I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Kettle.
Pot.
Black.
Is nobody else outraged that judicial nominees are being vetted by Amnesty International? Where does an unelected group get the nerve to interfere in one of the three pillars of the Republic?
Oh, that's the Federalist Society. Never mind.
What's really hilarious is that they're complaining about UNELECTED groups making policy.
What are NGO's?
This kind of attack, accusing all attempts to extend democracy of being elitist
NGOs, by definition, are not democratic organizations. What evidence do you have to show they are "all attempts to extend democracy"?
NGOs, by definition, are not democratic organizations. What evidence do you have to show they are "all attempts to extend democracy"?
Which is precisely why the AEI should love them. Democratic organizations are, by definition "the government." Organizations like the AEI, Cato Institute, etc., were founded to "get government out of our lives." I can only conclude that organizations that want to get rid of the influence of government want to replace that influence with privately funded, privately organized groups like NGOs.
AEI *IS* an NGO!
Attack attack attack. Yawn. Yet another case study in narcissistic projection. Attempting, at the top of their lungs, to displace their own attributes onto the proximate cause of their pain and guilt.
Rethugs do this all the time, and it's always disturbing, how much it sounds like the logic of the abusive spouse: blame the victim, blame the cops, blame the court system, blame the therapist, avoid all responsibility for the way things are.
But then, not surprising. People who have not evolved to a point of seeing others as individuals with their own desires and viewpoints are *always* terrified of criticism or responsibility. They can't *stand* a level playing field.
Here's the reason for all the blather (from CNN.com):
...according to George Washington University political science professor Jarol Manheim, international NGOs are pursuing "a new and pervasive form of conflict" against corporations which he calls "Biz-war," the title of his forthcoming book. NGOs, for example, work with sympathetic institutional investors, such as union and church-based pension funds, to sponsor shareholder resolutions demanding that corporations adopt more environment- or human-rights-friendly policies... (and) the strategy is working. "Big shareholders are getting embarrassed to be associated with some companies," said Manheim, who noted that companies are increasingly using NGOs as consultants or even hiring former NGO officials to protect themselves against negative publicity or consumer boycotts.
Tresy is a fat, stupid, ugly gash. Keep quoting her, though, you fucking idiot.
Wow, Trash, your vocabularly is growing! You used "gash" instead of "cunt" this time. Your high regard for females, demonstrated here, probably explains why you've never been laid, and never will be. Wouldn't want to get any of that nasty "gash" on you, now would you?
brash & walter cronkite are so bad as trolls, that they demean internet trolls everywhere.
I demand a better class of trolls here.
Icarus, NGO stands for Non Governmental Org. but contrary to what Walter Cronkite said they are not undemocratic by definition. You could have a democraticly run organization that was unafilliated with government, is a political party an NGO? I duno
...continued from the comments to Tresy's post
Know what online newspaper picked up Jim Lobe's article about the "seminar?" The Asia Times Online
Leah A
Here are a couple of places to find Jim Lobe's work, Foreign Policy In Focus and Inter Press Service (IPS), including, Pentagon Moving Swiftly to Become 'GloboCop'.
Here's an account of a demonstration at the AEI from DC Indymedia, Shirts Off Our Backs says AEI Won't Get Away With It Again
Outside the headquarters of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) about a dozen activists gathered to protest a forum being held by AEI, ironically called "We're Not from the Government, but We're Here to Help You: Nongovernmental Organizations: The Growing Power of an Unelected Few".
Bet Brownshirts W and B will be attending tonight's Vast Right-Wing Circle Jerk together tonight... if you know what I mean... not that there's anything wrong with it...
you go Jennifer! attack the puerile idiot.
>NGOs, by definition, are not democratic organizations.
That must come as news to the members of Greenpeace, Sierra Club and virtually every other NGO I can think of, who get to vote regularly on their orgs' boards of directors and policies.
>"NGOs, for example, sponsor shareholder resolutions demanding that corporations adopt more environment- or human-rights-friendly policies... (and) the strategy is working."
When I was in law school in the 80s, my Corporate Law professor would argue that shareholder meetings were a nearly ideal expression of direct democracy. Soon after, NGOs and others started to take that democratic idea seriously, as the quote above indicates. Wall Street's response? Attempted legislation barring the introduction of any shareholder resolutions unrelated to narrow business issues--ie., sweatshop labor, capital flight, worker rights, etc.
Apparently the legislation didn't pass, no doubt because an elected majority, rather than an "unelected minority," controlled the White House at the time.
AEI and the Federalist Society are criminal organizations and should be dealt with on that level.
Churches were the original NGOs.
Thank you very much, Leah, for putting our comment on the main blog.
Now, can someone do a filk of "B-I-N-G-O" that this just cries out for?
NGOs, for example, work with sympathetic institutional investors, such as union and church-based pension funds, to sponsor shareholder resolutions demanding that corporations adopt more environment- or human-rights-friendly policies... (and) the strategy is working
So, in other words, they use market methods, just like they always say we’re supposed to, to effect progressive social change.
Let us now dispense once and for all with the fiction that contemporary conservatism puts the free market above all. Apparently, free markets are merely the most efficient means of preserving the existing order. Deep down in neoconservatism, we find ... paleoconservatism. “Meet the new boss ...”
Recall, as another specific example in this context, Stephen den Beste’s harrumphing over Capozzola’s decision that no one who blogrolled Little Green Footballs would be on his blogroll, due to the growing racism and Muslim-bashing in its comment section. den Beste's real beef seemed to be the idea that anyone would dare consider anything other than quality of product in the blogconomy.
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