The politicians are patting themselves and each other on the back as they pretend they have proven the kindness of the people of their countries by how their governments and government disaster agencies have responded to the earthquake in Haiti. They claim they have acted as quickly as anyone could under such circumstances and shown the great humanity of their people. And of course their meeting in Montreal resulted in only more empty words and vague promises for the future as they seek to exercise an even greater political and economic control over Haiti while also buying votes in their own countries with their pretense of acting humanly. Did they even put into action on the same day the collection and delivery of the 200,000 tents requested by the Haiti government as one of the people’s most pressing needs along with their need for clean water, food, and medical supplies?
And did you notice how quick the politician’s glorious pretense of humanity evaporated when it was suggested that Haiti’s debt be forgiven? Their excuse was that the WMF is worried about it being precedence setting, and we all know how important it is to not set a precedence of acting in a kindly manner instead of pursuing capitalist profits right? The people in those very same countries that had politicians attend the Montreal Event didn’t offer their money up as a loan but gave it willingly to help their fellow man in need, and still their politicians don’t get it. Haiti cannot even meet their interest payments now so their debt will only get larger and be an even greater yoke on the backs of the people as they try to rebuild their devastated country. This already was a poor country and the greedy capitalist system has received an opportunity to purchase the Haitians for their lifetimes and that of their children as well for a mere pittance. Slavery is not illegal but simply hidden within the capitalist structures, and we slaves even worship our corrupt political system that allows us to elect the selfish politicians who’ll casually sell even us into slavery for their own short term political gain.
Two weeks after the earthquake and all those countries leaders have not even managed to get enough water, food, medical supplies, or even tents for the displaced people into Haiti. They knew the extent of the disaster within hours but failed miserably to properly address the situation (just another Katrina type response failure). Is it that the great democracies can’t seem to find the goods to purchase, or is it that their chosen leaders once again failed miserably to plan in advance for the realities of catastrophic event happenings and were too busy playing politics afterwards to get the job done? Engaging in political media shows instead of working to make sure the right things were done right away exasperated the extent of suffering and increased the number of dead and maimed to basically increase the overall human and even financial costs of the disaster.
Catastrophic events happen all the time and our politicians are over five years old so must have been around during at least a few of them to know this fact. Politicians usually ignore planning in advance to instead only react when things happen, and even then they’ll spend more time trying to figure out how they can benefit politically then how to properly address the problem. How quickly they got together to plan and implement a high security political-show meeting of country leaders to plan the reconstruction of Haiti. They even engaged in the politics of arguing over using the word reconstruction, claiming it might be construed as to meaning recreating the status quo. Those political morons seem to think they have all the time in the world so they can even waste it whining about how someone might interpret a word. After all, they and their families are not the ones suffering from a lack of water or food, medical help, or having to live without even a tent for shelter. And I am sure they enjoyed first class suites and meals in Montreal while they worked to divvy up the political and capitalist gains they could achieve from the suffering of their fellow man.
Don’t expect the truth to come from some of the bigger disaster relief organizations concerning what could or could not have been achieved either, partly because they rely on governments for a lot of their funding and goodwill, but also because many of them were too busy planning and setting up their own personal long term distribution company plans instead of first addressing getting as many supplies out to as many areas and people of the country as quickly as possible. There is a lot of money involved in the long term projects and their company executives are ruled by capitalism even though the companies have a charity business structure, and they don’t want to give up any control over their resources least they lose some of their piece of the large financial pie. They’ll babble about how they have experience so are the experts and should be in charge to grab as much control as possible then of course they’ll claim their need for more money, and larger salaries for the executives who are then controlling more money of course. For example, some people had to bypass them by bringing in and then themselves delivering their own donations to locations in the country, even in order to get medical supplies to a hospital that was just outside of the main airport that was being used while the relief organizations at that airport had plenty of supplies sitting around being organized for a dribbling out eventual distribution (In the year 2525, if man is still alive). There is a difference in the type of material delivery assistance response that is needed right away after a large scale disaster like that experienced in Haiti and the type of assistance delivery that will be needed for the longer term. Diddling around organizing for the long term instead of addressing the fact that people are suffering and dying now is not charitable. Were they afraid they might run out of supplies at their airport depot and then maybe lose their high media viably space so chose to instead allow hospitals to run out of supplies, or maybe they wanted to put on a show for the media of having a big “organized” operation underway?
Do you think the next big disaster will be handled any differently by our governments, or will they once again prove that while they will plan for war to take people’s lives by stocking the necessary weapons and supplies and training personnel for such events they are not interested in doing any more then a mere pittance of planning to save people’s lives? When your own country suffers a severe disaster, or another one, you better hope that it is the only one going on in the world at the time because even with help from the rest of the world the proof from the Katrina and Haiti responses is that the people will suffer needlessly excessively and for far too long.
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