printThe extracts are from “Anderson Cooper’s Asininity,” the latest WND.COM column:
“The tough tenor toward the missionaries from Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian, Idaho, was set by CNN alpha female Anderson Cooper. The activist anchor and his houseboys in Haiti had been exceedingly hard on the hapless group, whose aim it was to, first, whisk the children to the Dominican Republic and, next, help ‘each child find healing, hope, joy and new life in Christ,” as well as “opportunities for adoption into a loving Christian family.’ …
Thankfully—and contrary to CNN’s self-styled newsman-cum-humanitarian—one Haitian justice was not as eager to see ‘The Americans’ go down for their goodness.
As Reuters reported, the (eminently reasonable) investigating Haitian judge looked for criminal intent in his investigation. He found none. So the Haitian justice concluded that the incarcerated missionaries acted with no malice aforethought.
Mens rea : now that’s a difficult concept for Cooper to comprehend. …
Whatever were [the missionaries’] plans for the children, these were far and away better than what’s in store for them if they remain at home.
Mind you, [now that they’re staying in Haiti], the kids can hope to be caught on camera—Anderson Cooper’s—as they chase him and his crew begging for tasty morsels, while Cooper flexes his muscles, furrows his forehead, and shows just how much he feels their pain.” …
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Update (Feb. 13): Robert has verified my contention in the latest column—now on my site and better titled “Anderson Cooper’s Mission Against The Missionaries”—when he asserts: “I have never met a parent that didn’t want their children to have a better future than they did.”
Americans are insular and insulated. They truly think, contra Russell Kirk’s warning, “that all men are brothers, and that all men are equal.”
In some cultures, parents drown their newborn girls before breakfast. And no, this is not reducible to the state’s policies alone. “For the sins of man, hard leftists blame society, and hard-core libertarians saddle the state. The State made me do it’ is how such social determinism can be summed-up.”
To believe that these individuals are acting out of hopelessness or despair alone, rather than acting on their values, is to fall into the Cooper, Robinson, McCain mistake.
No, some people don’t blink before giving ownership of their girls to slave masters and mistresses. Sorry to shatter the Pollyanna perception held in the west that we are all the same under the skin.
I was just reading about an orphanage in Kerala, India, founded by … good whites, for children with cerebral palsy, down syndrome and autism, “who would normally have been killed at birth or rented out to beggars.” I guess, Robert would say that the parent who did the latter wanted more for his kid than the one who chose to off his offspring.
Americans are unable to get into their mushy skulls that indeed these discarded kids I spoke of in the last column, are not “orphanage” in the way we define an orphan. Thei parents have discarded them.
Like the Coopers, Robinsons and McCains of this world, westerners can’t conceive of a reality so removed from their internal world.
I watch Anderson Cooper and at no point did I ever see him suggest that these missionaries had any nefarious designs for the children. However, it is somewhat ridiculous to think you can just take children to another country without following procedure. How did they confirm the people giving them away were the parents? I think they meant well, but were incredibly stupid and prideful in the way they went about it. Don’t you think people with less honorable intentions SAY they mean well? That’s why they have guidelines. Also AC360 has been reporting the news that some or all of the missionaries may be released since Wednesday afternoon.
I have never met a parent that didn’t want their children to have a better future than they did. Now 33 children are forced to live lives probably even less well than their parents. Mr. Cooper’s self righteousness will probably continue on camera. Such is life, sadly.
Comments on the WND column: “Scorned by the New York Times as trying to buy souls and spiritual trafficing..” I would like to know what a bunch of New York infidels can possibly know about Christian evangelicals. Of course these Baptists would try to Christianize these children, and anyone else within earshot. The Bible directs Christians to go into all the world and compel the lost to come to Christ. I would venture to say that Haiti would be considered as all the world. I predict that if these Idaho Baptists had been representatives of some gay-lesbian task force or some group of university communists the MSM would have given them a standing O.
I am glad ILana wrote about this.The promise from the Bible say’s : “And indeed,all that desire to live Godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted”. That is a promise from 2Timothy 3:12. Thanks ILana for exposing Anderson Cooper and his network. Martin Berrow
I’m glad that the Haitian judge is willing to let them go. I have never doubted the Baptist Missionaries’ good intentions; but in a situation like this where Haiti is so vulnerable to scoundrels that claim to mean well, it would have served them best to get some type of legal documentation from either the Haitian or Dominican Republic government that shows they are aware of who this group is, what their intentions are and how they are going to go about doing it. Under such dire circumstances, it doesn’t shock me at all that parents would give their children away in the hopes that they would have a better life, especially giving them to Americans.
ROFLOL @ “CNN alpha female Anderson Cooper who suffers from intellectual inertia”. Ah, Ilana, you’re a riot! Rock on! :o)