Posted on 03/14/2002 8:52:17 AM PST by Avoiding_Sulla
On going controversy. 9:20 A.m - 10:00 A.M.
Teresa Losario (sp?) of Sacramento Chapter of Red Cross was flushed out when she heard Prager say "bureaucrats issue statements" because they're afraid to be challenged in public.
If true to form, this will likely be rebroadcast by KRLA between 6 & 7 P.M. tonight.
Prager has been calling for someone to be fired from Orange County Red Cross.
Is that enough?
O'Reily said at the begining of his show last night that he now is "Boycotting" the Red Cross...."They are out of control"
A Tale of Two Out of Control Organizations
[ SNIP ]
And then there's the Red Cross, in yet another embarrassing episode. The Red Cross in Orange County, California, told the high school choir it could not sing "America the Beautiful" or "God Bless America" at a Red Cross event because the songs contained references to God. The students pulled out of the program and we applaud them.
After the story broke, the Red Cross apologized and said it had made a mistake, but not before another statement was issued saying the Red Cross did not want the songs included because it is sensitive to, quote, "religious diversity," unquote.
Well, I'm sensitive to abject stupidity, and enough's enough with the Red Cross, from their bungling of the 9/11 fund for the victims' families to the Guantanamo squawking to the songs issue, this organization is finished in my eyes. The top brass at the Red Cross make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, so they don't need my donations. I'm officially boycotting the Red Cross until they change their national leadership and their attitude.
I fully realize may local Red Cross outfits are not foolish and inefficient, so my boycott does not extend to them. But the Red Cross desperately needs an overhaul, and only financial pressure will make that happen.
1. "Declaration" which has the words from the Declaration of Independence.
2. "G-d Bless the USA" and "America the Beautiful" because they mention the USA and, yikes, the Creator of the Universe.
3. "Prayer for the Children" because it uses the word "prayer."
THESE SUBVERSIVE SONGS ARE RIGHT WING RELIGIOUS EXTREMIST PROPAGANDA!
Some corrections:
My quote (as best as I could recall) of Dennis Prager's successful provocation should have extended to the end of the paragraph, thusly:
"bureaucrats issue statements because they're afraid to be challenged in public."
As it turned out, while the Sacramento Chapter head said that other Chapters found the O.C. Chapter's position extremist, she also included the National in that perception.
When Prager pointed out that the O.C. Register had reported that the National backed the "apology" letter, she admitted she didn't know.
So if she was indeed a spokesperson for another chapter of ARC, from that point on she wasn't helping her cause.
Listen 6 to 7 if you missed it.
KRLA webite where you can listen over the internet.
Red Cross banned a song called Declaration because it had the words from the Declaration of Indpendence as its lyrics.
Red Cross said it was "too political".
If asked, this principal would probably state that he's "just as patriotic as the next guy" and "loves his country". There's a lot of that going around these days. Kinda like a wife-beater telling his wife he beats her because he loves her.
BTW, ever notice how almost every international organization funded with tax dollars marches right into Stalinism?
Lefties initially demand tolerance from those with other viewpoints in running the organizations until they are able to take over; at that point all tolerance ends. Once in positions of power, leftist elitists who head religious and charitable organizations line their own pockets by finagling corporate-style salaries for themselves and slush fund expense accounts. They redecorate their offices, eat lunch in fancy bistros, and hobnob with rich people and government bigwigs. They hire their worthless, leftist buddies as consultants to run fake "programs" or do fake "research" and write up empty, leftwing "reports" to be disseminated by cooperative presstitutes. They lobby government for funding (based on all those "reports"). They get to pretend their are doing good for the world.
Not a bad racket.
These arrogant bastards do not have the right to use the name since they have nothing to do with American nor the Cross.
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