27133: Driver: (reply) Re: 27111: Kathleen (citation)Re: 27109: Holmstead (question)Re: 27098: kathleen (reply) (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: tfd3@columbia.edu

On 6 Jan 2006 Kathleen answered John Holmstead's
request for "any proven and tangible evidence"
concerning terrible things she claimed had been done 'at
Aristide's command".  She replied:

> Yes.  Please go to:  http://grassrootsonline.org/weblog/longtime.html
> for the testimony of Marie Kennedy and Chris Tully, 5/02/04.  Kathleen

I've just gone there and read the piece.  Pardon me, but
it contains no evidence of any kind.  It is entirely
interpretation of a vaguely described general situation in
Haiti.  The nearest it comes to evidence is the following
sentence:

    "In a face-to-face conversation with Aristide (at
    that time not president, but widely acknowledged
    to be the power behind then-President Rene
    Préval), he essentially endorsed his followers who
    had taken Chavannes and other MPP leaders
    hostage at gunpoint."

Was it Kennedy and Tully who were "face to face" with
Aristide?  Or somebody unnamed?  In any case, what did
Aristide actually say?  And who else was there to hear
it?  And what does it mean to "essentially endorse?"

One gets rather sick at allegations by innuendo.

Tom F. Driver



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