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The IRS is putting David Horowitz’s Freedom Center out of business
American Thinker ^ | 14 Mar, 2024 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 03/14/2024 6:34:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber

According to Horowitz, the IRS contends that, by reporting on Hillary Clinton’s national security violations, the tax-exempt foundation effectively endorsed Trump.

Nobody likes the IRS, but Americans always assumed that the IRS was an equal opportunity government pest, bedeviling people across the political spectrum. The belief in the agency’s non-partisan status vanished in 2013 when we learned that the IRS had deliberately withheld tax-exempt status from Tea Party organizations, severely hampering their ability to share information during the 2012 presidential election. Now, David Horowitz contends that the IRS is trying to destroy his long tax-exempt Freedom Center, which, among many things, publishes Frontpage Magazine.

David Horowitz is an interesting person. He was raised in the Belly of the Beast, a “red-diaper baby” who was viewed as the great red hope for bringing communism to America. However, after working closely with the Black Panthers, Horowitz concluded that his former beliefs were completely wrong and that America’s founding principles were the best way to bring about maximum happiness and prosperity to the greatest number of people.

SNIP

During the 2016 election, the Freedom Center used its outlets to report on a major news story, namely, Hillary Clinton’s self-admitted national security violations. According to Horowitz, for the IRS, this reporting was the “gotcha!” moment. By opining about Hillary’s criminal activities when she was a presidential candidate, the Freedom Center had gone from being an information outlet to being a partisan political outlet…which meant it was no longer tax-exempt.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; arrestdanielwerfel; danielwerfel; davidhorowitz; defundirs; firstamendment; freedomcenter; frontpagemagazine; irs; irsthugsarefairgame; marxism; teaparty; weaponizedgovernment
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1 posted on 03/14/2024 6:34:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I can’t say that this surprises me.


2 posted on 03/14/2024 6:34:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


3 posted on 03/14/2024 6:36:22 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: MtnClimber

Our current political climate can be summed up in three words:

Orwell
Stalin
Kafka


4 posted on 03/14/2024 6:41:32 AM PDT by william clark (A man who is unwilling to be proven wrong has little regard for truth.)
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To: MtnClimber

Meanwhile… “ The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGN or BLMGNF)[a] is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit civil rights organization dedicated to promoting the Black Lives Matter movement.”


5 posted on 03/14/2024 6:41:51 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: MtnClimber
...by reporting on Hillary Clinton’s national security violations, the tax-exempt foundation effectively endorsed Trump.

ABSURD!..................LAWFARE WORKS BOTH WAYS, DEMS!..................

6 posted on 03/14/2024 6:42:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: MtnClimber

During elections many churches, particularly black churches, become de-facto democrat mouthpieces. The IRS does not rescind their tax exempt status.


7 posted on 03/14/2024 6:43:44 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-oilfield roughneck-drilling fluids tech-geologist-pilot-instructor-pharmacist)
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To: Red Badger

“hear, hear”


8 posted on 03/14/2024 6:46:00 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: MtnClimber

But black churches where they preached the Gospel of Obama are cool.

And NPR, Planned Abortionhood, and the rest.


9 posted on 03/14/2024 6:46:22 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: MtnClimber

“we learned that the IRS had deliberately withheld tax-exempt status from Tea Party organizations”

The crazy thing was how dire the consequences were that the responsible IRS people faced. Zero. None at all.


10 posted on 03/14/2024 6:46:51 AM PDT by cdcdawg (The "rainbow flag" is the symbol of Western neo-imperialism. )
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To: Red Badger

Unfortunately it doesn’t really, or hasn’t yet. Republicans are still acting as if government were a collegial affair.


11 posted on 03/14/2024 6:50:43 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MtnClimber

The Democrat party is seditious and corrupt at its core and must be dissolved.


12 posted on 03/14/2024 6:51:20 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: MtnClimber

give em’ guns and ammo

and you can expect this kind of (un)reasoning next.


13 posted on 03/14/2024 7:24:42 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: DesertRhino

Isn’t that the ultimate joke


14 posted on 03/14/2024 7:29:30 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim (C)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

15 posted on 03/14/2024 7:34:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Taxman

ping


16 posted on 03/14/2024 8:00:10 AM PDT by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: Skywise
The Democrat party is Anti-American, EVIL, seditious and corrupt at its core and must be dissolved!
17 posted on 03/14/2024 8:02:26 AM PDT by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: MtnClimber

” but Americans always assumed that the IRS was an equal opportunity government pest, “

Hahahahahha. Not this A,Eric an. Hello Al Sharpton. Hello Hunter Biden. Hello Clinton’s. Hello Biden’s. Hello Fani Willis. Hello Obamas.


18 posted on 03/14/2024 9:18:22 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: DesertRhino

“...The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation...”

The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is a violent,, criminal, RICO organization.


19 posted on 03/14/2024 10:26:35 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: DesertRhino

It’s time to put an end to ‘nonprofits’...

99.99% of the time these groups are formed to force taxpayers to subsidize tax breaks for extreme left wing nutcases... and the ‘George Soros’ types who fund them.


20 posted on 03/14/2024 10:42:14 AM PDT by GOPJ (Question: What are the two things Biden finds at ice cream shops? A. Ice cream and young children.)
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