(US backed) Council: Bar Aristide Party From Election

[IChing]

By LEONARDO ALDRIDGE
Associated Press Writer

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- A U.S.-backed advisory council that oversees Haiti's interim government recommended Saturday that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's political party be barred from upcoming elections, accusing the party of encouraging violence.

The seven-member Council of Sages, which picked the interim government, accused Aristide's Lavalas Family Party of promoting violence, including the slaying of a well-known Haitian journalist whose body was found with signs of torture Monday.

"Political groups who identify themselves with the Lavalas Family Party, and particularly with Mr. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, continue to promote and tolerate violence," the council said.
The council urged the interim government to "make the bold political and beneficial decision to disqualify the Lavalas Family Party from the electoral process."
But Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council indicated that all political parties would be welcome in the October and November elections.>>>>>>snip

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HAITI_ELECTIONS?SITE=MNMAN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-07-16-20-15-51

[stepnw1f]

1. Democracy My Ass

What a bunch of criminal mother fuckers we have running this country. They demean the concept of Freedom by abusing it to enslave all others around them.

[IChing]

2. The Lavalas leader is "A Roman Catholic Priest" damn terrorist

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from the article

Lavalas leader Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste, a Roman Catholic priest who is considering running for president, said the interim government feared Aristide supporters would win the elections.

"They are scared of us," Jean-Juste said. "They are afraid we are going to win."

[bullimiami]

3. corrupt, totalitarian bastards.

bush and his buddies that is.

overthrow the democratically elected government.
go in cahoots with a bunch of thieves, murderers and gangsters.
eliminate the populist party and rig the elections.

[merwin]

4. Explain to me how you can bar a party from a DEMOCRATIC election.

Man, we give democracy a bad name. Truth is, we don't even live in a democracy. We never have. A democracy is not a 2 party system. A democracy allows anyone to have as much of a chance at becoming president than any other person... not whoever has the most money.

[Matilda]

5. Democracy, Bush-style - a bit different from the norm.

But where are the cries of outrage from other countries, and the UN?

[mom cat]

6. The US is terrified of a Lavalas victory!

[IChing]

7. An Activist Roman Catholic Priest. I want to hear a word from

the Vatican also on this, not just the UN.

[mom cat]

8. I hope he survives. US backed Death squads havedecimated the former

Liberation Theology movement.

[StevieM]

9. This is disgraceful......

what is happening to this country? And what is happening to the Democratic Party? Where are the voices of outrage about this? Where's Clinton, Gore, Clark and Feingold?

This is just about as low as it gets. Even if you were against the war in Iraq (which I was) at least you can rationalize that Saddam was a brutal dictator. Aristide was a democratically elected leader.

Steve

[htuttle]

14. The Catholic Church stopped supporting priests like Aristide two popes ago

"When I fed the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked, ‘Why are they poor?’ they called me a communist."
-- Archbishop Helder Camara of Brazil

[mom cat]

15. I measure "religious" institutions based on how they treat the poor,

women, people with diasabilities, animals and the planet.So far, the only ones that have a passing score in my book are the earth centered ways, and the so called "civilized" religions and the cultures they represent have all but destroyed them.

[MisterP]

10. nobody likes Shrubba Doc!

[daleo]

11. For Bush and the neocons, democracy means holding elections

Elections that are rigged from the get go, by outlawing undesirable elements or interfering with the counting. It is just the show of democracy they care about. The real thing is bad for business.

[blonndee]

12. Such a moral stand! Wait, we do business with China...why?

Their democracy? Their stellar human rights record?

[burrowowl]

13. The U$ has always been

against Democracy in the Carribean, Central America, Mexico, South America. Go read hitory. Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States among others.

We are not surprised.