitians. The fact that the 2004 US regime change disenfranchised Haiti is not a factor to consider.

In essence, there’s little difference between the Haitian-American collaborators (technocrats) in the first US occupation of Haiti (1915 to 1934) or in this on-going one (2004 -). Between Caracol or SHADA. (See a historical perspective on our website at “Caracol, SHADA: Hoax masking foreign appropriation of fertile Haiti lands. See also Corruption uninterrupted ; Haiti’s Hotel Boom: Only for the Rich ; Not voting for Obama: We’re not even buying a voting ticket to the show and Haiti servants of colonial power: The mercenary families.)

The graveyard or touted dream “development” of the US-Euros and their black servants is to make Haiti in the image of their other Caribbean tourist spots. A place where Haiti’s best lands are foreign-owned and gated up from local intrusion and where the locals are simple backdrops, props for vacationing Northern tourists and for their sexual tourism. This is where Obama and the Clintons are taking Desalin’s Haiti.

Creating violence by killing and disappearing real Haiti community leaders, like Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, then allowing the arming of the disenfranchised and disillusioned youths and jobless former military, gives the US-Euros an enemy in Haiti for their UN guns.

The former army soldiers and puppet-President Martelly’s youth militia are not criminalized as Emmanuel Drèd Wilmè and the Lavalas supporters were because they serve empire’s interests. Right now, for the eugenicists' purposes, they will serve well the colonial blueprint to create conditions like Jamaica’s Trench Town. (Video below.)

The ex-soldiers are allowed to gather and assemble because this serves the “violent-Haiti” colonial narrative, deflect from the earthquake donation dollars stolen or misused by the Clinton/Farmer/USAID NGO cadres. Gives their rapacious corporate media a Black evil to focus on instead of the UN murderers, pedophiles and the corrupt aid workers. Something to focus on until the fleecing is done. Then you won’t hear so loudly the media cries about Haiti’s violence. Just as you don’t hear there’s more violence in the Bahamas and Dominican Republic than there is in Haiti. (Disaster Capitalism: 0.5 % in Haiti – Haiti’s Oligarchy – own 98% of Haiti wealth through monopolies supported by Western policymakers and the corporatocracy.)

Creating Trench Town in Haiti means lots of guns and drugs shall be made available to the hungry, jobless and disenfranchised as it is in Brazil, Mexico, Columbia, Washington DC, Bahamas, and the Dominican Republic. The US-Euros simply won’t stop until they have raised Haiti’s violence levels for real. Once Haiti’s best lands, islands and resources are all stolen away from the poor and mostly foreign-owned as it is in the rest of the colonized Caribbean, then Haiti will no longer be a failed nation. No. It will be developed like the rest of the Caribbean.

The “locals” will invisibly exist in virtually the same area as gated luxurious compounds, protected by heavily armed security, offering the latest in modern comforts and high-tech pleasures for tourists. This is the bourgeois graveyard or “development” the US-Euros and their servants want for Haiti.

But this is DESALIN’s descendants they’re facing.
Se pa kado, blan te fè nou. Se san Zansèt nou yo ki te koule - We didn’t get our independence through Paul Farmer’s NGO charity but in combat with the hard core Euro-US enslavers hidden behind the missionary’s false benevolence.

Haitians have been fighting from one generation to the next for their own
freedom. May 18 marks another flag day under occupation. But resistance is not futile. Nou pap bay legen – we shall never give in. (Photos: Transcending the 2002 Ottawa Initiative for Haiti ; Haiti reMEMBER victims of 2004 US Regime Change& US/UN occupation.)

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^{Serving maids, gardeners and butlers for blan (foreigners). Clinton/Obama and the Haiti Oligarchs “development” for Haiti is Caribbean-style tourism where Haiti’s huddled masses are exotic backdrop, convenient bodies and props for privileged Northern tourists and Paul Farmer’s false benevolence. In the picture,}^{Haiti Oligarch, Grégory Brandt, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Franco-haïtienne : “Mes enfants ont étudié à l’étranger mais ont choisi de revenir à Haïti malgré la situation. Et j’en suis très fier…” Crédits : Paolo Woods / Institute (Source: Les Nantis D’Haiti)}

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When people with integrity re-establish some conscience, justice and law in the US and in the world; when the US occupation of Haiti behind UN guns is duly removed. Then, Haiti UN cholera victims, coup d’etat victims, Paul Farmer’s poverty-pimping and money laundering NGOs, along with all their false progressives, now begging for “Haiti rights” from the UN killers and murderers, will also be duly judged and convicted.

The road to justice for Haitians seems endless. But sometimes we glimpse the light of conscience.

At last week’s war crimes tribunal in Malaysia, former UN Assistant Secretary General, Denis Halliday, who attended the trial, later told Press TV that the UN had been too weak during the Bush administration to enforce the Geneva Conventions.

“He said: ‘The UN is a weak body, corrupted by member states, who use the Security Council for their own interests. They don’t respect the charter. They don’t respect the international law. They don’t respect the Geneva Conventions… A redundant, possibly a dangerous, and certainly corrupted organization.’

Following the hearing, former Malaysian premier Mahatir said of Bush and others: ‘These are basically murderers and they kill on large scale.’” –War Tribunal Finds Bush, Cheney Guilty of War Crimes

Maybe generations from now, maybe tomorrow, a Desalin Haitian will make a way out of no way to lay out Haiti’s case against the UN, the US regime changers, the Paul Farmer NGO rapists and the sniveling Haiti collaborators. On that day, we shall overcome all the May 18th flag days we’ve endured under US occupation behind UN guns.

In the meanwhile, Haiti’s defenders submit that Haiti lands are a sacred legacy. More inviolable than Harvard’s legacy admissions. Haiti belongs to Haitians and must stay that way so to also give refuge to those fleeing oppression as outlined in Desalin’s 1805 Constitution.

The earth, mountains and lakes in Haiti are the hearts, sinew and bones of the Ancestors. Their Descendants’ communal (Lakou/Konbit) ownership is paid for, in full.

This sacred highland we own wasn’t bought on passive income from the slave trade. It was paid for in Africa souls going back to lè marasa, lè mòt e lè mistè.

Haiti is a protected legacy, birthed in liberty, not for sale.

Ezili Dantò
Larouze fè banda toutan soley pa leve
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN)
May 18, 2012

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BACKGROUND VIDEOS

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Video: Trench town "development" is Obama/Clinton tourist hopes for Haiti

^{The UN is not in Jamaica bringing order to Trench town, not in the Dominican Republic, Trinidad or Honduras. The colonizers have conquered and taken over the best there is in these countries or have their agents solidly running as overlords, unlike Haiti.}^{US occupiers allow Haiti's ex-soldiers and Martelly's youth militia with guns to gather and assemble because this gives their UN guns and rapacious corporate media an enemy, an evil, in Haiti to focus on. The end is to create conditions like Jamaica's Trench Town. Creating Trench Town in Haiti means lots of guns shall be made available to the hungry and jobless. These "locals" will invisibly exist in virtually the same area as gated luxurious compounds offering the latest in modern comforts and high-tech pleasures for Clinton/Obama's rich tourists. This is the bourgeois graveyard or "development" the global US-Euros and their servants want for Haiti.}

Haiti: Where Has All the Money Gone?

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How can Africa prevent the plunder of its lands by Western powers?

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Video: The secret behind the Rush to Haiti

In this April 2009 interview, Ezili Dantò asked what will we do if the atrocious foreigners' poison our groundwater? By Oct 2010 UN-imported cholera made that horror a reality.

