NO WORDS ARE NEEDED!
Some words are definitely needed, Scott. Words of explanation. Answers to questions.
Why do you refer to CCF as a not-for-profit NGO when you are making huge profits from your World Housing scam?
According to World Housing’s own figures, you are making at least $2,500 profit per house. Close to $1 million in profits once you have constructed 360 houses. Considerably more if the true cost of manufacturing the houses is used - $1,000 per unit.
And all the while adding value to the land that is owned by...?
Who is it owned by? Why do you refuse to divulge this information to any journalist? Why should it remain a secret?
Why do you refer to CCF as a not-for-profit NGO when you are making huge profits from your World Housing scam?
According to World Housing’s own figures, you are making at least $2,500 profit per house. Close to $1 million in profits once you have constructed 360 houses. Considerably more if the true cost of manufacturing the houses is used - $1,000 per unit.
And all the while adding value to the land that is owned by...?
Who is it owned by? Why do you refuse to divulge this information to any journalist? Why should it remain a secret?
A new year's resolution for you:
STOP MANHANDLING OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN!
These are other people’s children, Scott,
even though you like to maintain the illusion that there is no mum, dad or family to
take care of them. Only you and CCF. A lie!
All these kids have mums and dads. They just
happen to be desperately poor and so are easily taken advantage of.
These photo opportunities, of which there are dozens of you online, are poverty porn. And throwing a few shots of grannies up on your Facebook page does not legitimise your photographic exploitation of these children.
CCF is not a not-for-profit organization. You
are making a huge profit on your World Housing houses alone.
Imagine, in a country like Australia or the
United States, or any country in which the institutionalization of children is seen as damaging (a well-known fact), someone such
as yourself plastering his Facebook page with photos of himself and other
people’s children? It would be considered weird, at the very least.
Inappropriate.
In Cambodia, however, anyone who wants to
exploit the poverty that is endemic in the country can do so – whether it is to make a
quick buck (World Housing), to bolster their ego or to win souls for Jesus Christ.
Stop it, Scott. Just stop it. Stop directing your energies to the removal children from their families and communities; presenting yourself to the world as their saviour.
It is the families that need your help. It is the communities in which the families live that need your help and the help of other NGOs. Removing individual members of the family, the ones most easily sold to generous sponsors and donors (cute kids) doe snot help the families and ultimately causes the children harm.
Send the 700 kids in CCF institutional care home, Scott. Help these kids by all means. And you do have the means. But help them where they belong - in their families and communities.
I trust that 2016 will be a happy one for the kids who will be reunited with their families.
boring regurgitation of the last 100 posts. never anything new just constantly repeating the same tired old points wich have no basis in reality. seems2 like your blog is going to die out of boredom.
ReplyDeleteDear Scott Neeson
DeleteYou keep repeating the same old photos of yourself with children in your arms soI don't feel too bad about repeating myself.
As for my blog having no basis in reality, really, Scott! You are not charging donors $5,000 for a house that costs $1,000 to manufacture?
For as long as you refuse to answer such questions I'll keep asking them. Sure, you don't read this blog. You keep reminding us all of that. Others do, however, and I suspect that not a few of them are wondering when you will answer the $5,000 World Housing question - for starters.
The answer is 'never'. Shooting the messenger is the best you can do.
I guess you will never admit the painful truth - you are fake and a bore.
ReplyDeleteScott doesn't even read your blogs, let alone comment. Time to go stalk some new imaginary villain.
Answer the questions, Scott. Shooting the messenger is a ploy that can only work (if at all) in the short term.
DeletePlease provide us all with an explanation of why you charge $5,000 per house. More importantly, who owns the land and so is now the beneficiary of all the free houses? Is it you? Someone working for CCF?
Ricketson, since you are the king of transparency, tell everyone how many restraining orders that people and organizations have taken out against you in Australia - more than 5, I believe? ABC, Screen Producers etc etc..?
ReplyDeleteScott, whilst everyone is entitled to their own opinions, everyone is not entitled to their own facts.
DeleteYou are free to have whatever opinion you like of me and to express it in whatever way you like. You are not free to make up facts, however. There has been no restraining order taken out on me by anyone ever in my entire life.
This is what you did to David Fletcher - invented a fact (his 'grooming' of young girls) because it suited your desire to get rid of a man you saw as a 'competitor'.
Iam sure you will continue to do all you can to label me as you did Mr Fletcher and there may be some who will believe you if you repeat it often enough.
