FEMA Directing Donations to Rev. Pat Robertson

[Autonomy]

SPLOID EXCLUSIVE: FEMA is directing Katrina donations to none other than the Rev. Pat Robertson …

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The Rev. Pat Robertson’s “Operation Blessing” is next on the list.

“It’s an outrage,” said privacy watchdog Bill Scannell, who alerted Sploid to the FEMA / Robertson scam. “Operation f**cking Blessing? And it’s right underneath the Red Cross link!”

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Robertson’s shell organizations have already collected more than $25 million from the federal government under various “faith based” federal-handout programs. And with millions of distraught citizens looking to FEMA for help in finding reputable organizations to help Katrina survivors, Robertson stands to profit magnificently from the horror that has fallen on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.

http://www.sploid.com/news/2005/09/01/fema-directing-donations-to-rev-pat-robertson-123509.php

(Note: I could not actually find what they are talking about, and the story is two days old, but interesting that it would have happened in the first place.)

[Webster Green]

1. So it's going to a terrorist organization?......

Lovely.

I guess he'll have to account for all the money and how it was spent, right?

[patrice]

3. Can you say "deregulation"?

[MadeinOhio]

2. Robertson the terrorist? Shows where FEMA loyalties really lie..n/t

[stepnw1f]

4. Faith Based Hate... the American Taliban

They need to be shut down as a cult that has commited acts of crime against the people of this country.

[WiseButAngrySara]

5. OMG! I'm speechless. These leeches of human suffering, much of which

is CAUSED by them, and then they capitalize on it! GET THESE M_F'ers OUT OF OFFICE........

[cornermouse]

6. When the list first came out

(according the NPR) the list had 22 organizations, 20 of which were faith-based organizations, 2 were secular. There was a furor and the government "adjusted" the list to include more organizations and specifically include more secular organzations.