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These images focus our attention on paramilitary organizations and their facilitators: various state, military, and intelligence apparatuses, officials, and elite networks. As paramilitary groups and their backers have gained impunity time and again, it is necessary to document all of this for the historical record, which I have tried to do in my recently published book. Through these photos, we are forced to recognize that the victims of paramilitary violence in Haiti are overwhelmingly from the country's lower-income communities and grassroots pro-democracy movement.
In addition to these photographs, I suggest looking over the many excellent documentaries, books, and other sources that provide a compelling record of contemporary paramilitary violence in Haiti and the region.
U.S. military trainer with Haitian soldiers during the U.S. occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934. Haitian soldiers escorting Haitian anti-occupation rebels into prison. The Dominican Republic was occupied by the U.S. at around the same time, between 1916 and 1924. The formation of the contemporary Haitian and Dominican armies under U.S. tutelage bequeathed to these nations a "poison gift" through which the interests of dominant groups and U.S. corporations would be violently upheld. In both countries, the new armed forces worked alongside brutal militia forces (in Haiti these were called the 'section chiefs'). All of this is discussed in more detail in the book. (Photos: CC)
President for Life François Duvalier "Papa Doc" (right) holding bilateral talks with Dominican Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo (left) at the Dominican-Haitian boarder in December of 1958. (Photos: CC)
A contingent of U.S. Marines under Lt Col. Robert Debs Heinl, Jr. (co-author of the book Written in Blood), trained the Tonton Macoute paramilitaries (officially known as the the Volontaires de la Sécurité Nationale or VSN) alongside units of Haiti's army during 1961 and 1962. This is discussed more in my book. Also see journalist Leslie Cockburn's interview with industrialist Butch Ashton on how this occurred. (Photo: Courtesy of U.S. Naval Institute)
Tonton Macoute paramilitaries, known formally as the Volontaires de la Sécurité Nationale (VSN), parade with rifles and swords on July, 29 1984. This was the twenty fifth anniversary of their founding. A symbiotic relationship had occurred for decades, where many macoutes served in both the VSN and the Haitian army (the FAd'H). They were originally founded in 1959-1960 during the start of Francois Duvalier's regime. In the book I describe this as the 'first wave' of paramilitarism in contemporary Haiti, a force that was used to violently silence leftist, pro-democracy activists, labor organizers, and critical voices in general. (Video Stills: CC)
U.S. industrialist (and emissary of U.S. President Nixon) Nelson Rockefeller meeting with Duvalier, to sign various deals between the two countries. (Photo: CC)
Haiti's Leopards Corps in camouflage uniforms, founded in 1971 as a "counter-insurgency" force upon the inauguration of Jean-Claude Duvalier (also known as "Baby Doc"). The Leopards were described by human rights investigators as "particularly brutal in dealing with civilians." Some of Haiti's future paramilitary leaders got their start in this outfit. (Photo: Courtesy of United States Department of Defense)
James Byers was CEO of the Miami based company Aerotrade, which trained and outfitted Jean-Claude Duvalier's "counterinsurgency force", the Leopards, during 1971 and 1972. On camera in the mid-1980's he acknowledged that Aerotrade did this under CIA contract, U.S. Department of State approval, and close supervision from US officials. See here. (Video Still: CC)
Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier with U.S. military officer in early 1970s.
Jean-Claude Duvalier in Leopard uniform with regime entourage. (Photo: CC)
Jean-Claude Duvalier alongside family as well as VSN and FAd'H high command overseeing a parade on the 26th anniversary of the Tonton Macoutes (VSN). To Jean-Claude Duvalier's left is Roger Lafontant, dreaded leader of the VSN. (Video Still: CC)
Huge protests in Haiti occurred against the Tonton Macoutes and the regime, leading eventually to Jean Claude's fleeing the country. The photo (to the right) is of a young man holding up a dog in a macoute uniform. (Video Stills: Courtesy of Crowing Rooster)
With Jean Claude in exile, the country's military attempted to hold power. Unelected President Henri Namphy led an "interim ruling body", the National Council of Government, between February 1986 and February 1988 and then again from June 1988 until September 1988. With a massive social movement organizing across the country, he was forced to accept the voting in of a new constitution. Even still, paramilitary violence continued as the macoutes removed their uniforms and operated as 'attaches' working increasingly close with the FAd'H. (Photo: CC)
Victims of a massacre conducted by attache paramilitaries working with police and military forces in 1987. Following the fall of Jean-Claude, the Tonton macoutes had removed their blue uniforms and increasingly worked in civilian garb and worked as attachments alongside the military, as the common people increasingly fought back. I describe these 'attaches' as the 'second wave' of paramilitarism in contemporary Haiti. (Photos: Courtesy of photographer Tony Savino)
The St. Jean Bosco massacre , September 11, 1988. (Photo: Courtesy of Crowing Rooster)
The St. Jean Bosco massacre , September 11, 1988 (Video Still: Courtesy of Crowing Rooster)
Leslie Manigat, briefly headed a Duvalierist student group before becoming disillusioned and moving to the elite opposition. He nonetheless shared many Duvalierist tenets. He briefly held the presidency after a military held and widely denounced "election" in which few participated. (Photo: CC)
Prosper Avril, an advisor and trusted member of Jean-Claude Duvalier's presidential guard. After ousting Namphy, he ruled from September 1988 to March of 1990. His military regime, like his predecessors, was heavily sponsored by the United States government. (Photo: CC)
Across the border from Haiti, in the Dominican Republic, rightwing forces (also with the support of the U.S.) controlled the state apparatus. Joaquin Balaguer (above), after serving as vice president under Dominican fascist dictator Rafael Trujillo, served as president of the Dominican Republic between the years 1960-1962, 1966-1978, and 1986-1996. Balaguer promoted a viscious xenophobia toward Haitians, useful in upholding the country's extremely unequal social system as well as to justify his inflated military budget. His government was considered a major U.S. ally in the region. (Photo: CC)
In the wake of Avril's exit from power, a body known as the Council of State—made up of a number of representatives of the democratic forces and members of the anti-dictatorship movement's social democratic sector.—held a power-sharing deal with interim President Ertha Pascal-Trouillot (pictured above) in order to move forward to free and fair elections. The Council of State became very critical of Pascal-Trouillot and broke with her over what they perceived as her enabling of the army and the Duvalierists. In early 1990 paramilitaries went so far as to storm a hotel where the Council of State was meeting, killing one trade unionist organizer and wounding two others. (Photo: CC)
Roger Lafontant, head of the Tonton Macoute attaches, was by far the most feared man in the country, and attempted a coup against Pascal-Trouillot's government in January of 1991 in order to stop the inauguration of Haiti's first elected president that coming February. (Photo: CC)
Pro-democracy/Anti-Duvalierist Liberation theologian Jean-Bertrand Aristide was elected in Haiti's first widely hailed fair and free election, and with a large turnout. (Photo: CC)
Following the military coup that ousted Haiti's first democratically elected government on September 29, 1991, Joseph Nérette (left) on October 8, 1991 was installed as president of a "provisional government", although real authority continued to be held by a military junta headed by General Raoul Cedras (right). (Photo: Courtesy of photographer Tony Savino)
Frank Romain held numerous positions over his career from mayor of Port-au-Prince, to Chief of the National Police under Duvalier, and also served as a one-time FAd'H colonel and Tonton Macoute who had received training at the U.S. School of the Americas. (Video Still: Courtesy of Crowing Rooster)
Members of the FAd'H High Command (Courtesy of photographer Tony Savino)
Human rights organizers found that the military and paramilitary forces were dumping bodies of those they had executed in the old body dumping location of the Duvalier regime. The photos above also show various regime officials that brutalized Haiti's poor and pro-democracy movement. See more photos here and here. (Video Stills and Photographs: Courtesy of Crowing Rooster, documentarian Kevin Pina, and photographer Tony Savino)
U.S. journalists and filmmakers documented how during the early 1990s the CIA's station chief and senior operations office in Port-au-Prince, John Kambourian (above), was providing direct cash payments to the FRAPH deathsquad leadership and working as an interlocuteur between the local bourgeoisie, the FRAPH, and the U.S. embassy (Video Still (left): From the documentary Rezistans, courtesy of Crowing Rooster Arts. Photo (right): CC)
Members of a FRAPH paramilitary force based out of Port-au-Prince in 1993. The 'third wave' of contemporary paramilitaries in the country, used to violently target Haiti's pro-democracy movement. (Photo: Courtesy of photographer Tony Savino)
Journalists and human rights investigators documented how the defacto regime imprisoned large numbers of youth and pro-democracy activists that had demonstrated against the 1991 coup. (Video Still: Courtesy of Crowing Rooster Arts)
Antoine Izméry (above), passionate pro-democracy and anti-coup business leader assassinated by paramilitaries in 1994. (Video Stills: from the documentary Rezistans, courtesy of Crowing Rooster Arts)
The assassination of the Justice Minister of Haiti Guy Malary and his bodyguards (a video still from the documentary Rezistans, courtesy of Crowing Rooster Arts)
Haiti's poor majority and diaspora community turned out in massive demonstrations against the violent rule of the de facto regime and the ouster of the country's first democratically elected government. (Video Stills: Courtesy of Crowing Rooster Arts)
