3 Days Ago
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Originally Posted by just sayin
Sorry Tex, but since you made this such an issue here, maybe everyone should know exactly what the issues really are.
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Oh goody this is gona be fun. Let's see if you repeat the same BS that's been passed around elsewhere...
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First, Tonkin from the Canteen started all of this himself, by posting a solicitation for Proud Patriots Inc. at clownposse. That’s what started this, nothing more and nothing less. When he did, the posse checked the company out.
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Nothing wrong with that so far.
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Here is what they found:
1. Proud Patriots Inc. is not a valid and legal entity, having been terminated in July of 2005, eight months after they filed for corporate status.
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Ahh and here it begins. Let's go to the REAL facts of the matter shall we?
The charter was terminated on March 31st, 2006. It says so on the Virginia SCC. A lady named Susan Conroy wrote the PP *Registered Agent* and
they said July 2005.
The Virginia SCC has reaffirmed it over and over that it was terminated as of March 31st, 2006.
As for the paperwork,PP has been told that snafu's in filing happens more times than they can count. They just sent a packet out for reinstatement and a fee to be paid. That is what is being done now.
And that comes straight from the VA State Government folks.
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2. Proud Patriots Inc. corporate status was terminated by the State of Virginia for failure to file its annual report and to pay its fees.
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Answered above. They have talked to the proper officials and have been told to continue operating as they are and to simply resubmit their paperwork.
I.E. they are not doing anything illegal.
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3. Proud Patriots Inc. has no legal right to solicit donations on the internet, having failed to register for permission to solicit in its home state of Virginia, as well as all other states, as is required by law.
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Again you are working off a false premise in making your erronious statements. They are doing nothing illegal or outside the paramaters of the law.
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Basically, what that means TX, is that Proud Patriots is operating outside of the law in soliciting for donated funds. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it.
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No they are not. And that comes straight from the agency that handles this stuff for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
And in the near future...they won't be dealing with Virginia on this issue anyway. It's taken care of with the state agency...it's over.
Any other bullshit spewed saying otherwise at this point is moot and foolish on CP's part.
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When questioned about this, Tonkin went berserk, and posted an asinine thread about troops being attacked in order to deflect interest in Proud Patriots illegal status and operations.
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Tonk is like a LOT of us...he's tired of wannabe troop supporters who only talk the talk...doing what they can to tarnish the reputation of thoses handful of good people that actually walk the walk when it comes to supporting the troops.
I don't blame him one bit for reacting the way he did.
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When Diva Betsey Ross asked on the thread for confirmation of Proud Patriots’ legal status, she was banned, but not after she was attacked by freepmail by Trident/Delta who claimed to be a private investigator hired by Proud Patriots to investigate the claims of wrongdoing against it.
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DBR has made an ass of herself on FR in the past...this was just the final straw for JimRob. I've seen her fits over there before and have welcomed her back afterwards...but not this time.
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Interestingly, the PI claimed that all was well and good, that the whole issue was because “someone” has assumed that Proud Patriots had buddied-up on Free Republic’s 501(c)(3) filing, which was not only an untrue statement of the issues, but was completely asinine as well since Free Republic has no 501(c)(3) to join in on. Meanwhile, Tonkin posts that the investigator has proven that all the trouble is all because of Diva Betsey Ross.
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PP makes it very clear on the front of their website what they are and what they aren't. *shrugs* Not my fault if you guys can't figure out what they mean.
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But it gets better.
HiJinx, who is President of Proud Patriots Inc. wrote the posse and signed his letter as President of Proud Patriots LLC. Proud Patriots is not an LLC, so why did he lie about that?
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*shrugs*...so what. Looks like a lot of picking at nits if you ask me.
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HiJinx also claimed on LibertyPost that the paperwork problem was all the fault of Proud Patriots’ Registered Agent, and the Registered Agent not only denies that they were culpable, but has mentioned filing a lawsuit against Proud Patriots for blaming them. So why did HiJinx lie?
