Your taxes are paying for the G20 protests

The way the BBC reports it, you wouldn’t think that some of the demonstrations in London this week are in fact orchestrated by state-funded agencies.

But today's March - a precursor to the disruption expected later in the week - is in part paid for by ... err ... you.

Look at the hodge podge of unaccountable quangos behind today's protests.  Dig about on Google, and you'll see many receive the bulk of their funding from - to quote one - "official bodies and international agencies, including the EU, UK government, USAID, UN, World Bank".

This leftist, anti-free market, anti-capitalist agenda is being paid for by you.  And no one asked you. 

I'm happy to have my taxes go to pay for the police.  Spare a thought for them, as they try to keep order this week. Yet the perverse morality of our quango state means that if there were to be a confrontation, your taxes could end-up funding both the good guys (the police) and the bad. 

Posted on 28 March 2009 by Douglas Carswell

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Is there a website somewhere that we can see all EU / HMG / UN etc donations to groups that are questionable ?

If people are to get up in arms about this, the data needs to be consolidated and published before any critical mass of people gets their blood boiling.

Posted on 28 March 2009 14:33 by John

I wonder how much of the statist consensus among "opinion formers" would still be there if the state wasn't funding it. Ditto the BBC. I recently blogged on how most of the paying exhibitors at the Scottish Lib Dem conference were in turn government funded charities & quangos.
http://a-place-to-stand.blogspot.com/2009/03/lib-dem-conference-he-who-pays-piper.html
This seems to me to be a deeply corrupting trend.

Posted on 28 March 2009 15:35 by Neil Craig

The same process is taking place in the US where our tax dollars are funneled into a "slush" fund then re-distributed to political groups such as ACORN. More than likely it is not by design; rather it is the case that the left hand is unaware of what the right is doing. However, I think it is exploited none the less.

Posted on 28 March 2009 15:35 by David Robbins

On ITV news, I saw banners from Tearfund among the anti-capitalist demonstrators. Now Tearfund used to be a Christian charity, dealing in famine relief. It's website now is obsessed with "climate change" and "global justice" -- code words for left-wing political control. How does it come about that charities are now openly campaiging for left-wing politics? And... what happened to the idea that charities could not engage in party politics?

Lovely quote, tho, Douglas. Any nation where ordinary people have to obtain "permission" to do ordinary things is a slave state. And such, too often, is modern Britain.

Posted on 28 March 2009 19:08 by Roger Pearse

@ John, you can start with fakecharities.org, although that's only the tip of the iceberg.

Posted on 28 March 2009 21:47 by Mark Wadsworth

Damn it, Douglas: please link to your sources.

DK

Posted on 28 March 2009 22:56 by Devil's Kitchen

DK, I've done a summary

http://markwadsworth.blogspot.com/2009/03/fakecharities-fakeprotests.html

Posted on 29 March 2009 17:34 by Mark Wadsworth

If I could have got to a demo I would have. Why : My little company is going under due to Herr Brown's Goverment and I want to tell he what I think. (I have already had a go at my local MP.) The people of England have suffered for far to long and are getting very angry.

Posted on 31 March 2009 13:09 by Graham Tasker

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