Illegal removal of children from Haiti

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What is the reason for Baptists to take children from Haiti? Is it for adoption? Adoption for money? Conversion?

What right thinking person could traffic innocent children? How could an organisation based on the Baptist religion take children from one country to another?
 
Obviously life is much better in the US than in Haiti - the children should have counted themselves lucky had they been moved to the US.
 
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I'm not sure their parents would have thought themselves lucky - it appears from news reports that some of the children weren't orphaned after all.
 
Gulliver1 said:
Obviously life is much better in the US than in Haiti - the children should have counted themselves lucky had they been moved to the US.
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The claim is in fact that they were moving them from a destroyed orphanage in Haiti to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic - not trying to take them to the US.

However, in this day and age, who knows what plans they had for 33 innocent children that they were trying to cross borders with without any paperwork or authorisation and who were only found because of a routine vehicle check - presumably the children were hidden from view if it took a vehicle check to find them - doesnt that make you wonder if they were legit? Why hide the children if youre not doing anything wrong? Why not sort out the paperwork when trying to deal with such a sensitive issue as moving children across borders?
 
Gulliver1 said:
Obviously life is much better in the US than in Haiti - the children should have counted themselves lucky had they been moved to the US.
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Life in the US may be generally better, but I have my doubts about life in a strict fundamentalist religious group.
 
Two points to note: -

1. The U.S. is the greatest country in the world (in every respect); and
2. As bad as the Dom. Rep. is, it is a hell of a lot better than Haiti.

Argument rested.
 
Gulliver1 said:
Two points to note: -

1. The U.S. is the greatest country in the world (in every respect); and
2. As bad as the Dom. Rep. is, it is a hell of a lot better than Haiti.

Argument rested.
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As a lawyer I hope you do better than this for your clients.
 
Gulliver1 said:
1. The U.S. is the greatest country in the world (in every respect);.
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I don't think the people of New Orleans consider it the best country in the world.

Do you think the US's healthcare policy for those that are poor makes it the greatest country in the world? Or it's record of sending off young poor boys to fight wars in far flung corners of the world for no discernable right reason other than personal gain.
 
;)

There is nothing wrong with Aid Workers trying to help less fortunate.

I am sure the workers in question had good intentions, albeit a wrong method!
 
Gulliver1 said:
1. The U.S. is the greatest country in the world (in every respect);
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Thats a completely subjective matter of opinion, and one I disagree with. You do not know what kind of life would have been offered to these children had they been brought to the US - by members of a fundamentalist religious group who were trying to move them illegally across borders.
 
Gulliver1 said:
Two points to note: -

1. The U.S. is the greatest country in the world (in every respect); and
2. As bad as the Dom. Rep. is, it is a hell of a lot better than Haiti.

Argument rested.
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Seeing as your argument is so well rationalised and made I guess we'll all have to go along with it !
 
Gulliver1 said:
;)

There is nothing wrong with Aid Workers trying to help less fortunate.

I am sure the workers in question had good intentions, albeit a wrong method!
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Maybe they had bad intentions with a correct method, but got caught.
 
Can someone tell me is Gulliver trolling (I believe that is the correct term)
 
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