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<h1><b>Haiti, Raped by the U.S. Since 2004, and Still
Bleeding</b></h1><font size=3>Wed, 01/11/2012 - 02:28 Glen
Ford<br><br>
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</a></b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>The horrific
squandering of Haitian lives and earthquake relief and aid dollars by the
occupying powers over the past two years are direct consequences of
previous imperial crimes. “Since 2004, Haiti has been methodically
stripped of its sovereignty, made into a protectorate of the United
Nations,” which is merely a front for the United States. “The earthquake
of January 2010 was a natural phenomenon that happened to take place
while a rape was in progress.”<br><br>
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</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#280099"><b>Haiti,
Raped by the U.S. Since 2004, and Still Bleeding<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>A Black Agenda Radio
commentary by Glen Ford<br><br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3 color="#2323DC"><i>The United States
has flexed every superpower muscle to prolong Haiti’s agony.”<br><br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>In the American media, Haiti is most
often spoken of as a tragedy – when it is actually the scene of horrific
crimes, mainly perpetrated by the United States over the span of two
centuries. For the past two years, since the earthquake that shook the
life out of hundreds of thousands of already deeply wounded people, the
United States has flexed every superpower muscle to prolong Haiti’s
agony. <br><br>
Half a million people are still homeless, two years after the quake,
despite the billions in relief and recovery aid pledged by international
donors. Sixty percent of the rubble has yet to be removed from the
capital and its suburbs, and 6,000 people have died from a cholera
epidemic brought into the country by United Nations troops. The UN has
still not seen fit to apologize for being the vector of disease, because
the UN is not accountable to the people of Haiti – only to the United
States. The Americans used a huge chunk of their so-called aid money to
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<a href="http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/haiti-seven-places-where-earthquake-money-did-and-did-not-go">
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2 color="#000080"><u>reimburse
themselves</a></u></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2> for the
cost of their military occupation of the country. Dead, dying, sick,
starving, homeless Haitians are made to pay for their own imprisonment in
their native land, while Washington gloats that it is Haiti’s last, best
hope, and that the catastrophic earthquake might have been a good thing,
a chance for a “new beginning” under Washington's firm guidance.<br><br>
Millions were spent to choreograph crooked elections that brought to
office a government with no power, even less money, and not a shred of
dignity – a puppet regime held in absolute disrespect by its American
puppeteers. <br><br>
</font><div align="center"><font size=3 color="#2323DC">“</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3 color="#2323DC"><i>Washington gloats
that it is Haiti’s last, best hope, and that the catastrophic earthquake
might have been a good thing.”<br><br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2>Meanwhile, Haiti’s most popular
political party remains, for all official purposes, an outlaw,
effectively banned from civic participation. The Haitian people are not
allowed to speak. And this is the heart of the crime, from which all the
grand and petty assaults on the Haitian nation, flow. This week’s
anniversary of the killer earthquake is full of morbid statistics on
physical destruction, death and disease, but the appalling numbers cannot
separate these two years of horror from the crimes that came before: the
isolation and armed extortion of Haiti by United States and Europe
following her 1804 victory against French slavery, leaving the Black
republic with a debt that was not paid off until the 1940s; the 26
separate invasions of Haiti by the United States from 1849 to 1915,
followed by a nearly 20-year occupation that lasted until 1934; and the
U.S. overthrow of Haiti's popularly elected president, Jean Bertrand
Aristide, in 2004, the 200th anniversary of Haiti's independence. Since
2004, Haiti has been methodically stripped of its sovereignty, made into
a protectorate of the United Nations, which is merely a front for the
real rulers, the United States and its junior partners, France and
Canada. <br><br>
The earthquake of January 2010 was a natural phenomenon that happened to
take place while a rape was in progress. The rapists in Washington take
their greatest pleasure in Haiti's degradation. Haiti needs nothing from
the United States, except to be left alone, as a free nation in the
world, to make friends as it chooses. It is not natural disaster that
holds her back, but naked U.S. aggression – because all people have the
capacity to rise, unless they are held down by overwhelming force.
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For Black Agenda Radio, I'm Glen Ford. On the web, go to
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executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at
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