Open Letter to the Little Girl in the Yellow Sunday Dress
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Ezili Dantò's Response to Stu
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At least 10 people died and 20 were wounded Friday in a Un peace-keeping operation in Haiti's capita, Port-au-Prnce, a UN official said

"They came here to terrorise the population," said Rose Martel, a slum dweller, referring to the police and UN troops. "I don't think they really killed the bandits, unless they consider all of us as bandits." (regarding UN assault on Dec. 22, 2006 on Site Soley residents)- Reuters

Africa: In Solidarity with Site Soley by Jacques Depelchin
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Demand A stop to the foreigners violence in Haiti and the Release of all political Prisoners:
The UN Security Council sent UN troops to Haiti to support a coup d'etat against Haiti's duly elected government and President Aristide
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"...These poor people are being punished because they have the audacity to hold a huge MIRROR to the face of hypocrites who come to lecture them about democracy with machine guns in their hands....It is a KNOWN FACT that the POLICE IS A CORNESTONE OF THE KIDNAPPING INDUSTRY." Jean (Jafrikayiti) St. Vil speaking out on the December 22nd Massacre in Site Soley, Dec. 30, 2006

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Africa: In Solidarity with Site Soley by Jacques Depelchin
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With the 2004 bicentennial coup d'etat, the Western powers led by Bush-the-son, have re-established their dominance in Haiti. They have restructure the Haitian police with (more than 800 of) the former bloody Haitian officers, emptied the jails of criminals and put uniforms on them and called them "police."

This foreign-implanted Haitian cadre of "police," along with their UN guns, have created more chaos, more instability, more violence and committed more massacres against Haitian citizens than Haiti has seen since (Bush-the- father's) Cedras coup d'etat from 1991 to 1994. No! Since the first US Marine occupation of Haiti (1915-1934). This so-called "new” police and their paramilitary auziliaries such as Lame Timanchet, are responsible, since February 2004 for slaughtering peaceful demonstrators, shooting children, pregnant women, by-standers, journalists, and poor Haitians resisting the reoccupation, remilitarization of Haiti - young and old- and forms the cornerstone for the kidnapping reign of terror, that gives the UN and the neocolonials-internationals (Canada, US, France, Vatican) a pretext to maintain their Kosovo-like "protectorate" or endless "peacemaking" in Haiti. (See the Ottawa Initiative - on the International's plan for genocide in Haiti. At this meetings foreign ministers indicated Haiti's population would be over 20 million in 2019 and that was a "time bomb" ( white supremacy could, perhaps, not afford? Therefore had) to "defuse immediately.")

The UN and Internationals, with the complicity of the embedded mainstream media, are selling themselves to the world as "peacemakers" and "humanitarians" in Haiti. Yet, Haiti before their arrival was a more secure place for Haitians in general. The statistics don't lie.

In 2004, before the coup d’etat, when Haiti was free of foreign troops and tutelage, Haiti had roughly 3,000 appointed policemen, half of whom didn't have proper equipment or side arms to do their job because of the US's embargoes (arms and humanitarian aid) against Haiti's peoples and their elected government, which government these Internationals where trying to topple. Yet and still, even with roughly 3,000 police officers for the entire nation, the crime rate in Haiti was relatively small.

Today, almost 3 years after the Internationals took over Haiti by kidnapping its President, imposing Bush regime change with the Boca Raton regime from Florida, and the continuing coup-d’etat-power-grab under Preval, Haiti is more corrupt than ever. Foreign aid to the Boca Raton regime of over $965 million has gone missing and unaccounted for. Virtually no basic services were working in Haiti during the Boca Raton regime's two year tenure; literacy center, health clinics and most schools for the poor stayed closed. And, over $70 million to the still-in-place-under-Preval-Foreign-Ministry has also gone unaccounted for. In fact, Haiti in 2005 under the Neocon’s-Latortue regime was ranked as the most corrupt country in the World by Transparency International (TI), followed by Burma and Iraq.

Yet, Haiti now has been thoroughly militarized, with over 9,000 foreign soldiers on its soil, most of its former policemen were murdered during the foreign-sponsored and orchestrated Bicentennial coup d'etat in 2004, (3,000) criminals were let out of prison. Today, the national Penitentiary which has a capacity for only 800 prisoners, has over 2,000 prisoners, most of which have been in prison for over two years without formal charges or trial. Yet the criminals that were convicted before the coup d’etat and let out of prison by the foreign-agents in Haiti, these criminals and the former Haitian military (also granted ten years back pay by the Florida regime) are reincorporated in the current so-called Haitian "police" - which is the former US-supported bloody Haitian army in "police" mask, retrained by the UN/Canada/France/US to look after the neocolonial interests of these foreigners in Haiti. (See, Expose the Lies and Children's prison reflects Haiti's woes and Haitian Nights, Again: Haiti's Children Suffer More under the Bushes' policies and Colonial Regime changes.)

