Bill
Clinton's affair with Voodoo
by
Judi McLeod, Canada
Free Press.
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Toronto--
When it comes to dabbling in the black arts, former U.S. President Bill Clinton
has much in common with deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Saddam reportedly wore a stone around his neck to ward off evil. When he was ensconced
in his Iraqi palaces, he summoned up the jinn (genies) to do his bidding.
According to historian Joel A. Ruth, a Voodoo sorcerer, supplied to Clinton by
the exiled-by-coup John-Bertrand Aristide, once put a curse on incumbent President
George W. Bush, "by manipulating a doll made in the president’s image."
Neither
Saddam’s magic stone, a special talisman meant to keep the Grim Reaper
at
bay,
nor the Voodoo sorcerer’s curse against George W. worked. Saddam languishes
in prison awaiting trial. Clinton, relegated to the public speaker’s tour,
was last week paid a $300,000 fee to address a business audience in Bogotá,
Colombia.
The long road of destruction Aristide carved through poverty-stricken Haiti was
paved in part by one William Jefferson Clinton.
Clinton’s friendship with Aristide, a former Catholic priest turned Voodoo
practitioner dates back to 1991 when Aristide, ousted in a coup, took up residence
in Washington, D.C. Joining the cocktail circuit and networking for the political
aid needed to help restore his power, he soon found his way within the inner circle
of the soon-to-be Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Clinton.
As time would tell, Clinton paid more than a politician’s lip service to
the practice of Voodoo.
According to the Haiti Observateur, "During a March 31, 1995 visit
to Haiti under Aristide’s restored rule, Clinton took part in a Voodoo initiative
ceremony intended to keep him impervious to Republican attacks and to guarantee
his re-election." (FrontPageMag.com, Feb. 20,. 2004).
No Voodoo ceremony could ward off Monica Lewinsky and the rest, as they say, is
history.
His friendship with Clinton now cemented, Aristide later began shipping Haitians
to the U.S., many of them to Florida shores 600 miles away.
In 1998, Senator John F. Kerry followed in Clinton’s footsteps and co-sponsored
a bill that resulted in amnesty for an estimated 125,000 Haitians granted "temporary
asylum" before 1996 because they were fleeing the chaos, terror and poverty
inflicted on them, largely by Aristide.
Aristide, whose last act for Haiti was to declare Voodoo an official religion,
fled the country on February 29, 2003 amid a rebellion and pressure from the U.S.
and France.
"Voodoo,"
Aristide professed in a speech to Congress attendees, "is one of the great
religions in the world alongside Christianity, Islam and Judaism".
Since June 2004, a United Nations stabilization force has been in Haiti. The presence
of UN "blue helmets" notwithstanding, lack of security remains the number
one problem.
The interim government leading the country since Aristide’s ignominious departure
has not improved the life of its citizens. Government commissions are being disbanded
as quickly as they are being created and would, were it not for the tragedy, be
the stuff of television sitcom comedy.
The children of Port-au-Prince continue to die of hunger. Marauding armed guards
still loyal to Aristide battle police and there are signs of UN corruption.
A recent spate of violence in which at least 20 people were killed, is forcing
U.S. officials to consider deploying American troops to help maintain order ahead
of a general election slated for the last quarter of 2005.
While Aristide is living a life of a king’s ransom in exile, most Haitians
are subsisting on less than a dollar a day.
Meanwhile, it will take more than black magic to clean the slate of Bill Clinton
in a country whose mantra is "Haiti is cursed".
Canada Free Press founding editor Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with
30 years experience in the media. A former Toronto Sun and Kingston Whig Standard
columnist, she has also appeared on Newsmax.com, the Drudge Report, Foxnews.com,
and World Net Daily. Judi can be reached at: letters@canadafreepress.com.