Dany Toussaint, a one time CIA asset and FAd'H veteran, that opposed the 1991 coup, he was put in charge of an interim public security force with the return of Haiti's elected government in 1994. Powerful, charismatic, and intelligent, he held significant influence within the new police force that was formed, and exploited his ties with the country's popular movement and elected government, while maintaining links with elites and the U.S. He and other corrupt ex-FAd'H formed a narco trafficking cartel. This cartel as well as two other locally based cartels competed to fill the place of the disbanded army, whose leadership had controlled (and profited) off the narco trade going through the country for decades. (Photo: CC)
The Raboteau trial: The most significant and first attempt to hold paramilitaries and army men in Haiti accountable for violence before a court of law. A number of other trials and investigations were held into elite and paramilitary violence against the poor, a history (widely ignored) that I document in the book. (Photo: CC)
Bob Manuel, close with the U.S. embassy, served as security chief to Haiti's second democratically elected president Rene Préval. Manuel carried out a heightened insertion of ex-FAd'H into the new police force (and importantly the FAdH he sought to insert into the new police force were from the pool considered closest with the U.S. and from bourgeoisie connected backgrounds), placing them into top positions. I document this in detail in the book. Importantly during the late 1990s, Manuel oversaw the integration of this group of young well-connected former FAd'H trainees into important positions within Haiti's new police force (this group known as the "Ecuadorians", or "Bob Manuel's Jewels", were younger cadets that had been trained with U.S. support in Ecuador, and as youths some had attended the school of Haiti's bourgeoisie in Port-au-Prince, Saint-Louis de Gonzague. Most were involved in the narco trade as well.) (Photo: CC)
Guy Philippe, one of the "Ecuadorians" to be integrated into Haiti's police under Bob Manuel, would eventually help lead a new paramilitary force (the FLRN) against Haiti's elected government in the early 2000s. Haitian and U.S. officials have accused him of involvement in narco-trafficking, and I discuss this further in the book. While Philippe has been a relatively loose cannon in speaking with the media, he has continued to remain an important figure for the ex-FAd'H strata in the country. (Photo: Courtesy of Isabel Macdonald)
Former police chiefs Godwork Noel (left) and Jacky Nau (right) worked alongside Philippe to mount a paramilitary campaign against Haiti's democracy. Both had been trained as part of Haiti's military with U.S. support in Ecuador prior to being brought into Haiti's police. Nau attended (along with Philippe) the prestigious Port-au-Prince school Saint-Louis de Gonzague. Today, both serve in important security positions within the rightwing Martelly government. (Photos: Courtesy of Haïti Liberté Newspaper)
An upscale neighborhood in Santo Domingo where Dominican officials told the author that Guy Philippe lived throughout parts of 2001, 2002, and 2003. (Photo by the author)
Career bureaucrats at the Dominican Ministry of Foreign Relations in Santo Domingo acknowledged providing close support to Guy Philippe and his paramilitary force. From left to right is Dr. Luis Ventura Sanchez, Haitian ex-pat Jean Bertin, and William Paez Piantini. This is discussed in more depth in the book. (Photo by the author)
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. This ministry as well as sectors within the Dominican army were important backers of the FLRN paramilitaries. It should be noted that a group of officials within the Dominican ministry of foreign relations went against the advice of then Dominican Ambassador to Haiti, Chico Despradel, who opposed his government's policy of facilitating Haiti's rightwing paramilitary forces and their cross-border attacks between 2001 and 2003. (Photo by the author)
Former Dominican President Hipólito Mejía (left) being interviewed by the author (middle) in August of 2007. The interview was conducted at one of Mejía's mansions, a 45 minute drive outside of Santo Domingo. (Photo taken by one of Mejía's servants with the author's camera)
President Mejía on his mansion's veranda. (Photo by the author)
Near the national palace on the morning after the December 17, 2001 assault, police and others gathered around one of the trucks (with mounted M-50) that had been utilized and abandoned by FLRN paramilitaries during their attempted palace takeover the previous night. (Photo: Courtesy of Haiti Progres)
A photo of a meeting in late 2001 in the National Palace in Santo Domingo (in the Dominican Republic) of Dominican President Hipolito Mejía with other Dominican government officials and rightwing Haitian hardliners. Pictured from left to right is first an unidentified individual, then Haitian right-winger Harry Joseph, Dominican President Mejía, Haitian industrialist Georges Saati, Ramon Albuquerque (president of the Dominican Senate), and two other Dominican officials. This meeting is said to have included discussion on facilitating paramilitary attacks against the Aristide government. (Photo: Courtesy of Delis Herasme)
Judie C Roy. One of a group of wealthy elites in Port-au-Prince that backed the FLRN paramilitaries. This photo is from an interview in which she acknowledged to the author that she was an early financier of the FLRN paramilitaries. Her role and the role of other local elites is documented in detail in the book. (Photo by the author)
Georges Saati. One of a group of wealthy diaspora business leaders that is believed to have sponsored the FLRN paramilitaries and came under investigation by the government of Haiti. Haitian government investigators charged that they had discovered his role in backing the FLRN paramilitaries. (Photo by the author)
My book documents the role of Lt. General Soto Jiménez of the Dominican military in supporting the FLRN paramilitaries. (Photo: Courtesy of Diario Libre)
General Manuel Dominican Major Polanco Salvador, close with Dominican President Mejía, also played a role, as discussed in my book. (Photo: Courtesy of Diario Libre)
Delis Herasme , a controversial "journalist" in the Dominican Republic and "childhood friend" of President Mejía. He claimed to have held parties at his home in Santo Domingo for the paramilitaries and their elite and government backers in the Dominican Republic during the early 2000's. He elaborated upon these in an interview with the author and explained how the paramilitaries had backers from within both of the major Dominican establishment political parties (the PLD and the PRD). (Photo: Courtesy of Guasabara Editor)
Industrialist's Charles Henry Baker (left) and André "Andy" Apaid, Jr. (Right) and some others from the transnationally oriented business sector in Haiti are believed to have at different times backed paramilitary forces in the country. (Photo: Provided to the author in 2007 by the late photojournalist Jean Ristil Jean-Baptiste)
Speaking with the press in Santo Domingo in 2003: Paul Arcelin, representative of the Convergence Democratic in the Dominican Republic and political strategist for the FLRN (left), Guy Philippe (middle), and another paramilitary boss Jean-Baptiste "Tyson" Clotaire (right). (Photo: CC)
The late Remissainthe Ravix, one of the most brutal and feared leaders of the FLRN paramilitaries, he was said to be the operational commander in US embassy cables. For photographic evidence of one massacre he carried out see here. (First Photo: Courtesy of Tom Griffin, Second Photo: CC)
A gathering of victims and family members of victims of paramilitary violence in the central plateau. These people and others founded the Mouvement Pour Le Développement du Plateau Central (MODEPC) and continue to work with Haitian human rights lawyers to seek justice. These victims of rightist paramilitary violence have received virtually no coverage in the Haitian or International media.[1] For more see here, here, here and in French here. (Photo: Courtesy of photographer Wadner Pierre)
The International Republican Institute (IRI) hosts a meeting of Haitian opposition activists in 2003 at the luxurious Hotel Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. Throughout 2003 and into early 2004 the USAID and NED funded IRI hosted meetings at the luxurious Montana hotel in Santo Domingo. As a yearlong New York Times investigation revealed, it was at these meetings that more officials from Haiti's political and civil society opposition rubbed elbows with the leadership of the FLRN paramilitaries. Above photos include then IRI officials Georges Fauriol (who now works at the Washington DC think tank CSIS and at the U.S. government financed NED) and Haitian right winger Stanley Lucas who currently works for the Martelly government. (Photos: CC)
At the time of 2004 coup France's Foreign Minister was Dominique de Villepin (above). He played an instrumental role in overthrowing Haiti's elected government and U.S. embassy officials at the time communicated with the State Department that they believed France was providing financial support to the FLRN paramilitaries (as mentioned in my book). (Photo: CC)
Above: FLRN paramilitaries occupying Cap Haitien in 2004, what I describe in the book as the 'fourth wave' of paramilitarism in contemporary Haiti. (Photo: Courtesy of photographer Alan Pogue)
Above: Passport photo and business card of Louis-Jodel Chamblain (co-founder of FRAPH and a leader of the FLRN and later the FRN "political party"). He was the mastermind of numerous assassinations of pro-democracy activists and leaders. In 2010, he headed up security for former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier following his secret entry into the country. This photo and business card were provided by Chamblain to the author during an interview in 2007 at the Hotel Ibo Lele where he lived in luxury in the Pétionville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. (Provided to the author by Louis-Jodel Chamblain)
Above: Chamblain along with other FLRN criminal paramilitaries holding "court" in one of their "liberated" towns, judging youth suspected of supporting Haiti's pro-democracy movement. (Photo: CC)
Individuals from Haiti's bourgeousie interviewed by the author alleged that he had a 'behind the scenes' role in the Gonaives jailbreak on August 4, 2002 in which 150 prisoners escaped. The 2002 jailbreak in Gonavies was carried out by armed individuals who used a bulldozer to knock down a wall of the jail.
