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During a White House meeting with Senators in January, 2018, then-President Donald Trump reportedly questioned the reasoning for allowing immigration from “shithole countries” such as Haiti. This triggered the pearl-clutching mainstream media, and charges of racism flew fast and furious, including from Haiti Ambassador to the U.S. Paul Altidor, who said Trump’s language was based on “clichés and stereotypes rather than actual fact.”
Today Haiti is a shithole country, and that is not a racist cliché or stereotype but actual fact. It is a failed nation in a state of emergency, becoming a dangerous power vacuum in the Caribbean. Awash in violence and chaos, the country is run by a heavily armed gang whose messianic leader Jimmy Cherizier is grotesquely and justifiably nicknamed “Barbeque.”
Even reports of cannibalism have surfaced amid the current chaos, including videos on social media showing at least one gang member gnawing on a human leg from a burning corpse. An anonymous journalist on the ground told The Daily Express, “We have seen images of gang leaders eating people they have killed. We have seen images of people being tortured when they are kidnapped.”
As Horowitz Freedom Center Shillman Fellow Daniel Greenfield notes, Haiti is a failed state because it lacks “a legitimate government or a functional society,” and its police force is barely distinguishable from the murderous gangs it is supposed to control. The police there actually spawned “Barbeque” Cherizier, a warlord now the most powerful man in Haiti, who has orchestrated or been involved in a number of massacres of the Haitian people.
Predictably, left-wing elites blame Haiti’s long history of anarchy and corruption on European-driven slavery and colonialism. But as author Rod Dreher noted recently, a government minister told journalist Robert D. Kaplan in 1994 that the widespread Haitian practice of voodoo – a polytheistic folk religion derived from West African animism, with no central authority or institutional structure – is “the central fact explaining their country’s chronic misery,” as Dreher puts it. He continues:
If people within a social order believe that they have no real moral agency, and that their fate lies in the hands not of a God of reason and justice, but of an irrational spirit with a mercurial will, then it will be hard to build ordered social structures and ways of life.
Haitian Protestants, Dreher adds, “say the country’s founders brought a curse on Haiti by consecrating it to demons in the slave revolt that sparked the Haitian Revolution… that eventually overturned despotic French colonial rule” in 1791.
States succeed or fail because of the cultural beliefs and practices that underlie them. Those beliefs and practices either empower the people to achieve community, freedom and prosperity, or keep the people mired in fragmentation, savagery and poverty. Haiti is a failure not because of Western rule that ended over 200 years ago but because it lacks the elevating values and practices that propelled Western civilization to greatness.
Now the open-border globalists of the left are salivating over the prospect of a mass exodus of potential Democrat voters from Haiti fleeing the war zone. While some pundits argue that the Biden administration may turn away Haitian refugees in order to look tough on illegal immigration in time for the election, the New York Post published a leaked email from border agents in Miami warning, “The Coast Guard may not be stopping Haitian sail freighter[s]. They will just be escorting them into land [ports].” The email added, “With the breakdown of the government in Haiti[,] repatriating Haitians may not be happening for the foreseeable future.”
Of course they won’t be repatriated. The Biden administration has no intention of ever repatriating anyone who is here illegally. Untold numbers of Haitians will likely be bused throughout the country like other illegals which the administration has prioritized over our own citizens. Will every immigrant fleeing Haiti be a violent cannibal like “Barbeque” Cherizier’s gangsters? Of course not. Will some Haitians bring with them a perpetually broken culture of corruption, crime, and chaos? Of course. Just last Friday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced that state law enforcement had intercepted a vessel coming to the coast carrying dozens of Haitian migrants, as well as firearms, drugs and — interestingly — night vision gear. Mass migration from Haiti will bring more social instability and disorder.
As one can see in the sobering example of Europe, mass migration – not immigration that is legal, controlled, and discriminating (in the sense of good judgment) – from cultures that do not share Western values has civilization-corroding consequences. But this is exactly what the Progressive left wants throughout the West.
The only country in the world that Democrats would condemn as a “shithole” today is America, a country whose Founders, Constitution, Judeo-Christian values, and capitalist prosperity they deeply resent and despise. It is a country and a civilization they actively have been trying to destroy by, among other means, fomenting lawlessness and disorder through pro-crime policies such as the defunding of police departments, no-cash bail, criminal justice reform, the decriminalization of shoplifting, and sanctuary cities. Add to this the left’s support for the violent anarchy of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and pro-Hamas Jew-haters; the justification of looting as “reparations”; the relentless aggravating of racial animosity; the push for “equity” and “restorative justice”; and a half-century of successful assaults on such cultural institutions of stability as the nuclear family, religious faith, and national pride, and you have a nation brought to the brink of civilizational failure.
