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Hell-sent totalitarian dictator, uncommonly vicious thug and pre-historic monstrous Jean-Bertrand Aristide v. the Roman Catholic Church - The former dirt-poor Aristide, who became a so-called priest, only to be later defrocked, used the world's oldest and biggest religious institution for his own political and economic aggrandizement. Firebrand Aristide caused thousands of  naive Haitians, who saw in him  a liberator - from dictatorship and extreme poverty - because of his make-believe liberation theology-based sermons, were  assassinated by previous governments.  

                                         
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Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, visiting Haiti from Rome, walks past one of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's secret servicemen as he leaves the National Cathedral after ordinating two new archbishops in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2003. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                          
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Haiti's two new archbishops, Monsignor Pierre-Andre Dumas, left, and Monsignor Simon P. Saint-Hillien to his right, kneel during their ordination ceremony presided over by Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, who made the trip from Rome for the occasion, at the National Cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2003. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                    

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Haiti's two new archbishops, Monsignor Simon P. Saint-Hillien, left foreground, and Monsignor Pierre-Andre Dumas, to his right, after their ordination by Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, who made the trip from Rome for the occasion, at the National Cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2003. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                  
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Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, center, greets Monsignor Pierre-Andre Dumas after just after he was ordinated by Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, who made the trip from Rome for the occasion, at the National Cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2003. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                          
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Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, center, greets Cardinal Roger Etchegaray in the National Cathedral following the ordination of two Haitian archbishops by the cardinal, who made the trip from Rome for the occasion, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2003. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                           
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Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide greets supporters outside the National Cathedral following the ordination of two Haitian archbishops by Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, who made the trip from Rome for the occasion, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2003. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                   

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Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in the foreground, with his wife Mildred Aristide and Prime Minister Yvon Neptune in the background, pray during the ordination of two Haitian archbishops by Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, who made the trip from Rome for the occasion, at the National Cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2003. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                          

Hll-sent totalitarian dictator, uncommonly vicious thug and pre-historic monstrous Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who has stolen more than U.S. $220 million of Haitians' hard earned savings in a cooperative scheme, in addition to paying a California (U.S.) private security firm (see first photograph above) more than U.S. $9 million dollars (accounting cost) annually for his and family security while school teachers, among thousands of other public employees, earning on the average less than U.S. $50 a month, have not received a dime for the past 65 months, does not care at all about the AIDS epidemic that is exterminating, and rapidly so, the entire Haitian populace, but only those (men, women, boys, and girls)  you see in the photographs below and others. Does the Haitian National Police (H.N.P.) have a raîson d'être - even on papers? its annual payroll budget is less than U.S. $9 million. (February 23, 2003)

                                                  

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A group of Haitian youth during the National Carnival in Jacmel disguised as people killed by AIDS parade through the streets with a coffin symbolizing victims of the disease and decorated with the slogans 'AIDS concerns you' and 'AIDS cemetary' and carrying signs that say 'When someone has AIDS his life isn't over,' 'Love, yes, without condom, no,' and other slogans, in Jacmel, Haiti, on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2003. This year in Jacmel, where the National Carnival is celebrated one week prior to the traditional Carnival weekend, there were many groups promoting AIDS prevention. Haiti has one of the highest rate of AIDS in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                                   
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A group of Haitian men and boys participate in a traditional carnival group with a donkey dressed in a hat and tie, and a boy carrying a telephone, as they parade through the streets in Jacmel, Haiti, on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2003. Jacmel celebrates its 'National Carnival' one week prior to the traditional Carnival weekend. (AP Photo/Daniel Morel)
                        
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