Those who escaped included leaders of armed groups in the city (such as Jean Tatoune and Amiot "Cubain" Metayer) and a number of ex-military who had been convicted for their role in 'Raboteau massacre' (a slum in Gonaives where the FAd'H violently targeted anti-coup/pro-democracy community members in April of 1994). The arrest and imprisonment of these individuals had taken a good deal of resources by the government, so the jailbreak was a significant set back.
The jailbreak intensified a heated struggle in Gonaives, in which local police were hard pressed and eventually were unable to contain. According to a formerly top secret US Embassy cable released to the author through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, US agent Janice Elmore (see below) met in Gonaives with Hugues Paris in the days leading up to the jailbreak.[3]
Also, according to the same U.S. embassy cable the then Dominican ambassador to Haiti, Alberto Despradel, claimed that Hugues Paris had ties to the coup plotters. Individuals from Haiti's bourgoueisie interviewed by the author alleged that Hugues Paris works with a loose network of wealthy Duvalierists and ultra-right wingers in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Haiti's diaspora abroad. (This photo was provided by a source that requested anonymity)
[1] See discussion by Izmery in the film Rezistans (1997).
[2] ONAPI (Oficina Nacional de la Propiedad Industrial) 8/172 (April 2008), available at http://onapi.gob.do/download.cfm?downloadfile=A0AFE2B7-3FF3-3729-C8F6E6C81693A550.
[3] Jack L. Barnhart, Regional Security Officer, U.S. Embassy, Port-au-Prince, Cable E9279E, September 18, 2002. (Photo: Provided to the author by an anonymous source)
According to a cable sent from the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince to the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., US official Janice Elmore (pictured in two photos above) met secretly in the port city of Gonaïves with anti-government plotter Hugues Paris as well as with shadey police officers during the days prior to the August 4, 2002 jailbreak in that city.[1]
According to an anonymous U.S. government source: she was the ex-wife of a former U.S. delta force commando, operated from within the U.S. embassy (during the time period of the second Aristide administration), knew Dany Toussaint well, and was close with members of Haiti's SWAT team whom she attempted to cultivate for a transition toward a post-Aristide period. She is also described as having a "cold war mindset" and being stridently Anti-Lavalas.
U.S. congressional testimony suggests that Elmore worked for U.S. intelligence and had served as a US State Department Political Military Advisor in Sarajevo, held positions at the US embassy in Kartoum, served as a narcotics coordinator at the U.S. Embassy in EL Salvador (1986-1990), and then went to work in Haiti, and very likely worked for the CIA. Elmore also testified at 'CIA-Contra Crack Cocaine Controversy' hearings held by the U.S. department of justice.[2] According to FOIA cables obtained by the author, other U.S. officials in addition to Elmore had contact with neo-Duvalierist plotters and opportunist sectors within Haiti's police.
[1] Jack L. Barnhart, Regional Security Officer, U.S. Embassy, Port-au-Prince, Cable E9279E, September 18, 2002.
[2] U.S. Department of Justice "CIA-Contra Crack Cocaine Controversy", available online at: http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/9712/ch10p3.htm
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U.S. Ambassador James Foley oversaw the 2004 coup d'etat, proceeding integration of 400 ex-army paramilitary criminals into Haiti's police force, and the post-coup campaign of violent repression. He wrote to the State Department that: "It is equally plausible that Aristide succeeded in permanently raising the political and social consciousness (not to mention the expectations) of Haiti's disadvantaged masses, and thus created a force which the next generation of political leaders will either have to placate or manipulate." Ambassador James Foley, U.S. embassy, Port-au-Prince, Cable 3E08FF, July 12, 2004. (Photo: Courtesy of the United States Department of State)
Paramiitary commander Remissainthe Ravix with paramilitaries under his command at their base in the Pétionville neighborhood of Port-au-Prince in November of 2004. In addition to the hundreds of paramilitaries utilized in Port-au-Prince following the coup, hundreds more were mobilized across the country with bases in Ouanaminthe, Cap Haïtien, Fort Liberté, Jérémie, Petit Goâve, Jacmel, as well as in some smaller towns. (Photo: Courtesy of Thomas Griffin)
"New army" paramilitaries in late 2004 being dispatched to the Bel Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince. (Photo: Courtesy of Thomas Griffin)
A Haitian women that died from gunfire after paramilitaries opened fire on an anti-coup demonstration in Cite Soleil. (Photo: Courtesy of the late Jean Ristil Jean-Baptiste)
Human Rights investigators discovered that nearly 10 months after the 2004 coup, the main morgue of Port-au-Prince was well beyond capacity and breaking down. (Photo: Courtesy of Thomas Griffin)
A Miami University Human Rights Study described the photo above as the "The Carrefour Pean massacre". They reported that, "The gaping hole in the head of the boy at the far right... suggests the use of a large-caliber gun, at very close range." Human rights investigators gathered a good deal of other disturbing photographic evidence, documenting extrajudicial executions and widespread politically motivated attacks by paramilitary-police forces. (Photo: Courtesy of TeleSUR reporter Reed Lindsay)
Haitian police engaging gunmen in Port-au-Prince in 2005. A "slum uprising" occurred in September of 2004 following months of killings of peaceful anti-coup demonstrators by para-police forces. A number of anti-coup militants took up arms against the post-coup police force, their paramilitary allies, and UN troops stationed in the capital. During 2004 and 2005, under UN, OAS, and US supervision, 400 ex-FAd'H paramilitaries were integrated into Haiti's National Police. (Photo: Courtesy of photographer Joanna Gleason)
A Haitian National Police "Wanted Poster" in November of 2004. All of these wanted were Lavalas street leaders (described by some as gang leaders and by others as anti-coup militants). The leaders of armed groups in low income neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince that were anti-Lavalas, such as Thomas "Labanye" Robinson, were of course not included on the poster. (Photo: Courtesy of Attorney Thomas Griffin)
Human right investigators in 2005 from AUMOHD and HURAH investigate homes in the Gran Ravine neighborhood of Port-au-Prince that were burned, with some of the inhabitants murdered by the anti-Lavalas paramilitary organization Lame Ti Manchet. (Photo: Courtesy of HURAH/AUMOHD)
12 year old boy murdered by Lame ti Manchet paramilitaries on July 7, 2006 in Gran Ravine, Port-au-Prince. (Photo: Courtesy of HURAH/AUMOHD)
Esterne Bruner, a grassroots human rights organizer of AUMOHD and a resident of Gran Ravine, murdered by Lame ti Manchet paramilitaries. (Photo: Courtesy of HURAH/ AUMOHD)
Victims of Lame ti Manchet paramilitary violence in Gran Ravine, testify to human rights investigators. (Photo: Courtesy of HURAH/AUMOHD)
MINUSTAH on midday "peace" operation in November of 2004 alongside Haitian National Police in the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Bel Air. (Photo: Courtesy of attorney Thomas Griffin)
Haitian National Police officers meeting with UN advisors and foreign technocrat observers. (Photo: Courtesy of United Nations website)
Pierre-Antoine Lovinsky, one of the most well known pro-democracy and human rights activists opposed to the ex-FAd'H and paramilitaries. He was a founder and leader of the Fondasyon 30 Septamn, an organization made up of victims from the September 1991 coup. An vocal opponent of the second coup in February of 2004 he mysteriously disappeared in August of 2007. In this photo he was leading a sit in at Haiti's Ministry of Justice on October 26, 2006. (Photo: Courtesy of photographer Wadner Pierre)
Haiti under occupation. Troops from the Brazilian contingent of MINUSTAH (United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti). The author was harassed by these soldiers on August 18, 2007 when taking photos of them standing guard in front of the national palace as members of the Fondasyon 30 Septamn protested the disapearance of grassroots human rights leader Pierre Antoine Lovinsky, one of the most vocal and longtime opponents of paramilitary terror in Haiti. (Photo by the author)
Jean-Claude Duvalier (center), with his chief of security Louis-Jodel Chamblain (to his right) in the days following his return in January of 2011. (Video-still: Courtesy of Democracy Now! Pacifica Radio)
Important backers of the 2004 coup and the return of Haiti's brutal military, Senator Youri Latortue (left) with President Michel Martelly (right) in 2011. One U.S. embassy cable released through WikiLeaks states that: "Senator Youri Latortue may well be the most brazenly corrupt of leading Haitian politicians". (Photo: Courtesy of Haïti Liberté Newspaper)
