Oh Oh Haiti

Nothing like a disastrous earthquake to bring them ol' Haitians together in a wonderful display of social solidarity. Oh yeah, this is Haiti, forget that fluffy idea, they'd rather hack and slash each other to bits with rusty machetes. That's right, those animals are following the script perfectly. Really, the only thing that I find regrettable is the innocent children left to rot in the wake of the Haitian condition.

Maybe the death of tens of thousands of people (when and if the chaos subsides to the standard level of genocidal mayhem) will lessen the burden of feeding a dreadfully poor, mostly uneducated, culturally suicidal populace. I mean really, what else do these people have to hope for? If I believed in God, I'd say that Haiti was his penultimate cosmic "fuck you" to humanity. Well anyway...

...Here you go, the pearl of the Caribbean, in all it's shit-ridden glory.

GWC
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Published: 1:00AM GMT 15 Jan 2010

Shaul Schwarz, a photographer for TIME magazine, said he saw at least two downtown roadblocks formed with bodies of earthquake victims and rocks.

"They are starting to block the roads with bodies, it's getting ugly out there, people are fed up with getting no help," he said.

President Barack Obama has promised Haitians they would not be forgotten, offering $100 million in immediate earthquake aid and the backing of every element of US power.

A large-scale US military and civilian aid operation has gained momentum with Washington sending rescue teams, ships, helicopters, planes, a floating hospital, emergency supplies and more than 5,000 ground troops.

However, there was little sign of the aid effort on the ground in the capital, where chaos ruled.

Gunshots were heard throughout the night and looting was commonplace as desperate survivors scrambled to find scarce supplies of food, water and medical equipment.
Gangs were also reported to be roaming the streets, making up rumours of a looming tidal wave so that they could steal from fleeing families.

Complicating the relief effort, the city's airport was closed for several hours due to severe overcrowding and a lack of airport fuel.

The Pentagon has rejected criticism that it may have acted too slowly to deploy its military might in the first 24 hours of the disaster, saying it moved in assessment teams quickly.

But the relief effort faced serious challenges, Mr Obama said, with roads in Haiti impassable, communications rudimentary, and aftershocks still rumbling.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/6992274/Haiti-earthquake-corpses-used-as-roadblocks-as-anger-grows.html