The US protested a tabulation error in the 2000 Legislative elections that made no difference as to the election outcomes and actually brought down the elected government of President Aristide for this so-called "corruption."

Yet, said US government itself, presided over Haiti for two years with its proxy Florida regime, and that Boca Raton regime is only known to Haitians for: its rank unconstitutionality; for promoting electoral fraud, actually burning ballots and dumping them in the garbage; for saddling Haiti with gross debts; signing off Haiti's sovereignty to the UN, World Bank and the IFIs; for illegally and amorally paying off the bloody Haitian military and those that brought it to power with ten years back pay for their "time off" when Haiti had duly elected authorities; for giving three years tax break to the richest; for cutting the minimum wage by almost half; for virtually enslaving the Haitian worker; and, in general, for making the lives of the poor majority in Haiti much more miserable and intolerable with massive imprisonments of political opponents, bloody massacres of demonstrators and other civilians, gross embezzlement, rape, pillage, blatant oppression and incompetence.

Haiti's majority want their freedom back and foreigners off their backs and a respect for Haitian right to govern themselves without the former slaveowners and colonizers reoccupying Haiti through a UN proxy and through the remobilized, disreputable Haitian military- now in the internationally-formed mask of “do-gooder police." The lies being extended about what is happening in Haiti today while tyrants dress up as “peacekeepers” and “police” are similar to the way, before the 2004 coup d’etat, the old Duvalierists where re-imaged with Group 184 as "civil society" by the Internationals in order to help give a trumped-up "legitimate" Haitian face and "broad base" approval to the foreign orchestrated and financed bicentennial coup d'etat. These lies must be exposed and the Internationals, UN and new mobilized Haitian death squads operating as "Haitian police" brought to light and justice. To that end, demands for an investigation of the UN slaughters in Haiti, of the fleecing of Haitian assets during the illegal tenure of the Florida regime and Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s bill H.R. 351, which is bill that proposes to establish the Independent Commission on the 2004 Coup D'Etat in the Republic of Haiti, should be supported.

In 2004 the corporate media’s half-truths, lies and propaganda about Haiti fostered the environment that made acceptable little official outrage over the ouster of Haiti’s Constitutional government. This embedded media had propped-up the fake group "184 civil society" in Haiti, as legitimate when they were no more than the same reactionary, Duvalierists, morally repugnant Haitian elites exploiting Haiti’s masses since the assassination of Haiti’s founding father.

These same elites, the so-called "ruling class" that have no class and have never been able to rule Haiti are again in power in Haiti as the black overseers for the foreign feudal lords in the US, France and Canada. (See, The legacy of impunity of one sector-Who Killed Dessalines? Petion/Gerin- the Insurgent Generals - under Petion and Boyer's long rule (37yrs), the name Dessalines was not allowed to be spoken
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/kangamundele.html#impunity and
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/dessalines.html )

This Group 184/'private sector'/civil society where fake civil society fronts with no large popular support because even with the 2004 coup d'etat, with all their political opponents in exile, dead, in hiding or in prison, even with all the odds on their side, and all the electronic advantages in their realm and the UN forces helping to “pacify” their opponents, they (Manigat/Baker) simply could not garner more than 8% to 12% of the Haitian vote in the Feb. 7, 2007 election, that brought back to power, President Rene Preval as a means to show support for the return of President Jean Bertrand Aristide.

Today with 9,000 UN troops in Haiti and 6,000-plus* fully-armed Haitians as “police,” (most high ranking Haitian officers are remobilized soldiers) - Haiti has the GREATEST crime and official violence rate its ever recorded in its whole 200-years HISTORY. And more daily massacres than its seen since the first bloody US military occupation of Haiti (1915-1934). The current “peacekeepers,” just like those US Marines of old from the first occupation "to secure democracy in Haiti," keep conducting “operations” to apprehend "bandits" and “criminals,” they say. That these "operations" are primarily to silence, simply execute, Haitian resisters to the foreign occupation is not to be uttered. (See the Lancet Report, Harvard Law School report on the UN in Haiti and The Small Arms Survey at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, which survey outlines how the rich minority, not the poor majority calling for the return of President Aristide ("bandits") own most of the weapons and small arms in Haiti. Most private gun ownership is concentrated in the hands of Haiti's wealthy bourgeoisie, and the University of Miami School of Law study.)

