Breaking News: 7.0 Earthquake in Haiti

[Sheilbh]

Got paid today.  Time to donate.

I've never done this to one off appeals.  Brits, is the DEC good?

[The Larch]

Is this getting airtime in the US?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8491996.stm

US missionaries 'knew they were doing wrong' in Haiti

Haiti's prime minister has criticised 10 US missionaries who were arrested as they tried to take 33 Haitian children out of the earthquake-hit country.

Jean-Max Bellerive described them as "kidnappers" and said they had known "what they were doing was wrong".

He said some of the children had parents who were alive, and that the government was trying to locate them.

A spokeswoman for the missionaries said they had wanted to take the children to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.

"They really didn't have any paperwork... I did not understand that that would really be required," Laura Silsby told CNN.

"We believe we have been charged very falsely with trafficking. We all gave up everything we had... to come here to help these children and by no means are any part of that horrendous practice."

[Caliga]

Yep.  It was the lead story on FOXNews at some point yesterday.  Naturally I trust my white brethren over the brown pipple even if they are evil missionaries.