Central Valley Baptist Church Members Still Waiting To Be Heard By Haitian Government

Blow what is left of it off the map.And then hit africa.We have tried to help them all for years.With trying to show them how to raise food get clean water for themselves.And all they do is lay around and have more kids to die.I seen a woman in africa with a baby laying beside her.All swelled up from lack of food.But on each one of her breast she was breast feeding baby pigs.While her child is laying there dieing from not having milk.Damn good country to raise a child right.They are not worth the time it takes to make the bomb that would wipe them out.They are nasty lazy and cruel to children. Americans need to come home and let all these lazy ass unamericans fend for themselves or die.They do not want to be helped or to learn anything.All they want is a free ride to get what they want and need.If the lazy S O B can not get up and put a plant in the ground for him and his family to eat.Let them starve.

Where do we get off judging the motives of people who gave up their comfortable lifestyles to go over to a devastated country to do what they could to help?! If an American citizen ends up in a foreign country in jail or prison I would hope the reaction from every other American citizen would be one of compassion. I haven't seen much - if any - compassion extended towards these 10 Americans. We have judged them and turned our backs on them, and basically, washed our hands of them. That is to our shame. They are fathers, mothers, daughters, sons - simply there to be of help - out of hearts of compassion. They have been declared innocent by their Haitian judge, and by our State Department - so why do WE continue to basically say "crucify them?" Not one of us has any idea what it would be like to be in a jail in the worst conditions imaginable in the poorest country in the world. This is an appalling situation. I am confounded by the hatred directed towards them. May God have mercy on us all.

Laura Silsby and crew had attempted to cross the DR border before the arrest with 40 other kids. They were turned back. Got that from CNN

Laura Silsby and crew also went to devasted orphanages and tried to get children handed over to them. The Central Valley Baptist Churches original goal was to get 100 kids across the border. When the orphanages declined Silsby she cried then paid money to have someone translate for her while she rounded kids up that were straglers.

Some Haitian parents offered their children after Silsby and crew showed them flyers of the luxury resort that was the supposed orphanage in DR. However the orphanage hadn't been built yet, and Silsby was going to house the kids in a hotel for $7000/month till she found investors to pay for the orphanage. She had nowhere to put the kids except in a hotel.

The kids were told by Silsby and crew that they were going on a holiday out of the country to get away from all the devestation.

The 10 do-gooders for Christ have been visited everyday by U.S. officials to make sure they are being taken care of. They are even allowed to call home and talk to family. They are not in luxurious accomadations. They are in jail and while not plesant, they have actually enjoyed a better standard of living than the folks retained in U.S. ran jails.

The Haitian judge isn't the problem. It's the defense lawyer for Silsby and company. Their first lawyer tried to bribe the judge. That didn't work. Their current lawyer is wanted by another country because he is suspected of child trafficking...not by Haiti. The Haitian judge over Silsby and crew's case is looking into the matter. The judge has recommended that Silsby and crew go free, but it is in the prosecuters hands to drop charges.

If these Silsby and her Bible thumping crew go free, it will be because the officials of Haiti are more concerned about their own people and not willing to risk the much needed aid being sent by the U.S.

Stop all the money that is flowing into Haiti from the USA and see how fast they put them 10 on an airplane back to the USA. They will get a brand new aspect on how guilty those 10 are.

It is all political BS any way.

We have no justice systems they are all legal systems that are run by money.

The laws are written to protect the wealthy.

Sympathizers,
If Muslim radicals had infiltrated New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina and begun spiriting children away for training in the ideology of Islamic fundamentalism, would you have likewise defended their actions?
Oh, yeah, but these are Christians so it's okay 'cause their God is the true God and they were just trying to rescue these poor souls from the aftermath of the quake and the scary rites of voodooism which had inspired God's wrath.
Yep, that's what this is about for these self-righteous hypocrites, who flagrantly and knowingly break not only the laws of the United States and Haiti, but any standard of human decency. Now, these scoundrels will exploit the publicity(as I speculate may have been the plan all along) to portray themselves as victims of religious discrimination and martyrs for their faith.
It's a cause for concern when superstition inspires people to anti-social behavior like stealing people's children when they are most vulnerable for initiation into a cult far away from home and family. This plot was despicable and its perpetrators hatched it with full knowledge of the potential consequences. They deserve, therefore, no lenience but the maximum penalty under the law.
I wonder what the bible prescribes for kidnapping...