Yet, it's a known fact that in Haiti today the kidnapping networks are run by the very UN-coddled and protected, and Canadian-trained Haitian "police" and their death squad vigilante militias and paramilitaries. With Lame Timanchet, which is nothing less but the newly-formed-by-foreigners'-FRAPH paramilitary running freely; with Guy Phillip, a known saboteur, assassin, and even a DEA accused drug-trafficker roaming Haiti and bold enough to even run for President of Haiti under the Florida regime's reign; with Louis Jodel Chamblain and Jean Tatoune at large, and high ranking Haitian military in power positions, it is no surprise that the wishes of the people of Haiti are effectively countered and the UN uses the corruption it has strummed in Haiti as a reason to stay in Haiti "perpetually" to "secure" things and continue putting a target on Haitian resisters backs as “bandits,” “kidnappers” and even as “terrorists” and “human traffickers.” All, in the effort to discredit Haitians, to minimize Haiti’s historic feats against the white settlers, enslavers and colonists, to continue to isolate Haiti’s peoples in order to fleece the country of its unexploited resources (natural gas, coltran, iridium, gold mines, underwater treasures), while undermining the Haitian peoples’ ability to govern themselves and painting themselves and rewriting history, and reinforcing their own myths as the “do-gooders” and “civilized” and democratic white saviors.....

To Haitians, this horrific international crime going on against a defenseless Haitian population, the most hated and feared folks in the Caribbean, seems easily covered up and discounted. So-called “decent folks” simply turn away from the depravity of the Internationals hidden behind their empty humanistic talk.

Meanwhile, Haitians are facing and experiencing extermination, humiliation, daily UN terror, rapes and police terror, in addition to the brutality of a sleuth of opportunistic common criminals embolden by the chaos, and for some, the harsh economic depravities, who are presented with the ever-useful and readily accepted fall-guy to blame - the "Lavalas" and/or "gangs in Site Soley" scapegoats.

If the Ottawa Initiative is to be taken seriously, Haiti’s population, that is, Haiti’s BLACK population must not be allowed to grow, according to the Ottowa Initiative's white supremacists ideologies and as reiterated by Canada's FOCAL group report, and UN consultant and US State Departnment prodigy, Johanna Mendelson who takes every opportunity and public conference to stress how Haiti is "a menace to its neighbors." (See also, Coincidence or Intentional? - Is there an International plan to depopulate and exterminate a large portion of Haiti's population?)

Thus, it is no surprise that no strenuous objections are heard from these Internationals as their foreign-sponsored UN troops rape Haitian girls and women on a daily basis, to help perhaps, create a new class of Haitians? A more “lightened” and “white” Haitian majority? A culturally confused Haitian, in the manner of the Sudan rape campaigns by the enslaving Arabs? (See, 'We Want to Make a Light Baby'- Arab Militiamen in Sudan Said to Use Rape as Weapon of Ethnic Cleansing; Sudan: Rape as a Military Weapon By Eric Reeves,)

Perhaps this apparent international project in Haiti, this diabolical "Black" cleansing project in Haiti, as expressed by the Ottowa Initiative and as so-far experienced by Haitians since the 2004 coup d'etat and the occupation of Haiti, could garner the successes Argentina had in "whitening" Argentina by deliberately getting rid of 30% of its Black population more than a hundred years ago.....

- Stop the genocide in Haiti
Sign Petition demanding UN leave Haiti
UN : MINUSTAH - OUT OF HAITI
SAY NO TO THE HAITIAN GENOCIDE BY THE UN SOLDIERS
SAY NO TO THE HOLOCAUST AGAINST THE HAITIAN PEOPLE!
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stoptheholocaust

- See Expose the lies

- The Legacy of Impunity
(The Neocolonialist inciting political instability is the problem. Haiti is
underdeveloped in crime, corruption, violence, compared to other nations)

"Political security is Haiti biggest problem. It is this political instability that is primarily responsible for the legacy of impunity, endemic poverty and violence in Haiti. This political instability is due to what HLLN calls neocolonialism - the diplomatic, military and economic efforts of the former colonists and enslavers, who with their black opportunists in Haiti, work feverishly to limit Haitian independence and sovereignty, binding Haiti to endless foreign debt, dependency and domination....

- Write your Congressional representatives ask they Support Congresswoman Barbara Lee's H.R. 351: To establish the Independent Commission on the 2004 Coup d'Etat in the Republic of Haiti

*Revised from "over 4, 500"-member police to 6,000-plus) on Feb. 2, 2007 (See, US. Haiti join to fight gang violence by Pablo Bachelet; some reports put the figure at 7,000)

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Haitian Nights, Again: Haiti's Children Suffer more under the Bushes' policies and Colonial Regime Changes by Ezili Dantò (See, Haitian Nights, the performance poetry piece)

In 1991 Bush-the-father sponsored a coup d'etat against Haiti's elected government and more than 7,000 Haitians were slaughtered by Cedras' army and Toto Constant's FRAPH. Back then I wrote Haitian Nights, the performance poetry piece.