The signs of civilizational degeneration are legion. Last week a video capturing a teenage brawl in Missouri went viral; in it, one girl is seen savagely beating another, including pounding her head on concrete, in a clear attempt to kill her. As usual, none of the other youths bothers to intervene because they are too busy recording the sickening violence on their cell phones to be shared on social media. As of this writing, the victim, who is white, clings to life in a coma. The perpetrator, who is black, has been arrested, but we all know the legacy media will bury this story and she will not face the justice she deserves, because under the equity-driven Biden administration there is a two-tier system of justice in America – another sign of civilizational decay.
Incidents of subhuman brutality and mob voyeurism like this are shamefully routine in America now, because civilization is breaking down – and it is a half-century of Progressive subversion that has brought us to this point. (We have not yet descended into Haitian gang-style cannibalism, although as I wrote recently, there are hints that the left is laying the groundwork for the normalization of it).
When I was a boy, my favorite author was Edgar Rice Burroughs, the prolific creator of Tarzan of the Apes, John Carter of Mars, and other pulp fiction heroes. ERB, as he is known, noted on more than one occasion in the series of Tarzan novels that Tarzan, who was actually the son of royalty and who became a cultured, educated English lord, would sometimes feel the irresistible call of the wild, shed “the thin veneer of civilization,” and return to roam the jungle once again. This reflects the Rousseauian fantasy of “the noble savage,” in which the state of nature is idealized as good and pure, while civilization is seen as degrading and corrupting.
The prosperity and leisure afforded by modernity is in some ways corrupting, but the reality is that the true state of nature is feral, selfish, and amoral – the survival of the fittest. The elevating state of civilization is our buffer – and a thin one at that – against what Hobbes called the war of all against all. But that kind of disintegration into savagery is the state of society toward which we are headed in America as the far-left Democrat party rips away that thin veneer of civilization to keep the masses atomized rather than unified, at each other’s throats, and under the totalitarian control of those in power.
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Haiti will never have a legitimate government or a functional society, It’s a lost cause, just like palestine . The concept off just walling off these places to has its appeal.
America itself is moving inexorably to becoming a demographic “sh!thole.”
What needs to be done is already verboten by the woke leftist depraved racist psychopathic democrat party.
Wall-off America and deport all illegal aliens and eliminate the anchor-baby scam.
I agree with you, Tapson, “that the true state of nature is feral, selfish, and amoral – the survival of the fittest.” Not necessarily the fittest but definitely the least principled.
But……sorry to be a contrarian but I was a big ERB reader when I was a kid, too. I even read his Westerns! Tarzan wasn’t portrayed as a noble savage. He was a man raised by anthropoids who never lost his bestial upbringing, even after the loving care of his step-mother, Kala and Western education, although he was an autodidact, as I’m sure you remember. He was an animal on the inside and that never left him. His best friend was the first civilized man he met, Paul d’Arnot but he always had that bestial streak inside him.
I loved that character when I was a kid, too. He was always the baddest ass in any jungle, even in Pellucidar.
55 protestant men and 1 Catholic signed the DOI by 8-2-1776. All literate and accomplished.
I think Edgar Rice Borroughs should have won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The reason I can’t stand Mark Rampion, in Huxley’s Point Counterpoint, is that he endlessly complains about and criticizes decadent, killjoy, Western, Christian culture, the very culture that makes his comfortable existene possible
“ as the far-left Democrat party rips away that thin veneer of civilization”
Whilst blaming the opposition for doing it.
This is a world wide problem and the only solution is to defund the UN.
And return to Christian values.
I’ve been saying for more than 40 years that the U.N
should be disbanded. Since the Supreme Court ruled on Kelo vs. New London, I’ve been saying the Mayor of New York should invoke it and kick the U.N. off thosr 18 acres of centrally located, river view Manhattan real estate
No. The REAL solution is to piss on the memory of Emma Lazarus, give a middle finger to the open borders crowd, and state unequivocally that there is no right to migrate to the U.S.
