PJ Media reports on this story in which the head of Mozilla, the company that brought you the Firefox browser, was forced to resign because of his religious beliefs. Brendan Eich made a political donation of $1000 in order to advocate the passage of proposition 8 in California. The proposition was one which promotes the traditional view of marriage. And more disturbing is that the IRS leaked this information to a gay Gestapo group in order to put pressure on Mozilla to fire Mr. Eich. And as we now see, it worked.
The IRS actions create a serious chilling effect. Your donations to any group can be leaked by a hostile operative within the government, to your enemies, for use against you — up to and now including costing you your job.
Criticism from groups that hold opposing views we understand. That is part of the give and take that one expects in a democratic system. Debate is normal, and indeed, is needed if we are to run a country that is governed by its own people. We come to agreements about what laws to pass and what policies we want through the process of discussing the alternatives. But when the cowardly goons in government attack you from behind their computer screens and conspire to take your livelihood away from you because you have committed a thought crime, you should take that as a serious threat to your freedom.
This situation should trouble everyone who values free speech and wants to live in a country where you can speak your mind without fear of losing your job or being hounded by the power of the federal government and its gangster bureaucrats. The abuse of IRS power should be a serious warning to all patriotic Americans who still value their freedom and want to return the country to the kind of values that it once had before Obama became America’s first Emperor. This fish rots from the head down. It is high time that Americans realize just what kind of person they have put in office, and that the thugs who run our government need to be fired as soon as possible so that this kind of thing does not happen again. Oh and while were at it, I think a few prosecutions for abuse of power might be in order. Someone needs to go to jail for this.
