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Originally Posted by SykkBoy
I get the point, but also understand what can be done realistically. I agree help should only go to those who deserve it, but how do we determine who's who?
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It'll be nearly impossible, unfortunately.
Even the ones in the superdome who were doing the gang-raping and murdering have now been evacuated with the innocents, so they're free to go ahead with their lives after the ones they've killed and tortured are laying dead on the concrete in there.
Heard a report on the news that the guy who raped and killed that little 7yr old boy in the Dome's freezer was hunted down and beaten to death by a group of about ten men in the Superdome.
I can only hope they got the right guy.
I've helped organize a relief drive here in my hometown (we got a lot of stuff today, yay!!) and it'll be going down to Mississippi to folks who got bused out or walked out and just dropped off and forgotten there. We've got a list of about 5 locations that have tons of refugees but no help at all. Hopefully our truck will be going out Tuesday night. We all feel that it's way too long of a delay, but it's something.
So that's one thing folks *can* do; if you don't want to contribute to a general relief fund that's okay, there are plenty of local (to Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana) charities and organizations down there that you can contact directly and make donations to. And you get to choose who you're helping.
There are folks all over the nation and world donating to the "big" general funds like Red Cross and Salvation Army (hell, Oprah donated $5million and Celine Dion donated $1million), there are just as many smaller, ground-zero groups/churches/etc that have people to take care of right *now* and need donations (and physical help) as well.