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Re: Plainfield couple charged with not paying taxes
« Reply #75 on: June 21, 2006, 06:53 PM NHFT »
Got this message from another Ranger, he asked me to post it here, but I don't know if he wanted me to use his name, I've substituded the word (sig) for his name.


>
>David,
>
>Thanks for caring about my friend and mentor Ed Brown.
> I am furiously writing about these matters far and
>wide myself.  If you would like, you may forward this
>message of mine to NHFree, whose site I have checked
>out.  If not, I'll do it later.
>

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>Liberty people,Or Brainwashed Slaves as the case may
>be
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>Here is clear proof, once again, that we Constitution
>Rangers, (in this case, particularly, our former
>national commander Ed Brown, who will not conform to
>the unlawful), are correct, and the brainwashed
>popular opinion is wrong.
>
>Ed Brown once asked me:  is it possible for one man to
>be right and the whole world wrong?  Of course I said,
>look at Copernicus who stood alone in saying the earth
>is round and revolves around the sun.  This is why the
>founders did not, (as according to public opinion),
>establish America as a nation of "majority rule," but
>rather in accordance with the Richard Nixon Doctrine,
>which states "America is a nation of laws, no one is
>above the law, and this administration is going to
>uphold the law."  in other words, the law is above the
>whims of majorities, and above the mere dictums and
>declarations of powerful factions and "government."
>We the People are the government, and the law
>constrains us even from abdicating our own
>Sovereignty, which only God can grant or take away.
>
>Perhaps people should turn off Jerry Springer and
>learn
>something about what this country was ostensibly
>founded upon. 
>
>Anyway, what follows is clear proof of IRS fraud
>against all Americans.  Airborne!
>
>Wake up!
>

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Re: Plainfield couple charged with not paying taxes
« Reply #76 on: June 25, 2006, 02:01 PM NHFT »
Another note I got from one of the Rangers, who asked me to pass it to NHfree.com...


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(This supercedes previous mailings pertaining to "New Book, America The Betrayal..."
 
I was intent upon walking away from the fight against the power and allow the stupid communized, slack-jawed fairy-hoppers of this brainwashed society to keep good company with their controllers in the police state, for a time.
 
However, once again, as in the past, the police state has reminded me that I may never rest whilst it remains.  Now, I have decided that I am going to wreck that police state, on a global level, not just for the rights of Americans, but all of Mankind, if I am compelled to do so alone.  (I am not alone).
 
Anyway, what follows is a collection of brief essays, sounding a bit off the wall, perhaps, maybe a bit too impassioned at moments.  Keep in mind that the attack upon my friend, my mentor, and the current intelligence commander, and former National Commander in Chief of the US Constitution Rangers, involving an arrest of him and his wife at her dental facility at the hands of at least several dozen cops (Communist Occupation Perversion Syndrome), in a US Marshall-led "multi-jurisdiction task force," alerted me to a possible inquisition against us Rangers as an organization, like the one launched against the Templars when they ran afoul of the Priory of Sion and the Vatican-French monarchy complex.  Therefore, being a working man, a professional exercise physiologist, and doing my writing in furious fashion in available time, I felt a sense of urgency to get this stuff out, in the event of my corpse being apprehended  by the agents of repression.  I will now describe the process whereby, being no criminal, but a good American, I am intent not to do another day in false custody.
 
THE COMMIE BUZZARDS CAN APPREHEND MY CORPSE AND DO BUSINESS WITH MY GHOST.  AS  I COMMUNICATED TO THE GOVERNOR OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, THE BILLIONAIRE BENSON, IN JULY 2004: I AM THE LINE IN THE SAND, THE DEFENDER OF THE HOMELAND; I HAVE BEEN PUSHED A BRIDGE TOO FAR IN MY OWN COUNTRY AND WILL NOT BE PUSHED ANOTHER BLOODY INCH.
 
