So my friend Conor emailed me yesterday with the news that Wesley Snipes is a tax protester:
unlike other celebrities who find themselves on the wrong side of the Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Snipes has a flamboyant explanation: he argues that he is not actually required to pay taxes.Mr. Snipes, who is scheduled to go on trial Monday in Ocala, Fla., has become an unlikely public face for the antitax movement, whose members maintain that Americans are not obligated to pay income taxes and that the government extracts taxes from its citizens illegally.
His trial has become the most prominent income tax prosecution since the 1989 conviction of the billionaire New York hotelier, Leona Helmsley, who went to prison for improperly billing personal expenses to her business.
Tax deniers maintain that the law only appears to require payment of taxes. All their theories have been rejected by the courts, including the one invoked by Mr. Snipes, which is known as the 861 position, after a section of the federal tax code.
Adherents say a regulation applying the 861 provision does not list wages as taxable, though it does say that “compensation for services” is taxable. The courts have uniformly rejected all such theories, and eight people have been sentenced to prison after not paying taxes based on the 861 argument.
Despite the court rulings, juries have acquitted some prominent tax resisters in recent years, and failed prosecutions have encouraged others to join. Even when the government has failed to obtain convictions, it succeeded in collecting the taxes through civil enforcement.
Actual rich people are almost never tax protesters; they have too much to lose. And Mr Snipes will lose. Whatever the justice of the argument, no court is going to shut down the tax collection system that finances the federal government. Most tax protesters get by simply because it takes quite a long while for the government to notice that they haven't paid any taxes, and to get around to collecting them. But once it does, it's ruthless. The State of New York once (erroneously) concluded that I hadn't paid taxes I owed it1; by the time they got around to demanding their money, a several-hundred-dollar tax bill had, through the magic of penalties and interest, ballooned into several thousand. It took over a year to straighten out their misconception, in part because they were unable to explain why, exactly they thought I owed them money.
Wesley Snipes will presumably now lose much more of his fortune to the IRS than he would have if he'd just paid the damn taxes. I find it hard to imagine that any reputable advisor is encouraging him to proceed with this course.
1 I had paid the taxes to Illinois, where I had resided for the part of the year during which I earned the money. The State of New York had lost my partial-year tax return.
Could tax protesters please put their money where their mouths are and please go move to a place without any government, like parts of Somalia or the jungles of Indonesia?
Tax protesters: people who want the privilege of living in an economy/society with such things as roads, law courts, and access to technology, but don't want to pay for any of it.
And don't give me the "well, they want to pay taxes, they just don't want to pay income tax!" In that case they would pay their taxes, run for public office on a platform of changing the tax laws, and when elected, change the tax laws.
Tax deniers maintain that the law only appears to require payment of taxes.
What? It seems like there should be something in front of taxes--like "sales" for example.
there has to be some kind of confuscian saying about this, because the question is not if the pain will come, but how much... I tried to fight the state on an amount that I supposedly owed, but paid years ago. After sending them all the requisite docs, and the cancelled check? "We're sorry we can't accept that." 'It's the cancelled check indicating the state of Colorado has cashed it, 3 years ago.' "Nevertheless the computer system has no record of it..." After much deliberation, I simply wrote them another, because that was cheaper than getting lawyers involved. In my brain, I donated a few extra bucks to the well being of everyone in the state...
"to stop a rock from reaching the ground, one must not allow it to fall from the cliff."
or, something...
Here is what makes no sense. Let us say that the Supreme Court ruled that, no - you don't have to pay taxes. Within minutes congress would be in session and the ambiguity in the law would be fixed - retroactively.
So, what can they possibly hope to accomplish?
I just don't get it.
rwe: the "appears" indicates that the tax protesters believe the law is written to be deliberately deceptive. A careful reading reveals that taxes are not mandatory, but only appear to be mandatory.
They're wrong, of course.
Okay Rob, I had thought that they just opposed income taxes, which is why I misread the sentence. If they oppose all forms of taxation, then they're completely crazy.
Sorry Wesley, you're a fool. We do need a government and someone has to pay for it. Taxes should be low, but not zero.
"Tax protesters: people who want the privilege of living in an economy/society with such things as roads, law courts, and access to technology, but don't want to pay for any of it." - grumpy realist
More like grumpy moron. Roads are paid for by gasoline taxes and tolls (where they have them). Courts are paid for by something they like to call "court fees". Access to technology - I'm not sure what you are talking about there, but I pay for my internet access out of my pocket, PLUS I pay taxes on that, same as for phone bill, cable, etc. The income tax is unconstitutional. Everything else "provided by government" is already paid for by user fees.
The problem with your suggestion to run for office and change the tax laws if you don't like them is that people like you who don't understand how things are supposed to work will never understand a candidate who does, nor will you ever support him/her, because you'd think they are crazy.
The income tax is a system of tyrannical control over the people. Fools like you will ensure that the government retains that power forever.
Do some research.
One problem Mr. Snipes faces now is that capitulation would include a guilty plea to a felony. If this were simply a civil proceeding, MM would be absolutely correct that no reputable advisor would encourage him to continue the course.
However, as noted in some articles about the case, a few tax evaders have recently avoided criminal conviction. Based on what I know, none execpt Mr. Snipes sent the IRS an eight-figure check drawn on an empty account or requested a $7mm refund. Also, we don't know what the feds offered as a deal, but I expect that it was painful enough, at least in the fine, if not jail time, that going to trial isn't irrational. Mr. Snipes has some bad facts, but he can still hope for jury nullification.
Remember, this is a criminal trial simply to determine whether or not Wesley goes to jail. It has nothing to do with how much money the IRS can squeeeze from him -- that's a parallel civil suit. While some have been acquitted on criminal charges (on the grounds of a sincere belief that they didn't owe taxes) nobody gets off the civil hook. If he has assets that the gov't can find, they're going to take them no matter what his sincere beliefs are.
I'm surprised that it has taken almost 45 minutes for the first homework assignment.
I have done "some research." Doing legal research is my job for heaven's sake. And the income tax, while it may be tyrannical, is most assuredly permitted by the Constitution.
Speaking of research, you might wish to explain how we pay federal judges out of court fees, given that each judge would have to hear something like 460 paid cases annually just to pay for his salary, never mind the cost of courthouses, other court employees, resources like Westlaw, government lawyers, etc.
He sent in bad checks? Oh, now I just have to know: can anyone tell me if the bad checks were "international bills of exchange" drawn on his contract trust account at Treasury containing the funds given to the US government in exchange for the pledge of his birth certificate? Because it would be just fantastic if Snipes were a UCC redemption lunatic.
Yes, based on these reports, the man is a fool. One way or another, Uncle Sam is going to get those residuals from To Wong Foo. It's probably not going to do much for his career either.
Tom Cruise may belong to a wacky* religion, but at least he has enough sense to pay his taxes.
*yes, I know the word is redundant in this context.
Rob_Lyman: I just paid $103 dollars in "court costs" for the privilege of sending in a small form indicating intent to take a defensive driving course because of a speeding ticket. At no point will I actually show up in court.
Take it from there and extrapolate.
Person: this is the federal income tax, so I'm concerned with the federal courts.
The $350 filing fee does not begin to cover the amount of work associated with a case even if it settles well before trial, never mind the cost of a criminal matter, which costs only a "special assesment" of $100 per felony conviction.
