The Perversion of the State, a Necessity for the Organization of Popular Self-Defense

In the face of injustice and oppression, there must be no neutrality or inactivity. *To remain neutral in the face of injustice is to choose the side of the oppressor.* In developing this act of positioning and commitment within the context of this state-led war suffered by the Haitian people, I intend to articulate my argument based on three parameters:

1. To define the State's position and role in this war;

2. To denounce the unnatural relationship between the State and the terrorist coalition, its offspring;

3. To encourage organized self-defense by the people against the state-backed "viv ansanm".

Given the State's failure, the guarantee of citizens' right to life in the city falls to the people. For the survival of a people in agony, self-defense becomes the only alternative to combat this *two-headed* enemy – regarding its internal components. To better illustrate the power and collaboration relationship that exists between the coalition of terrorists calling itself "viv ansanm" and the State, on the one hand, and the persecuted people, on the other, I will refer to the famous quote by Desmond Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who said: "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." Thus, given the fierce oppression that "viv ansanm" inflicts upon the Haitian people, if the State, which was supposed to be their legitimate protector, does not defend them, but on the contrary, remains indifferent and lets them perish without the slightest help, it means that it is in connivance with this death squad group, ordering it to operate with complete impunity at the expense of the minimum right to life of the population's members, as human beings.

Consequently, the State, being by definition (conventionally) this powerful entity, holding the monopoly of legitimate violence, more precisely legitimate physical violence, according to Max Weber, by acting in convergence with the oppressors of the poor people, within the framework of this dreadful war that has no name, it means they share the same interests. Knowing that this offspring entity, which proclaims itself "viv ansanm" – in this case, the coalition of criminals and terrorists who live only by the shedding of blood from the popular strata of Haitian society – represents its oppressor, the inaction of this State then proves that it has chosen to be on the side of the bloodthirsty. This implies that these two powerful entities, from then on, form *a convergent beam of light* against the people. Because both the fire from the weapons of this "State" and that from the weapons of the "viv ansanm" coalition are all directed towards a single target, a single prey: the destitute and unarmed people. All bullets, wherever they come from, land in the heads of helpless, honest people.