And you forgot to mention, that the IRS has acknowledged its mistake and will return the money and instituted reforms to make sure it doesn't do it again...oops. http://dailysignal.com/2015/05/14/f...-from-north-carolina-convenience-store-owner/
The ONLY reason these crooks are returning his money is because of media coverage. Make no mistake, they knew from the very beginning he was not a drug mule or drug lord. This is all about shaking someone down - which is why their first offer was 50%. Not to mention they've stuck him with all the legal costs and he'll have to sue to for damages - let's see how that goes. Don't worry Joe, the criminals that sit in the highest positions of power withib our beloved State actually print the money, they're not going anywhere and there's plenty of cannon fodder to toss at various "Terrorists" at a profit of TRILLIONS each year. As for these crooks, they were just some small time gangs in the lower echelons of the IRS and FBI running a quick shake down. Cutting their teeth on the way up. And who knows, if he pisses one of them off enough, maybe they'll turn the IRS on him and his family and his customers in a couple of years time. If so, he'll only WISH he had settled with the State at a 50% cost. See, they knew from the very start he was a small business owner - this was all about plucking a fat peach off the tree.
Are you suggesting the State did NOT start a phony war in both Vietnam and Iraq? Wasting TRILLIONS of income tax payer debt obligations? Are you suggesting the State did NOT bailout the exact same banking institutions that CAUSED the 2008 GFC and will never prosecute these criminals? Are you suggesting the State is NOT imprisoning the largest population of non-violent humans (in history) who broke some asinine American Protestant Sharia morality drug 'Law'? Are you suggesting the State is NOT the largest polluter in the world? Are you suggesting the State is not spending (taking on debt obligations) to the tune of hundreds of billions each year building NSA infrastructure to spy on it's own Citizens/Tax Chattel? Is there any disagreement from above? As for Agents of the State / Criminal Thugs / IRS, FBI, Local, State and Federal Police using Civil Forfeiture Laws to steal privet property: WaPo: Stopping the abuse of civil forfeiture CATO: Policing for Profit The New Yorker: Taken Forbes: Civil Asset Forfeiture Laws See: EndForfeiture.com I imagine the cognitive dissonance is a bit of a hurdle when one benefit's so handsomely from stealing. Yeah, it's probably pretty hard to think that what one is doing is immoral - but get this: It is immoral. It's NOT virtuous to steal Joe. Got that? Stealing is immoral. It doesn't matter if the stealing is done indirectly by taking out debt obligations in someone else's name (T-bonds) and then having a nice holiday on their dime sticking them (generations) with the bill via their income tax - which will be paid at the barrel of a gun. That is IMMORAL Joe. What makes this a sick joke, is suggesting that this is 'Good for Society' or 'Good for The People' or 'Good for America'. Yeah, you may as well say it's for the "Glory of God". That's the exact same God damn bullshit Slavers peddled. They ALSO thought what they were doing was 'Good for the Country' because, to them, ending Slavery would 'Collapse Society'. And because no one had ever seen what a free society would actual look like, they just assumed history was correct and that "Glorious" empires required stealing, murdering, raping and slaving. This was 'normal' - thus they were justified in their own actions. Sound like someone you know Joe? Big Fat Empires of the size of the USA are not conquered, they rot from the inside out. You'll know you're inside the bloated rotting carcus of one of these Empires when immoral is seen as moral. When never ending Wars are for the "Good of the Nation". War is Peace. When the general population come out in mass support of Teachers Unions and their so-called "Educational" institutions even though they pump-and-dump functional illiterates at a rate of 1 in 5. These same people want the State to prevent natural monopolies and yet want pedagogical monopolies and are against Charter Schools even been an option - one they don't even have to take. They simply don't want anyone else the freedom of choice. But hey, what would one expect of a population with an average literacy level of a 13 year old 7th grader. Ignorance is Strength. The very notion of NOT paying a tax on labor - is antithesis to your modern day American. Selling debt-obligations on the unborn is the norm. Freedom is Slavery in the Land of the Fleeced.
