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To support the victims of Katrina, do NOT give to “Operation Blessing”

by Open-Publishing - Wednesday 7 September 2005
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Edito Governments Catastrophes USA Mary MacElveen

by Mary MacElveen

I am outraged as I read where FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) is directing Katrina donations to none other than the Rev. Pat Robertson. This is the same man who broke the law by threatening Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’ life on national TV.

According to information readily available at Sploid, it states “FEMA has released to the media and on its Web site a list of suggested charities to help the storm’s hundreds of thousands of victims. The Red Cross is first on the list ... the Rev. Pat Robertson’s “Operation Blessing” is next on the list.”

Please pay close attention to this passage, folks — “Robertson’s shell organizations have already collected more than $25 million from the federal government under various “faith based” federal-handout programs. And with millions of distraught citizens looking to FEMA for help in finding reputable organizations to help Katrina survivors, Robertson stands to profit magnificently from the horror that has fallen on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.”

So, this alleged man of God stands to profit while the victims of Katrina suffer?

You do not profit ever when innocent lives are at stake or when the death toll keeps rising. This is more than an abomination; it is criminality at the highest levels of this (USA) government.

These past few days as President Chavez’ offer to aid these victims goes unanswered, I am ashamed of my country. I am ashamed at the way they have bungled this operation to save lives. Our government sure knows how to plan on killing innocent people in Iraq, but to save lives, they are clueless.

President Hugo Chavez has called for Pat Robertson to be extradited and I congratulate him for standing up to these criminals. Isn’t that the way a President should and must react? By transmitting these deaths on public airwaves, Robertson broke the law ... yet he is not being held accountable here in the United States.

This tragedy amongst other undeniable facts such as a president who lies our country into war and with the support of what is supposed to be the opposition party has soured me on politics as usual.

One person wrote me a scathing email yesterday which included language so horrific and where he said, “yo have ruined my country Venezuela ... now you are trying to ruin the USA.” — I will leave his words as is and without any corrections to his grammar and spelling.

* It only goes to show the mentality who wants to retain control of this country ... the United States has already been ruined at the hands of a criminal government where Venezuela has been saved by a President who truly cares for the welfare of his people.

In my opinion, the victims of Katrina would have fared better with President Hugo Chavez in charge of the relief effort.

Mary MacElveen

xmjmac@optonline.net

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=45803

Forum posts

  • Operation Blessing has been feeding the poor in certain areas for years thru donations from the church community. It is a non-profit organization which is highly respected. Not only are they equipped with access to supplies, but they also have the trucks needed to bring these supplies to the areas which need them.

    People can be outraged all they want. Truth is...the people who NEED these supplies aren’t outraged at all.

    • If Operation Blesssing is actually doing a good job then I have no problem with who owns or runs (whichever term fits) it. I am no fan of Pat Robertson and he always seem to be sticking his foot in his mouth every 2 or 3 years or so. But give the man credit when he is doing a good thing. Now if we find out he was skimming money from the Feds for his own pocket, then off with his head!

  • Bush is a man that calls himself christian.
    1. By looking at all the evidence www.reopen911.com one can only conclude that this man orchestrsted 9-11 and killed 3,000 americans on porpous to expand their controll of the middle east.
    2. He got us into the war based on total lies, fact. In yet the news blackout on this fact only proves that all of the news media is owned and opoerated by the global elite.
    3. The use of D.U. uranium ,some 300,000 tons of it in Iraq, which this government knows full well that it is very toxic and will kill many people including american soldiers that come back from Iraq. not only them but their unborn children.
    4. Bush allways uses the excuse of Ignorance to explain these tragic events. ie no one could have known that they would fly planes into the twin towers. no one could have known that the levies could break. Bush plays the part of a dunce because he uses it to his advatage.
    I could go on and on at naseum.
    It is clear Bush was never a christian not now or ever.
    Bush is however religous to satan. www.bushisantichrist.com

  • I checked the FEMA website myself, and there is no mention of "Operation Blessing" at all. If we are to be effective in expressing our well-founded outrage, we must report facts, not conjecture.

    • When the devastation forst became apparent, I went to the FEMA site and saw the Red Cross in first position, and ’Operation Blessing’ in second position.

