H&R Block Cuts Ties With NRA

NewsMax ^ | 3/14/02 | Jim Burns

[luvzhottea]

Pretty difficult in today's culture to stand by principle.
I confess to feeling some sympathy for H&R Block, they meant well at least.
We should let them know that we wish they would have STUCK BY THEIR GUNS!
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[cva66snipe]

Well H&R Block if we all stop and consider them for a moment deals in a rather unpopular business to begin with. In other words they help Uncle collect the tares from the peasants when more traditional means of taxation were intended. I doubt you would find H&R Block supporting traditional tariffs either. What I'm saying is expect them to be on the side which makes sure they stay in bussiness. The Liberals who love high taxes.

[Mercuria]

BUMPING YOU!!!

Attempting to wrest Constitutional rights from other citizens has made Sarah Brady, the Mooing Moms, and the rest of their ilk pretty damned wealthy.

How lovely is BLOOD $$$ to these leeches who have been attempting to suck the life's blood of liberty out of EVERY American citizen for too damned long!

[Mercuria]

Thank you, all three of you, for being a part of the good fight!

[Mercuria]

If we don't hold feet to the fire...who will??

[Mercuria]

Of course, I believe you are correct!

However...H & R Block might find a few (hopefully MORE than a few) of the more well-off pro-2Aers who have the money to spend on accountants won't be coming to THEM.

[Hat-Trick]

Isn't Sears & Roebuck the parent company of H&R Block?

Hat-Trick

[Hat-Trick]

Eric....this is excellent. The only way it could be any better is if you had a reference to the Jesse Jackson "Shakedown-esque" tactics of the Gun Controller's. IMNSHO! Nice Job!

Hat-Trick

[Shooter 2.5]

I'm still getting my taxes done by H & R Block. I have read the posts that gun owners are going to boycott them and the only thing that I don't understand is, why didn't all of you [and me] support them while the agreement was in place. I know that there was a counter protest done by Freepers and for this, I'm grateful. My opinion is if every gunowner had supported H & R Block, they would have been able to tell the anti's to take a flying leap.

[Freedom2specul8]

Just so you know, I can't STAND H&R block....partially because their quick refunds aren't refunds..or weren't the second yr they had them. They gave us a LOAN, who in turn GAVE US A DRAFT..which my bank would not credit our account with for 7 days. SO, their quick refund took a week longer...that was VERY deceptive...ESPECIALLY when they charged over $100 to people for it.

[flushed with pride]

You got it right, 'snipe. H&RB is such a huge whore of a company. It uses fear-based ads to get people to use it's services: 'You need us 'cause the big bad taxman is coming for you and there's no way you could ever understand the maze of instructions within the tax code' ; while simultaneously lobbying furiously AGAINST any kind of a simplified tax system that would render their company obsolete.

I hope that whatever effect that any boycott the NRA undertakes against H&RB will be keenly felt by the morons who run that crappy company.

[Twodees]

Where do you get this "nation's oldest civil rights organization" BS? The NRA is no such thing. Dig up one single thing to show that the NRA was involved in RKBA issues before any other civil rights organization existed. Anyway, civil rights organizations are all odius enemies of the Constitution and always have been. Bragging that your guncontrol lobby is a civil rights organization just shoots it in the foot. Yeah, what a lovely picture, the NRA and the NAACP holding hands and singing the Internationale.

The NRA can KMA.

[the]

H&R Block is publicly traded under the symbol HRB. Berkshire Hathaway owns over 8% of H&R Block.

I think that Sears and H&R Bleccch have partnered for locations, and some ealy on-line deals. So far as I know, however, Sears does not now own H&R Block.

[GussiedUp]

Bump!

[Coleus]

Customer Support, Submit a Question or Comment to H & R Block

Or, please email and call the Following people many times, in other words, FREEP THEM:

Bob Schneider

Bob Schneider (816) 932-4835

bschneider@hrblock.com

Cyd Slayton (816) 932-8470

cslayton@hrblock.com Cyd Slayton

Linda McDougall (816) 932-7542

lmcdougall@hrblock.com Linda McDougall

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Ours is done "in house".

[Shooter 2.5]

Name one piece of anti-gun legislation stopped by a gun group other than the NRA.

[Joe Brower]

Thanks for the flag.

It seems that his whole affair has blown totally out of control for H&R Block. If they chose to support the NRA, they damn well should have known what kind of vitrol this would generate from the left. If they did not know this, and it appears they did not, then it comes as no surprise that they are equally unaware of the ire they would inspire from the right. They just didn't think it through, and now, by backing away and losing their footing, they are being blown about like a leaf in the political wind. And they have also completely succeeded in pi$$ing off both sides.

[Joe Brower]

[SUSSA]

Where do you get this "nation's oldest civil rights organization" BS? The NRA is no such thing. Dig up one single thing to show that the NRA was involved in RKBA issues before any other civil rights organization existed.

Name one civil rights organization that is still around that was in existence before the NRA. You can't because there are none.

Anyway, civil rights organizations are all odius enemies of the Constitution and always have been.

You are laboring under the impression created by the elite media. Groups like Operation Push that have nothing to do with civil rights give civil rights a bad name. Groups like the Congress of Racial Equality and the NRA who are working to support everyone's rights are not enemies of the Constitution. Your individual right to own and carry a firearm is as much a civil right as your right to a fair trial or to worship as you please. Those working to protect your rights are civil rights workers.

While the NRA may not be as aggressive as most of us would like, it is still an important force in the fight. Things would be much worse without the NRA.

Other civil rights organizations like the JPFO, the GOA, and SUSSA, are more aggressive but lack the numbers and the finances to be as effective as the NRA. I don't always agree with the NRA. But I recognize that they are an important part of the fight.

One problem that we have in protecting our Second Amendment right is that people don't understand that gun control laws are racist and elitist. Few Blacks know that the first gun control laws were written to keep them from owning guns. Even fewer Jews know that the Sullivan law was written to keep Jews, southern European immigrants and Blacks from owning guns.

As people start to realize that licensing the right to KABA is the moral equivalent of a literacy test and registration is the moral equivalent of a poll tax, we will gain more support.

As Blacks and the inner-city poor, understand this and join us in demanding that these infringements on our civil rights be removed, we will gain ground.

As to the NRA and the NAACP working together, it already happened, but the left doesn't want anyone to know. In 1957 the NRA trained Blacks in Monroe, N.C. The black, NRA sponsored, gun club took on the KKK in a firefight and won. That gunfight stopped the KKK raids into the Black neighborhood of Monroe.

We all have to understand that we face a common enemy. The same people who are trying to gut the Second Amendment are trying to gut the First. No one's rights are safe when anyone's rights are under attack. No civil right is safe when any civil right is being trampled.

Yes, the NRA is the nation's oldest civil rights organization and it is in a noble battle. To quote Mr. Roy Innis, National Chairman of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), "It is a perversion of logic for the liberal black leaders to oppose gun rights. They are hypocrites. They have guns, but they want to deny guns to ordinary, decent citizens. Those guys are savaging the Bill of Rights." American Rifleman, December 1992, pg. 27

Let's fight the enemy not our friends.