In the process whereby I became a Ranger, I had ongoing battles with the Police State:Nazi Hampshire, in which my widowed mother, myself, and my family were subjected to numerous false arrests and the like.  I was thrice arrested at gunpoint and on two of those occasions had my ribs broken by COPS, while other COPS held me at gunpoint.  I held my corridor and turned the tide with vigorous actions at law, including two self-filed (in propria persona, not "pro se") federal lawsuits, against impossible odds, largely because Ed Brown was able to offer timely intervention with technical guidance and life development mentorship.
 
This was indispensible, to a peaceful resolution of what had already become a full blown crisis for me and my family, by the time I met Ed Brown, a decent, peaceful man, who was homeless for five years, before he pulled himself up by the bootstraps, the old fashioned way, and became successful in business.  He and his wife, herb store owners, and she a very successful and helpful holistic dentist and Certified master herbalist, have helped untold numbers of people in many ways that most of us cannot begin to repay.  Now the US Attorney, Catalontuono, of the "New Hampshire District" and his leering, smirking, sleazy little side-kick, William E Morse, Asst. US Attorney, want to take everything these good people own, and put them in jail for thirty years, on a bunch of trumped up charges, because the Browns refuse to pay a blatantly un-Contitutional income tax, whereby to feed the blood-thirsty dragon that has already taken the lives of so many good people world-wide, the Luciferian Death Complex, The "New" (Ancient Esoteric) World Order (of secret societal Evil).
 
 
Had it not been for the intervention of Mr. Brown, I, Wlliam Miller (BS, Exercise Phys
iologist, CSCS, NSCA-CPT; see NSCA-lift.org), a Desert Storm paratrooper, and the sort of classically educated American patriot who will only be pushed so far in his own homeland,  would have gone the way of Carl Drega, of Colebrook, who was subjected to 22 years of insufferable harassment at the hands of the agents of Nazi Hampshire, before his nationally televised "killing spree," in 1997.  That "killing spree" was
set off when two local thug COPS decided to harass this poor 67 year old man one day when he left the grocery store.  By this time, Drega's wife of thirty some years was dead of a heart attack from all of the stress from this ruthless campaign of harassment, which was described to me by someone I grew up with and played baseball with, and who was living in Colebrook at the time, as "absolutely nasty."  The mind-control media had nothing to say about that 22 years of harassment preceding the "killing spree," when it was using the incident to promote gun control, for the security of us all of course.  One of the two COPS, at most half the age of Drega who had no military experience at all, was chased out into a field by Drega, and died on his knees, begging for his life, a clear foreshadowing of what is to come, as the police state continues on in it's quest to eliminate all avenues of redress of grievances and all forms of self-governing liberty in the world.  These COPS are cowards.  My experiences being in and out of courts where half the local police force is there just on account of little old me, and they are the ones with all the guns, has taught me nothing but contempt for them.  This police state is largely a paper tiger.  The fact that so many people in this country are so jacked up scared of showing the least little bit of defiance, resistance or non-conformity in the face of it's un-constitutional, hence unlawful ("legal") dictums, is clear evidence of a massive brainwashing complex, which, as a military man, I think I now understand very well indeed.  Furthermore, I am full of contempt at the whining and cowardice of all of these so called "Americans," who snivel and cry "You can't do this; you can't say that.  Do you know what they can do to you..."
 
We Rangers are here to help all who would be patriots to get some back bone, and to help people to protect their families, by understanding the practical applications of their rights, and how to go about defending those rights through peaceful actions at law, before someone's family finds itself in the midst of a crisis as did my family, before I met Ed Brown, who stood alone of all the people I had ever known, in providing me some practically applicable guidance in solving the problem.  It is for reasons such as this that the police state seeks to launch attacks upon the Rangers.  We will not be made to fear any agencies of police state repression, ever.  We are here to stay, the police state will go away, and we will do what history requires.  So help me God.
 
