Showing posts with label Planned Parenthood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Planned Parenthood. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Desperation and Pleas from Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood Los Angeles might want to think about planning for bankruptcy soon.

People are not killing their babies anymore. In liberal states, most couples don't even have children, or they are too busy busying themselves with other activities to risk having children.

And yet, Planned Murderhood is sounding the alarm and hoping that trends in other states after the repeal of Roe v. Wade signal that abortion will be a defining issue for Election 2022 midterms:

Planned Parenthood Los Angeles

Care. No matter what. 

Dear friends,

 

Less than three months after the fall of Roe v. Wade, the nation is still reeling. Since the ruling, 13 states have implemented total or near-total abortion bans and we anticipate that more will follow suit. Yet despite so much devastating loss, there have been moments of hope. When the issue was put directly to voters, Kansans voted overwhelmingly to protect access to abortion.

 

This hope fuels resiliency. PPLA remains open and our work continues. We have seen a significant increase in out-of-state patients coming to us for abortion care since Roe was overturned. To meet this growing need, we have staffed up our call center, hired patient navigators to coordinate care for out-of-state patients, and created new staff positions to make sure patients can access care in a rapidly shifting legal environment.

 

In a moment when no one has all the answers, we know that patients near and far turn to California and Los Angeles for care. Patients like “Gloria”* who sent a thank you note after visiting one of our health centers:

 

“Thank you so much for the incredible care I received at your facility. I look back on the time I needed care as undoubtedly the hardest time of my adult life. The dignity and care I received at your facility were services that made a profound impact on my life.”

 

In addition to your donations to PPLA, many of you have reached out over the last few months wanting to get involved. Here are a few actions you can take today:

 

1.    Help others get care. Spread the word about how to get care. Patients can call PPLA at 1-800-576-5544 or access www.abortionfinder.org which features the most comprehensive directory of trusted and verified abortion service providers in the United States.  
2.    Reduce abortion stigma. Share your abortion story to end abortion stigma.

3.    Partner in support of PPLA. Host an event to help spread awareness and raise funds in support of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles. Whether you're an individual, business, or grassroots group, you can become a Partner in Support of PPLA. Contact events@pp-la.org to learn more.

 

We’re so grateful for your time and your passion. Thank you for all you do in support of PPLA, our mission, and our patients. 

 

In this together, 

Sue Dunlap
President & CEO

Let's all pray for the quick demise of Planned Murderhood. We are ALL the Pro-Life Generation!

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Abortions Are Elective Procedures--They Should Be Shut Down During Coronavirus Problem

I think it is stunning and disgusting all at once that there are abortion clinics that are still open, still killing babies when so many other businesses have rightly responded to shutdown, lockdown orders.

Who would actually think that an abortion mill like Planned Murderhood would count as an "Essential service"? This is beyond outrageous!

Please sign and share the petition below. Now more than ever, our governments should be predisposed to protect our rights, not undermine the life and well-being of others, even those who are not yet born.

After all, people who support abortion on demand are "pro-choice", right? That means that the procedures by their very nature are elective. It would be best for people to elect not to conduct these perverse procedures in the first place.
Our pro-life reporting is being attacked. So is the truth. We can’t back down in the fight against abortion!
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Arthur,

Even when...at least a third of the country's population is now in lock-down to help flatten the coronavirus curve....

Even when...only "essential" services continue to function....

And, even when...hospitals have stopped non-essential surgeries and other procedures to divert personnel and supplies to fight the virus....

Abortionists continue to operate - taking innocent human lives and depriving coronavirus victims of necessary supplies and personnel.

This needs to stop!

And, two states have already taken the lead: Ohio and Texas.

These states just banned abortionists from operating for the duration of the coronavirus crisis.**

Please SIGN this petition, which calls on all US Governors to work to stop all abortions as "non-essential," during this time of crisis.**
SIGN PETITION
Especially during this pandemic, when everyone is being told to take measures to "save lives," it is the height of hypocrisy that the country's abortion mills continue to function, unabated.

