Comments on: WHAT HUFFPO’S BILL QUIGLEY WON’T TELL YOU ABOUT HAITI

By: anti-objectivist

anti-objectivist — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:25:52 +0000

I suppose you can’t blame Haiti for not producing anything because they were put out of business because “they could not compete”. Wasn’t it a nice trick we played on them when we got into the biofuels craze - with their rice production mostly gone the world prices went way up because we like using grains for fuels - ha ha, they had to eat dirt!

This Aristide vote fraud that you mention - this dispute was over a couple of senators who ended up resigning a year later! They decided to give this Republican-created “opposition” called the Democratic Convergeance a veto on Haiti getting any development assistance. Then the plan was to have them exercise the veto in order to help chase Aristide out of office as things got worse.

Funny thing - when the opposition called a boycott, 61% voted and 95% voted for Aristide. When Aristide’s party called a boycott last spring, the official figure was an 11% vote turnout - believed to have been inflated.

By: funny man

funny man — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:13:12 +0000

Wasn’t Napoleon’s Josephine partly Haitian too? I don’t know what but twisted minds like Quigley and Robertson are sure to find ‘the link’.

By: SShiell

SShiell — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:18:45 +0000

“Let’s see … Haiti won its independence from France in 1803, so shouldn’t Quigley be yelling this is all Thomas Jefferson’s fault?”

Only if Jefferson was a Republican!

By: John

John — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:29:57 +0000

Let’s see … Haiti won its independence from France in 1803, so shouldn’t Quigley be yelling this is all Thomas Jefferson’s fault?

By: funny man

funny man — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:37:23 +0000

Haiti was a mess before the quake and now it is worse. In the long run it will be up to the Haitian people to form a more effective government. However, at the moment they need our help and Obama is doing what is absolutely right. BTW, I am sure W would have done exactly the same.
I just think of a 5 year old kid who has no choice in where he/she is born and now find itself in a life threatening situation and then just get mad at idiotic comments like Quigley’s or Rush and Robertson’s. These morons just need to shut up.

By: Will M.

Will M. — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:11:55 +0000

Ted Rall tried to make the same stupid argument in his weekly column.

By: SShiell

SShiell — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:46:42 +0000

Consider the source. Mr. Quigley, along with being a frequent diarist for HuffPo is also the Managing Director for the Center for Constitutional Rights.

The following was taken from Wikipedia:

According to NGO Monitor, an Israeli non-governmental organization with the stated aim of monitoring other non-governmental organizations in the Middle East, the Center for Constitutional Rights has a biased political position against Israel. NGO Monitor writes, “CCR consistently disregards the context of terror, denies Israel’s right to self-defense, and accuses it of deliberately targeting civilians.”

and

Matthew Vadum of Capital Research Center, a conservative non-profit organization which aims to study non-profit organizations, called the Center for Constitutional Rights The Terrorists’ Legal Team because of his belief that CCR is “an ultra-leftist public-interest law firm” that “has protected the supposed constitutional rights of those who would destroy the United States.”

CCR has also filed the following lawsuits for individuals incarcerated at GitMo:

Al Odah v. United States
Barre v. Gates
Celikgogus v. Rumsfeld
Khan v. Bush
Zalita v. Bush