Children and Firearm

One of the responsibility of the social worker is to make sure the home environments present no danger for the children. When you go for a home study; or, every time you arrive for one of the monthly visits, you have to check that the homes offer a suitable atmosphere for the children there. There are foods, electricity, running water, ventilation, enough room space, etc. But, the issue of safety, how do you measure that? The social worker has to make sure that there is no electrical wire exposed, no paint is peeled off  the walls, nothing is too precarious placed that it would fall on a child, no knife or anything like that or poisonous or dangerous material is at the reach of children. But what about when you see such a headline: “Florida Boy, 12, Kills Brother and Self.” Your stomach cringes.

The worse part about it, the boy had access to a firearm that he utilized to kill his younger brother, 6 years old, and his sixteen-year-old brother was shot in the leg and survived. How does a twelve-year-old get his hands on a firearm? What is the role of the custodians? What is the role of the society? Could the social worker foreseen such a danger?

Recently, there has been so much publicity about the gun issue. Several individuals, particularly young black men have been killed by others with a firearm. The perpetrators have often claimed the "stand-your-ground" law, which literally gives people who own firearms the right to kill others that they may consider threatening to them. This has brought up the argument against the much availability of weapon in the communities. Yet, our major concern at the moment is the fact that the twelve-year-old could get access to a gun and arrive to shoot his brothers with it.

The parents must beware. If you choose to own weapons, you must be ready to take responsibility for their safety in the home. Anybody who purchases a weapon, you must take charge of it. In the home, in the vehicle, it is yours and yours only; and, nobody else should be able to assume control over it. You were the one who felt that you could handle it and went out and buy it. So, don’t count on anybody else. Especially when it concerns children, there is no excuse. Children are not logically sound enough to handle weapons. They may see it as a toy. They may not know yet the level of damage it could inflict. So, it remains on you the custodians to make sure that the children never have access to weapons, particularly firearms. There have been so many instances where parents have cried because they have been careless and allowed the children access to weapons. It should not be; or, let it be no more.

The freedom to bear arms in this country is extremely liberal. No one would wish to infringe upon another’s rights. Still, this society needs to take a careful look on how this easy access to firearms is affecting certain ethnic groups. And, the social workers, there is not too much to do under such a circumstance. When you go inside the home, you check for all abnormalities. Yet, usually, the gun would not be sitting around openly. You would most likely miss it. You could pass the message, however: If you have a gun, make sure the children are not able to get to it. At the end, the whole safety concern rests with the custodians or parents. If you don’t have necessity for a gun, do not even acquire one. If you have to, make sure no child could lay hands on it. And, don’t allow people with guns to bring them near your children.

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Watch Out For The Bad Kids Who May Not Appear So

A young man and his mother are dead. The killer, another young man that the son had befriended. The murderer declared that a, “Voice in [his] head told him to do it.”

A lot of times you are at home and afraid to venture out. And at night, you check every joint of the home to make sure that you and your family are sleeping in security. What about when the criminal is a friend? What about when the criminal is inside?

The murdered individuals here appear to be from a normal modern family environment. There is no mention of a father, but the mother is in her early fifties and a nurse at an area hospital, and her son is a twenty-year-old. These people were very likely having a-okay-life. Then there was this other young man who penetrated their home and sat at their dining table. One night, he shot both dead. He destroyed this seemingly normal life.

Watch who is coming to dinner. We are not supposed to be prejudiced. Yet, this makes you wonder what level of precautionary measures you must consider vis-à-vis people coming into your home. The young murderer proclaimed that voices in his head had caused him to act so cruelly. This is a very critical aspect to consider. Usually, we look at people in term of race, religion, social rank, and the like. Particularly, these days in our ghettos, we want to stay away from the young kids with ‘nasty’ dreaded hairs, dropped down pants, and those plated teeth. We usually think that they would mug us. Which, they often do.

