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IRS To Conservatives: "Provide Details Regarding All Of Your Facebook Or Twitter Activity"
It has become difficult to keep track of all the different "-gates" the Obama administration has suddenly found itself embroiled in: perhaps an appropriate name would be Gate-r-gate? And with the just concluded farce in which Jay Carney passed off all AP-related questions to Eric Holder, who in turn recused himself and told the media to please crucify the Deputy AG instead, it is unlikely that any material new information will be disclosed any time soon. However, courtesy of The Hill, we at least have some insight into the first gross offense by the administration revealed last week: the targeting of one political group over another by the supposedly impartial IRS. Specifically, attached below is the full 7 page questionnaire sent by the IRS to the Liberty Township Tea Party containing a list of 35 questions.
Listed here one can find such pearls as "provide details regarding all of your activity on Facebook and Twitter", "Provide a list of all issues that are important to your organization", "do you or will you rate candidates", "you have conducted polls of of your membership to determine which candidates and issues they are supporting. Provide details on this process", "Do you conduct media advertisements lobbying for or against legislation?", "Do you directly or indirectly communicate with members of legislative bodies? If so, explain the amount and nature of the communication", and finally "provide details regarding your relationship with Justin-Bink(sic) Thomas." It appears Justin is someone who according to the Daily Kos, "claims that the government is bailing out too many people who don't want to work." Surely, for the IRS, this is "need to know" information.
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And then later get slapped with a huge sexual harasment lawsuit, no thanks.
One less BMW = Much more personal satisfaction. I'm going sailing...
Good on you man! I cut my hours to part time the last two years and am so much happier for it. Ends don't meet the same way they did (didn't really think about it then and still had extra) but I spend an assload of time with my young kids. In the end time is your most meaningful and limited commodity.
PMs are for the next generation (I hope) but if crap hits the fan I will have something to bargain with. Precious and base metals, skills and a little good land.
Well said, Doc. And good luck. I did something similar at the end of last year - left a "ladder climber" position in my corporate main office for a "dead-end" field assignment in one of the corporate outposts where I can go back to being an engineer on a day-in day-out basis.
Turns out it didn't even cost me at all in salary (I expected at very least a 10% haircut) and only a bit in vig and scratch. Best decision I've made in years. I'm home more, far less travel, and I'm doing work I like opposed to doing work that will "get me connected". Win-win.
Best -
+1 with an observation
I'm going Galt
Going Galt would be more like ceasing to see patients entirely and pounding nails for a living instead, as John Galt quit his engineering job and became a laborer.
Camping on the beaches of the Baltic sea...
Hey, they been 'doing you' for years...
Short leap to 'doing' the taxex too..
;-)
They would still "audit" and hammer you any ways. Guaranteed. hujel
Time for the guillotines to roll. We have been too long tolerant of tyranny, and it's time to end this one.
Impeach them all! Start over!
Too painless, hang these mother fuckers in the public square.
woodchippers...
Like this?
Feet first.
hanging is too painless. Lets tie em to the washington monument and let the next tea party march all walk by and pi__ down their throats. Makem swallow for hours till they die.l
Ok. Who will be the first. Everyone is expecting the other guy to start first. It's the thing about psychology and large numbers of participants. The perception of responsability becomes diffused.
The Four Rs:
Rejection; Revolution; Retribution; Restoration of the Constitutional republic
hujel
Encroaching: First comment correct, re guillotines. Forget about impeachment, that takes cooperation from congress.
I guess if there isn't a night of breaking store front windows and beating and stabbing people, then our government isn't fascist. I mean, Ruby Ridge, Waco and the Elian Gonzalez saga were legit operations, right?
Right. And for those yet indoctrinated, there were active duty US troops involved.
What are the odds that the 'Mitch Steele' listed on the letter is a real person?
do you think they had Mitch Cumstein originally but figured that was overkill?
Ficticious fall guy.
Linda Green's first cousin brother in law
Google him
These IRS agents are testingout the theory of "It's better to ask forgiveness than permission". Well, lets see how much forgiveness they'll get.
