Some reflections on Mobutu, Baby Do

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Subject: Re: Some reflections on Mobutu, Baby Doc, et al.

>From Mobutu to Cornelius, now number 2 in Total Fina, a story of the
Belgium masters of the Congo and Zaire, now at the top of Total...
> 
> In a paris theatre last night i saw the documentary on Mobutu, Zaire's
> dictator, by Thierry Michel. You might catch it at your college or
> university, or on television. Its worth seeing to understand more about
> the personification of an occult monster like Mobutu; unfortunately it
> only touches on how he was manipulated by his Belgium masters, and the
> French, how cozy Chirac, Giscard, and former Prime minister and TOTAL
> consultant, the frenchman from Lyon Raymond Barre felt hamming it up
> with their pal who never hesitated to fund his european political
> friends to assure them of campaign funds and him of European support.
> Remember, Mobutu spoke french fluently, in zaire with his party, and
> ministers, and used to relish his relationship, all dictators like to
> liked by their masters, whom they prefer to call friends, also revolting
> was the unabashed praise for mobutu by George Bush and Nixon's welcome
> of Mobutu in the White House, of which all americans can feel an utter
> revulsion for having been proffered, and when dearest Pat Nixon passed
> Mobutu's wife lovely flowers at the entrance of the White HOuse. Also
> interesting, the account by Mr Devlin ex-station chief of the CIA during
> he 1960 coup against Mobutu's president, Patrice Lumumba (Mobutu was his
> trustworthy personal secretrary, but the Belgium gang got to him when he
> was a jounalist at the Belgium World Expo.Lumumba made Mobutu Secretaire
> de l'Etat and head of the army because he was the only one with army
> experience, traine by the Belgium imperalists before the Congo's
> independence. Devlin tells how the order came from the top, ah, the
> President, meaning unsaid Eisenhower, but its probable that Dulles'
> secret CIA was doing it all alone, and IKE didnt even know -maybe you
> have info here, but the film didnt even go this far, here back in august
> 1960, a couple months before Kennedy is elected. And so Kennedy had no
> choice then but to back him,no images of Kennedy with the Mobutu)
> 
> Let me pass something to youfrom today's Liberation frenchnews.
> BAby Doc, of Haiti, still hanging out in France, is facing court cases
> against him for torture, and four charges of crimes against humanity.
> But get this, FRance doesnt accept accusations of crimes against
> humanity, unless committed by the Axis Powers of WWII, or having been
> committed after 1994, the year of the new Penal Code en vigeur.
> 
> So it looks like here, the son of Papa Doc, is home free here in France.
> 
> ds
> 
> Oh, by the way, front page news here, how the french mayor of Paris,
> yesterday in court, got burned when his political pal betrayed him and
> Chirac's powerful RPR party machine, telling the judges that the Paris
> mayor, Tiberi, personally told him to hire the mayor's wife in "emploi
> fictive" (a fake job) that paid her some 40K$. Chirac's RPR party is in
> burning flames now....