By ART CHANCE It is with ignorance and cynicism that Left has adopted the phrase, “protect our democracy.” The very last thing the Left wants to protect is democracy; they don’t believe in freedom of speech, assembly, or religion. They don’t believe in due process. They don’t believe in equal protection.
I can go on. They fundamentally don’t believe in, but in fact despise, our constitutional republic.
Autocratic governments have been very good at catchy slogans. The Nazis really pushed protecting “community values,” and “protecting the racial health” of Germany. If you read German law in the Nazi period, you find that most court decisions include the statement that the decision is supported by “the healthy opinion of the Volk.” A derivative of this is the notion of the “Fuhrer Princip,” which means Fuhrer’s dictate supersedes law, has absolute power.
In Germany in the 1930s, the Nazi Party’s “brownshirts” enforced the community values of Germany. If you’ve had any world history courses you might recall an event called the Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, when the brownshirts destroyed the shops and homes of Jewish merchants throughout Germany. The brownshirts were the Nazi bully boys and they broke heads and broke the opposition to the Nazis.
However, when the Nazis rose to real power, they found the brownshirts to be a threat. Much of the upper leadership of the brownshirts was also homosexual, which didn’t sit well with Nazi leadership. The Nazis launched a raid on the brownshirts and took most of the leadership into custody. Some were summarily shot, others took a little longer. Nazi propaganda said that some leaders were found in bed with young males. The brownshirts all but ceased to exist as a political force in Germany to be replaced by the Schutzstaffel, or SS, the guys with the black uniforms. If you know any history, the midnight knock at the door and the demand for papers on the train still resonates.
As the Nazis reached legitimized power, they consolidated into well-organized units and suppressed much of their prior thuggish tendencies. When you have real power you don’t have to just ambush a guy in the alley and beat him to death, you just send some guys with uniforms and badges, take him to the station, and put a 9mm in the back of his head.
As the Nazis consolidated power, they consolidated their organization and the SS became the primary arm of state political and law enforcement power. The Nazis encouraged, really demanded, informing on neighbors, family, and associates. Children were encouraged to inform on parents. The Nazis were first and foremost shake-down artists, and there was a price for everything in Nazi Germany. We’ve seen that in the Democrat cities for the last 50 years or so; if you want to play, you pay.
The George Soros Junta has consolidated its power in the Biden Regime after its setback with Trump’s Administration. The federal bureaucracy had thwarted the Trump Administration’s attempts to install its own people in significant positions. The Biden Administration inherited the Obama Administration, still mostly in place, and most of it went all the way back to the Clinton Administration since George W. Bush, like Trump, was really only able to replace the prominent positions.
In essence the federal government is an occupying Democrat Party army. There are a few Republicans/conservatives left in it but they’re registered as independents, they talk quietly, and they meet only in out-of-the-way places where they’re unlikely to be seen together.
In a blinding flash of honesty, Comrade Obama actually said out loud what the Democrats really wanted, a Democrat armed force under federal executive branch control. Despite the best efforts of the Democrats to replace the leadership of the military with “woke” perfumed princes, the military is still somewhat traditional and still believes in old-fashioned notions of patriotism and loyalty.
Most of the alphabet soup of federal agencies have some armed contingent, just in case the Department of Commerce needs to send a SWAT to intervene before someone tears that label off their new mattress. The problem for the Democrats is that 200 years of history has put some pretty strong barriers around federal use of these powers.
The Trump era showed us that the Democrats can usually find a district court judge or even a circuit court who’ll give them a “great service,” but they were mostly unsuccessful in the circuits and almost totally unsuccessful at the Supreme Court level. Comrade Obama, or whoever was pulling his strings, realized that they needed some military force that could act under relatively independent authority.
Comrade Obama found willing accomplices in the Internal Revenue Service when he attacked conservative non-profit organizations; Lois Lerner, who headed the IRS, was a hero of the People’s Republic as she stymied revanchist political groups and militias a-borning. She’s enjoying her six-figure retirement rather than the 6 x 8 cell she deserves. Comrade Obama never realized his ambition of having a private army under his sole control. Now Slo’ Joe and the Democrat Congress are poised to establish one.
