Book recommendation

[Gert van Santen]

Op 22-10-2011 10:48, The Dong schreef:
> On 22/10/2011 09:29, The Dong wrote:
>> Who funds Amnesty International?
>
> It's not even really a funding matter.
> All organisations are infiltrated and controlled.
> All organisations are subject to the rules and laws created to
> control them. I have first hand experience of this interference.
> So does anyone else who can see beyond 'the box' and isn't of a
> child mentality.
>
> It is like we all have aspirations to create business, a company,
> or an organisation, which may in turn make us wealthy, or at
> least sustain us, but in reality, we merely end up following the
> reams of regulations, taxation, direct interference, threats and
> laws that limit and attempt to steer us away from the original
> goals, which may have initially been for purely charitable
> reasons, or to try and do some good in the world. Don't be naive.
> If you go against your funding source stipulations, don't expect
> any future funding. As the largest sources of funding are
> government controlled, or proffered from the multitude of banking
> demons, even though they were never meant to be so, there you
> have it in a nutshell.
>
> In the end, it's either follow those routes and throw away your
> compassion and empathy, be a stooge of your masters, or lower
> your expectations and make do with getting by, whether that be by
> being 'poor' through choice (that's me for 20 years, though I am
> very content), limiting the size of your business (less or zero
> external funding means little direct interference, but limits
> expansion capability) or utilising the many holes in regulations
> to divert monies via those methods one can only learn by
> experience and the, mostly diffuse, deeds of those who govern us
> and do exactly this.
>
> Just my learn'ed opinion ;)

Amen to that.

-- 
Gert
-------------
gert van santen
www.gertvansanten.nl