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The next five days particularly in New Orleans are going
to be worse than you could ever imagine. The people living
there (if you can call it "living") are actually existing in an
environment of what I choose to call "sewage soup". It's not
just water. It's water filled with urine, fecal matter,
dead bodies of humans, dead…

The truth is, no matter how compassionate
we are... what happens in the next five days or so is pretty
much out of our hands.

But let's use what's happened as a catalyst to
help the victims of other hurricanes and
other natural disasters you know we're going to experience in
the immediate future. We've got…

You know, the idea of living in a tent city
sort of sucks, doesn't it? But it's a hell of a lot better
than wandering around homeless in a city full of "sewage
soup" desperately looking for fresh drinking water and food.
Can you imagine how good it would feel to tens of thousands
of those victims just…

Like I said earlier, one of my readers made a suggestion of an
organization who could handle this situation better than
any other organization I know of. It's important for you to
know I am NOT a member of their organization. Matter of
fact, I've made a lot of jokes at their expense. But
I will say this…

What I'm going to do is sign off now. I'm
going to let my assistant, Theresa put into this newsletter
word for word what was sent to me. I urge you to keep an open mind.

I Think They Are The Absolute Best
Option

We've Got To Handle The Crisis At Hand!

I am going to be traveling out of the
country for the next few days. It will be a very short trip.
As soon as I return, I'll start writing more newsletters.

Before I leave, I am instructing Theresa to
post on my website some of the
thoughtful, intelligent and…

Something else I want to say. Yesterday's
newsletter and this one are both somewhat sloppy. Usually
when I write a newsletter, it goes through several drafts
and I tighten it up until it is a very "together" message.
These past two newsletters are not as together as I would
like them to be. But the truth is, neither am…

Everybody is saying we need to come together
in this country. That's certainly true. But we need to come
together intelligently.

Ah hell. I hate this. It seems to me I'm
getting a little incoherent. So I'll stop writing now and
let Theresa take over from here.

Dear Gary,

My
reason for writing is to address the your
newsletter regarding disaster relief. You
asked, "What should we do? How can we help
these people?" And then you said, "The
truth is, I don't know."

I
would like to make a recommendation.

First
I want to say that I appreciate you for what
you're doing now and for all of the efforts
you have made in the past to put together
disaster relief funds.

On a
personal level, I subscribed to your
newsletter because of your marketing
genius. But the main reason I stay…

And by
the way...I'm a chic. So if any of this
sounds a little touch-feely, you'll know
why. Ok, down to business.

As
for my recommendation. Regardless of
whether you agree with their
religious beliefs or not, it is my belief
(through the extensive research I have done
regarding disaster relief) that the
organization of Jehovah…

They
are the most non-profit of non-profit
organizations I've ever seen. All of their
workers are voluntary. *All* of them. From
the top down, the way the entity
is structured, even the executives of
the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society in
Brooklyn, NY (headquarters of their
worldwide organization) donate their time in
exchange for very modest room…

Everyone
who works at their printing facilities
(where they print bibles and bible
literature for their worldwide bible
education work) works for room and board and
they get a very small allowance (somewhere
around $120/mo.) for personal items. This
entire organization is supported by means of
voluntary donations. And it's
amazing......I mean, these people are not
driving…

They
spend their money on maintaining their
printing facilities, printing bible
literature, housing & feeding their
voluntary workers (who all live in an
apartment-like community maintained by the
Watchtower Bible and Tract Society),
supporting voluntary missionaries around the
world, language and reading programs (where
they teach illiterate people to read),
DISASTER RELIEF....I could go on.

But
the bottom line is that NONE of their money
is used to line pockets of greedy execs.
And there's more than one way to donate to
this organization. You can just give a
general donation to their "Worldwide" fund,
or you can choose to dictate exactly where
you want 100% of your money to be used,
i.e…

Another
big reason this is the best organization to
donate money to is because they are so
organized it's uncanny. I was reading an
impressive article in a magazine about
Jehovah's Witnesses and disaster relief for
Hurricane Andrew. Check this out.

When
Hurricane Andrew hit, the Governing Body of
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Brooklyn, New York,
reacted at once and appointed a relief
committee to function out of the Fort
Lauderdale Assembly Hall. They also assigned
a considerable sum of money for the purchase
of materials, food, and emergency items. As
a consequence, Jehovah's Witnesses were
among the first to…

Witness workers turned up from California,
North Carolina, Oregon, Washington State,
Pennsylvania, Missouri, and many other
places. A Virginia Regional Building
Committee that usually builds Kingdom Halls
(the places where they meet for
worship) sent a group of 18 Witnesses to
repair roofs. It took them 18 hours to
drive down. Relief workers took vacation
time or leaves of absence…

There was a group that came from the
Charleston area in South Carolina. They had
experience with Hurricane Hugo back in 1989.
They knew what to expect and soon organized
relief supplies, including electric
generators and building materials. Within
two weeks volunteer crews had dried out some
800 homes and had repaired many roofs.

Even the media noted how well the Witnesses
were organized. The Savannah Evening Press
carried the headline “Jehovah’s Witnesses
Find They Are Welcome in South Florida,” and
The Miami Herald declared: “Witnesses Care
for Their Own—and Others.”