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Supporters\n greet rebel leader Louis-Jodel Chamblain upon his arrival in Port-au-Prince,
\n Haiti, Monday, March 1, 2004. Chamblain, a convicted killer and accused
\n death squad leader, says he has no plans of fading into the shadows. (AP
\n Photo\/Pablo Aneli) <\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
One of the Very This is the moment of truth for Haiti. Now is the time for the US to Unfortunately, it doesn’t sound as though old Boniface has either the Ever since President Monroe came up with the concept that we have an Oh please let this be part of some Machiavellian plot to story from the New Supporters greet rebel leader Louis-Jodel Chamblain upon his arrival in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, March 1, 2004. Chamblain, a convicted killer and accused death squad leader, says he has no plans of fading into the shadows. (AP Photo\/Pablo Aneli) One of … Continue reading
\n Bad Men<\/a> mentioned earlier has declared
\n himself the ruler of Haiti, and threatened to jail the new
\n prime Minister, a guy by the name of Yvon Neptune. Another, pictured
\n above, a convicted death squad leader, also wants a piece of the power.
\n Meanwhile, the new President, by constitutional succession, who took
\n over when
\n Aristide fled, is an unfortunate gentleman named Boniface Alexandre,
\n the Chief
\n Justice of the Supreme Court. He hasn’t been seen in public since
\n he accepted the position. He seems to be frozen in a deathgrip of panic
\n and fear, and who can blame him, considering the successive fates of
\n the last few Presidents of Haiti.<\/p>\n
\n step up to the plate and turn this tragic turmoil into a good thing,
\n a positive
\n change.
\n By
\n all
\n accounts
\n the Rebel
\n Leader Guy Philippe is a murderer, drug dealer and gangster on a major
\n scale, not the sort of leader we should be working with.<\/p>\n
\n power base or the intestinal fortitude to pull things together, but there
\n must be a number of reasonable alternatives. If the US was involved,
\n directly or indirectly, in the pressure which forced Aristide out, we
\n are willing to forgive them, or at least give them the benefit of the
\n doubt until we learn more, if they show they had the foresight to have
\n a viable "Guy" of their own ready to go, and someone a bit more palatable
\n than "Guy Phillippe".<\/p>\n
\n obligation to keep our hemisphere "safe for democracy" we have periodically
\n intervened in practically every independent nation in Central America
\n and the Caribbean. Sometimes we intervene on behalf of the democratic
\n aspirations of the majority of the population (Aristide I, Grenada) and
\n sometimes we intervene against them (DOminican Republic and Nicaragua).
\n Sometimes we install and then remove the same regime (Somoza family)
\n But we always seemed to have our "Guy" ready to go and our plot well
\n thought out.<\/p>\n
\n install a ivy-trained technocrat
\n and
\n not
\n a
\n cowardly capitulation
\n to cheap
\n thugs
\n and voudou
\n charlatans….<\/p>\n
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