My OperaWhat the US is Doing to Haiti and Why
Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:09:41 AM
What the US is Doing to Haiti and Why
The US took over the only airport and monopolized it to bring in their army, supplies for their army, and evacuate their citizens preventing much needed mobile hospitals, medical supplies, doctors, and rescue crews from landing. The UN already had police and military in Haiti to maintain control and could have sent more if and when they were needed. The people desperately needed food, water, medical supplies, more doctors, and rescue crews, not thousands of military personnel who also need to be supplied with food, water, and military equipment.
The excuse for this massive military occupation was that hungry and thirsty Haitians were digging through the ruble of collapsed stores looking for anything that they could salvage to eat, drink, or use to barter for food or water.
The real reason for the huge military landing was to protect what was left of the quisling government the US had installed and prevent the popular elected president from returning.
A nationwide mobilization had been triggered by the exclusion of the peoples political party Lavalas from taking part in senatorial elections held in April and June 2009 and recently the refusal of a new Provisional Electoral Council set up by the regime to recognize the majority's right to choose their representatives freely and democratically for legislative elections scheduled for February and March 2010. On December 16, 2009 this mobilization began is only to end when democracy is respected in Haiti and when the Lavalas party’s elected leader and the legitimate president Jean-Bertrand Aristide is allowed to return to Haiti from South Africa where the US exiled him. It appears that the UN forces in Haiti were considered unwilling or incapable of suppressing democracy demanded by the peoples’ popular political party.
The US took over the only airport and monopolized it to bring in their army, supplies for their army, and evacuate their citizens preventing much needed mobile hospitals, medical supplies, doctors, and rescue crews from landing. The UN already had police and military in Haiti to maintain control and could have sent more if and when they were needed. The people desperately needed food, water, medical supplies, more doctors, and rescue crews, not thousands of military personnel who also need to be supplied with food, water, and military equipment.
The excuse for this massive military occupation was that hungry and thirsty Haitians were digging through the ruble of collapsed stores looking for anything that they could salvage to eat, drink, or use to barter for food or water.
The real reason for the huge military landing was to protect what was left of the quisling government the US had installed and prevent the popular elected president from returning.
A nationwide mobilization had been triggered by the exclusion of the peoples political party Lavalas from taking part in senatorial elections held in April and June 2009 and recently the refusal of a new Provisional Electoral Council set up by the regime to recognize the majority's right to choose their representatives freely and democratically for legislative elections scheduled for February and March 2010. On December 16, 2009 this mobilization began is only to end when democracy is respected in Haiti and when the Lavalas party’s elected leader and the legitimate president Jean-Bertrand Aristide is allowed to return to Haiti from South Africa where the US exiled him. It appears that the UN forces in Haiti were considered unwilling or incapable of suppressing democracy demanded by the peoples’ popular political party.
Anonymous # Friday, November 26, 2010 9:03:42 AM