Lest Anyone Have Any Doubts

We find out here where the so-called "Council of Sages" in Haiti really stand as to what they want in Haiti:

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.

Pay careful attention to the fact that these are the same people who picked Gerard Latortue to ruin run the country. The same Latortue whose government has continued to imprison Yvon Neptune on specious charges, whose police are a menace to civilians, has praised torturers, rapists and murderers as freedom fighters, paid off extortionists and has succeeded only in making a bad situation worse in Haiti. Pardon me if I don't think of them as being sagacious.

The Electoral Council, to their credit, is saying no:

But Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council indicated that all political parties would be welcome in the October and November elections.

"The election is for all political parties of Haiti," said electoral council spokesman Rosemond Pradel.

I think that the last word belonging to Father Gerard Jean-Juste is the real reason behind the call to ban Lavalas:

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."

That is probably their worst nightmare. Now that it appears that Father Jean-Juste has been arrested again, can there be any doubt that the Latortue government's goal is to silence the opposition?

Comments

[The Heretik]

Haiti needs a lot more attention from anyone who cares about democracy in the Western world. The away that Aristide was loaded on a plane and we were told he had resigned is a disgrace. The violence before the coup perpetrated by "General" Ravix, the continuing violence suggested by Andy Aipad by thugs like Lebanye with the tacit approval of Group 184, and the seeming complicity of the UN peace keeping forces.

The recent assault on Cite Soleil that left innumerable women and children dead also meant the end of life for Lavala defender Dread Wilme. That this is all going on so close to our shores with hardly a word from the media chills me. I hope you will continue to post regularly on this topic. Thanks

[thebhc]

cnTodd at has a blogswarm going and this posting has been added. Please check it out. There are others of us getting the word out.

regards!