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From: hull@hao.UCAR.EDU (Howard Hull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ATTENTION ALL MICRO USERS!!! FCC INFORMATION TAX AHEAD!!
Message-ID: <747@hao.UCAR.EDU>
Date: Fri, 19-Jun-87 20:32:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: hao.747
Posted: Fri Jun 19 20:32:05 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 22-Jun-87 04:00:17 EDT
References: <2288@husc6.UUCP> <358ddfd2.3903@apollo.uucp> <2315@hoptoad.uucp>
Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO
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Summary: watchit

In article <2315@hoptoad.uucp>, sunny@hoptoad.uucp (Sunny David Kirsten) writes:
> heard The Phone Company will honor your refusals to pay
> taxes on your phone bill.  Just send in the correct amount
> less any taxes they charged you with the statement that they
> are in violation of your right to free speech.

Oh yeah.  So you think that only in the CCCP is there anything like the KGB.
I recommend to everyone that they NOT follow your suggestion unless they want
to find out what is a T-Man in the UUCP.  If you want to assure the continued
health of the Constitution, find some other way than refusing to support the
government which has the responsibility of operating under it.  Please heed
John Hays' suggestions as posted in article <358ddfd2.3903@apollo.uucp>.

If you wish not to heed my warning, I recommend the following as a procedure
that may provide enough left of you to allow your friends to accompany you to
a mental health clinic after the T is through with you (if they ever finish,
that is).

	1. Mortgage your house and any other acceptable property to a large
	and prestigious commercial bank.  Try to pick one that has ability
	to prevent _its_ property from being siezed.

	2. Take the money from the mortgage loan, and put enough of it for
	the first 18 payments on the loan into a 5-gallon Jerry gas can with
	a well-sealing lid.  Put the lid on real tight.  Use a tire iron, if
	necessary.

	3. Remove the lid from your septic tank, and using a nylon rope tied
	to the Jerry can and some long bamboo poles, push the Jerry can down
	into the guck so that it is evidencibly submerged.  Tie the rope to
	a chunk of rebar at the top.  Replace the lid.  If possible, cover
	with large irregular pieces of sod cut from some other part of your
	yard or garden.  Whatever you do, don't try to hide the money in
	anything you own, such as your house or your automobile, snowmobile,
	airplane, or yacht.  Don't even consider laminating it inside your
	skateboard, if you own one.

	4. Call the ACLU and tell them you want to hire an ACLU lawyer to help
	you with a Constitutional issue.  If you include the offer of enough
	pre-paid funds, they have a number of very good lawyers that love to
	engage the courts on Constitutional issues.  Drop by their office with
	the money, give it to them, and tell them to set up an operating
	account under their Corporate auspicies.

	5. Tell your employer that you may soon need to take extended leave
	of absense without pay, and that if there is any vacation due you
	that you don't want cash compensation, but would prefer leave with
	effective medical plan in place.

	6. NOW you can proceed to inform your telephone company that you wish
	not to pay the taxes on your communication services because you think
	the Constitution provides FREEdom of speech.  That way you can find
	out in a more comfortable fashion if the Department of the Treasury
	and the office of the Attorney General have perhaps a different
	interpretation of the Constitution than the one you cited in your
	net article.
									FINIS
For those of you who wouldn't have been tempted to withold taxes on your
communication services as a method of asserting your personal determination
to stand up for what you view as your Constitutional rights, I apologize.
Please do not send me hate mail for posting in this group (at least I didn't
post this to ALL the groups the referenced article was posted to, just Amigans
(who I want to preserve) - I'm sure it'll get around, one way or another...

No offense intended.  Just advice, plain simple advice.   :-|
						Best Regards,   Howard Hull
[If yet unproven concepts are outlawed in the range of discussion...
                 ...Then only the deranged will discuss yet unproven concepts]
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