Unspeakable catastrophe (1).
News sources are predicting that yesterday’s earthquake nearPort-au-Prince may have killed thousands of Haitians, but there’s stillno clear estimate on how many are dead. (The Red Cross fears thousandsdead and millions more affected; so far more than 100 people aremissing in the rubble, according to the U.N.) “Bodies lay in thestreets of Haiti’s devastated capital early Wednesday, and untoldnumbers of people remained trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildingsand leveled shantytown homes,” reported the New York Times.
They say it’s the worst earthquake to hit the country in more than 200 years. Alan Le Roy, chief of UN peacekeeping forces, told The AP,“We know there will be casualties, but we cannot give figures for thetime being.” The United States and other nations will begin sendingforeign aid.Meanwhile, Haitians in New York are sick with worry. Radio Soleild’Haiti in Brooklyn has fielded thousands of phone calls providinginformation to immigrants concerned about their family members, says the New York Times. The Daily News reportedthat in Haitian restaurants around New York, immigrants have gatheredto watch the news and phone their relatives on the island.
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(1) While the earthquake in Haiti has left thousands if not more afflicted with loss and injury, it is European Americans United firm position that no person who considers him or herself to be a white racial nationalist ought to derive any kind of ‘satisfaction’ from this event. Pursuing our fundamental interest, which is what most benefits European Americans asa people, with the exception of self defense, we wish no harm on others.
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