The fraudulently named “Inflation Reduction Act” is going to give the Internal Revenue Service $80 billion to hire 87,000 new IRS agents, ostensibly to ferret out all the 1%-ers who are cheating on their taxes.
News flash for all the people who went to government schools in the last 40 years or who watch CNN: 1%-ers, and even 10%-ers don’t really cheat on their taxes; they have lawyers and accountants who are better at tax law than some GS-11 IRS agent who knows she can’t be fired. Tax cheating is the province of the struggling small business person and the working class guy working under the table. Guess who the IRS will be going after?
The other people they’ll be going after are the nonprofits whose activities are not coordinated with Democratic Party objectives. The Nazis had a word for it: “Gliechshalstung,” which roughly translates to coordination. It is lost to young, ignorant minds that the Nazis were the National Socialist Party and they confiscated private property with alacrity. Some they kept as a Party asset, some they gave to Party supporters. Lots of good Nazis got the homes and businesses of Jews who were getting a train ride east. But, if you agreed to coordinate your business’s activities with the objectives of the Party, you could keep your business and some of its profits.
We soften it a bit here in the US by calling it crony capitalism, but the Democrats are masters at it; there is a reason most of the prominent billionaires are Democrats. Zuckerberg, et al., will do most anything to keep the Democrats from deciding to tax or regulate their business(es).
One might take comfort in the fact that there is no way the federal government can recruit and hire 87,000 IRS Agents. Superficially, the job requires a college degree for entry and starts in the mid-$30s without geographic adjustment. In reality, most make $60,000-$80,000 and some considerably more.
Some number of the new agents will be “special agents” with law enforcement authority and a whole new trove of true weapons of war provided by the federal government. That ugly black rifle carried by the county Mountie or local policeman is likely a semi-automatic AR-15 clone. The firearm the federal law enforcement officer carries is the real thing, an M-4 or M-16 capable of automatic fire and nobody questions how many rounds of ammunition they can carry.
There is no way to recruit 87,000 people who could meet the minimum qualifications for even the lowest level of this job classification. They will use a combination of affirmative action and some sort of diversity scam to make these employees patronage hires. Lots of Antifa punks will be able to escape their mothers’ basements and become well-paid federal law enforcement officers. These people will be thugs under the control of the Democrat party.
I can see them now in their “TactiCool” uniforms, black of course. These are the people hired to kick in your door and stick an automatic weapon in your wife and kids’ faces so they can review your 1040 EZ. All they have to do is enact some federal tax on firearms and they can come and examine your gun safe to make sure you’re paying the proper taxes on any weapons you might own. This is the face of the Democrats’ private army, just as well-armed as the real Army.
Art Chance is a retired Director of Labor Relations for the State of Alaska, formerly of Juneau and now living in Anchorage. He is the author of the book, “Red on Blue, Establishing a Republican Governance,” available at Amazon.
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Don’t cheat on your taxes, Art, and you have nothing to worry about.
The Jews in Germany said the same thing. Right up until they were taken to the ghettos.
Somehow I expect if Trump did this you’d be apoplectic with outrage.
Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.
“…….you have nothing to worry about.” Somehow, the reassurances of a dog online doesn’t allay the fear I feel from past experience.
Right. Tell that to my co worker who used to work in a sewing factory and lived in a small mobile home. Her neighbor and her shared resources so they could survive. IRS came and tore her place apart “because no one can live on your income so you must be dealing drugs”!!!!
If only it was that simple. Title 26 US Code is several hundred pages long, with 11 subtitles (A-K) The total Code contains close to 10,000 subsections. Title 26 is an amalgamation of hundreds of individual Public Laws. There are hundreds of thousands of cross references in that section of US Code alone. . The implementing regulations Title 26 CFR is equal in length and breadth. It is also equally difficult to follow. . So… do not cheat sounds simple, but actually following the law to the letter is a near impossibility. The law itself is structured to be incomprehensible. . Anecdotal, but relevant. I have found IRS documents/instructions that are in conflict with the law. The instructions provided in the IRS book/form tell the filer to do something that is not legal. . If someone wanted to create a monster with the specific purpose of jailing their political enemies, they could not do better than the US Tax Code.