In an encore performance, Bush-the-son sponsored a second coup d'etat on February 29, 2004 against President Aristide to complete his father's unscrupulous initiative, masterfully trading on racist fears and the image of the US being utterly uninterested in resourceless Haiti. By heavily trading on its "integrity card" and skillfully edited half-truths the US sold the gullible but well-programmed American public on cruel lies about a Black country - that is, President Aristide's "lost popular support" because he was a bad and vastly "corrupt" leader whose wilful neglect of the plight of the Haitian poor led to a "popular uprising that ousted Aristide." Such lies were par for the course for a U.S. government that had also sold the public on the Iraq war with the "weapons-of-mass-destruction" big lie.

The 2004 coup detat in Haiti was preceded by a media coup d'etat which portrayed the foreign-supported, McCain/IRI-created-Haitian-oppositon, as a legitimate and broad-based "civil society" and not just the same-old-same authotarian Duvalierist/macoute/bourgeois despotic forces (acting as agent for the neocolonialists) that the Haitian majority have been struggling to overcome since 1806 and by other skillfully edited half-truths the public were fed ad nauseam in mainstream newspapers. For instance, the corporate media would "mistake" the 2000 trumped up charges of a "contested" parliamentary elections with the 2000 uncontested Presidential election of Aristide and switch them, so that magically Aristide's 2000 elections was reported by many, including the powerful New York Times as "flawed" and "contested." The retractions for the "errors" where never as prominently displayed as the lies. ( http://www.haitiaction.net/News/NYT.html ; and The Washington Chimères Reloaded by Ezili Dantò. )

In essence, newspapers like the New York Times distorted reality, emboldened Haiti's undemocratic forces at defining moments, encouraging coup d'etat thugs and kidnappers, and decisively pushed the Bush-State-department-narrative-on-Haiti by labeling, for instance, the millions President Aristide addressed during the January 1, 2004 bi-centennial as a "small crowd." ( http://www.haitiaction.net/News/NYT.html.) And when, for instance, the New York Times finally wrote on an angle outside of the Neocon-narrative, it simply put all the blame for the 2004 coup d'etat on Haitian overseer, Stanley Lucas' providing "mixed signals" and completely ignored his US bosses including Ambassador Foley, Senator John Mc Cain, Timothy M. Carney, IFEs, USAID and the Haiti Democracy Projects' other powerful Republican benefactors. (See, Mixed U.S. Signals Helped Tilt Haiti Toward Chaos By WALT BOGDANICH and JENNY NORDBERG, New York Times, January 29, 2006).

Back in January, 2005 when "Mixed U.S. Signals Helped Tilt Haiti Toward Chaos" made the New York Times front page, I wrote, for HLLN that:
"The New York Times article is a start, it at least gives a launching point for more interest in the US corrupting role in Haiti amongst the general world population who customarily take Times coverage as gospel. However, it is also very misleading, even racists, in that it merely scapegoats a Haitian, (Stanley Lucas) working for the State Department, and not the Bush State Department itself or even IRI chairperson, as the primary culprit to undermining Haiti's democracy with Bush regime change. This Haitian-on-Haitian violence line is still used to keep the truth at bay and make non-blacks, like Dean Curran, heroes. (See New York Times should apologize to Haitians for untruths By Ezili Dantò, and New York Times editorial "No help for Democracy" falls short by Ezili Dantò )

Thus, from 2004 through to today, the brutal Western-sponsored Haitian nightmare continues, goes virtually un-reported. The world doesn't seem to want to know that under Bush-the-son's Haiti-regime-change, starting with Gerard Latortue's Boca Raton government held up with UN occupation forces and the embedded corporate media's indifference and outright support, Haiti has been turned into a (penal) colony for Haitian children, for Haiti's people.

In fact, Duvalier's bloody Fort Dimanche dungeon-of-death are back in business with a children's prison in Haiti for the first time in Haitian history. Raoul Cedras, Toto Constant, Guy Phillip, the Duvaliers and Gerald Latortue, all were thugs and assassins financed and held up and kept in power in Haiti, over the protest of the majority of Haitians, by the Western powers led by the US. This pattern continues today as Andre Apaid's brother was given charge of the electoral machines presumably for the Apaid family's successful role in giving a plausible "Haitian-facade" to Bush regime change in Haiti. Most of the unelected officials, foreign collaborators and traitorous mindsets who were put in place by the US-imposed Boca Raton regime in 2004, including its foreign ministry, are still in place today, either through Apaid-run parliamentary, municipal and local "elections," or, are still holdovers without Constitutional confirmation under the Preval/Alexi government. The Haitian Constitution requires the President to submit his slate of ambassadorships and diplomats for parliamentary hearings and confirmation of diplomatic post. But in view of the great efforts it took for the people of Haiti to force the coup d'etat forces to declare Preval the rightful winner of the 2006 Presidential elections, it is no wonder folks in the know say that the Preval/Alexi government remains mum on much that touches on the will of the majority of Haitians for fear of inciting the wrath of Empire, and being labeled "pro-Lavalas," that is, pro-Haitian-people, instead-of, "pro-private-sector!"

