[NYPOST] A House committee passed a resolution Wednesday to condemn and censure IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... Commissioner John Koskinen.
On a partisan 23-15 vote, the GOP-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee moved to deny Koskinen his government pension and get him out of office.
Spearheaded by chair Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), Republicans say Koskinen lied to Congress about ex-employee Lois Lerner ...the former head of the IRS Exempt Unit. She is a past president of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws and a member of the Massachussetts bar. She was held in contempt of Congress for her role in the IRS targeting of regime political enemies and refusing to testify. The dog ate her computer's hard drive with all her emails on it... and allowed key email evidence to be destroyed in an investigation of how the IRS targeted conservative groups.
"Mr. Koskinen’s misconduct deserves condemnation and censure from the Congress," Chaffetz said.
The measure now heads to the full House.
Chaffetz called the move "a helpful first step" toward the ultimate goal of impeachment, a rare rebuke that would require Senate passage. Chaffetz is pushing for impeachment in a separate Judiciary Committee hearing on June 22.
Koskinen, 76, came out of retirement in December 2013 to clean up the IRS after an independent audit found the agency was using improper criteria to screen politically active groups for tax-exempt status.
Rep. Elijah Cummings ...Representative-for-life from Maryland, representing half of Baltimore City, which makes his district ultra-safe, and most of Howard County, which is out-populated by the city. Cummings' politix are so liberal they're tedious... (D-Md.) panned the censure resolution as "bogus" because "there was no lying to Congress and no obstruction of justice."
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This piece of crap deserves full prosecution and upon conviction the full loss of benefits while he spends the rest of his days behind bars.
Vote Trump if you ever want to see anything approaching even one-tenth of the above take place.
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Get back to me when Lois Lerner is executed for treason.
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Censure seems tame but Congress has no stomach for impeachment. One of them might be next and zap there's goes their cushy job for life. At this point the lines between RINOs in Congress and lefty Donks is about a dimes worth of difference. If put to a vote outside of Washington, censure would not be the issue. The voters would be collecting tar and feathers and a rope.
So much for the oath to uphold the Constitution, eh? "Due process is what's killing us right now," said Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Morning Joe today in pushing for a bill to use secret watch lists to deny Americans civil rights. In place of due process, Manchin proposes a five-year suspension of civil rights and surveillance when the FBI fails to find anything wrong after "suspicion" arises ⌠just to be safe, of course.
In fact, Manchin admits that the watch-list ban wouldn't have worked to prevent the Orlando shooter from purchasing weapons, because the FBI had already taken him off those lists. That's why Manchin proposes that the government simply remove civil rights for five years from anyone who's been under FBI investigation:
MANCHIN: Really, the firewall we have right now is due process. It's all due process. So we can all say we want the same thing, but how do we get there? If a person is on a terrorist watch list, like the gentleman, the shooter in Orlando? He was twice by the FBI ‐ we were briefed yesterday about what happened ‐ but that young man was brought in twice. They did everything they could. The FBI did everything they were supposed to do. But there was no way to keep him on the nix list or keep him off the gun-buy list, there was no way to do that.
So can't we say that if a person's under suspicion there should be a five-year period of time that we have to see if good behavior, if this person continues the same traits? Maybe we can come to that type of an agreement, but due process is what's killing us right now.
What interesting times in which we live! Who would have guessed that we'd hear demands to demolish due process from liberals ‐ and on national television? (Hint: Everyone, eventually.) Manchin doesn't just want a watch-list ban ‐ he wants law enforcement to decide who gets to exercise civil rights, and when.
If Manchin's so keen on suspending explicit constitutional rights on the basis of suspicion, can we also eliminate the Fourth Amendment and conduct warrantless raids on people whom police suspect of being criminals? How about suspending the Fifth Amendment for people suspected of taking part in criminal conspiracies, or bypassing the Sixth Amendment rights to confront witnesses and defend one's self in a court?
Actually, Manchin's proposal would violate most of those, in one form or another, along with the Second Amendment.
Here's a better idea ‐ let's allow the executive branch to seize the records of legislators that they think might be corrupt or undermining America. Let's start with Joe Manchin! Who needs that pesky Constitution, anyway? It's killing us, man! Official suspicion is so much better than due process, at least for those who aren't the target of it. I say go farther than that. Seize their property, bank accounts and force them to house arrest until they can prove they are innocent!
Joe Manchin let the mask slip today. Let's hope that wakes up the rest of the country, before they find themselves the target of "suspicion" and spend five years ‐ or the rest of their lives ‐ dealing with the consequences of a government unmoored from due process.
