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legal writing: don't be this guy
Feb. 2nd, 2008 11:03 amWesley Snipes was recently acquitted of tax fraud, though convicted of not filing tax returns for a period of six years.
the New York Times published his amended tax return and tax statement. basically, it's a long, convoluted argument he makes for why he is not a United States citizen subject to the tax code. a rather priceless rung of this argument appears on page 14, in which he proclaims his "Divorce from the United States" and states that the IRS' attempt to define him as a "person" under the tax code is identity theft.
he cites to some legal resources of dubious authority: most questionable of all a pamphlet cited on page 8 called Why Your Government Is Either A Thief Or You Are A 'Public Official' For Federal Income Tax Purposes. this pamphlet is issued by the Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry, a bizarre Bible-thumping anti-IRS group that appears to be a subsidiary of Family Guardian.1 further in the document, he cites to other SEDM documents, although no more with such rambling, grammatically incorrect titles as that one. nothing says grasping at straws like citing to the Family Guardian.
however, that citation is not even the most bizarre part of the document. that crown goes to this passage on the bottom of page 10, in which Wesley Snipes, in his infinite wisdom, threatens the IRS:
"Warning: pursuit of such a high profile target will open the door to your increased collateral risk, resulting from the exposure of substantive material issues in dispute and government illegal activities, contained in the administrative record BUT hidden from the general public and or jury. I certainly don't believe this is in your best interest and can be avoided."
i don't even think that Blade, in his Vampire Hunting Cape of Awesomeness, could get the Internal Revenue Service to bow down to that.
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1 seriously. if you have an hour or two to kill and you want to satisfy your train wreck syndrome like never before, start poking around Family Guardian. the web design is some of the worst on the internet, and the content causes images of fundie unabombers to start dancing in your head.
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the New York Times published his amended tax return and tax statement. basically, it's a long, convoluted argument he makes for why he is not a United States citizen subject to the tax code. a rather priceless rung of this argument appears on page 14, in which he proclaims his "Divorce from the United States" and states that the IRS' attempt to define him as a "person" under the tax code is identity theft.
he cites to some legal resources of dubious authority: most questionable of all a pamphlet cited on page 8 called Why Your Government Is Either A Thief Or You Are A 'Public Official' For Federal Income Tax Purposes. this pamphlet is issued by the Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry, a bizarre Bible-thumping anti-IRS group that appears to be a subsidiary of Family Guardian.1 further in the document, he cites to other SEDM documents, although no more with such rambling, grammatically incorrect titles as that one. nothing says grasping at straws like citing to the Family Guardian.
however, that citation is not even the most bizarre part of the document. that crown goes to this passage on the bottom of page 10, in which Wesley Snipes, in his infinite wisdom, threatens the IRS:
"Warning: pursuit of such a high profile target will open the door to your increased collateral risk, resulting from the exposure of substantive material issues in dispute and government illegal activities, contained in the administrative record BUT hidden from the general public and or jury. I certainly don't believe this is in your best interest and can be avoided."
i don't even think that Blade, in his Vampire Hunting Cape of Awesomeness, could get the Internal Revenue Service to bow down to that.
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1 seriously. if you have an hour or two to kill and you want to satisfy your train wreck syndrome like never before, start poking around Family Guardian. the web design is some of the worst on the internet, and the content causes images of fundie unabombers to start dancing in your head.
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