Posted on 03/10/2013 9:26:09 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
First there’s a tap on the shoulder. A huge palace-guard policeman in full body armour and a black balaclava uses a riot stick to suggest it’s time to go.
Then he swings the truncheon high in the air and it comes down with a sickening thud on the back of a demonstrator. Beside him a man lies groaning as blood drips from a deep hand wound.
The President of Haiti, Michel Martelly, stands just yards away, surrounded by a crowd of 10,000 people in the central square of the capital Port-au-Prince.
This pop-star leader – a former Creole singer known as ‘Sweet Micky’ – is lapping up the attention despite the obvious concern for his safety.
The sharply dressed politician offers his best toothy grin and waves eagerly to the unsettled mob.
Perhaps he feels safe because he’s protected not only by a police army, whose fingers twitch nervously on sub-machine guns and pump-action shotguns, but also by a ring of bodyguards in suits with pistols hidden discreetly in shoulder and waist holsters.
They stare blankly out towards the crowd in an eerie reminder of earlier presidential protectors – the Tontons Macoutes, bogeymen who wore dark glasses and ruled from the shadows.
They murdered and tortured on behalf of the tyrannical leader François ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier throughout the Sixties until 1971, and then for his playboy son ‘Baby Doc’, who was overthrown in 1986.
Those who questioned their authority often vanished in the night – occasionally reappearing as a corpse hanging from a tree.......................
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Sounds a lot like what happens in many of our inner cities.
Pikers. We’re missing trillions.
If we but take a moment to examine the goings-on in nations ruled by Blacks, both in the Caribbean and in Africa, we may gain considerable insight into the fate of the United States.
How many of the Wall Street banksters were black, just sayin?
Just wondering whether the Clintons happened to ‘bank’ any of that, since they seem to frequent Haiti ‘to help out’, of course.
Just goes to show you. Send billions in aid after a “devastating” earthquake to rebuild a shiitehole and what do you get? Another shiitehole.
Did someone mention Slick Willie?
No to mention the Cholera epidemic introduced by UN troops.
The question is utterly irrelevant to my post.
Ping
“The regulators said an accounting fraud at Fannie Mae included manipulations to reach earnings targets so that Mr. Raines, Mr. Howard, Ms. Spencer and other company executives could pocket hundreds of millions in bonuses from 1998 to 2004.” NYT 4-19-08
Fannie Mae, after Bill Clinton and Andrew Cuomo (HUD)loosened lending rules in 1994, was a prime cause of the financial meltdown. Raines exacerbated the problem by cooking the books and hiding huge losses from Congress and the White House.
“Like a lot of my Democratic colleagues I was too slow to appreciate the recklessness of Fannie and Freddie. I defended their efforts to encourage affordable homeownership when in retrospect I should have heeded the concerns raised by their regulator in 2004. Frankly, I wish my Democratic colleagues would admit when it comes to Fannie and Freddie, we were wrong.” —Congressman Artur Davis (D-AL) , 9-30-08
http://tjhancock.wordpress.com/housing-bubble-financial-crisis-detailed-comprehensive-assessment/
Coming to a neighborhood near you. Description of Haitian president bore a striking similarity to barack kardashian.
Gee, I thought old Billy Clinton was taking care of them? Right.....
How about USA. Trillions wasted by President who is protected by machine-gun weilding thugs.
Government = criminals.
Sounds like Obama’s third term
Haiti is a lost cause, pull the plug on the island and let it sink in to the sea
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