Your source link didn't work for me and I would like to research this
more because I love the Red Cross. During hurricanes Floyd and Fran
(here in NC) they did incredible work. I know that not all the money
people contribute goes to the immediate disaster because they handle so
many "little" disasters (like an apartment building fire in Durham last
week that made 5 families homeless, they found shelter for those
families.) So it would be impossible and unfair to take every single
penny from a general fund and spend it all in one place. Plus, if you
tell the person collecting the money you want it to go ONLY to
hurricane Katrina then it will only go to Katrina.
As I say I would like to read things from the source and see the
research the author did before I change my mind about an organization I
have so much gratitude and respect for.
The Charity that I can't deal with is Project Blessings because it's
been proven that Pat Robertson has taken funds out of it and put them
in his personal accounts. He was under investigation for 5 jet planes
he bought until his buddy Bush derailed it.
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Don't Give Your Hurricane Donations to the Red Cross
Establishment charities have history of withholding disaster funds
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones | September 1 2005
As the aftermath of hurricane Katrina continues to wreak mayhem and
havoc amid reports of mass looting, shooting at rescue helicopters,
rapes and murders, establishment media organs are promoting the Red
Cross as a worthy organization to give donations to.
The biggest website in the world, Yahoo.com, displays a Red Cross
donation link prominently on its front page.
Every time there is a major catastrophe the Red Cross and similar
organizations like United Way are given all the media attention while
other charities are left in the shadows. This is not to say that the
vast majority of Red Cross workers are not decent people who simply
want to help those in need.
But what the media fails consistently to remember in their promotion of
the organization is that the Red Cross have been caught time and time
again withholding money in the wake of horrible disasters that require
immediate release of funds.
The Red Cross, under the Liberty Fund, collected $564 million in
donations after 9/11. Months after the event, the Red Cross had
distributed only $154 million. The Red Cross' explanation for keeping
the majority of the money was that it would be used to help 'fight the
war on terror'. To the victims, this meant that the money was going
towards bombing broken backed third world countries like Afghanistan
and setting up surveillance cameras and expanding the police state in
US cities, and not towards helping them rebuild their lives.
Then Red Cross President Dr. Bernadine Healy arrogantly responded when
questioned about the withholding of funds by stating, "The Liberty Fund
is a war fund. It has evolved into a war fund."
Despite the family members of victims of 9/11 complaining bitterly to a
House Energy and Commerce Committee's oversight panel, the issue seemed
to be brushed under the carpet and the mud didn't stick.
The Red Cross' scandalous activities reach back far before 9/11.
After the devastating San Francisco earthquake in 1989, the Red Cross
passed on only $10 million of the $50 million that had been raised, and
banked the rest.
Similar donations after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and the Red
River flooding in 1997 were also greedily withheld.
Smaller charities that were involved with the 2004 Tsunami relief
project went public to say that large charities like Red Cross and
United Way were engaged in secret backroom negotiations with each other
that meant a large portion of the donation money was purposefully
restricted from reaching the most needy areas affected by the disaster.
The history is clear, the Red Cross and other large so-called charities
are in actual fact front group collection agencies for the military
industrial complex.
Many informed historians have even alleged that the Red Cross was used
as a Skull and Bones cover to overthrow The Russian Czar and pave the
way for the rise of the Bolsheviks.
Do not give any money to the Red Cross unless you support the expansion
of empire abroad and police state at home. Find a smaller trustworthy
organization in the local area of New Orleans and make your donation to
them.
Source:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/article...905redcross.htm
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