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So giving bikes over relief aid is fine?
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Sure. Obviously, giving all bikes and no aid wouldn't fly, but consider that there are probably limited numbers of groups that give bikes and hundreds, if not thousands that are donating food. If that is the contribution they want to make, then more power to them.
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I agree that the instigators deserve what they get too but I have a hard time being sympathetic to the morons with the bikes. If I was in the Haitians position I would be angry too and I might even protest and seek justice, as they see it.
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If they had been a normal relief group, would you be sympathetic to them? It doesn't appear that they were targeted for this reason. It seems that the Haitian mob is targeting anyone that is associated with the relief effort. Specifically because this group (the mob) is blaming the UN for the cholera outbreak. Would you have the same response if the group was called "Calls from God" and they handed out cell phones?
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How does Tennis help them exactly?
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In the same sense that the USO helps the soldiers. Entertainment, raises morale. Provides a little bit of distraction from the chaos that these people live through everyday. Does that put food in their stomachs? No, of course not. I think the group he went with did a food drive though.
My point still is this. The bike group didn't deserve to have their lives threated by a mob. In this country and all of the world, people say and do completely ridiculous things. Rarely do they end up at the point of a machete or threated to be lit on fire. If they spout off some rhetoric, they don't serve that either. It is in completely poor taste to praise God and act like that he only cares about you and not those (Haitian) people