In 1957, Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier rose to power, launching a 29-year dynasty of terror. Tens of thousands were killed under Duvalier and his son, Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Painting of Toussaint Louverture & The Haiti Slave RevoltThe Declaration of The Rights of Man
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (August 1789)
The Representatives of the French people, organized in National Assembly, considering that ignorance, forgetfulness, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole causes of public miseries and the corruption of governments, have resolved to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, inalienable, and sacred rights of man, so that this declaration, being ever present to all the members of the social body, may unceasingly remind them of their rights and duties; in order that the acts of the legislative power, and those of the executive power, may at each moment be compared with the aim and of every political institution and thereby may be more respected; and in order that the demands of the citizens, grounded henceforth upon simple and incontestable principles, may always take the direction of maintaining the constitution and welfare of all.
Articles:
1. Men are born free and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be based only on public utility.
(see Endnote*)
The articles in the Declaration of the Rights of Man apply to all men and women and not just Americans or those descendent from Europeans. It applies to all people not just Christians.
The first Haitian slave rebellion took place in the month of August 1791. Twelve thousand slaves in the northern parts of Saint Domingue rose up, ransacked the plantations and hanged their oppressors from the nearest palm trees. And this is where Toussaint L´Ouverture, Haiti´s revolutionary leader, enters world history. He was a literate, black supervisor on a plantation where his French master seems to have been fairly tolerant and was protected by Toussaint against rebellious slaves. For a while Toussaint was seen as a benign Uncle Tom, but he had read his Julius Caesar and realized that the slaves needed military organization. He raised a black army and had the satisfaction of defeating two European invasions, first the troops sent out by revolutionary France to quell the slave rebellion, after that one hundred thousand British soldiers, dispatched by prime minister William Pitt the younger. The invaders were thoroughly beaten by Haiti´s African defenders and by yellow fever.From: "Haiti's Robespierre:The Tragedy of Toussaint L'Ouverture "By BJÖRN KUMM at Counterpunch.org/
In France, especially the Jacobins showed a great deal of sympathy for revolutionary Haiti, and in 1793 slavery was banned. However, after assuming power, the First Consul, Napoléon Bonaparte, decided to reintroduce slavery and, as he put it, "rip the epaulettes off the shoulders of the Negroes". Napoléon sent new invasion forces. Haiti did survive as an independent nation but was under perpetual pressure from France, England, the United States and Spain. Toussaint L´Ouverture died in a French dungeon.
Haiti, it could truly be said, drew the ultimate consequences of the French revolution. In the United States and in France freedom was born for white people. In Haiti freedom was born for everybody.
Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution 1-6
NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED. FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. ALL RIGHTS SOLEY TO THE OWNER OF THIS VIDEO: The Haitian Revolution (17911804) was the only successful slave revolt in history. It established Haiti as the first republic ruled by blacks. At the time of the revolution, Haiti was known as Saint-Domingue and was a colony of France. Through the revolution, people of African ancestry freed themselves from French colonization and from slavery. Although hundreds of rebellions occurred during the slave era, only the revolt on Saint-Domingue, beginning in 1791, was successful[1].
The slave revolt in Haiti took place in 1791 but America refused to recognize it as a sovereign state until President Abraham Lincoln did so in 1862. The US has been involved with Haiti shaping its history and its future ever since for better or worse?
As for aid why was Iceland and China able to get aid to Haiti before the US ?
The US has a military presence in the Dominican Republic and in the Guantanamo part of the island of Cuba so why would the US have trouble delivering aid - its not a War Zone though America & Obama are treating it as if it were a War Zone. The US has various military bases throughout Central and South America. Why didn't the US try to coordinate relief with the countries in Latin America and with Mexico and all of the other nations in the Caribbean ?
As the Americans proved in Iraq they are good at blowing a country to pieces with their "Shock and Awe" tactic but not so much at keeping order or rebuilding a nation.
Does no one remember the looting and chaos in Iraq which started at the beginning of the occupation? The US government had been told that things might get out of control in Iraq if the US did not deploy more troops or sent in the MPs and others trained to deal with soldiers and civilians? Instead the Americans did just about everything wrong which led to resentment and anger against the US occupying force by average Iraqi citizens and we see this happening in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Maybe after all it wasn't just George Bush's fault but that the fault lies in US foreign policies and its arrogance towards the rest of the world who are supposed to support US policies unconditionally.
And why is the United Nations and other Western Nations allowing the US to call all the shots when everyone knows they can not be trusted. As for Obama more and more he appears to be a creation or at least a captive or puppet for the Pentagon and the whole Military Industrial Complex and their greedy private contractors who made a mess in Iraq and Afghanistan.
US claimed it couldn't get aid to Haiti any faster than it has-which given how the US military is able to deploy fairly quickly to any where in the world in order to invade & overthrow various regimes legitimate or not -so this sounds a bit like BS. Instead of just sending more and more troops why isn't more aid getting to the people of Haiti?
They claim roads are impassible but helicopters could be used to carry supplies to these outlying areas. Haitians and the rest of the world should keep an eye on what the US military is up to in Haiti.
