IRS Attack Against Tea Party Assaulted Civility

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 16 May 2013 | Editorial

[IBD editorial writer]

Democracy: The IRS targeting of Tea Party groups is mind-boggling not only for its abuse of government power. It's also disturbing for what it intended to do: destroy civil society, opening a door for tyranny. The formation in 2009 of hundreds of Tea Party groups at the rallying cry of CNBC news editor Rick Santelli, from places as diverse as Lowell, Mass., Pleasanton, Calif., Asheville, N.C., Yuma, Ariz., and Lincoln, Neb., among hundreds of others, was a spontaneous reaction by ordinary American citizens to an overspending, oversized government whose overreach called into question its constitutionality. Yet it was these very Tea Parties that were specially targeted by the IRS in its outrageously intrusive efforts to learn their every secret, to leak those secrets to a hostile, slanderous media, and to delay beyond justification their approvals as tax-free institutions in an effort to suppress them — while granting those permissions easily to leftist ones . As an agency that favored expanding its own power, the IRS and its political masters naturally felt threatened by Tea Party success, seen in the rallies of millions in February and then April 2009, as well as the proliferation of groups across the country.

[IBD editorial writer]

Why tyrants hate tea parties, and what that says about the IRS.

[Graewoulf]

Having watched part of this morning’s US House Ways and Means Committee Hearing on Obama’s IRS, the thought occurred to me that there can be a strong case made for Obama’s IRS rapidly becoming a Domestic Terrorist Organization. A Middle Class, SELECTIVE Domestic Terrorist Organization, of course.

Second thought was that NONE of the Obamanation scandals are Bush’s fault.

[glorgau]

This is why the 2nd Amendment was written. It wasn’t about hunting deer.

[cripplecreek]

It looks like far left groups are trying to intimidate conservatives on twitter now. I’ve picked up a half dozen hard left followers like Unite blue today and other conservatives are noticing the same.

They’re watching us and considering my attitude and mouth, they ain’t happy. LOL

[cripplecreek]

Conservative writer/reporter Tom Gantert says he got unexpected scrutiny.

http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/18650

[Diogenesis]

"When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt,
but protects the corrupt from you -
you know your nation is doomed."
-Ayn Rand

[mirkwood]

I wonder if “attackwatch” and several others were part of this irs criminality.

[mrsmel]

What your quote says is exactly where this nation is, so we’re doomed.

[Edgerunner]

usurpation after usurpation But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

[IrishPennant]

Why, why why are we grilling a temp who has been in the "Acting" position for a few short months?

Why is the tramp who now sits over deathcare for the IRS, and who oversaw this scandal as a living, not the first one frog marched into the committee?

Are we just this stupid???

Bring out Lois Lane, or whatever the 'eff her name is. Miller is a throw down gun!

[colorado tanker]

As Peggy Noonan said, Presidents set the tone of each administration. This one is run by a hyperpolitical, snarky, thuggish, Chicago-style politician. And that’s exactly the way the IRS acted here.

[SIDENET]

Good quote, and spot on.

[glock rocks]

RICO!

[PhilDragoo]

IRS attacks regime's opponents; HSA defends its allies: Napolitano protects shari'ia advocates.

[PLM]

Isn’t it rich that the first black president and the first black attorney general have teamed up to preside over institutionalized civil rights violations?

[onedoug]

It’s islamism.

[unixfox]

Just think what would be happening if the IRS had targeted say...

The Black Panthers
Lulac
NAACP
SEUI

There would be blood in the streets.

[MrB]

Twitter is a leftist cesspool, anyway...

Just let ‘em know that gun sales aren’t at record highs because people are taking up hunting for a hobby.

[Wurlitzer]

It would be interesting to find out if any 501C4 applications coming from “Black xyz” or “Black this or that” organizations received the same stall/rejection action by the IRS.

I would be willing to be they were fast tracked just like Obama’s campaign.

[Tupelo]

Benghazi. IRS. AP telephone logs et al. Scandals as far as the eye can see. Every Conservative, Christian, Libertarian, Republican and even a few Democrats are all outraged and shocked. (shocked, I tell you) Congress is even “holding hearings”. I think the real question is; What if anything will be done about these scandals? In my opinion, all we may see is some career bureaucrat or low level appointee “held in contempt”. Being “held in contempt of Congress” sure shut Attorney General Eric Holder down did it not?
In the same manner, I figure that any bureaucrat or appointee that will be “held in contempt of Congress” will end up in with a better job at "higher wages. Expense paid and a car" (thanks Roger Miller)plus more and better benefits.
Once more: KUBUKI THEATER for the masses. WE the people can and do control our city, county and state governments, but the Federal behemoth is now too big to rein in. Not with the career politicians we have now.