We Rangers have in our archives, the full story of Carl Drega, by way of the documentations of Carl Drega and his legal battles, provided Ed Brown by Charles Johnson, now deceased, the Yoda of NH Constitutionalism, who set Ed Brown on that path, and later aidied in my development into a Constitutionalist.  Drega appealed to Johnson just a month before the tragedy that ended Drega's life.  Because we Constitutionlists are always overloaded in our efforts to help others to defend their liberties, Johnson and Brown were not able to get to that situation in time.  More on this later, as we expose to the world the crimes of the agents and agencies of the Police State: Nazi Hampshire.
 
All of these things, and many other insights I have discovered concerning "A new world order according to the elite private consensus of the Trialteral Commission...," to quote a public speech made by David Rockefeller, brainwashing and psychological warfare, the roots of ancient mystery cult esotericism, hidden, ancient oligarchic bloodlines running through the royal houses of Europe such as that of the mad king Ludwig of Bavarai (whose castle, not accidentally, was the pattern for the Walt Disney Castle), corporate militarism passing as patriotism, all these things and more, will be covered in my long overdue book America, the Betrayal, Observations on Treason.
 
WAKE UP AMERICA, MANKIND.  TAKE BACK YOUR RIGHTFUL INHERITANCE AS SENTIENT, SPIRITUAL CREATURES OF GOD.  DO IT NOW, DO IT YESTERDAY!!!!
 
In about March of 2004, Maine Public television ran a documentary entitled, Bringing Down The Dictator, about the peaceful mass movement that resulted in the flight from power of Milosevich from his headquarters in Sarajevo, after the people of Kosovo, many going ten years without buying a new pair of shoes, had simply had enough. Several key insights arise from this: First, when the time came, the police and soldiers did not fire a single shot, nor attempt to stand in the way; they celebrated with the people in the streets.  Second, if the people of Kosovo can mobilize to do this in their own country, after being down-trodden for so long by the Nazi occupation, Communism, and grinding poverty and repression during the regime of Milosevich, we the people can do this on the necessary global level, as we put aside our national, tribal, idealogical and religious and other differences, and unite globally to confront a global challenge, the Global Corporate Mega-Capitalist World Order of the ancient Luciferian power elite.  Third, the only complaint I have about this so far, is that it always seems to take the people at large so damned long to mobilize in such fashion; first they must recognize there is a problem, and the religion induced, corporation mind-control-media perpetuated popular mythology affords so many people in this country every apparent mechanism of denial and avoidance available to mankind.  Let us mobilize now, while we still have some kind of economic basis and availability of food stores and potable water and the like, with which to do so.  WAKE UP MANKIND!!!!!!!!!!
 
I am William Miller, Desert Storm paratrooper, and United States Constitution Ranger.  I am a mortal enemy of the "New" World Order.  I am looking for a publisher for my books; speaking engagements whereby to inspire mankind, as I never fail to do  when I choose to turn it on; I am looking for funding resources, scholarships and the like, whereby to begin working on a law degree*, so that I can act as a Constitution lawyer (not a member of the treasonous "American Bar association," subsidiary of the Templar's Temple Bar of London), and I am making my voice heard now, so people will know that I stand for the unalienable, inherent rights and liberties of Mankind.
 
*I am only asking if anyone knows of such sources for a guy who cannot obtain convential federal student aid, to afford the jacked up, fraudulent cost of education, because I do not, and will not pay the treasonous, fraudulent, extortionary federal income tax.
 
Let the people of the world know that in Corporation-occupied America, there is a new day dawning; that there is a counter-current to the police state nightmare that has descended upon us; that the murder of some little girls in Haditah, Iraq, and the torture and "suicides" of captives in Guantonomo, Cuba, is not who we Americans are!  Join us, Mankind, as we US Constitution Rangers, and the patriotic Constitutional Americans who are of like mind with us, mobilize all available resources to end the Corporate World Order nightmare, for all time!  More follows soon, for those who do wish to be removed from my mailing list.
 
Airborne!
 
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Re: Plainfield couple charged with not paying taxes
« Reply #77 on: June 25, 2006, 06:18 PM NHFT »
This concerns an order for "dismiss with predjudice" which took place just last 6/12/06,  and is significant as a defence for the Browns!

