I hate charity.

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Charity hates you.

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I pay taxes to provide care for those that need it...not for the tools of oppression used in Iraq, Afghanistan, Timor (we sold them the Indonesians the village strafing Hawk jets)...

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Well those are the same thing in the eyes of the government. I give money to organisations to ease my conscience and make it a little easier to cope with the fact that everyone is a part of the problem.

I didn't know that Britain had anything to do with Timor - what's that about? I'm genuinely interested.

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Richard Norton-Taylor and John Aglionby in Jakarta, The Guardian, Wednesday July 3, 2002

The Labour government approved the sale of 16 Hawk jets to Indonesia despite evidence that they had been used in the violent suppression of civilians in East Timor, which is now independent.

Robin Cook, then foreign secretary, cleared the sale of the aircraft to Jakarta, despite widespread human rights abuses by Indonesian forces. He said the deal - agreed by the previous Conservative administration but in breach of Labour's "ethical" guidelines on arms sales - could not be blocked for legal reasons.

Tapol referred yesterday to a letter from the FO last year to the Campaign Against the Arms Trade stating that there was "no evidence" that British military aircraft or equipment "of any sort" had been used for counter-insurgency or internal repression in Indonesia, and that Jakarta had assured that "in no circumstances" would it be used against civilians.

The Hawk, which is made by BAe Systems and has been sold to 12 countries, has been embroiled in a series of controversies about British arms sales - they were flown by the Zimbabwe airforce in the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo two years ago.

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lol I was just about to post in my scraps... Thought I'd do another search first.. Thanks for posting it though (even though you didn't make it :-p )

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Very good idea. I was trying to figure out how to display the stamp in my journal myself, lol. I would suggest a link to the page in your comment box, too, so that people who click on the stamp know what it's about.

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