Remember GOP outrage that Bush's "Terrorist Watch List" targeted peace marchers, war critics?
Some of those peace activists are STILL defending themselves legally for the horrific crime of being an anti-war protester. Cry us a river, TeaParty. And FYI: It was Bush's IRS pick who targeted you, Obama's IRS pick stopped the practice.
Memory Lane:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment
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In 2004, America's Transportation Security Administration confirmed that it had a list of passengers who were targeted for security searches or worse if they tried to fly. People who have found themselves on the list? Two middle-aged women peace activists in San Francisco; liberal Senator Edward Kennedy; a member of Venezuela's government - after Venezuela's president had criticised Bush; and thousands of ordinary US citizens.
Professor Walter F Murphy is emeritus of Princeton University; he is one of the foremost constitutional scholars in the nation and author of the classic Constitutional Democracy. Murphy is also a decorated former marine, and he is not even especially politically liberal. But on March 1 this year, he was denied a boarding pass at Newark, "because I was on the Terrorist Watch list".
"Have you been in any peace marches? We ban a lot of people from flying because of that," asked the airline employee.
"I explained," said Murphy, "that I had not so marched but had, in September 2006, given a lecture at Princeton, televised and put on the web, highly critical of George Bush for his many violations of the constitution."
"That'll do it," the man said.
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I disagree with many who think these TeaParty groups should NOT have been targeted (and even though the head of IRS was a Bush pick). The groups became VERY partisan in nature very quickly - that is KNOWN. Also a known, many TeaParty leaders around the country turned out to be past tax cheats and scammers long before Obama and were targeted by Bush's IRS - probably because they were NOT wealthy donors or corporations (imo, they still deserved to be targeted).
http://www.daytondailynews.com/ap/ap/ohio/gop-leaders-tax-liens-concern-ohio-officials/nXSsH/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/14/tea-party-leader-accused-_n_203420.html
Much of the tax trouble predates any Tea Party involvement and Obama presidency..
Buffalo News:
WASHINGTON -- James Ostrowski and Leonard A. Roberto, central figures in competing factions of Buffalo's low-tax tea party movement, both have a history of failing to pay federal income taxes, Erie County records show.
Liens totaling $52,459.83 have been filed against Ostrowski's Buffalo home for unpaid federal taxes dating back to 2001, the county records show.
Roberto settled five liens against his properties in Depew and Alden about two years ago after a long battle with the Internal Revenue Service that, he said, cost him upward of $150,000.
The Buffalo News checked the tax records of six of Western New York's most prominent tea party figures after a source provided information indicating that Ostrowski, founder of the Free Buffalo and Free New York anti-tax movements, had tax troubles.>>>
