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TEA Party starting to return to protesting? Here in NH, a re-start. DHS Police take notice?

With the recent news that the IRS was using its bureaucratic muscle to muzzle TEA Party groups ahead of the last Presidential election (hmm, the Press kept harping that the TEA Party disappeared – now we know, in part, why), is this now going to be a Rick Santelli type moment, Version 2.0?  They started small, all over the country.  A call went out for the TEA Party to start showing up at IRS offices all over country in protest.  Instapundit has pix from around the country (here, here, and here for some examples).

NH too!  Loyal reader Chuck sent these in:

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Not evident here in NH, there were some protests that did get the attention of Obama’s own security force (“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”) just in SUVs without any of the 2,700 MRAPS that DHS has reto’d lately:

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IRS As Political Hammer, Not the First Time, Nor the Last, Unless…

Sometimes blogging is about creative commentary and piquing the other side while, hopefully, providing a different perspective. Other times, it’s just about spreading information. This is one of those times. I initially dressed this up with all sorts of semi-wittiness (heavy on the “semi”) reminiscent of a tired comic strip, but the length of the blog was inordinately long, so I trimmed it down, but if it’s still too long, I urge you to at least read the brief IRS history of abuse further below.

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Just a Quick Note To The Democrat Enablers…

There are more than a few people making excuses for the recent scandals involving the Benghazi cover up, the AP phone scandal and the IRS.  Without laboring the point these are just the latest of those we know about.   The point I want to make is this:  Are the people excusing or dismissing this behavior because … Read more

Is the White House Visitors Log the trail to the smoking gun?

I’m sure this is just another coinceidence, right? From The American Spectator Is the White House Visitors Log the trail to the smoking gun? The stunning questions are raised by the following set of new facts. March 31, 2010. According to the White House Visitors Log, provided here in searchable form by U.S. News and World Report, the … Read more

Tyranny Waters Not Cold Enough For You Yet?

The IRS scandal is just the tip of a very large and intimidating iceberg.  Watch, and feel the chill. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wrxI878HjKc Here’s an NRO story about this as well. And then this by Mark Steyn. Meanwhile, who regulates the regulators? The president’s senior communications adviser dismisses media queries as “offensive“; the attorney general sneers at attempted … Read more

The answer, obviously if you had been paying attention, is “Yes!” (shades of SB11)

WMURHe keeps asking, so we keep answering.  This week, Pindell finally gives an UP to the TEA Party movement, along with a question:

Tea Party: The decentralized movement got a new reason for being this week with the news the IRS was targeting them. Since they were proven right on this does it mean everyone needs to take Agenda 21 more seriously?

After all, there is a difference between being paranoid (which many have place the TEA Party because of our warning of an incipient Tyrannical Government) and being what our Founders instructed us to do: be vigilant.  The problem is that while many Americans are familiar with Hard Tyranny in other countries (e.g., Soviet Union, Iran, third world countries with Strong Man despots masquerading as Democracies) they’re blinkered when it comes to Tyranny in other forms (i.e., the soft despostism of De Tocqueville moving onward to the medium Tyranny exemplified by Atlas Shrugged; good intentions that morph in to “you WILL do it because we know it is good for you”).

Much has happened with this IRS scandal – and it is becoming clear that the IRS has institutionalized an attitude that “we are above the law”.  Combine that with a Big Bureaucracy, a Public Sector Union mentality, and almost unlimited Power, you have seen an extremely

Sidenote:  YES, finally we see a real use for the word EXTREMISTS!

biased hierarchy willing to stomp on those that are perceived as a threat – not merely as a political one, but as an existential one.  One that has to be stomp on and stomped out.

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Schadenfreude, Mr. Morgan? Or is that just the scales falling off your eyes?

CNN’s Piers Morgan, the Brit Twit who decided that taking on Pro-Second Amendment folks during the run up to the Senate’s attempt to pass stricter gun laws to boost his ratings (er, #FAIL), is seemingly having a change of mind about it all.  You see, after poo-pooing (or screaming, taking your pick) that that these … Read more

This Week on GrokTALK!

Dr. Julianne Cooper returns to discuss  ADHD and other coding of children, and we’ll discuss the drugs used to ‘dumb down’ our students. The Honorable Jenn Coffey  will visit to talk about stand your ground in NH, knife rights, up coming blade shows in Atlanta and more. And Ann Marie Banfield from Cornerstone Policy Research … Read more

Shaheening – 501(c)(4) For Me But Not For Thee?