You never even met Scott but you pass so much judgement. lol.
ReplyDeleteI used to get angry by your rants and lies against Scott neeson, a guy actually doing something to make the world a better place. Now I just feel sorry for you - pathetic. You and the 3-4 followers, clearly losers and/or in their elder years and nothing to show for it, all trying to be significant by attacking a great man. History won't damn you - it won't even remember you.
I pass judgment, as you say, on Scott's scams. I do not need to meet him to know that World Housing is a scam. Anyone who looks at what has been written by Neeson, Brewster and Dupuis can see for themselves that it is a scam.
DeleteScott is not a great man, much as he puts a lot of effort into presenting himself to the world as one. He is a very skilled marketing man who has developed a terrific formula to get generous and kind-hearted sponsor and donors to part with their money. One of his ploys is to post a never-ending stream of photos of himself with other people's children in his arms. This is, in my view, poverty porn at its worst.
This isn't "poverty porn", you deranged ignoramus.
ReplyDeleteGo look at WorldVision or Child Care if you want to see poverty porn. You don't know what the term means.
I see that you are making multiple comments today. You must be quite frustrated by Neeson's admission that he is a liar and that he is KEEPING houses from the impoverished, not giving them houses! Are you part of the scam also?
DeleteDear Scott Neeson (aka Anonymous 8.16)
DeleteYou ar enot alone as a poverty porn star. There are many NGOs playing the same game. However, whilst they also use cute kids to raise money you don't see them in photo after photo with children in their arms. And they don't rid themselves of 'competitors' such as David Fletcher by accusing them of 'grooming' young girls. They have some ethical standards.
AnonymousJanuary 2, 2016 at 8:16 AM
Delete"This isn't "poverty porn""
Yes it is. Poverty porn is "any type of media, be it written, photographed or filmed, which exploits the poor’s condition in order to generate the necessary sympathy for selling newspapers or increasing charitable donations or support for a given cause."
This is clearly what CCF is doing. World Vision and other may produce even worse poverty porn, but the CCF photos above also fall into the same category.
CCF is well behind the curve in implementing better NGO and child care practices in general, and this is but one example. CCF recently removed the poverty porn from the walls of its restaurant, a good move, but a decade late. Even Somaly is backing off this stuff.
Ricketson makes an interesting point regarding the relationship between CCF's primitive NGO practices - if putting their best foot forward, the PR, is exploitative and regressive, what does that say of what's going on behind the scenes? As well as controversial old style NGO practices, such as institutionalizing children in preference to keeping them with the family?
James, keep up your good work on exposing the Poverty PIMP for what he is. He will never be able to make up for the irreversible harm that he has done to Cambodian children and families!
ReplyDeleteYou know Neeson was investigated by APLE in the early days for some allegations of inappropriate handling of children. The complaints came from the parents of several children. You have to ask yourself the question - why would a grown man want to surround himself with all these children all day long. Ive met Neeson 2 times - to say that he has a very creepy demeanour is an understatement. I certainly hope there is nothing in it but I wouldn't be surprised if it was breaking news tomorrow that a child has complained about Neeson touching them in the wrong way. The guy just doesn't add up!
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous 8.34
DeleteThis falls into the category of rumour and scuttlebutt. I have never heard of any allegations of Neeson having inappropriately handled children. If you have evidence, present it to the relevant authorities. If it is just rumour, keep it to yourself.
Hahah Ricketosn are you for fucking real? Your whole blog is rumour and scuttlebutt. Why haven't you taken your bullshit criminal allegations about Neeson to the authorities. Is it because they are just made up bullshit? You write the comment above pretending to be righteous and yet of course you leave it on your blog instead of removing it. Yes the comment is defamation and I hope Neeson see it because if should sue your ass off for it. Oh and yes you are responsible for it and all of the comments on this blog. No-one else. You are a fucking dog!
DeleteDear Scott Neeson
DeleteWith the passage of time it becomes increasingly bizarre the way in which you write about yourself in the 3rd person; pretending that you do not read my blog but commenting obsessively.