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Video: Kuala Lumpur war tribunal finds Bush guilty of war crimes

"It’s official -- George W. Bush is a war criminal.
^{In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former president of the United States and seven key members of his administration were found guilty of war crimes on Friday.}^{Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisors, Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee, and John Yoo, were tried in absentia in Malaysia.}^{The trial held in Kuala Lumpur heard harrowing witness accounts from victims of torture who suffered at the hands of U.S. soldiers and contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.' (Go to: Bush finally found guilty of war crimes )}^{Bush Gang Found Guilty of War Crimes - http://bit.ly/L4slkb}^{War Tribunal Finds Bush, Cheney Guilty of War Crimes, orders reparations be given to torture victims Source: Common Dreams, Sunday, May 13, 2012}

Not voting for Obama: We’re not even buying a voting ticket

Sat, 5 May 2012 12:05:42 -0400

Not voting for Obama: We’re not even buying a voting ticket to the show

I speak my heart and mind on this. In 2008, Ezili’s HLLN supported a vote for Obama, not because we entirely believed the Obama fairytale (See, The America I Know, 2008.)

We supported a vote for Obama in 2008 for both pragmatic and idealistic reasons. But more so because eight years of Bush and the application of the Wall Street deregulation excesses left over from Bill Clinton and others had reached a crescendo point that was shockingly, brutally horrible and demoralizing for the entire world. But we also campaigned and urged a vote for Obama, despite his apparent selection by one-percenter forces, because the symbolic victory and metaphoric narrative of “The Whitehouse: From Sally Hemings to Michelle Obama” was a powerful and compelling vision we wished to participate in bringing to a reality for the human race. (That sentiment was expressed in this essay - I Don’t Know this America…But I’m Most Happy to Meet It .)

So, Ezili’s HLLN actively campaigned for getting rid of the Republicans that had presided over the 1991 and 2004 unconstitutional regime changes in Haiti. We campaigned so that Obama would give Haiti temporary protected status (TPS), end deportations, stop unfair trade, promote democratic elections in Haiti, value and invest in the Diaspora remittances for reform in Haiti, instead of tied-aid to NGOs, end the US occupation of Haiti behind UN guns, provide relief to Main Street in America, universal health care, social justice, stop torture, end the resource wars abroad. (See, Towards A New US-Haiti Partnership: What Haitian Americans Ask of the New US President and Congress.)

Instead, for instance, it took the earthquake which ended the lives of 310,000 Haitians before front man, Barack Obama, deigned to give limited TPS and stop deportations. Then less than a year later he re-started deportations even with UN-imported cholera ravages and failed aid to the earthquake victims. But Obama would soon destroy even the tiny scraps of good he brought with TPS by unleashing Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton on Haiti’s head for the duration, not to mention the Bush-Clinton partnership for earthquake “relief”.

We wrote then our dissent. “Give us a 100 hard right-wing Republicans to face any day. Keep the namby pamby Democrats or progressive left selling their constituents out in the name of some mythical, so-called bipartisanship. They are the worst and most dangerous enablers of neoliberal globalization masturbating on the poor’s imposed pain, poverty and suffering.” (See Obama’s offered HOPE is sweatshop slavery . Since before the fall of the US-supported Duvalier dictatorships in 1986, the US has been bringing “hope” to Haiti. The newest, profit-over-people sweatshop hoax is Caracol, a sweatshop project masking the foreign appropriation of fertile Haiti lands and deep water ports.)

Today, any politician who uses the word “hope” and “change” – as in, “I am the change you’re looking for” – is unable to waste our time with US perverted elections whatsoever. The whole system is corrupt. Integrating with injustice is no longer an option. Obama was the straw that broke the camel’s back for us. Truly, his tenure has hurt our hearts in so many ways. Not least of which is the fact that a Black man has become number one superpower overseer of the profit-over-people paradigm.

Ezili’s HLLN will not be supporting Obama's reelection. We suggest conscious folks nix the political theater of the Republicans and Democrats, concentrate on local self-reliance, local community building, local people empowerment, local building of relevant educational, health care, local food sovereignty, local production, local work and local communication self-sufficiency infrastructures. Don’t count on any government to “save you”. Not happening folks, not with perverted electoral politics, whether you’re in the US or Haiti.

The corporations have bought out the politicians and they’re about servicing Wall Street, giving corporate welfare, maintaining their jobs at ALL cost.

Obama’s betrayal of core justice values, cuddling Wall Street instead of making it accountable, just to get re-elected cannot sufficiently be offset by general fear of the Republican’s Supreme Court nominations. We must speak truth to power, live without fear. And the Supreme Court has presided over a judiciary that disproportionately favors the wealthy, puts more Black men into the prison system than anywhere else in the world for nonviolent crimes such as being addicted to “inhaling.”

Moreover, what has the Supreme Court done for Main Street lately anyhow? Or, to preserve its objectivity, its reputed sacredness? Like the Democratic and Republican members of Congress, the folks at the Supreme Court are a reflection of the times. They have simply become an arm of the global corporatocracy, giving more human rights to corporations than to human beings. Supreme Court appointments are simply not a sufficiently important issue to vote Democrat.

The old dog – “vote-for-the-lesser-of-the-two-evils” argument no longer has traction – won’t hunt. People, of all ethnicities, are tired of dealing with evil. Period.

If being a “pragmatist” or a “realist” means choosing only amongst evil, count us OUT.

The US-Euro pragmatic philosophy has a place, brings lots of comfort, but it is also responsible for the myopic resource wars and prevalent loss of the human soul amongst the schooled peoples worldwide, not to mention the rut and perennial impasse we’re in with perverted US electoral politics. Fact is, the US voting rights our Ancestors fought and died for, are redistricted out of legitimacy at the whim of the more wealthy and more powerful. And that’s LEGAL!

I am envisioning another world.

Not integrating with injustice.

Obama betrayed the American voters who expected he would not gut the US Constitution. But he has. And, some of us here at HLLN are lawyers.

This writer herself is a member of two US State bars where the oath I made was to protect the US Constitution. Moreover, as a born-Haitian – with a legacy to reach for - who has spent what seems a lifetime advocating against the US destruction of legitimate elections in Haiti, against the US and the wealthy’s support of apartheid and ethnocide in Haiti, against US destruction of the 1987 Haiti Constitution with illegal US regime changes in Haiti, as an advocate who has had to deal with the poor Haitians’ indiscriminate indefinite detention simply because the US and Haiti’s repugnant undemocratic forces suspect these poor voted and supported Lavalas, I find NOTHING redeeming about the Constitutional lawyer, named Barack Obama. (President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Into Law ; Activists sue Obama, others over National Defense Authorization Act ; Obama's abysmal record on civil liberties; Obama re-authorizes the Patriot Act ; Obama Supports - sweeping intelligence surveillance -FISA Legislation ; Obama preserves renditions ; Obama Endorses Bush Secrecy On Torture And Rendition.)

It’s simply unforgivable on so many levels that Barack Obama went further than George W. Bush in denying human rights and social justice to US and world peoples, like Haitians. Under the Obama tenure, indefinite military detention of U.S. citizens is lawful in the land of the free and home of the brave and Haitians are saddled with George W. Bush and Bill Clinton to help us become more a democratic and stable Black nation! Susan Rice takes over the role Colin Powell played for the Bushes while Cheryl Mills is out there pushing the Duvalierist agenda in Haiti previously championed by Bill Clinton’s commerce secretary, the late Ron Brown.

Yes racism against Obama exist. No doubt. But, Obama ruined his own integrity by betraying the hopeful world who wished respite from empire’s invasions, narcissism, resource wars, denial of social justice and land grabs behind the do-gooder facade. Obama especially betrayed the weary American people who voted for him. Yes, Obama probably will win again over Romney. The powers that be are very satisfied with the pretty Black-family mask of US imperialism and Americans, of all ethnicities, are programmed for the fairytale narrative and for suburban amnesia; would rather have comfort to liberty.