So says the politically, historically and politically ignorant Whidbey the Quisling.
This is what a police state does. Our enemies have operatives in high places. We’re in trouble.
Perhaps something in the water triggered this screed. Art, there are legitimate reasons to write about the tax code in our nation and the Internal Revenue Service. You managed to miss almost every with the rants about the Nazis, comrades and so on. You’ve gone on way past your usual cranky, interesting commentary and have hit crank. Pick it up Bucko or take up another hobby.
Just drawing parallels to other authoritarian regimes, Joe. Show me a lank-haird, bespectacled lefty boy and I’ll show you a wannabe Comrade Strelnikov dreaming of cruising the countryside with his armored train and a brigade of Cossacks hunting down all the guys who got the pretty girls.
Hyperbole heaped on strained metaphors. You can do better Art. You’re just pandering to a slice of the mob. It’s like jacklighting deer. Not sporting or even funny.
It’s time to prepare for the revolution2.0, totalitarianism is taking hold, we are the frog in boiling water… time execute order 66 on the entire left leaning demographic… you wanna play games? Let’s play for keeps then. As the great Dr. Dre once said, “ my life or life, I ain’t leavin, I like breathin”.
You’re right! Arming our IRS with weapons and ammunitions along with one of the requirements of said position being, “must be able to use deadly force,” is not a reason for Art to write about our IRS. You wokesters need to wake up!
Is Leslie confused or confusing? Maybe both. Hard to tell.
You have no idea. You have not been watching our local assembly or you agree with the taking of personal property for the “greater good”. Either way, your opinion is of no value since the US Constitution was written to support the INDIVIDUAL against the Government.
You must be brilliantly ignorant/stupid, or both- are you living in some kind of parallel universe joe?
Joe, Art makes a compelling argument below and after watching the ANTIFA freak show I’m fairly certain that he is on to something.
Thanks for the article, Art. Tag on Biden Executive Order 14067 (‘https://www.wnd.com/2022/08/biden-planning-protect-us-cash-beginning-dec-13/) and that would essentially complete they’re measures to control your money, accounts and turn them on and off at their whim. Don’t take my word for it, read the article.
I’ve learned more about our “real” government from Art, than in any civics class.
And you’ll support trump at the gallows cuz you’ve been fooled. You wanted to be fooled.
One of reasons why ‘defunding the police’ is being pushed, is so they can be replaced with federal law enforcement. And for those that think they’re immune because they’re on the ‘right side’–that’s not how it ultimately works. It’s stuff like this that start civil wars–and we’re approaching that precipice at a pretty good clip. Desperate people do desperate things. The criminal dem party knows time is short and they will go all in. There will be things happening a month or two from now you won’t believe. Desperation…
Here’s a view unsupported by any actual evidence.
Should violence occur, the responsibility will be on low curiosity, low patience and profoundly ideologically constipated conservatives.
Adding 87,000 new agents with a job description that talks about the willingness to carry weapons and use deadly force is more than enough reason for the Nazi comparison. Particularly when we’ve witnessed the weaponization of federal agencies for over a decade, starting with the IRS targeting conservative non-profits and continuing with the Russia hoax etc. Wake up America.
There is virtually no way to cheat on form 1040-EZ, So, I seriously doubt the gestapo Art fears will knock on many doors of average working class Americans.
It’s easy to cheat if you live in the 1040EZ world; you just don’t report the income. If you’re a struggling small business person or a tradesman working hand to mouth, you tell the IRS what you think they need to know.
there’s 87,000 new IRS agents there are only about 750 billionaires that equation leaves a mess of free time for a mess of agents. lots of investigations into cash tip kind of working class American jobs theyll also be targeting many middle class Americans who just broke through who are basically defenseless in the face of unlimited resources of the federal governments extortion arm. also ask yourself what kind of people work in these kinds of government agency’s.
American businessmen can’t use the EZ. Nor can anyone with substantive investments (unless they want to give the government money).
