XPost: alt.society.liberalism, can.politics, talk.politics.guns   
   From: David@block.net   
      
   On 6/3/2013 9:35 AM, SaPeIsMa wrote:   
   > "David Johnston"  wrote in message   
   > news:koi70c$2h0$2@dont-email.me...   
   >> On 6/3/2013 6:11 AM, SaPeIsMa wrote:   
   >>> "David Johnston"  wrote in message   
   >>> news:kofmi3$ufv$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>>> On 6/1/2013 10:42 AM, Kurt Nicklas wrote:   
   >>>>> Why This Scandal Is Different   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Peggy Noonan   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Sometimes when you’re writing part of a column you keep getting close   
   >>>>> to the meaning of what you want to say but you don’t quite get there,   
   >>>>> the full formulation of the idea eludes you. Then two days later,   
   >>>>> relaxing in conversation with friends, the thought comes to you whole,   
   >>>>> and you think: That’s what I meant to say. That’s what I was trying to   
   >>>>> get.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> This week I had one of those moments. I kept trying, the paragraph   
   >>>>> kept not quite working, the deadline came.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I got an email last night that had the effect of a clarifying   
   >>>>> conversation. It was from a smart friend who works in government. He   
   >>>>> understood the point I was trying to make about how the current IRS   
   >>>>> scandal is different from previous ones and more threatening to the   
   >>>>> American arrangement. I had written that this scandal isn’t a discrete   
   >>>>> event in which a president picks up a phone and tells someone in the   
   >>>>> White House to look into the finances of some steel industry   
   >>>>> executives, or to check out the returns of some guy on an enemies   
   >>>>> list.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> But my friend got to the essence. He wrote, “The left likes to say,   
   >>>>> ‘Watergate was worse!’ Watergate was bad—don’t get me wrong. But it   
   >>>>> was elites using the machinery of government to spy on elites. . . .   
   >>>>> It’s something quite different when elites use the machinery of   
   >>>>> government against ordinary people. It’s a whole different ball game.”   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Ordinary people?  What ordinary people are we talking about?   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> As opposed to the elites   
   >>>     Can't you even read a simple text for comprehension ?   
   >>   
   >> I wasn't asking for a definition of "ordinary".  I was asking what   
   >> ordinary people were having the machinery of government used against   
   >> them in this case.   
   >   
   >   
   > The ordinary people who tried to form groups and applied to the IRS for   
   > legal purposes and where then (way) over investigated and had their   
   > applications delayed for years   
   >   
      
   What gives you the idea that those were ordinary people rather than the   
   "elite"?   
      
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