Larry Noble
Posted on 04/17/2014 9:35:50 AM PDT by jazusamo
Yesterday was a significant day in the IRS abuse scandal. The scandal evolved from being about pesky delays in IRS exemption applications to a government conniving with outside interests to put political opponents in prison.
Emails obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act reveal Lois Lerner cooking up plans with Justice Department officials to talk about ways to criminally charge conservative groups that are insufficiently quiet.
Larry Noble, a law professor now with the Soros-funded Campaign Legal Center , was cited in the emails as someone agitating to jail conservatives who “falsely” report on IRS forms that they are not engaged in political speech. Lerner talked about setting up meetings with Justice Department election lawyers who wanted to talk about making Noble’s dreams a reality — this after Senator Sheldon Whitehouse raised the idea of criminal charges for conservatives who are not sufficiently quiet, charges that they falsely completed an IRS tax exemption form.
Larry Noble
Their theory is a favorite among speech regulators in the Soros-funded left and academia. It goes like this: “Too much speech is bad (unless unions do it.) Groups who talk about things leftists find uncomfortable are necessarily political and thus should never have 501(c) tax exempt status. Criminally charge any group that said on their IRS tax exempt form that they were not political if they say things the left finds uncomfortable. Get Eric Holder’s Justice Department on the case.”
The emails obtained by Judicial Watch reveal this is essentially what was going on behind the scenes at the IRS, DOJ, and with outside leftist interests.
The emails, so far, only name a few of the speech regulators involved. But there are many who don’t appear in the latest document dump that give life to the cause of limiting the First Amendment.
Hans von Spakovsky, a former commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, is intimately familiar with the scope and power of the speech regulators. He said: “Ever since I came to Washington, I’ve been shocked at the liberal politicians like Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Chris Van Hollen, advocacy groups like Democracy 21 and Fred Wertheimer, and government bureaucrats at the FEC and the Justice Department who want to use the power of government to censor their opponents. They hate the First Amendment and would fit right into the Soviet Union.”
All roads in the IRS scandal run through Citizens United , the Supreme Court case that sent the speech regulators into a frenzy when it allowed private citizens to spend money to express their views without government regulation. Even President Obama attacked Citizens United in a State of the Union address. Justice Samuel Alito mouthed his opinion about Obama’s truthfulness during the speech.
Citizens United , in timing and substance, was the genesis of the IRS scandal.
So who are the speech regulators seeking to impose government limits on the exercise of the First Amendment?
Like bats in the belfry, they tend to congregate online at University of California at Irvine Law Professor Rick Hasen’s election blog.
Hasen runs an online meeting hall for all the would-be speech totalitarians. They post, bluster, and kibitz about the latest news on their effort to erode the First Amendment and increase federal power. Whenever a free speech advocate seeks to contribute to the conversation at the blog, they are often deliberately given a cold shoulder and ignored, per plan. The ignored don’t understand that leftists aren’t interested in debate. Their pedigree requires the eradication of opposing ideas, not their incubation.
But perhaps the ignored should be thankful. Being ignored is better than what the speech regulators have done in other places throughout history. Jail and truncheons are the usual tools of those who want to stamp out free speech. In America, the speech regulators have just begun to warm up to jail as a tool.
That Hasen’s online hangout is hosted on government servers provides an interesting twist.
Judicial Watch sent the University of California at Irvine a freedom of information request demanding Hasen’s emails to the White House and other government officials including any on the topic of speech regulations. The University told Judicial Watch to pound sand, and still hasn’t provided anything.
Yesterday’s IRS email revelation makes you wonder what Cal-Irvine is hiding.
So who are some of the other speech regulators who haven’t shown up on IRS scandal documents yet?
One of the top speech regulators is former White House counsel and Obama campaign lawyer Bob Bauer. As I noted at PJ Media:
Robert Bauer had the motive to direct IRS policy against Tea Party groups. He is a longtime opponent of First Amendment freedoms and an advocate of government-speech regulation. He also can’t stand the work the Tea Party is conducting to monitor and eradicate voter fraud, work the Republican Party and national campaigns have utterly failed to perform.
During the 2008 election, while representing the Obama campaign, Bauer sent a threatening letter to the Justice Department demanding criminal investigations of people who had the audacity to speak about voter fraud. Bauer even singled out Sarah Palin in the letter. Anyone who “developed or disseminated” information about voter fraud, to Bauer, deserved the heavy boot of a criminal investigation. Read the letter; it reveals a nasty, thuggish, and lawless attitude toward political opposition.
There’s that jail thing again. They just can’t resist that totalitarian impulse against political opponents.
Other campaigns have had speech regulator attorneys — even Republicans. Trevor Potter was John McCain’s head lawyer in 2008, and he founded the now Soros-funded Campaign Legal Center. He helped cook up the McCain-Feingold speech regulations.
Scads of well-funded groups also exist to stamp down free speech, groups like Common Cause and Demos.
The new, more sinister IRS scandal is deadly dangerous to Democrats. It isn’t dangerous because bureaucrats took too long to approve tax exemption applications. It’s dangerous because it reveals the authoritarian impulses of powerful Democrats. First they tried to shut up political opposition through threats and bureaucracy. Then we learn yesterday that Democrats and leftists at the Justice Department, the United States Senate, and the Internal Revenue Service were discussing jailing political opponents.
