Victor Thorn
IRS TAX CHALLENGE
Sun Feb 8 18:41:01 2004
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IRS TAX CHALLENGE

On April 15, 2003, I informed the IRS that I would no
longer be paying federal income taxes for that year, or any future year.
As I relayed to Lisa Guliani in her article Victor Thorn: Conscientious
Objector, "I can no longer support a government that more closely
resembles an organized crime syndicate than a representative of the
people." [See The New World Order Illusion, chapter 15]


I will elaborate more on these illegal activities later, but
before then I'd like to preface this article by laying out the dilemma I
'm faced with. I love this country with all my heart, and would never
want to act in a way that is construed as being unpatriotic. In other
words, by taking this stance I am not trying to tear apart the United
States of America, for we have, at least in theory, the greatest form of
government ever conceived. But this system has been infiltrated and
corrupted to such an extent that it is now being run by a cabal of
shadowy criminals who occupy very important positions of power in
Washington D.C., New York City, and even outside our borders. So, please
understand, my actions are not those of someone who hates his country.
Rather, I cannot sit idly by and watch this illegality continue as
America is washed down the drain. In this light, my personal stance of
action (as opposed to inaction) is in response to Edmund Burke's famous
declaration: "All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men
to do nothing."

Before continuing on, I would like to make it perfectly clear that
it was never my intent to become an IRS protestor. In fact, when I was
first exposed to this type of information in 1990 (quite by accident, I
might add), I never imagined in my wildest dreams that it would lead to
this. But the more research I did, the clearer it became that our
government was heavily involved in an array of illegal activities.
Worse, there are reams of evidence that these crimes - including drug tr
afficking, money laundering, and assassination - are being done with the
full knowledge of the FBI, DEA, Department of Justice, and even the
Executive Office.

Over time, I uncovered volumes of shocking information from
literally thousands of different sources - from the right, the left,
mainstream sources and the alternative press - and all of them were
pointing in the same direction: our federal government has engaged in a
vast array of illegal activities for decades now. What made these
arguments even more damning was the fact that most of these sources were
completely unrelated and independent of each other, and they covered the
entire political spectrum with a host of opposing viewpoints. The one
constant, though, was that our government has, and still is, breaking
the law in an alarming number of different ways. This material
ultimately reminded me of something Ross Perot said to George Bush Sr.
when he was looking for POWs in Southeast Asia: "George, I go in looking
for prisoners, but I spend all my time discovering the government has
been moving drugs around the world and is involved in illegal arms
deals. I can't get at the prisoners because of the corruption among our
own people!" [See The New World Order Exposed, chapter 7, page 48] All
the while, one question keeps resonating through my mind: why are we
allowing such atrocities to occur, like the CIA bringing Nazi scientists
into this country after World War II under Project Paperclip, or
shipping heroin back to the United States from Vietnam in the corpses of
our slain soldiers?

Unable to tolerate my government's flagrant behavior any longer, I
decided to quit supporting this corrupt entity. Now, the first question
most people will ask is: does this mean that anyone who doesn't agree
with what the federal government does should be exempt from paying
income taxes? What if they don't support our current war, the welfare
system, or their pork-barrel spending? The answer, of course, is that
no, a simple disagreement with governmental policy is not reason enough
to refrain from paying taxes. But, if it can be undeniably proven that
the government is involved in illegal activities, then we've entered
into an entirely different realm of consideration.

With this reasoning in mind, the one question I would like to ask
is: show me one instance in the Constitution, the federal tax code, or
in any law book that says an American citizen must pay taxes to an
entity engaging in illegal activities. Our government requires its
citizens to obey the law, including those for drug trafficking, murder,
treason, and money laundering; so isn't it reasonable to expect that
they adhere to the same laws? Shouldn't they, in fact, be held to the
same standard (or an even higher one) that we are held to?

At this point someone may say, "I certainly don't support the
government's involvement in illegal activities, but what do my taxes
have to do with it?" The answer is simple: revenues generated from
federal income tax payments go directly into the General Fund and are
then used to finance the various departments that make up our government
(including those involved in activities outside the law). In other
words, money that is supposed to be earmarked for social security is
instead funneled into the General Fund and ultimately used by
organizations such as the CIA. In this sense, what we have is nothing
more than a very complex octopus-like financial racket where those who
don't adhere to the same laws that are expected of us have undeniable
access to our money.

