For Thursday 23 February , 2006. Pour le Jeudi 23 Février, 2006.
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Columnist Carl Fombrun
QUOTE OF THE DAY
The writer's great weapon is the truth and integrity of his voice. And as long as what you're saying is what you truly, honestly believe to be the case, then whatever the consequences, that's fine. That's an honorable position.
Salman Rushdie
FROM ABDULLAH BIN, HAITI
Don Carlo,
Very touching and profound piece on Satchmo and Queens in yesterday’s “Carl’s Corner.” My hopes are with yours. Peace.
Please convey my most happy birthday wishes to Mrs. Rachel Moscoso Denis...may we be blessed with her presence for a long time to come.
Next, my reading of the road leading back to Aristide's return to Haiti is that the said road was always being promoted. I seriously doubt that if he were to return that he would go to jail. I feel that he is somehow, unfortunately as it may sound, above the law...
I have been maintaining all along to the disagreement of many others that there should be a movement in the sense of bringing him back regardless of his past.
The problem is that many people feel that no matter what the consequences of perceived victories over the International Community, just to be able to show that we have won at something, is in itself a sort of victory.
It doesn't seem to matter what the eventual cost will be...often times the people demonstrate downright amnesia. This allows a mechanism by which to escape the blame.
It is the most incredible thing I've ever witnessed.
Abdullah Bin
HAITIAN HERITAGE MUSEUM
Our next event in Miami,
Saturday February 25, 2006
PARROT JUNGLE, WATSON ISLAND, FLORIDA. :
WE ARE THE WORLD
Welcome one, Welcome All !
Eveline Pierre, CEO Haitian Heritage Museum
Carl Fombrun, Executive Board Member
Serge Rodrigue, Vice-President
OTHER BOARD MEMBERS:
Wyclef Jean
National Recording Artist
Bobbie Phillip
Asst. Aviation Director
Miami Dade County
Dr. Eddy Rodriguez
Fountain Medical Centers
Didi Devallon
CPA US Goverment
Alourdes Pierre
Jolie Demoiselle Internationale
John Hall
Brickell Ventures
Bobbie Phillip
Asst. Aviation Director
Miami Dade County
Who's Counting Bush's
Mistakes?
By Stephen Pizzo, News for Real Posted on February 19, 2006, Printed on February 21, 2006 http://www.alternet.org/story/32382/
Ralph Waldo Emerson said it best, "The louder he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." And no administration in U.S. history has spoken louder, or as often, of its honor.
So let us count our spoons.
Emergency Management: They completely failed to manage the first large-scale emergency since 9/11. Despite all their big talk and hundreds of billions of dollars spent on homeland security over the past four years, this administration proved itself stunningly incompetent when faced with an actual emergency. (Katrina Relief Funds Squandered)
Fiscal Management: America is broke. No wait, we're worse than broke. In less than five years these borrow and spend-thrifts have nearly doubled our national debt, to a stunning $8.2 trillion. These are not your father's Republicans who treated public dollars as though they were an endangered species.
These Republicans waste money in ways and in quantities that make those old tax and spend liberals of yore look like tight-fisted Scots.
This administration is so incompetent that you can just throw a dart at the front page of your morning paper and whatever story of importance it hits will prove my point.
Katrina relief: Eleven thousand spanking new mobile homes sinking into the Arkansas mud.
Seems no one in the administration knew there were federal and state laws prohibiting trailers in flood zones. Oops. That little mistake cost you $850 million -- and counting.
Medicare Drug Program: This $50 billion white elephant debuted by trampling many of those it was supposed to save. The mess forced states to step in and try to save its own citizens from being killed by the administration's poorly planned and executed attempt to privatize huge hunks of the federal health safety net.
Afghanistan: Good managers know that in order to pocket the gains of a project, you have to finish it. This administration started out fine in Afghanistan. They had the Taliban and al Queda on the run and Osama bin Laden trapped in a box canyon. Then they were distracted by a nearby shiney object -- Iraq.
We are now $75 billion out of pocket in Afghanistan and its sitting president still rules only within the confines of the nation's capital. Tribal warlords, the growing remnants of the Taliban and al Qaeda call the shots in the rest of the county.
Iraq: This ill-begotten war was supposed to only cost us $65 billion. It has now cost us over $300 billion and continues to suck $6 billion a month out of our children's futures. Meanwhile the three warring tribes Bush "liberated" are using our money and soldiers' lives to partition the country.
