Yesterday
was a significant day in the IRS abuse scandal. The scandal evolved
from being about pesky delays in IRS exemption applications to a
government conniving with outside interests to put political opponents
in prison.
Emails obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information
Act reveal Lois Lerner cooking up plans with Justice Department
officials to talk about ways to criminally charge conservative groups
that are insufficiently quiet.
Larry Noble, a law professor now with the Soros-funded Campaign Legal
Center, was cited in the emails as someone agitating to jail
conservatives who “falsely” report on IRS forms that they are not
engaged in political speech. Lerner talked about setting up meetings
with Justice Department election lawyers who wanted to talk about
making Noble’s dreams a reality — this after Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
raised the idea of criminal charges for conservatives who are not
sufficiently quiet, charges that they falsely completed an IRS tax
exemption form.
Their theory is a favorite among speech regulators in the Soros-funded
left and academia. It goes like this: “Too much speech is bad (unless
unions do it.) Groups who talk about things leftists find uncomfortable
are necessarily political and thus should never have 501(c) tax exempt
status. Criminally charge any group that said on their IRS tax exempt
form that they were not political if they say things the left finds
uncomfortable. Get Eric Holder’s Justice Department on the case.”
The emails obtained by Judicial Watch reveal this is essentially what
was going on behind the scenes at the IRS, DOJ, and with outside
leftist interests.
[...]
Hans von Spakovsky, a former commissioner on the Federal Election
Commission, is intimately familiar with the scope and power of the
speech regulators. He said:
“Ever
since I came to Washington, I’ve been shocked at the liberal
politicians like Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Chris Van Hollen, advocacy
groups like Democracy 21 and Fred Wertheimer, and government
bureaucrats at the FEC and the Justice Department who want to use the
power of government to censor their opponents. They hate the First
Amendment and would fit right into the Soviet Union.”
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I'm telling you, we're going to have to kill (after a fair and speedy trial of course) a lot of people.
ReplyDeleteEverything is possible for the man who doesn't have to do it... Who knew the BLM didn't have a big enough army?
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Two thoughts:
ReplyDelete1) Adolph and his minions only did ~6 Mil ... pikers, eh?
2) Can conspiracy to commit a crime be a felony? There's a lot of that going around...
3) Is admission of a felony (choom gang, etc) admissible in court?
tomw