Never, EVER, EVER use PayPal for ANYTHING!

They shut down a raffle for one of the worthiest organizations I know - Soldiers' Angels - because the the raffle involved guns.

These people are repugnant anti-freedom, anti-gun biggots who would screw over those who fight - YES WITH GUNS - to keep their worthless hides safe because of bullshit politics.

Go to hell, PayPal!

Kevin at the Smallest Minority has a list of links you can visit to get the whole story as well.

As most of you know, the fourth annual Gun Blogger's Rendezvous is fast approaching (43 days away as I write this), and this year I planned to make a special contribution to support Project Valour-IT - a gun giveaway that would be for even those unable to attend. But I'm not a 501(c)(3) organization, or any other kind of tax-free charity, so I couldn't actually run a charity raffle. Besides, I'm not really set up for it and wouldn't know how. So, with the aid of Rendezvous organizer Mr. Completely, arrangements were made with Soldiers' Angels to provide on-line ticket sales. Tickets went on sale Friday, July 17. We were ON!

Soldiers' Angels uses PayPal for their on-line donations.

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Coincident with the Gun Blogger Rendezvous Raffle, Soldiers' Angels had also started a fund drive for other projects that same weekend. PayPal put a stop to that. Here's Patti Patton-Bader's official statement:

Online donations through PayPal are a huge part of our fundraising. They shut down our entire account-not just the raffle button—for twelve hours right in the middle of an email fundraising push. Looking at the Terms of Use, we couldn’t understand where we’d gone wrong, but we had to immediately remove the raffle so we could get back online ASAP. This just breaks our hearts because we were so excited about the tremendous fundraising impact the Gun Blogger Rendezvous raffle was already having.

(My emphasis). The "tremendous fundraising impact"? In the short time (3.5 days) the PayPal button was live, they had 42 participants and 109 tickets sold.

As noted above, we're still 43 days out from the Rendezvous. I just found out about this today.

And not only did the contributions for the raffle stop coming in, ALL contributions to Soldier's Angels via PayPal were cut off for twelve hours.

Because PayPal is anti-gun.

Want to make the maximum impact? Call PayPal and tell them what kind of douchebags they are!  Their Customer Service phone number is (402) 935-2050.

And then, call Soldiers' Angels and do what you can to help.  Please.  During normal business hours (PST) you can call (626) 529-5114, or you can call their voice mail any time at (615) 676-0239, leave them a callback number and they'll call you back.

Thanks, Kevin, for the alert.