According to Kimberley A. Strassel for the Wall Street Journal:
It works likes this: The Justice Department prosecutes cases against supposed corporate bad actors. Those companies agree to settlements that include financial penalties. Then Justice mandates that at least some of that penalty money be paid in the form of “donations” to nonprofits that supposedly aid consumers and bolster neighborhoods.
The Justice Department maintains a list of government-approved nonprofit beneficiaries. And surprise, surprise: Many of them are liberal activist groups. The National Council of La Raza. The National Urban League. The National Community Reinvestment Coalition. NeighborWorks America (which awards grants to left-leaning community organization groups, and has been compared with Acorn).
If Republicans in Congress want to do something to control the outrageous actions of the Obama administration, they have an opportunity here. Obama is using Justice to fund organizations that Congress has declined to fund; a deliberate seizure of Congress’ power of the purse, and skirting regulations that are in place to prevent actions such as this.
The department is in the process of funneling more than half-a-billion dollars to liberal activist groups, at least some of which will actively support Democrats in the coming election.
House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte has been investigating this matter for the past year, and is offering a solution. Mr. Goodlatte created a simple amendment to the annual appropriations bill for Justice, one that strips the department of money if it continues with its slush-fund ruse, which passed in the House this summer by voice vote.
Senators who support Democrat antics will try to eliminate this amendment, and there are Republicans who will go along with it.
It’s time to contact our Republican Senators, demanding that they support the Goodlatte amendment in the year-end omnibus spending bill. A question to ask: Why are some Senators not willing to support an amendment that works to support the power of the House to appropriate funds?
More information about this amendment can be found on Congressman Goodlatte’s official government website.
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It is not inaccurate to summarize the operation of DoJ as “nice company you have here, shame if something happened to it”. I believe that Muscovites in Russia know this well, protection there is called “buying a roof”. I suspect even the fear of the DOJ is enough to shake the funds from the coffers of companies who will see the cost/benefit of proactively “buying off” from scrutiny.
Can anyone explain how this operation is not organized crime? Am I not understanding this? I am, after all, a mere cat in a space suit.
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My first question is: what Federal Law/s provides the authority for DOJ and the Court system to do this. This has to be 15-50 Billion dollar slush fund. Kick backs, kick backs. I will call both of my Sentors, yes it’s a waste of time, hey I’m retired. Good post Stella.
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Col. (R) Ken,
This article http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-housing-segregation-20151212-story.html illustrates how courts, taxing authorities and the like destroy property rights and values.
I was thinking about this today. The Mongols, Huns and Vikings used to spread the depredation out, letting people recover for a number of years before striking again.
Now, it is relentless. Not only am I not a homeowner ( I just buy a house on time from the bank, i.e., rent to own is really what a mortgage is), even if I held title free and clear, there is still the insidious property tax that ratchets up, year on year. Mostly to pay for schools that I do not want, do not need and have not used.
Now, THIS covert population replacement scheme comes to light. It is very apparent that places like Body-more hunger for the flesh and blood of those who make a decent living. These implants are in the process of corroding the very tax base that makes their heavily subsidized existence possible.
The extreme analogy is that recent, tragic story where a woman in Prince Georges County, Maryland was arrested for animal cruelty for letting her dog get so infested with fleas that it died from loss of blood. Same concept writ large, except the gullible, trusting suburbanites are the dog.
What they see, they want. It matters not that you paid for it, they want it. If I lived on a dung heap, they’d want that, too.
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To quote Western Rifle Shooters, “Transnational Socialism” needs lots of walking around money for its business model to work.
And yes, this is criminal, as is pretty much anything this Regime does. Even if they’ve miracled it as “legal” (cough Hitler’s actions cough), it is morally indefensible and certainly not “transparent” or “accountable”.
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I read recently (sorry, no link) that the total of cash and property seized [without due process] by the government – local-state-federal – for the year cited exceeded the total value of goods lost to burglary in that same year.
Too often, government has come to = organized crime!
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Yeah, the civil forfeiture stuff has gotten out of control. Scary !!
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Oh, and bye the bye, Welcome !!
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Welcome!
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