The young man with this “devil” inside his brain that would tell him to kill his benefactors is usually overlooked. Such kids most often do not fit the profile of terror in their appearances. You would have to go inside their brains; which people often ignore even when the signals are clear. Then you end up with this kid killing his friend and his mother. And, you have the shootings in the schools, in the shopping malls, and in any place where there is a mass of people.

Such kids are often more menacing to most of us, since they often appear to be no threat, and we pay no attention. And, they most of the times inflict greater scale of damage. They are difficult and even almost impossible to discover beforehand. They are among us. They are often no different from us. Most of the times they possess no distinct characteristics like our kids in the ghettos. So, we intermingle with them, and go about our business - until they strike. It is at that point, and only then that we know we had such a danger lurking around. It is too late. The worst has already happened. The damage is already done.

What can we do? Watch out for the unusual signs. Normal kids usually conduct themselves as good young citizens. They listen and follow their parents, their teachers, and other positive figures, and do what is right. In addition, they would concentrate on productive, positive, and optimistic matters. Kids with problems are often not so mentally stable. They may not be so respective of their parents and their teachers; they may not be so productive; and, they may be occupied with issues of illusion. Our best bet is to watch out for signs of stability, when allowing certain kids in our homes.  

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Break Barriers And Be Happier

Generally, the human being is limited in his ability to develop and satisfy his own existence.  There is a song that says, “Life is what you make it.” Most people are often not living to their maximum potentials. What is the reason for that? We are often tied up by certain obstacles, whether natural or societal, that limit us from developing our full potential for happiness. Although law and order, rules and regulations, and morality and ethics are important and sometimes even mandatory in our daily lives, we sometimes have to learn to break the unnecessary boundaries that have often kept us from living to our fullest extent.

We come into existence, limited and bounded by nature, society, government, religion, family, and more. As children, we are totally dependent upon our parents and others for even remaining alive. We develop with all these restraints and become adults. Most of us tend to remain attached to them until the end of our days. And, many times they are keeping us from fulfilling our best lives. Our goal is to break away from the barriers and go on to live a full and happy life.

Escape the Common Obstacles

It is our life. We have to live it. In order to live fully, we must navigate with agility within the rims of the following five most common obstacles to human liberty:  Nature, Society, Government, Religion,  Family.

Beware of Nature

Nature is our best friend. In fact, nature is our mother. Likewise, nature is our worst enemy. The human being comes into nature helplessly. Without assistance from others, a child would not remain in existence more than a little while. This odd relationship with nature composes the first restriction in our lives that we must break. Nature restricts us in one place; we are born into a certain family, in a nation, and within a specific geographic area. Often, we feel that we can never win our liberty from this natural phenomenon which sometimes renders us very unhappy. Certain measures we could take against this bizarre relationship:

We must learn to break the ties – Since the beginning of their existence, the human beings have been battling nature for freedom. We have moved from the rudiments of the cave, to the luxuriousness of palaces today. We as individuals have simply to recognize that we are free to explore, experiment, and do whatever is right to live fully and happily.

Stretch out and touch the world – Individuals today are no longer members of their own small nations alone. Technologies have brought us together in what we may call a “mega society.” We no longer have to sit in the little corner where nature placed us and be unhappy. We have the option to reach out into the greater world’s environment and benefit from its resources.

Get up and go – This is our world. Christopher Columbus left us a great lesson. He and his men traveled across the Atlantic and landed in an unknown place. Today, we could do better. People could simply jump on an airplane and go across the world. Still, you find other people who risk their lives with small boats across miles of ocean, and others walk miles of land to gain a better life. If you are not happy where you are, you always have the option to try some other place.

Society and Government

Rid yourself of certain societal norms – We understand that our societal nature has ameliorated our condition. Yet, when it comes time to break away from certain cumbersome ways of our society, do not be afraid to do it. This is your life. If it makes you happy and it is right, go for it.

Watch out for the government – Not all laws, and rules and regulations, are right all the times. Nobody should do anything illegal. If you consider the government is wrong in some way, you may consider protesting. Why not even go into politics to challenge things?

