Andrew Joseph Stack III

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Right wing religious government hating fanatic.

Back in the 1970s and '80s, California was not just the center of the "silicon revolution." The Golden State was also a teeming hive of anti-government activity, much of it aimed at the federal income tax code and the agency that enforced it — the Internal Revenue Service.

Tax protesters and self-styled patriots railed against exemptions granted to religious organizations, the Catholic Church in particular. They formed their own "churches" and invited others to join.

Typical Conservative?

Link is made:

But Stack wasn't looking for help. Like Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, he hoped his suicidal flight would become "a catalyst" for fundamental change, said JJ MacNab, who has studied tax protesters for a decade.

 

[tech2101]

Right wing religious government hating fanatic.



Typical Conservative?

Link is made:

I hardly think he was a typical right winger. He was not a religious fanatic. He just hated the tax laws and paying taxes. It appears this guy started a church to get away from paying taxes.

From your link:

"We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the 'best', high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business)," Stack wrote, "and then began to do exactly what the 'big boys' were doing (except that we weren't steeling (sic) from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God)."

..."The intent of this exercise and our efforts was to bring about a much-needed re-evaluation of the laws that allow the monsters of organized religion to make such a mockery of people who earn an honest living," Stack wrote.

Riness said that's exactly what he was hoping to achieve with the Church of Universal Harmony: "I thought that the worst thing that would happen is that if we got so big and others got big, the code would change and they would take away tax breaks to churches," he said.

 

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I hardly think he was a typical right winger. He was not a religious fanatic. He just hated the tax laws and paying taxes. It appears this guy started a church to get away from paying taxes.

From your link:

Seeks IRS redemption through his God and he doesn't qualify as a religious fanatic?

Duh.........

 

[southwind]

The only salvation from this finacial fiasco the U.S. is in and the I.R.S. is "The Fair Tax" !.......................No, it's not a flat tax !

http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer

 

[tech2101]

Seeks IRS redemption through his God and he doesn't qualify as a religious fanatic?

His God?

The only God, the good God, our God, the loving God, the almighty God...

is the God that does not require tax payment.

 

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His God?

The only God, the good God, our God, the loving God, the almighty God...

is the God that does not require tax payment.

Your tax is paid in faith Brother....... 😉

OH....In God we trust, all others pay taxes?

Ok.....but you can say with out doubt that was the God he was seeking?

Good God?? Ask a person who worships Allah about that.

 

[Garfield1966]

I have no idea how you made the link from that LA times article to right wing conservative republican but you can do a word search in that article and none of those terms appear any where in the article.

Being against tax exemptions for religious institutions and corporations hardly qualifies one as being a conservative republican right wing or anything else. I have long been against the tax exemptions granted to religious institutions and I am pretty sure that no one here would accuse me being a right wing anything.

In all the conversations I have ad about Stack, no one has labeled him anything other than a nut whio went about his fight in an entirely psychotic manner.

Also, it does not appear that he hated religion. I think he hated the exemption given to religious institutions. Big difference.

 

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I hardly think he was a typical right winger. He was not a religious fanatic. He just hated the tax laws and paying taxes. It appears this guy started a church to get away from paying taxes.

From your link:

You know, you make a valid point......There has been no mention of this guys politics.....usually when MSM does that its because they be Dem......

 

[Garfield1966]

DUH! That is what we have been trying to tell you. 😛

 

[nuclearfission]

Right wing religious government hating fanatic.



Typical Conservative?

Link is made:

Just a few thoughts from others. My whole point being, there are those that were, or are trying to link this guy to certain Conservative elements, and it is just not washing.....period. If anything, by his ranting rage he left behind, he WAS more of a Left wing lunatic. Yes, the left has their fringe people/groups as well.

GOOD DAY!

NY TimesLink

Wash Post

 

[Veritas]

Stack's Daughter says her father is a hero because he stood up to the system. She later retracted that remark.

My Dad Was A Hero For Standing Up

 

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Anyone aware of the Facebook site that was allegedly this guys with links to the tea party and other conservative issues?

And it was posted by some leftie woman?

LOL

Can't link him we'll take care of it for you......LOL

Saul Alinsky 101

BTW....it be gone as far as I know.

 

[Kev3188]

An OP-ED piece from the NYT on the whole thing. Take it (or leave it) for what it's worth.