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Perlitz remains behind bars - HLLN says "No More Secrecy"
By Ezili Danto (about the author) Page 1 of 3 page(s)
For OpEdNews: Ezili Danto - Writer Perlitz
detained without prejudice, defense plans to eventually ask for release
by Chris Simmons, Fairfield Mirror, Oct. 28, 2009 Take action -- click here to contact your local newspaper or congress people: Click here to see the most recent messages sent to congressional reps and local newspapers The views expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author 
The new court date is December 2, 2009. Please continue writing
to Judge Margolis, and if you are in the East Coast, attend the hearing
to show support for Haiti's
children.
At his Oct. 28 bond hearing, accused pedophile Douglas Perlitz withdrew
his bond request for now. The awareness-raising campaign HLLN-led to
warn the community that an accused pedophile may be set free on bail
had some effect. (Perlitz
Court Date Moved, Groups Raise Awareness of Perlitz, O'Brien Cases;
Letter-writing campaign aims to keep Perlitz jailed,
and Jesuits,
diocese asked to help sex abuse victims). Defendant Perlitz
was not set free and shall remain behind bars until the matter is revisited
again on December 2nd, if at all.
This is a small victory, but a victory nonetheless for all children
considering that last time in court, on Oct. 8th, Perlitz's attorney
kept pointing out how massive Mr. Perlitz's support was, implying the
children of Haiti had no support and stating outright that our children
are liars, not to mention detailing, in racist terms, how violent and
corrupt Haiti is as the reason why Perlitz is being wrongly accused.
(See in contrast, Pointing
Guns at Starving Haitians: Violent Haiti is a myth. According
to the UN, the violence rate in Haiti is 5.6 homicide per 100,000. In
2006 the neighboring Dominican Republic had 23.6 homicides per 100,000
according to the Central American Observatory on Violence. Brazil
had 52.2/per 100,000 ... whereas in the USA, the rate is 13.2 per 100,000
in some excluded communities and 5.7 per 100,000 overall. The Caribbean
region's average murder rate were at 30 per 100,000 in 2007. If you
compare the US, Brazil, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, the facts
indicate more violence there than in Haiti. But it is Haiti that is
singled out, negatively stereotyped and saddled with UN occupation and
people abusing Haiti stereotypes for their own ends. The facts reveal
that the only time there is more violence in Haiti than normal crimes
is when the US/Euros sponsor coup d'etat and dictatorship over the objections
of the Haitian peoples' democratic vote.)
This time in court, the children of Haiti had more people there to support
them than Mr. Perlitz's so touted "supporters" which were
mostly no-shows in comparison to the Oct. 8th showing.
Thank you all who wrote
and asked Judge Margolis not
to release Douglas Perlitz on bond. The process has just begun. We suspect,
the information Ezili's HLLN has been circulating about the systemic
abuse of Haitian children by white charity workers and the UN troops
is making a difference and the new information filed by the prosecutors
on October 27 to support Perlitz's continued incarceration has raised
the bar.
We suspect as more information is made available and as the media learns
more about what is actually going on in Haiti in terms of the raping
and molesting of Haitian children by charity workers and UN peace keepers,
more of Mr. Perlitz's supporters and prospective bond financiers will
be asking to remain anonymous. For instance, according to new information
divulged by the federal prosecutors, from June until his arrest in September
2009, computer records show that Douglas Perlitz was using a laptop
computer to seek Haitian and black boys on sexually oriented Internet
sites and over 100 sexual images of black boys where found on his computer.
Perlitz's attorneys has file a motion supporting bond where he requests
that the individuals putting up money on defendant Perlitz's behalf
remain anonymous. But all children need protection and we are publicly
campaigning against this demand for secrecy. This sort of crime against
children flourishes in secrecy. Its prosecution must be done in the
full light.
Every Douglas Perlitz's bond supporter ought to be able stand in front
of the entire community and say they are standing by Mr. Perlitz' innocence.
