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Elderly and Abandoned, 85 Haitians Await Death
Foxnews ^ | 1/17/2010 | Staff

Posted on 01/17/2010 11:34:50 AM PST by Red in Blue PA

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The old lady crawls in the dirt, wailing for her pills. The elderly man lies motionless as rats pick at his overflowing diaper.

There is no food, water or medicine for the 85 surviving residents of the Port-au-Prince Municipal Nursing Home, barely a mile from the airport where a massive international aid effort is taking shape.

"Help us, help us," 69-year-old Mari-Ange Levee begged Sunday, lying on the ground with a broken leg and ribs. A cluster of flies swarmed the open fracture in her skull.

One man has already died, and administrator Jean Emmanuel said more would follow soon unless water and food arrive immediately.

"I appeal to anybody to bring us anything, or others won't live until tonight," he said, motioning toward five men and women who were having trouble breathing, a sign that the end was near.

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Though Thermiti and her friends haven't eaten since Tuesday, she remained impressively feisty. She said that's because she had already spent five days without eating during previous hardships.

"But I was younger, and now there's no water either," she said, predicting that — unlike other pensioners — she could still hold out for at least another day.

"Then if the foreigners don't come (with aid)," she said, "it will be up to baby Jesus."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: disgraceful; earthquake; elderly; haiti; haitiearthquake; haitiearthquake2010; unsucks
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To: Red in Blue PA

Ughh! What horror!

However, and unfortunately, its true that all human life is not precious to in the eyes of our leader.

How can a righteous nation be lead by such a moral coward?


41 posted on 01/17/2010 12:20:03 PM PST by incredulous joe ("Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious." ~ Charles Shackleford)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

I’ll give you that. I was (rather poorly) referring to civilian victims pitching in to help.


42 posted on 01/17/2010 12:21:21 PM PST by gitmo (FR vs DU: n4mage vs DUmage)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

Yeah, I think that’s what you call “dogpiling the heartbreak”.


43 posted on 01/17/2010 12:24:51 PM PST by incredulous joe ("Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious." ~ Charles Shackleford)
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To: gitmo
The media is not producing fraudulent stories about violence toward rescuers. The relief agencies would not go into NO until the military “restored the peace”. Even though it turned out it was all a media hoax.

Bears repeating. There were reports of hundreds of murders in the Convention Center and Superdome, even of cannibalism.

Turns out there were a total of 10 deaths in both buildings, one being a probable homicide.

But as you say the rumors prevented a lot of relief from moving forward.

To be fair to the media, they probably believed what they were reporting was true, or at least could be true.

Death toll estimates are usually wildly exaggerated, at least in the US, when there's a big disaster. On 9/11 there was talk of 20,000 being dead.

44 posted on 01/17/2010 12:27:41 PM PST by Sherman Logan (Never confuse schooling with education.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

They will try.

But they can’t pull that one this time....

THEY are in charge.

Good luck, Demonrats.


45 posted on 01/17/2010 12:27:48 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt (Ronald Reagan: If we ever forget that we're one nation under God,then we'll be a nation gone under.")
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To: All

You know what kills me? That these reporters can report and take photographs of these victims, but, they can’t bring them some water??? What the h$ll is wrong with them? I was just listening to Jonathan Hunt (Fox News) reporting on an orphanage having no food and no water, saying it was easy to get to; easy to bring aid to, and all he’s doing is reporting on it. WHY the he!! can’t HE and his crew bring some water and food to the babies? What is going on???? It’s making me sick.


46 posted on 01/17/2010 12:29:32 PM PST by jackibutterfly
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To: Star Traveler

Good article.I read the whole thing and I learned a lot.Thanks Star Traveler.


47 posted on 01/17/2010 12:47:32 PM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: jackibutterfly

That IS sickening.


48 posted on 01/17/2010 12:47:50 PM PST by Palladin (Obama as President? "Totally unacceptable.")
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To: jackibutterfly

I’m hoping that behind the scenes, those reporters and their crews are arranging for some kind of assistance. Otherwise, they’re just scum.


49 posted on 01/17/2010 12:48:16 PM PST by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I think the comments and utter lack of any compassion from some freepers is even more disturbing.