The Shiites and Kurds are carving out the prime cuts while treating the once-dominant Sunnis the same way the Israelis treat the Palestinians, forcing them onto Iraq's version of Death Valley. Meanwhile Iran is increasingly calling the shots in the Shiite region as mullahs loyal to Iran take charge. (More)
Iran: The administration not only jinxed its Afghanistan operations by attacking Iraq, but also provided Iran both the rationale for and time to move toward nuclear weapons. The Bush administration's neocons' threats to attack Syria next only provided more support for religious conservatives within Iran who argued U.S. intentions in the Middle East were clear, and that only the deterrent that comes with nuclear weapons could protect them.
North Korea: Ditto. Also add to all the above the example North Korea set for Iran. Clearly once a country possesses nukes, the U.S. drops the veiled threats and wants to talk.
Social Programs: It's easier to get affordable -- even free -- American-style medical care, paid for with American dollars, if you are injured in Iraq, Afghanistan or are victims of a Pakistani earthquake, than if you live and pay taxes in the good old U.S.A.
Nearly 50 million Americans can't afford medical insurance. Nevertheless the administration has proposed a budget that will cut $40 billion from domestic social programs, including health care for the working poor. The administration is quick to say that those services will be replaced by its "faith-based" programs. Not so fast...
"Despite the Bush administration's rhetorical support for religious charities, the amount of direct federal grants to faith-based organizations declined from 2002 to 2004, according to a major new study released yesterday....
The study released yesterday "is confirmation of the suspicion I've had all along, that what the faith-based initiative is really all about is de-funding social programs and dumping responsibility for the poor on the charitable sector," said Kay Guinane, director of the nonprofit advocacy program at OMB Watch.." (More)
The Military: Overused and over-deployed.
Former Defense Secretary William Perry and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright warned in a 15-page report that the Army and Marine Corps cannot sustain the current operational tempo without "doing real damage to their forces." ...
Speaking at a news conference to release the study, Albright said she is "very troubled" the military will not be able to meet demands abroad. Perry warned that the strain, "if not relieved, can have highly corrosive and long-term effects on the military. (More)
With military budgets gutted by the spiraling costs of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the administration has requested funding for fewer National Guard troops in fiscal 2007 -- 17,000 fewer. Which boggles the sane mind since, if it weren't for reserve/National Guard, the administration would not have had enough troops to rotate forces in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Nearly 40 percent of the troops sent to those two countries were from the reserve and National Guard.
The Environment: Here's a little pop quiz: What happens if all the coral in the world's oceans dies? Answer: Coral is the first rung on the food-chain ladder; so when it goes, everything else in the ocean dies. And if the oceans die, we die.
The coral in the world's oceans are dying (called "bleaching") at an alarming and accelerating rate. Global warming is the culprit. Nevertheless, this administration continues as the world's leading global warming denier. Why? Because they seem to feel it's more cost effective to be dead than to force reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. How stupid is that? And time is running out.
Trade: We are approaching a $1 trillion annual trade deficit, most of it with Asia, $220 billion with just China -- just last year.
Energy: Record high energy prices. Record energy company profits. Dick Cheney's energy task force meetings remain secret. Need I say more?
Consumers: Americans finally did it last year -- they achieved a negative savings rate. (Folks in China save 10 percent, for contrast.)
If the government can spend more than it makes and just say "charge it" when it runs out, so can we. The average American now owes $9,000 to credit card companies. Imagine that.
Human Rights: America now runs secret prisons and a secret judicial system that would give Kafka fits. And the U.S. has joined the list of nations that tortures prisioners of war. (Shut up George! We have pictures!)
I could go on for another 1,000 words listing the stunning incompetence of the Bush administration and its GOP sycophants in Congress. But what's the use? No seems to give a fig. The sun continues to shine in this fool's paradise. House starts were up in January. The stock market is finally back over 11,000.
But don't bother George W. Bush with any of this. While seldom right, he is never in doubt. Doubt is Bush's enemy.
Worry? How can he worry when he has no doubts?
Me? Well, I worry about all the above, all the time. But in particular, I worry about coral.
Stephen Pizzo is the author of numerous books, including "Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans," which was nominated for a Pulitzer.
Haitian president-elect
RENÉ PRÉVAL,
who rose to power as a champion of this country's poor masses, attended his first victory party among its elite.
A promising unifier faces a crippling divide Letter from Haiti.
