{"id":17982,"date":"2013-05-20T18:18:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T22:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17982"},"modified":"2013-05-21T10:28:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:28:41","slug":"frightening-new-report-of-obamite-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17982\/frightening-new-report-of-obamite-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Frightening New Report of Obamite Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At NRO today, Jillian Kay Melchior has<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/348756\/true-scandal-jillian-kay-melchior\" target=\"_blank\"> a very important story<\/a> about how the leaders of one of my favorite organizations, what I have described as &#8220;the heroic True the Vote&#8221; group, have been harassed by not one, not two, not three, but <em>four<\/em> separate federal agencies that had never before done anything to look even slightly askance at those leaders &#8212; never, that is, until just after True the Vote was formed. The IRS, the FBI, the ATF, and OSHA all have made life miserable for True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht and her husband, Bryan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The situation escalated in 2012. That February, True the Vote received a third request for information from the IRS, which also sent its first questionnaire to King Street Patriots. Catherine says the IRS had \u201chundreds of questions \u2014 hundreds and hundreds of questions.\u201d The IRS requested every Facebook post and Tweet she had ever written. She received questions about her family, whether she\u2019d ever run for political office, and which organizations she had spoken to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing. It is mind-boggling. It is frightening. It is a story about government tyranny. It is sickening.<\/p>\n<p>At CFIF alone, I have written about True the Vote<a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1405-stars-emerge-to-true-the-vote\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1356-meese-rightly-moves-to-protect-our-votes\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/42-constitution-and-legal\/1835-good-news-from-the-courts\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. The group does a wonderful job fighting against vote fraud, while carefully staying well within all legal bounds itself. \u00a0For daring to help empower ordinary citizens to act as watchdogs against incompetent or corrupt government, Catherine Engelbrecht has now been treated by multiple organs of government as if she is a criminal, maybe even dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>This must not stand. MUST&#8230;.. NOT&#8230;.. STAND.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At NRO today, Jillian Kay Melchior has a very important story about how the leaders of one of my favorite organizations, what I have described as &#8220;the heroic True the Vote&#8221; group, have been harassed by not one, not two, not three, but four separate federal agencies that had never before done anything to look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4145,735,4146,3273],"class_list":["post-17982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-englebrecht","tag-irs","tag-obamites","tag-true-the-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17982"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17986,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17982\/revisions\/17986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}