Well Excuuuse Me!

Anonymous isn't happy:

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "And Speaking of Benjamin Franklin":

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Dear Dude,

I'm not in the advise business. If you ustacould find something here that you can no longer find here, maybe you should stop looking here and go fill up someone else's inbox with your spam.

Sincerely,

Marica

Which reminds me of something else about which I'd like to rant: Anonymous. You got something to say? Say it. Attach Your Name to it. Attach Your life, Your Fortune, and Your Sacred Honor to it. Don't be rash. But for God's Sake, don't be Anonymous.

This is what has been bothering me about the IRS Tea Party scandal. TEA stood for Taxed Enough Already. TEA Party folk just wanted to limit the size of government-- to reduce wasteful spending, get the deficit under control, to remind people that Government exists to protect the Citizen's Rights. The individuals who were "in charge" of various TEA party groups wanted to follow the rules and sell T-shirts and such without having to pay taxes on the donations like-minded people made. So they applied for tax-exempt status with the tax collectors. And-- with some notable exceptions-- as soon as the Big Gov't Tax Collectors started acting in ways the TEA partiers were railing against in the first place, the TEA partiers backed down.

What the Heck?

So as much as I enjoyed reading Paco Enterprises and Bookworm Room and other Anonymous blogs, I haven't been. (No links. You can search for them.)

As I said,  "You got something to say? Say it. Attach Your Name to it. Attach Your life, Your Fortune, and Your Sacred Honor to it. Don't be rash. But for God's Sake, don't be Anonymous." Don't be a Coward.

Related thoughts here.