Will America Really Support Democracy?
Most Americans follow our political leaders as they chant
their lead line in our international relations "creating democracies all over
the world." Under this noble banner we send our sons and daughters to war and
spend our treasurer down to dangerously low levels. But, are we really ready to
accept the majority of the world's peoples living under Democracy? What do the
political insiders know that they haven't told us about a world "safe for
Democracy?" Is it possible that none of us really want Democracy worldwide?"
In 1970 Salvador Allende was elected President of Chile in an overwhelming
landslide. President Nixon used our CIA and spent millions of dollars, working
with the military to over-throw Allende; Mr. Allende's weakness? He was a
Socialist. With our approval, on September 11, 1973 Augusto Pinochet was made
President by the army and set out to murder 135.000 of the poor who had backed
the elected President.
In 1990 Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide became the first democratically elected
President of Haiti with 87% of the popular vote. Within eighteen months the
rich and powerful used the Army to put him out of office. Pres. Bush (I) turned
his back and blessed the event. Three years later, under pressure from the OAS,
President Clinton returned Aristide to office. In true democratic order at the
end of his term in 1995 he stepped down.
After the required stand down (five years) Aristide ran again and won in 2000.
Our response? The President cut aid to Haiti, diverting the $33,000,000 for
water projects to the International Republican Institute to destroy Aristide's
presidency. Finally, Bush sent 200-armed thugs into the country to rip it apart
and subsequently we kidnapped the President and his wife on February 29, 2004.
His crime - he represented the poor, raised the minimum from 86¢ a DAY to $1.56
a day, disbanded the army that had preyed on the poor for decades, ended the
moonshine trade and opened a medical school to train Doctors and Nurses.
Do we really want democracy? Are we willing to accept the governments other
select?
Two-thirds of the world's population is poor. Only in the west is there a
significant middle class. When democracy comes to these nations they will
ALWAYS elect a government familiar to them. These governments may often be
Islamic or Socialist in character; both scare American government and business
types to death. Why? Because governments elected by the poor will raise the
standard of living for the poor and there goes our cheap labor. The American
people are just as afraid because governments elected by the poor will raise the
standard of living for the poor and there goes our cheap goods.
So there it is, the dilemma. And it's not only on the shoulders of the big guys
but on all of our shoulders. Are we the most powerful people on earth willing
to share this planet equally with others? Will we be willing to pay more, thus
have less, to ensure all have those "inalienable rights" of which we speak. Or,
will we continue to bully the rest of our world into submitting to our
overseeing.
If we are willing to allow the rest of the world to live under Democracy we must
begin to act like it. If not, we must stop talking about it. Democracy: To Be
or Not To Be, that IS The Question, and we all must answer it.
Contact us at nubiannews@nubiannews.com
or call 609 858-2785
To subscribe; contact us at
The Nubian News
324 South Broad Street
Trenton, NJ 08608
609 858-2785
subscriptions are $25 per year, mailed anywhere in the United States