Delaying aid for a photo-op
By Jesse Hagopian | January 25, 2010
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EVERYTHING YOU need to know about the U.S. aid effort to assist Haiti in the wake of the catastrophic earthquake can be summed up by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s touchdown in Port-au-Prince on Saturday, January 16: they shut down the airport for three hours surrounding her arrival for “security” reasons, which meant that no aid flights could come in during those critical hours.
If there was one day when the Haitian people needed aid to flow all day long, that was the day, because the people trapped under the rubble on Tuesday evening couldn’t survive much beyond Saturday without water.
Defenders of Clinton will say that her disimpassioned, monotone, photo-op speech was needed to draw attention to the plight of the Haitians. But no one north of hell can defend her next move: according to airport personnel that I spoke to during my recent evacuation from Haiti, she paralyzed the airport later that same day to have a new outfit flown in from the Dominican Republic.
I am having a hard time readjusting to life back home after having survived the earthquake and witnessed so much death, so even typing those words is making my heart pound uncontrollably. I guess for America’s rulers, a new pantsuit is more valuable than the lives of poor, Black Haitians.
Unfortunately, Clinton’s model of diverting and delaying critical aid to the Haitian people, while emphasizing security, has become standard operating procedure.
Alain Joyandet, the French minister responsible for humanitarian relief in Haiti, charged the U.S. with treating this as a military operation rather than an aid mission. Mr. Joyandet told the Daily Telegraph that he had been involved in an argument with a U.S. commander in the airport’s control tower over the flight plan for a French evacuation flight, saying, “This is about helping Haiti, not about occupying Haiti.”
But with the U.S. occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, and funding the Israeli occupation of Palestine, it seems our government knows how to do little else when it comes to international affairs.
The day I left via Toussaint L’Ouverture International Airport, I saw lots of crates of food, water and medical supplies piled on the tarmac. But I didn’t see that aid being transported out of the airport to actually get to Haitians.
Undoubtedly, there has been some aid distributed, but because there was no serious effort to disperse that aid in the first four days after the quake, tens of thousands of people trapped under rubble have died needlessly because they couldn’t get a sip of water.
The Geneva-based organization Doctors Without Borders has been turned away from the airport numerous times to allow U.S. troops to land. A ring of U.S. warships surrounds Haiti to make sure that Haitians don’t escape the disaster and try to get to the United States.
The U.S. has taken control of Haiti’s main airport and seaport, and is in the process of deploying 18,000 U.S. troops to bolster the 9,000 UN troops already occupying the island nation–and as an eyewitness, I can tell you those troops are guarding their own compounds rather than distributing aid.
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If I’m not mistaken Slick Willie(when prez) tied up an airport waiting to get his hair cut. These people will be clueless when the gates are stormed.
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What’s even “funnier” is that Hillary accepts the Margaret Sanger award named after the American Adolf Hitler inspiring genocidal maniac whose number one goal was to eliminate the “negro population” and other “misfits”, “morons”, “feeble minded”, etc. And her “opponent”, B.H.O. voted AGAINST something called “The Born Alive Infant Abortion Protection Act”…ummm
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Your article is very disturbing. As you may know, the media in the US is not saying anything about what you describe… which is no surprise. I have emailed everyone I know the link to this article. The actions of the US is disgusting to say the least.
Dennis Mason
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On top of that, they (the Gov’s) are already fighting each other for who is gonna get the contracts to ”rebuild” the country.
Haiti for sale.
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Here we go again. Bush pulled the same prank in Katrina. The Clintons and Bush’s are Illuminati and have worked together for decades since the Clintons were CIA agents when Bush Sr ran the CIA. The Illuminati practice magic, a large part of which is illusion. Their rulers are the Rockefellers in the US and Rothschilds rule the world.
Was this earthquake triggered by HAARP? Venuzela’s leader and others suspect it was. This group must be exposed.
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“just send us da money and we weeeel make sure eet gets to those who need it the most”; George W. Bush
well, any fool that donated money to the Bush/Clinton relief for Haiti gig, might as well have sent it directly to the Carlyle Group, thru James Baker.
this whole thing was on the back burner, this invasion, just waiting for the opportunity to strike.
Haiti just became another illegally annexed torture gulag for the u.s.s.a., aided and abetted by former criminal scum such as are Bill and Hillary and Goorge W. DOUCHEBAG!
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thanks for sharing information like this.
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