more background on Aristide rescue.....brave American Patriots (photos)

[diamond14]

such an important story....needs to be discussed and continuously evaluated....a major shift going on here.....




Elected in November 2002 to her seventh term in the House of Representatives with an overwhelming 77.6 percent of the votes in the 35th District of California, Congresswoman Maxine Waters represents a large part of South Central Los Angeles, the Westchester community and the diverse cities of Gardena, Hawthorne, Inglewood and Lawndale.

Formerly the Chair of the 39-member Congressional Black Caucus (1997-98), Rep. Waters has held the influential leadership position of Chief Deputy Whip of the Democratic Party since the 106th Congress and was recently named Co-Chair of the powerful House Democratic Steering Committee.

She continues to be a member of the House Committee on Financial Services and the ranking member of its Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity. She also continues to serve on the Committee on the Judiciary.


Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is pictured with Jamaican MP Sharon Hay-Webster (L) and U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) in Barbados, while en route to Jamaica, March 15, 2004. Aristide left Haiti February 29, insisting that he had been ousted in a U.S. "coup." Haiti's new Prime Minister Gerard Latortue told Reuters that "It's very unfriendly on the part of Jamaica. We cannot accept this," in reference to Jamaica's allowing of Aristide to return to the Caribbean. REUTERS/Amy Goodman/Democracy Now


Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide is interviewed by Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman (R) while en route to Jamaica on a jet, March 15, 2004. Aristide left Haiti February 29, insisting that he had been ousted in a U.S. "coup." Haiti's new Prime Minister Gerard Latortue told Reuters that "It's very unfriendly on the part of Jamaica. We cannot accept this," in reference to Jamaica's allowing of Aristide to return to the Caribbean. REUTERS/Amy Goodman/Democracy Now

[DenverDem]

1. Democracy Now and Amy Goodman are the only news org

credibly covering this outrage.

Free Speech TV is basically the only video outlet telling the truth on this.

Amy Goodman is a courageous journalist.

FSTV Channel 9415 on Dish TV.

[Webster Green]

2. Thanks to Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee, Amy Goodman...

Dennis Bernstien, Pacifica network, & blackcommentator.org for keeping us informed. The mainstream media is helping to achieve the viloent overthrow of a democratic government.

http://www.kpfa.org

http://www.blackcommentator.org

[stevedeshazer]

3. I got flamed big time last week

For suggesting that Maxine Waters was right, and that Aristide was indeed ousted by Bushco.

I wonder where those posters are now?

[DenverDem]

4. They are assigned to other sites right now.

They will get back to us.

The scaifeco boiler rooms are pretty busy damage controlling these days.

[bemildred]

5. Yeah, we seem to have a Mugabe-Chavez effort today.

I'm surprised they haven't said Chavez sucks up to
Arafat. They are running out of bad buys, Saddam is gone,
Ghaddafi is "reformed", Castro is already way overused,
Noriega is in jail, nobody else has the right profile to
be used in slandering people. There are lots of tin-pot
asshole dictators, like the one in CAR, but we are not trying
to piss them off. It's a big problem. How many different
was can you say "so and so is a thug" anyway?

Edit: you want to see a thug, go to Washington DC and visit
Congress or the White House. They have plenty of thugs there.

[Bandit]

6. Maxine Waters elected by 77.6% ~ Time for a coup I guess

She got a better percentage than Putin got and everyone says because he got such a huge percentage it must be fixed. I suspect they will begin using the same logic with Rep. Waters and demand her ouster. Wouldn't surprise me anyway. They hate her. Aristide also got a similar percentage and look what happened to him. When they know they can't win by election guess what they do?

[revcarol]

7. If you get a chance, watch a re-run of today's C-Span

Washington journal. The U. S. did indeed kidnap him, had a plane waiting, didn't tell him where he was going, then just dumped him in CAR.
Maxine also described SIX HOURS of negotiations to get him released from CAR.Now, tell me that he wasn't a prisoner there, too.

SHE WAS GREAT. SO COOL, CALM AND COLLECTED.

And she gave the Bush administration a pretty good bash, too.

On edit: Wasn't there a WaPo reporter on the trip too? Has he been muzzled, or is there something out by him? HUH?