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Sunday, January 30, 2005

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It isn't true yet, but it will be

Representatives of the Conspiracy of Private Interests and the International Muggers' Foundation have again asked western governments to do more to protect their organisations from the effects of anti-globalisation activists.

"Radical organisations like the World Social Forum have been allowed to demonise us for far too long," said Nigel Feasting-Piranha, the chairman of the CPI. "We are aware of poverty and we do everything we can to implement appropriate long-term solutions short of vitiating our own fiscal utility."

The World Social Forum is an umbrella organisation including a number of radical, left-wing, anarchistic, Trotskyite, anti-globalisation, civilisation-threatening groups, some of which are still legal. The IMF and CPI have attended several of their meetings in the hope of persuading activists to join them in ending poverty.

But members of the Forum continue to blame organisations like the IMF and CPI for not doing enough to help the world's poor. "We do not believe the way to end poverty is to privatise everything," one of them said.

"These people are fanatics," said IMF spokesperson Shelob Slackbeam. "If you tell them the only way to end poverty is to privatise everything, the chances are they won't believe you. What can you say to people like that?"

The IMF and CPI have both appealed to the US government to protect them from slanders issued by left-wing radicals. "It's all very well making such propaganda illegal, but the laws must then be enforced," said Mr Feasting-Piranha. "Otherwise, our good work may all have been in vain, and lots of little children with big brown eyes will die horribly from diseases we could have prevented if our feelings hadn't been hurt."

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