Activist dares IRS to arrest him. Non-filer's message to agency: 'Come and get me'.

WorldNet Daily ^ | September 5, 2002 | Jon Dougherty

[Pern]

A long-time tax activist has sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service informing the agency he will no longer pay income taxes and daring IRS officials to arrest him.

"I ... have not filed a federal income tax return for 1997 or any subsequent year. This is not because I am protesting any law, or because I do not want to pay my 'fair share'; it is because I refuse to be a victim of the biggest financial fraud in history," said "Theft By Deception" video producer Larken Rose.

Vowing not to "remain silent" as Washington allegedly continues to "defraud my fellow Americans," Rose, in his letter, admonished the IRS to "stop terrorizing the American public" while challenging them to "come and get me."

"I will not stand by and allow myself, my family and my neighbors to be extorted simply because some power-happy bureaucrats huff and puff about all the nasty things they will do to anyone who does not 'comply' with the IRS's misapplication of the law," Rose said.

"To the [Department of Justice] and the IRS ... make an 'example' of me," he wrote. "Surely if my position is 'frivolous' and completely devoid of merit, then the DOJ attorneys can easily refute my position in front of a jury, and have me convicted and imprisoned."

"Take your best shot," he challenged.

Larken, in his letter, alleged that the federal income tax "applies only to one's taxable income, not to all income." He said that the federal tax code "clearly" shows "income to be taxable only when it comes from certain types of international or foreign commerce."

He accused IRS officials of refusing to honestly debate his points and said the government resorted to "threats, evasions and accusations" to enforce the tax code.

"[IRS's] own law books expose the biggest financial fraud in history: The misrepresentation and misapplication of the federal income tax," he wrote.

U.S. Treasury officials say the views of those like Rose and other so-called "tax protesters" are fraudulent and misrepresentative of the tax code and the 16th Amendment, which authorized the income tax in 1913. Many activists claim the amendment was never properly ratified.

Some "tax protesters" say the system was initially established as a "voluntary system," but Treasury officials say the "'voluntary compliance' means that each of us is responsible for filing a tax return when required, and for determining and paying the correct amount of tax."

Also, the agency has a division specifically targeting "the portion of American taxpayers who willfully and intentionally violate their known legal duty of voluntarily filing income tax returns and/or paying the correct amount of income, employment or excise taxes," says a description posted on the Treasury Department's website.

"Seek expert advice before you subscribe to any scheme that offers instant wealth or exemption from your obligation as a United States Citizen to pay taxes," says the website.

But Rose isn't running a "scam," and he says he isn't hiding. In fact, he handed out "around 900" copies of his letter last month in front of IRS and Justice Department headquarters in Washington, "including hundreds of copies being personally handed to IRS and DOJ employees."

He also said he has published his letter as an "official notice" of his intentions in three papers – The Honolulu Advertiser, the Idaho Observer and the Texas City Sun. He said other, larger papers – The Tampa Tribune, The St. Petersburg Times, The Kansas City Star, Idaho Statesman and Great Falls Tribune – refused to publish it, "even as a paid advertisement."

The IRS said the 2002 tax filing season was record-setting, with some 48.5 million taxpayers filing their returns electronically. In all, over 117.5 million people filed returns, up from 115.8 million in 2001.

The agency paid out nearly $150 billion in refunds to 77 million filers and said its website – www.irs.gov – received nearly 2 billion hits during tax season.

[3k9pm]

That's crap buddy.

Had you read the entire post and used your cranial contents before you hit the reply button, you would have understood the post.

BTW, the knuckledragger tag fits the guy.
You should follow your own advice. I you don't understand a term, ask around.

As for the Nazi thing, here's another army phrase that is appropriate:
Do the right thing!
Meaning: When you are wrong, correct yourself.

[RightOnline]

Save it. You slimed the guy and got called on it. You then insist you didn't. I see that here far too often and have no patience with it. Don't look for apologies here, bud.

[babylonian]

"To the [Department of Justice] and the IRS ... make an 'example' of me," he wrote. "Surely if my position is 'frivolous' and completely devoid of merit, then the DOJ attorneys can easily refute my position in front of a jury, and have me convicted and imprisoned."

This dude might should talk to James Traficant.

[Dementon]

Larken, in his letter, alleged that the federal income tax "applies only to one's taxable income, not to all income." He said that the federal tax code "clearly" shows "income to be taxable only when it comes from certain types of international or foreign commerce."

Too bad the courts disagree with him. But who cares what they think. They are part of the conspiracy.

Have the courts actually ruled on this position?

[AppyPappy]

Yes and the prisons have their results.

[3k9pm]

I NEVER said I didn't "slime" the guy. He is slime.
You , however, are not slime. You are merely an ill-mannered lout. You misunderstand my post, then call me a Nazi. This is the type of thing liberals do. When they can't argue the facts or don't understand something, they revert to name calling.

Find some manners.

[RightOnline]

Sure, bud. Pot..........kettle............black. Have a nice day.

[3k9pm]

And you as well.

[CyberCowboy777]

We have a large young population here at FreeRepublic.com, many very active in our society in one way or another.

I am 23 and know of freepers even younger

Many of the people working on local campaigns I know of are in their twenties.

[Teacher317]

Janet Reno is getting her patio ready for the next JBT BBQ.

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

I was mainly surprised that someone so young would be taking on the IRS. Always figured it to be the domain of crusty old farts who don't have good personal hygeine, or some such stereotype. But it's great to know there are a lot of twenty-somethings and younger who have their heads in the world and not in the morass of pop culture.

[CyberCowboy777]

Unfortunately many of my generation are in the morass of pop culture, else it would not exist.

Still, we are out there and are preparing for our roles as the leaders of tomorrow, whether that be as Fathers (of which I am of three) and Mothers or as Presidents and Senators.

All is not lost....yet :~)

[Billy_bob_bob]

You and me both. I'm closing up my business and retiring. I'm still open to making money, but only off the books or legally tax free. I'm sick to death of paying OVER %50 of my income in taxes, and I'm shrugging. Who is John Galt? Maybe James Taggart can get him to produce again. Or maybe not.

[Poohbah]

Yes. They've ruled on it often enough that they get very testy about you not having done your homework if you try to use that argument.