Fucking Nazis
Fucking Zionists, fixed it for you.
Wow! Haven't you heard about the new rules. You're not suppose to say anything that will hurt the feelings of a particular ethnic-religious group(whose name we dare not use).
He's blaming the wrong people anyway.
The US is so fascist that ZH had to move to Switzerland and the world is so fascist that you can't even speak freely there. hujel
Not that poor earnings, poor economic data, collapsing commodity prices [companies], money printing/currency wars, recession in Europe, pending economic recession in China, global war drum beats, flash crashes and Hash Crashes were enough....now we have a collapsing Presidential administration.
So, new all time "market" highs make sense...to someone, I guess.
All time market highs will fix poor earnings, poor economic data, collapsing prices, China, wars, etc.
God, didn't you learn anything in economics.
/s
IRS -> Stasi
Get a search warrant, DAMN IT.
*yawn* Who's on Dancing With the Stars tonight?
nazi in the white house.
Would the IRS ask for their first born too ?
All your data are belong to us.
deflection-gate
This is just the tip of the iceberg of his evil and corrupt administration I'm afraid.
Hopium, bitches.
Moarward!
Looks like they really want them to incriminate themselves on campaign finance laws.
This would go in the ignore bin.
Also, notice that they make you acknowledge AND agree to their perjury statement. Trust me. Never sign that ever in your life. It's like signing your own search warrant.
Answer "Ask NSA for details" should be enough to answer all their questions.
Copies of last 30 websites checked? And how they expect to verify that information...
Anyway, it looks worse than Soviet Union.
Joke's on them.
I use Google+ bitches!
IRS - on a rapidly approaching timepoint your survival rate is in serious doubt.
Abolish the IRS!
End the Fed!
From the DoJ's website :: "The short answer is that identity theft is a crime. Identity theft and identity fraud are terms used to refer to all types of crime in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person's personal data in some way that involves fraud or deception, typically for economic gain."
hmmmm....but what? I forget what Jefferson stated about when laws become justifiable to the public but not those who make them...what's that called again?
"They say around the way
You’ve asked for me
There’s even talk about
You wanting me
I must admit that’s what
I want to hear
But that’s just talk
Until you take me there
If it’s true don’t leave me
All alone out here
Wondering if you’re ever
Gonna take me there
Tell me what you’re feeling
‘Cause I need to know
Girl you gotta let me know
Which way to go" Marc Anthony
Wow. The sheer gall of thes IRSholes is really unbelievable. Were they really so stupid and arrogant as to think this wouldn't blow-back on them?
Let's see if they manage to pull a "TBTF/Can't prosecute because no laws were broken/it might end up hurting the economy".
Or maybe the Big O will parden them as he scampers out of town after we boot him out of office!
The responsibility of this activity goes directly into the WH I have no doubt. Who now has the IRS in charge of Obamacare implementation? The WH.
Get out while/if you can.
"FORWARD" > To a global police state run by bankers
Isn't it wonderful when the sort of illegal, tyranny-indicating crap conducted by ALL regimes, Dem and Rep, occasionally comes bubbling to the surface in clusters to be used by an opposing party that pretends they aren't just as corrupt! The stuff will float around for a while, but will eventually flow down the memory hole, remaining only within the minds of those few who were actually paying attention and gave a damn.
Back to your "free speech zones," dweebs.
"...perhaps an appropriate name would be Gate-r-gate?"
Gates-R-U.S.
Ever read something on ZeroHedge that you wish you didnt?
This is one of them for me, I just read that IRS info request letter and I wished I didnt cause it not only really makes me mad(understatement), it scares me as well. wow.
This was one for me as well, the other one was discussing the hidden stipulations of the new Immigration Bill that outlines the registration of our personal health record numbers, blatantly disregarding our HIPAA rights / protections.