Nothing is as frightening as the night facing Haiti's children under this current foreign occupation. When the US marines where in Haiti back in 1915-34, they practically brought back slavery with the corvee. Today, under the UN, Duvalier's infamous Fort Dimanche prison, the "dungeon of death," is back in business. (See, " Forgive - Do not Forget Fort-Dimanche: Dungeon of Death by fordi9.com - http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/fortdimanche.html ). Haitians estimate that over 14,000 innocent Haitians have been slaughtered since the 2004 Bush regime change. There are over 3,000 political prisoners currently incarcerated in Haitian jails while Haiti is under UN tutelage and the US/France/Canada are heralding to one and all how Haiti is now much better off than under the "tyrant" Aristide.

There's so much to say, I never know where to begin. No words I can write suffices. How can one explain how devastating it is to know that little 6-year olds, little 8-year old Black Haitian boys are not free but are "State property" again, and on Dessalines' land! I don't know what to say.

So I copy below "Open Letter to the Little Girl in the Yellow Sunday Dress" written in 2002 and dedicate it to the young Haitian boys warehoused in Fort Dimanche right this minutes, in UN-occupied Haiti, some for over two years and not much older than 6-years old. (See, "Children's prison reflects Haiti's woes", "Haiti's Lost Boys," Slavery on the New Plantation, American Torture Chamber: A Report on Today's Prisons and Jails, Part 1 and Part 2 by Kiilu Nyasha, Guest commentator, The Black Commentator, Feb. 15, 2007, Turning Haiti into a (Penal) Colony: Criminalization of Haiti's Children, Record 7 million Americans in Justice System; Cops: America's #1 employment agency goes headhunting, and Africa: In Solidarity with Site Soley by Jacques Depelchin.)

In its entire 200-year history, Haiti never had a child prison until Bush-the-Lesser's 2004 regime change. And, not satisfied with the US's centuries of death and containment-in-poverty policies, fatigued at the constant rebellion against their brutal tyranny, now the white domination attempts to silence the men of Haiti by warehousing them early, at practically infancy, criminalizing poverty, so that when the predator mindset is firmly inculcated in these boys of Haiti, then who will object to containing such lifelong criminals behind bars? "Bandits," and "terrorists" may "morally" be indefinitely detained in prisons and/or summarily executed, exterminated by the UN-"law-and-order"-forces or the Haitian faces of neocolonialism. I mean everyone is against crime, right?

What's critical to recall and tell to all is that Haiti did not have a prison-for-profit culture, nor a kidnapping-for-profit epidemic combined with a system of indefinite detention without a hearing or trial, until the US/Canada/France brought it to Haiti from 2004 to now. (See, Slavery on the New Plantation, American Torture Chamber: A Report on Today's Prisons and Jails, Part 2 of 2 by Kiilu Nyasha, Guest commentator, The Black Commentator, Feb. 15, 2007 ; "...From 1995 to 2003, inmates in (U.S.) federal prison for drug offenses have accounted for 49 percent of total prison population growth..." Record 7 million Americans in Justice System )

The game is old. And Haitians are not neophytes at it. The schemes and the perfidy of tyrants, despots and sadists, who dress themselves up as "peacemakers," "abolitionists" or "humanitarians" are as old to us as the Triangular trade they kept up.

Back in 2002 when "Open Letter to the Little Girl in the Yellow sunday Dress" was written, it struck a deep chord and Haitians throughout the Diaspora and in Haiti wrote to thank Ezili Dantò and to say how well it reflected their general sentiments.

Nothing is as frightening as the fury of US empire builders intent on corralling all the world's wealth, resources and power and blaming their victims as the "thugs," "bandits," "terrorists," "criminals," and sociopaths that they themselves have no peer at emulating or in originating.

The thing is, it's all been written and said (See also the references below). Yet the world refuses to change for the better. Officialdom has convinced the public that their projected fears are real. That the victims of Empires' brutality are the real sociopaths not the three-piece-suited neocolonialists and their agents. Not many want to rise above these lies because it's not comfortable living outside the box and having to face the unremitting wrath and inhumanity of Empire.

The truth is harsh and uncomfortable. Not many want to understand or even imagine why the immensely privileged - the richest country in the world - would attack, wage total clandestine war on one of the poorest countries in the world. It is well nigh impossible to rationalized how the world superpowers could be so calculatingly cruel, so unbearably malevolent, so revoltingly spiteful as to carry forth two coup d'etats against the first popularly and democratically elected Haitian President of impoverished Haiti. I mean the US is rich, virtuous, genuine and honorable, right? Not cold-bloodedly conniving, arbitrary, manipulative and vengeful, right? That is what all "educated folks" know, are told by our good schools, right?

