Has anyone noticed that news outlets seem to be harping on this point? What is the point of this?
And the UN building is down and many of its officials are dead.
To answer your question: It’s obviously to show how incapable governments are in times of catastrophe.
Haiti could at the moment be made to prove the point that free markets doesn’t work either.
If they had open and free unfettered trade, it would be wonderful to see how quickly a market responds to tragedy. I can only imagine the horrors of protectionists actually preventing free trade to aide a tragedy.
because soon the propaganda is going to spout out how there are warlords and rapist, pillaging and running wild in the streets. It will be done by the book. I read somewhere yesterday in a news article that aid is having a hard time getting in because people are piling up bodies on the roads making it hard for the aid to get in. Soon it will be there are people doing this on purpose because they are trying to criminalize all those innocent people. It will be kin to Blackhawk Down. The UN has to get in there to bring back law and order - human nature unchecked by gov’t is so bad!![:P]
Unlike D.C.'s own backyard, where’s the UN peacekeepers for all the crime in that city and I’m not necessarily talking about the politicans, but that for another day. The propaganda ministry will air over and over again how cruel the warlords are in Haiti. If they get one picture or video of somebody taking a TV and running down the road with it, oh look out! The propaganda ministry will be all over that and plug in how the CIA has discovered that there are warlords with hundreds of followers worshiping the devil and so the U.S. will need to build a military base there to get that place back up on its feet cause you know it’s going to take 20 years or something for it to be ‘normal’ again.
Pat Robertson claims Haiti earthquake caused by “pact with the devil”
I think they keep repeating it because they really believe that lack of STRONG government (I keep hearing Haiti lacks a STRONG gov’t here on international news) can only lead to poverty, unrest, crime and chaos. They believe it because it is what they have always been taught.
not sure how. on the Index of Economic Freedom for 09, Haiti ranked 147 out of 179 countries.
I want to donate money to serious organisations that help haitians, but not socialist/fascist organisations. Which organisations should libertarians donate to?
We saw that already, albeit protectionism of a different sort: protecting federal agency fiefdoms after Katrina and Rita.