Thursday, March 18, 2004

Hti: Liberal discovers liberals stifle diversity and free speech

The co-founder of a left-wing foreign policy think tank has told CNSNews.com that he was forced out of his job two years ago for complaining about the think tank's growing support of then-Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the financial connections between Aristide and the Congressional Black Caucus.

In 1975, James Morrell helped create the Center for International Policy (CIP), a Washington, D.C.-based group that pressures the U.S. to consider a foreign government's human rights record when it hands out foreign aid.

But in 2002, Morrell said, he grew increasingly unhappy over the CIP's support for Aristide, who was facing growing criticism at home and abroad for failing to enact promised reforms in his poverty-stricken country; for the fraud that attended the Haitian elections of 2000; and for the violence that was allegedly being committed by the president's supporters.
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