I've been trying to locate this quote from CLR James where he says the systemic and horrid cruelties of the privilege far, far surpass those brief moments of rage of their victims. (The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James). The point though is fairly indisputable in the history of Haiti/US-Euro relations.

The US-Euro governments and neocolonial powers have dished out unremitting terror and inhumanity throughout the globe in their quest for geopolitical and economic domination. To that end, poverty has been criminalized, the addict victims of the drug trade criminalized and, in the US alone, a record 7 million people are in the justice system-- one in every 32 American adults -- were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of 2006, according to the Justice Department. From 1995 to 2003, inmates in (U.S.) federal prison for drug offenses have accounted for 49 percent of total prison population growth." (See, Slavery on the New Plantation, American Torture Chamber: A Report on Today's Prisons and Jails, Part 2 of 2 by Kiilu Nyasha, Guest commentator, The Black Commentator, Feb. 15, 2007; Record 7 million Americans in Justice System) . The US' "war on drugs" is more aptly described as the war against young Black U.S. males.

The Bushes', father and son, have helped turn Haiti back into a (penal) colony with two coup d'etats against President Aristide and a Kosovo-like UN protectorate or endless "peacekeeping." (See, Larry Rosin, Head of UN Kosovo Protectorate Moves to Haiti - Veye Yo by Ezili Dantò). The US has done as it does to Black folks in the US: criminalized Haiti's children and incarcerated dissent by criminalizing the dissenters and victims of Imperialism's neoliberal death-and-destruction economic policies. So the people of Site Soley suffer, die mercilessly. Haiti's small children suffer, are now placed in dank prisons early to feed the prison-culture the Westerners want to inculcate into Haiti in order to keep Haiti contained-in-poverty while giving US "reform" contractors another easy permanent income stream, just as the prison-culture in the US provides for corporate America and bankrupt white towns in U.S. hinterlands.

There's no mainstream journalistic "exposè" centering on the U.S. governments' crime-against-humanity being perpetrated in Haiti, its peoples. None. So I write, from this Haitian body and soul, to witness and engraft their despotism even though it's almost intolerable to have to continually dissect how the Haitian people are evidently deemed, by these-powers-that-be, as worthless and disposable; how we are the most hated of peoples in the Western Hemisphere because of Dessalines' revolutionary legacy, because we won't quietly allow for our re-enslavement and re-colonization.

Still, for Haitians, there's nothing to do but live free or die. So we fight on, from one generation to the other, leaving behind a legacy that will someday- when the history of humankind is duly recorded - outshine the repulsive legacies being written today in action and inaction by the New York Times' "journalists", the Bushes' "humanitarian" crusaders and their ilk.

Pointing out the manipulative, blood curdling death-policies of the U.S. government in Haiti, the disinformation of its mainstream media or the dependency policies of both the Left and Right-angled and self-described "humanitarian" foreigners involved in Haiti, is not too clever or healthy since it opens one up to the stresses, alienations and dangers of being labeled "anti-American" or worst, "anti-white." I touch on part of this in the last sentences of Open Letter to the Little Girl in the Yellow Sunday Dress when I wrote: "...Be smarter than me. Don't let them see. Smile. Be who you are without wanting to set them to the fires they lay you in, eternally. Don't hit your head against Satan's iron will little Haitian girl. Let me."

In the world we inhabit, CNN reporters, US ambassadors and their cuddled Black overseers herald known thugs, assassins and human rights abusers in Haiti as "freedom fighters" - remember how Wolf Blitzer characterized Guy Philippe on TV as he was murdering innocent Haitians in 2004, or how Latortue and Ambassador Foley called the coup detat commandos "freedom fighters." That's just simply the way of the US drones who are merely doing what's necessary to keep their jobs. Ours, is to make a way out of no way and set our little children, our people free.

(To read a sample of some of the reactions to Ezili Dantò's "Open Letter to the Little Girl in the Yellow sunday Dress" and Ezili Dantò's "Response to Stu", click on: http://winterludes.net/talk/139.html.

The "Response to Stu" from WindowsonHaiti Readers reactions to the Poem is also copied below.)