Obama will most likely win again because denial is easier than the hard reality of Obama’s betrayal of Main Street and championing of corporate welfare for Wall Street. Under Obama, like it was under Bill Clinton, the one-percenters continued their white supremacist and land/resource grabbing invasions and betrayal of Africa, continued the perennial US war in Haiti, against the poor worldwide, against countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, et al…

Obama did not bring American soldiers home but started other wars. Both parties are the same. And, in a world of infinite possibilities we choose not between the lesser of two evil. In fact, those of us who are not into denial and work at the human-rights front lines prefer to face the Republican snake head-on then the confused and gutless Democrat chameleon whining about being a progressive when it is NOT.

There’s no difference between the two US political parties, except one is more direct in its tyranny against the most vulnerable amongst us. The other hides behind pseudo liberalism and gives us Clintonesque deregulation, NAFTA unfair trade and loss of US jobs, gutting Glass-Steagal to serve the Goldman Sachs cadres, Welfare-to-Work when all work has flown overseas where US superpower might makes sure there’s no minimum wage, no human rights, unions or respect for Black and Brown life.

Whoever is in charge of the profit-over-people paradigm, Democrat or Republican, Ezili’s HLLN will be confronting 24/7. Full time. Frankly we prefer watching the Democrats in the opposition to the Republicans opposing EVERYTHING that they sat by and watch OBAMA preside over. There’s much less emotional tie-in for me there. If that means facing Romney, so be it. But there are other choices, like everyone NOT showing up for this theater and nullifying the elections. Envision that. A courageous electorate that stops believing things must stay as they are with the duopoly. Just imagine it.

Yes indeed I am a dreamer. Nothing changes without risk. Pragmatism is just a cop-out. Since it doesn’t matter who we vote for, best to make a statement. I think that’s pragmatic. More so than voting for Obama, the more effective evil servicing U.S. neo-feudalism.

Share your thoughts with us on this position.

With respect,
Ezili Dantò
May 4, 2012
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See: May 5th:
[ezilidanto] 12 Ezili Listserve comments on : Not voting for Obama
May 10th: [ezilidanto] Comment #13 to 21 on : Not voting for Obama

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The Obama Deception
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln is quoted to have said the following: “The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarch, more insolent than autocracy and more selfish than a bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at the rear is my greatest foe.” Today, the PRIVATE Federal Reserve Bank runs the US economy and is above the law - no other agency of the US government can overule its actions, according to Alan Greenspan.

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Zeitgeist Addendum

“We send this out yearly for those who haven’t yet watched it, mostly because of the first part of the documentary that details how the monetary system and corporatocracy works; how the profit-over-people system is fueled by artificially-kept scarcity in an abundant world. This, to get you re-thinking some of what you were taught. Take what you can, leave what you can’t fit into your mind or reference points. The posting is not meant to confer our support to the notion, espoused in the latter parts of the video, that technology is the only agent for sustainable world change. Universal comfort and technological consumption cannot replace human ethics, conscience or values that define human-ness such as compassion, empathy, elevation of beauty, community, universal connection, fairness, justice, equality and the importance of public engagement, purpose and service to human dignity. Besides, having a global economic system that would put people-before-profit, perhaps a legal structure where human beings and not just capital had human rights and maybe could freely move around the globe without undue restraints. Just a thought. There may be many agents working together that might bring about a better world. Life is not static, reality is constantly in motion – emergent – as the video points. Old patterns, obsolete and illogical assumptions should not still be readily accepted.” –Ezili Dantò of HLLN

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HLLN analysis of Times’ cholera article

Mon, 2 Apr 2012 19:04:24 -0400

HLLN analysis to NYT’s cholera article: Playing the Left-Right game of neutral reporting

by Ezili Dantò
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For the complete HLLN analysis to NYT’s cholera article and the four HLLN Comments the Times posted submitted by Ezili's HLLN, go to our website.

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The Set Up. Act 3 to follow:

The set up. It’s like watching, in slow motion, a horrific accident. First, former President Bill Clinton comes out and admits the UN brought cholera.

Then NYT finally writes a notable investigative report but quotes Paul Farmer as if he’s just a doctor not a mouthpiece for UN.

The scrubbing of the Nepal contingent is done. They’re not at the base anymore and a new, more hygiene-conscious UN group replaced them. What’s left except for Farmer to give his IDJH buddies a UN mea culpa where the reparation monies goes back into the hands of the same NGOs-UN folks like back in Trouilliot days when the victims of the 1937 massacres where played by Haiti government and the international vampires…

Haitians don’t exist unless employed by the vampires – both in the Left and Right game of neocolonialism. They’ve got all the resources and white supremacy allows they’re the only ones who are credible to raise funds for THEIR “cause and case” – meaning Haiti sufferings, disease, poverty and pains the system and their alliances mostly are responsible for.

Ezili Dantò of HLLN
April 2, 2012

To read the entire analysis an the four HLLN Comments on the New York Times " Global Failures on a Haitian Epidemic" go to our website.

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Haiti: A time bomb which must be defused immediately

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:03:04 -0400

^{“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” — Lily Watson}

Haiti: A time bomb which must be defused immediately

_{Ezili Dantò - Transcending the 2002 Ottawa Initiative for Haiti}

There’s a reason to recall the efforts responsible Haitians make to survive the Western rabid rage hidden behind the do-gooders’ benevolence.

Few in power want to hear that the World bank and the International Monetary Fund contain the poor in war, poverty, disease so to save them with Paul Farmer pharmaceuticals, USAID tied-aid, the Clintons’ subsidized Arkansas rice and Monsanto GMOs-hybrid seeds. Not when this is the age where Barrack Obama nominates Paul Farmer’s partner, Jim Yom Kim, co-founder of what some from Haiti call “Partners in Death”, to head the World Bankers fleecing Black and poor countries worldwide.

It’s not news that the post-World War II alliance, use the World Bank, the IMF, the IFIs and the UN to pillage poor countries and continue the old colonial lines of domination.

Addicted to power and white privilege in poor countries, the large NGOs are funded mostly to make way for the imperialist and global corporatocracy stealing natural resources, destroying , for instance, Haiti’s food sovereignty, water, public health, democratic governance. All, the better to make a market and jobs for foreigners, their vaccines, fertilizers, pesticides and pharmaceuticals behind the mask of “development.”

Certainly in this age, the Nobel Laureates won’t be lining up to honor and give prizes to the homeless street boys in Haiti who dug up the earthquake victims, lifting steel and concrete, saving lives with bare, bleeding hands. Won’t be lining up to honor Haitians battling to end the US occupation. Won’t be lining up to honor and give those, like Rea Dol, Jean Ristil Jean Baptise, Jean Jafrikayiti Saint-Vil, Yves Point Du Jou, Dahoud Andre, Pierre Labossiere or Ezili Dantò a peace prize for saving lives, battling tyranny. The neocolonial narrative on Haiti won’t allow it.

We don’t exist. Whitemen speak for us. Mr-lets-hoard-it-all wants everything.

He forgets. We reMEMBER. Laugh. Do battle. Walk with honor.

Sean Penn is saving us along with Paul Farmer and his acolytes. We who have made no dishonorable alliances and stood, from the beginning, against the return to dictatorship, oppression, re-colonization of Haiti, don’t exist. In fact, they say they treat Haitians well. You know, as well as the godly Thomas Jefferson was treating 14-year old Sally Hemings nightly at Monticello. As well as the slaveholders who provided food and shelter to their slaves and only really beat them senseless when they were not working hard enough on the plantation, or were so ungrateful as to speak for themselves, or escape.

He forgets. We reMEMBER. Laugh. Do battle. Die with honor. Suffer humiliating pains, defeats. Endure.

Constantly under fire. But made of fire. Unborn. Never burn. We roll with it. Handling seismic shifts. Freestyling to murder Tarzan, Jane and their Uncle Toms.

