What do the New York Times, the IRS and David Cay Johnston have in common?
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
IMAGINE
Imagine, if you can, a government banning a book which contains only truthful words because a segment of that government does not like the content! Imagine further that same government putting the seventy eight year old author of that book on trial for having violated a nonexistent law which carries a virtual life sentence! Taking your imagination one step further imagine the prosecution and the judge working in tandem to keep the author from offering any Supreme Court rulings, any laws, introducing witnesses or cross examining the prosecution’s witnesses! To stretch your imagination to its breaking point imagine the prosecution’s final words to the jury being, *“If you don’t find him guilty you, the jury, will be breaking the law!”
If you thought this could only have happened to a Jew in Nazi Germany during World War Two you would be mistaken. Perhaps, not so coincidentally the author is Jewish. His name is Irwin Schiff. The title of the book is ‘The Federal Mafia’ and the trial was held in a federal court in Las Vegas, Nevada in the United States of America.
During that trial Federal Judge Kent Dawson upheld every objection made by the prosecution and denied virtually every objection made by the defense. And, as if that were not enough to convince anyone there was no evident justice administered during that trial Judge Dawson made sure the defendant would never be released, even if found not guilty, by sanctioning him to over three hundred (300) years in jail for attempting to bring up laws in his courtroom!
Stranger still is the fact that even though Mr. Schiff is best known legal authority on the income tax in the world there was no newspaper, wire services or television coverage of that trial until the day the verdict was read which unsurprisingly was GUILITY.
The only remaining question is, "When will the Federal Government be forced to abide by the rule of law and The Constitution?”
* Paraphrased.
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