Jack Van Impe Ministries was banned on Trinity Broadcasting Network due to complaints of JVIM's attacks on fellow pastors, Obama and Islam. Huge revenue losses expected for JVIM as well as millions could be owed in back taxes in Canada where his scam is being investigated by the Canada Revenue Agency. Since mid-June Jack Van Impe has been focusing almost exclusively on Chrislam which he deliberately and shamelessly misinterprets as the merging of Christianity and Islam by numerous churches across America in an effort to promote a demonic one world religion. Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Rick Warren and Robert Schuller are the leaders in this latest Jack Van Impe "conspiracy theory". Fortunately only a very small minority of fundamentalist Christians believe that Chrislam is a sign of the end times. Van Impe's hate filled rantings are simply about the Faith Shared Project sponsored by the Interfaith Alliance and Human Rights First where clergy representing various faiths gather during services to read from each others texts. Nothing sinister no merging of Chrisianity with Islam, so you can relax crazies.
WATCH Chrislam and see Van Impe's $8 million mansion HERE
The Heart of the Matter
Okay now for the serious issues at hand. If you have unwaivering support of JVIM Presents you will be offended by our site so you may as well leave BUT before you go you can watch JVIM Chrislam.
And see the Van Impe's mansion and the multi million dollar television broadcast studio and production facility in Rochester Hills, Michigan your hard earned donated dollars purchased for the Van Impe's. One more thing why haven't the Van Impe's been preaching about the Dec. 21/2012 "Rapture" for the past 6 months....getting too close for comfort eh Jack, you charlatan. How is JVIM going to explain that? Wrong calculations or the History Channel and the Mayans got it all wrong. If that's the case Jack then you are just as stupid and delusional as Harold Camping. Isn't the bible your source for your prophecies, why use the Mayans or the History Channel? Jack Van Impe suggest we take a memory test, talk to a marriage counsellor or visit Israel on a pilgrimage.
*****
Jack Van Impe Ministries Incorporated is a registered charity in Canada (852-958-818-RR-0001). Link is on left. JVIM Inc. has Charitable Tax Donation Status and pays no taxes. JVIM does no charity work in the community nor do they have a brick and mortar presence unless you count their accountant office in London, Ontario and PO Box in Windsor Ontario, Canada. No church, drop in center, food bank etc. nothing to warrant the charitable tax break. So if the bigotry, hate and fear mongering and idiotic conspiracy theories don't disgust you then JVIM paying NO Taxes and doing zilch to warrant a Charitable Tax Donation status surely will.
Jack Van Impe Ministries Incorporated (in Canada) earned 1.9 million dollars last year from the sale of Dvd's and Prophecy Bible. JVIM incorporated paid no taxes AND received a GST refund where applicable. Shaw Media's Global TV and Vision TV (Christian channel) earned 1.5 million dollars for broadcasting JVIM in Canada. We are investigating where the approx. $400,000 JVIM profit went as it cannot leave Canada, it has to be "gifted". Hopefully the CRA will also look into who the money is "gifted" to as well as review JVIM's Charitable Tax Donation Status.
We are offended by Shaw Media/Global TV email: corporate.inquiries@shawmedia.ca for broadcasting televangelist Jack Van Impe Presents. His irrational rants about the end of mankind as we know it and inflammatory statements such as "Christianity is a war with Islam" and "Muslims hate Jews" has a detrimental effect on children and could cause harm to Muslims and minorities in general. The event in Tuscon is proof that inflammatory hateful speech has no place in this day and age. Some Canadians and Americans are worried about current world events. We can assure you they have nothing to do with the bible or the second coming of Jesus. If you feel isolated or frightened seek advice from a local clergyman or psychologist do not believe this man. Jack Van Impe's rants are those of a doomsday cult leader and there is no doubt that Jack Van Impe is a sociopath. He will say anything to make a buck and it doesn't matter who gets hurt in the process. We have proof that most of his bible references are false or bastardized, see link in menu Karen Clout/Van Impe Exposed. Karen Clout Manager Regulatory Affairs for Shaw Media Global TV lied about Mr. G making "threatening calls" deceived and succeeded in interfering with the CBSC and CRTC when Mr. G. complained about intolerance being aired on their network. We have the tape and transcript and Van Impe said Muslims hate Jews/Christianity is at war with Islam she said he didn't. CRTC believed her and ruled against Mr. G. He was refused transcripts when he asked the CRTC for proof. A complete whitewash by corporate media and it's regulator, very sad considering we are talking about intolerance and fear mongering. See link on left Karen Clout / JVIM Exposed for more examples of her handy work. This woman will go to great lengths for the 1.5 million dollars that goes to Shaw Media's Global TV for airing Van Impe's intolerance and fear mongering instead of following the Canadian Broadcast Act and protecting children, minorities and the handicapped, what a piece of work. Then there's the threats against Mr. G (see link in menu "Global's Offensive Emails" by Richard Landry "private eye".
