Victory for the People: Tea Party Lawsuit Against Obama’s IRS Moves Forward in the Courts
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On
Thursday, the people of America earned a victory. Whether they know it
or not, Americans of all political persuasions won a victory in the
quest to remain a free nation.
A federal
judge, on Thursday, declared that a lawsuit against the IRS, brought by
several Tea Party groups, was allowed to proceed.
Judge
Susan Dlott declined the government’s requests to dismiss the claims
that the IRS had improperly targeted Tea Party and various conservative
groups in a campaign of harassment that lasted for years. This will
allow the lawsuit filed against the IRS to go forward and will allow for
the Tea Party groups to uncover government documents that could not
only lead to a bigger legal battle, but shine some light on the scandal
that has shown the Obama administration to be an administration of
political thugs.
“Plaintiff
groups will be given the opportunity to establish with evidence that
IRS officials inspected or disclosed the plaintiff groups’ return
information for improper purposes,” Dlott wrote. “The court anticipates
that this will be a difficult burden for plaintiff groups to meet.”
For
years, the IRS operated as a cudgel to beat back political opposition.
Lois Lerner, the disgraced former IRS official in charge of the
nonprofit division of the IRS, has been at the center of the scandal as
she has tried to dodge the political fallout from the revelations that
for years, the IRS sought to diminish the efficacy of the Tea Party
Movement by burdening many of them with long, drawn-out requests for a
routine investigation into tax-exempt nonprofit designations.
The
IRS also issued invasive questionnaires and requests for information
about members. In these requests, the IRS asked for emails, Facebook
postings, topics of conversations at meetings, membership rolls, a list
of the kinds of reading materials being read by members and a variety of
other truly invasive questions.
TheTeaParty.net,
the nation’s largest national Tea Party organization of which I am the
founder and Freedom Organizer, was subjected to these thuggish tactics
for years and threatened to sue the IRS until we were later granted
nonprofit status.
This
lawsuit demonstrates a truly terrifying view of government as the IRS
had claimed that the people of America had no right to answers from
their government. Judge Dlott disagreed and issued a status conference
date to ensure that the case does not linger any longer than is
necessary.
This lawsuit is a tremendous victory for all
Americans- those who proudly wave the Gadsden Flag and those who adore
Obama and rally for big government should be equally delighted. We
cannot abide a government that operates in secret and we cannot abide a
government that uses a tax-collecting agency as a hammer with which to
squash legitimate political dissent.
We,
as a nation, must come together to condemn this brutish, thuggish
behavior. Victimizing Americans for the sake of political expediency was
wrong when Nixon did it and it’s wrong now.
This lawsuit is a step in the right direction and reason for all Americans to rejoice.
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