Posted on 11/23/2017 5:01:36 AM PST by Kaslin
Nancy Garcia, then-President of the Nevada County Tea Party in Northern California, wore a white sweater, a red Tea Party shirt, big glasses, and a plastic name tag as she introduced me as the evening’s guest speaker. She was standing in front of homemade signs featuring the Statue of Liberty and inspirational quotes as she introduced me to the mostly-senior crowd. It was 2013 and when Garcia -- my mother’s seventy-something year old best friend –invited me to say a few words in a meeting hall at the fairgrounds, I didn’t hesitate.
“We’re so blessed to have one of the original co-founders of the Tea Party Patriots,” she smiled. “He’s always so ‘up,’ you’ll feel better after you hear him.” The crowd welcomed me warmly as I strode to the front in my black cowboy hat and a western-style shirt, my nod to Ronald Reagan’s influence on our state and nation. During the speech, I talked about how the Internal Revenue Service had unfairly targeted tea party, pro-Israel, pro-Constitution, and other patriotic groups.
Thankfully, the lawsuit funded by my organization Citizens for Self-Governance brought the truth to light. In October, the federal government admitted they targeted these patriotic Americans and agreed to settle the class-action lawsuit in Ohio and a tea party challenge in the District of Columbia. If the court approves the class settlement, the government will have to fork over $3.5 million, including compensation to the tea party groups, merely the first step in showing the public how the IRS was turned into a political weapon against Americans. Thankfully, recordings and transcripts of the depositions of former IRS executive Lois G. Lerner could give the public a really great glimpse into their targeting.
However, Lerner and her former IRS deputy Holly Paz are now saying these records must remain sealed forever, because they fear for their safety. They claim that the public would be furious if they learned the truth of what they’d done, and even pointed out one person in particular who has stoked the potential for violence against them.
Me.
See, at that speech at the fairground, with my wife and mom smiling at me from the front row, I called the IRS officials “thugs” for the way they used their power against us. For four years, they harassed innocent American citizens for their political beliefs and weaponized an arm of the government to intimidate Americans during a hotly contested presidential election. It was an inexcusable display of government corruption. Now, we’re suddenly supposed to believe Lerner is scared of a guy in a cowboy hat talking to a bunch of little old ladies at a tea party event?
Her lawyers said these words created a veritable Petri Dish that grew violence and hatred toward their clients. This, of course, is ridiculous. Honest people don’t sit around worrying that their testimony—especially when it merely recounts their own official acts while supposedly in the service of the public—might be scrutinized by the public. They did something horrible and got caught. In fact, I doubt they’re even genuinely scared.
There were only about a hundred people in the crowd that night and -- at the time of this writing -- the video in question has gotten fewer than three hundred views on YouTube. Are we really supposed to believe the language in that speech was so inflammatory it could stoke violent retribution? If there was any justice in this world, Lerner would be sitting in jail – not worrying about receiving snarky comments on Twitter. The public didn’t deserve to be pursued and intimidated by the federal government, and no one—Lerner and Paz included—deserves to receive actual threats to their physical safety. But perhaps there’s a certain irony in Lerner claiming to fear that someone could take information she wanted to keep private and use it to harass her to serve their political motives.
Guess she’d know about that.
only one good solution to their dilemma - protective custody for 25 years in a isolated prison like Gitmo....can't think of a safer place for them....
If these people were tried and put in jail all along we wouldn’t be hearing from them now. Once they realize they are untouchable they are in your face like nothing happened. If there is no deterrent its business as usual
Drain the damned swamp !
The vast corruption under Obama and not a single culprit brought to account for their crimes. It’s enough to make you think justice isn’t blind, that there is one justice for government thugs and one for everyday Americans like you and me. I
I hope this woman is tormented. And that it worsens for her every day until she owns up and accepts her punishment.
Leftist tell lies?
Who knew??
Lerner was run to earth in her own neighborhood by a conservative reporter. She tried to enter someone else’s house and he told her to pound sand.
Lerner’s house needs to be staked out by the vast rightwing conspiracy media. It can probably be done perfectly legally.
Publishing her home address and phone # would be a step in the right direction.
No, she would be in a cell in Gitmo, where all dangerous terrorists should be held forever, or at least until they no longer pose a threat to the American way of life. (Or at least until somebody perfects The Phantom Zone.)
If it is associated with a Clinton or a Dorkbama, it lies.
Like a Muslim rug.
Somebody has her address, as they confronted her while she was out for a walk. She cowered at a neighbors front door, slobbering and begging for sanctuary, but they refused to let her in.
The look of fear and abject panic on her face were as deserved as they were priceless. No longer was she shielded by a security staff and safely removed from her American victims behind a heavy door in a government building.
Just little ol Lois, out for a stroll. A more vile and contemptible woman cannot be found.
Thanksgiving indeed!
“If there is no deterrent it’s business as usual..,”
...and that’s the way the Progressive scu^bags in the electorate like it.
IMHO
Why did you post a photo of Caitlyn/Bruce Jenner?
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Lois Lerner committed crimes against the very fabric of the Republic
She needs to be shot where she stands. She is a true American enemy of the worst sort
I love that picture with her filthy nose in the air. That is Lois.
btt
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