At this point, it behooves us all to ask, who the hell is getting stinking rich off of all this "Save Pastor Art!" Rebel News nonsense? Because when one takes even a moderately close look at the money involved, someone is walking away with an assload of cash.
Based on the publicly-viewable online fundraisers related to "Pastor Art," even cursory, back of the condom wrapper arithmetic suggests that easily over a million dollars has been collected to keep Pastor Art in sacramental wine and wafers. But where is all this money going?
Well, it's common knowledge that at least a couple hundred grand is being trousered by the monumentally incompetent law students from JSS Barristers repping Pastor Art -- people who can't even keep track of whether there is an arrest warrant out for their client. But here's the thigh-suckingly astonishing part of this ridiculous saga: all of this is in aid of avoiding ... 3 weeks in jail and perhaps $17,000 in fines and costs:
Let's go back and read that again -- what appears to be over a million dollars has been hoovered up in order to avoid a minimal jail sentence and only several thousand dollars in fines and costs, for a case that has absolutely no strategic litigation value whatsoever. None. Zero. Which leads one to ask ... who is getting rich off of this? So let me speculate wildly and irresponsibly based on no evidence whatsoever.
If I was looking to make a killing off of terminally gullible people, I would first find a martyr who lives for public attention and is not afraid to make an ass of himself in the media for the sake of notoriety.
Hello, Pastor Art.
I would then do the arithmetic and, with a million bucks to play with and fine print saying I could do anything I wanted with it, I would tell Pastor Art that, out of that cool million, I'd give him $100,000 -- no, let's be generous, $200,000 -- if he'd be willing to be the public face of pathetic Christian victimhood, and possibly go to jail for a few weeks. In addition, he'd get to be stupidly fucking famous, and go on a four-month tour of the U.S., schmoozing with the scum de la scum of American right-wing nuttiness and griftitude.
Would you take that offer?
Would you take, say, $200,000, to go to jail for 21 days, knowing that it would almost certainly be minimum-security and you'd be pampered up the ass for that entire three weeks, with the guarantee that you had a whopping big cheque waiting for you when you got out? Leaving everyone else involved to divvy up the remaining $800,000, of course.
Again, this is all rampant, idiotic speculation, but if someone offered to stuff a couple hundred grand up my butt to spend three weeks in moderately comfortable incarceration, I'm pretty sure I'd take that deal.
I'm sure none of the above actually happened. Forget I said anything. Carry on.
P.S. Is it worth asking who funded Pastor Art's four-month American vacation? Because if it came from "The Democracy Fund," I'm pretty sure those donations would not be eligible for charitable tax receipts.
I'm just throwing that out there.
P.P.S. We're not even close to being done with "The Democracy Fund."
2 comments:
Rebel knows how to raise funds!
I think Tamara Ugolini is the hottest Rebel but Shiela has a cute hippie chick vibe also as well to be honest
Twas ever thus. From 2010, National Post:
"A Calgary church has lost its charitable status in part because it spends too much of its time advocating on social issues such as abortion and marriage.
In October, the Kings Glory Fellowship Association, a non-denominational Protestant group, was told by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) that for several reasons, including a lack of clarity on how it spends it money, they could no longer issue charitable receipts.
But the letter highlighted that the group spent more than 10% of its time on “non-partisan political activities and therefore strayed into activities “outside its stated purpose.”
“We note ... the members of the Board of Directors espouse strong negative views about sensitive and controversial issues, which may also be viewed as political, such as abortion, homosexuality, divorce, etc.”
The CRA allows charitable organizations to spend some time on “political activities,” but the cutoff is 10%.
Artur Pawlowski, the head of the Kings Glory Fellowship, said his group “has nothing to do with politics and we do not advertise for a party or a candidate. The only political activity you can connect us to is defending our right to speak.”
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