Once, my wife made the U-turn at the same time as someone else a little further north did, and the cop decided to go after the other car, which was closer to him. As my wife drove past the cop, who was walking toward the other car, she slowed down and gave him a look to ask if he wanted her to stop, too. He smiled and shook his head---his expression seemed to say, "You got luck this time, lady."
Law enforcement is *always* selective. And selective law enforcement is still law enfocement. To make it "targeting," you have to prove that the selection was made with an agenda, and I have yet to see any evidence that the IRS didn't go after Democrat groups *because *they were Democrat groups.
There has been nothing but repeated assertion that this happened, which in the Republican echo chamber is sufficient proof. When I first read that Baudrillard had reportedly said that reality had ceased to exist in the US, that people in the US lived completely inside the media, I thought it was the kind of ridiculously exaggerated thing French philosophers are apt to say. Making allowances for a bit of hyperbole, it now appears that he was right.
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Shane: " Obamist groups"
>
> [WS:] What is an "Obamist group"? As you may know, 501c3 cannot engage in
> political activities, so it is beyond me why someone wanting to support
> Obama would form a 501c3 organization. Or, for that matter, why would
> Obama want to suppress a 501c3 to increase his electoral chance? It does
> not make any sense. It stinks of "swift boat captains" - a repug effort to
> manufacture a crisis where none exists. They used the IRS because they
> know that stupid Americans would buy it wholesale. Which supports my point
> - framing is everything.
>
>
> --
> Wojtek
>
> "An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."
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