“Gangs aiming to oust Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry wreaked havoc in the capital Port-au-Prince Friday, as gun attacks near the city’s international airport and a prison marked a second day of extreme violence,” AFP News reported Friday. “Armed gangs have taken over entire swaths of the country in recent years, unleashing extreme violence that has left the Haitian economy and public health system in tatters.”
“Hundreds of inmates flee after armed gangs storm Haiti’s main prison in escalating violence,” the Associated Press updated Sunday. “The jailbreak marks a new low in Haiti’s downward spiral of violence and comes as gangs assert greater control on the capital while the embattled Prime Minister Ariel Henry is abroad trying to win support for a United Nations-backed security force to stabilize the country.”
“A new low” presupposes things can get lower in Haiti, which, per The World Bank, “remains the poorest country in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region and among the poorest countries in the world.” It’s been that way since its inception after the conclusion of a 13-year slave revolt culminating in genocide and eradication of the white population the French brought down on themselves.
Fast forward to 1957, and newly elected President Francois Duvalier, a physician with the populist nickname “Papa Doc,” promised an end to misery and reconciliation.
“Nine years later we find that instead of a government of reconciliation, Duvalier’s regime is one of the most oppressive and tyrannical in the history of Haiti,” Gérard R. Latortue wrote in 1966’s “Tyranny in Haiti.”
When a dictator has a good thing going enforced by undercover death squads in the brutal Tonton Macoute, you don’t relinquish that power, and Duvalier, who ruled with voodoo and mass murder, declared himself “President for Life.” When that ended, the torch was passed to his son Jean-Claude, aka “Baby Doc,” who also “ ruled the country with a bloody brutality” before his overthrow and exile.
Then there was Jean-Bertrand Aristede, U.S. interference, and a succession of inevitable government failures. And “the Clinton Foundation’s $20 million off-the-books mystery.”
Fast forward again to where we are today, and Haitians have their pick of criminal gangs to be slaughtered by lest they make themselves useful to whomever their new masters turn out to be. It’s hard to designate one side worse than the other when the man appealing to the UN to save his regime “who took over from Haiti’s murdered president had close links to a prime suspect in the assassination.”
It’s either him or the Marxists, who, totalitarian genocidal liars that they always turn out to be when in power, declare the exact opposite of what is really needed:
“Defeating the gangs demands an alternative to capitalism.”
Why are Haitians who want to live their lives in peace at the mercy of the merciless?
That’s “thanks” to what, in this country, our communists and criminal rulers have their useful idiots bleating are “commonsense gun safety laws.” In Haiti, it’s more obvious that they’re just plain old tyrannical citizen disarmament edicts mandated to ensure the only things that’s changed about the slavery there is the masters. And it’s baked right into their Constitution.
They admit as much in the very first weasel-worded goal of the preamble:
“Ensure their inalienable and imprescriptible rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; in conformity with the Act of Independence of 1804 and the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man of 1948.”
Here’s the trap that latter document sets in Article 29 that the globalists are hoping subject peoples never catch on to:
Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
It takes a gulag. You’ll take what they give you and like it. These mere men have assigned to themselves the Creator-like ability to endow rights, albeit theirs are alienable any time they feel like it.
And “true” to form, the Haiti Constitution defines the scope of the “privilege” of gun ownership:
ARTICLE 268-1:
Every citizen has the right to armed self defense, within the bounds of this domicile, but has no right to bear arms without express well-founded authorization from the Chief of Police.
ARTICLE 268-2:
Possession of a firearm must be reported to the police.
Fleshing that out into real-world practice, here’s what they’re imposing:
“Any person may, within the limits of his residence, for his personal defense, possess a firearm of the nature and category of weapons hereafter… They are: Handguns: single shot revolver or pistol whose caliber does not exceed 45 inch or 11.43 mm. Long guns or rifles of the following calibers: .12 gauge, .16 Gauge, .20 gauge, .410 gauge. Air rifles and revolvers. Citizens may possess for recreational or sports purposes rifles of caliber .22, .30 and 7.62. However, these rifles shall only be kept only at competition venues and under the strict control of the Haiti Armed Forces… The carrying, possession even at home of firearms, ammunition and dangerous weaponry is strictly prohibited on national territory to any person unless he has a license or has been specifically authorized by Haiti Armed Forces. Violators will be punished by imprisonment not exceeding five (5) years and a fine not exceeding five thousand (5000) gourdes, to be ordered by the Criminal Court.”
That’s just a synopsis, and yes, some of those specs are confusing.
Looking at events unfolding now, it’s apparent for all to see that prohibitions and threats don’t work when the other side has options. And that reality surprises who?
Haiti should be an object lesson for Americans that the only safeguard we have here against rule by criminal tyrants is an armed people who understand their rights don’t come from any gang, and listening to those who demand otherwise can only result in slavery, misery, and death. Same as it ever was.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
Doesn’t surprise me one bit the Clinton’s have taken advantage of the poor who are suffering even more because of them.
There is no “right” side when both parties in a conflict resort to genocide and chaos. Haiti (as a society, not a government) has failed its people by failing to instill basic morality. Climbing out of that pit will require acts of God.
And here I thought that the Clinton Foundation fixed all of Haiti’s problems.Slick Willie and Terry McAuliffe seemed to have profited from it quite well…
The only thing “recent” is reporting on it. This has been the norm a long time
Haiti has always been a 3rd world 5h1th0le country. Regardless of who is in power.
Man, a 45 inch caliber gun. That must be hell to carry around even with a short barrel. Kidding aside. In this circumstance I am confused if these folks that are rebelling are the insurrectionists or the delivers of freedom. I guess it would depend on which side of the political spectrum you support. I would think releasing people in jail would be a bad thing but not if the people in jail are the people in opposition to a tyrannist government/Marxist rule. Sound familiar? If Whoppie Goldturd is preaching that O’bidum can jail all the republicans here in the… Read more »