To perpetuate this shakedown system, the American public must be
made fully aware that if they fail to pay their 'fair share,' dire
consequences will result. Thus, the federal government has expended more
energy on filling its citizens with mortal fear of the IRS than they
have on practically any other endeavor. They use these manipulative
practices and fear tactics for one very important reason: if people ever
saw through this smokescreen . this illusion . then the whole game would
be over and their house of cards would crumble. So, to retain the status
quo, we are constantly bombarded with reminders of IRS audits, fines,
prison sentences, and people's lives being wrecked by this ominous
agency. If you don't believe me, consider how often this subject comes
up on TV, talk radio, on sitcoms and movies, or in magazine and
newspaper articles, especially around April 15th. It's a blatant and
unabashed campaign to create a dire fear of the IRS. This agency's
arrogance has become so grandiose that, according to author Robert R.
Raymond, "The IRS, through the small office of 'Director of Practice,'
claims the authority to wield carte blanche authority over all other
powers of government." We've created a monster, and at the present time
it is completely out of control.

At this point, some of you may wonder if I am completely anti-tax.
The answer is no, for if you read chapter 59 of The New World Order
Exposed, you will see how many taxes all of us pay. Here is a partial
list of those various taxes: federal taxes, state taxes, county taxes,
township/borough taxes, gasoline taxes, phone taxes, real estate taxes,
school taxes, property taxes, occupational assessment taxes,
occupational privilege taxes, inheritance taxes, capital gains taxes,
worker's compensation taxes, vehicle license registration taxes,
building permit taxes, sales taxes, liquor taxes, marriage license
taxes, Medicare taxes, social security taxes, cigarette taxes, corporate
income taxes, utility taxes, trailer registration taxes, fishing &
hunting license taxes, fuel permit taxes, dog license taxes, and road
usage taxes for truckers. There's even an IRS penalty tax if you're late
paying your taxes! Now, let me ask you point-blank: do you think
American citizens from every walk of life are paying enough taxes?

In this light, how can I justify or condone paying a government
that not only taxes us through the roof, but then uses this money to
create what has essentially become a government-sanctioned organized
crime syndicate? If you do, on the other hand, support such a system
despite its obvious illegality; that is perfectly fine with me - more
power to you. But in the same breath, I expect you to show the same
respect to those who cannot accept the government's unlawful practices.

Let me explain it as such. Suppose your boyfriend or girlfriend
went into your wallet every Friday afternoon and 'took' or 'stole' a
specific amount of money. What would you do? Well, some may rationalize
these actions by saying that they truly loved their partner, and being
that they needed money to buy food, clothes, and gasoline, they were
justified in what they were doing. But how would you react if you
discovered that this same individual lied to you on an ongoing basis,
killed people, ran drugs, laundered money, and let unsavory people into
your home? Would you still let them 'take' money from your wallet every
Friday to continue their unsavory habits? If the answer is yes, then
that's your prerogative. But my decision to NOT let that person 'take'
my money any longer is equally as valid, especially in light of the
extra-curricular activities they're involved in.

Naturally, it's one thing to break-up with a boyfriend or
girlfriend, and entirely another to free one's self from the IRS'
tentacles. And, in all honesty, I'll be the first person to admit that I
don't have the resources to demand that the government quit its illegal
activities. How could I force them to cease and desist? For crying out
loud, they command the largest military force in the world.

With the scales tilted entirely in the government's favor, people
often ask me, "What can I do? I've disengaged myself from their media,
and I've freed myself from their schools. I've even freed myself from
all their conditioning, propaganda, lies and brainwashing. But I still
feel helpless and angry because I can't free myself from their financial
clutches (i.e. taxes). What can I do? They still have a hold over me."