Acid and Clorox hunger we know. Stigmas we know. World Bank structural adjustment policies we know. IFM death plans we know. We’re never filled with the humiliating defeats. Our sorrows run deep. Yet and still, Ibo granmoun lakay Ibo.

We don’t exist. We’re the Haitians who save ourselves. We keep honor. We reMEMBER, always. The Ancestors. Don’t forget their traditional enemies. Never. Bay kou bliye pote mak sonje.

“Cut your chains and you are free. Cut your roots and you die” –Haitian Proverb

What is the Ottawa Initiative?

Haitians and those still blind or in denial and who are participating in the International crime and travesty going on in Haiti right now are urged to recall the Ottawa Initiative .

What is the Ottawa Initiative? Why is there a UN, Chapter 7 peace enforcement mission in Haiti for 8 years? A country not at war, without a peace agreement to enforce and with less violence than most countries in the Western Hemisphere? (See the UN’s own Global Study on Homicide at page 93 ).

Why is Haiti the only place in the world where the UN has a Chapter 7 peace enforcement mission without a peace agreement amongst warring parties to enforce? Why is the third largest UN peacekeeping mission in the world really in Haiti?

What’s the secret behind the rush of the international mining and oil companies to Haiti?

Why the amazing strings of catastrophes in tiny Haiti these last 8-years of occupation? During the period since US regime change in 2004, the US managed to build, in “corrupt” and “resource-less” Haiti, the largest US Embassy in the Western Hemisphere and the 5th largest US Embassy in the world after Iraq, Afghanistan, China, Germany. (See Haiti’s Riches, and Oil in Haiti – Economic Reasons for the US occupation.)

The majority in Haiti have not been allowed to vote in elections since the US occupation began. Haitians suffer Clorox hunger, yearly floods and drownings, no development. The US military closed schools when they landed in 2004, which still have not reopened. The UN’s personnel sodomize a Haiti child daily. The UN mission in Haiti is getting paid nearly one billion dollars per year by the Western powers.

Haitians abroad have not been spared either. A puppet government is in place doing what an authentic government would never be able to get cooperation from the world bankers and financing houses to do.

The powerful bankers and global politicians have finally found a way to tax the poor majority by unilaterally, without accountability, authorizing taxing Diaspora phone calls and remittances. The $2billion,360million per year in Diaspora remittances is the only real direct and aid-with-dignity the people actually get.

But the world turns away, marginalizes Haiti and other voices who tell the truth.

Paul Farmer and his UN and World Bankers continue to “heal” Haitians from the “threat” we pose to ourselves they advertise, not to the white predatory system. They’ve brought us “healing” with UN guns, (37,000?) NGOs , foreign diseases, vaccinations, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, pedophiles, priests, charity workers and such.

What is the Ottawa Initiative? In 2002, high level Western officials secretly got together in Ottawa, Canada and made plans for Haiti because Haiti with popular democracy was a “threat to North American countries. “

The expressed and reported concern was that “Haiti might have, by some estimates, a population of 20 million by 2019…It is a time bomb, the high level Canadian diplomat said, ‘which must be defused immediately.’” (The Ottawa Initiative; and Transcending the 2002 Ottawa Initiative.)

We are the Haitians

We shall overcome this latest US occupation and subjugation. We are the Haitians. The first to put liberty into application in the Western Hemisphere. The first to help liberate five “Latin” American countries.

The first to bring the music now called Jazz into being in the West. The first to beat all the European powers and their white settle derivatives in combat and end slavery, direct colonialism, the slave trade, forced assimilation. The first to defeat the Western bankers attempts at taxing the labor of the peasants through control of the foreign-backed Bank of Haiti.

The first, in the 1946 Haiti Revolution, to successful overthrow a U.S.-backed regime in the Americas. The first to reject bourgeois democracy. The first to refuse to make taxable income for the bankers, mulatto elites and politicians to enrich themselves, preferring a peasant ownership economy pursuing balance, Viv, family stability, Lakou sufficiency, not wealth, not profit to become taxable income. Haitians work to live, not live to work.

Haiti was the first to reject wage-slavery – the Western serf-like system of valuing and turning the human body/soul into a commodity useful solely for its labor for making profit for some bigmen’s enterprise, or to improve someone else’s land and life. Haitians prefer to be small business entrepreneurs on their own plot of land, living the sunny ocean, small farmers Island life without government interference or taxation without representation.

Haitians suffer the agony of endless debt, domination, starvation, imported diseases and all sorts of other deprivation to deny the Western inhuman economic and value systems.

In 1990 with the election of Aristide, the Haitians were the first to thwart US imperialism hidden behind the pretense of bringing democracy through sham elections and the false promises of tied aid.

The Haitians see through the current US occupation behind UN guns and shall again successfully overcome all US-backed puppet regimes, until the subjugation of the voice of the Haitian peasant and patriot stops, sovereignty regained, the foreigners, white saviors and their NGOs and World Bank bankers are gone.

He forgets. We reMEMBER. Laugh. Do battle. Live with honor. The Haitian union forged at Bwa Kayiman has never wavered. Nou se Ginen, nou fè yon sèl kò.

The Bwa Kayiman call is still our call.

Ezili Dantò,
Li led, li la
March, 2012

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“Si nou fè silans,
Y’ap fè l pou nou,
Y’ap fè l sans nou
Y’ap fè l kont nou…Ki vle di, pran peyi Ayiti lan men nou…”–Alina Sixto , Sept. 2007

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Bill Clinton admits UN brought cholera, Haiti raped again

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:03:42 -0400

“Generals, officers, soldiers: differing from him by whom I was preceded, the ex-general Toussaint L’Ouverture, I have been faithful to the promise which I made you when I took up arms against tyranny, and as long as I live I will keep my oath. Never shall a colonist or a European set foot on this territory with the title of master or proprietor. This resolution shall henceforth form the fundamental basis of our Constitution...” – Jean Jacques Dessalines (Janjak), Haiti’s founding father, Declaration of Independence, January 1, 1804

Bill Clinton – Slick Willy’s – recent and sudden admission that a UN soldier brought cholera to Haiti and the UN’s apparent strategic denial

:::::::: Bill Clinton admits UN brought cholera to Haiti. Sidesteps UN accountability, blaming the disease on Haiti. Haiti raped again. It went from zero cholera cases to highest cholera rate in the world as the "charitable" foreign NGOs flourish behind guarded high gates. Poverty pimps living off the blood, gore and suffering. Lol, lol, lol -- they laugh on. Almost every other week, there's a report of a UN "peacekeeper" sodomizing Haiti boys. ::::::::

On March 7, 2012 Aljazeera uploaded a video where Al Jazeera’s Kristen Saloomey interviews one of the UN-commissioned scientists from the UN independent panel who investigated the source of the cholera outbreak. Their report was issued May 5, 2011. But one of the authors, Danielle Lantagne of the UN panel of experts, told Aljazeera that new information has since come to light. Lantagne said, “based on the summation of the circumstantial and scientific evidence, the most likely scenario is that someone associated with the UN-MINUSTAH facility was the person responsible.“

Also, on March 7, 2012, via twitter, independent journalist, Ansel Herz, reported that United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, acknowledged the role U.N. peacekeepers played in importing the deadly outbreak of cholera to Haiti. Anzel Herz caught the Clinton admission on tape. Local Haiti journalists and radio was also abuzz with the news.

Clinton was asked after a hospital tour in Haiti if he agreed with a statement by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Susan Rice, about holding accountable those who brought cholera to Haiti

Citing Herz’s reporting, ABC news wrote that Bill Clinton said, “I don’t know that the person who introduced cholera in Haiti, the U.N. peacekeeper, or [U.N.] soldier from South Asia, was aware that he was carrying the virus… it was the proximate cause of cholera. That is, he was carrying the cholera strain. It came from his waste stream into the waterways of Haiti, into the bodies of Haitians.”

