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Republicans need to crack down on the corrupt ‘NGO sector’ NOW

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With the Justice Department now charging the Southern Poverty Law Center not with merely paying “informants” in the Ku Klux Klan but actually reimbursing them for cross-burnings, it’s clearer than ever: It’s past time to dismantle the entire NGOcracy, posthaste. 

The term “non-governmental organization” is itself a deceptive coinage, blurring the distinction between true charities and activist outfits, as if every group that’s not part of a government is somehow the same.

Indeed, the rise in calling them all “NGOs” coincides with a trend of charities turning into political-activism fronts, from Médecins Sans Frontières to Oxfam.

When organizations get billions in funding to fight social ills, they face a perverse financial incentive when those ills start to dissipate.

As witness this actual atrocity: A nonprofit founded to ensure equal rights for black Americans in the South allegedly wound up paying the last ragged rump of a race-terror group to keep on terrorizing them — and so keep its donors jazzed up so the money would flow in after it became clear that black........

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