Supporters want ex-dictator in next Haiti election

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Supporters want ex-dictator in next Haiti election
The Associated Press
Saturday, May 22, 2010; 5:46 PM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A small group of red-and-black clad supporters carried pictures of ex-Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier on Saturday, calling for the ousted ruler to return and participate in post-quake presidential elections.

About 200 people wound through the Port-au-Prince suburb of Petionville, which along with other areas home to wealthy Haitians was a one-time center of the leader's support.

They also carried pictures of his bespectacled father, the late Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier. Their clothes were the colors of the dictatorial-era Haitian flag.

Saturday is the anniversary of the date in 1959 when the father founded his Tonton Macoute secret police. The force officially known as the Militia of National Security Volunteers killed, tortured and extorted from countless Haitians.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/22/AR2010052202252.html

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Mika]

2. Haitian tea party.

OMG! :wow:


A Haitian mother making mud cookies - a variable mix of any available grain, lard, and mud

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[secondwind]

3. that SOB was partly responsible for the grinding poverty in that country...they are

fools or must be desperate to want that SOB back!

[Lagomorph]

5. He ruled with an iron fist,

but at least he ruled, from what I gather a lot of Haitians feel the country needs a tough leader more than democracy.

Having two choices, oppression or starvation, has got to suck.

[Judi Lynn]

6. It's the wealthy sector wanting its privilege reinforced.

They are undoubtedly scared to death another beloved leader like Aristide can arise, someone who will start moving to help the needy again, the same people they need to remain desperate, so they may be used for cheap labor in their sweatshops, as domestic help, etc., and for consumers of what precious few grocieries, clothes, insufficient shelter they can sell/rent to them.

[Turbineguy]

4. They should ask Sarah Palin.

she's just as dumb, but better looking.