To Joe and all those that want to suspend our rights: Just try it. You won't live long enough to regret it.
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Due process - in theory - allows the truth to come out because it can't be jiggered to get a predetermined outcome. In practice that's mostly but certainly not 100% true. That said, pols like Manchin (that'd be 99.999% of 'em) don't like the truth coming out, and they don't like processes that can't be controlled for desired outcome (by them.)
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Note that this is not some Leftwing wack-a-doodle in his mommy's basement.
This is not even so commie loving Ithaca professor.
This is a SENIOR DEMOCRAT in Congress!!!!!
The fascists are going so nuts that they're dropping the mask.
If any of you saw my earlier post, it is this kind of $hit that has scared my wife into wanting me to arm up.
Molon Labe, Sic Semper Tyrannis how long before the SHTF for real and all??
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Here we go. Obama's experiment of removing due process for men via Title IX across our public universities has been a major success - and has not gone unnoticed by the democrats. Prior to this experiment they never would have uttered such insanity. Now they feel they have a tried and true model with to achieve their goals combined with an incident seen as favorable for just such a move.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
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I was trying to figure out why I have been so frustrated this election cycle. Just why I am so angry, almost hurt feeling. It came to me today. I have reached a true point of clarity. The answers I have come to don’t make me any happier, but I do understand the how and why of my feelings, like a beacon it has become clear.
I wonder just what the hell happened in America. While I was gone in the military things changed. They changed radically. I can no longer call someone Black, white, brown, by the color of their skin. I’m racist or a Bigot. If I say he is that black guy, or Mexican guy over there, I am just wrong. But being identified as that white guy over there is ok. Double standards never work for me, but here we are knee deep in them. But this is deeper than that.
There is systematic process of silencing the over 40 year old middle class white guy. All hate speech laws are directed at this group. We no longer live in a world where stick and stones can break my bones but words will never hurt me, my mother taught me that and by the way and I have more respect for her than any of you reading this. We live where people think they are some kind of special snowflake. Where their feeling outweigh my rights and everyone else’s for that matter. Where we have to curb our speech, bite out tongue as to not offend some snowflake with our words, because words hurt. Well, they only hurt if you let them. Stop letting them, grow the fuck up, get out of your mothers basement, off social media, and join the real world, its pretty nice out here.
The challenge with this is that this is a direct attack on my right to free speech. Laws have been passed that tell me I can not express my Christian belief that homosexuality does not fit in my belief system, that I believe it is an unhealthy life choice. When I express this I’m called a homophobe, hater, bigot, and my words are a crime. I did not call for the death to gays, of even that they can not live and thrive in our society. I said it does not fit in my beliefs, no one has the right to control my beliefs. I’m not a homophobe, it is bullshit that I even have to defend myself and my beliefs. If you don’t like them, exercise you right to not listen to me or just go fuck yourself and your feeling. The US government is now prosecuting people who publically disagree with a scientific hypothesis of global warming. It is not a fact, not proven to be a fact any more than the fact in Galileo’s time that the sun revolved around the earth. A scientifically flawed, but generally agreed on, and politically mandated belief. A flawed science that was believed by the masses, scientists, and leaders, and when Galileo spoke his mind on another theory, he was arrested, and instead of being sentenced to death, he was place in house arrest in Florence Italy. For his thoughts, not actions, he cannot affect the movement of the stars any more than we are responsible for the fraud called global warming. Disagreement should never be a crime, we have a constitutional right to free thought and free speech. But not if you are an over 40 white guy. These laws restrict MY constitutional right of free speech as guaranteed in the 1st amendment to the constitution of the United States of America.
So my feelings are hurt, just like the snowflake I described earlier. But if that all it was I would man up and ignore it, like when Obama says America’s problems are all related to the middle aged white man. I disagree with him, but when I do I am a bigot and hater. But this is a bit different. Laws have been placed to limit MY free speech. Someone has decided that my free speech is hate and a crime, and when the black community in St Louis kills people and burns down their neighborhood it is a 1st amendment right for them to do so. And my being critical of the blacks burning their homes and businesses is bigoted, yet another crime. My desire to live a heterosexual Christian life is mocked, laws are passed to restrict my openness and restrict my worshiping. Only as a Christian white guy are these laws enforced against. The Muslim call to prayer is taught in some of America’s schools where Christian children are forced to mock pray to Allah, to show them it’s good. Speak out against this and you’re talking hate speech, a crime. Wear a cross to school and your expelled. I have no constitutional protection of free speech. I am “allowed” to speak, as long as it fits the national narrative and is derogatory to only the white middle aged man.
