Judicial Watch today released a new batch of internal IRS documents revealing that former IRS official Lois Lerner communicated with the Department of Justice (DOJ) about whether it was possible to criminally prosecute certain tax-exempt entities. The documents were obtained as a result of an October 2013 Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) after the agency refused to respond to four FOIA requests dating back to May 2013.
The newly released IRS documents contain an email exchange between Lerner and Nikole C. Flax, then-Chief of Staff to then-Acting IRS Commissioner Steven T. Miller discussing plans to work with the DOJ to prosecute nonprofit groups that “lied” (Lerner’s quotation marks) about political activities.
Writing at PJ Media, Bryan Preston well summarizes the implications of this horrifying scandal that makes Nixon look like a shoplifter at the Dollar Store.
The implications of today’s email disclosure are stunning and terrifying.
Lois Lerner intended to use her position atop the IRS’ tax exempt approval office to coordinate the prosecution of political speech. The Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric Holder had at least tentatively bought into that. The Federal Elections Commission was being roped in as well. Lerner’s emails prove that beyond doubt.
Democrats in Congress were involved. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) appears to have led the anti-constitutional attack on free speech in the House. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) led it from the Senate.
Two days before Lerner was forced to publicly disclose the scandal, she was moving forward with an insidious plan to stamp out conservatives and Tea Party activists’ ability to organize and raise money, by working with the IRS commissioner’s office and the Department of Justice. At the same time, there was no plan for any government crackdown on groups who agreed with President Obama. The traffic was entirely one-way. It was nakedly political, and everyone involved knew it. They also had reason to believe that they would succeed, or they would not have engaged in it. DOJ would serve two roles: Prosecute conservatives, and protect the bureaucrats who were pushing those prosecutions.
But, "nation of cowards" and "racism", y'all.
Any conservative who sits on the sidelines in 2014 bemoaning candidates that aren't to his or her liking is effectively a co-conspirator with the Democrats in the active destruction of this Republic.
We have a President, an Attorney General, a ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, the IRS, the FBI, and heaven knows what other alphabet soup agencies conspiring to jail political opponents. Our country has been reduced to something akin to Venezuela, only with craploads more debt.
That, my friends, is fascism, straight up.
So when you sit out the next election because you couldn't find the perfect Republican candidate, don't act surprised when this corrupt, lawless, totalitarian Democrat Party comes after you and your group.
So you can mobilize to stop this, or you can echo Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his masterful The Gulag Archipelago. It related to the greatest regret of those in the slave labor camps:
What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? --Part I The Prison Industry, Ch. 1 “Arrest” (p13, The Gulag Archipelago, Collins 1974)
The radicals in the Obama administration today attack us confident that the Republican "leadership" will do nothing to stop them. That is why the lesson of Cliven Bundy is so crucial: Democrats must be reminded at each turn that their safety will vanish if they turn to violence.
Therefore we must smash them politically in November before that horrible line is crossed.
Hat tip: BadBlue News
5 comments:
Please name one GOP figure who has even acknowledged this news. This is world-shattering stuff, far worse than anything Nixon did, at the time about which the democrats were vociferous and united. But crickets from GOP leadership. I haven't even heard Ted Cruz say anything. The last two weeks have a seen a stunning series of disclosures, Harry Reid, BLM, Lerner, Holder, more NSA -- silence from the GOP. I think Louis Gohlmert said something. That's it. This party is pathetic.
dRATS think they've got this handled but history always interrupts the best laid plans. Something is coming that will ignite this firestorm, I think it is unavoidable now. Barry is on his way to Federal Prison and his current slow crawl will turn into a frog march. He is surrounded by Americans, I hope he dreams about that.
>>The last two weeks have a seen a stunning series of disclosures, Harry Reid, BLM, Lerner, Holder, more NSA -- silence from the GOP.<<
Issa and Boehner and McConnell are on the case!
I'm a lifelong Republican who switched to Independent last year. I don't want a fundraising letter from these guys, ever. They're an embarrassment.
Don't worry! - We have Boehner and his boys on it!
No sh-t: this clown Boehner is the ONLY impediment to holding Obama and his gang of outlaws accountable.
When Boehner goes down, so will Obama. (WE control the GOP. What are we waiting for?)
The Democrat party announced that it's changing its symbol from the donkey to the condom because it more accurately reflects the party's stance in that it allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation while protecting a bunch of dicks, and gives one a sense of security while you're being screwed.
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