A Birmingham area Tea Party group is planning an IRS protest to take place Tuesday at noon outside of a Birmingham Internal Revenue Service Office. State Senator Scott Beason is expected to speak.
The protest is a part of a national movement dubbed the “Rein in the IRS Rallies” by the national conservative grassroots organization Tea Party Patriots.
According to a press release sent out by a Birmingham Tea Party group known as the Rainy Day Patriots, they are protesting the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party organizations, which was recently revealed by IRS official Lois Lerner.
At least two Tea Party organizations in Alabama, the Mobile-based tea party group Common Sense Campaign and the Wetumpka Tea Party, are known to have been targets of IRS. The Rainy Day Patriots told Yellowhammer that the struggles those groups endured prompted them to forego attempts to attain tax exempt status.
“This IRS debacle is only the tip of the iceberg. In order to intimidate us into silence, we have been portrayed as somehow being dangerous which necessitated the need to be watched and neutralized,” the Rainy Day Patriots said in a statement. “We are thrilled to hear that the facts are finally being reported instead of the misinformation that has been disseminated. There are no greater patriotic and honest Americans than the members of the Tea Party.”
In addition to protesting the IRS, the Rainy Day Patriots say they are also protesting amnesty for illegal immigrants.
The protest is being held Tuesday, May 21, from noon-1:30 at the corner of Lakeshore Parkway and Tom Martin Drive in Birmingham. For more information visit RainyDayPatriots.org.
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