Recovery of Article About Recommending School Shootings

Once upon a time there was a website called "overthrow.com". It was a project of "Bill White", who was recently sentenced to do a great deal of time after allegedly sending email threats following a raid on an Osceola compound of American Front, where paramilitary training for race war was said to be occurring. 

Back in the day, soon after the Columbine school shooting, Overthrow.com put out recommendations to American students involving violence.

Web Site Asks Youths to Carry Weapons, Build Bombs 

10.29 a.m. ET (1429 GMT) May 1, 1999 
By Sarah Tippit  


A Web site urging young people to carry weapons, build bombs, blow up
their schools, kill the football team and laugh while doing so is just a
click away from anyone with access to a computer.

Information-packed www.overthrow.com, which says it is run by a
youth-oriented, anti-government movement called the Utopian Anarchist
Party, features articles telling young people how runaways can conceal
weapons by wearing coats, build bombs and mix illegal drugs.

It says schools and juvenile psychiatric centers that prescribe
anti-depressants are evil and should be destroyed, and it gives a list
of "Music to Shoot Your School Up By."

There are so many parallels between the Web site's message and the April
20 massacre in Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, that some
police hate-crime experts say privately it is not inconceivable that the
two teen-age gunmen in that case visited the site.

FBI officials in Denver were unable to confirm that the Web site had any
connection to the shooting.

The creator of www.overthrow.com, 21-year-old William White of
Gaithersburg, Maryland, told Reuters he would neither confirm nor deny
that a "Colorado cell" of the Utopian Anarchist Party had been in
contact with the teen-agers responsible for the shooting, in which 15
people, including the gunmen, died.

"The reason (the Columbine victims) got killed is that they are part of
an authoritarian social movement and were seen by the killers as
symbolic of that movement," White, who described himself as an anarchist
since junior high school, told Reuters.

"What the shooters were shooting at was not people but the movements
they symbolized. It's a shame that authoritarian Christians, who are
trying to dominate our society, don't have a clue how objectionable they
are until people start shooting them," he said in a telephone interview.

White said his group did not target a specific group but sought to
"annihilate" authoritarian systems with "shifting rules to fit the
moment." He said these systems ranged from public schools and juvenile
psychiatric centers to police departments and the media.

He called President Clinton an "authoritarian communist" who "should be
removed from office."

"I am angry we are living in a system that excuses murder in one place
and demands solemnity in another, that manufactures reality, that
manufactures morals, that twists the truth (to suit the moment)," White
said.

He said visits to his Web site had increased fivefold since the shooting
in Littleton. "We have gone from 4,000 visitors a day to a peak of about
50,000 a day," he said. "If it continues ... it will be more like the
1.5 million-hits-per-month range," he said.

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center,
which monitors hate Web sites, said their number had skyrocketed in the
last month.

"On April 19, 1995, the day of the Oklahoma City bombing, there was one
hate Web site on the Net," Cooper told Reuters.

"Our new study on April 1 lists 1,426 hate Web sites," he said, many of
which target children and, thanks to the ease of new technology, are
easily created by teen-agers.

"We're now at the end of April, and we're at 1,600 sites," he said, an
increase of nearly 200 hate-oriented sites in less than a month.

Cooper said it was not inconceivable that the Littleton shooters saw the
Web site before their rampage. His researchers saw it several weeks ago
and noted that "Music to Shoot Your School Up By" had been posted for at
least a few weeks before Littleton, he said.

Conservative talk show host Michael Reagan, who also drew a parallel
with the Littleton shooting, said the site's existence should, at a
minimum, be a wake-up call to parents who are not aware what people or
groups their children are contacting on the Internet.

"It's like having a support group that says, 'Yes, if that's what you
want to do, hey, we've got all kinds of people here ready and willing
and able to support you in your efforts to kill and maim,"' Reagan told
Reuters.

White said the site's references to bomb-making and drugs were meant to
attract young people for indoctrination into a political movement.

