The Ominous Message Behind the Taxman’s Visit to Journalist Matt Taibbi’s Home
Plus: Concerned parents really were targeted as terrorists by the Biden FBI/DOJ
The Ominous Message Behind the Taxman’s Visit to Journalist Matt Taibbi’s Home
When the IRS targeted Tea Party groups during the Obama years, and no one paid a serious price for it, it was both a harbinger of and contributor to the more pervasive and extreme weaponization of the federal government against dissenters from its orthodoxy that was to come.
Today, a decade after IRS officials admitted to those depredations, and with the weaponization having grown so vast and dangerous that congress has devoted an entire subcommittee to it, nevertheless the taxman’s targeting of Wrongthinkers would seem to be continuing apace.
Just ask Matt Taibbi.
On March 9, the very day the iconoclastic journalist appeared before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government to testify about the Twitter Files, an IRS agent appeared at his home.
Let’s rephrase that: As Taibbi spoke to a congressional subcommittee created for the purpose of exposing and holding to account weaponized federal agencies, about how a number of those agencies had conspired with each other and private sector actors to target their political opposition in arguable violation of the opposition’s First Amendment rights, a federal agency with the power to wreak unique havoc on its targets’ lives dispatched an official to Taibbi’s door with a message.
The stated message was that the journalist was to call the IRS.
The unstated message needed no articulating: Expose federal government malfeasance like authorities’ imposing of a mass public-private censorship regime on the American people, and you can expect a knock at your door from federal agents armed with the power to break you.
Read my full take on the targeting of Taibbi and its broader implications at the Epoch Times.
Merrick Garland won’t leave conservative parents alone
Check out my commentary on the latest revelations about the FBI and DOJ’s targeting of concerned parents as domestic terrorists at Straight Arrow News:
Totally outrageous. The federal government needs to be abolished. We should start over!!
Serious stuff! I have a niece who was placed on a list of domestic terrorists by a school board in the state of Connecticut. What’s next......social credit scores?!