The Humane Society of the United States is campaigning against the Canadian Seal Hunt this year. Their principal tactic this year is to urge Americans to stop purchasing Canadian fishing produce, forcing the Canadian government into a change of policy. That is, attempting to destroy the local economy of another country. Perhaps we could call that “International Economic Terrorism.”
Now, if they are engaged in such activities, it might look bad if they were to be funded by a politician or perhaps a US federal government agency. A list of their funding sources is to be found on:
http://www.activistcash.com/organization_financials.cfm/oid/136
Apparently, among their funding bodies is USAID, a US federal government agency, providing $500,000 in 2005. Oops. http://www.usaid.gov/about_usaid/usaidorg.html
The USAID website states their mission in part “…[USAID] supports long-term and equitable economic growth and advances US foreign policy objectives…”
Well, that explains it then – engaging in International Economic Terrorism must be an official US government foreign policy objective.
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