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To: FJB who wrote (718995)	6/2/2013 10:21:11 AM
From: joseffy	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1580150

The dreadful thing about this scandal, what makes it ominous, is that this is the elites versus regular citizens. It’s the mighty versus normal people. It’s the all-powerful directors of the administrative state training their eyes and moving on uppity and relatively undefended Americans.

To: FJB who wrote (718995)	6/2/2013 11:32:43 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580150

One of the reasons a lot of people in New York and Washington are not deeply distressed by the IRS targeting of conservative groups is that they have it in their heads that it only involved the tea party and the tea party is full of nuts, weirdoes and radicals whose discouragement wouldn’t be a grave national loss. It’s not only tea-party groups that were targeted, of course, but the IRS was only too happy to get the idea out there that it was. But if you’re the kind of person who thinks Tea Party people are low and extreme, that they’re the kind of people who’d hurt our country, take a few minutes to look at this. It’s a website that will take you to videos of a town hall meeting of the SouthWest Cincinnati Tea Party. It was held Wednesday night. Its subject was “IRS Intimidation—Are You Next?” Do those people really strike you as weird and radical? Do they seem destructive? They are normal citizens. And they feel besieged. If teapers are normal citizens, this country is in some serious trouble.