Britain's "Destroy Haiti" Policy: The Case of Paul Collier

February 24, 2010 (LPAC)—Fresh from a trip to China, Schiller Institute founder and chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche opened the Fourth Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja on Nov. 12, 1997, outlining a perspective for developing the continent of Africa by building transcontinental railroads, nuclear power plants, and new cities, as part of "a new era of mankind" in which "infrastructure corridors will bring industrial and agricultural development into land-locked regions." Furious, the next speaker departed from his prepared remarks to sputter that the audience must beware "charlatans who are peddling prosperity."

That speaker was Paul Collier, the Oxford University professor who drafted the strategy for "rebuilding" Haiti which George Soros, Bill Gates, et.al. are attempting to impose upon Haiti today. Collier is unabashed: the goal is to use small and broken Haiti as a showcase for how to establish of a modern version of the old British East India Company empire, where vultures such as Soros, Gates, et.al, rule directly, eliminating national governments and sovereignty altogether. After Haiti, comes Africa.

Before and after the earthquake alike, Collier proposes that Haiti's future is as an export sweatshop, which, if powered by "second-hand [sic!] electrical equipment," and if its few labor regulations be repealed, can be competitive with the poorest Chinese labor. Any infrastructure as might be required for export (roads, not rail) shall be built only by labor-intensive means. The rest of the country can rot, since "large tracts of Haiti are mountainous and providing infrastructure to the scattered populations in these areas would create an unsustainable maintenance burden and not be economic," he specifies. NGO's, not the State, shall provide services, under a proposed "Independent Service Authority," operating "somewhat analogous to an independent central bank," so as "to tap into new sources of major funding ... such as the Gates Foundation;" ports and electricity should be privatized, customs services outsourced.

This "charlatan pushing British imperialism," is director of Oxford's Centre for the Study of African Economies, a Commander of the British Empire (awarded on the Queen's Birthday in 2008), senior advisor to Tony Blair's Commission on Africa, and a hired hand of British imperialist (and drug pusher) George Soros.

Collier outlined these policies in the program of action for Haiti he submitted to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon in January 2009, under the title "Haiti: From Natural Catastrophe to Economic Security, A Report for the Secretary-General of the United Nations." Since the earthquake, he's promoted this plan in several articles authored with Jean-Louis Warnholz, co-founder of Fastafrica, a venture capital/intelligence company profiting off the looting of Africa.

These are not merely "proposals." Soros's Open Society Institute director of Haitian reconstruction, former Haitian Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis, argued against modern industrial equipment being sent into Haiti to help remove the rubble, in a January 25 article in Huffington Post. "We should press forward with cash-for-work programs, to pay people to pick up garbage. Instead of shipping in big rock cutters, we can use international aid to pay Haitians to break up debris with sledge hammers," Pierre-Louis wrote. Two days later, Time magazine published a call for Pierre-Louis (the only Haitian invited to World Economic Forum discussions of funding Haiti at this year's Davos meeting) to be made President of Haiti.

Asked by one company to fund a government project after the earthquake, Bill Gates responded that no money would go into the government; it was "too corrupt," a source told EIR yesterday.