LIBERTY: Where government is concerned, never forget the Law of Unintended Consequences

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C2089-2508262%2C00.html

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The Sunday Times December 17, 2006
Tsunami survivors given the lash
Michael Sheridan and Dewi Loveard, Banda Aceh
Disaster donations help Islamic vigilante force impose punishments on women

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International aid workers and Indonesian women’s organisations are now expressing dismay that the flow of foreign cash for reconstruction has allowed the government to spend scarce money on a new bureaucracy and religious police to enforce puritan laws, such as the compulsory wearing of headscarves.

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So here we have donations for the victims of a natural disaster perverted into oppressing the people.

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