The slow drive, it turns out, will cost them. As they arrive in front of the government building just past 3 p.m., Jesse Jackson has already finished speaking. His bus is about to leave. Some protesters remain, but there now seem to be as many reporters and green-uniformed deputies as rallygoers. A dozen or so Bush supporters congregate and are approached by a group of Democratic protesters.
Blood runs high, and words are exchanged.
The Bush supporters call the protesters sore losers. There is tension but no violence, a feeling in the air very much like that between opposing football fans. She shouts this mantra for ten solid minutes. Though such antics prove harmless, watching politics play out on the streets brings back bad memories for Cadet. This is why I left Haiti, this kind of stuff.