POLITICAL ARMTWISTING IN PORT AU PRINCE: IT’S STILL ALL ABOUT ADOPTION, IT’S STILL ALL ABOUT US

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I’ve been meaning to post this addition to the Very Important Person Hall of Fame. On January 29, ABC 4 in Salt Lake City reported a baby lift story that involves Very Important Persons in Utah and beyond. The Very Important Person Magnet is Stephen Studdert, (a VIP in his own right) an adviser to Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush. You can read his bio on his Studdert Group webite. According to the ABC 4 report Studdert started the Utah Hospital Task Force and negotiated the “release” of 125 “orphans (the figure was later corrected) bound mostly for Salt Lake City and presumably nice Mormon homes. As a former mission president for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Studdert started the task force with a call to all former L.D.S. missionaries who served in Haiti to return in the aftermath of the earthquake to serve again, this time as volunteer interpreters. The task force was expanded to also include medical teams, construction workers and security personnel. The Task Force doesn’t have a webpage, but it does have a blog and a Facebook page. It is working with Healing Hands for Haiti International Foundation, 501(3)(c), which Continue Reading →

SMALL UPDATE IN HAITI: "CHRISTIAN" CHILD LIFTERS IN HAITI "DIDN’T UNDERSTAND" BLAH BLAH BLAH

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It’s only mid-afternoon, but it’s become clear I won’t finish my follow-up on the New Life 10 today, though I’m working on it. There is so much material to wade through. In the meantime, I recommend that you read Mike Doughney’s latest blog, Personal Shopper.com CEO Arrested While Returning from Free Child Shopping Trip to Port au Prince. Also read his previous blog below it. This is very important stuff. I have linked them both under “Featured Blogs” on the right sidebar. Here is an excerpt: Looked at from the point of view of an entrepreneur, what are these things? First, establish a warehouse for the merchandise, and processing facilities to make the merchandise suitable for the customer. Second, expedite the process of governmental approval which customers must obtain, making them as comfortable as possible while they fulfill the government’s mandate of a 60-90 day stay. Third, provide financing for the customers. Fourth, provide food and refreshment to the customers, which along with the lodging provides a “bubble” in which customers need not interact with the locals. But as a business plan, there’s nothing to it, if the people putting it forward can’t seem to grasp the basic illegality of Continue Reading →

BREAKING NEWS: DO-IT-YOURSELF EVANGELICALS POPPED ATTEMPING TO REMOVE "’ORPHANS" FROM HAITI ILLEGALLY

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Reuters and other news sources are reporting that a band of 10 US evangelicals with Idaho-based New Life Children’s Refuge were arrested at the Malpasse border crossing (above picture in better days) trying to take 33 undocumented Haitian children into the Dominican Republic. The five women arrested were from the Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian, and the five men from the East Side Baptist Church in Twin Falls (new reports indicate a couple men were actually from out-of-state). The 10 are currently housed in what I assume is the extremely unpleasant Haiti Judicial Police headquarters. I have pulled quite a bit of information on New Life and the child smugglers, and intend to write about this incident at length tomorrow. I don’t want to put out wrong information so, I need to clarify some of the documents I’ve collected. In the meantime, I’ve thrown a little bit together to get the word out. Here are the relevant parts of the story as published so far (my emphasis): Authorities said the Americans had no documents to prove they had cleared the adoption of the 33 children — aged 2 months to 12 years — through any embassy and no papers Continue Reading →

MY NEW BLOG SITE; END CHILD EXPORTATION AND TRAFFICKING IN HAITI

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I have launched a new blog site: End Child Exportation and Trafficking in Haiti. It is not affiliated with Bastard Nation. The unethical and often illegal removal of children from Haiti and subsequent identity erasure under the guise of “humanitarian aid” to serve small special interests is unprecedented in US child welfare history and policy. It is directly related to adoption secrety and control of information. The bastard and adoptee voice is being heard , but not loud enough. Here is a description of the blog: Stop Child Exportation and Trafficking is a collection of my blogs on Haiti published originally on my main blog, The Daily Bastardette. It is also a resource page for media, researchers, and the public interested looking for material and opinion on the ethics and legality of fast track adoption, babylifting, “humanitarian aid,”identity, historical and cultural erasure, and corrupt practices in international adoption, especially in the current Haitian earthquake crisis. It includes links to blogs, news articles, reports, and Haitian sources that are not available on The Daily Bastardette. We will publish occasional guest writers. Please visit and support it!

