Amnesty International Canada claims attack by China-backed forces The Canadian branch of Amnesty International was the target of an attack it has pinned on a Chinese state-sponsored actor. The human rights organization said it could not find evidence of donor or membership data theft, but it was speaking publicly about the attack to "caution other human rights defenders on the rising threat …
... is that you do not "sign up", "become a member", "join the community", "engage with contributing peers", and all that feel-good fol-de-rol, 'cause that's begging for trouble.
Just send 'em a wad of cash in an envelope, and skip the tax write-off.
No membership/contribution records == no bad stuff for the contributors.
Im calling Fake news on this one. Amnesty international are well known (or should be) for telling porkies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
“Her story was initially corroborated by Amnesty International, a British-based global NGO, which published several independent reports about the supposed killings”
“The Nayirah testimony was false testimony given before the United States Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990, by a 15-year-old girl who was publicly identified at the time by her first name, Nayirah”
> Amnesty international are well known (or should be) for telling porkies.
This. I queried them once, decades ago, on a claim they made which I witnessed firsthand to be patently false. I was never given the satisfaction of a reply, let alone an explanation.
Their business is to take your money to make you feel virtuous, or for those with a conscience, less guilty.
(We could talk about Greenpeace too)
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