The REAL Issue With Targeted CRA Audits
There’s no secret now that Stephen Harper is using the CRA to bully and cow environmental and other charity-status organizations that oppose him.
On the surface, the answer to ‘why’ is all too simple: to defeat any enemy organization that stands in his path, regardless of the cost to Canadian democracy and the right to free speech in Canada.
However, the deeper issue is even more menacing and hard to conceive. My theory? The purpose of an audit is not just to keep an organization at bay and to keep them from mounting any plausible defense for the Canadian environment or other issues that Harper loathes (ie. humans living nicely), but to gain access to the people that support the organization.
That’s right. Harper is using the CRA to build a list.
A massive list of people that he feels must be crushed, else they find a way to evade his dead gaze and people-hating mantra for oil.
This list of people will become the target of every invasion of privacy, be it from the CRA, the RCMP and other security organizations until they finally acquiesce, giving in to the insane pressure from a malevolent and evil government that hates freedom in Canada.
This action WILL put the ultimate choke-hold on the rights of all Canadians, because most will be afraid to donate to this organizations, lest they get added to the list of ‘naughtys’ as well.
So you see, it’s not just the first action that he’s forced the CRA to take against well-wishing Canadians. It’s the endless harassment and fear that comes with it, pushing us all into a corner and bullying us into submission.
And like a wretched, perverse version of the fun-loving seasonal St Nick, Stephen Harper has you on his ‘naughty’ list, whether you like it or not.
And when they come knocking on your door because you donated to a bird watchers group or charity that opposes the Tar Sands, what are you going to do about it?