Are Vulnerable Haitians the Victims of Kissinger's "Useless Eaters" Policy?

The role of the Bush administration in the cholera outbreak in Haiti.

“In 2000, a set of loans from the Inter American Development Bank to the government of Haiti for water, sanitation and health were blocked for political reasons. The city of St. Marc (population 220,000) and region of the lower Artibonite (population 600,000) were among the areas slated for upgrading of the public water supply. This project was delayed more than a decade and has not yet been completed."

--Partners in Health (PIH) 10.22.10

There is updated information about the cholera outbreak at Haiti: Operational Biosurveillance, including a Current Situational Map of the cholera epidemic.

The good news is there have been no new patients admitted at the Port-au-Prince General Hospital in the past twenty-four hours. Particularly good is that Haitian authorities, moving quickly, have debunked the rumor of an antibiotic resistant strain of cholera. The bad news are warnings of the possible under reporting of cases of cholera. Also, Nigel Fisher, UN Humanitarian Coordinator, cautioned about the possibility of a nationwide spread of the cholera epidemic and the need for readiness if it occurs.

The question often asked is, why are the quake victims still living in unsanitary and dangerous tent camps ten months after the disaster? Why hasn't Haiti received the aid that was pledged?

First, the issue is hardly ever addressed that very little direct aid is ever given to the Haitian government. Secondly, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma is not the lone culprit holding up most of the aid to Haiti.

One journalist Robert Naiman is mistaking Jon Stewart for a real journalist in this article, but he does point out that fact.

In fact, it is U.S. foreign policy as implemented by Secretary Hillary Clinton's State Dept, that is holding up the $1.15 billion aid to Haiti. Senator Coburn is only partially to blame. He evidently put a "secret hold" on $500 million in aid because he "objected to a minor provision in the legislation that authorized the spending."

Read the Senator's statement: Senator Tom Coburn Says he is not holding up aid to Haiti

Speaking of secrets, a declassified Henry Kissinger memorandum (Kissinger's National Security Memorandum 200) from 1974, outlines the U.S.' plan to promote the depopulation of the "developing world." Kissinger's degrading term for poor people coming out of that memo was "useless eaters."

Is it possible that the Kissinger/U.S. agenda (depopulating the developing world) is the U.S. policy playing out in Haiti ten months after the devastating earthquake?

U.S. foreign policy shows a blatant racist disregard for Haiti's poor population. In Haiti, USAID promotes sewing for the garment industry in unsafe, unsanitary, non-union, slave-wage sweatshops. In Asia and Europe, USAID offers high-tech jobs training.

U.S. immigration policy is discriminatory to Haitians. The Obama and Bush administrations have opened up the U.S. border for more European and Asian immigrants through employer preferences and other affirmative action immigration policies, like the "wet foot, dry foot policy," which accepts Cubans arriving on Miami shores, while repatriating or incarcerating Haitians in ICE jails. The Obama administration is deporting "undesirables" at an even higher rate than the Bush regime. Temporary Protected Status (TPS) was given to some unprecedented 30,000+ Haitians slated for deportation prior to the earthquake in January, but it wouldn't surprise Haitians for Obama to continue deportations of Haitian immigrants in spite of the humanitarian crisis in Haiti when the TPS ends.

The only unique exemption from deportation for a "non-citizen" seems to be if he/she dies in combat for the U.S., then they can be a dead citizen of the United States.

Could the documented U.S. foreign policy to depopulate developing countries be the real reason for the "slow pace of aid," indifference and pass-the-buck approach to aid administration? Is the U.S. deliberately facilitating the deaths of Haitians in the Internally Displaced People (IDP) camps or as they are best titled – the death camps? The State Department has only recently begun to fulfilled the administrative requirements for the release of aid the U.S. pledged... so maybe a couple of more months, years maybe, before the money is distributed to a well-connected NGO?

These are legitimate questions more than ten months after the quake – as the situation remains desperate, dangerous, debilitating, disease-ridden and depressing for over 1.5 million Haitians in the IDP camps and as a cholera epidemic rages.

Recall that the U.S., France & Canada sponsored the 2004 coup of the democratic government of Haiti (following the U.S. backed 1991 coup) – is it not unreasonable to conclude that in order to complete their collective agendas, these countries want to be sure that there is absolutely no spirited opposition (sic) left to protest their "selection" occurring on November 28? They are spending millions financing these elections, yet, they know very well that the country's major political party, Fanmi Lavalas and 11 others are banned from participation. The State Department has yet to publicly respond to protest letters (2 thus far) by 45 Congresspeople and a report by Richard Lugar expressing concern about the fairness and legitimacy of the elections.

Concrete plans must be made to provide every Haitian made homeless by the quake a permanent safe home, so that people know that they will not be living on the streets or in the tent camps "forever." It should be and is Haitian's human right to have access to food, shelter and work as per the UN Convention on Human Rights and the Haitian Constitution.

Secretary Clinton still has time to do the right thing for Haiti. She should demand that the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) permit all eligible parties to take part in legit, free and fair elections.

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