[BitPig] S. Asia Tsunami Disaster

"I hope that the victims there are treated as generously as we were after 9/11.'

How generous should they be treated there and who was treated so generously here after 9/11, the Red Cross, or how about United Way. They made out like bandits.

donating to any organization is a purely individual decision.....

there MUST be some group that would appeal to you.....its always good to do some checking on any of them......

donating is not a forced activity.....people do it out of thankfulness for their own good fortune and out of a sense of humanity....

They're very political and like to bash America. They've pulled some real stunts with respect to American prisons, and they've tried to interject themselves into the American government's entirely proper detention of high-risk international terrorists -- I suspect Amnesty would like to spring them all. Of course, they wouldn't take a plane ride home on the same airliner with one of those cats, but they don't mind trying to subject everyone else to the hazard of letting hardcore fanatics run around loose.

Giving credit where it's due, they have ventilated the shortcomings of some very brutal prison systems, but they seem to have allowed their posture of equilibration to overcome common sense, by not distinguishing ordinary people jailed under outrageous circumstances from prisoners who'd be a public menace in any country on earth.

Therefore, Amnesty isn't an appropriate vehicle for discerning people to support -- even if their mission statement made their organization otherwise appropriate to this crisis.

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