If those on the left were so confident that their
ideas were the best ideas, then why is it that they insist upon expending so much
time, energy and trickery on their effort to squelch the ideas of their
opposition? And if the Democrat Party
were truly the party of diversity and inclusiveness why not welcome a bona fide
discussion on just which ideas would actually benefit the country? But you see that just isn’t how these people
operate. They will always see themselves
as being the smartest people in the room and therefore see always themselves as
the folks with the better ideas. This
despite the fact that their ideas rarely, if ever, are known to work. But even though their ideas never quite pan
out, that hasn’t kept them from implementing them.
Which brings me to some recently released federal
documents that would seem to reveal how it was that a certain Democrat senator
sought Justice Department and IRS Criminal prosecutions of conservatives back
in 2013. The Department of Justice
documents reveal email conversations that took place between its officials and
the staff of Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse about possible criminal
prosecution of Tea Party groups for alleged violation of IRS rules, according
to material obtained by Judicial Watch, a government watchdog. The conversations were in preparation for a
briefing by Justice Department officials for Whitehouse's staff and for a
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism hearing.
Judicial Watch released 72 emails this past
Wednesday indicating that Whitehouse had pushed, and pretty aggressively, the
Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to prosecute Tea
Party groups that made false statements to the agency in the past. It was according to internal emails that
Whitehouse wanted to know why the Justice Department was acting so deferential
toward the IRS in determining a punishment against conservatives. One of those internal emails read: “Sen.
Whitehouse is curious why, for example, if a 501(c) tax organization files were
leaked, and they clearly showed that make false statements,” then “why the
Department of Justice wouldn’t prosecute the case by itself and not wait for
the IRS.”
And in one exchange that took place, Whitehouse
says, "I would urge that the Department and the Service get together and
rethink whether in these two specific areas, which I think bear little
resemblance to traditional tax violations and are in fact very plain-vanilla
criminal cases..” He asks whether
"the Department could not proceed to… put together a criminal case showing
a fairly straightforward false statement or a fairly [straightforward] shell
corporation disclosure violation."
According to Judicial Watch, the organizations Whitehouse mentioned
included American Future Fund, Crossroads GPS, Americans for Responsible
Leadership, Freedom Path, American is Not Stupid, Inc., RightChange.com II, and
A Better America Now — all of which are conservative organizations.
According to FBI documents obtained in August, IRS
officials orchestrated a scheme starting in 2010 and continuing through 2012
that dumped conservative and Tea Party non-profit applicants into a
bureaucratic “black hole.” The documents
also described how the agency targeted the conservative non-profit groups,
culminating in an investigation that eventually led to IRS official Lois Lerner
being allowed to retire when she should have gone to prison. But since she was viewed, by Democrats, as one
of the good guys she was allowed to receive what I am sure is a big fat
government pension. Had the focus been
on liberal non-profit groups and not conservative ones, I’m sure the outcome
for Ms. Lerner would have been different.
The group obtained the documents through a federal
court order in a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit. The six-year-old scandal is still affecting
conservatives presently, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a press
statement attached to the published emails.
Mr. Fitton said, "The Obama IRS scandal includes abuse of power by
Democrats in Congress who wanted to jail Obama's political opponents to help
secure Obama's reelection." And Mr.
Fitton went on to say, "And Americans should know that the courts have
recently concluded the Obama IRS abuses haven't stopped — even as we approach
another presidential election." That
should come as no surprise since Barry sees himself as being above the courts.
Whitehouse is certainly no stranger to politically
charged investigations, as he has also argued the Justice Department should
launch a racketeering case against those fossil fuel companies who cast doubt
on the liberal ‘global warming’ position.
The former Rhode Island attorney general along with Democrat Rep. Ted
Lieu introduced resolutions in both chambers of Congress in July that “urges
fossil fuel companies and allied organizations to cooperate with active or
future investigations into their climate-change related activities.” Whitehouse also directed 19 of his fellow
Democrat senators in to attack conservative and libertarian organizations such
as Americans for Prosperity and the Cato Institute on the chamber floors for
engaging in what the senators called a “web of denial.”
Because, you see, when it comes to ‘global warming’,
Democrats have now made the decision that ‘global warming’ is real, so
therefore no further discussion on the topic is warranted. Now it matters not that science is not on
their side, the only thing that matters is the fact that the Democrat Party
fully supports this little scheme, seeing it as a means of essentially killing
two birds with one stone. First, they
view it as being yet another way for them to creep even further into our lives
and even right into our homes. But also,
and maybe even more importantly, it would provide them a very lucrative way to generated
rather significant amounts of from a ‘carbon tax’ and then direct it into the
government’s coffers.
In wrapping things up here I can’t help but ask,
even though I already know the answer, can you possibly imagine the uproar,
from Democrats across the country as we as from those in the state-controlled
media, had this been a Republican senator who was encouraging the Department of
Justice and the IRS to go after groups that were primarily liberal in their
political philosophy? And don't ever
forget that pond scum like Whitehouse will attempt to suppress the free speech
of anyone that they feel opposes their philosophies. They will refuse to allow conservative
organizations on campus. They will selectively prosecute and persecute any and
all who dare to oppose them. They want to turn the USA into a Marxist Socialist
dictatorship.
Finally I’d like to take just a moment to focus on
those who saw fit to first elect this leftist buffoon to the Senate in
2006 and then to ‘re-elect’ him in 2012.
And I have to wonder, just how morally bankrupt is the state of Rhode
Island? Is it a state full of nothing
more than Colin Kaepernick wannabes who take a knee every time the nation anthem is
played? I mean, I have to wonder about
people who willingly elect someone who seeks to have those who disagree with him
investigated and those who choose to disagree with the policies of his party
prosecuted. Just how anti-America, or,
dare I say, anti-freedom are these people? The Rhode Island state motto is, “Hope.” But “Hope” for what, I wonder.
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