Posted on 02/10/2015 6:43:07 AM PST by HomerBohn
The first Republican elected sheriff in Eddy County, New Mexico, became the first sheriff in 25 years to stand up to the IRS. He physically stood at the gate of a troubled citizen's property while US Marshals threatened his arrest. The landowner filed an appeal with the court and expects his case to receive due process before his land is publicly sold. The sheriff agrees. The judge does not.
(Sheriff Scott London says he learned more about the Constitution in the year he spent campaigning for his job than in all of his years of schooling combined.)
WASHINGTON, February 7, 2015—New Mexico’s Eddy County Sheriff Scott London notified the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) via letter that the sale of county resident Kent Carter’s property is canceled until Carter receives due process of law and his appeal is heard. The certified letter dated February 4 received an immediate response from the Undersecretary of the Treasury’s office. According to the Treasury’s website, however, the public auction is still slated for February 19.
“Many officers have stood up over the years for the rights of citizens being victimized by the federal government,” said Sheriff Mack, founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, “But Sheriff London is the first one to stand up to the IRS since the early 1990s.” Mack said, “His actions show courage and humility. London is setting a good example for the rest of our sheriffs.”
Approximately ten days before Christmas, U.S. Marshals broke in the door of Carter’s rental property with their guns drawn. The tenant was a young mother with a new baby—home alone while her husband was at work. Sheriff London was called to the property to intervene. He advised the Marshals that Carter’s case was in appeal and he deserved due process. They threatened to arrest London, but he stood his ground and they backed off.
Carter has battled the IRS for decades over taxes on the earnings of his modest construction business. One court document listed his debt at $145,000, a figure Carter says an assessing agent “pulled out of thin air.” Every time he challenged them, his bill would shoot up a few hundred thousand dollars. His legal complaints state that the IRS failed to adhere to its own tax code, did not use proper accounting methods, and that the collection activity was unlawful because no notices of deficiency were given. Carter says his private and confidential information, including his social security number, was filed in public records and given to third parties. The IRS countered that it can publish and disperse the private information of Americans if it is trying to collect their money or property. A judge agreed.
Carter says the IRS is currently claiming he owes $890,000, a figure that “doubled with the stroke of a pen.”
The Taxation & Revenue Department ordered Carter to cease “engaging in business in New Mexico” until his arbitrary tax debt was paid. Carter appealed this injunction on the grounds that it was both unconstitutional and vague, as it deprived him of his right to make a living and also prohibited him from, “carrying on or causing to be carried on any activity with the purpose of direct or indirect benefit.”
“The IRS fabricates evidence against citizens by pulling numbers out of a hat and adding fees,” said Mack, “They wear people down emotionally and financially until they can’t take it anymore. No citizen should ever have to fight the IRS for decades in order to keep his land.”
“The IRS is a lie. The income tax is a lie,” said Carter. “Why should they be able to take anything? They’re worse than the mafia.”
The Carter properties have liens placed against them. A locksmith was instructed to change the locks. The IRS authorized the United States Marshal Service to arrest/evict anyone found on the premises. London, however, physically stood in front of Carter’s gate until the Marshals backed down. A public auction on the front steps of the Eddy County Courthouse is scheduled, but the local county sheriff—trained in the Constitution—resisted.
Carter voluntarily vacated his property and relocated his mobile home to an undisclosed location. “I chose to leave to keep it from escalating to something ugly—like Ruby Ridge, Idaho,” he said. Carter said he advised the Marshals and IRS Agents who publicly claimed he had armed friends on his land, “If there is going to be any violence, it is going to be you who starts it.”
Carter says 100% of his Social Security benefits is seized each month by the IRS, in addition to $2,800 the agency drained from his bank account. Legally, he says, the IRS can take no more than 15% of Social Security benefits.
Mack says banking institutions quiver when faced with the IRS’ gestapo tactics and generally hand over customers’ personal banking information, including access to accounts, without requiring a warrant or even any documentation. He encourages county sheriffs to brief every bank in their jurisdiction to refer inquiries from IRS agents to them.
Sheriff Mack is calling for the IRS to start following the law, including no “random” audits without probable cause, as they violate the Fourth Amendment. He asks them to stop committing crimes and rewarding IRS employees with bonuses for cheating on their personal taxes. “I agree with Senator Ted Cruz and others who say the IRS should be abolished,” said Mack. “It’s time they got off the backs of the American people.”
Carter says he prays daily for wisdom, and that he is surviving to be able to look into his grandchildren’s eyes and tell them he fought for their future and for America.
London is the first Republican to ever be elected sheriff in Eddy County. He distributes Bibles on behalf of Gideon International and met his wife in choir practice.
Oh, I’d like to add, that about 55% of my gross income that payday was taken by the gov. Sick psycho’s are gonna take it all one day.
