Hawaii retains the flag of the Union in its top corner, and it is clearly legally a possession of the United States
Itry to remove all of the negative aspects of satan in my life. Hate is bad, there is no excuse. That you are annoyed is not of my doing, look inside, why did you come here? Was it to comment on the topic or to attack a poster with an off topic reply? Ask yourself this and wonder why you are like that. Maybe you would be advised to stick to the topic instead of creating the negative environment of hell into the forum. Note, haiti was a name given by europeans, it means hell. - - - Updated - - - yes, we all agree with you. Better now?
Once again you're wrong. It does not mean that at all as the word comes from Ayiti which is means land of high mountains and is from the Taino people. I'm happy to hear it and I hope that it continues I'm not actually annoyed. And quite frankly my personal state in none of your business. # Not you, cloth ears.
Okay I want you to just think about that question. An Australian and someone from Britain agreeing on something
Its a shame europeans were never like me when they decided to travel to afrika and take captive 18 million ppl and subject them to 400 years of torture
Look it's late and I'm not in the mood for subtlety so please speak frankly if you'd be so kind. As far as I can see the similarity between the flags is that both have the standard of another nation but aren't ruled, by in this case the UK.
Ithought maybe you could empathize, you know, share in the condemnation but then again, some seem to think its all in the past, justice served is nothing but a stale crumb of bread on the breakfast platter.
Well it is in the past on our end. The UK completely abolished slavery in 1833 and the trade in 1807. Not only were we among the first nations to do it but we also combated it in west Africa and diplomatically obliged others to do so. Case in point the Webster-Ashburton treaty in the US. And it is the end of the of the story and I'll be buggered if I'm inconvenienced by either somebody else's incompetence or malice.
Savour in some real haitian muzik for a change [video=youtube;s8sNnNRhQ2g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpag e&v=s8sNnNRhQ2g[/video]
everyone is grateful for your kind words and deeds in not prolonging the abject misery upon millions. Is that enough? Was justice served?
classic haitian joint right here. [video=youtube;rT2TESY86_A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT2TESY86_A[/video]
I would counter this argument by stating that the fact that there are economic elitists that are benefiting economically based upon the violation of the Inalienable Rights of the Person is an invalid criteria for "doing well" by a nation. Under the belief that exploitation that violates the Rights of the Person to achieve economic success is little more than an argument for an economy based upon slavery. Without "civil rights" that protect the inalienable Rights of All Person in society the economic status of a nation is irrelevant. Economic success based upon tyranny (i.e. the violation of the Rights of the Person) is an invalid criteria in judging whether a nation is doing well and that is true regardless of whether the tyranny is imposed by the government or by the people of the nation.
What's amusing is to compare the differences between former colonies such as mainland China and Hong Kong to Haiti. Btw, Jamaica has a homicide rate of 40.9 homicides/100,000 people. Haiti's are too low for me to buy, but they supposedly have 6.9 homicides/100,000 people compared to 0.2 and 1.0 rates for Hong Kong and China, respectively. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate#By_country
I wouldn't trust too deeply in statistics as they may suffer from a lack of accuracy. And I wouldn't correlate former colonial status with current murder rates. And given the state of the economy then I would agree that the murder rate would be likely higher but then again they may not have much to rob in the first place.