Maybe state systems are self-supporting, but it would surprise me a great deal.
Rob: I don't think that he's going quite that far, but obviously I don't know. From the article:
""Michael Louis Minns, a Houston lawyer who has defended and won acquittals for tax protesters, said that the three bad checks that Mr. Snipes sent the government to cover $14 million of taxes would seem to destroy a defense based on that ['he sincerely believed that he did not have to pay taxes'] argument.
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William Cohan, a lawyer in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., who also represents tax opponents, said another hurdle is the refund claim form signed by Mr. Snipes. The signature statement, or jurat, was altered so that instead of saying it was signed under penalty of perjury, the word “no” was inserted before “penalty.”"
Wesley is going to have a tough time. Any chance of an OJ jury in a Middle District of Florida?
RL,
"Because it would be just fantastic if Snipes were a UCC redemption lunatic."
the enjoyment you get from 'UCC redemption lunatics' is, itself, enjoyable.
do you have any easy way to explain what their pretext is?
personally, I find it hard to follow it along..
I just paid $103 dollars in "court costs" for the privilege of sending in a small form indicating intent to take a defensive driving course because of a speeding ticket.
The cop's clock time, cruiser, equipment, and maintenance for the associated hardware were probably not paid for by the fine itself, unless you were really close to the threshold of felony speeding. Then there were print and/or web resources involved in obtaining the form, plus the time of whoever creates and updates those things. The envelope may undergo a brief security screening when it reaches the courthouse, involving equipment and/or personnel time, and then it will be received by a filing clerk who works at a desk on a computer.
The clerk will update the record in the computer system, probably a custom application the state had someone develop under contract, indicating the status of your petition. The digital record will, in turn, go to a central server maintained by IT staff, and a backup service will make a copy of it late that night. The clerk, having completed that task, will drop the form into the Outbox and begin processing whatever is next in the Inbox. Another filing clerk will then take that record to the paper archives and file it for safekeeping, notice that the supply of forms and envelopes is running low on the way back, and place an order for replenishment. Eventually, your signed form will age beyond the capacity of the storage room and be taken to off-site storage or incinterated as your state's recordskeeping requirements dictate.
All of these people involved will, of course, receive a fairly decent wage+benefits compensation for their time, while working in a building that requires maintenance and cleaning crews, and consuming utilities including electricity and/or gas, water and sewer, communications bandwidth, etc. If their safety is ever in jeapordy, they can push a hidden button and several armed cops or security guards will appear within seconds, and they, in turn, will have the ability to summon considerably more.
All for $103.
do you have any easy way to explain what their pretext is?
personally, I find it hard to follow it along.
This is just why I like the UCC redemption nuts so much: it is an intellectual challenge to figure out how they go from statutes enacted in most states to help make commercial transactions more uniform, and thus foster interstate business, to weird notions of money for free from the government.
But I can summarize thus (keeping in mind that I’m leaving out a lot): they believe that the Uniform Commercial Code has supplanted all other sources of law and become the supreme law of the planet, and thus there is no law except commercial law. The government has pledged our labor (via UCC Article 9, governing security interests, of which our birth certificates are evidence) to foreign banking interests in exchange for money to finance the government, which by the way is a corporation, not a government, headquartered in DC. This money is held in “trust accounts” by the US Treasury. They believe that you can use some UCC mechanism, involving taking out a security interest in your “strawman,” (which is a corporate entity with your name, only written in all capital letters: look at your driver’s license for proof) to get at this money in your trust account. Drafts against the trust account are supposedly good to pay off all sorts of debts.
They also believe that the real, living, flesh and blood you (written, of course, with both capital and lowercase letters) is not subject to the jurisdiction of the UNITED STATES (the corporate entity headquartered in DC) because there is no law but commercial law, and the non-corporate you can decline to do business with the corporate UNITED STATES just as you could decline to do business with WalMart if you so choose.
Also, the yellow fringe on the flag indicates that we’re either under martial law or the court displaying it is an exclusively admiralty court. (I’ve also seen the assertion that the “real” civilian American flag has vertical stripes and blue stars on a white field; the one you’re familiar with is the military flag, even without the yellow fringe, and shows that we’ve been under martial law since 1938 or thereabouts). There are some who say that commercial law is the same as admiralty law, and that you submit to the jurisdiction of admiralty courts by taking out insurance of any kind. Therefore, you should not pay for title insurance when you buy a house.
I need hardly add that all of this is absolutely, totally, batshit insane. But the interesting thing is, if you squint really hard and deliberately misinterpret everything, it has some internal consistency and is based on real provisions in real law.
Anyway, my question (which probably nobody has an answer to) is whether WESLEY SNIPES (the corporate entity) or Wesley Snipes tried to pay his taxes with checks drawn on one of these fictional accounts.
The Snipes case got me pretty irritable, not because of his particular situation, but because it called my attention to a glaring inconsistency in tax policy I had not heretofore noticed. Namely: I as a human being seeking to survive, pay way the hell more taxes than would a corporation seeking to survive in the same manner.
If somehow I were able to transform myself into a "corporation" rather than a human being, then I could deduct from my "income" all expenses for food, housing, education, childrearing, transportation, etc. -- because after all, these are not "income" but rather simply the cost of keeping my "corporation" running. At the end of my "fiscal year" I generally haven't got any "income" left at all.
However, because I am a human being, somehow these expenses become "income" to me. So even though at the end of the month I have nothing in my pocket but air, thanks to the cost of food, housing, utilities, transportation, etc. (OK, and cable TV), I'm told I have "income" amounting to virtually all of my wages.
To further pile on the injustice, a great deal of a corporation's income can be classified as "capital gains," which (*after* deducting all expenses) are taxed at a lower rate per dollar than my "wages" (from which I am not permitted to deduct expenses).
I was starting to get really angry about this, and then, voila, a solution occured to me. Screw the man, I'm not paying him another dime in taxes. How, you ask? Well, I'll just stop working. If I'm not earning wages, the government doesn't make a dime off me, baby!
a great deal of a corporation's income can be classified as "capital gains,"
Not so much, unless the corporation is committing suicide by selling off all its money-making assets.
Not so much, unless the corporation is committing suicide by selling off all its money-making assets.
That seems like a most pleasant suicide to me, and one corporations commit fairly often . . . . Notheless, point taken; the capital gains issue isn't really disparate treatment of people and corporations, but rather the disparate tax treatment of those who make a living selling their labor versus those make a living selling other assets.
What I can't figure out is why a guy so dead set against paying income taxes, and having earned as much as Snipes did in the years in question, didn't just pull a Marc Rich? I mean, are Zurich or Geneva such awful places to live?
Will,
I ask myself that same question about people like Jeff Skilling (former Enron CEO). At one time Jeff had more than $50 million in his Goldman brokerage account. There was ample time for him to flee, before his indictment triggered the freezing of his accounts and the confiscation of his passport.
The question then - Why didn't he flee? The only explanation for Snipes and Skilling is that they really don't think they did anything wrong.
Phil, you're overlooking the fact that an individual taxpayer is entitled to an exemption amount and, at a minimum, a standard deduction.
anony-mouse: Wow, you sure know a lot. Maybe you'll figure out one day how everyone else in the world manages to process and file a tiny form for less than $103.
