Becoming Aware about AWARE
Frederick Clarkson printable version print page     Bookmark and Share
Sat May 02, 2009 at 01:50:06 PM EST
Talk to Action contributor John Dorhauer alerted me to a situation in Singapore that some people had found to be analogous to steeplejacking that he has written about here.  (Dogemperor has researched the situation, here.)

Apparently what happened was that the members of a fundamentalist church systematicaly joined a womens rights organization for the purpose of taking it over.  The well laid plan resulted in the election of the Christian slate, whose purposes were at odds with the mission of the organization.

In the end, the membership rallied itself and ousted the hijackers.

Inflitrating an organization, or joining it for purposes of disrupting or taking it over is a very old ploy.  Democratically run organizations are often vulnerable to this kind of attack, particularly as recent history has shown, unwary churches.

It is always incumbent on those who value democratic organizations, democratic values, and democracy itself, to be w