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Miami – Haiti, today the poorest nation in the western hemisphere, was once the richest back in 1800. How did this happen?

In those long distant days, the West indies was the equivalent of today’s Mideast – a vast treasure trove of resources. The western powers – Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, and Holland – battled to control the islands that produced tobacco, sugar, peppers, potatoes, slaves, rum, cloves, nutmeg, and bananas.

Customers in Europe’s coffee houses got high and talkative over cups of the new wonder liquid, coffee, and nicotine. Alkaloids from coffee and sugar became the oil of the 19th century and the fuel of revolution. Entire cities and regions grew up catering the slave trade which the lovely French city of Bordeaux became rich from serving.

Haiti, half the island of Hispaniola, was colonized by the French in the 1700’s. They set up plantations to produce export crops. Spain held the other part of the island which became today’s Dominican Republic.

Haiti’s slaves revolted around 1794 led by remarkable figures, ex-slaves Toussaint L’Ouverture and Jean-Jacques Dessalines. They defeated Napoleon’s troops and massacred white planters. An ex-slave, Henri Christophe, built a huge fortress atop a mountain at Cap-Haitien and killed himself there with a silver bullet. Climbing up to their vertiginous aerie almost killed me too.

Haiti’s former slaves became the first free blacks in North America. But it quickly fell into ruin and poverty. The freed slaves relentlessly cut down Haiti’s trees to make charcoal for cooking. Heavy rains came and washed away the lush topsoil that once produced crops. Warlords and bandits terrorized the local population.

Wretched Haiti became the poorest nation in the western hemisphere. As I saw, the countryside looked like darkest Africa. A mild-spoken country doctor, François Duvalier, seized power and began a long era of terror and extortion. I had to deal with Papa Doc’s goons, the fearsome Tonton Macoutes (bogeyman in Creole). I went through two attempted coups in Haiti and, crazy as it sounds, my Haitian friend Joe Noustas crashed a dinner party for Papa Doc at the National Palace where I had a long chat with Duvalier. After Papa Doc’s death. His roly-poly son, known as ‘Baby Doc’ took over with the help of the monied mulatto class. Baby Doc’s beautiful wife, Michèle, spent all his money, then ditched him. Haiti fell into the chaos we see today.

All semblance of civilized society in Haiti has vanished. Today, gangs of drug-crazed savages rule the streets. The former president, Jovenel Moise, was murdered. His wife is accused of complicity.

ORDER IT NOW

What to do. I’ve visited Haiti since the early 1960’s. Haitians are a lovely, talented people. But they can’t manage themselves or their once beautiful nation. The only solution to rescuing Haiti from anarchy that will launch more waves of immigrants to the US and Canada is to deploy the US Marine Corps there. I am an ardent anti-imperialist and hate colonialism but see no other solution to sending in the Marines.

The US Marine Corps ruled then chaotic Haiti from 1915 to 1934. That was considered Haiti’s golden age. The Marines brought law, order, and food. They did a better job of running Haiti than any Haitian government. When the Marines left in 1934, they installed a regime of mulattos who held power until Papa Doc and his voodoo regime. I vividly recall listening each night to the sound of drums and chanting by the believers in the ‘Oungan’ voodoo cult. I was twice threatened with death by the Tonton Macoutes. My friend Tijo (little Joe) was later murdered.

Someone has to go in and rescue Haiti from itself. Sending ill-trained, AIDS-ridden soldiers from Kenya is not the answer.

 
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  1. So many contradictions.

    “Haitians are a lovely talented people”.

    THEN WHY is Haiti such a shithole?

    “more waves of immigrants to Canada and the US”.

    I would hardly call them “immigrants”. Just uneducated blacks fleeing a black shithole.

    “I am an ardent anti-imperialist and hate colonialism”.

    THEN WHY do you want the US marines to take over?
    Why should shithole Haiti be America’s problem? Why should Americans get stuck with the job? How long do the marines stay? Won’t Haiti just go back to what it was – again – as soon as they leave?

    • Agree: Pheasant, Robert Bruce
  2. Patriot says:

    There is no place on Earth where Black Africans create good societies.