International Herald Tribune - 21 February 2006
Author: Ginger Thompson
It was a Friday-night, garden-side, happy-hour kind of affair in a mansion near Pétionville, a Mecca for this country's glitterati, with lots to drink, lots of laughter, and live performances by popular Haitian musicians. But when the hostess invited Preval, a reluctant politician, to address the gathering, he climbed on stage to introduce several carefully chosen supporters to speak for him. Among those he called, two were leaders of Fanmi Lavalas, the principal political party of the poor. Then he called two young men whose designer clothes and light complexions marked them as sons of the upper classes.
Reaching for one another across the gaping divides between class and skin color that have crippled this former slave colony for most of its 202-year history, the young men and Preval hugged, bringing a roaring ovation from the crowd and a glimpse of how Preval envisions his second presidency. "You see, everyone," Preval said, beaming, as if he might finally get used to the spotlight, "I am going to reconcile Haiti."
It was as close to making an acceptance speech as he has come since Thursday, when he was declared the winner of a presidential election that had threatened to plunge this country, the most volatile in the hemisphere, back into crisis. Preval, a 63-year-old Belgian-educated agronomist who was also president from 1996 to 2001, has not yet officially addressed the nation, and he has not yet granted interviews. But parties like the one on Friday showed Preval quietly at work on the glaring challenge of ending the devastating hostilities between the rich and the poor starting with repairing some of the damage he had just done to that cause.
Last week, he charged the authorities with fraud in elections whose credibility was considered crucial to strengthening Haiti's democracy. Now he, too, faces questions about the legitimacy of the back-room deal brokered by foreign diplomats that ended the possibility of a runoff and named him the victor. He has held a battery of private meetings and conversations with the same opponents whom he called "enemies" on national television last week.
The angry protests that paralyzed cities across the country, forcing a defiant Provisional Electoral Council to bow to his demands last week, have raised questions here and around the world about whether Preval will be his own president or a low-key copy of his old ally, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Aristide, the fiery slum priest who could command this country's poor masses as firmly as Moses did the Red Sea, was forced from power and into exile in South Africa two years ago by a violent uprising supported by the elite. But some contend that he continues, either directly or through the masses who remain loyal to him, to have influence over Preval.
Pressure for Aristide's return has clearly begun building from South Africa, where President Thabo Mbeki suggested Sunday on public radio that Aristide might consult with Preval. "I would imagine from everything that I've seen and heard that President Preval himself wouldn't want to oppose President Aristide's return to Haiti," Mbeki said on SABC radio, Reuters reported. "But I think it will be determined largely by an assessment by Rene Preval and by President Aristide as to the timing of it."
Problems are about all that is left of Haiti, a sinking ship of a nation where a majority of the 8.1 million people suffer the hemisphere's worst levels of poverty and corruption, while a tiny minority of them profit from it. Several foreign diplomats acknowledged in interviews that the events of last week had fueled concerns in their nations' capitals that Preval would use the same burning barricades and threats of chaos that characterized Aristide's rule. They wondered how Preval would respond if the mobs that helped him win power demanded, in return, that he bring Aristide home.
"We made very clear to Preval that we see Aristide as a figure of the past, with no place in Haiti's future," said one Western ambassador, who asked not to be named because diplomacy on the issue is continuing. "He told me: 'Don't worry, Ambassador. The last time Aristide returned to Haiti, he came with 50,000 American troops. I don't think he'll have access to that kind of force anymore.'"
The U.S. ambassador to Haiti, Timothy Carney, who is serving as charge d'affaires until a new ambassador arrives, reiterated comments made last week by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. "We believe we can work with Preval," Carney said.
Preval, political analysts said, may be the first leader in decades who can build a bridge between the haves and have-nots. Unlike Aristide, born a destitute orphan, Preval is the son of a respected former agriculture minister and was reared among the educated middle classes until his family fled the country under the dictatorship of Francois Duvalier.
After that, he led a largely blue-collar life that instilled in him empathy for the poor. He was a waiter, messenger and factory worker in New York, and then owned a bakery in a downtrodden neighborhood in Haiti and ran programs to help the poor.
"I haven't felt this much hope about Haiti in many years," said Dumarsais Simeus, a Haitian-American businessman, a former candidate for president, and one of the few people at the party who agreed to be interviewed for attribution. But hope may be trampled by Haitian realities.
The volume of the scathing comments from this country's fractious political leaders has dropped since Preval was declared president. But their suspicions continue. The street protests have ended, but the tens of thousands of people who participated in them remain restless.
