We should be aware that there is a campaign or campaigns to undermine the Preval/Alexis government (and rally support for the return of the Army, the FAD'H), and that many of the kidnappings, gang violence, 'student demonstrations', rumours about the president's ill health, and much of the media reporting, are all part of this campaign or campaigns. Reading between the lines of recent Haitian media reports gives an indication that the PNH is now having some success in thwarting the kidnappers, and also that the public at large is also engaged in the effort to stop them. The kidnappers must be arrested and sentenced. If the judicial and prison systems cannot do that, then inevitably the people will apply their own justice. The PNH's efforts should be encouraged, and the 'doom and gloom merchants' should hold their tongues. The collapse of this government, bringing in the death penalty, and restoring the FADH, will not make things better - they will make things much worse...