Posted on 05/05/2002 10:33:21 PM PDT by jdege
Members and leaders of Grassroots organizations who are members of the NRA. The NRA has seminars on how to start and organize Grassroots organizations. If you complainers would tell us what your group is doing instead of complaining about the NRA, maybe someone would join your group.
See post 42.
Terriergal, bump this one to your list and 'make someone's day' !
I cant' get on the MN Sec of State's web page. Have the liberals in that office struck back by shutting it down, or is it suddenly that busy?
Stay well - stay safe - stay armed - Yorktown
Just helping you correct that sentence. >:P
In fact, it is impossible to accomplish good ends by use of evil means. If you truly wish to create a better world you must have a spiritual commitment never to go down to the level of your opponents. What's more, you don't have to. Good will always triumph in the end, but only if it is truly good.
Watch the last Star Wars movie. You are going over to the dark side, and you don't even know it.
What then, all's fair in "culture war"? Using such evil tactics is for the greater good?
The grabbing of the names is, in truth, a rather trivial exercise. It's a clever nose-tweak, and it shut them down for a weekend, but in the larger context, it doesn't matter much.
What is really significant about the exercise is that this group of gun-banners has been outed as having had solicited and having had accepted tax-deductible charitable contributions for three years after their tax-exempt status had lapsed.
They are going to owe taxes on their income, and their donors are going to owe taxes on their donations.
And penalties, of course.
And beyond that, each and every donor is going to have a solid claim for seeking damages against the group, for the taxes and penalties that they will be required to pay, plus legal fees, and fees for the accountants who prepare the amended returns, etc.
If the IRS acts on this (and they very well might - the group formerly known as Citizens for a Safer Minnesota have accepted five-figure grants from the usual bunch of national gun-grabbing loons, so there is real money involved here), the organization under whatever name they choose to adopt, is going to be inactive for some years, it's leadership tied up in audits and lawsuits.
And when they go looking for more money from the same people they just screwed so badly...
This should serve as the blueprint for a national effort...
Normally you might call the IRS an evil agency and demand that it be abolished along with the income tax, but here you are gleefully using the IRS for your own purposes. This tells me that your positions are not principled, but opportunistic. You will gladly use the state for your own purposes, and your successes will make you enjoy your newfound power. Why, it's not so bad. You could do a lot of good with that vast machine of compulsion and destruction.
Then you will end up like the demented and corrupt Bill Bennett who urges the government to educate us about right and wrong.
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