Re: Bush Is Ready to Sick the CIA Dogs on the American People

> > > I don't care.
> >
> > Other people do.   Instead of the rest of us trying to stop everyone
> > from posting things we are not interested in reading ourselves, we just
> > skip over those posts rather than try to insult everyone that puts out a
> > statement we don't like.
> >
> > > stop posting this shit.
> >
> > No, stop clicking on and reading posts you have no interest in like some
> > retard!    The subject line is clearly marked, and the rest of us have
> > an interest in what is happening to our country!
>
> That's for sure.. :( if this keeps up, then the simple act of operating a
> pirate station in the US could become a capital offense under the Patriot
> Act..  If you think this posit is a bit extreme, read the Patriot Act, and
> Patriot Act II.. it takes very little to be named a terrorist these days...

Look, even the IRS is using the Patriot Act now....

The IRS Claims New Patriot Act Type Powers to Punish Political
Dissenters

In a precendent-setting case, the IRS wielded new power to punish the
political speech of those who "espouse views" the government considers
"inconsistent" with government-held beliefs. In a hearing originally
closed to the public in a secret tribunal on a military island, but
moved to a public location after protests from the press and the public,
the IRS wants to wield this power against a former IRS whistleblower,
who was forced to resign upon his discovery of fraud in the agency.

After monitoring and taping the whisteblower's appearances on Sixty
Minutes, talk radio shows, and political publications where he
rebroadcast his findings of IRS fraud, the IRS initiated this
inquisition against their former whistelblower. This new power may find
new political targets soon enough.

The IRS, through the small office of "Director of Practice," claims the
authority to wield carte blanche authority over all the other powers of
government -- the authority to monitor, surveil, and eavesdrop on
political dissenters, the authority to pry into the private financial
records of banks, businesses, and taxpayers, the authority to conduct
secret investigations under a criminal grand jury, and the authority to
censure political dissenters by branding on them a badge of infamy and
stripping them of governmentally- protected licenses. In short, under
the guise of a "practice" investigation, the IRS claims the right to
wield all intrusive and invasive powers of government available...

A "license" to practice before the IRS -- even for people who have never
requested such a license or actually practiced before the IRS, but are
given one as a matter of law if they are accountants -- "licenses" the
IRS to conduct private audits without notice to the taxpayer, confer
with criminal prosecutors without disclosure, and bring special
"disbarment" proceedings against disfavored dissenters, even if the
alleged "disreputable" conduct has nothing to do with any "practice"
before the IRS.

The IRS now claims it can use these so-called "practice" investigations
of anyone who Congress licenses to practice before the IRS -- regardless
of whether they actually practice before the IRS -- to surveil the
public appearances of dissenters, eavesdrop on the political
conversations of dissenters, benefit from secret grand jury
investigations, hold secret conferences with the criminal investigators,
surreptiously tap the private database of taxpayer information,
including taxpayers who merely have some financial "connection" to the
accused, audit the political dissenter's personal financial records, and
use all this information against the dissenter in the "practice"
proceeding.

Under the guise of a "practice" investigation, the IRS can ignore all
the normal procedural protections against an illicit audit while it
conducts such an audit. Simultaneously, the IRS can ignore all the legal
protections afforded a person accused of a crime while conferencing with
the people conducting a criminal investigation. Indeed, the IRS can even
ignore the sunshine laws, as the records of such "practice
investigation" are exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act, as are grand jury proceedings.

The IRS claims it can exercise this authority in a secret proceeding
without allowing a person the opportunity to cure any alleged mistakes,
the opportunity to prepare a defense by knowing the exact facts they are
accused of, without any opportunity for discovery, without any
opportunity to call witnesses necessary for their defense, without any
opportunity to cross examine their accusers, without any opportunity to
testify at their own hearing about the merits of their position, without
being forced to testify against themselves without such an assertion
being held against them, and without even an opportunity for a hearing
on the evidence.

This power of this little office with a Napoleonic vision goes even
beyond the Patriot Act type authority and stories of FBI monitoring of
war protestors.

Too Hoover-ish to be true in modern America? Just read the case of the
IRS against Joe Banister scheduled for a "hearing" -- a hearing where
the IRs prohibited Banister from introducing any witnesses or presenting
any evidence as to his defenses, and even discussing the sincerity, the
truth or the "reasonableness" of his positions -- on December 1 in the
city by the bay, in the Tax Court chambers of the federal courthouse in
San Francisco. History is being made.