{"id":17109,"date":"2011-01-07T08:05:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T14:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17109"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:43:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:43:39","slug":"yellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17109","title":{"rendered":"Questions. Just Questions."},"content":{"rendered":"

I always loved this bit from South Park:<\/p>\n

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Dances With Smurfs<\/a><\/strong>
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\nPARK<\/a>more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Oh, that Cartman. Spoofing people who “are just asking questions”. Funny funny stuff.<\/p>\n

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Apropos absolutely nothing; about two months ago, three months ago a group of 20-odd Somalis were busted for running a prostitution ring in Minneapolis. \u00a0The ring allegedly forced young Somali girls into prostitution.<\/p>\n

Andy Birkey of the Minnesota Independent <\/em>lives in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

This raises questions: \u00a0Was Andy Birkey complicit <\/em>in the prostitution ring?<\/p>\n

No, I’m not being inflammatory. \u00a0I’m just asking questions.<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah – Birkey has written\u00a0his 24th article about Bradlee Dean<\/a> in the past 53 weeks.<\/p>\n

You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International, Inc. (YCR), the Annandale-based hard rock ministry run by Bradlee Dean and Jake McMillian, set up trusts with help from a ministry in Oregon which has been a target of the IRS investigations for setting up tax avoidance schemes all over the country, Karl Bremer at Ripple in Stillwater reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While writing “How do you know Karl Bremer is full of crap? \u00a0His fingers are moving over the keyboard<\/a>?” would be an ad-hominem, his history of being a ranting crank raises questions.<\/p>\n

But I digress. \u00a0Here’s a serious <\/em>question: \u00a0huh?<\/p>\n

What sort of trust did YCR set up? \u00a0Was it legal? \u00a0Were YCR’s business dealings among those being investigated by the IRS?<\/p>\n

Indeed, what is the IRS investigating? \u00a0And did YCR’s association with the “ministry in Oregon” happen to coincide in any way with anything that the IRS investigated?<\/p>\n

I’m just asking questions (and adding emphasis to Birkey’s quotes).<\/p>\n

Dean and YCR dismantled <\/strong>the work done by Glen Stoll and the Embassy of Heaven for their ministry and even took their case against Stoll to district court in 2008, but the arrangement raises questions<\/strong> about whether Dean and his ministry were trying to avoid paying their rightful share of taxes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Birkey’s “just asking questions”.<\/p>\n

We’ll come back to that.<\/p>\n

Documents filed in Minnesota\u2019s 10th District Court outline the arrangement set up by YCR with the help of Stoll. Bradlee Dean, whose real name is Bradley Dean Smith, and Jake McMillian, whose real name is Jake MacAuley, took classes from Stoll and paid him $6,500 to set up \u201cestablished, exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable and assignable ministerial trusts\u201d that would allow them to operate as a \u201c\u2018free church\u2019 that would be invulnerable to state regulation and control.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of the deal, Smith was given an identification card from Stoll\u2019s Embassy of Heaven that affirmed that, \u201cOn file is a signed statement by Bradley Smith renouncing allegiance to the world and declaring citizenship in the Kingdom of Heaven.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So let me ask some questions – remember, I’m just asking questions, because questions were raised:<\/p>\n