Is Gottlieb’s “new” JPFO about to get in trouble with the IRS? Now that's a darn good question. . .
"JPFO’s first public mission should not be to destroy itself by participating in lobbying. This will only put JPFO in the IRS’s eye and risk destroying everything Aaron Zelman worked to build."
This is interesting on two counts.
Why try to undermine the December rally?
First, the Gottlieb-promoted rally is clearly intended to steal thunder (and attendance) from another rally planned for this Saturday, December 13. Saturday’s rally has had tons of support from the day it was announced and will feature Mike Vanderboegh, Sheriff Richard Mack, and Ammon Bundy as speakers.
Gottlieb’s complaint against the December rally seems to be only that the legislature won’t be in session then. (Although the idea that Saturday’s rally is expressly for disobeying the law also seems to set a certain “conservative” element to tsking — as if we should obey tyrants as long as tyranny is imposed by vote.) So, just in advance of the December rally, he sets out to undermine it.
You’d think he would learn. In this year’s state elections, instead of opposing Bloomberg’s ghastly plan with all his efforts, Gottlieb set up his own competing initiative, I-591, and put all his energies — and money — into that.
So a million dollars that could have gone to fighting I-594 went down the drain of I-591 instead. (I-591 lost.)
Yes, you’d think Gottlieb would learn that “divide to win” isn’t good electoral or legislative strategy. Yet Workman’s article drips with contempt for Saturday’s effort and goes out of its way to point out reasons why attendance might be low.
That’s the first count on which the Gottlieb-supported January rally is “interesting.”
Doesn’t Gottlieb understand what JPFO is?
The second count is JPFO’s involvement.
The stated purpose of the January rally is to be “the first 2015 Legislative Rally against I-594 and other bad gun laws.” Note well: it’s a legislative rally. Workman elaborates: “[T]he Jan. 15 rally – when the Legislature will be in town – will allow citizens a chance to personally lobby lawmakers.” Note well: it’s for lobbying. Following the public portion of the rally, citizens will even be escorted to legislators’ offices. Note well: That’s an integral part of the event.
And JPFO is supporting this?
But JPFO is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization. It is absolutely forbidden to engage in lobbying or any other form of “political” activity. It cannot oppose or advocate for any specific laws. It can’t take any electoral stance. It’s forbidden by its very nature from even saying something like, “Write to your legislator to demand the repeal of …”
JPFO’s only legal role is educational. It can shout to the rooftops about why the state’s new law is stupid and dangerous and a violation of fundamental rights. But lobby legislators or even encourage others to do so??? Let alone sponsor a rally whose sole, stated purpose is to connect gun owners with legislators. This is totally outside of what the IRS allows JPFO to do.
5 comments:
Here is the fundamental problem.
There is NO WAY to have someone else defend you and your right to defend yourself (from either a violent criminal or a petty tyrant).
I guess it's true, if you want something done right... You have to do it yourself.
Why would SAF play the competing legislation game?
Because no matter which passed, or failed, the fundraising effort can begin anew! It's a heads he wins tails we lose effort. Yet the Fudds fall for it when SAF does it just as they do when the NRA does it.
On the 501 c 3-4 point -
I think he's setting up litigation - making this "mistake" intentional. We already see Christians working toward challenging the lobby ban and The G man may be thinking he can coopt that effort by "joining forces" and "bringing Jews and Christians together".
At the start, the draw to the SAF was that it was straightforward litigation rather than legislative chicanery already being played by the NRA. ITS ALMOST like they were so surprised by their own successes that now the SAF is acting to destroy itself - with its "leader" wearing a suicide vest as he walks into a convention of donors!
I never heard of this guy Gottlieb before all the hoopla about him as of late. But one thing I have heard plenty about is the Fed. Gov't being very, very good at infiltrating a group, taking over leadership of said group, and then steering that group in a different direction than originally intended and in doing so destroying that group because the membership wants nothing to do with it anymore....Sound familiar?
Something I posted there I'll post here too;
Gottlieb is for background checks and that is not even open to argument. He has gotten what he wanted in Washington State by splitting our forces/money with his I-591 campaign.
So now what is he up to?
All I know is once a Judenräte always a Judenräte, he is ready and willing to lead us to the cattle cars with his compromises with the NAZI’s because he believes why fight what “he” believes the majority wants, just like the original Judenräte who thought compromise and working with the NAZI’s would get us something other than slavery!
And we all know how that worked out; don’t we!
This was so predictable - Gottlieb seems to be disturbingly bi-polar. He'll ruin JPFO, which has always been my favorite Pro-2nd and Pro-Civil Rights organization; I was proud to be a Charter Member.
Claire Wolfe, and yourself Dutchman, were very upset by Gottlieb's avarice and desire to acquire" JPFO, and now those predictions are coming true.
Aaron Zelman was such a great man, and now he's gone; unfortunately, Gottlieb couldn't leave JPFo or Aaron's vision alone. And, thus, JPFO may go and join Aaron in the great hereafter.
Aaron, I'm just a Goyim, but I hope you're tightly clasped to Yehweh's bosom - may you have Peace and Serenity forever.
We miss you.
Oh, yeah - Gottlieb? GET STUFFED!!
All I know is that Gottlieb screwed us pretty good with his I-591 campaign. It was poorly written and diverted scant funds away from what have been a more effective anti-594 campaign.
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