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To: puborectalis who wrote (714625)	5/11/2013 9:46:55 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1577352

Scary: The Same Government Agency that Targeted Tea Party Groups will Soon Enforce Obamacare tpnn 8 250

To: puborectalis who wrote (714625)	5/11/2013 10:17:02 AM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Respond to of 1577352

To: puborectalis who wrote (714625)

5/11/2013 10:18:06 AM

From: longnshort

1 Recommendation Respond to of 1577352

The IRS Vendetta Against Conservative Groups: The New Enemies List
Posted 05.10.13 by Todd Cefaratti, Editor of TPNN

The IRS has admitted what so many of us have known for quite some time. The United States government has engaged in a direct targeting of political groups with whom this current administration disagrees.

We all know the nature of the IRS. The taxman is a feared entity in our society. Everybody looks for deductions and nobody likes to pay taxes, but we do it because (despite what Harry Reid might say) we believe in government. We believe in paying taxes to fund a small, administratively-minded government run by and for the people.

What makes this development so troubling is not that the IRS is vehemently investigating claims by nonprofits; what makes this so troubling is that the government is using the tax-collecting department to victimize those who pose a threat to the current administration.

This kind of governmental vendetta is not without a precedent. In 1971, the notoriously-cagey and vengeful Richard Nixon created an “enemies list.” The purpose of the list was to victimize the political opponents on it by subjecting them to tax audits and working within the government to influence grants, funding, and various other creative ways to punish the dissenters.

It was an outrage. It was wrong then and it’s wrong now.

This vendetta against conservatism cannot be washed away with a simple apology. This scandal speaks to the true nature of our government today. When simple discussion won’t do, the government is quick, to resort to coercion.

Think about the sheer number of scandals we have seen in four years. Think of all the abuses of power we have witnessed. We have seen the Attorney General dismiss charges at the sentencing phase of Black Panther radicals who stood outside voting stations, intimidating voters with billy clubs. We have seen guns pumped to Mexican drug cartels while the Obama Administration blamed American gun dealers. We have seen our government leave Americans to die in Benghazi, cover it up and then act as if we are being unreasonable by asking what happened. We have seen billions upon billions of dollars go to government-friendly firms that simply took the money and ran while government officials meagerly proclaim, “Oh, well.” We have seen illegal alien criminals released and the White House shuttered as punishment for cutting spending. We have seen this administration exclude, threaten and punish members of the media who do not offer a favorable narrative.

And now, we are seeing our government admit to the use of the IRS to target conservative political groups and they hope to wash it away with a simple, “I’m sorry; it wasn’t political”?

No; we reject these old-school Chicago tactics of intimidation and force. We deserve a government that works for us, not a government that maintains power through coercion and intimidation.