Please CLICK HERE to learn more about this petition. Then, please SIGN!

This is not a political or ideological issue.

It is a matter of saving lives:
  • The lives of coronavirus victims, who desperately need personnel and supplies being consumed by the abortion industry;
  • And, the lives of innocent unborn children.
PLEASE SIGN THIS URGENT PETITION, TODAY!

With this petition, we ask state governors to ban abortion as non-essential, and we ask them to enforce such bans against abortionists who might defy the policy.

Please SIGN and SHARE with your like-minded family, friends and colleagues, today. Thank you!

Yours faithfully,

Scott Schittl and the whole Team at LifeSite

PS – Please SIGN this petition which calls on state governors to work to stop all elective abortions by declaring the procedure "non-essential" - at least for the duration of the coronavirus crisis.**

PPS - Please CLICK HERE to find out more about the petition. Then, please SIGN and SHARE with your like-minded friends, family, and colleagues.

**LifeSite believes in the sanctity of human life, from conception till natural death. We would like to see abortion stopped, everywhere, permanently, and will work towards the day when that is a reality. We do not consider life-saving treatment in pregnancy, which is designed to save the life of a mother, but which results in the unfortunate death of the unborn child, as "abortion."

Monday, October 14, 2019

BREAKING: MassResistance Denounces NBC News for Labeling Downey, CA Parents a "Hate Group"



10.10.19
Downey, CA---

On behalf of the concerned, outraged, and disappointed parents and general citizenry of the city of Downey and throughout Los Angeles County, MassResistance has issued a stern condemnation of NBC Universal, particularly their Los Angeles NBC 4 affiliate for their false, smearing, and libelous slander.


According to their recent report on MassResistance's efforts to stop the "Teen Talk" sex-ed program in Downey Unified School District (DUSD), NBC refers to mothers, fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, small business owners and concerned citizens as "a hate group."

Key statements from the report include the following:

"We have learned outrage over this program may be coming from outside of the community."

That is a total lie. Concerned parents like Sandi Padilla of Downey and others contacted our SoCal MassResistance coordinator, Shanda Lobatos, a mother and licensed professional who has worked with at-risk populations. They contacted us; we did not inspire outrage on our own.

"We've learned the opposition is being organized by a group out of the state. They have been listed as an anti-gay hate group since 2008 by the Southern Poverty Law Center."

Local parents and neighbors worked with MassResistance leaders in California to organize attendance at the Downey School Board meeting. Many pro-family groups, as well as interest groups for other causes, do this. It's part of the American fabric, in which citizens exercise their First Amendment rights to petition their government for a redress of grievances.

As for the Southern Poverty Law Center, that any serious news organization would cite their unsubstantiated smears borders on libel, if not outright criminal conduct.



1. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has a long a history of maligning minority groups, including Jewish Zionists as well as reformist Muslims. In one case, the SPLC was forced to pay a $3.8 million settlement to Maajid Nawaz for smearing him as an anti-Muslim extremist.

2. The SPLC is currently facing six lawsuits from diverse organizations, including a Washington DC-based think-tank headed by an Armenian-American, for libel. Not a good track record.

Bob Moser Exposed the SPLC.
Why does NBC Still rely on them?


3. Former SPLC employees like Bob Moser (himself liberal and openly gay) have exposed the fact that the SPLC does not fight hate, as much as fundraise off of calling conservatives groups whom they disagree with "hate groups." Political debate and disagreement is essential to the American political fabric. For anyone to silence or delegitimize dissent is nothing short of hateful in itself.

4. The SPLC has a long history of libeling pro-family groups of all stripes as hate groups simply because the SPLC does not support protecting natural marriage, life, and family. The fact that the growing number of young voters and groups in the United States have signaled opposition to the anti-family LGBT agenda (per Harris polling) clearly indicated that the SPLC's metrics are out of step with history, as well as morality and biology.

That NBC News would take the unsubstantiated report from a known hate group to smear mothers and fathers, many of Hispanic descent and many others who are immigrants who live the American Dream, is nothing short of despicable.

