Terrorism By Government
In any dealings with the Internal Revenue Service, and
contrary to American jurisprudence, you are first considered guilty
unless you can prove your innocence.
The IRS will reject your returns and require you to provide
documentary evidence of all your financial transactions. Failure to
provide all required documentary evidence—for whatever reason—will
result in fines and penalties and possible jail time. There is little
that sends more chills down the spines of American “taxpayers” than a
letter or call from an IRS functionary.
Last week, before the House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TITGA) J.
Russell George said the IRS could not account for all the costs of an
Anaheim IRS training conference attended by 2,400 IRS employees and
estimated to have cost the agency $4.1 million. In other words, the
agency was in violation of the very rules it uses to oppress Americans.
The conference is noteworthy because of a controversial video produced for the conference that
spoofed “Star Trek” and cost about $50,000 to make. It was one of the first hints of the excessive IRS abuses to leak.
A TITGA report released May 31 claimed the IRS held 225 employee
conferences between 2010 and 2012 at a cost of more than $49 million.
But the cost could have been a lot more. During Congressional testimony,
Faris Fink, commissioner of the IRS Small Business and Self-Employed
Division and “Spock” in the video spoof — who approved the expenditures
for the Anaheim conference – admitted the conference may have actually
cost more than $5 million. And Gregory Kutz, the assistant inspector
general for the audit, testified that the Anaheim conference was the
only one of the 225 examined.
The video dialogue, the lavish, unchecked conference expenditures,
the abuse of conservative groups requesting non-profit status and the
list of abuses that Michael Minns
wrote about last week all point to an agency that is unaccountable and out of control – which is typical of unchecked government bureaucracy.
The IRS is nothing more than a blunt instrument used to beat
Americans into compliance with a socialist, redistributionist fascist
government that passes itself off as a democracy. It gives a face of
“legitimacy” to the government’s theft of our labor. But theft is theft
whether the robbery is pulled off by a masked bandit or an agent of the
state wearing a suit and tie.
In fact, theft by the state is much worse because if you are prepared
or armed you can fend off the masked bandit, or perhaps hope the good
agents of the state law enforcement apparatus may one day capture and
prosecute the bandit and return your stolen goods, but there is no such
defense against state. There is no hope to recover the goods stolen from
you by an agency of the government that enforces laws that are so
Byzantine that a question to a dozen IRS agents will render a dozen
answers, many of them contradictory. And there is essentially no appeal
for a negative IRS result, as one of the people targeted in the IRS Tea
Party scandal learned when his appeal was to be heard by the very agent
who had denied his status previously.
For 100 years the lie has promulgated that income taxes fund the
government. Americans are taught from an early age to be a good taxpayer
and to pay their “fair share.” This lie has gone so far that now the
majority of the people buys into the notion that the government gets
first dibs on our money and can withhold the amount that is our fair
share. Then, our benevolent government gives us some back after we file
our return and we happily take our “refund.”
I explained this lie in detail
here and
here.
Using words spoken by Beardsley Ruml, chairman of the New York
Federal Reserve from 1941 to 1946, we can dispel the widely believed
myth that income taxes are needed for government income. Income taxes
have nothing to do with providing income to the government.
In a famous speech he read before the American Bar Association during
the last year of World War II, titled “Taxes for Revenue Are Obsolete,”
Ruml said, “The necessity for a government to tax in order to maintain
both its independence and its solvency is true for state and local
governments, but it is not true for a national government.”
The speech was originally printed in
American Affairs in the January, 1946 issue. The editor of
American Affairs
wrote: “His [Ruml’s] thesis is that given (1) control of a central
banking system and (2) an inconvertible currency, a sovereign national
government is finally free of money worries and need no longer levy
taxes for the purpose of providing itself with revenue. All taxation,
therefore, should be regarded from the point of view of social and
economic consequences.”
To read the entire speech, go
here.
In a similar vein, former Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President
Darryl Francis had this to say in 1974: “Since the direct method of
printing money to finance government expenditures is prohibited in the
United States, the monetization of government deficits has occurred
indirectly. Government debt is ultimately being financed by the creation
of new money.”
Revelations of IRS abuses should be the impetus to dismantle the government shakedown agency to the last jot and tittle.
The Surveillance State
When the people lose confidence in government they lose all fear in
favor of self defense. This loss of confidence in government and the
elected class is happening now at breakneck speed.
Government and Congress are no longer legitimate and they have been
and are passing laws right and left against the American people.
Government is composed of parasitical psychopaths who have created the
hyper-Orwellian surveillance state that was completely revealed in two
reports by the British paper,
The Guardian last week,
here and
here.
It is exactly what I have been warning about for a number of years,
since the passage of the USA Patriot Act, here and in my newsletter,
The Bob Livingston Letter™
(subscription required). The USA Patriot Act is the most unpatriotic
act passed since the early days of the republic, if not ever.
My repeated warnings about the growing police state and the rise of
benevolent totalitarianism have often been greeted with charges of fear
mongering or tin foil-hattery, first from supporters of the George W.
Bush regime and now from supporters of the undocumented usurper who sits
in the people’s house.
America is on life support. Unless the leviathan government is torn
down to its Constitutional foundation, the country will rip itself
apart. It may well be too late to prevent it.
The government, through its alphabet soup agencies and its
surveillance apparatus, are terrorizing the American people. Terrorizing
by government cannot survive against a well armed citizenry. That is
why the elected class have pushed so hard to disarm the populace and why
the Department of Homeland Security has been militarizing itself at
breakneck speed.
If you’re not familiar with the saga of Scott Rohter, you can get up to speed here.
In a nutshell, he’s mad at me because I did not post on his site but
did post on Facebook while balancing work, writing and family issues in
the middle of a move. He hit me up for money and I told him this wasn’t
a good time for that but I would consider it in a couple weeks after
things had settled down a bit. He was okay at first but last Friday —
out of the blue — he blasts me on Facebook, calling me a liar.