All one need do is make the court take "judicial notice" of :

Section 3512 of the PRA, titled ?Public Protection? reads as follows:
"(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information that is subject to this subchapter [44 USCS ? ?  3501 et seq.] if--
      (1) the collection of information does not display a valid control number assigned by the Director in accordance with this subchapter [44 USCS ? ?  3501 et seq.]; or  
     (2) the agency fails to inform the person who is to respond to the collection of information that such person is not required to respond to the collection of information unless it displays a valid control number.
(b) The protection provided by this section may be raised in the form of a complete defense, bar, or otherwise at any time during the agency administrative process or judicial action applicable thereto."......

Once the court has notice of the Browns use of their Right to "judicial proceedings", they being the proceedings in Illinois, their RIGHTS as enumerated in Article 4, Sections one and two constitution for the united States, the judge will not want to hear or rule on the use of the following PRA protection! If he does, it will become widly known as a defense and it then becomes "stare decisis". Someone or group, needs to put a stop to this before it starts. There is no compelling statute that requires submission of a 1040 form or any other form if the PRA is not followed by the administrators.

          Because of the PRA Public Protection clause, all agencies have an incentive to make sure that all forms and related regulations bear valid, up-to-date, prominently legible OMB control numbers

DOJ Dismisses Felony Tax Prosecution
-- With Prejudice -- After PRA Defense Raised

Evidence OMB Complicit In Income Tax Fraud

DOJ & IRS Petitioned To Explain


On May 12, 2006 in Peoria, Illinois, the attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) begged the court to dismiss all charges against IRS victim Robert Lawrence in federal District Court.
The motion for dismissal came on the heels of a surprise tactic by Lawrence?s defense attorney Oscar Stilley.  
The tactic threatened exposure of IRS?s on-going efforts to defraud the public.  The move put DOJ attorneys in a state of panic that left them with only one alternative: beg for dismissal, with prejudice.
Stilley?s tactic paid off.  Sixty days earlier, the DOJ had indicted Lawrence on three counts of willful failure to file a 1040 form, and three felony counts of income tax evasion. The federal Judge dismissed all charges with prejudice, meaning the DOJ cannot charge Lawrence with those crimes again.

The trial was to have started on Monday morning, May 15th.  
On Wednesday, May 10, Stilley mailed a set of documents to the DOJ in response to DOJ?s discovery demands. The documents revealed to DOJ for the first time that Lawrence was basing his entire defense on an act of Congress, 44 U.S.C. 3500 ? 3520, also known as the "Paperwork Reduction Act" (PRA).
In Section 3512 of the Act, titled "Public Protection," it says that no person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with an agency?s collection of information request (such as a 1040 form), if the request does not display a valid control number assigned by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in accordance with the requirements of the Act, or if the agency fails to inform the person who is to respond to the collection of information that he is not required to respond to the collection of information request unless it displays a valid control number.
In Section 3512 Congress went on to authorize that the protection provided by Section 3512 may be raised in the form of a complete defense at any time during an agency?s administrative process (such as an IRS Tax Court or Collection and Due Process Hearing) or during a judicial proceeding (such as Lawrence?s criminal trial).

In sum, the PRA requires that all government agencies display valid OMB control numbers and certain disclosures directly on all information collection forms that the public is requested to file. Lawrence's sole  defense was he was not required to file an IRS Form 1040 because it displays an invalid OMB control number.
Government officials knew that if the case went to trial, it would expose the fraudulent, counterfeit 1040. They also must have known that a trial would expose the ongoing conspiracy between OMB and IRS to publish 1040 forms each year that those agencies knew were in violation of the PRA.  That would raise the issue that the Form 1040, with its invalid control number, is being used by the Government to cover up the underlying constitutional tort -- that is, the enforcement of a direct, unapportioned tax on the labor of every working man, women and child in America.

