Cindy’s Bus Tour Pals Leech Off Red Cross Katrina Effort

Sweetness & Light ^ | September 5, 2005 | N/A

[Sam Hill]

Veterans For Peace, the rabid hate-America group who's impeachment tour Cindy Sheehan glommed on to, has decided to try to milk the Katrina disaster for their own nefarious ends.

First they claim they are "supporting the Rd Cross with power and medical supplies. (Sure they are.)

Then the VFP list what they need to continue their propaganda campaign. And mind you, nothing but the best will do. ($3K for a monitor?):

Cindy Sheehan and friend pose in front of the VFP's Impeachment Tour bus

Hurricane Katrina Real News

 
We have set up a permanent Camp Casey at the Pine View Middle School, 1115 West 28th Street, Covington, LA. We are supporting The Red Cross with power and medical supplies and kitchen service, food bank, and distribution and Internet communications and trained medical personnel.

DROP OFFS
Volunteer Kitchen, Food Bank and Distribution Center
Pine View Middle School
1115 West 28th Street Covington, LA. 70434

UPS & FEDEX
Veterans For Peace Chapter 116 C/O
645 Kimbro Drive, Baton Rouge, LA. 70808

We are using the school to support Veterans For Peace hurricane relief efforts from Covington, LA. for the people of the region.

Make a donation to Veterans For Peace Chapter 116

We will use this money for the relief efforts. We still Need Trained Volunteers & Specific Donations (see below)

Most importantly: (This list will change!)

#1 Volunteers

#2 Baby Food Formula, diapers #4, #5, wips, pedialite.

#3 Adult Depends, Steril Gloves, Electrolites

#4 FOOD BANK & DELIVERY VOLUNTEERS with TRUCKS, VANS, or CARS

#5 KITCHENS (SELF CONTAINED) with generators, utensils, workers

#6 OFFICE & MEDIA EQUIPMENT:

Our Mobile Media Center is on the bus with wireless Internet via Satellite. We are using our computer to communicate needs and direct refugees to services and document damage in the poorest effected areas.

We need to have more tools and software to be truely effective.

NEEDS:
(5) Apple iMac G5 Computer 20" Monitor = $3,000 each
(5) 500 Gigabyte Firewire Harddrive= $500 each
(5) Canon XL2Digital Video Camera = $4,500 each
(2) Digital Projector (3000 lumens) =$1,000 each
(5) Apple iPods with recording = $600 each

Monthly Satellite Access and Website Hosting Fee = $200 pr/mo

Donations for our multi media equipment will support refugees, volunteers, Red Cross, staff, press, keep in touch through via email, web, blogs, and teleconferencing.

In order to insure our message gets out

Cash donations are always needed and are Tax Deductible!

Contact:
Veterans For Peace Chapter 116
28500 Sherwood Rd
Willits CA 95490
pjtate@sonic.net
Cell PH 707-536-3001

You see, the Red Cross doesn't have computers or multi-media equipment of their own. No way.

I wonder if the Red Cross knows that these parasites at Veterans For [a] Peace [of the action] are using their name and bogus support to leech more money, fancy equipment and services for their America-hating ends?

How low can you go?

[Sam Hill]

I hope somebody warns the Red Cross they are being used this way.

[Sam Hill]

FYI

[firebrand]

This is despicable, to be trying to siphon off donations from the hurricane relief. Out of the limelight and less cash coming in, I guess, courtesy of Katrina.

[Moose4]

$600 for a freaking iPod? Where are they getting them from, defense contractors?

That's crazy. They can use crappy $200 monitors and $100 MP3 players like the rest of us do. And go out and scrounge up some used Celerons or something--what, Windows is too good for 'em? Jeez. Leeches.

}:-)4

[KJC1]

NEEDS:
(5) Apple iMac G5 Computer 20" Monitor = $3,000 each
(5) 500 Gigabyte Firewire Harddrive= $500 each
(5) Canon XL2Digital Video Camera = $4,500 each
(2) Digital Projector (3000 lumens) =$1,000 each
(5) Apple iPods with recording = $600 each

Let's see: $15k for fancy monitors, $2500 for hard drives, $22.5k for fancy video cameras, $2k for projectors, $3k for iPods.

Absolutely shameless shilling: Priceless.

[Bahbah]

This is OUTRAGEOUS! It's like stealing. Has Soros cut of the money?

[GeorgiaDawg32]

Yea..sounds like their MSM money is gone and now they have to resort to this..

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

We need to have more tools and software to be truely effective.

You mean like a spell checker?

[bayourod]

"This is despicable"

What can you expect? If the "Impeach President Bush", anti-Iraq war crowd can use Free Republic to promote their cause they can use anyone.

[Sam Hill]

"$600 for a freaking iPod? Where are they getting them from, defense contractors?"

And just why do they need a freaking iPod in the first place?