GOOD NEWS: CAL AND JERSEY BAD BILLS DIE

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For once we have some good news! California AB 372 is officially dead! The January 22 deadline for it to pass out of committee and on to the Senate floor went by with no action. Although nothing official has come from sponsor Sen Fiona Ma, her office told CalOpen that the bill would “will not be pursued.” Astoundingly, CARE (California Adoption Reform Effort) as of tonight, has not seen fit to announce the demise of their bill on its website. It’s last update is dated May 28, 2009. That’s what we’ve come to expect, though, from fake reformers who scrub their website of their own history and embarrassing documents, dismiss an ideology of rights. embracing instead “non-emotional” wishes and desires”, (whatever that means), and posit that adoptees need to be “navigated by professionals” rather than ourselves. Veteran grassroots bastard activists who have actually gotten clean bills passed were ordered to take a hike by the dilettantes of CARE. We’re sure CARE, like herpes, will come back. Jean Strauss and CARE are all over the March 18-21 AAC conference in Sacramento. CalOpen and Bastard Nation continue to hold the line in California. There is much work to be done there, and Continue Reading →

IMPORTANT BLOG: "ADOPTING KIDS OUT OF SATAN’S HAITI…"

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Baby Love Child has published stunning blog today: Adopting Kids Out of Satan’s Haiti for the Glory of His Kids & The Slowing of Child Export Flights. It is separate from her ongoing Hatian series.This is by far the best piece I have seen anywhere (and I’ve downloaded lots of stories and blogs) about babylifting, it’s impetus and purpose. This is a long piece that will turn the stomach of anyone concerned about the ethics and purpose of adoption. This is a small excerpt: This from the “religion” section of their page on Haiti: “Mission work in Haiti faces enemy onslaught as this is a country that is yearly dedicated to Satan in a contractual form. There are voodoo practices and worship of the dark.” While some may find that statement rather stunning, it is sadly a more common attitude within the evangelical and “missions” subculture than many would care to think. Pat Robertson’s comments along these lines were merely a reflection of a commonly held belief across numbers of people within his subculture. An historic explanation of the role of Voudou symbolism, language, and drumming is beyond the scope of this post, suffice it to say, all played a Continue Reading →

GOD BRINGS ANOTHER HAITIAN ADOPTEE TO OHIO

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(NOTE: My other Haiti entries are directly below this. I am placing them on a separate page, which I hope will be ready tomorrow.) There is no rest for the wicked. Like yesterday, I didn’t plan to post today on Haiti, but some things just lend itself to plugging away on the keyboard. More disaster evangelism, disaster adoption, and Very Important People appeared in today’s Columbus Dispatch with the arrival of Nephtalle Jean-Pierre, soon to be renamed Gracie Hansley. Nephtalle is a former resident of Maison des Enfants de Dieu aka For His Glory Adoption Outreach in Port au Prince. Home from Haiti First, as if we don’t already know it, we learn that God, with his super quake powers, is the great distributor of adoptees. From the way people talk lately you’d think that without God’s hand in natural disasters there would be no adoption. “God really did bring her sooner,” Hansley said after she stepped off a plane from Florida yesterday and strode into the terminal at Port Columbus holding Gracie in her arms. But what God can’t do with an earthquake, our local pols can: Gracie and other Haitian children arrived in Florida on Saturday, where Hansley Continue Reading →

