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And of course, we need to remember that despite this “election”, there is no vacancy in the office of President of Haiti. The President of Haiti is alive and well. He has been prevented from discharging his duties by the illegal machinations of the United States, Canada and France, aided and abetted by Kofi Annan. Those characters are simply attempting to legitimize the illegitimate. ''Aristide is as much a man of the past as Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier is," Carney said in an interview. ''I believe the electorate has absolutely understood that." And of course, Mr. Carney, like Dr. Rice and Mr. Bush, know what the Haitians want – much better than the Haitians themselves. Colin Powell was fond of speaking about what he said were "the Pottery Barn rules": “You break it; you've bought it." The United States, Canada and France broke Haiti on behalf of a thoroughly toxic Elite. The French already owed Haiti $25 billion in blood money extracted by blackmail in the nineteenth century and the Americans, who financed that extortion at usurious rates, owe them even more, having destroyed Haitian governance, killed and exiled their leaders and depraved their landscape as well as their politics. Will they do the honorable thing and pay for their depredations? Stay tuned. Poetic Justice They say revenge is a dish that men of taste prefer cold. … A Haitian woman. I am sure that you, too, will feel that somehow, somewhere, there is, occasionally, some Justice. John Maxwell of the University of the West Indies (UWI) is the veteran Jamaican journalist who in 1999 single-handedly thwarted the Jamaican government's efforts to build houses at Hope, the nation's oldest and best-known botanical gardens. His campaigning earned him first prize in the 2000 Sandals Resort's annual Environmental Journalism Competition, the region's richest journalism prize. He is also the author of How to Make Our Own News: A Primer for Environmentalists and Journalists (Jamaica, 2000). Mr. Maxwell can be reached at [email protected]. Copyright ©2006 John Maxwell Your comments are always welcome. Visit the Contact Us page to send e-Mail or Feedback or Click here to send e-Mail to [email protected]