[Sam Hill]

"Absolutely shameless shilling: Priceless."

What are they bringing to the table again? They don't have any volunteers, food, medical supplies, equipment...

Is it the glamor of their name that's going to help the cause?

[claudiustg]

I'm a little tapped right now, but I'll donate 2 tin cans and a lot of string if they'll come by and pick them up.

[JamminJAY]

Ha!

(5) Apple iPods with recording = $600 each
You need jams to have a true peace rally.

Did they forget 300 Bong/waterpipe $25.00 each.

Jammer

[Mo1]

Someone sure needs to tell the RC about this

This is outrageous

[trussell]

Ping to Cindy's new scam!!!

[Sam Hill]

These are the same people who helped Cindy raise $600K for Fallujah.

But I bet the Red Cross--and none of the Katrina victims--ever see a dime from them.

But it's okay. They'll get some nice Mac gear out of it. And some more $$$$$$$$ for their real job--impeaching Bush and attacking America.

[Sam Hill]

"We are supporting The Red Cross with power and medical supplies and kitchen service, food bank, and distribution and Internet communications and trained medical personnel."

Or rather, they might support the Red Cross with these things if somebody gives them power, medical supplies and kitchen service and food and pays their internet connection, and some doctors volunteer.

But at least maybe they'll score some iPods from this scam.

[Moose4]

They mention "with recording" in the article...guess they use them as super-fancy tape recorders. But $600 each? They can hit Staples and get a little Dictaphone thingy for $50. Oh, but they can't listen to Green Day and Joan Baez on that, can they?

}:-)4

[KJC1]

The Crawford Peace House raised over $150k last I heard (for similar stuff: computers, etc.), and now the "Veterans for Peace" want a piece of the gravytrain too, only now they are attempting to take funds away from the victims of the hurricane.

Just disgusting. Just had to vent some more. I think we all should notify the Red Cross, as others have mentioned. I'm sending off an email now.

[Darnright]

Yeppers, they NEED those $3,000.00 monitors to help those poor people, don't you understand? It's Bush's fault.

[billnaz]

Doesn't George Soros have enough money already?

[Sam Hill]

Meanwhile, on another page at the VFP site, a page relating to the Impeachment bus tour--and totally unrelated to any support of the Red Cross we find a strangely similar request:

Mobile Multi Media & Internet Access Bus

Here is the needs list for the bus!

(1) Satelite Mobile Internet Unit = $5,000

(1) Apple iMac G5 Computer 20" Monitor = $3,000
(1) 500 Gigabyte Firewire Harddrive = $500
(1) Canon XL2 Digital Video Camera = $4,500
(1) Digital Projector (3000 lunens) =$1000
(2) Apple iPods with recording mics = $600
(1) Canon Printer = $200
(40) Mini DV Tape = $200
(40) DVD Blanks = $200

=$15,000.00

Monthly Satelite Access Fee = $200 pr/mo

Website Hosting = $50 pr/mo

We are asking you to help us get the word out to the world that there are veterans who beleave we did not have the right to invade Iraq. We want to help them express how they feal when they come home. We want to let them know that we care! And since we are veterans of WWII, Korea, Viet Nam, Afganistan and Iraq. We are trusted to present them in a respectfull light.

Donations for our traveling multi media equipment will keep our guest speakers and support staff press, sponsors, members, in touch through via email, web, blogs, and teleconferencing.

In order to insure our message get out the way we want it, we most maintain control of the message content as well as the context.

This page has nothing to do with Katrina victims relief. So it turns out VFP just wanted the equipment and were using their bogus claim of supporting the Red Cross to get it.

[Sam Hill]

I could have sworn this was news. But it turns out it is just blogging.

Ah well, guess I go over and read about

Nude Swimsuit Model Saves Man's Genitals from Lawnmower

http://tinyurl.com/dpz2w

in the NEWS section.

Oh, and what IS your favorite movie theme?

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"President Bush said my son died in a noble cause,
and I want to ask him what that noble cause is."
Cindy Sheehan

Cindy : Iraq Freedom is the noble cause.
No longer do I fear the butcher Saddam Hussein murdering my children!



President Bush Remembers Halabja
Saturday, 15 March 2003
President's Radio Address (Remembering Halabja)
"This weekend marks a bitter anniversary for the people of Iraq.
Fifteen years ago, Saddam Hussein's regime ordered a chemical weapons attack on a village in Iraq called Halabja. With that single order, the regime killed thousands of Iraq's Kurdish citizens. Whole families died while trying to flee clouds of nerve and mustard agents descending from the sky. Many who managed to survive still suffer from cancer, blindness, respiratory diseases, miscarriages,
and severe birth defects among their children..."

Anyone who thinks Hanoi Kerry and Hanoi Jane
aren't behind the anti war crowd
needs to get a clue.
Remember the slaughter and torture of the people of Viet Nam by the communists
while Hanoi Kerry and Hanoi Jane cheered their commie buddies!



