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IRS is monitoring comment threads on conservative blogs
americanthinker ^ | Nov. 20, 2014 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 11/20/2014 7:47:17 AM PST by PROCON

The Internal Revenue Service, which claims to be so understaffed that it can’t bother to collect unpaid taxes, or search backup tapes for Lois Lerner’s “missing” emails, apparently has plenty of time to read the comment threads on conservative blogs that have been critical of the agency (Hi there, IRS agents!). William Jacobson, one of the best-informed and most effective critics of the agency, writes on Legal Insurrection:

Hey, remember the Reader Poll we did about whether it was okay to follow and try to interview Lois Lerner in her neighborhood?

Do you approve of media confronting Lois Lerner in her neighborhood? (Reader Poll): (snip)

Just another Legal Insurrection fun time, right?

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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To: Iron Munro

Just a short time back I mad a comment on FR indicating that I think the situation in this country may now be worse than in Russia and was roundly denounced for it. Somehow I believe a lot of people are coming to that conclusion now. Which way you are heading means more than where you are and I think that Russia may have hit bottom and started back up while we seem to still be headed down. I certainly don’t hear or read all the comments about “our great freedoms” that I used to note just a few years ago. You have to be rather blind to not realize that our great freedoms are mainly a thing of the past.


61 posted on 11/20/2014 10:35:22 AM PST by RipSawyer (WO)
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To: RipSawyer

They don’t have our guns yet....

They understand that, I think.

At this point, it’s just a matter of
“how far can we push them before they decide it’s time to not be civil anymore?”


62 posted on 11/20/2014 10:37:21 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: RinaseaofDs
A match that should have been lit when the crime occurred.

The reason powerful men get away with crimes like this is intimidation and the fear and shame they instill in young women, which at that time carried over to the males in police departments who disbelieved young women or called them whores when they tried to report rapes by powerful men — intimidations which would be repeated by defense attorneys if such a case ever went to trial.

Yet another woman (#6) came forward today about ol' Huxtable. It seems his victims have found strength in numbers. One of the most disturbing things about these stories is that all of them who claimed a penetrative assault also claim he used drugs to subdue them first.

In the intervening years since these alleged rapes took place, legislation has been passed giving rape victims more legal protections, such as the routine use of female police officers to handle their claims, prompt collection and proper storage of rape kit evidence, and courts being prevented from using the woman's sexual history to impugn her at trial -- this was a very effective shaming technique from those days when these accusations were said to have occured. Women then were still expected only to have sex if married, and were shamed not only during police investigations but also in the media during rape trials if they were not virgins due to a failed engagement, or had indulged in only a small fraction of what their male counterparts did sexually. If they wore alluring clothing, only a hint of the exposed flesh you see today in supermarkets, high schools and even churches, this was used as an accusation that they deserved to be raped. Many victims said the trials were worse than the actual rapes.

That said, I am no fan of the women who are not actually raped, but rather use the legal system to inflict retaliation.

63 posted on 11/20/2014 11:16:45 AM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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To: RipSawyer
I certainly don’t hear or read all the comments about “our great freedoms” that I used to note just a few years ago.

How many can recall the time when it was common to read or hear scholars, politicians, commentators and others speak somberly of how we are a nation of laws, not men?

And the time when the US Constitution was often and reverently referred to as the supreme law of the land?

We don't hear either of those references very much these days.

As a nation we have abandoned respect for the law and the constitution to become a personality cult governed by a arrogant and insane men and women, led by a juvenile psychopath, all of whom spit on the law and ridicule anyone who speaks of laws or the constitution.


64 posted on 11/20/2014 12:23:59 PM PST by Iron Munro (DHS has the same headcount as the US Marine Corps with twice the budget)
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To: BenLurkin
Moosh has a big BooTay

Paging Dr. Stan K. Boudie
65 posted on 11/20/2014 12:27:31 PM PST by SpinnerWebb (IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
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To: Albion Wilde

There’s a bunch of lacrosse players from Duke that are still wearing the t-shirt from one of these little vacations.

Six women - none at the time thought to talk to a cop?


