You rang?
Posted on 05/18/2013 1:07:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In the wake of one of the worst abuses of government power in recent history, many are rushing to frame the Internal Revenue Service scandal as simply an attack on conservative activists. That view risks creating a partisan political football and misses a fundamentally scarier abuse that exceeds the scandals of Watergate or any other prior government abuse.
The IRS has admitted that since May 2010 it targeted grassroots-conservative organizations that had applied for tax-exempt status, unfairly subjecting them to rigorous scrutiny due to their political leanings.
Such groups were told they were required to comply with IRS requests, no matter how absurd, in order to obtain non-profit status. Some were ask to provide book reports, names of family members, family members’ political affiliations, lists of donors and more. A report issued by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration this week begins to highlight the extent of misbehavior.
Following the admission, many have accused the IRS of misusing and misrepresenting its power for political advantage, and it’s true that silencing – or at least handcuffing – conservatives in the run-up to the 2012 election could very well have made an impact.
But this abuse extends far beyond the last or next election and strikes at the very core of the people’s relationship with their government.
The Washington Post’s editorial board wrote that, “A bedrock principle of U.S. democracy is that the coercive powers of government are never used for partisan purposes.”(continued)
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“The Washington Post’s editorial board wrote that, “A bedrock principle of U.S. democracy is that the coercive powers of government are never used for partisan purposes.”
Yeh, whatever...
Let’s see if stupid conservatives get organized enough to demand that their states arrest these federal fascists for violating their civil rights.
That’s one thing I hate about conservatives: they’re too GD fat, stupid and lazy to get off their bodacious asses and get involved in state, county and local government and politics.
You rang?
Luv ya, brother.
It was given to a left wing group founded by a couple that made $millions off the mortgage crisis and avid Obama supporters.
Levin was all over this earlier in the week.
For a little perspective, a zettabyte is equivalent to about 250 billion DVDs.
Losing 4 people is bad, losing a Republic to voter fraud is worse.
obama and his IRS did target and silence thousands of taxpaying Americans to keep them from speaking their minds.
They were denied their 1st Ammendment rights to free political speech.
Just another violation of the Constitution by this regime and his media is still silent.
Add to that, he has turned on his boot licking media and still they don’t see obama for who he really is.
Soros’s group ProPublica already pre-emptively has announced that the information was delivered to it.
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