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Just how dead is the country I knew as the United States of America? June 4, 2013

Have you been following the massive IRS persecution of political opponents scandal?  Do you have any idea how all-encompassing and invasive it was, how the Obama Administration and the demonrat party generally is using the coercive powers of the state to destroy political oppostion?  The National Organization for Marriage just testified under oath in a Congressional investigation today that the IRS leaked their highly confidential donors list to Human Rights Watch, a radical sodomite lobby.  This has happened to several conservative organizations. The left-wing recipients of this proprietary information then turn around and do all they can to make miserable the lives of their political opponents.

Pro-life groups were specifically targeted, and even asked for the content of their private prayers, while beings told to pledge never to protest outside a Banned Parenthood.  Private citizens engaged in normal political activity have been made the subject of repeated, invasive, threatening, and, in the end, very expensive investigations by multiple federal agencies.  In a phrase, the democrats have turned the state’s power of the sword against any political opponents.  If anyone thinks the Republicans in Congress will muster forces to undo this persecution, or that this latest scandal will hurt Obama in any significant way, well, you’re much more optimistic than I am.  Bread and circuses is what it’s all about nowadays.

And how this.  The state of California is deliberately writing tax law to crush conservative opposition:

Last week, the State Senate voted to revoke the nonprofit status of  any group within the state that does not allow full participation of  homosexuals, a move aimed directly at the Boy Scouts of America. [Think about that. The legislature of the largest state in the country has passed a law deliberately targeting one particular group for holding “wrong” beliefs.  And these beliefs were held by the vast majority of their fellow countrymen and many of the same legislators just a few short years ago!  What is happening is a feverish eruption of evil]  According to the Associated Press, the bill “would require those  organizations to pay corporate taxes on donations, membership dues, camp fees and other sources of income, and to obtain sellers permits and pay sales taxes on food, beverages and homemade items sold at fundraisers.”

If further proof was needed that the BSA’s partial surrender on the  homosexual issue only emboldened their opponents, here it is. Compromise is not in the left’s vocabulary. Not until Dan Savage is taking your  son camping  [and “sharing” his sleeping bag] will they be happy, and probably not even then.

The thread that connects California’s proposed tax policy with the  IRS scandal of recent weeks is the unmistakable trend toward weaponizing the tax code. What was once a neutral instrument used for the purpose  of collecting revenue for legitimate governmental functions is now  employed to punish behavior that powerful people don’t like. Lois Lerner of IRS infamy had a concealed carry permit but the State of California  is carrying theirs right out in the open.

… The precedent is chilling. The tax code could be used to punish  churches that don’t recognize same-sex marriages or prefer only male  clergy. Religious organizations could be required to include atheists.  Liberals should worry too. If California can point the muzzle of their  tax code at the Boy Scouts for refusing to allow homosexual adult  leaders, Arkansas can do the same thing because the BSA now permits  homosexual youth. It would be just as wrong for socially conservative  states to use their tax code to punish groups it doesn’t like. This one  trend that’s bad for goose and gander alike.

When Richard Nixon tried to use the IRS to target political opponents as part of his general paranoia, it, along with Watergate, was the scandal of the century (this week) and the gravest threat to the Republic since the civil war.  Now, the media, completely politicized and open agents of a socialist worldview, can’t be bothered to see even a slight threat in this massive targeting not of a handful of high level opposition political operatives, but tens or hundreds of thousands of mom and pop apple pie Americans.

The left has completed its long march through the institutions.  They stand on the verge of total victory.  I cannot believe how much this country has changed in the last 20 years, but the very visible changes which have occurred in that time were made foregone conclusions by the less visible changes that were worked in this nation in the period ~1930 – 1990.  When the nation’s laws were slowly but irrevocably divorced (heh) from the moral law, the resulting trend towards will to power and government by fiat was made irresistible.  That nibbling away at the moral law – no fault divorce, legalized fornication, contraception, legalized sodomy, abortion, now homosexual simulation of marriage – has conditioned Americans to immorality.

The left accrued great power by subverting and then dominating institution after institution in this same period – academia, schools, the media, unions, government agencies, etc.  The will of private citizens means less and less, even if expressed with great vehemence and in great numbers. Leftist-dominated institutions now have the predominant say in what occurs in the affairs of the nation, and there is no well-spring of religious driven morality to push back and say that “might makes right” will not stand.  “Democracy,” as such, means very little any more. The left can mobilize very large forces of basically paid activists (most frequently paid for by us, the taxpayers!), overwhelming the efforts of individual private citizens to organize and get their voice heard.

This latest persecution is just the beginning. I fully expect that, like Canada and much of Europe, many forms of speech we now take for granted will be made illegal, or at least involve massive hassle.  The politico-economic system of this country will continue to drift steadily leftwards, even as the economy continues to implode. But with leftist dominance of the media portals used by low-information voters, the blame will be constantly shifted to enemies of the dominant ruling oligarchy, meaning conservatives and others who oppose the socialist workers paradise.

Pray like mad.  The times are going to get a lot rougher.  We are way past the point of turning things around.  We are in damage-limiting and life-saving mode, now.