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Last of the Time Lords
Join Date: May 2003
Location: University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople
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Dentist: I Don't Have to Pay Taxes--And Neither Do Most People
Wow, I didn't know that I might not have to pay taxes! I'd better get one Hell of a refund for all those years I paid them!
http://www.theledger.com/article/200...708300552/1039 |
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"Attention please..... a child has been lost in the Tunnel of Goats......" .......FATHER TED |
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Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope. Statement: This definition, I am told, is subject to interpretation. Obviously, love is a matter of odds. Not many meatbags could make such a shot, and fewer would derive love from it. Yet for me, love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticle, and together, achieving a singular purpose, against statistically long odds. -HK-47 |
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Muse
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Brooklyn
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I really wish when people pulled this stunt, they would just shut off their water and stop picking up their trash. I'd love to see a firefighter stand next to her as her house burned down and say "Gee, too bad you don't live in the United States or I could've helped you out there".
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“The plural of anecdote is not evidence." --George Stigler "I am all in favor of a dialogue between science and religion, but not a constructive dialogue. One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment." --Steven Weinberg |
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Tea-Time toad
Join Date: Mar 2005
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Another victim of of the "tax protester" cult. And she's representing herself which means that that she's got a fool for a lawyer.
her only hope is that she somehow manages to convince the court that she really didn't understand that she had to file for taxes, and that she is a raving (but sincere) idiot- and they'll take pity on her and go easy. |
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Last of the Time Lords
Join Date: May 2003
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Reminds me of the Family Guy episode "E. Peterbus Unum", where Peter secedes his house from the United States because his house wasn't listed on a local map (after arguing with Mayor Adam West about zoning laws).
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"Attention please..... a child has been lost in the Tunnel of Goats......" .......FATHER TED |
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Opinionated Jerk
Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: New York
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You have to love the picture the paper ran of her. I can only imagine that the photographer pointed the camera and said, "Okay, look crazy!"
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Last of the Time Lords
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"Attention please..... a child has been lost in the Tunnel of Goats......" .......FATHER TED |
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Gazerbeam's Protege
Join Date: Apr 2006
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I wonder how she expects the judge to get paid for his services?
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Just One More Question
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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So, she's making an average of approximately $750,000, and couldn't find a lawyer to consult with?
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I've been involved in a lot of cults, both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader.--Creed, "The Office" The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be only found in the minds of men. Prejudices and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own.--Rod Serling |
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Last of the Time Lords
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"Attention please..... a child has been lost in the Tunnel of Goats......" .......FATHER TED |
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Just One More Question
Join Date: May 2004
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Maybe it went:
Dentist: So do I have a case? Lawyer: From a legal stand point, and I'm going to get technical here, you're out of your mind. That'll be $10,000 and that's a discount for giving me a good laugh. |
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I've been involved in a lot of cults, both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader.--Creed, "The Office" The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be only found in the minds of men. Prejudices and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own.--Rod Serling |
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Proactive Untwister of Octagonal Hippopotamus Pants
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I was just wondering what this dentist, acting as her own lawyer, thinks about people who act as their own dentists.
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Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope. Statement: This definition, I am told, is subject to interpretation. Obviously, love is a matter of odds. Not many meatbags could make such a shot, and fewer would derive love from it. Yet for me, love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticle, and together, achieving a singular purpose, against statistically long odds. -HK-47 |
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Salted Sith Cynic
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Helicopters don't so much fly as beat the air into submission. "Jesus wept, but did He laugh?"--F.H. Buckley____"There is one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked upon our earth ... His mirth." --Chesterton__"If the barbarian in us is excised, so is our humanity."--D'rok__ "I only use my gun whenever kindness fails."-- Robert Earl Keen__"Sturgeon spares none.". -- The Marquis |
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Master Poster
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Dealing with pro se litigants is a pain in the ass for the judges and opposing attorneys, but it usually results in considerable entertainment for everyone else in the courtroom.
