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    Default Why certain NGOs exist

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    The most successful activists are not do-gooders that tirelessly sacrifice themselves for the public good. They make their living from campaigns. If there was nothing to campaign about, they would be out of jobs and their investments in holistic healing and organic farming would crash. In pursuit of regulation, they are no different from the vested corporate interests that seek advantages against competitors. They are cronyists. Many are also corrupt.


    The system is simple. Find something, anything, that the lay public might be convinced is dangerous. Ideally, it should have a scary-sounding name, and have a non-zero chance of causing harm to people or animals. Start raising funds for a campaign, tapping public donations and companies that would benefit from regulation or prohibition of this stuff. Propose activist scientists as experts to sit on government rule-making commissions, while having any scientists who have ever worked for industry excluded. Commission research from other pliable scientists to support the necessary conclusion, and arrange to have this published in reputable journals. Make sure the bureaucrats exclude other research, and especially contradictory research. Create simplistic, misleading public relations campaigns to sway the ignorant but vocal (and voting) masses. Secure the necessary regulatory restrictions. Bask in the glow of victory and the gratitude of your sponsors. Take home your lavish NGO pay. Rinse, repeat, profit.
    Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit: occidentis telum est.

    Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)

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    Default Re: Why certain NGOs exist

    Quote Originally Posted by Wanderin' Zero View Post
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    The most successful activists are not do-gooders that tirelessly sacrifice themselves for the public good. They make their living from campaigns. If there was nothing to campaign about, they would be out of jobs and their investments in holistic healing and organic farming would crash. In pursuit of regulation, they are no different from the vested corporate interests that seek advantages against competitors. They are cronyists. Many are also corrupt.


    The system is simple. Find something, anything, that the lay public might be convinced is dangerous. Ideally, it should have a scary-sounding name, and have a non-zero chance of causing harm to people or animals. Start raising funds for a campaign, tapping public donations and companies that would benefit from regulation or prohibition of this stuff. Propose activist scientists as experts to sit on government rule-making commissions, while having any scientists who have ever worked for industry excluded. Commission research from other pliable scientists to support the necessary conclusion, and arrange to have this published in reputable journals. Make sure the bureaucrats exclude other research, and especially contradictory research. Create simplistic, misleading public relations campaigns to sway the ignorant but vocal (and voting) masses. Secure the necessary regulatory restrictions. Bask in the glow of victory and the gratitude of your sponsors. Take home your lavish NGO pay. Rinse, repeat, profit.
    Spot on!

    Makes for scary reading but one cannot dispute the description.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wanderin' Zero View Post
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    The most successful activists are not do-gooders that tirelessly sacrifice themselves for the public good. They make their living from campaigns. If there was nothing to campaign about, they would be out of jobs and their investments in holistic healing and organic farming would crash. In pursuit of regulation, they are no different from the vested corporate interests that seek advantages against competitors. They are cronyists. Many are also corrupt.


    The system is simple. Find something, anything, that the lay public might be convinced is dangerous. Ideally, it should have a scary-sounding name, and have a non-zero chance of causing harm to people or animals. Start raising funds for a campaign, tapping public donations and companies that would benefit from regulation or prohibition of this stuff. Propose activist scientists as experts to sit on government rule-making commissions, while having any scientists who have ever worked for industry excluded. Commission research from other pliable scientists to support the necessary conclusion, and arrange to have this published in reputable journals. Make sure the bureaucrats exclude other research, and especially contradictory research. Create simplistic, misleading public relations campaigns to sway the ignorant but vocal (and voting) masses. Secure the necessary regulatory restrictions. Bask in the glow of victory and the gratitude of your sponsors. Take home your lavish NGO pay. Rinse, repeat, profit.
    Yep! can't argue with that description

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    Default Re: Why certain NGOs exist

    Fear and ignorance are the NGO's allies in extracting money from the gullible public. Always follow the money when presented with a "campaign", it can be very instructive and sometimes quite surprising.

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    I have had the misfortune of working for an NGO that fits such a description. However not all are like this. I know of a few NGOs that do exemplary work and no one is benefiting unjustly from the donations

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    Religious NGO get rates breaks and these seem to be popping up almost every street now...
    live out your imagination , not your history.

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    Sounds like sheltered employment bunch at gfsa in the original article.

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