(Btw, the "court costs" aren't for the officer. They're for ... the court. Yes, much as I hate to admit this, the police and court are actually distinct entities.)
RL,
I put 'UCC redemption nuts' into 877-RENT-A-CLUE, and got back:
http://clusty.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&query=UCC+redemption+nuts
This one seems to cover, and unwind, some the arguments:
http://home.hiwaay.net/%7Ebecraft/Redemption.htm
Does seem to be some serious Tom-Foolery..
Um, I said "...with such things as roads, law courts, and access to high technology." I didn't say that this was all that you got.
If you're not planning to use the income tax, then how ARE you going to raise funds for the government?
(Please don't say "the Fair Tax", ok? We've already shown the absolute dead-in-the-water aspect of it.)
Anyone who thinks that the costs of the US courts is totally covered by the "legal fees" charged must have rocks in his head. About the only part of the US gov't that manages to cover its expenses (and is, in fact, a cash cow) is the US Patent and Trademark Office.
We could, of course, just get rid of the military, right? Hee. Try running on that platform......
TomT,
Phil, you're overlooking the fact that an individual taxpayer is entitled to an exemption amount and, at a minimum, a standard deduction.
And once upon a time, those amounts were supposed to roughly correspond to the actual cost of keeping body and soul together, and keeping a roof over your head. Decades of inflation destroyed that relationship.
If the government thinks a family can live (not well, but live) on an income just over the "poverty line", then the exemption/standard deduction amounts for that family ought to add up to a similar amount. At a minimum.
Of course, "ought to" is not a phrase recognized in tax law ...
During the filming of Blade: Trinity (2004) Wesley Snipes was concerned mostly with doing as little work as possible, remaining high, being needlessly unpleasant to everyone else on the project .... and not paying his taxes. (link)
This was his last chance to remain a famous and big earning movie actor, and he should have done the best job he could to make his franchise end with a big success. His attitude was the opposite.
Some people are so mean and crazy that they don't care about bringing in money and doing what's best for them. They care about shorting everybody else.
Guys like Wesley Snipes put the argument for slamming tax resistors in its best light.
To represent Mr. Snipes effectively, you need to get him to shut up. Because the more he shows his attitude, the worse the reaction he'll generate.
The story of how this change will occur, takes us back to Tudor England. There was an enigmatic character by the name of Saint Germain. He learned the secrets of alchemy by studying ancient esoteric knowledge into the occult he was literally able to turn lead into gold, rocks into diamonds, and later was able transmute his mortal body into a immortal angel conquering death itself. With his "elixir of life" and positive thinking he never aged at all. According to Germain "It is the activity of our nerves, the flame of our desire, the acid of our fears, which daily consume our organism. He who succeeds in raising himself above his emotions, in suppressing in himself anger and the fear of illness, is capable of overcoming the attrition of the years and attaining an age at least double that at which men now die of old age."
Comte de Saint Germain
"A man who knows everything and who never dies," - Voltaire
Comte de Saint Germain was noted for rubbing elbows with the monarchies. Many of which commented on his elaborate shoes stubbed with $40,000 diamonds and pearls. No one knew the source of his income. Then around 1727 he shared his secret money making techniques to certain German bankers in hopes that they would use the money to help humanity. Using his techniques, they along with the monarchies choose to squander the money for themselves. Even to this day, these bankers have continued to keep this knowledge secret.
Eventually Saint Germain realized the money was never going to be used for benevolent purposes so he pulled his money out and in 1729 he put it into his own "World Trust." At the founding of the trust it was stipulated that this money would be released in the year 2000.
Bank Roll Programs
Around the turn of the century, the children of robber barons, and "banksters" began to see the error in their parent's evilness and their use of wealth. These 100 children are known as "wealthy visionaries". Together they invested some of their families money into secret money roll programs, to be used for humanitarian purposes.
The bank roll programs, allow wealthy investors to make insane profits by ripping off the assets and resources from third world nations. The profits from these programs are utterly astronomical as monthly returns can be in excess of 1:100,000 and 1:500,000. The name "roll programs" comes from a method of rolling money over and over in short periods of time. At the end of each cycle investors then reinvest or "roll" the principle and interest earned over into the next cycle. In the late 1990's the bank roll programs finally ceased.
Money earned from these bank roll programs became known as the "Prosperity Programs" Over time the programs where secretly opened up to small investors so that one could invest as little as one hundred dollars at a time. These small amounts where handled by trustees, who collected the money and kept records, and combined the small investments into the large amount, let's say, one million dollars, that was required in order to enter a "roll".
The news of these programs spread by word of mouth and especially via multi-level marketers. Thousands of people invested and great wealth was generated, but little, if anything was ever paid back to the investors. Trustees such as Clyde Hood and Mike Kadoski where sent to jail under false charges. Then corruption, greed, and fraud became wide spread among the bankers, government, and even some trustees who wanted to steal the money for themselves. Even the Bush family had their hands in the pot, using Promis Software they could transfer stolen funds without being traced. Many have died because of this wealth, but God has another plan for humanity.
The time has now come to release these Prosperity Funds and the funds from Saint Germain's, World Trust. This money will be used to buy out all oil corporations, banks, pharmaceutical cartels, and zero out all debt. 250 years of compound interest has mushroomed the World Trust into a net worth in excess of one quattuordecillion dollars, or $1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000. That's 1 with 40 zeros behind it. This is enough money to buy a gold cube the size of the orbit of Saturn. So astronomical most people will not believe it!
The money from the World Trust will be distributed in the following manner.
Level One -- World Trust. This is under the trusteeship of Master St. Germain. At his direction The World Trust can only be activated for payout at only two times during any given year, Easter and Christmas. At St. Germain's orders the World Court activates the funding process. This process continues down through the four lower levels of trusts to the people, and under certain conditions the funding window remains open until the next holiday funding window begins. For example, if the Easter window is activated, the window can remain open until December 24, the day before Christmas, at which time it closes. The window remains open only if significant funds are moved to certain designated trusts during a set period of time. If not, the funding window is closed when such deadlines are not met.
Level Two -- These are the 180 Royal Trusts under the control of trustees in various sovereign countries. Examples are The French Trust, The Russian Trust, and the Vatican Trust.
Level Three -- These are the Family Trusts under the control of trustees of the world's wealthiest families. Examples are Bronfman, Warburg, Morgan, Rothschild, and Rockefeller.
Level Four -- These are the 250 plus Corporate Trusts under the control of trustees from powerful companies and corporations. Examples are General Electric, Lockheed, General Motors, Boeing, Carnegie, Ford, Marriott and AT&T. There are 4-5 trustees per trust which means that approximately 1200 trustees must sign documents to move money through these trusts.
Level Five -- These are the Prosperity Program Trusts which represent the various 70-75 bank roll programs which are under the control of designated program trustees. Again, there are 4-5 trustees per trust or some 350 persons who must sign documents to activate these trusts. Some examples include Bergevene, SBC, ITI, Savage, Morgan, Omega, and Freedom. The largest trust is Freedom and it must be funded first. It is these trust's that hold the wealth from the enlighten robber baron children.
