I understand their point
The Haitian Government is very, very sensitive to the baby selling trade — many times that trade leads to what is essentially slavery.
They may be somewhat powerless, but I can also see their concern spike with the crisis at hand. As with the missionaries, I honestly think their hearts are in the right place.
I am sure that, now the smoke has settled, the judges will release the Missionaries and I think this does make their point: “We are not totally lawless.”
*prepares for incoming*
I am sure we will someday hear horror stories about what happened to those women kept in those cages while 7000 convicts who escaped prison are roaming around.
>> I think this does make their point: “We are not totally lawless.”
It’s a great point, but how much in reality centered around it.
I wager much of the initial delays to Haiti and the frustrations with this case can be attributed to the bureaucracy of international protocol.
They should keep Silsby. She had criminal intent with her fraudulent fund-raising for this project (using the proceeds to support herself, and per some reports to pay off some of her more pressing back wage judgements, claiming the donations were tax-deductible when she knew full well they weren’t, etc), and knew full well she was breaking Haitian law because she’d been told by a large number of officials and aid workers. Coulter probably knew the whole thing wasn’t really legit, but she’s young and clearly wasn’t the mastermind. The others are really, really stupid, but I think they’ve had enough time sitting in a third world jail to realize that, and I don’t see much to be gained by keeping them there any longer. The Haitian government has much better uses for food and shelter than feeding and housing these idiots. But Silsby should stay, and be set to hard labor to earn her keep.
I’m inclined to agree, but time will tell if bribes were involved.
I can see how you came by the second syllable of your screen name.
This was nothing more than an attempted shakedown. The so-called authorities were fine with releasing those kids as long as they got paid $300 per head. When the missionaries could not or would not pay, suddenly the kids became kidnapping victims and the missionaries were arrested and jailed into a system that had just released 5,000 violent criminals that the “authorities” couldn’t care for. The only kidnapping victims were the missionaries.
We should pull all government resources out of that cesspool and let them survive on private donations or their own wits, which are just about non-existent.