NationStates Jolt Archive


FEMA directing funds to Pat Robertson

Onesubstance
02-09-2005, 05:08
This is too much. FEMA, whose incompetent director said on CNN tonight that they just figured out how bad things were, is directing contributions to "Operation Blessing" a charity organization run by the radical evangelist Pat Robertson. Here it is on the FEMA website:
www.fema.gov/press/2005/katrinadonations.s htm (http://www.fema.gov/press/2005/katrinadonations.s htm)

First of all, Robertson is a violent radical that has called for the assination of foreign leaders and asks his television audience to pray for the death of Supreme Court Justices, which is aweful close to directly calling for violence.

Second, he's a crook who has a history of using "Operation Blessing" to attempt to gain personal profit. For example, in 1994 Robertson diverted planes from relief efforts to his own private for-profit diamond mining enterprise in Central Africa. He had promised donors and followers that their contributions would go to relief for victims of the Rwandan genocide:
www.tbaptist.com/aab/patsdiamond.htm (http://www.tbaptist.com/aab/patsdiamond.htm)
www.msmagazine.com/sept03/sizemore.asp (http://www.msmagazine.com/sept03/sizemore.asp)

How low can you get? This guy is the worst of the worst, and FEMA is directing funds to him! What's next? Sheeeeesh.
Laerod
02-09-2005, 05:18
The first link isn't working...