Faith-Based Fascism: Turning Churches into the State's Bagmen

The economic heart of fascism in the 1930's was the "government-private industry alliance."

In this alliance, the state provides limited funds and promotion of favored businesses. The businesses provide profits that are taxed. The state's bureaucrats increase their influence over the economy by way of favored business enterprises.

The state is now heralding faith-based welfare. State money is used to favor some ministries, which conform to state requirements. In this way, the churches get "matching funds" from the state, and the state gets another avenue into the lives of the public. There will be more welfare clients, and there will be restraints on what the ministries can say and do with the money. The state extends its influence by means of confiscated money from the voters.

There are no free lunches. But church leaders forget this. They preach that grace is free to recipients, but then they preach the need for ethics: personal reform. They do not see that the state is imitating the gospel, but with confiscated funds. "Free money from the state, but then personal reform." The state is in charge of the reform program.

A recent experiment in faith-based enterprise was announced by the Governor of Arizona. The story is here.

Baptist Child and Family Services (BCFS), received more than$280 million this year to house illegal immigrant children, according to government records. Time reported in August that it has deployed 1,400 tax-paid employees this year alone to staff its tax-paid shelters. More than 95 per cent of that group's 2012 budget came from the federal government, according to its tax records. But even members of Congress can't get answers about the arrangement it has with HHS.

Moreover, BCFS staff has been vicious in obscuring its activities from public view:

<><> prohibited a Member of Congress from entering the taxpayer-funded detention center at Fort Sill, OK;

<><> prevented a Los Angeles Times reporter from interviewing detainees, caseworkers, and other staff;

<><> physically pushed a local TV reporter from the entrance of a facility; and,

<><> attempted to block the reporter’s camera crew from recording across the street from the facility.'

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The bulk of the HHS tax dollars----through its 'unaccompanied alien children' program----are going to (1) the super-secret Baptist Child and Family Services Emergency Management Division (BCFS-EMD)BCFS and (2) SW Key programs. Their personnel are royally compensated.

<><> Southwest Key Programs Inc $122,000,000+

<><> Baptist Child and Family Services Emergency Management Division (BCFS-EMD) $270,000,000+

<><> U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and/or, U.S. Catholic Charities $70,000,000+

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Taxpayers demand to know (A) the percentage of tax dollars earmarked for faith-based groups salaries, (B) how salaries are determined, and, (C) whether faith-based personnel determine their own salaries and bonuses.

Baptist Child and Family Services Treasurer Claudia Oliveira paid $182,909 + $43,429 bonus.

Executive Directors

Asennet Segura paid $181,895 + $68,370 + $62,510 bonuses,

Kari Tatro ($189,516 + $50,471 + $26,787)

Terri Hipps ($176,267 + $26,00)

Other Baptist Child and Family Services Directors include:

Sonya Thompson ($169,018 + $12,436),

Denise Grimm ($122,206 + $11,593),

Mario Guerra ($167,419 + 19,248)

Jon Bodie ($134,602 + $16,344).

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COMMON FRAUD PRACTICES:

Are the principles using credit cards? Reversing credit card write-offs is a common scam, initially writing off credit debt then cooking the books by reversing the write-off for annual reports. The debt could also be carried on the books as a fraudulent unbilled disbursement "receivable."

Backdating checks to hide the date on which checks were received---in order to minimize the risk that auditors would discover fraudulent accounting practices.

Reclassifying expenses on financial statements to seemingly reduce expenses. This change in treatment is usually not disclosed to auditors or on official financial statements.

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Budgetary allocations might describe certain fraudulent accounting adjustments pursued as part of a sub rosa scheme; engaging in fraudulent conduct to mislead WRT tax revenue, expenses, or payments; perhaps structuring transactions as "loan repayments" to falsify revenue.

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Is there leveraging of tax dollars to secure bank loans that benefit principles? Perhaps classifying loan repayments as "revenue" on official documents?

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All of these activities compel criminal penalties for the crimes of grand larceny, schemes to defraud, securities fraud and falsifying business records.

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You can bet HHS millions is changing hands sub rosa.

ITEM--When Harry Reid laughably said "the border is secure," Reid was prolly getting his palm greased under the table bigtime.

ITEM--When sap-happy Texas Judge Clay Jenkins on TV smirked about "the faith-based community" coming to the invaders' rescue (blanketed w/ our tax dollars)....we now know what he meant.

ITEM--Shockingly suspect is that the Baptist Child and Family Services planned to buy property to house illegals for $3.8 million but the Boobamba govt was forking over $50 million tax dollars (that we know of).

Can you say money-laundering?

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