So we are in the constitutional finality, the fourth turning, I believe our constitution is now reduced to paper with no real meaning. Special interests have perverted peoples good will into bastardizing this document and reducing its meaningless drivel. Less pointed than a picture drawn with a broken crayon and less direct than the meanderings of an intellectual idiot. Once they have reduce the ability to speak freely, and we are almost there, the second amendment is next. Our President, the man that is supposed to support and defend the constitution with his very soul has called me a gun toting, bible clutching bigot. Isolating me from any value in any conversations. I’m that guy, clutching his guns and bible. Discount him, his speech, by the way, is now not protected by the constitution. I have only one word or warning to share on this.
Today they are coming for me, I will fight with every ounce of being in my soul to defend this constitution. Because I know, when they finish me, ridicule me, jail me, kill me, or finally silence me somehow, they will, just as sure as the sun rises come for you next….
Until then, I am not hiding and I am not alone.
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Fred, thanks, I feel much better now...
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I think this guy is just preparing the battlefield so that if this happens his lefty army of trolls can start sewing suspicion on conservatives to get them on the watch list. Sickening really.
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Well, Joe - Hillary is under FBI investigation, so . . . .
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Excellent 49 Pan. While you were away serving (many thanks for you service) America was tribalized by Obama. But not everyone - just the Dem constituencies. To matter in America today, to have access to the corridors of real power you must belong to one of these tribes. Otherwise, you're an outlander who's presence threatens the health of the combined tribes. You must be marginalized at all points. To find out if you belong to one of the annointed tribes, all you need so is look at the questionnaires the DNC sends out after elections. Ya know, to get the pulse of the volkes. Every demographic under the sun is listed except one. Male. The African American male can select African American. The White female can select female. Guess who has been frozen out? RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
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49 Pan, I believe what we are seeing is peek liberalism. They are turning against each other and others are aligning against them and their slander. I feel we are a bit Weimar Republic with the decadence and madness but luckily we are not the Fascists the left always claims and so we will recover.
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49 Pan, a colleague of mine recently expressed nearly the exact same sentiments as your post. Interestingly, he is an immigrant from Bosnia. It took him and his wife over a decade to be granted full citizenship. He repeatedly expressed his sincere pride but humblally warned the direction the US has taken reminds him of the corruption he witnessed that (in part) led to civil war. He ominously said that a corrupt government will always try to silence it's citizens in order to take away their rights. He went on to say the vilification of those that defend the second ammendment is a prime example of tyranny in its infancy.
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Excellent rant, 49PAN. Expresses what we feel, and well articulated.
Here is what I see: O&Co have their agenda that they came in with in 2008. His foreign policy is a disaster. He has sh*t on our allies and cozied up to our enemies and adversaries. He is not respected by other governments, so he has failed in this regard.
On the domestic front, he has tinkered with everything and basically damaged the basic institutions of this country that have been painfully developed over many years. He has got away with things, because of the passivity of the Congress.
But domestically, he is failing there, too. So what does he do? He attacks the opposition by the Alynski playbook. Accuses us of racisism, homophobia, etc etc. Things that you cannot defend yourself against with the kind of ad hominem attacks he does. Reason does not apply here.
Law abiding citizens cannot defend themselves unless they are going beyond the law. And he will make laws that will make us outlaws. He is softening up his enemies. Been doing this for years. He cannot control anything but the citizens. Look at the feds record of stopping terrorist attacks in this country. It is a joke. He does not care about the attacks. They are a convenient excuse for furthering his agenda.
He is putting good citizens in an untenable position: be a good dhimmi or be an outlaw. It has come to this.
But there is a fly in the ointment. The government is bankrupt. Once entities quit buying govt securities, the currency collapses. There is no where to go.
But find comfort in this: Europe is in the same boat, maybe worse. Merkel is trying to do the same thing with refugees in Germany. It is a giant slow motion suicide of countries.
We are heading over the cliff of the crisis. What happens on the other side could be good, if we can get it together, or really bad, if we can't. But this nation will never be the same.
Well, look on the good side. Yellowstone has not gone off......................yet.
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[MCCLATCHYDC] A 4-year-old Northern California child found himself on the terrorist watch list that’s now at the center of the congressional gun-control debate.
Identified as Baby Doe in court filings, the boy was one of more than 1 million people added to the federal government’s secret database that’s grown by leaps and bounds since it was established by the Bush administration in 2003.
At least he won't be able to have a BB gun...
This is the same watch list that many Democrats want to use to screen out potential gun buyers. The possibility of error alarms civil libertarians and Second Amendment activists alike as Congress considers the proposal, which is popularly marketed as “no-fly, no-buy.”
