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This EXCELLENT file has been shared with KeelyNet courtesy of a
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person who wishes to remain nameless. The details are of his
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PERSONAL experiences with the phenomenon currently known as
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"UnTaxing" wherein participants follow a specific plan of action
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that essentially removes them from participation in the US
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government and in the process claiming to make them IMMUNE from the
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TAX laws. We have had contact with others who tell us that they
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don't use drivers licenses and when picked up and taken to court,
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quote specific laws which causes the case to be thrown out post
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hast. We were not told the details of the aforementioned legal
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quote but a few of these people also act as advocates for others
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who wish to challenge the "system".
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Tax rebellion, the early days
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My introduction or induction into the tax rebellion in 1978 was like
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a non-believer walking into a tent revival. When I walked out 3
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hours later I was a believer. I had seen the holy grail and it was
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the constitution. Clearly, this was a document written by common men
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and easily understood by common men some two hundred later.
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Everything was clear, the government was taking us for a ride on the
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fast moving train of state and I decided to get off. It would be
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some ten years and many thousand of dollars in back taxes,
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penalties, and interest before I got back on the train heading for
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the cliff.
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The group I became involved with was Your Heritage Protection
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Association. YHPA was a church founded by a man named Armon Condo.
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Armon was a small business man in Garden Grove California. He was
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also a student of the Constitution and after several years of self
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study concluded that the following was self evident:
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The income tax was unconstitutional
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Nothing but gold and silver could be made as a tender in
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payment of debt
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Federal Reserve Notes are not dollars, they are a general
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obligation of debt of the United States Treasury
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Wages are an even exchange of labor for money, there is no gain
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in the exchange.
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Using these precepts, he started his organization with the intent in
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mind to have the Income Tax Amendment to the Constitution declared
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unconstitutional. Along the way, thousands of people climbed on-
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board this new train and headed for their own cliff. When the train
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finally came to a stop in the mid-1980s, several thousand of these
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people lost their homes, marriages, and most of what they owned.
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I am going to try to chronicle the events as I saw them. Looking
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back some 14 years some of the dates and the sequence that events
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occurred in may not be completely correct, but for all intents and
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purposes, the events actually happened.
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Why a Church?
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Churches in America have traditionally enjoyed a certain amount of
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constitutional protection from the government. The IRS code in
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describing the tax exempt status of religious organizations defines
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that such organizations may apply for exempt status but are not
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required too. What this means is that if you donate large sums of
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money to a church and want to declare the deduction you had better
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make the donation to a organization that has a tax exempt number.
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If you want to start your own church however, there are no
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requirements that you apply for official recognition. It is not
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difficult to obtain official recognition. All you have to do is file
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the appropriate forms. For instance, Ms. Ohara, the well known
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atheist used to head a rather large organization in Texas that held
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tax exempt status as a religious organization.
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Armon used the church as a shield against the state. When I joined
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YHPA in 1978, they were reputed to have in excess of 5,000 members
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in California and the surrounding states. The total number of tax
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groups at the time was suppose to contain some 30 to 40 thousand
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people. Many of the groups differed in their approach to opposing
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the tax system.
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YHPA bought a small self contained shopping plaza in Garden Grove
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and set up for business. They ran a small printing shop that mostly
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printed their own material for meetings and their newspaper. They
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also had their church offices and opened a number of other store
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fronts among which were a gold and silver coin shop and a dried food
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store. (More on this later.)
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YHPA held public and member only meetings. Public meetings were
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usually held at small restaurants and would typically draw 100 or
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more people. Word of the meetings spread like wild fire in Southern
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California. The typical meeting would begin with a salute and pledge
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of allegiance to the flag. A warm up man (usually a gentleman named
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Dan, I cannot recall his last name) would then take the podium and
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get everyone in a good frame of mind. This was usually done by
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asking everyone to take a dollar out of their pocket and hold it
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up. Everyone with a paper dollar would hold it in the air.
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He would then tell them that a real dollar would not burn and if
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they thought that they had a real dollar in their hand, then test
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it. This usually resulted in several, if not all, of the people
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present lighting dollar bills on fire.
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This was a great stunt and had everyone laughing. Dan would then
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open a small hand book and read the definition of a dollar to
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everyone as described by the Constitution.
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Next, a small rotund man with a bald head and a full curly white
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beard would take the stand. His name was Irish Conway. Irish had
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charm, a gift of gab, the ability to hold an audience and a style
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that would make any of the TV preachers look bad, real bad. He would
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start by reading the first and second amendments of the
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Constitutions:
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"Congress shall make NO law respecting an establishment of
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religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.."
