AITI RELIEF GIVING

I’m all for giving to help relief efforts in Haiti, but have a complaint about some of the appeals. For example, the text message that automatically sends $10 to the Red Cross. Nothing wrong with that, but I would like to know that other charities had the opportunity to do the same, particularly if these are advertised as a free public service announcements.

Also, much as I admire Michele Obama, I think that it is wrong for her to promote giving to the Red Cross, to the exclusion of other relief organizations. I have nothing against the Red Cross, but why not have her ask for funds to be divided among the Red Cross, Salvation Army, UNICEF, and perhaps one or two others.

homer   http://www.altara.blogspot.com

We as Americans believe that we can go into any Country we like and do whatever we like. That is why they hate us. Those Idaho Baptists went into Haiti and took children without the government’s permission.Let some Haitians come into America and try to leave with a bunch of white children and let’s see how far they get. It’s the same in Iraq where we lied about weapons to settle a old score and to steal oil. We force our Religion on others and act if it is okay. It is one thing to help the poor and needy. It is another thing to control to poor and needy

Guess what?  The real abuse that no one ever talks about is continually giving birth to children that you know you will never be able to support; then watching them suffer terribly from malnutrition, extreme poverty, lack of medical care etc. etc. That is the real abuse that occurs continually in Haiti, in Africa and in many areas of Asia. The real solution to child abuse- it’s called birth-control.

The whole adventure smacks of what the European occupiers of the Americas did to the natives here (those who survived measles snd small pox epidemics, that is), because after stealing their land, shooting any natives who resisted (and then some), the Europeans would kidnap the native children, isolate them from their communities, forbid them to speak their native tongues and otherwise deculturate them.  The operative premise for all these genocidal acts was that the native culture was inferior to the European’s.  And now we have the same thing happening in Haiti, only this time the culprits are twenty Idaho Baptists whose aim is the forced conversion of Haiti’s children.  And for this throwback to the days of a colonial yesteryear, Haitian authorities should impose a penalty that’ll teach these kidnappers a lesson, something like a fine that’s large enough to establish and maintain an orphanage in Port-au-Prince for, say, seventy-five children, one which features a curriculum that emphasizes Haiti’s indigenous culture, including Vodou. In addition members of this Idaho church should be deported from Haiti, as should all other so-called missionaries out to make forced conversions.  And if, indeed, Jesus told these Idaho Baptist to kidnap these children (as they claim), he should be tried in absentia, convicted and forever banished from Haiti.  What the heck, even if he is the lord, there has to be a certain standard of decency that’s applicable to divine as well as to human beings?