Matt Bors for May 20, 2013
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Leader: Go ahead and put the boxes of anonymous cash in the corner for now. We'll need 'em later for the lie-filled ad blitz meant to throw a national election. Aide: Sir, it's the IRS. They send us... a questionnaire! Leader: My god. Is this even a democracy anymore? The Office of Liberty Freedom Tea People PAC
Actually, it wasn’t “just a questionnaire”.[]For example, the Tea Party branch out of Waco (Texas) was told to:[]1. Turn over a list of everyone who donated to them over a certain period.[]2. Produce a list indicating the topic and guests for every last episode of every last radio show they hosted over the past two years. []The first is a major invasion of privacy, and the latter is a snipe hunt for any organization that wasn’t keeping tabs since day one.