 Always do the right thing – Nobody ever wants to break any laws. As a citizen, you could always run to the justice system, but don’t do anything illegal.

Religion Is Always a Conflict

Do not be disturbed – Since the dawn of our days, religion has been a controversial topic. Never allow it to be a problem for you. It would never go away.

Choose carefully – You have the option to choose your way of living. If you are going to choose a certain religion, make sure to choose something that you think you like and you would be happy with. You could always change, if you need to. It is only to consider that some other ideology better fits what you consider your next life to be.

 If you are an unbeliever, that’s okay – If unbelieving is what makes you happy in this life, why not? It is your life.

The Family Is the Backbone of Your Life

Love and respect – This doctrine is one of the primary means to a happy life. Our family is the one that has generally been there for us all along. Always give them the exceptional love and respect that it deserves.

Do not be too attached to the family. Yes, we love, respect, and honor our family. But, we must also recognize that we have a life of our own. We cannot substitute that of our family for ours. That means, at times, we must live and let go.

Move away from the general norms of the family. When we are born into a family, we tend to live according to its ways. We should strive to break away from the family setting as we gain maturity.

Those are some of the common barriers to our happy existence. By trying some of these measures, one would certainly experience a more rewarded life.

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U.S. Machiavellic Democracy In Haiti 2015

When Michel Martelly joined the hoard of candidates for the election of 2010 in Haiti, he did not expect to make it to the presidency - as to his own admission. Yet, because he did not believe in himself, other people did not believe in him as well; and, the government of Rene Preval carelessly allowed him to slip through. By the time they realized that the former drug addict and lowly educated musician could inflict damages, it was too late. The incumbent government applied all sorts of ruses to circumvent him, in order to install their own Jude Celestin, son-in-law of the president, to power.  Or, at least they would would prefer the elitist Professor Myrlande Manigat. They failed.
  

How they failed so badly? They got rid of the more  popular Wyclef Jean easily, claiming that he did not meet the residency requirement of the country. Martelly could have been trashed the same way. He is even said to be American citizen; which disqualifies him automatically for Haitian presidency. The Preval’s government paid no attention to such details, presuming that Martelly would not even be a challenge. Then, the illiterate mass acclaimed the former dirty-dancer and trash-talker. And, in Haiti the majority of the population is illiterate. This rendered Martelly invincible. The incumbent government reacted frantically. They tried to steal the election. Two major obstacles presented. (1) The violent portion of the illiterate mass swore to burn up the country if Martelly was not elected. (2) The imperialist machine, supporters of destabilization in Haiti, they came to the rescue. The United States imposed Martelly on the country, with the complicity of its cronies, UN, OAS, and allies.

The imperialists materialized on the ignorance of the majority illiterate mass that saw the brute and low-life musician as its own. This mass never understood that Martelly has remained a bourgeois, a mercenary, a manipulator, a sham, and somebody who possessed no ability and willingness to cooperate with different sectors of the country to ameliorate the condition of the nation for all the citizens. In fact, Martelly was a major proponent of the opposition that destroyed Haiti during the 1990s to overthrow the popular leader Aristide. The latter was indeed radical and menacing to the elite classes. Yet, Martelly and his acolytes would not negotiate at all. They would not work to give the people a chance. It was this same Martelly, returning to reestablish the status quo.  The imperialists forced the first draft of the election into a recount; and, they placed Martelly back on the ballot for a runoff. He easily defeated the elitist Myrlande Manigat.

When I was growing up, they taught me that the United States was the epitome of democracy. I arrived to learn differently later, as I was becoming educated and learning the ways of the world. I earned a bachelor degree in political science, emphasizing on international relations. We debated much about imperialism and the rest of the world. So, it does not bother me much about whatever is happening all-about.  I understand too well that unless the big imperialists adopt some conscience, things would never change. However, what happened in Haiti as the new year 2015 was making its way, I was not ready for it. It just knocked me crazy. Although it was nothing new, it was something that my brain simply would not digest. It is too brutal in this plain 2015.

