I am writing to share with you a first hand look at how our Government looks at our movement and what they are intentionally doing, as a governement, to stop us.  First of all, I know that many Ohio liberty groups have been waiting for months and even years to get their 501(c) 4 corporation applications processed by the IRS.  We need to incorporate to protect our groups from liabilty and 501(c) 4 is the only IRS category for which our groups qualify – so we have to do this.  But the government is not processing these applications which puts our groups at great financial risk until they are approved.  As you will see below, this is no accident.

Many groups have also had to file what is called an IRS 1024 form to apply for Federal Tax Exempt Status so that we can do our income taxes.  Our own Portage County TEA Party has been waiting for over a year just to get a response from the IRS so we can file our 2010!!! tax return.  In the attached PDF’s I am going to share with you the “Additional Information Requested” of the Ohio Liberty Council from our June 30th, 2010 1024 application which we just received on January 30, 2012.  Yea, they took a year and a half to respond to our application and they are giving us two weeks to respond back. As you will see, this is no simple request.  We have been told by people in Washington that the IRS is under specific instructions to delay and scrutinize any applications having to do with TEA Party or Liberty Groups.  I have ask our “representatives”, and your should be asking them as well, when they are going to call the IRS in front of a Congressional Committee and demand to know if this is true and who has implemented this policy and why?

Now, I want you to share with all your friends and relatives who think we are all paranoid about government intrusion into our lives the attached two pages of PDF’s.  Have them read what our government is asking from us, so that we, as a group, are able to have free political speach and be able to support the causes and individuals we choose to support.  See if they think these requests are “resonable”.  Would they want me to share this information about them?  These documents are real – not something from our imagination or from the Soviet Union.  I have to repond to them.  It’s not just the absurd requests like “provide a hard copy printout of your organizations website” and “list the social media outlets (you use to promote and publicize your organization) and provide hardcopy printouts of those outlets.” Take a look at how many pieces of paper that takes. They don’t just want the URL of our website, they want a hard copy and yes they want us to fax it to them, not email a pdf – I am not kidding. How about asking us to provide a list of anyone we invite to speak to our groups, including their “qualification” and contact information, and provide hard copies of everything that was handed out, and a list of everyone who attends those events?  You like that one?  How about wanting the “name, address, and corporate federal ID of all organizations that are members of our organization” or who attend one of our events?   What does that have to do with our organization being classified as being not-for-profit?  You think that is not government over reaching?  Does this sound more to you like something the KGB would want to deteremine if you are a threat to the “cause” Comrade?  You haven’t gotten the half of it.  Print out these PDF’s. Then read them carefully, because they will scare you and then they will make you VERY angry.

These document are what the Democrat/Socialist party has in store, not just for TEA Party groups, but for your business, your church, your boy scout troop, your gun club, your favorite charity, your doctor, your life.  If we do not rise up and defeat Barack Obama and then FORCE the Republican’s we elect to wake up and disassemble this big government machine that is bent on enslaving us all,  we will all suffer the same fate of all the people in communist and socialist states throughout history who failed to demand and defend individual liberty.  Show this to the people you know, who do not yet believe we should fear this government, in an effort to get them to join us in pushing our nation back from the brink of disaster and on toward a renewed committment to individual freedom and liberty. Together, we can not fail.

Sincerely,

Tom Zawistowski