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.

[uncitizen]

According to someone on FNC tonite, Miller was the one who promoted that Ingram woman to the Obamacare IRS position.

[stevie_d_64]

This is why there should not be a single thing let by in Congress, (in the house)...

I don’t give a rats arse if it is a bill that would save babaies froma burning building...Nothing should get passed no matter what it is...

Lets make the next 3.5 years the best “do nothing” government this country has ever seen...

The less they do, the better the country will be for now...

Total gridlock!!! No compramising, no matter what the issue is...And be extremely open, and un-apologetic about shutting the process down...

There is no more trust left in this group of non-transparent, non-virtuous representation left in D.C., so it needs to be shut down and given a timeout, right now...Before the next bit of the agenda to continue destroying this country is voted on, much less debated...

Immigration reform IS amnesty, no matter how much you lovers of Marco Rubio and otherr quisling republicans are onboard with this debacle...Time to stand up and be counted...

We’ve tried to be nice, be liked, and this is what it has gotten us...If we are to be vilified by the press that continues to slant things to the advantage of the people hell bent on destroying this country anyway, why make it confusing to the low information voters in this country...Come right out and tell it like it is, and let the idiots say whatever they want to say...They’ll be doing it anyway...

I could go on and on, but my instructions as a constituent is simple to my Rep...And these are my “reasonable” expectations...

Civility may return someday, I hope it does, but sometimes you need a little peaceful rebellion to ge4t us back on track...Because if these shlups allow this lack of civility to get into the streets (which is what the left really wants) no one will win at that point...And we had better hope they put a lid on it quick!!!

Just my opinion...

[Crucial]

If right wingers were evil people, then why do they resist tyrannizing their political enemies but instead get tyrannized themselves? That's the question for the American public.

[TArcher]

Civility? 

Expecting that from these folks is like expecting a scorpion not to sting a frog.   It's just not in their nature.

 

 

Dn't need n Weatherman t see which waybama's wind

blws.

 

"Behind the Violence, Says Jane Alpert, Was Sex"

--November 09, 1981--
"The leaders of the Weather Underground, she believes, followed a similar pattern of constantly shifting sexual alliances..."

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20080637,00.html

"He [Bill Ayers] also writes about the Weathermen's sexual experimentation as they tried to 'smash monogamy.' The Weathermen were 'an army of lovers,' he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend."

Source: New York Times, September 11, 2001: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

"...the Weathermen, when not engaged in group sex, committed such revolutionary acts as parading with a Viet Cong flag through a local park on Independence Day and spray-painting the walls of a high school with the slogans, "Off the Pigs," "Viet Cong Will Win," and "F#$k U.S. Imperialism."..."

Campus Wars: The Peace Movement At American State Universities in the Vietnam Era

 

"What happens next bears watching closely, as does the response of the president, ex-Speaker Pelosi, and others on the left.  Encouraged by leftists in the Democratic Party and funded by left-leaning nonprofit organizations and celebrity contributors, Occupy Wall Street may in time morph into something resembling the radical factions of the late 1960s and 1970s."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/predicting_the_weatherman.html

The Osawatomie Coincidence

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2818309/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks IBD editorial writer.

[justiceseeker93]

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

Ayn Rand knew what she was talking about when she made that profound quote, since she was an immigrant to the US from the Soviet Union!

[justiceseeker93]

Excellent job on the editorial!!!

[Weirdad]

Bump — nicely done.

[doc]

Democrats and those involved in the scandals have contempt for the Republican congress and view them as self serving bafoons who may faint outrage but in the end they know there will be no definitive justice.

[chooseascreennamepat]

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

I believe we should, perhaps, prepare for the true reason.

[chooseascreennamepat]

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

I believe we should, perhaps, prepare for the true reason.

[Graewoulf]

Protest Obama’s IRS at your local IRS Office or Post Office at Noon, May 21.

Gadsden Flags are optional.