      But NOW, on the FEMA site:
      http://www.fema.gov/

      clicking on the ’•Volunteer or Make a Donation ’ link takes you directly to:
      http://www.usafreedomcorps.gov/

      and the very TOP charity is the brand-spankin’-new new new:
      Bush - Clinton Katrina Fund (!)
      www.bushclintonkatrinafund.org

      Former Presidents Bush and Clinton have established a joint 501(c)(3) fund to receive donations to assist the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
       Your contribution is essential to rebuilding the lives of the victims.
      Click here to donate now .

      Or, you can mail a check or money order to the addresses listed below. Please make checks payable to the "Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund".

      Please mail checks or money orders to:
      Office of President Clinton
      Re: Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund
      55 W125th Street
      New York, NY 10027
      or:
      Office of President George H. W. Bush
      Re: Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund
      10000 Memorial Drive, Suite 900
      Houston, TX 77024

       (can serpents change their spots?)

    • Perhaps this article is the reason Pat Roberson’s website was removed. On Wednesday, August 31, Operation Blessing was most certainly listed on the FEMA website.

    • It is a fact that FEMA listed Operation Blessing on its website. I believe it was pulled from the main donation page because of thousands of angry blogs. but OB is still listed on FEMA’s Aug.29 news release https://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18473.

    • I’m happy to report that Operation Blessing was removed from the website due to "righteous anger".

  • A message from Michael Moore:

    Friends,

    There is much to be said and done about the manmade annihilation of New Orleans, caused NOT by a hurricane but by the very specific decisions made by the Bush administration in the past four and a half years. Do not listen to anyone who says we can discuss all this later. No, we can’t. Our country is in an immediate state of vulnerability. More hurricanes and other disasters are on the way, and a lazy bunch of self-satisfied lunatics are still running the show.

    So, in the next few days, I will write to you about what must be done about Bush and Co.

    But today I want you to join with me in bypassing the colossally inept and incompetent Bush administration and get help DIRECTLY to the people of the New Orleans area — right now.

    A lot of you have written me to ask what you can do. Many don’t know who to trust. Many want to do more than write a check. You are right to think that writing checks to relief agencies will not get water and aid to people in the next 48 hours. Checks will be needed later and can be written later.

    I have a way, though, for each and every one of us to do something today that can affect people’s lives TODAY.

    For the past few days I’ve been working with a group that, I guarantee you, will get direct aid to the people who need it most.

    Cindy Sheehan, the brave woman who dared to challenge Mr. Bush at his summer home, has now sent her Camp Casey from in front of Bush’s ranch to the outskirts of New Orleans. The Veterans for Peace have taken all the equipment and staff of volunteers and set up camp in Covington, Louisiana, on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. They are accepting materials and personally distributing them to those in need and have been going into New Orleans on a daily basis.

    This is where we come in. We need to ship supplies to them immediately. Today they need the following:

    Bottled Water (and lots of it!), baby diapers, baby wipes, baby formula, Pedialyte, baby items in general, powder, lotion, handy wipes, sterile gloves, electrolytes, LARGE cans of veggies, school supplies, paper plates, paper towels, toilet paper, and anything else to lift people’s spirits.

    You can ship these items by following the instructions on VFPRoadTrips.org. Or you can deliver them there in person. The roads to Covington are open. Their address is:

    Volunteer Kitchen, Food Bank and Distribution Center
    Pine View Middle School
    1115 West 28th Avenue Covington, LA.
    70434

    Here’s how to get there. You can drop them off or you can stay and participate (if you stay, you’ll be camping so bring your own tent and gear and mosquito spray).

    If you can’t ship these items or go there in person, then go to VFPRoadTrips.org and make an immediate donation through PayPal. Camp Casey-Covington will have immediate access to this cash and can buy the items themselves from stores that are open in Louisiana (all donations to Veterans for Peace, are tax deductible).

    Each day I will post up-to-the minute information as to what is needed and the progress Camp Casey is making. Please visit MichaelMoore.com often and do what you can to help.

    Many other groups are also doing good work. MoveOn.org has set up a system for people to offer rooms in their homes to the survivors.

    There is no time to waste. People are suffering and dying. Each of us can do something. There is no other alternative.

    Thank you in advance for your help. Tomorrow, we will take care of the other work we need to do about the ideologically hamstrung incompetents in charge.

    Yours,

    Michael Moore

    See also : open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush

  • They don’t need money- if they did they could look for the missing $9 billion from Iraq, or take back Hallibuton’s bonuses for doing crappy work.

    Fema has been turning away anyone and everyone trying to help- it’s not about the money.

