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REMARQUABLES LEADERS ET ÉVOLUTION DU MONDE

PERSONNALITÉ ET LEADERSHIP NE SONT PAS DES TERMES SYNONYMES

LETTRE OUVERTE AU PRÉSIDENT BONIFACE ET AU PREMIER MINISTRE LATORTUE POUR LE MAINTIEN DU PROCESSUS DÉMOCRATIQUE EN HAITI

LETTRE OUVERTE À PIERRE PAQUIOT POUR LE MAINTIEN DU PROCESSUS DÉMOCRATIQUE EN HAITI

THE CITIZEN PAGE: THE FREE MIND

THE PATH TO ANARCHY

LETTRE OUVERTE À PATRICK ÉLIE POUR LE MAINTIEN DU PROCESSUS DÉMOCRATIQUE EN HAITI

LETTRE OUVERTE AU PRÉSIDENT ARISTIDE POUR LE MAINTIEN DU PROCESSUS DÉMOCRATIQUE EN HAITI

LETTRE OUVERTE A LA RADIO TROPICALE POUR LA RESTAURATION ET LE MAINTIEN DU PROCESSUS DÉMOCRATIQUE EN HAITI

LETTRE OUVERTE À LA RADIO TROPICALE ET AU D^R. REGINALD BOULOS POUR LE MAINTIEN DU PROCESSUS DÉMOCRATIQUE EN HAÏTI

C0MMENTAIRES SUR UNE ÉMISSION DE RADIO TROPICALE DE LA SOIRÉE DU 17 OCTOBRE 2004, A L'OCCASION DE L'ANNIVERSAIRE LA MORT DE DESSALINES

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THE EVOLUTION, THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE GIFT OF BLOOD

Sorry for those who want to kick out of the world the evolution, since it is inexorable. It is the law of Nature and will happen anyway and aywhere when the conditions are favorable. As for the United Nations and the gift of blood, they may be happier, but.... If somebody thinks they are useless to humanity, he is deeply wrong. (These lines are not directed against any Church or any religious group, not even the Jehovah witnesses who have always been kind with me; they are only intended to show how much I beleiev in the usefulness of the United Nations, the evolution and the gift of the blood)

HUBLE SPACE MANIA OR THE HANDS OF GOD

Each new Huble Space telescope discovers more and more galaxies. While this sort of things may continue and give the scientists a better view of the universe and perhaps a better theory than the well accepted Big Bang, it will not save the human species from a more or less remote possibility of extinction. Only space travels may lessen the possibility of human extinction and I urge the government to shift the balance in favor of space travels. Whatever far our view of the Universe may go, we will not see the hands of God. The Huble Space mania may be renumerating to some people, it will not be so profitable, at long term, to the human species

THE IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION OF THE HISPANIC IMMIGRATION IN U.S. SOCIETY

Racial integration is not possible if it is not accompanied by social integration. After the victory of Martin Luther King for the Human Right Leagues and for social equality, the socio-economic integration of black Americans has remained difficult and the society remained divided on this aspect with a majority of blacks in the poor class and a majority of whites in the comfortable class. Affirmative action has been stopped by some whites who were anxious to preserve juridico-social equity but no anxious about economico-social equity and inequality. Sport and, in particular the violent sports where there exits some kinf of black supremacy (cf. Answers to the French Magazine Jeune Afrique), had too much a selective action to have contributed to the reduction of the major disparities between the two major racial groups situated at the antipodes of the American society. The immigration of white and South American metis , appeared, since, to have played like a social tampon between the blacks and the whites, having created more diversity in a society where the two major founding groups of this nation were "facing each other in a social battle".( This text has been written to please the Hispanic commnunity that I can get along with although I may have caused some displeasure to some Hispanic ladies)

THE EVOLUTION

The evolution theory is true and, now, those who say they do not believe in it either are ignorant and/or apprehensive people afraid of recognizing it, either are churches' impostors lying and trying to exploit human credulity. Let us know also that wealth is relative and that taxation is there not to favour the poors at the expenses of the riches, but, among other things, to fight poverty. It give sensible results, in matter of social discrepancies, when it is applied with a policy of population's control. Finally, let us, rich men, not try to get richer at the detriment of the poors and let us, human beings, not become the parasites of the earth bringing overpopulation's burden and destruction on it.

