Forgiving Haiti's debt would help Haitians too. I'm for doing that.

During the so-called bloody, brutal Duvalier dictatorship I could travel anywhere in Haiti, day or night, alone in complete safety. No one would bother you. Up until the Aristide period, no foreigner was ever harmed.

Law-and-order was maintained by the Forces Armees d�Haiti and Police with a total of something like 7000 poorly equipped men. Now the UN says Haiti needs 35,000 police to control the country.

Obviously there is something wrong with the earlier perception of the Duvalier presidency or the reporting and perceptions under the Aristide/Preval governments

Now Haiti experiences and ongoing instability generated by Aristide, from South Africa, and the Haitian government, from Preval�s residence. There might be some copycat crimes but the basis for the chaos comes from these two partners in crime. They are still connected and communicate with regularity.

Today, in June of 2008 there is no confidence in the security. Kidnapping ebbs and rises at the whim of governmental requirements. Dozens of men women and children, Haitian and foreign have been grabbed in all areas of the nation. Many prominent people have been kidnapped and ransomed with no publicity. Kidnapping is a growth industry.

I cannot even walk a hundred yards to a major gas station in Petionville to buy a phone card. My associates are afraid that I might be grabbed. Only last week a man was kidnapped in from of St Therese, a major Catholic church one block away. Two nights ago, a woman was taken 20 feet from my gate.

Children are kidnapped and raped while the criminal demand ransom. Sometimes the children are mutilated and killed after the ransom has been paid.

Haiti has become truly Democratic with the United Nations assistance. Now no one is safe from the criminals, Americans, Canadians, Europeans, South Americans and Haitians of all social and economic standings. Democracy has been a gift from Aristide/Preval and their friends.

Jean Claude Duvalier, where are you. We could welcome a return to your blood, murderous dictatorship where all Haitians and foreigners could travel the nations byways in complete and total safety.

The garbage that the UN pedals, suggesting that Haiti is no more dangerous that other places is insulting in the extreme. They have taken a peaceful nation � with little or no violence � and elevated it to the point where UIN experts compare it to New York, Las Angeles and Chicago.

It is disgusting, but the UN is an empire-building organization and wants to maintain control of Haiti. Haiti is worth billions of dollars to it each year of the UN occupation. Lots of big jobs, with enormous salaries and fringe benefits, for guys and girls who could not find similar jobs in the real world.

Whenever you here a comparison likening a city's crime rate to NYC, you know you are dealing with an ignorant statement based on outdated stereotypes and not on accuate statistics. NYC has been for a number of years one of the safest large cities in the world, Port-au-Prince a place with a terrifying kidnap rate. The UN needs a new spokesman for Haiti.