[Order David Horowitz’s and John Perazzo’s new booklet: “Internal Radical Service: Abuse Of Taxpayer Dollars To Advance Leftwing Causes Illegally And Unconstitutionally”: CLICK HERE.]
When Just Stop Oil, an ecoterrorist group, splashed tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting in London’s National Gallery, it began fundraising off the attack with the threatening message, “Keep giving us new oil and gas and you will be getting soup”.
Front Page Magazine quickly followed up with pointed inquiries to the leftist crowdfunding site that the ecoterrorists were using and its partners, including Santander Bank, and got results.
Just Stop Oil soon complained that, “Our Crowdfunder has been TAKEN DOWN after peacefully resisting this Government’s genocidal plans.” The leftists announced they had switched to Stripe which processes payments through Visa/MasterCard, Discover, and American Express.
Front Page has also reached out to Stripe and to its CEO about funding illegal activity.
But even more revealingly, Just Stop Oil told Americans, “You can make a tax deductible donation to Just Stop Oil’s recruitment, training and educational programs through the Climate Emergency Fund.” Backed by, among others, a Getty Oil heiress and leftist director Adam McKay, the Fund operates as a 501(c)(3) despite its support for ecoterrorism.
That’s a problem because 501(c)(3) nonprofits are not allowed to fund illegal activity.
As discussed in David Horowitz’s and John Perazzo’s important new booklet: “Internal Radical Service”, the IRS has allowed leftist nonprofits to abuse the tax code by financing crimes.
The tax code specifically states that “not only is the actual conduct of illegal activities inconsistent with exemption, but the planning and sponsoring of such activities are also incompatible with charity and social welfare.”
The Climate Emergency Fund urges donors to “support the October Uprising!” which it describes as “sustained civil resistance”. Under the accomplishments of what the nonprofit describes as “our grantees”, there’s other members of the Just Stop Oil ecoterrorist group gluing their hands to a Picasso painting in Australia. This is a blatant violation of IRS regulations.
The Fund’s own 990 IRS filings falsely claim that it exists to fund and support individual activists and organizations “working to educate the public on the threat of climate change” but “supports only nonviolent, legal activities”.
This is clearly and indisputably false.
Vandalizing paintings is not “legal”. Smashing fuel pumps, which Just Stop Oil also does, is also criminal. So is breaking windows and other forms of vandalism. The Fund hails Just Stop Oil as a “model for the A22 Network”. It points to a headline which reads that “almost 250 people have been arrested” for various actions. The Fund’s site admits that what it told the IRS is a lie.
The Fund is abusing its nonprofit status to illegally fund criminal activity around the world.
Climate Emergency Fund’s own promotion page for the A22 Network includes a picture of a burning object in a public place, another picture of a museum attack by its Italian grantee, Ultima Generazione, and promises that it will be “scaling up disruptive protest.”
Just Stop Oil, which appears to overlap with Extinction Rebellion, has already gone after Da Vinci’s Last Supper and another Van Gogh. Extinction Rebellion, a coalition partner of the Fund’s A22 Network, smashed windows and vandalized buildings and memorials, including the Victoria Memorial outside Buckingham Palace. Declare Emergency activists in the U.S. shut down highway traffic and were charged with obstruction. No Coal, No Gas in New Hampshire activists were found guilty of criminal trespass. One local described its action in stopping a coal train as “urban terrorism” and “dangerous to the disruptors, to the people who live near the railroad tracks in their homes and to the personnel running and operating that train.”
Extinction Rebellion DC, hailed by the Climate Emergency Funds grants page as being “responsible for some of the most disruptive climate protests in US history” which it “plans to keep escalating”, has repeatedly blocked traffic in D.C., potentially putting lives at risk, and dumped manure outside the White House on Earth Day.
The group boasts that they shut down Congress with an insurrection by sending “17 brave rebels into the very bowels of the US Capitol Complex. Once inside, they superglued themselves onto the tunnels that connect the House Office Buildings to the US Capitol”.
“There was a vote scheduled for the house floor in the US Capitol at 6:00pm; our blockades went up at 5:45pm. Almost every member of Congress uses these tunnels to travel between their offices and the Capitol. Our superglued rebels delayed the first vote on the house floor by more than half an hour,” Extinction Rebellion D.C. boasts.
Not only has the ecoterrorist Left engaged in its own insurrection, it’s funded as a nonprofit.
Since then, Extinction Rebellion D.C. has occupied Pelosi’s office without anyong going to jail.
That will continue unless Congress puts pressure on the IRS and state attorney generals begin investigating the financing of illegal ecoterrorist activities under the guise of nonprofit groups.
“Internal Radical Service” by David Horowitz and John Perazzo documents many of the radical leftist terror campaigns and abuses that the IRS has allowed to proliferate even as it cracks down on conservatives. Domestic terrorism is not a charity. If shutting down the operations of Congress is an insurrection, then how can its funders possibly operate as a nonprofit?