THE GODFATHER

Could I be an hyppocrite, going to the Church in the morning and living with crime - racketering, prostitution, money laundering, etc. - in the evening? While science does not recognize God I will try to keep the pace with it, but I do recognize the importance of the Church not only for the moral standard of a society but also for its general role in humanity.

SAINT JAMES THE MAJOR & THE HAITIAN MYTHOLOGY (THE VOODOO)

As I have explained to my American cousin Loise, there is nothing powerful in the month July than mythic popular beliefs, attached to the force of life on earth that is the sun. So what most cultures venerate during this month is the god "Sun." In Haiti, the Voodoo is a mixture of christanism and African polytheism, like it happened in Ethiopia¹. Saint James the Major is one of the major god (divinity) in the "honforts," the voodoo altars. Even if some people do not practice openly or covertly the voodoo, they still believe in the god like figure of Saint James the Major and vows him a special cult, together with other god-like figures, those at other periods of the year. In Haiti, Saint James the Major is also a warrior god, whose name has been attributed to the Haitian hero, Jean Jacques Dessalines who exterminated the white colonists in this country and freed this land for the slaves.

¹ In fact, everywhere in the world, it has been the same when different people integrate extrangeous religious beliefs into their local ones, even in Europe. Other things: Jesus of Nazareth has spoken mostly through parabols and has never claimed that he was the son of the Hebrew God, but that, like every man, he is the creature of God.

IS THERE ANY ADVANTAGE TO BE A MULATTOE?

In the human races, there is no major advantage or overall no advantage to be of one race than to be of another race. While, in regard to the sun rays, there is some advantage to be of the black race, it is mostly near the equator. In the cold hemisphere, the white skin complexion offers some advantage that is more visible for the wild animals leaving in a snowy environment. Since the white skin is also more sensitive to the sun rays, that might be also a benefit in regard to the metabolism of vit D and bone density. In U.S.A., for example, the blacks suffer more of bone problems than the whites, but if we eliminate the problems of lactose's intolerance, and the cause of poverty the difference can be "nil."

WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT AT SCHOOL, FOR YOU TO SUCCEED YOUR YEAR OR TO BE AT THE TOP OF THE CLASS?

When I was at school, one thing that was most important to the teachers is the order to which each pupil was placing himself with his marks. At the top of the class were the students with the highest marks who were getting their medaillons and at the bottom of the class were the students with the lowest marks. This was putting too much an emphasis on competition inside the classroonm like it was in school athletism and too little an emphasis on the success of each individual student in the classroom. The system that has resulted from this bad conception of the classroom is that the students at the bottom of the class had sometimes their marks raised to move at the next level and those who were in athletism could have either their notes raised, when they were performing well in their disciplines, or lowered, when their performance in athletism was bad. And this is to continue till the academic level, with sex replacing athletism.

THE TACTICS OF THE MOB TO RECRUIT NEWCOMERS IN THIS COUNTRY - IS THE MOB HARASSING ME?

