Some folks on the conspiracy theory circuit are attributing the Haiti earthquake to the HAARP project.
Although I keep an open mind, I haven't really see any credible evidence for HAARP being the fifth horseman of the apocalypse: http://bit.ly/6XfC7A . If the putative western capitalist running dog conspiracists had made such a technique 'weaponisable', surely they would have used it on Moscow, Kabul, or Beijing.
Sovereign states are sovereign states: Haiti could have chosen to ally itself with the US, with Cuba, or with other stable administrations. Their history is desperately sad, but like us all, they have the opton of choosing their destiny. The fact that they have had a completely useless government for generations is not the fault of the west, although arguably we could have done more to stabilise such an utterly disabled government.
It is pretty sickening to see the opportunist mis-speaker Hilary Clinton making political mileage out of the situation - but how would the Haitians feel if no politicians turned up to publicise their plight?
As to the implementation of martial law, I can see it from the Haitians point of view: why didn't those first helicopters bring in medical supplies rather than armed troops? However, had they done so, in all likelihood the supplies would have been raided in a New York minute, and been used for the benefit, not of the most needy, but of the most violent. Such is the nature of humanity in extremis. I too, in such a situation, would do pretty much anything to obtain water and food for my children: my British 'all for one, one for all' philosophy would go out of the window, and I'd even jump the queue for the Number 19 bus to Pimlico.
It's great to sit in a comfortable apartment and criticise what is being done: but what would you do? What could you do? Admit it: you'd do pretty much the same - face with a million people faced with starvation, disease and death, prepared to do anything to get hold of whatever supplies you can bring in, you'd have to set up a secure fortress from which to distribute aid, and keep people at a distance until you'd set up a line of supply.
