By Robert Knight
It’s pretty clear that the Internal
Revenue Service acted illegally in its abuse of tea parties and other
conservative groups and individuals since 2009.
Why else would Lois G. Lerner,
director of the IRS’s division of exempt organizations, take the Fifth before
the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee?
She invoked it on May 22 after
reading a statement in which she claimed, “I have not done anything wrong.” My lying eyes conclude that the lady has
something to hide but hates the idea that we think so. By contrast, most
organized crime figures who are dragged before congressional committees shrug, look
down, plead the Fifth, and don’t bother pretending that they’re innocent. That’s why they have lawyers.
For the past three years, the IRS
has behaved like Soviet-style apparatchiks, using power and fear to stunt a
grassroots movement that flexed mightily in 2010 but then mysteriously quieted down.
Now we know why. When the IRS began carpet bombing conservatives with punitive
audits and demanded to know things like what kind of prayers were uttered at meetings,
the Big Chill was under way.
In fact, it’s still going on despite
misleading media reports that all that bad stuff was in the distant past, such
as 2012. As Hillary Clinton might insist, “What difference, at this point, does
it make?”
Read more.
Posted at TeaPartyUnity.org on May 29, 2013
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