RE: OT: Response to Richard Corbett's comments about New Orleans

Thanks to Harry, Linda and Kerik for what they said about Richard
Corbett's comments about New Orleans. Given the level of pain and
suffering of the people in the New Orleans area, as well as people on
the Mississippi and Alabama coasts, I found this comment extremely
offensive. And very personally so since I grew up in Louisiana and
have many friends and relatives living in the New Orleans areas, some
still unaccounted for. Having myself suffered through two major
floods that forced use to evacuate our home for several months on end
and live in cramped quarters in the misery of 90+ degree temperatures
and high humidity in the days before air conditioning I can tell you
that these people need all of the support the people of this country
can offer.

Sandy

>Yes, Richard's remarks are patently offensive and cold-hearted. To
>me they warrant his immediate removal from the list.
>
>Kerik
>
>
>Thank you Harry Smart! I too am extremely offended by this
>statement, and am delurking to say so. This smacks of the remarks
>made by the so-called religious right about post 9/11 NYC--that
>those people somehow brought it on themselves because of their
>lifestyles. Both observations are most un-Christian. New Orleans
>has more spirit and soul than nearly any other city I've been to,
>and deserves nothing less than our most fervent prayers and/or best
>secular thoughts, and donations as each can afford.
>
>Linda Briscoe Myers
>Austin
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>
>>Richard, I'm not sure quite what you mean by this, but it's a phrase with
>>biblical connotations, and many people would assume from such a stark remark
>>that you are suggesting the disaster that has befallen New Orleans and the
>>area around it is some sort of judgment. If you are making that suggestion
>>in the belief that it has some biblical or Christian warrant, then you
>>should be aware that you are wrong; and not only wrong, but offensive. The
>>kind of crude historicism your (implied) view represents is quite explicitly
>>rejected in the gospels by Christ himself .. look at Luke 13, for instance,
>>and the reference to those killed by the tower at Siloam. 'Do you think they
>>were any worse sinners than ..' No. Any normal human being, Christian or
>>otherwise, who looks at what has happened to New Orleans feels nothing other
>>than immense sorrow, and sympathy for those who have lost their loved ones,
>>their livelihoods, their homes. Shame on you for your remarks.
>>
>>Harry Smart
>>Scotland
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>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Richard Corbett
>>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 8:17 PM
>>Subject: Re: Just realized something about New Orleans...
>>
>>
>>What you sow, so shall you reap.
>>
>>Richard
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Received on Thu Sep 1 10:16:26 2005