NJ Mother Pressured to Turn Over Her Guns...After Reading the Constitution at Tax Dispute Assembly

A New Jersey mother was arrested and told to turn over her guns after reading the Constitution and peacefully protesting at a tax dispute forum, she says.

Eileen Hart was with her husband Keith and her 7-year-old daughter on Saturday at the Gloucester Community Center to dispute a mandatory home re-evaluation that would roughly double her property value (and therefore dramatically increase her rates), objecting on multiple grounds. As an Orthodox Jew, she refused to have the inspectors in her home when her husband was away at work. As an American citizen, she objected to the seemingly arbitrary reappraisal, noting that she is not planning on selling her home and hasn’t renovated her kitchen in 30 years.

“When I complained to the county office that does the assessments, they said he had every right to enter my property without my permission.”

This is mostly because it’s probably not really your property. Chances are you may have an ‘Abstract of Title’ to your property. That means it merely looks like you own your property. Meanwhile, the actual title to your land is probably held by your county or state.

This circumstance allows all sorts of mayhem to be conducted against people who are truly just tenants on state property. Unless you have Alloidal Title or Alluvial Title (the exact terms vary by jurisdiction) then you do not own your land. It just looks like you do.

And it is perfectly fine for your landlord to enter their property whenever they feel like it.

Hart says she has hired a “fantastic” attorney to fight the claims, and he’ll likely reach out to the other meeting attendees to corroborate her story. The group was small, so presumably someone would recall a raving woman threatening to return with a gun.

But the county’s public information officer Deb Sellitto told TheBlaze in an email, without any specifics, that Ms. Glocker-Hammond “has never experienced this type of extreme behavior from a taxpayer.”

"Over-the-top" drama award for the county at several levels. CLEARLY this is an infringement of her religious rights, as well -- haven't seen that mentioned!

Those who think Hart was out of line or somehow volunteered info on her guns needs to read the story.

The TWITTER RECORD is heartening, Doogle.

I’m thankful for the ability to exert public pressure at various levels. It looks like the Harts are making some good friends across the country. Inquiring minds want to know!

http://www.asinj.com/about-us.asp

4 locations, 4 phone numbers. Cherry Hill (856)773-0834, Whippany (973)386-1111, Glen Rock (201)493-8530, Newark (973)622-2871 [note to their webmaster: lose the white on blue small font!]

huh. Their purpose of a re-evaluation in property appraisal: to bring it to 100% true market value. It will be interesting to find out if that is what truly was done in the Hart’s case, or if the appraiser let his snit over her religiously-based request that he come back later when her husband would be there (!!!!!) get in the way of his figures.

Colavecchio had apparently told the police that Hart was “yelling and screaming” and threatened to return to the meeting with a gun.

This reminds me, years ago I watched one of those tv tabloid shows (A Current Affair?) in which they had a segment on two IRS agents who were caught on tape.

What happened was that there was this business owner (cant recall his business. I think it was a pawn shop and/or a gun shop) who had fallen behind in his taxes. So he worked a deal out with the IRS where he could pay little by little untill all he owed was paid up. Then one day two female IRS agents came into his store. They pulled out a form and asked him to sign it. The form basically said that he agreed to sign over all of his assets to the IRS, something like that. Naturally, he refused to sign it, and the IRS agents left his store.

It was later on in that day (or I think it was the next day) when the feds storm trooped him in his house and dragged him off to jail. He was stunned to find that the reason why they arrested him, and did so in such a forceful manner was because the two female IRS agents, upon their return to their offices at the IRS, filed a complaint claiming that the store owner had pulled a gun on them, and threatened to shoot them both dead if they didnt leave his store, forcing them to back their way out of the store with their hands raised.

Unfortunately for the two IRS agents, the store owner had security cameras in his store which recorded his real "confrontation" with the IRS agents. It showed the two agents coming into his store, pulling out the form, asking him to sign it, him refusing, them walking out the store, with one of them even saying "bye" to the store owner. The tape showed that the store owner never pulled his gun (he did have a gun on him, under his shirt, but he never showed it, much less pulled it out), that he didnt threaten the IRS agents in any way, and that the two IRS agents had left the store in a normal manner, with their backs to the store owner.

The guys lawyer got a hold of the tape, and once they showed this to the authorities, they let him go (he had spent 24 hours in jail). IIRC, the store owner filed a 5 million dollar lawsuit against the IRS. I have no idea what ever became of that suit and no word on what happened to the two IRS agents for perjuring themselves and causing the arrest and imprisonment of an innocent man.

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