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Hey demlibs, tell me whats not correct here.
Posted on: November 24, 2017 at 09:18:13 CT
GA Tiger MU
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Let's give Lois Lerner a taxpayer-funded home where she's safe
BY FORMER GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE
If you are an American taxpayer, you’ve just been robbed. Again. And the theft was carried out by people you trusted, and that makes it hurt worse.
No gun was involved, so no new gun law will stop these crimes. You probably didn’t realize you had been robbed because it was done behind your back, in the dark, and in places so secret that you aren’t allowed in. That place is Washington, and the thieves are officials who were either elected by you or employed to serve you.
Lois Lerner and her co-conspirators ran a division of a criminal enterprise known as the IRS. They used their public positions to bully, harass, intimidate, criminalize and bankrupt innocent citizens who held political views that the government decided should be censored. Think about that for a moment. This is NOT about a private company like Google, Twitter or Facebook picking out views they hate (like pro-life or traditional marriage views, which will often cause the Big Brother Religious Police to shut down users). That is shameful, bigoted and a form of hate, but it’s not illegal nor is it censorship, because people voluntarily do business with private companies — even monopolistic, overgrown, narrow-minded ones.
When a powerful arm of the federal government uses its almost unlimited power and budget to target an enemy and shut down that citizen’s First Amendment right of free speech or freedom of religion or association, it IS censorship, but it’s much more. It’s jack-booted bureaucrats run amok and it’s an abuse of power far more frightening than anything Richard Nixon ever did or was accused of. Even Nixon was ultimately held accountable, resigned in disgrace and, notwithstanding a pardon by his successor, may have been prosecuted for obstruction of justice and abuse of power.
BY FORMER GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE
If you are an American taxpayer, you’ve just been robbed. Again. And the theft was carried out by people you trusted, and that makes it hurt worse.
No gun was involved, so no new gun law will stop these crimes. You probably didn’t realize you had been robbed because it was done behind your back, in the dark, and in places so secret that you aren’t allowed in. That place is Washington, and the thieves are officials who were either elected by you or employed to serve you.
Lois Lerner and her co-conspirators ran a division of a criminal enterprise known as the IRS. They used their public positions to bully, harass, intimidate, criminalize and bankrupt innocent citizens who held political views that the government decided should be censored. Think about that for a moment. This is NOT about a private company like Google, Twitter or Facebook picking out views they hate (like pro-life or traditional marriage views, which will often cause the Big Brother Religious Police to shut down users). That is shameful, bigoted and a form of hate, but it’s not illegal nor is it censorship, because people voluntarily do business with private companies — even monopolistic, overgrown, narrow-minded ones.
When a powerful arm of the federal government uses its almost unlimited power and budget to target an enemy and shut down that citizen’s First Amendment right of free speech or freedom of religion or association, it IS censorship, but it’s much more. It’s jack-booted bureaucrats run amok and it’s an abuse of power far more frightening than anything Richard Nixon ever did or was accused of. Even Nixon was ultimately held accountable, resigned in disgrace and, notwithstanding a pardon by his successor, may have been prosecuted for obstruction of justice and abuse of power.
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Hey demlibs, tell me whats not correct here. - GA Tiger MU - 11/24 09:18:13
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