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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Sep 03, 2005 12:16pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, September 3, 2005 06:15:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Posted 10:21 am | Printer Friendly
Guest Post by Morbo
It took me three days to track down my nephew and his family, residents of suburban New Orleans who had fled the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. They left with $200 and a few overnight bags, figuring they would be back in two or three days — then the levee broke.
I found my nephew, his wife and their kids in a La Quinta Inn in Baytown, Texas. In a sense, he's lucky. My large extended family is pulling together and collecting money. My nephew and his family plan to stay in Baytown for at least six months, and we intend to see all of them through.
Unfortunately, not everyone has a family network like that. The stories coming out of New Orleans are gut-wrenching. Please help if you can. If you're well off, send a lot. If you're not, send a little and know that every bit helps.
But please don't send one dime to Operation Blessing. I was appalled to see this alleged "charity" named on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's list of charities that are helping the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
For those of you who have never heard of it, Operating Blessing is a project of TV preacher Pat Robertson, whose kooky antics have been dissected elsewhere on this page. It claims to be a legitimate charity but has been accused of ethical lapses.
In April of 1997, two pilots who worked for Operation Blessing reported that planes owned by the alleged charity were used mostly to transport equipment for a Robertson-owned diamond-mining operation in Africa. One pilot told the Virginian-Pilot that of the 40 flights he undertook to Zaire, "only one or at most two" were humanitarian in nature. The rest, he said, were "mining-related." |
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