Your Papers, Please
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
The Obama Administration sicced the IRS on TEA Party-related fundraising groups so they couldn’t raise money to get the Conservative message out to voters for the 2012 elections. It was voter suppression at the front end, by muzzling First Amendment rights.
Wisconsin Democrats are applying the same principle on the local level, harassing and intimidating Conservative groups to suppress their fundraising. Expect Dog Gone to screech about the Koch Brothers any minute now, under Berg’s Law.
Joe Doakes
Sad to say, I do expect it.
Time was, people on both sides valued a vigorous debate.
That was before the Democrats were taken over by Alinskyites.
November 21st, 2013 at 6:43 am
We need to stop believing that the Democratic or the Republican party is capable of making a big difference in our lives.
November 21st, 2013 at 7:16 am
No, Emery, but you’re close.
We need to stop believing that government can make a positive difference in our lives, outside of its two legitimate reasons to exist; security against internal and external threats, and enforcing a uniform set of laws that enforce contracts and penalize bad behavior.
Everything beyond that is unintended consequences waiting to happen, at best.
November 21st, 2013 at 7:26 am
Well I don’t know about “we”, but if I wanted to be involved in the political process and use my civil right “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances,” and some politico decided to send a swarm of his agents to harrass me, it would likely make a big difference in my life.
One of the worst aspects of this administration is that government employees, are free lancing harrassment. They know the boss’ silence sanctions their conduct.
What if a superior at the firm where you work gave a donation to SarahPAC which led to investigations by the IRS, FEC, EPA, DoJ and NSA causing your superior to focus on compliance leading to the detriment of the firm and loss of your job? Would you say that made a difference in your life?
November 21st, 2013 at 9:04 am
To condone the use of any goverment agency (funded by the taxpayer) to wage an attack against any dissenting individual or group, one can only accept the same to happen when they are or belong to the group of the opposition. Otherwise they are simply morally bankrupt.
It hasn’t been mentioned here (this post) as of yet, but to equate this to the targeting a group such as ACORN would be absurd at best. ACORN recieved funding at the expense of the taxpayer and, essentially engaged in illegal and fraudulant activity. Once taxpayer funding ceased, so did ACORN.
Tea Party groups are self sustaining not to mention growing and thriving and there is not one example of engagement of illegal activity.
November 21st, 2013 at 10:29 am
Just wait until the government can dispense your healthcare based on your belief system. Tea Partier? Your hip replacement is scheduled for the 12th of Never.
Oh, and disaster relief? Did your state vote red or blue? I think it was PJ O’Rourke who wrote there hasn’t been a famine in the last 300 years that wasn’t created or exacerbated at government direction.
November 21st, 2013 at 10:51 am
O’Rourke wrote (in Give War a Chance) that there has never been a famine in a country with…
1) a free market, and…
2) a functioning media that actually presses government.
That doesn’t make me feel better.
November 21st, 2013 at 10:51 am
“We need to stop believing that the Democratic or the Republican party is capable of making a big difference in our lives.”
This is the conservative ideal state.
November 21st, 2013 at 11:41 am
O’Rourke in “All The Trouble in the World”:
Modern famine is either the result of deliberate political polices (the Ukraine in the 1930s, Sudan right now) or of terrible economic ideas (Ireland in the 1840s, China in the late 1950s). To give food to the rules of a famished country (as we did in Ethiopia) or to distribute food so that the rulers benefit from the distribution (as they did in Somalia) is simply to increase the power of the people who caused the famine.
I’d say the healthcare “famine” in the U.S. has the same two causes (going back to the wage and prices freezes of WW2) – and the government solutions only make it worse.
November 21st, 2013 at 11:49 am
Doh. That’s the one.
I knew it was in one of those…well, books.
November 21st, 2013 at 12:30 pm
He may have framed it in that way in Give War a Chance; it’s a common theme for him (perhaps because it’s true.)
November 22nd, 2013 at 6:40 am
“Don’t vote for them, it only encourages the bastards.”
PJ O’Rourke