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Let's just assume for a moment, just for the sake of argument, that Hamas is so dangerous that it needs to be completely rooted out of Gaza and destroyed with a massive amount of force. Let's even assume that every able-bodied Gazan adult is a member of Hamas.
These girls are trying to feed starving children.
Once again, we are expected to believe that children are extremely dangerous Hamas fighters.
Sounds like the issue was that the girls were using the GSA name and logo without permission and without following the formalities that a 501(c)(3) must follow, and the IRS could theoretically revoke GSA's status over it. Seems pretty unlikely that this small fundraiser would trigger such a harsh response from the IRS.
Or, if this has anything to do with money raised by selling cookies, it could be catastrophic for GSA. The cookie money has to go toward supporting GSA's primary charitable endeavors, educating and enriching girls in America or whatever their mission statement is. If cookie money starts being used to fund something else, the IRS can treat it the cookie money as "unrelated business income," and start taxing it, and also the cookie enterprise would be subject to labor laws, which I think would probably be the end of GSA, given their dependence on unpaid child labor.
Finally. Someone says "think of the children" and actually MEANS IT!
https://thinmint.sdgirlscouts.org/files/volunteer/What_We_Stand_For.pdf
The Girl Scout Law
I will do my best to be
honest and fair,
friendly and helpful,
considerate and caring,
courageous and strong, and
responsible for what I say and do,
and to
respect myself and others,
respect authority,
use resources wisely,
make the world a better place,
and be a sister to every Girl Scout
Caring for starving children is the most principled thing by the principles of the organization. Anybody who has targeted them for their activities shows that they are in direct contradiction to about everything the girl scouts stand for.
Hopefully, this will spread to other troops into a bracelet-making movement for Gaza.
respect authority
Interesting
That one took me a lil off guard as well. Can't say it's always a rule that's 100% good to adhere to.
Especially when we’re talking about Israel. I don’t want the Girl Scouts to respect bidens authority on Israel. Or bidens authority about supporting Israel’s authority.
The cynic in me agrees, but in this case I'm certain this, in combination with the statement above to "respect yourself and others" means authority like parents, teachers, & troop leaders.
Respect also doesn't imply follow, and in either case as 10 year olds this is good advice.
I hope this is an obvious statement.
An organization that makes kids wear uniforms teaches authoritarian sympathies?
Who could have guessed?!
Sounds like the real law.
Awesome!
“We are sorry that Ms. Abuhamdeh chose to disband,” the statement said. “We would welcome them back to the Girl Scout family.”
No, you were sorry that you got caught being racist assholes.>
Isn't it terrible how adults act. Threatening legal action against this troop for trying to do something to help. That's just sickening. Thank god there are people in the world who actually care about what's going on with the horrific genocide in the middle east.
They even noted fundraising for Ukraine but no complaints or threats. Seriously, something is wrong with these people.
Hey Scout leaders stop screwing over kids.