"The IRS Doesn't Need Criminal Intent
To Prosecute"
from "In Defense of
Rural America"
By Ron Ewart,
President
National Association of Rural Landowners (www.narlo.org)
It is a well-known fact that nothing happens in
Washington DC by accident.
There are no coincidences. It was not a coincidence
that former president Bill Clinton suddenly appeared on the tarmac when U. S.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s plane landed in Phoenix. It was no coincidence
that he entered her plane and talked with her for 39 minutes without witnesses.
It was no coincidence that the attending FBI agents wanted no pictures taken of
the "chance" encounter. It was no coincidence that the FBI interviewed Hillary
Clinton the following day. It was no coincidence that a few days later that FBI
Director James Comey gave a fifteen minute statement absolving Hillary Clinton
of any crime, because he said, there was no "criminal
intent" even though she was carelessly negligent and
the statutes didn’t require criminal intent. It was no coincidence that U. S.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said she would accept the FBI’s recommendation,
without her own review of the investigation. They call that a rubberstamp.
When, in the history of our great Republic, did the FBI
Director become defense counsel, judge and jury?
Was Comey bought off? We don’t know. But ladies
and gentlemen it smells so bad as to remove all doubt that a "deal" was made at
the highest level of government to save Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid.
That is tyranny and corruption by any definition. Whatever respect we had
for James Comey was dashed by his obviously political decision. He sacrificed
honor for political expediency.
The IRS, doesn’t need for you to have criminal
intent to be hounded, harassed, intimidated, or prosecuted by this rogue,
out-of-control bureaucracy that has no master. All you have to do is to run
afoul of the IRS’ interpretation of Title 26 of the United States Code (USC).
Depending on the agent and the office location, their interpretation of Title 26
can be whatever they want it to be. You have two choices, comply or fight.
Fighting can be an exhausting, time consuming, expensive and a highly emotional
experience. Most taxpayers just capitulate to the almighty Goliath.
As we stated before in another article, the IRS
hounds over 10,000,000 taxpayers every year for IRS mistakes. As we write this,
we are in the sights of the IRS for one of their mistakes. That fight has been
going on since November of last year. And that is only one of the fights we have
had with the IRS that extends over 10 years. They are relentless. They pay no
attention to your claims of innocence and ignore your legal defenses. They
violate your right to due process and they trample all over your constitutional
rights. They use threats of huge fines, penalties and even jail time if you
resist. In the criminal world, their actions amount to coercion, extortion and
blackmail. Congress won’t rein them in and they are free to operate as a shadow,
ruthless government, with virtually unlimited power.
The IRS has gone after any conservative group
who dares to ask for tax-exempt status. Their persecution of these groups was
fodder for a giant scandal that ended in an FBI investigation. But like the
Hillary Clinton FBI investigation, the FBI let the IRS off the hook. Once might
be a coincidence, but twice it is collusion at the highest level and therefore
an illegal conspiracy.
And God help you if the EPA comes along and
charges you with a violation of the "Clean Water Act." One Wyoming rancher was
attacked by the EPA for creating some irrigation and stock watering ponds on his
property, with full permits from the state. That wasn’t good enough for the EPA.
They hit the rancher with a fine of $37,500 per day for a Clean Water Act
violation. As the fines mounted to almost $20,000,000 he had to take the case to
the U. S. Supreme Court to beat back their attack. He prevailed, with the help
of the Pacific Legal Foundation who defended him at the high court. He got the
fines lifted and the violation rescinded but he received nothing for his lost
time, money and emotional distress. But how many ranchers and farmers have the
resources to fight the federal government? While at the same time, presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton is free as a bird for multiple federal law
violations.
