[BobL]

Haiti is a very diverse country.

[liberalh8ter]

I think Karinne Jean Pierre should be sent there to sort it all out.

[GingisK]

Preview of what is coming to a city near you.

[dfwgator]

We occupied Haiti before, we may have to do it again.

[Delta 21]

Are we talking about Baltimore?

[blueunicorn6]

I think that Mrs. Clinton should go there and bring peace to everyone.

[I want the USA back]

How many billions have been poured into this basket-case country to “help” it? Volunteers go there to try to help. For some reason all the help doesn’t help. It must be a cultural thing.

[The people have spoken]

Perfect candidate for fifty-first state.

[high info voter]

All of Satan’s animals should be executed.... it’s their choice to follow the sins of the devil and to earn their reward in Hell!! .... imho

[glorgau]

Sounds like a great opportunity to pick up some residential units, fix them up and live off of the passive income.

[Jim Noble]

Koupe tet Boule kay isn’t exactly “We hold these truths to be self-evident”.

[Bounced2X]

It is the newest problem...“drastic reduction” in gang-linked murders following Bwa Kale’s extrajudicial killings

Sounds like the "newest problem" is the last resort solution.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Interesting bit of Haiti history modern revisionists are trying to cover up. Maybe this is the cause of their problems.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1573

“It is a matter of well-documented historical fact that the nation of Haiti was dedicated to Satan 200 years ago.

On August 14, 1791, a group of houngans (voodoo priests), led by a former slave houngan named Boukman, made a pact with the Devil at a place called Bois-Caiman. All present vowed to exterminate all of the white Frenchmen on the island.

They sacrificed a black pig in a voodoo ritual at which hundreds of slaves drank the pig’s blood. In this ritual, Boukman asked Satan for his help in liberating Haiti from the French.”

[VTenigma]

Wait! What? I thought Hillary fixed all that.

[BitWielder1]

So they were OK with gang violence but not vigilante violence.
I'm inclined to let the vigilantes finish the job since every else have been completely ineffective.

[NorthMountain]

But a new civilian army has entered into Port-au-Prince’s urban war known as “Bwa Kale” - a grassroots movement borne out of struggle and suffering and intent on inflicting a deadly justice.

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Because the people aren't "taking the law into their own hands" ... they're taking the law BACK into their own hands.

[Mouton]

Two sides of the same island. What could be the difference??

[Natty Bumppo@frontier.net]

Was part of Operation Uphold Democracy in 1995 in Haiti.

The country was an ungovernable hell-hole then. It has the natural resources and geographic advantages to be far more prosperous than the neighboring Dominican Republic but stands as a constant reminder that corruption destroys everything. And Haiti is a nation that has institutionalized and perfected corruption in every facet of life.

It is in far worse shape now.

[metmom]

Horrific scenes over the last few months have seen fighting on the streets as gangs clash with the vigilantes - with some of the criminals even being butchered, lynched and burned.

I refuse to call them vigilantes.

They are citizens taking back their streets and lives because the police and government refuse to do anything to protect them.

If there were legitimate police activity and a just justice system, then groups of people taking the law into their own hands could be considered vigilante justice. But these people are simply defending themselves.

[metmom]

The human rights NGO also recorded a “drastic reduction” in gang-linked murders following Bwa Kale’s extrajudicial killings - 43 in May, down from 146 in the first three weeks of April. "Without making a value judgement, the 'Bwa Kale' movement has in just one month produced convincing, visible results; fear has changed sides," CARDH said.

Which goes to show that if you give back to bullies what they themselves dish out, they will back down.