Showing posts with label 1st Amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1st Amendment. Show all posts

Sunday, April 12, 2015

The 501c3 Controlling of Churches


501c3 Church Facts


Lyndon B. Johnson, LBJMost 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



Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Pre-Crime Thought Policing in Progress: Offensive Posts





2+2=4

By Lou Saboter

(warning: the truth is stranger than the fiction it produces. For instance: So, our alien designers put a third eye in our brain so we could get messages from them. But our Illuminati masters put fluoride in the water and wiped out the shamans so that kind of thing would stop happening. It is probably for our own good. Hey, did you sign up for FEMA camp yet?)

The launch of the next phase of the police state is underway, with the Chicopee Police Dept. pursuing charges against a citizen for a Facebook post that appears to reference Ismaaiyl Brinsley's social media statements that were written directly before he allegedly shot two police officers and then himself. The officers in question were conducting a anti-terror drill on overtime.

Police have been on the lookout for "offensive statements". This was all that Dirosa did. He posted "Put Wings on Pigs" on Facebook. Apparently, this combination of words is now a chargeable offense even if pigs evolve and start flying in the meanwhile. Or even if you are referencing your desire to eat bacon-encased chicken wings. Or if he was suggesting that cops should try Red Bull, since they often appear lethargic. Or maybe he meant that we should all ring bells and angels, i.e. cops, would get wings, because the men in blue truly are angels walking upon this lowly Earth.
The important thing is not to offend the delicate ear of the police, for they are a sensitive lot. Except when they choke something to death and then march around with t-shirts that read "I CAN BREATHE." OK, so there's that.


Police Poetry Underappreciated, NYPD Warns

Police Said this shirt was misinterpreted. It actually has poetic reverberations that the offensive public is too illiterate to appreciate.
Luckily, double standards apply, and citizen's rights will be taken away to make sure that the possibility of a police officer being harmed, or offended becomes increasingly remote. Meanwhile, the possibility of citizens being tasered, beaten, and executed by police with no charges sticking increases all the time.

This is especially true if you are a lower class citizen, because the value of a human being depends upon their wealth, skin color, station, and/or photogenic gifts, and not upon inalienable rights as some crazy Constitutionalists, truther, do-gooder and/or other hate groups would have you believe.

In fact, the SPLC has determined there are "general hate groups" who could be anyone who disobeys Obama in any way. The SPLC is committed to the suppression of offensive speech, such as "Fuck the Police" or "Obama is a gay Muslim socialist from Kenya", and now "Put Wings on Pigs."

New phrases are being added to the compendium of chargeable offenses all the time. In fact, Morris Dees was quoted as saying "Don't you see that the whole aim of the SPLC is to narrow the range of thought?"




Luckily, Hate Groups are increasing, so we can spend less time worrying whether someone is guilty

Thanks to the University of Cincinnati Institute of Crime Science (ICS), the utilization of social media as part of an effort to crackdown on gangs (i.e. all citizens) has swept through the nation. In May 2008, they used social media to compile statistical computations of what perceived gang tactics would be. Their target, the Northside Taliband, was allegedly involved in drug trafficking, drive-by shootings, and armed robbery. A student helped police create a program to better organize their data, and to help them scour the internet for more useful information. The result was said to be that the police found vital evidence in rap songs, photos of gang signs, pictures of weapons, and on bumper stickers passing by out front.



                                                                                         This is all the proof I need!


From there, the police soon hatched a scheme to take this vital evidence and use it to model future behavior, based on their logic that present behavior is based on past behavior. As Eric Holder famously quipped at a Bank of England sensitivity training seminar, "If we can control the present, the future will never happen. If the future never happens, then forget about the past."

Eric Holder more recently noted that the"rate of violent crime that was reported to the FBI in 2012 was about half the rate reported in 1993". This is in no small part thanks to the increased number of guns owned by Americans. In order to facilitate an increase of violent crimes committed by police on so-called citizen (i.e. "nation of immigrants") it is mandatory that these guns be removed.



6 Million Jews and 500,000,000 Surivivors!


What we want is cowering gun owners, and cowering believers in free speech who refuse to recognize that corporations are people, and "they the people" legally aren't. In this world, the police shall bear no risks to themselves as they dutifully reduce the population on behalf of our benevolent Illuminati chieftains, and remove the fangs from troublesome Americans who cling to their Bibles and guns. In the words of Jeremiah Wright: God Bless America.


It is also important that you report family member to Big Black Brother, and, if possible, steal their guns and bring them to a local official.



 

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Ferguson Scenes and Brief Reflection

 This isn't what democracy looks like
If you are an officer of the law in Lee County, Please sign this

By Lou Saboter

Going back to Ruby Ridge and the Branch Davidian massacre, the government has performed actions to turn public opinion onto the side of a police state. With mainstream media complicity, where the message of the state is repeated, and the victims are demonized, the public is being massaged into supporting oppressive police actions while the resistance is blamed for its reaction, told to be reasonable, accused of permitting crimes, and expected to go quietly home. This all with the express use of President Obama's bully pulpit to subtly or not so subtly prompt such activity. Strangely enough, Obama lumped Ferguson and Iraq together in his speech. He painted his new military incursion into Bush's "dumb war" (his words) as a humanitarian effort. And he urged the protestors to basically not protest so much. Just obey, maybe go home and watch CNN.
This is especially easy to do with targets who are already marginalized. Through the careful, timed release of materials through the media, public opinion is turned in the direction desired by the corporate and state power that has militarized the police.
When it's time to seal the deal, bigger and bigger name celebrities jump into the discussion. Coincidentally, these are always very wealthy people who are against higher taxes. I recall how Bill Maher decided, in his vast reason, that it was time for Occupy Wall Street protestors to go home and get a job.
If you're so stupid to buy into this crap, you have no idea what this country is about. That is the goal. To usher in multinational control, where the police will truly not be working for you at all but for a global system of domination. A serious review of the political and economic history of this country since the end of WWII will reveal this trend to you rather starkly.
Ferguson became a flashpoint and about much more than Michael Brown's death, seemingly not at close range and so meeting the criteria for excessive force. Ferguson was also about militarized police, the dissolution of the Bill of Rights, ongoing racism, a photo op for oppression, a spectacle of the brainwashed sickness of mainstream media victims who continue to make excuses for their oppressors--especially if they're comfortably in the wealthier classes.
It's interesting how much differently people in other countries behave when the state imposes restrictions on them.
Americans are remarkably well behaved.
Yes, kill those people out there defending your rights.
Idiots.Watch this a few times--you'll get it!

Please review and remember how our country was founded. Despite the hypocrisies you can cite in our Founding Fathers, the ideals of the Bill of Rights are worth preservation. And that preservation can only occur through practicing those rights.
The police need to decide if they're with the community or the forces of globalization.

I'm a Turbo Lover of the 1st Amendment