The tax code is deliberately designed so anyone and everybody can be in violation of it.
I wonder how flippant you’ll be wHEN armed agents show up at your door. “But I used the EZ!”
Most folks use the 1040, not the EZ. And, there are plenty of places to cheat on either form.
You’re right, they’re going after the people that make over $400,000 a year like the clintons and the pelosis and the bidens. LOL yeah right. You keep on believing that.
Then why hire 87,000 more collections agents?
I don’t always agree with Art’s views especially on western Alaska politics, but in this case, he is spot on. I think we are fighting a losing battle in courts against the Communist posers. I think the only way they can be defeated is on the field.
Greg. Explain please. What does “on the field” mean?
Unfortunately, they’re not ‘posers’ now–they’re commie red to the core…
“……..I think we are fighting a losing battle in courts against the Communist posers. I think the only way they can be defeated is on the field.” Unfortunately, I’m pretty confident you are correct. Reversing (or even balancing) this course politically, ideologically, culturally, and morally looks quite impossible at this point. It appears to me that only a religious miracle can save us nationally and globally from open warfare, and frankly, it doesn’t look like God gives much of a rat’s tail about it, either. Prepare for rough seas……….
The consensus view of the Left is that democracy cannot function if people who disagree with them are allowed to participate in it. Combine this with their adherents routinely operating in an alternate reality of a constant state of grievances and you can see how the Left is driven to obsessively and vigilantly cling to their irrationally justified moral imperative to “protect our democracy” from the phantasm they perceive as a constant existential threat coming from the non-Left. Madness.
It has NEVER been about protecting ‘democracy’.
It has ALWAYS been about protecting the ‘Democrat Party’, which is in no way the same thing.
There was once the SS.
There is now the FBI.
History does indeed repeat itself, though within different names, but the end result is the same.
So Randy you are against law and order? Maybe you want to defund the police?
Which maybe is more concerning is that the Chinese government is allowed to purchase America. Let me say that again, China is buying up America. They purchased Smithfield hams a few years back so the next time you buy that hamstick or the smoked ham and it says Smithfield on the package you’re supporting China and their rogue takeover of America. China is also buying up farmland. They’re trying to find a way to feed all their own people so they’re just buying up Americans farms and paying crazy prices for them. They’re also buying up land around our military bases. What better way to spy on your adversary then from your own land? They’re even buying up no good land on our Southern border. These are the things that you should be worried about instead of a rope-a-dope IRS scheme to scare Americans. The Democrats hardly ever do anything right in your face. They do several things right in your face but that’s just the come on Carney game that they’re good at. The real game is behind closed doors or maybe even hiding out in plain sight.
Traditionally, the IRS can’t account for about 25% of it’s budget. But hey, when you throw money at something, lots of it will flutter away into the wind.
Millions of missing dollars went bye-bye under the Clinton State department. They never did find out where it all went but was probably earmarked for the Clinton foundation. But the statue of limitations has run out on her so she can safely come out of the woods now.
Amen Art. Your point of course, is to warn people what could happen if we let the demorats achieve their wet dream – are we there yet? Almost, and it really does look like we’re heading that way. Many career bureaurats and other commies haven’t been able to find a way to enforce their tyranny yet, and would absolutely love an enforcement arm – the power of grant money withholding only goes so far before the people tell them off. Those poo-pooing your Article have their heads in the sand.
Art you are right on point and I love your articles! People never realize until it is too late. They don’t know history because it is not taught, they are told what to think. Remember as Mark Twain once stated “It is easier to fool somebody than to convince them that they have been fooled”. Or my personal favorite, “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.” Harry Truman – a special message to the Congress on the internal security of the United States August 8, 1950. Keep up the enlightenment I thoroughly enjoy it. The difference in our country now and back then was Democrats and Republicans both loved their country but now most of the Democrat party hates the country they live in and maybe a few Rinos too.
Expecting IRS to be hiring MS13, Afghan “refugees”, escaped Ukrainian Nazis, etc.
Hiring foreigners and criminals who wouldn’t hesitate to follow “suggestions” to gun us down.
Quiz: Which dictator ordered a change in the use of pronouns and forbade handshakes in the workplace?