If the mob is harassing you, do not hesitate, contact the FBI or by typing https://tips.fbi.gov/ and file a complaint.
The first step used by the MOB to recruit newcomers, in this country, is an usual one--the service of a prostitute, Dominican or Hispanic, Carribean or black, Thai or Asian and even East European or white (for the richer customers). As it has become more difficult to find a job in this advanced industrialized and now electronic or digitalized society (the world of the computers), the MOB has found a solid basis and an alibi. It will help you to find a job, provided that you comply to its rules and ideals. One of the first thing it is asking you to do is to accomplish a service or, in better words, to help it in "something." After that, you'll be able to find even a temporary job that will be more a thanks than a renumeration (the enslaved society). One service most praised and most needed by the MOB is to facilitate the introduction and the selling of the presently illegal drugs in this country (LSD, cocaine, even marijuana in some states, etc.). As the people becomme more and more addicted to theses drugs like they have been to alcohol in the time of the Prohibition and since many of them found that there is no wrongdoing by using those drugs as it is for smoking cigarettes and drinking alcoohol, the MOB has a solid alibi. To facilitate its wrondoings, the MOB is doing its best to infiltrate any sector of the society, like the goods' and services' one, the professional one and even the sport and leisure one. Any means to get richer is approved by the MOB (the racketerer's or the gambler' society) and professional conscience is only good words but impractical deeds. (Reserve a l'auteur)
Meanings of some abbrevations: FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation - DEA: Drug Enforcement Administration

CAPITALISME CLOCHARD VS DICTATURE DU PROLÉTARIAT

Le capitalisme est-il préférable au socialisme? Aucun système social humain n'est parfait, je le répète. Comme sytème économique, le capitalisme est dynamique du fait de la compétitivité qu'il engendre et serait préférable au socialisme qui, du point de vue économique, est lourd et incompétitif, pouvant conduire a la misère sociale et la révolution. Du point de vue social, le capitalisme peut se monter beaucoup moins humain et beaucoup plus primitif que le socialisme et, laissé sans contrôle, peut aboutir au chaos social. Le capitalisme ne doit pas être confondu avec la démocracie bien qu'il préconise le marché libre, et le socialisme est parfaitement compatible également avec celle-ci. Tout leader doit se montrer ecclectique et pliable, s'adaptant aux diverses situations du moment ou de son temps.

WAS CHRISTOPHORO COLUMBUS A MURDERER? Many blackmen and the influent Jamaican "reggaes" singers think that Colomb was a muderer. Indeed, the trip to the Americas of this skilled navigator has been an opportunity for a worldwide market of slavery of the black men and the slaughter of most of the Amerindians and of many black people. Colomb himself did not not always, or maybe at all, order this huge mass murder; it was ordered by the officers of the European kings and wished by the new and white colonists in order for them to get rid of the "savages" and take the "vacant" lands. But would the world have been better without Christoph Colomb? If no, he shall surely be excused, but if yes, this relatively uneducated man shall not be above the critics.

DOES SEX WITHOUT LOVE BRING LASTING SATISFACTION?

Yesterday, I was loooking at a front page of a cover-girl's magazine through the glass wall of a store. What hurted my mind was the impassible face of the girl; she was not smiling and let me think that she was there only for the business. Then, she reminded me a prostitute I knew in Martissan, Haiti, with the beautiful Greek name of Eunid. She, too, had a stern face and never smiled. While I was after her for a true love, she deceived me after having taken some money from me pretexting she needed it to make some modification in her room. People who do sex without love are like animals and even worse than them since, for those, sex is to serve the purpose of reproduction. Let not our materialistic society evolve in this direction and let us ask our cover-girl to keep smiling while posing. (This text was written, today, April 14, 2003; it is for Nefeti Shepperd, a smiling cover-girl on my desktop)

WHY WOULD THE INTERNATIONAL MOB BE USING INTERNATIONAL TERRORISTS?

