Obama Campaign Targets Opponents on ‘Enemies List’

If you’re an Iraq War veteran, outspoken Obama critic, anti-illegal alien, and gun owner, then you’re already an Enemy of the Obama State.

From Powerline.

In April this year Kimberly Strassel cited Nixon in her column “The president has a list.” In this case the list consisted of donors to the super PAC supporting Mitt Romney. Strassel reported an alarming development brought to us by the Obama campaign, one occurring in broad daylight:

“This past week, one of [Obama’s] campaign websites posted an item entitled “Behind the curtain: A brief history of Romney’s donors.” In the post, the Obama campaign named and shamed eight private citizens who had donated to his opponent. Describing the givers as all having “less-than-reputable records,” the post went on to make the extraordinary accusations that “quite a few” have also been “on the wrong side of the law” and profiting at “the expense of so many Americans.”

These are people like Paul Schorr and Sam and Jeffrey Fox, investors who the site outed for the crime of having “outsourced” jobs. T. Martin Fiorentino is scored for his work for a firm that forecloses on homes. Louis Bacon (a hedge-fund manager), Kent Burton (a “lobbyist”) and Thomas O’Malley (an energy CEO) stand accused of profiting from oil. Frank VanderSloot, the CEO of a home-products firm, is slimed as a “bitter foe of the gay rights movement.”

Strassel noted that the Obama campaign’s conduct was unprecedented and raised a red flag:

“His campaign brands you a Romney donor, shames you for “betting against America,” and accuses you of having a “less-than-reputable” record. The message from the man who controls the Justice Department (which can indict you), the SEC (which can fine you), and the IRS (which can audit you), is clear: You made a mistake donating that money.”

Strassel was apparently on to something. This week Strassel returned to the case of Frank VanderSloot in “Obama’s enemies list — part II.” Mr. VanderSloot is getting the treatment that Richard Nixon could only dream of dishing out to his enemies:

“Mr. VanderSloot has since been learning what it means to be on a presidential enemies list. Just 12 days after the [Obama campaign] attack, the Idahoan found an investigator digging to unearth his divorce records. This bloodhound—a recent employee of Senate Democrats—worked for a for-hire opposition research firm.

Now Mr. VanderSloot has been targeted by the federal government. In a letter dated June 21, he was informed that his tax records had been “selected for examination” by the Internal Revenue Service. The audit also encompasses Mr. VanderSloot’s wife, and not one, but two years of past filings (2008 and 2009).

Mr. VanderSloot, who is 63 and has been working since his teens, says neither he nor his accountants recall his being subject to a federal tax audit before. He was once required to send documents on a line item inquiry into his charitable donations, which resulted in no changes to his taxes. But nothing more—that is until now, shortly after he wrote a big check to a Romney-supporting Super PAC.

Two weeks after receiving the IRS letter, Mr. VanderSloot received another—this one from the Department of Labor. He was informed it would be doing an audit of workers he employs on his Idaho-based cattle ranch under the federal visa program for temporary agriculture workers.”

……When Obama joked about siccing the IRS on his enemies back in 2009, Glenn Reynolds took to the pages of the Journal to make the elementary point that politically inspired tax audits are no laughing matter.

And of course, the lapdog mainstream media has been silent on this.  Oh sure, they’ve had their lover’s spats here and there.  But when it comes down to it, most of them are not ready to get up off their knees and wipe their chins.

Obama’s flying monkeys have been dispatched to deal with critics by inflicting phone and email harassment, and his supporters often engage in death threats.

Had enough, America? You can demand that Congress investigate and stop this bullshit, and better yet, do something about this in November.  Raise hell and don’t back down.

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• Obama Sicks IRS And Labor Department On Romney Donor (thedaleygator.wordpress.com)
• IRS, Labor Department persecute Idaho man who was named to Obama’s enemies list (hotair.com)
• When Is The MSM Going to Condemn Obama’s Enemies List? (nicedeb.wordpress.com)