SoCal anti-tax crusader sentenced to 27 months in prison

AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 4/4/06 | AP

[Zeppo]

You are the second person who has apparently misunderstood my post. I was not arguing in favor of the guy who committed tax fraud. I was directing my comments towards the idiot Assistant US Attorney who stated that she thought that the guy's sentence should discourage others from considering anti-tax protests.

The guy's tax fraud was not an anti-tax protest, it was tax fraud. The guy's sentence for tax fraud is "orthogonal" from any considerations of anti-tax protesting. It should in no way discourage anybody from anti-tax protesting. However the Assistant US Attorney has conflated the two, in typical big-fisted ugly government fashion. Her statement was just as reprehensible and insidious as those of people who would claim that Eric Rudolph's murder conviction for bombing abortion clinics should discourage others from considering anti-abortion protests. Murder is a crime. Protesting abortion is not. Tax fraud is a crime. Protesting taxes is not. What does it take to get a clueless Assistant US Attorney to understand the difference?

[Lurking Libertarian]

Point well taken.

[kellynla]

This clown, Sandra Brown should be fired!

Assistant United States Attorney Sandra B. Brown is the chief of the Tax Division.

The mailing address is:

The United States Attorney's Office
Central District of California
Tax Division
300 North Los Angeles Street
Los Angeles, California 90012

[newzjunkey]

Good point, quite alert on the difference between what this zealous US Attorney said and the true reality.