Jack Van Impe claims that he and his wife Rexella have doctorate degrees or PHD's in religious studies, they do not. They are con artists who purchased their degrees from the now infamous Pacific International University. Wikipedia states: "Jack Van Impe and his wife have received doctorate degrees from Pacific International University an unaccredited Christian university". In other words they purchased their doctorate degrees, they did not earn a degree from lets say Columbia U or the University of Toronto.
Van Impe is showing his right wing colors with his DVD: A Socialist America. What does comparing President Obama's policies with the likes of Hitler and Stalin have to do with religious broadcasts. Why is Jack Van Impe on the birther bandwagon saying last year Obama attended a Madrassa in Indonesian as a teen. And what about his latest conspiracy theory laden with anti Islamic sentiment "Chrislam". You can watch the video right here.
Anyone can view all of Van Impe's movies and TV shows on You Tube. Do not buy his DVD's or his Prophecy Bible, save your money, it's absolute garbage. Our group cannot change Jack Van Impe's message of intolerance but we can inform the taxman that he does not warrant a charitable tax donation status and perhaps get some back taxes paid to the Canadian Government. It's impossible to get this man of the air in the USA, but in Canada Shaw Media's Global TV and Vision TV are ignoring existing broadcasting regulations set forth by the Television Broadcast Act, CAB Code of Ethics and The Human Rights Act when they broadcast Jack Van Impe's message of intolerance.
Tim Jones is Global TV's station manager in Winnipeg and is responsible for airing Jack Van Impe Presents but shows a complete lack of respect for the Muslim community and very poor judgment for airing JVIM at 8:30 Sunday mornings when children may be watching. To put kids at risk of being frightened by a sociopath spewing hate and allowing attacks on Islam to air on his station is reprehensible. Michelle Medford backed by Karen Clout replied in a deceitful manner to Mr.G's 4 complaints to the CBSC (see below) but didn't have the ethical persuasion to say anything about it to management. Instead she calls Mr. G at home and complains about his website and how unfair it is to her and Global TV. Really calling the someone at home, unprofessional and talk about harassment. Karen Clout had to be behind that too getting her underling Medford do the dirty work. It seems the inexperienced Clout had only held the position for less than a year when this started and was lacking professionalism and integrity in dealing with Mr G's complaint as you can sense in her overall tone throughout her exchanges with him and the deceit. Please scroll down to read her responses to the complaints.
Institutionalized Bigotry
Jack Van Impe Ministries Presents is a Evangelical Christian "infomercial" or U.S. paid religious programming as Global TV likes to call it. Unlike most mainstream religious programming this program spews forth only fear, hate and bigotry, not peace, love and tolerance that a legitimate religious program provides. Jack Van Impe's rhetoric sounds just like Muslim hater and bigot Glenn Beck. The evangelical bigots are coming out of the woodwork, they must feel quite smug since Franklin Graham son of Billy Graham has made the same bigoted, inflammatory remarks against Islam as Jack Van Impe, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin and nothing was done about it.
The premise of the Jack Van Impe Ministries Presents program is as follows; the broadcast starts with Jack Van Impe's wife Rexella reading only the headlines (typically taken from right wing sources and Fox News) from the previous week's news. Newspaper headlines are written in a manner to get the reader's attention and it's necessary to read the entire article BUT Rexella reads the headline then looks at Jack and says "Oh Jack what do you think of that?" Jack then deviously bastardizes the news to make biblical prophecies sound relevant to current events. For example the H1N1 outbreak was a sign of pestilence, Iran's threatening Israel means that the end is coming soon, Russia, Iran and N. Korea's belligerence towards the USA is somehow in the bible. N. Korea who now has nukes AND missiles and fits nicely into Van Impe's version of the end of days. Van Impe predicts the world will end on 21/12/2012. The end will come when America defends Israel from Islam and there is "the most terrible of wars" and all will die EXCEPT born again Christians. Jesus will return once the Jews have converted into Christianity. What a load of crap. No self respecting Jew would want to be a Christian. Jack Van Impe says this about Jews on his website:
"It is God's will for all Christians to love and pray for the Jewish people. It is true that no Jew can be saved apart from faith in Jesus Christ (John 14:6). This is true for both Jews and Gentiles. Romans 11:26 has to do with the conversion of Israel in the future when they turn to Jesus Christ. It does not guarantee salvation of all the Jews who have ever lived since salvation is only possible through Jesus Christ. The requirement for going to Heaven is that each person must receive Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour (John 1:12). John 3:3 says: "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."During the Tribulation there will be thousands of Jews converted. Revelation 7 speaks of 144,000 being saved and becoming the servants of God. That will be a great and wonderful day!"
