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From: "Robert J. Berger" <rberger @ ibd.com> Date: September 2, 2005 2:34:36 AM EDT Subject: FEMA is directing Katrina donations to none other than the Rev. Pat Robertson's Organization
FEMA is directing Katrina donations to none other than the Rev. Pat Robertson
http://www.sploid.com/news/2005/09/01/fema-directing-donations-to-rev-pat-robertson-123509.php
Millions of Americans and people around the world have rushed to donate money to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, which is shaping up to be one of the worst U.S. disasters in history, if not the worst.
FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is the lead federal agency in the rescue & recovery operation at work in New Orleans and the Mississippi gulf coast.
FEMA has released to the media and on its Web site a list of suggested charities to help the storm's hundreds of thousands of victims. The Red Cross is first on the list.
The Rev. Pat Robertson's "Operation Blessing" is next on the list. [Actually third on the list: http://www.fema.gov/press/2005/katrinadonations.shtm - Rob]
"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!"
Scannell, currently campaigning against the Transportation Security Administration's refusal to turn over personal information illegally collected from 100 million U.S. air passengers, noted that Operation Blessing's board of directors is dominated by the televanglist and his family.
The chairman, "MG Robertson," is none other than the Rev. Pat — Marion Gordon Robertson is his real name — while Pat's wife DeDe is vice president and son Gordon Robertson is also on the board.
The front operation for the radical, pro-assassination televangelist and Republican power broker is also based in the Rev. Pat's headquarters, Virginia Beach.
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.
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