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Why don't they bring in quonset huts?

It's good to know that all those billions we sent to Haiti was actually put to good use eh? NOT! Seriously this has to be one of the worst organized recovery efforts I have ever seen. And you'd think the U.N. would have some sort of organization plan to put into place whenever something like this happens but instead: we get tents and riots. To think they would've fixed the Presidential Palace by now at least but it's still in the same rubble it was when the earthquake happened. What the hell has happened to order, I tell you?

Jean-Claude Duvalier will be the new ruler of Haiti. The U.S. wants it to be a Manigat vs Martelly runoff election, both are Duvalierists and look up to the Man... Duvalier will sit there on the throne and will hold court as the leader of the Haitian government. Duvalier will have a chance to replenish his bank accounts.

You're right, all of you, but I still don't get it. During the first Gulf War, the US military erected a tent city to house 40,000 POWs in a few weeks. Shortly after that war, they ran a pipeline several miles from somewhere to provide endless water for refugees in the mountains.

It's sorta like the Prez just has to say, "Make it so." I really don't understand why that wasn't all fixed 11 months ago. There was no need to allow cholera, it could have been stopped.

Is it because they don't have oil?

Anybody here ever heard of General Dallaire (who would agree with us).

It's a pacification programme. People who are forced to struggle for survival are not free and can be controlled more easily. They've been working overtime to stamp out the legacy of Aristide and democracy in Haiti. They want to return to the days of Jeanclaudism.

Go back to the past in Haiti and you'll see there was the threat of Daniel Fignole who could command thousands of people from the slums in the late 1950s. At one point he was made president and was thrown out of power three weeks later and sent into exile. They slaughtered hundreds of Fignole supporters during the coup. That narrowed the election field to the candidate of the elite, Dejoie, and Francois Duvalier. Duvalier was the most acceptable to the most people but he knew what to do but there was discomfort with his government because it was a black nationalist one. But when Jean-Claude took over the U.S. was benefiting from prolonged terror and a larger commitment to the elite's interests and that of international capital so they loved him. They went on about how he presided over the most peaceful period in Haiti's history. He then went too far when he first married someone out of the mulatto elite in an obscenely lavish ceremony and then he had the creole pigs exterminated when the U.S. ordered him to do, wiping out the savings of the Haitian peasantry.

It's back to Jeanclaudism...

The country is hugely overpopulated.

They have cut down almost every tree in the country for firewood, with the result that most of the soil has washed away.

A couple of hundred years ago they killed every single white person on the island and became the first black country in the western hemisphere.

How well have they done? Err.... not very well.

So now they expect "the white folk" to rush in and give them everything they want for free.

Well, stuff 'em. Let them fix their own damned country.

Haiti needs Communism, it needs its own Chairman Mao.

Australia was not ordered to pay a huge indemnity for the "stolen property" that they had to devote 80% of the treasury for it and keep paying for over a century. This is just one example. The worst curse Haiti has had recently is named Leslie Delatour. What scum. Always put in charge of the economy under every single government from the fall of Jean-Claude until his own death in 2001. Always deeply hated, but always with his hands on the levers. He was known as "the American". He is responsible for many of those earthquake deaths as well as for the accelerating destruction of the forest. His widow happens to be Haiti's First Lady!

People should also know that the Haitian peasantry was ruined by people like Delatour with his deliberate plan with U.S. guidance to destroy the Haitian rice producers and also by Jean-Claude Duvalier with his U.S - ordered pig extermination programme which wiped out the life savings of the Haitian peasantry. So what else could they do but to move to Port-au-Prince and start cutting down the nearby trees for charcoal?

Haiti used to produce its own cement. It doesn't any more. Whose idea was that? Oh yes, it was a condition for getting so-called international assistance!