"New army" recruits being trained by ex-FAd'H drill commanders in March of 2011. (Photo: Courtesy of Christian Science Monitor freelancer Isabeau Doucet)
Ex-FAd'H LT Jeune Aduen Moniteur stands in front of a Duvalierist flag at a "new army" camp that is thirty to forty minutes from the center of Port-au-Prince, past Carrefour, between the towns of Mariane and Gressier. It has been dubbed 'Lambi 12 Grande Saline'. With hundreds of new recruits active in the area, the ex-FAd'H say that half a dozen other such camps are active across the country. (Photo by the author)
Ex-FAd'H and new recruits meet to train, advocate for the return of the Duvalierist military, and network to find jobs in local security firms. (Photo by the author)
A young recruit of the "new army" in mid-2011, too young to remember the Duvalierist regime, poses proudly in front of a red and black Duvalierist flag. (Photo: Courtesy of Christian Science Monitor freelancerIsabeau Doucet)
First group of new army cadets in mid-2013 under the Martelly government, trained and sponsored with support from the governments of Ecuador, Brazil, and France. (Photo: Courtesy of Government of Haiti) Meanwhile, in November of 2013 the government of Uruguay declared that it would soon be withdrawing its forces from the UN occupation of Haiti. This comes as Uruguay's president has criticized the Martelly government for not holding elections. Martelly's government came to power with an extremely small turnout at the elections in March of 2011 and after the OAS intervened to illegally alter the earlier run-off elections. See the CEPR report on the OAS political intervention of 2010-2011.
October, 2015: In the run-up to presidential elections (just days prior), a new special police unit known as BOID (Brigade for Departmental Intervention Operations) carried out a violent operation in the popular neighborhood of Cite Soleil (a stronghold of support for Lavalas). The raid claimed over 20 lives according to Haitian media, including two pregnant women and a ten your old child. The new police brigade is said to include individuals from among the new group of cadets trained in Ecuador. (Photo: Courtesy of Haiti Liberte/Daniel Tercier)
October, 2017: "New army" being formed under the regime of Jovenel Moïse. Meanwhile, voter turnout in post-earthquake elections has dropped to less than 20% as compared to 60-70% turnouts during Haiti's democratic interregnum (1991, 1994-2004). New army forces are required to repress the marginalized population (Photo: Courtesy of Haiti Information Project-HIP).
October, 2017: Militarized police utilized in Port-au-Prince to repress popular class protests. (Photo: Courtesy of Agence France-Presse-AFP).
November, 2018: Above are photos and images of para-police forces that have been violently targeting lower income neighborhoods (where growing anti-corruption protests have been emanating from), including a massacre carried out in the neighborhood of La Saline. It is said that this new "fast reaction force" is operating as part of the
l'Unité de sécurité générale du Palais national (USPGN) and it looks like they have received a shipment of M-4 automatic machine guns with different variants (made in the USA). Also one should note that a number of white men are masked and operating alongside the armed group, believed to be PMCs (private military contractors).
Also included above is a photo of a recent meeting between top Dominican and Haitian police officials who are expanding their cross-border coordination. I am not going to post videos of the numerous killings conducted by state forces that have taken place in recent days. These can be found on Twitter here, here, here, here, and elsewhere. (Photos reposted from Twitter feeds of Haiti Information Project and Madan Boukman). Here is a new short article that I have published on the La Saline massacre.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
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Keith Urban and Vince Gill have signed on to appear at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival, a music event that has become legendary for its stellar performances and iconic collaborations with some of the most talented guitarists in the entire music industry. The two-day music celebration is scheduled to take place on April 12-13, 2013 in New York City.
"The Crossroads Festival is the realization of a dream for me, to gather a group of amazingly talented musicians to perform on one stage," Clapton says of his annual event. "The Crossroads performers are all musicians I admire and respect."
Urban and Gill join a star-studded lineup, which includes fellow country music superstar Brad Paisley, John Mayer, Jeff Beck and the Allman Brothers. The 2013 Crossroads Guitar Festival event will take place at the historic Madison Square Garden in New York for the very first time since the festival's inception in 2004.
In additional to musical performances, the event will host the Guitar Center Road to Crossroads Exhibition, which will feature the Legends Guitar Walk, a collection of some of the most valuable guitars in the history of music. The exhibit will be open both days and is free to all ticket holders.
Tickets for the 2013 Crossroads Guitar Festival, presented by Chase, will offer an advance sale to bank customers beginning Nov. 26 at noon ET through Ticketmaster. Tickets will be available to the general public beginning Nov. 30 at noon ET. Click here for more information.

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The Upstate Cancer Center and Upstate's Colleges Against Cancer chapter host the third annual Lung Cancer Vigil at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13 outside the main entrance of Upstate University Hospital. The candlelight vigil is part of a national Shine a Light on Lung Cancer awareness effort by the Lung Cancer Alliance, a not-for-profit organization. The public is welcome.
Presenters include Leslie Kohman MD, medical director for the Upstate Cancer Center; students from Upstate's Radiation Therapy program, and other members of the Upstate community.
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Almost exactly 46 years ago to the day, on 29 May 1966, the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City was officially opened. It remains one of the largest arenas in the world today. Only Korea DPR's Rungrado May Day stadium in Pyongyang (150,000 capacity) and the Salt Lake stadium in Calcutta, India (120,000 capacity) are able to house more than the 105,000 fans that can fit into Mexico City's showpiece arena.
Yet the Aztec Stadium, situated in the metropolis' southern suburb of Coyoacan, is not only famous for the sheer numbers of spectators it can hold. It also has the honour of being the only ground in the world to have hosted two FIFA World Cup Finals™.
Both the 1970 and 1986 editions of the tournament took place in Mexico. Both Finals, respectively between Brazil and Italy (4-1) and Argentina and West Germany (3-2), were contested in the Aztec Stadium. Furthermore, the Finals of the FIFA U-20 World Cup Mexico 1983 and the FIFA U-17 World Cup Mexico 2011 were played there.
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"We're going to make Trade Promotion Authority a key part of our advocacy this year," John Engler, president of the Business Roundtable, told reporters.
The authority was last passed by Congress in 2002, over the objections of many House Democrats.
Groups including the Business Roundtable and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have been encouraged by recent statements from House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, a Michigan Republican, and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat, who have said they want to complete a bill. The authority would need to clear both chambers of Congress to be approved.
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AndyG necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 129 design presentati da 29 designer.
Arkk Solutions
Our business sticks systems together for businesses. Want to integrate your HR with your Accounting? Want to get your systems to talk to your customers? We have the glue to put it all together. We take a clients requirement, investigate what they currently have, design the systems architecture, implement the software solution and train their users.
Techies.... people who get off on the latest gadgets, designing kick ass software, wear jumpers over their shirts, can complete a Rubiks cube, can't wait for the latest Mac book to be released, drink lots of caffeine based drinks, and address people as users.
We want to appeal to IT guys within businesses who will use the product and freelance IT consultants who will do the implementation for us. We knit / glue systems together we want to show this in the logo. We take a whole spaghetti of coloured wires and put them in beautiful order.