As for legal action, bring it on. I long for the day you drag me into court. Yes, you can arrange for the verdict that suits your purposes but I think, this time around (unlike David Fletcher) some interest would be shown in the case. Instead of 400 people a day reading my blog it would be 800. Maybe more. Hey, even you buddy Chad Williams at the Phnom Penh Post would be obliged to report on the trial. Yes, he would report on it in the way you ask him to but one way or another he would have no choice but to report with some degree of accuracy. And it is accuracy of reporting that you fear more than Superman fears Kryptonike. The most impartial journalist you can imagine, reporting the facts only, would reveal you to be a scoundrel who asks sponsors and donors to pay $5,000 to buy a house that costs $1,000. And this same journalist (even one sent by Chad to do a hatchet job on me) might feel inclined to ask you who owns the land upon which the houses are being built. This person (may you, maybe a member of Team Neeson) is going to wind up very rich – perhaps the richest slum landlord in Cambodia. Yes, Scott, you are using the money provide to you by generous and caring sponsors and donors to buikd slums. OK, if you shoot with a wide lens, close up, and make sure there is a bit of greenery in the shot (and a smiling kid) they look OK. But if you stand back and take a wider view (as any visitor to the sites would see) it becomes apparent that you are building these rabbit-warren houses as densely as you can – to utilize every square inch of the land that the houses are being build on. Hopefully, one day, some journalists who are not in your pocket, will go and see for themselves; will talk to the people, the families, you have forced to sign both their children and their rights away, what they think. Yes, they have been warned on the dire consequences of telling the truth, but not all these families are the push-overs you take them to be. They will call a spade a spade, if anyone bothers to ask them what they think of your houses and your contracts; of your rules and regulations and of you use of their children (in you arms) to raise money that they do not see but which winds up in the coffers of you and others in senior management at CCF.
If you wish to sue me, Scott, for these comments, and others, please set the legal wheels in motion. See you in court. In Australia or Cambodia. Take your pick. The same applies for your partner in scams, APLE’s Thierry Darnaudet and Samleang Seila. Bring it on, Scott, if you have the balls for a battle in the pubic domain.
Dear Mr Ricketson
ReplyDeleteI wish you a happy and successful new year. You have already won part of the struggle to bring down the NGO fraudster Neeson who now has to change tactics on the not-so-gifted houses.
My hope is that Thierry Darnaudet will finally have to answer some very nasty questions and gets punished for what he did to many people.
My hope for 2016 is also that the Cambodian government will tighten the noose on the NGO world in Cambodia.
This might be of interest to you. It is more than 20 years old now from the Phnom Penh Post when it was a good newspaper run by Michael Hayes but my how Dr Kek Galibru has changed her tune when it comes to human rights:
As Thun Saray, of Adhoc, Cambodia's first human rights organization, put it: "Some people say: 'Since the Human Rights Organizations have been born, the number of robbers have increased.'
"Some call the Human Rights organization as 'the Rights of Robber's Association,' " he
said. The Khmer Institute of Democracy confronted this issue head-on with
a discussion by heads of Cambodian human rights organizations on the sources of
crime and the connections between human rights and law and order. The discussion
was held at the Cambodiana on Saturday, 1 July and filmed for local TV
broadcast.
Saray said economic hardship, lack of gun-control, corruption which returns crime suspects to the streets, gambling, dancing bars and prostitution which are frequented by unemployed young men are causes of the increase in crime.
"I only point to these reasons in order to avoid the misunderstanding that while human rights organizations were emerging, robberies increased simultaneously," he said.
Saray said that another misconception exists: "Some people think that only Westerners need human rights, and that human rights is a western idea."
"Everyone needs human rights, like the rights of property, the right to travel, and the right not to be a slave, or to have to sell our children into slavery. These are not just the rights of the
Westerners, but the rights of all humans," Saray said.
While Thun Saray explained why the promotion of human rights was not the cause of increases in crime, Dr Kek Galabru, President of Licadho tried, in part, to explain what it is that human rights organizations do and how they help jailed Cambodians receive justice.
"One of the jobs of the human rights organizations is to watch. If there is violence we help. Our organizations have no right or power to release an arrested person. But we can help bring his or her case to court for a fair judgement. In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights it says: 'The person alleged to have committed a crime is considered innocent until proven
guilty.' The court is open to the public, and there should be a lawyer to help
in the defense.
"Some of the people we defend are really robbers, thieves or murderers. We do not defend them in order to have them released, but only to ensure that they have their rights in court. The court can then try them and jail them legally. But some journalists have written that human rights
organizations protect robbers," Galabru said.”
I hope that in 2016 Dr Kek Galibru remembers what she said about human rights 20 years ago and applies them in cases like David Fletcher and Matt Harland. They both deserve the support of Licadho for a fair trial
I have met and spoken with Dr Kek Galibru (Pung) on a few occasions. I found her to be a woman of great integrity and with a good heart. Unfortunately i cannot say the same about her daughter, Naly Pilorge.
