in the united states, if a soldier is tired and has been granted a pension, but later proved to have been a spy for another country, then not only he would stop receiving his pension, but he would also face criminal actions.
what does that prove?
it proves that getting a pension is pre-conditioned on honest service rendered.
let's look at the case of the former haitian soldiers to see if they meet that pre-conditional clause.
the army is intended to protect the territory, and the rights and citizens both from internal and external enemies:
did the haitian army protect the haitian people from external enemies?
the trujillo governement killed thousands of haitians, but no attempt on the part of the haitian army was made to stop the massacre.on the contrary, our military officers were parading with dominican protitutes as trophies during their regular dance-balls.
did the haitian army protect the haitian people from internal enemies?:
in 1987, in the presence of dessalines barracks soldiers, the macoutes massacred many awaiting voters at carrefour paillant, there was no interference from the soldiers and no pursuit of the people involved.
in 1988, both colonel paul and casimir knew of the saint jean bosco church massacre, they both related that information to then-father aristid, but failed to intervene as required by their civic obligation.
rather than blaming themselves for dereliction of duty, they shifted the blame to aristid as if had an obligation to back down from criminal threats.
imagine state of black america if dr king were to back down from threats from white-supremacist groups?
now, we have proven that the soldiers have not been faithful to their bargains.
to really undersatand my point, let's look at A and B that get into contract.
if A violates the abiding terms of its part of the contract, then such action invalidates the obligation of B. in other words, if pension is pre-conditioned on honest service rendered, then a failure to render honest service invalidates one's right to a pension.
as demontrated, the people.
did not get what they were promised, then they cannot abide to what they have promised either.
if we were to reward an engineer for designig faulty bridges that keep on colapsing, then what incentive is there to encourage the construction of stronger and stronger bridges?
since, the soldiers did not provide honest service, then the state does not owe them anything.
the contract is automatically annuled upon the violation of the pre-condition which is clearly the case of the former soldiers.
P.S: i am a veteran of the united states of american, and i am speaking as a soldier myself.
i was not comparing king to aristid, i mentioned him just to clarify my point!
Posted by Observer Keen Patriotic Sentinel on 3/9/06 2:13 PM
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