The 501c3 Controlling of Churches

Most churches in America have organized as "501c3 tax-exempt religious organizations." This is a fairly recent trend that has only been going on for about fifty years. Churches were only added to section 501c3 of the tax code in 1954. We can thank Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson for that. Johnson was no ally of the church. As part of his political agenda, Johnson had it in mind to silence the church and eliminate the significant influence the church had always had on shaping "public policy."
Although Johnson proffered this as a "favor" to churches, the favor also came with strings attached (more like shackles). One need not look far to see the devastating effects 501c3 acceptance has had to the church, and the consequent restrictions placed upon any 501c3 church. 501c3 churches are prohibited from addressing, in any tangible way, the vital issues of the day.
For a 501c3 church to openly speak out, or organize in opposition to, anything that the government declares "legal," even if it is immoral (e.g. abortion, homosexuality, etc.), that church will jeopardize its tax exempt status. The 501c3 has had a "chilling effect" upon the free speech rights of the church. LBJ was a shrewd and cunning politician who seemed to well-appreciate how easily many of the clergy would sell out.
Did the church ever need to seek permission from the government to be exempt from taxes? Were churches prior to 1954 taxable? No, churches have never been taxable. To be taxable a church would first need to be under the jurisdiction, and therefore under the taxing authority, of the government. The First Amendment clearly places the church outside the jurisdiction of the civil government: "Congress shall make NO LAW respecting an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
Religion cannot be free if you have to pay the government, through taxation, to exercise it. Since churches aren't taxable in the first place, why do so many of them go to the IRS and seek permission to be tax-exempt? It occurs out of:

• Ignorance ("We didn't know any better")
• Bandwagon logic ("Everyone else is doing it")
• Professional advice (many attorneys and CPAs recommend it)

Does the law require, or even encourage, a church to organize as a 501c3? To answer that question let's turn to what the IRS itself has to say.

Churches Need Not Apply

In order to be considered for tax-exempt status by the IRS an organization must fill out and submit IRS Form 1023 and 1024. However, note what the IRS says regarding churches and church ministries, in Publication 557:

Some organizations are not required to file Form 1023. These include:

Churches, interchurch organizations of local units of a church, conventions or associations of churches, or integrated auxiliaries of a church, such as a men’s or women’s organization, religious school, mission society, or youth group. These organizations are exempt automaticallyif they meet the requirements of section 501(c)(3).

Churches Are “Automatically Tax-Exempt”

According to IRS Code § 508(c)(1)(A):

Special rules with respect to section 501(c)(3) organizations.

(a) New organizations must notify secretary that they are applying for recognition of section 501(c)(3) status.

(c) Exceptions.

(1) Mandatory exceptions. Subsections (a) and (b) shall not apply to—

(A) churches, their integrated auxiliaries, and conventions or associations of churches.

This is referred to as the "mandatory exception" rule. Thus, we see from the IRS’ own publications, and the tax code, that it is completely unnecessary for any church to apply for tax-exempt status. In the IRS’ own words a church “is automatically tax-exempt.”

Churches Are “Automatically Tax-Deductible”

And what about tax-deductibility? Doesn’t a church still need to become a 501c3 so that contributions to it can be taken as a tax deduction? The answer is no! According to IRS Publication 526:

Organizations That Qualify To Receive Deductible Contributions

You can deduct your contributions only if you make them to a qualified organization. To become a qualified organization, most organizations other than churches and governments, as described below, must apply to the IRS.

In the IRS’ own words a church “is automatically tax-deductible.”

Churches Have a Mandatory Exception To Filing Tax Returns

Not only is it completely unnecessary for any church to seek 501c3 status, to do so becomes a grant of jurisdiction to the IRS by any church that obtains that State favor. In the words of Steve Nestor, IRS Sr. Revenue Officer (ret.):

"I am not the only IRS employee who’s wondered why churches go to the government and seek permission to be exempted from a tax they didn’t owe to begin with, and to seek a tax deductible status that they’ve always had anyway. Many of us have marveled at how church leaders want to be regulated and controlled by an agency of government that most Americans have prayed would just get out of their lives. Churches are in an amazingly unique position, but they don’t seem to know or appreciate the implications of what it would mean to be free of government control."

from the Forward of In Caesar's Grip, by Peter Kershaw