Women and Children rescued from a hospital under siege by armed gunmen

From the title alone, can you guess where this happened today?

Haiti.

I wonder if Hamas has inspired other gangs of terrorists and thugs to utilize soft civilian targets to hide within and hold hostage as shields.

If they get away with it, and even become folk heroes that people protest for, why would they respect conventions or rules of decency?

time.com...

Lets hope this doesnt develop into a 'thing' in other places.

Haiti is a perfect example of what happens when there is no policing and no government in charge. The gangs take over and devolve into animals. From the article, it sounds like their only mission is to make every resident as miserable as possible.

Maybe the Clinton Foundation will soon swoop in to fix this. Or, maybe not.

a reply to: LogicalGraphitti

Who are we blaming for the mess in Haiti?

originally posted by: MoreCoyoteAngels
a reply to: LogicalGraphitti

Who are we blaming for the mess in Haiti?

I never followed the collapse of Haiti close enough to answer that question. From vague memory, I guess it includes Hurricanes, the French, maybe the USA?

a reply to: MoreCoyoteAngels

Duh...Israel/the Jews?

Obviously?

a reply to: LogicalGraphitti

Somebody besides Haitians for certain.

a reply to: MoreCoyoteAngels

The problems started because all countries thought that a successful revolution made by slaves resulting in the independence of a country with a government full of ex-slaves was not a good idea.

Then France and other countries asked for compensation for the properties lost (including slaves, with France being the country that asked for the bigger payment) because of the independence.

Then French and US banks started to increase pressure, and after the overthrown of the president the US banks asked the US Marines to take away the gold reserves from the National Haiti Bank and took it the US.

After some more political unrest the US president decided to invade Haiti to "protect US interests", as usual, and the US took control of almost everything, including the Haitian treasury and banks, taking around 40% of the country's income to pay US and French debts, while people were near starvation. After 30 years of this situation they finally paid all the debts.

In 2003 the Haitian president demanded 21 billion US dollars from France, and, one year later, a coup d'état took him out. Request for UN troops were denied by France, but right after the former president presented his resignation in suspicious conditions France voted for the sending of UN troops.
From then the Haitian governments have had support from France and the US and talk about reparation payments disappeared.

Then they had the big earthquake that left, according to Red Cross, left one third of the population hurt or homeless.