Free the Missionaries

Easing human suffering and spreading the Gospel go hand in hand in the Great Commission. A group of American Baptists, ten in number, took that message to heart, saw the catastrophe in Haiti and rushed to help. They found a Haitian preacher who ran an orphanage and could no longer provide for his charges and offered to take some of the wards who faced privation in Haiti across the border to a facility in the Dominican Republic where they would be better provided for and at some later point, more permanent care such as adoption could be found. In the first statements made in English after their detention, the woman who is acting (and I use this word intentionally) as Justice Minister of Haiti, fully impeached her own case and all charges against the missionaries by claiming that the Americans intended to "sell the children for $10,000 each". These US citizens are being held by a nation that did not function even before the earthquake on the way to a kangaroo court. The world leftist media, secularists who hate believers, have breathlessly reported that some of the so-called orphans actually have surviving parents without bothering to mention an interview with the mother of one of the children who thanked God that the Americans had volunteered to take the children to a safer place and hoped that at some time in the future the missionaries would bring the children back to visit that I saw aired only on the 700 Club. The real story is that Haitian officials have no concern for the welfare of their own people and would have used the so-called proper channels to place impediment after impediment in front of those trying to help the children and solicited bribe after bribe at every turn. The powers that be in Haiti have been interested only in feathering their own nests for generations and continue to be utterly unreliable and thoroughly corrupt. Haiti was a failed state without the normal institutions of government which necessitated the UN presence there with peacekeepers, largely from Brazil on the street for half a decade and even before that no fair system of justice existed under Papa Doc Duvalier, his evil son and successor Baby Doc, or Aristide, a defrocked Catholic priest cum Marxist.  If you are concerned about the future of Haiti, the welfare of Haitians and the missionaries themselves, or even the process of justice, you should contact your US Senators or Congressman immediately (not the US State Department- they do not care), and ask them to force Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama to end the charade of the judicial process in Haiti and demand and facilitate the immediate release of the ten detained Americans, who were never going to traffic children but had willingly sacrificed, leaving the safety of home and family to help Haitians in their time of need.