[Peace-discuss] Why Can't Haitians Get a Fair Election?

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Of course I find it hair-brained that the U.S. should pay for an 
election in some other country, period.

A better question is why can't we get fair elections in the U.S.?

In Illinois, as things are currently run, political parties are 
completely excluded from participation if the people currently in power 
don't like them, including Illinois' largest political party, the 
Democrat party of deposed and criminally charged former Governor Rod 
Blagojevich.

It is a telling fact of our political-media culture that while American 
newspapers regularly carry articles, op-eds and editorials raising the 
alarm about democracy and human rights in countries where the U.S. has 
little influence, the major U.S. media are virtually silent about 
extreme violations of democratic rights right here at home...


On 10/6/2010 12:02 AM, Robert Naiman wrote:
> On November 28, Haitians are expected to participate in an election
> from which Haiti's largest political party has been arbitrarily
> excluded, an election paid for by U.S. tax dollars. Shouldn't it be a
> no-brainer that the U.S. shouldn't pay for an election in Haiti that
> is profoundly anti-democratic? Representative Maxine Waters appears to
> think so. She is circulating a letter to Secretary of State Clinton
> urging that the U.S. not pay for an election in Haiti from which
> Haiti's largest political party has been excluded. If you agree, ask
> your Representative to sign the Waters letter for fair elections in
> Haiti.
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/why-cant-haitians-get-a-f_b_750876.html
>
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/10/5/114458/826
>
> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/723
>
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