Machete-wielding Haitians loot

[Dreamofunity]

If all order broke down, wouldn't you be looting? If people are in the streets and everything is going to get stolen anyway, there's no turning back. Might as well join in and provide for your own survival (or entertainment).

April 26th, 1992,
There was a riot on the streets,
Tell me where were you?
You were sittin' home watchin' your TV,
While I was paticipatin' in some anarchy.


Cause everybody in the hood has had it up to here,
It's getting harder and harder and harder each and every year.

Some kids went in a store with thier mother,
I saw her when she came out she was gettin some pampers.

They said it was for the black man,
They said it was for the mexican,
And not for the white man.

But if you look at the streets it wasn't about Rodney King,
It's bout this fucked up situation and these fucked up police.
It's about coming up and staying on top
And screamin' 187 on a mother fuckin' cop.
It's not written on the paper it's on the wall.
National guard??!
Smoke from all around,

 

[MelissaWV]

My family that lives in the tropics has a machete in each garage. Helpful things, those, living in a climate where one has to deal with vines or trees or sugarcane.

The US has imported a dozen or two earthquake victims iirc from last night's latest news. The ones they showed on television were distinctly Americans that had been imported to Florida for treatment.

"Millions" of Haitian nationals (refugees) are not pouring into the USA, don't worry your pretty little head off. They are, instead, going to wander over to the Dominican Republic and, eventually, to Puerto Rico, where the children they have will be US citizens anyhow. More shacks popping up all over the Caribbean; just what the area didn't need.

Things are bad enough without trying to add to it. It's an island that had scant natural resources to start with, and now there's almost nothing there.

I get pissed when I think of just *how many* reporters were flown into Haiti, though. Diane Sawyer certainly looked like she wasn't lacking fresh food and water. She was reporting on how supplies were slow to trickle in. Put three gallons of water instead of your dumb self in your seat, then, and three more instead of your cameraman.

As for areas of the country not being damaged, yes, you're right. There are a lot of sturdy houses that did not get demolished, too. Unfortunately, a large segment of the population lived in crappy little shacks, and the buildings that DID fall are now causing transportation to be almost impossible. Consider NYC getting struck by something really broad and powerful (not 9/11). The subway lines would be down, ferries would be down, the bridges/tunnels might be out of order, and the population density means lots of death (followed by lots of disease). The rest of New York state might be just fine, and Jersey might be as good as it ever was, but if no one can get in or out easily, then what's the help in that?

 

[ladyjade3]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-haiti-quake16-2010jan16,0,2230617.story

I almost hate to resurrect this thread as it was really starting to BOTHER me.... but this link above is what you will start to see, but lets think about this situation...

There are tons of food and supplies sitting in a UN warehouse while the people in the streets that it is intended for starve. Should they sit quietly and die waiting for some bureaucrat to stamp a paper or something? I think we're past that sort of gentility. This is life and death here. and again - YOU'RE NOT THERE.

Like Angela so sagely pointed out, if this or that store is NOT reopening, the owner for all we know is dead in the rubble... do you let the food sit there and rot in the 100 degree heat, or do you feed your child? I think you feed your child in this circumstance. And you don't apologize for it.

I'll share a little culture shock moment we had when we were down there. Down the hill from our house early one morning, we heard these two people screaming at eachother in Creole, on and on. We couldn't understand what they were saying, but we thought it must be some horrific fight that was about to get physically violent. We asked a fellow missionary who understood the language what they were fighting about, and they said, oh they're just chit chatting about their day, nothing to worry about. They were basically just shooting the s***!!!

These are very charismatic, dramatic people, and don't think that you understand them if you don't know them. so if you see videos of angry haitians appearing to riot, please take it with a grain of salt. They're not like you. and maybe the media down there don't understand perfectly what they are seeing either. And yes, there will be gunshots. We heard them all the time. It lets people around you know not to mess with you, just in case. We heard voodoo drums all the time too. Its a different world.

They are not perfect. I'll be the first to complain about their idiosyncracies and their sordid history.

But whatever. They are human and they are suffering horrifically right now. I kind of think the scorecard or whatever all that is supposed to be is unfortunate and says more about you than it really says about the haitian people.

shut up and help. or just shut up, please.

 

[fgd]

Remember - black people "loot" food. White people "find" food.

http://tradermike.net/movethecrowd/images/white_find_black_loot.jpg

 

[Toureg89]

This is the country Obama is giving up 100 million dollars for.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/01/14/world/worldwatch/entry6097747.shtml

and i brought up this point on a neocon forum, but atleast Haiti didn't try to suffer from an earthquake.

Bush set us 1 billion$ in the hole for a country (Georgia) that was picking fights with a stronger neighbor.

 

[angelatc]

and i brought up this point on a neocon forum, but atleast Haiti didn't try to suffer from an earthquake.
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Wow. You're a braver man than I.