It's clear the IRS (Obama and his progressives) fear the Tea Party and Conservatives and will do anything to deny their liberty. For these progressives the ends justifies the means and these are the rules for radicals on full display.
massive civil disobedience is the answer. They can't jail all of us
massive civil disobedience is the answer. They can't jail all of us
GAS is cheap........................
***fear the Tea Party***
They fear everybody that wants to challenge the system. The "Occupy Wall Street" crowd wes easer to deal with. All they had to do with them was to beat the shit out of them a few times. But they mean to break everyone.
Indeed.
Most of all this is really scary.
"it not only really makes me mad(understatement), it scares me as well. wow"
Then it had it's intended effect. This stuff "leaking" out are not leaks at all, they are shots across the bow's of the media, congress, citizens that this is the Chicago Way. These fuckers take no prisoners, have no shame, and work outside the law because the law is what they say it is. Something big is coming and they want everyone too afraid to raise their hand against the King.
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.
The IRS is "voluntary "
Says Reid...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7mRSI8yWwg
SEC should learn something here.....oh wait
As painful as this is about to be, I'm going to defend the IRS, sort of.... This questionaire is obviously the product of someone in a political capacity. A career IRS staffer would ask the questions differently and wouldn't think to ask others. The political person's objective is obviously to gather information to be used to counter conservative grass roots organizing activites. Remember that Team Obama was very threatened by the Tea Party et al in 2010.
Also interesting to note that in asking for the facebook and twitter data, the IRS is compelling the target to violate the terms of service with the websites, which I think for at least Facebook is asking them to violate federal law.
This is highly illegal.
I had a friend write me a check so he could use my account with a printer I use all the time to get some flyers printed. I did him a favor so he could save about $1000. The check was to reimburse my expense, so I didn't declare the check as income.
Of course the bank reports the deposit and the IRS finds it. So they come after me for taxes owed. I show them the invoice from the printer matching the reimbursement exactly. I explain the payment, show the transaction paying for the flyers. Nope, the payment needed to be counted as income and I'm hit with $2300 in taxes, fees, and back interest.
Of course I could have hired a lawyer and probably won, but it would have cost me more than $2300 to fight. IRS wins.
FUCK THEM ALL.
They wonder why there is barely a single legitimate business left in the USA.
$2300 in taxes/fees for $1k sure doesn't make sense. That would put you in a 200% tax bracket.
I had something similar happen and it wasn't nearly in that capacity and was a honest mistake on my part
I saved my friend $1k. The total job was $4800.
It was counted as self employed income so I owed FICA taxes on top of the income tax.
That doesn't make any sense... if you didn't make any money on the deal (he just paid you what you paid the printer), then you wouldn't owe any taxes... (you'd still need to file an informational return). Also, I presume that you filed your own taxes? If not, then your accountant could have likely responded to the IRS for much cheaper than your cost guestimates... although this depends on your location. Needless to say, it makes no sense why you would get nailed for tax on the $4,800 if you actually paid for the printing service and made nothing on the transaction.
"That doesn't make any sense... ". LOL
hujel
That doesn't make any sense.
Welcome to government.
I have no doubt that tax authorities make errors and/or incorrect arguments all the time... I've even been subject to them... but their allegations aren't dispositive of the matter... I can't fathom why he didn't have a successful response to their allegations based upon the facts he presented to us.
Also, he might think about amending his return, presuming that option is still available.
For anyone who has ever been audited, this is exactly how it works. Threatening letters with tons of questions that must be handled by a deadline, usually 10 - 60 days. Then, once you get it back to them within the deadline, you can wait 10 months before hearing back. This goes back and forth multiple times unless you are fortunate enough to bump up against a statute of limitations.
My dad was audited because a company he worked for cut back on the travel budget so he had far less expenses to declare. He paid the IRS a higher percentage of his income which triggered the audit. It took over a year for the audit to run its course.
I'm sure it was for our own good, just like the illegal wiretap of AP.
sarc off/
What sickens me is they then hand over condifential apps to competing libs with 503c. We need to vote out every Dem and Rep and replace with 3rd party and then pass fair tax.
