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Victory For The People: Tea Party Lawsuit Against Obama’s IRS Moves Forward In The Courts
Lead Story by Todd Cefaratti, Tea Party News Network (TPNN) —
On Thursday, the people of America earned a victory. Whether they know it or not, Americans of ALL political persuasions won a victory in the quest to remain a free nation.
A federal judge, on Thursday, declared that a lawsuit against the IRS, brought by several Tea Party groups, was allowed to proceed.
Judge Susan Dlott declined the government’s requests to dismiss the claims that the IRS had improperly targeted Tea Party and various conservative groups in a campaign of harassment that lasted for years. This will allow the lawsuit filed against the IRS to go forward and will allow for the Tea Party groups to uncover government documents that could not only lead to a bigger legal battle, but shine some light on the scandal that has shown the Obama administration to be an administration of political thugs.
“Plaintiff groups will be given the opportunity to establish with evidence that IRS officials inspected or disclosed the plaintiff groups’ return information for improper purposes,” Dlott wrote. “The court anticipates that this will be a difficult burden for plaintiff groups to meet.”
For years, the IRS operated as a cudgel to beat back political opposition. Lois Lerner, the disgraced former IRS official in charge of the nonprofit division of the IRS, has been at the center of the scandal as she has tried to dodge the political fallout from the revelations that for years, the IRS sought to diminish the efficacy of the Tea Party Movement by burdening many of them with long, drawn-out requests for a routine investigation into tax-exempt nonprofit designations.
The IRS also issued invasive questionnaires and requests for information about members. In these requests, the IRS asked for emails, Facebook postings, topics of conversations at meetings, membership rolls, a list of the kinds of reading materials being read by members and a variety of other truly invasive questions.
TheTeaParty.net, the nation’s largest national Tea Party organization of which I am the founder and Freedom Organizer, was subjected to these thuggish tactics for years and threatened to sue the IRS until we were later granted nonprofit status.
This lawsuit demonstrates a truly terrifying view of government as the IRS had claimed that the people of America had no right to answers from their government. Judge Dlott disagreed and issued a status conference date to ensure that the case does not linger any longer than is necessary.
This lawsuit is a tremendous victory for all Americans- those who proudly wave the Gadsden Flag and those who adore Obama and rally for big government should be equally delighted. We cannot abide a government that operates in secret and we cannot abide a government that uses a tax-collecting agency as a hammer with which to squash legitimate political dissent.
We, as a nation, must come together to condemn this brutish, thuggish behavior. Victimizing Americans for the sake of political expediency was wrong when Nixon did it and it’s wrong now.
This lawsuit is a step in the right direction and reason for all Americans to rejoice. » Full Story
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MARK LEVIN FUMES: Obama Has A Screw Loose
The Daily Rushbo — Conservative radio host Mark Levin exploded on President Barack Obama over his response to the Malaysia Airlines jetliner that was “shot out of the sky” on Thursday. Levin criticized the president for refusing to cancel fundraisers amid the international turmoil, including Israel’s latest offensive in Gaza.“Is it not a wake-up call yet again? Does it not remind us, yet again, of 9/11 and acts that can occur in this country? I’m just saying, these tragedies are not tragedies — they are attacks, they’re intentional,” Levin said. “And it’s going to happen here… because among other things, Obama is into his fundraisers, like tonight. In the middle of all of this, he cannot cancel it!”
The radio host said Obama’s behavior reminds him of how he reacted after the Benghazi terrorists attacks when he refused to cancel a Las Vegas fundraiser.
“This is a very sick man, this Obama,” he added. “There’s something out of kilter. There’s a screw loose. Something’s not right if you are president of the United States, and something like this happens.” » The Daily Rushbo
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