Controlled Chaos

The aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti is beginning to remind me of the aftermath of Katrina. The American military invades and occupies. Former Presidents Clinton and Bush take their two man fund raising act on the road. The American Red Cross raises millions of dollars. Hollywood holds a telethon. The music industry cuts a record. Millions of American donate money, food, clothes. Thousands of Haitians/Africans suffer and die. Children are separated from their families. Corruption thrives in chaos.

As expected, chaos reigns on the streets of Haiti as victims scramble for food, water, shelter, and anything they can use for money in the wake of horrible devastation. When there are no basic facilities there are no such thing as looters, there are only victims looking to survive.

US policy so far is designed to keep the Haitians in Haiti at all costs. Hack off an arm or leg with a rusty saw, bandage them up with a bandage they can't change, and send them back to the rubble they came from. The Navy ships offshore are not only providing medical services, but, security as well for the white folks in Miami. The US policy is to do everything they can in Haiti to keep a flotilla of boat people leaving the island for the US for their very survival. The United States would look like real dicks turning away earthquake victims from Haiti while accepting Cuban traitors wanting a new flat screen television.
A nation that took in hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese boat people after the war, thousands of Cubans, and millions of Mexicans can surely absorb a few dying Haitians

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Granny standing for truth asks;

Why is it that America thinks that helping in disasters in which the majority of the victims are black means:

"More recently, Clinton has been busy setting up investment opportunities for Wall Street corporations to further exploit Haitian labor." ~~Kiilu Nyasha-Poor People Magazine~~

"Haitians need real help trying to dig out victims who may still be alive, not opportunistic posturing and photo ops." ~~Kiilu Nyasha-Poor People Magazine~~

In light of the recent revelations and accusations of child trafficking Real Freedom Fighters asks;

When will people learn that just because some white person shows up and claims to represent God, that they are to be obeyed without question?

John Maxwell says;

if anyone wants to know what to do right now: Land 10 thousand wheelbarrows on the streets, handing them over to neighborhood groups. Let the groups decide how they are going to move the rubble and what they are going to do with it. Give the groups money and supplies to set up 10 thousand street kitchens – say about $200 a group. Let the groups pay the wheelbarrow men if necessary. In three weeks the casual journalist would be hard put to find any of the “usual” stories. Total cost $2 million plus $1 million for wheelbarrows.
Meanwhile the UN can be assembling a real security force to protect the Haitians and particularly their president and under his direction,design and install the apparatus allowing Haitians to run their own country and to make their own mistakes, for the first time at last.

Danny Schechter takes the media to task;

The media coverage to date has been missing this type of fact-based and experience driven framework. Its been organized around images, not investigations.
Sadly, tragedies like the one in Haiti require better and more explanatory coverage just as the media packs up and heads to the next disaster, if not to face pink slips in new rounds of news cutbacks.

I pray I'm wrong and Haiti is not another Katrina, but as of right now the similarities are striking.