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.
posted by Joe @ 6:25 PM
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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.
"can they do this on the south side? we could use it...."
Democracy was eventually restored in Haiti, at least for a little while
"they actually have democracy?"
Constant will be punished for his crimes because eventually stole from white people.
"all broughams steal from whites"
Haiti was eventually restored to democracy because the U.S. is too incompetent to impose fascism on it.
"haiti cant run themselves in the first place"
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.
"i thought that was on myspace...."
Haiti can't run themselves? We're talking about the Haitians not say... southside pollacks. You'd be suprised what they can accomplish when the U.S. is too busy to interfer.
Anyway, keep in mind that when you write on the internet, it is for all the world to see.
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