Explain to me what the reps did wrong besides not impeach Obama already.
Really?? All the crap they pulled during Bush... + passing several BAD BILLS since Obama got into office... and of course, not impeaching the fucker or filibuster every goddamn bad bill when the democrats owned the house and senate.
Republicans are treasonous fucks just like democrats are.
Back up the truck and start loading in the S&P futures contracts. This ones going to cost them plenty.
If anyone ever asks tell them I've always wanted to work but have complained about being too sick. And forget all that stuff about BitCoin. I was just kidding.
TYRANNY IS HERE! Obama is the Teleprompter Tyrant!
Someone really needs to hack the teleprompter like Anchorman.
GO FUCK YOURSELF AMERICA!!!
nah, Obama will probably jump 15% in polls after that.
Hey, man you hear Obama said fuck America. Man, that was awesome. Yeah, FUCK AMERICA!!!!! Obama rocks. He like swears and shit just like we do.
I'll see you boys in the camps! I am already learning how to make potato vodka so I may trade for smokes and avoid anal rape.
I'm trying to figure out how to game it: if I really want a top bunk should I post here that I want a bottom bunk?
You need to learn how to make rat jerky. Smokes are only good for after ass rape nowadays.
I was hoping to avoid the anal rape by promising an amazing BJ. Problem is my wife hasn't practiced in years and couldn't teach me even if I asked. Although these days I guess I could just post about it on craigslist and watch the replies roll in.
Hmmm... maybe I'll just start juicing so I can be the guy doing the anal rape instead. Decisions, decisions!
My wife is a nurse and any oral foreplay just devolves into a testicular cancer exam followed by TV. I then slip to the bathroom and masturbate to one of the Fox News hos.
You two guys are seriously fucked up.. I'm laughing so hard my stomach muscle hurts
Thanks knukles. That's a high compliment. My story is a little different however. I knew the sex thing was drawing to a close for me when Mrs. M and I started having serious financial discussions or discussions on other such topics during intercourse. Are we discussing finance, what pulley is squeaking on the Town and Country van or having sex? Sex life took a real turn for the worse for me when I started blogging while having sex and that did not go over well. That's why internet porn is so great. We don't have time to fast forward. I think IR would agree.
LMFAO IR. Classic. Where the hell did all of these flashing ads come from? I look at a couple of used work truck sites and now I get inundated by Dodge and Jeep ads on ZH?
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/14/Progressive-Group-Say...
What does IRS stand for now?!
I say "Internal Retribution Squad."
What say you? hujel
Facebook? Twitter?
What are those?
You'll have to check with my shell corporate entity
Here write to this PO Box in Bulgaria
just cut to the chase with the -gate names and call it what it is...
Obamagate. He has been an embarassment since the bungled Oath Of Office in 2008. Steady downhill since then.
Tyler, I feel you personally and ZH may be ripe for a visit from the IRS...what a country.
The IRS took the time to scrutinize my measly 30k income two years after the fact and decide I owed them 2.2k. It was 'legitimate' and an oversight on my part, but I'm a stone you can't squeeze much more blood from.
Ho hum, low hanging fruit and all that.
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Not living in a swing state helps as well
http://news.yahoo.com/republican-expects-more-benghazi-whistle-blowers-0...
Yawn...someone put in a call when they actually charge these criminals with the crimes they have committed.
Distractions, distractions, distractions...false flag event!
All we see are false flags any more making it that much easier when something real happens to just pin that as the anomoly/conspiracy/home grown terror/white guys who like big gulps etc.
Sad, but true. The madness is really twisted, and very blatantly crazy. History will reflect that is was the 29%er's that saved the grand ol country, America. Mark the date of this report, the percentage will only rise from there and that about makes it 100 million Americans that are hep to the babylonian empire of dust that seeks to kill everyone off the planet eventually.
http://cnsnews.com/blog/gregory-gwyn-williams-jr/poll-29-registered-vote...
“There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at points in history and creating a power that governments cannot suppress.”
