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The FBI shut down his website, this is the full HTML from http://embeddedart.com/
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One of these was “no taxation without representation”.<span style=""> </span>I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that crap from only a few years of my childhood.<span style=""> </span>These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly labeled a “crackpot”, traitor and worse.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">While very few working people would say they haven’t had their fair share of taxes (as can I), in my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has never been a politician cast a vote on any matter with the likes of me or my interests in mind. <span style=""> </span>Nor, for that matter, are they the least bit interested in me or anything I have to say.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it’s time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours?<span style=""> </span>Yet at the same time, the joke we call the American medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple, and this country’s leaders don’t see this as important as bailing out a few of their vile, rich cronies.<span style=""> </span>Yet, the political “representatives” (thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around for year after year and debate the state of the “terrible health care problem”.<span style=""> </span>It’s clear they see no crisis as long as the dead people don’t get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">And justice? You’ve got to be kidding!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">How can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system?<span style=""> </span>Here we have a system that is, by far, too complicated for the brightest of the master scholars to understand.<span style=""> </span>Yet, it mercilessly “holds accountable” its victims, claiming that they’re responsible for fully complying with laws not even the experts understand.<span style=""> </span>The law “requires” a signature on the bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they understand what they are signing; if that’s not “duress” than what is.<span style=""> </span>If this is not the measure of a <span class="owner">totalitarian regime, nothing is.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">How did I get here?<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">My introduction to the real American nightmare starts back in the early ‘80s.<span style=""> </span>Unfortunately after more than 16 years of school, somewhere along the line I picked up the absurd, pompous notion that I could read and understand plain English.<span style=""> </span>Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having ‘tax code’ readings and discussions.<span style=""> </span>In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy.<span style=""> </span>We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God).<span style=""> </span>We took a great deal of care to make it all visible, following all of the rules, exactly the way the law said it was to be done.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">The intent of this exercise and our efforts was to bring about a much-needed re-evaluation of the laws that allow the monsters of organized religion to make such a mockery of people who earn an honest living.<span style=""> </span>However, this is where I learned that there are two “interpretations” for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the rest of us… Oh, and the monsters are the very ones making and enforcing the laws; the inquisition is still alive and well today in this country.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">That little lesson in patriotism cost me $40,000+, 10 years of my life, and set my retirement plans back to 0.<span style=""> </span>It made me realize for the first time that I live in a country with an ideology that is based on a total and complete lie.<span style=""> </span>It also made me realize, not only how naive I had been, but also the incredible stupidity of the American public; that they buy, hook, line, and sinker, the crap about their “freedom”… and that they continue to do so with eyes closed in the face of overwhelming evidence and all that keeps happening in front of them.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">Before even having to make a shaky recovery from the sting of the first lesson on what justice really means in this country (around 1984 after making my way through engineering school and still another five years of “paying my dues”), I felt I finally had to take a chance of launching my dream of becoming an independent engineer.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">On the subjects of engineers and dreams of independence, I should digress somewhat to say that I’m sure that I inherited the fascination for creative problem solving from my father.<span style=""> </span>I realized this at a very young age.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">The significance of independence, however, came much later during my early years of college; at the age of 18 or 19 when I was living on my own as student in an apartment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.<span style=""> </span>My neighbor was an elderly retired woman (80+ seemed ancient to me at that age) who was the widowed wife of a retired steel worker.<span style=""> </span>Her husband had worked all his life in the steel mills of central Pennsylvania with promises from big business and the union that, for his 30 years of service, he would have a pension and medical care to look forward to in his retirement.<span style=""> </span>Instead he was one of the thousands who got nothing because the incompetent mill management and corrupt union (not to mention the government) raided their pension funds and stole their retirement.<span style=""> </span>All she had was social security to live on.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">In retrospect, the situation was laughable because here I was living on peanut butter and bread (or Ritz crackers when I could afford to splurge) for months at a time.<span style=""> </span>When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight than for my own (I, after all, I thought I had everything to in front of me).<span style=""> </span>I was genuinely appalled at one point, as we exchanged stories and commiserated with each other over our situations, when she in her grandmotherly fashion tried to convince me that I would be “healthier” eating cat food (like her) rather than trying to get all my substance from peanut butter and bread.<span style=""> </span>I couldn’t quite go there, but the impression was made.<span style=""> </span>I decided that I didn’t trust big business to take care of me, and that I would take responsibility for my own future and myself.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">Return to the early ‘80s, and here I was off to a terrifying start as a ‘wet-behind-the-ears’ contract software engineer... and two years later, thanks to the fine backroom, midnight effort by the sleazy executives of Arthur Andersen (the very same folks who later brought us Enron and other such calamities) and an equally sleazy New York Senator (Patrick Moynihan), we saw the passage of 1986 tax reform act with its section 1706.