UN Imported Cholera in Mirebalais: The hard reality of ill and discombobulated adults reduced to infancy

^{Ezili Dantò visiting cholera patients. Mirebalais, Haiti. August 11, 2011. Photo credits: Jean Ristil Jean Baptise, HLLN}

^{The indignity of the illness is almost, if not more horrible, than the physical pain. Family members do not get their love ones' bodies back from the morgue. The dead are buried in mass graves in special plastic cholera body bags. USAID ordered 200,000 body bags at the beginning of the outbreak, spending more monies with US firms providing these death bags than in providing purified clean drinking water or guaranteeing the UN troops disease carriers.}^{(More photos on HLLN delegation visit.)}^{**********************************************}

Shifting blame off the UN, Clinton went on to say that, “what really caused it is that you don’t have a sanitation system, you don’t have a comprehensive water system…”

The ABC article, quotes U.N. spokesperson Kieran Dwyer sidestepping from the Clinton admission saying that “President Clinton… emphasized the importance of focusing on improving Haiti’s sanitation system and the fact that the United Nations and others are working hard to do this.”

Since these reports surfaced certain foreign pundits, have jumped to proclaim essentially that progress is being made toward the Haiti cholera victim getting justice, applauding Bill Clinton for his admissions, not inquiring about the “new information” referred to by Danielle Lantagne of the UN panel of experts, or relied upon by Clinton. When and how did it become available? Doesn’t the Haitian public have a right to all the facts about this contagious disease infecting over 5% of the Haitian population?

It’s like watching an accident happen in slow motion.

Like when the earthquake happened and battle-worn Haitians knew the US-UN and their “charitable” industry would take the opportunity to keep the billions collected, let the poor die, while clearing the land the slave-making Western countries been coveting for centuries in Haiti (for adding more dependency, more foreign hotels, resorts, one or two hospitals and schools and such, not accountable to the island people of Haiti). The earthquake is an opportunity, like the imported UN-cholera to pass through tyrannical US privatization policies and profit-over-people cruelties beyond imagination that they’ve been unable to get through for decades since the first US occupation of Haiti (1915 to 1934).

The grasping institutions, left after the 19-year US first occupation to carry through neocolonialism in Haiti finally broke with the demobilization of the Haitian army and popular election of Jean Bertrand Aristide in 1990.

A US-supported coup d’etat under Bush the father, took out Aristide months later. Former President Bill Clinton returned Aristide in 1994 to further stop the Lavalas popular movement, stop the flow of refugees, and most importantly to help re-image the Duvalierist thugs, thieves, local repugnant Oligarchs, suited tonton macoutes and neocolonial opportunists as “civil society” and/or impartial US trained “technocrats.”

On the second anniversary of the earthquake, commenting on the rape of Haiti since Bush-the-son completed his father’s return of the Duvalierist with the 2004 Bush regime change that took down the second term in office of President Aristide and deported him to Africa, Glen Ford from the Black Agenda Report, wrote:

“The horrific squandering of Haitian lives and earthquake relief and aid dollars by the occupying powers over the past two years are direct consequences of previous imperial crimes. ‘Since 2004, Haiti has been methodically stripped of its sovereignty, made into a protectorate of the United Nations,’ which is merely a front for the United States. ‘The earthquake of January 2010 was a natural phenomenon that happened to take place while a rape was in progress.’” (Haiti, Raped by the U.S. Since 2004, and Still Bleeding by Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report.)

Paul Farmer and Bill Clinton as UN Special Envoys to Haiti

With US key stakeholders like Paul Farmer and Bill Clinton as UN Special Envoys to Haiti (coming on board in 2009 shortly after the devastating Gonaives hurricanes and floods), another layer of US authority in Haiti was added that served the multiple purposes of: 1) putting a U.S. public face to the UN mission in Haiti, 2) using the international reputations of Farmer and Clinton to temper widespread Haiti criticism, claims against the UN peacekeepers for the sexual abuse of minors and public executions of unarmed civilians, 4) supplanting the spokesperson role of the Brazilian command in Haiti, as well as 5) hoodwinking the easily fooled, paid-to-lose-US-progressives. Add UN criminal negligence for importing the most virulent cholera bacteria to the Western Hemisphere into Haiti and the destruction of Haitian lives since 2004 has reached genocidal proportions.

As in the days of Western slavery on the Island and the first US occupation, Haitians are again disposable, prohibited the rights and obligations of self-defense and no rights the UN, US and their NGOs and private sectors will respect. White privilege, apartheid and racism reigns. The former slave-holding powers in the West and the UN Security Council that serves them are the biggest purveyors of impunity, violence, poverty, Clorox hunger, disease, human rights abuses, dictatorship, drug trafficking, human trafficking and apartheid in Haiti.

In just one year-and-a-half, more Haitians have been infected (526,000) with the deadly foreign bio-germ than were killed (30,000 to 100,000) under the combined thirty-year rule of Papa and Baby Doc Duvalier (1957 to 1986).

The largest political party has been excluded from the polls since the 2004 US regime change in Haiti. (Haiti, Raped by the U.S. Since 2004, and Still Bleeding.)

But hey, it’s like that old Kreyòl saying about Jews – se lan jwèt ou batize yon Jwif – it’s only in jest you’ll manage to convert a Jew. That’s dark Kreyòl humor about how hard it is to convert a Jew to Christianity – one has to make it a game, fool the person so that submersion in the waters of Christianity happens before the person really knows what’s going on. Meaning, in this context, Haitians would never so easily or consciously allow what’s happening today in Haiti, if it wasn’t hidden behind the abominable gleeful music of Michel (or is it Michael?) Martelly’s porn presidency and UN/Bill Clinton/Paul Farmer’s slick false international benevolence chords, strummed heavily in donor aid dollars, mixed with the heady cocktail of Washington’s approval.

Obama’s Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, the OAS and even CARICOM, decreed the court jester, Michel Martelly as Haiti’s true president. Lawlessness under an election facade, band music, celebrity adrenaline – no veil needed. The US Ambassador recently decreed Michel Martelly is Haitian to stop a Parliamentary commission investigating strong evidence of his alleged American citizenship.

“Li se Ayisyen, li pa Meriken” said the US Ambassador Merten, despite eyewitnesses testifying to seeing Martelly in the US passport line upon landing at the Haitian airport. Of course, one wonders where the Haiti electoral commission charged with vetting candidates was when Martelly was a running for office and why these Senators didn’t object then?

Then again, nothing has been Constitutional in Haiti since the US-UN occupation began in 2004.

This passport fury is mostly theater. Distracting from the pillage of Haiti oil, natural resources, wealth and lands that goes on unabated, the billions in donor dollars to international NGOs for Haiti relief and recovery, unaccounted for.

Photo by Kesler Pierre

Guns rule behind Santa Clinton’s white hairs and skinny Paul Farmers’ all pervasive praying mantis NGOs. Haiti swarmed and stung to death, again and again. It’s the NGO republic of the world. Haiti’s reality is what they and their USAID NGOs say it is. Indigenous Haitians who refuse to be pimped-out by the right or left wing missionaries from abroad are simply stepped over, co-opted, marginalized or destroyed.

Meanwhile, distasteful Haitian men and ridiculous Haiti women laugh and party at the palace with bad-boy Sean Penn, raunchy socialite Kim Kardashian or on luxurious cruise ships at carnival in Au Cayes. More than 500,000 earthquake victims remain homeless, the national palace still, tilting over, left in disrepair. Garbage mix with earthquake rubble on the Port au Prince streets, Clorox hunger ravages empty stomachs, the rainy season overflow rivers contaminated with UN cholera, blows tents and tart shelters into mud, people still drinking UN feces-laced river and ground water, dying, dying.

Haiti went from having zero cholera cases to the highest cholera rate in the world as the “charitable” foreign NGOs flourish behind guarded high gates. Poverty pimps living off the blood, gore and suffering. Lol, lol, lol – they laugh on. Practically every other week, there’s an international report of UN peacekeepers molesting and raping Haiti boys.