Too many times in Haiti's past we've seen, as we just saw with the arrest
of ex-priest and accused pedophile John Duarte last week, that the authorities
are willing to make arrests but, as for instance in the John
Duarte pedophile case, categorically refuse to name the hotel
in Port au Prince where Mr. Duarte was having sex with children. This
is exactly the sort of thing Save
the Children did last year when it announced that UN peacekeepers
in Haiti and NGO workers were sexually abusing Haiti's children, but
did not name the UN peacekeepers nor the NGO charities involved.
Perlitz ran a residence for humanitarian aid workers in Haiti, as well
as, the school for boys. Our investigation show an entwine international
network in Haiti and a systematic cover up, it seems, by the authorities
to keep this matter as "isolated incidents" when it is not.
(See, for example - The
'Father Teresa' of Haiti – Armand Huard - was convicted on sex
abuse charges against minors in
Haiti orphanage; Two
Canadians Charged with Sex Abuse in Haiti orphanage; Former
Windsor priest John Duarte arraigned on child-molestation charges;
Fr. Paul Carrier, S.J. Near The End Of The Line;
Sex
scandal in Haiti hits U.N. mission; and, A
Swiss accused pedophile was arrested in Haiti.)
Thus, in this case with defendant Douglas Perlitz, those who wish to
stand with him ought to be sure enough of him and his innocence not
to hide their names as his attorney asked in the motions filed in court
yesterday. If Douglas Perlitz is the "saint" that his attorneys
say he is - just simply a wrongly accused white American in a "Hatfield/McCoy"
caper concocted by Haiti's children and teachers, if that is so,
as his attorneys are vociferously pleading, then there ought not to
be a problem with revealing who the 19 "people of fine standing
in the community, as well as of sufficient financial means," many
from Fairfield County, are, who will agree to post the required $5 million
bond for defendant Douglas Perlitz.
Our concerned community (local, national and international) is asking
for transparency.
We have had ENOUGH of secrecy in the exploitation, abuse, rape and molestation
of black children and people in Haiti. Haitians are still waiting for
the UN authorities to RELEASE the investigation report from the 114
Sri Lankan soldiers accused of the systematic sexual abuse
and rape of minors in Haiti and deported back, in disgrace, to Sri Lanka.
It's been two years and the UN investigation has never been made public
to Haitians. This is the sort of racist double standard, complicity
and capriciousness Ezili's HLLN finds an abuse of power by supposedly
lawful and respected authorities. (See, UN
Peacekeepers and Humanitarian Aid Workers raping, molesting and abusing
Haitian children.)
The media must begin to look into the carnage in Haiti - the fleecing
of Haiti's natural
resources while the people starve and die, as well as, this
systemic
tourist sex trade bringing disease, rape and molestation to Haiti behind
the disenfranchisement of 9 million blacks by the 2004 Bush regime change
and current UN occupation, all, in the name of bringing stability, democracy
and humanitarian aid to Haiti. ( Minimum
Wage, Maximum Outrage and Haiti's
Holocaust and Middle Passage Continues.)
The world needs to wake up to the voiceless poor's plight in Haiti.
That is why Ezili's HLLN shall continue explaining these concerns to
the world and go, people-to-people, as we just did with this Perlitz
case, as the Haitian public does not seem to be getting anywhere with
those in power, or who have taken power illegally (the more than 10,000
NGOs in Haiti and the UN forces) and who are supposed to be protecting
and defending democracy, justice, and Haitian welfare.
Ezili Dantò/HLLN
October 28, 2009
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Recommended HLLN Link:
By EDMUND H. MAHONY, The Hartford Courant, October 29, 2009
Ex-Fairfielder
accused of abusing Haitian boys drops bond bid
By Michael P. Mayko, STAFF WRITER, Connecticut Post, Oct. 28, 2009
Please continue writing to Judge Margolis and attend the Dec. 2nd bond hearing, ask your local media to report on this case.
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