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Yet Another IRS Abuse of Power

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As if we weren’t already scared and distrustful enough of the Internal Revenue Service, now a new report by the Office of Special Council reveals still more lawlessness among the tax collectors. (Source: Washington Post news article quoted by Guy Benson today in “Watchdog: IRS Employees Told Taxpayers to Vote for Obama, Badmouthed GOP,” in townhall.com)

The Hatch Act, a federal law, prohibits the use of governmental agencies for partisan political purposes. You’d never guess that such a law was on the books, the way some IRS personnel behave.

During the 2012 election season, says the OSC report, IRS employees urged taxpayers to vote for Obama and chanted political slogans. Can you think of anything more unsettling than an IRS agent sitting at a desk across from you, chanting the president’s name while you’re trying to find out how much money you have to pay? At an IRS office in Dallas, says the report, IRS employees wore campaign stickers and “Vote for Obama” buttons, had Obama screensavers on their computers, and Obama posters on the walls. They even wore “Obama clothing,” whatever that may be.

.This is not only blatantly lawless. It’s also terribly intimidating. People are going to be thinking, “Oh, what will happen to me if I don’t vote for Obama, and they find out?”

Libs ‘n’ progs, of course, are scratching their heads, wondering what anybody’s so upset about. What’s wrong with totally ignoring the law?

This is what happens when you hand power over to amoral, immoral fanatics–and that’s what our country did in 2008.

The election and, even more, the re-election of Obama is a perpetual blot on America’s history, a shame that can never be wiped out.

I just wonder what they have to do to us, how much more they can do to us, before we’ve had enough.

Parliament Seeks to Ban an Opinion

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In the land where the Magna Carta was signed, and modern notions of liberty were born, there is a movement in the House of Commons to ban an opinion and to prevent the public from hearing it.

What opinion is that? Britain should have sharia law? The Queen is a space alien?

Nope: various members of the house want to silence other members who are guilty of the crime of “Climate Change skepticism.” Furthermore, these members want to order the BBC not to interview skeptics, or report their public comments, without first getting a special clearance from the government ( http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article4051905.ece ).

Liberty, the gift of God, established in England and America at such great cost in blood–our ruling classes and their nooze media lackeys are throwing it away with both hands. How many years do we have left, before they abolish it altogether?

Father in Heaven, deliver us out of the hands of these wicked and ungodly persons, for your own name’s sake. Amen.

 

USDA to Grandma: Read the Kids Government Bedtime Stories

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Oh, how I wish this was an April Fool’s joke! But it isn’t. Sadly enough, it’s true. See http://freebeacon.com/issues/usda-to-grandparents-read-government-bedtime-stories-to-encourage-healthy-eating/

In a project costing almost $9 million of your dollars, the USDA is offering grandparents a little book of government bedtime stories to “show how much they love and care about their grandchildren.” The storybook is called “The Two Bite Club” and you can read it here ( http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/two-bite-club ).

In one of these tales from the government crypt, Gramma Cat plies her kittens with those irresistible dainties, “broccoli, yellow apples, low-fat yogurt, and ‘hard-cooked’ eggs.” If they try two bites of each, they get “a certificate of participation.” At the end of the story, a kitten says, “I am so proud of myself. I tried some new foods and I learned about My Plate.” Good job, kitty. You’re a genius.

You know, if my grandma had ever read me anything like that, I would have feared for her sanity.

Hey, if this works, we’ll probably see a lot more government bedtime stories. “Once upon a time, in a magical land called America, capitalist warmongers kept income unequal and made all the workers sad. But then along came a brave young prince named Lord Barack…”

In retrospect, I am amazed the USDA didn’t treat us to some healthy eating bedtime stories featuring “two moms” or “two dads.” And how about some Global Warming bedtime stories, while we’re at it?

Father in Heaven, I pray: please sweep away these people, and wipe their works off the face of the earth.

A Simple Formula for Tyranny

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To understand events in this fallen world, in this haunted age, keep in mind this simple formula.

                         Science + Politics = Trouble

Trouble for who? Why, for you and me, of course. But also for those suckers who think they’re gonna be on top, but will surely wind up on the bottom with the rest of us.

Folks, this has roots running deep into the 19th century–this depraved dream that, if we harness the limitless and infallible powers of science to a political agenda, we’ll have paradise on earth. It rests on an elitist conviction, or rather a pagan religious conviction, that most people are hopeless idiots and they need a ruling class of scientific experts and political administrators to run their lives for them. Sort of like the way the Morlocks run the lives of the Eloi.

This is what Global Warming’s all about. This is why I spend so much time on it.

But it’s also what a great many people simply will not understand.

Please, people, please–open your eyes. Look at the world around us. To what country has more government ever brought more happiness?

As John Adams observed, if we were angels, we wouldn’t need any government at all. But there aren’t any angels in the government: and who is to govern those sinners who’ve been given so much power over others?

