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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: Buck v. U.S.; Case No. 91-2973 (fwd)
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>All,
>
>U.S. 5th Circuit Court: "... (the maintenance of a
>functional federal tax system is a sufficiently important governmental
>interest to justify incidental regulation of First Amendment
>rights)." Wheewww!!
>
>If you want to go to the site where this case is posted on the
>Internet, be sure to read carefully the 7th paragraph in Section III
>A. The language is also reproduced below.
>
>Pitman Buck's argument is best understood by reading his entire book,
>of course, but you can get some idea of where he's coming from at his
>site at: http://www.phoenix.net/~sunlight and his email is
>sunight@phoenix.net.
>
>Harold
>
>------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
>Date: Sat, 04 Oct 1997 14:56:49 -0700
>From: "Pitman Buck, Jr." <sunlight@mail.phoenix.net>
>Reply-to: sunlight@mail.phoenix.net
>To: harold@halcyon.com
>Subject: Buck v. U.S.; Case No. 91-2973
>
>Harold,
>
>The text of the 5th Cir. Court opinion in my case is accessible on the
>web at http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov:8081/ISYSquery/IRL829A.tmp/1/doc
>under case No. 91-2973. I got this thriugh "Excite" search engine by
>typing in "Villanova Law School". I'm going to type (instead of
>copying) the URL so maybe you can just click on it in this message and
>read it at:
>http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov:8081/ISYSquery/IRL829A.tmp/1/doc I will
>paste from the web the court's parenthetical comment that you expressed
>interest in and it reads as follows:
>
>The Bucks contend that requiring them to sign the jurat or be subjected
>to a penalty for the failure to do so infringes on their First Amendment
>right to believe that wages are not income, as their signatures on the
>Form 1040 would indicate otherwise. This argument is specious.
>Noncompliance with the tax laws is not protected by the First Amendment.
>Mosher, 775 F.2d at 1295; see also United States v. Lee, 455 U.S. 252,
>260, 102 S.Ct. 1051, 1056, 71 L.Ed.2d 127 (1982) (the maintenance of a
>functional federal tax system is a sufficiently important governmental
>interest to justify incidental regulation of First Amendment rights).
>
>Of course, my refusal to sign a governmentally prescribed document about
>income that I didn't believe was true was in complete compliance with
>all laws that prohibit lying or committing perjury. In other words, how
>can I lawfully self-assess income taxes under penalties of perjury when
>I don't believe I owe any?!!!!!! The answer is I can't, and I haven't
>since 1988; the IRS and the courts simply want to to swear to something
>we don't believe.
>
>An IRS Problem resolution officer once phoned me and asked why I
>couldn't sign the jurat. When I told him I couldn't affirm under oath
>something I don't believe, he replied: "If you'll sign it anyway we
>won't prosecute you for perjury." It's all in my book. They are a
>dishonest bunch of people and all they want is your money and and will
>resort to hook or crook to get it! I have absolutely no use for anyone
>who works for the IRS nor in thhe judiciary branch of gov't.
>
>Pitman
>
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