Why hasn't Benny Hinn been arrested?

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I was just reading this old story about "faith healer" Benny Hinn.

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/3825-.html

Between this article and the DATELINE NBC expose it links to, I think the federal government should have started investigating this clown years ago.

Why isn't Hinn forced to disclose his salary from his position within a federally tax-exempt non-profit organization? I would think that information should be public knowledge. And I would also think there should be limits on how much money can be spent for travel with regard to executives at non-profit organizations. Why is Hinn using tax-exempt "donation" money to fly on the Concorde and stay in $1,000-a-night hotel suites?

Hinn's apparent scam of having his "ministry" buy huge quantities of his books, then collecting the royalties for personal profit himself also seems worthy of investigation.

Anyway, shouldn't there be laws against his fraudulent "faith healing"? Studies or tests could easily be done to prove that he is an outright fraud. Do any such laws exist? If not, why not?

I guess the same question could be asked about "psychics", but at least they are forced to claim that their shows are for "Entertainment value only."

Shouldn't Hinn at lest be slapped with similar disclaimers on his stupid scam TV shows?
 
Yes, we get that guy out here during the 'graveyard shift' of TV broadcasting (I hate my insomnia, it exposes me to really bad television... or prompts addiction to forum postings).

I thought it was a misprint in the TV guide and that it was old Benny HILL episodes! :p

Sadly, I think Benny-Hill-being-chased-by-scantily-clad-females would have been less offensive than this guy. :(


Urk, that it 'gives people hope' - what a travesty....
 
The saddest part of those articles for me -- other than the fact that Hinn is shamelessly living the life of a jet set millionaire and getting away with it -- was the part about the woman and the young boy who died of cancer within months of being "cured" by Hinn. :mad:
 
Read "The Faith Healers".

The pattern becomes very clear. If you want to get away with completely transparent fraud and not be bothered by law enforcement, just wrap it in religion and you don't have much to worry about.

You have to be spectacularly egregious in your crimes to get any attention at all.

My observation is this....

As a private citizen, you must have suffered losses personally to have any legal course of action against a fraudster. You wind up with a situation where the people who would have legal standing to get something done would never be a victim in the first place. The people who do get taken fall into a couple of categories, the don't think they have been defrauded, if they do realize they have been; are too embarrassed to come forward, or are too ignorant of the law/etc to do anything about it, or they are dead. The vast majority fall into the first category, being ecstatic to have flushed their money down the toilet.

And further, without a loud outcry from victims with legal standing, gov't agencies are not interested in getting the black eye they will get in the minds of a too large segment of the public by taking action on their own.

Someday, maybe.... we might get an AG that will have the rocks to do what needs to be done. Ashcroft certainly isn't the one.
 
Yeah_Right said:
Personally I think Benny Hinn should be chased by scantily clad skeptichicks.
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In sped-up motion, with "Yackety Sax" playing in the background, of course.
 
Wait'll you see what happens when the Skepchicks get a hold of him....

"Now presenting - the Skepchick's 'Yacktey sax' with chainsaw accompaniment, lyrics and vocal solo by Benny Hinn":

'Yadda ta-ta tatatata, da da ta-ta-ta, ta ta dah dah ta ta TA!

Yadda ta-ta tatatata HELP! Yurk squish ARGH Grunge grunge YIKE rip hurgh ARgh ARGH NO!! NOO!!

HEL-arg scrunge scrunge rip bleagh ahhhhh.....rip-rip BREAWAHHH! CRUNCH BRR... BRR...RIPARIPA RINGARIP GRIND GRIND...BREAOWWW....."
 
Exposer said:
The saddest part of those articles for me -- other than the fact that Hinn is shamelessly living the life of a jet set millionaire and getting away with it -- was the part about the woman and the young boy who died of cancer within months of being "cured" by Hinn. :mad:
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The saddest part for me is we have a PO Box in the same place as he does out here in Australia, and the amount of money these poor people send him is ridiculous (well that and we get his mail and they get ours).
 
