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First they came for the Tea Party and now for the Jews! Again!

First they came for the Tea Party, then Patriot groups, then 9-12 groups and now for the Jews! Only this time it is the American Government in the form of the Internal Revenue Service [IRS] not the National Socialist German Workers Party's Sturmabteilung, aka Brownshirts [though many a Sovereign Citizen would say its a distinction without a difference]. To be fair the IRS engaging in illegal activities [specifically questioning Jewish groups about their faith in a tax filing] is not exactly Kristallnacht, but it is still illegal, immoral, reprehensible and without honor.  It is behavior that should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law [yeah sure don't hold your breath waiting on the Holder Justice Department].

And again Hagel and Niemölle were both right!

I have pointed it out many times before and much to my chagrin and failure as a blogger, I will most likely have to say it again, Hagel was right!  "What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."  And Pastor Niemölle was correct in his preaching [which sometimes are repackaged as a well-known poem frequently quoted on this blog and a popular model for describing the dangers of political apathy] when he said:

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Catholic.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

You might be alright with the IRS bullying the Tea Party that wants a leaner, less costly, and more effective federal government, or Patriot groups that want to teach the Constitution, or 9-12 groups that support the families of deployed CT National Guard service people at Christmas time [yes Christmas not “the Holidays or Yule”] but are you truly going to sit quietly and let the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei [oops should have said some “low level IRS employees” who support the Democrat National Party and the Forward Moving BHO reelection and fundamental transformation of America campaigns]. Buy asking self disclosed “Jewish” applicants:

  • "whether [it] supports the existence of the land of Israel," and
  • also demanded the organization "[d]escribe [its] religious belief system toward the land of Israel."
These questions are chilling and most likely illegal!  For anyone who studies history [not the pro-Progressive / Socialist pap that is spoon fed to students in public schools nowadays or that will increasingly pass for "Theirstory" under the new mandatory Federal Common Core Curriculum, but I digress] these questions are eerily evocative of the early days of the Nürnberger Gesetze [Nuremberg Laws of Nazzi Germany cir 1935 - Do I have to say National Socialist German Workers Party again?]. In case you require a more credible source than the Sovereign Citizen check out Politico and wonder why the “Jewish Question” is not all over the mainstream media.

Tyranny is as tyranny does.  Edmund Burke also got it right when he said  “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”.
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