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Originally Posted by DAII
Falla, how long are you going to support women and children being brutally raped, sodomized and. massacred with your 20% or so?
Shall I post links and pictures to this effect?
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We are told to pay our taxes even though they are used to finance and support things we do not agree with --like war, and like abortions. One way we can control where our tax money goes is by electing those who agree with us on the way taxes are spent. Another way is to refuse to pay taxes, or refuse to pay the percentage that goes for military expense. A local minister, Maurice McCracken, was well-known for that.
This is what Wikipedia says about him:
Maurice McCrackin (1905-1997) was an American civil rights and peace activist, tax resister and Presbyterian minister. McCrackin started a community church in Cincinnati after gaining notoriety for refusing to pay federal taxes. Many of his former parishioners followed him to the small building on Dayton Street in Cincinnati where he preached, ran services, baptized babies, and performed weddings and funerals.
He was a principled pacifist all of his life. He was active in the struggle for racial equality and an end to militarism in the United States. McCrackin was well known to the state's attorneys office as he was arrested over and over again in protests. Rev. McCrackin was also active in the fight for prisoner's rights and spent much time visiting convicts. Once, he was abducted by a man that he had visited in jail and rather than see him incarcerated again, refused to testify against him. The district attorney in Cincinnati jailed McCrackin for weeks because of this incident.
I remember seeing him in the news quite often here in Cincinnati. He is quoted as saying, "To give financial support to war while at the same time preaching against it is, to me, no longer a tenable position." He was arrested often, and in jail would go on a hunger strike. Rather than see him starve to death he would be released. I remember seeing him and others carried away by the police outside the gate at General Electric where I worked. He was protesting GE's manufacturing of military aircraft. He was denounced and defrocked by the Presbyterian Church and then years later before his death he was re-instated and apologized to by the Presbyterian Church.
I didn't agree with him on his pacifism and on his refusal to pay taxes but I had to admire him for standing up for what he believed and believed in so passionately that he was willing to endure public humiliation, arrest, etc.
Daniel ! no dont do it !! Wait !JK
.I had no idea you could pay that much for a pair of shoes ,they better be mighty comfortable.
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