Thomas, when I debate a point, I try to stick to the facts. I...

Linda says...

Thomas, when I debate a point, I try to stick to the facts.

I tend to list these facts so that they are clear.

Because I stick to the facts, I am able to express myself by making short statements that go right to the point.

I notice that you can't do that. You camouflage your inability to support your opinion (with even one fact) by writing the longest amount emotional gibberish you can come up with. In my last post to you, I provided specific evidence to counter what you said (I compared all other developed countries who have double citizenship to Haiti).

My evidence was empirically based and easily verifiable by all. I asked you to counter that evidence with your own. Instead of doing that, you again wrote a whole bunch of emotional non quantifiable statements to cover the fact that there's no evidence to support your point.

On another topic.

You also seem to be one of those people who talks out of both sides of their mouths; meaning, that one minute you say one thing, then before the minute is even up, one hears the opposite statement from you.

Let me show you how I came up with that fact:

1. In the same post that you say that the diaspora are traitors and need to be kept out of Haiti, you also say "I am hoping that Haiti will recover her lost sons and daughters."

2. From the same breath that you said that "that â€"dual citizenship” would make Haiti even more vulnerable," you also said "L' Union Fait la Force."

In each of those assertions you contradicted yourself.

Perhaps you might take some time to think before you start stating points that you yourself are still confused about.

By the way, I personally don't give a hoot about double citizenship.

I am doing as much work for Haiti now as I would if I had dual citizenship.

The type of work that I do for Haiti has nothing to do with the government, so I don't need double citizenship.

However, I do know that there's been a serious brain drain in Haiti and that many very intelligent Haitians who could help Haiti through the government are now also citizens of other countries.

Many of these Haitians were taken to these other countries by their parents when they were very young, and did not even know that, by becoming citizens of other countries, they were in fact giving up their Haitian citizenship.

Haiti needs the knowledge and the resources that the Diaspora would bring to it. Haiti needs the Diaspora more than the Diaspora members need Haiti.

If you like, I can go through a list of evidentiary facts that support this last statement.

The topic is: Correction for my last post.
This is a reply to Msg 16213
Posted by Linda on August 5 2009 at 6:27 PM

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Finally someone is making some sense in this blog. > >
Saurel Dominique, 5-Aug-09 11:07 am
There's a couple of words that caught my attention in your post: respect and honor are just a few of them. With all due respect I don't think you fully understand the meaning of respect and honor. You said, I'm paraphrasing, that the dual citizenship > >
Zac, 5-Aug-09 11:12 am
I perceive you as a well educated Haitian-born person who loves Haiti. Let’s agree to put all the drama aside but I will deceive myself if I have to put all my emotions away because as Henry Louis Gates Jr explained it there are unusual men like... > >
Andrew Andy Thomas, 5-Aug-09 12:19 pm
See! We are not on the same page. Haitians are poor. But, in their poverty, they value their dignity. Your view is like money can buy anything. Correct me if I am wrong, it is like you telling me that the Haitian Diaspora can buy “dual citizens > >
Andrew Andy Thomas, 5-Aug-09 1:26 pm
I do not know and never receive any evidence that President Rene Preval is a naturalized foreign citizen. But, if he is, we voted him in good faith. If it is and your opinion about him was correct, then you just prove to yourself that Haitians > >
Andrew Andy Thomas, 5-Aug-09 1:57 pm
Linda, I am exploring and hope for a reconciled solution to the problem of our beloved brothers and sisters who had freely renounced all allegiance and fidelity to Haiti. We will find the solution through mutual respect, honesty and compassion. > >
Andrew Andy Thomas, 5-Aug-09 2:26 pm
I respectfully disagree with you. I read most of your blogs on this topic. You seem very passionate about your views. In my opinion your views are misguided. You have not given a clear reason why dual citizenship should be denied to Haitian Americans > >
Mark, 5-Aug-09 3:25 pm
Thomas, when I debate a point, I try to stick to the facts. I tend to list these facts so that they are clear. Because I stick to the facts, I am able to express myself by making short statements that go right to the point. I notice that you can't do > >
Linda, 5-Aug-09 6:27 pm
FACT #1 : Oath of citizenship of the United States "I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofor > >
Andrew Andy Thomas, 5-Aug-09 9:46 pm
FACT #1 - (FRENCH VERSION) Le serment d'allegeance qu'on doit faire avant d'obtenir la citoyennete americaine: "J’affirme par la presente, sur le serment, que je renonce et abjure, absolument et entierement, a toutes les allegeances et fidelites > >
Andrew Andy Thomas, 5-Aug-09 10:09 pm
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