Preval has revealed very little about his plans for building Haiti back into a nation. He has talked vaguely about disarming the gangs and strengthening the police. He has said he will seek increased investment from the United States and urge Haitian professionals abroad to bring their expertise home.
He made the same promises at the start of his last term as president, said Jocelyn McCalla, of the National Coalition for Haitian Rights. While Preval is the only Haitian president in recent history to finish a full five-year-term, then peacefully hand over power, McCalla said that Preval accomplished little else.
Though Preval gave little away on Friday night, the scene alone buttoned-down bankers boogieing with advocates for the poor spoke volumes.
HAYO
“The Haitian American Youth Organization of Kendall”
Invites you as a distinguished guest to its
8th annual Event- Fete Culturelle Creole, Black History Celebration and valentine Love
A Cultural Extravaganza- showcasing the young talents of Kendall and its environment
On Saturday, February 25, 2006
Seating and Pal’s talk 6:30pm
Show Time: 7:00 pm
at GL 100 Theater
(Across from the Library)
Florida International University
South Campus
For More Info Call: 305-386-1633 or 305-232-3996
Donation : $5.00
LA PENSÉE DU JOUR
Les idéaux qui on maintes fois illuminé mon chemin et qui ont souvent renouvelé mon courage pour faire face à la vie avec joie, ont été la Vérité, la Bonté et la Beauté.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
INTERVIEW SUR “FRANCHEMENT FOMBRUN.”
Mon invité Alfred Mentor
(g à d) Alfred Mentor formellement Professeur au Zaire pendant 15 ans,
formellement Ministre Haitien à l’Information, formellement Directeur de la TélévisionNationale Haitienne
en Haiti, Ecrivain/Historien avec son Hôte Carl Fombrun et Adyjeangardy Directeur
des Nouvelles à La Haitian Television Network of America, Miami, Floride.
(g à d) Ednold Noel “Nolu”, Technicien à la HTN, Alfred
Mentor, Adyjeangardy, Carl Fombrun
Le Coin du Livre
L’Haitiannité
L’Inextricable Cheminement d’un Nation Récalcitrante (Alfred Mentor)
L’HAITIANNITÉ
(par Alfred Mentor)
Mon interview sur « Franchement Fombrun » avec l’historien/écrivain Alfred Mentor à la HTN sera présentée le Mercredi 1er Mars 2006 à 9 heures du soir, et le Samedi 4 Mars 2006 à 3 heures de l’après-midi.
FACTEURS RACIAUX DE NOS ANCÊTRES
(quelques extraits du livre « L’Haitiannité. »)
CANGA
Les nègres Canga sont originaire de la Côte de Malaguette, Afrique. Téméraires, déterminés, cruels parfois, et durs à la peine, ils sont d’un aplomb phénoménal.
SOUSSOU
Les Soussou sont des nègres au caractère versatile. De petites manières, fourbes, rusés, toujours prêts à faire amande honorable et à courber l’échine, ils aiment moucharder et colporter des commérages. Ils mentent impunément. Grâce aussi à leur esprit rampant et flatteur, ils arrivent à s’insinuer dans les bonnes grâces de bien des gens.
Les nègres et le mulâtres soussou sont de dangereux collaborateurs. Trop zélés, ils mettent parfois en facheuse posture leur protecteur et leur cause du tort. Tripoteurs impénitents, ils font rouler leur bosse. La bassesse est pour eux, malheureusement, une vertu de mauvais aloi qu’ils cultivent avec art. Elle aiguille chez eux cette disposition à se conformer au goût et au désir de tous ceux au dépend desquels ils vivent en parasite.
MANDINGUE
Intelligents et dociles, ils sont collants. Ils savent comment harceler les gens. La malice populaire les appelle « ti lendingue. » Ils acceptent facilement les affronts sans sourciller. Quand ils sont aux trousses de quelqu’un qui leur prête un peu d’attention, ils ne le quittent pas d’une semelle. Il faut qu’ils le sucent jusqu'à la moelle. Ils deviennent des emmerdeurs dont on veut se débarrasser rapidement.
Le mécontentement des Mandingue se manifeste par une colère froide. Leur réaction n’est jamais prévisible ni même perceptible. Ils deviennent dangereux parce qu’on ne sait pas comment et quand ils vont réagir.
