Baptist Kidnappers Face U.S. Prosecution

...I mean because after all...CANADA?!

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Yeah... thanks for being our slaves Haitians. Yeah, we overthrew your government and put a free-market friendly president in and called it "democracy", and then later overthrew that government too, that's your fault. You don't want to embrace our culture we jam down the world's troughts, that's your problem. You want to keep your culture and pastimes, quit crying babies. It's your fault we installed a government that sells you into American-corporate slavery, Haiti. We treat you like crap, now you want help? Screw you, you absolute-poverty American slaves. You make our junk for pennies an hour, now we owe you help when we've destroyed your economy? Just who do you think you are? It's your fault your country is on one of the Earth's tectonic plates. Go make me some Dora the Explorer underwear you worthless human slave.

btw: I'm being sarcastic. I hope you were too, if not...

You couldn't have made yourself look more dumb. Blame the victim... classic.
That "corrupt" government was installed by our government, then we later overthrew that democratic government too! No it's not a conspiracy theory.
http://cjonline.com/stories/041505/opi_weisbrot.shtml
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20040309.htm

Protestant christian ethic got them where they are today thanks to our overthrow of their gov and free market capitalism only protestants could deem as ok in the eyes of Yahweh.

You look foolish. God, I hope you were being sarcastic. It's people like you that make me hope aliens come and make everyone in the 1st world slaves just so we get a taste of how it feels.

be nice now!

“I guess they figured they had Jeebus on their side so they could do what ever the hell they wanted”

Your intolerance and antipathy toward anything that relates to religion is disgusting. For someone who routinely trolls posts calling others intolerant and racist, your need to invoke and demean a figure central to a religous faith in your comment, just goes to show how far down the road of hypocrisy you have traveled. You are the true epitome of the phrase “the pot calling the kettle black.”

Your acceptance of anything with "god" is disgusting. If they kidnapped whites this would be a different story all together. They stole kids off the street. Either they're dumb or evil, either way they are awful people.

Your correlation is not logical.

First of all, the media is very non-sympathetic to Police brutality, so you missed my point on the media being sympathetic to white "in-the-name-of-god" kidnappers.

Second, I'm not stereotyping all Christians, just self-righteous ones that kidnap poor dark-skinned kids off the streets. I agreed with this original poster. They assumed (consciously or not) that since they were white American Jeebus-Jumpers they could do whatever they want under the flag of moral authority.

No, they're bad because they made a racist assumption. That nobody cares about these kids. Put yourself in the parent's shoes. People from the country that keeps your country in poverty (thus poor building construction and infrastructure) comes to help and just helps themselves to some of your local children... you would be pised too.

Honestly, you can't say that if there was a quake in the UK and this was happening people would be so bold as to snatch children off the street,

I think I would see a country that's will to help me rebuild my hometown, something my people couldn't do on their own. I think I would see honest, well meaning people that are only trying to help. I also think race doesn't have anything to do with it.

Oh. and sorry about the removed comment above, I'm still getting used to this new comment system.

I'm not saying their racism contains malice... I just feel that if these were white kids that were kidnapped, it's doubtful it would have happened at all. And if it did, the media/society would be looking at this differently.
I would welcome help rebuilding my town regardless of race, but... if I had not had water/food for days and I see these stereotypically rich people "helping" while they themselves have water and food, I would be pi$$ed too.

That's just cruel and unusual punishment. Maybe we should all pitch in and buy her a poodle.

"We" as America.

You benefit everyday from the labor from the slaves of the past. Figuratively we still "take" the lives of dark skinned and Asian people everyday!

Everyone in core nations do, so keep playing that ignorant card if you want.

"Pig", I fail to grasp your logic? How do we benefit? Did you ever stop to think that, maybe just maybe, your concept of justice is flawed?

You had generations of wealth and bountiful farmland cultivated for you for free due to slave labor.

That farmland grew the food that fed your ancestors and still feeds you today. The funds from crops(cotton, tobacco,etc.) shipped overseas in trade with other countries that made slave owners and America wealthy without paying out wages to workers. Wealth that transferred from generation to generation, allowing farmers and descendants alike to remain profitable for decades, centuries if that money was properly diversified into other businesses.

America was built into a superpower off the backs of slave labor. You disrespect that history by questioning whether or not you have benefited from it. While you have not directly received a benefit from enslaved workers, you are here today in the state that America is in because of it. You can make a living here because of the sacrifices made by enslaved workers, many who died in the fields so that this country could prosper. Don't cheapen the memory of that by pretending it didn't happen, and don't think that by acknowledging it people are trying to make you feel guilty of human atrocities that your ancestors may/may not have committed.

THANK YOU! That's basically what I would have said. America's foundations to modern day is built on the sweat and blood of slaves. Owned slaves of the past, and wage slaves today.

My only addition would be that we still have slaves, they just belong to other governments.

@LoonMoon

My concept of justice is flawed? I'm not calling it justice, I'm calling it, "what's good for the goose is good for the gander... my heart bleeds for Haiti, not these people snatchers.

Honestly, your ignorance makes me sad.

Haitian workers earn only 6 cents for every pair of Disney “101 Dalmatians” outfit that Disney sells for $20. Disney pays its workers in Haiti about 28 cents an hour. A woman in Salvador working in a sweatshop makes 12 cents sewing a GAP T-shirt that sells in the US for $20. (Sources: In These Times; National Labor Committee; Jobs with Justice)

Myth: It’s OK to pay workers in poor countries lots less than workers are paid here because living expenses are so much less. Milk: in Haiti, 75 cents; in NY, 65 cents; eggs: in Haiti, $1.50, in NY, $1.39; cereal: in Haiti, $1.90, in NY, 1.69

Just because they don't live on a white plantation owner's property doesn't mean you're not a slave.

I just find it ironic that nobody cares about Haitians when they're slaving away, but now we do? I'm not saying we shouldn't, but there is irony. Like I've said before. If you paid them decent wages, maybe everyone's house wouldn't have collapsed.

Also, I find it a bit racist on these people's part. Like I've said, if these Haitians were white, these people would have sought proper means. But they didn't. They assumed it was okay to take people's children off the street and assume they were doing them a favor.
Imagine an earthquake just destroyed everything you hold dear, but luckily your parents survived. Days later, all-powerful, all-knowing Americans scooped you off the street.

These are awful people. If they were ignorant and stupid, or they felt just and superior, either way they are awful.

Right on Lifestudentno83 you made some very valid points. Even though we don't benefit directly, as in "we owned slaves", we inherited the wealth of America that was created through slave labor, therefore we benefit indirectly.

However, it seems to me that there are some who have benefited much, much more. I think they call them the top 2% who own almost everything. (almost everything = 95% vs everything = 100%, just fyi about meanings in my semantic world)

And I would like to add, that means that there is a very small piece left that the 98% of us who own virtually nothing have to compete with to get a tiny piece of the pie.

'cowboy adoptions' that's a good name for it!

According to the NPR story I read yesterday. They were taking them to the closest SOS CV owned orphanage. Which was the one in the Dominican Republic. They couldn't get to the transfer papers due to the fact that the original orphanage collapsed, which was why they were moving them in the first place. According to a spokesperson for the group, they were planning on taking them there for safe keeping until things cleared up a little.

I'm not defending breaking the law, but I don't think they should be vilified so harshly.

According to the report they were aware of what they were doing was illegal.

maybe they wanted to be like brangelina... or even bruno lol