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Proactive Untwister of Octagonal Hippopotamus Pants
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Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope. Statement: This definition, I am told, is subject to interpretation. Obviously, love is a matter of odds. Not many meatbags could make such a shot, and fewer would derive love from it. Yet for me, love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticle, and together, achieving a singular purpose, against statistically long odds. -HK-47 |
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Master Poster
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Although related, at first, I thought the reason she was representing herself was due to the fact that she didn't have much of a case. But lawyers will take loser cases as long as they get their money up front. I now suspect it's more a matter of her (and her husband) probably telling any prospective lawyer exactly how they expected him to argue their case and no one being willing to risk their reputation in the legal community by making such crackpot (and frivolous) arguments. Not to mention how difficult such people would be to have as paying clients. As the quote above suggests, I wonder if she'll continue pro se when she has to appeal a 10 year federal sentence? Her only hope, as also noted above, is to somehow convince the jury she is too retarded to understand what she's done: "Sure, I'm smart enough to finish dental school and manage a million dollar practice, but I'm really too stupid to realize I actually do have to pay taxes." |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Remind me not to go to her for my Dental needs.
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Philosopher
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It is magical thinking...she thinks she's found some magical formula that will free her from what other citizens must do. But I note she isn't brave enough to get out there and run for office or try to change the political system...she hope that by repeating the mantra it will all come true. Pathetic.
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Just One More Question
Join Date: May 2004
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So, she's claiming to not be a US citizen, but applied for a US passport?
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I've been involved in a lot of cults, both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower, but you make more money as a leader.--Creed, "The Office" The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be only found in the minds of men. Prejudices and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own.--Rod Serling |
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Master Poster
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That"s exactly right. Like the article points out with this dentist, they pick and choose selected passages, ignore that which is inconvenient, and recite their "no-tax" slogans like a mantra. I've had conversations with someone who buys into this (incidently, he also buys into the 911 inside job silliness as well). Before I stopped discussing such things with him it usually went something like this: Him: There's no law that says I have to pay taxes. Me: U.S.C. Title 26 says you do. Him: Those laws are an unconstitutional direct tax. Me: The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says it is not. Him: The 16th Amendment was never properly ratified. Me: The Supreme Court of the United States has repeatedly stated that it was. Him: The Supreme Court is wrong. Me: They are not. But even if they were, you have to pay taxes until they say otherwise. Him: There's no law that says that I have to pay taxes. etc.... Actually, I'm giving him too much credit. His arguments were never quite that clear. But I'm sure you get the idea. |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Loser cases, yes.
Frivolous loser cases,.... not usually. If a case is bad enough that the judge thinks that the lawyer should have known better than to touch it, the judge can and will often sanction the lawyers. See the recent thread about the Ryan lawsuit on the conspiracy forum. |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Apr 2002
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She has crazy eyes.
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Ninja Wave: Master of disguiseJoin Date: Feb 2006
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http://www.theledger.com/article/200...NEWS/708310418
Surprise surprise. She was convicted, whodathunkit. |
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Let us Pray to Aphrodite. Though we know she's kinda flighty. In her light blue see through nighty. She's good enough for me. |
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She probably has other crazy habits, too.
I bet she keeps her patients' removed teeth, and makes them into jewelry. Or maybe she sewed them all to a fancy ballgown, and at night she dresses up in it and walks around her house, clattering. I predict her next legal argument is that, as the Tooth Fairy, she is a supernatural entity not subject to either US law or the laws of physics. She will then use her wand in an attempt to use Avada Kedavra on the judge. (Would that count as attempted murder, if the perp thought it would work? The intent alone would make it a sin in some denominations of Christianity.) |
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Gentleman of leisure
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What would be my penalty if I was convicted of stealing from my employer $1 million? Because what she has been convicted of doing is in my mind just as bad.
As for representing herself it may be to try to get the sympathy of the jury. |
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diabolical globalist
Join Date: Oct 2006
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It seems she had multiple lawsuits against her employeer because he had the nerve to "steal" from her by witholding federal income tax from her paycheck.
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Wag
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I have no problem with these "tax protesters" not paying their taxes. Just don't use the public roads or any of the other government assets or services.
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Hey. She could have been a slow reader. >_>
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NWO Litter Technician
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I wonder if it's a coincidence that below the news article, in a section 'Comment on this article', the first headline is 'New Schizophrenia Drug Shows Promise in Trials'.
Anyhow, I, for one, congratulate her on her choice. She was a successful dentist and wanted to find a way to screw up her life. Murder has a direct victim and it is irreversible, if you do coke you'll enrich drug cartels, but refusing to pay taxes is a great choice all around -- you'll not only get hard time, but you will be forced to pay anyway. Way to go, girl! |
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Master Poster
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