Rand Paul: There’s Going to Have to Be an Independent Investigation of “Un-American” IRS Scandal

Speaking at a GOP fundraiser in the important election state of New Hampshire, Senator Rand Paul called for an independent investigation into the IRS targeting scandal that has lead many to further distrust the government.

During his speech he called the IRS targeting the Obama Administrations political enemies totally un-American.

“Any person who would use the power or abuse the power of government to go after their political opponents, I don’t care if you are a Republican or a Democrat or an independent, to take that brute force, that bullying force of government and to use it against your opponents, there is something distinctly and profoundly un-American about that,” Paul stated.

Not wanting to let the scandal simply be forgotten by the corporate media and American people alike, Paul made it clear that someone has to go to prison. He also joked about the three different scandals currently rocking the White House.

ABC News reported:

The Republican senator joked that the trio of scandals hitting the Obama administration — the IRS’s admitted targeting of tea party groups, increased criticism and outrage at the administration’s response to last year’s attack in Benghazi, Libya, and news of the Department of Justice’s seizure of phone records of the Associated Press, as well as spying on a Fox News reporter as part of a leak investigation — all reminded him of the children’s song “Old MacDonald.”

“Old MacDonald’s Farm of Scandals: here’s a scandal, there’ s a scandal, everywhere a scandal,” Paul said. “So it’s hard to know which scandal we want to talk about, but I think they all sort of stem from one problem and that’s the government has accumulated too much power, the president has accumulated too much power. Not just this president, but maybe the last 10 presidents, because we allowed that power to go from Congress to the presidency. We’ve allowed the presidency to become too strong.”

Paul said the revelations from the IRS scandal will create “such a level of distrust” that there is “going to have to be some kind of independent commission” to investigate.

“I don’t see any way the president can gain back trust, and for goodness sake, somebody’s got to get fired or go to prison,” Paul said to cheers.

Clearly the IRS targeting political opponents should be taken very seriously, with those involved going to prison and an independent investigation into where the orders came from and if there was any connection to the White House. (which at this point should be obvious)

Any Senator or Congressman who doesn’t support an independent investigation should be exposed as enemies of democracy in America, for if we let the IRS get away with this, the future police state will make American unrecognizable.