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Solidarity with Haiti: Ezili Dantò of HLLN in Toronto (this week)

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Rebuilding on Quicksand: Haiti after the US (s)election

An analysis by Ezili Dantò of HLLN:

After reading, Rebuilding on Quicksand: Haiti After The Run-off Polls – Analysis written by ISN Security Watch, I decided to publish the thoughts that came to mind as I read this piece, this self-styled "analysis" of the Michel Martelly election in Haiti because it affords the opportunity to clearly illustrate the repugnant nature of the UN self-interest in doing US bidding in Haiti to preserve its existence no matter that the US/France/Canada requires it to undermine the rule of law; it affords us the opportunity to look at what power means when the most powerful use their power to undermine decency, morality, ethics, established law but calls it "bringing free and fair elections, human rights, stability, democracy and reconstruction" to Haiti.

How does the least powerful gathering of peoples on earth, living in Haiti, facing evil, survive this moral depravity imposed by the highest of supposedly "developed" and "educated" minds on the planet?

In a way the "analysis," written by ISN Security Watch on the Martelly "election" is unlike most of the embedded media’s State Department bulletins because it recognizes the non-violent nature of the people of Haiti and their great self-dicipline. But it falls way short because the reason it touches on the truth is to further a lie, that is - to perpetrate the colonial narrative that the US/international community actually have a genuine interest in "good governance," social inclusion, equality and rule of law in Haiti.

But these seemingly well-educated, PHD-holding authors of this "analysis" on current Haiti, who clearly were stretching credulity to obfuscate and micromanage the lies of a benevolent, so-called "international community," concerned with the "rule of law" in Haiti, managed to touch on something that is invisible to most Westerners about Haiti.

They inadvertently glimpsed the POWER of the Haitian masses that the concrete, hierarchical, formal power of the world's SUPERPOWER nations discount but cannot yet destroy, even with these rigged elections, the two (1991/2004) Bush coup d'etats and regime changes, their UN proxy occupation and return to disenfranchisement (Duvalierism/dictatorship) served under the "clean" serviette of Michel Martelly's carnival music, Wyclef Jean's hip hop fame, Hollywood Sean Penn/Charlie Sheen's "valuable" human outreach to bring value into their lives, not to mention, masked by Anderson Cooper's seeming "thorough" CNN coverage of the dramatic earthquake!

Terror, re-enslavement, rape, slaughter, imported deadly diseases have not seen such a beautiful face-lift since the time of the "Enlightenment!?" and the US/Euros and their slave catchers where sailing for "adventure, conquest, missionary evangelisms and empire-building," financed, of course, in that times' then rational and scientific age of reason, by the, uhmm, Triangular Trade.

The poor Haitian masses being starved, raped, murdered and excluded as human beings capable of self-rule in the 21st century has never been so well packaged for public consumption. The CIA, Pentagon and Obama's Administration, following the Bush/Clinton trajectory (with the complicity of the discredited UN, most of the Caribbean, Latin America, the European Union and Canada), have certainly succeeded in hiding the genocide and ethnic cleansing their committing in Haiti.

The article entitled "Rebuilding on Quicksand: Haiti After The Run-off Polls – Analysis" begins to glimpse the problem of the international community’s complicity in disenfranchising the majority of the people of Haiti in favor of its own institutionalized worldview and institutional concept of governance and order. Admits that:

“Since the earthquake in January 2010, Haiti has not witnessed a full-blown breakdown of social order despite: the enormous pressures on citizens and communities; rising crime and violence against women and girls in the tent cities; the cholera epidemic; a largely paralyzed central government; and a disunited and segregated international community. This means that forms of governance are at work outside of, and in interaction with, formal institutions and the donor agencies.”

But this article fails to recognize what this actually means. For one, if there is no need for UN/US high handed pressure to force through even a rigged and non-inclusive election, why do it? Why do it if there was and is an informal, non-institutionalize, self-governing system of the Haitian people that regulates chaos and disorder and prevents a full-blown break down of the current social “order”????

