Caricom chairman doesn't see problem with Aristide's return

[Judi Lynn]

Caricom chairman doesn't see problem with Aristide's return
CMC
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC) — Caribbean Community (Caricom) Chairman Tillman Thomas says he does not anticipate the return of ousted president Jean Bertrand Aristide to Haiti would spur violence in the French speaking Caricom member state.

"Generally you have violence here and there in societies and Haiti is no exception, but I don't think Aristide's return would spur additional violence," Thomas told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC).

Thomas is also the prime minister of Grenada that is preparing to host the Caricom Inter-sessional Summit on February 25-26.

The Haitian authorities have already confirmed that a passport had been issued to the former Roman Catholic priest who was forced out of office in 2004 and has been living in exile in South Africa since.

More:
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Caricom-chairman-doesn-t-see-problem-with-Aristide-s-return_8372262

[Peace Patriot]

1. Well, if this was AP, I'd say that CIA-instigated violence is guaranteed upon Aristide's return.

But I don't know who asked the question and I don't know who the Jamaican Observer is. Hold on, I'm going to see if I can tell from their front page. It's taking a long time to load (I'm currently on dial-up) which means lots of ads and internet doohickeys, so probably corporate. Yup, lots of corporate-type ads. And no "About Us," so you can't find out what 'news' monopoly they are part of.

You see, instead of the reporter asking, "Ain't it great, Mr. Caricom, that the elected president of Haiti, brutally ousted by the Bush Junta, is returning to his country?," the reporter asks, "Won't this mean violence in Haiti?" He or she is reading from the U.S./CIA-written script. The CIA got "Baby Doc" in there, in anticipation of Aristide's return, precisely to instigate violence on Aristide's return.

The article says NOTHING about Aristide's popularity, nor the fact that his party--the majority party in Haiti--was banned from the ballot, using a phony bureaucratic ruse, without question at the order of the U.S. State Department, and that SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT of Haitians DIDN'T VOTE, in the first round of the election, because of this. Here's how the article ends...

"Prime Minister Thomas said that while Aristide's political party, Lavalas, had not been involved in the elections, it doesn't mean that it cannot be part of the democratic process unfolding in the Caricom country."

"Not involved" in the elections?! They were unfairly and illegally BANNED. But, hey, banned or not, they can be "part of the democratic process." :sarcasm:

Yet another "black hole" in this article, where information should be, is that Jamaica (U.S. "free trade for the rich" client state, i.e., vast poverty, "bought and paid for" government) PARTICIPATED in the fraudulent recount that the U.S. State Department arranged. Using the "OAS" name, the U.S. put together an election team consisting of six people from the U.S. (notorious bullyer of Haiti), France (Haiti's former slavemaster) and Canada (rightwing/corporate government) and one Jamaican. The recount was so inadequate as to be fraudulent (source: CEPR, which has called for a complete re-do of the Haitian election). The OAS, which had a good rep as election monitors, is now besmirched by this U.S. fraud. (Where was Brazil, which has peacekeepers in Haiti? Where were any of the Latin American elections experts that do this work for the OAS?)

And now the stage is set for CIA funded thugs and "Baby Doc" (heinous former dictator who got into the country without proper papers through the U.S. military controlled airport) to disrupt any effort by Haitians to hold a real election and establish a real democracy.

You can tell from the wording of this article, and what it leaves out, that it is corporate crapola. Didn't really need to review the ads. And it doesn't really matter who asked this loaded question on the CIA's behalf. ("Won't Aristide's return spur violence in Haiti?" Jeez.) That's ALL that this so-called newspaper reports.

Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Caricom-chairman-doesn-t-see-problem-with-Aristide-s-return_8372262#ixzz1E1UEV6sr

[joshcryer]

2. The CIA would merely have to bribe him to get what it wants.

Silly.