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IRS is monitoring comment threads on conservative blogs
americanthinker ^ | Nov. 20, 2014 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 11/20/2014 7:47:17 AM PST by PROCON

The Internal Revenue Service, which claims to be so understaffed that it can’t bother to collect unpaid taxes, or search backup tapes for Lois Lerner’s “missing” emails, apparently has plenty of time to read the comment threads on conservative blogs that have been critical of the agency (Hi there, IRS agents!). William Jacobson, one of the best-informed and most effective critics of the agency, writes on Legal Insurrection:

Hey, remember the Reader Poll we did about whether it was okay to follow and try to interview Lois Lerner in her neighborhood?

Do you approve of media confronting Lois Lerner in her neighborhood? (Reader Poll): (snip)

Just another Legal Insurrection fun time, right?

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
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To: Lazamataz
We are already the Soviet Union.
It’s just a matter of time before the Death Squads go out.

1 - The executive branch of the US government is now more dictatorial, oppressive and tyrannical than the Russian government.

2 - Unlike Americans, Russians have a president who is a citizen of their country, a patriot and places the interests of their country first.


41 posted on 11/20/2014 8:37:26 AM PST by Iron Munro (DHS has the same headcount as the US Marine Corps with twice the budget)
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To: dfwgator

Nice!


42 posted on 11/20/2014 8:37:39 AM PST by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: Leaning Right
same old mushy hacks

I'm hoping that the recent wave election will inject a little courage into the leadership. They don't have to fear the electorate, they just need to keep up with us.

43 posted on 11/20/2014 8:43:04 AM PST by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: PROCON

Nazi

Nazi

Nazi


44 posted on 11/20/2014 8:44:52 AM PST by TheConservativeParty
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To: null and void

One you might be interested in...


45 posted on 11/20/2014 8:57:46 AM PST by Twotone (Truth is hate to those who hate truth.)
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To: PROCON

Complete and total government control of thoughts, and severe punishment for those who dare to think unapproved thoughts.
That is the goal of these leftists, including 0bama and the fascists at the irs.


46 posted on 11/20/2014 9:04:44 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: PROCON

If I were President I would shut down the IRS by EO.


47 posted on 11/20/2014 9:27:52 AM PST by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: RinaseaofDs
Look what’s happening to Bill Cosby right now.

And you think there's no fire beneath that smoke?

48 posted on 11/20/2014 9:29:53 AM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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To: PROCON
The easy solution is never to post to conservative political websites - I certainly never do. But if you do, do NOT post abusive messages because those lop-eared, bat-faced, goose-stepping, jackboot-wearing fascists are likely to read it. Be cautious like me.

Gotta go - there's a black van out front. Nice feller sez he's gonna give me a ride to camp. I love camp!

49 posted on 11/20/2014 9:34:24 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: PROCON

Propaganda Effectiveness Monitoring in the Ministry of Loyalty


50 posted on 11/20/2014 9:36:45 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: PROCON

November 7, 2014
IRS admits to court it hasn’t searched for missing Lois Lerner e-mails in the obvious places
By Thomas Lifson

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/11/irs_admits_to_court_it_hasnt_searched_for_missing_lois_lerner_emails_in_the_obvious_places.html#ixzz3JdCYhJGh


51 posted on 11/20/2014 9:37:59 AM PST by tired&retired
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To: tired&retired

From the referenced article in post #51

“If there was ever any doubt that the IRS is stonewalling production of the missing Lois Lerner e-mails, recent IRS filings in the Judicial Watch lawsuit in the court of U.S. District Court Judge Emmett G. Sullivan remove all ambiguity. Even though the IRS has stipulated to Judicial Watch that backup systems exist to preserve all federal government e-mails, it has not bothered to search them, and now admits that to the court.

A press release from Judicial Watch that has received far too little media attention (with the conspicuous exception of Legal Insurrection) explains:

IRS attorneys conceded that they had failed to search the agency’s servers for missing emails because they decided that “the servers would not result in the recovery of any information.” They admitted they had failed to search the agency’s disaster recovery tapes because they had “no reason to believe that the tapes are a potential source of recovering” the missing emails. And they conceded that they had not searched the government-wide back-up system because they had “no reason to believe such a system … even exists.”

But:

The IRS admitted to Judge Sullivan that the agency failed to “submit declarations about any of the foregoing items because it had no reason to believe that they were sources from which to recover information lost as a result of Lerner’s hard drive failure.” [Emphasis added] Department of Justice attorneys for the IRS had previously told Judicial Watch that Lois Lerner’s emails, indeed all government computer records, are backed up by the federal government in case of a government-wide catastrophe.