Jean Bertrand Aristide*(See below) who was a popular president of Haiti was removed from power when the US backed a military Coup d'etat.(as they did last year in Honduras) But then brought Aristide back into Haiti once he Made A Pact with The Devil(USA) agreeing and promising the American government he would not go ahead with reforms and so became an American/CIA puppet like the dictators in Haiti before him. So when will Haiti be free of US Puppet regimes or homegrown thugs & dictators???
US set Haiti up for disaster
In addition to the obvious problems Haiti faces recovering from this week's earthquake, the country suffers from a lack of civil society and a respected government. Glen Ford of the Black Agenda Report says that the effects of Haiti's history continue to play out in the recovery effort.
America is largely responsible for the desperate situation which existed before the Earthquake-Is America now pushing forward for its own long term plans for Haiti. The United Nations, IMF, and America should give money & aid to Haiti without expecting to be repaid otherwise Haiti will never be free of outside interference. It is not charity if one expects to be repaid with interest.
Aristide and the Endless Revolution - The 2004 Coup in Haiti
VIDEO FROM: http://www.youtube.com/Bara... ARISTIDE AND THE ENDLESS REVOLUTION
"War Profiteering at The Nation :Security Contractors Set Sights on Haiti" By Countdown Rachel Maddow With Jeremy Scahill January 21, 2010
Jeremy Scahill, Nation correspondent and author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, appears on The Rachel Maddow Show to discuss the recent influx of for-profit security contractors in Haiti. The show reports that one group, Evergreen, has already confirmed arrival. Following in Evergreen's footsteps, All Pro Legal Investigations, registered the URL: Haiti-security.com. On the site they claim to offer, among other things, "high threat terminations." Although All Pro Legal are "nobodies" in the security industry, Scahill explains that larger contractors have already begun hiring workers to deploy in Haiti. The question arises, who will oversee the groups in such a lawless environment? "Seems like the last thing Haitians need," says Scahill, "[is] yet more unaccountable people with guns in their country."
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and more from Jeremy Scahill on War and Disaster Profiteering in a recent article. Scahill has become the leading expert on Blackwater & other mercenaries used by the US even though it costs far more than using the US military - Unfortunately it appears Obama seems to be like Bush and Cheney in regard to being a supporter of such profiteering or he is afraid to take any of these people on. These guys the mercenaries their much like a gangster offering protection but from whom so if someone appears about to fire on them so it helps to create and maintain an elite who think they of more worth than other people. So what if they kill 17 or so civilians . Its all just part of America's updated Wild West Show except the blood is real.
" Disaster Capitalism: US Mercenaries Set Sights on Haiti " By Jeremy Scahill January 19, 2010 The Nation
...We saw this type of Iraq-style disaster profiteering in New Orleans, and you can expect to see a lot more of this in Haiti over the coming days, weeks and months. Private security companies are seeing big dollar signs in Haiti thanks in no small part to the media hype about "looters." After Katrina, the number of private security companies registered (and unregistered) multiplied overnight. Banks, wealthy individuals, the US government all hired private security. I even encountered Israeli mercenaries operating an armed checkpoint outside of an elite gated community in New Orleans. They worked for a company called Instinctive Shooting International. (That is not a joke).
Now, it is kicking into full gear in Haiti.
The Orwellian-named mercenary trade group International Peace Operations Association didn't waste much time in offering the "services" of its member companies to swoop down on Haiti for some old-fashioned "humanitarian assistance" in the form of disaster profiteering. Within hours of the massive earthquake in Haiti, the IPOA created a special webpage for prospective clients, saying: "In the wake of the tragic events in Haiti, a number of IPOA's member companies are available and prepared to provide a wide variety of critical relief services to the earthquake's victims."
While some of the companies specialize in rapid housing construction, emergency relief shelters and transportation, others are private security companies that operate in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as Triple Canopy, the company that took over Blackwater's massive State Department contract in Iraq. For years, Blackwater played a major role in IPOA until it left the group following the 2007 Nisour Square massacre.
In 2005, while still a leading member of IPOA, Blackwater's owner Erik Prince deployed his forces in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Far from some sort of generous gift to the suffering people of the US gulf, Blackwater raked in some $70 million in Homeland Security contracts that began with a massive no-bid contract to provide protective services for FEMA. Blackwater billed US taxpayers $950 per man per day.
History of Haiti - ABC 100114
Neo Colonization Of Haiti.mpg
The Colonization of Haiti. Jean-Bertrand Aristide was run out of Haiti and the overthrow of the Haitian government was backed by U.S. U.N. forces. America has now found an opportunity to colonize Haiti
through this disaster. This film shows the blueprint for colonization.
Why Americans and other western nations have a hate on for Haiti- OMG Black people who dared to stand up to their white slave owners. The whites believed that slaves had no right to revolt or protest.
The Bible itself is pro-slavery in both old and New Testament and slaves are commanded to know their place and not rebel against their owners.
Haiti Liberated and Rescued Other Nations
How Sugar Cane Plantation Owners are so wealthy by exploiting Haitians and others all with America's approval.
