IRS Targeted Hispanic Conservatives



(Washington, D.C.) In addition to targeting a variety of domestic conservatives, it appears the Internal Revenue Service has also used unjustified intimidating tactics against conservative Hispanic groups.

George Rodriguez, former president of the San Antonio Tea Party, said that when the organization applied for non-profit status, leaders were intimidated by IRS workers with excessive paperwork and meddling questions.

“They asked us all sorts of things that were out of the norm,” Rodriguez, now head of the conservative South Texas Alliance, told Fox News Latino. “We knew these questions were not the norm and we had our suspicions about them.”

Rodriguez said the group received a questionnaire from the IRS with “well over 50 questions,” including inquiries into who the group met with, where they held their meetings, who was in attendance and what the subject of their internal emails were.

“They should have been worried about the numbers, not who we were meeting with,” he added. “It was flat-out dirty politics.”

The IRS has the power to seize property, bankrupt businesses and ruin lives. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The IRS needs to be harnessed for freedom to survive. Otherwise, forget the Bill of Rights.