Marguerite 'Ezili Dantò' Laurent
Chair and Founder, Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN)
March, 2007

Reference Notes:
Haitian Nights, the performance poetry piece
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/writings/Haitiannights.html

Turning Haiti into a (Penal) Colony:
Criminalization of Haiti's Children

The systemic criminalization of black males in Haiti by the Haiti's
US-imposed Miami government parallels U.S. habits
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/damocles.html

Slavery on the New Plantation, American Torture Chamber: A Report on Today's Prisons and Jails, Part 2 of 2 by Kiilu Nyasha, Guest commentator, The Black Commentator, Feb. 15, 2007

"...From 1995 to 2003, inmates in (U.S.) federal prison for drug offenses have accounted for 49 percent of total prison population growth..." Record 7 million Americans in Justice System

Cops: America's #1 employment agency goes headhunting By Jane Stillwater http://blogspot.com

Tyrants and Despots in Haiti dressed-up by the Internationals (Neocolonialists) as peacemakers and police cleansing Haiti of "terrorists" and "bandits": The UN Security Council sent UN troops to Haiti to support a coup d'etat against Haiti's duly elected government| http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/despots.html#despots

Children's prison reflects Haiti's woes
By Manuel Roig-Franzia | The Washington Post, March 8, 2007
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/despots.html#children

The Crucifixion of Emmanuel "Dread" Wilme by U.N. Troops: A historical
perspective by Marguerite Laurent| Haitian perspective | April 21, 2005

The Legacy of Impunity: The Neoconlonialist inciting political instability is
the problem. Haiti is underdeveloped in crime, corruption, violence, compared
to other nations by Marguerite Laurent, Haitian Perspectives, October 30, 2006
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/impunity.html

Expose The Lies Of The International Community About Haiti, its People and
Resources. Demand The International Coup Detat Countries (France/US/Canada) and enforcers (UN/OAS) not President Rene Preval, Set all the political prisoners free, end the UN military occupation, began a Humanitarian and true civil exchange with Haiti; And Return Stolen Haitian Assets
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/expose.html


Dessalines Is Rising!!
Ayisyen: You Are Not Alone!
Join HLLN's Free Haiti Movement. Plan on sponsoring a May 18, Aug. 14,
July 6 and/or Oct 17th Haiti event in 2007
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/solidarityday/infoforsponsors.html


Ezili Dantò's comments on the Peter Hallward's interviews of Ben Dupuy and
President Aristide
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/dupuy.html#tootolerant

Answers to media questions about Haiti by Marguerite Laurent, Esq.
Chair, The Haitian Lawyers Leadership, March 2, 2004
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/sfbayview.html

Shocking Lancet Study: 8,000 Murders, 35,000 Rapes and Sexual Assaults in Haiti During U.S.-Backed Coup Regime After Aristide Ouster
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/31/144231

We Will Fight From One Generation to the Next: Remembering Genevieve 'Kòkòt' Laguerre, her living legacy, Remembering a proud Haitian Continuum | Sept. 9, 2006

Haitians must look outwards together!
Define the current pressing issues of Haiti for ourselves
by Ezili Danto
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/kokot.html#outwards

Open Letter to the Little Girl in the Yellow Sunday Dress
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/writings/littlegirl.html


Ezili Dantò's Response to Stu
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/despots.html#stu


Larry Rosin, Head of UN Kosovo Protectorate Moves to Haiti - Veye Yo" by Ezili Dantò |http://haitiforever.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=14292&sid=
601ad46a20b62d8a5385b6f1453594bd#14292


Mixed U.S. Signals Helped Tilt Haiti Toward Chaos By WALT BOGDANICH and JENNY NORDBERG, New York Times, January 29, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/international/americas/
29haiti.html?ex=1296190800&en=803d683287507b6f&ei=5089New


New York Times should apologize to Haitians for untruths By Ezili Dantò
http://haitiforever.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=13593&sid=
601ad46a20b62d8a5385b6f1453594bd#13593


New York Times editorial "No help for Democracy" falls short by Ezili Dantò, February 3, 2006 http://haitiforever.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=
13664&sid=601ad46a20b62d8a5385b6f1453594bd#13664

What White People Feed on is not so eye opening, just typically parasitic, fearful, self-serving, narcissistic and delusional: Ezili Dantò Responding to two racest articles on Haiti

Hochschild's Neo-Colonial Journalism. Response to Adam Hochschild article in SF Chronicle by Marguerite Laurent, May 30, 2004
http://www.ishmaelreedpub.com/june_2004/art_6_04_laurent.htm

Napoleon was no Toussaint: Spare us the insult! by Jean Saint-Vil (Jafrikayiti)
http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/dupuy.html#spareus

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Africa: In Solidarity with Site Soley by Jacques Depelchin
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Report: 7 million Americans in justice system
One in every 32 U.S. adults behind bars, on probation or on parole in 2005
Kasie Hunt/Associated Press |Friday, December 1, 2006

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15960666/

WASHINGTON — A record 7 million people - one in every 32 American adults - were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year, according to the Justice Department.

Of those, 2.2 million were in prison or jail, an increase of 2.7 percent over the previous year, according to a report released Wednesday.

More than 4.1 million people were on probation and 784,208 were on parole at the end of 2005. Prison releases are increasing, but admissions are increasing more.

