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Originally Posted by raytri";p="
Notice that the main defendants weren't acquitted; they had a hung jury. Meaning as little as one out of 12 jurors simply refused to convict.
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Or as many as 11 out of 12 refused to convict. You are still a master spinner, raytri.
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And notice this stirring defense:
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Michael Kennedy, who defended Lori Kahre, said the case turned on the notion that taxpayers could be wrong without being criminal. He was referring to the fact that his client, Lori Kahre, and other defendants had not paid taxes according to the market value of the precious metal content of the coins in which they were paid, as opposed to their face value. He conceded at trial that his client may owe federal taxes for her mistakes.
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Conceding taxes are owed, but that it was an honest mistake, is hardly a strong antitax defense.
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That's not what he said, raytri. He said his client
may owe. I'd bet the judge was disallowing much of what they wanted to present on the legality of the income tax.
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And from the jury:
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Jurors got stuck on the question of whether the government had proved defendants intentionally violated tax law, according to David Ramirez, jury foreman.
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Doesn't seem like it was decided on tax grounds.
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I would say it clearly was decided on tax grounds if the government couldn't prove to the satisfaction of the jury that the defendants had violated tax law.
Let's look at a few things I found recently on the IRS's Individual Master Files. Not an issue in this case, but a huge issue nonetheless:
From the Handbook for Special Agents, page 9781-51, 334.112
The Individual Master File Section:
"(1) The Individual Master File is a magnetic tape record of all individual income tax filers in Social Security Number sequence, and is maintained at the National Computer Center.
The Individual Master File is designed to accumulate in each taxpayer's account all data pertaining to the income taxes for which the taxpayer is liable. (Gets tricky when you start chasing down the definitions for exactly who is a "taxpayer" and who is "liable" for what)
The taxpayer information stored in the master computer for each IMF
may be understood only by a careful and tedious process of decoding by references to the explanations contained in the IRS 6209 Manual, IMF Operations Manual, Law Enforcement Manual, and several other manuals published by the Service for the instruction and guidance of its personnel."
This creates a prime facie case against you in court, because the IRS takes these Individual Master Files in against you.
Prime facie cases must be
REBUTTED.
The IMF files are a "Rebuttable Presumption" in the law of evidence.
If you do not rebut them, they are said to have "Presumptive Correctness" in any court action against you.
Why is this important? Because the courts have already ruled on the matter:
"Government prevails in challenge to individual’s appeals hearing in which master file transcripts were considered at hearing instead of tax returns." - Stanifird v. Wilcox et al. 87 AFTR2d Par. 2001-1058 June 12, 2001.
Decode your IMF and you will find the truth. Listen to the truth that leaks out from a former chief of the IRS's Freedom of Information Act branch:
"The overwhelming majority of taxpayers appear to be perfectly willing to face serious adverse action without bothering to make any significant effort to learn what the agency knows about them or how they came to be in that situation. In fact, even subjects of major criminal investigation seldom bother to make such inquiries, apparently being willing to face trial and risk imprisonment without
writing a simple letter which could produce information which could literally save their freedom.”
- Marcus Farbenblum, Chief of the Freedom of Information Branch, IRS National Office, from his book, “The I.R.S. and the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act of 1974,” regarding FOIA requests
Now if someone doesn't pay their taxes and is charged with a crime, why is this IRS chief at the FOIA office telling people they "could literally save their freedom" by writing a simple letter requesting information from a Freedom of Information Act?
Think about it, people. The only possible explanation is that something is indeed hidden in their Individual Master File which would prove they don't owe the tax.