The federal government is investigating dozens of death threats to IRS employees that have been posted online since the House passed the health care bill, FoxNews.com has learned.
The IRS’s office of criminal investigations will provide armed escort assistance in other situations, the memo said. But this has served only to further rile anti-tax extremists, who view themselves as patriots and pledge to confront any armed IRS agent with guns of their own.
“WE, I repeat, WE, are armed to the teeth. They need those pumps just to feel safe,” one commenter wrote.
“POINT OF ORDER: I dont shoot BACK; I shoot FIRST……….BUY MORE AMMO,” said another.
In a particularly heinous reply that was praised by dozens of other commenters, someone suggested – in graphic terms – that tax opponents should rape an attractive agent before killing her. “Or vice versa…don’t have a problem with that either.”
Other online discussions delved into specific tactics—what weapons, what bullets, what bait—to employ in the killing of IRS agents.
I can’t imagine why the IRS would be beefing up security and providing armed escorts and guards in some situations, can you? How can people so cavalierly say such things so publicly on the internet? Sure, some of them are just talking smack, but there’s really no way to tell who is insane and who isn’t. On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog … or someone actually crazy enough to kill an IRS agent. And for what really? First off, it’s not the IRS’s doings that created or passed the health care bill, and all said, any tax increase anyone may see come of the new reforms is really, really quite small (and mostly non-existent for the majority of people). I guess it feels to risky to folks to threaten to kill legislators and elected officials, so they pick on someone they think they can get away with threatening.
This really does suck, because I had already started the process of becoming an agent with the IRS, but then some nut flew a plane into a building just down the road here in town and now all this? Seeing as one of my life missions is to never be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and I’d like to continue being alive to accomplish that mission, I think I won’t be working for the IRS just now. Sad, because the money is good (and we could use it), but now is not the time to be an IRS employee.
This craziness has to stop. It really does. I once thought I wanted to leave my country, because I didn’t like the way things were going, and then I decided we needed to stick around. Bad times and good times ebb and flow, and things have always gotten better after a rough patch. But I have to say that the increasing number of lunatics coming out of the woodwork is beginning to create a wee bit of constant stress for me. I don’t like walking around in my daily life and wondering if one of the people around me is just whacked enough in the head to do something horrible, and you know some of these crazy people are walking around my daily life. Maybe Lin and I need to consider moving up the dateline on the building of our sea-worthy retirement boat, so we can get the hell out of America if the crap really hits the fan.†
Footnotes- † Oh, I say “Let’s get the hell out of here, but I bet some of you know full well when the going gets tough, Orb hunkers down, stockpiles food and water, and prepares to stay the course. But still … I am tired of being surrounded by people who can even think of some of the things these people are saying they want to do to other people. It’s madness, and I want no part of it. [↩]
Those guys are just mad at themselves for not meeting society’s norms, particularly in the money department, and are too dumb and deranged to order their own priorities. That free-floating disgust seeks to discharge itself somewhere and the government’s tax collector is acceptable, at least within their cultural crackpot subset.
It appears to go a little like this: 1) Can’t or won’t cooperate with others and consequently can’t get ahead at work. 2) Low-rent man can’t attract female attention. 3) Frustrated and buys big, shiny guns to compensate. Ammo, Kevlar and truck payments further exhaust finances. 4) Seeks fellowship of like-situated losers, often led by semi-educated sociopath who directs anger at unrelated targets, this case the tax man. 5) Because of 1) above, recognizes no social obligation to contribute, compounds pathology, acts out, next stop federal district court or worse, gets into shootout with real militia and life’s problems abruptly cease.
The only real problem here is that shame doesn’t work on sociopaths, so we’ll always be stuck with a certain number of them.
We are always going to have the nuts, but it just seems like there are either more of them or they are getting braver about being nuts publicly.