More Legacy From Our Friend, Lewis Powell

[peristaltor]

I haven't followed the IRS stink at all. Why? Well, I've barely been following the news. One good tornado, as shocking as the devastation, transforms any corporate media outlet into a Worst Destruction Footage Evar re-run machine. Why bother watching again what you've seen once

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[cheezyfish]

Maybe, just maybe, quite a few of them are guilty of just the bias the tax investigators suspected.

Just about fell out of my chair...

[peristaltor]

The horror, the horror. . . .

[peristaltor]

This IRS sting, IMO, is a publicity stunt in an attempt to get people who voted Democrat last time and feel betrayed over to the Republican side of the fence by making this administration look like enemies to free speech. . . .
I believe that both the Dems and Republicans are two sides of the same coin, or bad penny, if you will.

I agree with you 100%, especially on those points.

[a_new_machine]

Funny, I never pegged you for a conspiracist.

[peristaltor]

My overarching point is a lack of conspiracy, substituted instead for a series of laws that have turned self-interest into a political possibility, each legislative victory reinforcing the type of legislation that becomes even possible later.

[oportet]

I don't think Tea Party organizations have been around long enough to have a history of violating regulations.

I'm not sure why the left doesn't just embrace this, instead of trying to twist it. They played dirty, kept it under wraps until after they won the big election, and came clean a good year before the next major elections - plenty of time for everyone to forget about it.

Democrat politicians stooping that low is understandable, democrat voters refusing to acknowledge they did isn't.

[kylinrouge]

peristaltor: Look, the IRS isn't charged with protecting the nation's free speech. They are charged with enforcing tax regulations. There is a formula somewhere in the IRS that takes tax filings and flags certain things. What those things are isn't revealed, but I'd be willing to bet it flags commonalities of the flagged form with previous filings shown to have broken the law after revealed in an audit.

Is this twisting? (I wouldn't call peristaltor a leftist but he's one of the few offering an explanation)

[kylinrouge]

I guess it boils down to 'When is profiling ok?' Is it never? I feel there is some value in recognizing patterns when it comes to law enforcement, especially for the police, so to me it isn't never. Peristaltor basically asks if there a history with these organizations that follow certain patterns and breaking the law. We may not know enough about the story to answer the question.

[sophia_sadek]

The whole point of IRS harassment is not to prosecute an organization, but simply to revoke its tax-exempt status.