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The STATE...the Freaking COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA told the PP folks that the reason the paperwork got messed up was because they used a "Registered Agent" and that they could have avoided a lot of this extra papwork and the expense if they'd filed the stuff themselves and not used a middleman.
SO who's lying now..the "Registered Agent" or the Commonwealth of Virginia?
I'm putting my money on the RA lying.
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Why has Proud Patriots continued to illegally solicit funds across the United States?
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Because as I've pointed out to you above...they aren't breaking any laws.
Period...end of sentence.
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Did you know that the “private eye” they hired is a freeper who has claimed no less than three different birthplaces on Free Republic? He has also claimed to be a former Vietnam POW, a claim which is in the stolen honor databases as being completely false. He has stated his years of service three different ways, has claimed to be a gunner, and a Navy seal? How do you feel about that? Did you know he has claimed to communicate with aliens? Did you know that he has disappeared since he was exposed? ]Why did they “hire” a sham private investigator to clear them, rather than tell the truth, apologize, stop soliciting and get their shit together?
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I put "In the Army" as my location on most of the sites that I post at...hell...my FR profile STILL says I'm at Ft. Riley.
Guess that makes me officially a "sham" too huh?
PP has nothing to apologizze about...therefore...despite what you think is owed to you or whoever...THEY DON'T HAVE TO APOLOGIZE TO ANYONE FOR ANYTHING.
Interesting that you buy into this bullshit and all the same crap that the rest of the CP morons are repeating...especially in light of the truth.
But don't let me stop you from making a fool of yourself.
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Did you know that Proud Patriots claims that they were reinstated although the request for renewal of its corporate charter has been rejected by the State of Virginia?
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Did you know that you jsut posted a blatant lie.
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Did you know that Proud Patriots is now being investigated by various governmental agencies for their failure to operate within the law?
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Again not true.
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Or do you just care about the goodies they sent you? Goodies that were donated by other companies and organizations while the cash money donated was likely spent on free servers, gifts and household goods for fellow canteeners? How does that make you feel?
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I'm very grateful to the people that sent me and other soldiers care packages.
What I do NOT like is people like you who feel some strange compelling reason to sit on your dead ass and badmouth people who are actually getting out and DOING something to support me and the other soldiers out there.
Likely? You're grasping at some thin straws there...see unlike you...I deal in facts...I research things on my own...it's the journalist in me that compells me to do that...I've known about this crap for awhile...I checked it out on my own...verified some things...and the one conclusion I've come to is that you...DBR...and the rest of the drooling mob at CP are full of shit.
And you're too wrapped up in the praises they are heaping on you and DBR for trashing FR and the Canteen to realize that they're using you.
How does it feel to be a tool?
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Tell me, if someone robbed a bank and sent you a care package, would you defend the robbery? If someone snatched a purse from an old woman on the street corner, and sent you a care package, would that make the purse snatch a-okay in your book?
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If that were the case I'd send it back...but that's not the case here is it? Nah not at all. It's just the sour grapes bitching and moaning by a few disgruntled ex FReepers.
Most of the donations made to Proud Patriots comes in the forms of goods. (Toothbrushes, razors, gedunk, socks, etc...)
Tell me are you proud of the morons at CP that tried to get MoJo's hubby in trouble with his command in the Navy?
What about the threats to "check out" certain FReepers houses associated with this?
Wow...I hope you're proud of the Gestapo intimidation techniques being used over there by the Clown Pussies.
That's a blue ribbon day you should be proud of.
And in closing...I take personal the "allegations" that myself or anyone else in the Canteen, FR, or Proud Patriots is "scamming" or "illegally soliciting funds earmarked for the military". What you are stating as "fact" isn't at all. For all this throwing it around, NONE of you have shown ANY proof that's what anyone associated with PP has done. Again, that is "libel" according to the lawyer PP is working with. And even worse...it would be "scamming" from the community for which my family...mojo's...Tonks...and many of us here are a part of.
You might take great pleasure in shafting my fellow soldiers with your bullshit...but I myself would not and never have "Blue Falconed" anyone in any branch of the military.