Then finally the funds will be released to the common man. As the funds pass through each trust, the trustee must use only certain designated "safe" banks and sign the proper documents with only certain designated banking personnel at those banks. Should this process be activated and then be stalled by deceitful bankers, deceitful trustees, etc. and the deadlines for funding to reach certain trusts are not met, the funding window is then closed. This is the problem members of the Bush family are blocking the release of these funds.
NESARA
Change is on the horizon, and it begins with NESARA.
There is much disinformation on the Internet pertaining to this law. Sources such as quatloos.com which is a CIA front, nesara.org which is owned by the Bush family, the 33rd Zion Lodge , the NSA, Sherry Shriner, and various Internet channeling's straight out of CIA Langley have been spouting much disinformation and confusion on the subject. The information on the Wikipedia even has its facts wrong. Wikipedia gives you the history of Harvey Barnard NESARA law. If you look closely this law it stands for National Economic Stabilization and Recovery Act, which would reform the economy and replace the income with a national sales tax. This law was rejected by congress in the 1990's. However there is another NESARA law on the books.
This NESARA, stands for the National Economic Security and Reformation Act. It's the most ground breaking reformation to sweep not only this country but our planet in its entire history. The act does away with the Federal Reserve Bank, the IRS, the secret government, and much more.
History of NESARA
To understand NESARA's origins we must go back to the early years of the American Republic. Ever since England lost her most prized jewel the "American Colonies," the royal crown was looking for ways to take back what was once theirs. The pioneers of our new republic knew the threat that faced the young nation. To ensure its survival a nobility amendment was passed to prevent anyone who had loyalties to the crown from holding public office. The 13th Amendment was approved by congress and the House of Representatives in 1810. It was ratified by all the necessary states into law on March 12, 1819. It reads as follows.
13th Amendment
If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain, any title of nobility or honour, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.
This amendment was unacceptable for the British crown because this would essentially cut of all meddling into the affairs of the new republic's government. It would also mean anyone who is a member of the BAR (Lawyer) association would not be allowed to hold public office. Remember the B.A.R. is short for the British Accredited Registry. This amendment is technically still in effect today and therefore all the laws that have been made by lawyers remains unconstitutional, as they are not allowed to be US citizens.
This is why England fought in a war with us in 1812. Washington D.C. was burned to the ground and the original documents which proved this was indeed a law were destroyed. The British monarchy knew the American people would never tolerate British rule again, so they offered back the republic to the people with one exception, the 13th amendment was to be removed from the constitution. Nearly 200 years have now since passed, we have been conquered and yet we don't know it.
Then we had the civil war which was really about the Rothschild family trying to gain control of the south's cotton industry. Then we had the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 which put America into slavery. Finally in the early 1990's we started to see a change.
NESARA
The beginnings of NESARA takes us back to the early 1970's when the banks where foreclosing on farmers mortgages all over the United States. The Willie Nelson "Live Aid" concerts were one of the fund raisers that helped these farmers. The farmers soon realized the banks where not only charging exorbitant and illegal amounts of interest, but they where illegally foreclosing on their homes.
When these farmers began to seek legal action against the banks they soon realized that the government and banks where working in collusion with each other. So in the early 1990's, they sought the help of the Farmers Union and did in depth research on all the banks illegal activities. A series of lawsuits where initiated against the banks and the government. Over 336,000 Farm Claims filed for fraud against the U.S. Federal Government with an average of $20 million dollars per claim. This amounts to $6.6 trillion total.
In retaliation the banks and the government sent the IRS against the farmers. When the farmers realized they where being unfairly targeted by the IRS they began looking for ways to fight back. They requested help from military generals such as General Ray Swasinger, to sit in the court room to ensure the bribed judges would vote according to constitutional law.
These court cases ran up and down various state and federal courts from 1970's till the 1990's. Then in 1992-1993, the farmers appealed their case to the US supreme court. Almost unanimously the U.S. Supreme Court Justices ruled that the Farmers Union claims were VALID and that the U.S. federal government and the banks had seriously defrauded the farmers, and all U.S. citizens, out of vast sums of money and property. Furthermore the court ruled the shocking truth that the IRS and the Federal Reserve where unlawful, that the income tax amendment was never ratified by the US states, and that the US government had illegally foreclosed on farmers homes with the help of federal agencies. Irrefutable proof of such was presented by a retired CIA agent. He provided testimony and records of the banks illegal activity, to lead further evidence that the Farmers' Union claims were legitimate.
The Justices recognized that to remedy this situation, massive reformations would be required.
Now, when rulings are made by the U.S. Supreme Court, one or more Justices are assigned to monitor the progress on how the rulings are carried out. In this case, five Justices were assigned to a committee to develop steps to implement required government and banking reformations. As the Justices went about developing the required reformations they enlisted the help of experts in economics, monetary systems, banking, Constitutional government and law, and many other related areas. The Justices built coalitions of support and assistance with thousands of people worldwide; these thousands of people working to bring us NESARA have been named "White Knights".
This term "White Knights" was borrowed from the world of big business hostile takeovers. It refers to how a vulnerable company is "rescued from a hostile takeover by a White Knight" corporation or wealthy person. This term is a most accurate term for these "White Knights" are working behind the scenes to stop the madness.
After the trial, the damages process name was changed to Bank Claims. From 1993 through 1996, U.S. citizens filed Bank Claims against the banks and the federal government through the U.S. Treasury Department to obtain payment for the damages as specified by the U.S. Supreme Court. (This process CLOSED in 1996.)
Gag Order
Due to the ground breaking changes required, an extremely strict gag order was placed on everyone, directly involved and the court case records. Anyone who broke this gag order would receive the death penalty. Furthermore all court records where sealed until after all the reforms are completed. To maintain this secrecy, the case details for the docket number assigned to the Farmers' Union case were changed.
As a result doing a search for this case will fail to reflect the correct information until after the reformations are made public.
At every step of the process, anyone directly involved has been required to sign an agreement to keep the U.S. Supreme Court's process of implementing the required reformations "secret", or face charges of Treason which are punishable by death. This gag order was placed on all media personnel, government officials, and bank employees. This is why Alex Jones or TV news anchors will not talk about this on air. Nor will wikipedia tell you the truth behind the law. Nor will Sherry Shriner who is nothing more than a CIA stooge. Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone, was about to break the gag order, but before he could his small passenger plane crashed killing his wife, daughter, and himself.
Accords
To implement the required changes, the five Justices spent years negotiating how the reformations would occur. These agreements , known as "Accords" where made with the U.S. government, the Federal Reserve Bank owners, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and with numerous other countries including the United Kingdom and countries of the Euro Zone.
The U.S. banking system reformations require the Federal Reserve Bank system be absorbed by the U.S. Treasury Department and the banks' fraudulent activities stopped. Plus remedies will need to be made to U.S. citizens for past harm due to fraud. The U.S. banking reformations will impact the entire world and therefore the IMF, World Bank, and other countries had to be involved.
As the years began to pass, the military generals who originally helped the farmers soon realized that the government had no intentions of implementing the "Accords." So, the Justices authorized the reformations be put into the form of a 75 page document known as the National Economic Security and Reformation Act (NESARA).
