[blackdog]

The new story does not address the fact that the IRS lawyers are not even lawyers. They posed as lawyers. The IRS would not comment on how the two managed to be paid as attorneys for the IRS. I would assume a bunch of judges might be a bit pissed?

I also stated when I first heard the ruling that the IRS will never pay a dime. Funny caveat though......Everyone is in an uproar over "fraud" committed by the IRS? Hello? Where has everyone been?

I wonder if they will ever act on the IRS practice of recording conversations between attorney/client when IRS reps leave a conference room, hoping to get some juicy chat?

In all fairness to the IRS, they do have a few good souls. There is a lady down in Atlanta that is the only person I will speak with. She has resolved several costly issues for me that were making the desk to desk shuffle tour.(keeps piling penalties and interest). I have her direct number and she has acted professionally, compassionately, and sees each issue all the way to resolution. Sure I may not love writing a check, but it's not as bad when the person you are dealing with is honest, competent, and thorough.

[Middle Man]

I have no doubt there are people in the IRS who may actually believe they really are doing the American people a good deed and upholding the law. The last illusions I ever had about the IRS were exposed by the former IRS agents John Turner, Sherry Peel Jackson and Joe Banister.

Banister, in his speeches, tells how on his first day on the job as a Special Agent in the Criminal Investigation Division (CID), he had not been given any assignments yet and casually started reading through the IRS codebook. A supervisor spotted him and promptly came over and slammed the book shut on his desk, reprimanding him for bothering to look at the actual law.

The great service that Banister and others are doing is exposing the culture of lying and deception the IRS has been engaged in since its inception.

Next time you have a close encounter with an IRS agent, ask to see their pocket commission and see if the badge number is preceded by an "A" or an "E". If it's preceded by an "A", that means the person you're dealing with has NO enforcement authority -- either delegated or statutory -- to make you do anything with respect to income taxes.

John Turner and Sherry Jackson both testified that they never knew while they were in the service that their "non-enforcement" pocket commissions didn't give them any power to intimidate and threaten people into paying a tax those hapless victims didn't owe. The difference is, that they had enough integrity to stop abusing their authority once they discovered the hoax.

How many other IRS agents do you suppose are at this moment terrorizing Americans and destroying families, lives and businesses with powers they don't have?