Today In History (October 15 1994)

[WhiteHealer]

TODAY IN HISTORY

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1994: The Clinton administration reinstalls Haitian Communist and terrorist Jean-Bertrand Aristide, touted as an enlightened proponent of “democracy,” as ruler of the island. After being ousted again in one of the Black nation’s innumerable coups, Aristide, while on a well-funded 1997 speaking tour of American universities, refused to answer when questioned by National Alliance leader William White Williams on the Great Haitian Democrat’s use of necklacing (murdering by placing a burning tire around the victim’s throat) against his political opponents.

[Will Williams]

TODAY IN HISTORY
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1994: The Clinton administration reinstalls Haitian Communist and terrorist Jean-Bertrand Aristide, touted as an enlightened proponent of “democracy,” as ruler of the island. After being ousted again in one of the Black nation’s innumerable coups, Aristide, while on a well-funded 1997 speaking tour of American universities, refused to answer when questioned by National Alliance leader William White Williams on the Great Haitian Democrat’s use of necklacing (murdering by placing a burning tire around the victim’s throat) against his political opponents.

Ah, memories!

In Dr. Pierce's classic, "Truth Before Fashion" ADV from a couple of years earlier, he explains Bill Clinton's support of Haiti's wall-eyed Communist terrorist leader: viewtopic.php?p=2220#p2220

...Now, it's true that most Americans weren't as enthusiastic about sending troops to Haiti to install Aristide as the gang around President Clinton was. But we went along with it. And if you watch the television news coverage of the military occupation, you are led to believe that our soldiers are enthusiastic about their assignment. They are doing a noble thing, they believe, giving Haiti back to Aristide and restoring democracy.

Now, the fact is that Mr. Aristide is a Communist, and besides that a much worse thug and terrorist than General Cedras ever was. In 1991, when Aristide was the top dog in Haiti, he ruled by terror and murder. He killed his opponents with burning tires, "necklacing" them, as the Blacks call it, before General Cedras booted him out of the presidential palace. It is difficult to imagine a more despicable criminal than Jean-Bertrand Aristide as the ruler of a country. And our government is backing him. Our troops are keeping him in power and taking guns away from Haitians who oppose him.

Isn't that amazing?

But just try discussing that with the average U.S. voter. He doesn't want to talk about it. It's unfashionable. About as far as the average American will go is admitting that what goes on in Haiti isn't our business, and that we should let the Haitians run their own affairs.

Some Americans will say that we had to intervene in Haiti because economic conditions were so bad there that we had a flood of Haitian "boat people" coming into this country. That, of course, is sheer nonsense: economic conditions were worse than usual in Haiti before our invasion because the Clinton government had imposed an embargo on the country in an attempt to force General Cedras out. That's why the Haitians were starving: it was Mr. Clinton's embargo. But most people don't want to hear that.

And they don't want to hear about the fact that Aristide is a Communist and a bloodthirsty terrorist. They prefer to hear that our troops are in Haiti to "restore democracy." That's what is fashionable. That's what it is comfortable to believe...