Boat Looted in Haiti

camaraderie · #1 (**permalink**) 02-01-2007

Here's a scary story...

sailingdog · #2 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007

Very scary Cam... Moral of that story... don't sail of the coast of Haiti if you can avoid it.

T34C · #3 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007

Haiti is really taking to capitalism!!! Think of it as a grassroots impromptu salvage operation with native tools.

Cruisingdad · #4 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007

It was all of that positive French influence on the island. I think we should give them Nukes so that we dont have any more problems from them.

Those poor people are so poor and barely surviving. I am not making ammends, and I would not sail there in todays climate, but did you know Haiti and DR were once considered the most beautiful islands in the gulf?? Now it is a desolate waste of missmanagement, poor government, and some bad luck.

Although, I have heard you can get some really cheap fares right now to Haiti. It is the plane coming back that is expensive!!

- CD

(Sorry, had to throw a little humor on that).

Cruisingdad · #5 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007

An interesting bit of reading with nothing but sad endings, for anyone that is interested. From the very beginning (well, since the landing of Columbus), that poor island has known nothing but war and pain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Haiti

T34C · #6 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007

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Originally Posted by Cruisingdad

Although, I have heard you can get some really cheap fares right now to Haiti. It is the plane coming back that is expensive!!

- CD

(Sorry, had to throw a little humor on that).

Rumor has it you can get some killer deals on boat parts also!!

Cruisingdad · #7 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007

You have to wonder, if you know much about their history, if Haiti/Hispanola is an island that can ever recover and find peace with itself. Its history is nothing but atrocities and murder and blood, and acts of cruelty that are unimaginable.

I feel terribly for those people. I don't think that island has ever know prosperity and peace at the same time. The argument could be made that they have NEVER known peace. And the US is often criticized for its use of slaves... look back at the French and what they did.

jerryrlitton · #8 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007

I know that having a weapon presents it own special problems, and we can all “feel sorry for those people” but I still maintain as far as firearms are concerned it is better to have one and not need it as opposed to need it and not have it. I would be prepared to possibly part with my boat but if I felt my life was in danger and/or my family and I could articulate that fact then there would have been some fewer people alive on the earth. From a cops point of view it is better to be tried by 12 then carried by 6. Being poor is no excuse for what they did, not an iota. Yes the US used slaves but Africa did it before we did. I never used slaves, my parents did not and neither did my grandparents so that argument is nul and void. I know this subject has been talked about more then once already.

Jerry

Cruisingdad · #9 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007

Being poor ISSSS no excuse. I hope you undersatnd I am not making ammends for them... not one single little bit. But also realize that they are not just poor: They are starving with little to no chance to make any type of a life for themselves or their families in any way that is morraly acceptable in todays civilization. Their only hope is that a "rich" American on his yacht will show up one day and cary them away. And unto that, I have no good comment.

- CD

PS No excuse. No excuse at all.

cockeyedbob · #10 (**permalink**) 02-02-2007

At least they lived to tell the tale. Lotta places in this world, some of them ya just best avoid. Poverty no excuse, neither is stupidity.

Dang! Wish I was that smart ALL the time.