NESARA implements the following changes;
1. Zeros out all credit card, mortgage, and other bank debt due to illegal banking and government activities
2. Abolishes income tax
3. Abolishes IRS; creates 14% flat rate non-essential "new items only" sales tax revenue for government
4. Increases benefits to senior citizens
5. Returns Constitutional Law to all our courts and legal matters.
6. Establishes new Presidential and Congressional elections within 120 days after NESARA's announcement
7. Monitors elections and prevents illegal election activities of special interest groups
8. Creates new US Treasury currency, "rainbow currency," backed by gold, silver, and platinum precious metals
9.. Initiates new U.S. Treasury Bank System in alignment with Constitutional Law
10. Eliminates the Federal Reserve System
11. Restores financial privacy
12. Retrains all judges and attorneys in Constitutional Law
13. Ceases all aggressive, US government military actions worldwide
14. Establishes peace throughout the world
15. Initiates first phase of worldwide prosperity distribution of vast wealth which has been accumulating for many decades. Every American citizen over the age of 21 will receive $100,000 a month for 11 years. The law requires that the farmers claims to be paid first before the general public receives funds. Remember, these funds will come from the Level 5 Trust, bank roll programs.
16. Releases enormous sums of money for humanitarian purposes
17. Enables the release of new technologies such as free energy devices, pollution cleanup, and sonic healing machines.
This law was passed secretly on March 9, 2000 by Congress. It was voted on by seven members congress, which where the only ones constitutionally allowed to hold office. This is because the nobility amendment prevents anyone with ties to the crown from holding office. Plus, NESARA requires all congress members to resign immediately, so all the corrupt members of congress refused to vote. From its very inception Bush Snr., the false congress, and major bank houses, and the Carlyle group opposed NESARA. Secrecy was maintained by revising the official congressional registry. The details of the bill number for NESARA were revised to reflect a commemorative coin and revised again more recently.
Our members of congress will not tell us any of this because they have been ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court Justices to "deny" the existence of NESARA or face charges of Treason punishable by death; and some members of Congress have actually been charged with "obstruction" and threatened with Treason charges. Therefore, all members of Congress pretend that NESARA has not been passed in order to comply with the Justices' gag order. This why there are no public Congressional Records!
The unelected cloned President Bill Clinton and his puppet masters, had no interest in signing NESARA into law. So, the military generals enlisted the help of the elite Naval Seals and the Delta Force. Together they stormed the White House and under gunpoint forced Bill Clinton to sign NESARA into law. This occurred on October 10, 2000.
Before NESARA is announced to the public it is stipulated that the original farm claims must be paid out first in with gold or precious metals backed currency as stipulated by the constitution. Therefore they cannot be paid in Federal Reserve notes which is not money anyway. The $6.6 trillion is to be distributed in the form of ATM debit cards from the new gold back US Treasury system. This money will come from the bank roll programs originally set up by benevolent illuminati families. The only catch is to release these funds they must first be released by Goldman Sacs and Bank of America which are owned by the Rockefeller and Bush cabals.
To prevent the funds from being released the banking documents, which contains instructions on how to access the funds, are being transported 24/7 between warehouses in Charlotte, NC and Washington D.C. The drivers of these Fed Ex trucks are heavily bribed and many of are afraid of reprisals from the Bush family if they deliver their payload as required by law.
One time when these packets where returned to Washington D.C., Bush placed them under military guard. Federal judges ordered him to release the funds, G.W. Bush replied. "You will never receive these packages, they belong to me". The judge answered "I can do no more, he is President of the U.S."
The news media were called and refused to film the guards saying "He is the President and we are afraid of what he will do." (code for we also work for the Illuminati)
This has been going on for some time, so the IMF, and World Bank got together along with the Rothschild family to set up a new global banking system backed by gold. This will ultimately kill the Federal Reserve System which is worthless fiat money. It was approved by congress on September 19, 2007. On October 19, 2007, at midnight the U.S. treasury of the Republic went on-line with the Global Banking System. The next step is announcing this to the public, but it's not an easy task to do.
Many powerful groups have tried to stop the announcement and implementation of the NESARA law. 18 months after NESARA became law, the Justices had the current Congress pass resolutions "approving" NESARA on September 9, 2001. On September 10, 2001 George Bush Sr. moved into the White house to steer his son on how to block the announcement. The next day NESARA was set to be announced at 10 a.m. EDT on September 11, 2001.
9/11 Attacks
Groups opposing NESARA arranged for the attacks to occur on 9/11 to keep NESARA from being announced. Just before the announcement, Bush Snr. ordered the demolition of World Trade Center to stop the international banking computers on floors one and two, in the North Tower from initiating the new U.S. Treasury Bank system.
George Bush Snr decapitated any hopes of returning this government back to the people. Despite the fact the Bush family was to be paid off $300 trillion dollars to cooperate with NESARA, they choose instead to maintain control over us. Ultimately in the end the Bush's will end up with nothing. Without a gold backed treasury system our country is headed to economic collapse, and eventual civil war.
Logistics of 9/11
We are all familiar with the official story of September 11th: Four jetliners where hijacked by groups of four and five Arabic men armed with box cutters, who flew three of the four jets into the Twin Towers and Pentagon. The World Trade Center weakened by the fires collapsed into piles of rubble. Later that afternoon, the 47 story Building 7, collapsed due to fire (a fact which most people are unaware of).
The FBI had compiled a list of hijackers within three days, and so it was obvious that Osama bin Laden had masterminded 9/11 from caves in Afghanistan. With that in mind there was no need to seriously investigate 9/11. The problem is when one investigates the conflicts of interest and red flags we find a long series of improbable coincidences.
It is standard operating procedure (SOP) to scramble a jet fighter whenever an airliner goes off course or radio contact is lost. Between September 2000 and June 2001, interceptors where scrambled 67 times. In 2000 jets where scrambled 129 times. The air traffic control system continuously monitors air traffic and notifies NORAD of all deviations. NORAD is responsible for monitoring, air and space traffic continuously, and is prepared to act immediately to threats and emergencies. It has the authority to order units from the Air National Guard, the Air Force and other armed services in pursuit of airliners in trouble.
With this in mind what would cause the massive breakdown in the chain of command? According to the Pentagon, NORAD was conducting a mock terrorist drill on 9/11, this is why they where unable to scramble jets in time. This seems to conflict with Secretary of Transportation ,Norman Mineta's testimony before the 9-11 Commission. He reports that at the time of the attacks both Dick Cheney and himself was in the Presidential Emergency Operations Command Center. Norman recalled an officer coming in every few minutes to question the Vice President if NORAD should continue to stand down and not shoot the airplanes out of the sky.
"During the time that the airplane was coming into the Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to the Vice President...the plane is 50 miles out...the plane is 30 miles out....and when it got down to the plane is 10 miles out, the young man also said to the vice president "do the orders still stand?" And the Vice President turned and whipped his neck around and said "Of course the orders still stand, have you heard anything to the contrary!??"
The airplanes which flew into the twin towers where military aircraft as no normal 747 could maneuver the way they did. Remember the hijackers nearly flunked out of flight school, how are they able to maneuver an airplane in such a way even expert pilots could not. These planes were most likely flow using autopilot because all 5 planes had their black box in flight recorders turned off at the same time. The recorder is turned off when the Airborne Warning and Control System takes over the craft.
The Planes where controlled using the U.S. Air Force's "QRS11 Triaxial Remote Guidance System" called "JPALS." Essentially it's a "gyro on a chip." It uses GPS satellite technology and electronics implanted in the Boeing aircraft allowing them to be controlled remotely.