Until members of Congress begin asking those hard questions, the double standard will go on.
Ecoterrorists, like other vandals and criminals, belong in prison. The organizations that fund their crimes should face criminal charges. Instead, the IRS has allowed them to retain their nonprofit status so that taxpayers are subsidizing the Left’s war against America.
Last century the beautiful people dabbled in lysergic acid.
This, it’s a moral superiority/infallibility/imperative combo.
To me, the Sunflower Series was great art. I know some people say its ordinary, but there is something special in those paintings, even though it may be undefinable.
A lot of it was technique. Van Gogh chose bright colors in his canvas gesso if I remember correctly.
Whether someone likes them or not is personal, but many highly qualified art experts would agree with you. And because of this they are very valuable and should be protected. In fact any human effort, valuable or not, that requires knowledge and effort should be protected.
The INITIATION of force is NOT a right. Canceling a criminal, an INITIATOR of physical force, is morally RIGHT..
“One does not and cannot “negotiate” with brutality, nor give it the benefit of the doubt. The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is wrong—and no consideration or discussion of the issues is necessary or appropriate….
The use of physical force—even its retaliatory use—cannot be left at the discretion of individual citizens. Peaceful coexistence is impossible if a man has to live under the constant threat of force to be unleashed against him by any of his neighbors at any moment. Whether his neighbors’ intentions are good or bad, whether their judgment is rational or irrational, whether they are motivated by a sense of justice or by ignorance or by prejudice or by malice—the use of force against one man cannot be left to the arbitrary decision of another.” – Ayn Rand
Tell that to BLM and Antifa
I see you are back from la-la land.
when did they let you out of the nuthouse?
Well, that’s nonsense. I’m always armed, and while I hope I never have to make the decision to use force, if so, I will and I will face the consequences if I’m wrong. It’s called “responsibility.”
Ayn Rand is not speaking of the right to self-defense in a case of imminent danger to your life. But let’s say your neighbor threatens to kill you next month, in that case you don’t have the right to shoot him then and there, you go to the police and report him. Or let’s say your neighbor crashes his car into yours, you don’t have the right to raid his house and take $10,000 as restitution.
The right to self-defense is CONTEXTUAL.
New congress comping right up.
Who is paying the eco-terrorists? The UN? The WEF? Soros? Somebody is paying them. Someone is organising them.
If they really want to reduce oil use did they walk to the art gallery or grab a lift? Did they grow their own tomatoes and make soup? Have they ever grown anything of their own? Do they ever walk anywhere? Do they live in a woodland under sticks? Do they sleep on fallen leaves? Do they use Fakebook on their smartphones? The list goes on and one day they will learn to become part of the solution not the problem.
Good point, but this was due to illegal activity not calling someone a naughty word.
Getty oil heiress with daddy/great granddaddy issues and Adam McKay whoever he is. You can bet they don’t live off the grid!
If you’re mega rich, disturbed, lonely and angry & you don’t care for art much, you can dabble in eco terror then jet wherever and hob nob with other malicious elites.
Nice work if you can get it.
Yeah, while I envy them in some ways, they still have to meet the Grim Reaper at the end.
Put some of that quick stick glue over your mouth and nose, derp.
Removing their ability to raise funds for illegal activities is fine but why do it retail. How about doint it on a wholesale basis and petition the IRS to remove their non-profit status. IRS will likely deny the petition but that denial would provide the basis for a lawsuit.
Look at FPM! The title to this article is such a welcome sight!
We should be enlisted to help. Whoever did the leg work on this did a great job!
I gave them a chance. Too bad.
That’s not cancel culture. If you want to terrorize people they want to kill you where you live. Luckily there is a government that can pit you in a cage for society’s protection. A van goge worth hundreds of millions, about the price of a nieghborhood of buildings. If your neighborhood goes bye bye, do you think stopping the criminals that did it is cancel culture?
Of course not, you are just a rat and a snake and you lie through your teeth, and may your rotten soul make your filthy tongue fall off.
Another paid poster, or a brain dead supplicant to Klaus?
I say good work and give them hell, a lot of hell.
I would have them wiping off the floor with their stupid T-Shirts then fed Bread and Water
“https://twitter.com/JustStop_Oil/status/1580993938978066432”
“Our Crowdfunder has been TAKEN DOWN after peacefully resisting this Government’s genocidal plans “
A homeless atheist walked into the Christian museum and deliberately started several fires. The arson destroyed an original painting depicting Pentecost – irreplaceable.
He wasn’t sent to prison of course, and the press showed indifference with a hint of celebration.
Jan 6th patriots burned nothing, nor did they initiate the violence.. All in the DC archipelago were non violent, yet they’ve been held almost two years, fed gruel not fit for a dog (Gitmo jihadists eat like kings), drink water filtered through socks to remove the sentiment, and are beaten off camera if they sing God Bless America, and had to fire woke trash defense attorneys sabotaging their interests.
Crude oil is a natural product, and these woke infantile fools need to get over it.