General Music Chat

Lads, here's my wife's latest blog post.
A bit sobering: and I know there's already a lot of crappy news
in the world these days, but since our lives now intersect with Haiti in
a very real way (adopting), I though some of you might wish to see
this.
http://spring.gouette.com/?p=763

The person you see speaking is Pastor Jean Rigaud Antoine, our friend at
Wayoum Timoun orphanage, Port au Prince, Haiti.

Blessings,
Rich

Celtic.
Thanks for posting this. You don't see this on TV do you.
Appalling.
I'll forward this on.

God Bless mate it puts things into perspective and tells us all to STFU moaning.
Keep well Bro.

Without me visiting that site - what's it about?

The answer to your question is in the Title of Celtics post RM.
Have a great day.

Without me visiting that site - what's it about?

It's about the untold story of the human disaster in Haiti RM

Celtic, I know your intentions are the best. I thought that video was totaly barbaric and screams with the question where is all the donated money and who is responsible for such gross mismanagement of all that money.
Where is the UN and the rest of the world?
I'm sure everyone here has donated 5 or 10 dollars or more out of compassion.

There is no excuse for that video. Who in their right mind would poison a dying child like that?
Is your reverend milking it or is there just that much waste and corruption going on in Haiti? Maybe something is so wrong down there that this video just points to the truth.

Celtic, this in no way a reflection of you and your wife, I am just afraid there is so much selfish evil , it may take a whole lot more good than anyone thought.

Glen ??

Donated money ??

Not all the population of Haiti are poor !!

Our Marines should not be handing out food, rather dealing death to the ultra rich of Haiti whom profit by the starvation of the poor around them.

Poor people did not build those buildings that collapsed.
They did not build the Banks or the hotels or the port.

They had been victimized long before the earthquake.

Glen, here's the deal:
Those mud pies have come to notoriety because they're what some folks there feed the dying children so that they die with a full belly.
the fellow you see there is PAstor Jean Rigaud Antoine.
He runs a church, school, and the Wayoum Timoun orphanage we are adopting two boys from.
Believe me, if anyone would like to relive Haiti from the suffering, and oppression it's him.
That guy is literally giving his life for these kids.
I've been there twice, and have seen firsthand his lifestyle, and how he does everything he can to get the kids help/homes etc.

I know you're not accusing him of anything, jus thought you guys might like a little further detail.
Haiti's government is extremely corrupt.
Food has sat rotting in storage rooms because of them.
The farmland/topsoil is wasted, due to mismanagement & the seasonal weather finishing it off so that it's largely unusable for crops.

It's really a very sad and desperate place.
It's so bizarre to step out of the door to the orphanage, and walk right into a tent city, 5 feet away where folks live with no facilities, nothing.

It's one of those situations where you just can't get yer mind around it unless you go there, and see it, smell it and talk to folks.
And for me, I've always been one of these who sought to FIRST place blame on somebody, then consider having compassion: depending on if they DESERVED it or not.
I now am become gradually able to do what James 1:27 syas: "27Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." .. and do it without asking whose fault it is.

And I have my doubt about the integrity of the UN et al, and how funds get "channeled" through them..

It's nice to know someone personally on the street there(Rigaud), in whom I can place trust and confidence, and hand a bank check to, and KNOW it will be used solely for it's intended purpose.

God help the Haitians

I understand all that Celtic. I am not the type of person to stand around a fix the blame on someone.
I SAY FIX THE DAMN PROBLEM.
Making mud pies is not going to fix the problem.

Some one with courage has to stand up and say this is the most immediate problem or most pressing and move foward to resolve it, without constraint.

Sounds like a major leadership problem, that could cause the tyranical problems seen in other parts of the world through out history. Maybe Sans is right. If that is what it would take ,then that is just a sad commentary on the evil side of mankind.

if you aren't actually THERE, you feel rather helpless in the face of it all.

Money & food you send is not gonna help, if it isn't distributed, &m obviously, it isn't getting distributed.

What to do?

As soon as we get this frikken oil spill fixed, perhaps we should just invade the country & wrest it from the warlords' hands, & solve the troubles like good Americans should. Then, of course, we can turn the country over to some friendly gov;t that will undoubtedly start the cycle all over again, as it always does whenever we get involved.

Phil, That sure is the sad truth. And everything you just wrote is the frustrating truth. Time and time again.

It's a damned shame, but you just aren't gonna change an entire ppl. Akk one can do is that which Rich has done - get personally involved, & save the one or two that you are able. if I had the wherewithall, I'd be there, too.

I applaud you, Rich. You're as good a man as there ever was.

Some one with courage has to stand up and say this is the most immediate problem or most pressing and move foward to resolve it, without constraint.

Yup, and Haiti decided no more Humanitarian Parole for the orphans.
So, what are we do do?
Except move forward slowly, one child at a time.

Thanks lads,
R

We had Chinese today. My fortune read " Your ability to love will help a child in need"...interesting.

there's still more needing adopting.....