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt; page-break-after: avoid;">For you who are unfamiliar, here is the core text of the IRS Section 1706, defining the treatment of workers (such as contract engineers) for tax purposes. Visit this link for a <a href="http://www.synergistech.com/1706.shtml#ConferenceCommitteeReport">conference committee report</a> (http://www.synergistech.com/1706.shtml#ConferenceCommitteeReport) regarding the intended interpretation of Section 1706 and the relevant parts of Section 530, as amended. For information on how these laws affect technical services workers and their clients, read our discussion <a href="http://www.synergistech.com/ic-taxlaw.shtml" title="Laws affecting Brokered Independent Contractors' tax status">here</a> (http://www.synergistech.com/ic-taxlaw.shtml). </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="color: red;">SEC. 1706. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN TECHNICAL PERSONNEL.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="color: red;">(a) IN GENERAL - Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin-right: 0.4in;">(d) EXCEPTION. - This section shall not apply in the case of an individual who pursuant to an arrangement between the taxpayer and another person, provides services for such other person as an engineer, designer, drafter, computer programmer, systems analyst, or other similarly skilled worker engaged in a similar line of work.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in; page-break-after: avoid;"><span style="color: red;">(b) EFFECTIVE DATE. - The amendment made by this section shall apply to remuneration paid and services rendered after December 31, 1986.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt 0.5in; page-break-after: avoid;">Note: </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; page-break-after: avoid;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->"another person" is the client in the traditional job-shop relationship.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in; page-break-after: avoid;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->"taxpayer" is the recruiter, broker, agency, or job shop.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->"individual", "employee", or "worker" is you.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">Admittedly, you need to read the treatment to understand what it is saying but it’s not very complicated.<span style=""> </span>The bottom line is that they may as well have put my name right in the text of section (d).<span style=""> </span>Moreover, they could only have been more blunt if they would have came out and directly declared me a criminal and non-citizen slave.<span style=""> </span>Twenty years later, I still can’t believe my eyes.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">During 1987, I spent close to $5000 of my ‘pocket change’, and at least 1000 hours of my time writing, printing, and mailing to any senator, congressman, governor, or slug that might listen; none did, and they universally treated me as if I was wasting their time.<span style=""> </span>I spent countless hours on the L.A. freeways driving to meetings and any and all of the disorganized professional groups who were attempting to mount a campaign against this atrocity.<span style=""> </span>This, only to discover that our efforts were being easily derailed by a few moles from the brokers who were just beginning to enjoy the windfall from the new declaration of their “freedom”.<span style=""> </span>Oh, and don’t forget, for all of the time I was spending on this, I was loosing income that I couldn’t bill clients.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">After months of struggling it had clearly gotten to be a futile exercise.<span style=""> </span>The best we could get for all of our trouble is a pronouncement from an IRS mouthpiece that they weren’t going to enforce that provision (read harass engineers and scientists).<span style=""> </span>This immediately proved to be a lie, and the mere existence of the regulation began to have its impact on my bottom line; this, of course, was the intended effect.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">Again, rewind my retirement plans back to 0 and shift them into idle.<span style=""> </span>If I had any sense, I clearly should have left abandoned engineering and never looked back.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks.<span style=""> </span>Then came the L.A. depression of the early 1990s.<span style=""> </span>Our leaders decided that they didn’t need the all of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern California, so they were closed; just like that.<span style=""> </span>The result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled the widely publicized Texas S&L fiasco.<span style=""> </span>However, because the government caused it, no one gave a shit about all of the young families who lost their homes or street after street of boarded up houses abandoned to the wealthy loan companies who received government funds to “shore up” their windfall.<span style=""> </span>Again, I lost my retirement.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">Years later, after weathering a divorce and the constant struggle trying to build some momentum with my business, I find myself once again beginning to finally pick up some speed.<span style=""> </span>Then came the .COM bust and the 911 nightmare.<span style=""> </span>Our leaders decided that all aircraft were grounded for what seemed like an eternity; and long after that, ‘special’ facilities like San Francisco were on security alert for months.<span style=""> </span>This made access to my customers prohibitively expensive.<span style=""> </span>Ironically, after what they had done the Government came to the aid of the airlines with billions of our tax dollars … as usual they left me to rot and die while they bailed out their rich, incompetent cronies WITH MY MONEY!<span style=""> </span>After these events, there went my business but not quite yet all of my retirement and savings.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">By this time, I’m thinking that it might be good for a change.<span style=""> </span>Bye to California, I’ll try Austin for a while.<span style=""> </span>So I moved, only to find out that this is a place with a highly inflated sense of self-importance and where damn little real engineering work is done.<span style=""> </span>I’ve never experienced such a hard time finding work.<span style=""> </span>The rates are 1/3 of what I was earning before the crash, because pay rates here are fixed by the three or four large companies in the area who are in collusion to drive down prices and wages… and this happens because the justice department is all on the take and doesn’t give a fuck about serving anyone or anything but themselves and their rich buddies.