[Peace-discuss] Fw: Oliver Stone: Help the UN rectify its cholera blunder in Haiti

Thu Jan 10 14:02:00 UTC 2013

"It's ridiculous to blame the UN for a funda mental cultural problem."

Wayne,

Haiti's problem(s) are NOT cultural.

Haiti's problems are and have always been interference, foreign military 
intervention, and economic domination / sanctions.
I won't go into the 200 some year history with the U.S. and France after the 
Haitian revolution, their economic rape, pillage and extortion via naval 
blockades and military interventions. Not to mention their installing and 
backing brutal dictators and the most recent U.S. invasion in 2004 with U.S. 
Special Forces troops forcing the elected President Aristide and his family 
at gunpoint to leave the Presidential Palace where upon the U.S. put them on 
a military plane and dumped them in the Central African Republic and then 
banned the majority political party in Haiti ( Aristide's Party ) and jailed 
all of it's leaders. All becasue Aristide wouldn't play ball with the IMF 
and World Bank, and wanted to raise the minimum wage as well as spend more 
of Haiti's revenues on education, HEALTH and SANITATION programs.
France and the U.N. are complicit in this CONTINUED military occupation and 
control of Haiti and are the source of ALL of Haiti's continued suffering 
and problems !
See more details below........

On February 29, 2004, with rebel contingents marching towards 
Port-au-Prince, Aristide departed from Haiti. Aristide insists that he was 
essentially kidnapped by the U.S., while the U.S. State Department maintains 
that he resigned from office. Aristide and his wife left Haiti on an 
American airplane, escorted by American diplomats and military personnel, 
and were flown directly to Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, 
where he stayed for the following two weeks, before seeking asylum in a less 
remote location. This event was later characterized by Aristide as a 
kidnapping. Though this has never been proven, many observers in the press 
and academia believe that the US has not provided convincing answers to 
several of the more suspicious details surrounding the coup, such as the 
circumstances under which the US obtained Aristide's purported letter of 
"resignation" (as presented by the US) which, translated from Kreyol, does 
not actually read as a resignation.

Aristide has accused the U.S. of deposing him in concert with the Haitian 
opposition.[40] In a 2006 interview, he said the U.S. went back on their 
word regarding compromises he made with them over privatization of 
enterprises to ensure that part of the profits would go to the Haitian 
people and then "relied on a disinformation campaign" to discredit him.[41]

Political organizations and writers, as well as Aristide himself, have 
suggested that the rebellion was in fact a foreign controlled coup d'état. 
Caricom, which had been backing the peace deal, accused the United States, 
France, and the International community of failing in Haiti because they 
allegedly allowed a controversially elected leader to be violently forced 
out of office.

David J.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: ""E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"" <ewj at pigsqq.org>
To: "Carl G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
Cc: "Robert Naiman" <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>; "Peace-discuss List" 
<peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Oliver Stone: Help the UN rectify its cholera 
blunder in Haiti

> It's ridiculous to blame the UN for a funda mental cultural problem.
> It's also a bit difficult to discern the motivation for going after
> the UN on this. I guess it is to induce the UN to fix the problem.
> WHO's necks in line.
>
> I doubt very much that even the UN can change the
> behaviour of Haitians.  Maybe if they could get some Muslims in there
> then Obama could go after them with drones...
>
> Haiti doesn't have its human waste system and its
> water supply separated very well.  This situation of poor sanitation
> is exacerbated by a catastrophic event such as an earthquake,
> a widespread fire, typhoon, tsunami, hurricane, or war.
>
> Many travelers from Cholera problem areas go to the industrialized
> countries every year and develop clinical or sub-clinical cholera.
> This does not result in epidemics because the industrialized countries
> have established a sanitation system that prevents the spread of the 
> disease.
>
> There was an outbreak of Amoebiasis in Chicago after the great
> fire due to human feces in the drinking water.
>
> No doubt O'Leary's cow must have been named Georgina.
>
>
>
>
> On 01/10/13 9:37, Carl G. Estabrook wrote:
>> http://ijdh.org/archives/30243
>>
>>
>> On Jan 9, 2013, at 7:13 PM, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"<ewj at pigsqq.org> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Haiti was a pristine land of excellence in sanitation before
>>> all them filthy UNers came in and trashed the place with
>>> their VooDoo.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/10/13 8:25, Robert Naiman wrote:
>>>
>>>> This petition has more than 10,000 signers.
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Oliver Stone, Just Foreign Policy<noreply at list.signon.org>
>>>> Date: Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:18 PM
>>>> Subject: Help the UN rectify its cholera blunder in Haiti
>>>> To: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dear Robert,
>>>>
>>>> We all make mistakes. Sometimes our mistakes badly hurt other people. 
>>>> When we make a mistake that badly hurts other people, it's our 
>>>> responsibility to do what we can to rectify the harm caused by our 
>>>> mistake.
>>>>
>>>> The United Nations made a terrible series of mistakes in Haiti that 
>>>> badly hurt hundreds of thousands of Haitians. First, the UN sent troops 
>>>> to Haiti who were carriers of the deadly waterborne disease cholera, 
>>>> which was previously unknown in Haiti. Then, the UN didn't make sure 
>>>> that UN troops were using proper sanitation procedures. As a result, UN 
>>>> troops who were infected with cholera dumped their contaminated waste 
>>>> in a river that was used by Haitians for drinking water. Then, when 
>>>> people complained about sanitation problems at the UN base, the UN 
>>>> didn't do anything about the complaints.
>>>>
>>>> As a result of the UN's mistakes, since October 2010 cholera has killed 
>>>> thousands of people in Haiti. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians have 
>>>> gotten ill, in a country with poor health care infrastructure to take 
>>>> care of them.
>>>>
>>>> Now the UN has an opportunity to try to rectify the situation. The 
>>>> anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti is coming up in a few days, and 
>>>> that's a time when the world will turn its focus towards Haiti. It's 
>>>> also a time when the UN could make an announcement about what it's 
>>>> going to do about helping Haiti get rid of cholera. The government of 
>>>> Haiti and the UN have a plan, but so far the plan isn't funded. A plan 
>>>> that's not funded can't do anything. We need public pressure NOW on the 
>>>> UN and other donors to come through with money to implement the plan.
>>>>
>>>> Can you help us build pressure on the UN and other donors to produce 
>>>> the money to get rid of cholera in Haiti? I've initiated a petition at 
>>>> Avaaz which has been signed by thousands of people from around the 
>>>> world. If we get enough signers, Members of Congress will present this 
>>>> petition to the UN.  Please sign and share my petition at this link:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/End_Haitis_Cholera_Epidemic_with_UN_Action_Now_1/
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for helping me help Haitians who've been hurt by cholera to 
>>>> raise their voices to the UN.
>>>>
>>>> –Oliver Stone, on behalf of Just Foreign Policy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Robert Naiman
>>>> Policy Director
>>>> Just Foreign Policy
>>>> www.justforeignpolicy.org
>>>> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
>>>>
>>>>
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