    Every single Black country is a disaster. Any place where Blacks are the majority is a disaster.

    They are genetically different from all other human races, with profound morphological, physiological, and behavioral differences. Lowest average IQ among living races, except maybe Aborigines.

    We cannot “fix” Blacks nor enable them to maintain a modern safe technical society. Whites have been trying for 300 yrs!! It’s time to face reality. It simply cannot be done.

    Best is to set Blacks free.

    Return all Blacks to Africa and then leave them alone. Blacks would be happier living in their own societies, away fro the other races. Leave them alone to revert back to the tribal societies they once had in Africa 500 yrs ago.

    There’s no mystery here.

    Occam’s Razor

  3. BLM unleashed and encouraged black jungle. Naive white women played a big role in releasing this beastliness.

  4. Mac_ says:

    – ‘The only solution to rescuing Haiti from anarchy that will launch more waves of immigrants to the US and Canada is to deploy the US Marine Corps there . . ‘

    No such thing as ‘anarchy or ‘anarchist, bogus words concoced by cons to make people forget we lived over a million years before their monotheism ‘relgon con and ‘state and ‘court cons and ‘police frauds.

    Were cavemen ‘anarchist’, no. Freedom people or just no label. No such thing as ‘anarchy. Suggest make note. Equal freedom.

    Supposed ‘military has been a con schheme, to destroy others ability to defend themselves, also ‘tax’ or con ‘debt.’ Supposed ‘military’‘should have been shut down long ago. People must re-learn to make effort themselves, and with tribes. Refusing to grow up is why destruction continues, because people refuse to shove back.

    Poof that ‘military’ or ‘police are a con is the fact they -dont stop in-migration, here. Sending somewhere else’ to stop in-migration here is nonsense. No sense.

    Focus where we live is what matters.

    Natural law, use of natural ability or rights reinforces ability.

    Its on each person.

  5. meamjojo says:

    Let Haiti be a lesson to all of those who complain about too much government and pine for anarchy, where the strongest survive.

    Haiti is a MadMax shit show right now. The best thing that can happen to the country is for a giant squeegee to come down from the skies and sweep everyone in Haiti into the sea.

    • Replies: @Anon
  6. Port au Prince is the sister city of New Orleans. Both beautiful places that should be on every person’s vacation itinerary. The Bacchus parades during Mardi Gras in Port au Prince is a don’t-miss event. Discount travel packages available.

    • Troll: Angharad
  7. Pudinhead says:

    I don’t think today’s Maines could pull off what they’re great grandad’s were able to pull off. We are an empire of ghettos not a nation state.

  8. bj0311 says:

    Yes another shining example of what negros can do when they get to ruin (run) their own country. The simple solution is to send in competent white folks, but that is too controversial. I met Haitian military officers at Ft Benning, GA in the early nineties whom we were training; they all said half-jokingly they came for the knowledge of how to lead the next coup. They were lazy and incompetent, so they were probably right on track for the job.

  9. Mac_ says:

    Short note on comment three, vid. People being ignorant is a point, but tend to suspect vids, some are distraction by cons including con ‘teachers’, and paid off punks, remember over a milion in cabal.

    Notice,vid is fast and short, and doesn’t have slow button, so click on the ball on the line, tick over, small bit at a time. Just before three seconds, note head doesn’t ‘jerk sideways –until foot is way past supposedly hitting face. Also sped up when supposed ‘kick’, also over-blurred. Also note mouth ‘open’ as if yelling before even apparent would be kicked. Imo it could be bs

    Its not entertainment, every distraction is serious, as cons schemes go on. Also ‘condition blacks to attack whites, and so people don’t focus against the cons.

    • Replies: @anonymous
  10. anonymous[176] • Disclaimer says:
    @Mac_

    You are correct. The kick did not land. What disgusts me the most is the white trash woman went along with this pathetic hoax. What a petri dish!

    • Replies: @Mac_
  11. Anonymous[176] • Disclaimer says:

    Nobody in their right mind would want to save that sh*thole.

  12. Hrw-500 says:

    Also, note then the Dominican Republic have built a wall on its border with Haiti.