NBC Thinks that Downey Parents are a "hate group". Seriously.


Furthermore, the NBC reported refused to provide copies or context to demonstrate that the sex-ed curriculum approved by the Downey School Board was full of inappropriate, explicit, and even medically inaccurate information. The dossier was provided to the main reporting team that covered the event in the morning as well as the afternoon, and yet nothing was provided to the general public. For more information on the "Teen Talk" sex-ed curriculum, click here.

"If anyone wants to understand why the mainstream, legacy, corporate media is losing views and marketshare, perverse reporting like NBC 4's attack on Downey parents is proof. The SPLC has long been discredited as unsavory hate group, and now for NBC 4 to extend that smear to Downey parents is just abominable," said Arthur Schaper, Organization Director for MassResistance. "Parents have the right to protect their children from destructive, false propaganda under the guise of sex education. That is not hate in the slightest.

"MassResistance boasts a wide community of activists from all ethnic backgrounds throughout the United States as well as different nations. Our founder, Brian Camenker, is an Orthodox Jew who actually suffered discrimination during his youth in Duluth, Minnesota. Our activist members include Orthodox Jews in New York, in New Jersey, and different faith groups in the United Kingdom, as well. For anyone to call our growing community of pro-family fighters a "hate groups" demonstrates a stunning lack of knowledge or a malicious contempt for the truth."

MassResistance is calling on NBC 4 and NBC Universal to issue a full retraction of their report and publish a full apology.

For more information, please contact:
Arthur Schaper, Organization Director
Phone: (781) 890-6001
Email: arthur@massresistance.org




Friday, May 10, 2019

Call to Action to OC Board of Ed/Anaheim Union HSD: Remove Planned Murderhood from Public Schools!



Hello, OC/CA MassResistance:

We are grateful for those of you who were able to attend the May 7th, 2019 AUHSD school board meeting.

They are feeling more of the heat!

So, I am asking all of you to email the following the OC Board of Education:

ocbe@ocde.us;
dsisavath@ocde.us



Tell them to:

1. Direct every school district in Orange County to remove Planned Parenthood from any (or all) instruction programs and contracts, including sex-ed. The implementation of any third-party, biased curriculum is a violation of AB 329. Besides that, Planned Parenthood as an immoral and unhealthful agency dedicated to ruining young lives and limited the population of minority communities, especially African-Americans.

2. Direct every school district to disinvite and disallow the entry and implementation of any program connected to or supported by the OC LGBT Center, and especially the presence and promotion of OC LGBT Director Laura Kanter.



Kanter's abusive antics with her fellow activists and her offensive rhetoric on social media should alone disqualify her from any presence or purpose in Orange County public schools.

Her antics:


Her rhetoric:


Then contact the Anahiem Union High School District Board and Stafff.

 
cobain_c@auhsd.us;
morales_p@auhsd.us;
freed_j@auhsd.us;
brd_trustees@auhsd.us

Tell them to:


 
1. Remove Planned Murderhood Parenthood from all schools in the district.
2. Call for the board to hold a special meeting in May 2019 to affirm that Planned Parenthood and other biased third-party vendors will never teach ANY curriculum in the schools, especially without parental permission.
3. Demand presentation and offering of "opt in" forms must be prepared for all parents regarding sex-ed for all future years and courses.
4. Remove OC LGBT Center influence, including Director Laura Kanter, as well as from communication or connection with school site staff and curriculum roles in the school district.

 
Arthur Schaper, Organization Director
Website: MassResistance.org
Email: arthur@massresistance.org
(781) 890-6001
@MassResistance
@CAMassResistanc

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

California MassResistance Helps Parents Fight Back Against Planned Murderhood

California MassResistance helping parents stop extremely graphic sex-ed program being taught by Planned Parenthood in junior high schools

Up against deceitful school officials who flout the law and push extreme agendas on young students.

Parents confronting the School Board!