Could be upper or lower case. Could be Arkk or Arkk Solutions.
NOT grey and blue (like every other IT company out there!)
It must convey a dynamic business that gets things done and is great to deal with.
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
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Wizards 101, Grizzlies 92
Okay, so the Wizards got outrebounded 60-45, shot just 39.8 percent, missed 13 free throws and commited 20 turnovers -- and still won their preseason debut against the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday. The game had its bright spots and its sloppy ones. And while Coach Flip Saunders was none too pleased when his team surrendered 55 first-half points, he was happy to see his team hold Memphis to just 37 in the second half.
Most importantly, the Wizards were able to welcome back Gilbert Arenas, who . Arenas was nimble, which he displayed late in the first period, as he stole a pass from Memphis guard O.J. Mayo then leapt over the scorers table and ran up the stands to secure the ball. Coach Flip Saunders said didn't gasp as he watched the Wizards' $111-million soaring into the crowd.
"No one should question how his knee is, jumping over the table like that," Saunders said. "As I said, he's given me no indication in the things that he's done that he's not back; that he's not the Gil of old."
Arenas certainly showcased his skills as a facilitator, dishing out 10 assists, but at teams he seemed like a lighter version of the player who played two games last season. His passing and decision-making are there, but he is still searching to recapture his ability to put the ball in the bucket. Saunders said that shouldn't be a problem as Arenas rediscovers his rhythm and his body adjusts to the bumping and grinding of playing more often. He had no problem getting to the rim but Arenas struggled trying to finish, as missed about three point blank layups. Another pullup jumper barely grazed the rim. Had Arenas not missed those shots and six free throws, Saunders said he had "a 20[-point], 10[-assist] game right at his fingertips."
It was surprising that Saunders played Arenas as much as he did. Before the game Saunders said his plan was to limit Arenas to eight to 10 minutes and certainly wouldn't exceed 24. Arenas played 24 minutes, 8 seconds. He started out well, assisting on the Wizards' first seven baskets, but there was a noticeable dropoff as he continued to play. Saunders will have trouble trying to hold back Arenas, who is obviously itching to go all out right away. He explained that Arenas played because he "felt good. At one point, he said, why don't you play me the way you'll play me in the regular season. I said, 'We're not ready for that.' "
Antawn Jamison pitched his usual 20 points and eight rebounds and Caron Butler had 15 points, but Andray Blatche had 13 points and eight rebounds, while Randy Foye overcame a rough first three quarters to score nine of his 14 points in the final period. "It was new. First time playing against someone else, with these guys," Foye said, explaining his start. "I was trying to go out there and do everything coach tell me. I tried to be perfect. I know in this game you can't be perfect, you're going to make mistakes. The main thing he expressed to me was to be aggressive. Once I got my rhythm, it was over."
Mike Miller didn't shoot the ball particularly well (1 of 7), but he had six rebounds. Brendan Haywood, who missed the preseason and the first 75 games of last season with a wrist injury, had six points, seven rebounds and three blocked shots in 28 minutes. Mike James had played well throughout the first week of training camp, but he joined the injured Javaris Crittenton and training camp invitees Paul Davis and Vincent Grier on the bench all night, drawing a DNP-CD.
Butler said he was pleased with the overall performance. "It was great to see everybody healthy out there tonight and playing well. We have all of our soldiers back, Brendan, DeShawn Stevenson, Gilbert, Antawn and myself; the core of the team. The young guys played well tonight, so it was a good win for us."
By Michael Lee |
October 6, 2009; 11:35 PM ET
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Nice to see someone else thinks JAMES should collect splinters until his contract's up.
I think this team carries 13. Don't see DAVIS, GRIER, or CRITTENTON on this team even if the WIZ take a hit on J-CRIT. He gets shopped and traded or cut. JAMES stays as insurance because of his contract. TOO bad, 'cause I like CRITTER a lot. He can play this game if he just gets the chance to learn something.
Posted by: glawrence007 | October 6, 2009 11:57 PM
10 assists in 24 minutes...not too shabby...and we will not have problems putting the ball in the hoop, so arenas has time to find his scoring touch...until then, he can assist away...
Posted by: merajc86 | October 6, 2009 11:59 PM
I couldn't watch the game, obviously, but the stats show Nick Young played decently.
He's my boy. I hope he becomes the starter.
Posted by: iamse7en | October 7, 2009 12:02 AM
FROM BUCK's DIARY. Interesting take on players and their contracts.
Ten Toxic NBA Contracts
1. Gilbert Arenas... $96.3 million through 2014
Comment: Good player. Terrible contract. I wouldn't wish that used refrigerator onto the back of my worst, most hated enemy. This contract could destroy the good thing the Bullets Wizards seem to be building in Washington.
2. Rashard Lewis... 85.2 million through 2013
Comment: See Arenas, Gilbert.
3. Andrea Bargnani... 56.5 million through 2015
Comment: This contract doesn't look horrible monetarily, but when you consider that the promisee is a serious loss producer, and a perennial member of my "20 Most Harmful" lists, any premium -- no -- any long term deal involving this player is a bad, toxic deal.
4. Richard Hamilton... 49.4 million through 2013
Comment: Hamilton's been a fine, average win producer. But he's nearing the end of his productive road, and his contract and payments due are not. Bad combo.
5. Stephen Jackson... 35.3 million through 2013
Comment: See Bargnani, Andrea.
6. Baron Davis... 53.8 million through 2013
Comment: Davis is a very productive player when he is healthy and motivated. However, he's injury prone, and last season he was terrible. On top of that he is aging at a position where age catches up to and erodes a player's win production capacity very quickly.
7. Josh Smith... 47.2 million through 2013
Comment: An overbloated contract for an overrated, inconsistent player. Smith shows up when he wants to show up. Unfortunately for Atlanta, his wages are due either way.
8. Monta Ellis... 55.0 million through 2014
Comment: Here's another case where we have a potentially productive player, but one who is paid beyond his productive capacity. Ellis is due to be paid like a consistent high win producer, but he has not proven he can consistently deliver high wins.
9. Danny Granger... 59.8 million through 2014
Comment: A useful player, but way overpaid. Here's a case where, like the Michael Redd deal, high scoring capacity got confused with high win capacity.
10. Luol Deng... 61.8 million through 2014
Comment: Again, I like Deng (when healthy), but not at the numbers he's due to be paid. In fact, I think as the NBA's economic structure changes over the next couple years, a contract of this size would be too much to offer even an elite player. By 2012 the Bulls will regret the deal, if they don't have the foresight to regret the deal already.
Posted by: glawrence007 | October 7, 2009 12:04 AM
Just caught Nick Young's postgame comments on WPOST live and I must admit he said everything you could ask for
"I just want to come off screens, hit open shots, and play D."
Reiterated those thoughts several times, along with saying he understands and is fine with being the 4th option. Doesnt expect to freelance much, just wants to do whatever it takes to play now that there is so much competition at guard spots.
Sounds like he's bought into what Flip is selling.
Posted by: divi3 | October 7, 2009 12:15 AM
"Okay, so the Wizards get outrebounded 60-45, shoot just 39.8 percent, miss 13 free throws and commited 20 turnovers.........And while Coach Flip Saunders was none too pleased when his team surrendered 55 first-half points, he was happy to see his team hold Memphis to just 37 in the second half."
Nice to see the truth come out. Same issues with defense and rebounding...and of course, MeTawn, the ultimate stats guy, will continue to get his #'s win or lose.
It's great that Gilby is in shape and reportedly lost 20 lbs, but if he's going to be doing his Gilby routine, which means driving and getting fouled and shooting FT's, then it's valid to question whether dude will be able to take that kind of beating this season.
Where's Gerald Wallace?
Posted by: DC_MAN88 | October 7, 2009 12:34 AM
MeTwan? Why are you on the Wizards blog if you dislike one of our best players? It's a fair question.
Good start for the team. We are, if healthy, the deepest team in the NBA...and that's not really debatable.
Posted by: Barno1 | October 7, 2009 12:37 AM
"MeTawn"? Do you watch basketball much?
"deepest team in the NBA" -- no, but close. LA has more and better bigs although I hate to admit it. However, if we could only petition the league to play 8 on 8 we'd have a shot at the finals.
I would have loved to be able to watch the game instead of Astronaut Farmer, but failing that I appreciate the article. We got a win with under 40 percent shooting. Now how often has that happened in the past 4 years?
