14110: Saint-Vil - More pernicious...news-crafting by Master Norton (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Jean Saint-Vil <jafrikayiti@hotmail.com>

This recent piece of politically-so-correct reporting attributed to AP's
Michael Norton is a classic. Using the ghost of Metayer, for the 1000th
time, Norton manages to turn an attack against Aristide's associates into
yet another Aristide bashing piece. Amazing !

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Four killed as gunmen attack Haitian police station, release prisoners
By MICHAEL NORTON, Associated Press Writer

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Gunmen attacked a provincial police station and
released four prisoners, fatally shooting four passers-by as they fled,
police said Wednesday.

The attack occurred Tuesday night in Las Cahobas, a town of 55,000 people
about 55 kilometers (34 miles) northeast of Port-au-Prince, police spokesman
Jean-Dady Simeon told independent Radio Haiti-Inter.
After disarming police officers and stealing 12 rifles and ammunition, the
attackers released four inmates and opened fire on people who crossed their
escape route toward the nearby Dominican border, the radio report said. It
was unclear if the attackers made it across.
The unidentified gunmen also stole and then torched a police vehicle. It
wasn't clear how many gunmen were involved.

Two of the inmates had been arrested in connection with the death of justice
of the peace Christophe Lozama, who was shot and killed in a clash last week
with anti-government demonstrators outside Las Cahobas.

In another dramatic prison break on Aug. 2, 159 inmates were sprung from the
west-coast Gonaives prison when heavily armed supporters of imprisoned
activist Amiot Metayer drove a tractor through a jailhouse wall and released
their leader.

Only a handful of those inmates have been recaptured. Metayer, a supporter
of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, remains free.
In the past three weeks, the Cannibal Army group led by Metayer killed at
least one person and was believed responsible for the torching of a score of
houses in Gonaives.

The government has said that attempting to arrest Metayer could endanger the
lives of innocent people in his shantytown stronghold.

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Notice, no mention of Fanmi Lavalas members among the victims. The murder of
Justice of the Peace Lozama is referred to almost as a footnote (imagine he
were a Convergence Justice of the Peace instead of Lavalas - would this not
be worthy of spam reporting?). Norton found similarity with the suspicious
Amiot Metayer jail break but not with several other Dominican Republic-based
attacks against the Aristide government which took place in 2001 and 2002.

And, of course, it would be too politically-not-so- correct to establish a
link with Washington post Feb 2, 2001 revelation that:

“The Convergence [Haiti’s organized opposition] was formed as a broad group
with help from the International Republican Institute…The most determined of
these men, with a promise of anonymity, freely express their desire to see
the U.S. military intervene once again, this time to get rid of Aristide and
rebuild the disbanded Haitian army. "That would be the cleanest solution,"
said one opposition party leader. Failing that, they say, the CIA should
train and equip Haitian officers exiled in the neighboring Dominican
Republic so they could stage a comeback themselves.”

Obviously, I am not well-versed in complicated freedom of speech laws in
this great demokkkracy where du Tuyau eats good sleep food daily every day.
Yet, I still can't bring myself to giving up and joining the
politically-so-correct crowd rehearsing Kwanzaa song: Baby Bush – good –
well elected leader – good ballot system in Florida. Jean-Bertrand Aristide
– bad – fraudulent elections in Port-au-Prince. Bring him down by any means
necessary!  Power to - some of the - people!

Jafrikayiti
«devan kay tounen dèyè p̣t!»
http://www.i-port.net/sd-in-j/