First, let me make a point. Yesterday, I was buying at a Health Food Center nearby home, at the site once occupied by the Westerly Pharmacy. A French guy, probably an agent of the mob, came with his girl-friend. While I was looking at her speaking French, I heard the man saying that I am an idiot ("un con", in French). My answer to him is that I am not one of them because I have not had intercourse with French prostitutes and pimps, to have the favor of a C.E.G.E.P., (A similar experience has been lived with a German young couple at the J,Y, vegetable Corean market, at the corner of 8th Avre and 56th St., with te girl saying that I will be rejected, a few days before the invasion of Iraq, and that makes me think that Germany was prepared to oppose the U.S.) I did not go to Strasbourg to live but only to study. if this could not be done the only thing I had to do is to leave. Neither I will feel obliged to take any lady whether she belongs or not to an important fraction of the community nor will I feel obliged to believe in God or be in a special religious group to get a job.
     In a recent letter to the mayor, I have told him that I have the firm impression that the mob has used Osana bin Laden, the international Arab terrorist who has done it just for money. Terrorism for money is a little bit different from terrorism for patriotism since the "money" terrorist can work for a variety of causes and for a variety of promoters (The terrorist act, on March 11, 2004, in the metro of Madrid, Spain, duringthe rush hour, proved me to be correct). The reason that I think that the mob has used Mr. ben Laden^* are:

1. the World Trade Center has lodged a floor that fighted against drug dealers
2. Mayor Juliani has been a major problem to the dealers since, as an ancient prosecutor, he knew how to fight them effectively
3. destroying The World Trade Center and disturbing the peace of this nation will give them a respite so that they will be able to recuperate after Juliani
4. since the break down of the Soviet block and the end of the Cold War, and with the importation of illegal drugs cultivated in other countries, the mob has built up a huge international reputation and has grown tremendously
5. now, the mob has infiltrated or can infiltrate any social organisation with his numerous agents who can be either American citizen or immigrants
6. this was a tactic of diversion
7. finally, many people, here, have seemingly be aware of the incoming terrorist attack well before it happened
(posted May 13, 2003

LE PRINCE DE MACHIAVEL - LA POLITIQUE EST-ELLE UNE SALE AFFAIRE?

Ce texte a été écrit pour soulager les appréhensions de Nicole, une amie de la famille qui est pacifiste, et l'entretenir de la politique qui est, tout à fait différente de la science et de la morale.

Niccolò Machiavelli, un écrivain et un politicien italien, a vécu au 15ème siècle. Un de ses ouvrages majeurs - The Prince - qui ne peut pas être considéré comme un traité sur la philosophie et sur la politique est une caricature involontaire de la société de son temps et un texte romantique² sur la façon d'un leader de s'y prendre pour arriver à ses fins. Dans son livre, Machiavel a voulu montrer combien désuete et inapplicable est l'éthique en politique. Pour parvenir à ses buts dont le majeur fut l'unité de l'Italie, son héros, un prince, utilisa des moyens divers: guerres, assassinats politiques et empoisonnement de ses adversaires. Bien que je sois, à prime abord, antimachiavélique, j'avoue que les idées que Machiavel a dégagées en observant les hommes politiques de son temps ont fait leur chemin et, en particulier, dans des dictatures comme celles d'Hitler et de Staline, pour ne citer que celles-là. Dans une démocratie, par contre, de telles idées sont, en principe, inconcevables. Néammoins on y trouve, souvent, une alternance de chefs d'états qui veulent utiliser les moyens forts et d'autres qui sont trop timides dans leurs actes, la nature humaine étant ainsi faite.

A PROPOS DE L'ÉTHIQUE

L'éthique n'est pas la religion. Ce qui est inacceptable dans une religion peut être parfaitement être conforme aux codes de l'éthique. D'autre part, l'éthique s'applique aux codes locaux tout aussi bien qu'aux codes internationaux. Tout homme de science, tout médecin, par exemple, doit respecter les codes de l'éthique. Mentir, par exemple, pour s'assurer des faveurs, est innacceptable. Un autre exemple est qu'un avortement peut être tout a fait conforme aux lois de l'éthique mais être désapprouvé dans des religions. L'éthique n'est pas liée aux croyances divines comme les religions le sont et aucun homme qui observe les codes de l'éthique n'est obligé de croire en un dieu. La morale de l'éthique est souvent différente de celle de la religion, quoique toutes les religions incluent dans leur enseignement des principes de l'éthique. L'éthique n'est pas de la politesse, mais celle-ci et l'éthique ne sont pas incompatibles.

