What is it about a disaster that bring out the worst in people?
People like Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh.
The talkin’ televangelist said Haiti’s earthquake happened because when it was still a French colony its leaders “swore a pact to the devil” to get out from “under the heel of the French.”
Then he launched into a loopy story about how Haiti got its independence, complete the devil agreeing with the proposal by saying, "OK, it’s a deal.”
Sheesh.
Then rumblin’ Rush said the killer quake would be exploited by Obama to look “compassionate” and “humanitarian” while at the same time bolstering his popularity in both the “light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country.”
Puh-lease! Can’t we all get along?
Haiti was already one of the poorest nations on earth. Now it’s gone down several more notches, if that’s even possible.
Its long-suffering people need aid, and pronto.
The historical/geopolitical debate can wait.
That will also let the talking heads think twice about what they’re gonna say ... and maybe not say it.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Haiti aftershocks
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Haiti has lived by the law of the jungle for so long that they don't know any other way. That's why they can't oblige and sustain a government. Evidence of the population looting businesses today points to the fact that nothing will change in the short or long term. Give the people fish and they will eat for a day. Teach the people to fish and they can feed themselves forever.
I have been peckish; I have never been three-days' hungry. I have been terrified; I've never been confronted with machete'-wielding nutters. I've been a paycheck away from being homeless; homelessness, thank God, didn't happen. I don't know how I would behave in such horror; probably not very well. We can't know Haiti's future, but we are right to do everything we can for the Haitian people now. A little extra something in Sunday's second collection will save lives.
What? Ya gonna wait for the Chinese and the Swiss and the Arabs to pitch in?
What? Ya gonna wait for Rush Windbag and grinny-creepy Pat Robertson to kick in?
God is watching us.
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