Canada's Haiti: The Dirty Past And The Dirty Future

Canada’s Haiti: The Dirty Past and the Dirty Future

It’s all Shock Doctrine.  All.  Political shock. Military shock.  Earthquake shock.  And now Aftershock of all those kinds.  But where is Naomi Klein who coined the phrase ‘the shock doctrine”?  We wait breathlessly for her analysis of the Rape of Haiti.

As I write “countries with a key interest in Haiti [Globe and Mail, Jan 19 10 A12] will meet in Montreal next week to discuss “rebuilding the devastated island nation”.  Countries with a “key interest” are the countries which have oppressed the Haitian people and intend to continue doing so – especially Canada, the U.S., and France. 

This will be the second meeting in Canada – about Haiti.

The shock happened the wrong way the first time.  The people of Haiti, wanting some real independence, elected reformist Jean Bertrand Aristide.  Over a chequered career,  Aristide didn’t please Haiti’s external oppressors so they met secretly in Ottawa, in Wilson House (overlooking  Meech Lake).  Haiti’s government wasn’t represented at the meeting, since it was called to plan the overthrow of Jean Bertrand Aristide and his idea of government for Haiti. 

We know what happened.  The U.S. government financed armed disruption and instability in Haiti.  Then, in 2004, U.S. forces arrived (late in the night of course) at Aristide’s residence.  They demanded that he resign in order “to restore stability”.  That’s a shock doctrine of a highly planned kind.

Aristide refused, and so was kidnapped.  The U.S. took care of getting him to the airport and out of the country to a small nation in Africa.  To make sure no Haitians would prevent the kidnap, CANADIAN SOLDIERS guarded the airport to assist the U.S. kidnap.  U.S, Canadian, and French soldiers were involved in the overthrow of Aristide and the putting into place of despot “prime minister” Gerard Latortue for a period of violent “cleansing” of  “dissenters”.

The world was told that Aristide had chosen to resign and leave the country.  Except that he got to international press sources and reported he had not resigned and he had been kidnapped and forced to leave the country.

Tough luck for Aristide.  Tough luck for Haiti.

Aristide was never permitted back.  Canada and the U.S., principally – with the vicious assistance of United Nations forces – proceeded to create puppet government, RCMP-trained puppet police force, Canadian/U.S. stooge “rule of law”, and wide-open, full-scale, foreign-owned exploitation of the Haitian people.

Fronting for all that since her rise to the Governor Generalship is Machaelle Jean who drops tears for the Haitians … and says not a word about Haitian oppression.

CBC radio yesterday interviewed the standing economic advisor to the Haitian government.  His advice: open Haiti WIDE to foreign investment and takeover.  Not a word about building Haitian-owned, Haitian-controlled initiatives in the economy.

Aid is rushing to Haiti.  Aid?  What kind of Aid?  Troops, troops, and more troops.  For “security” we are told (even as reporters tell us there is almost no security problem).  The troops are, though, genuinely being sent for security reasons – to assure the security of the power of foreign countries over Haiti.

The puppet government hated by Haitians, the puppet “security” force hated by Haitians have fallen, broken, scattered.  Out of the earthquake chaos, the shock delivered by fate to Haiti – out of all the horror might come a real Haitian government, a real cooperative movement of Haitians building self-respect and self-determination.

That must be stopped.  The troops are flooding in.  The Montreal meeting of foreign “stakeholders” will take place next week.

None of the dirty past and none of the dirty future gets near Canada’s mainstream press and media.  Indeed, using “the soft word that turneth away truth”, CBC’s Michael Enright “did a job” on Haiti just three days ago.  With “specialists” Enright managed to avoid completely Haiti’s story – past, present, and future.

His treacle-tongue is simply “the way” of all Canadian [and U.S.] mainstream journalism.

Surprising?  Perhaps.  Because Canadians have done the research.  Canadians have told the story in periodicals and books – to be ignored completely by Canadian press and media – the fakers of the truth for the siamese triplets of Canadian big business, Canadian government, and U.S. imperial policy.

Lies, lies and lies make up the fare served to Canadians about Haiti, a total menu of lies from the “Mainstream Press and Media”. 

Where can you start to find the real story?  Read Press For Conversion , the publication of the Coalition to End the Arms Trade.  March 2007, “A Very Canadian Coup d’etat in Haiti”.  May 2008. “CIDA’s Agents of Regime Change in Haiti’s 2004 Coup”.  And more from that source.  Loads of information.  Voluminous sources listed.  [541 McLeod St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1R 5R2; email: overcoat@rogers,com; website: http://coat.ncf.ca]