How is it that Rangel and Sharpton continue on with their schemes and the IRS doesn’t shut them down? I know that is a rhetorical question, however it seems that they go on with life and this guy is getting slammed for much smaller amounts. It also seems that Sharpton and Rangel have the means to pay their past IRS and state debt. They may be living on welfare and food stamps if the governments took what was owed but that is a problem of their own making. What is mandatory for Kent Carter should be mandatory for Sharpton and Rangel. It must be nice to have connections in high places.
The IRS just employed 141 agents who owe back taxes. I doubt their taxes will recieve the usual 50% surcharge. THUGS, plain and simple.
ABOLISH THE IRS.
REPEAL THE 16th AMENDMENT.
There has never been a better time to take out the IRS.
THE FAIR TAX WOULD BE THE BIGGEST TRANSFER OF POWER FROM DC BACK TO THE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY’S HISTORY.
The FairTax is replacement, not reform. It replaces federal income taxes including personal, estate, gift, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare, self-employment, and corporate taxes.
The FairTax brings jobs back to America by allowing companies to operate on our soil tax free rather than paying the current corporate income tax of 35 percent. Under the FairTax, various economists have predicted higher economic growth ranging from 7 to 14 percent over the current system, more jobs, and higher wages.
With the penalty for working harder and producing more removed, Americans are free to keep every dollar they earn, and a new era of economic growth and job creation is unleashed. Hidden taxes are history, Americans are able to save more, and businesses invest more. Capital formation, the real source of job creation and innovation, is facilitated. Gross domestic product (GDP) increases by an estimated 10.5 percent in the first year alone. The FairTax as proposed raises the economy’s capital stock by 42 percent, its labor supply by 4 percent, its output by 12 percent, and its real wage rate by 8 percent.
As U.S. companies and individuals repatriate, on a tax-free basis, income generated overseas, huge amounts of new capital flood into the United States. With such a huge capital supply, real interest rates remain low. Additionally, other international investors will seek to invest here to avoid taxes on income in their own countries, thereby further spurring the growth of our own economy.
No more audits, no more property seizures...
AS I understand it, the Sheriff is the highest elected official in a county. As such, the Feds can not run law enforcement opecations without the Sheriff’s permission and knowledge. There is an exception if they are investigating the Sheriff for corruption.
Consequently, the Sheriff can stop a Federal enforcement action.
I had to call several times a couple years ago, when they claimed that we owed an additional $250,000 in taxes, and each time I called, I spoke with different women, all of whom identified themselves as “Mrs. Knox”. I believe they do not give their actual names out when you talk to them on the phone.
My feeling is that if they cannot/won’t identify themselves with their full true names then they are committing a federal crime.
They do this because they think they can get away with it but it is not legal in my opinion.
Doesn't work, I tried that. They will give you a false name anyway and if you ask to speak to their “supervisor” they will give you a coworker who surprisingly sides with what the first one said so asking for a name is useless.
Trying to get any solid information from the IRS is usually a waste of your time. They themselves do no know the laws they are supposedly following. Many of them are idiots affirmative action workers.
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CWII Spark Ping — Government stealing people’s savings and lands could definitely push someone over the edge; ans especially if others are willing to stand against the injustice.
The next time the FedGov attempts to illegally seize this man’s property, the sheriff should deputize about 50 locals and take the US Marshals into custody.
Not trying to sound like a “negative nancy” here to use an old expression but in all technicality sheriffs have no authority over federal agents who are carrying out their federal duties. Sheriffs derive their authority and power from their respective state constitution and/or state statute. In fact, sheriffs in one state might might have more authority and power than a sheriff would have in another state. Since the sheriff is technically not a federal empowered official, he or she has no lawful purview or authority over a federal agent carrying out federal duties. A federal agent does have lawful authority to arrest a sheriff in a hypothetical situation if a sheriff interferes or tries to impede a federal agent faithfully carrying out their duties. I know that it might be an unpopular opinion amongst fellow conservatives but that is how the law actually works and not some claim that sheriffs magically have total authority in their jurisdiction even over the feds. The Supreme Court ruled that the feds cannot compel local authorities to enforce federal law. That does not change the fact that the feds have full Congressional authority to enforce federal law without interference.
My post #32 this thread.
The Sheriff’s powers come from the 9th and 10th Amendments, which are systematically ignored - and from the 2nd Amendment, which cannot be ignored. This is why the far left wants law-abiding citizens disarmed. A sheriff backed by thousands of armed Americans is immune to FedGov intimidation. A sheriff standing alone can do nothing.
They also can’t read english.
They routinely ignore conditional clauses using the word “if”, as well ignoring conjunctions like “and” to support their arguments
They always respond angrily with “You can see it says that! Can’t you?”.
Which is where I point out grammar and say “Yes, it does use those word but, you can’t ignore a word to give a sentence a whole new context that doesn’t exist”.
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
and
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
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