- Howard Zinn (historian)
If you happen to cross the path of a (any) federal employee, please feel free to spit in their face.
Dismantle DHS and the Surveillance State.
Let me Help you Young Politically ignorant guys and gals.
Hillary Clinton took HUNDREDS OF FBI FILES WHILE HER HUSBAND WAS IN OFFICE.
MONTHS LATTER THE BOXES OF FILES WERE FOUND SITTING ON A TABLE IN THE WHITE HOUSE. HILLARY NOR ANYONE ELSE HAD ANY IDEA HOW THEY GOT THERE.
Oh and don't forget SANDY BERGER
http://www.spectacle.org/0804/wilson.html
forgot about that
Wait until they start arresting republicans for "treason/terrorism", then you know we are f*&%ed.
Get real. Republicans are part of the scam. Otherwise, they would not pass any bill till Obama resigns and all his criminal friends are jailed or executed for their crimes.
People like you are why this corrupt administration continues unabated. They know you'll find an appology or an excuse for them because we all know the ends justifies the means for progressives. For Christ sake we gave you DOMA, we gave you weed, we gave you gay rights, and we gave you ebt cards. Meanwhile the line to FEMA camps form for all the rest.
Herr Holder, " We will launch criminal investigations into who is leaking information about the nature and purpose of concentration camps. Such betrayals of trust will not be tolerated! Those found guilty of leaking information will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
"Let me be clear. I am not a crook."
Reject vocies that warn of tyranny lurking just around the corner .......http://www.moremonmouthmusings.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Lurking-Ty...
Reject vocies that warn of tyranny lurking just around the corner
WHY?, it's already here.
and matt drudge warns of civil war. well ya think
Gate-R-Gate? No. Go back to your roots, Tyler.
Re-hypothegate.
And notice on page one that the IRS demands that the person responding certify their answers. What is not said is that a misstatement of facts is a felony under 18 USC 1001. It is felony to lie to an employee of the federal government, but not any crime at all for them to lie to you. Keep that in mind the next time you interact with any federal employee.
Land of the USED TO BE free.
How the hell did you not see this when he campaigned - gate.
How the hell did you miss this during his first term - gate.
IMPEACH Obama, reduce the powers of the IRS, take away the CIA funding.
Fire all the Czars.
Show them it can be done
Get rid of Holder and any one else who thinks the Constitution is toilet paper.
Thanks for calling the IRS. For health insurance claims, press 1. For tax-related questions, press 2.
I watched "Real Housewives of Atlanta" once, as its filmed in my hometown. In the episode I saw, one of the regular cast was going on about her tax exempt "foundation" and how "we all have them." I wonder how many of those ladies received questionnaires from the IRS.
I won't be surprised to see these corrupt administrative leaders soon announce plans to coordinate their growing intimidation tactics through their new uber-agency, the Department of Just Us.
And I won't be surprised to eventually see a citizen revolt.
Care to Credit the Usage of "Just Us Department"?
Family divorce lawyers used to joke about diabolical interrogation tactics such as asking the opposing party "When did you stop beating your wife", but I never imagined "our" federal agencies would someday achieve the same methodologies.
Actually the question is: "Do you enjoy beating your wife?"
Republicans tried to warn America about this anti-American piece of Chicago feces........but the Socialist media immediately called them racists.
Remember?
I for one am glad Americans were smart enough to put The Obowel Movement's IRS in charge of their health and well being...........
.."Republicans tried to warn America about this anti-American piece of Chicago feces........but the Socialist media immediately called them racists"
try this..
.."Rational honest people tried to warn America about this anti-American piece of Chicago feces........but the Socialist media immediately called them racists."
..the GOP has done everything in it's power to not upset the apple cart and remain at the trough.
Pay no attention to the men behind the curtain stealing 36 TRILLION of this nations future.
DF
This is just one more step in the process of making everyone a criminal. The request is impossible to accurately comply with, even if someone would attempt to send the information requested by this nonsense request.