"Abramoff Indictment Hides Connection to Right Wing Noise Machine!"

[KoKo]

January 04, 2006
Abramoff Indictment Hides Connection to RWNM

In a sign that the Bush Justice Department is working to minimize damage to the "conservative movement" stemming from the Abramoff scandal, the indictment and plea agreement ignore his misuse of the Capital Athletic Foundation. According to philanthropic watchdog National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy the indictment reveals "the debilitated condition of government oversight of nonprofits and foundations."

The indictments and resulting plea agreement acknowledge the dubious if not illegal grantmaking of Abramoff’s Capitol Athletic Foundation (CAF) in more than one instance, but fail to penalize Abramoff on his abuse of the CAF as a personal cash reserve.

... For the past two years, alone among national philanthropic nonprofits, NCRP has detailed and denounced a variety of Abramoff’s misuses of philanthropy and called for IRS investigations, to no avail.

You see, the entire "conservative movement" operation depends on tax-free donations to so-called "charitable" organizations like the Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, and hundreds of other national and state organizations that are supposed to be non-partisan but in reality operate almost entirely to the benefit of the Republican Party. So any kind of crackdown on the misuse of tax-free charitable donations would threaten the continued existence of the right-wing noise machine itself.


Much more of the article with good links....
http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2006/01/abramoff_indict.htm

[sandnsea]

1. I agree on the Noise Machine

Completely. But...

"supposed to be non-partisan but in reality operate almost entirely to the benefit of the Republican Party."

We have our own share of these groups too. The problem is, the right has done an excellent job of making sure everybody knows who are our groups are. We have done a horrible job in letting people know who their groups are. We probably can't do anything about non-profit activist groups or we'd lose things like the ACLU and PFAW too. We just have to do a better job of connecting the dots for the people. Including how people like Ralph Reed are financially connected in as well.

[sarcasmo]

2. No Tax Exempt churches or donations to political parties would put a

nice dent into the war machine/noise machines pocket. Kick and Nom.