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He would then progress through a reading of several articles of the
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Constitution then conclude with one or more stories of atrocities
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committed by the servants of the people, the IRS (the Infernal
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Revenue Service) as reported by any number of newspapers. "The
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government has gotten away from us." he was fond of saying, "and we
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have to take our government back from the bueraRATs." The catch
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phrases at the time were bueraRATs and banksters.
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By the time Irish was finished, usually 40 minutes or so, he would
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have the majority of the people in the room ready to march on the
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Federal Building in Los Angeles. Twenty to thirty percent of the
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people at any given public meeting would be ready to sign up. The
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fee for joining YHPA was $25 Federal Reserve Notes (referred to
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FRNs) a month. For the fee, YHPA would give you a subscription to
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their newspaper (nominally priced at $25 per year) and legal
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assistance to represent you at the IRS or Franchised Tax Board (the
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FTB) in California.
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I had attended a meeting in the spring of 1978 and thought that the
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group was "on to something" but didn't want to put myself or my new
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wife at risk. We had just moved into a house and all I wanted to do
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was to work and save some money. I told a coworker about the group
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the following fall and he attended a meeting by himself and joined
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that night.
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Within a week, half of the people I worked with had joined. I
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attended a meeting the following week and my wife was so taken with
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the concept after hearing it a second time that it was a done deal
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by the time the meeting was over.
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At the time I was self employed, working as a computer software
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consultant, as were most of my circle of friends. When quarterly
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filing time came around none of us filed returns. Looking at the IRS
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instructions of who must file, it was obvious that no-one had
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received any dollars (remember, nothing but gold and silver coin
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shall be made a tender in payment of debt), and just as obvious, our
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labor was an even exchange and thus, there was no gain or income.
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I coasted along through the rest of 1978 and 1979 with a smug
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feeling that I knew the TRUTH. The truth is a very strange thing.
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Everyone and every group have their own version of the truth. That
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is really the only truth that I am aware of . If that were not true,
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then the Jews and Arabs, the Catholics and Protestants, Hindus and
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Moslems, and the various sects of the Christians would all be
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getting along.
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Anyway, I believe that what happened to me was the same as what
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happens to someone who under goes a religious conversion. I was
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secure in my faith of the Constitution.
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"We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are
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created equal and endowed by their creator with certain
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unalienable rights."
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Surly, these words were as divinely inspired as any in the bible or
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other document inspired by God. I was later to find out that the
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government really didn't give a damn about what I or anyone else
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felt about or though they knew about the constitution.
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It was during this time that I met the acquaintance of a Mr. William
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Drexler. Bill Drexler had, according to the organization, and
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stories printed in the YHPA newspaper, been the youngest Federal
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Magistrate ever appointed. After reviewing the law for years from
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such a lofty perch, he resigned from Government service because he
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saw the light of the Constitution and realized that the PEOPLE were
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being screwed.
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When I met Bill, he was the head Bishop of the Church of Christ. He
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was at least as convincing as Irish when he spoke. He was a large
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man (tall and wide) and presented an impressive figure. Bill
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started speaking at the members only meeting and presented yet
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another program. He was prepared to setup a church under the Church
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of Christ name for anyone for the sum of 500.00 FRNs.
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What did this do for you? Well, it bought you a number of things:
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a set of documents that you had notarized and filed showing
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that you were a real church,
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ordination as a minister in the Church of Christ,
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and Bills advice on what to do if the Feds or the State came
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after you for what ever reason.
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Bill's organization was based in San Diego and he normally drove up
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to Orange County for meetings twice a week. Once for the YHPA
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meeting (Thursdays) and once for the meeting of the inner circle of
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the Church of Christ. His organization was so over swamped with
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applications that he began franchising other ministers so that they
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could sell church packets.
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The minister selling a church would receive 50.00 and the Bishop
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would received the other 450.00. Everything fair and square. What
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was almost humorous about the whole home church movement was that
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most of the people who formed churches actually became fairly
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straight laced Christians.
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Groups of home churches would make treks to Mexico on the week ends
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and deliver food and clothing to the homeless in Tiajuana. Several
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groups came together and bought land in Mexico and started
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orphanages. So all in all, I guess Bill Drexler actually was a
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driving force that did some good.
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Anyway, the tax movement began spreading across the country.
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Different groups with difference philosophies began springing up in
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most major cities. Several newspapers were created and people
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started joining the movement. We knew that when twenty or thirty
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percent of the people rebelled, the government would be forced to
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abolish the immoral income tax and go back to a Constitutional
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consumption tax. What the movement didn't count on was the
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resourcefulness of the state governments.
