Posted on 05/19/2013 1:06:49 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
The Internal Revenue Service scandal now devouring the Obama administration — the outrageous use of the federal taxing authority to target tea party and other conservatives — certainly makes for meaty partisan politics.
But this scandal is about more than partisanship. It's bigger than whether the Republicans win or the Democrats lose.
It's even bigger than President Barack Obama. Yes, bigger than Obama.
It is opening American eyes to the fundamental relationship between free people and those who govern them. This one is about the Republic and whether we can keep it.
And it started me thinking of years ago, of my father and my uncle in Chicago and how government muscle really works.
Because if you want to understand The Chicago Way of things in Washington these days, with the guys from Chicago in charge of the White House and the federal leviathan, there's one place you start:
You start in Chicago.
My father and uncle ran a small business, a supermarket on the South Side. Uncle George worked in the front, my father in the butcher shop in the back. My uncle had been a teacher. My father had plowed his fields with a mule.
They were immigrants who came here from Greece with nothing in their pockets but a determination to work, and the belief that here, in America, no other power could roll in with tanks and put their boots on the necks of their children.
My father and uncle, like the rest of the family, valued education and books and free political debate. And so at large extended family Sundays, we'd all sit around the dinner table, many uncles and aunts and cousins, young and old.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
And no one, not the Roosevelt Democrats or the Reagan Republicans, disagreed. The socialists, the communists, the royalists, everyone nodded their heads.
This was Chicago. And for a business owner to get involved meant one thing: It would cost you money and somebody from government could destroy you.
Not a useful link.
Sounds like a good story but I won’t sign up with the chicago Tribune to read it.
Can’t find the rest of the story.
It opened for me through Real Clear Politics:
http://realclearpolitics.com/
I believe this is where we are today. What does history say is next? A brief interlude of anarchy and then a despot seizes power and we have Tyranny/Totalitarianism. This is what Zero wants. He sees himself as the Tyrant.
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Dude, can I use your sign-in information to read this?
BTW, those who live by the Chicago way should recall what happened to Chicago's most famous power figure when he messed with the IRS. I've seen the cell at Alcatraz.
Now picture this happening and there was gun control.
Scary.
Can’t read the story. They won’t let you unless you sign up, and if ynrefuse, they throw you to the headlines an I can’t find the actual story. Bummer.
When I talk to people about politics, they always say the same thing: I’m not interested because it doesn’t matter what I vote, nothing ever changes.
So, here are the last bit of the article:
“...Joe Ricketts (owner of the Chicago Cubs) considered funding a political group critical of Obama before last year’s campaign. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s former chief of staff, made it clear that if the Cubs wanted City Hall’s approval to refurbish decrepit Wrigley Field, Ricketts better back off.”
“It happened. He backed off. It was sickening. But it was and is Chicago.”
“And now — with the IRS used as political muscle and the Obama administration keeping that secret until after the president was elected — America understands it too.”
So - how do we destroy the ‘Chicago Way’? The same way you take out any other criminal regime, because that’s what this is all based on, Mafia crime family control methods.
Gather the posse and take them out the old fashioned way — with the law. Any other way, and the risk of losing our nation is too great.
Try disabling JavaScript just before loading the page. You won’t be able to watch the vid, but you will be able to read the article.
Try this.....
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-met-kass-0519-20130519,0,1395725.column
Also.....a trick for any pay site or registration required site until their EB-3 work Visa systems managers figure it out is to do a google search on the title....and click the link from there.
I think the marketing guys may have left that “google loophole” in place to build traffic.
If this had been George Bush, he would have been impeached already!
The American Gestappo...
Excellent Tip! Worked perfectly trough the search!
My brother had a business associate that wanted to bid on a Chicago city contract. He was told by the contracting office that he needed to use a specific contract consultant (with an exorbitant fee structure) or he wouldn’t have a shot at the contract. Evidently the “fee” was enough for the consultant and the contracting officer to split.
it used to be that beign a criminal and a gangster were ILLEGAL, however, today, we have criminals and gangsters runnign our coutnry- beign paid very handsomely too- Dear leader blowing htrough $1.5 BILLION dollars just on his and his familie’s pleasures in just 3 short years- At the end of his secodn term he will no doubt have spent over 3 BILLION dollars just on his own entertainment while ?Americans all over the ocutnry are sufferign and havign to do without thanks to his failed presidency
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