By David Hawkins & Judi McLeod
Tuesday, September 6, 2005
Rampant public corruption was doing big business in New Orleans long before
Hurricane Katrina ever hit. What then Congressman, now Senator David Vitter
calls "corrupt, good old boy" practices were apparent in the New Orleans Levee
Board just one year before the collapse of regional levees, emergency
communications and government services brought the Big Easy to the brink of
anarchy. In fact, Senator David Vitter requested a federal investigation into
improper practices of a number of public utilities, including the New Orleans
Levee Board, and a new Task Force was to have been initiated in the Baton Rouge
office, beginning in July 2004.
As Vice-Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee, which holds jurisdiction
over the Justice Department, Vitter met with and actively encouraged Attorney
General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller to establish an additional
Public Corruption Task Force in their Louisiana offices.
With the focus on kickbacks and bogus contractors, who was heeding experts
calling for a levee disaster from a major hurricane?
Could New Orleans’s descent into quasi-revolutionary chaos be an indirect result
of racketeering, kickbacks and procurement fraud by Democrat insiders with ties
to a fast-growing organization called `La Francophonie’?
Of all the coastal regions struck by Katrina, only the State of Louisiana is in
the clutches of La Francophonie. La Francophonie’s detractors insist that the
organization is a simple tool of France’s unsavory foreign policy toward Africa.
Others describe it as a Montreal-based, racketeering influenced and corrupt
organization (RICO) with outlandish claims to represent the interests of the
French-speaking world, including such luminaries as the negotiator of America's
abdication of its allies in South Vietnam, John Kerry, and the companion to Kofi
Annan at the U.N's school for translators in Geneva, Teresa Heinz
In international relations, Louisiana’s foreign partners include the governments
of France, the French community of Belgium, and the Canadian provinces of
Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Louisiana now
participates in the sometimes-raucous Sommets de la Francophonie as an observer.
Purporting to "defend Louisiana’s unique linguistic heritage", it was the
Conseil pour le developpement du francais en Louisiane (CODOFIL) that brought
the state into the La Francophonie tent.
"CODOFIL represents Louisiana at the signing of accords with the foreign
governments: these accords dictate the nature of the relationship between
Louisiana and the foreign governments."
According to a CODOFIL Internet boast, "foreign visitors to Louisiana are often
more aware of CODOFIL than even Louisiana residents!"
La Francophonie was funded and re-structured for its dictatorial, syndicalist,
racketeering and possibly genocidal goals by insiders of CIDA (Canadian
International Development Agency) at a 1986 meeting in Paris.
This first CIDA-funded Francophonie meeting was hosted by Francois Mitterrand,
the notoriously corrupt French President and the author of a `failed state’
policy in Africa which has led to Canada’s indulgent support of the continent’s
most bloodthirsty dictators and paramilitary goon squads as they engage in
massacres–including that of Anglophone Tutsis by francophonie Hutus in Rwanda.
(http://bloodbankers.typepad.com/submergingmarkets/2003/11/firstworldcri.html).
Management of La Francophonie is Canadian, CIDA is the main source of funds
granted by Canada to Francophonie cooperation programs and managed by La
Francophonie Affairs Division. Canadian Heritage, Industry Canada (information
technologies), Justice Canada (democracy, legal cooperation) and Environment
Canada (particularly management of the Energy and Environment Institute of la
Francophonie (institut de l’energie et de l’environnement de la Francophonie are
also involved. (http://www.dfait-maeci.qc.ca/foreignpolicy/francophonie/cdnmanagement-en.asp).
CIDA was founded in 1968 by the ex-president of Power Corp. of Montreal, Maurice
Strong, a paranoid, billionaire depopulationist who claims "rich, industrialized
countries (America and the Anglosphere) are the greatest threat to the survival
of the planet and therefore he, Maurice Strong, has a duty to force them into
line. In the 1990s, Strong went on to become the godfather of the $trillion
Kyoto trading scandal, with the financial clout to execute his dreams for La
Francophonie.
Strong’s plan appears to have played out as follows: Montreal insiders of Power
Corp. and La Francophonie have controlling positions in global commodity markets
through oil companies (TotalFinaElf) and water companies (Suez).
Former UN Secretary-General Bhoutros Bhoutros Ghalis serves as La Francophonie
Secretary-General. Both Strong and Ghali are under investigation by American
authorities for alleged ties to the UN oil-for-food scandal.