Editor's Note: Perhaps a more suitable title for this article would be U.S. Military Delays Aid From Reaching Haiti. But either way, it shows what U.S. priorities are for U.S. occupied Haiti. - Les Blough, Editor

The New York Times quoted World Food Program logistics officer Jarry Emmanual, after the U.S. prevented his group's planes from landing supplies, so that the U.S.  could land troops, "Their priorities are to secure the country, ours are to feed. We have got to get those priorities in sync."

Fortunately, the U.S. was so slow in its response to the earthquake that countries like Iceland, Cuba, and Venezuela were able to get some food, water, medical supplies, doctors, and nurses on the ground in Haiti before the U.S. took over the airport.

The Times also notes that the "U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said priority would be given to search and rescue, military and humanitarian aircraft, in that order." The search and rescue efforts are aimed primarily as rescuing Americans and members of the wealthy Haitian oligarchy who have collaborated with Americans in oppressing Haiti. The troops, of course, are there to murder the people who become desperate after the U.S. prevents help from reaching them. But most of the Times' coverage is devoted to emphasizing rare instances of looting and disorder, to justify our military occupation of Haiti, with only brief mentions of millions of Haitians left without food or water for five days. With the U.S. in control of the airport and assigning humanitarian aid the lowest priority, it is likely that even more people will die from hunger, thirst, disease, and being shot by U.S. troops maintaining "order," than died from the immediate effects of the earthquake.

There have been stories of trucks carrying food and water that were surrounded by people whose children were dying of dehydration, and whose drivers and relief workers were so terrified of the crowds that they simply drove away without offloading the supplies. Why aren't the supplies simply dumped where people can reach them instead of insisting that dying people form into neat lines and quietly demonstrate their submissiveness? If that happened to me, I know exactly what I'd do the next time I saw a relief truck, just to ensure that it didn't leave without first offloading the supplies. Teasing and torturing dying people by showing them supplies but refusing to give them help, can only be a deliberate provocation to incite violence.

The U.S. has never meant Haiti well, from slave-owning Thomas Jefferson's offer to help Napoleon squelch the slave rebellion, to the U.S-installed "Papa Doc" Duvalier regime, to the more recent kidnapping of President Aristide. The U.S. wants to secure and control Haiti for the benefit of privately owned multinational corporations which are always in search of slave labor.

It is not surprising to those of us who have followed his corporate sponsored rise to power, that Barack Obama would outdo the disgraceful response of Bush to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, by preventing humanitarian relief from reaching the needy in Haiti. Not for nothing did Larry Pinckney of blackcommentator.com describe Obama as "impersonating a black man." Obama is a creation of and identifies wholly with the oligarchy, not with the people.

There is some speculation that the United States may not only be taking advantage of the earthquake to depopulate, permanently subjugate, and occupy Haiti, as Hillary Clinton told Haitians that the U.S., “will be here today, tomorrow and for the time ahead,” but may also have had a hand in causing the catastrophe. Judge for yourself:

We may never know the truth. But we do know that the U.S. has been preventing humanitarian aid from reaching Haiti--that much is admitted and indisputable fact.

Mark E. Smith is an anti-civilizationist and election boycott advocate in San Diego. For reasons not to vote in faith-based elections with secret vote counts for candidates you cannot hold accountable if they fail to represent you, check out the discussions, articles, and videos on my website http://noinnovember.ning.com

Source: Media Left