This sounds like a bad-faith effort – really, contempt of court. Judge Sullivan cannot be happy about this cavalier failure to exert any effort to comply with an order. Judicial Watch continues:

The Obama administration attorneys said that this back-up system would be too onerous to search.”


52 posted on 11/20/2014 9:42:38 AM PST by tired&retired
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To: henkster

>>>They won’t do death squads. Even the USSR shied away from that after Stalin died.

We will be declared mentally unstable...”danger to ourselves and others” and sent away to mental institutions. Pumped full of mind-altering drugs, we’ll all act absolutely nuts when dragged into court. And the IRS will say “See? We told you they were crazy.”

That’s how Brezhnev’s USSR rolled.<<<

In fact, it’ll be worse than that. We’re Americans, after all.

There will be hearings and documentation. You’ll get to speak your piece, although in most cases the fix will be in long before so you’ll lose. There will be the appearance of due process. Most of us found guilty will be told to go to an upscale hotel somewhere along the coast and attend workshops on diversity and tolerance, complete with Continental breakfast, and sign papers at the end agreeing that we attended, and put on a plan of improvement, which will be assessed by an army of bureaucrats, all of whom understand that they themselves can be treated the same way.

Rush and Mark Levin will be permitted to speak. Go to church, although if you mention it at work or at some places in public, you could be reprimanded for violating the diversity of the community.

Own your guns. Who are you going to shoot, some guy in a cubicle writing regulations based on some directives from another guy in another cubicle in a distant city, all based on a line in a 4,000-page law that says, “The secretary shall determine... “

Ever once in a while, someone will stand up and try to revolt against the system, and there will be a show trial denouncing “extremists.” Those speaking out will have reputations ruined or tarnished, in the tradition of the gang rape of Sarah Palin. Just observing those things should be enough to quiet discontent among the masses. There’s no need for terror when mere discomfort is sufficient.

For those who go along, there’s free porn and cheap weed. The really ambitious will soon realize that the way to the top is being a ruthless party apparatchik, although the real sociopaths will be drummed out of there, too, since those people can bring down the entire structure. Forget Mussolini. Think Harry Reid, using the system for personal riches and power. Go along to get along.

And in a few generations, the culture as we know it is dead, replaced by kind of a Mandarin bureaucracy that seeks to co-opt the brightest, ruin competition, and carry on the appearance of a free republic. No need for a dictator, either. Tradition will do the trick.

God help us.


53 posted on 11/20/2014 9:55:26 AM PST by redpoll
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To: Albion Wilde

“And you think there’s no fire beneath that smoke?”

A match that should have been lit when the crime occurred.


54 posted on 11/20/2014 10:00:08 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: Lazamataz
We are already the Soviet Union. It’s just a matter of time before the Death Squads go out.

If they start that, it won't be long before they're known as Suicide Squads.

55 posted on 11/20/2014 10:00:40 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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To: PROCON
While the IRS monitors Conservative sites they have their back turned on the legislation being constructed by the "new" congress to greatly cutback funding for that same IRS.

To put it simply.. they're soon to have their testicles removed completely.

Here's a clue. Who is the "pig castrator" recently elected to the Senate?

I can hardly wait to watch them squeal. No offense meant to real bovines.

56 posted on 11/20/2014 10:10:49 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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Given pRes_ _ent 0bama’s IRS Brownshirts lurk here, read this guote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn...

“At what exact point, then should one resist the communists? ... How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: what would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if during periods of mass arrests people had simply not sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand. ... The Organs [police] would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers ... and notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt.”


57 posted on 11/20/2014 10:11:51 AM PST by OneLoyalAmerican (In God I trust, all others provide citations.)
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To: PROCON

why are they trying to tax my disability pension? It’s a DISABILITY pension, come on IRS quit trying to kill me.


58 posted on 11/20/2014 10:19:18 AM PST by Karliner ( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28- 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Don’t give them any ideas. Mussolini was strung up at Lake Como, IT. The IRS employees will consider this a reason for an all expense fact finding mission to Lake Como; it’s bellissimo.


59 posted on 11/20/2014 10:23:03 AM PST by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. President zero gave us patient zero.)
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To: PROCON

F*** ‘em! Maybe they’ll read this and get an education!


60 posted on 11/20/2014 10:26:54 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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