In a message dated 9/1/05 1:48:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, I know now what I always suspected. If I cried out to Jim Henderson for succor, he might well help me but one part of his mind would be thinking or at least considering if he could use my suffering to advance his agenda. Frances Paterson
For all we know Jim has sent a bigger contribution to the New Orleans relief effort than any of the rest of us. If Jim were in Louisiana he might be staffing a Red Cross shelter; my recollection is that he does a lot of personal (non-legal) pro bono work here. I doubt that any of us who aren't near New Orleans are devoting 100% of our attention to the suffering in New Orleans; I'm working on a brief. I share [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s view that there was nothing offensive about Jim's post.
As to the proclamation, I do wish it had said something more like "My family and I are praying, and I call upon those who wish to do so to join us, and I call upon others to work and hope for relief from this disaster in the way that's meaningful to them." That wouldn't have been so hard to say, would it?
Art Spitzer
ACLU
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