More notably, there’s no Haiti Parliamentary commission outraged and investigating, attempting to prioritize or protect Haiti’s most valuable treasure - its women and children.

This wrenching travesty, crushing anguish and horrific darkness visited upon a defenseless and humble Haiti peasantry and abandoned city residents with no antibodies to combat such demonic imported and local carnage is led forth behind two UN-US spokesmen and their reputed worldwide “good works.”

Truth, in a time of universal deceit

When Haitians give the coming retribution, I’d like to be alive when that justice day arrives.

To paraphrase George Orwell, in this time before justice comes, in this time when Haitians like me with passports but little institutional power and no financial support, in this “time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

The truth is that in this most difficult of Avatar times for Haiti, a celebrated Harvard doctor (the ultimate Jake Sully of our times) and a Yale lawyer known in his US administration for authoring “plausible deniability” – like “I did not sleep with that woman” helped to bring back US Duvalierist agents to power, helped to cover the pillage of Haiti’s natural resources irrespective of environmental harms behind UN/international guns, continues his Arkansas cronies’ greed with unfair trades. Tossed in a bio-germ that’s killing in genocidal waves in Haiti, all, off course, under a Barack Obama and UN veil.

These insects invading Haiti are reprobates, racist and narcissistic, analogous to the rich and high-born serial killers conducting their depravity at private clubs – gated compounds left alone by police because of the pathology of power, respect for old money and Ivy League reputations.

Their shameless reign is called Western civilization, hope for Haiti and the ultimate in technology-transfer and US democracy when its nothing if not high classed criminals disemboweling their defenseless preys in Haiti with everyone’s eyes wide open. Refusing to see. (Avatar Haiti part 2; Did Harvard scientists cover-up UN source of Haiti cholera? and Going Shopping in Haiti.)

US and Bill Clinton’s credibility

After the news about Clinton’s admission that a UN soldiers was responsible for bringing cholera to Haiti appeared, a woman with good conscience, wrote on my Facebook page:

“Why is Clinton’s admission news when Cuban medical services in Haiti made this same determination months ago?”

I add, the Clinton admission popped up right after the UN Security Council visited Haiti and notably after Ambassador Susan Rice, the U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN, made a similar statement, sort of foreshadowing Clinton’s admission.

What’s going on? What non-public information is Clinton relying on, that’s not in the UN investigative report, which now identifies the particular “person who introduced cholera in Haiti, the U.N. peacekeeper, or [U.N.] soldier from South Asia was carrying the cholera strain. It came from his waste stream into the waterways of Haiti, into the bodies of Haitians?”

Recall that Bill Clinton is a Rhode scholar, a Yale graduate, a former US president and a member of Mensa. Nothing he does is not thoroughly thought-out with multiple contingencies foreseen and planned for. Nothing. Expect that there are several escape routes being mapped out and prepared by the wrongdoers in Haiti and it’s definitely not for the benefit of Haiti cholera victims.

The question indeed is why would he, a UN official – the Special UN envoy to Haiti, suddenly, more than a year-and-a-half after the UN cholera outbreak and 10-months after the UN “independent” panel came out with their official findings, go to Haiti and make a seemingly haphazard public statement that it was a UN soldiers who likely brought the deadly cholera bacteria to Haiti, unleashing the outbreak? It’s not like Clinton has to answer a reporter’s questions. He’s managed not to address the UN liability for over a year now.

Just days before his statement, U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN, Susan Rice, called on the UN to take responsibility for the outbreak, urging it to “redouble its efforts to prevent any further incidents of this kind and to ensure that those responsible are held accountable.”

Those who are actually applauding either Susan Rice or Bill Clinton recent statements willingly fail to factor in the obvious fact that this UN occupation is a cover for the illegal US occupation of Haiti.

Said pundits’ credulity willingly help delay Haiti’s recovery of its sovereignty and willingly ignore the fact that nothing the UN does is not first approved by the US. That’s a period, no comma.

As Susan Rice herself said in an official statement before the World Affairs Council of Oregon,”(t)he truth is: the UN Security Council can’t even issue a press release without America’s blessing.”

Need I say more? OK, perhaps the entire Susan Rice statement is worth quoting. Susan Rice, the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, stated, inter alia, that:

“Some Americans believe the UN infringes on American sovereignty. Frankly, I am baffled by this concern. The fact is: the UN can’t tax us. It can’t override U.S. law. The UN can’t order our soldiers into battle. It can’t take away our Second Amendment rights. The UN can’t impose social norms on us. And it doesn’t begin to have any much-hyped fleet of secret black helicopters. The truth is: the UN Security Council can’t even issue a press release without America’s blessing. The UN depends entirely on its member states, not the other way around. When the UN stumbles, it’s usually because its members stumble—because big powers duck tough issues in the Security Council or spoilers grandstand in the General Assembly. As one of my predecessors, the late Richard Holbrooke, was fond of saying, “Blaming the UN when things go wrong is like blaming Madison Square Garden when the Knicks play badly.”” -Remarks by Ambassador Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, at the World Affairs Council of Oregon, Portland, Oregon, February 11, 2011.

Self-styled foreign experts or even native Haitians who applaud Clinton’s “admission” are hurting effective recovery. They willingly ignore there’s mostly no benevolence, no unselfish motives in US governmental actions towards the poor Haiti majority. None. Period, no comma.

“The United States has flexed every superpower muscle to prolong Haiti’s agony.”

In Haiti today we have the internal fight between the Haiti robbers of the peoples’ democracy – the lawless Martelly/Duvalier click, currently ruling solo, without Bill Clinton’s chosen Haiti Prime Minister – Gary Conille, who resigned. The Martelly newcomers are pushing to wrestle more trickle down pennies away from the equally repugnant internationally-imposed, Washington/UN-US Haiti technocrats. This tussle is evidenced most publicly with the issue raging in Parliament about the legitimacy of the Martelly presidency – if he is in fact a US or an Italian citizen. More particularly the question seemed centered on whether Michel Martelly ever used a US passport. Dual citizenship is not recognize in Haiti. (Haiti president denies dual citizenship.)

While the US plays its power game at the UN - through the Bill Clinton and Susan Rice statements on cholera and accountability – nowhere in any of these tussles between thieves of Haiti’s democracy, sovereignty and dignity are the best interests of the Haitian people or simple justice a factor.

Bill Clinton isn’t some hero in Haiti, nor is experimental-vaccine-pusher, Paul Farmer. (See, Paul Farmer, a total sell-out: Uses Haiti to sell Ineffective Cholera Vaccines.)

Bill Clinton is the UN envoy to Haiti, the Obama-appointed co-chair of the US earthquake relief fund, the effective head of the Haiti Reconstruction Commission at the UN in charge of donor country funds and how to use the monies for Haiti reconstruction. He is not separate from the UN or US officials running Haiti. No Associated Press or other embedded media spin will successfully separate Clinton from the officials responsible for the UN-MINUSTAH presence in Haiti no matter how many times they lead with titles such as, “Clinton Urges Officials to Stem Cholera in Haiti.”

^{Felipe Luciano interviews Ezili Dantò
on WBAI wake-up call, Friday, August 26, 2011 on UN-Cholera in Haiti, their latest denials….}
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^{The uses of Haiti’s poor children: Guinea pigs for cholera vaccines”}

^{Oral Cholera Vaccines Cannot Control Haiti Cholera: Rebuttal to an Article in Scientific American}

^{Pioneering Cholera Scientist Gives Thumbs Down to Oral Vaccines Promoted for Haiti}

^{In Haiti, 1 Year in Jail for UN Rapists of 14-Year Old, Ban Has Nothing to Say
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^{Seismic Shifts: Haiti freestyling to murder Tarzan, Jane & their Uncle Toms}

Over 7,000 Haitians have been killed with cholera since October 2010. Where was Susan Rice and her Obama/Clinton State Department as the peasants’ meager harvest was destroyed by the cholera outbreak?

