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  • Mitchell was odd, familiar figure downtown [SMART CASE]

    03/13/2003 9:55:41 AM PST · by Chancellor Palpatine · 78 replies · 351+ views
    Deseret News ^ | 3/13/03 | James Thalman and Elaine Jarvik
    [snip] The Mitchells also got involved in "patriot" groups opposed to paying income taxes, and later became followers of survivalist guru Bo Gritz, according to Corbett. "Then all of a sudden they decided to buy a fifth-wheel trailer and they went up to Idaho where this Bo Gritz was." [snip]
  • War Resisters: 'We Won't Go' to 'We Won't Pay'

    08/03/2002 1:38:25 PM PDT · by GeneD · 25 replies · 315+ views
    The New York Times ^ | 8/3/02 | Felicia R. Lee
    You could hardly find a more problematic time for pacifists who do not want their taxes spent on the military. But the recent wave of patriotic fervor has only reinvigorated the efforts of one tiny, determined group. "On the Friday after Sept. 11, I was told I should lay low for a while," said Marian Franz, executive director of the National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund. "Now I have been told this is the time. As the war grows, so does the antiwar movement." For more than three decades, the National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund has petitioned...