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Being an engineer and a self employed consultant, I and many other
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consultants in the movement, were very results oriented. We new we
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were on to something. And the something was that the government had
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stolen the country and the Constitution from the people. Recapturing
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the government away from the bureaucrats and returning it to the
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people was going to be our revolution.
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We had the Constitution on our side and when everything went down we
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were going to make sure that the elected officials and the
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bureaucrats paid. We could see trials for crimes against the people
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taking place and the Nuremberg defense was not going to work. It was
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obvious that the IRS was seizing property without due process and we
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were going to stop it.
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Early 1979 brought with it several seizures of accounts and property
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of members in the YHPA and other organizations. The interesting
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thing that we saw however was that the news media pandered to the
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IRS. If you want to know what the government attaches real
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importance to, watch what happens to a person arrested for murder.
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The government will fall all over themselves in order to protect
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that persons rights.
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They will provide them with an attorney, allow them access to law
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libraries, and in the case of Randy Craft (a serial murderer in
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Orange county California) provide them with computers and a private
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investigator.
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Get yourself in Dutch with the IRS however, and you can have your
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bank accounts seized, your property taken away, and find yourself
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out on the street without a way to make a living.
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What would typically happen is the IRS or the FTB would target
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someone in order to make them an example. Their bank accounts would
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be seized, their house and cars seized and sold at public action.
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About that time they usually found themselves out of a job. In
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California a large percentage of the people worked in the Aerospace
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industry. A word in the right place would usually result in a tax
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protester being laid off while the company was actively hiring.
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Husbands and wives in the movement would usually come to an impasse
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when the prospect of being on the street was present. My
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observations of people attending the meetings was that wives were
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much more militant than husbands. But what actually happened was
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that when someone went to the labor camp at Lom Poc (the Federal
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honor farm in California), it was usually the husband.
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Mom and the kids went off and found another Dad. I also figured out
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the strategy of the FTD and the IRS. They would not confront the
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organizations head on in court. That could set the stage for
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national publicity and would only allow the tax protesters to get
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their message out to the population as a whole.
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The element of failure was much too great for that. What they did
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was go after people in the tax courts where the judges were
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appointed by the IRS. In order to refute IRS charges and claims
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against your assets, you first have to exhaust your remedies in the
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regulatory courts (those courts run by the IRS).
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After that, you could go to the civil courts and sue to recover what
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ever the IRS stole from you. Sounds fair, right? Wrong.
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The thing that was wrong with it that as soon as you set foot in the
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tax court, you have no assets. When the Feds get through with you,
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you would have to get major financing to buy a stamp from the post
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office. Get hit in an auto accident and Larry Parker will represent
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you for free based on a projected settlement. Get hit by the IRS and
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no one will represent you unless you can pony up a substantial
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retainer.
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Consider this, at 150.00 per hour, a 15,000 retainer only buys a
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hundred hours of representation. That's less than three weeks worth
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of work at 40 hours a week.
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About this time a gentleman from Arizona whose name I do not recall,
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came on the scene. His program said that instead of not filing a
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return, as opposed to the program that YHPA had, what we should be
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doing is filing fifth amendment returns. If you examine the bottom
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of your tax return you will see that you are swearing under the
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penalty of perjury that everyone on the return is correct and true.
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What happens if something on the return is not true? Right, you can
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be charged with perjury which carries about a 14 year term. The
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theory behind the fifth amendment return is that you are invoking
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your fifth amendment rights against self incrimination. The problem
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with this theory is that the courts have held that a fifth amendment
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return is the same as not filing a any return.
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Several people received free room and board at Phoenix and Lom Poc
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for following this program.
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Early in 1980 my wife and I sold our house in California and moved
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to northern Arizona for a number of reasons. I commuted back into
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California each Monday morning and returned home to Arizona on
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Thursday or Friday night of the same week. Over the course of four
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years I ran through four cars and a wife.
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Our problem started in 1982 when the state of California levied
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against the company that I was consulting with. I know, they can't
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do that. But the fact of the matter is that they did. What happened
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to the YHPA organization that had been collecting a twenty-five
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dollar membership fee for the previous four years?
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Well, they had given several hundred thousand dollars to two
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different groups of lawyers who really did nothing but posture in
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front of the bench. In fact, one of the lawyers who had been
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receiving money from the organization for several years withdrew
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from one of the cases when the IRS started auditing him.
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Did he feel obligated to return the money he had been taking for the
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previous two years? Right, get real. The lawyers are only a small
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degree more or less honorable than the IRS.
