I'm doing what I've been doing for my relatives and people down there, what my family has been doing since 1973 actually.
Trying to get visas for as many of them as possible to get out and live somewhere where they can live life and work hard and improve the chances for their children.
......I'm less likely to give people passes for saying foolish/callous things about Haitians than most here are, apparently.
THAT'S what I'm doing.
Okay fine but the thread is not about you.
What is happening in Haiti right now is the direct result of anarchy, chaos and poverty. We're getting on-the-ground reports of a society that is de-evolving into primortal beastiality where not only laws but societal and cultural values are being stripped away, leaving the old and the weak at the mercy of the strong and the ruthless.
If they caught the escaped prisoners what could they possibly do with them besides kill them where they stand? The entire country is becoming a prison, Hell prison would be safer than the streets of PAP.
The violence and despair which exists in Haiti is on the scale of war torn African nations or the former Yugoslav republics at the turn of the 20th Century except that there is no war in Haiti.
? What influences could wreak war time havoc on a nation at peace? Could it perhaps be the interference from foreign governments? If that is the case then how could additional interference from these same governments be the cure? That's like pouring acid on an acid burn to make the pain stop.
The World has only two options. Go in full force, police, feed, clothe, house, employ, educate and rebuild Haiti (in the middle of a global recession, mind you) or otherwise just walk away. What they've been doing to date and especially in the past year with the different orgs. pointing the blame fingers at one another and tripping over one another to offer too little, too late help is nothing short of criminal. Removing Aristide (physically removing him to the African continent for his "safety") whom none can disagree was the overwhelming winner of a fair democratic election was nothing short of criminal.
What is happening to Women and Children in Haiti's tent cities is a picture of the bottom of the abyss of Human depravity. There's nowhere to go but up now. Rebuild from scratch. Send Clinton home. Send OXFAM home. Send the UN and the multitude of NGO's home. Invite the Chinese to set up farming collectives and the Indians to set up distribution points to the Chinese and Indian markets in the Caribbean and in Asia and invite the Koreans to build and develop their shipping infrastructure and the firms in Abu Dhabi and Dubai to manage the ports.
What Haiti needs is a new set of partners who don't have any old axes to grind.