Dana Gold
09-13-05, 05:59 PM
I just came across this, which is appx 1 1/2 weeks old....but very disturbing that FEMA would encourage people's direction toward the organization (Pat Robertson's group) in the link below. Since FEMA is connected to Homeland Security, one wonders if these people are truly "in the people's best interest"...that they would influence the American people to support/foster "faith-based" organizations, and exclude most other non-faith-based.....see below *...worse, how , if these are all charitable organizations, how can they get extra money from the donations.....it doesn't sound right at all.
PS: Oz refers to the movie Wizard of Oz
[I]The Federal Emergency Management Agency list was posted on the agency's Web site and published in major newspapers yesterday. After the American Red Cross, which was named first, the next organization was Operation Blessing, a group based in Virginia Beach, Virginia and founded by televangelist and Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson.
*How in the heck did that happen?'' said Richard Walden, president of Operation USA, a Los Angeles-based secular group that has been conducting disaster relief work since 1979 and was not on FEMA's list. ``That gives Pat Robertson millions of extra dollars.'' .......snip............................
Walden said the list is a departure from how the administration has handled previous disasters.
``To my knowledge they have never done it before with such a narrowly focused list of religious groups, some of whom are not known for being relief groups,'' Walden said. ``It looks like they were chosen for one of each religion.''
Beth Walsh, communications director for AmeriCares, an international relief group based in Stamford, Connecticut, called the published list ``odd.''
She said AmeriCares has asked FEMA to be included.
``We haven't gotten a response yet,'' she said.
De Galan said his organization has made a similar request.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=a.YafP.BwkJA&refer=top_world_news
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According to its most recent filing with the Internal Revenue Service, Operation Blessing gave more than half of its yearly allocation of cash donations — $885,000 — to the Christian Broadcasting Network, or CBN, of which Robertson is also the chairman
"Well, that's an absolute, total and complete distortion of the truth," Horan said. "Operation Blessing does not give 1 red cent to CBN."
When he was told of the Operation Blessing documents obtained by ABC News, which show a contribution of $885,000 to CBN, Horan called it an accounting issue.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/HurricaneKatrina/story?id=1112518&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
:confused_ :thinking:
PS: Oz refers to the movie Wizard of Oz
[I]The Federal Emergency Management Agency list was posted on the agency's Web site and published in major newspapers yesterday. After the American Red Cross, which was named first, the next organization was Operation Blessing, a group based in Virginia Beach, Virginia and founded by televangelist and Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson.
*How in the heck did that happen?'' said Richard Walden, president of Operation USA, a Los Angeles-based secular group that has been conducting disaster relief work since 1979 and was not on FEMA's list. ``That gives Pat Robertson millions of extra dollars.'' .......snip............................
Walden said the list is a departure from how the administration has handled previous disasters.
``To my knowledge they have never done it before with such a narrowly focused list of religious groups, some of whom are not known for being relief groups,'' Walden said. ``It looks like they were chosen for one of each religion.''
Beth Walsh, communications director for AmeriCares, an international relief group based in Stamford, Connecticut, called the published list ``odd.''
She said AmeriCares has asked FEMA to be included.
``We haven't gotten a response yet,'' she said.
De Galan said his organization has made a similar request.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=a.YafP.BwkJA&refer=top_world_news
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According to its most recent filing with the Internal Revenue Service, Operation Blessing gave more than half of its yearly allocation of cash donations — $885,000 — to the Christian Broadcasting Network, or CBN, of which Robertson is also the chairman
"Well, that's an absolute, total and complete distortion of the truth," Horan said. "Operation Blessing does not give 1 red cent to CBN."
When he was told of the Operation Blessing documents obtained by ABC News, which show a contribution of $885,000 to CBN, Horan called it an accounting issue.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/HurricaneKatrina/story?id=1112518&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
:confused_ :thinking: