Tuesday, May 14, 2013

OBAMA, THE IRS, AND POLITICAL SUPPRESSION


Partisan Obama culture spawned a more abusive IRS
Townhall – David Limbaugh – 5/14/2013

If the First Amendment means anything, it is that the full force of the federal government will be used to safeguard, not suppress, the liberties of American citizens to utter political speech, especially speech critical of the government. But instead, this IRS sought for abuse groups that criticized the administration and groups that wanted to teach people that under our Constitution, such government officials have no right to do this type of thing.

And you wonder why people favor a major overhaul of the tax system? What if low-level staffers in an obscure Cincinnati field office were actually solely responsible for this, as the administration is alleging? How could a system become so corrupt -- or how could officials overseeing it become so reckless -- as to make possible such a systematic abuse of power?

Can we not at least agree that the Obama administration has established a culture conducive to the type of stereotypical thinking that could lead to this? Didn't the Department of Homeland Security under this administration list right-wing groups as extremists and potential terrorists? Hasn't President Obama himself referred to tea partyers as "tea baggers"? Haven't other Democrats deliberately depicted tea party groups as violent extremists who are a hair trigger away from armed revolution?

In my book "The Great Destroyer," which was published in 2012, I reported that there were "literally dozens of tea party organizations that (had) received intrusive information demands from the IRS" in response to tea party requests for tax-exempt status. These demands, I reported, "have not been in response to allegations of wrongdoing against the parties, but simply in response to their applications for tax exemptions."


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