Wiz don't need Gil to drive as often has he had in the past. We just need the other team to know he can and will. We've got scorers, we need a ring leader. Gil could be great in this style and extent his career to. Go get'em Wiz!
Posted by: EWE1 | October 7, 2009 4:47 AM
@DC_MAN88: Either you have clue about basketball or your intense dislike is clouding your judgement. Accusing AJ of being the ultimate stat guy is just plain wrong.
Anyone who reads too much meaning into the first game of the preseason is a fool. So what if the Wizs got outrebounded? At least they only allowed 37 points in the second half. That's an improvement.
I believe Gerald Wallace is in Charlotte. What's your point?
Posted by: tundey | October 7, 2009 6:16 AM
Gerald Wallace has accomplsihed what exactly over his career?
Posted by: ptp23 | October 7, 2009 6:51 AM
Ok. I'll be the first to say it...
DeJuan Blair...16 points, 19 rebounds in only 22 minutes.
Can someone say 'rebound' ?
I promise its the last time I'll talk about it but ....damn.
Posted by: original_mark | October 7, 2009 7:07 AM
I think we'll be a much better team when the new Gil lets the old Gil out more often. We need a guy that draws fouls and not only threatens to shoot the three but actually does it a few times per game.
Combine that with the willingness to pass to open teammates and play defense and Gil 2.0 could be even better than Agent Zero.
Posted by: original_mark | October 7, 2009 7:37 AM
Original Mark,
And your point is? It's the preseason. Who cares! Get back to me if he is doing that in the regular season.
Posted by: rphilli721 | October 7, 2009 7:52 AM
I agree with you Original-M. There will be times where we need Agent0. Maybe not for 60 points, or even 40, but we need his ability to terrorize the opponent. Not that it will be needed every game, but Agent0 is the biggest threat on the team. Period. Also, they could need him in the 4th quarter only at times. But they will need him at that level, not always being a setup man.
Posted by: G-Man11 | October 7, 2009 7:53 AM
I like one thing that Glen Consor said last night: that this was an offense that attacked quickly, versus the Princeton office that starts with a "weave" near half court and doesn't get people shots until deep in the shot-clock. There was an article on SI.com about Eddie Jordan instilling the Princeton offense in Philadelphia, and how they were all struggling with it. Yes, we put up a lot a points, but I'm glad that's gone, it was getting stale. With this personnel we should attack the basket and push the ball. I think that's Flip's philosophy.
Posted by: jweber1 | October 7, 2009 7:58 AM
Gerald Wallace is down south doing a poor man's Caron Butler for the Bobcats. Here, he wouldn't be able to start in front of Butler and Miller provides a three point specialist off the bench. Just where would Flip find him minutes?
O'Mark, I thought the same thing, Blair's a different cat. A coach will have to be a little creative to find him minutes, but nobody could convince me the guy couldn't give a lot of tall lanky guys fits down low. In the NBA lots of teams are going to try and make him play in space on D, if he can do that he's going to be a good NBA player.
Gil, 10 assists in 24 minutes, where are all of those guys that were saying he can't play point guard? Nicest thing is to hear he got some run and is apparently showing no ill effects.
Didn't expect that the Wiz would play shutdown D the first night out, new concepts new system, it'll take awhile before they can just react as a team and not have to think first.
Flip will stick with it and keep working at it, D won't go out the window after week one. That will be the big difference in the long run.
Posted by: flohrtv | October 7, 2009 8:07 AM
"Arenas assisted on the Wizards' first seven field goals, and appeared in complete command of Saunders's offense as he directed traffic and put his teammates in the right spots on the floor. Arenas was able to get the basket at his pleasure, but didn't have the scorers' mentality that led him to average 27.8 points from 2004 to '07."
Music to mine ears! Sounds like the shot is rusty, which is totally expected. Once it starts falling, look out.
Posted by: divi3 | October 7, 2009 8:17 AM
I dont think we've had a guy do that even in summer league against scrubs. Again, I harped on this for a while and wont start really harping again for a couple months but 19 boards in 22 minutes is impressive even for preseason. It's not like summer league. He did it against some NBA regulars.
And he coulda been had for a 2nd round pick. That was my point. It was underscored by the fact that we got pounded on the boards. Winning with a rebound disparity like that is rare.
I predict 50 wins for this team but it sure would have been nice to have a natural rebounder besides AJ on the team.
Posted by: original_mark | October 7, 2009 8:28 AM
BTW, I actually like McGee's line. 12 minutes, a few points, boards, a block or two.
I initially wanted to give him 20 minutes but after reading about how he's just not ready, 12 is about right. Birdman, he's not....yet.
Posted by: original_mark | October 7, 2009 8:31 AM
Old Gil is still getting used to all the new things around him. When he gets comfortable with things and the shot starts falling the "swag" will be back.
One of the small comments that came out of camp was, Flip and his staff were amazed how quickly Gil can see the floor and make decisions. Flip wants his team taking good shots, but that doesn't mean he wants to see the offense burn time.
Look for guys to have the green light to take open shots. With the Wiz's depth, it makes sense to run.
My bet is that Philly really struggles to get the Princeton. It wasn't pretty the first year here either...
Posted by: flohrtv | October 7, 2009 8:34 AM
With the shooters on this team, Gil can be a 24/10 guy...which is upper echelon.
Also noted he was "caught sleeping" a few times on D, but hey, Rome wasnt built in a day.
Looking forward to Friday night
Posted by: divi3 | October 7, 2009 8:38 AM
Alright. I watched the game from the third row...right behind the Grizz bench. Here are my thoughts:
Jamison is a monster. DCMan has no idea what he is talking about. jamison banged under neath, has a sweet shot, hustled up and down the court every play and was in the right position most of the time, even though he looked to be giving up 40 lbs to Randolph (who by the way is about 16 months from being all but retired - he was slow, had no touch and was relying on hacks to get near the ball).
Blatche came out looking awful but by the end of the game was starting to impress me. he is not a low post player by anymeans and doubt he ever will be.
Haywood looked terrible. We really need McGee to step up and quickly if we are going to have any post presence. McGee played better than I expected, but he needs 20lbs of muscle to really be a force.
Posted by: Blurred | October 7, 2009 8:50 AM
There is no valid reason to cut JCrit. He is a young talent, contract friendly, and if you traded him: What player would we get to help us now where JC can't.
I think you are over analyzing the number of guards on this Team and you possibly conclude we have to drop him.
We have GA, Foye, Young, DSteve, & Crit.
Gilbert in my book, at his best, is a combo guard and I feel that his longevity depends upon playing both the 1&2.
Foye is not certain to be here after this season. Young and DSteve are two's.
Mike James, whom I did not mention, will not be retained especially when you compare him to JCrit.
If you are going to make a choice between the prospect of JCrit or James, to me JCrit is a no brainer.
And lastly, besides Gilbert he is the only point on the Team than can truly run the UpTemPo Assist game that fits these players.
Posted by: LarryInClintonMD | October 7, 2009 8:51 AM
More on Haywood; He played soft...opted for 3 bad missed jumpers rather than driving or passing out. Tried a finger roll instead of a dunk when he can dunk flat footed. Gasol seem to have him stymied but he was able to play against Memphis' 7'2" backup.
Thabeet had a good game. Guy looks a little slow (in the head) but is as long as I've seen in a while and seemed to basically get the game.
Butler hustled all around. On defense he disrupted the play anytime the ball was within 10 feet of him. I don't know how many steals he got credit for, but he put his hand on the ball defensively at least a dozen times. has a nice shot and drove the lane from the arc for most impressive dunk of the game (although McGee had 2 really nice ones)
Posted by: Blurred | October 7, 2009 8:55 AM
By the way, was the game on TV, the Net'???
Posted by: LarryInClintonMD | October 7, 2009 8:57 AM
I think Foye is definitely going to be here next season as he's a restricted free agent and teams rarely make moves on them.
Flip wants them to keep teams at 44% shooting...first half Memphis shoots 45%...then 37%...and 88 is still upset. Even if they shot 80%....it wouldnt all be on Antawn. I wish they would hurry up and ban that guy. It's preseason basketball anyway. When they look like they did last preseason getting blown out by 30 and 40...then I'll worry.
Posted by: SDMDTSU | October 7, 2009 9:03 AM
crittendon is not getting cut. there's not even rumors of that. give it up.
