The Will of The People
Pye kout pran devan. I write this note, to pran devan - get ahead - of the international double-speak, outline for the US Embassy the obvious "will of the Haitian people."
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Pye kout pran devan - the most likely scenario to be played out in these disaster elections
By
the time United States policymakers in Haiti are finished playing with
Haiti, they will hang Preval out to dry, ignore the process was not
inclusive, not fair, not free even before one ballot was cast; ignore
that most of the candidates asked for the (s)election to be annulled by
midday of the farce, their voters then stopped voting - and go on with
their farce. But with Manigat and Martelly. I think that's most likely
what they will do.
They've already set it up.
Everyone is
supposed to forget the cast and un-casted ballots we saw all strewn
around; the untold numbers of voters with ID cards unable to vote;
those who couldn't find their polling places; video evidence of ballot
stuffing and children playing around in the piles of ballots. There's
no unco-opted Haitian voice high enough in the Western power citadels
to effectively point out that Haiti's frustrated young are using the
Martelly vehicle to drive their frustration, their discontent
somewhere. Even if its over-the-cliff with Martelly in the crumbled
palace driving seat. The marginalized, totally disenfranchised have
died a thousand deaths. What's another? Haiti has suffered through two
Bush coup d'etats, Clinton's famine, the apocalyptic earthquake, the
charity organizations enriching themselves with the earthquake
donations, a hurricane, over a million still in tarp camps nearly a
year later and imported UN cholera. (See also, Scientists Trace Origin of Recent Cholera Epidemic in Haiti .)
In
our shallow, narcissistic, celebrity-driven globalize pop culture, the
novice Martelly is merely a tool to be used by those "more schooled in
the patterns of privilege and domination" than any self-serving Haiti
politician could ever dream to be. Martelly is the valve that releases
accumulated surface pressure while reinforcing the "violent Haitian"
narrative. Brilliant US/Euro move. A no brainer. Bottom line, once the
US Embassy is done manipulating, its so-called Nov. 28 election will
count.
I'd really like to be wrong, to believe that Haiti's
beleaguered people will sidestep the UN/US use of Manigat and Martelly
to divide the initial block of 12, calling for annulment. That the
Haitian people will not play into the hands of the enemy; will have
enough strength left to continue demanding for the annulment of this
charade even if Martelly is put back in the run-off. That they won't
take Martelly's re-inclusion as a victory, fall for the ol' okey doke;
won't allow this latest disaster, the disaster elections, to help push
through a Haiti Clinton/Oligarchy cohort. Except when fairy tales end,
reality steps into view.
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This is the how they've set it up to resolve:
Quoting
a December 7th statement by the U.S. Embassy in Haiti expressing
concern over the CEP's announced result which it said were
"inconsistent with the published results of the National Election
Observation Council (CNO), which had more than 5,500 observers and
observed the vote count in 1,600 voting centers nationwide,' CNN
reported that:
The CNO, a European Union-backed local election
monitoring group, had said Celestin was running behind the other two
candidates." (See, Anger sweeps Haitian capital despite calls for calm in election unrest By Moni Basu, CNN | December 8, 2010.)
Right
after the UN reportedly convinced Martelly and Manigat to stop calling
for annulment by telling each they were in the lead, I wrote:
"If these farcical elections are not annulled, whoever wins will have no legitimacy, will depend on UN/US to maintain their rule. That means next president of Haiti will accept and legitimize the people's brutal repression, as their rule is dependent on it ."-- Ezili Dantà ² of HLLNUS Embassy Statement, Wikileaks, US hypocrisy, Imported UN cholera and the Will of the people
The statement by the US Embassy in Haiti on the November 28
election result is gobbledygook, double speak, signifying nothing but
avoidance of the truth, duplicity and dishonesty.
In the
statement the US embassy also writes that it "stands ready to support
efforts to thoroughly review irregularities in support of electoral
results that are consistent with the will of the Haitian people
expressed in their votes" The United States is committed to the
consolidation of democracy in Haiti and calls on the Government of
Haiti, the CEP and all political forces to ensure that the will of the
people is fully reflected in the outcome of this election."
The
US embassy talks as if the whole election process was sound but for
some "irregularities; as if the Preval government and the electoral
council (CEP) are unbiased and may be counted on to "ensure that the
will of the people is fully reflected in the outcome of this election."
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