Cleta Mitchell IRS Testimony: Why the government wants to be in “charge”
The primary reason that we have a Bill of Rights, specifically the First and Second Amendment, is that WHEN corruption takes over a government, that the people can wrestle that power away and remove those corrupted restoring order. The Second Amendment is not to secure the ability to hunt, or provide personal protection in case some punk decides they want to steal all our cookies. The Second Amendment is present so that American citizens can defend themselves against the federal government if that body of government gets out of control. And the First Amendment is present so that the Second Amendment might be avoided. Power corrupts—it happens even in silly fast food restaurants when a manager has power over other employees, it happens between companies who are both fighting for power and influence, it happens among family members arguing who will sit at the head of a table, and it will always happen in government. There is no possible way that a centralized government can be expected to perform at an intellectually superior place of neutrality. Power is leverage over others, and so long as human beings desire such things—corruption will thrive in any government activity. This corruption has never been so evident than in the IRS scandal where Tea Party activists were directly attacked by government. Lucky for the government there is a First Amendment, because as long as its respected, the Second won’t be needed—and testimony like the one that Cleta Mitchell performed below can take place.
Explosive testimony lit up a House hearing on the IRS targeting scandal recently, as GOP super lawyer Cleta Mitchell told representatives that the systematic effort to delay the processing of grass-roots groups’ applications for nonprofit status continues to occur.
Mitchell represents several grass-roots conservative organizations whose applications under sections 501c3 and 501c4 of the internal revenue code were delayed for years in the run-up to the 2012 election. She said that targeting had not stopped. As seen in the video above, she listed a number of instances which are gigantic red flags concerning the IRS scandal that link directly to the President of the United States. In the case of the IRS, and history will certainly make note of it—the media has been complicit in a deception right along with the federal government. They have openly suppressed the scandal for the ideological benefit of their own power grab as those enjoying the current power of being in government wish very much to see that power grow.
http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/irs-targeting-tea-party/2014/02/06/id/551274
Years ago I worked at a Wendy’s restaurant as a part-time job doing grill cook obligations during their busiest times of the day. I needed the extra money to pay off a tax obligation from a business start-up that didn’t work out, and I didn’t want the money to come out of our normal family budget, so I took on an extra job just to pay my tax obligation. I already had a normal full-time job along with dozens of hobbies to fill my time, so my time at this Wendy’s restaurant was something I could take or leave. One of the managers was a girl about my age who I got along fabulously with. She understood what I wanted out of the job, and she clearly understood the trade-off that her restaurant received by my services. On a normal day I saved her anywhere from 2 to 5 staffing positions because I was so fast. But there was another manager there whom was a disgusting, self-indulged, narcissist. She was a typically school levy supporter—she had a gigantic ass, an obtuse cranium from the very little brain capacity going on behind her skull and she was deeply in love with power. She loved having power over all the teenage employees and she relished instructing them what to do. Of course she and I clashed often as I was not responsive to her at all. She certainly wasn’t going to tell me what to do, and that was the end of it—but she tried often—and we fought just as much. She turned a simple task of making food for people into an excruciating ordeal just because she loved power.
I was also a waiter at Frisch’s for a number of years, again, as a second job making extra money. Frisch’s didn’t pay much, but I did make a lot of money in tips. I worked at the Fields Ertel location for a few years, and I did it because of the money I could make. Readers of my novel The Symposium of Justice can enjoy a bit of trivia to know that the climax chapter, “Salad Bar Goddess” is based on my experiences as a waiter at this job. The location described is the Frisch’s location at Fields Ertel—where the suicide of the hit man occurred, it was there on I-71—where he threw himself in front of an oncoming simi so to rid the earth of his corrosive—irredeemable presence. That’s why the book is called, “The Symposium of Justice.” Anyway, there was a manager there, a guy who was obviously miserable with his personal life, had no real personality, and was an otherwise social outcast who was the manager. He would invent tasks to perform at the close of business long after the tips stopped flowing just to exert power over people. Just when you thought all the closing duties were performed as a waiter, or waitress, he’d come up with a whole list of things to do at 1 AM in the morning just to show that he had power over you. Of course I also clashed with this guy. I made his life such a miserable mess in retaliation for the things he attempted to do to me, that he eventually was transferred away. On one particular instance I was on my break in the back reading one of my books when he came to tell me to handle another section because they were getting busy. Well, they weren’t that busy, and he didn’t need me to end my break. It was well-known that he hated that I read so much because he spewed about it all the time. So I refused. When he grabbed my book and tried to wrestle it from my hands, I grabbed his throat and threw him against the wall pinning him in place with some much directed dialogue that shut him up for several months. I got rid of him by going to corporate headquarters and letting them know what kind of guy he was. A few months later, he was transferred to another store. I still see him around town as he is still a manager at Frisch’s. He is currently a manager at one of the Liberty Township restaurants—and when he sees me he never makes eye contact. With him it was always about the power and when he sees me, it is a terrible reminder that I did not respect his authority, so he chooses not to deal with the reality which he has built up in his mind. I could tell hundreds of similar stories very closely related, but when it comes to fast food—where the pay is low, the work is hard, and the hours are disastrously difficult—there are always these types of power-hungry scum bags. There isn’t anything in it for them to be that way. The companies don’t promote them more than other people, and the pay is always bad. They are often forced to work lots of strange hours and in the case of the Frisch’s manager, he hated it that I read so much because he was afraid that I’d become something that he couldn’t ever become—and it drove him crazy. Yet he didn’t want to put the work into becoming better himself. His desire, and the levy supporter mentioned prior took jobs in management just so they could mess with people and have power.