April 30, 2019
ALT TEXTAt the School Board meeting, parents are not shy about what they are demanding!
California MassResistance is helping parents get Planned Parenthood (and its VERY graphic sex-ed) thrown out of the junior high schools in the Anaheim Union High School District, despite hostility from politicians and a campaign of deception and misinformation by school administratotors.

Our previous success inspires parents!

This began with a previous success in that district. As we recently reported, California MassResistance put a stop to a planned week-long program of transgender indoctrination in the Anaheim Elementary School District. Its 23 schools (with students aged from 4 to 12) are in the Anaheim Union High School District.
Since that report went public, the CA MassResistance team has been getting lots of support – and inquiries from parents across California about how to stop this agenda in their children’s local schools.
Shanda, one of our CA MassResistance leaders, started receiving calls and texts from several parents with children at a nearby junior high school in that same district. The parents told Shanda that Planned Parenthood representatives were in the school teaching the “comprehensive sex-ed” classes. They said their children were coming home with lurid descriptions of graphic homosexual sex, pro-abortion counseling, and other explicit and distressing “instructions.” The school administration had apparently brought Planned Parenthood into every junior high school in the district.
ALT TEXTPeople are finally becoming empowered on this issue!
It’s easy for the district to use the schools to push these radical agendas on young children. The majority of parents in this school district are immigrants, and most don’t speak English as their first language. Many work long hours to make ends meet. The schools were taking advantage of this by pushing the most explicit sexuality programs they could, and making things confusing and difficult for parents. The parents complained to Shanda that, among other things, they were not given proper instructions how to opt-out their children if they wished, or descriptions of the sex-ed courses that they could understand. When they tried to talk to the school administrators, they were given the run-around.
According to Shanda, schools are blatantly not following the California state law, AB329, passed in 2015, which “authorizes” school districts to provide “comprehensive sex-ed” in public schools. Administrators have been telling parents that schools are “required” to include very graphic, explicit, and controversial material. The school districts are making it difficult for them to opt-out or view the coursework. Although “HIV education” is required, and the law is unquestionably written as pro-LGBT and anti-Christian, school districts have much more latitude than they tell parents.
On March 5, 2019, several dozen outraged parents came to a meeting at that junior high school, called by the principal. At that meeting, the Planned Parenthood content the parents complained about was so repulsive that the principal immediately decided to remove Planned Parenthood from that school entirely.
Shanda was also at that that meeting. She spoke with the several of the parents who had come to object to the curriculum. "We all know that Planned Parenthood is in every other school in the district doing the same thing," she said, "and other parents and children are being victimized by it. Something must be done."
There was a meeting of the Anaheim Union High School Board that same evening. Shanda encouraged the parents to attend that meeting and demand that that the School Board remove Planned Parenthood from all the schools in the district. The parents agreed!

Confronting the Anaheim School Board

That evening about 20 parents came to the Anaheim Union School Board meeting along with Shanda. Six of them testified – very strongly – during the public comments section. The Board clearly wasn't ready for that!
ALT TEXTParents lined up to address the School Board about the horrific Planned Parenthood sex instruction (Shanda is third from left).
One mother who has a daughter in the 7th grade (in photo above, next in line to speak) told the Board:
My daughter came to me and asked “what is oral sex.” She said she learned it from a guest speaker from Planned Parenthood. The speaker explained what oral sex is – mouth to penis and mouth to vagina. The students were told how to use a condom. And that they could have an operation without parental consent. The guest speakers brought weird things to the class and said kids could put them on their private parts and kiss them there. And if they don’t like the flavors, there are other flavors.
The teacher told us this is based on California’s education law. But this is not the way to prevent STDs or STIs.
The school has sent a very casual flyer regarding the sex education to parents at the beginning of the semester. But the flyer included only brief information without any details. So parents don’t know what’s being taught.
Immediately following her, another mother (in photo above, second in line to speak) didn't mince words with this chilling testimony:
I am the mother of a 7th grader. My son took health science last quarter and the guest speaker from Planned Parenthood taught inappropriate things to kids who are still too little to understand. My son learned from guest speaker:
- Oral sex is mouth to penis
- How to do oral sex
- Anal sex is penis to anal
- Masturbation; touch a certain place of your body that will give you pleasure
- When you do masturbation, use the lotion for better lubrication
- You move your penis back and forth when you have sex, at the end white liquid will come out from your penis, it is called semen and it is ejaculation.
- Flavors of condoms
What kind of parent teaches their own kids how to do oral sex and masturbation?
That mother went on to what say what she heard herself when she visited the class and sat in during the lesson:
They cover the LGBTQ [issues] on Lesson 5. I don't want my kids to be brainwashed and learn about those things. I heard the Lesson 5 guest speaker in the class say, “There is biological identity but it’s something from your heart and that’s how they feel. Do what makes you happy, you don’t have to be girly or boyish.
The Board members at first seemed unbelieving, even hostile. One said out loud that the second mother’s testimony is “Not true.” Another Board member asked the Superintendent to explain this but got no answer - and didn't press for one. They clearly weren’t interested in dealing with the parents’ distress and outrage, and seemed relieved when the meeting was finally over.
ALT TEXTOne School Board member asks the Superintendent (sitting under the word "YES") for an explanation, but doesn't bother to press him for an answer. The others didn't seem particularly interested.

