G W Bush?s Inner Ties with Haiti Mafia
By Ndzana Seme
02/29/2004 ? These last three weeks, the public is served with pictures of dead bodies, Black Haitian
dead bodies. The last time the American mainstream media showed this type of pictures was during the
Liberia war, the Sierra Leone war, the Rwanda genocide, the Ethiopia hunger. The journalists who show
these images disregard the ethics of journalism requiring respect for sheer human decency.
Those journalists didn?t show any dead bodies during the 9/11 tragedy, the fire during a concert in Rhode
Island, the Chicago night club fire, or any other accidents in the U.S. They respected the decency
requirement and did not show dead bodies from the slaughter they witnessed while they were embedded
with the U.S. army in Iraq. They don?t show any dead bodies from the bloodshed perpetrated daily in
Palestine.
Explanation? White bodies deserve sheer human decency. Arab bodies, because their race is the
multi-millenial result of interbreeding between Africans and Whites, notably White Semites, like
contemporary ?Browns? resulting from the Brazilian ?Racial Democracy? or the Spanish experience in the
Americas, deserve sheer human decency as well because they have some White blood.
Black people are the Biblical Ham?s descendants, whose calamities deserve no sorrow, since God invites
its ?elected people? to show only contempt for Blacks. Those who do not know exactly why they show
this unspeakable racism are journalists who simply obey directives from their hierarchy, management and
their company?s major shareholders who know the Fatum imposed to Blacks. The others are racists and
White supremacists just filling their mission.
In Dr. Martin Luther King?s country, it is difficult to understand why this open racism flourishes in the
silence of active Black journalists and human rights organizations, and the silence of a Federal
Communication Commission headed by a Black, be he another house nigger. No street demonstration, no
laws, no prosecution of the media that use discrimination in the application of the existing ethics and
impose to American minds that a dead Black individual is just a normal thing, and that Haiti or Liberia
deserves no sorrow.
President Jean Bertrand Aristide stepped down today, finally abiding by George W. Bush?s ?political
solution?, after three weeks of street gangs? uprising, killings and threats to take Port-au-Prince, capture
or kill President Aristide, and to occupy the presidential seat.
Aristide was the president democratically elected of the Republic of Haiti. Faced with a crisis organized by
an opposition he defeated in the 2000 elections and by armed gangs in a country without real security
forces (as required by the IMF and the World Bank), the ?political solution? that the U.S. president joined
the president of France with is to prove the armed gangs right.
Despite the Congressional Black Caucus? and other Black organizations? and personalities? intense
lobbying to have the U.S. army ordered to step in and save the Haitian weak democracy by maintaining
Aristide in capacity, Bush required Aristide must step down instead.
The U.S. ambassador in Haiti, James Foley, hastened the coup d?Etat these last days, by publishing press
releases accusing Aristide supporters of committing atrocities (without evidence of damages) in
Port-au-Prince. Yet Foley was silent since the beginning of the uprising and did not denounce any
atrocities by the opposition?s armed gangs, who actually killed at least 70 people. Foley did just what the
White House ordered him to do - taking side with the coup plotters and against President Aristide.
Bush had planned the coup against Aristide?s government years ago when he blocked international
assistance to Haiti, a country 80% dependent of foreign aid. The White House and other committed
international donors de facto imposed $500 million aid embargo on the Aristide government since 2000;
which is defended by repeated, if vague, accusations of Aristide?s government corruption and
mismanagement. Bush unilaterally imposed a block on $193 million in loans to Haiti, approved four years
ago by the Inter-American Development Bank for education, health, roads and water. ?In addition, the
U.S. refused to release bilateral aid to the Aristide government - an interesting contrast to Washington?s
long-standing and generous support of the previous Duvalier dictatorship - while insisting on funneling its
relatively meager aid contributions through non-governmental organizations.?
In its Issue of 15 January, 2004, The Council on Hemispheric Affairs reported: ?The 2000 election
persistently has been sabotaged by an unprincipled and intransigent opposition. This opposition was
funded and continues to operate with the full, if not always open, support of the United States, channeled
through such controversial Cold War institutions as the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the
former office of Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), a long-time chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee prior to his 2002 retirement and who was the prevailing Gauleiter in the ?get? Aristide
crusade.?
Why does Bush show this personal aversion to President Aristide and contempt to the Haitian
democracy? The response is simply racism, also because Aristide did not fully apply the structural
adjustments plans Washington required Haiti should go through.
Aristide was placed between the devil and the deep blue sea wit on the one hand his beloved People,
notably the poor, bitterly dissatisfied when he implemented the IMF criminal adjustments imposed by
Washington in 1994 in exchange for his reestablishment in power, and on the other hand the White House
requiring unlimited advantages to the U.S. corporations operating in Haiti.
As usual the IMF and World Bank strategy was to weaken the state in Haiti, a country where lack of state
presence is the crucial issue. Yet reducing the public role of the state is absurd in Haiti. Compared to the
Dominican Republic with the same population, that has 400,000 state employees, Haiti had 47,800 state
employees for 7 million people in 1995. Of the 47,800 employees, 20,000 worked in the education or
health sectors, as police and at the university. Therefore, the state presence was noticeable only in the
capital Port-au-Prince. In the countryside, the state is basically absent. Yet Washington through the IMF
decided and obtained that the Haitian state be weakened, and now used that weakness to overthrow
Aristide.
