Dear Sir:

Jean H. Charles, in his January 1, 2008 commentary published by Caribbean Net News, entitled "Haiti needs a sense of urgency to catch up with the rest of the Caribbean" enumerates some basic goals for the various Haitian ministerial departments to aim for. However, his advocacy for the return of the Haitian army is more than repugnant. It's Bush regime change, coup d'etat, rule-by-force, facist drivel.

The Haitian masses are firmly against the return of the bloody Haitian army and, as the last three years of massive rejection of the United States, France and Canada's coup d'etat efforts towards that end have shown, they won't be deterred from moving away from this bloody past and the neocolonialism, foreign-supported dictatorships, debts, dependency, containment-in-poverty and depredations it ushers into innocent and pro-democracy Haiti.

In his December 27, 2007 "commentary" also published by Caribbean Net News, entitled "In the defense of the United States of America", like most such Latortue Haitian "intellectuals," Jean H. Charles contends that the United States has been the best place in the world for black immigrants. But HLLN, in defense of all voiceless Haitians and, in particular, in defense of all Haitian immigrants unequally treated in the US under US immigration laws and policies, would point Mr Jean H. Charles to Krome detention center, to the uses of Guantanamo Bay before it begin incarcerating Iraqi's, Afghans, et al, and to read Ewidge Danticat's "Brother, I'm Dying." Obviously the nightmares that the masses of poor Haitian immigrants are facing in these United States has completely by-passed this particular enlightened... uhmmmm "Haitian intellectual?"

In any case, such Little-Bush-Bicentennial-Coup-D'etat-sympathizers' attempts to slickly complete the 2004 bicentennial coup d'etat with the formal re-establishment of the bloody Haitian military, under the guise of providing Haiti with unbiased "commentaries" and "practical guidance and assessments" for "good governance" as outlined in Jean H. Charles articles, fool only the untutored and unsuspecting readers.

The Caribbean, nay, the world, is way past such slick and insidious propagandas aimed at minimizing US hegemony, its negative and racist policies and interventions against Haitian and Haitian immigrants and diminishing the struggles of the Haitian peoples against the re-establishment of the bloody Haitian army. Let the record show, the people of Haiti demand justice and equal application of the immigrant laws towards Haitian immigrants who arrive in the United States and say a resounding NO to the return of the Haitian army.

Marguerite Laurent, Esq.
Chair and Founder of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network