13802: Vishnusurf: Re: 13781: Pina posts questions about www.wehaitians.com (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: VISHNUSURF@aol.com

Anonymous:

The website that Mr. Pina criticizes is about the best site on Haiti on the
web, so many thanks to him for pointing it out to us all.  Taking offense to
the satirical photo of Aristide is hypersensitive on Mr. Pina's part.
Politicians are open game to such caricature, and this one hardly seems in
bad taste compared to the hundreds of political cartoons that run throughout
the world in daily papers.  And while such caricature may not qualify as
"scholarly" it certainly CAN serve the interest of human rights by drawing
attention to a leader's shortcomings or sins.  In fact, it may serve better
than scholarship at that, so kudos to wehaitians.com.  How convenient that
Mr. Pina forgot to note the many scholarly things that ARE posted on
wehaitians.com, and rich links it provides to such devastating reports on the
Lavalas human rights record as those produced by Amnesty International.

So, once again, thanks, Mr. Pina, for advertising such an excellent website.