Posted on 05/19/2013 7:28:00 AM PDT by NOBO2012
Ever since its spontaneous inception, the Tea Party has been doing their Paul Revere thing with respect to warning citizens about the danger of too big, out-of-control government.
So, in a move designed, seemingly, to prove their point, the IRS’ responded by implementing a program designed to harass and intimidate individuals and groups that looked anything like a tea party.
Alinsky rule # 12: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
That sounds a lot like bullying to me! Which does violate one of our most important rules:
And IRS agents harassing conservatives, of course
Oh sure, it was just a few rogue employees in Cincinnati who didn’t realize that Big Guy was just kidding around back in 2009 when he suggested he would use the powers of the Presidency to smite his enemies:
(SNIP) I learned never again to pick another team over the Sun Devils in my NCAA brackets. . . . President [Michael] Crowe and the Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS."
That’s just crazy. Of course he was joking. An American president would never do that; use the IRS to target his enemies.
Right?
Right!
So we can assume that Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of “True the Vote” was just exaggerating when she told her story about government intimidation and abuse of power with respect to her, her husband, her family businesses, her organization and members of her organization:
“We applied for nonprofit C-3 status early in 2010. Since that time the IRS has run us through a gauntlet of analysts and hundreds of questions over and over again. They’ve requested to see each and every tweet I’ve ever tweeted or Facebook post I’ve ever posted. They also asked to know every place I’ve ever spoken since our inception and to whom, and everywhere I intend to speak in the future.”
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The Democratic Party of Texas filed a lawsuit against her, as did an ACORN affiliated group. Both the FBI and the BATF continued to poke around her life, the lives of people in her Tea Party group, and her businesses.
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After conducting a thorough internal investigation however, we find her complaint to be without merit. While her experience was unfortunate, we find no evidence of targeting or malice. It was simply another case of “horrible customer service” (h/t Steven Miller) – brought about by to all those sequestration cuts.
Butt hey! We did the best we could, considering all of the circumstances. Close enough for government work, right? And it’s not as if anyone’s life depended on it, right?
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Post the rest HERE.
It is also more efficient, plus if this is an organization new to applying for whatever status is involved, you, the analyst, need only educate the applicant once ~ not a dozen times!
That's the first track. So far nothing we've seen is out of line. However there's the second track. That begins when higher levels of management observe that normal operations are running counter to GOOD POLITICAL SENSE. Even if those operations are appropriate, in any government agency you really need to change the process so that there's no appearance of impropriety ~ because in gub'mnt APPEARANCE IS ALL.
What IRS' higher levels of management did was REWARD each other ~ and they did nothing about what was sure to become a problem. After all, people in the targeted organizations talk to each other! Stories spread. Here on FR we've seen dozens of them ~ disjointed at first, and now clear.
The folks to punish are the managers ~ and I don't mean to just fire them ~ it's time to hustle them off to the federal bureaucrat detention wing at the old federal prison in Petersburg. They'll like that ~ among their own kind.
NOBO2012 ~:”(From the title) IRS Targeting, Benghazi, Not Scandals: It’s Really Just a Case of Horrible Customer Service “
Agreed ! They are not scandals ~ just more of the same !
What they really are is CRIMINAL actions by an irresposible administration
who is following the “ Chicago Way “ both globally and nationwide.
A president who swore to uphold the Constitution and the “Laws of the Land” ,
seems to me that he is too selective as to which laws he will uphold,
and which laws he will ignore ,
and which laws he will violate !
Benghazi was aiding and abetting international murder
IRS is political control , and ‘fixing’ an election by supression
There is no accountability demanded yet from Congress
All Hail The Coward of Benghazi!
Miller/Schulman should be thrown in jail and impeachment hearings should start. Unless this happens this country is truly lost its soul!!!
It`s double LIE_
There is no such animal as a “customer” in the IRS:
The IRS wants to re-define the term “”customer”
“CUSTOMER -one that purchases a commidity or service”= Merriam-Webster Dictionary
“Customer Surveys
www.irs.gov/uac/Customer-Surveys - April 22, 2013
Customer Surveys. The IRS conducts customer satisfaction surveys
by telephone, by mail and online to capture taxpayer ...”
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