Stanley Lucas, the Man of Haitis Occupation!Stanley Lucas is the
dreadful expression of the international conspiracy against small
states as Haiti (Joel Leon)By Joel LeonWe remember the false report
of the Central Intelligence of America, CIA, on the mental state of
former President Jean B. Aristide, then in exile in 1992 under the
administration of George Bush father. The report had shown that the
president was suffering from mental disorders from a Canadian
medical source. The report had been proved false, in reality, it
never existed, according to the Canadian officials. At that time
the "Latin America and Caribbean" section of the State Department
was running a team of Neo-Conservatives, composed of Elliott Abrams
(convicted by the US Congress in Iran-gate and pardoned by George
Bush Father), Otto Reich (the promoter of the 2002 coup in
Venezuela according to several analysts) with the support of
Senator Jesse Helms (Ultra-Conservative who had only contempt and
hatred for Haiti). The Bill Clinton's eight years were tough for
the Neo-conservatives. Nevertheless in 2001, with the election of
George Bush son, they returned to the charge. Roger Noriega, Otto
Reich and Elliott Abrams joined forces to punish the Haitian people
for elected Jean B. Aristide again for another 5 years term. But we
had to find a bloody idiot of the caliber of Toto Constant, ready
to do everything for a handful of dollars, to accomplish the dirty
trick. Thus Stanley Lucas appeared on the Haitian political
scene.In Haiti, what is known about Stanley Lucas is that his two
close cousins and uncles had participated in the 1987 Jean-Rabel
massacre, which claimed the lives of dozens of landless peasants.
On the other hand, no one foresees that the champion of judo, the
Playboy of Port-au-Prince, the well-dressed man, was going to
propel the country for the second time in the sharpened claws of
the occupants. The former United States ambassador to Haiti, Mr.
Bryan Dean Curran, assumed in a New York Times interview that
Stanley Lucas is a natural liar when he declared, and I quote:
"When Stanley tells you something, it is very difficult to
determine which part is true ". So he walked in the footsteps of
his Washington masters who created false accusations against
progressive and independent Haitian leaders. It seems very
interesting to know why he was chosen as the aggressor of Haiti
among others. Max Blumenthal, an independent journalist, who also
curious about the subject and said: "When I ask the IRI
communications director why Stanley was hired, he refused to answer
.... You will have the answer while reading the article.The IRI,
International Republican Institute, was founded in Washington in
the 1980s with the objective to promote democracy under the
presidency of Ronald Reagan. But we know very well that this
organization exists to overthrow the regimes judged too independent
by the Conservatives. Thus we have seen the IRI very active
particularly in Haiti, Venezuela, and Cambodia. Haiti is the only
country in which IRI has been successful, according to an American
official. The coup of April 2002 in Venezuela allowed the whole
world to see the hand of IRI which publicly supported the blow of
the minority of rich people in Venezuela. I must also remind my
readers that during this period Stanley Lucas made seven trips to
Venezuela on a mission for the organization he represented in
Haiti; however, he was not present at the time of the coup.Mr.
Lucas' connections to the rebel leaders of the armed movement that
terrorized the country until Aristide left and the arrival of the
occupation troops are clearly decisive. The IRI officer in Haiti,
Stanley Lucas, said he had never met Guy Philippe, the leader of
the armed rebellion, yet the latter described him as a friend who
initiated him to the game of Ping-Pong, and 'Other sources said
they met in Ecuador in 2001. In an interview with Times magazine,
Mr. Guy Philippe said that the political education sessions
organized in the Dominican Republic for the leader's Haitian
political organizations were held at the same exact hotel where it
was hosted (what a coincidence!). He spoke to Mr. Lucas on many
occasions, Paul Arcelin another US valet, repeat the same story
about the 2 men knew each other and plotted together. The alliance
between the so-called peaceful opposition and the armed groups was
lodged at the same address.Nelson Mandela, the wise man, said in
his jubilee speech of May 10, 2004: "We see how the powerful
states, which claim to be democratic, manipulate multilateral
institutions to the disadvantages and sufferings of the
underdeveloped states." It looks like Mandela was talking about
Haiti, without mentioning it. Stanley Lucas is the dreadful
expression of the international conspiracy against small states
like Haiti.Since the return of Ren Prval to power in 2006, Mr.
Stanley Lucas suddenly became a very prolific political journalist,
emitting ideas on Haiti, without any embarrassment or remorse.
Today, his main ambition after bringing the occupation forces in
the country is to put Haiti on the famous blacklist of
international terrorism. He wrote in one of his post that: "The
U.S. should re-examine these groups (Lavalas) to include them on
the overall terrorist watch list. Currently, no Haitian extremist
groups are on that List ". These are the statements made by the
former representative of the Republican Institute (IRI) in Haiti,
the protector of the Haitis opposition, who dominated the Haitian
political scene for several years. He urged American administration
to place Haiti, his own homeland, on the terrible blacklist of
international terrorism and seems to be annoyed by the delay of the
state department to do so. No patriot can make these punitive
demands from a foreign superpower against a country that he claims
to love. We are a docile people, we are a revolutionary and Rebel
people, but a terrorist, no. For some people, this behavior of
Stanley Lucas is mostly perceived as a joke, but deep down it
reflects the opinions of a small group of incoherent Haitians who
are living in a surreal dream, but talking with arrogance and
authority of a complex reality they do not grasp. They had wished
for the occupation of Haiti, it has been done, but the struggle to
free Haiti will never stop. In 1893, Frederick Douglas, then an
American envoy to Haiti, was thinking about the problems of Haiti
and his future, he had reached the conclusion that Haiti could
emerge from this atmosphere of suffering "without being reduced to
pieces and without falling into barbarism" End of quote. Contrary
to what Mr. Lucas and company believe, Haiti will not perish.
Joel Leon