It is the genocidal move against the socio-economy of the tiny country. Not only that the U.S. declared openly to support a dictatorship that has not held elections in the country as called for by the constitution, they have installed a puppet prime minister with a 9^th grade education or lower to lead the government. Now, you have a president with barely a high school education, imposed by the U.S., and this prime minister? It is leadership genocide. This is criminal. For the United States to do that today, in this complicated and sophisticated world of globalization and information? It is sadistically criminal. Pamella White, the U.S. ambassador, remains the strong hand in Haiti. She rules the government. She entered the parliament and threatened the remaining congressmen that were not forced out yet. And, she and her Haitian government, and her investors who are digging gold in Haiti, they have their ways.

But, imagine, at the minimum, Pamella has a bachelor degree. You should already imagine as well how she must be looking down on these two illiterate Haitian head leaders. They forced out Laurent Lamorthe who had an education. He must have at least put up a head, having frequented the seat of a university. Pamella and Martelly kicked or bought him out. Now, she has the country for herself and her two bozos “restavecs”. People with low education do not know much; they do not see far; they don’t ask too many questions; they don’t resist; they just need a little something, a little bribe, just like children. With that, Pamella has Haiti by the neck. The future is dark. All the minor progresses since the struggle of the 1990 and since the earthquake, they are drawing backward, with the hard life, strife, division, and protestation of the regime of Pamella/Martelly, pulling the country back into dictatorship - tonton makout/ republican, and at the end ANARCHY. 

By E.C. GRANMOUN
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Socio-economic Genocide In Haiti

In January 2010 a devastating earthquake flattened Port-au-prince and the surrounding areas. Some 300,000 individuals perished, and millions injured and left without shelter. The international community responded sympathetically and massively. Yet, the power struggle of imperialism was felt, as the United States imposed itself in Port-au-prince, chasing all others about. Much was promised. Very little accomplished.

 In 2011 a greater disaster struck the country. While the earthquake caused much physical damage that the eye could see, the ascendance of Michel Martelly (Sweetmicky) to power is the worst the little country would see in the sphere of this global society, setting it back and off course for many years to come.

For much of its existence, the mass of the people in Haiti has remained in the state of under development due to the lack of leadership.  The little island nation has recognized mostly despots and dictators that have brutalized the inhabitants and keeping them in much of a bestial nature. Life in Haiti has remained "...short and brutish," as not by recently by an American journalist. It took the poor mass of the country some 29 years to break the yoke of the brutal Duvaliers’ regime in 1986. And, after much thuggish military power play, the mass of the people arrived to choose a man of their own, President Jean Bertrand Aristide in the elections of 1990. A leftist priest of the Theology of Liberation, Aristide was radical against the established powers that had been the cause of the misery of the Haitian mass. The Haitian elites and the imperialists automatically marked the new president for death. Since his militancy days, the Haitians military goons attempted to eliminate him on several occasions. And, in accomplice with the United States, the repressive military gave him a coup-d’etat even before swearing to the presidency. Thereafter, he suffered 2 other coups.

Michel Martelly was at the center of this resistance against the choice of the people. He associated with the Haitian bourgeoisie and the imperialists to curb the progressive movement of the mass. They sabotaged all attempts to the establishment of legitimate government. The assassinated the character of the charismatic priest. The plotted the most absolute resistance branded “tabraz” to not cooperate with his government. They flooded the country with illegalities, drugs, crimes, and arms. They pushed the movement of the people to demise. Of course President Aristide was a radical priest. Likewise he was leading a revolution against a radical dictatorship and military rogues brutalizing the mass of the people for so long. His approach and position were of course extreme. Still, he would have negotiated. However, the imperialist machination would not work with him. They would not give the country and the people a chance. And, with the black colon mindset, the country is drawing near its grave.

