Putting Two and Two Together

Hmm...:

20 January 2009: Priest-King is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States.

15 April 2009: In protest of Priest-King's massive tax and spend policies, rallies are held across the country, drawing thousands of people and sparking the TEA Party movement.

September 2009: As Congressional politicians return home for the Labor Day recess, they face angry opposition at town hall meetings over their support for the stimulus package, the bank bailout bill, the government takeovers of General Motors, Chrysler, AIG and Goldman Sachs and the entire health care sector and the threatened cancellation of the Bush tax cuts. Public opposition to Priest-King's policies mounts.

November 2009: Republicans Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell are elected to the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia respectively.

January 2010: Republican Scott Brown wins Ted Kennedy's old Senate seat in Massachusetts, the liberal radio network Air America goes bankrupt and the Supreme Court, in the Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission case, decides that private companies have the right to advocate for their political causes the same as labor unions. The TEA Party movement gathers serious momentum.

March 2010: The Internal Revenue Service begins systematic targeting of conservative political and religious groups applying for 501(c)3 tax-exempt status, harassing and threatening them with audits, arrest and prosecution, demanding voluminous, detailed and very private personal information to which the IRS had no legal right, and delaying approval of their applications indefinitely.

November 2010: The TEA Party drives the "shellacking," a massive midterm electoral defeat for the Democrats. The IRS targeting campaign against conservative non-profit groups intensifies.

November 2012: Priest-King is reelected President, in no small part because conservative support for the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, was soft.

May 2013: Six months after the election and only hours before the IRS Inspector General releases an internal review, the IRS admits that they had indeed deliberately targeted conservative nonprofit groups for harassment.

It is absolutely laughable that the Priest-King administration expects us to believe that a couple of junior agents at the IRS office in Cincinnati "went rogue" and began targeting conservative groups completely on their own. (The IRS Inspector General released another report today indicating that 292 conservative groups were targeted for harassment vice six liberal groups, blowing up the argument that conservatives and liberals suffered equally.) Using only the timeline above, we can see that serious, determined opposition to Priest-King's socialist agenda was building into a nationwide movement in early 2010. The TEA Party rallies, the bitter, angry town hall meetings with ordinary citizens standing up to their elected officials, the losses in New Jersey, Virginia and gasp! Massachusetts, and especially the Supreme Court's decision to allow corporate political activity on the same footing as labor unions - wiping out 35 years of liberal advantage where that was concerned - were sending shock waves through the White House. If something were not done quickly to stop it, the TEA Party movement would defeat Priest-King in 2012, reverse everything he had achieved and set the socialist agenda back for a generation, and Priest-King was simply not going to allow that. So what happened? The decision was quickly made, likely suggested by then-White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew and approved by Priest-King, to take the wind out of their sails but good, and what government agency inspires more fear than the dreaded IRS? If these dumb flyover country hicks wanted tax-exempt status for their TEA Party groups, then they would have to answer extremely detailed questions by the boatload, provide personal information about themselves, their friends, their colleagues and relatives which would then be handed to Priest-King's loyal Leftist pals to exploit, and the process would be slowed to a crawl. They would be interrogated by Treasury agents, audited and audited again, forced to provide the same information repeatedly, harassed, bullied, intimidated, threatened with prosecution, and a decision would never be made for their application. If everything worked, the TEA Party movement would float in the ocean, engines dead, at the mercy of the waves, powerless - unable to help themselves, much less unseat the Priest-King of all the Americas, and that's what happened.

But there's more at stake than the result of the 2012 presidential election, disappointing as that was. At the core of this scandal is the conscious decision by the Federal government to attack United States citizens for their political and religious beliefs, the 'exact circumstances that drove thousands of people to flee England and seek freedom in the New World. If this scandal isn't investigated to the fullest, if its full scope isn't discovered, if the instigators - whoever they are - aren't arrested, prosecuted and jailed, if the idea behind the scandal isn't crushed into powder, then the American people have no reason to trust the government that serves them and every reason to fear it. Citizens will be afraid to organize, to petition their government, to express contrary opinions, to donate to groups that advocate for their causes, in short, they will be deprived of the free exercise of their Constitutional rights and that is tyranny, pure and simple. So let the Congress investigate, let the grand juries be convened, let the guilty be punished and let the glittering legacies be sullied ...tyranny deserves nothing less.