IRS Claims New Patriot Act Type Powers to Punish Political Dissenters

[Angry Girl]

This is an OLD article but, in light of everything else....
*shudder*

The IRS Claims New Patriot Act Type Powers to Punish Political Dissenters

by Robert R. Raymond
November 28,2003

In a precendent-setting case, the IRS wielded new power to punish the political speech of those who "espouse views" the government considers "inconsistent" with government-held beliefs. In a hearing originally closed to the public in a secret tribunal on a military island, but moved to a public location after protests from the press and the public, the IRS wants to wield this power against a former IRS whistleblower, who was forced to resign upon his discovery of fraud in the agency.

After monitoring and taping the whisteblower's appearances on Sixty Minutes, talk radio shows, and political publications where he rebroadcast his findings of IRS fraud, the IRS initiated this inquisition against their former whistelblower. This new power may find new political targets soon enough.

The IRS, through the small office of "Director of Practice," claims the authority to wield carte blanche authority over all the other powers of government -- the authority to monitor, surveil, and eavesdrop on political dissenters, the authority to pry into the private financial records of banks, businesses, and taxpayers, the authority to conduct secret investigations under a criminal grand jury, and the authority to censure political dissenters by branding on them a badge of infamy and stripping them of governmentally- protected licenses. In short, under the guise of a "practice" investigation, the IRS claims the right to wield all intrusive and invasive powers of government available...

FULL ARTICLE HERE:
http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1414

[NMDemDist2]

1. OMFG and so it begins......

kicked and nominated! :kick:

[NVMojo]

2. Sick jerks! They want it all and our minds!!!

[ContraBass Black]

3. Remember Enemy of the State?

"We were there for a training op."

[Somawas]

4. Reminded of John Marshall and

thw power to tax is the power to destroy.