Open letter to Wyclef Jean and Samuel Dalembert by Jean Yves Point-du-Jour
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April 13, 2006
Open letter to Wyclef Jean and Samuel Dalembert by Jean Yves Point-du-Jour
On Wednesday April 12, 2006, while listening to Radio Leve Kanpe’s morning news program, I was surprised to learn that Haiti Democracy Project will be given an award to Wyclef Jean of Yele Haiti and Samuel Dalembert of the Philadelphia 76ers; the gentleman who was making the announcement informed the listeners that the event is $150.00 per person. I am writing to ask both Mr. Jean and Mr. Dalembert to reconsider and decline to participate in this event for the following reasons:
Haiti Democracy Project (HDP) was created with the sole purpose of becoming a catalyst of destabilization for Haiti. Everyone is aware of the role that the infamous Roger Noriega, former Assistant Secretary of State at the State Department had played in the kidnapping and overthrowing of the Aristide government on February 29, 2004. Roger Noriega is to Haitians what Ben Laden is to Americans. HDP was and is still one of Roger ‘Ben’ Noriega’s Lieutenants like Khalid Mohammed was to Ben Laden. A great deal of activities undertaken by Roger Noriega to undermine the Aristide government and the aspirations of Haitians was conducted through the Haiti Democracy Project working in coordination with the Group of 184 and other organizations such as the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
Today, the Haiti Democracy Project is known as the “Haiti Death Project”. For the past 2 years, we have seen the results of those individuals? actions at work in Haiti.
Subsequent to the February 29, 2004 coup d’etat, it is estimated that Haiti has moved 15 years backward. They have brought death, destruction into our country. They have engulfed the society in a web of division unseen in Haitian history. They have shown total disrespect for the welfare and the rights of the majority of Haitians. Today, Haiti does not have any room for such organizations.
The majority of the Haitian people want to live in peace. They would like to have a better tomorrow for themselves, their families and their country, our country. They have just proven it again on February 7, 2006. It is quite ironic that HDP is giving both of you awards for helping the people that HDP has always worked to undermine their rights and their wishes, people that HDP called “chimeres”.
We, Haitians, have to start doing our homework when it comes to associating with many such organizations in the Diaspora. We cannot continue to correlate ourselves with those organizations whose sole objectives are to work to defend the interests of a minority of individuals at the expense of the majority and the detriment of the country itself. Let me take this opportunity to tell you that it is my intention to write a letter asking President-elect Rene Preval to declare “James Morrell and the Haiti Democracy Project persona non grata” so as to stop those terrorists from continuing to create mayhem for the Haitian mass.
Mr. Jean and Mr. Dalembert, your contributions to bring relief to the masses are greatly appreciated. Do not let your work and name be part of those who are proven to be the enemies of the Haitian mass. I am urging you to reconsider and to decline to participate in any event sponsored by this terrorist organization based in Washington DC. Do not let yourself be used by organizations such as HDP to raise money to promote any more destruction to our country, bring more death and misery to our brothers and sisters.
Patriotically,
Jean Yves Point-du-Jour
Transportation Engineer
Maryland USA
yves@erols.com>.
Endorsed by: The Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
erzilidanto@yahoo.com and Democracy For Haiti
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April 19th, 2006 at 1:14 am
From: jean aupont
I don’t understand the motive of these conspirators:HDP,IRI,NED, et al. Am I to understand that these organizations exist in part or wholly to destroy and destabalize Haiti for the benefit of a small minority (the Elite). What’s in it for these organizations? Without providing a clear motive as to why these organizations would do this for the benefit of the Haitian elite, with all due respect, I say that this negative view of these organizations are little more than just exercises in conspiracy theory.
Mr. Jean should accept this award and not add to this conspiracy and divisive culture until such time as more than just circumstantial evidence can be brought forth to prove that the “Haiti Democracy Project (HDP) was created with the sole purpose of becoming a catalyst of destabilization for Haiti
Please, show me for instance a link or connection between the haitian elite and these destabilizing organizations and I’ll believe your thesis. Thank you.
a.b. jean