Posted on 06/06/2005 10:21:35 PM PDT by Dada Orwell
From NHfree.com Keene, New Hampshire 6/6/05
FBI questions Keene I.D. refusenik
Two FBI agents from the Boston division paid a visit to Russell Kanning's house in Keene today, about two weeks after he announced he would seek to board a Manchester airline flight with no I.D.
The 35-year-old libertarian activist wasn't home but rather cheerfully agreed to meet up with the agents at his workplace. Special Agents Phil Christiana and Mark Alford spent about an hour interviewing him around 2PM on Monday, June 6.
"They were really friendly," he says, "they obviously weren't there to arrest me...The thing they were most concerned about was whether I was actually going to stay non-violent." Kanning says the answer to that is "yes."
"There's nothing those guys can do to me at the airport that would make me use violence."
He says the agents seemed to relax somewhat and left after coming to the conclusion that he is not a physical threat and also that he cannot be deterred from his act of civil disobedience. They did spend time lecturing him on national security issues and told him "flying is not a right."
"My impression after talking to them is that the likelihood of them breaking into my house or doing something like that is small."
Kanning also told the agents he has not paid Income Taxes since '98. He moved to New Hampshire in November 2004 after joining the Free State Project, a libertarian movement seeking to accomplish "liberty in our lifetime" in New Hampshire.
FSP Ping!
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True, but the British followed their own laws... otherwise they would have clubbed him like a baby seal and headed to the pub. Does the FBI follow US laws?
If flying and driving are not rights, then we should be refunded our taxes that go to roads and bloated airline bailouts if we do not fly or drive.
I generally support the FreeStaters, but I think this guy is off here. If he wants to fly without an ID, he needs to buy his own plane and build his own airstrip.
I like that he was so amiable about the FBI agents, though -- sounds like they all but went out for a beer together.
If you don't meet the income requirements, you don't have to file with the federal government.
You mean...not pay for something we don't use?
User fees. What a freakin concept. But then what would the government teat-feeders do? </sarc>
"sounds like they all but went out for a beer together.""
One of them invited me to do almost exactly that when they came here looking for him.
Details:
http://forum.soulawakenings.com/index.php?topic=1113.0
If he hasn't paid income taxes since '98, I'd imagine there are those who are already aware of it.
Funny how efficient the government can be when it comes to collecting money.
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