Comments on: Shocka: Aid groups using tsunami relief money to push political causes

By: Funding Idiocy — Right Wing Nation

Funding Idiocy — Right Wing Nation — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:21:40 +0000

[...] to our most recent example, this time with tsunami relief. THREE years after Australians donated $400 million to rebuild Asian lives devastated by the 2004 [...]

By: deepdiver

deepdiver — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:30:03 +0000

Meh, this is the way it has worked for at least my lifetime. After a disaster, millions of conservative (primarily Christian) capitalists (being that we are the most generous people on the planet when it comes to charity) give millions of dollars to socialist/leftist controlled international charities to help the people. Those socialist/leftist controlled charities use a little money to help the people, and a lot of money to further their causes. The media then steps in and talks about what a bunch of wonderful people the socialist/leftists are for helping these poor, poor people and what a bunch of greedy bastages are conservative Christian capitalists.

By: Hening

Hening — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:06:39 +0000

Better to starve to death as a Liberal member of the global family, than to live as a slave to your own culture and nativest norms.

I’m surprised there weren’t several million invested in sexual reorientation and “family planning”.

By: TexasDan

TexasDan — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:11:52 +0000

Samaritan’s Purse is doing a good job in Aceh, or they were two years ago. There are some decent international agencies, but you have to check under the hood.

The bigger surprise is that these groups haven’t gotten the boot, or worse, from the provincial government. Aceh is a “special province” under Indonesian law, and incorporates some (though not all) sharia laws. Plus, there’s plenty of former GAM folks knocking about those parts still. You have to be very brave or just plain stupid to openly push a leftist western agenda on those folks.

By: km

km — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:29:11 +0000

I hate it when that happens.

By: Ripclawe

Ripclawe — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 05:12:37 +0000

This would be the first time aid money was actually being spent on something instead of being stolen by various officials. Its a start.

By: hillbillyjim

hillbillyjim — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:47:51 +0000

Also in Aceh, the Catholic aid group Caritas funds an Islamic learning centre to promote “the importance of the Koran”.

Jizyah.

By: wccawa

wccawa — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:23:05 +0000

SECOND LOOK AT GENDER JUSTICE!

By: BL@KBIRD

BL@KBIRD — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:55:25 +0000

Muslims in Ache got new whips to enforce separation of genders in public within a few months of the tsunami. That was efficient for Islam.

By: lorien1973

lorien1973 — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:36:27 +0000

I really need to make a company that specializes in “giving aid to impoverished nations”, so you know, I can get rich off of them.

George: I think I could be a philanthropist. A kick ass philanthropist! I would have all this money and people would love me. Then they would come to me and beg! And if I felt like it, I would help them out and then they would owe me big time! The first thing I’m going to need is a driver…

By: itzWicks

itzWicks — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:25:40 +0000

Ditto what everyone else said about not giving to the so-called international agencies. Whatever happened to accountability anyway?

Unless you know directly with whom you are dealing with, there is no point in giving good money to bad (or at least questionable) people.

At least when the US military showed up, they actually DID some good, only to be asked to leave early from the region (lest they actually influence the hearts and minds of the very people they were trying to help).

By: conservnut

conservnut — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:10:05 +0000

Typical, this is why I am very careful about who I donate money to. I learned during the fundraising after 9/11 that your money won’t go to what you think it should. Red cross, united way and several others are off my list because of just this kind of thing.

By: lsutiger

lsutiger — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:07:05 +0000

The exact reason I never give to those ‘international relief groups’. Ever see that guy begging for money to get the rice to the starving ppl…someone is getting paid on that front.
Give local and get involved locally. Can’t trust those ‘international’ groups.
Perfect example…the UN

By: Speakup

Speakup — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:53:29 +0000

The activities – listed as tsunami relief – include a “travelling Oxfam gender justice show” in Indonesia to change rural male attitudes towards women.

Celebrate diversity baby.

By: Canadian Imperialist Running Dog

Canadian Imperialist Running Dog — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:31:48 +0000

Of course they do…. probably 75% of their budget is going to that sort of work as opposed the more useful work of providing housing and clean water.