“If it’s too dangerous for you to board an airplane, it’s too dangerous for you to buy a gun,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Wednesday.
The bill written by Sen. Dianne Feinstein ...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator.... , D-Calif., would allow the Justice Department to block gun sales to watch-listed individuals, whom she called “known or suspected terrorists,” if authorities have a “reasonable belief that the weapon would be used in connection with terrorism.”
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I have a big problem with this whole 'watch list' concept. Not with the list itself, but with the lack of any process to appeal - or in many cases to even find out that you are on it and that it is why you can't get on the plane.
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NO! It would be too easy for the Executive Branch to develop an "enemies list" and put whomever he/she wanted on the list. There goes your 2nd Amendment rights.
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The elimination of all due process is the brass ring here.
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re: #2....
That's HELL NO, John.
Instant gun control, since there's no process for getting on or off the list; they can put everyone that has ever had or wants a background check on the list.
Hey presto, you can't buy a gun.
The evil minions of the left are experts in Catch-22.
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If someone is a "known terrorist" he or she should be either dead or in jail. If someone is a suspected terrorist keep an eye on them either until you have enough evidence to charge them with a crime or until you are satisfied they are not a threat. That's kinda simple, isn't it?
Oh, and if you don't have enough agents to keep an eye on all the terrorists that Baraq let's into the country from places like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Chechnya then tell fucking Baraq to stop letting those people into the country.
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Nevermind that this wouldn't do a single thing to actually solve the problem of terrorist attacks like Pulse.
These are secret lists. There is no criteria for getting on the list and not process for getting off the list.
Lois Lerner can simply place all the conservative organization members (and posters to Rantburg) on the list. After all this administration considers conservatives just as dangerious as actual Islamic terrorist.
Someone once told me that when the left gets the presidency they will do every single thing they accused the Bush administration of doing. How true.
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Trump needs a 'win' with the NRA for political reasons. Let them work out some sort of deal and get it before the Congress. It could be something as innocent as an amended 4473 (background check), or local law enforcement approval as is done with sound suppressors. Let's see what they come up with.
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Besoeker...WADR Bullshit.. As a reminder, Trump at one time said he supported a ban on "assault weapons ". Then with no explanation of a pivot point - wasn't. So excuse those of us that are skeptical of a man whose proven not to have any true foundations other than to his personal advancement. Mr.Trump and President Obama are making Orlando into a gun control issue. Fucks him.
[POLITICO] Donald Trump has his own theory on how a trove of Democratic National Committee opposition research on him appeared to make its way to the public -- the DNC itself leaked it.
The file, which the Washington Post reported was stolen by Russian government hackers, was published Wednesday afternoon by The Smoking Gun and Gawker, which said it received the document from an anonymous source who identified himself only as "Guccifer 2.0." But Trump saw the release differently, accusing the DNC of releasing the research as a diversionary tactic.
"We believe it was the DNC that did the ’hacking’ as a way to distract from the many issues facing their deeply flawed candidate and failed party leader," Trump said in a statement released Wednesday. "Too bad the DNC doesn’t hack Crooked Hillary’s, 33,000 missing emails."
The comprehensive, 211-page document lays out multiple lines of attack against the billionaire, attacking him as "loyal only to himself" and as a man with "no core." It lists, with thorough sourcing, Trump’s various positional shifts on key issues and checkered personal history, including accusations of infidelity and allegations of rape against him by his wife, Ivana Trump.
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Anything's possible in this election. It will get weirder and weirder in the run up to the election.
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They would not have released the info when it couldn't get maximum airplay. If they had released it during a slow news week I would have been inclined to agree with Mr Trump on this.
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In fact a really clever politician would have hacked HIllary's opposition research and then released it themselves (after vetting out the worst if necessary) during a busy news week.
I don't think Trump did this mind you, but I wouldn't put it beyond Putin.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the former head of the IRS Exempt Unit. She is a past president of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws and a member of the Massachussetts bar. She was held in contempt of Congress for her role in the IRS targeting of regime political enemies and refusing to testify. The dog ate her computer's hard drive with all her emails on it...
Quite frankly, I've been hoping for much more. 
So much for the oath to uphold the Constitution, eh? "Due process is what's killing us right now," said Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Morning Joe today in pushing for a bill to use secret watch lists to deny Americans civil rights. In place of due process, Manchin proposes a five-year suspension of civil rights and surveillance when the FBI fails to find anything wrong after "suspicion" arises ⌠just to be safe, of course.
