Jindal Says IRS Officials Should Go To Jail For Targeting

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) on Saturday will call for jail time for Internal Revenue Service officials who engaged in improper targeting of conservative organizations.

“You cannot take the freedom of law-abiding Americans, whether you disagree with them or not, and keep your own freedom,” Jindal will say in a speech at the Virginia Republican convention, according to Politico. “When you do that, you go to jail." Jindal will also call the IRS targeting "simply un-American."

His remarks echo those made earlier this week by House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).

"My question isn't about who is going to resign," Boehner told reporters. "My question is who's going to jail over this scandal?"

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[bowens43]

1. what law was broken? BTW moron, no-ones freedom was taken away

[PatrynXX]

7. actually he should be doing some jail time now

making shit up. you know you can go to jail accusing someone of something they haven't been charged for yet. Called Slander you idiot. Second you can't make people go to jail in america for following the written law nobody enforced since 1959. Exclusively vs Primarily. you might be able to jail whoever changed it to primarily in 1959 if they are still around X_X Odds? not good...

I'll just wait of course for someone to charge Jinder with Slander.

He's like one of those NRA guys who shoot first kill the hostage then ask okay where's the hostage. X_X

[zbdent]

14. But he's a Republican ...

Rules ("excessive regulation&quot don't apply to republicans, remember?

[former9thward]

21. You can't go to jail for slander.

Slander is a civil issue not a crime.

[24601]

28. Slander (and Libel) aren't within criminal law but are civil law torts. As such, you don't get

charged (United States v. Jones) but may be sued (Smith v. Jones) for money damages.

[Mr. X]

2. I'd support that...

The top two official's were both Republican apointee's, tossing them wouldn't be a major loss.

And since Rethugs want to jail some people, might as well jail the ones who 'leaked' the heavily edited Benghazi emails.

We can call it cleaning up governmental corruption.

[dkf]

3. Over the top. Nothing is proven yet.

It's looks like IRS training is abysmal though. I wonder how often they are given continuing Ed courses on their limitations?

[OKNancy]

4. What law did they break, and what freedom was taken? n/t

[mbperrin]

8. No law was broken and no one's freedom was taken, of course.

In fact, lost in all the hoorah about the 70 Teabag organizations are the 400 OTHER organizations who were vetted more carefully, all of them because they used phrases common to supremacists, revolutionaries, anarchists, terrorists, anti-government, pro-assassination, pro-violence advocates in their organizations.

Law requires that political organizations not receive the tax-exempt status that we grant to animal shelters, food banks, and other charitable or advocates for decent ends.

ALL 70 eventually received their status.

Works like this: I'm a cop, and I hear someone shout, "Fuck all pigs - they should die by being shot in the head by me!!!" I turn around, and there's a family of 4 dressed in casual clothes, one of the children in a soccer uniform with a bumper sticker that says I heart my Lab. And there's a 1976 Chevy panel van with "Fuck the Police!' "Die to all pigs!" "You can have my gun when you.." The van has no license plate, no sticker, and has a guy with a Nazi bucket helmet at the wheel with a tattoo that says "Fuck your mother - I already did!"

Inevitably, the guy in the van is going to be questioned first. Very ordinary, no freedoms are lost, no law is broken.

I always tell my high school students - you want to get away with big crimes, get an expensive haircut, a great custom suit, wingtips, and polite manners. Then you can get away with anything.

Teabaggers are the worst crybabies on the planet, but this is an extraordinary display, even for them.

[CBHagman]

9. Oh, the self-pity was on major display the other day.

I forget whether it was Thursday or Friday when the tea partyers and the so-called tea party favorites (e.g., Ted Cruz, Michele Bachmann et al) appeared before microphones on Capitol Hill to lament the pain and suffering they'd been put through.

One thing I've noticed over the years with bullies and various other manipulators is that they will seek victim status as a means to wield power over someone else, no matter how much power they already have.

[cynzke]

15. 501(c)(4) vs. 527's

This is really about trying to weed out political groups who are trying to circumvent their true status as IRS 527's....POLITICAL GROUPS. 527's (Political Groups)are NOT tax exempt and they have to, by law, make their donors available for public records. The IRS is trying to catch applicants who are really 527's but are trying to guise themselves as 501(c)(4)s so their donations are TAX FREE and the donors are HIDDEN. I think since the Tea Party (or any group with a name associated with a political party) should be a RED FLAG to the IRS and given careful scrutiny.

