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involvement in the country politically with mark wise bro from the center for economic and policy research next developments in the tucson shooting revealed that shooter jared loughner has a history of mental illness so we're going to look into the current state of mental health care in the us and ask why so many people are going untreated we'll speak with political satire is terry shear and efforts to integrate students in a north carolina school district have been overturned thanks to efforts by the local tea party the integration effort was originally praised by groups around the country but suddenly it's been deemed social engineering by protesters so is that proof that segregation is still alive and well in america we're going to have a debate on that issue and then we're doing a round up of some of the craziest stories making headlines this week kanye west is causing quite a stir with his latest music video at a new survey shows the ugly chicks get more dates than cute ones because that's not a bit off to you we thought so so we're going to get wonkette blogger sarah benning causes take on it after the end of the show but now let's move on to our top story

. today as i said is the one year anniversary of the devastating seven point zero earthquake the haiti it took the lives of nearly three hundred thousand people left one point five million people homeless and destroyed most of the country's capital one year later there is still a million people in tent camps. a deadly cholera epidemic has broken out so far taking the lives of twenty five hundred people we've seen violent protests and clashes the country remains and political turmoil with a runoff election set for next month this despite countless millions billions pledged towards rebuilding the island nation which already was the poorest in the western hemisphere before the earthquake so are there any signs of progress or does the word sound more like a cruel joke or earlier today i caught up with mother jones human rights reporter mack mcclelland from port au prince haiti she's been there twice since the earthquake hit so i first asked her to describe the situation because it was in

fact in her writing that she mentioned a conversation between her photographer and the driver of a jogger said they were there to cover signs of progress the driver reportedly just began to laugh. it's true but we argued about it. today because if you if you drive around you can actually see that there are a lot of people who are rebuilding it's there's a lot of rubble removal a lot of reading instruction you know entire buildings being torn down pieces then things that are almost done or houses that have been totally redone but as my driver and translator you know that's mostly only rich people who actually have the money to be able to move for them and it's also just a very small part of the whole so you don't think you can say that there's no progress but nobody here would say that there's anywhere near close to enough so and for the majority of the population as you mentioned perhaps those people to actually have money to start new projects they can do it but the majority of the

people aren't seeing that so-called progress i mean there are a million people still living in tent cities. that's right in the conditions and those are definitely not approving it at all if anything it's been getting worse and there are huge just t.v. masses of people and it is hot under. plastic here during the day that you can't even really be in there you know i met this guy on monday and he was saying it's so hot that my baby girl she's three you know my baby girl can't breathe and that is really the feeling they have the best way to describe it is literally feel like i can't breathe and you know there's also it's a crime there's no security there's billick to city there is no running water there's no lights i mean the list much every problem that you can have a place to live exists in the sense that it's. now compared to let's say a year ago when the earthquake first hit and when we saw a nonstop coverage of this you know by the twenty four hour news cycle anderson

cooper carrying around haitian orphans while he's giving a live shots how would you compare the media presence this time around. well it's certainly much less than that and there is definitely a media presence here was a hotel is full of broadcast people on my hometown has a view that it's definitely a lot less than people expected my driver you know fixers are like a pretty take community there usually lloyd when there's big things like this going on and he was saying all the drivers were like where all the reporters and a lot of guys are looking for work it's not hard to find you know sports not beer which should be because there should be a lot more people and actually any mention anderson as early as today you know all the reporters rushed back in were filing their stories and one of them was interesting who was not even here this time so you know. and haitians for sure are aware that there is a lot less attention here than they thought it was going to be but why do you think

that is i mean considering of this what this is such a huge tragedy nearly three hundred thousand people died the country is in ruins and we've just simply lost interest. well charted then i think is that yeah maybe there's a little bit of. you know it's still very sad and depressing story and you can only tell the sort of same depressed it's going. sometimes we don't want to hear it in march but in addition to that arizona everybody down here is saying you know that if you lock war america last year if it weren't for going on in arizona so that you you know you watch that's where you sat so i think let's do it now what's it like out there today in haiti on the one year anniversary or are people mourning this event are people still protesting it do we see any violence. i haven't seen any any violence violence there was a small protest earlier today and there have been

