A Briefing on Haiti for an Esteemed High Ranking U.S.Official: / Omega Staff Writers

Bourik Chaje Pa Kanpe

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April 17, 2010

Haiti is a very slippery land on a very slippery slope, says Haitian popular wisdom. Let your guard down for a second, and you will be shocked to experience how suddenly you can fall into the abyss of corruption and crimes for which, in addition to its abject poverty, the country is so well known for. And, says another pearl of popular Haitian wisdom, the higher the mountain top from which you free fall from, the harder and more hurtful your chute and impact on the ground. Isn't this evident?

We could see it coming, will then say most Haitians, as they bestow upon you a humiliating pity for your failure to acquire the most basic of all the knowledge you need to survive in this mystical land in which all religions meet, the individual becomes a god, the god rides the individual, and high ranks evaporate as your clothing dissolves in your chute, revealing the nakedness that speaks also of equality among us all. A basic knowledge, indeed, that behind every visible mountain lurks an even bigger, taller, unseen or yet imperceptible mountain.

In many ways, Haiti may be the most transparent country in the world. For, with the exception of the well guarded secrets of the respected free masons, and those of the feared voodoo priests who compose the inner circle of that religion, secrecy is alien to the culture. Even the government of Haiti doesn't keep secrets. No security clearance is needed to work at any level of the Government of Haiti, for example. And, even the coup d'états of the recent past were always advertised in advance, and executed as planned. Your confidential conversation with the wrong person this evening will be the talk of the town tomorrow morning. In Haiti, the land of crimes and corruption, it can be so easy to knock at the wrong door and befriend the wrong person. The cloth does not the monk make.

In a country like Haiti, when you are an important foreign official, it's unwise to allow your name and your reputation to be ruined with rumors like, for example, that you are out to buy every available plot of land the country still has, for your own personal benefit. Or, that you are already involved well above your head in shady business deals with the most corrupt members of the Haitian establishment. President Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton have clearly chosen to help the people of Haiti, not those who have been murdering Haitians and stealing tens of millions from them in the very recent past. These are the officials who state U.S. policy. So, keep it that way.

Things may be get so bad so quickly in Haiti, that you may compromise your ability to succeed in your mission, as well as President Obama's ambitions for the small impoverished nation, as stated by the U.S. Secretary of State. One former U.S Ambassador to Haiti, Mr. Alvin Adam, quickly earned the respect of Haitians, when, upon arriving at the international airport, he not only spoke Creole to reporters, but quipped at the end of the interview: "Bourik Chaje pa kanpe", which in correct English means: "A loaded donkey got to move on." So, it must be, indeed, for all loaded donkeys.

In Haiti, to this day, Ambassador Adam is affectionately referred to as "Bourik Chaje." How nice!

Omega Staff Writers

April 17, 2010