The Amazing Louis Lerner And Her Magical Hard Drive

     As sure as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, former IRS head Louis Lerner's alleged computer hard drive crash did not eliminate her sensitive emails from the face of the earth never to be seen again. I am not saying that they have not disappeared into the void of nothingness, only that her hard drive crash was not responsible. The Contingency Of Operations Plan created by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, insures that all government correspondence, data, and information be backed up to a safe, off-site location in case it is needed to restore lost data.
     The C.O.O.P. law notwithstanding, failed hard drives are mined for data everyday by firms whose business it is to retrieve data from crashed hard drives. Even drives that have been in fires or floods can sometimes have some of their data saved. Many times when the electronic circuit board has failed as well as the mechanics of the drive, the platters inside can be removed and placed into another drive and the data can be retrieved. I suppose the Obama administration never heard of computer forensic specialists.
     Even if the data from Ms. Lerner's emails was no longer on her hard drive, emails always originate from a mail server and then are sent to client computers. As far as we know, the government's mail server did not crash, only Louis Lerner's personal computer hard drive. The absolutely unbelievable lie told by IRS officials, and supported by the administration, is beyond the reach of decency, heck it is beyond the reach of indecency and plants itself firmly in the land of filthy behavior unbefitting even the political hacks in the current administration.
     The lie that has been told about Louis Lerner's emails is as obvious as the one told by the child with a tube of her mother's lipstick in her hand, with that same lipstick all over the drapes, saying she did not do it. But the actual lie is not so important as the fact that this administration felt confident enough that they would not be challenged in the telling of it. And but for some on the Right, they have not been. The lie, and the subsequent non-response by the main stream media and others, is illustrative of just how far this president and his administration have traveled into the darkness of larceny and hubris.
     But the ho-hum attitude being brought to bear against this blatant dishonesty by an organization that made its reputation on expecting complete honesty from taxpayers, and the complicity by the White House in the lie, is a harbinger of a culture in decline. Politicians are going to stretch the truth, and even lie. And Barack Obama could hold a seminar on how to do so. But when a large swathe of American opinion either becomes numb to the lies, does not see them as important, or incorporates them into their own daily behavior, we have knowingly and willingly abandon our own liberty. For the cornerstone of liberty is probity and rectitude, and without them, a culture can not survive its own freedom.
  

The Precipitous Slide Into The Abyss Of Tyranny

     Pericles, the great Greek statesman and orator, said that courage is the secret to democracy. That sentiment was never better illustrated than it was by the victims of the Internal Revenue Service during their testimonies before a Congressional committee on Tuesday, June 4, 2013. These everyday Americans who wanted to get involved in making their country better because they saw it heading down the wrong path, had their patriotism met with tyranny from their government. These mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters who were housewives, lawyers, dentists and nurses were treated like criminals by those charged with serving them, all because their ideas threatened the radical agenda of the current administration.
     The stories of the rampant corruption of government harassment based on an individuals or a group's political ideas, was aptly told by the victims. Their stories ranged from endless delays for tax-exempt status lasting years (while the President's half-brother had his application approved in 30 days and managed to get it back-dated two and a half years to make donations he collected during that time illegally, legal), to being asked questions of confidentiality the tax Nazis at the IRS had no business knowing. One Right To Life group was told all their board members would have to sign a statement saying the group would not demonstrate or protest in front of Leftist churches, also known as Planned Parenthood. When confronted by the group's lawyers about the illegalities of such a request, the IRS backed off. My question is that since the group's lawyers must have spoken with someone in the IRS legal department, did they not think that agents making illegal requests of applicants was worth investigating or at least reporting to a higher ranking official in the organization?
     The fact that this scandal involves over 500 Conservative organizations, almost a hundred agents of which we are currently aware and the fact brought to light by the Right To Life group's experience that superiors in the IRS knew of this practice, all points to this behavior being directed by the administration as a matter of policy. The Left likes to say there is no evidence that President Obama had any knowledge or involvement in the illegal behavior at the IRS, I say "Poppycock." I can produce dozens of audio clips where the President said Conservative groups like the Tea Party were spreading hate, funded by shadowy foreign sources and a threat to democracy. Are public statements like these not directives to his underlings of a policy direction. Would an underling in the marketing department of a corporation not act on his CEO making public statements about a competitor?
     Democrat Senator, Jim McDermitt, said the IRS scandal is a charade. This statement is illustrative of Leftists' total disdain for the liberty of the governed. The right of the people to express themselves freely when that expression is antithetical to the Leftist agenda, is a right Democrats and others on the Left cavalierly dismiss. Mr. McDermitt does not seem at all concerned that the IRS was being used by the Obama administration to destroy the liberty and right of free speech for a group of Americans based solely on their political ideas. It is easy to surmise for which side of the American Revolution Senator McDermitt would have fought, he would not have stood with the Sons of Liberty.
     The behavior of the IRS is the very essence of Thomas Jefferson's definition of tyranny, which is when the people fear the government. The opposite sentiment is liberty, i.e., when the government fears the people. The fact that there are not outraged Americans taking to the streets in protest over such a blatant violation of liberty, makes me highly concerned for the continued existence of this republic. Until the people of this nation take their rightful place out of the cowering corner they currently occupy and make their government fear them, we will continue this precipitous slide into the abyss of tyranny.