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21. I don't see how we could establish they're unrelated, especially since the German organization

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #20)

Sun Jul 21, 2013, 08:04 AM

Jul 2013

doesn't seem to disclose its funding

I certainly haven't established that the UK and German groups were related, other than noting the curious similarity of names, which may not mean anything, and that (of course) means that you are quite right to have taken me to task for having confounded the organizations the other day

But since the UK organization rather curiously turned out to have transformed into a front group for the rightwing American Legislative Exchange Council, somewhat after its founding, it may be worthwhile to be on the lookout for other ALEC front groups abroad: ALEC's International Relations Task Force may be up to more than merely trying to persuade the US to negotiate free trade treaties

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