Now I will go on record as being very much in favor of at least major tax relief if not abolition of the idea of *internal* revenue collection. However, I do note that rule breakers tend to break rules in more than one area. Just an observation from the school of hard knocks.
IIRC, this would not be the first time a tax protestor has been "linked" with a child-related crime. I remain suspicious of the federales.
Moral of the story - if you're going to wave a red flag in front of an angry bull, don't stand behind it!
The child pornography was "inadvertently discovered" by an IRS agent who was examining one of the computer's hard drives, an FBI agent alleged.Inadvertently indeed. They used to plant guns on people after they shot them too.
It took them more than a year to find unencrypted images on a hard drive?
Hmm. Computers in the hands of the government for a year and they just now found kiddie porn?
OK. Not that I would suggest that the government would plant evidence... oh, no. I am a proud patriot who loves to pay my taxes. *ahem*
The new version of the throw down pistol.
I thought that a search warrant had to be for specific cause.
Confiscating a suspect's computers under a tax evasion search warrant and then charging him with a non-tax evasion crime sounds like a fishing expedition to me.
Unless the rule of law does not apply to certain types of criminal allegations.
sounds more like a set-up by the irs!
They've been losing court cases when they tried to use LEGAL methods - since they are an illegal organization to begin with - so now they have learned the jack-boot tactics of the DEA and BATF
I don't understand why the fact that this guy has nude pix of his wife on his computer gives the government probable cause to believe the guy also downloaded kiddie porn from the Internet.
Call me a conspiracy nut but this is planted data.
I'm not saying that that's the case here, but it does seem to be the easiest way to find justification to arrest someone.
-PJ
Dunno about the kiddie porn, but I'm not sure it's an altogether good thing to have your computer confiscated and then all of a sudden you're reading about pictures of your wife in the newspapers...
Too many decent and honest people have killed themselves over the IRS and it's Gestapo tactics.
Once I thought I was downloading a pic of a mountain scene and it was a pic to a porn site about wives doing the neighbors.
This is clearly a plant. When the IRS gestapo has your computer data for over a year and can't refute your arguments or find anything to charge you with and then all of a sudden "kiddy porn" "inadvertently" appears on your computer........ puleeze. Only somebody that just fell of a turnip truck would believe that. Larken Rose can run circles around the best the IRS can produce when it comes to their own law. I've listened to interviews recorded between him and IRS and my response was "What is this? Candid Camera?"
When you can't out argue somebody ask them when they stopped beating their wife. This is what it has come to in the good old US of A. He'll get no better treatment in our vaunted courts of alleged justice either.
10 computers and one porn file?