Back at the School Board the following month!

So at the following board meeting, on April 11, the parents came back – and brought even more outraged parents. The Board reacted by cutting each speaker's time from 5 minutes to just 2 minutes. That made the parents even angrier.
ALT TEXTOutside the meeting one person holds up a "MassResistance" sign..
ALT TEXTParents filling the meeting room as it prepares to get started!
ALT TEXT...And making sure the politicians know exactly why they're there!
The parents described in detail how the Board and the schools purposefully keep them confused, frustrated, and in the dark.
This mother tried to email her daughter’s experience in class to the Board members. But the school’s email rejected her emails because of the sexual words she used – the same words the Board is using with the children! Why is that, she asked!
Another mother was upset that the course’s claim that anal intercourse with a condom is “safe” (like normal sex) is medically inaccurate - and should not be taught.
One father berated the Board about the lack of transparency in the school district. He had asked multiple times for copies of the sex-ed curriculum that the school district had the teachers use.
Many parents struggle to make time to meet with their children’s teachers. This parent went out of his way three separate times, and only after the third visit did the school provide a copy of the lesson. Yet even then, the printing was so small that he could not read it! Most of the information was shoved onto other parents in different schools—500 pages!—with little time for the parents to review the material and object to its implementation.
This father showed the Board members what a parent receives when he asks for the course description. A document with print so small it’s almost impossible to read.
This mother, originally from Korea, spoke through an interpreter to relate what her son shared with her. In one of the sex-ed sessions, students in a seventh-grade class saw a video of a woman being raped!
Shanda told the Board: We have a problem, because nobody is vetting this curriculum. The curriculum has not been through a review board. And who are these people coming into the district, and why are you not explaining anything to the parents?
This father said what everyone was feeling: despite the law’s apparent mandate of affirming homosexual relationships, parents don’t want that. So don’t do it, he said!

A fight to the finish coming up

Through all this, the Board seemed … bored. It certainly reveals the perverse and bizarre mentality that elected school officials seem to have these days.
ALT TEXTAs Shanda addressed the Board, this was their bland reaction.
Most people have no idea what's really being taught to children in public schools today. And the schools like it that way.
But even more frightening: Too many parents don't realize how little their school board members even care that young schoolchildren are being exposed to the most graphic, destructive sexual and homosexual material in their schools. The politicians are much more interested in appeasing the special interests. We've seen that for decades.
But the Anaheim Union High School District Board hasn’t seen what Shanda, a room full of furious parents, and California MassResistance are capable of. More to come on this!

