It's another reason why I am really sour on the AmeriKan *ewsmwdia and the Boston Globe.
Not only am I tired of the agenda-pushing divisions, distortions, and deceptions; I'm tired of the shallow and nothing reporting on every issue.
"Haitian officials turn six orphans over to US officials; Adoptions will go on as planned" by Frank Bajak, Associated Press | February 24, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haiti has handed US officials six orphans its police seized over the weekend as they were about to board a plane for the United States, a top Haitian official said yesterday.
Social Welfare agency chief Jeanne Bernard Pierre would not say when her office transferred the children to the US Embassy.
A spokeswoman for US Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, who intervened on behalf of the four women trying to escort the orphans out of Haiti, said the children were cleared to depart Haiti by all the required government agencies.
How come they never intervene and do what you asked them to, American voters?
They are scheduled to leave this afternoon for new homes and families in the United States.
News of the hand-over followed a meeting between US Ambassador Kenneth Merten and Haiti’s prime minister.
The children, ages 1 to 5, were seized by police Saturday after an angry crowd accosted the women escorting them at the airport in Port-au-Prince.
Their seizure - despite apparently complete legal paperwork - occurred as many Haitians fear that foreigners are exploiting post-earthquake chaos to illegally take children from the country.
But that will NOT BE INVESTIGATED by the MSM.
The perception was fueled by a case involving 10 US Baptist missionaries who were stopped while trying to take 33 children across the border without the permission of Haitian officials.
Well, that cover has been blown -- which is why the American *ewsmedia here dropped the coverage.
I mean, THOSE TWO WOMEN are STILL in JAIL, right!
The six children halted on Saturday came from the Children of The Promise orphanage in the northern city of Cap-Haitien and were bound for Miami, where adoptive parents were waiting.
As they emerged from taxis at the airport accompanied by four women, a group of about 20 Haitian men accosted them, blocked their path, and called police, said adoptive mother Sarah Thacker of Fergus Falls, Minn.
“It was by far the scariest moment of my life,’’ Thacker said. “It was just automatic screaming, ‘You can’t take our children!’ ’’
A US Embassy official bearing documents signed by Haiti’s prime minister - which are required to take children out of the country and get them through US immigration in Miami - arrived late, after the group was in police custody, said Stephanie Anderson of Homer, Ala., one of the escorts.
The women were all detained by police but released several hours later.
A US official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity, said the Children of The Promise snag has held up the departure to the United States of 50 Haitian orphans, all with their papers in order.
Jan Bonnema, the Minnesota-based founder of the Cap-Haitien orphanage, said all the orphans in the Children of The Promise orphanage “have been in our care since they were infants.’’--more--"
Of course, Slow Saturday gets a front-page feature!
"Joy, frustration brought home; While some families delight in their newest members, others anxiously wait for children adopted out of Haiti" by Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff | February 27, 2010
The fortunes of the children at the Marion Austin school - a Christian orphanage and school in Port-au-Prince with deep roots in Massachusetts - are divided in the aftermath of the powerful Jan. 12 earthquake. While some bask in the joy of new families in the United States, others languish in the battered country amid heightened scrutiny by both governments that has halted or delayed efforts to bring the children to the United States.
One reason for the division: US officials are expediting only adoptions that were in the pipeline before the earthquake to prevent fraudulent adoptions in the chaotic aftermath....
Adoptive families say they understand the government’s concern - in January a group of American missionaries were detained trying to spirit children out of Haiti - but they say the children at the Austin school are longtime orphans who are in danger.
Food, water, and medicine are in short supply, and the children are sleeping outside as the rainy season looms. Many of the children are over 16, which makes them too old to be adopted, so supporters are seeking waivers to bring them to the United States....
If you want to read about how great a success Haiti has been, you know where to go.
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As hundreds gathered at Boston University yesterday for a five-hour, high-tech charity gala for Haiti, a small group convened in Mattapan to reflect on the tragedy and welcome some of its young victims who have come to Boston....
More than 30 student groups and 120 volunteers worked for weeks on the event, which had raised $9,000 by yesterday morning for Partners in Health. Organizers expected a $25,000 total by last night, which would be matched by an anonymous donor.
BU senior Colleen Huysman, 22, who helped coordinate the army of volunteers, said she jumped at the chance to act on her sympathy.
“It was a no-brainer. After watching the news, it was, ‘What can I do?’ ’’ she said. “Obviously you can’t get up and volunteer in Haiti, so it became ‘What locally can I do?’ ’’
So when does the agenda to help the Palestinians get rolled out?
In the weeks since the earthquake, St. Louis and more than a dozen other Haitian mental health providers in the Boston area have begun to draw on their unique blend of personal experience and professional knowledge to found the Haitian Mental Health Network, a group dedicated to providing services and resources to the Haitian community here - and in Haiti....
The network members emphasized the resilience of Haitians, many of whom have endured previous natural disasters and years of poverty.
Same as Palestinians -- except Israel is responsible for that disaster, not Mother Nature.
But Berthonia Antoine, a mental health counselor at the Center for Community Health, Education, and Research in Dorchester, said she has seen earthquake survivors who are in Boston and suffering from acute stress that she fears will turn into full-blown posttraumatic stress disorder.
The aftershocks are not helping, either.
They are anxious, easily startled, irritable, and haunted by nightmares or fears of being in tall buildings or in an elevator.
I probably would be, too, if everything I knew came down in a heap.
“Some said they can’t do the laundry, because on the drying cycle it makes the noise [of the earthquake] and they cannot hear that noise,’’ Antoine said.
Mel Schmid, team leader of the Haitian Mental Health Program at Cambridge Health Alliance, said referrals have increased since the earthquake, and people are showing symptoms of everything from trauma to depression....
Dr. Mathieu Bermingham, a Haitian-American psychiatrist who is medical director of behavioral health services being developed at Children’s Services of Roxbury, and others are working to train providers other than mental health specialists because his research suggests that for Haitians, mental health problems such as depression or anxiety might manifest as vague aches and pains that have no apparent physical cause, drawing people to primary care physicians first.
I can relate to that feeling. Happens every time I read a Boston Globe.
Haitians express grief differently from Americans, too, so another risk would be that intense grieving that might be culturally appropriate could be seen, incorrectly, as a symptom of mental illness, he said....
Yeah, ANYONE who DOES NOT THINK like US is NUTS!!
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