Be assured that they mean to cut down the tree of liberty and burn it to ashes. We can see them already floating their little trial balloons for communism. “Oh, well, sure–it didn’t work when Stalin did it: or Mao or Castro or any of those others. But now we are gonna run the show, and it’s gonna be great!”:

Please pay attention.

These people are more evil than you think.

Canada Avoids Gays vs. Muslims Showdown

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Two years ago in Toronto, a lesbian went into a Muslim barber shop and tried to force them–by filing a complaint with the “Human Rights” Tribunal–to give her a haircut (see my Nov. 20, 2012 post, “A Canadian Tragedy (Or Is It a Farce?)”).

Wow! What was going to happen? No Muslim has ever lost a case before a “human rights” tribunal. No homosexual or lesbian has, either. Which “protected class” of citizens would reign supreme in Canada?

Well, now we hear the case has been settled behind the scenes, with both sides bound by a confidentiality agreement to keep us from ever finding out what happened (see http://godfatherpolitics.com/14623/muslim-barber-shop-case-settled-secret-woman-failed-complaint/ ). We also learn there was a unisex barbershop just down the street, but the lesbian wanted the thrill of forcing someone to act against his religion. Where did she think she was–the United States?

Under Canadian law, both homosexuals and Muslims have rights far superior to those enjoyed by, say, Christians. So what was going to happen here? I was looking forward to a great steel cage match.

Now we can only speculate.

Did the tribunal shake down some Christians and buy off the lesbian, the Muslim barber, or both?

Did someone explain to the lesbian that it’s really, really dangerous to mess with Muslims? That there are more Muslims in Toronto than there are “gays,” and you really shouldn’t get them riled? Not if you want to keep your head attached to the rest of you.

Every day in the news, we see sodomites bullying Christians, using the coercive apparatus of the state to try to force Christians to take part in “gay” pseudo-weddings, etc. We have not yet, in America, seen them try to pull this trick on Muslims or Orthodox Jews.

But in Canada the steel cage match has been postponed–for how long, who can say?

The Hatchery of Stalinism

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One gets the impression that libs ‘n’ progs aren’t comfortable with free speech and would, if they could, get rid of it.

Last week it was the FCC trying to insert government “monitors” into the newsrooms. We also had some bint from Swarthmore demanding that the college allow no more debates: because, she explained, there really is only one side to every question and why should anyone on campus ever have to hear from some conservative who is just plain wrong about everything?

This week it’s the Harvard Crimson publishing an article by a student calling for the end of academic freedom–no more “oppressive,” non-leftist ideas should be allowed (see http://www.thecrimson.com/column/the-red-line/article/2014/2/18/academic-freedom-justice/?page=single ). She looks back fondly on the good old days of the SDS, the Students for a Democratic (LOL!) Society, when they’d just show up with bullhorns to drown out anyone who tried to say anything the SDS didn’t like. If the speaker was a college professor, they could “occupy” his office and destroy all his papers, and maybe vandalize his car. If the speaker was a student, they could beat him up.

This, she says, would all be in the cause of “justice.” Trust lefties to give the word “justice” a bad name! It’s only “justice” to silence Global Warming “denial,” opposition to homosexual pseudomarriage, criticism of abortion, blah-blah-blah.

Has the American university become a hatchery for Stalinists? What are those jerks with the grey ponytails teaching our young people? What’s going to happen to this country when these ignorant freedom-haters take over? Looks to me like we’re clutching a whole brood of vipers to our breast.

Something has to be done to break the Far Left’s stranglehold on education in America, and it needs to be done quickly.

PS–the link to the article in The Crimson doesn’t work, for some reason. If you want to read the original, search for Feb. 18, The Harvard Crimson, Academic Freedom, by Sandra Korn. Sorry.

PSS–I have corrected a typo, and now the link works.

America’s Nooze Media: The Dog That Didn’t Bark

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Maybe you remember Sherlock Holmes, in Silver Blaze, explaining to Watson a significant clue: the fact that a watchdog didn’t bark.

Well, here we have our big-time nooze media, which loves to call itself a watchdog, learning of a scheme to insert the federal government into TV and radio newsrooms–and the dog didn’t bark. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, and all the rest–and not so much as a yip out of any one of them. “First Amendment? We don’t need no stinkin’ First Amendment!”

The FCC shelved the project after one of its own commissioners blew the whistle on it. Otherwise, we would’ve awakened one morning to a fait accompli–government “monitors” and “researchers”–that is, goons–in the newsrooms to see that the editors and reporters covered the stories that the White House felt should be covered, and burked the stories the White House wanted burked. That’s how you protect the Regime from unwanted stories of Climate Change denial, Benghazi, the cornucopia of scandal pouring out of the government, Obamacare glitches, etc., etc. That’s how you get non-stop coverage of whatever Dear Leader wants you to see.

Not a peep out of the free press. Happily, we now have enough “alternative media” to make a stink about this scheme and embarrass Congress into demanding explanations. And so it went back onto George Soros’ wish list… probably to be revived another day.

Just as a thought experiment, try to imagine what the nooze media reaction would have been, had President George W. Bush made just a little joke about doing something like this.

