An additional burden is the activist organizations who harass and extort from corporations. Corporations end up setting up foundations as one way to fend off these economic and social parasites, often paying off these reacketeers by installing some of their members in high-paying jobs within the “foundations.” There are also direct payoffs to the activist groups, who are also recipients of federal largesse.
ACORN, Urban League, La Raza, and the NAACP are prime examples of quasi-criminal, parasitic extortion rackets. Surprised to see the venerable NAACP on my little list? Don’t be. It is a common phenomenon for once respectable activist organizations to become corrupt over time. Same with the Urban League. ACORN (or whatever they call themselves now) and La Raza were never respectable.
The most mendacious and eggregious new extortionist is the NCRP (National Committee for Responsible Philanthropy), which preys on major philanthropic organizations. NCRP tries to get philanthropies to stop subsidizing the arts and other intellectual pursuits and divert the money towards “poverty programs,” and directly into the NCRP’s own pockets. The NCRP has demanded enough loot for itself from the likes of Carnegie Mellon and Ford, etc., to finance a major corporation — and all that extorted loot is intended for NCRP’s “operational expenses.” Yea, right.
