Thank you very much in advance fellow kossacks. I really appreciate your input.
I received the following forwarded email message from a family member. This is a delicate situation. I need to respond, but in an exceedingly polite manner.
If you have any persuasive and fact-based rebuttals to the silly points brought up in this spam, I'd appreciate it if you could share it/them with me.
> > To my friends and family: From a Mc Comb Resident
> >
> > What I have seen since Katrina:
> >
> > The poor and the wealthy hurt by the storm.
> >
> > Black, white, Hispanic, Oriental and Indian all hurt by the storm.
> >
> > Christian people giving, giving, giving.
> >
> > Churches going all out to minister in Jesus' name.
> >
> > Neighbors going door to door helping one another.
> >
> > Thugs and hoodlums going door to door looking for someone vulnerable.
> >
> > Ice and water being fought over as police tried to keep the peace.
> >
> > People coming up from New Orleans taking over empty houses because
> > shelters are full.
> >
> > Out of town volunteers coming with food and staying for now a week
> > still serving it.
> >
> > The Churches all over this part of the country doing what Christians
> do in a crisis.
> >
> > The Red Cross doing a great job in the shelters.
> >
> > The Salvation Army doing a great job in the community.
> >
> > Four Hundred crewman from everywhere bring back the power to our
> homes,churches and businesses.
> >
> > Lines at service stations a block to a mile long.
> >
> > National Guardsman patrolling the streets of Mc Comb along with
> Kentucky policemen protecting us from the hoodlums and thugs of Mc
Comb, Pike
> > County and New Orleans (the most dangerous city in the world before
> > Katrina.)
> >
> > Drug dealers working outside shelters.
> >
> > Doctors, nurses and other hospital personnel working tirelessly, even
> > sleeping in the hospital to do the job God called them to do.
> >
> >
> > WHAT I HAVE NOT SEEN;
> >
> > The ACLU setting up a feeding line.
> >
> > People for the American Way helping in the shelters.
> >
> > The NAACP doing any work whatsoever.
> >
> > The American Atheist organization serving meals in the shelters.
> >
> > Jesse Jackson directing traffic at the gas stations.
> >
> > I could go on but you get my message. Its the Christian people with
> love and compassion who do the work.
> >
> > The gripers in Congress should come on down and get in line to pass
> the water and the ice. Are you listening Hillary, Chuck, Teddy and
all
> the sorry loafers we call Senators and Congressmen. They don't have a
> clue as to what this life is all about here on the Gulf Coast.
> >
>