a couple of political protests honestly and. there looks like they're going to small but when i was that the protesters were attacking u.n. trucks and throwing stones at bars u.n. soldiers and you know spray painting the ministry of health saying you know we eat better living conditions and there are a lot of people who live in these tent camps bad as they are they're also the only place to beat so sun people have started being thrown out of those ten times the land owners don't want them you know living on their property even more so that's what they were protesting for the most part if you want to see the masses like that huge huge thousands of people they are all very peaceful and very moving ceremony as mostly mass you know there's a lot of christians here so there's been math all day i can actually hear i don't know if you can hear it behind me but there is a huge prayer ceremony it's not even that close to where i am but i can hear people yelling and praying from where i am so everything that i saw those very little

crying frankly because all of these tributes are being called celebrations of light and so there's a lot of dancing there's a lot of music there's a lot of praying and it's pretty festive actually you know michael thank you so much for filling us in there from haiti one year after the devastating earthquake hit my pleasure. now be it through the use of n.g.o.s the cia you name it there's a long history of u.s. intervention and the affairs of other nations from supposedly democratic elections to backing military coups and haiti is no exception to that and the most recent haitian election last november nearly three quarters of the haitian population didn't vote and not because they're in a political or disinterested people because the most popular political party in the country was excluded from the ballot thanks to washington's influence so why does washington pledge money and yet wart democracy in haiti all the same time well

joining me to discuss it is mark weiss brokaw director of the center for economic and policy research mark thanks so much for being here thank you for having me let's us clearly has a long history when it comes to haiti but let's look at perhaps more recent events i mean we had saw with the earthquake a year ago where the u.s. pledged two billion dollars in aid if we look back just a couple of years before that to the coup which we held back we cut off all aid to the country i mean it just doesn't really make sense explain our policy here who are i think a lot of the policy is directed towards controlling who governs the country in two thousand as you mentioned they cut off all aid for four years it wasn't just us they got other countries france and canada to cut off all aid to the country to destroy the economy in the port of course tens of millions of dollars into a very poor country to build up an opposition movement there was intent on overthrowing the government which they finally did in two thousand and four and then they're after their thousands of the supporters of the government government

officials were actually government officials were thrown in jail and many people were killed. in the aftermath of the coup and then the growth of course the u.n. force to occupy the country why is it in our interest to do all this. actually me because what we hear from the us right over here from our public officials is that they support haiti they want to do everything they can to help this country they supposedly support democracy although this latest election is not democratic by my standards well it's not in our interest like me and you are the majority of people in the us but i think the people who run the state department they look at it in terms of power the the it's just another country they want to control and because it's so poor and weak. they figure they can actually do it but what's the point of controlling haiti i mean honestly you know would haiti is

a tiny nation and there aren't that many people i mean politically when it comes to the global stage do they have a lot of influence can they get a lot of other people on our side if we needed them to know it's just domination well it's they look at it strategically every it's like a chess game to them where the pawns matter. so why did the government support the military coup government in honduras last year that's the second poorest country in the hemisphere doesn't seem strategically important although they do have a. military base there but you know who knows they could have one in haiti someday they're looking at it in terms of just street power in every country matters you know there was a wiki leaks cable that was released just recently that explains some of it where they talk about president provocative the current president haiti and how they're worried that he might get money from charges in venice rua not that everybody else

in the caribbean isn't getting something from from venezuela but nonetheless they want to make sure that everybody is lined up with their foreign policy for the region even the poor countries matter but when it comes to our let's say you know latin america specifically. the rest of latin america doesn't necessarily fall in line right if we look at. in venezuela earlier than the people will protest that but are they now in some way complicit because there are u.n. forces from latin american countries in haiti i mean are they in essence supporting the u.s. actions well they are not opposing it the way they did for example the cooler honduras you know they fought very hard against our secretary of state who is trying to get the o.e.s. to take the same position as the united states and in fact. this was in two thousand and nine and there are still hasn't been readmitted to the organization american states because of the opposition of south america because they want some