    • Replies: @Mac_
  13. Godly5 says:

    Someone has to go in and rescue Haiti from itself.

    Uhh, why exactly?
    This isn’t the Washington Post. You can’t just assert this and leave it totally unsubstantiated. Why does someone just have to?

    What to do. I’ve visited Haiti since the early 1960’s.

    Oh, that’s why. Another turd dropped from the eternal boomer’s mind.

    • Thanks: AlmaMater
  14. Anon[364] • Disclaimer says:
    @meamjojo

    meme-jewjew recommending genocide as the best solution? What a surprise.

    France demanded millions in reparations from Haiti after it declared independence, and this was actually paid out over the next century. So independent Haiti began its existence allocating monies to wealthy France — monies which MIGHT have been used to develop the country’s economy & its educational system. As I say, that MIGHT have happened — we’ll never know.

    • Replies: @felixsteiner1933
  15. Mac_ says:
    @Hrw-500

    The cons already used their bogus ‘fence’ distraction over and over, so ignorants continue assuming ‘daddy govt do it’ instead of take action themselves as necessary in a real life. No such thing as ‘other guy’ or ‘govt cons ‘werkin fer you’. Bogus republicons fronted the bs, and phony left went along, then as planned, ‘didn’t fund’ the bs, as again the schemes of the cons is destruction and using distraction fraud. .From wikiped,
    – ‘ Secure Fence Act H.R. 6061 introduced in .. .2006, by congressman Peter T. King,. Republican . .. Act passed the House by a vote of 283–138 .. . passed the Senate 80–19 The Act received bipartisan support.’ – Note double ‘eight’s, they use the number to dumb down because appears positive to brain.

    – ‘ Although the 2006 law authorized construction of a fence, congress initially did not fully appropriate funds for it. “Congress put aside $1.4 billion for the fence, but the whole cost, including maintenance, was pegged at $50 billion over 25 years, according to analyses at the time.” ‘

    Around time and later fraud cons also doing ‘space face’ bs, so dopes focus bs ‘space’ instead of destruction in face. Also note same ten year time span, no ‘fence funds’ but over six trilion more bs ‘debt’ for their fraud ‘defense’ concocting more weapons and taking over other countries.

    Then more bs with trump’ front. Zero difference and also ignored other ports the cons use to ship in hoards.

    Over hundred milion more ignorants, and ignorants here sit. Destruction or threat doesn’t stop unless do it yourself. Selfish ignorant, consequences.

    Natural law.

    • Replies: @Mac_
  16. Mac_ says:
    @Mac_

    edit – space fence not face.

  17. Mac_ says:
    @anonymous

    Agree, petri dish. . thanks for reply.

  18. Anonymous[334] • Disclaimer says:

    Yall know nothing about what is really goin on in Haiti. Haitian gangs are controlled by a Jewish billionaire Oligarch, Gilbert Bigio. Yall, never heard his name right, he is the only billionaire in Haiti, a Sephardic Jew whose family originates from Aleppo in Syria, then the Ottoman Empire. His family emigrated to Haiti in 1896. Bigio is also the de facto leader of Haiti’s Jewish community and an honorary consul to Israel. Bigio bought Jeffery Epstein’s Mercedes Maybach at a price of $132,000.

    Read this

    https://newrepublic.com/article/169554/gilbert-bigio-canada-sanctions-haiti

    The Billionaire Oligarch Who’s Enabling Haiti’s Murderous Gangs

    Businessman Gilbert Bigio is facing penalties for his alleged involvement with the violence that’s engulfed the country during Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s corrupt reign.