The imperialists and the black colons make up the perfect destructive machine of Haiti. Sweetmicky Michel Martelly is a perfect representation of that. Unlike President Aristide who was an educated priest, vested in literature, arts, and humanities; and who advocated a better Haitian national environment for the whole; Michel Martelly is a brut "Sweemicky" with barely a high school education, wasted in drugs and boozes, participating in all illegalities, advocating for the mediocre Haitian bourgeoisie with not national sentiment. The imperialist have found their operator in him for their destructiveness of the Haitian nation. How so?

Society today is a complex, sophisticated, and complicated entity that requires much educational refinement to manage the subtle ruses of its nature. It is a predatory environment, capitalism, survival of the fittest at the uttermost, only the best would survive. Haiti is an ultimate victim, at the very lowest end of the food chain. The imperialists are just swallowing the tiny nation. And, Michel Martelly, without the benefit of higher education, is greasing the way. Imperialism, capitalism at its uttermost.

Depriving of a higher education, the human being is very limited in the art of sophistication. To put it simple, you see small. Imperialism is a machine of sophistication, adorned with doctorates, masters, and bachelors. Those people are almost soulless. And, when they are dealing with an illiterate, they just use him as tissue paper. They know that you don’t know much. You are almost a animal, a child seeking the immediate gratifications. They give you the little things you wish, and they do whatever they want with you.  Sweetmicky Michel Martelly represents just such a character. That’s why he is the greatest disaster of modern Haiti. The imperialists despised President Aristide because of his emphasis on fairness for Haiti and the mass of the people. However, in spite of the so-called democratic principle, the United States has complotted with Michel Martelly to reestablish dictatorship in Haiti in this plain 21st century.

When the illiterate mass acclaimed the presence of Sweetmicky Michel Martelly in the elections at the end of 1990 because of dissatisfaction with Preval, the imperialists knew they had their man to reverse the movement of the people. They threw their money machine behind him and hurled him to power. Having been with their destabilizing trend since the beginning of Aristide, they knew what they had in their hands. Michel Martelly came to erase all traits of democracy, liberty, and any rights of the mass of the people. He has therefore methodically kidnapped the process of election and filled all electoral posts with his partisans. He has run psychological propagandas promoting false hopes and bedeviling all oppositions. And, after three years without election, he has ended up the one despot leader of Haiti, presiding along the American Ambassador, Pamela White, and their chosen 9th grade level prime minister Evens Paul K-plim.

The imperialist machine is cruel at the uttermost. Now, imagine this perfect destructive machine of Haiti in this plain 21st century, the world of globalization and ultimate information, Haiti is led by two literally illiterate "black colons". It is criminal. The United States is criminal for placing two unlearned men on the top of the tiny country. This is genocidal.

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My Wish For This New Year

Thousands of people have taken the streets of Port-au-prince the capital and other major cities in the country; rocks are being thrown; smokes are going up the heavens by the burning tires and other trashes to block the streets; people have been injured; there have even been reports of deaths. The people are protesting. They are trying to overthrow their government, that of President Michel Martelly. This is nothing new. It is two hundred years of political strife in the history of Haiti in which the nation, the mass of the people, has always come out the ultimate loser. In fact, some ten years ago, the president Michel Martelly himself was at the opposite end. He was working on the unmaking of President Jean Bertrand Aristide.

When Toussaint Louverture, the architect of liberty against slavery in Haiti, declared freedom for the slaves, he did not seek independence. He wanted peace and security, and to remain attached to France, the motherland. But, France, in spite of its current “Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizens,” it could not accept the freedom of the black man. Napoleon Bonanpatre sent out the largest naval expedition at the moment to subdue the liberation movement. The liberators fought their way out and won their liberty with blood.  

For the 200 years of its existence, Haiti has been continually advancing towards its demise. From its inception in 1804, it has made no step toward progressive development. In fact, it appears to be far worse than where it started. In addition to the political violence that has always been stalking the tiny country, everything has been literally destroyed along the way. The citizenry remains a shameless, unethical, and valueless entity. The land environment is almost bare of any life form. And, the nation as a whole is devoid of any real structure, as in conformity with societal nature. And, the main culprit behind this dysfunctional nation is none other than the power of national fragmentation, originated from fundamental slavery, with a culture of bigotry and distrust. This sentiment revived in the veins of the new Haitian nation, through the machination of the same white man and slave masters, collaborating with their bastards and bigots, to not living in the unity of the Negro nation.

