Monday, October 24, 2005

Verdict is in! Stand by for report . . .

All parties were summoned to the courthouse at 1 p.m. We should be receiving an audio report shortly.

posted by Anonymous @ 10/24/2005 03:42:00 PM  

15 Old Comments:

hopefully some of the court watchers will stay outside the courtroom so they can go talk w/ the jury immediately after they are dismissed instead of getting locked in the courtroom like at the Rose case...

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10/24/2005 3:49 PM  

GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS BUT A FEW.

What did we expect? Trials are won prior to their commencement. Motion in Limine are the way to win in court. Now we have to run and hide to avoid the oppressive governemnt of the good ol' USA. We have no hope !!! Good luck to you all. Maybe you can move to Switzerland.

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10/24/2005 3:55 PM  

http://www.lewrockwell.com/huebert/huebert11.html

One Sure Thing in Life
The constitution will not save you from death or taxes

by J. H. Huebert



I have a message for every liberty lover out there who knows that the federal income tax is a moral outrage, nothing more than legalized theft, and something many of our country’s founders would have found unconscionable.

The message is, "Pay it anyway."

No, I didn’t sell out to the feds during my recently completed clerkship with the U.S. Court of Appeals. But that experience did hit me with a dose of reality that made me more certain than ever that you can’t beat the federal government at its own game, on its own turf, so you must be careful to choose your battles wisely and well.

If you try to beat the feds at their own game, you will lose.

Many people know, or know of, someone who thinks he doesn't have to pay federal income taxes. It’s not that this person doesn’t earn any income, or has a lot of deductions, or keeps his money offshore. Instead, this person thinks he has discovered the ultimate loophole in the tax code and the income tax just doesn’t apply to him, period.

Often, people like this believe some combination of the following:

The tax code doesn’t actually tax income, therefore I don’t owe any federal income taxes.
The Sixteenth Amendment was never properly ratified, therefore I don’t owe any federal income taxes.
I am a citizen of my state, and not the United States, therefore I don’t owe any federal income taxes.
I was a U.S. citizen, but now I have become a "non-resident alien," therefore I don’t owe any federal income taxes.
The Social Security Act established a constructive trust in my name upon my birth, and I don't earn any income myself – my salary is actually paid to the trust, which happens to share my name – and therefore I don't owe any federal income taxes.
Those of you who have never met these people may want to check out Brian Doherty’s excellent article going inside the movement for more details.

The tax protesters may have some interesting legal, historical, or philosophical points. Maybe, for example, the Sixteenth Amendment wasn’t properly ratified. I don’t know, and I don’t care, because I know the only thing that matters: If you don’t pay your taxes, you will be forced to pay them, and then you will go to jail. And what if you resist, physically? Then, if they deem it necessary, the feds will kill you. It’s just that simple.

No judge is going to listen to your stories about the Sixteenth Amendment, sovereignty, or constructive trusts for one minute. Why? First and foremost, because when the federal government takes anyone to court, it’s a rigged game, because agents of the federal government are both prosecutor and judge. We have "separation of powers" on paper, but the reality is that no judge is going to declare the taxes that support his paycheck unconstitutional. Consider also that every federal judge is appointed by the President of the United States. Can you think of any president during your lifetime who would appoint such a judge?

Another point to keep in mind is that the courts have heard it all before, more than once, and have summarily rejected these arguments. The IRS has helpfully cataloged some of these cases for you here. I can assure you that the legal knowledge you acquire in your self-study on this matter will not stun any of these courts such that they will suddenly change their minds. The constitution is a mere document, and not very good to begin with, so despite any false impressions your government-school civics class may have given you, the constitution is powerless to save you from the feds.

Of course, I don’t doubt that there are people out there who have gotten away with these tax schemes, and who will encourage you to do the same. And I’m sure they will come up with clever new legal theories, too. But after you read their testimonials, and hear their sophisticated-sounding arguments, look at the case law, and you will see that person after person has tried it and gone to jail. Every one of them thought the law was somehow on their side when they stopped paying taxes, and every one of them was wrong.

So let us summarize: No legal argument will magically exempt you from income taxes. Period. If it were possible, entrepreneurs would have jumped on top of it and made a killing on books explaining how to do it, and then the government would have closed the loophole.

A more useful alternative.

I don’t enjoy saying any of that. That close to 50% of a person’s labor each year is slave labor for the government is disgusting and obscene, and no one is less happy about it than I am. And just so we’re clear, I would find it obscene if it were even 1%, or ½ %, or even one penny, because taxation is slavery, and slavery is wrong, no exceptions.

And that’s what makes the tax protester situation so sad. Here we have people who have figured out something of which most of the mindless masses remain ignorant their entire lives: that taxation is theft and slavery, and that an individual is under no moral obligation to pay it. What a tremendous breakthrough, to realize that! And what a waste when they go to jail, because they naïvely believed the U.S. Constitution would protect their rights.

So are we doomed to simply be ever more enslaved to our federal masters, and give them as much as they demand for the rest of our lives? Of course not.

But becoming freer isn’t easy. You may need to find another country, where the government won’t burden you with high taxes.

Most of us feel somewhat tied to the country in which we were born and raised, but as globalization progresses, more of us are going to move around more often, and as we do, governments, especially in some less developed parts of the world, will compete for us through lower taxes and less government intervention.

