We know what warfare is. It’s the intense and deliberate attempt to harm, destroy property and kill people. Lawfare is the abuse of the legal system to harm, bankrupt, or destroy opponents. I have added the term: Regfare, which is the abuse of regulations to control, harm, cripple and close down individuals or companies; and Polfare is the political abuse of using politics and politicians to control, harm or destroy individuals or political opponents. Along with many others, I have been a target.
Over the last decade, my colleges and I have been subjected to campaigns of Regfare, Polfare, and Lawfare. It has cost massive amounts of time, and tens of millions of dollars, and it is getting worse. I have been attacked by AG Colorado (by Lawfare Libby), the Department of Education (which destroyed my beautiful colleges and put 10,000 students on the street), and now the Polfare from Senators Elizabeth Warren and Dick Durbin and other political figures have instructed the IRS to bleed me dry and drive me into bankruptcy.
A few years ago, I massively overpaid taxes. I asked for a refund—a request that is routinely granted to millions of Americans every year. But for me, a Polfare target, the IRS responded with massive efforts to waste my time, life, and money—for 10 years. Applying for this refund has cost me millions of dollars, a huge amount of time and stress, and earlier this week it got worse. I was in Federal Tax Court in Los Angeles suing the IRS to get my refund. You won’t believe what I saw in court.
There were five lawyers at the lawyers’ table in the courtroom, and 10 others from the IRS sitting in the courthouse behind them. During the day, this number swelled to as many as 20 people as IRS employees came in and out of the courtroom.
The IRS pleads for more staff! What an incredible abuse.
I have a great affection and respect for America. I came to America in 1964 when America was ruled by law rather than a nation ruled by Regfare and Polfare. Now America’s governance has run completely amuck. It is painful to experience. But I’m fighting back.
Carl Barney
November 7, 2024