SNAPSHOT: DISASTER EVANGELISM IN HAITI– GOD BRINGS "SOMETHING GOOD FROM A HORRIBLE SITUATION"

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To read my other pieces on Haiti, please go to: It’s not about Haiti, Damn It! It’s All About Adoption! It’s All About US! Haiti: A Little Bit About Important People in Their Own WordsHaiti: Adoption Business Trumps Aid Haiti: Women’s Health Care: “All About Abortion;” Solar Powered Bibles in the Food Line American Life League Says No to Condoms and Contraceptives for Haitians Bastard Nation’s Statement on Haitian Adoption and Babylifts Operation Pierre Pan Postponed; Politicians Pander Haiti Child Evacuation: A New Operation Pedro Pan (my keystone Haitian entry) Haiti: Misc. Updates on Adoption and Pat Robertson Pat Robertson and Adoptee Rights I wasn’t going to post anything today until I ran across this article from today’s Toledo Blade a few minutes ago: Quake in Haiti hastens long awaited adoptions. It’s about Seth and Amber Newlove who find a silver lining (see yesterday’s entry on disaster silver liningism) in the destruction of a country and its people. The earthquake, see, is an awesome example of how God works in mysterious ways. Why, without the earthquake, she and Mr. Newlove would still be waiting to bring Snyder home to Arlington, Ohio from H.I.S. Home for Children, a Lima, Ohio-based orphanage Continue Reading →

IT’S NOT ABOUT HAITI, DAMN IT! IT’S ABOUT ADOPTION. IT’S ABOUT US

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To read my other pieces on Haiti, please go to:Haiti: A Little Bit About Important People in Their Own WordsHaiti: Adoption Business Trumps Aid Haiti: Women’s Health Care: “All About Abortion;” Solar Powered Bibles in the Food Line American Life League Says No to Condoms and Contraceptives for Haitians Bastard Nation’s Statement on Haitian Adoption and Babylifts Operation Pierre Pan Postponed; Politicians Pander Haiti Child Evacuation: A New Operation Pedro Pan (my keystone Haitian entry) Haiti: Misc. Updates on Adoption and Pat Robertson Pat Robertson and Adoptee Rights As I wrote last week, Washington politicians couldn’t even wait for the aftershock to figure out ways for the Haitian earthquake tragedy to be all about adoption January 15, 2010, The Seattle Times: Adoption advocates met Thursday in the Capitol Hill office of Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., (right) to discuss the quake’s impact on adoptions. Many parents have been pushing to see if the State Department can expedite adoption proceedings, because they fear orphanages will need to serve other children left homeless or alone after the quake. Although we’ve seen the quotables of random politicians since then, and the highly publicized Rendell baby lift of healthy uninjured BRESMA ” orphans,” some without Continue Reading →

HAITI: A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN THEIR OWN WORDS

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To read my other pieces on Haiti, please go to Haiti: Adoption Business Trumps Aid Haiti: Women’s Health Care: “All About Abortion;” Solar Powered Bibles in the Food Line American Life League Says No to Condoms and Contraceptives for Haitians Bastard Nation’s Statement on Haitian Adoption and Babylifts Operation Pierre Pan Postponed; Politicians Pander Haiti Child Evacuation: A New Operation Pedro Pan (my keystone Haitian entry) Haiti: Misc. Updates on Adoption and Pat Robertson Pat Robertson and Adoptee Rights The shark pool grows hourly. I’ve been reading news articles, blogs, and tweets of numerous mock heroic evangelical childlifters “leading” babies out of Haiti like they are Henry Stanley bringing out Dr. Livingston. But just a few days ago, it wasn’t the never-heard-if-’em church crowd, but important people, connected people, people who aren’t connected but know somebody who is connected that lead them out. I may write more about this at some later time, but tonight I’m adding three quotes about the Rendell lift as a supplement to what I wrote earlier today. This is about important people and priviledge–in their own words. The quotes are from an article accounting in great detail Rendell’s “rescue mission” into the heart of darkness Continue Reading →