WHAT ARE ETHICS?³

Ethics is not religion. What is unacceptable in a religion can be perfectly compliant to the codes of ethics. Ethics applies to local codes just as well as to international codes. All man of science, all physician, for example, must respect the codes of ethics. Lying, for example, to ascertain favors, is unacceptable. Another example is that abortion can be all made compliant to the laws of ethics but only to be disapproven by some religions. Ethics is not bound to the divine beliefs as religions are and no man who observes the codes of ethics is obliged to believe in a god. The morals of ethics is often different from that of the religion, although all religions include in their teaching some ethics' principles. Finally, ethics is not politeness, but ethics and politeness are not incompatible.(posted this 05/23/03)

PATRIPOCHE VS PATRIOTE: HAITI EST-IL SUR LE BON SENTIER?

Beaucoup de méfaits en politique sont accomplis au nom de la cause, de la patrie, ou du peuple. Ces mots de ralliement ont servi souvent de prétexte pour l'assouvissemnt de plus viles intentions. Non seulement des dictateurs bien connus en ont fait un usage abusif, mais d'autres hommes politiques plus anondins les utilisent pour défendre le parti ou la cause. Le bon leader est celui qui sait faire preuve de magnanimité et qui accepte d'abandonner la cause lorsque celle-ci se prouve irréalisable et l'un des meilleurs moyens est de laisser le pouvoir. (posted this 05/23/03)

SHOULD THE RELIGIOUS LEADER STRIVE TO MAKE A DEAL?

Should compromise or diplomacy be part of the religious life? Theory and practice are two different things. What is teaching the theory may be sometimes impractical. However, making a law of this natural fact is not to be encouraged in the religious life. Perfection, indeed, is a goal that is worth to be tried. (posted this 05/4/04)

THE PATH TO ANARCHY

In the American Heritage Dictionary, anarchy is described as a state of political confusion and disorder. Most periods of anarchy have begun with the overthrow of a ruler and the subsequent ruin of the ruling class, the elitist class that has often been hold accountable for blocking the progress of a nation and the evolution of its lower social classes. Anarchy is not a necessity to social evolution and is to be avoided whenever this is possible. In a manuscript, "The Unconscious Motives of the Politico-Social Anarchy in Haiti", I have underlined one of the possible causes of the chronic political instability that this country has known since its independence. I have quoted the authoritarian trait and the relative lack of freedom of the people. Another cause may be the lack of strength of the ruling class. Throughout history, - whenever the ruling class has changed hands, it has often carried with it the money the country might have needed so badly to alleviate the misery of the lower classes and to improve the wealth of the nation.
   Haiti is a country which has had many violent revolutions much more than a country can afford itself if it wants continue to exist as an independent nation. The country is presently in ruin, can barely feed its own population and is mostly a vassal of the superpower - mostly France and United States - of the world.
   The bad story began in Haiti with the fight between two local leaders, Rigaud and Toussaint, who were to replace the colonial powers - France, Spain and Great Britain - which were also fighting each other for the control of the island. It has continued thereafter with a lot of violent events: foreign interventions, revolutions ad civil wars. Toussaint, a Franco-Haitian patriot who has been hold accountable for leading the slave revolt to a favorable ending, for the good of the colony, has been overthrown by a French army sent by Napoleon Bonaparte. The revolution that has followed has led to the massacres of the French colonists, has severed the link of this country to this former colonial power and has isolated the new nation from the rest of the world. Then a succession of revolts and civil wars have followed which has finally led to the flight of the best prepared elements of the nation - "the flight of the brains" - and the expatriation of most of the elitist class. The latter has now its assets mostly in European and North American banks and is unwilling to invest in a country marked by such an instability.
    When Father Aristide took power, nobody has doubted of its benevolent intentions, but the man was well known for his unpreparedness to lead a nation and for his frivolous character. Aristide, with his apparent charism, saw only the militaries as blocking the progress of the nation. Was he right or not is not a question of concern. His predecessor, Dr. Francois Duvalier, did not trust either the militaries and build a militia to held them at bay for the security of the government and the police of the nation. Father Aristide has disliked the terrifying militia, the "tonton macoutes", Duvalier has put in place, so he decided to rule with gangs' groups which were less powerful than an organized popular militia, but powerful enough to prevent a violent overthrow of his government, till anarchy prevailed and fight broke among those. Duvalier forced the elitist class to include more students of the lower classes in the professional schools, Aristide, who has been reluctant to use force, build new professional schools in this country that could not absorb most of the professionals it had formed, adding up to a confusion. Duvalier taxed the elite heavily to hold its administration and its social rule in place, Aristide ruled with perversion (voluntarily or involuntarily) and without a definite program of development, practicing a policy of laxness ("lesse grennen") of one of his predecessors.(posted this 05/16/04)

