14-01-2010, 12:22 AM
(This post was last modified: 14-01-2010, 12:25 AM by Jan Klimkowski.)
The people of Haiti have never been forgiven by the self-styled Great Powers for having the audacity to kick the slave masters out and form the first independent nation in the post-Columban Americas.
Toussaint L'Ouveture should be an iconic and inspirational folk hero. Instead, 99% of people don't even know his name.
On finally being captured by the French colonialists, Toussaint said: "In overthrowing me you have cut down in Saint Domingue only the trunk of the tree of liberty, it will spring up again from the roots, for they are many and they are deep."
Since the Haitian revolution, the nation has been systematically destablized by the "Great Powers", particularly America, the mob, and multinational companies. The butcher dictators, such as Papa and Baby Doc Duvalier with their murderous Tontons Macoutes, were supported by foreign intelligence agencies and the mob.
Meanwhile, leaders who tried to improve the lot of ordinary Haitians, such as Jean-Bertrand Aristide, have been the subject of US-backed coups. Aristide was kidnapped by US marines last time he tried to change things for the better.
Then there's the use by Big Pharma of poor Haitians as human guinea pigs for the testing of new drugs.
I helped make a film about it in 1995:
http://www.deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/....php?t=620
The people of Haiti have thrown off the shackles of those who enslaved them once. They will do so again.
Toussaint L'Ouveture should be an iconic and inspirational folk hero. Instead, 99% of people don't even know his name.
On finally being captured by the French colonialists, Toussaint said: "In overthrowing me you have cut down in Saint Domingue only the trunk of the tree of liberty, it will spring up again from the roots, for they are many and they are deep."
Since the Haitian revolution, the nation has been systematically destablized by the "Great Powers", particularly America, the mob, and multinational companies. The butcher dictators, such as Papa and Baby Doc Duvalier with their murderous Tontons Macoutes, were supported by foreign intelligence agencies and the mob.
Meanwhile, leaders who tried to improve the lot of ordinary Haitians, such as Jean-Bertrand Aristide, have been the subject of US-backed coups. Aristide was kidnapped by US marines last time he tried to change things for the better.
Then there's the use by Big Pharma of poor Haitians as human guinea pigs for the testing of new drugs.
I helped make a film about it in 1995:
http://www.deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/....php?t=620
The people of Haiti have thrown off the shackles of those who enslaved them once. They will do so again.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war