The Washington Post did say that the president of the Red Cross resigned because she was adamant about keeping the money separate and was overruled. It sounds as if the damned bureacrats are re-thinking their decision as they see what "bad publicity" it's giving the RC.

McGrath, I hadn't heard of this incident about the firefighters and it makes me so sad.

Money is still king. People are still people. Sigh....

I can understand the decision to stop searching, sort of.... but not the arrests or the thickheaded comment about the protesters "not controlling their emotions."

Only relatively few people are born without eyesight, but there's an appallingly high proportion of us with little or no emotional insight. Makes sense, I guess: Someone with no empathy can comfortably knock the dickens out of someone with empathy and take all their possessions, so natural selection inevitably favors insensitivity.

Keep protesting though. It does and has made a difference.

It is a never ending fight. (See above.) But where would we be without the conscientious protesters of earlier years? Still a slave holding culture, perhaps....

Rita