WAS PRESIDENT ARISTIDE PLAYING THE FOOL TO PILE UP, WITH HIS WIFE AS A PARTICIPANT OBSERVER, A FORTUNE UPON THE BACK OF HIS FELLOW CITIZEN OR WAS HE REALLY A FOOL?

With Psychonalysis and Client Centered Therapy, psychotherapy has become more and more a reality and has offered a more human approach to the therapy of the psychoses and lesser behavioral problems. The later one - Client Centered Therapy or Rogerian Therapy - asks for better communication between the therapist and the sick. It calls for empathy, a benevolent attitude of the therapist to be able to curb the sick behavior of the client (cf.: Dr. Qualo, R.; Impressions et Faits Cliniques: La technique Rogérienne - la thérapeutique centrée sur le client - et ses implications en médicine - deux cas amenables à la psychothérapie). It calls also for congruence, an attitude which puts the therapist in a position almost equal to the patient and asks the former to behave almost as a friend of the latter.
    So far I knew, father Aristide has been seen by some psychotherapists, once upon a time, during his reign. The concern was his bizarre behavior at San Juan Bosco church where he was a vicar and his imprudent language that was inconsistent with that of a man of the church. After father Aristide has been overthrown by a military push, he was in exile in the U.S. where he met, under the presidency of the democrat, Mr. William (Bill) Clinton, his future wife. Soon after this encounter, Mr. Clinton and the American congress pressed the Haitian militaries to step down and returned father Aristide to power in Haiti, seemingly being more sure of him and of his intentions not to turn against them, a sharp turn in their previous policy.
    However, it was a different administration, the precedent one having been that of the republican opponents. Nevertheless, there are serious concerns about changing abruptly the policy of a nation. Thus, I conclude that father Aristide was in good hands, those of his naturalized, American citizen wife and a former employee of the U.S. government. Father Aristide stopped delivering harsh speeches against the U.S.A. and his wife brought him two children. For a while, father Aristide was not in power, leaving the task to one of his closest associates, the social democrat and former student in communist Soviet Union Rene Preval. I wrote to Mr. Preval two times and he was kind to have answered me the first time.
   When father Aristide came back to power in this poor country which is Haiti, he, first, refused to bend to the demand of the electoral council which wanted to review parts of the voting process and has even menaced his leader, the judge Leon Manus with these words, "il y aura mort d'hommes," "there can be violence and killings if those votes are contested." What prompted the German ambassador to help Mr. Manus leave the country. I met Mr. Manus, in New York, at Ms. Georgette Bellefong's apartment and he looked to be a very poised and sincere person to my eyes.
   With a new administration, a republican one this time, the policy of the United States government changed again in regard to Haiti. General Colin Powell was named Secretary of state and was a friend of the deposed general Cedras at West Point. Father Aristide began, once again, giving signs of inflexibility and make a diplomatic blunder by pressing France to pay back the huge sum Haiti has paid to "her" to have it abandoned its claim for its former colony and have it recognized the small nation as a free and independent country. Recently, the new prime minister who replaced Aristide at the head of this nation said that he abandoned this claim but added that France has a duty in regard to their former colony. However, such an ethic cannot be accounted for since the former French colonists were all massacred by the Haitian army after the independence of this nation.
   Finally, father Aristide was overthrown by a powerful coalition made of his former associated gangs which turn against him, the opposition of the local elitist classes (students, professionals and businessmen), military rebel opponents who came from the U.S., and the neighboring Dominican Republic and political pressure from both the U.S. and French governments. However, before that, he shot his wife at the legs accidentally for some, voluntarily for those who know about the vodoo myths to which he has adhered after having being rejected by the Vatican and the local superiors of the Catholic church. He left the country in ruin but with a fortune within his hands.

