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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: Let the games begin! Govt admits IRS audits terrorist
tactic (fwd)
Status: U
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>
>As you know, the beginning of April is the beginning of tax enforcement
>season. Which means that we are now going to be subject to lots of 'big
>bad IRS' stories so that the 'common man' won't get any funny ideas about
>not volunteering to comply.
>
>So today (31 Mar 1997) on page 1 of the local paper (The Plain Dealer,
>Cleveland, Ohio) the following appeared, I'll only give what appeared on
>page one.
>
>What makes the below story so notable is that the government admits that
>IRS audits are terrorizing tactics.
>
>=====
>
> "`THIS MAN DID WITH A PEN WHAT OTHER TERRORISTS DO WITH MACHINE GUNS.'
> -- Susan Dlott, U.S. district judge.
>
> "A REVOLUTIONARY HERO OR CRIMINAL?
>
> "MADISON COUNTY MAN IS ACCUSED OF HELPING ANTI-GOVERNMENT NETWORK
>
>"By Bill Sloat
>"Plain Dealer Reporter
>
>"RANGE, Ohio -- The moist heat of the afternoon still hovered over Ohio's
>lusterous green cornfields when the U.S. government finally declared war on
>Joe Sabino, occupant of a prairie cottage crammed with law books, computers
>and hard-scrabble notions of self-reliance.
> "Last June 19, it fired the first shot: An indictment accusing Sabino of
>conspiracy to defraud the government.
> "Four months later, another barrage.
> "Sabino, the Justice Department alleged in sealed court documents, should
>no longer be free on bail.
> "He had sent ``a harassing communication to a grand jury witness.'' He
>was intimidating prosecutors by snooping into their family credit records.
>There was ``serious risk'' he might attempt to obstruct justice.
> "``The government can also provide evidence of defendant Sabino's
>involvement with tax protestor and so-called patriot organizations,'' the
>Justice Department's motion to revoke bond stated.
> "Some of these groups, the Justice Department said, had threatened ``to
>conquer the enemy within our nation and reclaim this great country'' -- in
>other words, they aimed to overthrow the government.
> "Ten years ago, when Sabino challenged the legal establishment and won the
>right to assist indigents in their own defense, Ohio Magazine called him,
>``The most conservative man ... maybe in all of Ohio.'' He was ``something
>of a revolutionary hero.'' "
>
>=====
>
>The story continues on page 8 (about 40 column inches worth), and in the
>middle of that we learn that the judge was talking about another
>individual, David N. Bowman, when she said `THIS MAN DID WITH A PEN WHAT
>OTHER TERRORISTS DO WITH MACHINE GUNS.'
>
>We also learn that Sabino is 70 years old, wears hearing aids, and is
>legally blind.
>
>According to Federal Judge Dlott, Bowman ``terrorized 59 individuals.'' He
>did this by sending to the "IRS bogus notices [1099's?] showing he paid
>more than $60 million to judges, bankers and politicians in Ohio. The IRS
>then began audits to find out why public officials failed to report the
>money on their tax returns. ... Federal proecutors said in a sentencing
>memorandum that Bowman's scheme very nearly ``disrupted the orderly
>workings of the Ohio courts.'' "
>
>So the average newspaper reader is again subject to more half truths! I
>wonder if US Dist. Court Judge Susan Dlott has been leaned on by the IRS?
>
>>From my file
>
> ``More than once the judges of a court have been indirectly reminded
>that they
> personally are taxpayers. No sophisticated person is unaware that
>even in
> this very [State] the Internal Revenue Service has been in possession
>of facts
> with respect to public officials which it has presented or shelved in
>order to
> serve what can only be called political ends, be they high or low.
>And a judge
> who knows the score is aware that every time his decisions offend the
>Internal
> Revenue Service he is inviting a close inspection of his returns. But I
> suppose that no one familiar with this Court believes that intimidation,
> direct or indirect, is effective.''
> -- Loyd v. Kelley, 240 F.Supp 167 at 169 (USDC, Mass. 1965)
>
>
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>
> ``Never beleive anything
> until it has been officially denied''
> -- Otto von Bismarck
>
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>
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