An Odd Protest in Haiti

Amidst all the protests we’ve been seeing in the Middle East and more recently in Wisconsin, this protest in Haiti was decidedly odd. They were protesting against the treatment of some of their young soccer players who had traveled to Jamaica for a tournament.

In the past few weeks I have spent a lot of time trying to translate signs of protesters in the Arab world. This has often been frustrating because the signs are frequently shwon so that I can't quite read them. Either they are at a slant or they aren't shown in full or they are shown from too far away. Still, some have been quite interesting. Today, I saw a photo – and I could not get a link for this – that showed a sign that I translated as: “We ask the world to help Libya.” It’s too bad that that won’t happen. Here in America, the country most likely to send in the cavalry, we are still beset by the Vietnam syndrome that tells us we shouldn’t intervene in the affairs of other countries (until a catastrophe like Rwanda or the killing fields of Cambodia happens, after which we hear that it was all our fault).

There was also this sign shown in the Washington Times a few days ago saying, “Oh king of kings the people love you.” Well, obviously that’s from a Gadafi supporter, and the fact that such people are still around shows, I guess, why Gadafi is still around.