[Stoat]

You just have to hand it to those wacky Haitians....they just never seem to be able to get enough.

 

 

The BBC, as usual, fails to mention some of the more important and relevant points about a story.  For those unfamiliar with Mr. Aristide, here's a fun thing to do.  Do a web search with the terms "Aristide" along with "necklace" or "necklacing" ...it may be an eye opener.

FrontPage magazine.com Haiti Victim of Clinton's Old Black Magic by Lowell Ponte

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"Aristide has also endorsed “necklacing” of the kind widely practiced in South Africa by Winnie Mandela. It consists of seizing a victim, forcing an automobile tire filled with gasoline down over their head and shoulders, and then setting the tire and gasoline on fire.

“What a beautiful tool!… It smells good. And wherever you go, you want to smell it,” Aristide said of the necklacing of his critics on September 27, 1991, as witnessed and reported by Associated Press.

Note the above date. Despite knowing of Aristide’s penchant for necklacing critics, and despite knowing that a CIA psychological profile had identified Aristide as “a psychopath,” President Bill Clinton three years later put at risk 20,000 of America’s most elite troops to remove a pro-American Haitian government in order to re-install this murdering psychopath Jean-Bertrand Aristide as President of Haiti.

“He is compared now with Francois ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier, who set up his Tontons-Macoute gestapo-like police to harass, jail and kill his opponents,” wrote Raymond Joseph, an editor of Haiti Observateur.  “Mr. Aristide’s goons are called chimeres (chimeras) and have turned Haiti into a killing field.”

“Aristide, who claims to be a prophet, a messiah, reportedly was bathed in November [2000] in the blood of a dead Haitian by voodoo priestess Marie-Anne Auguste, commonly known as So An,” wrote Yves A. Isidor, who teaches at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.

“The purpose of [this blood] bathing…said a senior member of Aristide’s Lavalas Family Party,” wrote Isidor, “…was in an effort to put a curse on then-U.S. Rep[ublican] presidential candidate George W. Bush…. His Dem[ocratic] rival, U.S. Vice President Albert Gore would, hopefully, emerge as the winner of the November election.”  But Aristide’s voodoo magic could not make a winner of Zombie-like Gore as it helped do for Clinton.  "

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[nopardons]

bttt

[river rat]

Another turd left behind by the Clinton Administrations -- and negotiated by that demented idiot -- CARTER.

Clinton and Carter combined, have caused more misery than any 20 previous presidents.....

Our 1st black president sure screwed up the poor blacks in Haiti and Somalia..

Semper Fi

[Darkwolf377]

If I became Emperor of Earth I'd move all the Palestinians to Haiti. Just 'cuz.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Haiti... Detroit with palm trees and voodoo.

[backhoe]

Haiti, descending into chaos again
various FR links | 02-11-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1075828/posts

[ReignOfError]

Hispaniola is a crystal-clear illustration of how much damage generations of corrupt government can do to a country.

Haiti and the Dominican Republic are pretty similar in climate and natural resources. I've been told -- haven't been there myself -- that when you fly over the border between the two countries, you can see the line as clearly as on the map. The DR side is lush and green, while the Haitian side is mud, stripped of anything and everything that can be eaten, burned as fuel or sold.

[rod1]

Why stop there. Isn't Baby Doc still alive? If they still want necklace-accomplished dictators who stole from the impoverished country and never let the people actually progress, he and Arustide are pretty much interchangeable.