The IRS will hire all the recent invaders across the southern border, as they have never been exposed to the valuable freedoms embodied in the US Constitution that effectively PREVENTED us from being a “Democracy’ in favor of us being a Democratic Republic. We will be being oppressed by a foreign army.
Germans under the nazies were not as well funded-
The underground economy has grown to astronomical numbers. I do not wish to pay higher taxes as the under the table crowd smiles. Carried interest is still allowed. Tax Reform would actually lower taxes because when everyone pays what they should, revenue to the government coffers increases.
Welcome to the newest communist state ushered in by the Biden Administration and the D.C. Swamp uniparty. Your Constitution is now an afterthought after they abuse your rights under it. If there was ever a clear example of what tyranny looks like, look no further than the recent FBI raid on Trump’s residence. With absolutely no evidence to back up the raid, they found a willing Obama supporting Judge in Florida to approve a bogus search warrant for what? No one knows because Merrick Garlands Nazis squad won’t release the details. This is the worst case of abuse of power we have seen in America and we have complete corrupt fools like McConnell in the Senate doing absolutely nothing to address it. The corrupt mafia in D.C. has now crossed a line that they can’t erase. This was a political hit on an innocent man that did more for this country than any of the goons before him. The Red Wave is coming criminals, make sure you preserve your documents, texts, e-mails, all of it! Justice is coming and Americans will not rest until all involved in this corruption have been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Time for a constitutional convention or bust. The great reset. Judged are the problem and the overspending democrats need to be unelected. And federalism minimized at the state constitution level we are shareholders of our rights and we the people can trump we the government. Vote yes on the Alaska constitutional convention of 2022.
When will people realize that the IRS is not an American agency? It is an agency under the control of the Corporation of the United States that is not even American. All you have to do is read the 1871 act and you will see that America and every agency and rule, we have been living under, realize we have been under foreign control since the act of 1871. Why don’t you think that we are not at war right now, against the global cabal? Just like our leaders that signed the 1871 act committed treason against our Founding Documents and the USA, you can now see why the Corporation of the United States and all those who think it is our governing body keeps shoving all this garbage down our throats. Until we get back to a restored republic, the foreigners and traitors inside America that control America, will continue until they 100% control you and this Country.
So, they foisted this covid-crap massive overreaction at us. Then, after they milked that one out, tried a little monkeypox to see if that one would stick. Now, they propose adding armed IRS agents to threaten us, and then have the big show of the mar-a-lago raid. The point of all of this, is to keep us perpetually in a state of fear. The lines have been drawn, no doubt.
One of the provisions of The Affordable Care Act that almost no one noticed was for a private army of first responders that reports only to the President. The Affordable Care Act didn’t fund this army. Now it has been funded.
The Nazi’s brownshirts seem a lot like the Democrat’s antifa of today!
As Art said, these 87,000 new IRS agents won’t even bother looking at the tax returns of the 1%ers and 10%ers, because they don’t have to cheat on their taxes; they wrote the tax laws in the first place. Why cheat when all you have to do is send your lobbyists up to the hill with the favorable loophole language in their briefcases?
Lisa knows how the game is played. Just ask her about her Kenai River property deals.
Scary article and sadly its true. The new breed of Democrat has used the Nazi blueprint for years now. Obama himself, away from the prompter, said we need to federalize law enforcement. Pay your taxes and you won’t be harmed? Watch those old WWII films of the Jews being herded onto rail cars for “reprocessing.”
Get estrogen out of the feedlots. The meat industries in Europe would never feminize their men like democrats have been doing for decades in the US and now some soldiers are wondering about their gender. This was done collusively, purposefully against the strength of this republic by the lesser, marginal opponents of this republic (not democracy). Our superior republic is undesired by weaker despots.
Frightening article that contains much truth as evidenced by the Mar Al Largo raid, jailing of the Jan 6 ‘ dissidents’ and pandemic ‘ controls’ to say nothing of a ‘ faultless’ presidential election !! Hopefully Alaska ( and it’s military) will exit the union before the looming disaster overtakes us!!
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