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Samaritan's Purse also targeted by IRS - Politco
2013-05-15
The IRS came after Billy Graham, too, his son charged Tuesday in a letter to President Barack Obama.

Franklin Graham, avid sportsman and firearms owner the president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the family's international humanitarian organization Samaritan's Purse, said that the IRS notified the organizations in September that it was conducting a "review" of their activities for tax year 2010.
Samaritan's Purse? We don't need no Samaritan's Purse, we got the gummit !
With the IRS admitting it gave extra scrutiny to conservative political organizations, Graham says he now believes that the review was part of an Obama administration effort of "targeting and attempting to intimidate us."
If you have been targeted or intimidated by the IRS, raise your hand. Hundreds possibly thousands across this auditorium are raising their hands.
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association urging of voters to back "candidates who base their decisions on biblical principles and support the nation of Israel" during last year's presidential race was the reason why IRS agents visited the North Carolina offices of both Graham groups, the letter accuses.
Note IRS key search words: Israel, biblical, Evangelistic, North Carolina.
The IRS seems to think Israel is a terrorist nation, like Hamas and Hizb'allah, which is why those Jewish groups got extra scrutiny.
No, the IRS does not think Israel is like Hamas and Hizb'allah: the latter two are favored at the top, and the IRS knows that...
"While these audits not only wasted taxpayer money, they wasted money contributed by donors for ministry purposes as we had to spend precious resources servicing the IRS agents in our offices," Graham wrote in the letter, which was shared with POLITICO. "I believe that someone in the administration was targeting and attempting to intimidate us. This is morally wrong and unethical -- indeed some would call it 'un-American."

Graham said that "in light" of the IRS admission that it targeted tea party groups for added scrutiny, "I do not believe that the IRS audit of our two organizations last year is a coincidence -- or justifiable."
That would be our guess as well, preacher.
Posted by:Besoeker

#3  An armory full of hollow points which the leftists in the government hopes will increase the intimidation factor used against a list of people to harrass.

I promise you, this is the thinking of Hussien's many Czars on down.
Posted by: Whock de Medici1307   2013-05-15 12:39  

#2  Just do away with all 'tax exempt' statuses. I know, 'women and children' fund directors taking in 6 figure salaries and their bribes/political contributions hit hardest.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-05-15 07:57  

#1  In some countries it's secret police. In Dar it's morality police. In (former) USA it's IRS.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-05-15 06:30  

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