Remember the IRS scandal, in which the IRS specifically targeted 501(c)3 applicants which appeared to have views in opposition to those of Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats?
Remember lois “liar” lerner, who headed the IRS Tax Exempt division at that time, copping the fifth to avoid answering for her actions….after first telling us that she wasn’t guilty (which in any court of law would have ended her fifth amendment option – you can’t give your side and then plead the fifth)?
Remember how diligently mainstream media worked to bury this scandal so that President Obama, then running for re-election, would not have it hanging over him (just as they did with the Benghazi massacre, which occurred less than two months before the election, and which Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton lied to our faces about)?
Well, here we go again.
Possibly – make that probably – emboldened by the lack of accountability for the IRS, a group of 20 State Attorneys General, all of them Democrats, have conspired – I don’t use that word lightly – to shut up groups which do not believe their version of “climate change” during this election year.
Will media cover for them as they did in 2012?
Well, not if Glenn Reynolds has anything to say about it. Mr. Reynolds, writing in USA Today, puts this sordid, fascistic mess in front of our faces – thus shaming the rest of mainstream media, which, as usual, are hiding it on behalf of Barack, Hillary and Co.
Here are excerpts from Mr. Reynolds’ piece – a good deal more than I usually put up, because I want to make sure you see how blatant this is….but not all of it, so I strongly urge you to use the link I’ve provided and read the rest:
Federal law makes it a felony “for two or more persons to agree together to injure, threaten, or intimidate a person in any state, territory or district in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by the Constitution or the laws of the Unites States, (or because of his/her having exercised the same).”
I wonder if U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker, or California Attorney General Kamala Harris, or New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman have read this federal statute. Because what they’re doing looks like a concerted scheme to restrict the First Amendment free speech rights of people they don’t agree with. They should look up 18 U.S.C. Sec. 241, I am sure they each have it somewhere in their offices.
Here’s what’s happened so far. First, Schneiderman and reportedly Harris sought to investigate Exxon in part for making donations to groups and funding research by individuals who think “climate change” is either a hoax, or not a problem to the extent that people like Harris and Schneiderman say it is.
This investigation, which smacks of Wisconsin’s discredited Putin-style legal assault on conservative groups and their contributors, was denounced by the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Hans Bader as unconstitutional.
But here’s what happened next: After Bader’s critique, Walker, the U.S. Virgin Islands attorney general, subpoenaed the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s donor lists. The purpose of this subpoena is, it seems quite clear, to punish CEI by making people less willing to donate.
This all takes place in the context of an unprecedented meeting by 20 state attorneys general aimed, environmental news site EcoWatch reports, at targeting entities that have “stymied attempts to combat global warming.” You don’t have to be paranoid to see a conspiracy here.
As the Supreme Court wrote in West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, “If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion.”
Yet prescribing such orthodoxy seems to be just what they have in mind. Their approach is — and I use this term quite deliberately — thoroughly un-American. In pursuing this action, they are betraying their oaths of office, abusing their powers and behaving unethically as attorneys.
If these government officials have such contempt for others’ constitutional rights, who might they target next for “unacceptable” speech?
This, readers, is exactly the same crap that the IRS pulled.
And my guess is that mainstream media will conspire right along with them to keep this fascistic shutting-down of free speech nice and quiet, so that the Democrat Party can get their 2016 free ride…just as they did in 2012.
I hope I’m wrong about this. But I’m giving odds.
