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From: SaPeIsMa@gmail.com
"David Johnston" wrote in message
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> On 6/4/2013 5:16 PM, SaPeIsMa wrote:
>> "David Johnston" wrote in message
>> news:koifd3$osj$1@dont-email.me...
>>> 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"?
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> What gives you the idea that they are not
>
> The fact that they registered their political organizations as 501 c 4
> apolitical organizations to hide their identities.
HUH ?
Are you really this stump ignorant ?
Those registration documents are public record.
> So I'm thinking people with deep pockets, slick lawyers and worries about
> media coverage. It's not a "grass-roots movement" approach
Funny how you don't spout that ignorant shit about pinkies who do EXACTLY
THE SAME THING
The word hypocrite fits you well.
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