The truth is the September 11th attacks where carried out using remote processes. It was planned out by a CIA unit of 100 people (Aquarius?) in August of 2001. This group carried out the attacks and staged the so-called cell phone calls purported to be from passengers on the commercial airlines by using voice impersonation technology and other remote technologies. This same CIA group also created the conspiracy story of 19 Arab hijackers, many of whom where either dead or in jail in the middle east.
As for the airline passengers on 9/11, they where probably gassed aboard their plane and then sent to either the Amtrak facility in Kansas City, Kansas or the FEMA crematorium in Terra Haute, ID to be incinerated.
Explosions in WTC
The official NIST's (National Institute of Standards and Technology) investigation is often cited as proving the theory that planes and fires caused the collapses. Yet the report fails to mention how the buildings could collapse due to fire without a historical precedent of any steel framed skyscraper collapsing other than a controlled demolition. In the entire report only two sentences in a half page section gives us hints as to what really happened. This troublesome issue is avoided by placing them outside the scope of its investigation, claiming that "global collapse" was "inevitable" after the "initiation of collapse."
A striking distinction of the World Trade Center collapse was the pulverization of the concrete into dust and gravel before it hit the ground. This can been seen in videos which show the towers mushrooming into vast clouds as they fall, leaving only twisted pieces of steel and no large pieces of concrete. While the building is collapsing you can see puffs of smoke exploding each floor out in a timed demolition. These puffs of smoke are called Sprites; which explode outward 10 to 15 floors below the rubble as the building collapses. This would suggest the detonators where on a timed circuit set to go off in a controlled manner. This also explains why the building collapsed in a free fall. An unobstructed freefall using Newtonian physics would be 6 seconds. Logic would dictate as the building collapsed the floors below it would reduce the speed, however the World trade center collapsed in 7 seconds. All of this make s sense especially when you consider the testimony from the firefighters. They reported hearing bombs going off but the media ignored their testimony. Even Columbia Observatory recorded minute explosions on their seismograph, moments prior to the collapse.
William Rodriguez who worked as a janitor reported hearing explosions in the basement just moments prior to the airplane colliding into the world trade center. Hilary Clinton promised him a high position in her government if he remained silent about this. Instead he refused, even today the media continue to ignore and distort his testimony.
Prior to 9/11, no steel building had ever collapsed due to fire. There is no way Jet fuel could burn hot enough to melt the steel in the WTC, this is because steel melts at 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit, and Jet fuel burns at 1,800. Even if the beams buckled it wouldn't cause them to melt with the fire proofing protection. The truth is the fire burned around 700 degrees and was about to extinguish itself. This can be confirmed by the black smoke which occurs in an oxygen deprived fire. There is no way the fires could have burned as hot as the government claims especially when the videos show people sitting at the edge of the impact hole waiting to be rescued.
Furthermore, Steven Jones, professor of physics at Brigham Young University found that the rubble had evidence of evaporated steel, and thermite which is used in controlled demolitions. In order for steel to evaporate it would require temperatures in excess of 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Even three weeks after the world trade collapsed their where still areas of rubble which where so hot fire fighters could not go near it. Maybe this explains why the government was so eager to ship all the "evidence", I mean ruble to China and South Korea. This was crime scene, and by removing the evidence the government violated crime scene laws. Oddly enough the company which was given the task to do this was none other than "Controlled Demolition Inc." Its funny thing you know with all this "heat." How come the terrorist's passports which linked Al-Qaeda to the attacks failed to burn in the inferno as claimed by the government?
So now the question is how did those explosives get into the building without anyone noticing it? On the weekend of 9/8 and 9/9 there was a 'power down' condition in the south tower. For 36 hours there was no electrical supply from the 50th floor and up. This would mean there would be no security cameras, security locks on doors. Maintenance workers reported seeing 'engineers' coming in and out of the building, and the sound of heavy objects moving around on floors which where supposed to be unoccupied. Even more red flags are raised when one considers the fact that bomb sniffing dogs patrols where halted on September 6, 2001. So who allowed this to happen?
Securacom (later renamed Stratesec ) was responsible for the security of the WTC complex. Marvin Bush, G.W's brother was on the board of directors. Isn't it odd that he has never been investigated especially considering Securacom was also in charge of security for United Airlines, and Dulles International Airport, the same place where the reported hijackers boarded there planes.
Building 7
Building 7 was the third building to collapse on 9/11 according to the government fires leveled the building. The only problem with this is, fires have never leveled a steel skyscraper before. The team that investigated the collapse was kept away from the crime scene; by the time their report was published in May 2002 the evidence had been destroyed.
Building 7 had a number of fires of limited extent and unknown duration before the total collapse at 5:20 PM. Official reports assume the debris from the North Tower ignited the fire at 10:29 A.M. FEMA's report blamed the collapse primarily on fires, though it was inconclusive. NIST suggested it was cause by severe structural damage. However other skyscraper fires exhibited more extensive burns and longer lasting than Building 7, but none of these other buildings collapsed.
From the video evidence, it is clear building 7 collapsed in a controlled demolition type manner. Even the owner of the WTC complex, Larry Silverstein admitted to this fact in 2002 on PBS,
"I remember getting a call from the...fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire. And I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life. Maybe the smartest thing to do is pull-it.' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."
Pulling is a term used in controlled demolitions. Now it takes weeks of planning and installation of detonators for a successful controlled demolition. How could all these detonators be conveniently in place unless Silverstein had foreknowledge the attacks would occur? Perhaps this explains why he bought a 99 year insurance policy worth $7 billion months prior to the attack. The truth is the world trade center was loaded with asbestos. It would have cost much more than $7 billion to take the building apart piece by piece to remove the stuff. So not only is it cheaper to do a controlled demolition Larry Silverstein made money from it too!
Buildings which where much closer to the World Trade center sustained more damaged yet did not collapse due to fire. So how is it that Building 7 which was two buildings away from the North Tower, developed these fires when it wasn't hit with a plane. Maybe this can be answered when we look at who has the most to gain from the destruction of this building.
The following are the prime suspects in the 9/11 collapse. In WTC 7, the SEC was storing thousands of files related to pending Wall Street investigations on companies such as Enron and Worldcom. Conveniently these document where destroyed when the building collapsed. Other tenants in WTC7, include the IRS, CIA, Secret Service, FBI, and Department of Defense. Building Seven also served as the command center for the security of the entire WTC complex, which was headed by the President's brother, Marvin Bush, whose contract ended "coincidentally" on 9/11. It was also host to then Mayor Rudy Giuliani's Office of Emergency Management command center. This was built on the 23rd floor, in 1998 as a "bunker" for emergences such as 9/11. It had bullet and bomb-resistant windows, its own water and air supply, the ability to withstand 160 mph winds, and a full commanding view of the entire WTC complex. Interestingly, on 9/11 Giuliani didn't bot her to put the center to use, even though that's what it was built for. He decided instead, to set up a makeshift command center down the street.
Isn't it strange that the official 9/11 commission report, choose to omit any reference to building seven. What else are they hiding from us?