At the end, the “pearl of the islands” as Haiti was known, has turned into a “failed nation”, as to the standard of the world of Nation States. My wish for this new year is for the Haitians nation to start coming together in reversing the perilous course of their nation. Most Haitians think it is a lost cause – Haiti cannot be saved. In their views, the culmination of 200 years of the bestial environment described above could only get worse. Haitians are discouraged, confused, unrealistic, and living in a state of ultimate desperation without any light at the end of the tunnel.

A Light of Hope

I say, “I see a light at the end of tunnel.” On her Facebook page, the beautiful I am Haitian recently wrote, “In the face of impossible odds, people who love Haiti can change it.” I supported her statement when I shared it on my page MKNA – All Haitians Together For A Better Haiti, where I commented, “I would add that it is not simply to "love Haiti" but also something deeper, to envision a new face of Haitian away from the veil of shame, that could lead to change Haiti, [a better Haiti].” What I am trying to say, Haitians need to start feeling something that gives them a certain desire that could move them towards improving their own national nature. Right now, it is a wild-wild-west over there. It is a bestial nature. Haitians need to start experiencing a desire for the development of an environment that promotes human nature.

This would not come easy. 200 years of political strife and national fragmentation would not just blank away. Yet, I agree with Miss I am Haitian, things could change. The slaves fought for 300 years. They did not stop in the face of monstrosity from the slave masters. They continued to fight, crying “liberty or death” until they won their freedom. Today, the Haitian man does not face death. In fact, we are facing death more by not trying. So, in the spirit of my wish, this is the year of the turning point, the year that we are starting to come together as a nation to live and work in unity for our common cause. 

What I mean by that? According to this new year’s resolution, we will begin undertaking the following steps to pull the Haitian citizenry together. (1) All Haitians will begin looking at each other as ‘my countrymen’. (2) Haitians will start to consider what is wrong with their system and seeking ways to ameliorate things. (3) Haitians will discourage the youths from copying the wrongful past. (4) Haitians will seek to start building positive and productive relations with each other. (5) Haitians will stop supporting bad politicians because of partisanship. With that, the nation could begin to move away from adverse politics to a progressive and rightful state for the Haitian beings.

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By E.C. GRANMOUN

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The Struggle For Liberty And Prosperity In Haiti

211 Years in History

It was about 211 years ago, the 1^st of January 1804, when the brave men of Haiti cried victory at last from the chains, the whip, the rapes, and all the brutish savageries of the slave masters. It was not a victory for Haitians alone. It was a victory for the Negro race in general that had been subjected to the abasement of human nature through institutional servitude by other human beings, based on skin pigmentation. Toussaint Louverture, the architect of the fight for liberty in the face of French colonialism, envisioned a society in which all men enjoy equal freedom in accord with the laws of nature and civil society, as introduced by the same French proclamation of “The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizens (1789).”

Toussaint did not wish to break away from France. At the time, Haiti, or Saint Domingue, as it was known was considered the most productive place on earth. The Colons named it, “The Pearl of the Islands” due to its greenish beauty and its richness. The French Colons made fortunes there on the backs of the black ancestors. Toussaint and his collaborators wanted that to change, for the Negroes to have liberty and a share of the productive life that was there. Based on the Declaration of 1789, he declared the slaves free under the constitution of the then mother nation, France. However, Napoleon Bonaparte, the French emperor of the time could not stand to see the Negro people free. He unleashed the mightiest naval forces of the moment to subdue Haiti. Jean Jacques Dessalines, the father of the Independence, cried, “Libery or Death!” After the greatest atrocities, the French militaries capitulated. The Negro slaves won their liberty and their territory. 