Then, start torpedoing boats, and telling the middle class moderates to go pound sand, that their feelings will not determine immigration policy, and that compassion for foreigners means nothing. Better they did there than protest here
I hope you’re being sarcastic. . Emma Lazarus wanted the U.S. to welcome immigrants who were prepared to work hard, learn English, obey the law, , and make something of themselves., not criminals who freeloadef off the U.S. welfare system
I am absolutely not being sarcastic. I am long past being tired of immigration (legal or illegal) being supported or tolerated because of Emma’s poem. No matter how much evidence shows that large-scale immigration results in balkanization, depressed wages, overcrowding in schools, strain on resources, etc., it is always justified with “But give us your tired and poor, etc…”
That is BS. Immigration itself – like many things – is positive only in small doses. Simply put, 95% of a population can force 5% to assimilate; 70% cannot force 30% to assimilate. Once the share of immigrants gets large, it changes the character of a country.
Immigration was a positive 140 years ago when the country was wide open. And I mean wide open compared to where it is today, not compared to where Europe or Africa is today. And when the majority forced the immigrants to assimilate, which today’s immigrants do not (because they are large enough in number to not have to). Do you think if Mexicans were 5% of the population instead of 20% that America would even need bilingual schools, signs, etc.?
As for becoming American, it is not just “working hard”, “not dying in a war”, “not being oppressed by the government”, etc. It means accepting the American structure – i.e., a Constitution and social system established by White Europeans with all of their faults – including colonizing the land, pushing natives onto reservations, owning slaves, denying women the franchise for 144 years, keeping minorities out of the country clubs, etc. To put it bluntly, becoming American means acting white.
So no, I do not want anyone here unless they are willing to accept America as it was built, not as they would like it to be.
What happened to my post about Edgar Rice Borroughs? He should have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. And about why I can”t stand the charactet of Mark Rampion, in Huxley’s Point Counterpoint?
It’s there. I read it.
It was added after this post
It disappesred for a while. They must have been moderating it
LORD OF THE FLIES OR MCCARTHY’S BLOOD MERIDION
Since the dawn of time violence and wars have been the norm for survival.
Civilization is a temporary experiment.
If the civilizations don’t use more force and violence than the criminals and terrorists to keep them away they will be run over and destroyed in no time.
Force is the only language the savages understand. And make to mistakes about it, the savages will never civilize, bad genes are a proven and undeniable fact. There is such a thing as good and evil, and they must be kept separate if the good wants to survive.
The left is banking on our hesitancy to face off with them. Most of what they do is an attempt to goad us into conflict so they can exercise their true nature. As James Lindsay says, our “reaction” is the nature of their game. “Pleased to me you, won’t you guess my name?” (Mick Jagger)
Thanks. great article. terrible, literally terrible, frightening topic.
The nihilist democrats already imported MS-13, the Mexican cartel, Venezuelan gangs, and Islamic jihadists, so why not invite Haitian criminal thugs also?
And be sure to provide free phones, hotel rooms, and debit cards, (and DNC voter registration cards) to help entice every low-life on the globe to come in
The only immigrants the DNC will deport (with giddy enthusiasm) are hard working, self sufficient, protestant Christian families that speak English and home school their children like the Romeikes from Germany (proof that “White privilege” doesn’t exist.)
The Romeikes didn’t take a dime of welfare, where as the Tsarnaev brothers were given welfare the same month they set foot in Boston – and used that welfare to bomb the Boston marathon.
If Hamas or Iran succeed in destroying Israel and annihilating or driving out its Jewish population (a fervent wish of theirs, and also of the Obiden Left) I’m sure that Biden and the Left would suddenly discover the virtue of immigration law enforcement, and every “REFUGEES WELCOME!!!” lawn sign in “progressive” neighborhoods would disappear. We already know from history how indifferent a “progressive” Democratic president was during the Holocaust.
Illegal immigration is about “turning Texas blue” and the Democratic Party establishing permanent hegemony.
The US has a history of meddling in Haiti. Not that it would make Haiti a better place.
In the drowsy hours of a December afternoon, eight American Marines strolled into the headquarters of Haiti’s national bank and walked out with $500,000 in gold, packed in wooden boxes.
They drove the loot by wagon to the shore, past American soldiers in civilian clothes who kept watch along the route. Once at the water, they loaded the boxes and sped to an awaiting gunboat.
The gold was in the vault of a Wall Street bank within days. The bank Citigroup’s predecessor.
The operation took place in 1914 — a precursor to the full-scale invasion of Haiti. American forces took over the country the following summer and ruled it with brute force for 19 years, one of the longest military occupations in American history. Even after the soldiers left in 1934, Haiti remained under the control of American financial officers who pulled the country’s purse strings for another 13 years.
