Apparently these folks are fine with the capricious abuse of power as long as it's their team doing the abusing. The overarching principle that "abuse of power is bad" seems to go right past them. Partisan ideology makes people blind, blind, blind. Guys, the government beast that today bites the neighbor whom you hate can tomorrow just as easily bite you.
I've give you this as the quote of the day:
The IRS targeting citizens for political reasons is not simply another Washington scandal. At issue is something that strikes at the very heart of who we are as a people, what we believe as Americans and what this country has always stood for.
The First Amendment was written to protect many different types of expression. But the Founding Fathers' primary concern -- and a first principle for every generation of Americans that followed -- was the protection of political speech. Apparently, the IRS was even targeting people who criticized how the country was being run.
Protecting citizens' right to speak out against their government has always been an integral part of what separates us from tyrannical regimes. What the IRS did is how the KGB used to target dissidents. It is how they deal with troublemakers in China.
It is not how we treat American citizens. Our Constitution guarantees it.
... This is not about Republican vs. Democrat or conservative vs. liberal. It is about arrogant and unrestrained government vs. the rule of law.Preach!
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