Haitian exploitation in the Dominican Republic - 17 Oct 07
see at Answers.com Jean-Bertrand Aristide
* Born: 15 July 1953
* Birthplace: Port-Salut, Haiti
* Best Known As: Beleaguered president of Haiti, 2001-2004
Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected twice to the presidency of Haiti, in 1990 and in 2000, and was forced into exile mid-term both times, in 1991 and 2004. Born into poverty near Port-Salut, Aristide was educated by Catholic priests of the Salesian Order and, after studying in Haiti and abroad in Rome and Israel, was ordained as a priest in 1983. During the '80s Aristide became a national figure as a defender of the poor against the oppressive policies of the ruling Duvalier family. After the fall of the Duvalier regime in 1986, Aristide became more involved in politics, survived several assassination attempts and was eventually expelled from the Salesian Order for advocating revolution. With popular support and help from the United States, in 1991 Aristide took office as Haiti's first democratically elected president (elected in December of 1990). After he had served just seven months in office, however, a military coup sent him into exile, first in Venezuela and then in the United States.
He was restored to power in 1994 and served the rest of his term, stepping down after 1995's election, in accordance with Haiti's constitutional ban on consecutive terms. He won the 2000 election and took office again in 2001 (and survived a coup attempt that same year), but opponents of his Fanmi Lavalas Party held that his claim on the office was illegitimate and accused him of election fraud and corruption. Seen by supporters as a liberator and by detractors as a dictator, Aristide's second term as president was marked by the nation's persistent poverty and civil unrest. In January 2004 opposition forces began rioting across Haiti and in February surrounded the capital city, and Aristide left the country on 29 February. It's unclear whether he resigned the presidency voluntarily or was forced out.
Aristide officially left the priesthood in 1995 and married a U.S. citizen, Mildred Trouillot, in 1996. Together they have two daughters.
ENDNOTE:
* Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (August 1789)
The Representatives of the French people, organized in National Assembly, considering that ignorance, forgetfulness, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole causes of public miseries and the corruption of governments, have resolved to set forth in a solemn declaration the natural, inalienable, and sacred rights of man, so that this declaration, being ever present to all the members of the social body, may unceasingly remind them of their rights and duties; in order that the acts of the legislative power, and those of the executive power, may at each moment be compared with the aim and of every political institution and thereby may be more respected; and in order that the demands of the citizens, grounded henceforth upon simple and incontestable principles, may always take the direction of maintaining the constitution and welfare of all.
In consequence, the National Assembly recognizes and declares, in the presence and under the auspices of the Supreme Being, the following rights of man and citizen:
Articles:
1. Men are born free and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be based only on public utility.
2. The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
3. The sources of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation; no body, no individual can exercise authority that does not proceed from it in plain terms.
4. Liberty consists in the power to do anything that does not injure others; accordingly, the exercise of the rights of each man has no limits except those that secure the enjoyment of these same rights to the other members of society. These limits can be determined only by law.
5. The law has only the rights to forbid such actions as are injurious to society. Nothing can be forbidden that is not interdicted by the law, and no one can be constrained to do that which it does not order.
6. Law is the expression of the general will. All citizens have the right to take part personally, or by their representatives, and its formation. It must be the same for all, whether it protects or punishes. All citizens, being equal in its eyes, art equally eligible to all public dignities, places, and employments, according to their capacities, and without other distinction than that of their virtues and talents.
7. No man can be accused, arrested, or detained, except in the cases determined by the law and according to the forms it has prescribed. Those who procure, expedite, execute, or cause arbitrary orders to be executed, ought to be punished: but every citizen summoned were seized in virtue of the law ought to render instant obedience; he makes himself guilty by resistance.
8. The law ought only to establish penalties that are strict and obviously necessary, and no one can be punished except in virtue of a law established and promulgated prior to the offense and legally applied.
9. Every man being presumed innocent until he has been pronounced guilty, if it is thought indispensable to arrest him, all severity that may not be necessary to secure his person ought to be strictly suppressed by law.
10. No one should be disturbed on account of his opinions, even religious, provided their manifestation does not upset the public order established by law.
11. The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man; every citizen can then freely speak, write, and print, subject to responsibility for the abuse of this freedom in the cases is determined by law.
12. The guarantee of the rights of man and citizen requires a public force; this force then is instituted for the advantage of all and not for the personal benefit of those to whom it is entrusted.
13. A general tax is indispensable for the maintenance of the public force and for the expenses of administration; it ought to be equally apportioned among all citizens according to their means.
14. All the citizens have a right to ascertain, by themselves or by their representatives, the necessity of the public tax, to consent to it freely, to follow the employment of it, and to determine the quota, the assessment, the collection, and the duration of it.
15. Society has the right to call for an account of his administration by every public agent.
16. Any society in which the guarantee of the rights is not secured, or the separation of powers not determined, has no constitution at all.
17. Property being a sacred to and inviolable right, no one can be deprived of it, unless illegally established public necessity evidently demands it, under the condition of a just and prior indemnity.
[Source: Frank Maloy Anderson, ed., The Constitution and Other Select Documents Illustrative of the History of France, 1789-1907 (New York: Russell and Russell, 1908), pp. 59-61.]
and so it goes,
GORD.
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