Right-wing cult founder may get huge tax break

Wealthy right-wing activist, Republican former ambassador, and cult founder Mel Sembler strikes again.

This time, a Sembler development in DeKalb County, Georgia, may become the beneficiary of a proposed $51,000,000 tax break.

(Whispering mode on.)

Shh. We call that a handout.

Shh. You know, the same thing conservatives like Sembler are always accusing everyone else of getting.

Shh. Why are we whispering?

(Whispering mode off.)

Anything with a Mel Sembler connection always seems to be looking for handouts. Property taxes for everyone else in the county are going to have to be raised if Sembler gets this tax break. So the public is again paying for his greed.

This is particularly irritating because Sembler founded and ran Straight, Incorporated - a confirmedly abusive teen "rehab" cult.

Straight, Inc., spawned similar cults based on the same model - including Kids Helping Kids, the Cincinnati facility that was the target of last year's roadside protests I participated in.

This is the man who's going to get tax breaks that DeKalb County taxpayers are going to be paying for over the next few decades?

(Source: http://www.thecrier.net/articles/2009/06/03/front/asembler.txt)