Posted by: crs-one | October 7, 2009 9:06 AM
DeShawn played about as you'd expect. he hustled on D (except one play where he never left his own key - wtf???) and made a sweet outside shot. Mostly was just a bit disruptive. Defintiely played better when he was with some starters than when he was with the 2nd unit. I think if DS is going to be a factor, he has to start. he is really only good offensively when he is the 3rd or 4th option.
Opposite with NY. He let others make the plays for him and Foye did that really well. that worked out well, but he made a much bigger difference when he was on with the 2nd unit than with the "Big Three." He didn't add anything defensively to the starters. For his few minutes on the 2nd unit, he was the star and it looked good on him. if Gilbert hadn't been dishing to him (and who really thinks that will last for a lonf time this season) I doubt he would have had much to offer the first unit.
Foye and Miller were the biggest plusses to this team. They both play the game completely. Have nice shots, good court sense, hustled on D, rebound, generally were a part of every play both defensively and offensively when they were on the floor. MM had a bad shooting night, though. I was surprised at how hard he plays and he had a couple nice drives and kicked it back out. Once he would have had a nice dunk if Blatche hadn't stepped into his way.
D mac was Dmac. Hustled but was not flashy at all.
Funny thing is...I was going to say Gilbert looked bad until I saw his line. He just wasn't playing the drive first gil of old. Lots of play making and smart court general. That may be good for everyone, especially if he can start hitting those FT.
The best thing I saw of him was on D when he was constantly pushing the ball toward Butler. Arenas himself was not getting a hand on the ball, but he was closing the lanes away from Butler (and Jamison was closing the middle and Haywood was ...um ... standing still) so the ball had to get within those 10 feet of Butler, who then was somewhat disruptive.
Posted by: Blurred | October 7, 2009 9:09 AM
DeJuan Blair: 16 pts, 19 rebs.
Wizards extra cap space: DNP-Abe/Ernie Decision
Posted by: elfreako | October 7, 2009 9:10 AM
All in all, the team looked good, if a bit rusty. it was pretty obvious that they are all trying really hard to get with Flip's defensive philosphy and offensive sets. it clearly wasn't natural for all of them, although, as i said, it seemed to click with Gil and Jamison that their strength on D is more in driving the play where they want it, rather than playing one on one.
Young guys are still young. NY is making great strides, blatche was inconsistent and McGee is clearly not ready for big minutes, but is obviously making huge strides.
The biggest plus is that this team is deep and has 8 -9 potential starters. the biggest negative, at least from one preseason game, is Haywood. He was out of position and made poor choices almost all night.
Posted by: Blurred | October 7, 2009 9:19 AM
DeJuan Blair: 16 pts, 19 rebs.
Wizards extra cap space: DNP-Abe/Ernie Decision
Posted by: elfreako | October 7, 2009 9:10 AM
just remember that Kwame game from his second season that I mentioned yesterday. i agree. We'll see how that is holding up come November or March.
Posted by: Blurred | October 7, 2009 9:25 AM
get a life loser. Mike can handle the Wiz beat.
Posted by: prescrunk | October 7, 2009 9:30 AM
Meant that I agree with rphilli that who cares... Let's see if he can produce during the heat of the season.
Posted by: Blurred | October 7, 2009 9:31 AM
OK, I was at the game last night. I'm sure Gil will be fine but he was struggling to get his MoJo back last night. He missed four straight free throws and at least 3 lay ups. Lay ups and free throws!?!
Someone mentioned liking Javale's line last night. He is as undisciplined as always with 4 fouls in about 6 minutes on the court.
DeShawn was the best defender on the court last night and Brendan was playing too far away from the basket and provided several WTF moments last night.
Caron and Antawn were solid as ususal and Nick Young looked good on the offensive end. Gil was definitely looking for him and his shot. Overall outside of Gil's swagger, a good start for Flip Saunders.
Posted by: Rocky420 | October 7, 2009 9:33 AM
Just sayin. The dude snatches almost 20 boards in 22 minutes off the bench in his professional debut.
The Wiz coulda had him for a nominal fee.
Kwame Brown was the first overall pick of the draft who costed them MILLIONS.
Posted by: elfreako | October 7, 2009 9:33 AM
Good point!!! Seeing how haywood played last night...Blair might be better than him.
Posted by: Blurred | October 7, 2009 9:42 AM
I enjoyed your analysis. Thanks for the posts; it helps, especially when the game wasn't televised. I probably don't have to tell you, but there are certain folks on this board you should simply ignore. Shouldn't be hard to figure out who they are.
Posted by: keithward64 | October 7, 2009 9:52 AM
Blurred - I second keithward's comment. Analysis such as what we get from you and GM is welcome - particularly by those of us who don't always have time to watch or listen to every game. In may case I am located on the other side of the world, so it is doubly difficult to catch the games.
Posted by: pk24 | October 7, 2009 9:59 AM
yeah how bout blair with 16 and 19, what was the Cash's stat line last night?
Posted by: lilhollywood10 | October 7, 2009 10:10 AM
I enjoyed your analysis. Thanks for the posts; it helps...
Posted by: keithward64 | October 7, 2009 9:52 AM
ur obviously new around here. if u cant watch the game follow the live thread at www.wizardsextreme.com. if u dont know anything about basketball, i recommend reading what Kalorama/Ivan Carter posts. if u want the truth about the Wiz (which most ppl cant handle on here) read DC Man88. get outta here with the corny sh!t.
glad Deshawn had a good game. if he's not right then we're in trouble bc EG and Abe, despite having the "busiest summer ever" forgot to improve the defense.
Posted by: prescrunk | October 7, 2009 10:10 AM
The theme of the year auditioned itself last night.
That is, the first unit will play even against anybody (even the best or the worst).
The second unit can and should beat any other team's second unit. The only open question is whether they will do so consistently?
Posted by: Izman | October 7, 2009 10:12 AM
So DC mann is now posting under prescrunk's name?
Posted by: Blurred | October 7, 2009 10:15 AM
"Heavy D" Blair may end up being the steal of the draft, but the Cash has R.O.Y. potential!!!!!
Posted by: lilhollywood10 | October 7, 2009 10:31 AM
over/under: 45 DNP-CDs for the Cash
Posted by: lilhollywood10 | October 7, 2009 10:54 AM
keithward64 is the old Keithinator and he's not new around here.
Blurred, the history of 88, Kal and Prescrunk goes back a while.
Scrunk is a Kal sycophant and "88-ideology" apologist.
Kal makes some good points and at least tries to support them with fact though he's offended folks with his attitude and delivery at times.
88 also makes good points occasionally but they re ALL tinged with his hatred for Gilbert Arenas. You have to take everything he types with a pound of salt because the vitriol aimed at Gil sometimes spills over onto the other Wiz....and us. He's not able to give objective commentary because of his intense dislike for Agent Zero.
Posted by: original_mark | October 7, 2009 11:01 AM
Now who was that shooting coach we sent packing when our brilliant GM cleaned house after last season,the free throw shooting will haunt us this season mark my words!
Posted by: dargregmag | October 7, 2009 11:02 AM
Having said all of that, this blog is definitely unique because of the blend of personalities...and there's even an occasional mention of basketball here and there.
Posted by: original_mark | October 7, 2009 11:03 AM
dargregmag , I wondered the same thing. He had BTH up to 70% and we let that dude go ??!! We were at or near the top of the league in ft%. I didnt get that one. It was Dave Hopla, I think.
Posted by: original_mark | October 7, 2009 11:06 AM
Great posts Blurred.
Let's hope Haywoood isnt all full of himself (as he sounded in a recent interview) and thus back to not battling and basically standing around with his knees bent, playing like he is 6'8"
Posted by: divi3 | October 7, 2009 11:07 AM
Is Kal actually Ivan Carter???
Wonder if he remembers me from Louie's 2 Sundays ago, talkin all that smack. What kind of Vikings fan sings the Bears fight song??
Posted by: divi3 | October 7, 2009 11:10 AM
Now who was that shooting coach we sent packing when our brilliant GM cleaned house after last season,the free throw shooting will haunt us this season mark my words!
Posted by: dargregmag | October 7, 2009 11:02 AM
FT's cost the Wizzies many games in the past. Improving the FT% with a shooting coach could equate to several more wins. Money well spent.
Posted by: VBFan | October 7, 2009 11:11 AM
I always figure if you guys get bored after 5 words, you can skip over my posts. Or anybody else's. None of us are getting paid, so it's not going to hurt my feelings if you don't read my posts.
Blurred, nice to here a little from somebody at the game last night.
