Posted on 04/10/2007 7:16:11 AM PDT by theothercheek
The Crawford Peace House, “an oasis across the railroad tracks from downtown Crawford, Tx,” according to its Web site, was founded four years ago to offer “a culturally diverse environment for spiritual growth and intellectual understanding that gives hope to humanity by providing peaceful alternatives to war.”
Unfortunately, the all that spiritual growth and intellectual understanding going on over there has not resulted in a single position paper or treatise that specifies or explains what those peaceful alternatives might be. Too bad, because the peace activists headquartered at the two-bedroom, one bathroom white-clapboard house are at each other’s throats over charges of money mismanagement and threats of lawsuits. According to The Associated Press:
The Crawford Peace House recently lost its corporate charter with the state, and a former member who now has rights to the name is threatening legal action because the group continues operating.
Sara L. Oliver and some others are calling for a state investigation as to why only $14,700 is now in its bank account, saying tens of thousands donated during Cindy Sheehan's 2005 war protest are unaccounted for.
"There are people who have said, `Don't say anything because you'll hurt the peace movement,'" Oliver said. "But if the peace movement isn't pure and transparent and holy as it can be at its heart, then it's just like George Bush: lying, thieving, conniving, backstabbing bastards." …
Sandra Row, another former member, said up to 75 people have left the peace group over concerns about financial issues or hurt feelings. She said in the summer of 2005, she saw buckets of cash donations in the Peace House - some of which went to pay veterinarian bills for the cat living there. But some demonstrators who bought tents, lanterns and other supplies never got reimbursed, she said.
Crawford Peace House co-founder John Wolf claims the organization kept meticulous records and has posted the non-profit group’s tax returns from 2004 to 2006, as well as the 2005 and 2006 Texas Franchise reports. None of the documents posted online have been signed by an officer, a fiduciary or a paid tax preparer, so it is unclear whether they were ever filed. The franchise tax report, for instance, was not filed with the Texas Comptroller's Office - the reason CPH lost its corporate charter.
As any taxpayer knows, when you sign a tax return you attest “under penalty of perjury” that the document and any supporting schedules and statements are “to the best of my knowledge and belief … true, correct and complete.”
Until the financial finger-pointing is sorted out, perhaps Nancy Pelosi can broker an end to hostilities.
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LOL!
I’d say Mother Sheehan’s 15 minutes of fame is now over!
If you throw a bunch of unemployed smelly hippies into a house, things are going to get real!
The real world, Crawford.
Shocking huh?
If anybody wants to understand the concept of “projection”, here’s an excellent example!
Yup.
BWAAHHHAHHHA HAAAH AHHAA! To hear the words "holy" and "pure" issuing forth from their pieholes it just too damned funny!
Because CPH lost its franchise charter (someone was too stoned to remember to file it?), Sheehan and other board members are personally on the hook for its debts. Wonder how she’s going to extricate herself ...
Are the people from the Crawford Peace House now on double-secret probation?!
Too funny!
Can you imagine the vermin in that house?
War among peace activists? Are they armed with weapons of mass good intentions?
nothing is over until we decide it is.
"I hate those guys"
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