Democrats For Despotism

by Mary Anastasia O'Grady - October 27th, 2008 - Wall Street Journal

It took eight years, but on Oct. 8 I finally secured a copy of Fusion Telecommunications' 1999 contract with the Haitian telephone monopoly Teleco. By law the agreement is a public document but Fusion wouldn't give it to me until the FCC required them to do so. Now I think I know why.

Fusion is run by former Democratic Party Finance Chairman Marvin Rosen. It no longer does business in Haiti. But when it did, former congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II, a staunch supporter of former Haitian strongman Jean Bertrand Aristide, was on the board. So too was President Bill Clinton's former aide, Thomas "Mack" McLarty, and former Mississippi Democratic Gov. Ray Mabus. In other words, the Fusion name was synonymous with the Who's Who of the Democratic Party.

Democrats were important to Aristide. President Clinton used the U.S. military to restore him to power in 1994 after he had been deposed in a coup, in part because he was fond of inciting violence against his political opponents. Upon his return in 1994, Aristide resumed his despotic ways. Haitians begged for U.S. help but their pleas fell on deaf ears. In February 2004, Aristide was finally run out of the country.

Probably the most racist action taken by our government in recent years was the despicable act of returning to power this evil dictator. The essence of the act was that this nation of Negroes was unable to decide for itself who should be its elected officials. We put a dictator back in power and then rejected allowing the people of this nation to come to America.

The same Democrats who put Aristide back in power, and who rejected allowing these people to come to America as political refugees, then denounced our nation as racist for their own action of not allowing Haitian people to come here.

Incredible.