Websites like escapeartist.com can help you find the spot on earth that will be most pleasing and least burdensome to you. Books such as PT and PT2, by W.G. Hill, can also put you on the way to thinking about freedom far more pragmatically than the scheming tax protesters. There is a wealth of literature on this, and while it may not seem as heroic as fighting the government in court and going to jail for your beliefs, it works, unlike those other options, and is the closest realistic thing to individual secession from government available in the world today.

The most important thing you can do.

And if you don’t feel like going that far, there are, at least for now, other legal ways to lower your tax burden and strike a blow for liberty. One of them is making a tax-deductible contribution to an organization that advances the freedom philosophy, such as LewRockwell.com, or the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

Even more important than that is learning all you can about the economics and morality of liberty, and how to effectively communicate libertarian ideas. Someday, when the state collapses, the world will need a Remnant to rebuild civilization, and you cannot do your part to prepare for that day very effectively from a prison cell.

So skip the bogus tax schemes, forget about fictional constitutional rights, and focus on doing something useful for yourself and for liberty instead.

October 17, 2005

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10/24/2005 3:56 PM  

The audio blogs are not working

By Blogger Unknown, at 10/24/2005 4:01 PM  

The verdict is not in yet

By Blogger Unknown, at 10/24/2005 4:02 PM  

use the other one at the schiff blog.........

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10/24/2005 4:03 PM  

Judge Dawson is amongst the thousands of renegade judges in the United States. He, like the others, care nothing for the law. They are only concerned with keeping the vast quanity of plundered cash flowing into the Federal coffers. He knows that should he rule according to the law that he himself will become a target. He is a coward concerned only with covering his own backside. Americans will remember him and the others like him for years to come.

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10/24/2005 4:06 PM  

Problems resolved. Audioblogs are up and working.

By Blogger Unknown, at 10/24/2005 4:07 PM  

to anonymous posting 10/24/2005 4:55 PM


I would seriously love to squeeze your head till it burst so I can see the stupidity contained within. And cut out your heart to see the hatred that turned your mind into a neo-nazi thinker.

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10/24/2005 4:09 PM  

To the person who tells us to "pay it anyway" since an honest citizen cannot win in these federal drumhead trials I say this:

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

- Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10/24/2005 4:14 PM  

AMEN! to anonymous posting 10/24/2005 5:14 PM

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10/24/2005 4:20 PM  

Quuuaaatttllloooooossss!!!!

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10/24/2005 4:30 PM  

Lets face it people, most Americans do not want to pay TAXES. And growing quickly is the fact that Americans are learning what the law says- or does not say-about the matter.

eople are figuring it out, and they are also figuring out that the Govt is a "bully" and a "liar". Just look at how Irwin was treated- harsh and unfair!!

A blind man can see it in a second that the judge is 100% slanted to protect the system- the precious revenue streams, as oppossed to the constitution and our freedoms.

Tell me, can the constitution defend itself? Can it speak, walk, or file suit in court? I think not, that task is left to Americans. The task of defending the constitution is left to the people of America. (Even the Supreme Court of the US said that Americans should never simply trust the Govt, but rather to question it at every step)

If the Govt has the right to tax a persons income at 1%, then the Govt can tax it at 100%- and that would be slavery- which is unconstitutional. So then, everyone can see the truth, that the Govt really has no right to tax at even 1% unless it's done in accordance with the provisions of the constitution.

If the Govt were honest and had nothing to hide, it would have treated Irwin fairly, and not tried to supress evidence and even the law itself!

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10/24/2005 4:39 PM  

HERE IS WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO IRWIN. IT IS DEEPER THAN YOU THINK

U.S. prison population continued to grow in 2004

October 23, 2005 Reuters

The U.S. prison population, already the largest in the world, grew by 1.9 percent in 2004, leaving federal jails at 40 percent over capacity, according to Justice Department figures released on Sunday.

Inmates in federal, state, local and other prisons totaled nearly 2.3 million at the end of last year, the government said. The 1.9 percent increase was lower than the average annual growth rate of 3.2 percent during the last decade.
According to the International Center for Prison Studies at King's College in London, there are more people behind bars in the United States than in any other country.

China had the second-largest prison population with 1.5 million prisoners, according to statistics updated in April and cited by King's College. The total U.S. population is about 296 million, while China's is 1.3 billion.


U.S. prison population continued to grow in 2004

FOR THOSE THAT DON'T COMPREHEND

THE US HAS ALMOST DOUBLE THE PRISONERS OF CHINA BUT ONLY A FOURTH THE POPULATION.

***THE STATUTES ARE THE BONDS.*** THEY MONITIZE THE DEBT PAPER THROUGH THE PRISON SYSTEM. FOLLOW THE PAPERTRAIL - FOLLOW THE MONEY.

THE QUATLOOS TYPES HAVE BEEN "HAD" AND THEY THINK THEY ARE REALLY COOL. YOU ARE NO BETTER OFF THAN ANYONE ELSE IN THIS ONCE WONDERFUL COUNTRY. WHY ACT SO SMUG WE'VE ALL BEEN HAD, IT'S JUST YOU DON'T KNOW IT....YET! CJ

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10/24/2005 7:05 PM  

CJ,
Can you explain how the Feds monetize the debt through the prison system? Any websites to explain it?

The Heebrew Hammer

By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10/24/2005 8:26 PM