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is another
federal law overseen by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Agency with drastic
consequences for landowners. Tens of thousands of rural landowners, mostly West
of the Mississippi, have become the target of radical environmental groups that
sue the government over whether an animal or plant species should be listed as
threatened or endangered. God help you if your land is the habitat for one of
these species. On the backs of the taxpayer these environmental groups and their
attorneys receive huge settlements from the government allowing them to continue
their lawsuits to preserve species that should have been de-listed, based on
fraudulent science. The ESA has become a cash cow for environmental groups and
their attorneys while devastating rural landowners who lose the right of use of
their land because of a threatened or endangered species. The landowners lose,
but Hillary and others like her win.
Legitimate businesses are also targets of
federal bureaucracies. Federal agents raided Gibson Guitar over some woods they
were using in the manufacturing process. The government claimed the woods were
banned. The charge had no merit in law. That raid cost Gibson several million
dollars in fines, penalties and lost business. Gibson Guitar was a non-union
company and the owner had donated fairly large sums to Republican candidates.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton gets a free pass.
Dairy farmers have been raided by federal
agencies for daring to exchange their un-pasteurized milk with willing buyers.
Thousands of farmers are having their irrigation water cutoff for a stupid
two-inch fish. But Hillary can break the law with impunity and receives no
punishment and is in fact rewarded for her criminal behavior. She could become
the next president of the United States.
Illegal aliens flood into America by the
millions, breaking our laws. Very little is done to stop the flood and many
American cities are openly shielding them. Illegal aliens get rewarded for their
law breaking with our tax dollars and Democrats continue to promise them amnesty
through proposed immigration reform legislation. The federal government gives
sanctuary cities a pass while these cities openly defy federal law. But Hillary
can’t be prosecuted because she didn’t have criminal intent.
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement
perpetrates violent protests all over America for an injustice that doesn’t
exist. They are funded with millions of dollars from rich liberal businessmen
and Hollywood actors. Very few of the BLM lawbreakers are prosecuted for their
criminal activities. Obama and Hillary have endorsed and promoted this violent
group, as they did the Wall Street protests.
There are federal-perpetrated injustices on
private citizens every day, day in and day out. Americans are being prosecuted
for the smallest infractions paying big penalties and sometimes jail time. But
powerful, politically influential and wealthy individuals receive scant interest
by prosecutors that are sworn to uphold the law.
After over 10 years of writing a weekly column
about the decline of America into ruling-class chaos, where the politically
anointed are shielded by the system from misdeeds and criminality, we stand
aghast at the docility of the American people to accept this as "just the
way it is." That’s how dictatorships are
born.
Millions of Americans naively believe that they
can change the system with their votes. They further erroneously believe that
one man can do the job for them. But that only works if the believers have the
majority. To those who continue to exist in the Land of Oz and other wizards,
the Democrats have the votes because they have been successful in the last 100
years buying off the majority of the American people with promises from the
public treasury. This Democrat policy of buying votes had nothing to do with
compassion and everything to do with maintaining perpetual political power. If
all of the people that could vote did vote, America would just be another
European socialist country going broke. But the fact is
ladies and gentlemen, America IS just another European socialist country going
broke because the American people continue to let the government buy off the low
information voter with the people’s money and give sanctuary and a free pass to
the ruling class, like Hillary Clinton, that are above the law.
That is why this rogue, out-of-control
bureaucracy called the IRS that has no master, doesn’t need criminal intent to
hound, harass, intimidate and prosecute American citizens but shield and
actually work for those in power. The axiom that says Americans are innocent
until proven guilty under the law, does not apply at the IRS and probably
doesn’t apply in the American court system if the truth be known.
What’s the solution? To those that have an
ounce of intellect the solution is abundantly obvious but comes with high risks,
huge costs and a monumental mind shift in the body politic. Sadly, we will never
live long enough to see this shift, if it ever happens.
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Ron Ewart, a nationally known author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues and author of this weekly column,
"In Defense of Rural America", is the president of the National
Association of Rural Landowners (NARLO) (http://www.narlo.org) an advocate and consultant for urban
and rural landowners and a non-profit corporation headquartered in
Washington State. He can be reached for comment at: info@narlo.org.
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