Archangel said:
The saddest part for me is we have a PO Box in the same place as he does out here in Australia, and the amount of money these poor people send him is ridiculous (well that and we get his mail and they get ours).
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Talk to the Post Office manager. Have him swap the labels on the post boxes. Split the proceeds.
 
Zep said:
Talk to the Post Office manager. Have him swap the labels on the post boxes. Split the proceeds.
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Nice idea, it would have the same result as sending it to Benny Hinn as well.
 
Yeah_Right said:
Personally I think Benny Hinn should be chased by scantily clad skeptichicks.
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I will be more than happy to chase Hinn with the huge sheep shaver that the Skepchicks were to use on tim the combat wombat. These rich, pampered, loony TV preachers are so repugnant - I'd love to preach to them a sermon, alright!

In the article, Hinn was quoted as saying: "Adam was a super-being when God created him. I don't know whether people know this, but he was the first superman that really ever lived. . . . Adam not only flew, he flew to space. With one thought he would be on the moon."
What the hell?????
 
Archangel said:
Nice idea, it would have the same result as sending it to Benny Hinn as well.
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Hmm, yes, bugger. So, work at the Post Office, and do some stealthy redirection? After all, it isn't past Hinn to do that on a grand scale.
 
It's Hinn's PowerHair. It renders mortal men helpless and weak, aiding in his getaway.

Fordama
 
MLynn said:


In the article, Hinn was quoted as saying: "Adam was a super-being when God created him. I don't know whether people know this, but he was the first superman that really ever lived. . . . Adam not only flew, he flew to space. With one thought he would be on the moon."

What the hell?????
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Haha. Yeah, Hinn tells whoppers like that all the time. He's utterly shameless. Even other Christians slam him as a "false" teacher, because he just makes stuff up off the top of his head.

http://www.aloha.net/~mikesch/tbn.htm
http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/bhinn.html
 
Zep said:
Hmm, yes, bugger. So, work at the Post Office, and do some stealthy redirection? After all, it isn't past Hinn to do that on a grand scale.
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Hehe, I actually meant that my not praying for them would work as well as his not praying for them :)

Would explain why we are getting less payments through, if he's doing that ;)
 
I wonder if some enterprising lawyer can put together a class action lawsuit against him, with plaintiffs all the un-healed folks they can drum up.
 
Tez said:
I wonder if some enterprising lawyer can put together a class action lawsuit against him, with plaintiffs all the un-healed folks they can drum up.
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What would the claim be? Pain and suffering when they realized Benny had lied to them and they were still sick? Fraud, based on the money they contributed?

Any lawyers in the house?
 
First of all, televangelists are occasionally prosecuted. I am thinking, especially, of a rather successful local guy about fifteen years ago named Robert Tilton. This guy was huge and was beginning to go national when it was discovered that he would take his mail and, without reading the enclosed prayer requests, seperate the checks from the envelopes and throw the rest away. He was successfully prosecuted for fraud, because he could not claim that he *was* somehow praying for people whose requests he never saw. But that is rare. Usually, these guys wrap themselves in so tightly in a religious shroud that no one can touch them. One of 'em is Benny Hinn. Sure, he claims to heal people and sure he takes money for doing it. But he has a two fold defence. ONe, he does it in the context of a *show*, with singin' and clappin' and hootin' and hollerin' and, in this case, people are paying for the show. Second, if somebody comes back and says, "Hey, I ain't healed!", Hinn can simply tell them that they *were* healed when they walked off the stage, but their faith faltered, later, so god took back the healin'. Provided he does nothing blatently crooked, so crooked that even the believers can't ignore it, he is unassailable.

Now, as to why he spends so much on travel and suites -- well, this one, at least, is fairly easy to figure out. He is a celebrity. And, as a celebrity, he has a number of people that might want to get close to him -- some to venerate and some to harm. Think about it: our President stays at only the finest hotels, all on the public pocketbook, for the same reason. Only the best hotels have the staff and training necessary to handle that kind of security. Personally, I think that taking advantage of such security arrangements shows an apalling lack of faith in his god's ability to protect. But it is hardly illegal.
 
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