Jonathan M. Katz WOWed me with this Article About Haiti and the Post-Storm PANIC ATTACK in the USA

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I just read the article "What Haiti Can Teach Us About the Storm" by Jonathan M. Katz and it brought tears to my eyes.

This is a must read: What Haiti Can Teach Us About the Storm

Let me try to tell, you in a few paragraphs, what this article is about...

There is a fear of an imminent crime wave that is supposed to take place after the storm in the USA. This fear is being spread in issued warnings from news organizations.

Jonathan M. Katz uses his on-the-ground experience during the Haiti earthquake to let American people know that the worse never happens after the storm and Haiti is proof!

Contrary to popular belief, after the Janyary 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the poor and desperate Haitians didn't kill each other and the BIG SCARE that Haitians were going to be SO SO violent... Well... It didn't happen!

Having lived through one of the worst disasters imaginable, the article says, Jonathan M. Katz argues that the Haitians offer a good example of how to behave.

After the Haiti earthquake, Jonathan says, 22,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines were deployed to Haiti... "the U.S. military was the leading presence in the quake zone for months..." Surprisingly though, "law-and-order authorities found themselves with little to do. Most of the U.S. troops, sent to contain a societal meltdown, never left their ships..."

WOW... WOW... WOW...

There was no social melt down!

Jonathan M. Katz writes...

...for those of us who called the quake zone home, it was a very different experience. The sense of community in Port-au-Prince didn't just unravel, but became stronger in those weeks after the quake, with people across Haiti putting aside vicious political squabbles and deep-rooted differences of race and class to focus on the immediate challenges of survival and coping with tremendous loss.

Inexperienced journalists spread reports of "rioting" -- often little more than pushing and shoving -- at aid distributions made far more chaotic by pepper-spraying U.N. soldiers than malice. Many of the most widely reported events involved people just trying to dig food out of fallen buildings...

WOW... WOW... WOW...

You often hear of what wonderful people the Haitian people are... Let's just say it feels good to read this from a person who is actually paid to write about "the Haiti that sells newspapers"

Thank you Mr. Katz.

And to you my dear reader, did you read the article yet?

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