66 posted on 11/20/2014 1:19:21 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: PROCON

If the IRS is monitoring this comment, please do me a favor. I’m missing a photograph of a famous covert communist/lawyer/author who was caught in a very interesting situation (i.e. penis acupuncture) and basically persuaded to bail out of a planned political situation by a law enforcement agency that shall remain nameless (they were the honest ones, protesting America from its enemies).

This attorney was not only a traitor, but one sick SOB, a journalistic psychopath to whom the truth meant nothing.

I know this photo is out there. Since either you or the NSA seem to know everything that is said or written, can you check my previous writings (since 1965) and see if I mentioned where that photo is stored. There are other related photos but I don’t know who has them now.

I’m now old and crippled so I can’t do the legwork like I used to do. Would appreciate your help.

By the way, your tax processors have been pretty good with my tax return documents so I have no complaints there. It’s just when you target loyal Americans that I get upset.

See you April 15th.


67 posted on 11/20/2014 2:15:15 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: RinaseaofDs
If you take the time to read what they say, their stories present the fear and intimidation they felt. I am from an older generation. I remember the shaming and disbelief, and what it took even to get police to believe that a crime took place.

If you weren't alive then and aren't a female, you may not understand; hear me now, believe me later. Even today, many rapes go unreported because of the trauma involved. Are you saying they should just shut up about it because... why?

Justice delayed is justice denied.

It seems that once one of them had the courage to finally say something, it has opened the floodgates for others who were misused; there are also many similarities in their stories about how he approached them, even though the alleged victims have no other connection.

68 posted on 11/20/2014 3:27:12 PM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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To: RinaseaofDs
The embattled comedian jokes about slipping Spanish fly to women in a standup routine from 1969

Washington Post: Bill Cosby raped me. Why did it take 30 years for people to believe my story?
Only when a male comedian called Cosby a rapist did the accusation take hold.

69 posted on 11/20/2014 5:10:32 PM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Interesting link to Ceauescu. Doesn't this excerpt seem applicable to our current resident: Ceauescu created a pervasive personality cult, giving himself such titles as "Conductor" ("Leader") and "Geniul din Carpa ("The Genius of the Carpathians"), with inspiration from Proletarian Culture (Proletkult). After his election as President of Romania, he even had a king-like sceptre made for himself. The most important day of the year during Ceaușescu's rule was his birthday, 26 January—a day which saw Romanian media saturated with praise for him.
70 posted on 11/20/2014 5:39:58 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: Twotone; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; Travis McGee; ...
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

71 posted on 11/20/2014 6:20:30 PM PST by null and void (The better I know obama, the less I fear a president Biden.)
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To: null and void
"IRS is monitoring comment threads on conservative blogs"

That's not exactly a news flash, Nully, but thanks for the reminder.

72 posted on 11/20/2014 6:23:51 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: PROCON

Well here is a comment for them:

FUIRS.


73 posted on 11/20/2014 6:24:59 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: RinaseaofDs
Here's an account of how a rape accusation gets ignored, covered up or minimized:

University of Virginia student details alleged gang rape by seven men during a fraternity initiation... and claims the school did nothing about it

74 posted on 11/20/2014 6:27:33 PM PST by Albion Wilde (It is better to offend a human being than to offend God.)
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To: sergeantdave
The most important day of the year during Ceaușescu's rule was his birthday, 26 January—a day which saw Romanian media saturated with praise for him.

So on 26 Jaunuary, the Romanian press behaved towards Ceaușescu the way ours does towards obama every day?

75 posted on 11/20/2014 6:28:55 PM PST by null and void (The better I know obama, the less I fear a president Biden.)
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To: PROCON; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
Be sure to give the IRS agents monitoring this thread a wave.

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You only need to use one finger.


76 posted on 11/20/2014 6:54:35 PM PST by Slings and Arrows ("I Only Love You When I'm Drunk" - http://youtu.be/uT-tCbvfDUg)
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To: Tenacious 1

No 1099 on the gold?


77 posted on 11/20/2014 7:00:26 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: All
"IRS is monitoring comment threads
on conservative blogs"


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78 posted on 11/20/2014 7:00:41 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: PROCON; null and void; Kartographer; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; ...
HEY, IRS!

PING!

79 posted on 11/20/2014 7:14:38 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The mods stole my tagline.)
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80 posted on 11/20/2014 7:28:45 PM PST by Taxman
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