Posted on 02/13/2014 5:17:42 AM PST by xzins
Edited on 02/13/2014 5:25:48 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
On Monday, Dr. Benjamin Carson, the former director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, said he and his family were targeted by the IRS in retribution for comments critical of Barack Obama, Newsmax reported.
According to Carson, audits and other harassment began in May or June of 2013, just a few months after his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Gradually, he added, the harassment expanded to include family members, associates, and his charitable endeavors.
“I’ve been quite — I would say astonished at the level of hostility that I have encountered,” he told Newsmax TV’s John Bachman.
“The IRS has investigated me. They said, ‘I want to look at your real estate holdings.’ There was nothing there. ‘Well, let’s expand to an entire [year], everything.’ There was nothing there. ‘Let’s do another year.’ Finally, after a few months, they went away. But they’ve come after my family, they’ve come after my friends, they’ve come after associates,” he added.
Until now, Newsmax said, Dr. Carson has shied away from tying the IRS actions to his criticism of Obama, but now he says Americans live “in a Gestapo age” even though they may not realize it.
He also said Congress has to step up to the plate and do its job.
“The reason we have divided government is if one branch of the government gets out of control, starts thinking they’re too big for their britches, you need to be able to have control,” he said.
…”We sit there and we say, ‘Oh this is horrible.’ But we don’t do anything. And see, that’s what I’m trying to get our congressional people, our lawmakers – they’ve got to get courage,” he said. “Because why would anybody who has an agenda to fundamentally change this nation, why would they stop if no one is opposing them?”
Carson also believes the retribution will continue, but promises he will not be forced into silence.
“The only reason that I haven’t shut up is because in Romans 8 it says ‘If God be for you, who can be against you?’ And I believe in that protection that God gives you,” he added.
Carson’s experience is “not that different from what many others are experiencing,” said GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell. “It’s quite, quite troublesome and disturbing.”
“I have heard this same story over and over and over throughout the last year,” she said. “I cannot tell you how many donors to conservative organizations, people who have become active, have said ‘I was never audited until I started giving money to X conservative candidate or cause.’”
Shocker! Leftist group paid to review right applications (Urban Institute)
Goes back to the Clinton years!
Smoking gun in IRS political targeting
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3121555/posts
http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/smoking-gun-in-irs-political-targeting/
IRS smoking gun awakens sleeping giant
http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/irs-smoking-gun-awakens-sleeping-giant/
WND’s report revealed the IRS contracts with an avowedly “progressive” organization, the Urban Institute, supported by George Soros to process data filed by smaller tax-exempt groups.
The president of Urban Institute, also, is Sarah Rosen Wartell, who is the co-founder of the Center for American Progress. That widely is considered ground zero for the development of many of the Obama administration’s progressive policies.
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Cleta Mitchell, a top-flight Washington attorney, told WND, “If true, this is a violation of federal law.
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She continued, “Federal law strictly prohibits the disclosure of confidential taxpayer information to persons outside the IRS. It is a felony to disseminate the information.
That’s all well and good, Cleta, but who is going to stop them? The “enemy” IS the government, all branches and regardless of party.
Good. Keep it up IRS. Maybe it will finally get some traction for this targeting and abuse in the MSM because Ben Carson has a microphone, and a loud one, and best of all . . . he is NOT AFRAID to use it.
——Ben Carson has a microphone——
and he’s coming here next Tuesday. I’m going early to get a seat
Eastman Employee Center 7:00 February 25
Admission free
Ben Carson should go on every talk show he can get to with this information
I agree..and he should do it often before he's Breitbarted.
There is more in the article with input from many people. RICO is suggested (which many posters on FR have said).
“The IRS, by its actions, has shown itself to be a racketeer-influenced criminal organization. The nonprofits should band together, now, and mount a RICO action against it.
“Their lawyers will tell them they cannot possibly win. But they will win. And win big. The RICO statute, designed to deal with an earlier generation of Chicago gangsters, pays the successful plaintiffs three times their costs in fighting the action. Once the courts have held the IRS to be corrupt, it can and will be closed down,” he wrote.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/02/irs-smoking-gun-awakens-sleeping-giant/#QDIkhbUQeXEZtHdZ.99
“Stalinist,” Rush said yesterday as he bemoaning the inability to stop this...
“So is the Government in DC, no longer the US Government,” I thought.
What ‘line’ must be crossed to say...that...THAT... is not my government. And to say such a thing, is to ponder what country we are living in if THAT is not our government. Do we continue to owe any loyalty or taxes to such a foreign body?
We are citizens of the United States and the United States only exists if the Constitution is upheld by politicians of integrity and character. If they fail in their duties, as they are now, then the United States has been dissolved.
The same thing happened with us. We kept wondering why they were hassling us, and when I heard the first admission that the IRS had targeted conservatives, a light bulb finally went on. The whole thing had made no sense until then.
or....... in my mind
If there is no law, there is no law
Paging Henry Bowman!
The current corrupt administration has used the fearsome power of the irs against its political enemies. This is a crime. Crime leads to impeachment.
8:51 Minutes - NewsMax
Dr. Ben Carson: “We Live In A Gestapo Age”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKe-XKDyNBc
5 Minutes - O’Reilly
Dr Ben Carson Targeted By The IRS? - Think About Nazi Germany! - O’Reilly - Wake Up America!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH1lHwtLRJo
Obama doesn’t need anything on them. They’re liberals and on his side.
McConnell and Boehner are keeping their mouths shut because they don't want to rock the cradle. After all, they hope for the GOPe to someday get a chance to grab the reins of power, and don't want a diminished Washington DC, because they can do a powerful centralized government better.
There needs to be much, much more pushback than another Issa “hearing”...we have to start seeing perp walks, handcuffs and orange jumpsuits.
We’ll disagree there.
There is Law, but two different kinds.
We are citizens under the Constitution.
DC is operating under ??? socialism, fascism, a different set of laws.
WWHBD?
I would really like to know
The president et al have degenerated into outlaws
Outlaws? Enemies of the Constitution
...”The same thing happened with us. We kept wondering why they were hassling us, and when I heard the first admission that the IRS had targeted conservatives, a light bulb finally went on. The whole thing had made no sense until then”...
My guess would be that there is an army of people like us out here. The emphasis has been persecution of conservative organizations, but what about the persecution of conservative individuals? What about those who post on Free Republic, Facebook or other social media? Are we/they targets, as well. Gestapo is the correct word to describe it. Dr. Carson believes people do not speak out because they are afraid of their government which is a very dangerous situation.
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