NSA and IRS Spells "Trouble"

           

 “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech."  Interpreting this phrase the Supreme Court has recognized many times that any law which has a negative impact on speech, can have a “chilling affect” on free speech and therefore is unconstitutional.  

        Another amendment authorizes the Congress to enact an income tax, but it does not authorize violation of other provisions of the constitution in order to implement or enforce it.  If, as implemented or applied, it has a chilling affect on free speech, then it should be unconstitutional as applied.  

            As we all know, the Tax code authorizes anyone to itemize deductions; such as medical expenses and business related expenses such as meals and entertainment, conferences, travel, auto, home office and other expense.  The taxpayer must be able to produce, records to justify the deductions, such as; what medical care was given and for what, where the taxpayer drove the company car and for what reason, who he or she had dinner or lunch with and what was said, etc.   If anyone elects, for privacy reasons,  not to itemize deductions, then they are forced to pay more tax.  Thus, the income tax code essentially makes the private business and  personal life subject to review by the IRS in order to comply with the tax.

            The IRS does not need probable cause or a warrant to conduct and audit.  Supposedly it conducts audits randomly or where it has some cause to believe there is a violation;  however no warrant is required.  To justify this intrusion and to calm fears that this information might be abused, the Internal Revenue Code makes it a felony for the IRS to share the information with anyone not authorized or for any reason not related to collecting the tax (including the President, elected officials and other agencies).   Recent events prove that the IRS has been abusing its power by sharing data for political purposes and targeting taxpayers based on political views. 

            The IRS held up applications of Tea Party political action groups for non-profit status and demanded massive  amounts of private data (like donor lists) for political reasons.  The same status was freely granted to corollary liberal political action groups.  This was done intentionally to affect the money raising ability of these groups to ultimately aid the Democrats.   Documents just released show the IRS illegally revealed significant private data of conservative groups, including donor names, to the Federal Election Commission.  Tea Party leaders have claimed they were subjected to investigations by a host of federal agonies when their applications for non profit status were filed, including the ATF, FBI, OSHA and others.

            Bill O’Reilly was audited three times.  The IRS was unable to give any reason for the audits and found no violations.  Glenn Beck has been audited as has Ben Carson right after he criticized the President a speech at the national prayer breakfast.  No violations were found.  Is there any real doubt these were politically motivated?  These actions may not have intimidated O’Reilly, Beck or Carson, but many others have decided to not get involved or donate money because of what happened to them.  The ordinary person does not have the clout or resources to withstand even an audit, let alone defend themselves against a wrongful assessment or penalty.    This has to have had a significant chilling effect on the right to free speech in the very area, political speech, the first amendment was intended to protect.

           The NSA is conducting a massive data mining and surveillance operation against virtually all Americans.  All Internet traffic and e-mails, it appears are now being collected and stored in government data warehouses.   Not only can the government now audit whomever it wants, it also knows exactly who opposes government expansion of power.  Any one has to think twice about publishing criticism of the government on the Internet.    Perhaps the investigations only start when you, in the opinion of the right people, think you are getting a little too influential or powerful.    

          Tom Delay, former Speaker of the House during the Bush years was viscerally reviled by the Democrats.  A Democrat district attorney in a heavily Democrat district in Texas initiated a criminal prosecution of Delay of an incredibly frivolous charge of improper diversion of contributions to the national Republic party for Texas state races.  This prosecution dovetailed with a simultaneous campaign spearheaded by Nancy Pelosi  and the Democrats in general that the Republican house was the most corrupt in history.  The media fully supported the Democratic strategy and the Delay prosecution was a centerpiece of the propaganda.  Delay was convicted by a liberal jury, resigned from the house in disgrace.  The Dem's won the house and the senate in the next cycle leaving the democratic party totally in control of the government and Nancy Peliosi Speaker for two years.  This led to a massive government expansion and Obama Care.

          Recently, almost totally unnoticed by the press, the Texas Supreme Court reversed the conviction of Delay on the grounds there was never any evidence of a crime.  In other words, this was a totally frivolous and politically motivated prosecution form the outset, just as Delay claimed.  Unfortunately the permanent damage to the entire country had already been done.  The Democrats controlled the house the senate and the presidency and the country is forever changed.  Even more importantly,  the precedent has been set.  The Democratic party, which is the political extension of the government itself, can and does use its expanded governmental powers in whatever form, whether, IRS, political donation laws, FBI, OSHA or any other arm of the massive and ever expanding government to harass and ultimately destroy any who dare to suggest the government should be limited.  Repression of criticism by misuse of governmental power is the essence of the totalitarian state which is now the norm in the US.

           

THEY'RE OVER THE WALL!

            

         

It’s been a year and a half since my last post.  (I’ve been busy digging in).  At that time I wrote about the fact that secular progressives distain the constitution and seek to over turn it.  Then I was just warning about the possible future.  Well, the future is here.    I’m sorry to report that the constitutional wall against tyranny has been breached  (See photo at left).   The leftist progressive Orks are in the inner courtyard.  The Tea Party patriots are in full retreat.   While on the walls at a critical moment, the RINO’s turned on the conservatives and stabbed them in the back; thus, their treachery hastened the final overthrow of the Republic.    This act of treachery was purchased for $3 billion dollars for a reservoir and dam project in Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnel’s, home state of Kentucky.  We now know the price he put on our freedom.

            While Secular Progressives have chipped away at the freedoms we enjoyed under the constitution for the last century, the extent to which they have been bulldozed in the first decade of the twenty first century has been nothing short of a demolition.  So much so, that, we now no longer live in a constitutional republic.  It’s not about what may happen any more; it’s about what has happened and how to deal with the new reality.    We now live in what is essentially a one party rule, autocratic authoritarian state.  Mark Levine calls it a “soft tyranny.”  Unfortunately, I fear, the hard tyranny will not be long to follow.

            The first amendment right of free speech and free press, free exercise of religion, the right to bear arms, the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure, the right to equal protection under the law, the right to one vote and other privileges and immunities of citizenship and even the checks and balances of government designed to protect against an imperial presidency; these fundamental constitutional rights and protections of the citizens have been significantly breached.  This is the fundamental change to America that our constitutional scholar President was referring to in his inauguration speech six long years ago. 

            As I last wrote (see below), the secular progressive does not value the individual rights enumerated in the US Constitution, but rather a list of collective rights.   But secular progressivism is not limited to the far left of the Democratic Party.  The implementation of this policy has become evident, and is well on its way to completion, with, as we should now see, the complicity of the establishment progressives in the Republican Party.  Many of you did not believe this, but it should now be eminently clear.

            The question is what to do about it.  The first step is to understand what really has happened to us.  Only then can we determine what to do about it.  In the next series of articles I will try to cut through all the political mumbo jumbo and the lies and distortions and simply explain how the left, with the help of the phony conservative RINO Republicans, have trampled the constitution and imposed a massive governmental dictatorship of the bureaucracy on the American People.  Then hopefully we can discuss what to do about it.