50 posted on 01/17/2010 12:52:32 PM PST by rintense (Only dead fish go with the flow, which explains why Congress stinks.)
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To: ladyjane

Well, Katrina showed us that it’s hard to unload supplies and distribute them when you only have one free hand. The other one is already busy holding up your pants so they don’t become hobbles.


51 posted on 01/17/2010 12:53:08 PM PST by Tigerized (Proud Dad of a US Marine)
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To: Enterprise

A glance of the future of America under o-bow-man’s deathcare.


52 posted on 01/17/2010 12:57:41 PM PST by chiefqc
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To: rintense

I don’t think it’s really a lack of compassion. Many of us remember all too well what the DemocRATS and their “media” did to President Bush after Katrina. Many are all still smarting from that unfair beating we took. IMHO, the response to Katrina would have been EXACTLY the same regardless of whether the DemocRATS or Republicans had been in office at the time.


53 posted on 01/17/2010 12:58:42 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my Constitution?)
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To: Red in Blue PA
"Then if the foreigners don't come (with aid)," she said, "it will be up to baby Jesus."

A country utterly without self-reliance. One reads story after story about the survivors and never once do you hear an expectation of help from neighbors or the local or national government. Only foreigners. Only Americans.

This is more of an observation than a criticism. These are not bad people, and they don't deserve this. I've already donated money for them. It's just that this is what decades of dependence have done to them.

That's why I hate socialism.

54 posted on 01/17/2010 1:01:29 PM PST by denydenydeny (The Left sees taxpayers the way Dr Frankenstein saw the local cemetery; raw material for experiments)
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To: ottbmare

1577 people died in Louisiana from Katrina, not 300. And no not everyone who died were poor and black.

You don’t think Haiti’s death toll isn’t a little bit due to man? The corrupt government had no infrastructure or building codes. Instead of improving the infrastructure with the gazillions of aid money they have received over the years the corrupt government enriched themselves instead.


55 posted on 01/17/2010 1:50:59 PM PST by CajunConservative (Obama, You Lie!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
1. This didn't happen in the US.

2. How sorry is it that anger and vindictiveness have shaped the response of an otherwise compassionate and thoughtful group?

Its one thing to show hypocrisy regarding the media. Its another thing entirely to use the victims of tragedy like this to make the point.

FR has seen better days. There have been moments where its more like DU than FR.

56 posted on 01/17/2010 2:16:32 PM PST by rintense (Only dead fish go with the flow, which explains why Congress stinks.)
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To: fatima
You were saying ...

Good article.I read the whole thing and I learned a lot.Thanks Star Traveler.

Thanks, I put it in a post and you or anyone can reference it here, too... :-)

Government Of The Devil, By The Devil, And For The Devil (Haiti Government]


57 posted on 01/17/2010 2:19:22 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: CajunConservative
There's a big difference between 1577, a figure mostly due to stubbornness on the part of people who refused to evacuate, and the 50,000 estimated dead in Haiti. At least the people in Louisiana and Mississippi had more than fair warning and an opportunity to get out.

Of course Haiti is and always has been terribly corrupt. (So has Louisiana, to a lesser degree.) But Haiti is old, and many of the buildings in there were erected long before building codes were conceived. Even the US, building codes are not uniform, and few buildings outside of earthquake-prone areas are built to withstand earthquakes.

I think that if Haiti were more sophisticated and more developed, the toll might have been even higher, as more people would have been in large, heavy buildings rather than the pitiable shanty-towns where so many live. In those shanty-towns, the death toll has been small since the construction materials were so lightweight they could hardly injure someone if they fell. There was an article about that phenomenon today.

58 posted on 01/17/2010 2:42:15 PM PST by ottbmare (I could agree wth you, but then we'd both be wrong.)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde; All

Sadly, alot of people have no problem openly bragging, and they they are better than the Haitians in the eyes of God.

Would be humorous if it weren’t so pathetic.


59 posted on 01/17/2010 5:25:43 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: rintense

Could not agree more. Events like this bring out the loons, and it is embarassing.


60 posted on 01/17/2010 5:30:23 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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