Sounds like it was pretty clear that Gil and Brendan have missed a lot of time.
Best thing to hear was that guys are trying to steer their man to help defensively.
Bendan's going to have a lot of thinking and reacting to do in the man to man/Zone look. It's toughest on centers to learn, I'd assume that's why McGee's a little slow on the uptake too.
Shooting percentages really weren't bad for the first night out, and they got better as the night wore on, so not bad for the first night out...
Posted by: flohrtv | October 7, 2009 11:25 AM
Not real surprising shooting percentages are off in the first game after camp. Guys are probably on rubber legs...
This is mostly an interesting place to talk about basketball. We've got some regulars tend to go off their meds from time to time, that's when some funny little fellas pop up around here.
Just got to ignore em' for the most part...
Posted by: flohrtv | October 7, 2009 11:41 AM
Cash had been playing well in the Asian market. Unfortunately, he's been riding the pine since the trade to the London Futures Exchange. Futures coach is not convinced Cash is a valuable commodity in the team's rotation.
Posted by: creativefunk | October 7, 2009 12:00 PM
Mark, good rundown of the personalities here.
Blurred, I used to post here quite regularly, but got turned off by the vitriol some writers would constantly spew. One in particular who cheered when Arenas got hurt. I like lively debate, but it gets personal way too quickly around here. Folks like Mark, GM, LarryinClinton and others have good things to say. I read this blog for their insights, as well as Mike Lee's.
Posted by: keithward64 | October 7, 2009 12:01 PM
^ here is some more vitriol:
rofl @ ur life. the wiz arent gonna win a championship this year. or next year. or as long as that old ass man is alive.
delusional_mark, GM and larry49rirjt93kfjf r amateurs.
Posted by: prescrunk | October 7, 2009 12:07 PM
We all love you too! GM
Posted by: flohrtv | October 7, 2009 12:50 PM
I know its only preseason but Dujuan Blair had 16 and 19 in 22 minutes last night. I think we have a solid team but beyond stupid to pass on a guy like that in the 2nd round. Exactly the type of player this team needed.
Posted by: beas13 | October 7, 2009 1:31 PM
original mark, very early in the year...
lots of people will switch back over from skins insider when/if the team keeps getting worse
excited to see the squad in action on friday at the phonebooth.
Posted by: m1ke3i6 | October 7, 2009 2:32 PM
"@DC_MAN88: Either you have clue about basketball or your intense dislike is clouding your judgement. Accusing AJ of being the ultimate stat guy is just plain wrong.
Anyone who reads too much meaning into the first game of the preseason is a fool. So what if the Wizs got outrebounded? At least they only allowed 37 points in the second half. That's an improvement.
I believe Gerald Wallace is in Charlotte. What's your point?
Posted by: tundey | October 7, 2009 6:16 AM "
So besides the snazzy stats, tell us all how MeTawn has been able to help carry a team deep into the playoffs.
How has he been able to up his defensive game?
How has he been able, as captain of the team, to reign in the childishness and lack of focus by the youngsters.
You can't, b/c he can't.
Gerald Wallace.....hopefully he won't make Gilby's knee's shake, rattle, and roll too much when they play again.
Posted by: DC_MAN88 | October 7, 2009 5:03 PM
...alright, just got the kitchen pass. I'm going to the game Friday night and it looks like I'll have floor seats as well. Gonna have to break out my good tie-dye.
Posted by: oddjob1 | October 7, 2009 8:03 PM
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http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2010/10/07/oath-keepers-statement-about-video-titled-government-agents-seize-oath-keepers-new-born-from-hospital/comment-page-3/#comment-12531I am going to rack out because my fiancee and I are over exhausted with all of this. If any of you think this is a "scam" or something of the sort watch Alex Jones tomorrow I think he has me on at 12 noon. People will know then, my daughter was stolen the only scam going on here is the one that the State of NH is pulling.Comment by Johnathon Irish — October 7, 2010 @ 11:10 pm
Nothing on infowars about him being on the show, we will have to wait and see. I am definately keeping my eyes on this story.
Story now up on Prisonplanet:http://www.prisonplanet.com/government-seizes-newborn-baby-over-political-beliefs-of-parents.html
There's a protest today for anyone close:PROTEST the State kidnapping of babiesTime Friday, October 8 · 3:00pm - 6:00pmLocation Concord HospitalCreated By Tiffany Ann Marler U, Amanda BiondolilloMore Info http://www.concordhospital.org/about/maps.phphttp://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=140134156032916&v=wall&story_fbid=140174666028865¬if_t=like#!/event.php?eid=140134156032916
Facebook link doesn't work.
This could be a psyop.
97.There are NO criminal charges, they are charging us with abuse and neglect on a child that wasn't even 16 hours old!!! This makes NO SENSE!!!Comment by Johnathon Irish — October 8, 2010 @ 5:41 am
Rogue, criminal govt.
The problem I see is this has not been verified as to it's authenticity.
Let me guess, this whole thing may have something to do with a new TIME MAGAZINE article that totally associates many good people and groups with some serious nut jobs Locked and Loaded: The Secret World of Extreme Militias Oct. 11, 2010 issuehttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022516-4,00.html#ixzz113OYB1L5
TIME magazine? Owned by the same cabal that's planning on when to put the last straw on Americas back.
This document stinks to high heaven.I question its authenticity.Not only is #7 in a different font size, the alignment is off by a few degrees. The first 6 items are somewhat diagonally due to the paper being put in a copy machine, scanner, or coming out of the printer very slightly at an off angle. #7 is perfectly straight, as if it was pasted over the document in Paint, Photoshop, GIMP, etc.The above image I added red lines originating from the left margin to show the alignments.
This is accounted for on this article by Paul Joseph Watson:http://www.infowars.com/government-seizes-newborn-baby-over-political-beliefs-of-parents/They put 2 pages into one page. In the above link they are separate.This looks legit guys.Snatch and grab of a 16 hour old baby by the state where being a member of OT is mentioned as part of the justification.
And yes the couple has had issues with the state before, we never tried to hide this. One of the first things I pointed out in my article was that the mere mention of being associated with Oath Keepers and buying guns as a reason for snatching a newborn baby was the shocking aspect to the whole story.Some people still can't come to terms with how horrible this is so they attempt to convince themselves that it's either not real or that the authorities really should have stolen the baby and forced it to grow up in an institutionalized government rape center after all.The time for denial has long passed.
At first people were claiming it was fake because we tagged the "Oath Keepers" part on to the first document. Now we tried to make it clear that the second part was on a different sheet of paper, some still can't accept it. Please stop the denial - we have the entire affidavit. This is real, we have confirmed the authenticity.It seems amazing that many people claimed the MIAC report was fake when we released it until Rush Limbaugh and the rest started talking about it and only then did many people accept it was genuine.Give us some credit please, we don't sit here all day faking documents and making stuff up.Paul Watson.
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Coker College head women's soccer coach Bethany Grass is pleased to announce the addition of seven new players for the 2010-11 season. Coach Grass and the Lady Cobras will be looking to bounce back after a rough season in 2009 and these seven new faces will vital pieces of the puzzle.
Six of the seven players will not have to travel awfully far from home to join the Coker women, with six players from South Carolina and one player from Florida.
Shakenia Johnson is a forward from Columbia, S.C. and according to Grass, "Shakenia brings some much needed quickness to the offense."
Joining the team are a pair of defenders, Shelby Johnson from Sumter, S.C. and Devan Williams from Seneca, S.C. Grass said, "Both Shelby and Devan will add some aggressiveness and depth to our defense this year."
A trio of midfielder/forwards in Rachel Solomon from Bluffton, S.C., Emily Morrow from Columbia, S.C. and Melanie McGrath from Marion, S.C. all come to Coker having been standout players at their respective high schools. When asked her thoughts on these players Grass had this to say, "Solomon has her eyes on scoring, but can help out anywhere on the field. Morrow has an intensity and aggressiveness that allows her to penetrate the defense and McGrath has a good eye for the field and precise distribution."
And last but not least is Brittany Martin from New Port Richey, Fla. Martin is a goalkeeper, but an ACL injury will force her to have to sit out this first year, but according to Grass, "She will be an integral part of the 2011 season."
Grass and the Lady Cobras will take to the field in their first match of the season on Saturday, Sept. 4 when they travel to Central, S.C. to take on Southern Wesleyan University at 7:00 p.m. With the return of some fine tuned veterans and a solid crop of incoming freshman the Coker women are poised for a successful year.