So in Van Impe's view if a person is a non evangelical Christian, a Jew or Muslim (same God and Heaven as the evangelical Christians) he/she will suffer greatly and will not be saved. This is bigotry excluding someone because their beliefs are different than yours. When you take a good hard look at the evangelical movement you will come to the realization that they really are intolerant of others people's religions and belief systems and quite obsessed with converting everyone on the face of the earth. Google it. After scaring people with his doom and gloom he tries to sell his books and dvd's about the end of the world and how you can save yourself (simple you buy his Dvd's and fake bible). His end of days prediction is akin to doomsday cults who predict the end of the world or to the Aryan Nation goofballs saying only whites should have rights or live for that matter. When you take away the religious smokescreen one can see there is no difference. It's all bigotry. As previously stated Jack Van Impe Ministries Presents is not religious programming as defined by the CRTC it is an infomercial masquerading as religious/news program.
Shaw Media (Global TV's) "Conscience of Convenience" vs. Good Corporate Citizenship
For 10 years Global has spread Van Impe's message of fear, hate, intolerance, bigotry and please buy our merchandise and it has to stop. Global TV in Winnipeg airs The Jack Van Impe Ministries Presents, Sunday at 8:30 a.m.. At this hour many children are watching cartoons or adventure shows and their parents are doing chores or whatever. The last thing they need to hear is the world is going to end on Dec. 21/2012 or that there is going to be a horrible war and only a certain brand of Christian will be saved. This doom and gloom message is insidious and his anti Islamic rhetoric is simply outrageous and dangerous. On May 31/09 Jack Van Impe looked into the camera and said, "Christianity is at war with Islam". Two Sundays later he regurgitated this gem..."Muslims hate Jews". Lately he has said Kaleik Sheik Mohammed should be executed without trial (lynching) and that alcoholics and drug addicts are sinners and will not go to heaven. AA will not appreciate that stupid remark.
On February 24/09, Mr G. complained to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council that Global TV was broadcasting messages of hate and fear and that Global TV needed to insert a verbal warning to parents stating the following program is not suitable for anyone under 14 and the content may offend some people. That's all he asked. Global's reply was NO and that Van Impe's remarks were "his opinion" implying religious freedom of speech. Freedom of Speech (there is no such thing as "religious freedom of speech") is an American term in the First Amendment of the US Constitution Bill of Rights. Canada has freedom of speech but there are laws restricting what can be said especially when one religion attacks another religion or race etc..
The CAB Code of Ethics and The Television Broadcast Act state it's the broadcasters responsibility to ensure no offensive remarks are aired. The response received to the complaint from Global was deceptive. Read following letter from Global's Regulatory Affairs manager Karen Clout.
Re: Jack Van Impe Presents (CBSC File C08/09-0691)
Dear Mr. G.
We are in receipt of your letter via the CBSC regarding Global Television's broadcast of Jack Van Impe Presents, January 25, 2009 at 8:30am on CKND Global Winnipeg. In your letter, you have expressed concerns regarding inappropriate content: violence and language. Let me begin by saying that as responsible broadcasters, we are sensitive to the members of our viewing audience and we apologize if this show offended you; I assure you that it was not our intention to do so.
Under the Broadcasting Act, broadcasters are required to provide a broad spectrum of entertainment and information programming for "men, women and children of all ages, interests and tastes. Television programming is required to be diverse and appealing to a wide range of audiences. Before we decide to broadcast a program, our Programming Department screens it to ensure it is suitable for broadcast. The determination of suitability includes ensuring that the broadcast would not contravene applicable broadcast laws and industry codes including, but not limited to, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' (CAB) "Code of Ethics", "Equitable Portrayal Code for Television and Radio Programming", and "CAB Violence Code". As a result, what one viewer might consider an interesting or informative program might lead another to turn the channel.
Clause 8 of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) Code of Ethics states:
Broadcasters should endeavour to make available to the community adequate opportunity for presentation of religious messages and should also endeavour to assist in all ways open to them the furtherance of religious activities in the community.
Jack Van Impe Presents is a religious program featuring American televangelist Jack Van Impe and his wife citing passages from the scripture and compares what is written, to how it relates (in his opinion) to the events going on in the world today. With the above in mind, the following disclaimers are aired at the top of every broadcast. 'The opinions expressed in the following program are those of the participant and do not necessarily reflect those of Global Television.'