DeleteYes, All men and women (even criminals) are entitled to a fair trial; to have their basic legal and human rights rights respected. LICADHO has decided, for politcal and funding reasons, to exclude the likes of David Fletcher and Matt Harland from the list of those whose human rights are worthy of defence. That Naly Pilorge was a founder of APLE only goes some way to explaining why she (and LICADHO) continhes to support APLT despite the clear evidence that this NGO has no interest at all in the human rights of those accused of sex crimes as this would interfere with the funding model in place - one which requires a constant stream of pedophiles, even if there are none available just now.
Samleang Seila, I am sure you are reading this. If you wish to get on to the Phnom Penh Muncipal Court and have a word with a judge and charge me with...whatever...go for it. As is the case with Neeson, I am sure you can arrange for whatever legal outcome suits your purposes. Go for it. Hoist yourself own your own petard.
I can't wait for the day that you are locked up Ricketson you fucking pedophile. Yes, like your poster above, APLE also looked at you for some questionable activity around children coming from 2 different Khmer families who were concerned that you were wanting to get too close to their children. Thats not scuttlebutt - its fact!
DeleteAnonymous 2:43, what a lying imposter you are! Crawl back in your hole!
DeleteDear Scott Neeson
ReplyDeleteIf I were a member of your board I would suggest that you take three deep breaths before responding, in the heat of the moment, with a comment such as this.
If APLE has any evidence at all of 'questionable activity' on my part 'around children' there is a clear course of action to follow. File a report, make a complaint; put the matter in the hands of an Investigating Judge. He or she can then consult the Cambodian Code of Criminal Procedure to see what to do next. It's all laid out in the Code quite clearly. APLE can then, of course, arrange for every part of the Code to be breached in order to secure the conviction it needs - as was the case with David Fletcher. Go for it, Samleang Seila; Scott Neeson.
The following may seem like a trivial observation but, really Scott, after all those photos of you manhandling other people's children, referring to my getting "too close" to other people's children is the pot calling the kettle black.
If you have evidence that I have been "too close" to any children deal with in accordance with Cambodian law and not by reaching for your cheque book
Jealousy Ricketson - thats all your blog is about. How pathetic you are!
ReplyDeletewasnt ricketson going around promising houses in exchange for young girls virignity? he was chased out of the dumps by the families that saw him for the manipulative scum he is, his whole thing with fletch is that he wants cambodia to be a safe haven for people like him who enjoy the company of underage girls. why dont u go purchase some young girls in australia and see how it works out for u there, ricket. you wont be able to pay off the families this time.
ReplyDeleteWhat a complete fool you make of yourself Anonymous 7:20!
DeleteDear Scott Neeson (aka Anonymous 7.20)
DeleteThis comment has your finger prints all over it.
Back in 2010 your smearing of David Fletcher's name with your comments about his 'grooming' young girls worked. You managed to convince a lot of people (including senior officials within the British Embassy and CEOP) that David Fletcher was a pedophile and, with the help of a few others (Thierry Darnaudet, for one) you achieved the goal you had set out to achieve - Mr Fletcher's arrest and conviction for a crime for which there was (and is) no evidence of his guilt.
I doubt that this ploy will work again with me. You can keep trying, however. Perhaps you'll be able to pull it off again.
Along with ma y others I would like to see Cambodia become a safe haven for children; to see all NGOs that are in the business of exploiting the poverty of poor Cambodians kicked out of the country. All NGOs making a lot of money out of 'rescuing' children from their materially poor families; all NGOs who believe not just that they have a right, but that they have a duty, to rescue children from their Buddhist families and force them to become Christians. One day this forced conversion of children will be seen fro what it is - a gross violation of the human rights of both the children and of the Buddhist families they are removed from.
More of a fool than rickets on who is wanted in Europe and Latin America on charges of sexually assaulting a minor? Interesting how he champions for Pedos and attacks anyone combating the exact. Rimes he has committed. I'd say rickets has egg on his face now
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous 10.02
DeleteYou are doing team Neeson no favours writing this kind of nonsense. Given your lousy spelling my guess is that you wrote this when drunk. Not a great idea.
Scott, if this guy (and I presume it is a guy) is one of your official trolls, I suggest that you sack him and find someone a little more credible to do your dirty work for you.
egg on your face Rickety Kricket
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