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Aristide-Phobia Reveals The Game

Submitted March 13, 2004 - 10:12 pm by Al Giordano
A lone man, with no army, no police force, not even trustworthy bodyguards to rely on, causes such fear among cowards like US Ambassador to Haiti James B. Foley and the illigitimate "prime minister of Boca Raton" Gerard Latortue, that the man's mere presence on a neighboring Caribbean island causes them to tremble.

This, from tonight's New York Times:

The United States ambassador to Haiti, James B. Foley, said Saturday that the return of the nation's exiled president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the Caribbean would risk further destabilizing Haiti by emboldening his followers to rebel against the interim government.

Mr. Aristide, who has been in exile in the Central African Republic since his ouster from Haiti on Jan. 29, was planning to travel in the next few days to Jamaica, 100 miles from Haiti's southwestern tip.

"There is negative potential, there's no denying that," Mr. Foley said during a news conference with Gen. Richard B. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who stopped here for several hours following a five-day tour of Latin America. "It must be said that Jamaican authorities are taking a certain risk and a certain responsibility."

A not-so-veiled threat to Jamaica, a long and loyal ally to the United States... and what is the "risk" that they speak of? That Aristide might speak out loud? That he might exercise the freedom that Americans most hold dear: the right to speak freely? And that people will listen? Enough people to call the weak hand that Dictator-for-Two-Days-and-Counting Gerard Latortue is holding with fake cards?

Would there be this irrational fear of one man's presence 100 miles off the coastline if he did not still count with the support of the Haitian majority?

Would there be this fear if the installed coup regime counted with authentic public support?

Is this not why they forced him into deep freeze in the Central African Dictatorship, under lock and key... to shut him up?

But he has not shut up, nor should he, nor should any human being on this earth ever be censored from his most sacred right: the right to speak and to be heard.

The cowards are afraid of this unarmed man without an army for good reason: He is still the legitimate elected president of his land, and his people know it.

It was they, the cowards, who filled the basement with gasoline and now they fear the spark of speech.

That, alone, reveals them as enemies of democracy, and as evil in their intentions.

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