Posted on 12/29/2015 10:43:05 AM PST by Timber Rattler
Melissa Klein was checking her bank accounts just a few weeks before Christmas when her face turned ashen. The money was gone - every single penny.
Oregon's Bureau of Labor and Industries had confiscated all the cash in Mrs. Klein's checking account and savings account as well as a special account set aside for their church tithe.
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"It was like my breath was taken away," Mrs. Klein told me in a telephone conversation. "I panicked. Everything was gone."
And, as I said before, Commissioner Avakian even seized money set aside for You Know Who.
"We had three accounts," she told me. "I have one account that's labeled, 'God’s money' - our tithing. They just took it."
Attorney Tyler Smith, who represents the Kleins, tells me his clients still plan on fighting the state's decision - even if it means going to the Supreme Court.
"The least expensive option to stay in compliance with the law was to pay the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries funds that will be kept in a separate account until they prevail in their court appeal," Smith told me in a prepared statement.
He said the couple had asked the state to hold off on collection attempts - but that request was denied.
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Avakian has publicly stated his intentions to target Christian business owners who do not comply with the state's way of thinking. Here's what he told The Oregonian about Sweet Cakes By Melissa in 2013:
"The goal is never to shut down a business. The goal is to rehabilitate."
I've never met Brad Avakian but he sounds like a pretty ruthless individual - a person who is using his office to bully and intimidate Christians.
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So wrong on so many levels.
Cruz had them at his Rally for Religious Liberty in Iowa. I hope he contacts them and does something. This is criminal and should be the final straw.
For all the money that’s been donated to the Kleins they showed some very poor financial planning skills to have their accounts available for seizure.
Their accounts should have been in the names of their children and other entities created to shield assets.
Liberals excel at this. Maybe they should hire a liberal law firm
and gth out of oregon
There ought to be some dead people over this.
Will a republican president put an end to this kind of thing?
Well, Mr. Avakian believes he is God. He will find out that he is not immortal and that God does not abide this type of person.
Which is so much more important than mussies feelings.
Which is unconstitutional in multiple ways.
That’s the truth. Because it’s not happening, this will continue.
I think they can start by getting new legal counsel. The judgment against them was issued what, a year ago? And upheld in July? And according to their lawyer they’re still “planning” on fighting the decision? Well what is she waiting for?
Funny how the gays never target a muslim business
Had they had the Almighty's name on the account then could the state have seized it since it had dual owners, one of whom was not a party to the legal action?
You noticed that too? Totally coincidental. I mean this has nothing to do with anti-christianity. /s
Fascism. Alive and well in the USA.
That was my thought.
> Will a republican president put an end to this kind of thing?
And how would any president go about doing that?
They do not have legislative powers.
Pulling cash out of bank accounts to avoid government confiscation is probably the kind of crime which can send you to prison.
I say get out of that awful state Oregon. It is run by mad men with the intellect of the “Klamath” midge.
Seems to me that I wouldn’t have had ANY accounts for them to seize. Not a single one.
Then expose those behind it and hunt them. Mercilessly.
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