LESLIE EASTMAN: My Tea Party group’s futile attempt to get IRS tax-exempt status. “We saw the handwriting on the wall, and gave up trying.”

Meanwhile, reader Tim Nutt thinks it’s time to take to the streets again:

There is currently a lot of furor over the IRS scandal, but it seems to me that while a lot of (digital) ink has been spilled, there is another effective way for the public to voice their displeasure. The Tea Party began as a grassroots movement in response to the financial crisis, and I believe that the biggest factor in its momentum and success was the fact that millions of people across the country got out on the streets and protested. They made signs, they chanted, and they marched. I know, because I marched on the Texas state capitol building with them.

I think the time has come for another public outcry. If the IRS targeting individuals and groups for their beliefs is not tyranny, then I don’t know what is. If people will not march on the streets to protest tyranny, then I don’t know what is worth marching for.

I don’t know how to organize something like this, but a lot of people reading your blog do. Perhaps if you suggested the idea and word got around, this is something that we can get moving.

Perhaps protests at IRS offices?