KAIROS's continuing cover-up

UPDATE: A computer savvy reader has dug up a cached version of the deleted files! See below.

KAIROS's Twitter page is eye-clawingly boring so it's no surprise that fewer than a hundred people follow it. That pitiful number in itself is a proof point that KAIROS doesn't really represent anybody other than their own staff -- certainly not the millions of Canadian Christians in whose names they claim to operate.

Almost all of KAIROS's Tweets this past month have been self-serving whines about how they really, really deserve $7 million from the taxpayer's trough. But if you go back a bit further, you'll find weird entries like this one, which reads:

We need to mobilize again to stop the Canada Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA). Once again, the Conservatives... http://bit.ly/3KvU7H

That link leads to KAIROS's Facebook page with a comment opposing a free trade agreement, which is being considered in a bill before Parliament.

Sorry, what does that have to do with being a Christian aid agency? That bill has nothing to do with aid; it has nothing to do with Christianity. It has everything to do with walking in lock-step with Hugo Chavez, Colombia's sworn enemy, who wants to isolate Colombia, and keep it poor.

Look: KAIROS is nothing more than the NDP at prayer. Good for them. But what is the Canadian taxpayer doing giving millions of dollars to an "aid" group that is so baldly political and partisan? Why is the government funding a lobby group to lobby the government?

Most of KAIROS's Tweets are partisan lobbying like that -- mainly about global warming, actually. That's odd, for a group allegedly fighting poverty overseas. Of course, as I pointed out before, after all their political spending was accounted for, KAIROS only had 3.7% of its budget left for anti-poverty grants. That's disgusting, and grounds for them to be cut off in itself. 

But that's not all I found on their Twitter page. This Tweet caught my eye:

KAIROS staff Julie Graham (Education and Campaign Program Coordinator)and Maya Johnston (Middle East Partnerships... http://bit.ly/3x2LTm

That's all it said. KAIROS's campaign boss and their Middle East boss were up to something -- and to find out more, you had to click the link. So I clicked it. And it led to a Facebook website that had been deleted.

The Tweet was published on November 19th, just two weeks before their application for $7 million was turned down. The Facebook page was yanked shortly after that, as part of KAIROS's purge of its anti-Israel and anti-Semitic web pages.

It's the high-tech equivalent of shredding everything in the corporate filing cabinet before the auditor arrives.

You wouldn't know it, if you just looked at KAIROS's Facebook page today: there's just a gap between Nov. 18 and Nov. 20.

KAIROS's webmaster, Nik Beeson (pictured at left), posted a comment on this site the other day denying he was deleting incriminating pages. I proved him wrong, and asked him to disclose all the pages he had been asked to delete. Needless to say, I haven't heard back from him.

Nik, what was on that Facebook page you took down? Why did you take it down? When did you take it down? Who asked you to take it down? And why haven't you answered my question about what else you've taken down?

Nik, do you really think such unethical behaviour is appropriate?

Then again, why would Nik answer such tough questions? $7 million is at stake.

And as Nik says on his poetic personal website

Money's nice.
I like it.
It helps.
A lot.
I don't need a lot.
But I do need a little, a lot.

Nik, whatever they're paying you to lie -- a little, a lot -- it isn't worth becoming the sort of person who bears false witness.

P.S. Nik, I've saved the Tweets and Facebook pages in question to my hard drive, so there's no point in deleting those ones.

UPDATE: Sorry, Nik. It's harder to delete a web page than to shred a piece of paper.

Here's a cache of the deleted Facebook page. It refers to KAIROS's campaign boss's blog, called "Whose Holy Land?"

And here's a cache of that blog, with anti-Israel entries as late as two weeks before KAIROS's defunding.

Gee! I wonder why they'd delete those!