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.