CHARITIES AND CHANCERS

I recently signed up to support a child-sponsorship charity. Considering my opinion on charities in our overtly corrupt society, if this should come as a surprise to those who know me, in fairness to them, their surprise wouldn’t surprise me in the least!

However, it all happened quite normally under my present circumstances. I just happened to be in the city-centre to purchase a small spare stock of printer-ink cartridges. I could also have gone on a small shopping-spree, but didn’t. The sole reason for not doing so was – I could think of nothing that I actually needed.
Having just reached that conclusion, and making my way back to the Ballymun bus-stop, a young black man politely enquired if I had ever considered supporting a child-sponsorship charity!

I went through my usual soap-box explanations for not trusting charities, most of which he understood, some of which surprised him, but his personality and obvious trust in the charity he was employed by eventually won me over.

An important factor involved was that the charity seems to be starting up in Ireland from an English base, Had it been Irish-based, it simply wouldn’t have had the least prospect of satisfying me. For me, the simple reality of the majority culture in Ireland being Catholic would have ruled out any question of my supporting it. It’s as simple as that!

Charities are businesses with special privileges relating to secrecy. They were a plaything and conscience-salver for the rich, but could also be a source of large profits for those in control of them.

The world today is probably experiencing constant growth in the formation of new charities, rather than their being phased out by intelligent forward-planning on the part of secular (real-world) politicians. This simply is NOT GOOD ENOUGH!

A charity can only be justified if clearly based on a temporary structure. It’s object must be to enlighten the secular world and it’s elected representatives of the best means of drawing society’s needs into a politically recognised pattern of forward planning and budgeting for, in other words – taxation, thereby phasing out the need for the charitiy’s continued existence i.e. IT’S SUCCESS!

Advanced economies perpetuating the need for charities as a subtle means of continuing to exploit poorer countries is becoming more blatantly obvious. Charities becoming a legitimate source of increased employment, while shrouding the large executive salaries and perks for those in control of them in secrecy and privilege, is nothing but hypocrisy, if not downright fraud!

As I see it, some secular forces aspire to slowly drawing the human race out of a past in which life was cheap and largely dictated by ignorant bullies and thieves. Other forces aspire to preserving those conditions, and bleat about a “liberal agenda” and globalisation.
I proudly support liberalisation through globalisation, the human condition is far too important to be left in the charge of those who have always criticised science and undermined secular, political attempts to create meaningful democratic structures.