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IRS ordered conservative educational group to list all high school and college students it trained
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 5-15-2013 | David Martosko

Posted on 05/15/2013 5:03:04 AM PDT by servo1969

- Federal government demanded a list of everyone a Tennessee organization had ever trained, or planned to train

- Linchpins of Liberty mentors high school and college students and teaches them conservative political philosophy, but is not tea-party-linked

- 'Can you imagine my responsibility to parents if I disclosed the names of their children to the IRS?' asked the group's founder

- IRS Inspector General report listed seven questions the agency should never have asked, but this wasn't one of them

When a Tennessee lawyer asked the IRS for tax-exempt status for a mentoring group that trained high school and college students about conservative political philosophy, the agency responded with a list of 95 questions in 31 parts, including an ultimatum for a list of everyone the group had trained, or planned to train.

'Provide details regarding all training you have provided or will provide,' the IRS demanded. 'Indicate who has received or will receive the training and submit copies of the training material.'

That question was part of the tax collection agency's February 14, 2012 letter to Kevin Kookogey. founder of the group Linchpins of Liberty. He had submitted his application 13 months earlier.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: corruption; democrats; doj; govtabuse; holder; irs; irsbrownshirts; obama; tyranny

1 posted on 05/15/2013 5:03:04 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

High school kids targeted too...


2 posted on 05/15/2013 5:07:17 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: servo1969

http://www.treasury.gov/connect/Pages/Message-to-the-Secretary.aspx


3 posted on 05/15/2013 5:08:35 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: servo1969

My my my....

They’re building up quite a list of people that will be refused taxpayer-funded medical care in the future.

The American democrat’s rendition of the familiar antics of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and the like.


4 posted on 05/15/2013 5:12:16 AM PDT by meyer (When people fear the government, you have Tyranny)
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To: servo1969
The IRS Inspector General identified just seven questions that were 'unnecessary,'...

5 posted on 05/15/2013 5:16:01 AM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: servo1969

He has turned our once proud nation into a third rate banana republic. Has Obama started giving himself military medals and ribbons yet?


6 posted on 05/15/2013 5:16:48 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: servo1969

We’re makin’ a list and checkin’ it twice...gonna find out who is naughty or nice...

what? you don’t believe in santa claus?


7 posted on 05/15/2013 5:22:52 AM PDT by EBH (Warning this person is a Catholic, Tea Party Patriot, and owns a copy of Atlas Shurgged)
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To: dead

That’s General Obama to you.


8 posted on 05/15/2013 5:26:46 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: servo1969
Yep...and after looking at this official questionnaire, we are to believe that this was done by some 28 y/o liberal Cincinnati IRS guy or gal sitting in a cubicle who had stepped off the reservation and was merely a lone wolf.

And of course, let's have the Justice Dept investigate this...they will leave no stone unturned. /sarcasm

9 posted on 05/15/2013 5:27:52 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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as I said on the DM

The thing is how does he get the IRS to do his bidding, these people working for Obama must have been placed in positions of power before the arrival of the messiah himself, plants awaiting orders.


10 posted on 05/15/2013 5:36:53 AM PDT by Sophia777
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To: servo1969

Tell the IRS to “Bugger Off!”


11 posted on 05/15/2013 5:38:28 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: servo1969

And the IRS is scheduled to have all our medical records and to decide who gets what kind of medical care starting next year?


12 posted on 05/15/2013 5:40:09 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,")
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To: fella

Wow.

It gets more and more fascist every time new details emerge


13 posted on 05/15/2013 5:44:27 AM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: servo1969

I passed the IRS audit/anal probing I got after 912 in 2009.

(Angry "white"guys.  LOL.)


We'll see if the RINOs let Comrade Chairman & Co. pass theirs.

14 posted on 05/15/2013 5:48:57 AM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: servo1969
The question needs to be asked.

Why is this hitting the news now? This isn't new. If you don't get in line, the FedGov sends the IRS after you. As I have posted before, it is a tried and true tactic to squash dissent, going back decades.

Who has the most to gain from this? Not the GOP, they don't like the TEA party anymore than the Dems.

I keep wondering about the Clinton's.

15 posted on 05/15/2013 6:28:11 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: dead
He has turned our once proud nation into a third rate banana republic. Has Obama started giving himself military medals and ribbons yet?

Almost. The Nobel peace prize.

16 posted on 05/15/2013 6:49:36 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: servo1969
IRS = Obamacare

IRS = Agenda

IRS = Death Panel for opposing views.......


There is no way in hell any party can be in charge of Life and Death
over so many people. That kind of perverted power means DEATH! Pure Evil.

17 posted on 05/15/2013 6:53:51 AM PDT by MaxMax (Conservatism needs a re-awakening plan for the American public)
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To: servo1969
Even NPR this morning was talking about this in a pretty bad way.
This is just unreal.
It is so un American; so against everything this nation should stand for.

If we had a conservative administration and they were doing this to liberal groups; I would be just as mad; probably more upset actually.
Having big government out of control under our watch would be worse in my opinion. Glad it happened under Obama.

18 posted on 05/15/2013 6:53:54 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (ok)
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To: TArcher

19 posted on 05/15/2013 6:59:59 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Daughter?

In their downside-up rainbow world, cyber-eunuch termite “warriors” like Bwadley Manning are heroes — and only the royal elite are allowed reproductive privileges.


20 posted on 05/17/2013 5:44:47 AM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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