Open Season on Conservatives – The Obama Regime’s Refusal to Indict Lois Lerner
In truth, it wasn’t unexpected that Lois Lerner would get away with openly and wantonly targeting conservative-leaning 501(c)(4) organizations, applying for tax exemptions, running up to the 2012 Election. Ultimately, she did what she was told to do, kept her mouth shut during congressional hearings, and the administration duly kept their promise to her, that if she co-operated with the administration by cloaking their obvious involvement, nothing would happen to her, at the end of the day.
Quickly summing up what led to all of this, the IRS targeting of conservative organizations applying for 501(c)(4) tax exemptions, was originally and falsely blamed on rogue operatives in the IRS Cincinnati office, which was later traced to the IRS Headquarters in Washington. The former Commissioner of the IRS, Doug Shulman, went to the White House 138 times during his tenure- when the targeting was going on but, in Congressional testimony, said that he could only recall an Easter egg hunt as the reason for one of these 138 visits- and, somehow, he could not remember why he went there on the other 137 occasions. Then, two years after Lois Lerner’s e-mails were subpoenaed by Congress, these e-mails suddenly vanished into thin air, purportedly due to a hard drive crash, and the subsequent disposal of the computer’s hard drive conveniently waylaid and prevented further investigation into e-mails that Lerner had sent to government entities outside the Treasury Department- e-mails which might otherwise have revealed IRS communication to other government entities, like OSHA and the FBI, which also launched investigations into businesses run by taxpayers who supported these same conservative organizations. Also noteworthy was the fact that seven other IRS officials, being tied to the IRS abuse scandals, also somehow had the ‘misfortune” of hard drive crashes and lost e-mails. All the while, Obama insisted that there was “not a smidgen of corruption” in this arena. Lois Lerner subsequently appeared before congress twice, pled the fifth on both occasions (this is only done when someone would otherwise open themselves to criminal charges), and ultimately got away with this illegal targeting, because the all-too-corrupt Department of Justice, first under Eric Holder and, now under Loretta Lynch, on orders from the President himself, has not and will not pursue a case which, if fully investigated, would show the president’s involvement in the aggregated abuse of power.
Well, this wasn’t the first time President Obama played fast and loose with the truth (Hillary’s e-mail, specifically related to the Benghazi investigation, anyone?) and it won’t be the last time, either.
Call this a precursor into how the Obama administration will ultimately handle (or, rather, not handle) the FBI investigation into Hillary’s e-mail scandals. The FBI, investigating multiple felonies which have clearly been committed by Mrs. Clinton (remember David Petraeus?), will eventually seek to hand down indictments of Mrs. Clinton related to a host of violations of federal law and the Obama administration will, as they have with Ms. Lerner, summarily refuse to press charges.
The mainstream media, in full betrayal of the principals their forefathers set during the Watergate era, will give both Obama and Hillary a free ride on these scandals because they are no longer a free press practicing the safeguards against tyranny as the “fourth estate”, but rather have become an advocacy-based cheering section for the Democrat Party. Just as they did everything they could to elect Obama twice, they will do everything they can to elect Hillary in 2016, by painting even the most moderate Republican nominee as a racist, misogynist, right-wing extremist who will drive women seeking abortions back into the dark alleys of coat-hangers and death. This is what has become of the free press in America, today- ironic in that here we find ourselves living in the “information age”.
Yes it is, indeed, open season on Republicans and conservatives, in particular, who are being labeled by the Obama administration as “domestic terrorists” while this is being written. The same thing happened before in the Soviet Union, and in Nazi Germany, and in Communist China, when political opposition became illegal, and we are ultimately reminded, once again, of what Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) once wrote:
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out– Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out– Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out– Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me–and there was no one left to speak for me.”
When the last conservative Republican is left, who will speak for this person, and who, at long last, will speak for representative democracy and the Constitution of the United States?
-Drew Nickell, 27 October 2015
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