I am glad that I live in the United States where a person can express their ideas without a worry issues. There should not be a person to tell another person how to say it.
There is an growing idea that we can't express our ideas because if a person have an idea and says it in public, the IRS may audit them because of their political views or people will boycott a person business because of their stance. Another fear is that a person may lose their job because they gave a a campaign outside of their work time and the work finds out. So more people are afraid of talking about their convictions.
There is a thing called the intimidation game and this approach is to silence political opponents be punished for their political view point so one can hear them.
Jim Crow's racist used this approach down south and this was used in the in the past to quiet the voice of blacks like the group called NAACP.
I am trying to be the middle of the road and I noticed the the Progressives are trying to have the Conservatives from having a view point in the culture.
The three ways an outsider can express this way of intimidation. The first way is that they could harass. The second way is that they could investigate and prosecute. The third way is that they black mail.
I will examine the first way of harass. They could put Federal and State agencies and bureaucrats on their on their political enemies. I think most people remember the IRS targeting issue in 2010. The IRS systemically denied or delayed non-profit status to more than 400 Citizen-Activist groups almost all Conservative. If a person does their research, these groups made the IRS's standard for Tax-Examinations. This caused issues because these groups were denied by the IRS so they could not raise money or spend it for the 2012 Presidential Election. People in every position in life needs to have a say but the IRS denied this right.
I will be fair and say that some Democrats will say that it was only a few rebel IRS agents that were doing this and they were ignorant of the laws, their is a case a person can say that this is not true.
There are documents in the Congressional investigations and Freedom of Information Act shows that the IRS were taking it cue from powerful Democrats and their left-wing allies like MoveOn.org.
An interesting note, Senator Carl Levin repeatedly pressured the IRS to investigate Conservative Non-Profits or President Obama warned about "shady" tea party groups.
It seems that Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS Non-Profit Division followed their ideas then investigate and prosecute.
There was a group of Democrat Prosecutors had a bogus Campaign-Finance investigation with conservative groups that were promoting Scott Walker, a conservative candidate.
The prosecutors subpoenaed emails and financial records.They did pre-dawn raids on homes of conservatives. Then the conservatives groups were said they were in danger of going to jail if they would tell anyone. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin to end this activity. The message was clear with the Democrats to Conservatives in that state.
The third way is called blackmail. The American Legislative Exchange Council called ALEC is good at passing free-market legislation at the state level. It is supported by many companies like Coca-cola and Kraft. There were some people from the Progressives that hate this group wanted to target some of the corporate donors. The left groups wanted to ran ads against them to label them a racists or people that they deny Global Climate Change and it worked. Many of them pulled their support in ALEC.
There seems another tactic now. It is called Forced Disclosure of Political Donors. This is when the individuals who give money to a cause or a candidate are made public.
I need to say this, disclosure can be good when it keeps track of whose money may be influencing politicians, but it is bad when it is used to target and punish average Americans that make their voice heard by giving money to their causes.
In California, left-winged activists used records to go after every person that donated to California's Prop 8 campaign. This campaign promoted that marriage is only for a man and woman.
Many people found who supported this and the house windows were broken, people messed with their cars and people went against their companies. Even a person got fired because that person supported Prop 8, Brendan Eich from Mozilla Firefox had to step down.
Conservatives can learn three things. Learn to recognize when they are bullied. The second way is be very wary of initiatives to increase financial disclosure. I need say talk about the initiatives to increase financial disclosure, they sound good but most of the time it is bully more average people that take a stand. Then they can fight back. If a person remains silent then the other-side will win.
People can have a powerful stance for freedom and conservatives need to have the freedom of speech. People have a right to speak their minds without fear of the government.
I hope that you enjoyed this. I am not trying to change anyone ideas but inform people. I hope that you will have a great life and I love you.
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