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Originally posted by Supple Cow
US involvement aside, I don't appreciate this Democracy Now group trying to stop a coup in a country where the majority of the citizens believe that the coup is necessary AND where there is evidence of crimes against humanity on the part of the leader being ousted. Many of my Haitian friends are making plans to fly back and fight the revolution - to die for this when they could remain comfortably here at college in the States. This sure makes me question all of the activist groups that tell me to write a letter to somebody in charge in order to tell them that I feel strongly about something that I just learned about by reading one-sided propaganda.
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I don't know why our Haitan acquantances have such different opinions on these current events, but let us know if yours actually go back and fight in this military coup.
I'd like to know which side they're going to fight on, it might be that the "revolution" refers to a multi-sided grab for power--not just between the "people" and "Aristide."
I am not surprised that impoverished people might inaccurately lay the blame for their financial woes on their current president, when it might be otherwise more accurately placed on foreign loans and centuries of being shit upon by foreign nations.
As for human rights violations: When foreign agents, funded by the KGB or Taliban or any other foreign nation's special agency, attempt to overthrow our government structure, what would we call them? If our president put the screws to them to crush the terrorist and/or treasonist opposition (which is what we did and do call it), we didn't (communist insurection groups in the 50s), don't (elements in Guantonamo Bay currently), and wouldn't (whatever the future holds for whomever we might brand terrorists) call it human rights violations. We call it protecting our interests and democracy. Yet, when the CIA funds groups to stir up trouble in Cuba and Haiti (among other places), and Castro an Aristide respond by cracking down, our population just eats up the media's representation of the
current events without regard for historical context.