Lame Stream Media : News Flash!

President Bush already met with Cindy Sheehan in June 2004 for 10 minutes.

From The Reporter, Vacaville, CA archive: Bush, Sheehans share moments.


Quit lying!!!!

[Mrs.Nooseman]

BTTT

[Lurker]

I'll be sending this to the Red Cross.

They take a pretty dim view of this kind of shit.

L

[Sam Hill]

Thought I better ping you, since as usual my post has been relegated to the blogger ghetto. So until Drudge picks it up, or WMD or Newsmax lift it and it gets posted as breaking news a dozen times, most people won't see it.

Too bad for Mother Sheehan the mods didn't start this sooner, or the people of FR and the rest of the world would have missed some of my earlier articles.

Funny, the original material my posts contained have now become part of the language here and elsewhere. Oh, well. Back to Caption That Pic and stories about Nude Swimsuit Models.

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[Petronski]

I'm a little tapped right now, but I'll donate 2 tin cans and a lot of string if they'll come by and pick them up.

I haven't flushed yet, if they're interested in making a collection.

[John Lenin]

The Veterans for Peace are a disgrace to anyone who serves or has ever served in the military.

Liberalism: Where Shame is a Virtue

[Sam Hill]

"Liberalism: Where Shame is a Virtue"

And vice versa.

[Howie66]

"Cindy Sheehan"?

Who is this knob and why is her mug still being posted?

There are far more important things going on than her and her ANTI-AMERICA rant.

Things like flossing.....rotating tires......going to the "Stop-N-Rob" to get more beer.....

Ms Sheehan is IRRELEVANT.

[nutmeg]

I could have sworn this was news. But it turns out it is just blogging

Is this for real, or some kind of satire? I'm not familiar with the source: Sweetness & Light. Not sure what to make of it...

[Sam Hill]

It's for real. Click on the links. It's all from VFP's site.

[Sam Hill]

Get back to me on September 24th.

[Old Student]

"And go out and scrounge up some used Celerons or something--what, Windows is too good for 'em? Jeez. Leeches."

Don't forget, Linux is free... But hopefully, it won't work for these pinheads.

[Mr. Silverback]

Osama bin Laden just signed their petition to impeach Dubya.

[CitizenM]

You can go to this link for the Red Cross. It is their contact form. Alert them of this situation and express your opinion or question if they have approved this affiliation. I just did and copied much of this article in the "comment" section. I volunteered for the Red Cross and I would be surprised if they approve any politically motiviated association. There are many good people there who do not involve politics in the efforts of service to their fellow man. Many would be dismayed.

Link to Contact form for the Red Cross

If the link does not work for you, here is the website:
https://www2.redcross.org/contactusform/

[Sam Hill]

Thanks for that, CitizenM.

I'm sure they'd like to know they are being used this way.

[Soaring Feather]

bump

[bigsigh]

They forgot the new Mercedes bus.

[js1138]

Good to see they're Mac fans. All that stuff is at 3x the cost of PCs.

[Alia]

bookmark

[shezza]

I believe that several telephone companies are offering FOR FREE phone banks and internet services at shelters. Looks to me like the moonbats just want the new equipment for their own propoganda machine. (ipods? $4500 video cameras? come on! This is not for Red Cross or evacuee use, I guarantee it.)

[Howie66]

"Get back to me on September 24th."

??

Is this ANTI-AMERICA knob going to actually do something significant?

I'm not going to be holding my breath.

[Howie66]

"Get back to me on September 24th."

You name the time and place.

I will be there.

[Cougar66]

LOL They want $$ to support the Red Cross??? OH please spare us the LIES. They need ipods for what??

[Military family member]

You can buy the 20" monitors for much less than that from the Mac Warhouse. the 30" monitors are $3K

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Hey it takes alot to be a traitor these days ! /sarc left on for effect

[coconutt2000]

1) iMac with 20" monitor = $1,799.00/each (VFP Price= $3,000/each)
2) 500 GB Firewire HD = $399.00/each (VFP Price = $500/each)
3) Canon XL2 Digital Video Camera = $4,999.00/each (VFP Price = $4,500/each)
- This item is available for $4,199.00 at discount online retailers.
4) Projector 3000 lumens = (VFP Price = $1,000/each)
- No such item exists anywhere near that price point. 3000 lumen projectors start at over $2,000/each... Well over.
5) iPod 60GB w/Griffin iTalk recording = $440/each (VFP Price = $600/each)

Veterans For Peace is greatly exaggerating the prices of most of these items. Only real exception is the projector, but I think that is a case of wishful thinking, in the hope that they can bamboozle someone with a 3000 lumen projector to donate the equipment.

[2111USMC]

Un-F'n-Believable!