UN Ambassador Susan Rice, like Bill Clinton are well versed in the US role in causing famine in Haiti.

Was the US – “a big power”, as she says – “ducking the tough issues” of the US regime change purveyors’ responsibility for bringing in the UN soldiers that brought cholera to Haiti?

Did Rice ask USAID to stop dumping Monsanto hybrid super seeds on Haiti’s farmers, stop unfair trade, provide some long term help for Haiti’s domestic agriculture? Are Rice, Farmer, Hillary and Bill Clinton or Obama urging repeal of the Bumper Amendment or a stop to tied-aid in Haiti. Is this thinking even on the table at the UN Security Council led by the US via Ambassador Susan Rice or at USAID led by Bill Clinton’s wife? (See, The U.S. is known for its policy of returning development assistance money back to itself.)

Why is the US distancing itself from its UN mission responsibilities in Haiti?

Wasn’t it Colin Powell, Condi Rice and the George W. Bush US administration that helped bring a Chapter VII, UN peace enforcement mission to Haiti in 2004? Then finagled to have a career UN employee living in Florida, USA – Gerarld Latortue – sign for the government of Haiti the Status of Force Agreement (SOFA) authorizing the UN-MINUSTAH mission and handing it sweeping, across-the-board immunity for all wrongdoing in Haiti? Was any of this lawful?

Why is there a UN Chapter 7 peace enforcement mission in Haiti for 8 years – a country not at war, without a peace agreement to enforce and with less violence than most countries in the Western Hemisphere? (See the UN’s own Global Study on Homicide at page 93. )

Shouldn’t both Susan Rice and Bill Clinton’s recent Haiti statements – seemingly pointing to the UN and urging the UN to take responsibility for bringing cholera to Haiti - also be subject to Rice’s insights as expressed before the World Affairs Council of Oregon. That is, the US, the controlling “big power authority” over the UN is ultimately responsible for the Haiti’s consequences of the UN mission. No? Why not? Didn’t Ambassador Rice say that “(b)laming the UN when things go wrong is like blaming Madison Square Garden when the Knicks play badly.”

So why did they make these statements? Who are they trying to confuse, set-up or cater to? The paid-to-lose-Haiti-Jake-Sully-progressives perhaps and embedded corporate media? Only they seem to believe the UN, – that is, the US government which in fact runs the UN Haiti mission- is capable of a modicum of conscience in Black Haiti without massive public outrage and/or a US federal court order as was the case for Blacks in America struggling against Jim crow apartheid in the 1960s.

Why did Clinton suddenly say the a UN soldier brought cholera to Haiti and caused the outbreak but Haiti lacked infrastructure anyways so cholera was predictable? Before then, Clinton had left it to Paul Farmer, his deputy, to harangue on and on about “cholera was waiting to happen” to Haiti. (Paul Farmer relieves himself on Haiti’s dying cholera victims; Paul Farmer, a total sell-out: Uses Haiti to sell Ineffective Cholera Vaccines; Paul Farmer is not a God but the face of the UN/USAID/World Bank; A message to Paul Farmer, the Senate, Dobbins & Francois.)

It requires an evil mind to truly absorb what the immoral and malevolent creatures auctioning Haiti and feeding off the blood of others would find logical and morally conceivable. Peasant Haitians well versed in beating back the elite’s rabid rage and with a firm knowledge of “Kandyo, the malfini and the mongoose,” fear there are probably more sinister possibilities but here are a few to think about.

Maybe Bill Clinton is admitting UN liability the better to sell his cholera insurance to Haiti impoverished market women? Or, most likely Bill Clinton is garnering some plausible deniability, or some shadow of impartiality for when a real Haiti law suits names him, a high ranking UN official and another layer of US authority after US regime change, as a defendant in the cholera case. After all, I choose to believe there is some truth to Rice’s observation that the UN can’t override U.S. law. (Haiti, Cholera and the United Nations: Negligence and the Rule of Law.)

Or, is this a slick way to lessen or perhaps try to discount the acknowledged UN unsanitary conditions at the Mirebalais camp. Push the blame off the UN brass by pointing to a single Nepalese soldier infected with cholera who defecated in the river, whose “waste stream(ed) into the waterways of Haiti, into the bodies of Haitians?” – Wouldn’t put it pass them…

Or, maybe Clinton chose to admit UN liability as a set up to continue his worthless strings of world apologies – like the ones he made for lack of action under his administration during the Rwanda genocide, or his empty apology for the US destroying Haiti’s food sovereignty, domestic agriculture while USAID, which is under the authority of his wife at the State Department, pushes forth the same destructive unfair trade policies, still dumping US subsidized goods and even bringing in Monsanto hybrid seeds after the earthquake?

Or, maybe its because his deputy UN envoy, Paul Farmer, racking up on useless cholera vaccines and the paid-to-lose-progressives whose board he’s on are about to sell out, auction off, the Haitian people’s cholera case with some counterproductive UN mea culpa settlement as worthless as former President Bill Clinton’s cumulative admissions? No shocker whatsoever.

The Haiti Reconstruction Commission is known in Washington circles as the “Bill and Hillary fund.” Its collected nearly 2.3 billion dollars, deposited at the World Bank, and presided over pretty much by Bill Clinton without any UN oversight. Normally, UN monies go into the UNDB. But this is strictly a US financial pillaging with the UN as servant to Washington, paying its dues for initially protesting the Iraq war. Swapping, monstrously auctioning off Haiti lives, so Washington will keep the UN a viable organization and their career diplomats in a job. Since 2004, the US has built the largest US embassy in the Western Hemisphere in tiny Haiti.

Poverty pimps masturbating on Black pain

Haiti crisis and suffering is but a bottomless ATM for the narcissistic vampires cashing in on the poverty, imported diseases, manufactured conflicts, blood and sweatshop labor in Haiti. USAID ordered 200,000 body bags at the start of the outbreak in 2010 rather than spend that money on the simple cure – Haiti-run public sanitation infrastructure and clean water. (For example, see Haiti’s Zili Dlo: Free clean water for everyone; the Zili Dlo photo report.)

In 2009 when Clinton first became UN Special Envoy to Haiti, he attended a donors conference in Washington that resulted in pledges of $324 million for Haiti to help the Gonaives hurricane and flood victims. No one knows for sure how that money was spent. We do know the people of Gonaives are still living in mud from the 2008 back-to-back hurricanes.

The “humanitarian” cloak and racist narrative about the white saviors of Haiti, the Jake Sullys come to civilize the incompetent Blacks, allows it. Surprise is willful ignorance.

Larouze fe banda toutan solèy pa leve.

HLLN legal position

It’s our legal position at Ezili’s HLLN that the UN is not a superstate that’s above the law. It cannot admit (as it did in the “independent” panel report) that it brought cholera to Haiti through its Nepalese soldiers; that cholera was spread through its negligent oversight of waste disposal at the Mirebalais barracks, but then say it’s not responsible for the injuries because Haiti’s water was polluted already.

As I’ve written elsewhere that’s like saying “I shot the policeman but I’m not responsible for his death. He only died because he wasn’t wearing a bullet-proof vest.” One does not need a law degree to see the ridiculousness of this UN defense repeated by Mensa member, Bill Clinton recently, and Paul Farmer and the UN Special Representative for Ban Ki Moon since the beginning of the outbreak.