    “In a stunning new development amid the smoldering crisis in Haiti, Canada has imposed stiff economic sanctions on Gilbert Bigio, who is often described as the richest man in Haiti. The Canadian foreign ministry accused Bigio, along with two other superwealthy Haitians, of using their economic power “to protect and enable the illegal activities of the armed criminal gangs” that are tearing the country apart. For years, Haitians have said Bigio and other oligarchs are complicit in the violence strangling the nation: This year 1,448 people have been killed, with another 1,005 kidnapped for ransom. Until now, however, the international community has stayed mostly silent about Haiti’s corrupt elite.”

    https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/03/the-jewish-billionaire-oligarch-who-created-the-murderous-and-criminal-underground-in-haiti
    The Jewish Billionaire & Oligarch who created the murderous and criminal underground in Haiti

    • Thanks: Malla
    • Replies: @Angharad
  19. Ed L. says:

    General Smedley (War is a Racket) Butler USMC won the second of his two Medals of Honor for leading the assault of Fort Riviere during the Marine’s 1915 conquest of Haiti.

    He squared the country away. I doubt we would be as successful today with our Woke military.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

  20. @Anon

    France demanded millions in reparations from Germany, and this was actually paid out over the next century. So post war Germany began its existence allocating monies to France — monies which MIGHT have been used to develop the country’s economy & its educational system. As I say, that MIGHT have happened — we’ll never know.

  21. Hinz says:
    @Priss Factor

    even the wife beating has been outsourced

  22. Dr. Rock says:

    Well, the answer to the riddle in Haiti is actually fully revealed in the article:

    Option #1- Complete military subjugation- Because nothing says “freedom and security” like having it delivered at the end of the barrel of a gun! “I’m here from the US government, and I’m here to help you, now get on your fucking knees, or I’ll blow your fucking head off!”
    And while this would certainly generate hundreds of funny videos, and social media posts, it isn’t very realistic or practical. If you’re dealing with a people that will only behave while they have an M4 pointed at their head, it’s a tacit admission that they cannot function otherwise, and where does that lead? Permanent occupation and subjugation?
    Plus, in case nobody has noticed, our military has a pretty full plate already, what with us fomenting wars in the Middle East, the Ukraine, and now, China, because why not roll the dice in three regions all at once? And while Haiti might be a nice little semi-genocidal warm-up, it’s gonna make for some rather poor optics, and who needs that right now? Lots of dead blacks… just sayin’.

    Option #2- A return to slavery- If we’re being honest, this is probably the most effective and humane approach (see Option #3), and the one most likely to yield some positive results. We could get these “people” back to work, get some cash crops to export, and probably improve the quality of life by 400% in 2-3 years. These animals need “purpose”, and since they have clearly demonstrated, repeatedly, that they are inherently (genetically) incapable of building a society, we might just as well regress to the only business model that worked with, and for, them.
    And I’m only half kidding. If there was ever a case to be made for White Overlords, and forced servitude, Haiti is definitely it! Also, it would serve to “set things right” relative to their origins, i.e. the famous slave uprising. Get them “back in chains”, and producing. The proceeds could provide them a greatly improved life, and the problem would basically be solved.
    Remember, we can always go back to Option #1, if things start to go sideways, and when you consider Option #3, military subjugation and slavery, isn’t half-bad.

    Option #3- Complete and utter genocide of every man, woman, and child in Haiti- Yes, I know, I know, that sounds a little harsh, but ask yourself “Do you want to fix the problem, or just put another band-aid on it for 2-3 generations?”
    I’m all about solutions, and this one needs to be “on the table”. And before you claim it’s “too much”, consider what kind of inhuman savagery they continue to descend into, when left to their own devices! Is genocide worse, or better than that? Cannibalism? Hyper gangland violence and wanton rapes and murders? Burning each other alive? And if you survive all of that, all you have to look forward to is crushing poverty, malnutrition, and starvation?
    One could say that Haitian Genocide is the kindest act of love conceivable.

    Also, if it’s Option #1, or Option #2, which both are at best, temporary, dangerous, arguably in-humane, and at worst, already tried and failed, why not consider “the nuclear option”? It’s good enough for Gaza!

    Plus, afterwards, the DR could take it all over, and raise it to the nominal level of Third World poverty and degradation, which is at least a 500% improvement, and that ain’t bad.

    Or, and stay with me for a second, we could send all of our illegal aliens there! Re-populate it with this multicultural mutt mess that currently inhabits our once great nation. “Hey now, you wanted a ‘fresh start’, and it doesn’t get any fresher than building a society from the ground up! Now get to work Pedro, that hut isn’t going to erect itself!”

