The blogosphere is buzzing this morning about the acquittal of Tommy Cryer, a Louisiana attorney. Tommy Cryer was indicted in October 2006 on tax evasion charges.
Cryer was acquitted by a U.S. District Court jury of failure to file income tax. Prosecutors claimed that Cryer didn’t pay $73,000 of income tax for the taxable years 2000 and 2001. Cryer created a trust to shelter his income and claimed that he did not need to report income paid to the trust. Cryer also popularly claimed that there was no law that required him to file income taxes – an argument that has repeatedly been shot down time after time – including Ed Brown’s recent guilty verdict.
So, what’s different here? My colleague over at Law Prof on the Loose offers some excellent analysis of the case. Specifically, he points out that in a criminal income tax case, “the government has the burden of proving, not only that the defendant didn’t pay his taxes, but that the defendant knew he had to pay his taxes.”
Before you get all excited, you should know that Cryer’s had his share of issues, including an appearance before the bar disciplinary committee for professional neglect. His excuses for his behavior ranged from claiming mental illness to severe financial issues. So, he’s hardly the poster child for an intelligent, well thought out professional tax protest.
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Dear Carl,
I am humbled and honored by your comments. I can only hope more good hearted Americans open their eyes to the truth!!! Have a great day.
Taxman Mike
And I quote:
“If you… examined [the 16th Amendment] carefully, you would find that a sufficient number of states never ratified that amendment.”
US District Court Judge
James C. Fox 2003
Yes. I believe their is a book titled ‘The Law That Never Was’, which leaves the reader with no doubt of the fact that the required number of States did not lawfully ratify the Amendment. For example, some states re-wrote the language of the Amendment, effectively nullifying their ratification. The Secretary of State at the time, Cox, on the floor of the house stated: “Apparently the Amendment has passed (or words to that effect) What did he mean by “Apparently”? It either did or did not.
The Sixteenth Amendment, lawfully passed or not, really has no bearing upon whether or not the money received by a man or women engaged in an occupation of common right is subject to a direct tax. The authors of the 16th Amendment never intended it to affect the property of that class of American (See the Congressional record for legislative intent in the passing of the 16th Amendment).
The IRS/DOJ, along with a compliant judiciary, have used public ignorance of history to convince people that what was once not allowed by the Constitution was now allowable due to the passage of the 16th Amendment. We now know they were spreading a falsehood, (LIES), and they continue to lie up to the present.
I imagine it will not be too much longer before a critical mass of Americans know what we are writing about, much to the detriment to government employees (and H&R Block). I would not want to be an employee of the IRS when that critical mass reaches the boiling point. I see necks stretched from lamp posts up and down Pennsylvania Avenue.
Mark Twain
“In the Beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”
Edward Abbey
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
J. Edgar Hoover
“No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.”
President Harry Truman
“I don’t give ‘em hell. I just tell the truth on them; it makes them feel like they’re in Hell!”
The Bankruptcy of The United States
United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993 Vol. 33, page H-1303
Speaker-Rep. James Traficant, Jr. (Ohio) addressing the House:
“Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11.. Members of Congress are official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any Bankrupt entity in world history, the U.S. Government. We are setting forth hopefully, a blueprint for our future. There are some who say it is a coroner’s report that will lead to our demise. It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1, Public Law
89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress m
session June 5, 1933 – Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and Departments and is further evidence that the United States Federal Government exists today in name only…”
Congressman Louis T. McFadden.
Congressman McFadden on the Federal Reserve Corporation
Remarks in Congress, 1934
The Federal Reserve-A Corrupt Institution
“Mr. Chairman, we have in this Country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks, hereinafter called the Fed. The Fed has cheated the Government of these United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the Nation’s debt. The depredations and iniquities of the Fed has cost enough money to pay the National debt several times over….”
Robert H. Hemphill,
Credit Manager of the Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta Georgia
“We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to barrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money, we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless position is almost incredible, but there it is. It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely
understood and the defects remedied soon.”
Congressman Ron Paul
“If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S. membership in the UN; no gun control; and no foreign aid. We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the “poor”; no American troops in 100 foreign countries; no NAFTA, GAT, or “fast-track”; no arrogant federal judges usurping states rights; no attacks on private property; no income tax. We could get rid of most of the agencies, and most of the
budget. The government would be small, frugal, and limited.”
President Ronald Reagan, May 1983, Williamsburg, VA
“Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive [it] reeks with injustice and is fundamentally un-American… it has earned a rebellion and it’s time we rebelled.”
“The tree of liberty needs to be watered, from time to time, with the blood of tyrants and patriots”. Thomas Jefferson.
The tree of liberty, now withered and near death, is in great need of watering by the husbandmen of the house of freedom. A cry has gone out into our land. Who among you willing to place your sacred honor upon the alter of liberty?
“In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility–I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with and other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it—and the glow from that fire can truly light the world”.
President John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address 1961
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