Democracy Denied: US Turning Haiti into Another Vassal State
Submitted by Cynthia McKinney on Wed, 12/16/2015 - 07:06
Haiti election fiasco
by Cynthia McKinney
The goal of U.S. imperialism is to subordinate all other nations to the
demands of capitalists, often destroying those nations in the process. U.S.
foreign policy is deemed successful when the targeted nations and peoples
are stripped of every vestige of national sovereignty every possibility of
self-determination. By this standard, former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton was very successful in Haiti.
Democracy Denied: US Turning Haiti into Another Vassal State
by Cynthia McKinney
This article previously appeared in Russia Today.
Candidate Clinton has yet to be asked about her investments in Haiti that
have spawned from the 2010 changed election results.
Robert Baer just made an incredibly important admission that for me comes
way too late, but still its good to know. The former CIA officer admits he
was given millions of dollars which he used successfully to bribe
politicians in Yugoslavia to betray their countrys interest. Robert Baer
describes how the US brought democracy to Yugoslavia by destroying it.
Of course, this policy financed by my tax dollars, didnt benefit me or my
next door neighbors; but certain individuals in both the US and Yugoslavia
benefitted handsomely from the gambit. Oops, too bad about those hundreds
of thousands of lives; too bad about Srebrenica. So, now, Robert Baer is
trying to make amends, of a sort, by exposing the whole affair.
Therefore, it is with this backdrop in mind, that I want to explore how US
policy can hurt multitudes of people, yet benefit a small clique, and so, be
deemed successful. US policy in Yugoslavia literally wiped the country off
the map. If you are not a peace and justice kind of person, it could be said
that the US policy to destroy that country was effective and successful,
despite the tremendous loss of life that resulted. And now, the US is
attempting to bring democracy to Haiti.
US policy in Yugoslavia literally wiped the country off the map.
Haiti is currently in the midst of an electoral crisis because the US wants
to dictate who the next president will be. In 2010, Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton interfered in Haitis election results denying the people
their right of self-determination. According to the previous (and now
current) head of Haitis Presidential Electoral Commission (EC), Pierre
Louis Opont, the EC had prepared election results to be publicized; those
results were passed on to Cheryl Mills, the Chief of Staff of then-Secretary
Clinton. But, instead of announcing the two winners, who would then compete
in a runoff, Mills announced a completely different result. Opont and the
remaining Commission members were shocked, but said or did nothing at the
time and allowed the fraudulent result to stand.
In July 2015, Opont went public with the saga, just as Haiti was about to
commence its Presidential campaign for 2015. Needless to say, the US-backed
Michel Martelly, an entertainer known onstage as Sweet Mickey went on to
win the Haitian election, defeating Jude Celestin, who had the backing of
outgoing President Rene Preval, a Jean-Bertrand Aristide ally. Democracy
denied.
During the 2010 election, the US State Department had made comments like
Celestin was too close to [Venezuelan President Hugo] Chavez. The US
government took it upon itself to deny democracy to Haitians because they
had voted for a Chavez ally to lead them. Well, Hugo Chavez is no longer an
issue, nor is the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which just handed Chavez
protégé President Nicolas Maduro a crippling blow in Parliamentary elections
on December 10, 2015.
The US-backed Michel Martelly, an entertainer known onstage as Sweet
Mickey went on to win the Haitian election.
Meanwhile, it was later revealed that Secretary Clinton had awarded, through
the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) a $100,000
donation to an organization that supported Clintons choice for President,
Martelly. After his inauguration, one of Martellys favorite slogans was
Haiti is open for business. For the then-Secretary of State that proved to
be an understatement. First, there was the revelation that Tony Rodham, the
Secretarys brother, was awarded a contract to mine Haitian gold. Tony
Rodham has no special insights into gold mining except that he is Hillary
Clintons brother.
Moreover, the Haitians have refused to mine for more gold because they have
steadfastly demanded the return of their gold bullion, taken for safe
keeping by the US in 1915. The US militarily occupied Haiti until 1934, but
maintained economic control over the country. It is this economic control
over Haitian resources that is at the center of the Haitian struggle for
self-determination. Now, Secretary Clinton is running for President of the
United States, but has yet to answer the question of how her brother came to
gain a gold mining contract in Haiti during her tenure at the State
Department. Her official answer is that she doesnt know.
More recently, another revelation has come to light of the Clinton
Foundation having a for-profit peanut business in Haiti. Acceso Peanut
Enterprise Corporation, known as Acceso Haiti, is a project of the Clinton
Foundation and Canadian mining magnate, Frank Giustra. Candidate Clinton has
yet to be asked about her investments in Haiti that have spawned from the
2010 changed election results.
Tony Rodham, the Secretarys brother, was awarded a contract to mine
Haitian gold.
