#130 in the IRS’s list of 426 targeted groups speaks out: How the IRS treated me because I’m conservative

Frequently, we hear statistics about how the IRS targeted conservative groups and then go back to our normal lives.  Apparently, over four hundred groups were harassed by the corrupt government agency, but what did it actually look like?

Here is one woman’s personal account.  Mary Grabar writes:

In 2011, while working as a college English instructor and writing articles for thisand other sites about corruption in education, I set up a website called Dissident Prof with my own funds and by working in my basement. After one of my long-time readers sent an unsolicited $500 donation, I decided to apply for 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.

Thus began the ordeal with the IRS. I suffered through fifteen months of stonewalling followed by demands to quickly meet a financial and ideological inquisition.

I am now a plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against the IRS, because we now know the IRS had flagged applications based on criteria like this:

a) Have names including “Tea Party,” “Patriots,” or “9/12 Project”;b) Deal with government spending, government debt, or taxes;

c) Deal with education of the public by advocacy or lobbying to “make America a better place to live”; or

d) Criticize how the country is being run.

The motto of my site — “resisting the re-education of America” — probably fit (c) and (d). This is likely why last week, Dissident Prof was exposed as #130 in the IRS’s list of 426 targeted groups.

So what happened next?

As Grabar explains it, “the process became Kafkaesque — not American.”

She knows of which she speaks.  Her website tells us “I was born in Slovenia (then part of communist Yugoslavia) and grew up in Rochester, New York… My parents took me and fled a communist regime.  Today, I am a dissident to the reigning political correctness…”

Read her harrowing tale of what happened — and please share it.  We can’t let the federal government treat American citizens like this.

Not any more.

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