Terrorists targeting IRS agents

[Onlooker]

Think the Tea Baggers and Republicans will call for racial profiling?

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/irs-employees-face-rising-threats/story?id=9919368

There were 1,200 threats and assaults against IRS employees from 2001 to 2008, resulting in 195 convictions, according to officials. J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration, said threats that once averaged 170 or so a year are now up to about 900.

...

Some recent examples: a man in tax trouble hired someone to kill an IRS employee in Tampa, Fla.; an Alabama man tried to use his car as a deadly weapon by driving into an IRS building; and two arsonists in Colorado Springs, Colo., used a sledge hammer to break into and then torch an IRS building.

Some threats are so serious that armed escorts join IRS employees at meetings with potentially dangerous taxpayers.

...

[bluestateguy]

1. I'll bet you 20 bucks that 90% of those threats come from white males

White men have an entitlement mentality. I should know, I am one.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

3. I'm glad you are speaking for yourself.

[Yurovsky]

2. Here's an idea...

release all the non-violent drug offenders from our jails and put the tax-cheating faux-patriots and place them in the newly vacant cell.

Everybody needs to pay their fair share, and we don't need to jail people for "harming" themselves. Someday my perfect world will come to be....