I found this article, in a reference to TINYURL by brother Bo for Gritz. A retired Navy Doctor/surgeon, laughably accused for "protesting" when he said he couldn't comply with what he or IRS can't prove as being a Law. I hope many of you can exercise your wit, and pull directly from that INTERNAL REVENUE CODE the mis-placed regulation. The direct URL is from PENSACOLANEWSJOURNAL, and the article is quoted below. The title to this thread is pulled from an opinion of a rogue trustee, alleged "judge."
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/...607070333/1006
Published - July, 7, 2006
Tax evader gets seven years
Dean also ordered to pay $300,000 in unpaid levies
Kristen Rasmussen
@PensacolaNewsJournal.com
A retired Navy commander who is an outspoken tax protester was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday for tax evasion.
The crime, Senior U.S. District Judge Lacey Collier said, "goes directly to the heart of the existence of our country."
Dr. Ward Franklin Dean, 63, of Pensacola also was ordered to pay nearly $300,000 in taxes that were assessed on the $1.2 million income he earned between 1997 and 2002.
"If we have no one complying with the accepted and long-established tax code, we would have anarchy and we would have no country," Collier said in imposing the sentence, which is more than double the maximum of 3˝ years recommended under sentencing guidelines.
Dean, a retired Navy flight surgeon, was convicted in December of six counts of tax evasion and one count of attempting to obstruct the Internal Revenue Service in the collection of taxes.
He was scheduled to be sentenced on the charges in March, but that hearing was postponed to allow time for him to undergo a mental-health evaluation to determine his competency.
His lawyer, Charles McFarland, said at the time that Dean was unable to get along with his attorneys and did not appear to understand the proceedings -- a sentiment Dean displayed Thursday.
"I do not consider myself to be above the law," Dean told Collier, countering claims made by prosecutors. "In fact, I stringently try to obey the law. I still don't know what law I broke. I've written several hundred letters to the IRS trying to get an answer."
But Assistant U.S. Attorneys Robert Davies and David Goldberg countered that if Dean doesn't believe he broke the law, he repeatedly will commit the same crime.
"The jury told him what law he broke. He just doesn't want to hear it," Goldberg said.
Collier said he imposed such a stiff sentence, in part, to serve as a deterrent to other tax protesters. The judge pointed to Dean's Web site, which -- when accessible -- illustrated his role as an "advocate" for like-minded people.
IRS Special Agent Tonya Burgess testified that tax protesters such as Dean eat up time and manpower that can be used to investigate traditional tax evaders.
Tax evaders "submit volumes of frivolous documents claiming frivolous tax laws," she said. "They file frivolous lawsuits that have to be responded to."