Irwin Schiff was convicted on October 24th by quite possibly an even stupider jury than the Alameda County jury that concluded a year or so ago that a gun was "defective" because you had to disengage the safety to pull back the slide (like all 1911s). Schiff's jury was told that "if you don't convict, you're breaking the law."
Irwin Schiff's book "The Federal Mafia" was actually banned by these federal nazis in 2003 (there was an interim though where I bought two copies
) Many are unable to face the fact that we live under massive tyranny that would ban a book. Most do not even know that it occurred because of a very well controlled and manipulated media.
The "judge" in Schiff's trial, amazingly wouldn't allow Irwin to discuss the law! He even held Irwin in contempt of court for discussing the specifics of the law anyway.
This may be the most flagrantly illegal behavior by the federal kangaroo "courts" in one case that I have ever seen.
This is sad and very disturbing. I will warn you right now, that if you read this, any rose colored glasses you may have on will unavoidably be ripped from your eyes.
Irwin SchiffI expect the predictable sheepish statements from some like
"well I guess he should have just paid his taxes" or
"well, if they found him guilty, he must be."The fact is, that Irwin Schiff has the type of courage that you don't see anywhere in this country anymore. Not to mention the fact that he is correct in his very well researched legal arguments. He correctly used the law to fight off the open criminals at the IRS (who brazenly violate federal law and their own policies every day) for decades.
This "trial" was a coordinated "hit" by the government using a very corrupt judge (who openly colluded with federal attorneys).
I suspect that this will bounce off most people like usual. Most will rationalize it in some way to make themselves
feel better (that's all that matters anyway, right?) so they don't have to confront and accept the painful reality. Gee, and we wonder why tyranny continues unabated
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We're too cowardly to hang together, so we're hanging separately (with help from our stupidest and weakest fellow sheep that sit on juries who are only intelligent enough to hand out over the top million dollar awards in liability suits).
This whole case makes me think of these quotes:
it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. -Patrick Henry's warning from the speech of March 23, 1775
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves [as government employees] to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
"If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation, and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power of money should be taken from banks and restored to Congress and the people to whom it belongs. I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Let us remember that `if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.' It is a very serious consideration...that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event." --Samuel Adams, speech in Boston, 1771
AND NOW MY FAVORITE:
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. Samuel Adams Irwin's other very good and (so far) UNbanned books are available at
http://www.paynoincometax.com