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">To survive, I was forced to cannibalize my savings and retirement, the last of which was a small IRA.<span style=""> </span>This came in a year with mammoth expenses and not a single dollar of income.<span style=""> </span>I filed no return that year thinking that because I didn’t have any income there was no need.<span style=""> </span>The sleazy government decided that they disagreed.<span style=""> </span>But they didn’t notify me in time for me to launch a legal objection so when I attempted to get a protest filed with the court I was told I was no longer entitled to due process because the time to file ran out.<span style=""> </span>Bend over for another $10,000 helping of justice.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">So now we come to the present.<span style=""> </span>After my experience with the CPA world, following the business crash I swore that I’d never enter another accountant’s office again.<span style=""> </span>But here I am with a new marriage and a boatload of undocumented income, not to mention an expensive new business asset, a piano, which I had no idea how to handle.<span style=""> </span>After considerable thought I decided that it would be irresponsible NOT to get professional help; a very big mistake.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">When we received the forms back I was very optimistic that they were in order.<span style=""> </span>I had taken all of the years information to Bill Ross, and he came back with results very similar to what I was expecting.<span style=""> </span>Except that he had neglected to include the contents of Sheryl’s unreported income; $12,700 worth of it. To make matters worse, Ross knew all along this was missing and I didn’t have a clue until he pointed it out in the middle of the audit.<span style=""> </span>By that time it had become brutally evident that he was representing himself and not me.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to defend transactions that have no relationship to anything tax-related (at least the tax-related transactions were poorly documented).<span style=""> </span>Things I never knew anything about and things my wife had no clue would ever matter to anyone.<span style=""> </span>The end result is… well, just look around.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">I remember reading about the stock market crash before the “great” depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything.<span style=""> </span>Isn’t it ironic how far we’ve come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn’t have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it’s “business-as-usual”.<span style=""> </span>Now when the wealthy fuck up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn’t that a clever, tidy solution.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably referred to as a tombstone agency, though they are hardly alone.<span style=""> </span>The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government.<span style=""> </span>Nothing changes unless there is a body count (unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough).<span style=""> </span>In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand.<span style=""> </span>It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn’t limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants.<span style=""> </span>I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after.<span style=""> </span>But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change.<span style=""> </span>I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at “big brother” while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won’t continue; I have just had enough. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less.<span style=""> </span>I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are.<span style=""> </span>Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the <i>only</i> answer.<span style=""> </span>The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;">I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different.<span style=""> </span>I am finally ready to stop this insanity.<span style=""> </span>Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;"><b>The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;"><b>The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="h1" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Joe Stack (1956-2010)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="h1" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">02/18/2010<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.4in 6pt;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> </div> </body></html>
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02-18-2010, 04:48 PM
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If someone is willing to die for a message, we as humans should at least examine that message, for it may portend great good or great evil.
I feel like we as humans have advanced to the point where the majority of people regardless of creed have examined the message of the Islamic martyrs, and outside of that circle have generally rejected the idea of dying for religion. However this situation is completely different, and martyrs or self-styled martyrs are still powerful beacons to the message they die for. Whether or not Joe Stack's message is valid, it's ridiculous to dismiss it out of hand because of how he decided to get his message out.
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02-18-2010, 04:53 PM
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What do you mean? Everyday in the USA the major networks sensationalize headlines and ignore to report true newsworthy events taking place around the world. I don't get the point you are trying to make. I'm not going to tell you what to read and what not to read, but I will say that the letter is articulate and the dude's argument makes logical sense to me. Those two points alone make it at least worthy of a read. Whether you agree or not is besides the point. | ||
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02-18-2010, 09:28 PM
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Amazingly well articulated and truthful. I have to say I support this guy. We are all wage slaves for corporations/gov't/wealthy until we wake up and revolt. It's shocking to hear that some may think, but really that is the only solution to the corruption rampant in not only the US gov't, but the entire world. I am not advocating communism, I am simply suggesting that the doctrine of capitalism we accord to is by no stretch what anyone in their right mind would call "fair" or "sane."
Now, I'm not a supporter of violence in any form but as Anuril said: it resonates through history, that since the dawn of man for great change to occur, so must blood be shed. This man had to do something to get the truth out, and flying a plane into a building (an IRS building even, fool be tryin' to convey points and shit) was the only thing he thought he could do to turn attention to a matter of grave importance. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. To stride for anything less is tyranny.
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