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The Truth will prevail, but only if we demand it from Congress! 9-11 Inside Job and Neocons Hacked 2004 SCROLL DOWN
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OPERATION BLESSING-THE FACTS Posted By: Argus No one is trying to demonize faith based Christianity as a whole here, in much the same way that no one at STA believes all Muslims are violent bomb weilding terrorists. The point of the initial post was the alarm bell raised that Operation Blessing is a legitimate charity. No less an "objective" source than the Virginian-Pilot newspaper which exposed the fraud of Operation Blessing years ago, and it would only add to the tragedy and suffering to funnel money to a proven criminal enterprise. Robertson's verbal statements and proven misrepresentation of his organization as a church, (sheltered from legal woes and taxes unlike the rest of us), his crossover in to blatant political organizing and influence SHOULD be cause for caution! ------------------------------------------------------------------- According to its Web site, the mission of Operation Blessing International (OBI) "is to demonstrate God's love by alleviating human need and suffering in the While OBI trumpets its work at home and abroad through its Web site, other sources provide a more nuanced picture. In 1996, the Norfolk, Va.-based Virginia-Pilot newspaper reported that two pilots who were hired by the charity to fly humanitarian aid to Groups getting grants or subgrants will be allowed to consider religion in hiring and firing workers. "My first impression when I took the job was that we'd be called Operation Blessing and we'd be doing humanitarian work," Hinkle, a former Peace Corps volunteer, told the Virginia-Pilot. "We got over there and 'Operation Blessing' was painted on the tails of the airplanes, but we were doing no humanitarian relief at all. We were just supplying the miners and flying the dredges from At first, an OPI spokesperson denied the charges by the Virginia Pilot. Later, however, a written statement from the group admitted Robertson's mining company used Operation Blessing planes "from time to time," but that most air missions in In February 1995, Time magazine reported that Robertson's relationship with Sese Seko began after a branch of Operation Blessing "botched a corn-cultivation project on a 50,000-acre farm outside the capital, Time also reported that in 1993, during the Rwandan refugee crisis, Operation Blessing "was criticized for spending too much money on transportation, pulling its workers out too soon and proselytizing. 'They were laying on hands,'" an American aid worker said. They were "'speaking in tongues and holding services while people were dying all around,'" she added. Time points out that although "many relief agencies are notorious for mismanagement and backbiting…Operation Blessing drew a considerable volume of negative reviews from fellow good Samaritans." http://liberalslikechrist.org/about/robertsonblessings.html
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