{"id":35562,"date":"2013-05-11T21:29:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T01:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35562"},"modified":"2013-05-11T21:36:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T01:36:30","slug":"about-that-irs-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35562","title":{"rendered":"About that IRS thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The TEA Party is pretty wary of the federal government, its a well known fact that they think the Federal Government has become corrosive towards individual liberty.\u00a0 You could call the TEA Party a coalition of conservatives and libertarians.\u00a0 You could call them paranoid.\u00a0 You could call them funny.\u00a0 You could call them idealistic.\u00a0 You could call them wacky.\u00a0 All of these tittles do have some element of truth to them.\u00a0 It’s not like a guy walking around in a tri-corner hat with teabags hanging from it\u00a0 is necessarily hard to make fun of.\u00a0 But whatever else the TEA party is\/was, it was and remains a legitimate political movement.\u00a0 Our laws are created to protect any group of people that are passionate about any issue, and there are groups from both sides of the isle that are exempt from taxes because they are legitimate political groups.\u00a0 Speech, it would seem is the one thing the Government isn’t <\/em>trying to tax these days.<\/p>\n

Only, that doesn’t seem to be the case.\u00a0 Apparently the IRS has been harassing<\/a> groups with the words TEA party or Patriots in the title.\u00a0 What it all boils down to is after the Citizen United ruling in 2010, the number of groups seeking 501(c)(4)<\/a> status increased in order of magnitude.\u00a0 Many of those groups were conservative, like the TEA party.\u00a0 What appears to have happened is that following this sudden outgrowth of the TEA party, and the Citizens United ruling, some low level bureaucrats in the IRS specifically targeted the conservative groups.\u00a0 They would target for auditing, demand donor information (which is illegal), name of who sat on the board (inappropriate), and in certain cases apparently asked question about the children of the leaders of these groups (HIGHLY<\/strong><\/em> inappropriate).\u00a0 Keep in mind all of this is in the space of 2010-2012.\u00a0 The run up to the 2012 election saw a lot of TEA party groups complaining about harassment, which most everyone dismissed as right wing wackos who were paranoid about the government.\u00a0 Turns out they were right.<\/p>\n

Let’s step back for a second and look at that.\u00a0 The IRS was using it’s almost God-like powers of paper to cause these people no end of grief.\u00a0 If you haven’t been harassed by a government agency you have no idea what a nightmare it is.\u00a0 Think bumbling psycho stalker that happens to have all the keys.\u00a0 The term “harassment” doesn’t do it justice.\u00a0 But there’s something else that should send a cold chill of fear down your spine.\u00a0 a branch of the Federal Government used its power to assist a political ideology, or\u00a0 more accurately to punish an opposing political ideology that could have potentially, <\/em>affected the election.\u00a0 That should stop everyone cold.\u00a0 That should cause congress, and the American people in all areas of the political spectrum break out in a cold sweat.\u00a0 The gears of government are choosing a winner.<\/p>\n

I know that Romney probably would have lost anyway, I know that Obama was still riding the “historic” wave, and the TEA party were just dismissed as loonies, but history has shown time and again that suppression of a political ideology by gears of the governing body is a very<\/em> bad thing.\u00a0 I’m not saying that the Sturmabteilung are going to be marching down the streets, or that the anarchists are going to finally “bring it all down.”\u00a0 What I’m saying is that like Rome we have reached the apex of our power.\u00a0 Our great philosopher leaders have come and gone.\u00a0 We’ve had our Ceasars, we’ve had our Marcus Aurelius, and now the Praetorian Guard is auctioning off the crown.\u00a0 This is a mark of corruption, perhaps of well meaning individuals, though that’s probably not the case.\u00a0 We have devolved to the point were we are willing to intimidate and bully the very people our Constitution was designed to protect.<\/p>\n

It should not matter to you where you stand on the political spectrum.\u00a0 You may personally despise the TEA party.\u00a0 You may be diametrically opposed to everything they stand for, at the end of the day you should still defend them from government abuses, and protect their right to free speech.\u00a0 It should not matter how despicable you find them, the principle is the same, if it can be done to them, it can be done to you.\u00a0 If you are say a died in the wool Paulbot, or a die-hard Obamanut you should be on your phones to your senator or representative, calling them demanding an investigation.\u00a0 Your party affiliation should never matter when the feds are harassing someone about their political beliefs.\u00a0 What’s even worse is that this is being put out by pencil pushers.\u00a0 Its a tyranny of bureaucracy.\u00a0 There’s no congress critter to throw out of office.\u00a0 Much like a “fire and forget” javelin anti tank missile once the mountain of paper avalanches on someone, there’s no way to recall it.\u00a0 It should give you all a cold sweat that one stroke of a pen in the wrong place, one decimal point in the wrong spot, one “low level” clerk in an office in Ohio can make your life a living hell or send you to jail.<\/p>\n

This is your<\/em> government doing this.\u00a0 You, sitting there reading this, have a roughly 1\/308,745,538<\/a> +\/- ownership stake in the federal government.\u00a0 Every bit of good it does on your behalf, every piece of property it owns, and every misstep it takes belong in some portion to YOU<\/em><\/strong>. \u00a0Abraham Lincoln called this a government “Of the People, By the People, and For the People.”\u00a0 If the Government is picking winners, if the People don’t give a damn.\u00a0 If the People are so apathetic that they do not act when their rights are clearly threatened, that they do not take ownership of their government, then this will no longer be the case.\u00a0 It will be a government “Of the Government, By the Government, and For the Government,” and the people can go screw themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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