Government is filled with these types of people—people who really only want to have control over other people—for the simple reason of having some sense of control. It’s an infantile desire that exists in every strata of society. But in the jobs mentioned, I was free to choose whether or not to work in those places, or whether or not I would ram the manager’s head through the back of a Frisch’s wall for interrupting my reading time during a break. When it comes to government when those types of people work in the IRS, the TSA, the local police and fire departments, zoning, code compliance you name it—those government jobs are filled with insecure despots suffering from deep insecurities that they wished to overcome being in charge of other people. Like I’ve said, I have lived a very colorful life—and I’m proud of it. I used to come to work at Frisch’s wearing a Mexican poncho and a cowboy hat with my whips strapped underneath to my shoulder. I wasn’t going to war, but between jobs I would practice in an abandon lot off Fields Ertel road. My day job was a kind of political one, where I would spend a lot of time down at Cincinnati City Hall. During an occasion where I had to deal with Mayor Qualls back in the 90s her office was wreaking with these power-hungry types. She loved the power of the Mayor’s office in Cincinnati even though she was a long way from qualified to perform management of any kind. After dealing with people like that I had a need to re-center myself, so I dressed the way I wanted, said what I wanted, and lived how I wanted. I had the eccentricity of a rock star without the tour bus especially during my tenure at Frisch’s which infuriated the manager mentioned. He became so frustrated with me that he actually pretended to have a nervous breakdown hoping that my compassion for him would pull me in line. It didn’t. As he fell to the ground with an apparent seizure flopping around like a fish I said to one of the waitresses as I stood over him that if he died, we’d be able to leave on time for a change. Miraculously, as the paramedics came to revive him, he got up and locked himself into his office. Four hours later, he was back to himself as he ran out of gas to perform the charade—at the end of the night he stopped me as I was leaving. He asked me if I cared about anyone. I said yes, my wife and kids. He then asked me why I worked at Frisch’s if I spend my days hanging out with mayors and Cincinnati “big wigs” then spend my evenings in his restaurant reading books that aren’t even taught in colleges dressed like I’ve walked out of a Clint Eastwood movie. I said—to make money.
The IRS, The White House, the military, the police, every government agency is filled with these types of people, and they are not capable to rule over anybody. If left alone, they will become corrupt with power for the simple reason that they have a psychological need to rule over others to justify their insecurities. For that reason alone, the progressive position of large centralized government will never work. They can’t even do basic tasks correctly—yet ideologically, all those who support such things have been willing to lie openly to protect that desire. This is what is behind the open lies going on over the IRS scandal. The power to rule over others is what committed the crime, but the denial that government is filled with these types of personalities propels it—because once that is admitted to, the foundations of progressivism—and liberalism in general—falls apart.
Government is not capable of self-correction. When confronted, they will attempt every ploy known to shake the truth from their actions so to avoid the grim reality of their personal tyranny. So we have the First Amendment to call out the bad behavior when we see it, just as Cleta Mitchell did in the testimony seen above. It’s not just one or two people involved in this scandal, its entire branches of government and most of those workers have similar problems as the people mentioned in my story. They fear to stand on their own—fear that they lack intellectual resources to do things on their own—so they are attracted to government. Once they have the power of an office, or the federal government at their back, they are free to be little tyrants to those they see as their intellectual superiors. With the IRS, they see the Tea Party movement as a threat to them—so they targeted them with all their power in the same way that the Frisch’s manager targeted me just for reading a book. My action made him feel bad about himself and he didn’t want the self-reflection. So he attacked me. The same thing has been happening between The White House, the FBI, the CIA, the DHS the IRS, and the Tea Party groups.
But there are rights and government is not allowed to harass people, so by using the First Amendment as a way to keep those corrupt souls in check, a balance of power can be maintained. If that doesn’t work, then we have the Second Amendment. But losing one or both of those options is not in the cards as much as progressives would like to see. They of course want unchecked power—but so long as humans desire such things, there will always be needed balances of power to counter those aggressions. Presently power has been abused by the IRS and the federal government in general—and action against those villains is justified—and expected in defense of the First Amendment. If it does not happen, well, then that’s why we have the Second. But turning away and letting the situation die down is not the path to justice—as we can’t expect the bad guys to do the right thing and throw themselves in front of a truck to rid us all of their intellectual burden. Cleta Mitchell has every right in the world to be upset. Crimes were committed and since the government is in charge of the investigation, nothing is happening—which is corruption. This is why government can never be so large, or can even be trusted to do basic tasks—and why progressivism is a failure that should be eradicated from the tongues of mankind forever.
Rich Hoffman
