Whoa. Looks like the Haitians had to resort to stacking corpses like lasagna because there's not enough time nor space to bury them. Disease could rapidly spread toward the survivors and infect them all, which could lead to a post-earthquake plague across the voodoo land.
Yeah. Cause that'll make the food get in there faster...making the roads impassable with corpse blockades and such.
Maybe they can also push the rubble of the presidential palace onto the runway at the airport, or even drop a few magnetic mines into the harbor while they're at it. That'll show em.
SOooooo...are they trying to keep LOOTERS out.....??? Or, what? Weird....and so desperately sad.
I don’t understand: it seems like putting up roadblocks to stop trucks of food coming in is counterproductive. Is the media once again leaving out important details?
Folks, you are about to see the worst debacle, chaos, man’s-inhumanity-to-man and mayhem that the world has seen since Cambodia. Unfortunately the world will be watching it in HDTV.
This is reminiscent of the Galveston Hurricane. At one point, there were so many bodies that they just had to push them out to sea—and the tide changed and they all floated back. Apparently, massive funeral pyres were the final answer.
Quark from Deep Space Nine: Let me tell you something about humans, nephew. They’re a wonderful, friendly people as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people become as nasty and as violent as the most blood thirsty Klingon.
Hati has become so dependant on foreign aid that they have no capacity to deal with any kind of disaster themselves. Not saying that we shouldn’t be helping them out in their hour of need, we most definetly should, but we need to help them help themselves and reduce their dependance on us.
Things are looking pretty bad and it looks like they are going to get much worse. I fear for the soldiers and Marines that are going to have to go in there as I have no doubt that in the end it will be alot more than a relief effort and America will get the blame. I do wonder though, with all the tropical storms and hurricanes that hit this place, can’t a better infrastructure be in place to where the whole relief effort does not rest in the hands of other nations?
Tonite Anderson Cooper, clueless, said people were beginning to run in groups through the streets "praying". That place is going to be 1 million times worse than New Orleans
If they are protesting how slow aid is in getting to them, why block the roads that the aid trucks and people are going to use to get to them? Not sure this is going to help them, unless they plan to attack any vehicle that stops for the roadblock, and then again, that will probably only happen once, then the trucks will stop coming.
I don’t believe the claim in the first line, nor does anything in the rest of the article back it up. If you go to the original source, that line is not actually part of the article, but sort of a sub-headline — probably not written by the writer of the article, and probably written by some clueless junior editor.
You know, this attitude is going to piss off a lot of Americans who will make the observation that the Haitians are biting the hand that feeds.
3 days and they’re “impatient” and ready to riot? 3 days?
Talk about an entitlement mentality!