The howl of protest would be heard beyond the Solar System.

It is distressing to learn that the free press has so little interest in keeping the press free.

But that’s leftists for you–the sworn enemies of freedom, every day, in every way.

Dictatorship 101

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To any tyrant, a free press is intolerable. That’s why it’s enshrined in the First Amendment to our Constitution.

Of course, our nooze media mostly serves as an arm of the Democrat Party and cheerleaders for whatever lib politician happens to be in power. Toward the current administration, and the current occupant of the White House, the press has been subservient to the point of idolatry.

And what has it gotten them?

Government “monitors” in TV newsrooms! ( http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/02/20/shockwaves-over-obama-administrations-plan-to-put-goverbnment-monitors-in-newsrooms-101932 )

Egged on, no doubt, by the Hugo Chavez wannabes in the White House, the FCC plans to send goons–er, “researchers”–“to oversee TV and radio newsrooms” and examine “the process by which stories are selected,” and so on. They’re going to take care of “perceived station bias–”

All right, get up from the floor. You don’t really need a barf bag, do you?

Now, what do you suppose would have happened, had George W. Bush even cracked a joke about wanting to do this?

For five years, the noozies have crept and crawled and groveled to the commie cabal on Pennsylvania Avenue, as they creep and crawl and grovel to every leftist who slithers into the seat of power.

And this is what they get!

It serves them right, of course. But it doesn’t serve the American people right.

UPDATE: This just in, from Fox News via Free Republic… The Federal Communications Commission has “shelved” its plan to take over TV and radio newsrooms.

Translation: The story broke before they were ready, embarrassed them, and they had to back off.

But they’ll try again.

 

 

The Year Britain Went Mad

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1936: Let us set the stage.

In defiance of treaty obligations, Nazi Germany is arming at a frantic pace. We know from captured documents that Hitler was already planning to unleash war in Europe. He has occupied the Rheinland demilitarized zone. Already he has more modern weapons than Britain and France. He has every intention of using them.

Now let us turn to Britain, whose survival is very much at stake.

In a speech before the House of Commons, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin admits he considers it more important to win elections than to defend the country. For this he earns not disgust and hatred, but a rousing cheer. He is encouraged in a policy of appeasement by his chancellor and soon-to-be successor, Neville Chamberlain: who views everything in terms of pounds and pence, and says that standing up to Hitler will hamper trade and cost money.

The new King of England, Edward VIII, refuses to abandon his affair with multiple divorcee Wallis Simpson, an American with strong pro-Nazi sympathies. This escalates into a constitutional crisis, only resolved at last by the king’s abdication.

Winston Churchill, who has for years been trying to persuade Parliament to see the German threat, and to re-arm before it’s too late, squanders his hard-won political support by obstinately defending the king. By now the king is universally unpopular.

Churchill, who is never drunk, now shows up drunk to give a singularly tactless and clueless speech to the House of Commons. It comes very near to ending, once and for all, the career of the one man who might be able to save Europe from the Nazis.

Ex-King Edward with his new bride honeymoons in Germany, where he is photographed giving a Nazi salute.

Baldwin and Chamberlain, having bested Churchill in the fight over the king, double down on their appeasement policy. This will culminate in the infamous Munich pact of 1938, in which Chamberlain signs away Czechoslovakia to Hitler. From that point on, War War II is inevitable.

The lesson?

Daft leaders and foolish policies make for disaster.

All those people killed in the London Blitz, cringing in the subways as the Luftwaffe bombed their city into rubble… all because of this.

All because of this.

A Cautionary Tale (and a Cold One)

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In 1913, the American Museum of Natural History sent a scientific expedition to the Arctic to discover, map, and explore “Crocker Land,” dubbed “the Arctic Atlantis.” This was because Robert Peary, the great explorer who would be the first to reach the North Pole (if Frederick Cook’s claim is disallowed), said he saw it, from a distance, with binoculars. Peary named it Crocker Land and estimated it lay some 120 miles distant from where he stood on the mainland.

Speculation ran wild. Peary himself, inspired by Eskimo legends, thought Crocker Land might be an ice-free paradise. The folks at the museum thought he might be right.

And so for four years the expedition, led by Donald MacMillan, flailed around the ice and snow looking for this happy, sun-kissed hunting ground.

What they found was endless hardship and privation: because there was no such place as Crocker Land. Peary had seen a mirage. MacMillan’s second-in-command, Fitzhugh Green, went mad and murdered his Eskimo guide. What was left of the expedition returned to New York in 1917. It is recorded that the Museum Director, Henry Fairfield Osborne, was furious at the cost of the expedition–to say nothing of its total failure, and even less of the looming scandal of a murder.

All this on account of a mirage.

[My source: Dinosaurs in the Attic: an Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History by Douglas Preston, St. Martin’s Press, New York: 1986]

Well, it wasn’t the first time Big Science chased a mirage, and it won’t be the last. And Heaven help anyone caught standing in the way.