The misguided Christians who journeyed to Haiti and tried to ferry displaced children to an orphanage in the Dominican Republican were incredibly stupid. They were also clearly ignorant of the child trafficking problem in the devastated country. What these people do not seem to have been, however, is malicious. They’ve now been arrested, detained and humiliated in the international press. Prosecuting them will simply be an extension of the pony show that the situation has already become, and doing so is not going to “deter” actual child traffickers, the malicious kind, as the Haitian government is claiming.
Maybe officials in Haiti actually believe some good can come from throwing the book at these silly Americans, or maybe this is just a prime opportunity for small-time bureaucrats in a small-time government to look cool on a global stage. Who knows? In any case, perhaps it’s time to end the meaningless posturing, tell these folks how stupid they were, then send them home so real problems can be dealt with.
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UPDATE:
Well, so much for sanity.
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The misguided Christians who journeyed to Haiti and tried to ferry displaced children to an orphanage in the Dominican Republican were incredibly stupid…..
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What these people do not seem to have been, however, is malicious. They’ve now been arrested, detained and […….