Why the IRS scandal is the ugliest in U.S. history.
Why the IRS scandal is the ugliest in U.S. history.
Why? Because you, the People, became the targets of a comprehensive federal government effort to stifle dissent, one made using the government’s overwhelming and disproportionate policing and taxing powers.
All of the other scandals, going back to Andrew Johnson’s post-Civil War scandals, Warren G. Harding’s 1920s Teapot Dome scandal, Nixon’s Watergate, Reagan’s Iran-Contra, and Clinton’s Oval Office sexcapades have actually been narrowly focused acts of cronyism, garden-variety political chicanery, or personal failings. It’s been insider stuff.
The IRS scandal, by contrast, is a direct attack on the American people. … Once a government gets the bit between its teeth and starts targeting special interest groups, that is the end of freedom, not just for those first groups targeted, but for everyone. [emphasis in original]
Such a misuse of government power must be dealt with. If we don’t do it, it will happen again, more forcefully, more violently, more viciously, and more effectively. Freedom will die.
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Why the IRS scandal is the ugliest in U.S. history.
Why? Because you, the People, became the targets of a comprehensive federal government effort to stifle dissent, one made using the government’s overwhelming and disproportionate policing and taxing powers.
All of the other scandals, going back to Andrew Johnson’s post-Civil War scandals, Warren G. Harding’s 1920s Teapot Dome scandal, Nixon’s Watergate, Reagan’s Iran-Contra, and Clinton’s Oval Office sexcapades have actually been narrowly focused acts of cronyism, garden-variety political chicanery, or personal failings. It’s been insider stuff.
The IRS scandal, by contrast, is a direct attack on the American people. … Once a government gets the bit between its teeth and starts targeting special interest groups, that is the end of freedom, not just for those first groups targeted, but for everyone. [emphasis in original]
Such a misuse of government power must be dealt with. If we don’t do it, it will happen again, more forcefully, more violently, more viciously, and more effectively. Freedom will die.
The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
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In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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Someone in the Administration is perpetrating a criminal conspiracy to engage federal agencies in intimidation of political opponents. The IRS is just one aspect of this effort.
Agree. Robert, your comment is perhaps too narrow. The IRS actions are part of a vast — yes, Hillary, vast — conspiracy by the left to accumulate overwhelming political power. Fast and Furious, a limited program begun in the Bush administration to track weapons traffic to the Mexican drug cartels (in which guns were outfitted with tracking devices), was appropriated by the Obama administration to move hundreds of weapons to Mexico. The result was the killings of hundreds of innocent Mexicans and two U.S. border agents. The stimulus — which has remained a part of federal spending for five years (shame on the Republicans for permitting it) — has been used not to fund projects for public benefit but to pay for unfunded public union pensions across the country. In Benghazi, the administration was attempting to bond with the Muslim Brotherhood by facilitating its shipments of Libyan weapons to Syrian rebels. When it went bad, the president and the secretary of state ran for the hills and have been lying through their teeth ever since. And with the IRS, this is just the tip of the iceberg. The IRS, the whole Justice and Treasury departments, the EPA, HHS, the NLRB and a host of other agencies are now being employed as political arms of the left, bent on punishing and coopting opponents and centralizing power. Who will head this off? Is the GOP leadership even aware of what’s going on, and can they gather their courage to do what is necessary? These are the times that try our souls.
I was just listening to the Brian Leher radio show and he had two journalists on, one from the NYT and amazingly he even was forced to say the word scandal as it relates to an organization waiting three years for IRS approval for their conservative organization while other more liberally labeled organizations received speedy approval. I thought I was hallucinating.