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[Varmit]

How do I know??...Just read the news!  As for them being human beings, thats guestionable.  Instead of working together to help each other out, they're hacking each other to pieces with machetes over a bag of rice!! 

I am sick and tired of seeing these huge "relief" efforts to help other countries when we won't even help our own.  Wheres the big presidental meetings to help our homeless troops, or missing and exploited children??  Why should we send our money, troops, and aid to other countries when they won't even try and help themselves?  Doctors without Borders...what a crock!!  If our doctors actually gave a shit then we wouldn't need a gov't run healthcare system to provide healthcare for OUR citizens that can't afford it. 

Heres an interesting read:

Outside Haiti captial, much despair and little aid

AP – Men, holding wood and metal objects, protest at the entrance of the town of Leogane, Saturday, Jan. 16, ... By JONATHAN M. KATZ, Associated Press Writer Jonathan M. Katz, Associated Press Writer – Sat Jan 16, 4:57 pm ET

LEOGANE, Haiti – As aid masses in Haiti's devastated capital, time is running out in rural areas where the damage is no less severe. In Leogane, frustrated men gathered Saturday with machetes and clubs, ready to fight for a town they said the world has forgotten.

All along the cracked highway heading west from Port-au-Prince along the bay, people begged for help. "SOS," declared a sign near Leogane. "We don't understand why everything is going to Port-au-Prince, because Leogane was broken too."

That is putting it lightly.

Leogane's city center is a rubble pile spiderwebbed with fallen power lines, coastal Haiti re-landscaped as a post-apocalyptic film set. Two mass graves line the road to the capital, a few yellowed bodies thrown in to start a third.

At the corner of Rue La Croix and Pere Thevenot, a charming two-story built in 1922 that housed a pharmacy and a florist last week is a brickyard sepulcher for the couple who died trying to escape.

Blocks away a group of men gathered to defend a health clinic-turned-shelter against all comers: The local government, which wants to dig another mass grave there, criminals loosed from the capital's broken penitentiary, and looters as hungry as they are.

They said they do not want violence, but carried machetes, typical of this sugar-growing town, and clutched wooden pins and poles.

"There is no one in the police station. We haven't seen aid," said 28-year-old Philip Pierre, who manages a yogurt plant. "We are ready to die fighting if they don't listen to us."

Death has done brisk business here already, in a town where roaming Carnival bands were just getting in gear when the quake struck Tuesday, its epicenter just 12 miles (25 kms) to the east.

The stench emanating from rubble is intense, and among the residents' demands are the "big shovels" working in the capital to excavate bodies.

In a charitable move, casket-maker Yvon Lochard put his wares on sale, dropping the price of a wooden coffin from $450 to $100.

"Before business was slow," he said matter-of-factly. "Now I'm selling these quickly."

Even Lochard's prices, however, are too steep for most in a country where half the population lives on $1 a day. They carry their bodies atop pieces of tin and drop them in a mass grave.

The living, meanwhile, are trying hard to stay that way. There is food in the markets, but the price of a 50-pound bag of rice has risen about 25 percent to $27.50 since the quake struck. In the mountains that ring the town, cisterns broke, leaving many without drinking water.

A nearly collapsed corner store had $6,000 worth of rice, spaghetti and other food in the basement, its owner said, but he was too scared of collapse to go in and get it, despite increasingly terse demands from neighbors that he do so.

U.N. peacekeepers from Sri Lanka were delivering water to about 1,000 people and sharing their own rations, Maj. Chandima Beligasooabba said. They were told the U.N. would be bringing in food supplies later Saturday.

A team from Kansas City, Missouri-based Crisis Response International roamed the downtown area near the structurally unstable Sainte Croix Hospital, looking for any non-governmental organization to give supplies to. None was immediately apparent.

Within Leogane, individual neighborhoods are on the lookout against each other. Leaders of each suspect the others might get violent — but promise they won't start trouble themselves.

The first few protesters straggling into the streets were tense. One machete-wielding young man briefly collapsed from what his neighbors said was hypertension. And as the daze wears off from the shock wave that hit the town, older frustrations and the ordinary complications of Haitian life are creeping back in.

"If the international community gives the government money, we're going to take to the streets," 51-year-old Maximillian Alfred said. "They won't do anything with it for the community."

[Diane Amberg]

You obviously know nothing about Doctors without Borders or Engineers Without Borders either, and I'm not going to waste my time on you. Very sad.

[Varmit]

Really??   I know enough to ask "Where were they during Katrina?"...oh yes, thats right...they sent a team to evaluate the situation and felt their presence wasn't needed due to the amazing relief efforts that were taking place.
This is from their own website..

Will MSF provide assistance in the Gulf Coast?

At this point, it does not look like MSF has a role to play in providing assistance to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Everyone on our team was and remains deeply affected by what we saw and what we heard from those who had endured such suffering. But, as we've seen in other natural disasters, the initial acute emergency phase — when MSF medical teams might really be able to help — is almost always over in the first few days, perhaps weeks, following a disaster. We weren't on the spot in New Orleans when the disaster happened, but from what we saw and heard during our time in the region, we really felt that by Friday and Saturday, the established local and national efforts were beginning to meet the immediate medical and humanitarian needs of the victims of this tragedy, particularly in the shelters and reception areas for the hundreds of thousands of evacuees from the worst-affected areas. We have concerns for those remaining in New Orleans, but there are few people left following the large-scale evacuation that has been carried out and there is capacity to respond to their needs. The displaced and those who have been evacuated will also continue to require assistance, but the number of volunteers and organizations arriving to help them is impressive. There are now significant resources being devoted to helping people and the situation is improving.

[Diane Amberg]

If you are going to make this political then MOVE IT! I had good friends who did go and worked as EMTS giving tetanus shots and such during Katrina's aftermath. One of the early problems there was the tussle over who was in charge of what.Too much politics! A number of organized groups of Drs. and surgeons were turned away at the airport because they didn't have LA medical licenses! That's just nuts! This is off a very important subject....enough already!

[Varmit]

Look Diane, you want to throw away your money to organizations that aren't trustworthy, fine, whatever.  But to ask people to give money to a cause without providing all the facts is shady at best.  You want to help "those poor Hatiains" that after billions of dollars are still in the same boat, go for it.  I would rather keep my money here.

[Lookatmeknow!!]

There are Americans over there too!!  Diane is right, and Karma can bite you in the @@@!!!  God doesn't say to not help your neighbors.  Rudy was just stating that if you want to donate to Haiti how you can do it and you have went and changed it all around.  If you were in need wouldn't you want help???  We have missionaries from our church over there.  And I would help out in a minute if I could leave.  It's just the Christian thing to do!!

[redcliffsw]

Why should we Christian folks be concerned about Karma biting us?
Isn't Karma from the false religion of Hindu that seems to be creeping
into the USA.   

[greatguns]

Get over it!  Give if that is what you want to do and if you are all about yourself then don't.

[redcliffsw]

Did you give?

[Catwoman]

Whether or not a person gave to a cause is rather like the manner in which they wipe themselves in the bathroom...IT'S NOBODY ELSE'S BUSINESS...

Now...PLAY NICE...