Any information collection form, such as IRS Form 1040, which lacks bona fide statutory authority or which conflicts with the Constitution, cannot be issued an OMB control number.  If a control number were issued for such a form, the form would be invalid and of no force and effect.  
Under the facts and circumstances of the last 24 years, it is safe to say that IRS Form 1040 is a fraudulent, counterfeit, bootleg form. Government officials responsible for this fraud should be investigated and face indictment for willfully making and sponsoring false instruments.  
Caught between a rock and a hard place, the DOJ and IRS decided not to let the Lawrence case proceed because it would reveal one critical and damning fact:  
The PRA law protects those that fail to file IRS bootleg Form 1040
The DOJ knew that it stood a significant chance of losing the case, and if that happened, the press and others would quickly spread the word, and leave only fools to ever file a 1040 again.  Oscar Stilley?s pleadings and documents made these points quite clear:
IRS Form 1040 violates the federal Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) and is therefore a legally invalid form.
  
Under the Public Protection clause of the PRA, no person can be penalized for failing to file a 1040 if the IRS fails to fully comply with the PRA.
  
The PRA statutes explicitly provide that a PRA challenge is a complete defense and can be raised in any administrative or judicial proceeding.
  
The IRS Individual Form 1040 has not and cannot comply with the requirements of the PRA because no existing statute authorizes the IRS to impose or collect the federal income tax from individuals.  That lack of bona fide authority makes it impossible for IRS to avoid violating the PRA.
We The People Foundation has researched the facts, law and circumstances surrounding this case, and has determined that:
A public trial would have opened a ?Pandora?s Box? of legal evidence and government testimony under oath that would establish the IRS 1040 form as both fraudulent and counterfeit.
  
Oscar Stilley?s PRA defense ?checkmated? the DOJ and IRS
  
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) appears to have been complicit with IRS in deceiving the public and in helping perpetuate the 1040 fraud by promulgating federal regulations that negate the plain language of the PRA laws passed by Congress and by allowing the IRS to continually skirt the explicit requirements of those statutes
Accordingly, We The People Foundation has petitioned the U.S. Attorney General, the IRS Commissioner, and Director of the OMB, requesting an official explanation of their conduct in Peoria.

If more info is wanted on details, respond asking for same and it will be posted.


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Re: Plainfield couple charged with not paying taxes
« Reply #78 on: June 26, 2006, 10:52 AM NHFT »

I talked to Colonel Booth, the head of the state police, by phone today regarding their involvement in the Ed Brown arrest.  He said they were involved indirectly, providing support, but not directly.  I told him I hope he had a twinge of conscience regarding their involvement with the feds on the arrest of an NH citizen.  He said nothing, and I said nothing, for about 30 seconds.  Then I asked him if the silence was an indicator of a twinge of conscience.  He said he had no comment.
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Re: Plainfield couple charged with not paying taxes
« Reply #79 on: June 26, 2006, 11:07 AM NHFT »
He said nothing, and I said nothing, for about 30 seconds.  Then I asked him if the silence was an indicator of a twinge of conscience.  He said he had no comment.

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Re: Plainfield couple charged with not paying taxes
« Reply #80 on: June 26, 2006, 11:47 AM NHFT »
"I'm sorry Dave, the feds have told us we're not allowed to have consciences if we want to continue receiving federal funding."
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Re: Plainfield couple charged with not paying taxes
« Reply #81 on: June 27, 2006, 12:59 PM NHFT »
I haven?t read all 6 pages of posts in this thread but after reading the first two I?m a little confused over what the deal is with this case?

Is the problem that they were in a militia and owned guns or is it that they weren?t paying taxes?

It seems the judge already said they can join the militia and can own guns (but then contradicts himself by saying guns must be removed pending their release)? so my understanding is this is about their failure to pay taxes.  If that?s the case I can?t see where they have a leg to stand on because just as the 1st and 2nd protects their other rights article 16 allows the government to collect taxes.

Amendment XVI
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
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Re: Plainfield couple charged with not paying taxes
« Reply #82 on: June 27, 2006, 01:04 PM NHFT »

Amendment XVI
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.


