On Friday 09 Sep 2005 02:15, ken barber wrote:
>
> on the other side: it was also reported today (you can
> dig it out on red cross site if you shearch) that the
> american red cross had food, water, and personal
> hygene kits in place and ready to truck in to the
> people who were in the civic center and the super
> dome, but were told that they could not deliver them
> by new orleans and state "officals." the reason gave
> "if you give them food, water, and comfort items, more
> people will comne and will not want to leave", " we do
> not want them to stay and we do not want to create a
> magnet to draw more people in."
>

Hi Ken,

Your going to have to help me out here. I did a search on 'www.redcross.org'
and couldn't find any of this, also googled for the quoted bits in your post
but got no hits.

Go on, put me out of my misery.

Cheers

Deri