Shaheening; to be Shaheend: Named after our soon to be former New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen, defined as either applying political pressure against the same thing you are simultaneous hoping to take advantage of for yourself, or being the victim of the pressure applied. Ex: While New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen and her Senate allies … Read more

Shaheen Received Money from IRS Employees Union

Open Secrets identifies the National Treasury Employees Union, which covers the IRS, as Liberal.  Go figure?

They only donate to Democrats, which includes New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen, according to this recent press release…

Senate Democrats received more than $570,000 from IRS Union

Washington, D.C. – This week news broke that Senate Democrats were guilty of pressuring the IRS to target many of the conservative groups that the embattled agency now stands accused of doing.  But, a closer look reveals further evidence of Jeanne Shaheen’s feigning outrage: Shaheen was reaping the benefits from Democrats’ close relationship with the IRS, receiving $5,000 from the IRS Employees Union.

“While Democrats were pushing the IRS to target conservatives and other political enemies, their campaigns benefited from more than half a million dollars in campaign contributions from the IRS union,” said NRSC Communications Director Brad Dayspring. “After years of pressuring the IRS to crackdown on their political opponents, Jeanne Shaheen and her Democratic colleagues must be honest with taxpayers and return the IRS union’s contributions immediately.”

Senator Shaheen has been backtracking, back-peddling, disavowing any partisanship on the 501(c)(4) IRS scandal, but given how partisan she is, that’s hard to swallow.  you’d be hard pressed to find her supporting the rights of TEA party groups anywhere, let alone New Hampshire.

So would you be surprised to know that she isn’t the only hyper-partisan New Hampshire Democrat who has taken issue with third party issue advocacy and targeted TEA Party groups (though  not in writing to the IRS–that we are aw are of) and has also taken money from their union.

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Congressman Mike Kelly (R-PA) outlines every American’s fear of the Tyrannical IRS

Note: be sure to listen to the resounding applause he got at this Congressional hearing concerning the IRS scandal of “punish your enemies” [Obama] in presenting actual Tyranny to those groups and individuals that expressed a political thought against the ruling regime of President Obama and the Progressives he represents.

Listen to the description of the IRS that is given by Kelly and ask yourself:

“This reconfirms everything that the American public believes. This is a HUGE blow to the faith and trust the American people have in their government.

Is there ANY limit to the scope of where you folks can go?….Is there anything at all?  Is there anyway that we can ask you, is there any question that you shouldn’t have asked, Mike?  Goodness, how much money do you have in your wallet?  Who do you get emails from? Whose sign do you put up in your front yard?

This is a tax question?  You don’t think that’s intimidating? it’s sure as hell intimidating!”

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Transformation Milestone Reached, Is This Still America? Geographically Maybe.

Today, we passed a milestone on the Fundamentally Transforming America Highway.  It wasn’t noticeable visually but audibly during the Congressional Hearing on the recently disclosed IRS abuses.  The abuses where the Federal Government is targeting its own citizen’s based on their political beliefs.  The following exchange between Representative Kevin Brady of Congress and the Former Acting head apparatchik of the tyrannical bureaucracy the IRS, Steven Miller,  courtesy of Mail Online (emphasis mine):

 “Texas Republican congressman Kevin Brady had the harshest criticism for Miller.

‘Is this still America?’ he asked him.

‘Is this government so drunk on power that it would turn its full force, its full might, to harass, and intimidate, and threaten an average American who only wants her voice, their voices heard?’

The apparatchik later went on to say

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IRS Agents – Just Following Orders

IRS agents in Cincinnati may not be willing to take the fall as rouge, lone-wolf agents on some personal vendetta against the right.  A local news channel claims an exclusive–They say they were just following Orders… Of course they were.  These are public employees.  That’s what they do.   FOX19.com-Cincinnati News, Weather

Muslims who use Twitter….Are Going to Hell

Sheikh Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh said Wednesday that Muslims who use Twitter or other social media have “lost this world and his afterlife,” as quoted byBBC News. Lost in the next world…they’re going to hell. But I bet…and I’m just guessing here..that if it is OK to lie, cheat, steal, kill, or do anything … Read more

“Scandal Cascade” – this is starting to look like Jimmah is off the hook!

The Bigger the Government, the smaller the citizen

Don’t worry, Jimmah – there’s an even worse dude coming in as your reliever!

