THE POWER TO DESTROY
AMERICAN POWERHOUSE GOES FULL THROTTLE VS.
IRS
Massive rally this week to demand
agency brought to justice
June 17 2013 Published: 2 hours ago
From “No taxation without
representation” at the Boston Tea Party in 1773 to “No
taxation without an investigation” of the IRS at Washington, D.C., in 2013. Boston Tea Party in 1773
Patriots arriving from around the nation will
be able to attend two tea parties at the Capitol on Wednesday.
The “Audit the IRS Rally”
organized by the Tea Party Patriots, running from noon to 3 p.m., will demand a
full investigation of the agency’s harassing of conservative groups.
The Tea Party Patriots’ co-founder and
national coordinator, Jenny Beth Martin, told WND: “We
want to make sure the IRS and the employees of the IRS understand that we
expect them to be public servants, which is their job, and not to infringe on
our constitutional rights or to use the IRS as a political weapon against
citizens. So, we are standing up now to make sure this never happens again.”
The big draw at the IRS rally
will be speaker Glenn Beck, along with several prominent lawmakers such as
Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky; and Mike Lee, Utah; and Reps. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.;
Louie Gohmert, R-Texas; Jim Jordan, R-Ohio; and Steve King, R-Iowa.
A second rally from 9 a.m. to
noon, and picking up again from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., will call for scrutiny of any
immigration bill with an amnesty provision.
King is organizing that event, which he calls
an “immigration press conference” and should feature some of the speakers from
the noon event.
“Border security, Rule of Law Members of
Congress are unlikely to get a full debate inside the halls of Congress,” said
King, “So we are taking the debate outside it’s halls.”
Scheduled to speak at the “Audit the IRS
Rally” are several members of tea party groups targeted by the agency.
One of those members, Becky Gerritson, told
WND Monday night, “I am hoping we will have a large
crowd from across the country. I know they are busing people in from some
states. I’m just hoping the American people continue to wake up and to see how
these government agencies are out of control and how they are used against U.S.
citizens.”
Gerritson, preseident and founder of the
Wetumpka Tea Party in Alabama, shot to youtube and talk-radio fame when she
testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on June 4, and delivered a
scathing indictment of the IRS:
“We aren’t here as serfs or vassals. We’re not
begging our lords for mercy. We are born free American citizens and we’re
telling our government that you’ve forgotten your place. It’s not your
responsibility to look out for our well being and monitor our speech. It’s not
your right to assert an agenda. The post that you occupy exists to preserve
American liberty. You’ve sworn to perform that duty and you have faltered.”
Sue Martinek of the Coalition for Life of Iowa
also made headlines when she testified before the committee, “[The agent] told me verbally that we needed to send in
a letter with the entire board’s signatures, stating that under perjury of law
we would not picket, protest, or organize outside of Planned Parenthood.”
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Martinek told WND, “I am planning on coming
and speaking briefly. My hope is after all these stories of people who have
been subjected to the IRS overstepping their boundaries some reform will be
enacted to make sure the IRS will not be doing that to any groups, conservative
or otherwise. The IRS needs to be accountable and they
need to stop it.”
But the IRS has not stopped the
harassment and the delays in approving tax-exempt status, according to another woman who
testified before the committee.
Dianne Belsom of the Laurens County Tea Party
in South Carolina told WND, “Our group is still waiting. We still haven’t had
any response at all from the IRS and we are coming up on three years.”
“You still haven’t been approved?” asked WND.
“Right. There’s been dead silence from them
ever since this whole thing broke about a month ago.”
“Have your lawyers tried to contact the IRS?”
“They have filed a lawsuit against the IRS, so
I don’t know what the IRS is thinking is but they certainly have not gone ahead
and approved us,” said Belsom.
WND’s Jerome
Corsi broke the story on May 24, that the American Center for Law and
Justice, which represents Belsom’s tea party group, would sue the IRS because
of continued harassment.
The head of the ACLJ, Jay Sekulow, told WND,
“intrusive and unlawful questioning continued after May 2012 with 18 of our
clients receiving 26 questionnaires from the IRS from May 2012 through May
2013.”
Now Gerritson is wondering
whether there is an investigation of the IRS at all.
She told WND, “None of the tea parties we are
associated with, who were targeted, have been contacted by the FBI. It appears
there is not an FBI investigation. I hope there is one but from what we’re
hearing from other groups, no one has been contacted. Jay Sekulow is our lead
counsel, he represents 25 different tea party groups, and he confirmed a few
days ago none of them have been contacted by the FBI.”
As WND
reported four days ago, if there is an
investigation of IRS abuse by the FBI, the head of the bureau doesn’t seem to
know too much about it.
During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on
Thursday, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, grilled FBI Director Robert Muller on
progress made in the bureau’s criminal invesitgation of the IRS’s targeting of
conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
The congressman became increasingly frustrated
as Mueller answered a series of questions by saying he had little information
on the investigation.
When Jordan asked Mueller who the lead
investigator was, the director said he did not know.
Jordan seemed incredulous.
“You do not know who is the lead investigator
on the most important issue before the nation?”
“No, I do not.”
Jordan pressed on, asking if the FBI paid
visits to any of the tea party members improperly scrutinized by the IRS.
“I don’t know,” replied Mueller.
Some of them specifically said they were
visited by FBI said Jordan, citing a Catherine Engelbrecht in Texas.
“I don’t know,” said Mueller, once again.
“You don’t know,” echoed Jordan.
“You’re asking me details about the
investigation…” Mueller began to explain.
But Jordan cut him off, saying, “No I’m not, I
m asking why the FBI visited these people that happened before the
investigation started.”
“You are asking about the investigation,” the
director tried to reiterate.
But Jordan shot back, “No, I am not. I
am asking basic questions such as who the lead investigator is, and you can’t
even answer that.”