In addition to finding gold in peanuts, as Sweet Mickey is on his way out
of the Haitian Presidency (the Haitian Constitution prohibits Presidents to
succeed themselves), yet another Clinton Foundation donor was awarded a
contract in Haiti. In October 2015, President Martelly awarded an Israeli
company, HLSI, the right to secure Haitis land and sea borders.
Now, with the prospects of having yet another election stolen, the people of
Haiti have erupted to protect their right of self-determination and,
moreover, to protect their resources from more Clinton pillage. This Haitian
struggle for independence and dignity today is as important for this small
Caribbean country as was a similar struggle that resulted in the Haitian
Revolution in 1804.
Recognizing that the situation could easily slip from their control, the US
Embassy called Presidential candidate Jude Celestin in for consultations.
The result was that Celestin got up and walked out of the meeting. He
declared at the time,I am not a dealer, I am a leader. Celestin, however,
did not reveal the contents of the deal that was discussed. There
certainly is enough on the table. But, the US Embassy should not be in the
position of protecting ill-gotten gains of US Presidential candidates
against the will of the people in the affected country.
Jude Celestin has already had one election stolen from him by the Clintons;
but this time, he has forged a relationship with the other candidates. They
call themselves the G8. So far, the G8 have held firm and called the
Presidential election, Round One, fraudulent and they will not recognize any
election outcome announced by the already-tainted Presidential Election
Commission without an independent investigation of the allegations of fraud.
The G8 remain united in their call for an investigation of the election
fraud.
The US Embassy has not been able to peel away individual candidates who form
the G8. On a recent trip to the country, Ambassador Kenneth Merten came away
empty-handed. Now, a special delegation from the United Nations is on the
ground in Haiti trying to fix this mess because neither the US nor the
Organization of American States has been able to move the G8 from its united
position.
Today, the G8 remain united in their call for an investigation of the
election fraud that marred the first round of the Presidential poll.
The US brought democracy to Yugoslavia and it no longer exists. The US has
spent $5 billion according to the State Department bringing democracy to
Ukraine and today Ukraine is in turmoil. In the end, neither the people of
Yugoslavia, nor the people of Ukraine have benefited from US democracy. And
so it goes with the people of Haiti. But the list of non-Haitians who
benefit from US democracy is long, indeed. And the Clinton Foundation
family and donors top this list.
After serving in the Georgia Legislature, in 1992, Cynthia McKinney won a
seat in the US House of Representatives. She was the first African-American
woman from Georgia in the US Congress. In 2005, McKinney was a vocal critic
of the governments response to Hurricane Katrina and was the first member
of Congress to file articles of impeachment against George W. Bush. In 2008,
Cynthia McKinney won the Green Party nomination for the US presidency.
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by Cynthia McKinney
The goal of U.S. imperialism is to subordinate all other nations to
the demands of capitalists, often destroying those nations in the process.
U.S. foreign policy is deemed successful when the targeted nations and
peoples are stripped of every vestige of national sovereignty every
possibility of self-determination. By this standard, former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton was very successful in Haiti.
Democracy Denied: US Turning Haiti into Another Vassal State
by Cynthia McKinney
This article previously appeared in Russia Today.
Candidate Clinton has yet to be asked about her investments in Haiti that
have spawned from the 2010 changed election results.
Robert Baer just made an incredibly important admission that for me comes
way too late, but still its good to know. The former CIA officer admits he
was given millions of dollars which he used successfully to bribe
politicians in Yugoslavia to betray their countrys interest. Robert Baer
describes how the US brought democracy to Yugoslavia by destroying it.
Of course, this policy financed by my tax dollars, didnt benefit me or my
next door neighbors; but certain individuals in both the US and Yugoslavia
benefitted handsomely from the gambit. Oops, too bad about those hundreds of
thousands of lives; too bad about Srebrenica. So, now, Robert Baer is trying
to make amends, of a sort, by exposing the whole affair.
Therefore, it is with this backdrop in mind, that I want to explore how US
policy can hurt multitudes of people, yet benefit a small clique, and so, be
deemed successful. US policy in Yugoslavia literally wiped the country off
the map. If you are not a peace and justice kind of person, it could be said
that the US policy to destroy that country was effective and successful,
despite the tremendous loss of life that resulted. And now, the US is
attempting to bring democracy to Haiti.
US policy in Yugoslavia literally wiped the country off the map.
Haiti is currently in the midst of an electoral crisis because the US wants
to dictate who the next president will be. In 2010, Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton interfered in Haitis election results denying the people
their right of self-determination. According to the previous (and now
current) head of Haitis Presidential Electoral Commission (EC), Pierre
Louis Opont, the EC had prepared election results to be publicized; those
results were passed on to Cheryl Mills, the Chief of Staff of then-Secretary
Clinton. But, instead of announcing the two winners, who would then compete
in a runoff, Mills announced a completely different result. Opont and the
remaining Commission members were shocked, but said or did nothing at the
time and allowed the fraudulent result to stand.
