Posted on 02/12/2014 4:13:03 AM PST by dontreadthis
Dr. Benjamin Carson, the former director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital who is considered a possible GOP contender for the 2016 GOP nomination, told Newsmax TV on Monday that he and his family have been personally targeted by the IRS in retribution for his frank critique of President Obamas policies at the February 2013 National Prayer Breakfast. Carson said audits and other harassment began in May or June of 2013 and gradually expanded to include family members, associates, and his charitable endeavors. "Ive been quite I would say astonished at the level of hostility that I have encountered," Carson said in an exclusive interview with host John Bachman on "Americas Forum" on Newsmax TV. "The IRS has investigated me. They said, I want to look at your real estate holdings. There was nothing there. Well, lets expand to an entire [year], everything. There was nothing there. Lets do another year. Finally, after a few months, they went away. But theyve come after my family, theyve come after my friends, theyve come after associates."
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The inherent problem is that only those who seek to abuse govt power will seek these positions in govt. That means that you won’t get many conservatives applying to work at the irs.
I did too, and then I started reading them. He is without a doubt a brilliant, gifted and determined man. But his mother is the wisest mother in several generations.
I would be suing their ass&s for civil rights violations. No one has the need to be targeted for destruction by the IRS due to their political beliefs or expression.
What a shame that Carson, Sowell or Williams were not the first black president, rather than the Marxist illegal alien Octoroon!
Classical New Orleans octoroons were much lighter than Obama. Some could actually `pass’. They were only one-eighth black, after all.
Anyway, I nominate Dr. Ben Carson as Surgeon General under a new & enlightened conservative administration under the leadership of President Ted Cruz!
You can’t convince them because they refuse to be convinced.
Their own righteousness is wrapped up in their advocacy, and when you try to tell them what they are advocating for is evil and corrupt, you’re directly attacking their “goodness”. Every human has a sense of the eternal, and leftists have bought the lie that their “goodness” gets them a good eternal existence.
You can draw the parallels to nazi Germany or ancient Rome. Neither empire ended well.
Damn! I am sooooooooo glad we have the Constitution to protect us./sarc
You forgot to mention Allen West. I would have no trouble with the Colonel as the first black president. And imagine what a gracious and admirable First Lady Angela West would be. We could be proud again.
DR. Carson might want to get a food taster.
Unless you count Arab north African as other than white, he is one eighth black. IF his true parentage is what he says it is!
Pablo's last few minutes were spent running for his life across the rooftops of tenement buildings.
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