Flutterby™! :

Charlene's doing a paper for her ecology class on whales. One of the big political points of 2010 was whether the IWC should lift the moratorium on whaling, imposed in 1986, to bring the "scientific" catch that Japan has been taking in huge numbers every year since then back under the IWC's auspices.

In the process of researching this, we've been reading the IWC's papers on this, and various transcripts of diplomatic meetings and press conferences, and, of course, Greenpeace's various rantings on the topic. And we've come to the conclusion that Greenpeace has pretty much become the definition of "institutions come to preserve the problems that they were created to solve" (and we've actually come to like the directness of Sea Shepherd, "fuck it, we're gonna go sink some boats!").

Anyway, Shadow fowarded along this article about the Jewish Defense League Canada protesting at Pride Toronto, and it looks like the JDL-C is totally in the "Wait, people don't see Jews being defamed! We're losing donations! We need to incite some defamation!" mode.

Institutions come to preserve the problems they were created to solve.