More successes from the Elementary School battle

In the months since Shanda and California MassResistance won the transgender indoctrination battle in the Anaheim Elementary School district that success has led directly to other notable victories:
  1. The Orange County (OC) LGBT Center’s coordinator, Laura Kanter, is no longer allowed on any Anaheim Elementary School District campuses. Leadership in Anaheim Elementary has indicated that they will not allow her to promote OC LGBT Events on the district’s campuses, either.
  2. As a result of our victory, parents in the neighboring Santa Ana Unified School District rose up. Thus, the OC LGBT Center is no longer holding “Color Me Boot Camp” events at any of those schools. This LGBT Event featured Drag Queens, transgender “role-models,” and different types of pro-gay role-playing and support groups for homosexuality – in middle schools. This was a regular occurrence for the past five years on Saturdays between March and May. Here’s an example of the LGBT promotional events which were taking place in public schools in Orange County.
  3. The fallout from this went even further! The Certification program at nearby Cal State Fullerton for  Welcoming Schools program (another LGBT Agenda push tailored for elementary schools, from the Human Rights Campaign) is no longer happening. With no more certification programs available, the school districts can’t implement the program in their districts.
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Saturday, April 13, 2019

Planned Murderhood On the Run in ... Monterey County!

This development is nothing short of a surprise and a miracle!

Monterey County is one of the bluest counties in the state of California. Salinas, the county seat for the government, is overrun with crime, corruption, and violence in the street. Residents in the area informed me that the city has now become the most crime-ridden in the state--even more than Compton!



This is unthinkable.

And yet, in spite of the increased progressive regression in the region, pro-family forces have chocked up another victory.

Planned Murderhood was making inroads into the Pacific Grove schools, but the parents fought back with legal help, and that evil anti-family hate group was forced to flee.

The Pacific Justice Institute announced the following last week:

Planned Parenthood Presentation Canceled After PJI Warns School
April 3, 2019

Dear Friends, 
 
We’ve just had a very encouraging result here at Pacific Justice Institute that I wanted to share with you. 
 
This past Friday, parents in Pacific Grove (near Monterey) alerted us that Planned Parenthood was coming to teach sex ed in their local middle school starting the first three days of this week—April 1, 2, and 3. We’ve seen their “teaching” materials before, and they are shocking and offensive to most families. The parents were outraged that less than a week’s notice had been given for such controversial presentations.    
 
When our attorneys received this on Friday, there was very little time to act. But we recognized that the school had violated state law with inadequate notice, and we had to take action.  

Fortunately, since PJI has been battling for parental rights and against radical groups like Planned Parenthood for more than 20 years, we were able to react very quickly. That same day, our legal team put together and fired off a demand letter explaining the law. Within minutes, just before the end of the day, the principal responded that the Planned Parenthood presentations scheduled for this week had been canceled! Praise God! 
 
Of course, much work remains to be done in this and other school districts. No doubt Planned Parenthood will try again to enter this middle school at a later date. But be encouraged: when it seems like the evil surrounding us is overwhelming, we can still obtain victories—even in the deep blue Central Coast of California. 
 
One of the many tools we’ve developed to help parents understand their rights is a resource answering a number of questions about parental rights in the area of sex education. We also have opt-out forms for more than 40 states. I hope you’ll visit our new website to make sure you have all of these tools at your disposal. 
 
Please also prayerfully consider supporting our work today. The needs are more critical than ever. No one else is able to respond to these types of challenges as quickly and as effectively as we’ve been able to do. We’re depending on you to help us continue our winning streak! 
 
Running the Race, 
 
Brad Dacus, Esq. 
Founder and President, Pacific Justice Institute

Monday, April 30, 2018

Oregon Man Refuses to Pay Taxes Because of Abortion -- He Beat the Feds!

Here's something in the news from about two weeks ago.

I think more pro-American conservatives should follow this pathway, this process.

Why should we continue to pay taxes to a federal or to state governments which are routinely undermining our rights and refusing to honor their oaths of office to protect the citizenry who pay their taxes?


Michael Bowman, a 53-year-old self-employed computer software developer from Columbia City, Oregon, hasn’t paid his federal income taxes since 1999.