I am no anti tax expert.  But that is the 'big law'.  I think they want to know the actual law that says that they must pay.  Also there are some Supreme Court cases that came out after Amend16 that state that the Amend16 does NOT confer any new tax privileges. I don't know the case name.

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Re: Plainfield couple charged with not paying taxes
« Reply #83 on: June 27, 2006, 01:52 PM NHFT »
I am no anti tax expert.  But that is the 'big law'.  I think they want to know the actual law that says that they must pay.  Also there are some Supreme Court cases that came out after Amend16 that state that the Amend16 does NOT confer any new tax privileges. I don't know the case name.

If you (or anyone out there) could find that case name, I'd be very interested to know it . . . .

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Re: Plainfield couple charged with not paying taxes
« Reply #84 on: June 27, 2006, 02:07 PM NHFT »

Amendment XVI
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.


I am no anti tax expert.  But that is the 'big law'.  I think they want to know the actual law that says that they must pay.  Also there are some Supreme Court cases that came out after Amend16 that state that the Amend16 does NOT confer any new tax privileges. I don't know the case name.

Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co. -

"The Court stated that the: Sixteenth Amendment conferred no new power of taxation but simply prohibited the previous complete and plenary power of income taxation possessed by Congress from the beginning from being taken out of the category of indirect taxation which it inherently belonged."


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Re: Plainfield couple charged with not paying taxes
« Reply #85 on: June 27, 2006, 02:09 PM NHFT »
and this one:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&court=US&case=/us/240/1.html
 BRUSHABER v. UNION PACIFIC R. CO., 240 U.S. 1 (1916)

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Re: Plainfield couple charged with not paying taxes
« Reply #86 on: June 27, 2006, 08:51 PM NHFT »
I haven?t read all 6 pages of posts in this thread but after reading the first two I?m a little confused over what the deal is with this case?

Is the problem that they were in a militia and owned guns or is it that they weren?t paying taxes?

Look in the subject line. :)
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Re: Plainfield couple charged with not paying taxes
« Reply #87 on: June 27, 2006, 08:55 PM NHFT »
It seems the judge already said they can join the militia and can own guns (but then contradicts himself by saying guns must be removed pending their release)? so my understanding is this is about their failure to pay taxes.  If that?s the case I can?t see where they have a leg to stand on because just as the 1st and 2nd protects their other rights article 16 allows the government to collect taxes.

Amendment XVI
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.


A man should not be a slave of any organization.

But if you want to debate tax law ..... please begin your research now and catch up to Ed Brown in a few years. :)
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Re: Plainfield couple charged with not paying taxes
« Reply #88 on: June 27, 2006, 09:04 PM NHFT »
Is the problem that they were in a militia and owned guns or is it that they weren?t paying taxes?

Yes.  ;D

They are charged with not paying federal income taxes. (Or not filing. Or both. I'm not sure.)

But their outspoken militia involvement, gun ownership, and open notice to the IRS that they weren't paying until being provided with a cite of the law requiring them to pay, all made them ripe targets for prospersecution.


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If that?s the case I can?t see where they have a leg to stand on because just as the 1st and 2nd protects their other rights article 16 allows the government to collect taxes.

Amendment XVI
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

The 16th doesn't impose an income tax. It gives Congress the authority to impose an income tax. The argument is that Congress has never actually passed a law imposing an income tax on all people, and upon all sources of income. I haven't studied the internal revenue code, so I don't know the validity of that argument.

To put it in current context: the proposed (and recently failed) "flag burning amendment" would not have banned burning the flag. Instead, it would have given Congress the power to do so:

"The Congress shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States."

Either amendment, absent further legislation, does nothing.

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Re: Plainfield couple charged with not paying taxes
« Reply #89 on: June 29, 2006, 07:44 PM NHFT »
KBCraig: Thank you. I've been trying to understand the "there is now law" argument for a long time, and never understood how the 16th amendment doesn't impose an income tax. You're the first person to explain it in a way I understand. I've always been opposed to taxes, obviously, it's just that it's always seemed to me that there is a law.
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