The US Marines are en route to earthquake-devastated Haiti where they will be greeted as liberators once again, saving the Haitian revolution by further destroying the society. The sound of the bugle is a carrion call for more destruction ahead.
One wonders looking at the grimmest press reports how this island nation hobbled on for so long since its liberating inception. But if you look at Haiti as a nation, you are under a delusion. It lies somewhere between Hell and a Napoleonic colony. One wonders where the infrastructure is to help the wide swathes of suffering that appear to be more and more unimaginable, but one wonders under this delusion.
Plantations do not have infrastructure. Plantations have laborers and tools, masters and guns to keep the two classes very much apart, thank you very much.
Haiti is not a state because it has never been allowed this dignity to match the indignity of driving out the powerful French, bankrupting the rogue Napoleon to such an extent he was forced to sell the middle section of what is now the United States of America. This indignity has been called a "pact with the devil" by that man-o-God, Pat Robertson, who is a terrorist to humanity.
My Haitian brothers and sisters, Haitian friends, its political class may be offended at my revelation, but it is not meant as an insult. Haiti waged a courageous and bold slave rebellion in 1804 and became a free republic, but the price of that freedom would drain the remaining survivors' blood into Western coffers.
The West - by which I mean the imperial West that had enslaved the island - would not recognize the independent Black republic for almost two generations, and only on the condition that it pay war reparations to imperial France.
There was no USSR to turn to in the late 1800's, no Hugo Chavez, not even a Taliban. Queen Victoria in the UK had a quarter of the globe under her; King Leopold of Belgium was creating his personal Hell in the Congo; and the US was solidifying its hold over the Western landmass and peering toward Asia. Independent Haiti was forced to submit to Treaty of Versailles principles.
Ladies and gentleman: I give you Christian civilization in spades!
By submitting to this demand, Haiti would never be able to develop itself and so was continuously at the mercy of foreign intrigue on the one hand, domestic unrest on the other. It would remain a plantation with a class of degenerates given princely titles and no power except to kill.
We in the US know well how intriguing US foreign policy can be and how domestic unrest is best handled: the US Marines, installing a thug, like Papa Doc Duvalier, and murdering civil society. How else, as one revolutionary put it, can a government unpopular to the people stay in power if not by brutal force?
The images broadcast from Port au Prince are alarming. And they remind us of Katrina. Indeed, the official response is pretty much ... intriguing. As a Chinese flight cooled on the Haitian runway with emergency supplies, the US was wringing its hands and having reconnaissance flyovers, like mad scientists watching lab animals die.
Bill Clinton has been the special UN envoy. UN troops had been deployed. One has to wonder what mischief they have been doing these years. But no: we see the product of their good works all over the roads to and fro Port-au-Prince.
But Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans cannot match the official response to Haiti's 1804 independence. But that response foreshadowed the crimes the West would commit to the only God it has ever loved: Commerce.
So while I remain numb about the state of affairs of the Haitian people, my blood curdles at the bugle sounding the entry of God's Marine warriors.
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