All things said, there is the rule of law, even in a country that is devastated by an earthquake. If these children (some of them) had parents or relatives that are still alive, and these missionaries took them...then shame on them. It was a wrong thing to do at this juncture. Not to mention, that they must apply to the Haitian government with proper documentation to even think about taking custody of these kids.

You folks just don't get it. You are the ultimate ugly American Baptists. YOur people are flat out guilty of kidnapping. If 10 Haitians had come to your community and tried to illegally take 10 children out of the United States you would be screaming. You people did the same thing in your arrogance. Pay the price and face jail.

The 10 missionaries in Haiti are being held hostage by a corrupt judge, probably to extort America. America needs to respond more strongly. I have started a petition on my blog demanding our government take more affirmative action to secure their release. Please sign it and tell your friends.
http://timothymiles.com/2010/02/06/its-time-to-rescue-american-hostages-in-haiti/

Some poor countries abound with con artists--and their residents are very familiar with their tactics, including feigned ignorance and innocence. Silsby may have been slick enough for her congregation--joined as her financial troubles increased--but Haiti is a country that conned the few whites who survived the massacre (described as their revolution) into coming out of hiding on a promise of security, only to be shot to death. Not what you'd call naive....
I don't know the motives of the other nine, but if these people had cared about the children of Haiti more than their own selfish agenda, they would have donated the cost of this trip to established Haitian Baptist missions to help during the disaster. Now they want money donated to help THEM and seem to enjoy the attention that should be going to the earthquake victims.
The posts supporting their prosecution are not hate-filled, they are supportive of Haiti's rights to protect their children, even during extreme circumstances. Thank God that Haiti protected the parents from the loss of their children. They would never have had the money to go retrieve them from the US.

Facts which would contradict 'compassion' as Silsby's motive in taking these children:
Silsby's stated project in DR included 'seaside villas' for prospective adoptive parents to stay in in the several months required to accomplish adoption. Compassion would dictate putting funds into food and medical care for as many children as could be helped, or am I stupid? Sounds like catering to the needs of the rich, and making money on it.
While extremely poor, these children at least had parents trying to care for them--as opposed to hundreds of thousands of actual orphans in more severe need--but perhaps less educated and socialized and able to command high fees.

This is Darwin's way of weeding out the religious nuts who think that it's God's will. Let this be a lesson to all of you who do stupid things in the name of the Lord! Mind your own business, keep your religious beliefs inside your church and leave the rest of the world to what is really the true way of life. "Evolution!"

The actions of these central Valley Baptists goes beyond moronic. Spiriting children out of the country when some of those kids clearly stated they have parents? And there is no record of the kids or visa to leave the country?
Let's keep the "compassion" defense out of this. The conduct of these idiots is beyond stupid. Maybe a few years in jail will smarten them up.

I just finished reading a couple stories about this matter. This was not child abduction, this was child compassion. What is rewarded is repeated. Their leader probably did not go about it the right way, but in the kaos of that situation they wanted to help some children. They had the permission of the parents after all.

Where the hell do these people get off? This was/is a blatant attempt at child abduction. They KNOW damned well what the laws are. It has been reported that some of these children were screaming for their parents, as they knew that they were alive. They didn't even treat these kids as human beings. Some were dehydrated, hungry, filthy, no shoes. Ah yes, real "CHRISTIANLIKE". Prosecute these people for trafficing with intent to enslave minors. May they rot in a jail in Haiti. What arrogance!!! These people are no better than Warren Jeffs.

Jail birds, your assistance and compasion to those in desperate need is legendary! If the world were just like you, sane people would move to Haiti since it would be I'm sure that paradise!

Keep the child thieves in jail,damn the bible thumpers.
Guess there is amber alert there,thank god