Men still far outnumber women in prisons and jails, but the female population is growing faster. Over the past year, the female population in state or federal prison increased 2.6 percent while the number of male inmates rose 1.9 percent. By year's end, 7 percent of all inmates were women. The gender figures do not include inmates in local jails.

"Today's figures fail to capture incarceration's impact on the thousands of children left behind by mothers in prison," Marc Mauer, the executive director of the Sentencing Project, a Washington group supporting criminal justice reform, said in a statement. "Misguided policies that create harsher sentences for nonviolent drug offenses are disproportionately responsible for the increasing rates of women in prisons and jails."

From 1995 to 2003, inmates in federal prison for drug offenses have accounted for 49 percent of total prison population growth.

The numbers are from the annual report from the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics. The report breaks down inmate populations for state and federal prisons and local jails.

Racial disparities among prisoners persist. In the 25-29 age group, 8.1 percent of black men - about one in 13 - are incarcerated, compared with 2.6 percent of Hispanic men and 1.1 percent of white men. And it's not much different among women. By the end of 2005, black women were more than twice as likely as Hispanics and more than three times as likely as white women to be in prison.

Certain states saw more significant changes in prison population. In South Dakota, the number of inmates increased 11 percent over the past year, more than any other state. Montana and Kentucky were next in line with increases of 10.4 percent and 7.9 percent, respectively.

Georgia had the biggest decrease, losing 4.6 percent, followed by Maryland with a 2.4 percent decrease and Louisiana with a 2.3 percent drop.

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COPS: America's #1 employment agency goes headhunting By Jane Stillwater http://blogspot.com

My young friend Nathan just got out of juvie after having just turned 18. "So. Nathan. What are you going to do next? Go to community college? Get a job? What have you got in mind for the rest of your life?"

Well, it appears that Nathan had already been making long-term plans and already had his eye on a full time job -- and not just any mere stop-gap employment gig either. What Nathan had in mind was a whole big CAREER. It seems that during all of those childhood years he had spent in brat camps, so-called behavior modification programs, group homes and juvenile halls, Nathan had been developing a finely-tuned set of skills and now he was ready to begin a life-long career that would not only allow him to put those skills to use but to be provided with life-time job security too!

"Last week," Nathan boasted, "I was gang-banging with my homies and the Albany cops busted us and sent us to jail." Oh, Nathan. Oh no.

"You shoulda seen me out at Rita." Santa Rita is the local county jail. "I was so cooool. Some dude come up to me and asked me was I gonna be in his gang." Apparently the name of his gang was the Woods. "I told him no, no way! Then he gets all up in my face and I get all up in his face and...." Oh great.

Apparently, a Wood is prison slang for a peckerwood. Did I really need to know that?

"At Rita, the black guys hang out with the black guys and the white guys hang out with the white guys. And this guy wasn't sure what I was because I looked white but talked black." Nathan, the new Eminem. "I ain't like that, but at Rita you don't get no choice. So once I understood the situation, I was all good."

Yes indeed. After spending the last five or six years of his childhood learning how to fit into the "institutional lifestyle" without getting jumped too often, Nathan definitely had skills. Our Nathan had found his calling all right. He was ready. He was trained. He was a specialist. And he had discovered the exact place where he could put all his well-honed job skills to work -- the California Department of Correctional Facilities. In a flash, I saw the hand-writing on the wall. Nathan was going to be spending the rest of his life in jail.

HOW'S THAT FOR JOB SECURITY!

"Then," Nathan continued, "they dropped all the charges and I got out." But not for long. Three days later, Nathan was back in jail. And will probably be there for the rest of his life. I guess that he just can't resist the PERKS!

America has the highest jail population in the world. Something like one in every 32 American adults is now in jail, on probation or on parole. That's seven million people on the prison employment fast track!

So. The next time you watch COPS on television, don't just see all those police patrol officers as cops out arresting bad guys. Think of them as employment agency headhunters -- using the latest recruitment techniques!

PS: It is a sad commentary on the economic viability of America today that, for all too many of us, the top job you can get -- with the best health plan, the best housing perks, the best working conditions and the best job security -- is as an inmate in jail. It's not as dangerous as meat-packing, not as tedious as stoop labor in the fields and definitely more secure than being homeless and unemployed.

Source: Forwarded by email

(See also Slavery on the New Plantation, American Torture Chamber: A Report on Today's Prisons and Jails, Part 2 of 2 by Kiilu Nyasha, Guest commentator, The Black Commentator, Feb. 15, 2007)

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"When you make a choice, you mobilize vast human energies and resources which otherwise go untapped...........If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want and all that is left is a compromise." Robert Fritz

Pèralte Speaks!

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The
Crucifiction of Emmanuel "Dread" Wilme,
a historical
perspective

Urge the Caribbean Community to stand firm in not recognizing the illegal Latortue regime: