Red Cross Drinking ACLU Kool-Aide?

vanity | 10.28.05 | Mad Dawg

[Mad Dawg]

I can see prohibiting actual services on site. But announcements of bus rides? Anybody else see anything wrong with this or have I just lost all perspective?

[TommyDale]

The Red Cross is following the United Way's leadership in driving everyone away.

[SittinYonder]

We had hurricane evacuees here. A local Christian outreach group was helping to organize and distribute donations. They wore T-shirts bearing the name of the group with "Christian" in the name. A Red Cross worker told them they had to put on different T-shirts, that the word "Christian" might be offensive. They refused and were allowed to continue helping.

[KarlInOhio]

More silliness from the Red Plus Sign. That's why the Salvation Army got my money for Hurricane Katrina relief.

[Constitution Day]

Irony. It's so deliciously ironic.

[gathersnomoss]

Screw the Red Cross. They used millions in 9/11 donations to update their network. They will not get my money again.

[gathersnomoss]

Christians 1: RC 0.

[ark_girl]

That's exactly why I donated to the Salvation Army after Katrina when I could help it. There was stuff through work that went to the Red Cross, but any time I call on my own, it will be to the Salvation Army for now. Just hearing too many stories about the Red Cross lately.

[pabianice]

The Red Cross is one of the most viciously anti-Semitic organizations in the US and is firmly under the control of Islamofacists. It refuses to recognize or coordinate relief efforts with Israel's Red Star of David "until the occupation of Palestine is over." That pretty much says it all.

Do NOT give to the hate-mongers at the Red Cross. Give to the Salvation Army, a non-political group that takes just 13% of donations for operating costs. The Red Cross and United Way (ready for this?) keep up to 85% of donations for operating costs. Oh. The United Way also gives to The Brady Bunch for gun confiscation.

[Texas_Jarhead]

Isn't leftism grand...

[aculeus]

Anybody else see anything wrong with this or have I just lost all perspective?

It's totally wrong ... and you can quote this atheist.

[gridlock]

The Red Cross is my charity of last resort. If there is absolutely no other way of giving to a cause I support than giving it to the Red Cross, I will give them a look. Otherwise, there are a lot of other outfits out there that can use my money.

[TommyDale]

I think people should help out through their local church. At least there is some accountability there. Well, hopefully.

[arthurus]

Is there some reason why it's a red "cross?" Is there some terrible history in their background? Did they have their origin in something, er, Christian?

[DumpsterDiver]

the Red Cross couldn't allow advertising any particular religious services because then it would have to allow advertising for all religious services.

And just what problems did they foresee arising if they did allow advertising for all religious services?

[arthurus]

The SA puts a much higher proportion of your donation into it's work. They are largely staffed by voluntêrs. The RC takes a big chunk off the top for HQ.

We had a large group of refugês at the fairground for a while with the RC in charge. They had said that they wanted only money, no goods at all. There was a number of mothers with infants that NEEDED formula. My wife took a car load of formula to the fairground and was indignantly refused permission to give it to the mommies. She and a preacher passed the boxes over the fence. I never heard whether the RC tried then to confiscate the contraband.

RC demanded there be NO goods donations because the organizaion can't get its cut from canned goods and clothes and the like.

[arthurus]

The Red Cross is my charity of last resort.

The Red Cross is no charity. They are in business to provide plush sinecures for bureaucrats and for empirebuilding.

[ark_girl]

It's sad that group has so thouroghly lost their way as far as where they came from and what their purpose is. I keep hearing stories of them taking credit for stuff churches were doing. Micromanaging how people were recieving help, such that people were getting less help that they could and should have been because heaven forbid someone recieve unsanctioned help. Then there were stories of them inflicting gay rights stuff on their employees.

How did they get to that point? Bad leadership or involvement with our government along the way?

[Stegall Tx]

First off, thanks for volunteering your time to help those in need. I hope you don't think those who are criticizing the RC are attacking you.

I can see prohibiting actual services on site.

I may be way off base (the memory isn't what it used to be), but didn't the RC allow Scientologists to provide therapeutic back rubs at some sites? Wouldn't that be as religious to a Scientologist as a prayer service would be to a Christian?

[F-117A]

"The use of the red cross on a white background, which is actually the Swiss flag reversed, was granted to the International Red Cross to commemorate the organisation founded by Henri Dunant, citizen of Geneva. Indeed, the plenipotentiaries of 35 nations, assembled in Geneva on July 6, 1906 to revise the "Geneva Convention," stated as follows in the enacting clause concerning the symbol of the International Red Cross: "To do homage to Switzerland, the heraldic arms of the Red Cross on a white field, which is formed by reversal of the Swiss Federal arms, shall be maintained as a distinctive emblem of the medical services of most armies."

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