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Whatcom Tea Party Rally at IRS

5/22/2013

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As you probably know, the IRS recently apologized for targeting organizations with names including “patriot” and “tea party” for tax audits and tax-exempt application delays prior to the 2012 election.

In response to that, on Tuesday, May 21 during the noon hour, the Whatcom Tea Party held a rally at the corner of Cornwall and West Magnolia.

Lining all four corners of the intersection, protesters held signs that said,  "IRS Apology Not Accepted", "End IRS Corruption", "Stop IRS Political Discrimination", "Enemies Lists Are So 1970's", "Now, Just Taxes. Next, Just Health Care", "We Warned You About Things Like This", "We the People..." and more.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the kind of government corruption that the IRS is guilty of, really is what the tea parties have been warning us about. At the same time the IRS story was breaking, President Obama was telling Ohio State University graduates,

Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.
Should we really, Mr. President? Should we really? Glen Kessler at The Washington Post politics blog suggests we have reason to be concerned:
A bushel of Pinocchios for IRS’s Lois Lerner

In the days since the Internal Revenue Service first disclosed that it had targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, new information has emerged from both the Treasury inspector general’s report and congressional testimony Friday that calls into question key statements made by Lois G. Lerner, the IRS’s director of the exempt organizations division.

The clumsy way the IRS disclosed the issue, as well as Lerner’s press briefing by phone, were seen at the time as a public relations disaster. But even so, it is worth reviewing three key statements made by Lerner and comparing them to the facts that have since emerged. (Continue reading...)
If the current scandalabra that we're seeing in Washington D.C., doesn't give us pause to question authority, and to be wary of tyranny, then what the hell does?
1 Comment
Comrade X
5/23/2013 01:25:27 am

"...If Obama thought for a second that the Tea Party was dead, he just did a good job of rousing the living dead and unleashing a "War on Tyranny" to his "War on Dissent."

How many political lives does this President have? How many times can his Administration -- State, DOJ, IRS, DHS -- stomp with a boot on the people and goose step all over the Constitution and get away with it? When will average Americans realize that we aren't in Kansas anymore and face the disturbing reality that this government is more comfortable dishing out intimidation than ensuring liberty?

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/05/why_was_the_department_of_homeland_security_monitoring_tea_party_irs_demonstrations.html#ixzz2U86da5mk

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