Small government was Re: [extropy-chat] EMP Attack?

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Joseph Bloch <jbloch at humanenhancement.com> wrote:
> > Mmm-hmm. Perhaps a review of
> > http://www.quatlosers.com/larken_rose.htm 
> > is in order. In it you'll note that not only is the whole "861
> scam" 
> > bunkum, but also that folks who use it get indicted (texts of
> > specific cases and links on the above link) and put in jail.
> 
> You are lying here, because noplace on the referenced site does it
> say
> anyone has gone to jail.

Mike is correct, that site doesn't appear to say that anyone has
actually gone to jail.  But there are other sites that do, for instance
http://www.taxprophet.com/hot/archived_materials.html

> So far, 2001 has been a very bad year for those promoting fraudulent
> trusts.  Just ask the Hendersons.  Dorothy Henderson will be spending
> the next 11 years at "Club Fed, " no doubt rethinking her mindless
> argument that the U.S. government lacks jurisdiction over her and
> that IRC Sec. 861 (a provision that applies to foreign taxpayers)
> somehow excludes U.S. residents and citizens from our tax laws. [See
> the IRS Press Release]  The judge was so unimpressed with this
> frivolous claim, that when Mrs. Henderson defiantly argued at her
> sentencing hearing that she was exempt from taxes, he gave her an
> extra 6 months in the pokey!  Her husband, George Henderson, received
> 6.5 years in jail.
>
> Both defendants were sentenced to the longest permissible prison term
> under the federal sentencing guidelines. In sentencing the
> defendants, Judge Burrell stated that they had shown "outright
> defiance" and "disrespect for the tax laws of this nation," and that
> the only way to deter them from future violations of the law was "to
> put them away for as long as the law allows."