“Effective, accountable and legitimate relational governance” in Haiti has NEVER been acknowledged because of the colonial narrative that denies Haiti has its on internal authority separate and apart from the predatory state, the global corporatocracy and Haiti Oligarchy. But Ibo Granmoun lakay Ibo – Haitians are their own authority. It’s non-institutionalized in the Western sense and thus invisible to PHD governance theorists. Still “Viv,” "Lakou," and “Konbit” exist (Ibo Granmoun : The Roots of Haitian Democracy: and Vodun Konbit and Vodun Lakou.)

Moreover, as long as the post-WWII Western powers continue to strategically deny that they have VITAL interests in Haiti, including in taking its iridium, oil, natural gas, uranium, copper, gold, soil for super anti-biotics, deep water ports, et al… there can be no truthful conversation about governance; why the rush of the international community to continually disenfranchise the masses in Haiti, who OWN more property than any other indigenous folks in the Caribbean. As long as the PhD’s of the Western world continue to value only wage workers as workers in Haiti and value not the backbone informal economy, the African culture, continue to regurgitate the myth of the violent Haitians; as long as the colonial narrative reigns, what’s obvious remains invisible and the false benevolence of the discredited former slave-holders with the UN Security Council preserving the Breton Woods colonizing/dominating institutions as “progress’ shall continue the past towards the future. But note, Haitians have existed beyond all attempts at genocide and cultural assimilation of the Dominion. Because Ibo Granmoun, lakay Ibo.

In Afghanistan, the US and internationals pushed fraudulent and rigged elections in the interests of “their eternal verities” as in Haiti regardless of the people’s priorities. It’s a failed system. It will continue to cost the West and harm the innocent in Afghanistan and in Haiti… Building on quicksand indeed! is shortsighted and even criminal with these Rwanda figures  the UN-imported cholera is bringing (800,000 expected to be in infected) to the innocent in Haiti who are being “stabilized!” at all cost.

Haitian rule of law is of no interests to the Breton Woods adherents who divided the non-European countries as theirs. Manifest Destiny, Monroe Doctrine, Dollar Diplomacy does that allow for authentic Haiti self-rule? Neither does unfair trade policies that destroy Haiti’s local economy and production while devaluing the only real aid Haiti gets – the Diaspora's over $2billion per year remittances. Reconstruction, as envisioned by the post-WWII powers for Haiti, is just more of the same – making Haiti a dependent, subservient market for the US, Canada, France. Nothing in there is about Haiti self-rule, healing, dignity or authentic governance. The authors here, discount the 2004 bicentennial Bush Regime Change in Haiti and UN 7-year presence that the people of Haiti request an end to. The UN was asked to come in to help uphold a member nation’s Constitutional government. It came in, in 2004 at the behest of Bush/Condi/Colin to take down the rule of law and empower the Duvalierists, the NGOs and Haiti Oligarchy. How can the UN talk about “rule of law” when its the proxy presence for US geopolitical and raw material needs in Haiti. This article eventually just drones on about the US and international community’s interest in Haitian human rights and good governance, ignoring these institutions very push for lawlessness, for profit-over-people and thus like the rest of the Western narrative, fails. It deals in self-serving propaganda, not facts. Like why is Haiti riches not part of the reconstruction dialogue, but false international benevolence towards Haiti sovereignty and domestic self-rule, is?

For some information on Haiti’s indigenous leadership structure that is invisible to the neocolonial mindset; the indigenous Haiti structure that authorizes ITSELF and gets power from source; for info on Haiti’s fundamental non-hierarchical, “informal” leadership or relational governance that are self-managed Haiti teams that form, operate, dissolve and then re-form per the reality and relationships on the ground and to serve LIFE, not profit, go to Ezili Dantò’s Network on: "Vodun Konbit and Vodun Lakou" - http://bit.ly/a6AWH8 ; The Haitian union forged at Bwa Kayiman -has never wavered http://bit.ly/9uzMXS and Haitian Epistemology http://bit.ly/fBCE8B.

Ezili Dantò of HLLN
April, 2011

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Forwarded by Ezili's Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
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BACKGROUND INFO:
Haiti's billionaire plunderers

Rebuilding on Quicksand: Haiti After The Run-off Polls – Analysis, April 12, 2011, Source- Eurasia Review