As Ezili’s HLLN has said from the beginning, this is a simple tort case. The tort involve is a wrong that violates international law and treaties. The wrongdoing of the UN in Haiti is a wrong of mutual concern to all the nations of the world. The defined, universal and international prohibition against the spread of a contagious disease are expressed in international accords. The UN failed to adhere to their own declarations on human rights. The UN must take Haiti infrastructure as it found it and not poison it. Haitians have the right to be free from a contagious disease imported on the Island by UN soldiers and spread through their multiple negligent sanitary practices and failures to properly dispose contaminated human waste. Period, no comma.

Haiti’s people did not have a single case of cholera before the UN negligence, if ever. The UN reps are perfectly aware that it was not Haiti pollution – an indigenous Haiti bacteria – that caused the cholera outbreak, but a UN South Asian pollutant.

A whole genome study shows the Nepal cholera strain is the exact strain in Haiti. UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, UN Deputy envoy Paul Farmer, UN Special Envoy Bill Clinton, the Nepalese Commander, the UN Special Representative all, highly literate people, know better than to blame Haiti for the cholera outbreak. The great authority wielded by these powerful people gave undo credence to their absurd defense, caused irreparably further damage to Haiti, delayed the recovery, is fraudulent concealment, caused more deaths, more Haiti suffering, more Haiti defamation, more Haiti economic loss, more cruel and degrading treatment. (See also, Ezili’s HLLN denounces massacres of Haiti Vodouist, holds UN responsible.)

The wrongdoers, pretending to be civil, have stood idly by watching expulsions, for instance, of Haiti athletes from world competitions; the death of Haiti deportees from cholera, the expulsion of innocent Haitians from Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Bahamas and increase sufferings of Haitians throughout the world because the US/UN allowed the fault for the cholera outbreak to be squarely placed on Haiti. This lack of accountability violates the right to safety, health, life and dignity of Haitians. (HLLN urges President Obama, stop deportations to quake and cholera-ravage Haiti.)

The UN, as the forming organization of the 2005 International Health Convention against the spread of contagious diseases cannot defend itself by essentially claiming it only lowered its standards to that used by the natives MINUSTAH arrived to provide human rights to, nor can it claim organizational immunity for the private action related to its soldiers personal hygiene and health.

The magnitude of this harm requires extraordinary relief not covered by the UN’s six month statutes of limitation for bringing personal injury claims to its non-existent and never formed Claims Commission.

Besides, the clearly partisan UN is not a neutral party for too many reasons to exhaust in further detail in this essay. The Claims Commission provide for in SOFA for personal injury cases, even if it were set up, would be suspect and essentially amount to a denial of adequate legal redress and fair and impartial adjudication for the Haiti cholera victims.

^{Human rights lawyer, Ezili Dantò, of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network, leaves the Richard C. Lee United States Courthouse in downtown New Haven, Conn. during a break in the sentencing hearing for Douglas Perlitz on Tuesday December 21, 2010. Photo: Christian Abraham / Connecticut Post}

I was in Federal District Court in New Haven, advocating for the abused Haiti children in December 2010, when Judge Arterton sentencing US pedophile and Haiti charity worker, Douglas Perlitz to nearly twenty years prison and ten years probation, said:

“If one digs a well to supply water to those who have never had water, and then that person poisons the water, was building that well a good deed?” — (Judge Arterton statement at the sentencing of Haiti charity worker Douglas Perlitz)

Retribution, recovery and justice would find a beginning for Haitians if and when Haiti’s cholera case against US-UN and their high ranking reps and special envoys is successfully brought before a Federal US District Court judge like a US Judge Arterton. It’s possible.

^{Human rights lawyer, writer and performance poet, Ezili Dantò, President of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network, talks to the media. Sharing the real meaning of giving as personified in the works of Haiti famous philanthropist, Catholic charitable works icon, the venerable Pierre Toussaint. Ezili Dantò explains how US charity worker Doug Perlitz named his school after the saintly Pierre Toussaint – but like many others in the NGO industry in Haiti, failed to honor the importance of existing and historic Haiti examples of courage, honor and the good Samaritan.}

^{Photo taken while outside the Richard C. Lee United States Courthouse in downtown New Haven, Conn. during a recess in the sentencing hearing for Perlitz on December 21, 2010. Photo Credit: Christian Abraham / Connecticut Post}

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The meaning of charitable giving was long ago personified by Haiti’s Pierre Toussaint.}

^{Farmer, Clinton, USAID’s NGO executives, none can top the example of Haiti’s icon of benevolence and selflessness, not possible. Pierre Toussaint was born into Western enslavement in Haiti. Pierre Toussaint, the most venerated Black Catholic in the world was a Haitian who helped found the first orphanage in New York city for homeless boys, back when Black folks were still enslaved in the United States. At the height of slavery in the US, Pierre Toussaint used his own monies to take care of his silly widowed “master.” He was a philanthropist who EARNED, through his own labor, the money he did his charitable works with. He was piety incarnate. He was humble, loving, patient, kind, generous, self-sacrificing. He lived the Gospel of Christ. (Justice for Haiti prevailed: Perlitz going away for a long time.)}

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I would not wish these writings to be the only chance we get to state the Haiti case on behalf of the cholera victims.

It’s like watching an accident happen in slow motion.

Kindly take the road less traveled. Help Ezili’s HLLN, a Haiti-led, Haiti-capacity building organizations – the very first to publicly advocate for the cholera victims and push for recognition of UN culpability. Help us bring the Haiti cholera case to court to give voice to the voiceless and make a real, lasting and important difference.

We cannot get this done without support from conscious folks around the world, who understand this simple statement, made by an indigenous group in Australia:

“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” — Lily Watson

If you’d like to help with our clean water project and with HLLN’s filings against the UN in Federal District Court in New York, please write us at erzilidanto@yahoo.

Volunteer or donate to support Ezili Dantò/HLLN work : standing on truth living without fear.

Haitians broke their own chains in combat. Our liberty wasn't a charitable gift from the white settlers. Free Haitians - Ayisyen - still live. Rebels for liberty. Living in a hostile New World Mediterranean. For centuries, attacked and invaded from one generation to the next. Forced to battle for our independence over and over again. Proudly not becoming what the Ancestors' fought against.

Throughout the centuries, evil often found a way to survive. (See petition demanding France pay back the $22 billion Independence Debt.)

Don't permit the wrongdoers, not this time, to re-image or project responsibility for their foul and filth onto the Haiti cholera victims.

Ezili Dantò
Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN)
March, 2012

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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
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1 Year in Jail for UN Rapists of 14-Year Old, Ban Has Nothing to Say

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Dady Chery: Did Harvard scientists cover-up UN source of Haiti cholera?

““The only reason it took so long to discover that Haiti’s cholera came from Nepal is because scientists had until now not bothered to compare the cholera from Haiti to cholera from Nepal.”

“Without exaggerating, one might say, for example, that the cholera study by Harvard was analogous to using the most sensitive instruments and best-trained scientists to test for Fukushima radiation everywhere in the globe except Japan, reporting that the meltdowns had probably happened somewhere in Asia, and then proposing that a commission from the nuclear-power companies finish the investigation.”

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More background info on our website, scroll down to "background info"

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May 18 Flag day essay: Haiti is Africa’s soul, not for sale

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Video: The secret behind the Rush to Haiti

Video: Kuala Lumpur war tribunal finds Bush guilty of war crimes

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Zeitgeist Addendum

HLLN analysis of Times’ cholera article

HLLN analysis to NYT’s cholera article: Playing the Left-Right game of neutral reporting

Haiti: A time bomb which must be defused immediately

“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” — Lily Watson

Haiti: A time bomb which must be defused immediately

Bill Clinton admits UN brought cholera, Haiti raped again

Bill Clinton – Slick Willy’s – recent and sudden admission that a UN soldier brought cholera to Haiti and the UN’s apparent strategic denial

Bill Clinton, UN Envoy, Admits Peacekeepers as Source of Haiti Cholera

May 18 Flag day essay:
Haiti is Africa’s soul, not for sale

^{“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” — Lily Watson}