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Bull shit. It happens alll the time.Ridiculous. No tea party group was prevented from free assembly or had their 1st amendment rights trampled.
They were scrutinized for tax free status. As they all should. Left and right.
These social welfare groups self-declare. That's right. These nonprofits say *pop*
-- I'm a non-profit - and boom, in operation. It's only later the IRS vets you.
Where do you get this tripe?
No donor will EVER make a tax-deductible contribution to a group that doesn't already have its nonprofit status from the IRS signed, sealed, and delivered in its pocket. Because if there's any chance the IRS will "later" announce that the group DOESN'T have 501(c)(4) status, and the donor suddenly has to pay tons of taxes on the donation, they won't make the donation in the first place.
This is fundamental. And you missed it completely?
Do your homework for cryin out loud.
Pull up the public records of one of the orgs that claim they were denied. True the Vote for example. Plenty of money pouring in.
Name me another one of the groups -- and llets pull up the recordsw and see how poverty stricken they were. You're going on if they weren't operating. Many if not most, were.