I will make a comment on the process that is not directed to any specific person.
The judicial (legal) system exists to make decisions in regard to the law. It is not designed to settle moral issues of right and wrong. It does not deal with spritiual issues. It provides a definative answer as to what the law requires and whether or not an individual has complied with what the law requires.
1) The investigation by the IRS of 3-ABN and/or Danny Sheltion (I am uncertain as to the exact boundaries of the investigation.) has dwelt with only one issue: Did the investigated parties properly file the required IRS forms and if there were errors in their filing were those errors of a magnitude that would require either civil penalities or criminal prosecution. This IRS investigation has no direct bearing on any of the other issues that have been alleged--sexual misconduct, termination of Linda Shelton, constitution of the 3-ABN Board and much more.
A resonable person who understands our legal system and the IRS process would conclude that the IRS investigation failed to discover by the proponderence of the evidence that either 3-ABN or Danny Shelton committed any violation of the IRS rules and the law that would require either civil penalties or criminal prosecution. Folks, if you do not meet the requirement of the proponderence of the evidence, which is the lowest standard, you simply do not have a case. For a criminal prosecution one would be required to have supporting evidence "beyond a reasonable doubt." No person who understands what the law requires would ever be able to say that the "evidence" presented in these Internet fourms met the required legal standards.
2) Yes, there are a lot of allegations that have been made in regard to 3-AND Danny Shelton that have not been considered by the IRS investigation. There are allegations that are included in the litigation filed against Joy and Pickle that are not covered by the IRS investigation. Those have not been settled by any objective body.
But, the IRS appears to have settled the issues under its venue. As such, the question now is what is to be done with the other allegations.
First, any other allegations will need to be settled in others venues if such exist and if the stattute of limitations does not apply. If the stattute has run its course, there is likely to be no other judicial/civil remedy to settle those allegations.
I am one who believes that there is not venue whereby those allegations could be settled outside of the civil/judicial arena. So, if that is closed, I do not see any other arena in which those who have charged people with wrong doing can seek relief.
3) However, the apparent closure of the IRS investigation, with no apparent finding of either civil or criminal wrong doing looks like a fatal development for the defendents in the ongoing litigation.
First: The alligation of civil and/or criminal wrong doing as it related to IRS issues now appears to be incorrect. As this was an important part of the litigation, it looks like those who filed the litigation are likely to prevail in this aspect. It, in my thinking, increases the lilkelyhood that they will prevail, at least in part in a judgement for libel, slander and defamination of character.
Second: The apparent failure of the IRS investigation to find either civil or criminal wrong doing as it related to IRS issues casts doubt in the other charges that have been made against 3-ABN and others. If one was wrong in this important area why would one be assumed to be riight in other areas?
4) In the time that has passed since it has been announced that the IRS investigation was finished I have read a lot of responses that have attempted to rebut the announcement. Many of those rebuttals presented the one who wrote them as "grasping at straws" and logically insufficient. Many of them were simply of no value as far as settleing anything is concerned.
5) So, where do we go from here? As I said once before: Gailon is astute enough to read the legal tea leaves lying in the bottom of the tea cup. He will know what to do. Bob needs to see if he can untangle himself from the situation he is in. I have a strong feeling that the ones who have filed the litigation would be willing to allow him to do so if he approached them. I say that because in reading one brief that they filed I saw some humanity on their part in that they did not, in my opinon, come down on him as hard as they might have done.
6) For the rest of the people,they may just have to let things go. In this life some wrongs are never exposed. Righteousness does not always rule. It just may be that there are other alligations that were as wrong as the caims of civil and/or criminal wroing doing in IRS issues were wroing.
7) In summary: The current situation, as I see it, strikes a fatal blow to the raft of alligations that have been made. I do not see it as being helpful to any one to continue grasping as straws as I see some doing. Some people are simply going to have to "get over it."
NOTE: The fatal flaw, in my thinking, in much of this, is that those who made the IRS alligations never knew the evidence that 3-ABN had to support their position of innocence. They only had one side of the picture and that is not enough.
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