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So there I was on my own. A friend who was being attacked at the
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same time found an elderly gentleman by the name of Art Porth. Art
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had a small tax organization in the San Gabriel area of Southern
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California. Art had been fighting the income tax laws since 1930.
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His premise was that the revenue codes were unconstitutional. He had
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been thrown in a mental institution by a federal judge in the mid-
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1950s.
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The reason, the judge declared that Art was insane in manners
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concerning the income tax. It took his wife over six months before
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she managed to find another federal judge to issue a writ to get him
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out of confinement. Anyway, Art was having some small success in
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having the wolfs called off of some people. The Feds began targeting
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Art's group when their numbers began growing and Art eventually left
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program when his health finally failed (at the time I met Art, he
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was seventy five years old.).
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During this time I discovered that the State of California was much
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more viscious than the Federal Government when it came to taxes. In
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fact, we discovered that the IRS would inform the state that you
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were under suspicion. Because the State of California was constantly
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in need of money, they would go after you with a real vengeance. The
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State went after me and hounded me from one consulting contract to
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another.
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I found out later that they would talk to people at my last contract
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in order to find out where I went. Why would someone inform on a
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coworker? Simple, they were threatened with an audit if they did not
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corporate.
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One contracting agency was so dirty with their own tax situation
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that they actually contacted the FTB and offered me up in exchange
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for some consideration concerning their case.
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About this time another friend came back into the system. His
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accounts had been levied against, his house was under a seizure
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order and one of his cars had been stolen by the IRS. He found a
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former IRS agent that was at the time running a tax consulting
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business. The agent negotiated a deal with the agency and my friend
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filed his back returns and went in hock to make the penalty
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payments.
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I found a lawyer that helped me in the beginning but fell on her
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face several years later. My attorney arranged for yet another
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former IRS agent that now had a big time accounting firm in Newport
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Beach California to prepare my returns.
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Additionally, she located a small company that had for all intents
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and purposes gone out of business with a carry forward tax loss
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amounting to twenty some thousand dollars.
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The owners could not because of their own tax situation, use the
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loss. I bought the company for about two thousand dollars in cash
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and used the carry forward to offset some penalties and interest.
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The way the tax game works is that if you owe any taxes and make a
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payment, the payment goes against old taxes, not current taxes. This
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works to the IRS advantage because you wind up taking a long time to
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pay off the 10% penalty and 10% interest per year compounded (that's
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really 20% a year).
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It took me from 1983 until 1988 to pay off the back taxes and
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penalties. The IRS had my account spread around three different
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offices. I went through a similar deal with the state of California.
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At one time the state had been listed as armed and dangerous. My
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attorney had that taken off of the computer. If I had been stopped
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in traffic during this time I would have had some real fun with the
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cops.
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Was all of this worth it? Well, I know what fighting for principal
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is all about. I know what stress will do to a marriage. I know what
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driving 80 thousand miles a years will do to you. I know a hell of
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lot about hindsight. What did I gain?
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Well, the YHPA organization advised people to take the tax money
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they saved from being in the program and invest it in property or
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precious metals to guard against the coming collapse of the country.
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I saved some twenty thousand dollars a year for about three years
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and invested it in Arizona property, weapons, food and tools. What
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have I got to show for it? Not a damn thing. My former wife enjoyed
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the fruits of the movements and now owns a house in Kingman Arizona,
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six or so acres of property on the Big Sandy river with some
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improvements, several hundred ounces of silver, and a lot more.
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I walked away from the marriage after she asked me to leave with a
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leased car, some personal weapons, and my clothing.
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The cost of my coming back into the system amounted to about a
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hundred grand paid to the state and federal governments spread over
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five or six years in addition to paying normal taxes during that
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time. Additionally, I paid close to twenty grand to attorneys and
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accountants. I currently have a new family and am working toward
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trying to rebuild what I lost during that period of my life.
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Would I advise someone else to enter a program to avoid paying
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taxes? Well, if you want to feel like fighting for a good cause, go
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for it. But keep your eyes open. If the leaders of any movement tell
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you that they are doing this for the good of the country, then ask
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them why they charge any more for the program than printing and
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living costs.
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Armon Condo was not making a great deal of money from YHPA, but
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several other people in the program were. I will write another paper
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detailing what happened to Armon Condo and Bill Drexler and their
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fortunes later.
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We ask that you please SHARE this file with anyone you know who is
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considering getting involved in such a process as UNTAXING.
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Although there is probably great validity to the claims, there are
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currently insufficient numbers of people willing to get involved to
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make the attempt worthwhile when one takes into consideration the
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above examples of concerted government harassment.
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