If you are an American taxpayer, you’ve just been robbed. Again. And the theft was carried out by people you trusted, and that makes it hurt worse.
Lois Lerner and Associates joked about the stonewalling of IRS applications from groups they hated, then clammed up and claimed the Fifth Amendment before Congress, which had every right to demand an explanation of why government goons figuratively “broke the legs” of groups who were conservative, Christian, pro-life, pro-marriage or pro-Israel. The recent settlement of $3.5 million in a class-action suit filed by Tea Party groups due to the IRS’s bullying activities wasn’t paid out of Lois Lerner’s ample retirement fund that the taxpayers provide. You paid it. I paid it.
Lois Lerner and her deputy, Holly Paz, have asked that their sworn depositions be sealed in perpetuity because they are afraid what the taxpayers would do to them if their testimony were made public. I’m pretty sure that every criminal in America would love to have the details of their crimes sealed from public view for eternity, but only God can forgive sin and wipe it clean — and that only happens when we confess, repent and accept the consequences. I knew that Lerner, Paz, et. al. were arrogant, but demanding that the public actions they took to humiliate and destroy others, which were paid for by public funds, be kept private is just too much.
If there are legitimate threats to their safety, tell the police. That’s what the rest of us do who live in public careers and have people threaten us. But if that’s not good enough for Ms. Lerner and Ms. Paz, I would like to suggest that, since they are accustomed to living off the taxpayers, we should provide a safe place for them in a taxpayer-funded facility. It’s called a federal penitentiary.
