[Vision2020] Disaster Response

[Kit Craine]

I’m not the only one advocating assistance. There are many different 
people/groups trying to work on something helpful. At last night’s City 
Council meeting, Linda Pall proposed that the Mayor create a working 
group to coordinate efforts from Moscow residents as well as perhaps 
others in the area. Mayor Comstock agreed, so stay tuned for more.

Kit Craine

On Sep 6, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Louise Barber wrote:

> Thank you, Melynda.  What has happened with the Kit Craine suggestion 
> for
> assisting?  Or anyone else's, for that matter.  We don't get the Daily 
> News,
> so may have missed something we could be doing.
>
> LB
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com 
> [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
> On Behalf Of Melynda Huskey
> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 11:11 AM
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Disaster Response
>
> I'm often floored by what I read on Vision 2020--I think we all must 
> be,
> from time to time, regardless of our political/religious/philosophical
> positions.
>
> Today, though, I just have to say, and I'm choosing these words 
> carefully:
>
> What the fuck is the matter with people?
>
> Pat, do you really, really think that the people of New Orleans are 
> dying of
> thirst because they were too lazy or too stupid (or maybe too black, 
> which
> is what your admittedly obscure reference to the Civil War seems to 
> imply)
> to fill milk jugs with water?
>
> And although it's not fair to hold Jeff Harkins accountable for words 
> he
> didn't intend me to see, is it a failure of "self-reliance" on the 
> part of
> Gulf Coast residents which is killing them now?
>
> Can anyone seriously be saying to him- or herself, "Well, the official 
> death
> toll is 58, and we'll just hope it doesn't rise"?
>
> Or, "Well, they chose to live in a coastal city, so of course they 
> deserve
> to drown, die of thirst, or watch their children perish in agony."
>
> Please think about what you're saying.  Please.
>
> These are real people, and they are suffering and dying.  They have 
> lost
> everything they had in the world.  Please take two minutes to imagine
> yourself in the situation of any of these wretched people:  imagine 
> just for
> a moment that your own house is filling with filthy, contaminated 
> water,
> that you have no way to contact anyone for help, nowhere to go.  No 
> food, no
> water, no medicine, no shelter.  Dead bodies floating past you.
>
> The only personal responsibility which ought to concern us fortunate 
> ones in
> this situation is our personal responsibility to help those who are in
> trouble.
>
> Melynda Huskey
>
>
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