Michelle Medford under the direction of Karen Clout manager of regulatory affairs (the deceivers) from Global TV wrote the above drivel not once but in 3 responses. She failed to add the 2nd half of clause 8, read it and you will see why. Scroll down a bit for CAB Clause 8 in it's entirety, the red text is the part she left out. Readers can go to the CBSC website (see link below) to verify. It's time for the Global TV programming director to step up and take responsibility for his/her poor judgment in airing Jack Van Impe Presents when they know full well they are breaking The Television Broadcast Act (which is the LAW), the CAB Code of Ethics as well as Human Right Act (the LAW). If the response received from Global TV is full of deception and outright lies we're going to call them on it. When asked, Medford seems to think it's okay for shows like the Family Guy or CSI to have to verbal warning but she says it's up to parents to monitor their children when it comes to Jack Van Impe Presents. The whole idea of the warnings (AVGOT) is to provide another tool for parents to help them make sure their kids aren't watching programs like Jack Van Impe Presents.
CAB Code of Ethics: Clause 8 - Religious Programming:
"Broadcasters should endeavour to make available to the community adequate opportunity for presentation of religious messages and should also endeavour to assist in all ways open to them the furtherance of religious activities in the community.
Recognizing the purpose of the religious broadcast to be that of promoting the spiritual harmony and understanding of humanity and of administering broadly to the varied religious needs of the community, it shall be the responsibility of each broadcaster to ensure that its religious broadcasts, which reach persons of all creeds and races simultaneously, shall not be used to convey attacks upon another race or religion."
How convenient... leave out the part (in the red text) which shows Global breaking the CAB Code of Ethics clause 8.
CAB Code of Ethics: Clause 2 - Human Rights
Recognizing that every person has the right to full and equal recognition and to enjoy certain fundamental rights and freedoms, broadcasters shall ensure that their programming contains no abusive or unduly discriminatory material or comment which is based on matters of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status or physical or mental disability.
Television Broadcasting Regulations, 1987 - Programming Content
5. (1) A licensee shall not broadcast
(a) anything in contravention of the law;
(b) any abusive comment or abusive pictorial representation that, when taken in context, tends to or is likely to expose an individual or a group or class of individuals to hatred or contempt on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age or mental or physical disability;
(c) any obscene or profane language or pictorial representation; or
(d) any false or misleading news.
Global breaks regulation 5 (b) and (d). Van Impe attacks other groups on a regular basis, come to think of it that's all he does, that's what the show is about ... hate and fear.
Canadian Human Rights Act (R.S., 1985, c. H-6) - Hate messages
13. (1) It is a discriminatory practice for a person or a group of persons acting in concert to communicate telephonically or to cause to be so communicated, repeatedly, in whole or in part by means of the facilities of a telecommunication undertaking within the legislative authority of Parliament, any matter that is likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt by reason of the fact that that person or those persons are identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.
Advertising Standards rule 11: Superstitions and Fears
"Advertisements must not exploit superstitions or play upon fears to mislead the consumer".
This show exists on exploiting people's superstitions and fears. He tries to frighten people into buying his dvd's. We feel children, morons, idiots, the elderly, lonely and infirm are targets of Van Impe. Unfortunately the Advertising Standards have no jurisdiction (a huge loophole) as Jack Van Impe Ministries presents is USA based paid religious programming. However after our investigation JVIM has Charitable Tax Donation status and is incorporated in Canada thus the program is Canadian.
Everyone needs to remember that Jack Van Impe Ministries Presents is really an infomercial. The Van Impe Ministries pays Global TV to broadcast the program with the revenue from selling his garbage DVD's and phoney baloney prophecy bible to Canadians. It's the same in the USA he pays FOX Q13 in Seattle. It's one thing to be spreading hate on the Christian TV channels but mainstream media like Fox and Global TV (Fox North btw) is disgraceful.
Jack Van Impe Ministries gets it's revenue via a $24.95 "donation" for his dvd's and $59.95 for Jack Van Impe's version of the Bible. We recently checked Alexa and almost 16% of his website traffic is Canadian so let's assume that 16% of his sales come from Canada as well. The poor suckers that are frightened by his end of days prophecies purchase his dvd's in order to save themselves or at least find out what they are trying to save themselves from. It is a scam. Again, Jack Van Impe Ministries pays Global TV to air his fear mongering and frightened people in Canada send their hard earned cash to the USA. Nothing stays in Canada except Shaw Media (Global's) "cut" or "broadcast fee". Jack Van Impe Ministries has a P.O. Box in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, across the river from Detroit and Troy Michigan, where the Van Impe Ministries headquarters is located. You can watch a better version, better picture, more ranting against Muslims on FOX 13 in Seattle. Watch Van Impe on FOX instead of Global TV, he's the warm up Act for FOX NEWS Sunday w/ the most intolerant "CONtributors" Sarah Palin, Carl Rove, William Kristol and company.The Jack Van Impe Ministries does NOTHING in Canada or USA to help the poor or infirm. There are no food banks, food kitchens or social programs not even a church or being. A stand up guy, someone we'd all like to have a beer with and then kick their sorry ass home.
|
