The situation is OUTRAGEOUS, folks!
"Haitians storm palace in food price riots"
"by Jonathan M. Katz, Associated Press | April 9, 2008
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Hungry Haitians stormed the presidential palace yesterday to demand the resignation of President René Préval over soaring food prices, and UN peacekeepers chased them away with rubber bullets and tear gas.
That's the U.N for you: always there to help!
Food prices, which have risen 40 percent on average since mid-2007, are causing unrest around the world. But nowhere do they pose a greater threat to democracy than in Haiti, one of the world's poorest countries where in the best of times most people struggle to fill their bellies....
Time to cook up some dirt cookies.
For months, Haitians have compared their hunger pains to "eating Clorox" because of the burning feeling in their stomachs. The most desperate have come to depend on a traditional hunger palliative of cookies made of dirt, vegetable oil, and salt.
Yeah, dirt cookies. This is deplorable, readers.
I can't even imagine the suffering.
What is wrong with this world, readers?
Riots broke out in the normally placid southern port of Les Cayes last week, quickly escalating as protesters tried to burn a UN compound and leaving five people dead. The protests spread to other cities; on Monday, tens of thousands took to the streets of Port-au-Prince.
How come these protests are getting buried in the article, readers, while three Tibetan protesters get massive coverage?
Official crimes vs. enemy crimes, huh?
Yesterday, demonstrators in the capital set fires, barricaded streets, and looted stores, and a crowd tried to break down the gates of the presidential palace, demanding Préval's resignation.
"We are hungry!" the crowd shouted. "He must go!"
Préval, a soft-spoken leader backed by Washington, was at work in the palace during the protests, aides said. He has made no public statements since the riots began.
Why am I not surprised?
The protesters also demanded the departure of the 9,000 UN peacekeepers, whom they blame in part for rising food prices....
Why am I not surprised?
While the UN spends more than $500 million a year for peacekeepers in Haiti, the World Food Program has collected less than 15 percent of the $96 million it says Haiti needs in donations this year....Why am I not surprised?
Seems like the U.N is about CONTROLLING PEOPLE, NOT HELPING THEM!!!
Meanwhile, new customs procedures aimed at collecting revenues and stopping the flow of drugs have left tons of food rotting in ports, especially in the country's north....
WTF?!?! FOOD is ROTTING while PEOPLE are STARVING?!?!
OUT-fucking-RAGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Government officials say the riots are being manipulated by outside forces, specifically drug smugglers who can operate more easily amid chaos, and by supporters of Guy Philippe, a fugitive rebel leader wanted in US federal court in connection with a drug indictment."
Yeah, and Philippe is also a guy who HELPED the U.S. in the SECOND COUP of Aristide!!
Why am I NOT SURPRISED, readers?!
So the U.S. is USING HIM AGAIN?!
What, Preval not following orders or just a liability that needs to be replaced?
