[Criminal Number 18F]

His "political activity" is telling people they don't have to pay taxes for a bunch of claimed reasons that the courts have ruled against time and time again.

He gets these people fired up saying. "Help! Help! I'm bein' oppressed!" -- then he tags them for donations. What a guy.

"Now we see the violence inherent in the system."

If you set up a website and went around telling people that the National Firearms Act of 1934 is unconstitutional (and it probably is), and told them they should cut all their shotgun barrels back to eight inches, you would probably stir up some official interest -- particularly if you cut off all your own shotgun barrels. This is what he has done by making specious and oft-refuted arguments against taxation, while failing to file his own returns.

Either you obey the laws established by the representative government, or you may disobey them to make a point, and suffer the consequences (i.e. Thoreau's night in gaol). What Banister is demanding is that he have the right to disobey the laws without consequence. That is a direct challenge to the legitimacy of the state, a state that 99.999 repeating 9 % believe to be legitimate.

As to why he hasn't been tagged by the IRS as a kook, beats me. He certainly seems to label himself that way.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[kylaka]

Bannister is not the only former IRS enforcement officer to reach the same conclusion about the IRS code and how it is misapplied in many cases. He is the one with the highest profile. There are about a dozen like him now. He is NO kook, which is what is giving the agency heartburn.