What happened to the debris from flight 93 in Pennsylvania? It was mysteriously missing, with the only evidence left, a 15 foot hole in the ground. The truth is flight 93 was intended to hit Camp David. If you go to YouTube you can hear the actual sound bites from the new networks which announce flight 93 hit Camp David. Seriously folks, 9/11 was totally scripted that day. Camp David was targeted by our government because it was the anniversary of the "Camp David accords." Which was the 1978 Israeli-Egypt peace treaty, (Israel is actually a state within the United States so it's really the US-Egypt peace treaty.) By blaming the Muslims it would have given our government another excuse to bomb the Middle East.
Why was their no investigation in the put options on American Airlines stock? Why was members of the bin laden family flown out of the country on 9/11 when all other planes where grounded? Where did the missing $700 million dollar stash of gold stored under the WTC complex disappear too? The questions go on and on. The government will not answer them because they are at fault. The whores in the media will not tell us the truth, as many of the major news networks have been paid off to lie to the American people. Its all about the money!
Pentagon
There is no way a 124 foot wide Boeing 757 airplane could fit into a hole 15-18 feet wide. So what hit the pentagon if it wasn't a passenger airplane? Unfortunately the government confiscated most evidence covering up what happened. After the impact, pentagon officials confiscated 80 video cameras which where focused on the pentagon, and eyewitnesses had to sign nondisclosure agreements. To date only one of these videos has been released and this video is only 4 frames. All we can conclude from the video is a blurry metal bogey of some sort hit the pentagon. It is safe to rule out a 757, because such a large aircraft flying at 450 mph would literally be torn apart from turbulence created while flying under 60 feet in altitude.
The truth is Bush ordered the destruction of the Pentagon building to prevent this country from returning back to constitutional law. Remote pilot technology was used to fly a small white private plane loaded with explosives into the Pentagon at the exact location of the White Knights in their new Naval Communications Center. At the time they where coordinating activities supporting NESARA's implementation nationwide.
Al-Qaeda
Every time Bush says we are in a war against terrorism, the terrorists they are referring to are not Al-Qaeda, THE TERRORISTS ARE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! Patriot Acts I and II will eventually take away basic constitutional liberties such as a trial by jury and search warrants. Further more anyone who tries to cash their refund from the NESARA trust funds are arrested under the Patriot Act and Homeland Security Gestapo. When one takes a closer look at the secret memos and executive orders the intent of the elite is clear. We are now living in a police state just like our Nazi leaders have always planned for us.
"He who trades liberty for security, deserves neither and will loose both." - Thomas Jefferson
The Bush family and the Bin Laden family are in fact best friends. They where both business partners in Saudi Oil and members of the Carlye Group. According to Patrick Bellringer, the Bush family was protecting Bin Laden. He checked into the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN prior to September 11, 2001 seeking medical treatment for his kidney problems. The hospital gave him and his family a floor unto themselves for privacy. He later died on December 26, 2001 from kidney (renal) failure and lung complication. The big lie by the US government is to keep the people believing there are terrorists out there to get us. It's hard to have a War on Terrorism, if there are no terrorists! Furthermore the media refuse to investigate how a dying man can survive on a dialysis machine in remote Pakistani caves for over six years.
When you analyze the video footage, the seismic data, and eyewitness accounts the government's conspiracy theory just does not make sense. This fictional story has given Bush an excuse to send the U.S. Military to Afghanistan, Iraq, and create Patriot Act I and II. Now you know why on 9/11, Bush Jr. sat in a classroom reading a children's book about a pet goat for seven minutes, as if this epic cosmic tragedy was no big deal.
Now our country remains at war and the media covers up the amount of body bags coming out of Iraq. Nor do they report the real death totals on 9/11. The actual death count is 30,700. No one questions the insanely small numbers given out by the government because New York City is a large place; people who have lost loved ones do not make contact with others who have died in 9/11. So they have no way of knowing how many truly died, especially when their government lies to them. The following death totals comes from the Pleiadian Commander in Chief Hatonn (more on who he is later.)
Casualties Report March 2003 till January 2007
Iraq War
U.S. soldiers killed 11,600
U.S. soldiers, war injuries 22,800
U.S. civilians killed 5,000
U.S. soldier bodies dumped into Persian Gulf 7,000
Iraqis killed 960,000
Iraqis injured 555,000
Official Data of the U.S. Dept. of Defense, Jan. 26, 2007
Confirmed U.S. soldiers dead 3,063
U.S soldier, hostile injuries 22,884
U.S. soldier-non-hostile injuries and disease victims 24,823
( http://icasualties.org/oif/)
Afghanistan War
U.S. soldiers killed 680
U.S. soldiers, war injuries 660
Afghans killed 36,000
Afghans injuries 67,400
Official Data of the U.S. Dept. of Defense
U.S. soldiers official deaths 494
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/fallen/afghanistan/page4/
9/11 - World Trade Tower Disaster
People killed that day 30,700
Total deaths to date resulting from this disaster 56,600
Number of the 30,700 picked up by Starship that day 20,400
U.S. Gov. official death toll 2,752
U.S. Gov. officially identified 1,527
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What if YOU ADAMANTLY THINK YOU KNOW SOMETHING [perhaps that you haven't spent much time, like some have spent years, studying?] and you may be wrong? What if sales tax, gas tax, all licenses and fees and other taxes do cover the roads and needs of America? What if congress is so insanely out of control spending money they WE, YOU AND I, DON'T HAVE AND YET WE ARE WHO THEY ARE ROBBING BLINDLY AND WE REALLY DON'T HAVE VERY MUCH SAY ABOUT IT?? What if taxes aren't even able to pay the interest on the national debt, yet they keep borrowing and printing paper (not backed by anything?) and spending? You do know the Federal Reserve is not federal nor American, right? And if anyone has the courage (only God can help them) to stand up for their convictions and our constitution that does not allow direct taxes and the tax law (through it's twisting and deceits and certain parts that have been dropped out without due process) is already accurate about not owing taxes on our labor, which is an even exchange for earning a living and there are so many many more points, through THEIR MAZE that they have set to deter you! The funny thing is, they stand up for what they believe in, risking everything and IT AIN'T NO FUN! All kinds of police state antics are being raised against them! And fellow Americans, that simply are clueless, also mock and spit on and have no idea that these are people who believe in freedom and truth and are courageously (perhaps foolishly idealistically) standing up for their convictions and for generations of fellow Americans to come. Several EX- IRS AGENTS THAT WERE EXCEPTIONAL in their fields, including those that went with guns to enforce their (PAMPHLETS! ... They don't even study the tax law, they are given pamphlets to go by!?!! HELLO?!) And their hope for an unbiased American jury is in great need of a miracle, when judges, in cohorts with 'The Big Money System' even unlawfully in so many things that they do, often ignoring due process and often not allowing so many important facts and proofs into the case, block the evidence and truth of what they sincerely believe! There is a DVD called America, Freedom To Fascism, that anyone that can handle the truth, could see allot of proof in a simple easy to follow a factual documentary about the IRS by Aaron Russo.
I had paid the taxes to Illinois, where I had resided for the part of the year during which I earned the money. The State of New York had lost my partial-year tax return.
Wow, I was in the same situation until two weeks ago, but with local taxes for 2005--in a municipality I hadn't set foot in, in a state I hadn't set foot in. Proving their error was not made easy by the fact that the office would neither accept faxed records (or e-mail scans) nor would they contact the locality in which I did live and had paid taxes.
