Activists continue Libelous actions…

posted at 11:51 am on July 29, 2011 by Kevin McCullough
[ Double Standards ]   

We’ve told you about the actions of Ben Crowther, Western Washington University student who has made it his personal mission in life to disrupt the ability of legitimate 501(c)3 licensed charities in America to do their work, over his disagreement with their right to speech.

Statements made by the student, repeated by Joe Mirabella of the Huffington Post/Change.org were knowingly false, libelous, and have likely brought him into the very short term reality of litigation. (Mirabella and Change.org could also easily find themselves attached to the same litigation, for their roles.)

Crowther has gone a few steps further however in continuing to foment anger towards and disruption of the charities’ ability to do the charitable work they do by leaving a petition published (even though its objective was met), and now making additional blatantly false statements about fictional associations between the “Charity Give Back Group” and other organizations he finds objectionable.

In yesterday’s Christian Post, Crowther claimed CGBG had a formal association with a ministry that advocated “killing gays.”

This is a libelous, inflammatory, and heinous accusation at best. But at worst a statement intended and designed to purposefully mislead readers with the intention of causing severe harm to the Charity Give Back Group–which returns a portion of a constituent’s online purchases to a legitimate 501(c)3 of the consumer’s choice.

Based on such purposeful, dishonest, and calculated falsehoods, additional retailers are being bombarded by angry, radical, activists to discriminate against Christian charities.

Crowther’s goal seeks the complete destruction of The Charity Give Back Group by seeking the cancellation of individual retailers who participate in the program. But he is using slanderous libel, false assumptions, and fictional associations to paint the picture he needs to rile up his handful of activists.

Thus far very few retailers have made the decision in favor of Crowther’s hateful activists. Many more continue to be bombarded by them.

Ironically at least two have also made the decision to return to participation in CGBG program once it was discovered that executives were being more or less left out of the loop in the decision making process to drop CGBG.

It does not make any sense for corporations like Microsoft, Apple, Gap/Banana Republic, AT&T and others to yield to a handful of angry activists, when they all risk losing the future business of the entire Catholic and Evangelical populations of a 90% (self-identified) “Christian” nation.

The retailers are being played… like a really bad joke, by the angry activists… and they have the right to know.

As to the retailers specifically, doesn’t it make the most sense to not take sides in cultural or public policy debates? Isn’t that what government and bodies of faith are there to do? Your corporations are there to sell products and services… so do that, to everyone, equally.

Don’t pick and choose, because 13,000 names on a petition and list of angry radicals will be dwarfed by millions of faith-based, God-fearing moms, who choose to spend money in your stores, and on your web-sites.

And as to Mr. Crowther… keep checking your mailbox!

Blowback