    Final Analysis- Haiti is an as yet, unsolvable riddle, for one reason, and one reason only- The Haitians! So, if you really want to “fix it”, you gotta get rid of the problem, which is, in fact, the people. Otherwise, you’re still trying to “fix them”, and after countless generations of the lowest form of nigger-husbandry ever practiced, how do you think you’re going to manage that? Maybe 5 generations of selective breeding, combined with an active and forced abortion and euthanasia program, to try to make a decent working-nigger population out of this feral pack of mutts, but who has the time and patience for that?

    Or, if none of these sound very appealing to you, we can always just send all our illegals there, as is, and let them “figure it out” as best they can, but that’s even almost too cruel a treatment to them. I mean, they’re fucking illegal aliens, but still two the three deviations better than fucking Haitians.

    Anyway, that’s the best I’ve got, so mull it over, and get back to me.

  23. I think that Haiti needs to be saved from the destabilization resulting from the United States’ so-called “foreign aid” efforts –

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/haiti-paradise-state-crime/5850795

    Thank you.

  24. acudoc1949 says: • Website

    What a royal mess…US troops would make a difference but there is no Constitutional authority for such action. Perhaps there is no solution. God in his infinite wisdom doesn’t seem to be around…

  25. @Priss Factor

    If it were my wife, mother, etc. I would hunt down and kill that nog.

  26. raga10 says:

    Haiti needs a man like Bukele in El Salvador, a guy not afraid to meet the violence of gangs with violence, and willing to put half of the population behind bars if that’s what it takes!

    Of course a man like this is only the first part of the solution. He also needs a force behind him – force that current Haitian government simply doesn’t have since their police/military is small, corrupt and hopelessly outgunned. He would need assistance, but sending the official armed forces would not be popular in either US or,say, France. So, let’s learn from the Russians here: this is the ideal job for a private security company like Wagner Group. Surely we have something similar – Blackwater or whatever? (I think Blackwater doesn’t exist anymore, or was renamed or something, but there must be something like that around)

  27. Haiti’s former slaves became the first free blacks in North America. But it quickly fell into ruin and poverty.

    LOL

    I am an ardent anti-imperialist and hate colonialism but see no other solution to sending in the Marines.

    LOL

    Typical Leftist Retard

  28. Anonymous[143] • Disclaimer says:

    Someone has to go in and rescue Haiti from itself. Sending ill-trained, AIDS-ridden soldiers from Kenya is not the answer.

    Guy, my whole family — father, mother, 2 brothers, 1 sister, died trying to save people from themselves, noblesse oblige. So did many of my relatives. They were told what to think, thought that way, and it killed them. Nor were they the only ones to die.

    That’s what the differential mortality for Whites means in ground truth, and that’s what the sub-replacement fertility means over time.

    Nobody is going to save Haiti. There aren’t many dumb enough to continue the slaughter of would be saviors.

    Maybe the Dominican Republic will go in and pick up the pieces after the current Haitian population goes extinct.

  29. gepay says:

    As another commenter mentioned, after independence France demanded and got many millions (equivalent to billions in todays money) or they would invade Haiti. The Haitian revolution was the only successful slave revolution in the world. They have never been forgiven for that. Not mentioned is the embargo put on Haiti by Thomas Jefferson. Not mentioned about the Marines taking over Haiti is that they also took over the ports and collected all the tariffs. Then sending the money to New York banks that had carelessly lent money to Haitians that would never pay it back. This is the same reason Marines were sent countless times to Central America before FDR stopped the practice. The Marines were replaced by economic hitmen as told by John Perloff after WW2. Not mentioned is the popular election of Aristide twice and twice deposed by US inspired coups. Or the millions stolen from the aid money sent to Haitians after the last major earthquake by the Clintons and their cohorts. Also the millions of tons of US grown subsidized rice sent to Haiti ruining many indigenous rice growers.

    • Replies: @anonymouseperson
  30. @gepay

    You can make all the excuses you want, but Haiti just does not make the cut or get the job done. Never has. Never will.

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