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Threats Against IRS Employees on the Rise, Official Says
The Wall Street Journal ^ | February 20, 2010 | Martin Vaughan

Posted on 02/20/2010 4:55:50 PM PST by myknowledge

WASHINGTON—The federal agency charged with ensuring the safety of IRS employees said it has seen an uptick in the past several years in threats against agency personnel.

In the past four years, there appears to have been a "steady, upward trend" in the number of threats against IRS employees, said an official with the Treasury Department's Inspector General for Tax Administration. That assessment, offered in response to an inquiry from Dow Jones Newswires, is based on preliminary data, the official cautioned.

On Thursday, 53-year old Andrew Joseph Stack crashed his private plane into an Austin, Texas, office building that housed IRS workers, killing himself and one IRS employee and injuring 13 others.

Following the attack, Inspector General J. Russell George said his agency will consider whether changes to security policies are necessary to improve safety.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: employeethreats; irs; josephstack; treasury
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To: myknowledge

I am getting a feeling Obama is about to create a new agency to defend IRS officials.

Propaganda time, Obama will initiate a public service message touting American patriotism and having to pay taxes regardless of the amount, that Obamacare requires your taxes to be paid.

Obamacare

Obamacare


41 posted on 02/20/2010 7:37:10 PM PST by Eye of Unk ("Either you are with us or you are for the terrorists." ~~George W. Bush)
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To: MsLady

Yes, congress makes the tax laws, but IMHO, those that enforce unjust laws are just as bad. And then take pleasure in ruining people. They aren’t innocent bystanders.


42 posted on 02/20/2010 7:56:55 PM PST by Quickgun (As a former fetus, I'm opposed to abortion. Pray for Obama,Psalms109:8)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Alot of them are immigrants. Just doing the jobs regular Americans won’t do.


43 posted on 02/20/2010 7:59:23 PM PST by Quickgun (As a former fetus, I'm opposed to abortion. Pray for Obama,Psalms109:8)
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To: zeugma

Yeah, I’d have been in mourning if Mr Stack had taken out the whole building full of bloodsuckers. But I’d have gotten over it in seconds....


44 posted on 02/20/2010 8:04:33 PM PST by Quickgun (As a former fetus, I'm opposed to abortion. Pray for Obama,Psalms109:8)
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To: Taxman
I have the solution: replace the income tax with the FairTax and abolish the IRS!

Amen Taxman!

Why the the people of this FREE republic continue to put up with the communist inspired progressive income tax we currently suffer is a complete mystery to me!

45 posted on 02/20/2010 8:05:12 PM PST by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: Taxman

BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE IRS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1rRAaPvkhc


46 posted on 02/20/2010 8:13:43 PM PST by Dick Bachert (THE 2010 ELECTIONS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT IN OUR LIFETIMES! BE THERE!!!)
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To: Thumper1960

I don’t love the IRS, but, I don’t think at this point anyway, I’d put them in the same league with hitler. Not even close.


47 posted on 02/20/2010 8:35:25 PM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: Quickgun

I wouldn’t lump as being all the same. There both good and bad people everywhere. There have definitely been some in the IRS that abused there power and ruined peoples lives. Which is inexcusable and deplorable.


48 posted on 02/20/2010 8:38:31 PM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: MsLady

I didn’t say they were Hitler incarnate. I just note that Gestapo thugs couldn’t use the “I was following orders” defense. Now, the demonic forces within government which created agencies such as the IRS, they are arguably Hitler-like.


49 posted on 02/20/2010 8:47:22 PM PST by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: Taxman
Then, all IRS employees could be retired, and they would not have to worry about their safety anymore!

I doubt they worry about their safety, depite the annual rash of Scare Stories about presumption of guilt that are published to insure a whipped compliant populace. This is only one event that happened once, and no IRS employee was harmed.("A"for effort, though.)

I suspect the biggest obstacle in dismantling the machine is not so much the fate of the IRS employees as it is the fate of your local friendly CPA,including mine, who likewise feeds off the system. Then there are the banks, with their tax escrow accounts.

While I would like to see something happen with Tax reform, like everyone else, the history of getting rid of long-embedded parasite infections is not encouraging.

50 posted on 02/21/2010 3:35:44 AM PST by Gorzaloon (GET him AWAY from the CAMERA!! They are all figuring it out!!!)
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To: Does so
Thousands of new IRS agents are being hired.

And armed with military-class weapons and the authority to shoot you in front of your children if you should have the temerity to disagree with them.

51 posted on 02/21/2010 5:32:19 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: Does so

The new Gestapo.
You are even guilty until proven innocent... which to do so will bankrupt you and destroy your life.

52 posted on 02/21/2010 5:33:44 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: Gorzaloon

With respect to those leeches who feed off the system, I can make a strong case that they will be better off with the FairTax: they will have more money, more FRee time and a better sex life, particularly around April 15th.

Anecdotally, I know that many FairTax supporters are CPAs and tax attorneys, and when I present the FairTax argument to CPAs, they like it. CPAs would rather help their clients get rich and prosper, and would just as soon not “do” taxes.

The real problem is that the FairTax movement has not achieved critical mass just yet.

HST, I’m confident that our time is coming!


53 posted on 02/21/2010 5:55:27 AM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: Dick Bachert

LOL!


54 posted on 02/21/2010 5:56:23 AM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: Bigun

Our time is coming, Bigun! Our time is coming!

We are starting to see major “pushback” against an increasingly more intrusive government. It is only a matter of time.


55 posted on 02/21/2010 5:58:32 AM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: Dick Bachert

We are ever-so-slowly gaining ground on the Bastards.

One day, all our money will belong us!


56 posted on 02/21/2010 6:02:24 AM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: Man50D

ABSOFREEPINGLUTELY!


57 posted on 02/21/2010 6:03:48 AM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: NCC-1701

Apparently NASA doesn’t advance the LIEberal/Socialist/Marxist/Fascist agenda?


58 posted on 02/21/2010 6:05:38 AM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: Taxman
The real problem is that the FairTax movement has not achieved critical mass just yet.

Michael Reagan becoming the Honorary Chairman for The Fair Tax Victory Campaign is a big step to garner national exposure.
59 posted on 02/21/2010 6:14:28 AM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: Taxman
With respect to those leeches who feed off the system, I can make a strong case that they will be better off with the FairTax: they will have more money, more FRee time and a better sex life, particularly around April 15th.

Well, I can attest you have something there! Listen to THIS one:

I actually knew a CPA who had a small partnership. March-April they practically worked around the clock. One year, at Tax Season, his partner went in to see if he wanted to go to lunch.

"Jim?"

Guy was sitting at his desk. DEAD. Heart Attack.

60 posted on 02/21/2010 6:37:23 AM PST by Gorzaloon (GET him AWAY from the CAMERA!! They are all figuring it out!!!)
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