It's Only a Matter of Time

by Mark Yannone
October 24, 2005

Indeed, it's true: Permitting the deliberating jury to see the IRS tax code book would be problematic for the government. The jury would discover that everything that Irwin Schiff has  learned from more than 30 years of dedicated, single-minded study about the federal income tax is true.

Even the few remaining doubters in this country have to raise an eyebrow when they observe the behavior of the federal government. They have done everything they possibly can to silence the truth.

In every trial the evidence has been severely restricted by the government and the judges.

Irwin Schiff's latest book, Federal Mafia:  How It Illegally Imposes and Unlawfully Collects Income Taxes, was banned!  Can you imagine such a thing happening in the USA?

Thousands of people,  including former employees of the IRS, have written multiple letters to the head  of the IRS, to the head of the US Treasury, to the head of the Department of  Justice, to their congressmen, and to the president, most of them asking just  six simple questions, some of them asking for an opportunity to be heard. In  every case, the people were ignored or given irrelevant form  letters.

When New York Times reporter David Cay Johnston asked the  head of the IRS about the peoples' unanswered questions, the IRS replied, "We'll answer the questions . . . with greater enforcement!"

Since then then government's silence has continued, and one IRS target after another has been falsely charged and prosecuted.

Now you've seen in Irwin Schiff's trial  what kind of government abuse is used to try to bring honest men and women to  their knees. The government has no case, and judges have frequently admonished  government prosecutors for the paucity of evidence and the poor quality of the  government's lawsuits against the members of the tax honesty movement. When the  government rested it's case in Larken Rose's trial, the judge was heard to say  to the government prosecutor, "That's it? That's all you've got?"

And so  it is in this Irwin Schiff trial. That's it? That's all you've got?

Irwin,  Cindy, and Larry have the written law on their side--in black and white in the  IRS's own code book, in the US federal statutes, in US Supreme Court decisions, and in the US Constitution. The IRS, on the other hand, has a form letter.

The evidence is out, and it's irrefutable. The government's  efforts to suppress evidence, intimidate witnesses, and circumvent the law are  all duly noted.

Eventually, the truth will  win.