human rights guaranteed for on the earth before they will change their position on haiti there hasn't been that kind of resistance and that's why the united states is able to we're sure you know it's still fluid it's not clear that this oas report is going to stick they're trying to change the results of the election based on a very faulty statistical analysis of the of the vote and it's not clear that it's going to be accepted it's very clear that all the other countries in the hemisphere will go along with it but it's true they haven't they haven't opposed u.s. policy in haiti the way they did on their us venice will and in other situations i want to talk about the role that n.g.o.s play i mean currently there are there is one ngo for every thousand people in haiti and so you know what how do we compare their influence to the influence of the u.s. government saying well i don't even want them all to go you have groups like partners in health for example which has you know over five thousand people on the

ground doctors without borders and i think they're really. doing the best they can and they have spoken out to for example when right after the earthquake the united states was flying in military and they were taking up planes to bring in military one doctors without borders was trying to be in your hospital. quitman. they spoke out very strongly and there was change in partners in health is like that as well. but mostly i was c.e.o. of a lot of the most the ngos are trying to do their best but. you know there's a there's a lot of a lot of difficulty there's not a coordination the government itself you know a lot of the ministries were destroyed by the earthquake people were killed that hasn't build back up because the international donors don't particularly care about having a good functioning government and in fact some of them might not even want one how do you think americans would feel because you know after the earthquake in haiti

everybody saw this tragedy on t.v. and i think that a lot of americans donated from their heart to everybody wanted to give money to help but if they knew what was really going on there i would say what they approve of that no i mean i could have more money to partners in health because i know that i know what are hard to take right how do you know it's not everybody to for example the international red cross by their own numbers has only spent forty five percent of the money that they got and i think the people who gave them money they would be thinking well that money is for immediate relief these people need shelter you've got a million people still displaced still more than a million living and they're living on their tarps the most and don't even have tents you know the ground underneath them turns to mud when it rains i'm sure you've seen the pictures there's no excuse for that there's money for that they could at least have tents and they could have permanent more permanent housing is world so i think that people who gave money they expected that money was not going to be used for some long term plan but really for immediate relief for the haitian

people and they have a right to be disappointed about that and that's something that we weren't seeing enough of we just spoke to a reporter who was on the ground there in haiti and said that people kind of laughed at the word of progress because they've seen so little of it mark thank you so much for joining us thank you. now as we talk about u.s. efforts to help patients the country as a whole there is one. small crucial piece of information that most americans don't know that the obama administration recently lifted a deportation ban on the country to send immigrants or any sort of criminal history back to haiti all while this country struggles with corruption homelessness and disease artie's were an important i reports. i see a lot so for most american women can relate to janay montra built was local a working wife and busy mother home with the kids while dad is at work we laid back you know we work so we can provide the best for our children but also this crime a family of a family that can really make plans for the future if the u.s.

government gets its way. just cya. and intone will become forever fatherless. and janae will enter the pool of single us mothers struggling to make ends meet after all you have the home of so so maybe get over them a little more leave. at any moment jeanne nontrivial the breadwinner and twenty five year u.s. resident can be torn away from his family. today the father of four works as a church custodian in manhattan tomorrow the haitian immigrant can be deported back . back to the poorest country in the western hemisphere rocked by an earthquake and deepening humanitarian crisis. you know it would be a board to put. you know it's. you know

it's all is not is not a good feeling it's. in my wild. last years seven point zero earthquake killed nearly three hundred thousand haitians and left more than one million homeless a tragedy so grave the u.s. issued an immediate suspension on deportations for his immigrants yet last month the obama administration quietly lifted the ban resuming deportations for those with criminal convictions even those like jean montoursville who paid his debt to society serving eleven years behind bars for selling drugs in the eighty's he was released from prison in two thousand homes. was. used to almost business you know. you know. the very

same day u.s. officials resumed deportations of haitian immigrants the state department issued a warning against non-essential travel to haiti alerting americans of continued high crime limited police presence a lot of medical care and a cholera outbreak. an epidemic so bad the united nations has made a one hundred seventy four million dollar appeal to fight the outbreak it's not good it is now spread all the way across the country because as you know color is a contagious disease it's affected over one hundred thousand people so far. and over twenty five hundred people have perished from the disease. according to attorney sunita patel the deportations are a violation of the conventions against torture and the un declaration of human rights sending someone back to a situation where they are likely to die or are faced

