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Sharpton Defends Tax Evasion
AZCONSERVATIVE ^ | 13 May 2008 | John Semmens

Posted on 05/14/2008 3:09:22 PM PDT by John Semmens

Disclosure that he neglected to pay $1.5 million in taxes left minority rights advocate, the Reverend Al Sharpton, unfazed. “These are my reparations for 400 years of slavery and oppression,” Sharpton claimed. “Whitey owes me this money.”

It is Sharpton’s contention that congress’ failure to enact legislation compensating the current generation of African-Americans for the slavery endured by their long-dead ancestors entitles him to withhold payment of taxes on his “earnings.”

“Black men were beaten, exploited and murdered by white men,” Sharpton said. “I’m a Black man. The government is run by white men. Until they pay me for this suffering, I’m sure as Hell not going to pay the government what some honky IRS accountant says I owe.”

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TOPICS: Government; History; Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: racism; reparations; satire; slavery

1 posted on 05/14/2008 3:09:22 PM PDT by John Semmens
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To: John Semmens
“These are my reparations for 400 years of slavery and oppression,”

I have to admit, for 400 years old, Al has held up well.

2 posted on 05/14/2008 3:11:30 PM PDT by Texican72
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To: John Semmens

Oooooo, you’re good. ;)


3 posted on 05/14/2008 3:13:10 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (If McCain really CAN "win without conservatives," then why do you care if I vote for him or not?)
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To: John Semmens

““I’m a Black man. The government is run by white men.”

Lucky you because if this white chick had played the tax evasion game you have for some many decades, her little ol’ white self would have been in jail 20 years ago.


4 posted on 05/14/2008 3:18:15 PM PDT by OpusatFR (Internet Torquemada of FR. Trip over yourself at your own risk. I don't answer some posts)
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To: John Semmens

At least Al didn’t claim he was exempt because he’s a clergyman. If he did, I’d want to know where his congregation is. Does he have one?


5 posted on 05/14/2008 3:18:35 PM PDT by Berosus (Supports the troops, bring them home -- from the Balkans.)
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To: John Semmens

That’s a parody right?


6 posted on 05/14/2008 3:18:42 PM PDT by The_Republican (Ovaries of the World Unite! Rush, Laura, Ann, Greta - Time for the Ovulation!)
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To: John Semmens

I don’t know who plays “gotcha” better - you or Mr. Ott. I read the substance, get my Irish up and THEN read the byline!


7 posted on 05/14/2008 3:19:45 PM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: John Semmens

If this was serious, I’d reply by telling Mr. Sharpton that those of us who have ancestors who fought on either side of the Civil War already paid a sufficient price for their freedom and they are not owed another dime.


8 posted on 05/14/2008 3:19:47 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (Catch the Korean Wave, one Bae Yong Joon film at a time!)
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To: John Semmens

I got news for al. The “Whiteys” of today never had slaves. Therefore, we owe the rev. nothing. Get over it, history is history. Pay your taxes or like”Whitey”, if he fails to pay his, you can sit your butt in jail. And. by the way, I find being refered to as “Whitey” offensive.


9 posted on 05/14/2008 3:20:04 PM PDT by mom-7
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To: John Semmens

I don’t know who plays “gotcha” better - you or Mr. Ott. I read the substance, get my Irish up and THEN read the byline!


10 posted on 05/14/2008 3:27:05 PM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: John Semmens

If this is true, then where is the IRS?


11 posted on 05/14/2008 3:28:51 PM PDT by 353FMG (Don't make the mistake to think that Government is a Friend of the People)
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To: John Semmens
"JOHN SEMMENS: Semi-News -- A Satirical Look at Recent News"

"'Black men were beaten, exploited and murdered by white men,' Sharpton said. 'I’m a Black man. The government is run by white men. Until they pay me for this suffering, I’m sure as Hell not going to pay the government what some honky IRS accountant says I owe.'"
http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm

So before anyone starts spreading this around (Sharpton's supposed comments) know that it's only a joke! He may have thought these things but he didn't actually say them!(at least not on this occasion, if in fact it even was an occasion). We have enough legitimate stuff against these phonies without making things up! (I'm sure most of you realize this)

12 posted on 05/14/2008 3:32:59 PM PDT by Eye On The Left
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To: 353FMG
If this is true, then where is the IRS?

It IS true that Sharpton owes the IRS about 1.5 million (look it up). But these comments attributed to him here were only a joke, although they are similar to things he's actually said in the past.

13 posted on 05/14/2008 3:38:36 PM PDT by Eye On The Left
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To: Berosus

Reverend Al is a mail-order preacher. No church or congregation.


14 posted on 05/14/2008 3:38:55 PM PDT by Republicus2001
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To: 353FMG; All
If this is true, then where is the IRS?

This is the kind of thing the left does to discredit a legitimate story. Pass around a half fake, half real one. They did this with both Jane Fonda and Hillary Clinton. The following piece sets the record straight on the Hillary story:

Hillary and the Black Panthers: The Real Story
Richard Poe
Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2003

I can't take it anymore. If one more person sends me that e-mail about Hillary and the Black Panthers, I'll have to be dragged away screaming in a straitjacket.

You know the e-mail I'm talking about. It accuses Hillary of helping the Black Panthers get away with torture and murder during the early 1970s. With the 2004 presidential race drawing near, the spam mills are creaking to life, flooding the Internet once more with this agitprop classic.

Unfortunately, the e-mail mingles good information with bad, sowing more confusion than enlightenment. Some versions, for instance, carry the byline of radio talk jock Paul Harvey, who says he did not write it. Such misrepresentations help Hillary defenders dismiss the e-mail as a hoax.