These people are absolutely justified in their frustration, for
the taxes we pay to this greedy, completely amoral monster are the
largest expense any individual faces - larger than their car payments,
mortgage, or children's tuition costs. In fact, on average, homeowners
now pay approximately 52% of their total income in one form of taxation
or another. 52%! And I guarantee that with our current war in the Middle
East and President Bush's plans to send men to the Moon and Mars, that
figure certainly won't be going down. When viewed from this perspective,
every person in this country should be asking, "Why is the federal
government allowed to stick their hands in our pocket every payday and
take our money, especially when they're acting in such an unlawful way?"
(Not to mention being so fiscally irresponsible that Frank Wallace,
author of The Truth About Your Money, recently wrote in the American
Free Press (December 29, 2003) that by the year 2012, the revenue
generated from federal income taxes won't even be enough to pay the
interest on our national debt.) That's only eight years away. Please
think about this riveting statement. In less than one decade, all of the
tax money collected by the federal government won't even cover the
INTEREST on our national debt - all because of THEIR uncalled for
out-of-control spending habits.

It is for these very reasons that I have become an IRS
conscientious objector and feel I am under no legal or moral obligation
to support such an unlawful situation. The most outrageous aspect of
this scenario is that our elected (and non-elected) representatives in
Washington, D.C. seem to have forgotten that they are still OUR servants
and OUR EMPLOYEES. And no, we are not their subjects. Y'see, our
founding fathers left that scenario behind over 200 years ago when they
departed England's shores, along with King George's tyrannical rule.
After journeying to America, these brave men believed so strongly in the
principles that were eventually laid down in our Constitution,
Declaration of Independence, and Bill of Rights that they entered into
the Revolutionary War to establish them. When I think back on these
courageous men, I can only wonder how we could have fallen so far away
from those principles, and why we so willingly tolerate the obvious
corruption in our nation's capital. The situation is so absurd that our
servants have now taken over the mansion (or, more accurately, have the
inmates taken over the asylum). How many other instances can you think
of where the owners of a company let their employees run roughshod over
them? That's exactly what we're doing in this country by allowing the
Washington D.C. leisure class to steal our money via taxation, then have
absolutely no accountability in the way they spend it.

Hopefully, by this point everyone can agree that our country's
foundation has been perilously eroded, and that something dramatic must
be done before it's too late. But what can we, as individuals, do? I've
been following quite a few high-profile tax trials lately, especially
Dick Simkanin and his supporters from an organization called "We the
People." Their argument (and a very valid one, I might add) is that
under U.S. tax law, employers are not required to be "withholding
agents" for the IRS, and that if any employee presents a Withholding
Exemption Certificate to their employer, they are not required to
withhold federal income taxes. (See Title 26, subtitle C, chapter 24,
section 3402 (f)(3)(b)(i) of the Code of Federal Regulations.)

The problem that arises in each and every one of these cases is,
despite the strength of each individual's case, the government always
has the upper hand for one simple reason - the judges refuse to allow
tax laws, the code of federal regulations, or the Constitution itself to
be entered into evidence. This tactic is so pronounced that in the
recent Simkanin trial, when attorney Arch D. McColl tried to question
witnesses on the legal definition of taxes in relation to employees and
wages, U.S. District Judge John McBryde told him, "We're not going to
play this game." (Does Justice McBryde actually feel that the threat of
huge fines, imprisonment, and a person's freedom are nothing more than a
'game'? How truly sad.) In the end, the government almost always
prevails precisely because they refuse to allow the very tax laws they'
re trying to enforce to be heard as evidence. And even though I applaud
each and every one of these tax protestors, the government still has the
upper hand because of their ability to keep evidence from being
presented in a court of law.

So, instead of fighting the federal income tax on the grounds of a
specific loophole, stipulation, or arguments over the letter of the law,
I am instead challenging the United States government and the IRS to
show me one instance in the tax code, the Constitution, or the Code of
Federal Regulations where it says that I have to pay taxes to an entity
that systematically engages in patently illegal behavior. In this sense,
rather than debating over definitions and an eight-million word tax code
that is deliberately designed to be incomprehensible, my premise is more
straight-forward: the government, which is still MY servant, must prove
via laws that are on the book that I have to pay taxes to an entity
which engages in illegal activities.

Needless to say, as of this writing I am no longer paying federal
income taxes. If the IRS wants to pursue this matter and audit me, the
first thing I will need to do to move forward with my case is prove that
the federal government has engaged in a multitude of criminal acts.
Ladies and gentlemen, I long for this day. In fact, I cherish the
thought of laying this information out in a court of law, and the firs

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