NAACP Resists IRS Investigation - Group Calls Probe Politically Motivated

[truthpusher]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52468-2005Jan31.html?nav=rss_nation

NAACP Resists IRS Investigation
Group Calls Probe Politically Motivated

By Darryl Fears
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 1, 2005; Page A09

The NAACP announced yesterday that it is refusing to comply with an Internal Revenue Service investigation into its tax exempt status that was launched last year after its chairman criticized the Bush administration in a speech.

Interim President Dennis Hayes said the probe, ordered just weeks before the presidential election, "was clearly motivated by partisan politics and intended to divert us from impartial voter registration." The NAACP and other groups registered thousands of black voters, a group that, exit polls showed, voted heavily against the president in November.

The IRS said its investigation seeks to determine whether Julian Bond violated federal regulations that bar certain tax-exempt organizations from engaging in most forms of political activity. Bond's comments about Bush and Democratic Party leaders were made during the NAACP's annual convention last summer in Philadelphia.

"The timing of the investigation is critical here," said Angela Ciccolo, an attorney for the NAACP, the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. "The remarks were made in July, and in October, when we're trying to register African American voters, we get this order. We think it's important to stand up to this type of intimidation, especially in an election year."

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[murielm99]

1. Another group of African Americans stands up to * and

sets and example for the rest of us.

:thumbsup:

[candy331]

2. Falwell? Roberts? next on tax exempt status revocation list? eh! n/t

[physioex]

4. Right....

While we are at it let's audit AIPAC.....

[Maria Celeste]

5. In another thread...

there was a call for just such action to be taken against Falwell and his ilk. Some posters pointed out to be careful what was wished for, for just such a reason. Planned Parenthood has also been discussed as becoming more political as of late in the right wing media. They may well be next.

[msgadget]

8. Right,

and I'd like to see the 'list'. The same rules apply to all tax exempt organizations, meaning anyone who endorsed the president is probably also being audited, right?

"We sent letters to twenty non-church organizations between August 31 and November 2, 2004," the commissioner wrote. "A review of the names of those organizations indicates that the group represents a broad cross-section of the tax-exempt community and a wide range of viewpoints."

[Corgigal]

3. Nixon is ALIVE

alive I tell ya. He lives with Cheney in the bunker.

[Gman]

6. Go ahead, make a political martyr of Bond

use gestapo tactics. Bust down the door. Arrest everyone.

We need something to get people off their asses and motivated to do something about this right wing revolutionary government.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. Fight on!

I hope they do resist! I hope they ask if there is an IRS audit happening for the Southern Baptist Convention and its offshoots. I think this will also force many Blacks, unfortunately, too late, to realize this administration has nothing but disdain for the African-American community. I hope they will see the Rethugs played into their own (AA) bigotry and prejudices. It used to be water cannons and attack dogs, now it is IRS audits and tokenism used to intimidate African-Americans!

[loudsue]

9. NAACP has been moving a little to the right in the last 15 yrs., and

it seems like it's been going on under the radar. I know for a fact that there are many republican infiltrators, and it has caused the whole organization to tone down the message that was previously the cornerstone of the Civil Rights movement.

I hope this IRS investigation doesn't allow the infiltrators to say "let's quit being political" .... in other words, "let's quit being EFFECTIVE". The NAACP was formerly such a HUGE powerhouse for traditional Democratic values (equality, child care, education, jobs, worker's rights) that the rightwingers have worked hard to try to take the power away.

Instead, I hope this IRS investigation builds a fire under our movement, and ends up bringing the republinazis down, for once and for all.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!

We'll ALL be in the streets next time....not just the college kids. Even us oldsters will be joining in the fray.

I hope the NAACP doesn't decide to shut up and sit down. I hope they decide to open up a can of whoop ass!!!

After all....what does the NRA do?? If they're not political, nobody is! The NAACP can do whatever the NRA can do, and we can do it BETTER!

:kick::kick::kick:

[truthpusher]

10. a little aint much with these guys, right?

[leesa]

11. Why isn't the IRS going after all these Bush promoting fake GOP

christian churches...probably half a dozen of them in my little town alone.