In July 2015, Opont went public with the saga, just as Haiti was about to
commence its Presidential campaign for 2015. Needless to say, the US-backed
Michel Martelly, an entertainer known onstage as Sweet Mickey went on to
win the Haitian election, defeating Jude Celestin, who had the backing of
outgoing President Rene Preval, a Jean-Bertrand Aristide ally. Democracy
denied.
During the 2010 election, the US State Department had made comments like
Celestin was too close to [Venezuelan President Hugo] Chavez. The US
government took it upon itself to deny democracy to Haitians because they
had voted for a Chavez ally to lead them. Well, Hugo Chavez is no longer an
issue, nor is the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which just handed Chavez
protégé President Nicolas Maduro a crippling blow in Parliamentary elections
on December 10, 2015.
The US-backed Michel Martelly, an entertainer known onstage as Sweet
Mickey went on to win the Haitian election.
Meanwhile, it was later revealed that Secretary Clinton had awarded, through
the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) a $100,000
donation to an organization that supported Clintons choice for President,
Martelly. After his inauguration, one of Martellys favorite slogans was
Haiti is open for business. For the then-Secretary of State that proved to
be an understatement. First, there was the revelation that Tony Rodham, the
Secretarys brother, was awarded a contract to mine Haitian gold. Tony
Rodham has no special insights into gold mining except that he is Hillary
Clintons brother.
Moreover, the Haitians have refused to mine for more gold because they have
steadfastly demanded the return of their gold bullion, taken for safe
keeping by the US in 1915. The US militarily occupied Haiti until 1934, but
maintained economic control over the country. It is this economic control
over Haitian resources that is at the center of the Haitian struggle for
self-determination. Now, Secretary Clinton is running for President of the
United States, but has yet to answer the question of how her brother came to
gain a gold mining contract in Haiti during her tenure at the State
Department. Her official answer is that she doesnt know.
More recently, another revelation has come to light of the Clinton
Foundation having a for-profit peanut business in Haiti. Acceso Peanut
Enterprise Corporation, known as Acceso Haiti, is a project of the Clinton
Foundation and Canadian mining magnate, Frank Giustra. Candidate Clinton has
yet to be asked about her investments in Haiti that have spawned from the
2010 changed election results.
Tony Rodham, the Secretarys brother, was awarded a contract to mine
Haitian gold.
In addition to finding gold in peanuts, as Sweet Mickey is on his way out
of the Haitian Presidency (the Haitian Constitution prohibits Presidents to
succeed themselves), yet another Clinton Foundation donor was awarded a
contract in Haiti. In October 2015, President Martelly awarded an Israeli
company, HLSI, the right to secure Haitis land and sea borders.
Now, with the prospects of having yet another election stolen, the people of
Haiti have erupted to protect their right of self-determination and,
moreover, to protect their resources from more Clinton pillage. This Haitian
struggle for independence and dignity today is as important for this small
Caribbean country as was a similar struggle that resulted in the Haitian
Revolution in 1804.
Recognizing that the situation could easily slip from their control, the US
Embassy called Presidential candidate Jude Celestin in for consultations.
The result was that Celestin got up and walked out of the meeting. He
declared at the time,I am not a dealer, I am a leader. Celestin, however,
did not reveal the contents of the deal that was discussed. There
certainly is enough on the table. But, the US Embassy should not be in the
position of protecting ill-gotten gains of US Presidential candidates
against the will of the people in the affected country.
Jude Celestin has already had one election stolen from him by the Clintons;
but this time, he has forged a relationship with the other candidates. They
call themselves the G8. So far, the G8 have held firm and called the
Presidential election, Round One, fraudulent and they will not recognize any
election outcome announced by the already-tainted Presidential Election
Commission without an independent investigation of the allegations of fraud.
The G8 remain united in their call for an investigation of the election
fraud.
The US Embassy has not been able to peel away individual candidates who form
the G8. On a recent trip to the country, Ambassador Kenneth Merten came away
empty-handed. Now, a special delegation from the United Nations is on the
ground in Haiti trying to fix this mess because neither the US nor the
Organization of American States has been able to move the G8 from its united
position.
Today, the G8 remain united in their call for an investigation of the
election fraud that marred the first round of the Presidential poll.
The US brought democracy to Yugoslavia and it no longer exists. The US has
spent $5 billion according to the State Department bringing democracy to
Ukraine and today Ukraine is in turmoil. In the end, neither the people of
Yugoslavia, nor the people of Ukraine have benefited from US democracy. And
so it goes with the people of Haiti. But the list of non-Haitians who
benefit from US democracy is long, indeed. And the Clinton Foundation
family and donors top this list.
After serving in the Georgia Legislature, in 1992, Cynthia McKinney won a
seat in the US House of Representatives. She was the first African-American
woman from Georgia in the US Congress. In 2005, McKinney was a vocal critic
of the governments response to Hurricane Katrina and was the first member
of Congress to file articles of impeachment against George W. Bush. In 2008,
Cynthia McKinney won the Green Party nomination for the US presidency.
