Matt Taibbi is testifying before the House sub-committee on the weaponization of the federal government. And what better proof of the existence of this problem than the IRS picking this time to show up at Taibbi’s house in person to confront him on his possible problems with his taxes?
Well, at least you can’t claim that the IRS doesn’t have a sense of humor. It’s a morbid sense of humor but obviously heart felt. You see? These folks don’t work clandestinely they are openly contemptuous of any attempt to rein in their abuses.
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Every day we come that much closer to being a police state. What am I saying we’re already there.
Yep. Move over Cuba and Nicaragua. You’ve got company.
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What really bothers me is that they are not even pretending anymore.
Criticize the regime? The FBI, IRS or other TLA will be at your door.
If you are lucky, they will knock. If you are not lucky, they will kick it in and frog march you out in front of CNNs cameras.
The mask is off. We are a banana republic.
Banana through and through.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?
Carlos, it took them seventy years to end their totalitarian nightmare. I wonder how long it will take us to escape ours.
“If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”
-No Country for Old Men
Between IRS shenanigans, Trans-insanity, forever wars overseas, and complete loss of trust and confidence in the GAE, we are in for a bumpy ride.
I don’t think there are any real rules. They change them as needed to maintain whose on top. It’s a con game for the likes of me.