LES APATRIDES AU POUVOIR - LES DIRIGEANTS HAITIENS ONT-ILS VRAIMENT TRAVAILLÉ POUR LEUR PAYS?

Est apatride celui qui lutte contre sa patrie ou vient en aide à un autre pays aux dépens des intérêts du sien. Ceci dit, voyons le comportement des dirigeants haïtiens et le résulat qui en est découlé. Un grand nombre de dirigeants haïtiens se sont comportés comme des leaders sans scrupule dont le seul but paraît avoir été l'assouvissement de leurs propres besoins, sans aucun souci pour celui de leurs concitoyens. Ils sont partis pleines les poches et ont laissé leur pays dans la plus grande pauvreté. Ils ont également placé leur fortune dans des banques étrangères bien avant leur départ et celle-ci a été souvent accumulée aux dépens des services admnistratifs de leur nation. Le résultat a été finalement de créer une anarchie chronique, économo-administrative et la dépendance extrême à l'égard de l'étranger. Il est, désormais, peu probable que ce pays puisse continuer à exister comme une entité indépendante dans une monde qui tend de plus en plus à la globalisation et ce pays est pour ainsi dire "à la vente aux enchères".

LES "CHIMÈRES" D'UN PRÉSIDENT HAÏTIEN, LE PÈRE JN B. ARISTIDE

Mr. Hubert de Ronceray, un franco-haïtien qui fut, une fois, candidat à la présidence a, souvent, mentionné le mot "chimères" en parlant du président Aristide. Mr. Deronceray a vécu, pendant longtemps, en France et je doute fort qu'il soit à court d'expressions. Beaucoup d'haitiens, du fait de leur langage courant qu'est le créole, identifie les "chimeres" aux partisans grincheux (chimérik, en créole), empressés de gravir l'échelon social mais n'ayant pas les qualifications requises. Néammoins, dans Le Petit Larousse Illustré, le mot "chimères" est défini, dans ce contexte, comme "des idées fausses" et "la vaine imagination". L'ethymologie du mot revient au grec où il signifie un dragon, un monstre fabuleux de la mythologie. J'avoue que l'emploi du terme par Mr. Deronceray a soulevé beaucoup de débats, a été sujet à plusieurs interprétations et prête à la confusion. Seraient-ce les partisans du président Aristide ces monstres, ces anarchistes dont Mr. Deronceray fait mention ou seraient-ce les idées fausses et les illusions dont Mr. Aristide se repaît? Je ne saurais le dire avant d'interviewer, de m'entretenir, personnellement, avec Mr. Deronceray. J'espère que ce jour viendra. (Posté ce 21 mai 22004)

SOME WORDS ABOUT THE THEOLOGY OF LIBERATION

I was introduced to the Theology of Liberation by the nephew of Mrg. Constant, in Haiti, who showed me the book of father Leonard Boff which I borrowed from him, for a while. I was somewhat disgusted by the point of view of father Boff that I found too radical, but when I red father Guchieriez which is more conservative, I got a better idea.
   Succinctly, the theology of liberation is this philosophy that call for the Catholics to fight the advance of Protestantism in America, by taking public, social actions and by getting closer to the poor, by listening to their claims.
   The big problem with this theology is the way some fervent leaders want to apply it to politics. Indeed, when it comes to the ruling of a nation or to public decisions that will affect the population of a country, the theology of liberation, because it calls for sectarism, is not applicable and any religious leader, if he is not an extremist, shall not pay attention to it. Being a Christian, I will say, let us apply the lessons of Christ and let us consider "all men as the sons of God" and fight sectarism. (Posté ce 22 mai 22004)

