Reply #15: Hello from Germany,

[Dirk39]

Aristide is still alive and he's lecturing at a University in South-Africa. There was a thread about his nomination a few days ago at Du.
You're right about Europe. We were told the same lies about Haiti as the U.S. citizens. It's not about morals. It's just about a possible next empire against a long established empire.
The more Europe dares to oppose the U.S.A., the more it resembles the U.S. style capitalism inside.

This is how evil dictators and freedom-hating tyrants talk, who hate us for our freedom:

""In nations around the world, even those experiencing rapid economic growth, there are millions of children living on the streets, refugees of a system that puts the market before the person. If we listen closely, these children have a message for the new century. Thirteen years ago we opened a center for street children in Port-au-Prince. In 1996, we opened a radio station with our 400 kids. Radyo Timoun (Little People's Radio) broadcasts their music, their news, and their commentaries 14 hours a day. In a world in which a child under the age of 5 dies every 3 seconds, children must speak. In a commentary on democracy prepared by three eleven-year-old girls, democracy was defined as food, school, and health care for everyone. Simplistic or visionary? For them democracy in Haiti doesn't mean a thing unless the people can eat.
Democracy asks us to put the needs and rights of people at the center of our endeavors. This means investing in people. Investing in people means first of all food, clean water, education and healthcare. These are basic human rights. It is the challenge of (any real democracy to guarantee them.
Ironically, in many countries of the South the transition to democracy comes at a time when states are being forced to rapidly divest of resources, saddled with debt, abandoning the economic field to market forces, and playing a smaller and smaller role in the provision of basic human services. They have neither the money nor the will to invest in their people. Today democracy risks being rapidly outpaced by the galloping global economy. If democracy in rich countries and poor ones alike is to be more than a facade, nice in theory, but irrelevant in the face of global economic relationships, our concept and practice of democracy must make a giant leap forward. We must democratize democracy.
Do not confuse democracy with the holding of elections every four or five years. Elections are the exam, testing the health of our system. Voter participation is the grade. But school is in session every day. Only the day-to-day participation of the people at all levels of governance can breathe life into democracy and create the possibility for people to play a significant role in shaping the state and the society that they want.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide"


I wish, I could express how much I hate their kind of freedom. I hate their freedom as much as I hate the inscript on the entrance to Ausschwitz: Arbeit macht frei! (Working liberates you! Working means Freedom!) I don't know the most perverse translation:


Dirk