I notice that Blue Hampshire has nothing / nada / zilch on the scandals (Front Page / All Posts) that have erupted since Friday stemming from the Obama Administration’s hubris of power – the DOJ going after the media (and expecting nary a sound from the sycophantic media), the IRS going after Conservative groups that held to or espoused to a form of government much less large than now and within a bounded fenced in area, HHS going after cash for Obamacare, the CIA / State Dept brouhaha over who didn’t say when about what concerning letting 4 American civilians get murdered…..a meltdown of super-major proportions.

Nary but a cricket sound from THE bastion of Progressivism here in NH otherwise known as the cheerleading squad  for an ever increasing sized, ever increasing cost, and an ever increasing intrusive Activist Government that rejects the the notion of the Constitutional Republic (re: the rejection of enumerated powers, the activating of an income tax, and regulations that would make the Politboro blush) and a subsuming of the Individual into the Collective (except for in one’s bedroom – except that Sandra Fluke led the movement to demand that our wallets be present).  And, oh yeah, Obamacare, the Progressivism capstone and Obama’s Legacy Schtick, really does seem to be the incipient political train wreck barreling down the tracks as little is operationally ready for the first train station stop in October.  I really do hope that the Law is strictly held up to its own Law (yup, Alinsky’s own Rule to make them live by their own Rule Book – and the Rule Book ain’t a 1/4 done) – and I will admit: I do hope this House of Cards that is little more than a Old Western Town’s facade to the Temple of Progressivism comes tumbling down and tumbles hard.  And before you Progs start screaming “you hateful person”, remember, not a single Republican voted for this pile of legislative doo-doo.  You own it.  You own the economy.  You own the gridlock.  You own everything.

And now, you are about to be blamed for it.  Deservedly so, as Progressivism IS the Root Cause.  Every single bit can be traced down to your philosophy.  Enjoy – and weep.

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“Can’t Keep Up…” – You and me both Steve

As Steve alluded to yesterday, the beast is so swollen, engorged on coercive bureaucratic fat, that it finally burst, raining juicy Big Gov abuse stories all over the land.  Though the forecast predicted the fallout,  I didn’t think so many would hit in one week. (The cynical side of me thinks that many of these stories would serve as a nice smoke screen distraction to redirect attention from Benghazi, but that’s just my cynical side.)

Big Gov can’t help itself.  The chemistry for abuse is intrinsic to the beast and pushes through its swollen veins, suffusing every crevice.  Hubris and power and a naked zeal to do as one pleases is the toxic cocktail that explodes when mixed in  vast, opaque, honey combed cubicles and goes unchecked.  This is the nature of the ginormous beast and it is impossible to oversee and manage.  There are going to be abuses. There is going to be waist and inefficiencies.  It happens in every entity that grows beyond itself whether it’s a company, a corporation, a code base (sorry for the nerd out), or with government. The difference is that with government, it has the power of the state.  The power to seize, coerce and apply violence to do so.  The power to acquire individual information, property, and throw down demands that the individual must labor to meet in order to “qualify”.

And this is the result.

Quick take on the biggies:

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I wonder if…

I wonder if anyone in the New Hampshire Democrat Party Political Machine had unathorized access to illegally obtained IRS infromation during the 2012 campaign, or at any point after the 2010 election cycle? Just a question.

Boo Hoo Hamster Can Finally Write Something about the DOJ – AP Story

Last night Skip observed that the progressive mouthpiece for the Democrat blogosphere in New Hampshire (Bleu Hampshire) had been awfully quiet given all the newsy tid-bits peppering the interwebs.  Nothing to report on Benghazi, The IRS, HHS, DOJ seizing AP phone records, dead Americans, failed Middle East policy…nothing.

But there is good news. Blue Hamster has leave to react to at least one of the recent scandals…

The Soros funded, highly political (non-profit) Media Matters, has release instructions on how the Democrats should respond with regard to the Obama-DOJ seizing two months worth of phone records from the AP.  (I have included them on the jump so that you wont have to be bothered with visiting their site to find out what they have been told to think.)

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US News.com Says Jeanne Shaheen Pressured IRS

Not exactly a bastion of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, US News connects the dots between public rhetoric and policy efforts by Democrat Senators that specifically mention right wing groups, with the ongoing partisan actions taken by the IRS against conservative and TEA party groups.

From “Senate Democrats pushed for Tea party snooping before criticizing it…”

“From Max Baucus to Chuck Schumer to Jeanne Shaheen, key Senate Democrats publicly pressured the IRS to target groups that held differing political views and who, in their view, had the temerity to engage in the political process. The IRS listened to them and acted. And other Democrat senators like Kay Hagan and Mark Pryor said and did nothing about it.”

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