What Historians usually forget to say about Jean Jacques Dessalines: Dessalines

 was a revolutionary centuries ahead of his time by Marguerite Laurent, HLLN,

 October 17, 2006

(Ezili Danto's Note: The daily killings by the "police" and U.N. forces have
abated, but not much else has changed for the better since last year, October
17, 2006) for the majority of Haitians. In fact, under the newly elected
President Rene Preval of Haiti, one of Haiti's most prominent human rights
activists and a staunch critic of the occupation of Haiti, Lovinsky Pierre
Antoine, has been summarily disappeared without a trace.

This, along with the massive privatization of Haiti under way, the indefinite
detention of political prisoners, including Rene Civil, and the absolute
deprivation of the majority and their exclusion from power and from getting any
state services (schools, health care, clean water, electricity, public parks,
passable roads, affordable housing, access to opportunity for economic
survival...et al ) are part of the reasons most Haitians are saying, out loud
and with certainty, what was merely feared last year: that Preval has been
hi-jacked by the Western powers and is pursuing their interests, not that of
the Haitian majority and nation.

Since Preval appears to only be solidifying the gains of the 2004 bicentennial
coup d'etat for the US, France and Canada, in celebrating Jean Jacques
Dessalines' spirit and legacy, this year on October 17, 2007, HLLN re-posts
last year's message on Dessalines, entitled "What Historians usually forget to
say about Jean Jacques Dessalines: Dessalines was a revolutionary centuries
ahead of his time by Marguerite Laurent, HLLN, October 17, 2006"

If President Rene Preval's September 26, 2007 U.N. speech is any indication of
how he willingly chooses to carry out his Haitian mandate from the suffering
people of Haiti, it is but evidence that President Preval has been firmly
hijacked by the Euro-US occupation forces Dessalines' descendants live to
overcome.


Rene Preval's speech praised the foreign occupation forces and humiliated
Haitians. It denied Dessalines' Law and expressed no concern for the brutal
rapes of Haitian children, women and men by the UN soldiers, the civilian
killings in Site Soley and other populous areas, the wholesale warehousing of
Haiti's disenfranchised men that has become par-for-the-course since these
foreigners came to support an imposed government in 2004 and the ouster of
Haiti's fledging democracy.

October 17, 2007 marks 201-years since the assassination (on October 17, 1806)
of Haiti's founding father, General Jean Jacques Dessalines. But Haitians still
say, thank you Jean Jacques Dessalines, for being so far ahead of his time.
(See the Three Ideals of Dessalines ).

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Jean Jacques Dessalines, said, "I Want the Assets of the Country to be
Equitably Divided" and for that he was assassinated. That was the first coup
d'etat, the Haitian holocaust - organized exclusion of the masses, misery,
poverty and the impunity of the economic elite - continues (with Feb. 29, 2004
marking the 33rd coup d'etat). Haiti's peoples continue to resist the return of
despots, tyrants and enslavers who wage war on the poor majority and Black,
contain-them-in poverty through neocolonialism' debts, "free trade" and foreign
"investments." These neocolonial tyrants refuse to allow an equitable division
of wealth, excluding the majority in Haiti from sharing in the country's wealth
and assets.

http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/kangamundele.html#equity ; and

 http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/expose.html

 *

In the context of Dessalines' legacy, ideals and laws, Preval's September 26,
2007 U.N. speech was an embarrassment. It was a display of fawning,
ingratiating scraping and cow-towing over those foreigners and blan-peyi
Haitians who are annihilating Dessalines legacy. In stark contrast, President
Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe better spoke for the disinherited of the world and
gave Dessalines' descendants some hope and inspiration, not Rene Preval. (See,
Text of President Robert Mugabe's speech at 62nd Session of UN General
Assembly, Sept. 26, 2007

http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/notforAfricans.html#mugabe ; and

 Robert Mugabe and Preval's UN address at 62nd Session of UN General Assembly -

 Click on Sept. 26, 2007, then scroll down to Zimbabwe or Haiti.

 http://www.un.org/webcast/ga/62/ )

Below is the post sent out last year on Dessalines. As you read it, simply
replace "October 17, 2006" with "October 17, 2007" and this essay could have
been written today. Mesi Papa Dessalines.

To conclude, no rememberance of Jean Jacques Dessalines is complete if we don't
also honor, in the same breath, that most valiant of Haitian woman, "ki te
kraze brise, pou libete" - who took up arms and fought for our liberty - and
whose name the sons of France in Haiti, spit on and attempted to erase from
history: yes, Manmzel Defile!!!!

It's our honor to again, bow low, - heart and soul - to the courageous mother
of all of Haiti's bandits and chimeres, Defile!

Thank you Defile for gathering up all our parts.

 Kouwon pou ou, Defile. (See, Kouwon pou ou Defile by Michael Sanon

 http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/dessalines.html#kouwon )

  

 Kenbe la, pa lage.

  

 Marguerite "Ezili Danto" Laurent

 Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network ("HLLN")

 October 17, 2007 )