Reply #58: It isn't THAT imporant who funds the NGO's [View All]

[Ken Burch]

The funding makes no difference in terms of the outcome of their research. I could understand your intransigence on this if the NGO's were being caught in slanders or lies. If they were, it's enough that the government could rebut them factually and that, by itself, would discredit them. But the fact is, they haven't been. And it's time to let Durban go already.

You seem convinced that finding out the sources of the funding would prove something inherently damning about the foreign NGO's. Why would they put their reputations at risk by doing anything that wasn't factual or totally accurate? They'd be caught out on that on the merits of their actions if they tried it.

And again...why not just introduce legislation BANNING foreign NGO's? Wouldn't THAT be the honest thing for the government to do, since the government's intentions here are clearly just to drive the foreign NGO's out? It's not like Bibi wouldn't have the votes for that.

Isn't the issue WHAT the NGO's do, rather than who funds them?

And are you ever going to apologize for falsely implying that I'm anti-democratic just because I disagree with you on this one thing?