Re: Re: OT: Fw: Don't Give Your Hurricane Donations to the Red Cross

[Aaron Davies <agdavi01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 8, 2005, at 11:40 AM, Andy Stoffel wrote:

> --- exiled <exiled@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Your source link didn't work for me and I would like to
> > research this more because I love the Red Cross.
>
> So he/it blasted the Red Cross and then included a link to them?
> Strange...
>
> Personally I prefer to send my money to an organization like the
> Red Cross that has experience with such things, instead of one
> of those other groups who really only have experience doing the
> missionary thing (And the occasional tv advertizement for
> starving children).
>
> At least they already have a working system up and running... a
> lot of those other local groups... would end up spending a large
> chunk of the donations just getting their organization together.
>
> And the money you donate doesn't go TO the people being helped.
> It goes to HELP the people needing help. Not the same thing...
>
> I tend to chalk up such attacks on the Red Cross to the whole
> BushCo./wingnut anti-Red Cross thing they have going. I'm
> surprised they haven't had the Red Cross declared a terroist
> organization after it criticised BushCo. for allowing prisoners
> in US military prisons/gulags to be tortured.

If you made it all the way to the bottom, you would see that the post  
degenerated into a conspiracy theory about the Red Cross being  
involved in the Russian revolution. I officially declare Devlyn  
Kingsley a nutcase.
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