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Mine says

Support the right to keep and arm bears.

We are walking a fine line here, and my intent is to inquire not argue, but we also recegonize the Afgan nation. We do now, and have every day for the past 20 years, accepted their passport for travel to the US. We recegonize them as UN Members. We do not have an embassy in their nation, but I can list 10 other nations that we also do not have embassies in their nation. We do have a mission to their nation, located in Pakastan (Just like tiwan). Just because we do not have an embassy does not mean that we do not recegonize the nation, only that we have not exchaged diplmomatic missions. Weather or not we recegonize the afgan nation, the basic question stays the same.

what crime did he commit, not what nonsense is listed, but what crime did he commit

The whole row on this list has been about him being a terrorist, yet the inditement says that he accepted training, meeet some terrorists, and refused their invitation to join them, but remained a foot soldior in Kabul.

Can anyone quote the exact law that he violated. Do not tell me being in that nation was a crime, because the State department web site, as of today, says it is legal. It also says that when in a foriegn nation, an American Citizen is subject to that laws of that nation and NOT subject ot the laws of the United States. Please Quote the exact law he broke.

Lets see now. this document aledges that he accepted a free education, from a group that on later dates, months later, entered into battle against The US. ABSOLUTLY nothing listed is a crime, in the US or in the Afgan nation. Sounds to me like the foriegn version of Ruby Ridge, and some where in the back of my mind I remember that at Ruby Ridge the Goverment ended up paying millions of dollars for their action.

There is no claim that this guy ever fired a single shot at any one, and it clearly claims that he refused an assignment to go against the US.

Sounds to me that the US government is building his defense for him. Serious, it is not a crime to train for anything, it is not a crime to talk to anyone and it is not a crime to belog to a group we do not like, three months before we anounced that we did not like it.

There has also been an implication that he had some compulsion to leave the afgan nation after the war started. The funny thing is that if you go to the State Department, you will find that going there today or any day for the past 20 years is quite legal. There are a few nations that it is not legal to go to, but the afgan nation just ain't one of them

Also Passports say MAY result in loss of citizenship. They are trying to put him in jail for life, not take his citizenship. He would probably give them that.

I am not claiming that the guy is not an asshole, just that the charges have far less then zero support. The fact that a person can be so publicly railroaded in this nation really worries me.

I agree totally with one little exception. We did not open an embassy in Afganastan. We failed to exercise our veto power and permitted the Taliban government to become a member of the UN. The State Department web site informes that Afgan consular services are provided by the Embassy in Pakastan.

There is a distinct difference in acceptance of a goverment and in exchanging diplimatic missions. This has gone on for years with Tiwan and China. It does not make any one of them any less a recegonized nation.

The IRS has nothing to do with criminal law. If you will visit the US State Department web page you will find under the section for Americans Abroad that it very clearly states both the you are subject to the laws of your host nation and NOT the laws of the US.

If one would go to http://members.dencity.com/bpolsky/members.html you will find the membership list for the United Nations. Afganastan is the first nation listed.

NOPE go See http://travel.state.gov/americansabroad.html

When living abroad, you are subject to local--i.e. foreign--laws. If you experience difficulties with the local authorities, remember American officials are limited by foreign laws, U.S. regulations, and geography as to what they can do to assist you. The U.S. government cannot fund your legal fees or other related expenses.

Despite repeated warnings, drug arrests and convictions of American citizens are still a problem. If you are caught with any type of narcotics overseas, you are subject to local--not U.S. laws. Penalties for possession or trafficking are often the same.

The US has, more then once ruled that actions as a mercenary are not illegal by our laws, and the CIA regularly pays and supports Mercs.

He is charged with Membership in the Taliban ONLY. No claim that he belonged to a terror group of any type. The formal document claims that he had 'knowledge of' acts of terror.

This is a serious request for comments???

You have the right to remain silent. !!!!!!!!! Isn't that the first thing that the officer must tell you.

Actually, if you will check the criminal offense is operation of a vehicle without payment of the fee. Not failure to display the sticker. Displaying the sticker can save you a trip to the courthouse, but a reciept for the fee will save you a criminal conviction.

To over simplify,

A US trust must file US tax returns, must follow US regulations, and IRS can audit it. A forigen trust must comply with the laws of the nation of its creation, files no returns with the IRS and can not be audited. That makes IRS very nervious. Anderson carried it to the point that if a forign trust must be incorporated under the laws of that nation of its incorporation, then its operation and pay out was also controled by the nation of its incorporation. Under limits contained in the Constitution, IRS would have no ability to control a foriegn trust and no law supports their ability to do so. They do attempt to claim fraud any time an american uses a foriegn trust for any purpose that an American trust would be prohibited from doing.

This is similar to American Drug Laws. As an American Citizen, my government assures me that as I travel, I am subject to the drug laws of my host nation. When I get caught with pot in singapore, I can rot in jail. When I go to Hollond I am covered by their drug laws, and can smoke all the pot I want. Then when I return to the US, the laws demand that I loose my job (in some industries) because I test positive for pot. They like foriegn laws that are more restrictive of US, but want to find secondary ways to penalize you for laws that are more lenient than that of the US.

This is the exact same situation as foriegn trusts.

Clip from todays A.M. CostaRica newspaper. ---------- Tax figure hit all the wrong buttons with U.S. By Jay Brodell editor of A.M. Costa Rica A tax-avoidance guru arrested over the weekend near Heredia becomes the latest statistic in a renewed U.S. government push against terrorism, money-laundering, drugs, tax evasion and other challenges to the status quo. Unlike their Canadian counterparts, U.S. citizens are expected to pay U.S. income taxes on money earned overseas, although there is a generous deduction. The problem, however, was expressed by a friendly witness at a U.S. Senate hearing in April: "Our tax code is riddled with special interest tax credits and exceptions carved out for increasingly narrow groups. The size, complexity, and perceived government favoritism in the code has eroded all respect for the tax system." Those were the words of JJ MacNabb, a self-described writer and financial planner who appeared before the Senate Committee on finance. He also said that personal greed and slow-moving federal enforcement efforts hamper tax collection. Senators also heard that sophisticated scamsters are playing on the distaste many citizens have for paying taxes. The man arrested this weekend, Keith Anderson, is an example of someone who built an elaborate business by telling people how to duck U.S. income tax. He combined aspects of religion and multi-level marketing with his program that involved selling instructional cassettes, holding seminars and eventually encouraging clients to invest their money with him in offshore trusts in Costa Rica. He was arrested after being a fugitive for 11 months in a hotel near residencial Los Arcos in the canton of Belén, Heredia, said police. A number of firms in Costa Rica quietly set up trusts or anonymous corporations for North Americans who wish to hide their assets, perhaps from taxation. But Anderson faces indictment counts of conspiracy and money-laundering, in part, because what he preached did not really protect his clients. The U.S. tax officials called it fraud. ---------- Full article: http://www.amcostarica.com/

I know that there was another thread, but it only reported an article by a US publication with no background.

Saved the taxpayers a ton of money.

Basically, this guy found a way to use international boundries to legally avoid some taxation for very rich investors. Actually, not even avoid but delay. Now IRS is on a vendetta because he found holes in their regulations. Their point is not that his clients violated the law, but that they violated the 'intent' of the law.

What part of war do you not understand.