Posted on 01/07/2005 10:08:13 AM PST by underwiredsupport
We sent OUR money to the SALVATION ARMY - for their operations there.....I'm sure the Salvation Army is NOT handing out money....
Those Muslim groups need to shut up and get out, since they obviously don't care about their Muslim brothers enough to help clean up, bury bodies, set up food banks etc. There was some moronic cleric yesterday, proclaiming the existence of Muslim tsunami survirors to the world - dudh - while the stench of rotting bodies was everywhere. My only reaction was that he needed to shut his fat mouth and start helping to bury bodies. Something that needs to be brought up more often.
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Not surprising, but this is utterly disgusting. I read another rumor about AQ types spreading false rumors about the aid we're delivering--poisoned food, etc. These people are beyond the pale.
There are legitimate, non-Islamic charities doing good work in the relief effort and not ripping people off or funding terroists. Just make sure that if you do make a contribution, that you make sure it goes to the right people.
I'm not contributing ANYTHING as my government has already contributed for me by using the taxes they take from my weekly paycheck and sending them to the victims. By the way, I am also guilt free.
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What do votes and Islamic extremists have to do with aiding the injured, starving, homeless survivors of a massive natural disaster? We EXPECTED the maggots to show up in order to feed on the death and destruction following the tsunami, and our troops are watching them.
Much more information on the rapidly deteriorating situation in Aceh.
Trouble starting to brew in Aceh
THANK you for re-posting this- I read it when you posted it- it bears re-reading...and for anyone who's not read it yet- it's a MUST read.
Me too--I've only donated to Gospel for Asia, which is not only a pretty frugal group, but was already set up there over in Tsunamiland, and so I figure they know the people there and will do the right thing with the money.
Not to mention they will spread the message of Jesus along with the money and food/water/medicine.
Not my words but worth thinking about
"The Bush administration today raised tenfold to $350
million its initial contribution for relief aid for the
Indian Ocean tsunami. The announcement, made in a
written statement from the president this afternoon,
follows frosty public exchanges over the past few days
with a United Nations official and other critics
concerning U.S. foreign aid levels."
-Washington Post, Dec. 31, 2004.'
Does money really grow on trees for the White House? It sure
seems Pres. Bush thinks so!
America has plenty of its own disaster victims. But their
only role in the Bush Administration's worldview is to pay more
taxes to bail out Indonesian disaster victims. After all, math
says that the money - now up to over a third of a billion dollars
- Bush promised mainly to Indonesia has to come from somewhere, and
that "somewhere" can only be taxpayers.
Right here in North Carolina, Americans in this state's west
are still struggling - after having been hit with three hurricanes
in three months last year. Americans in Florida are even worse off
from those same three hurricanes. If Bush wants to help disaster
victims, he can find plenty of American ones.
And that's just victims of natural disasters. If Bush really wants
to help people, there are plenty of hurting Americans - like the
many here in Alamance County who saw their 401(k) retirement
money evaporate when their former employer Lucent had its stock
plummet from 84 to 6 in one year. Many of those middle-class
locals lost $500,000 each in that - on top of most having been
downsized when AT&T's local employment collapsed.
Or maybe he could have taken the third of a billion he will
give to hostile Third World nations for tidal-wave relief - and
instead help the many Americans whose jobs and retirement money
vanished in Enron's collapse. Or he could help United Airlines'
flight attendants - who are now threatening targeted strikes this
weekend over that airline's effort to use its bankruptcy case to
end their pensions.
And what about America's veterans? Like the guys who come
home from Iraq too badly wounded to stay in the Army - only to be
dunned by the Pentagon for bonuses they "didn't earn" because they
didn't last through their commitment? Like the guys who can't get
adequate health care for their battle wounds?
But Bush - "gutsy" enough to play Patton in Iraq - now is
willing to ante up ten times as much taxpayer money to bail out
Third World tidal-wave victims, all because he doesn't like being
badmouthed by the UN. Just whose government is Washington, anyway?
And what is American citizenship really worth - when Washington so
happily taxes American disaster victims more to bail out foreign
disaster victims?
Something is deeply immoral about taxing suffering Americans
more to bail out suffering Indonesians. Doing so says that
American citizenship isn't worth a damn thing - except the chance
to get beheaded in any Moslem nation.
Many dissidents say that the GOP will shatter over the issue
of amnesty for illegal aliens. But "nation-building" could just as
easily be the cause of the end of the GOP - especially when so many
Americans are hurting and Pres. Bush's only response is to tax them
more to give more foreign aid to Third World victims of the recent
tidal wave.
Shhhhhhhhhhh.
Just keep sending your cash to muslims.
Write another check today!
Allah Akhbar!
Thats nice and politically correct. Unfortunately there is not a shred of truth to it. In fact, the opposite is true. They routinely attack, kidnap, and execute aid workers. Everywhere. Its the ROP.
Why is the Western world helping the enemy and reporting from there? Let them mend for themselves.
I think the Christian groups should go all out in trying to convert some of these Muslims into Christians. If the IslamoFacist want to use violence against those Christian groups then our military forces there should strike militarily and destroy the bastards.
We might see some hunting soon.
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