Finally, I just decided to pay them. Sadly, that option was not made much easier since they wouldn't accept a check-by-phone, wanted an extra $100 if I used a credit card, and lost the first check I mailed them (even though the Post Office's Express Mail tracking service had a receipt signature from someone who was acknowledged to work at the address I mailed it to).
Why does any discussion of federal taxes inevitably draw down the conspiracy theorists and the nut cases who punctuate their screeds with all caps.
I'm actually disappointed with our harvest of nuts and conspiracists.
On the question of Snipes' bad checks, I note that one of his co-defendants has objected to the government printing his name in all caps on court papers; that's a hallmark of UCC lunacy (although not dispositive). So the odds are improving...
I should have known to look at thesmokinggun.com
Yes, the bad checks were indeed "Bills of Exchange" drawn on the US Treasury. Indictment here
In addition, Snipes filed a bizarro doc writing his name as Wesley-Trent:Snipes; the punctuation is yet another hallmark of UCC weirdness.
The answer to this riddle is RON PAUL!!!!!!
anony-mouse: Wow, you sure know a lot. Maybe you'll figure out one day how everyone else in the world manages to process and file a tiny form for less than $103.
Funny how willful ignorance is usually accompanied by snide tripe. And yes, I have been pulled over twice -- never for speeding, and once by a bored cop who clearly had no case but did need to work out some authority issues. I've also paid a couple parking tickets from such causes as a parking meter expiring while I was in a meeting that ran ten minutes beyond the meter. So I am aware that you're probably still smarting over the ticket and the court costs.
Anyway: The original point was that government is paid for by general tax revenues because things like fees don't come anywhere near to covering court costs, while your implication was that since you paid $103 in court costs while submitting a form by mail, they must surely be making out like bandits. Which, whether they be bandits or not, is absurd.
(Btw, the "court costs" aren't for the officer. They're for ... the court. Yes, much as I hate to admit this, the police and court are actually distinct entities.)
*yawn*. Come back and prod me again when the sting of $103 is gone and your usual clever self returns.
I do not believe those who are protesting paying income taxes are protesting the entire tax system. I mean we can't even sit in our houses with out being taxed on every single thing that surrounds us. From the air in your home to the water in your shower, we are taxed on all of it. Go outside and drive around for two minutes, you are paying taxes haha. If they give us a break in one sector, they make up for it in another. Nothing is free from being taxed.
anony-mouse: You didn't provide any new relevant information, just more accusations of bias and how I'm "smarting" from a $103 court costs charge. (If I'm smarting, what does that make you? Dumbing?) Believe me, on my income, the effort of getting a money order was more burdensome than the money itself.
I was *not* claiming, as you think, that the courts are making out like bandits; the implication was, rather, that the (huge) overcharge on phantom "court costs" covers the cases where it doesn't, the cases where they have to actually use the judge's labor. Note that your last response, directed at my (relevant) "snide tripe" was quite a different position, claiming that processing and filing a TINY form really does have an average cost of around $100, because of the laundry list of things the court (like all the other places not charging $103 for basically the same thing) has to pay for.
Now, that has morphed into, "I'm refuting your imagined claim that 'court cost' fees far exceed total operating costs."
FWIW, I'm excited about learning what driver safety courses are like now, and what kind of people will be there. I plan to do a meatspace rather than online course.
And if anyone's acting differently here, it's you. I remember you as always being, "Let me give your bizarre idea a clever deconstructing." Now, all you really have to offer is, "Oh yeah? Well, like the rest of the human race, you have feelings and biases. Take that!"
Wesley Snipes is an ignorant jerk and out of an excess of ignorance and jerkiness he got hooked up with two nobodies from south Florida purporting to be tax rebels. A guy who makes the scratch Snipes makes could afford to hire the best legal and accounting talent on either coast and find a legal way to minimize his tax liabilities. Instead he plays these absurd quasi-legal games with the system. Screw Snipes and the horse he rode in on.
Screw Snipes and the horse he rode in on.
Oh, come now. This promises to be much more entertaining than any of his movies.
Not unless Olga Kurylenko is named co-defendant:
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IT IS TRUE,THAT THE INCOME TAX LAWS WERE NEVER RATIFIED...
IT SHOULD BE DONE AWAY WITH; BUT THE RICH PEOPLE ARE AGAINST GETTING RID OF THE IRS,AND GOING TO THE FAIR TAX PROGRAM.
THE FAIR TAX PROGRAM WOULD COST THE RICH PEOPLE,
A LOT MORE MONEY=== THEIR FAIR SHARE..............
IT IS TRUE,THAT THE INCOME TAX LAWS WERE NEVER RATIFIED
NO.
I'm waiting for the "nut" that argues that he cannot be tried before a federal court, because all federal judges must be recused for a conflict of interest. No income tax, no paycheck...
Wesley Snipes was convicted of a non crime, since
the income tax is being imposed by the IRS illegally.
The 16Th Amendment was never ratified by the 3/4 majority of states necessary to make it law, which means that the IRS is imposing this tax and imprisoning those who refuse to pay it, illegally.
The US Congress is well aware of this, and guilty of collusion with the IRS and privately held Federal Reserve Bank, in efforts to defraud the American worker out of trillions of their hard earned dollars since 1913.
See Aaron Russo's documentary entitled America: From Freedom to Fascism to learn more about this and myriad other frauds being perpetrated against the American people by the US Federal Government and Intelligence Community. You can see it on Google Video for free.
Wesley Snipes was convicted of a non crime, since
the income tax is being imposed by the IRS illegally.
The 16Th Amendment was never ratified by the 3/4 majority of states necessary to make it law, which means that the IRS is imposing this tax and imprisoning those who refuse to pay it, illegally.
The US Congress is well aware of this, and guilty of collusion with the IRS and privately held Federal Reserve Bank, in efforts to defraud the American worker out of trillions of their hard earned dollars since 1913.
See Aaron Russo's documentary entitled America: From Freedom to Fascism to learn more about this and myriad other frauds being perpetrated against the American people by the US Federal Government and Intelligence Community. You can see it on Google Video for free.
Wesley Snipes was convicted of a non crime, since
the income tax is being imposed by the IRS illegally.
The 16Th Amendment was never ratified by the 3/4 majority of states necessary to make it law, which means that the IRS is imposing this tax and imprisoning those who refuse to pay it, illegally.
The US Congress is well aware of this, and guilty of collusion with the IRS and privately held Federal Reserve Bank, in efforts to defraud the American worker out of trillions of their hard earned dollars since 1913.
See Aaron Russo's documentary entitled America: From Freedom to Fascism to learn more about this and myriad other frauds being perpetrated against the American people by the US Federal Government and Intelligence Community. You can see it on Google Video for free.
High profile tax cases always appear in the media in the months leading up to tax season in order to remind us of the consequences of not surrendering our wealth and sovereign power to the Federal Reserve Bank. Regardless of Mr. Snipes' behavior and the details of his case, the fact of the matter is that income tax is not necessary to fund government and is the primary means by which populations are weakened and controlled. The debt can only get bigger and the dollar can only go down in value in our current system. It is up to us to change it. We can only blame ourselves for allowing it to continue. Tax protestors are heroic. They sacrifice 'the good life', risking imprisonment to bring strength and momentum to the movement to restore the US Constitution and a constitutional government.