Haiti mobs lynch voodoo priests over cholera fears

[Pete]

Haiti mobs lynch voodoo priests over cholera fears

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12073029

In the all cultures are equal department this morning we have.........

".......Although many Haitians still practise voodoo or use aspects of voodoo in their religious worship, the latest violence erupted out of fears the traditional priests were using their powers to spread the infection.

“People have been blaming us, saying that we cast spells and did evil things which brought the earthquake as a punishment” said Max Beauvoir a Voodoo priest.

Officials counted 40 people killed - mostly voodoo priests - killed in one region of Haiti, the AFP news agency reported, with five others killed elsewhere.

"The victims... were stoned or hacked with machetes before being burned in the streets," communications ministry official Moise Fritz Evens said.............."

[glebo]

Doesn't surprise me one bit.


Why are we there again????????

[Dusty]

Bad juju.

[nmap]

I suspect we're there to avoid a mass migration to our shores. From that perspective, it may well be worth it to "pay for protection."

[glebo]

Originally Posted by nmap

I suspect we're there to avoid a mass migration to our shores. From that perspective, it may well be worth it to "pay for protection."

I suspect you are correct. Thats all we need is more welfare/medicaid recipients

[Buffalobob]

Why are we there again?

Maybe China would just buy the whole place outright for three or four dollars worth of beads and set up a naval base and air base. They could buy concrete and rebar from the US and have missile guidance systems shipped Fed EX real cheap and it would save them lots of money on making fuel for their nuclear missiles. When the economy is bad you want to save all the money you can. I imagine some enterprising soul can figure out a way to sell them some of our used nuclear warheads now that we don't need so many and that would make money for us and save shipping costs to the Chinese. Looks like a win win situation for everyone


In spirit, I agree that it is really frustrating to help a gov't that is so corrupt and inept that it won't help its own people.