Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

January 15, 2010

After achieving its independence in 1804, Haiti was required to pay huge reparations to France. The nation struggled to discharge that debt for roughly a century and a half. This was made more all the more difficult by repeated foreign intervention, including a lengthy U.S. military occupation in the early 20th century.

Suffering under a government devoted entirely to plunder, Haiti was left utterly destitute, unable to develop a modern economy that could create infrastructure and social institutions adequate to deal with large-scale emergencies.

Advocates of eugenicist population control insist that Haiti?s problems are created by too many people, rather than too much government. UN officials have exploited the country?s misery to promote abortion and sterilization. One abortionist who collaborated in the UN?s anti-natalist assault sneered that Haitians should be left to ?stew in [their] own juices.?

The unfolding tragedy in Haiti is a heart-rending illustration of the way that avoidable government corruption exacerbates unavoidable natural catastrophes.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.