Bois Caiman - August 14, 1791The "curse" of Haiti seems to stem more from the consequences of free will.
Rather than follow the American Revolutionaries' example of reason and enlightenment, Haiti seems to have perpetuated 220 years of "The Reign of Terror" in the same fashion as The French Revolution...
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein.
Bois Caiman - August 14, 1791France is blaming the U.S. for delayed medical help, Chavez says we are ‘occupiers under the name of aid’.
Hillary Clinton had a damage control PR stunt on Obama’s behalf, but who was she talking to? Hatians have no t.v or radio and are starving and dying of dehydration in the streets, because the U.N. won’t let the U.S. come in and do what we do so well!! But she did bring the diplomats mustard, soap and cigarettes (who knows what else)!
Haitians say ‘it’s the white outsider’s to blame.’
I lost my sympathy for them. Not another penny.
Haiti is an experiment that proves that Africa was helped by colonial rule.
After the slave revolt the new leaders hunted down and exterminated all the whites. Even the ones the new leaders had invited to settle there.
Haiti suffers from being an “accidental country.” It was somewhat inadvertently established by the French, after a colony of French Protestant pirates took up residence on what is now the Haitian end of the island of Hispaniola. The Spanish tried to get them out but didn’t have the forces to spare and eventually, as the result of the settlement of a different war, ceded that end of the island to the French (the nation of France, that is, and not just the pirates).
The Dominican Republic had the oldest university and the oldest cathedral, among other things, in the New World. Haiti had...ta da...nothing.
Its history is complicated and bloody, but I have always felt that one of its big problems was the fact that it really wasn’t, like places such as Mexico or New England, a place that was seen by its colonizers as the future home of a society somewhat similar to the one they had left behind. There never seems to have been a plan for Haiti’s future, and expecting African slaves, swept up by the Muslims from tribes across Africa, to spontaneously generate one is somewhat unrealistic. I think they’re still suffering from this lack of a plan.
It appears that Obama is annexing Haiti.
read this
http://www.amren.com/ar/2001/04/index.html#cover
‘Revolution in Haiti’
They exterminated the whites.
Job was a righteous man who was being tested by Satan...and God permitted it, for his own glory, which he duly received at the end.
Haiti is not a righteous nation. Frankly, neither are we.
Thanks Dog,
US out of UN!
Thanks Dog,
US out of UN!
200 years of corruption, cruelty, and greed have everything to do with the hell of Haiti.
CIA factbook says...
Roman Catholic 80%, Protestant 16% (Baptist 10%, Pentecostal 4%, Adventist 1%, other 1%), none 1%, other 3%
note: roughly half of the population practices voodoo
Hmmmm, if those numbers are correct, a significant percentage are RC who practice voodoo or are voodooians who practice RC???
Indeed there are quite a few very educated capable folks there but the bulk of the evergrowing populace is simply incapable of possessing the tools to prosper beyond anything other than fieldwork or sweatshops...either of which would be welcomed there and rightly so but are quite scant.
10 million folks in a mostly hardscrabble area the size of Maryland....over 50% illiterate...
Despot after despot...a tiny bourgeoisie 200 years in the making after they massacred the original capitalized class or drove the survivors off...
I don't think Voodoo helps anything personally...I do not find it benign like the relativist folks do but I don't think it's God's wrath either (but who knows for sure)...Lord knows it would seem they have been punished enuff already
Sad little fact is that Haiti worked better for more folks under the Duvaliers especially nutty Papa Doc but...and a huge BUT.....one was not free to speak one's mind....Papa Doc was brutal but it was a "trains ran on time" sorta thing....relative to how Haiti usually is
The American revolution was not based on "reason and enlightement". In New England, it was in large part a religious war. The opening shot was the `1750 sermon A Discourse concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers. That provided the colonists with the justification for revolt. Thousands of other sermons followed. Parliament's 1766 Declaratory Act, which declared parliament had control over the colonies "in all cases whatsoever" was, to the clergy, blasphemy. It incited the revolt.
Franklin told Paine to burn his "Age of Reason" rather than publish it. Paine and other Jacobins were detested by the founders and framers (after they used them to incite the revolution). Jefferson did gave Paine a stroke by inviting him to the White House but that caused a scandal.
Haiti, on the other hand, did follow the "reason and enlightment" of the French revolution. The worse aspects of it.
I care about the plight of fellow humans when tragedy strikes, but in this case, I could care less about this cesspool of a country.
If you get your theology from Newsweek, you’re on your own.