HAOUSSA
Les Haoussa sont des commercants avisés, de rudes travailleurs qui ont la bosse des affaires. Ils savent comment investir leurs temps dans des activités très rentables. Ils ne se rebutent jamais devant la fatigue quand il s’agit de faire de l’argent. Mais, ils sont aussi des profiteurs, des affairistes sans scrupules, qui ne badinent pas. Très soucieux de leur sou, ils n’hésitent pas à tondre à l’extrême, pour leur soutirer de l’argent, tous les clients qui se montrent insoucieux de leurs intérêts. Ils ne font jamais de cadeau. Qu’on ne se leurre pas, la banqueroute est un mot qu’ils ignorent.
CONGO
Les Congo sont les plus nombreux. Ils ont absorbé presque tous les autres groupes. Ils représentent plus de 60% de la population.
En Haiti, le Congo est considéré comme un nègre malin, un flatteur, passé maître dans l’art de dissimuler ses réelles intentions. Il est dit-on, quelqu’un sur qui on ne peut compter et avec qui on ne sait sur quel pied danser. « Un nègre-congo » écrit Jean Kerboull, « est encore aujourd’hui, en créole haitien, un traitre, un faux frère. » En Afrique, le mot « bacoulou » est utilisé pour désigner les vrais esprits ancestraux chez les Bakongo et en Haiti, une personne rusée, finaude qui se tire au mieux des affaires difficiles et plutôt troubles.
(à suivre)
HAITI LEVE PYE OU
(recu au « Coin de Carl »)
Qui suis-je ?
Suis-je plus Haïtien que toi si je suis catholique et toi protestant ou vodouisant ?
Suis-je plus Haïtien que toi si je suis noir et toi mulâtre ou blanc ?
Suis-je plus Haïtien que toi si je parle le créole et toi le français ?
Suis-je plus Haïtien que toi si je suis riche et toi pauvre ?
Haïti terre de mélanges, richesse de cultures, enchevêtrement d'idéologies…
Un seul pays, une seule nation, un seul peuple !
Haiti Leve Pye Ou !
Blan an di ou mouri
par Lyonel Trouillot
L’anecdote est connue. La version la plus régulière la place au lendemain du cyclone Hazel. Dans une localité cruellement frappée par la violence des vents et les inondations, une équipe sanitaire empile les cadavres dans un camion sous la supervision d’un « blanc ». Le blanc vérifie que le mort est bien mort et les bras haïtiens le posent dans le camion. Le travail avance bien, y a pas de temps à perdre, il s’agit de prévenir tout risque d’épidémie. Soudain, parmi les « morts », une voix faible murmure : « mete m atè, mwen pa mouri ». Et un membre de l’équipe de lui répondre : « Monchè, pe la, blan an di ou mouri ! ».
Parallèlement à la reconquête de la part manquante de sa souveraineté, l’un des grands combats d’Haïti consistera dans les semaines qui viennent à reconquérir le pouvoir de se nommer, de se dire. Il y a quelque chose d’effrayant quand c’est tel spécialiste ou tel chef d’institution internationale, ou, pire, tel Chef d’État étranger qui évalue, définit notre réalité à notre place. Ce pays a le droit, plus encore le devoir, d’établir lui-même son bulletin de santé.
Plus que jamais, notre parole sur nous-mêmes s’avère nécessaire. Elle est indispensable. Merci, monsieur le président de la République fédérative du Brésil de nous dire qui est le « peuple ». Merci, du fond du cœur. Le Brésil étant l’un des pays les plus inégalitaires au monde, on peut reconnaître à ses chefs une compétence relative dans le domaine de l’injustice.
Merci, messieurs et dames les spécialistes en désarmement, de nous dire comment traiter les assassins. Il est bon de vous écouter, mais il est essentiel de parler entre nous, non pas pour que tous les citoyens haïtiens disent la même chose, mais pour que les points de vue haïtiens soient clairement exposés sur la réalité haïtienne.
Il est indispensable que les Haïtiens ne fassent pas silence, quel que soit leur point de vue sur tel aspect de la réalité ou sa globalité. Il nous faut aujourd’hui des lieux de rencontre, de discussion, et des canaux d’expression de ce qu’au fil de nos réflexions nous apprenons et voulons transmettre sur « nous ».
L’une des conquêtes les plus précieuses de la démocratie, c’est la capacité du sujet à se dire. Il faut remplir le monde de paroles haïtiennes sur Haïti, non dans un esprit de polémique avec l’Autre, mais parce que, de personne à personne, de peuple à peuple, le dialogue implique que tous parlent et que chacun écoute.
