[Westbrook]

> Why allow them that power? Robertson didn’t bind your
> hands, you did.

The only defense I had was to un-bind myself from Robertson.

I reminded them that the Mennonites and the Roman Catholics were the FIRST rescue efforts on the ground, before even the Haitian National Guard, and that they never seek publicity and NEVER buy air time on TV or radio to ask for money.

These organizations are almost always the first on the ground anywhere in the world with medicine, food, temporary shelter and sanitation, and clothing.

I am NOT a Mennonite, neither am I a Roman Catholic, by the way.

[skeeter]

I refuse to accept that there's a need to defend myself.

I'm tired of being on the defensive.

[muawiyah]

Might tune in to ETWN to see what they have to say about raising funds for Haitian relief, and the Mennonites? When you grow up in Indiana as I did you discover quickly that Mennonites actually do solicit help for their charitable relief efforts in disasters.

You may be thinking of the Amish ~ a different group entirely.

They don't ask. They don't tell. And they don't particularly like you.