IRS Tyranny Against a Texas Pro-Life Organization

                 
 

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This post deals with a Texas Pro-Life organization that was harassed by the IRS because of their pro-Life position! The IRS is now adjudicating what is and what is not acceptable speech and behavior. It is a part of the corrupt, immoral Obama Administration voted into office by the people of the United States with the help of much fraud! The Chicago way translated to the United States way—until we the people rebel against this tyranny

From: http://townhall.com/columnists/erikstanley/2013/06/10/recorded-irs-agent-telling-nonprofit-to-keep-faith-to-themselves-n1617139/page/full

“Recorded: IRS Agent Telling Non-Profit To Keep Faith To Themselves
Erik Stanley | Jun 10, 2013

Texas-based Pro-Life Revolution applied for 501(c)3 status with the IRS in January 2011— they received that status some 900 days later, on June 6, 2013 in a letter dated May 19. In the interim, they received letters asking for clarification and ‘more information,’ and a March 2012 phone call in which IRS agent Sherry Wan told Pro-Life Revolution President Ania Joseph how the IRS expects tax-exempt groups to act, think, and speak.

In a legally recorded call 14 months into an application process that was supposed to last no more than 270 days, Wan told Joseph:

‘You cannot force your religion or force your beliefs on somebody else…. You have to know your boundaries. You have to know your limits. You have to respect other people’s beliefs.’

The agent went on to say she stresses neutrality on issues because she works for the IRS, and therefore, has ‘to stick with the law (Does she know what the law is? Does she know about the Constitution of the United States?— my addition).’

Mind you, this is the IRS telling a private citizen how they should or shouldn’t, can or can’t, speak or act when it comes to exercising their First Amendment freedoms.

If you think such an accusation is a bridge too far, consider that it appears the agent also told Joseph she’d be allowed to reach out to women— including handing them a pro-life brochure—but, if she wants a tax exemption, she ought to play nice with abortion clinics.

‘You convince them. But when you take a lot of action … for example, when you, you know, go to, you know, the abortion clinic, and you found them [unintelligible], we don’t want, you know, to come against them. You can’t take all kinds of confrontation activities and also put something on a website and ask people to take action against the abortion clinic. That’s not, that’s not really educational.’

Again, this is an IRS agent telling a private citizen how her group can and can’t act, what they can and can’t say or do.

But don’t fall for any excuses that may come again about this being a ‘rogue’ agent. To be charitable to Wan, I’m sure she’s simply following her training—training that apparently taught her to base her arguments to Pro-Life Revolution on a law overturned by a federal appeals court in D.C. during the Carter administration.

Toward the end of the conversation, Wan told Joseph: ‘When you conduct religious activities, meanwhile you have to respect other people’s beliefs, other people’s religion. You cannot [go] ... against other groups or devalue other groups, other people’s beliefs. OK?’

In other words, if you want a tax-exempt status, you need only be sure you stand for nothing and say the same.”

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From: http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/irs-tells-ministry-you-cant-talk-about-that/

“IRS tells ministry: You can’t talk about that

Hear federal agent say ‘You have to know your boundaries’
By Bob Unruh

An audio recording captures an Internal Revenue Service agent stumbling and hesitating her way through a telephone call in which she tells a leader of a pro-life group that her organization must keep its religious beliefs to itself.

The Alliance Defending Freedom said the group, Pro-Life Revolution, did not get its tax-exempt status until last week— nearly two and a half years after starting the process.

In the recorded conversation, IRS agent Sherry Wan tells Ania Joseph: ‘You cannot, you know, use your religious belief to tell other people you don’t have a belief, so I don’t believe you need the right to do this, start confrontation, protesting, uh, prot, uh, protest. … You don’t apply for tax exemption.’

ADF Senior Legal Counsel Erik Stanley said the IRS ‘is a tax collector; it shouldn’t be allowed to be the speech and belief police.’

‘The current scandal isn’t new but has merely exposed the abuse of power that characterizes this agency and threatens our fundamental freedoms,’ he said.

Pro-Life Revolution, headquartered in Texas, said it operates for religious, educational and charitable purposes.

It applied for tax-exempt status in January 2011. Four months later, it received a letter from the IRS demanding that officers assure the federal government ‘that the information you distribute or present to the public are (sic) NOT representing biased and unsupported opinions; [and] that the information presented or distributed are (sic) with sufficiently full and fair exposition of the pertinent facts as to permit an individual or the public to form an independent opinion or conclusion.’

The IRS said that in general, ‘prolife or abortion is a matter of public concern and there are different opinions on this issue.’

‘An organization may advocate the adoption of objective (sic) that are controversial. However, it’s (sic) activities may serve educational purpose (sic) if the activities are nevertheless designed to increase the knowledge and understanding of the public on its viewpoint,’ the IRS said.

The letter, also from Wan, said, ‘From the provisions in Article II, item 2.3 of your bylaws, and from the information presented in your website, it appears that some of your activities, conducted or plan to conduct, may be neither educational nor charitable in nature no matter how sincere of (sic) your religious belief or how important of (sic) your viewpoint.’

Joseph responded to the questions in the letter, then in March 2012 received a call from Wan.

Wan said that to receive tax exemption, ‘You cannot force your religion or force your beliefs on somebody else (How are they suppose to FORCE anything on anyone?— my addition).’

She continued: ‘You have to know your boundaries. You have to know your limits. You have to respect other people’s beliefs.’

ADF noted that the IRS has granted tax-exempt status to pro-abortion groups such as Planned Parenthood and Life and Liberty for Women.

The IRS requested additional information in February in another letter, ADF said, and attempted to apply a standard for tax exemption to Pro-Life Revolution that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held to be unconstitutional in 1980.

When ADF pointed out the constitutional violation to the IRS, the tax exemption finally was granted.

‘The power to tax is the power to destroy (From an early court decision!— my addition),’ said Stanley. ‘Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We cannot allow the IRS to ruthlessly dictate against legitimate non-profits simply because it does not approve of the organization’s mission. It must be held accountable (It will not be by the Obama Administration!— my addition).’

Among Wan’s other statements:

1) ‘Yeah, you have the religious freedom; the freedom of speech. And other people also have the civil rights; human rights.’

2) ‘You have no right to (sic), against, other people’s beliefs.’

3) ‘You reach out to woman, you can’t do that. … You cannot force your religion or force your beliefs on somebody else.’

4) ‘You can’t take all kinds of confrontation activities and also put something on a website and ask people to take action against the abortion clinic. That’s not, that’s not really educational.’

5) ‘We want you to be aware that, you know, when you conduct religious activities, meanwhile you have to respect other people’s beliefs, other people’s religion. You cannot use any kind of, you know, confrontation way, or to, or against other groups or devalue other groups, other people’s beliefs.’

While much of the coverage of the IRS’s attacks on conservative groups has focused on groups with ‘tea party’ or ‘patriot’ in their names, WND also has reported several times on IRS attacks on Christian, pro-life and pro-Israel groups.”

As I’ve said many times, the solution to this is removing businesses including self owned businesses and all other organizations out of the income tax code. The Constitution established the income tax on individuals not on organizations and businesses! It took an illegal and unconstitutional Supreme Court decision to change the Constitution without another amendment! The federal government should stop taxing organizations and businesses and stop giving money to such organizations and businesses too unless for services provided! That would automatically defund Planned MURDERHOOD as far as the federal government is concerned!