He says it’s because his Christian ideals don’t allow him to pay into a system that funds abortions. In a YouTube video explainer [SIC, how about "explanation"?] of his defense, he likened paying taxes that then go toward funding abortions to German citizens under Nazi rule who outed Jewish citizens, sending them to their deaths.

I have heard this argument from others. This is a just form of social protest against the government. Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax because of his opposition to the Mexican-American war. Californians should stop paying taxes, too, since their tax dollars go to illegal aliens, special interests, and public sector unions, all of which are more interested in stealing from us and enriching themselves. And the public sector workers are not even serving the public!

And according to The Associated Press, he beat the feds in court this week.

To be clear, Bowman won the battle, not the war he’s fighting with the IRS and the Oregon U.S. District Court, when federal Judge Michael W. Mosman dismissed a felony tax evasion charge against Bowman.

This passage proves the level of click-baiting which the media will engage in. How shameful is that? Still, Bowman won a court case against the federal government to hold onto his well-deserved tax dollars.



Mosman ruled that the government’s indictment failed to provide any evidence that Bowman tried to conceal money from or misled the IRS by cashing his paychecks instead of depositing them and keeping a low bank balance so tax collectors couldn’t garnish wages from it to pay what it says are back taxes owed.

“Not everything that makes collection efforts more difficult qualifies as evasion,” Mosman said Wednesday, according to the Oregonian.

More tax evasion needed, then? Or should all of us resort to having as little money as possible in our bank accounts? How many of us feel confident about leaving our money in our homes, locked in a safe or in a can under our beds? Not sure about this approach, but oh well.

According to Bowman’s federal indictment, the self-employed computer software developer owes back taxes on at least $800,000 of income and falsely claimed he was owed several refunds. The feds claim he started using the religious argument for not paying his taxes only after his “’Claim of Right’ tax avoidance scheme failed.”

The taxes and penalties due associated with that income is $356,857.

That indictment came down in February 2017, and Mosman dismissed it without prejudice Wednesday, which means the prosecutors could seek a new indictment to replace it. Bowman still faces four misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file tax returns.

Uh-Oh!

Bowman allegedly also left voicemail messages for the IRS revenue officer assigned to his case in 2013, where he stated that he refused to pay his taxes. He says he’s been up front with authorities all along.

At least he was honest about not wanting to pay his taxes, and why he doesn't want to pay.

When the Oregon Department of Revenue began taking money from Bowman’s bank account in 2012, Bowman began cashing his work checks instead of depositing them, leaving a minimal balance in his account through at least September 2014, according to the Oregonian.

Yes, I guess this is the process which we conscientious-minded activists may have to follow. Someone should forward this to as many people as possible. Perhaps Milton Friedman's dream of "Starving the Beast" can still come true.

“Defendant’s altered bank behavior removed his income from the reach of taxing authorities and allowed him to avoid payment of assessed taxes,” Assistant U.S. Attorneys Donna Brecker Maddux and Rachel K. Sowray wrote in their defense of the felony tax evasion charge.

But Bowman’s lawyer argued that simply cashing checks in his own name did not constitute tax evasion. Mosman agreed.

Of course it does not count as tax evasion! Lots of people cash their checks and take the money to purchase goods are engage in other forms of trade. Civil asset forfeiture has turned into a manifold abuse in part because the feds target farmers--who do their deals in direct cash!

No one would dare call a farmer a tax dodger, would they?

I sure hope not!

Bowman’s defense in the larger scope of his refusal to pay taxes comes from a 1993 law called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which prohibits government from substantially burdening a person’s religious exercise unless the government demonstrates a compelling government interest and does so through the least restrictive means.



Good argument. Let's build on it!

In April of 2017, though, President Donald Trump signed a law that prohibits the use of federal funds to pay for abortion, except in cases of rape or to save a woman’s life. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that for the years 2014 and 2015, $450 million in government funding was distributed to Planned Parenthood, which provides abortions as well as education, contraception and other forms of reproductive care.

I am glad that more people are fighting for life and taking a stand against the federal government's abuse and misuse of taxpayer dollars.