Just wait until the American people learn more about the modern American version of history’s speech regulators.
The inmates are truly running the asylum.
CGato
I'm well aware of Mr. Ayers's SDS/WUO and their plans to scale up the Holocaust to a scale befitting the United States and its die-hard "non-reeducatables."
Such a pity that so much of his brain-trust erased itself whilst assembling nail bombs in Greenwich Village back in 1970.
Not to worry. The crack team of Woodward and Bernstein will get on this like white on rice. This is the kind of stuff that makes them salivate! /s
Love the sarcasm but seriously, the Sheryl Atkinson types are told by their bosses to back off the democrat corruptions. Their corruption and abuse of power is far beyond anything Nixon did.
If any of them don’t report this stuff because their licenses are threatened by the gov’t, then they are nothing but cowards, because the Constitution that most progressives like to ignore, is the same Constitution that would protect them from an abusive government.
CGato
J. Christian Adams is exposing the leftist academia element of what is shaping up to be a multi-layered conspiracy to suppress speech.
Adams has become one of my heros since the Black Panthers case.
Here’s a thread I posted earlier today...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3145511/posts
Adams article that you’ve posted really helps me to understand the organization and structure behind Lerner and her activity.
In 2010, just a few months after the IRS began targeting the TEA Party specifically by name, there was the attempted car bombing in NYC.
The dems tried to blame the attempted bombing on the TEA Party because the bomb was a fertilizer bomb, which just by coincidence I’m sure, matched the dems talking points before the attempted bombing comparing the TEA Party to Tim McVeigh wannabes.
Had the dems been successful in pinning that attempted bombing on the TEA Party, everyone associated with the TEA Party would have been declared a terrorist and I have no doubts they would have been rounded up.
The dems tried to blame the attempted bombing on the TEA Party because the bomb was a fertilizer bomb, which just by coincidence I’m sure, matched the dems talking points before the attempted bombing comparing the TEA Party to Tim McVeigh wannabes.
Yes, I remember that.
They tried to do it after the Gabby Giffords shooting, and after the James Holmes shooting in Aurora, Colorado as well.
I believe there have been other attempts in addition to those.
In the case of the Giffords shooting, they tried to pin the blame directly on Sarah Palin. To do so, they ignored the fact that one of the fatalities was a Republican-appointed federal judge named John Roll.
Yes, it sure looks that way and leftist academia can't be happy about it.
Adams has been like a pit bull since the Black Panther fiasco. Holder made a life long enemy of Adams when he blew off the BP case that Adams was one of the DOJ prosecutors responsible for bringing against the turkeys.
I don't know if it'll happen but this whole mess desperately needs to go to a special prosecutor, Lerner and many other are really dirty.
Thanks for that link to your thread.
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IRS corruption bump for later.........
Networks Ignore IRS Seeking Criminal Investigation of Tax-Exempt Groups; CNN Reports
The big difference with the attempted bombing in NYC and the shootings they tried to blame on the TEA Party, there was no orchestrated talking points campaign from the dems before the shootings only after.
With the attempted bombing in NYC there was an orchestrated talking points campaign before the attempted bombing and after the attempted bombing.
Are we supposed to assume the terrorist are so in tune with the news the terrorist simply picked up on the dems talking points campaign comparing the TEA Party to a bunch of Tim McVeigh wannabes and then the terrorist just “spontaneously” planned a fertilizer car bomb to match the dems talking points?
If that’s the case then I guess we need to look at ALL the terrorist attacks, attempted attacks, and planned attacks for the last 13 years and see just how many match the dems orchestrated news stories before the attacks and their talking points campaign after the attack.
I even bet the terrorist were so in tune with the news they picked up on the dems praising Peanuts Carter at their convention then the terrorist just “spontaneously” planned to attack Benghazi.
Jennifer Joyce, prosecutor for St. Louis City, and her counterpart in St. Louis County did exactly the same thing during the 2008 election cycle in an effort to silence critics of Obama, Pelosi, and others. She insisted that she was only interested in making sure statements were true, but she only investigated and threatened those who spoke out against Obama and democrats, never an Obama supporter or democrat. She had no interest whatsoever in a fair debate, only in making sure that her candidate won.
They were OK with the idea that they'd have to slaughter 25,000,000 of us who would not be amenable to reeducation. Roll that number around in your head for a bit: twenty-five millions. That was one-quarter of the population of the USA at the time. This is your president's mentor, the man who began obama's career in politics, who continues to shape young minds at a major US university.
Nixon was charged with WANTING to use the IRS against his political enemies... he didn't DO that but it was in the letters of impeachment.
Looks like Obama's people used the force of government and the IRS to intimidate people because they were on some 'enemies list' that democrats created.
I wonder if NBC knows it's criminal? Or if like the other goons and bullies who are democrats they don't care if it's only Republicans being damaged.
Traitors. ALL.
Hang them. ALL.
No mercy.
I've waited for too long to believe Americans will act against this tyrant President and his evil minions.
I have lost faith in my fellow Americans.
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