LOL. Did you mean a source of lies and disinformation? Kotmair and his scam are under a federal injunction. From the DOJ site:
MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2006
FEDERAL COURT ORDERS HALT TO INTERNET-BASED TAX-FRAUD SCHEME
Maryland Man Operated Frivolous Letter-Generating “Complex”
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A federal court in Baltimore has permanently barred John Baptist Kotmair, Jr., of Westminster, Md., and his organization, “Save-a-Patriot Fellowship,” from selling a tax-fraud scheme, the Justice Department announced today. The court described Kotmair as a “seasoned tax protestor,” stated it was without question that he is “violating the tax laws,” and described his representations about the tax laws as “clearly fraudulent.”
The court’s opinion states that Kotmair and his organization knowingly made false and fraudulent statements to their customers about the tax benefits of their schemes. According to Senior Judge William Nickerson’s opinion, Kotmair, in 1984, shortly after serving two years in prison for failure to file income tax returns, began promoting the position that U.S. citizens need not pay any taxes on income earned within the 50 states – a view, according to the court, that has come to be known as the Section 861 argument. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) refers to this section in its “Dirty Dozen” list of most notorious tax scams: http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=154293,00.html.
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Kotmair is appealing. He will lose.
He makes very similar claims to what this fellow claims, that the Federal government has no justification for imposing the income tax on American citizens. So if this guy is a winner, then Kotmair is a winner too.
The IRS knows that he is telling the truth. That is why they’re trying to shut him down. I really don’t understand why you hate him.
From the article about Mr. Cryer:
“But for the rest of the nation, he’s working with Save-a-Patriot, the Free Enterprise Society, Live Free Now and his own Lie Free Zone to spread the message of the truth.”
Just for the record, he lost.
Release Date: JULY 26, 2007
UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore. William M. Nickerson, Senior District Judge. (1:05-cv-01297-WMN)
Submitted: July 24, 2007 Decided: July 26, 2007
Before WILKINSON, TRAXLER, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.
Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.
John B. Kotmair, Jr., Appellant Pro Se; George E. Harp, Shreveport, Louisiana, for Appellant SAVE-A-PATRIOT FELLOWSHIP, an unincorporated association. Richard Farber, Carol Ann Barthel, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.
Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.
PER CURIAM:
John B. Kotmair, Jr., and Save-A-Patriot Fellowship appeal from the district court's orders granting summary judgment in favor of the United States and issuing a permanent injunction against them based on their activities in promoting a tax evasion scheme, and denying their motions for a new trial and for modification of the injunction. We have reviewed the record and find no reversible error. Accordingly, we affirm for the reasons stated by the district court. United States v. Kotmair, No. 1:05-cv-01297-WMN (D. Md. Nov. 29, 2006; Feb. 7, 2007). We deny Save-A-Patriot's motion to strike portions of the brief filed by the United States, and we dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED
Kotmair can ask for an en banc re-hearing of the appeal. If he does, it will be denied. He can then petition the U.S. Supreme Court. If he does, the response will be "Cert denied." And that will be the end of that.
Meanwhile, the stay of the injunction granted by the trial court pending the appeal which Kotmair just lost means that Kotmair and SAPF will now have to comply with all of the terms of the injunction, which include posting a copy of it on the SAPF website.
And another TP loser bites the dust.