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columnist: Dan Alba

Topic: Haiti
AP Conceals US Govt. Role in Haiti-Relief Plight

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The latest state-worshiping fraud, courtesy of "the world's largest and most trusted source of independent news and information."

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by Dan Alba
(libertarian)
Friday, January 29, 2010

Relief workers are still struggling to care for the human casualties of the Haitian earthquake.

Naturally, the Associated Press decided to "cover" this news.

Yet, in a 900-word report titled "Medicine running out at Haiti hospitals, clinics," not one word points to what is likely the prime reason for the travesty: the U.S. government's refusal to let relief organizations deliver goods and manpower.

Instead, we get the equivalent of a declaration that nighttime is a result of the lack of daylight, without mention of the Sun:

Aid workers say the need for medicine generally falls third behind water and tents for shelter from the blistering tropical sun and looming rains.

The reason all three are not reaching people is the same: The need is so great and it's just not possible to get supplies into Haiti fast enough or distributed in a country with ruined infrastructure. [my emphasis]

Yes: it's "not possible." Especially when the U.S. government denies the arrival of aid. (Of course, the U.S. military certainly had no trouble getting tens of thousands of its own "aid workers" on the ground.)

But you won't hear an empire-indicting peep out of "the world's largest and most trusted source of independent news and information." (Trusted by whom, and independent of what, should be seriously pondered.)

In fact, the AP rather mourns the blameless imperial entities:

But even some of the largest institutions are feeling the strain.

Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser, head of the U.S. military's Southern Command, told reporters Thursday that Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort had reached its "care limit" after treating more than 3,000 people.

It wouldn't be far-fetched to surmise that the AP conceals imperial transgressions out of fear that the empire will transgress against the AP. After all, how would the AP operate without all those hundreds of U.S. military bases all over the world to unofficially protect the AP's embedded staff and its "bureaus."

Dan Alba is a freelance writer living in the SW region of the USSA. Dan suggests that you support liberty-driven congressional candidates like Jake Towne and Rand Paul.

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