Tuesday, March 02, 2004

Aristide "KIDNAPPING" accusation against U.S. nothing new

I don't believe the Americans "kidnapped" or "abducted" Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. I think he was tricked (or promised something) to make him board that plane out of Haiti. Maybe the U.S. promised to take him somewhere else (where? I don't know... but with Aristide's consent, I'm sure), but instead of taking Aristide to the agreed destination, the U.S. instead sent him packing to the Central African Republic.

Aristide felt betrayed by the U.S. and is now crying "KIDNAPPING!!!"

Here's an interesting part:

He said he then spent 20 hours in an American plane "not knowing where we were going" until just 20 minutes before landing in the Central African Republic.

He said he was denied the right to make any phone calls.

His American wife, he said, was told not to look through the windows. "You can't imagine this kind of terrible situation," he said.


Hee hee, the americans told him that because they don't want him to know that they are taking him somewhere else.

If you think this is far fetched, it's not. The US did something similar to former Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos back in 1986 by airlifting the strongman to Hawaii, U.S.A., instead of the agreed upon desitination Paoay, Ilocos Norte in the Philippines.

Here's an article on the Marcos "kidnapping":

The former first lady claimed that on Feb. 25, 1986, agents of the US government "in conspiracy with Mrs. Aquino and under the guise of airlifting the Marcoses out of MalacaƱang Palace to Paoay, Ilocos Norte, brought us instead to the US against our will."

The family of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos was brought to Hawaii at the height of the EDSA people power revolt that propelled Mrs. Aquino to the presidency.

Marcos claimed their forced exile was in violation of their rights as Filipino citizens to liberty of abode in the Philippines as guaranteed by the Constitution.


And from Marcos' former Labor Minister:

As a matter of fact, the late Ferdinand Marcos strongly resisted a life of exile; he pleaded to be allowed to stay in Paoay, but was instead forcibly taken to Hawaii. Marcos claimed he was "kidnaped" by the Americans and forced to exile in Hawaii in cahoots with the new Corazon Aquino administration.


Another one:

At any rate, it helps to be a friend, not an enemy, of America. When President Ferdinand Marcos realized that he was not being airlifted to Paoay but to Hawaii, he must have protested.

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