A New Innovation of the Obama IRS

Perusing the IRS Inspector General's report, Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, a Professor of Law at Georgetown, noticed a troubling finding.

According to the inspector general’s report (pp. 30 & 38), this particular IRS targeting commenced on Jan. 25, 2012 — the beginning of the election year for President Obama’s second campaign. On that date: “the BOLO [‘be on the lookout’] criteria were again updated.” The revised criteria included “political action type organizations involved in … educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights.”

It wasn't just Tea Party groups who were subjected to heightened scrutiny by the IRS.

This is a new low for American government — targeting those who would teach others about its founding document. Forty years ago, President Richard Nixon went to great lengths to try to conceal the facts of his constitutional violations, but it never occurred to him to conceal the meaning of the Constitution itself, by targeting its teachers. Politicians have always been tempted to try to censor their political adversaries; but none has been so bold as to try to suppress constitutional education directly. Presidents have always sought to push against the constitutional limits of their power; but never have they targeted those who merely teach about such limits. In short, never before has the federal government singled out for special scrutiny those who would teach their fellow citizens about our magnificent Constitution. This is the new innovation of Obama’s IRS.

We have an important election coming up.  

Comments

[Howard Lee Harkness]

"We have an important election coming up."

...and we are going to lose it.

Think about it. An army of illegal aliens dependent on government handouts. An active campaign to enable them to vote more than once. A FaceBook campaign partially funded by the US Army to see how emotions can be manipulated on the web. A GOP that insists on being unable to locate its own ass with either hand. Etc. ad nauseum.

We aren't just going to lose. There will never be another free election on the national level in this country in my lifetime.

I weep for the country I have lost.

[Howard Lee Harkness]

BTW, am I the only person who has noticed that anti-war demonstrations just STOPPED in 2008?

[Tom Bowler]

No, Howard, you aren't the only one who has noticed the deafening silence on the left. Thanks for stopping by.