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Well Dave, It looks like I'm a terrorist

In suggesting "Muslims all over the world are persecuted as a delberate act of Western policy."

This is what I''ve written and the Charter for Compassion has published. The words come from my late colleague in 2003, describing the urgent needs of Crimea's Tatars, a peaceful Muslim community who'd been persecuted by Stalin and were now just as disenfranchised is a post Soviet culture of greed.

The warning had first been made in 1996 to US President Bill Clinton and in 2003, the author reflected on this post 9/11

"Once a nation or government puts people in the position of defending their own lives, or that of family and friends, and they all will die if they do nothing about it, at that point all laws, social contracts and covenants end. Laws, social contracts and covenants define civilization. Without them, there is no civilization at all, there is only the law of the jungle: kill, or be killed. This is where we started, tens of thousands of years ago.

By leaving people in poverty, at risk of their lives due to lack of basic living essentials, we have stepped across the boundary of civilization. We have conceded that these people do not matter, are not important. Allowing them to starve to death, freeze to death, die from deprivation, or simply shooting them, is in the end exactly the same thing. Inflicting or allowing poverty on a group of people or an entire country is a formula for disaster.

These points were made to the President of the United States near the end of 1996. They were heard, appreciated and acted upon, but unfortunately, were not able to be addressed fully and quickly due primarily to political inertia. By way of September 11, 2001 attacks on the US out of Afghanistan – on which the US and the former Soviet Union both inflicted havoc, destruction, and certainly poverty – I rest my case. The tragedy was proof of all I warned about, but, was no more tragedy than that left behind to a people in an far corner of the world whom we thought did not matter and whom we thought were less important than ourselves.

We were wrong."

The real point it this Dave, it's a consequence of laissez-faire capitalism which leaves large numbers of people excluded and this the point my late colleague made in 2008 when our primary focus was on moving children from institutional neglect to loving famiily homes.

The term “social enterprise” in the various but similar forms in which it is being used today — 2008 — refers to enterprises created specifically to help those people that traditional capitalism and for profit enterprise don’t address for the simple reason that poor or insufficiently affluent people haven’t enough money to be of concern or interest. Put another way, social enterprise aims specifically to help and assist people who fall through the cracks. Allowing that some people do not matter, as things are turning out, allows that other people do not matter and those cracks are widening to swallow up more and more people. Social enterprise is the first concerted effort in the Information Age to at least attempt to rectify that problem, if only because letting it get worse and worse threatens more and more of us. Growing numbers of people are coming to understand that “them” might equal “me.” Call it compassion, or call it enlightened and increasingly impassioned self-interest. Either way, we are all in this together, and we will each have to decide for ourselves what it means to ignore someone to death, or not.

This is recicprocity, compassion Dave and you'd soon be building your own reputation on a kinder capitalism.  Meanwhile as practitioners of business for social purpose, our focus was on transitioning children from institutionalised neglect to loving family homes, in a strategy plan for Ukraine's government which said:

“There is no substitute for a loving family environment for growing children. Existing state care institutions do not and cannot possibly provide this – despite occasional, lingering claims that state care is the best care for children. This attitude is a holdover from Soviet times when the state was idealized as the best possible caretaker for all, including children. Stark reality does not support that notion.

While this section has strong focus on financial aspects for reforming childcare in Ukraine, these are just financial numbers to demonstrate that this can be done for an overall, long-term cost reduction to state budget. That is to say, simply, this reform program is at the least financially feasible. The barrier between old and new is the cost of the transitional phase."

Taking your kinder capitalism at face value, I'd petitioned you about our cause and need for support. You may not have seen it, but  It was 3 years later, speaking of social impact investment, that this too was used for your self promotion when you descibed how children could be placed in loving homes,through the same approach. Well almost.

 

When the colleague whose work I describe above died in poverty. local activists paid tribute to his efforts which included the activism in which he risked his life to speak out about 'Death Camps, For Children. They wrote "On his death bed he was speaking only of his mission – rescuing of these unlucky kids. His dream was to get them new homes filled with care and love. His quest would be continued as he wished."

They included an extract of our letter to USAID and their Senate overseers which drew their attention to the urgent need for tackling this and other social problems, which were eventually to lead to an uprising in November 2013.  I suspect your avaricious chums don't have a n impact investment plan for a new Cold War.    

This is what happens Dave, when people, whether Muslim or not are disregarded. They eventually have only one course of action, as was warned.

Having lost a friend, to see his work passed off as your own I know what being disenfranchised feels like. Imagine what is feels like for those who have far less and you'll understand the depth of their anger.   . .

You see Dave, helping yourself to someone else's work, their means of earning a living could well be what takes their life.