Looters in New Orleans

[moe.ron]

Originally posted by OleMissGlitter
Hey does anyone know if any other countries are going to send aid or if the actors who did the Tsunami Relief stuff are going to do the same for Hurricane victims?

Venezuela have offered to donate $1 million. Heard the European are considering giving their oil reserve to offset the shortage. I know Canada have offered some help, not really sure what. The rest are waiting to see what kind of help is needed. They're waiting for the US government to officially ask what kind of goods and services are required.

[RACooper]

Originally posted by moe.ron
Venezuela have offered to donate $1 million. Heard the European are considering giving their oil reserve to offset the shortage. I know Canada have offered some help, not really sure what. The rest are waiting to see what kind of help is needed. They're waiting for the US government to officially ask what kind of goods and services are required.

Canada has offer to send both our civilian and military disaster response teams, as well as Search & Rescue teams and equipment - only problem is we are still waiting for the go ahead from Washington.... the pressure on the PM to do something has gotten to the point were the PM will be calling Bush today to ask for permission to send the troops and volunteers in...

[moe.ron]

Yup, the Bush administration have not asked for help. The American Red Cross hasn't asked for help either.

I know is not much, but the tsunami survivor in Aceh have held prayer services for the Katrina victims.

[AGDee]

Harry Connick Jr is organizing a concert

Connick was born and raised in New Orleans, developing his music in jazz bands and at clubs in the French Quarter. His father, Harry Connick Sr., served as district attorney of New Orleans for 29 years before retiring in 2003.

"Everything that I have professionally, and so much of what I have personally, is because of this great, fair city," Connick said. "And to see it being drowned like this is almost unbearable."

He will join a televised fundraiser, A Concert for Hurricane Relief, Friday on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC (8 p.m. ET) that also will include performances by Wynton Marsalis and Tim McGraw.

[LightBulb]

That's great what the other countries and people are doing so far to help.

Donating to Red Cross

I'm sure they could use blood donations too...

[madmax]

I saw a show(Dateline or 48 hours) after 9/11 on charities. The jist of the show was to point out how little money actually donated to a charity actually goes to the victims. I think charities are only required to spend 10% of their donations on the victims. They can spend as much as 90% on overhead. The head of the charity can be driving a Bentley and paying himself 7 figures.

Does anyone know what percentage of Red Cross donations actually go to victims?

[moe.ron]

Snipers at the Charity Hospital in Nola. Saw it on BBC News.

[sugar and spice]

Originally posted by wrigley
In one news report there was a cop pushing around a shopping cart full of stuff just like every other looter.

Well, New Orleans cops aren't exactly known for being pinnacles of morality, so this really isn't that surprising . . . .

[Tom Earp]

Everyone is worried at this point. Food and Water are life sustaining.

To have people stand there after the actual first day saying they are not getting Help. What The Hell? You just dont move so much food and medicine and water over night!

It is time that some Countrys Give USA as We give $$$$$ for anything.

No one ever thought this would happen. It Did!

LXA Has a Site that is set up for any GLO to connect to to Donate anything to the needy. Check some other Threads.

Once again, K C is in the fore front doing and giving. But these asswholes in Atlanta gouging on Gas is uncalled for.

Hell, only 3.06 when I came Home tofday and going Higher from what I hear.

So Much For Economy!

[Coramoor]

Originally posted by madmax
I saw a show(Dateline or 48 hours) after 9/11 on charities. The jist of the show was to point out how little money actually donated to a charity actually goes to the victims. I think charities are only required to spend 10% of their donations on the victims. They can spend as much as 90% on overhead. The head of the charity can be driving a Bentley and paying himself 7 figures.

Does anyone know what percentage of Red Cross donations actually go to victims?

I seem to remember a few charities getting in big trouble for this after 9/11. Particularly the one hosted by all the celebs and by the redcross.

Something like a billion was collected, but next to nothing was actually distributed until it was taken to court or the media let it loose.

[ZTABullwinkle]

My mom works for the Red Cross. After 9/11, the President of the Red Cross was fired/resigned/was asked to leave (whatever you want to call it) specifically for the reasons stated before. If you go to the Red Cross website, you can designate where the money goes (i.e. Hurrican Relief). From what my mom said....the money WILL go to Hurricane Relief.

