Quote of the day

“I have faith in God. But maybe the U.S. government could help a little more, too.”

-- Corinna Lankford, one of the U.S. Baptists being held in Haiti. The New York Times reports they're starting to plead for help. They must be desperate, if they're turning to the government, right?

(They've got a new lawyer, by the way. Their old one was fired after he allegedly tried to bribe officials into letting them go, the Times reports.)

Two of ten Americans who were arrested while trying to bus children out of Haiti without proper documents or government permission, Silas Thompson, second from left, 19, of Twin Falls, Idaho, and Carla Thompson, 53, of Meridian, Idaho, fourth from right wearing sandals, are followed by journalists upon their arrival to court in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Nine of the ten Americans were brought to court for a fourth time for questioning. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Comments

[Ralfred]

The U.S. Government didn't ask you to go to Haiti and cause an international incident.

[Keith G. in P.V.]

Awwww. But their motives were so pure. Like Scott Roeder.

Like running a red light or getting caught speeding. Just because a friend did it and got by with it, just because Momma said it's o.k. doesn't make it so. Ignorance of the rules, disobeying the rules results in consequences. Sorry, but it's time to deal with it.

[Searching]

Keith, I hardly think you can compare the two.
But hell we sent Clinton over to rescue a reporter that snuck into a country she didn't belong in.

[locomotivebreath1901]

I heard an ABC news report today stating that many of the parents of the children willingly gave their children to the Americans - knowing the Americans could provide resources that they (the parents) could not, amid all the death and destruction.

Not an excuse, but an explanation which the Judge in that case said could lede to the charges being dropped.

BTW, Keith G. in P.V. - knee jerk much?
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[Ralfred]

Parents gave their kids to be looked after in an orphanage. They were told they could come visit and take them back at any time. They were not putting them up for adoption.

[KC Cicero]

I've got to admit that it is a lot harder for me to write a check to aid Haiti while they are holding these morons prisoner. I'm not big on RightWingBaptists, but I doubt they were planning to sacrifice these kids at Wednesday evening services.

It just looks like the Haitian government was PO'd that they were not going to benefit from the "fees" that seem to go with international adoptions -- which look a lot like graft to a lot of folks. They have no law & order for their own folks, but somehow the government can manage to function to prosecute these fools?

Looks like the sanest folks were the parents who were willing to send their kids out of that hellhole of a country to get a better life. Too bad for the kids that didn't work out.