Freedom did not bring unity in the new Haiti. It brought faction instead, as the majority Negro population would have to perpetually continue to fight the minority Caucasian and Mulatto that would not recognize the Blacks as equal, to collaborate with them to form an environment of mutual respect and prosperity for all. Now, it is 211 years after the Independence. Haiti  has remained a culture of division and strife that has produced a “Failed State”, as to the standard of the world of Nation States and of the general society of globalization.

The Fight Goes On

Today, 211 years later, the fight goes on. The Haitian mass, the underprivileged, the poor, the illiterate, and those sympathizing with them are doing battle. The Haitian elites and the misinformed call them “ignorant and savage, (sot, bet).” But for a contemporary British author, writing about the American Occupation of the island, he considered the above description as opposite. MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY wrote recently in the opinion section of the illustrious Wall Street Journal. “…everyday life here is, in the words of Thomas Hobbes, mostly “nasty, brutish and short.” For this we can thank the politicians.” That’s how objective observers view the independence that was produced in Haiti by the Freedom fighters. It is sad. Yet, the mass of the people would never give up their fight for freedom and prosperity. 

So far, for 211 years of existence as a country, Haitian leadership has failed miserably. Today, on the eve of the 211^th anniversary, the most deplorable condition is existed, as described by O’grady; or as illustrated below - Crisis After Crisis: (1) Elections are overdue for three years. (2) Soon all elected representatives would be nulled. (3) The judiciary system is nonexistent or without merit. (4) The Prime Minister was recently forced out by the president facing popular protest. (5) The mass of the people requires the resignation of the President. (6) In summary, Mother Haiti and its poor children are the only losers.

What new generations of Haitians leadership and all those fighting for freedom must comprehend is the Toussaint Louvertue’s dream. It is a world of Liberty of Mutual Respect, where people live and collaborating together for a better society. It is what we call Democracy. Young and new Haitian leaders must take a new approach away from the pass 211 years, where it has been a fight for spoils and winners take all. Today, in the world of globalization, nations are seeking to come together with each other to form common bonds and share interests so that they could live in peace and harmony.

Haitian Elites Must Beware

The world out there is no longer an environment of savagery of hunting and gathering. It is a world of collaboration, of society, of civilization. Nations are joined together to form better societies among themselves and others. Are we so bestial that we cannot even collaborate with our own brothers and sisters? Why can’t we come together and share? Lavalas comes. They take everything to the left. Now Neo Makout is trying to pull everything to the right. It is bestial at the uttermost. No wonder that O’Grady sees life in Haiti as, “nasty, brutish and short.” And, with that, the fight will always be on. Why? Because the leadership, the elites, keeps the environment bestial and animalistic. And what animals do in the wilderness? They chase after each other. They devour each other.

How Long this Is Going to Continue?

The new generation has to choose. Are we going to continue on the destructive paths of our parents? Or, are we going to concoct our own new and better pathways that would lead us in this world of globalization? This is a recipe for you Nouvel Generation: (1) The nation state is a civilized environment where various groups of people live in common accord to better their lives based on societal nature and away from the wilderness. (2) People are brothers and sisters in a national environment, responsible for each other’s safety and well-being, as separated from other nations. (3) The nation state is a collective society; all the nationals must come together in mutual respect, collaborate, and work to advance the better cause of the nation. (4) No other nation is in the best interest of another. The leadership of each nation must take the best strategy to bring the nation to parity with the world of nation states, or it would be a failed state. (5) No one has the right to take full control of the nation. We have to collaborate and share in mutual respect, and work together to accomplish a prosperous civil society. (6) The national representatives must always be ready for dialogue, negotiation, collaboration, and working together to build the nation for the betterment of all national members and the society at large. 

The new generation must adopt a communal sentiment, of collaboration. The young people must join together; they must group to vote for collective and national interests, making sure that leaders understand that they are not free to come, to create conflicts, fight, and waste the meager national resources, and not working together to make the nation better.

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By E.C. GRANMOUN

E.C. Granmoun is the Author of: "Bully: A Novel"  ebook, on amazon.com