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Why is Obama using the IRS, OSHA, ATF, and FBI to harass tea party member Catherine Engelbrecht?
wordpress ^ | May 22, 2013 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 05/22/2013 1:49:47 AM PDT by grundle

Why is the Obama administration using the IRS, OSHA, ATF, and FBI to harass tea party member Catherine Engelbrecht?

Catherine Engelbrecht is a tea party member who lives in Richmond, Texas. She and her family own a small manufacturing business. As far as I’m aware, Ms. Engelbrecht and her family are law abiding citizens who work hard and pay their taxes.

Ms. Engelbrecht founded a conservative organization called True the Vote. After she sent the group’s application for nonprofit status to the IRS, the IRS went three years without responding.

But it’s much worse than that.

During those three years, Ms. Engelbrecht, her family, and their small business have been audited by the IRS, and investigated by the FBI’s domestic terrorism unit, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

If just one of those agencies had investigated Ms. Engelbrecht, her family, and their business, it might or might not have been due to random chance – although even one such investigation could be the result of political motivations.

Two such agencies based on random chance? Highly unlikely.

Three such agencies based on randomness? No way.

Four agencies? For a small, family owned business? That goes well beyond anything that’s necessary to prove that these investigations are politically motivated, and not the result of random chance.

President Obama is the big boss of all of these agencies, and he once said “I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors.” Obama has the authority to hire and fire the people who work at these agencies. They follow his lead.

Obama once said (the bolding is mine):

“If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies, and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us’ — if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election — then I think it’s going to be harder. And that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2nd.”

As I’ve pointed out before, Obama has told a huge number of lies. But in this case, he told the truth – he is indeed using these government agencies to “punish his enemies.”

Going even further, I’d say that just about everything that Obama has done, he did either to “punish his enemies,” or to “reward his friends.”

When looked at in this context, almost everything that Obama has done is explainable (but never excusable). He’s always busy either “punishing his enemies” and/or “rewarding his friends.” That, as stated by Obama in his own words, is his entire political philosophy.

And it is a philosophy which is contrary to every principle and idea upon which the United States was founded.

It goes against the Constitutional oath that Obama took when he was inaugurated.

It’s a philosophy that has no place in a free and civilized country.



TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: engelbrecht; irs; irsscandal; obama; teapartyirsscandal

1 posted on 05/22/2013 1:49:47 AM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

To the title:

Because he can and nobody in the Legislative or Judiciary branches will do anything about it.


2 posted on 05/22/2013 1:53:05 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: grundle
This is what Marxist commies do, eliminate the competition any possible.
3 posted on 05/22/2013 2:02:45 AM PDT by exnavy (Fish or cut bait ...Got ammo, Godspeed!)
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To: grundle

Because this administration is deeply deeply corrupt!


4 posted on 05/22/2013 2:06:31 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: grundle

This should be a criminal case and not a lawsuit: this could be prosecuted under hate crimes.


5 posted on 05/22/2013 2:10:08 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: grundle

I saw this woman on Huckabee and she is very eloquent. She said she thought if she stayed quiet it would stop. She found out it is best to get the story out asap. I am glad whistleblowers are blowing the lid off this disgusting administration. Keep it coming whistleblowers! Dump their own garbage over their heads and never let up.


6 posted on 05/22/2013 2:11:22 AM PDT by sheikdetailfeather (Yuri Bezmenov (KGB Defector) - "Kick The Communists Out of Your Govt. & Don't Accept Their Goodies.")
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To: grundle
The I.R.S. - Obama's Gestapo
obama irs gestapo scandal conservative corruption    irs evil diabolical corrupt tyrants gestapo


Not only the I.R.S. - but the Department of Justice too.

Where is this mad Obamunism leading us?

eric holder gun corrupt     investigate investigation stalin mad obamunism leading


7 posted on 05/22/2013 2:39:45 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Westbrook
"because he can"

beat me to it.

8 posted on 05/22/2013 4:14:49 AM PDT by driftless2
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R.I.C.O


9 posted on 05/22/2013 5:12:39 AM PDT by phockthis (http://www.supremelaw.org/fedzone11/index.htm ...)
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To: grundle

Obama and his cohorts have transformed America!


10 posted on 05/22/2013 5:13:11 AM PDT by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: grundle

WHat does her family business manufacture? Bibles?


11 posted on 05/22/2013 5:15:10 AM PDT by Quick Shot
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To: Quick Shot

My understanding is that they have a license to manufacture firearms, but they are not doing so now.


12 posted on 05/22/2013 6:19:10 AM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: Quick Shot

It’s a metal shop.


13 posted on 05/22/2013 6:21:12 AM PDT by Sloth (Rather than a lesser Evil, I voted for Goode.)
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To: grundle
Unlike many of the regular Tea Party cases where the only agency involved is the IRS, this one involves a coordinated assault by about five separate agencies on one individual who was only trying to assure fail and legal elections. Most important, it started after she applied to the IRS for 501(c)(3) and(c)(4) status, meaning somebody at the IRS informed a higher up, probably in the White House, of this appllication and that individual, with full presidential authorization, coordinated the attack. Being a coordinated multi-agency attack, this simply couldn't have been done by a few rogue employees at the IRS.
14 posted on 05/22/2013 7:49:13 AM PDT by libstripper
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