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It blows my mind that citizens have to pay their own money to support organizations like IJ, ACLU, Amnesty International, etc.
by joncrane 5y ago
It blows my mind that citizens have to pay their own money to support organizations like IJ, ACLU, Amnesty International, etc.
- gred 5y agoReally? Why should we not organize to fight for causes that we believe in? Would you be happy delegating your moral compass to the U.S. Department of Do-Goodery?
- effingwewt 5y agoHe is saying it's the government's job to do those things so we don't have to. The fact that we have a failed government is not something we should all just bend over and accept as status quo
- xboxnolifes 5y agoIt certainly shows failings in our elected representatives, but everything IJ does is through the legal system. It succeeding shows the government hasn't completely failed.
- refurb 5y agoWhy? You expect the government, who is infringing on your rights, to do it?
- joncrane 5y agoWell first of all I don't think the government should ever infringe upon my rights, but that's an "in an ideal world" type of thing. Second of all the government itself should be striving, and one of its strongest foci should be to catch such infringements and correct them. I suppose the donations are tax deductible which is a decent compromise, but my point is a) that such organization exist b) they have more work than they have the resources to do and c) citizens have to fund them out of their own pockets seems like a pretty big failure of government to me.