a situation where they are facing the possibility of death is potentially a violation of our obligations under international law yet according to immigrations and customs enforcement up to seven hundred haitians with criminal records will be sent back this year. to a nation wracked by violence food shortages and disease a prospect that brings a feeling of fear to this american family a family broken up not by divorce but by their own government really about something something that obama really needs to take a look at a consideration a separation a family. because we leave children follow us and the lives of fathers like jean are you believe in danger if or when his home becomes haiti marina port i am artsy new york. still ahead on tonight's show in light of the recent

shooting and who's not letting the starting of question the current state of mental health care the u.s. could arizona shootings have been prevented if someone had diagnosed care of loftier earlier with severe mental health issues we're going to take a political satire as an author harry shearer when we return. we'll be. bringing you the latest. something. from. the future however. in the aftermath of last saturday's tragic shooting spree in arizona everyone has been

quick to spread the blame jared lee loughner this is specter the shooter is a mentally deranged young man so could political rhetoric vitriol have set him off maybe should someone like himself who had access to lethal weapons no but because he's crazy desire mean that every other member of this society should have their rights to the freedom of speech or the right to bear arms taken away i would say no but we should consider why there are so many mentally ill among us who can commit such violent acts rather than be helped by professionals joining me to discuss it is harry shearer political satire as an author harry thanks so much for joining us my pleasure thank you yourself asked this question why there are so many mentally ill amongst us so give us the answer. well this comes from my experience in my tree comedy days i worked for

a little while at the california state legislature and in those days california as most states and if not all states in this country had a system for dealing with mentally ill mentally disturbed people they were state mental hospitals. and you could be either you could commit yourself momentarily or you could be involuntarily committed by your relatives or or authorities for a an examination period and and possibly for a longer period of time treatment period i know because i had to help a constituent to get some relative who had been improperly and in voluntarily committed out of these hospitals they were called snake pits they were derided as uncaring institutions and so a bipartisan there's that word coalition of republicans california governor reagan chief among them and democrats in the legislature agreed let's tear down let's close down these mental hospitals there they're not worthy of a civilized society and replace them with something far better more humane

community mental health clinics people in their communities could get help they wouldn't have to be carted off to a warehouse far away from where they their support system was it was a great idea we shut down the mental hospitals all over america we just forgot to set up the community mental health clinics what happened initially right after that the first real wave of homelessness in this country since the great depression most of the people who are homeless on america's streets right now are mentally ill and this problem continues to cycle down on and fester and and refusing to pay the bill for community mental health clinics we continue to pay the bill in other ways one of which we just saw last weekend but do you think that people are still refusing to do anything about this to really look at this issue as it is mean they're putting a lot of blame on had political rhetoric. cryo apparently that stuff so that's so much fun to do that one or is what it's so much easier and general that it's so much easier to blame pundits and politicians rather than talk about our culture

where maybe our gun laws some of them are too relaxed or maybe we're giving up on the mentally ill and the poor in this country. even on pundits not even pundits. yeah i think we always choose at these times to go for the easy the ratings producing lines of argument and if you start talking about things like the problem of the society treats its mentally ill or mentally disturbed that's regarded as a journal that's regarded as a tune out factor so and you know this is as i said in that article and i think it posed a horrible time to be bringing this up because it costs money that's the reason these things were set up in the first place it cost money it cost probably more money than the old mental hospitals they replaced well we're being told now we don't have money now of course if we stop a couple of pesky wars we might have money but right now we don't have the money so

it's an irritating subject to bring up because there is no easy fix well not only that a bad subject to bring up because we're broke at the moment it's also about subject because everybody is feeling this wave of anti-government sentiment or a lot of people in the country are you know if we look at the case of sharia law for here the school that he went to the community college they decided that he has issues but then who do you go to if the parents don't want to deal with it is it the government's job you know because instantly we're already seeing people pleading the case for involuntary commitment again so how do you approach it well i know what i think happened. you know first it would be nice to set up a system where if you knew today that somebody in your family or somebody close to you had a severe mental disturbance would you call. who do you call we known to call if somebody in the family breaks a leg or is hit by a car we don't have a system we have a patchwork of different kinds of you know time.