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Haiti earthquake: anger turns to violence on the streets
telegraph.co.uk ^ | 1/15/10 | Gordon Rayner

Posted on 01/15/2010 7:04:48 PM PST by Kartographer

Anger turned to violence on the streets of Haiti as earthquake survivors lost their patience with the painfully slow process of getting international aid to those desperate for food, water and medical treatment.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: haiti; tantrum
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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.


1 posted on 01/15/2010 7:04:48 PM PST by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer

I’m really tired of watching people standing around ‘waiting’ for someone to rescue them.


2 posted on 01/15/2010 7:07:20 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Kartographer

These folks made a pact with Devil. I read their prayer that blasphemed God when they started killing French people because they were “Blanc” . God’s wrath has fallen on them like New Orleans and today Venezuala. Not a penny more.


3 posted on 01/15/2010 7:09:21 PM PST by catarac
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To: driftdiver

This looks like a job for more “Obama money”.


4 posted on 01/15/2010 7:09:28 PM PST by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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To: Kartographer

Hey! I gotta idea! Since we’re in such dire straits let’s have a riot. We can set fire to all the rubble, kill everybody in sight and terrify the rescue workers. That’ll show them!


5 posted on 01/15/2010 7:11:20 PM PST by oneolcop (Lead, Follow or Get the Hell Out of the Way!)
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To: Kartographer

Not only are they demanding that WE save them from their own earthquake...now they are demanding that WE save them from themselves. AND, they are getting angry at us for not meeting their expectations.

Lovely.

This is a land and people that a democrat could love.


6 posted on 01/15/2010 7:16:23 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: oneolcop

Question:

Who’s to blame for their lousy infrastructure and crappy inept government?


7 posted on 01/15/2010 7:17:59 PM PST by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)
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To: driftdiver
I’m really tired of watching people standing around ‘waiting’ for someone to rescue them// I best be care full how I word this.... BUT Obama thinks he can get brownie points from the World on this one. /these poor folks have been hand feed from the UN and others for a long time. Not able to grow on their own. I watched that video of the crowd mad about the date on the food and getting upset at that. These people are screwed up from the get-go.
8 posted on 01/15/2010 7:22:33 PM PST by ColdOne
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To: mamelukesabre

It sounds like Norleans.


9 posted on 01/15/2010 7:23:37 PM PST by omega4179 (Marco2010)
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To: Kartographer

No question there is unquestionable suffering there, but all the same on TV I am seeing many instances of melodramatic orchestrations —people who are perfunctorily wrapping T-shirts around their head or whatever, then suddenly wailing when TV cameras are near. It’s like they think if they don’t play it up, the aid will not come.

The suffering is there, and we do not need a Vaudevillian characterization of it.

Just sayin’..!


10 posted on 01/15/2010 7:25:36 PM PST by gaijin
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To: ColdOne

Katrina hit New Orleans, Alabama, and Mississippi.

New Orleans sat back and waited for someone to do it for them.

The others started working themselves and welcomed needed assistance.


11 posted on 01/15/2010 7:26:12 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: omega4179

Well, that’s slightly different seeing how norlins is actually our land and our people. Haiti is non of our business. But I get your point none the less.


12 posted on 01/15/2010 7:27:53 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: mamelukesabre

Remember the lady complaining about eating “army food”


13 posted on 01/15/2010 7:32:20 PM PST by omega4179 (Marco2010)
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To: bicyclerepair
Well, THAT'S OBVIOUS BUSHCHENEYHALBURTON, of course.
14 posted on 01/15/2010 7:37:33 PM PST by oneolcop (Lead, Follow or Get the Hell Out of the Way!)
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To: driftdiver
The others started working themselves and welcomed needed assistance yup. To this day people are STILL waiting for help in New Orleans.
15 posted on 01/15/2010 7:37:46 PM PST by ColdOne
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To: catarac

Oh gosh be careful because on FR you will be called a hater.

I think Pat Robertson was techically onto something but his timing was way off.

Something is very very wrong in Haiti and New Orleans. I am not sure if it is voodoo but something is SERIOUSLY amiss.

Is Venez also doing voodoo? Cuba does voodoo.


16 posted on 01/15/2010 7:40:14 PM PST by Frantzie (TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
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To: ColdOne

I saw that also. I was appalled. They are starving and one of them told the crowd not to eat the cookie because the date was expired. Meanwhile it was not the expiration date they were looking at. For god’s sake if your starving would you be picky about the expiration date of a cookie.


17 posted on 01/15/2010 7:40:55 PM PST by angcat (GOD SAVE US!)
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To: omega4179

No.

I’ve never had cable TV. Never did get a digital converter box. And I havn’t watched anything other than seinfeld reruns, red green show, antique roadshow, and now and then the tonightshow in over 5 years.

I thought TV turned weird when the first survivor show came out. That’s when me and TV kinda went our separate ways.

The last show I really liked was newsradio with phil hartman.


18 posted on 01/15/2010 7:43:14 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: Kartographer; Roscoe Karns; monkapotamus

Hey, waitaminnit...

19 posted on 01/15/2010 7:44:20 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: gaijin

Oh you will be attacked like I was here as being a hater. There is MAJOR a manipulation by the liberal media and the locals. Folks - the liberal media is playing you.

This is all about getting to Florida, getting foodstamps, housing vouchers, welfare, free schooling, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security and SS disability, free healthcare, free everything else you can think of. If you lived in FL you have seen it first hand.

Famous Haitian-American - Peggy Joseph 2008 West Lauderdale Obama Rally:

“Obama is gonna pay off my mortgage and put gas in my car.”

I bet she gets her mortage paid off - I would bet anyone $100 on it.


20 posted on 01/15/2010 7:45:16 PM PST by Frantzie (TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
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