[mbperrin]

26. Thanks for the precision! I completely agree with you. nt

[pinto]

5. Mr. Jindal and Mr. Boehner - You are neither judge nor jury.

File a charge if you think there's a case. Otherwise...you know the rest.

[SoapBox]

6. Let's just send YOU, Mr. JingleDingle, to jail instead.

For crimes of STOOPIDITY against America.

[Sunlei]

10. first leave plenty of room in federal prisons for the 'political' tax dodger cheats!!

[Wolf Frankula]

11. Jindally Cricket Shut up!

You're never going to be the rethuglican nominee for president. You're the wrong color.

Wolf

[Cirque du So-What]

13. Jindally Cricket

always lets his conscience be his guide. This can be bad news, however, if you don't have a conscience.

[silvershadow]

12. Let him keep spewing. Then we can talk about opening that can of worms WIDE open. nt

[timdog44]

16. Jindal yapping at the mouth

before any information has reached his pea brain. The facts of this whole "crisis" have not even been revealed yet. What was revealed was a statement by a republican appointed official who did not have the guts to do the job that she was appointed to do. She makes it look like she is outing the IRS for "something" she seemed to think was wrong. Why was she not doing her job if there in fact was inappropriate vetting of organizations looking to get off the hook as far as taxes go. And then the way she did the "outing" was so chicken shit. If you want to be a whistle blower, blow the fucking whistle. I have said it before and say it again, this is the new way for the Repukes to combat the Affordable Care Act. This is just another make believe crisis like Benghazi and the AP debacle.

[thelordofhell]

17. The official that resigned was "appointed" by Obama and didn't do this

The former official, who was appointed by bush, did

[timdog44]

18. Steven Rosenfeld

at Alternet has an interesting take on all this.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/6-key-takeaways-stupidity-and-reality-irs-scandal?page=0%2C1

[LuckyLib]

19. The word "jail" needs to be first connected to the banking/mortgage/hedge fund

criminals who sent the world economy into a tailspin. The IRS looking at mountains of bogus "tax-free" applicants from Karl Rove and the boys? I'm not biting.

[heaven05]

20. JINDAL

idiot. STFU!!!!! Your heroes, bushmonkey, darth, rumbottle, ricewine, all need to be in jail. God! he's an idiot.

[tomm2thumbs]

22. What was that? Did I just hear an ant fart?

Oh wait, THAT would actually have some impact. Nope, it was just Jindal passing verbal gas again.

How quaint.

[John2]

23. The only people

are the rightwing conservatives and the Media giving them a platform again to whine. The IRS is not their problem because they keep trying to attach President Obama with a scandal. They just keep striking out. It is just another feeble attempt by them. The country has more important issues like the economy, jobs,immigration and gun laws. It is just another side show by this Congress and the media. Whatever the Republicans thought happened to them, they will survive if they didn't break any laws. The same goes for the media.

[xtraxritical]

24. Jindal is, other than his monkey freak appeal, a complete nobody and never will be more.

[Ash_F]

25. So... are they trying to pretend "Tea Party" groups are not political?

I think we need to start back there with this discussion.

[Skittles]

30. CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS SHIT????

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!

[underpants]

27. Hey Bobby Fox News says stick your left leg in and shake it all about

good boy

[Rosa Luxemburg]

29. Obviously the IRS knows all about the corruption that has been going on

who knows what the Teaparty groups have been up to?

[Sunlei]

31. Jindal should go to jail for squandering billionsinoil revenue/katrina aid-state-worse infastructure

Where did all that revenue and hurricane aid go? one of the worse infastructure states in the USA, crappiest schools.

Importing thousands of foreign visa workers instead of jobs for Louisiana citizens!!

[primavera]

32. What a coincidence!

I think Bobby Jindal and John Boehner should go to jail!

[awoke_in_2003]

33. Isn't this the guy...

who said that republicans have to stop being known as the stupid party? Well Bobby, this ain't helping, ya maroon.