UPDATES:
- Archived Radio Show for Reference
Last week's radio show where John Kotmair was the special guest on The Agitator Hour has been archived in streaming media format. The contents of the show covered all the bases, from discussion on the founding of the fellowship and John's early involvement in the Constitutional Revival Movement, the Constitutional dilemmas surrounding fiat money, the 861 position, the courts, Taxpayer misconduct, and much more.
This is a good show to share with friends and family. Find the links to the show below.
- Constitutional Quiz Question of the Week
"In questions of power, then let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." - Thomas Jefferson
This week's question: Are all citizens (men and women) entitled to the same rewards and to the same amount of personal wealth?
The answer to this question and many other intriguing and timely education material will be provided in the TAX FREEDOM 101 Alert Forum
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NEWS:
- IRS Agent Demands A Hefty Bribe
Apparently $80,000 a year was not enough for this veteran IRS examiner and auditor of large corporations. A sting caught the agent red-handed who demanded a bribe of $200,000 from the corporation's tax lawyer. Herbert Wein used extortion as a way to garner the demanded bribe by telling the corporation's attorney that he could raise the amount of the $15,000 in taxes allegedly owed to 4 million after fines and interest.
"Hey... baadaa-bing baadaa-boom. I'm from the gubermint, forgetta 'bout it." Read all about it here.
- 'Rebate' Baffles Taxpayers
This should come as no surprise. Listen-up Taxpayers. While you're pouring over your tax returns this year to retrieve what was rightfully yours all along, try to do it without goofing up the big fat 'rebate' the government was so gracious to give you last year.
The new line on the 1040 is confusing Taxpayers - click here to learn more about the confusion if your still a Taxpayer.
Hint, it wasn't really a rebate as it was a Taxpayer prefund. Read the related story "Explanation of Bush Taxpayer Payoff" for more on this. If you still don't understand after reading that article just call H&R Block, we understand they are calling themselves the "tax men" this year.
Related story: "Explanation of Bush Taxpayer Payoff" available here.
- IRS Gives Tax Preparers Competition
Well the IRS and OMB look to be teaming up into the tax preparation business. Yep, that's one stop shopping for all you Taxpayers, the "customers" as the IRS refers to them. Since the IRS already has the reporting forms needed to calculate the alleged tax owed, and has access to ALL financial information and transactions, it can calculate your tax owed or tax due, all they need is a person's Social Security number. That is if you even still have one.
Needless to say it has tax preparers crying foul as it will hit their earnings stream. They better get use to it, because it is the goal of the IRS to eliminate all paper filing eventually.
For the full story read: "IRS Plans to Offer Tax Filing on Web"
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INFORMATION:
- History of Save-A-Patriot Fellowship
The following is an overview on the creation of the Save-A-Patriot Fellowship, and some background on its founder and fiduciary John B. Kotmair, Jr. If you ever wanted to know how the fellowship was devised, and what lead up to its creation, read the following history of Save-A-Patriot Fellowship. A complete audio interview can be found on The Tax Freedom 101 Audio Video page with the recording of "The Creature From Maxwell".
History of Save-A-Patriot Fellowship
with background on the founder and fiduciary
John B. Kotmair, Jr.
In the early '60s, John Kotmair, founder and fiduciary of Save-A-Patriot Fellowship, noticed that something was terribly wrong with actions being taken by the current government headed by John F. Kennedy. A primary example he points to was the invasion of the "Bay of Pigs" in Cuba, where the Cuban freedom fighters were put ashore with ammunition that did not fit their weapons and promised air support did not come. These brave men were rounded up by Castro's forces and taken to prison camps without the need of firing a shot.
His suspicions were confirmed when he was given a tract distributed by the "John Birch Society." He was a police officer with the city of Baltimore, Maryland at the time. This little tract impressed him enough to start passing it around to anyone who would listen. He was shortly contacted and asked to attend a meeting of the "John Birch Society." As with most things John does, he got involved and quickly became a chapter leader and then a section leader.
John then ran into another organization called the "Minutemen." Because of its more radical beliefs, he was asked to resign from the "JBS," which he did. He was a victim of the joint IRS-FBI "Cointelpro" intelligence operation. The exposure of this government clandestine operation resulted in the passage by Congress of the Freedom of Information Act and later the Privacy Act. Later, during his criminal trial, in 1981, the FBI admitted their spying operation to the court, but request that the court prevent the disclosure of the file for fear that it would disclose their informants they had watching John. The court granted their request.
He became involved in the political campaigns of U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater's bid for the Presidency in 1964 as a campaign manager in Baltimore, and that of Gov. George C. Wallace in 1968 and 1972 as the campaign manager for Carroll County Maryland. Subsequently becoming the American Party Chairman for Carroll County. The American Party was started by Gov. Wallace in 1972. Soon thereafter, the American Party was infiltrated and split up like just about every other national third party effort.
Realizing, in 1973, that the only way to effectively stop this mad rush to a world socialist government was to interfere with its financial engine-the Federal Reserve Bank. John entered a movement, started by Mr. A.J. Porth, called the Tax Rebellion. At that time it was the general belief that the 16th Amendment changed the U.S. Constitution and the Internal Revenue Code imposed a tax on U.S. citizens living and working within the States of the union.
After many confrontations with the IRS and State taxing agencies, causing the need to study the relevant court cases and the law, it was discovered that the 16th Amendment did not change the Constitution and that the income tax was actually an excise tax. From there it was gradually discovered that only nonresident aliens and foreign corporation were liable for the payment of income taxes within the States of the union.
Recognizing that in order to restore our liberties and freedoms, the general public would not only have to be educated to their Plight but would eventually have to get involved. To help accomplish this, John traveled all over the country lecturing to anyone or organization that would listen. He became the Chairmen for the Committee of Correspondence, a Director for the Patriot Network, and later the National Patriot Association.
Eventually the Justice Department got involved and John was indicted for "Willful failure to file" for the years 1975 and 1976. It became very apparent to not only John, but his attorney that the deck was stacked against them and John was convicted. He was given a two-year sentence to be served at a minimum-security prison in Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama.
During his "service to his country," John continued his lectures within the prison, often times getting guest speakers to come in from the "outside." Many of these speakers were notable people from the community like Judges and Congressmen. On some occasions, John got them to admit to crimes they either knew about or helped orchestrate against the citizens of this country, yet they went home after the seminars and John was forced to stay.
History teaches that the main cause for the defections from General Washington's army, during the war of rebellion against King George, was the immediate needs of the solders families. Understanding this, and seeing this first hand in this modem day non-violent war against tyranny, John thought of ways to help deter this unwanted exit from our ranks and additionally make it easier for other Patriots to join the Cause of Liberty. John asked himself, what is the greatest fear a person can have concerning the IRS? It was obvious to him that the foremost concern of every Patriot was putting his/her family in danger because of the loss of property and incarceration.
He then knew what was needed to combat these fears. A Fellowship! Not just a group of like minded individuals but an association of Patriots willing to stand together to help defray the costs of a member fighting for the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution.
Exactly 31 days after leaving prison camp, on February 24th, 1984, Save-A-Patriot Fellowship opened its door to an 8'x8' room. Today it has grown into a complex containing a radio network, print shop, copy room, paralegal room, casework area, advanced 30 gigabyte video production studio, book shop, 150 person meeting room with stage, sound and video cameras and a complete law library, both on disk, hard copy and computer access to West Law. The rest is history.
Wishing you a tax-free day,
The Tax Freedom 101 Staff
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