EvilFTC.com Reports: "Federal Trade Commission Attorney Refuses to Retract Anti-Mormon Comments"
Agency Officials Want Quotes Critical of Mormons Removed From EvilFTC.com Website
(firmenpresse) - SAINT GEORGE, UT -- (Marketwire) -- 05/10/12 -- A representative for the Federal Trade Commission, Dotan Weinman, has requested in that quoted statements mocking members of the Mormon Church, attributed to FTC attorney Ms. Collot Guerard, one of the Commission's lead attorneys, be removed from , a website critical of the workings of the Commission. Mr. Weinman also threatens legal action if the statements are not removed.
"We have already offered to remove the quotes from the website if we can get a simple written statement from Ms. Guerard that she never made the anti-Mormon comments in question," said Ryan Riddle, spokesman for .
"However," added Mr. Riddle, "We presume that Ms. Guerard is probably not eager to provide such a statement since she knows full well that her comments, as reported to us, are not only accurate as to their content, but were spoken in the presence of third parties who heard them as well."
"It's ridiculous for the government to assume we will remove content from our website by simply making threats of legal action, when the FTC's own attorney doesn't even deny making the statements in the first place," said Riddle. "According to Mr. Jeremy Johnson, during a break in a formal deposition with the FTC, Ms. Guerard questioned Mr. Johnson about how many people in Saint George, Utah are Mormon. Ms. Guerard went on to tell Mr. Johnson that she is a 'real Christian' and that she goes to church with ex-Mormons, who are now also 'real Christians.'"
"Mr. Johnson also claims that Ms. Guerard referred to him as a member of the 'Mormon Mafia' when speaking with others about his case," noted Riddle, "and that Mr. Johnson was subjected to additional questioning about his religious beliefs by FTC Chairman , prior to the Chairman voting to sue Mr. Johnson and to put his many companies out of business."
"According to Mr. Johnson, Chairman Leibowitz inquired into his personal religious beliefs during an hour-long interview, and demanded to know if Mr. Johnson and his family were actively involved with the Mormon Church. Chairman Leibowitz, who was appointed to head the agency by President Obama in 2009, wanted to know specifically if anyone in Mr. Johnson's family had ever served on a mission for the Mormon Church," said Mr. Riddle.
Shortly afterwards, Chairman Leibowitz ordered his staff to file a lawsuit against Johnson and his companies and freeze all of his assets.
"Why would a government agency be so obsessed with the Mormon religion?" asked Riddle on behalf of the website. "Why would the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission demand to know about a person's religious beliefs before making a decision on whether or not an agency of the Federal Government decided to sue that person? Is there a predisposed religious prejudice on the part of the FTC contributing to an obstruction of justice?"
Linda Goldstein, an attorney who attended the meeting with Johnson and Chairman Leibowitz, stated that, "In the many years working with the FTC on numerous cases, I have never seen an FTC Commissioner interrogate a defendant about their religious beliefs. A person's religion should have absolutely nothing to do with the Government's decision to proceed with a case."
EvilFTC.com is a Saint George, Utah-based website that is run and administered by small business owners who want to document and expose abuse and fraud perpetrated by the Federal Trade Commission. The goal of the website is to document abuses when people in government are given extraordinary powers without proper Congressional oversight and thus are often prone to abuse their positions of power. Our goal is to expose these people and their bad acts and incite Congress to audit potential corruption, especially within the FTC.
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