{"id":21557,"date":"2014-01-14T11:15:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T16:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21557"},"modified":"2014-01-14T11:15:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T16:15:43","slug":"the-only-solution-to-this-is-an-educated-voter-willing-to-speak-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21557","title":{"rendered":"The Only Solution To This Is An Educated Voter Willing To Speak Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/01\/13\/the-crime-of-the-irs\/\">New York Post <\/a>reported that a leak from the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Internal Revenue Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">IRS<\/a> investigation states that the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Federal Bureau of Investigation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.894465,-77.024503&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.894465,-77.024503 (Federal%20Bureau%20of%20Investigation)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">FBI<\/a> does not expect to file criminal charges in the IRS targeting of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Conservatism\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conservatism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">conservative<\/a> groups. As someone who had my taxes audited for the first time ever as a result of the URS targeting conservatives, I object. I really object.<\/p>\n<p>The actions taken by the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/celebrity\/barack_obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"rottentomatoes\">Obama Administration<\/a> through the IRS were aimed at limiting <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Freedom of speech\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freedom_of_speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">free speech<\/a> during an election cycle. The Obama Administration is currently busy writing a series of laws to make sure conservative free speech will also be squelched in the upcoming election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomworks.org\/press-releases\/freedomworks-activists-fight-newly-proposed-irs-ru\">Freedomworks<\/a> reported on January 6th:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cWhile you were all celebrating <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Thanksgiving\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thanksgiving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Thanksgiving<\/a> with family and friends, the Obama Administration was quietly releasing a new set of draconian IRS regulations that would make it virtually impossible for tea parties that want to participate in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Political opportunity\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Political_opportunity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">political process<\/a> to do their business. They\u2019re going after conservative groups, they\u2019re going after libertarian groups, and they\u2019re going after citizen groups that want to organize people based on the values of the constitution; based on the ideas of freedom and have an impact on the political conversation.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article further explains:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cIf that sounds familiar, what they\u2019re doing is formalizing the same persecution, the same targeting that we saw coming out of the IRS leading up to the 2012 election. We need to do something about this. The time frame is very short; they are trying to jam this through the process. If we don\u2019t make our voices heard, they are going to get away with it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Concerned citizens can access the IRS comment page through the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irstarget.com\/\">www.IRSTarget.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The IRS\u2019s deadline for public responses is February 27, 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you want your freedom of speech in the future, now is the time to make some noise. Our freedom of speech is truly in danger.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_h.png?x-id=f5b0105f-5e99-4722-8fa3-36a0cf26df47\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the New York Post reported that a leak from the IRS investigation states that the FBI does not expect to file criminal charges in the IRS targeting of conservative groups. As someone who had my taxes audited for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21557\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,5798,420,284,678,657,135,285],"class_list":["post-21557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-conservatism","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-internal-revenue-service","tag-irs","tag-new-york-post","tag-obama-administration","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21558,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21557\/revisions\/21558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}