The story is no hoax, though. Its basic elements can be found in respected Hillary biographies and exposes such as Barbara Olson's "Hell to Pay," David Brock's "The Seduction of Hillary Rodham," Joyce Milton's "The First Partner" and Carl Limbacher's "Hillary's Scheme."

Here are the facts:

In May 1969, fishermen discovered the body of Black Panther Alex Rackley floating in Connecticut's Coginchaug River. Rackley's captors had clubbed him, burned him with cigarettes, scalded him with boiling water and stabbed him with an ice pick before finally shooting him in the head.

New Haven detectives learned that the Panthers suspected Rackley of being a police informer. Panther enforcers had tied him to a chair and tortured him for hours. Police arrested eight Panthers and later extradited Panther leader Bobby Seale from California, after a witness accused Seale of ordering Rackley's death. (1)

Campus radicals supported the Panthers. They organized mass protests in support of the so-called "New Haven Nine." Hillary was right in the thick of it.

By the time she entered Yale Law School in 1969, Hillary was already a radical celebrity on campus. Life magazine had featured Hillary in a piece titled, "The Class of '69," which showcased three student activists whom Life's editors deemed the best and brightest of the year. A line Hillary used in her Wellesley College commencement speech appeared under her photo: "Protest is an attempt to forge an identity." (2)

At Yale, Hillary helped edit the Yale Review of Law and Social Action – a left-wing journal which promoted cop-killing and featured cartoons of pig-faced police. (3)

A series of hard-Left mentors introduced Hillary to the brass-knuckle realities of revolutionary activism. As a Wellesley undergraduate, she met and interviewed radical organizer Saul Alinsky, whose Machiavellian tactics she admired. Hillary's senior thesis supported Alinsky's call for class warfare. (4)

At Yale, Hillary found a new Svengali in the form of left-wing law professor Thomas Emerson, known around campus as "Tommy the Commie." Emerson recruited Hillary and other students to help monitor the trial of the New Haven Nine for civil rights violations. Hillary took charge of the operation, scheduling the students in shifts, so that student monitors would always be present in the courtroom. She befriended and worked closely with Panther lawyer Charles Garry. (5)

Some believe that the enormous pressure exerted by the Left helped ensure light sentences for the New Haven Nine. Whether or not this is true, the punishments were mild.

"Only one of the killers was still in prison in 1977," reports John McCaslin in the Washington Times. "The gunman, Warren Kimbro, got a Harvard scholarship and became an assistant dean at Eastern Connecticut State College. Ericka Huggins, who boiled the water for Mr. Rackley's torture, got elected to a California school board." (6)

Hillary's defenders argue that she played no "significant" role in the New Haven Nine's defense. This is semantic hairsplitting. Obviously, Hillary was less "significant" than Charles Garry or "Tommy the Commie" Emerson. But Hillary served as a trusted lieutenant to these movers and shakers. Moreover, she had a national profile as a campus activist. Hillary was no rank-and-file student protester, as her apologists claim.

Indeed, Hillary's work for the Panthers won her a summer internship at the Berkeley office of attorney Robert Treuhaft in 1972. A hardline Stalinist, Treuhaft had quit the Communist Party in 1958 only because it was losing members and no longer provided a good platform for his activism. (7) "Treuhaft is a man who dedicated his entire legal career to advancing the agenda of the Soviet Communist Party and the KGB," notes historian Stephen Schwartz. (8)

The defense of the New Haven Nine marked Hillary's initiation into the sinister underworld of the hard-core, revolutionary Left. To my knowledge, Hillary has never publicly renounced nor apologized for her role in that movement.

Richard Poe is a New York Times best-selling author and cyberjournalist. For more information on Poe and his writings, visit his Web site, RichardPoe.com. He may be reached at richardpoe@....

References
1. Joyce Milton, The First Partner: Hillary Rodham Clinton. William, Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, 1999, p. 35. Barbara Olson, Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C., 1999, p. 55.
2. Milton, 1999, p. 34; Olson, 1999, pp. 40-45.
3. Olson, 1999, p. 59-61; Evan Gahr, "Hillary and the Cop-Bashers: Will the Real Ms. Rodham Please Stand Up?" JewishWorldReview.com, June 20, 2000.
4. David Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham. The Free Press, New York, 1996, pp. 14-17; Olson, 1999, pp. 46, 48, 50.
5. Milton, 1999, p. 17; Brock, 1996, pp. 31-32; Olson, 1999, p. 54-56.
6. John McCaslin, "Hillary for the Defense." Inside the Beltway, The Washington Times, June 12, 1998, p. A9.
7. Olson, 1999, pp. 56-57.
8. Brock, 1996, p. 33.

http://www.legaled.com/hillaryatyale.htm

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From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
Article: "REVOLUTIONARY HEROS"

excerpt...

"On May 1st, May Day, the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo.

Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.

The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."

To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."

Article: "REVOLUTIONARY HEROS"
http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html

15 posted on 05/14/2008 3:51:18 PM PDT by Eye On The Left
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To: 353FMG

it’s semi-true


16 posted on 05/14/2008 4:03:02 PM PDT by John Semmens
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To: John Semmens

Gee, if Wesley Snipes would have had Al Sharpie for an attorney he wouldn’t be headed for prison now. Good defense Al.


17 posted on 05/14/2008 4:47:54 PM PDT by Harley (It's time to defeat the Obamanistas.)
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To: John Semmens
What's really sad is the fact this could a real article rather than a satirical article.

I would not be surprised at all if Sharpton really had said it

18 posted on 05/14/2008 5:10:09 PM PDT by Popman ("When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.")
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