FIN AUX COMERAGES - LES CRITIQUES INJUSTIFIÉES DE MELLE. JACQUELINE THOMAS CONTRE MR. ANDY APAID DOIVENT CESSER - LE TEMPS EST À L'ENTENTE ET À LA RECONSTRUCTION, NON À LA DISCORDE ET AUX MANIFESTATIONS

Je ne connais pas très bien Melle. jacqueline Thomas, mais elle me connaît assez bien et est l'amie de la famille. Je m'excuse, dès lors, d'être venu à écrire cette note. Melle. Jacqueline Thomas irrite, maintenant, un bon nombre de ses auditeurs et je le dis en connaissance de cause. Mr. Andy Apaid n'est pas un révolutionaire, mais il paraît avoir conduit les manifestations antiviolentes qui ont conduit à la chute du président Aristide de façon systématique et à la manière de gens d'affaire ("businessmen"). Peut-être, a-t'il été payé, mais cela suffit. Mr. Andy Apaid est citoyen haïtien, que ses parents soient d'origine arabe ou non et je ne crois pas qu'il pense sérieusement à la présidence ou à quelque haute fonction publique. Je crois, d'ailleurs, aux valeurs individuelles et ne pense pas que tous les arabes sont similaires, tous les haïtiens sont pareils, tous les hommes sont des salopards, ou toutes les femmes sont des tripotières, etc.. Nous devons être redevable à Mr. Andy Apaid ou, du moins, lui faire cet honnneur de ne pas le critiquer, car, sans lui, le régime anarchique aurait pu, encore, être là. (posté ce 24 mai 2004)

LA PLATEFORME DÉMOCRATIQUE POURRA T-ELLE GAGNER FACE À SON OPPOSANT, AUX PROCHAINES ÉLECTIONS?

Après la chute du président Aristide, la "plateforme démocratique" formant, auparavant, un front uni se désintégra avec la montée de différentes tendances et la reconstruction de différents partis, Néammoins, le pouvoir Lavalas est encore très populaire et beaucoup d'haïtiens rêvent à l'Eldorado et à l'ascension sociale, facile. D'autre part, des intérêts étrangers, soit sous la forme de cartels multinationaux, soit sous celle de charisme et de fraternité, peuvent aider le "pouvoir Lavalas" et nous redonner le pouvoir anarchique, intérêts particuliers obligent. Le père Aristide est, au plus, un leader incompétent et n'est pas apte à diriger les destinées d'une nation. Il importe au pouvoir démocratique en place (à la "plateforme democratique") d'en prendre conscience et de ne pas se fractionner au point à permettre ce qui peut être une répétition qui ne sera qu'au détriment de la petite nation.

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¹ The Ethics is the study of the general nature of morals and of the specific moral choices to be made by a person; moral philosophy.

² Le texte entier de Le Prince est trouve au site sus-donne.

³ Ethics is used with a sing. or pl. verb (American Heritage Dictionary)

* Mr. Bin Laden, the son of a Saudi millionaire and an ex C.I.A. ally, in the fight to liberate Afaghanistan from Russian troops, is not acting for Islam. He is moved only by money. However, Mr. Ben Laden or his group can work for a variety of causes provided he is paid for, and the fee is huge; what explained the best preparation of those terrorist acts; Why Mr. Ben Laden's group has been using Arab terrrorists was because they have been more willing to die for the cause and more reliable, fraternity obliged. Mr Ben Laden's group is a new mob or a new face of the mob which, in history, has often taken local and folkloric features.