Remember the rose revolution. The great march of democracy? Probably not if you are an American.
America is like an man who visits a dementia stricken uncle in the hospital. He returns home with the great news, "Uncle is doing fine" but those who are around him all day know better.
Contrary to MSM America's experiences with "exporting democracy" have been nothing more than coups (Gone bad in many cases). Cuba, Venezula, Haiti, Georgia to name but a few. Aristide was twice elected before America decided that he was a road-block to peace. Hugo Chavez was twice elected but that hasn't stopped America from supporting the opposition because of Chavez's clear anti-democratic power grab. The Cuba debacles are well documented.
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Exported democracies usually get a few cycles in MSM, when the revolution is ripe, when American coverage rides away into the sunset reporting another triumph for American foreign policy.
Well let's take a look at some of the democracies that have rose from the abyss thanks to American lead coups.
How is Georgia after the great revolution? Well, they are no better off than prisoners at ABU Ghraib.
UN: Georgia violating human rights
Tuesday 01 March 2005, 17:25 Makka Time, 14:25 GMT
A UN human rights investigator has accused law enforcement officials in Georgia of continuing to torture detainees without fear of prosecution.
Manfred Nowak, UN special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, also denounced "deplorable conditions" including severe overcrowding at pre-trial detention facilities in the former Soviet state.
"Torture and ill-treatment by law enforcement officials still exists in Georgia", Nowak said in a statement issued after a week-long, fact-finding visit at the government's invitation.
In the detention centres where the UN envoy interviewed inmates, he found an "apparent culture of impunity for perpetrators of torture". Despite "a number of substantiated cases, in no instance have the perpetrators been brought to justice", he added.
Government committed
An Austrian law professor, Nowak met senior officials including Western-leaning President Mikhail Saakashvili - brought to power in a bloodless revolution in November 2003 which toppled veteran leader Eduard Shevardnadze.
He received "clear commitments from the government" and said that authorities at all levels recognised the problems, according to the UN statement issued in Geneva.
Nowak, who also visited prison facilities in the Moscow-backed separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, will make a full report to the UN Commission on Human Rights.
The 53-member state forum opens its annual six-week session in Geneva on 14 March.
Georgia sent extra troops to Iraq on Tuesday after requests from the United States and the United Nations, increasing its force there to 850 from 300 soldiers.
This is what happens when you mistake coups for democracy. I assure you this American stamp is not found only in Georgia. Post "Revolution" Serbia continues to elect the same old "enemy".
There is an interesting article regarding post "Revolution" Haiti that shows the beauty of living in an American tampered country; here is a glimpse of some of the luxuries:
The mud biscuits sold in the markets and stacked high by the street vendors in the most desperate parts of Port-au-Prince are made in a part of the city known as Fort-Dimanche. There, close to the site of a former prison, once used by the dictator François "Papa Doc" Duvalier to lock up political prisoners, women combine clay, water, a little margarine and a scratch of salt. Sometimes they will crumble a foil-wrapped cube of bouillon into the mixture, which they stir, shape into discs the size of a saucer and leave to bake in the Caribbean sun.
In Haiti, these mud cakes are traditionally eaten by expectant mothers who believe they contain nutrients and minerals important to the health of a newborn child. But in recent months they have been sold increasingly to other people, who are too poor to afford anything else. "I have been selling more in the last year. People have less money," says Mafie, the young woman sitting behind a pile of the pale brown mud cakes at Salamoun market.
And of course it wouldn't be truly American without a little bit of civil war thrown in:
At times, Haiti's violence appears to be utterly out of control. Fights between rival gangs with political backing in the slums, or raids by the police who are accused of carrying out summary executions, result in corpses being left in the streets, gnawed at by dogs and pigs until someone comes to remove them.
Late last year, there were so many corpses arriving at the unrefrigerated morgue attached to the city's main hospital, where they lay in piles and were rapidly devoured by maggots, that the authorities refused journalists permission to visit out of concern about the bad image that would be portrayed. Since September, more than 250 people have been killed in political violence in Port-au-Prince.
The fate of post "Revolution" Ukraine will be an interesting one. I don't expect MSM to follow these stories though. Just enough to make America looking like a devine Messianic figure to the world.
All in all I think America's track record over the last few years speaks for itself. If people in the middle east wish to remain relatively secure in their own homes I would suggest to them that they are very weary of American sponsored democracy lest they be left with civil wars, hunger and famine and eventually even more ruthless pro-American dictators. Don't believe me, believe history it speaks for itself