Posted on 04/15/2014 4:18:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Ron Paul's nonprofit Campaign for Liberty will fight the Internal Revenue Service's demand that it reveal its donor list to the agency, despite having already been fined for refusing to do so.
"There is no legitimate reason for the IRS to know who donates to Campaign for Liberty," Megan Stiles, the communications director at Campaign for Liberty, told the Washington Examiner in an email on Tuesday. "We believe the First Amendment is on our side as evidenced by cases such as NAACP v. Alabama and International Union UAW v. National Right to Work. Many 501(c)(4) organizations protect the privacy of their donors in the very same way as Campaign for Liberty. For some reason the IRS has now chosen to single out Campaign for Liberty for special attention. We plan to fight this all the way."
Ron Paul suggested that the group will refuse to pay the IRS fine in an fundraising email to supporters about the agency's request for information.
"Paying this outrageous extortionist fine — just to exercise our rights as American citizens to petition our government — may even be cheaper in the short run," he wrote. "But it’ll just embolden an alphabet soup of other federal agencies to come after us." Paul's email said that the rule requiring that 501(c)(4)s list their donors is "rarely enforced."
Stiles accused the IRS of trying to silence her organization...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Now find out who requested this and follow the trail up the chain
And sue the b*******
They want that list for one reason and one reason only: to stop Rand!
And both Ron and Rand will tell them to go F themselves!
Good for Ron Paul’s group.
Stand up to these leftist criminal bureaucrats.
But it’s Ron Paul though. This is where FReepers break out the champagne glasses, right?
The IRS targets us, we target another state for RTW legislation.
It seems every federal agency has been taken over by Obama’s henchmen, and the list of Muslims/Islamists now in high levels of government is controlling the country. I see serious revolt of citizens coming in the near future.
Equal protection.
Accept no substitute.
“But Paul’s a kook! Who cares if his racist, white supremacist supporters are targeted, right?”
American kooks still have constitutional rights.
This was growing long before any of us ever heard of Obama. Obama just made it clear that they would get away with it and it spurred them on.
The rot goes all the way to the roots.
For some reason your post doesn't line up with your true views from other posts. Deep breath...
I would think that Paul has good standing to win this one.
The IRS was caught giving the National Organization for Marriage Donors List to the Democrats last election.
I really don’t agree with Ron on many things, but when it comes to Constitutional issues, I do.
He was also right on on the Bundy ranch situation.
“You don’t understand. We don’t respond to discovery.
We serve discovery.
“We’re the IRS—the feds! Look upon us and despair.”
The Internal Revenue Service
(PS Cough it up, peasants.
You’ve got three hours)
They’re both nuts.
ping - Lol
There are some things worse than Ron Paul; and that’s the IRS.
Stiles accused the IRS of trying to silence her organization...
That has been determined beyond the doubt of even the most uninformed and retarded citizen and "reality show" aficionado.
The only thing remaining is to identify all the criminals that have earned serious jail time for the multitude of anti-Constitutional crimes.
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