The IRS demanded a list of donors to the Richmond Tea Party before it would grant tax exempt status

Once again we have to turn to the United Kingdom press in order to read about a scandal which the mainstream media in the United States should be covering.

According to this article it was over two years after the Richmond Tea Party applied for tax exempt status before the IRS sent the group a questionnaire asking, among other things, for a list of donors to the organization.

The agency wanted to know ‘the names of the donors, contributors, and grantors’ for every year ‘from inception to the present.’ It also demanded ‘the amounts of each of the donations, contributions, and grants and the dates you received them.’ ‘How did you use these donations, contributions, and grants?’ the IRS asked. ‘Provide the details.’ And in addition to the names of board members, officers and employees, the nation’s taxing authorities insisted on knowing the names of everyone who helped the Richmond Tea Party without compensation. ‘Please identify your volunteers,’ the January 9, 2012 letter from the IRS read. The agency also required the Virginia conservative group to provide copies of sections of its website that only its members can access.

According to this article it normally takes about nine months for an application to gain a response yet it is several years later and still some of these Tea Party groups are waiting for an answer.

Normally an application for this kind of status takes 9 months, Dye explained. In the case of Tea Party Patriots, the IRS followed up with a round of questions the group responded to a year ago. “Almost every organization that applies for (c)(4) status is engaged in attempting to affect legislation and public policy. That is no different for Tea Party Patriots. There is really no reason why this should occur,” Dye said.

So why would the IRS be asking for a list of donors, contributors, and volunteers from these organizations if it was not for the purpose of creating a Nixonian style enemies list? And then there is that infamous right wing terrorist report released by the Department of Homeland Security several years ago, I guess we know who Barack Obama feels the real enemy is…..