Posted on 02/10/2015 6:43:07 AM PST by HomerBohn
The first Republican elected sheriff in Eddy County, New Mexico, became the first sheriff in 25 years to stand up to the IRS. He physically stood at the gate of a troubled citizen's property while US Marshals threatened his arrest. The landowner filed an appeal with the court and expects his case to receive due process before his land is publicly sold. The sheriff agrees. The judge does not.
(Sheriff Scott London says he learned more about the Constitution in the year he spent campaigning for his job than in all of his years of schooling combined.)
WASHINGTON, February 7, 2015—New Mexico’s Eddy County Sheriff Scott London notified the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) via letter that the sale of county resident Kent Carter’s property is canceled until Carter receives due process of law and his appeal is heard. The certified letter dated February 4 received an immediate response from the Undersecretary of the Treasury’s office. According to the Treasury’s website, however, the public auction is still slated for February 19.
“Many officers have stood up over the years for the rights of citizens being victimized by the federal government,” said Sheriff Mack, founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, “But Sheriff London is the first one to stand up to the IRS since the early 1990s.” Mack said, “His actions show courage and humility. London is setting a good example for the rest of our sheriffs.”
Approximately ten days before Christmas, U.S. Marshals broke in the door of Carter’s rental property with their guns drawn. The tenant was a young mother with a new baby—home alone while her husband was at work. Sheriff London was called to the property to intervene. He advised the Marshals that Carter’s case was in appeal and he deserved due process. They threatened to arrest London, but he stood his ground and they backed off.
Carter has battled the IRS for decades over taxes on the earnings of his modest construction business. One court document listed his debt at $145,000, a figure Carter says an assessing agent “pulled out of thin air.” Every time he challenged them, his bill would shoot up a few hundred thousand dollars. His legal complaints state that the IRS failed to adhere to its own tax code, did not use proper accounting methods, and that the collection activity was unlawful because no notices of deficiency were given. Carter says his private and confidential information, including his social security number, was filed in public records and given to third parties. The IRS countered that it can publish and disperse the private information of Americans if it is trying to collect their money or property. A judge agreed.
Carter says the IRS is currently claiming he owes $890,000, a figure that “doubled with the stroke of a pen.”
The Taxation & Revenue Department ordered Carter to cease “engaging in business in New Mexico” until his arbitrary tax debt was paid. Carter appealed this injunction on the grounds that it was both unconstitutional and vague, as it deprived him of his right to make a living and also prohibited him from, “carrying on or causing to be carried on any activity with the purpose of direct or indirect benefit.”
“The IRS fabricates evidence against citizens by pulling numbers out of a hat and adding fees,” said Mack, “They wear people down emotionally and financially until they can’t take it anymore. No citizen should ever have to fight the IRS for decades in order to keep his land.”
“The IRS is a lie. The income tax is a lie,” said Carter. “Why should they be able to take anything? They’re worse than the mafia.”
The Carter properties have liens placed against them. A locksmith was instructed to change the locks. The IRS authorized the United States Marshal Service to arrest/evict anyone found on the premises. London, however, physically stood in front of Carter’s gate until the Marshals backed down. A public auction on the front steps of the Eddy County Courthouse is scheduled, but the local county sheriff—trained in the Constitution—resisted.
Carter voluntarily vacated his property and relocated his mobile home to an undisclosed location. “I chose to leave to keep it from escalating to something ugly—like Ruby Ridge, Idaho,” he said. Carter said he advised the Marshals and IRS Agents who publicly claimed he had armed friends on his land, “If there is going to be any violence, it is going to be you who starts it.”
Carter says 100% of his Social Security benefits is seized each month by the IRS, in addition to $2,800 the agency drained from his bank account. Legally, he says, the IRS can take no more than 15% of Social Security benefits.
Mack says banking institutions quiver when faced with the IRS’ gestapo tactics and generally hand over customers’ personal banking information, including access to accounts, without requiring a warrant or even any documentation. He encourages county sheriffs to brief every bank in their jurisdiction to refer inquiries from IRS agents to them.
Sheriff Mack is calling for the IRS to start following the law, including no “random” audits without probable cause, as they violate the Fourth Amendment. He asks them to stop committing crimes and rewarding IRS employees with bonuses for cheating on their personal taxes. “I agree with Senator Ted Cruz and others who say the IRS should be abolished,” said Mack. “It’s time they got off the backs of the American people.”
Carter says he prays daily for wisdom, and that he is surviving to be able to look into his grandchildren’s eyes and tell them he fought for their future and for America.
London is the first Republican to ever be elected sheriff in Eddy County. He distributes Bibles on behalf of Gideon International and met his wife in choir practice.
The US gubmit has managed to be the only thing in the multiverse that is more evil than Islam.
And both should be handled in the same manner.
And will be.
Until and unless this sort of resistance becomes widespread, we are doomed. Until now we could at least pretend we did not have an autocratic government. But with the advent of Obama and Holder, that illusion is no more.
We need to cut back even further on the IRS budget than Congress already did on its current budget!
An American leader...
Bravo! Bravo!
More! More!
Sheriff’s may be our last stand for freedom.
Even more important is the elimination of the IRS who initials are as scary as KGB.
“Annoy Your Congressman:Read Him The Constitution”!!!!!!!!
Always get the FULL name of anyone you speak to at the IRS.
I’ve often heard/read where “Sheriffs” have a stronger Constitutional power than many officials. IRS backing down to him makes me tend to think this might be true.
IRS needs to start policing itself. Garnish the wages of its own employees, Charlie Rangel and the rest of the fedgov chislers who owe taxes.
I don’t think you’ll see that, because even with a greatly reduced government (if people achieve that) the government will still take in money for its operation.
The question is what form will the IRS take in that case, or even before any great reduction of government occurs. How can one make sure that these oppressive methods are not used and that “due process” is given its full measure under the law?
Contact info..
*Eddy County Sheriff: Elected Official
Scott London:
Eddy County Courthouse Suite 100
102 N. Canal Carlsbad, NM 88220
Phone: 575-887-7551 Fax: 575-885-4040
Call and let Sherriff London know you appreciate him!
Thing about Sharpton is him and his buddy ran most of the young baiters out of the business. They’re old, could die any day, once they’re gone. They’re gone.
Yes, I know, here comes my audit...
5.56mm
I’m glad to see the sheriff stand up to them. I hope it ends well.
IRS Thug Ping.
I got garnished for $300 by the local gov recently, for an unpaid fine for something I didn’t even know about (had forgotten, chaotic time). They did not contact me, nor forward a letter to the address I had sent to the US post office. Was never brought before a judge, was never contacted. It was the IRS garnishing me, and they had absolutely nothing to do with the fine, nor office in question. It was not signed by anyone in authority. My employer told me to take a hike. Once I told them that it was theft pure and simple, you should have seen this HR employees response. The person was ready to lick IRS boot heels on a moments notice.
A fine I gladly would have paid, if they would have forwarded ONE letter, instead of jacking it up from around $125 to $300 fine after fine tacked on. Right before the statute of limitations would have given me ground. Gladly would have paid it. I will celebrate like new years 9999 when the IRS is finished.
Was never served a summons and complaint, and conveniently the writ came 2 days before payday. Sons of bitches.
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
Solzhenitsyn
“How is that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find the strength to rise up and free themselves, first in spirit and then in body; while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste for freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery”. Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
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