    We need to put our effort toward holding the evildoers accountable for genocide. We cannot let them get away with this!

    • The white wash has already begun....and its business as usual (Halliburton or better Cheneyburton already has the contracts for the clean-up - it took about a nano second for them to get the deal) they are all trying to get on the "same page" of how to dupe the public manuel.

      The sad truth is that our country was lost when it was sold to the corporations listed on Wall Street. Americans are just the slaves of the corporations that own our country and our government. The phony terrorist war is a huge scam to suck up all of the money resources, along with the oil scam we are left entirely without any power as a people. War, war for profit, and power, power for profit are all there is left. As our infrastructure and cultures deteriorate, and Americans ask themselves where does all of the tax money go.

      As to OB, I saw on a news conference today a question directed to Brown of FEMA regarding Pat Robertson’s "aid group" being one of 3 on the FEMA list to donate to, Brown defended the choice as legitimate......ha,ha,ha,ha,ha, I guess he changed his mind about that later, could they be anymore transparent or embarrassing???

    • If ever there was a "noble cause", America, this is it! Now is the time to make that "sacrifice" and put your lives on the line and take back your country from the control of the parasites before it’s too late, if it’s not already.Every true american patriot must be able to see what is happening to their country - your freedom, your prosperity and your human dignity have all been eroded.The enemy is within.
      " They hate your freedom" some bright spark said, now you know who "they" are! There must be an urgent massive recruitment campaign for true american freedom fighters to bring "freedom and democracy" to the U.S.A - this is your "pre-emptive right" as enshrined in your Constitution.

      Hey, maybe Pat Robertson was right, it would be cheaper all round to assissinate a president.

  • I won’t give a penny to anything connected with Pat Roberton or Bush or Clinton, for that matter. I don’t trust any of them, least of all Robertson. He’s a villian in a fancy suit - nothing more. You can put a tuxedo on a pig but you still have a PIG. The same goes for Bush.

    If he hadn’t sqaundered the 300BILLION dollars in invading a sovreign nation based on LIES and killing 100,000 people in the process, Louisiana would have plenty of help financially. I didn’t piss the money away HE DID and so did Congress and in the process murdered over 2000 american soldiers for NOTHING - not including the 3000 he murdered in the WTC. Bush CLinton and Robertson can rot in hell before they or their seudo-charities/ piggy banks get a nickel from me.

    The FEDS fucked up BIG TIME and killed an untold number of people through their calousness and arrogance. Not to mention that eyewitnesses claim the levees were blown up intentionally. This charity shit is just damage control and it’s beyond shameful.

    If you want to do something, contact the States DIRECTLY. Find out what places need what and where they are located. Send only what is needed. Cash is wonderful stuff! It disappears so easily! Just ask Bush!

    Get off your butt and make a dam phone call for gods sake and quit relying on the FEDS and phoney christians to channel your money (back into their pockets)

    Clothing is all I’ll send until I know where the money goes.

    • very sensible attitude. im English and can smell the lies and bs the u.s authorities are spewing from here! would it be a different story if it was New York or Washington on the recieving end of a "so-called" natural disaster?
      Cant you fellas see that your leaders are turning the whole world against you?
      Tony Blair is just as bad, maybe worse because he is seen as bush’s lapdog.
      its disgusting that your government turns away help from the international community, that makes them equally as greedy and callous as a dictator in africa laundering famine aid money.
      HOW VERY CIVILISED!

  • WHAT A BUNCH OF IDIOTS. CHAVEZ IS A MURDRER ARE YOU PEOPLE WHACK JOBS. THE CHURCHES ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT HAVE THERE SHIT TOGETHER. UNLIKE THE DEMOCRATS WHO WERE ELECTED TO TAKE CARE OF THESE PEOPLE AND ABANDON THEM TO DIE MY GOD WHAT MIND CONTROL BULLSHIT HAVE YOU BEEN WATCHING.

    • WHAT A BUNCH OF IDIOTS. CHAVEZ IS A MURDRER ARE YOU PEOPLE WHACK JOBS. THE CHURCHES ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT HAVE THERE SHIT TOGETHER. UNLIKE THE DEMOCRATS WHO WERE ELECTED TO TAKE CARE OF THESE PEOPLE AND ABANDON THEM TO DIE MY GOD WHAT MIND CONTROL BULLSHIT HAVE YOU BEEN WATCHING.

      Yeah, yeah .... go back to your land of Faux news Rush the fatso druggieland.

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