tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819711698688655785.post6116029299958468810..comments2023-10-30T00:44:05.942-07:00Comments on Governing through Crime: Exporting American-Style "Law and Order" to Imploded Postcolonial Cities, Haiti and BeyondJonathan Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15217567476776700363noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819711698688655785.post-24965795255874303392010-02-23T17:55:18.067-08:002010-02-23T17:55:18.067-08:00“When massive earthquakes struck Haiti earlier thi...<b>“When massive earthquakes struck Haiti earlier this year, media portrayals of looting panic seemed to outpace actual looting.”</b> -- You know this how? To make this statement, I assume that you were in Haiti after the earthquake and witnessed this gross misrepresentation by the media.<br /><br /><br /><b>“Analysts have largely ignored deeper structural reasons for the devastation caused by the earthquake – such as the destruction of the Haitian food economy, largely driven by the intrusion of huge, heavily subsidized American agricultural interests often cast as aid. Instead, they’ve preferred to incite looting panic and valorize the individual efforts of predominantly rich, white, foreign interveners, at least until they go terribly wrong.”</b> -- You say nothing about the possibility of a corrupt government in Haiti, exploiting their own people, but only blame the rich, white foreign interveners, who I assume you are referring to ones in America. Maybe these rich, white, foreign interveners should have totally ignored Haiti. Would that have been okay in your mind?<br /><br /><br /><b>“Now, neoliberal paragons, appealing to trickle-down economics and gated community logic, have begun to call on the U.S. and its economic peers to create enclaves of wealth and privilege in Haiti, imploring the country to grant special rights to foreign investors akin to deals that drove "development" in Hong Kong and Guantanamo Bay.”</b> -- What would be your solution? “Wealth re-distribution” based on some socialist theory? Maybe we should just tell anyone with money to ignore Haiti. What’s wrong with someone trying to help others maybe getting something in return? Might get more money that way I bet.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03934215492649123003noreply@blogger.com