27816: Kondrat (comment) Re: 27786: Boswell (comment) Aristide/Jail/Preval

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

from Peter Kondrat (kondr8@gmail.com)

  Boswell is right when he states, "The reason that [Aristide] is not in Haiti
is because the U.S. and others did not want
  him anywhere near the country."

   Moreover, the international proclamation on Human Rights, to  which most
nations (but not Haiti, curiously) are signatories, clearly  states that people
have a right to live in their country absent legal  judgments against that
individual to the contrary. People also have the  right not to be forced to
leave their country without due process of  law.

  If you believe in the rule of law, you cannot justify the illegal  removal of
Aristide from office in 2004, nor the continued campaign to  keep him out of
his native land.

  Peter Kondrat

Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu> wrote:

From: Richard A. Boswell

Does anyone really believe that if the U.S. had something on Aristide that they

wouldn't issue an indictment and seek his extradition from South Africa.
Moreover, as Preval has said, Haiti does not have banishment.  He is free to
come back.  This election points out that President Aristide was very popular
and could have withstood an electoral challenge even with all of his problems.
The reason that he is not in Haiti is because the U.S. and others did not want
him anywhere near the country.

You do not have to like Aristide to see that he was popularly elected and could

get elected again if his name appeared on the ballot.

Richard A. Boswell
boswellr@pacbell.net or boswellr@uchastings.edu




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