Robin SmithThe use of taxpayer-funded government agencies for political purposes at one time in our society was called corrupt. Today, it’s called the Barack Obama administration, and is more apparent now than ever.
Of the agencies which have been weaponized for use against political adversaries and even the citizenry at large, the Internal Revenue Service is foremost in people’s minds. The IRS created a target list to obstruct and delay nonprofit tax status of conservative organizations, pro-traditional marriage groups and pro-Israel coalitions and is still under investigation. If you are old enough to remember or you know history, the second article of impeachment forcing Richard Nixon’s presidential resignation was the intent, not the actual use, of the IRS.
Specifically, the damning assessment declared that Nixon “has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavoured to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposes not authorized by law .”
Obama didn’t “endeavor” to use the IRS; his administration actually used it against law-abiding citizens.
The Environmental Protection Agency has frequently used threats, bullying and regulation to take the property of individuals and businesses, but the level of activism seen in the Obama EPA is unprecedented. Most recently, three states and the Navajo nation’s drinking water were poisoned with 3 million gallons of mining waste that carried 880,000 pounds of toxic metals during an EPA cleanup of a Colorado gold mine. Congress even issued a report revealing the “inaccurate and misleading” accounts of details submitted by the EPA and the Department of the Interior in an effort to minimize the massive environmental wreck.