Aristide was sentenced to death by G W Bush mostly because he signed on May 4, 1995 a decree raising
the minimum wage to 36 gourdes per 8-hour day ($2.50 or 30 cents per hour). The decree further stated
that ?Any agreement between an employer and an employee based on a wage lower than the minimum
wage set... is considered null and void.? This is the language Bush could allow the least from Aristide.
The war on Iraq, the pompous AIDS assistance package to Africa and the like have shown that G W
Bush is a puppet of the soft money donors who fund his campaigns. His decision to overthrow Aristide
comes from the U.S. companies that operate in Haiti and are uncomfortable with Aristide?s determination
to enforce his minimum wage decree. They want a Haitian president who would allow then to pay wages
lower than 11 cents per hour and zero income tax to Haiti state.
Some of these companies are Wal-Mart, Walt Disney, Sears, Movie Star Garment Co., Universal
Manufacturing Corp, J.C. Penney Co. Inc., Kingly Manufacturing Corp., Kmart Corp., Ventura Ltd.,
Ansell Edmont Industrial Inc., Sears Roebuck & Co., Pacific Dunlop Ltd., Kellwood Co., Happy Fella
(H.F. Mfg. Corp.), Kellwood Lingerie/Activewear, Ventura Products, Elsie Undergarments, H.H. Cutler
Co., Fine Form Inc., VF Corp., Popsicle Playwear (Parent of Sister Sister), L.V. Myles, Sara Lee
Corporation.
These companies, along with the 10 to 15 Haitian families who control practically all phases of production,
engage in all parts of the economy and deposit their profits outside the country instead of reinvesting them
in the domestic economy, created an armed Mafia that currently rules Haiti.
The issue is so shocking that Eric Verhoogen of the National Labor Committee for Workers and Human
Rights, in his January 1996 research report exclaimed:
?Paying 11 cents an hour to sew clothing for U.S. companies is not development. It is crime? Why pay
workers 7 cents for each pair of $11.97 Walt Disney pajamas they make? Why not pay them 14 cents,
or 21 cents or 28 cents? Could the U.S. companies afford it?... Couldn't Walt Disney and friends afford
to pay these workers 28 cents? Please!?
The Mafia Ties
Aristide was left with the support of only African nations ? that could not afford to send troops to save his
country since they still are in search of their own permanent peacekeeping forces ? and the African
American organizations. Unlike the Jews, whose lobbies engage the U.S. in perilous commitments in the
Middle East, African Americans have no wealth to corrupt the White House to do what they want abroad.
Therefore Bush listens only to his friends with business interests in Haiti. Of those, there is Walt Disney.
You won?t find the name of G W Bush in the Disney?s board of directors. However, he is present at
Disney through close friends and major campaign donors.
An analysis of the U.S. president?s ?career patrons? shows that, amongst Enron and investment firms, a
donor was fifth in his Texas gubernatorial and 2000 presidential campaigns, and 9th among his 2004
presidential campaign donors. Its name is Bass Brothers Enterprises.
The Bass Brothers, Lee, Ed, Sid, and Robert Bass, nephews of late Texas oil wealthy Sid W. Richardson,
not only ?are Mafia?, are white supremacists, racists, those who long for the return of slavery, but also
those who saved Disney from a hostile takeover bid more than 20 years ago. Ed and George W. Bush
were classmates and friends at Yale University.
Disney?s largest stockholder, Bass Brothers ruled the company and, as "white knights," gave the top spot
to Michael D. Eisner, the current all powerful CEO who lastly made the Comcast takeover fail. In 1990,
the Sid Bass Group held the biggest chunk of Disney stock (18%).
In 1991 Lee donated $20 million to his alma mater Yale to revitalize the Western Civilization program.
Bass used the gift as leverage to influence the hiring of faculty and the setting of curriculum, since he feared
that ?multiculturalism? was pushing out the 'classics' in favor ?of Toni Morrison and Malcolm X.? Hence,
the largest donation ever made to Yale was basically a way to ensure that the University stayed White. But
Yale gave the money back. To ensure that the family name would not be dragged through the mud, Perry
Bass (Yale 1937) offered $500 million to the school to release a report saying that his son did nothing
wrong. Yale President Richard C. Levin turned his back on the deal.
The Bass Brothers, Bush?s current close friends and donors who shared their white supremacist beliefs
with him at Yale, are the main inner circle that lobbies for the establishment of a modern slavery system in
Haiti. They are some of those who required Aristide?s head and Bush gave it to them.
With Bush?s help, the Bass Brothers created a Mafia in Haiti; heavily armed gangs that Aristide called,
short of exact information, ?drug dealers and terrorists?. The U.S. ambassador James Foley used similar
words in return to designate Aristide?s supporters. And once again, the house niggers around Bush
supported the ?political solution?, taking side with the Haiti Mafia, against the Haiti people.
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