I am pretty sure there will be some scrutiny over who is giving what (in the way of charities). Especially after 9/11. I am sure there are even some scammers out there raising money for "hurricane relief" only to put it into their pockets. Nowadays, nothing will surprise me....

[AlphaSigOU]

From an e-mail I received from a fellow Masonic lodge brother. It's prolly already making the rounds of the net, so don't shoot the messenger:

Dear Community Leaders,

After watching nearly 4 hours of coverage of the terrible disaster on our gulf coast a sad day for America becomes an international looking glass into our strength's and weaknesses in the face of a disaster of epic proportions. As CNN and Fox and other media outlets broadcast these grim images for all the world to see, I find that beyond the obvious sadness one feels for the loss of life and property there was one glaring example of a battle that has raged for eons in our great country. Over the years as America has strived to show the world we are a genuinely kind and caring nation made up of good, decent and peaceable people we display on the worlds television sets an inner demon that we cannot seem to overcome.

As I watched the coverage unfold there was one particular event which I found extremely disturbing in the face of all the suffering and loss. Looting.

Who are we these people that simply decide that it is their turn to dine at the fatted calf? Reel after reel of film showing people casually shopping through the department stores helping themselves to items that will serve no purpose for their survival needs, expensive children's toys, video games and general items of luxury. Strolling along as though they were Christmas shopping on a Sunday afternoon without a care other than how they were going to manage to carry all of their ill gotten gains to their flooded homes. Most didn't even attempt to cover their faces out of fear of being recognized as though if family and friends happened to see them on TV it would be received as a badge of honor. Just incredible, is the only way I could describe what I was watching.

And how did these people plan to explain to their children how they came about the $400 Barbie motorized beach car, or the $1200 wide screen TV, or the Game Boy or any of the other pilfered goods that belonged to someone else up to the time they took possession? My guess, honesty.

Surely any child of age to be able to appreciate these gifts from the flood will be very aware of where they came from and, as behavior is a learned action taught by example, they too will seek their own chair at the table of unearned wealth. And while the looting and theft was just about as bad an example of ethics as there is, there is an even more profound issue at hand. While I am sure there is the odd example here and there throughout the ravaged area of the gulf coast that was decimated by Katrina, I failed to notice on any of the media outlets that were filming on scene, a person of Latin decent, or Asian, or Caucasian or middle eastern background. Of the hundreds of looters proudly displaying their actions only one race was represented. And these people have for years tried to convince societies all over the world that they should be accepted as equals and treated with the same level of respect as those that we didn't see in the Wal-Mart with a shopping cart loaded with other people's merchandise. How dare Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the other so called leaders of civil rights target those of us who abide by the rules and morality of a decent civilization as unjust bigots. Were they to spend half as much time preaching to their own as they do to me then maybe the media would have had to search elsewhere for some sensational scoop.

How do they expect me to accept with blind faith what I am not blind to? Each generation teaches the next what is right and what is wrong and until one generation decides that enough is enough the world will view the entire race by what they see day in and day out from those that choose to disgrace themselves and their kind. How sad it is indeed that America is populated with a subculture such as this.

Signed, Concerned

[TheEpitome1920]

I'm watching Primetime and they mentioned 2 photos and how they protrayed the looters. One shows and African American male wading through water with a bag and the caption mentions him looting. Another pictures shows a White male and female and says that they "found" food.


Why the difference? Did they both not take items that didn't belong to them? A large number of the people who are left in N.O. are Black/poor and have been protrayed like animals in my opinion. In desperate times who knows what you'd do to stay alive...

[ZTABullwinkle]

Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
From an e-mail I received from a fellow Masonic lodge brother. It's prolly already making the rounds of the net, so don't shoot the messenger:

Can I agree with messenger??? I am sorry to admit this, but I had noticed this also. I can understand taking food and diapers, but the expensive items (shoes, video games, etc)?!?! It makes me madder than hell that these people almost seem proud of what they are doing, along with seeing younger people participating.

I am not sure what can be done (the police definitely have their hands full there....) about this. Personally, I would go with the shoot on sight policy.

I am sure we are going to hear Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton crying "racism" about this. But the proof is in the video!!


Now...I am not saying that every Black American is participating in this activity. Let me not generalize it that way.

I am now ready for the flaming to begin!

[Kevlar281]

Local news just reported looting in Houston.