Source: http://bobgraham.blogspot.com/2003_05_11_archive.html
Timestamp: 2017-03-24 14:05:05
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 7203', '§ 7201', '§ 7206', '§ 287', '§ 7212', '§ 371']

Bob Graham: 05/11/2003 - 05/18/2003
Thought you might be interested in hearing from Larken Rose. His message is of great interest to me and you, but it is a unbelievable message to the IRS 'armed agents that felt they had to raid Larken Rose's home. Why? I wonder if there is any way we can get these people and their bosses to explain just what they were trying to accomplish. Thanks. LARKEN ROSE.
Well, that was interesting. Last Tuesday (May 6th, 2003) I spent eight hours sitting on my living room couch while a dozen or so armed IRS agents rummaged around my house, stole most of my computers and all of my financial records. (I've since gotten some of my stuff back.) They also stole three boxes of "Theft By Deception" videos, and since then told me they don't intend to give them back. I wasn't charge with anything, nor were they seizing property to cover any alleged tax liability. The search warrant was requested by a CID agent, Donald Pearlman, who swore to having "probable cause" to believe that they would find evidence related to certain crimes. After looking up the statutes mentioned (the ones they think I violated), I have concluded that the feds have lost their freaking marbles. The accusations fall into three categories: 1) I didn't file a tax return that I believed I was required to file (26 USC § 7203), I didn't pay a tax I believed I owed (26 USC § 7201), and I filed claims that I knew to be incorrect (26 USC § 7206(1) and 18 USC § 287), which must have meant my three claims for refund. 2) I used violence or the threat of bodily harm to try to stop federal employees from administering the tax laws (26 USC § 7212(a)). 3) I conspired to defraud the United States (18 USC § 371). (I'm not sure what the heck they base that one on.) So exactly what "evidence" did they need a search warrant to get, to demonstrate the alleged crimes? I've been TELLING them for five years that I receive significant income, but that I don't file and don't pay, and explaining WHY that is the case. John Ashcroft has a signed affidavit from me saying the same things. The IRS also has 1099s for all the income we receive from our transcription business, and correspondence with the IRS shows that they are well aware of our income, which we have never tried to hide. So obviously they didn't need to invade my home to prove that I have income, or to prove that I don't pay or file. For the next "suspected" crime, where I supposedly used violence or threat of bodily harm to stop the feds from administering the tax laws, if you responded with "HUH?!?," join the crowd. While the feds were rummaging through my stuff, a little chat I had with the head extortionist shed some light on this bizarre accusation: apparently they considered it a THREAT for me to send free videos to IRS agents, and to make it public who I had sent them to. Here is the cover letter that went with most of the videos: ------------------------------------------ Dear Mr. _________, The enclosed copy of the video "Theft By Deception" is being sent to you personally as a gift. The video uses the law itself to show that, although the federal income tax is entirely valid and constitutional, the scope of the tax has been grossly misrepresented to the American people, including you. Please see the enclosed letter from a former prosecutor for the U.S. Justice Department if you find this hard to believe. This letter is not to accuse you of intentionally breaking the law; it is to show you how you have been used in this monumental financial fraud. However, as of today you can no longer claim that you personally were ignorant of the truth on this issue. Your name is being publicly posted at www.theft-by-deception.com to establish on the public record that you have been supplied with this information. Do the right thing. Sincerely, Larken Rose
------------------------------------------ Does that look like a THREAT OF BODILY HARM to you?!?! These guys have some serious screws loose. (Talk about paranoid.) Did they need a search warrant to find what we already SENT them? Obviously not. The "fraudulent claim" can only mean my claims for refund (1040X) for 1994, 1995 and 1996, which of course they already have copies of. So what "evidence" did they actually need? NONE. There is ONE reason they raided my home, and it had NOTHING to do with any "evidence" or any suspicion of a crime. They did it to intimidate and harass me with the hopes of SILENCING me. They all but asked "what do we have to do to shut you up?" No, they didn't use those exact words, but they might as well have. I told them, in no uncertain terms, that NOTHING will shut me up. Ever. That I will continue to tell the truth, and it will continue to spread, and the fraud will fall, and the IRS will be out of business. The question now is, who will this terrorist stunt by the IRS work on, and who will it only anger? I'm not going to stop telling the truth. I told them that, while they were being big, tough (inferiority-complex) cowboys in my living room. I expected some ridiculously tyrannical attempts on their part as their grip fails, and this doesn't surprise me much (though it's still annoying). There is something I have been tempted to say for a while, but resisted. In my still somewhat agitated state, I think I will say it, because I think I should, even if some people don't like it. If you don't want to do what I did, I don't blame you. If starting your day by having jack-booted thugs barge into your house is not your thing, that's understandable. If you choose to file returns and pay money that you KNOW you don't owe, for fear of the nasty repercussions of OBEYING the law (how sad a statement is that about the country?), even then I sympathize. But if you know the truth, but choose not to speak it now--while you can--then you are giving your BLESSING to this abomination. You don't have to yell it from a rooftop, or go "mooning" IRS offices (William Wallace style), but if you know the truth but will not speak it, even if only quietly to friends or family, then what freedom we still have is wasted on you. If all 2600 of you were in my living room Tuesday morning, it would have been an interesting thing to watch (and not just because it would be really, really crowded). There were a few spectators outside, and even that made the IRS very uneasy. (The IRS agents took to preaching at and threatening the people who were calmly standing across the street watching.) A dozen armed IRS agents, worried by five or six unarmed, calm spectators. Hmmm. Defense lawyers will suggest that what I should do now is shut up, lay low, and be very cautious what I say as I wait to see if an indictment shows up against me. If my goal was my own personal defense, that would be very good advice. But my goal is defending YOU, the 2600 of you reading this and the 280,000,000 others who have no idea that this is even happening. I won't shut up. Ever. I know that this Gestapo trick du jour will scare some of you. I also know it will make many of you even MORE angry and determined to end this. (I wish this country was populated entirely by the second category, but I know it's not.) Anyway, I'll give you more info soon, but I thought I should quick get at least this message out to you, now that I have access to the list again (for the first time since Monday morning). It was a nice stunt, but it won't do them a bit of good. Sincerely, Larken Rose
http://www.theft-by-deception.com (P.S. While picking up some of my stuff in Philadelphia this morning, one of the thieves asked me if I had a million dollars buried in my back yard, or a mattress or something. They just can't handle the fact that everything I do has been open and honest. Now that they stole my financial stuff, they KNOW there is nothing suspicious or hidden there, so they're just making stuff up. This was an unreasonable search and seizure if ever there was one, and I don't intend to forgive and forget.) posted by Bob Graham @ 2:37 PM