paranoia is an irrational fear that has no basis in the paranoid person's life experience.
for instance, a non-influential person thinking that the CIA is watching his every move suffers from paranoia.
if that is the correct definition, then my fear of a coup-d'etat is not irrational but rather reflective and retrospective.
does not haiti have a history of undoing democracy?
if that is true as recently as 1991, then my fear is justified by recent memory.
in other words, i am not being paranoid but rather i am being vigilant.
jan batis, words have meaning, you cannot just negate them in nothingness at will.
the great wittgenstein would have scorned you for such a violation.
are you in denial? hope is good but it becomes desperation when the reality contradicts the very likelihood of the situation hoped for.
are you ready to help move forward your beloved haiti? that is the question!!!!
on one hand,if you believe in the messianic power of baker, then you would not help and would only wish for us to fail as a way of demonstrating the necessity of your messiah(that would be psychopathological); but on the other hand, if you really love your country as you have claimed many times, then you will be a gracious loser and move forward with your country.
it is democracy, there always is a next time.
in the mean time, do some PR. Prove to the people that haiti is your main interest not the elections.
for instance, encourage baker to create an internship program at his industrial plants in which young haitian kids can get access to modern machinery.
what do you say? that is the true meaning of inclusiveness as evidenced by the sharing of responsibility.
i do not have anything against you, i am the same guy that you have respectfully argued with.
patriotic sentinel and observer keen are the same man with different uniforms, military and civilian respectively.
This is what i know: the only city that has not voted for preval is petit goave which is understandable; for it has always voted for its native son "hubert deronceray".
perhaps you do not know that it was washington who encouraged preval to enter the race in the first place.
