Various links
I'm too busy to write a good entry this week, but I want to keep this infant blog alive. So I'm just going to give you some links for cheap blog content. But I promise these are all really good links. Well they are in my highly biased opinion.
A friend sent this to me in email. It is absolutely hilarious:
What to do if a terrorist attacks.Wierd Al is still alive and creating some great music. Listen to
"Don't Download This Song" on his Myspace page. You can listen to his other songs too, I haven't had a chance to listen to them.
And of course, I have to give you
Hugo's speech! It's really awesome. You probably know that he calls Bush the devil. He wouldn't be Hugo if he didn't. But that's just part of the speech. The rest of it is also quite good, if not as entertaining. He raises many excellent points. (You need Realplayer to see it.)
I sure hope Venezula gets on the security council, so they can protect my country from its own stupidity. I'm really starting to think that after November, the U.S. is going to be losing three wars in the middle east.
If I'm going to do a lazy fucking link blog, I might as well give you four links. I really liked
Juan Cole's interview on Democracy Now! You can read the transcript, but I recommend downloading the audio.
That's all for now. I gotta pack up for my move. Interesting factoid: My apartment has
never been clean as long as I've lived here.
The Curious Case of Emmanuel Constant
Emmanuel Constant was the founder of FRAPH, a U.S. backed paramilitary death squad whose agenda was to overthrow Jean Bertrand Aristide. Aristide was Haiti’s first democratically elected leader (with 67% of the vote), was a strong advocate of liberation theology, is generally considered a champion of the poor and refused the Faustian deal of accepting loans from the IMF. It’s pretty clear why he had to go.
Under Constant’s fine leadership, FRAPH raped and killed and did all that other fun stuff in the great American tradition, to fight communism, terrorism, the Negro menace or possibly all three.
Democracy was eventually restored in Haiti, at least for a little while and Constant fled to the U.S. INS captured him and was going to deport him to Haiti where he would presumably be punished for his crimes. However, Constant threatened to reveal the full involvement of the CIA in FRAPH this would have been a major P.R. headache! So the Clinton Administration ordered him released. And if you think about it, what difference does it make if we have one more dangerous sociopath out on our streets anyway?
Worry not. Constant has been brought back into custody. As bad as leading a death squad is, he crossed the line when he committed mortgage fraud. So it looks like he’ll have to own up. Some of his victims from Haiti are even able to sue him because of treaties and laws that I don’t quite understand and am too lazy to study.
I suppose everything works out in the end and the system works because:
* Constant will be punished for his crimes because eventually stole from white people.
* Haiti was eventually restored to democracy because the U.S. is too incompetent to impose fascism on it.
* You can go back to not caring about Haiti because you can check out that video of a cat licking its balls on youtube.com.
Here are the Democracy Now episodes that talk about this. I can find no other news source that is covering this.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/31/144239&mode=thread&tid=25#transcript
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/31/144231&mode=thread&tid=25
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/13/1421206&mode=thread&tid=25
And you can look up FRAPH, Haiti, and all the people I mentioned in the Wikipedia as well.