Parfois, en écoutant les médias étrangers et les décideurs internationaux, j’ai l’impression d’être un cobaye livré au bavardage ou à l’expertise des « chercheurs ».
Aujourd’hui la parole haïtienne n’est pas à égalité avec celle des autres sur Haïti. Notre devoir patriotique est de faire entendre toutes nos voix
KREYOL PALE KREYOL KONPRANN
Pawol la pou jodi’a : KAL FONBREN
Prezidan George W. Bush te di li te konnen lè teroris yo te gen entansyon atake peyi icit men nan pwen anyen ke li te ka fè. Si se vre se pou li ta permèt yon envestigasion fèt malgre tout voye moute Condoleeza Rice epi vis prezidan Cheney Dick jan yo rele’l la ki fout plon gaye an move sharpshooter tou lot jou nan figi zanmi’l nan yon la chas peyi Texas. Gen moun ki di Cheney Dick te sou lè sa rive….50 kob ak de gouden, envestigasyon pa janm fèt.
Lè demokrat te opouvwa pou ti krik pou ti krak envestigasyon tap fè mikala’w e anpil lajan tax pèp meriken pase nan gaspiyaj. Jou va jou vyen. Mwen sonje lè Truman te prezidan. Li te gen yon pankat si biro li ki te ekri “ The buck stops here “. Sa te vle di “ Mwen responsab pou tout sa ki pase.” Mwen sonje lè Kennedy li menm te prezidan e ke Fidel te kouri ak bot misye nan envazyon lanmè koshon peyi Kiba . Prezidan Kennedy debake vil Miyami e li kanpe sou de pyie militè li e li di tout moun se te fot li, mea culpa, mea culpa mea maxima culpa malgre tout moun te konnen sete prezidan Eisenhower vis prezidan Nixon epi CIA ki te kite ciga limen de bout sa’a pou li. Lè sa’a te gen prezidan kite gen kanson sou yo e ki te admet fot yo.
Pèp meriken pas sot e je li byen louvri. Lape suiv tout voye moute administrasion Bush la ka pe fè yon pil divèsion pou moun pa wè ke yo poko pran bot Ozama ben Laden, ak tout lot erè yo fè nan la gè kont teroris yo. Se kase fèy kouvri sa.
Men, nou menm ayisyen se pou nou ret trankil tande, ap obsève. Se nou ke zot wè kon imigran byen ke imigran ap debake nan peyi icit depi bondy fè jou sou yon bato yo te rele “Mayflower.” Kom imigran ti-zorey nou paka pale fè epi nou konnen sa byen, pot tè paka goumen ak pot fè. Nou pap gen bounda pou’n pran makak.
An nou kite kantik pou priyè. Nan kèk peyi arab yo si yon ti nèg nan pèp la volè yo koupe yon men li. Si li volè anko yo koupe yon pye li. Si li kontynue ap volè toujou yo ka koupe de bra li epi pand li menm si lap fè rodomon. Men, si li al vyole yon moun, gason ou fanm, yap mete li tou swit nan troukoukouy jis nan kou li e apre sa yap sevi ak tèt li kon you balon foutbol.
Nan gwo peyi dwa de lom lè zetazini se pa menm jan. Gen yon lwa leta la florid depi set lane ki di: Si yon moun vyole yon lot moun jij la kapab bay lod pou yo chatre violatè’a. Se la lwa jodi’a nan leta la florid. Lanne 1999 de vakabon ki te vyole moun yo te chatre yo. Lanne 2002 gen yon profesè lekol bo icit yo te rele Ricardo Jose Garcia ki te genyen 37 lane sou tèt li. Li trouve li te al viole yon jenn ti fi. Jij la fand nan 51 li epi deklare swa li te ale nan prizon de tan twa mouvman pou rès la vi li ou byen se pou’l te aksepte yo te chatre li. Li te chwazi pou yo te chatre li. Se pa jwèt.
Sa kap pase sou latè se anpil deblozay e tou patou se menm bagay la: koupe men, koupe bwa, koupe grenn, koupe lang. Veye zo nou. La vi a pa mande sa . Petèt zanmy nou Jezikri va retounen pou mande nou de ki prevyen. Se Sen Toma mwen ye se lè ma wè ma kwè.
MEZANMI, mèsi tout moun. Se la map rete pou jodi’a. Na pale demen si Granmèt la vle.