Invading Haiti was necessary, the United States said. The country was so poor and unstable, the explanation went, that if the United States didn’t take over, some other power would — in America’s backyard, no less.
The oppression of smaller and weaker countries is always portrayed as a matter of national security. It is just a narrative excuse, and usually a lie. Haiti posed no threat to the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world/haiti-wall-street-us-banks.html
Haiti is a huge demographic threat to America. Haitians, by and large, are animals, particularly the males, and should be treated accordingly. The so called US occupation of the Haiti hellhole was the only time it experienced a modicum of law and order.
And AIDS is endemic there. The only worse invaders on the planet are Somalians and Psuedostinians, and it takes a huge level of scumbaggery to come even close to those subhumans.
Go take a Caribbean vacation in Haiti if you like it so much. That would be lesson in Darwinian logic and improve the human gene pool by at least one scumbag.
Be sure to domicile those low-lifes in your home when they come.
Haiti is a cesspool solely due to Haitians.
Civilization is more fragile than most people realize. If you don’t like Tarzan, read Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Everywhere it depends on one simple idea. Putting the energies of men into the protection and support of families. Without that all we have is the mammalian female and her brood. Whether it’s barnyard cats or the farmer’s cows, the male is only a sperm donor. To be any more, he has to be given a role in the family. Bearing the children is a role already biologically taken by the female. With out the role of provider/supporter/protector, the male is superfluous. He turns to other activities, all of them violent and destructive. All our current social pathology comes from this; drug addiction, gang activity, crime, rape, etc etc etc. Boys and men with functional fathers rarely engage in any if that. It is the fatherless (males and females) who perpetuate these wild roving mobs, and the destruction they spawn.
So, of course, this stable family architecture was the main target of feminism when it appeared in the 1960s in the form of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique.
We’ve been on the road to shιthοle country ever since. It has only one characteristic. “The horror. The horror.”
Thanks Betty.
The Muslims have huge families that doesn’t stop them from practicing brutal jihad savagery.
Hitler and the Nazis encouraged Nazi women to have as many babies as possible giving medals to the Nazi women who had the most babies that didn’t stop the Nazis from committing Nazi atrocities.
On the other hand you had the Shakers, a highly civilized, peaceful, celibate, ascetic community, who had no families and discouraged their members from having children.
So obviously it is not the family or lack of family that results in the individual or community being civilized or becoming nihilist killers.
“Building the ‘Master Race’: Nazi Women Were Awarded Medals to Bear Children”
Sometime you swerve into elevating B. Hussein, who himself cited the obvious – that in-tact families with a father at home, was crucial to giving kids a decent shot at prosperity.
The godless Nazi party were based on socialism & Darwinism. They failed due to that obvious fact, and their Darwinian pursuit of being the “fitest” via procreation wouldn’t save them.
Wow another useless homework assignment from our rezidentura sage.
Trying to draw a relationship between Nazis an Muslims when it comes to having children. I have news for ya pops, the world just doesn’t exist in the way you are so desperate for it to be.
Yes, there’s a reason American prisons are filled with fatherless lowlifes. Women are good with waifs but hopeless with teens. Boys need fathers far more than mothers.
We are getting large numbers of Muslim criminal invaders from Senegal and Mauritania walking in at Lukeville, Arizona. Some of them are veterans of civil wars and coups where cannibalism is practiced. They gain power from the enemy by eating them. Slavery was outlawed in Mauritania in 2007 and the Sunni Arabs there still have black slaves. They are building enclaves across the country, like in Denver, and they sure as hell don’t want to be Americans.
Very good observations, Mr. Tapson. Rousseau was of course wrong from the word “go”, but far too many people, particularly on the left, see him as a champion for man in his natural state.
Man in his original, natural state is nothing more than a naked killer ape, closer to the violent chimpanzee than to the more cooperative bonobo. G0d created our species out of clay and then He breathed into us His Spirit, which gives us a qualitive difference from the beasts that surround us. This applies particularly to free will, which other creatures do not seem to possess. Those who suppress that Spirit and choose to live “as nature intended” are no better than our chimpanzee cousins, while those who lean more toward to the Spirit and study the laws that G0d gave us to lead good lives can rise above the level of angels. Ultimately it is not culture or anything else outside of us, but our use of free will to rise to be truly human.
Bring back Papa Doc and the ton-ton macoute. Over two hundred years of independence and still can’t govern themselves. And here I thought all cultures were the same. Or so I’ve been told.
You shouldn’t accept evolution as fact. There is far more evidence in support of a young earth than a billions of years old planet.
@TomJarman1979