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Detax Canada
I work as a lawyer in Canada and my area of practice is basically what you call poverty law. So helping people out who are getting evicted, wrongful dismissal, human rights stuff, debts and collections, criminal stuff, government benefits, wills and estates, etc. Bascially I deal with any sort of legal trouble that poor people get into and try to help them out in ways that don't require them having a lot of money.
This area of practice involves dealing with a lot of people who are of low intelligence. (Probably a higher proportion than when dealing with the wealthy.) And these are the people most likely to buy into the claims of the "Freeman Movement" or in this case the closely related "detaxer" movement. For some reason these people are convinced that through verbal or grammatical gymnastics they can "outsmart" the system to avoid paying taxes, paying their mortgage, paying speeding tickets, paying child support, avoid shoing up for court, etc. These people generally fall into two categories. The first are people who see this sort of material, believe it, and decide not to pay taxes or not pay their mortgage and then wind up with a big debt. The second are people who find themselves in some desperate financial situation and are looking for anything to help. The detaxers seem to have a magic solution to all their problems so they buy in to the nonsense in the hopes it will get them out of a jam. I have a bit more sympathy for the second group because they are acting out of desparation to solve some problem in their life, as opposed to the first group who cause the problem themselves by buying in and are really the authors of their own misforture. A lot of people would say that these people are idiots and deserve what is coming to them and it is their fault for buying in to such retarded ideas. Other might look at those promoting these ideas and blame them for tricking people into these situations. (The same sort of debate occurs about who should be blamed when someone wastes a lot of money on a psychic) But regardless of where you stand, it is clear that these type of groups are not helping anyone. The courts in my city (and I assume accross Canada) are well aware of the detax crowd and have procedures in place to deal with them. Judges of course have never had a problem shooting down their ridiculous arguments and there are many reported cases in which this happens (they can often be entertaining reading). But the detaxers will pull the same sort of arguments with court clerks and other employees. Like for instance, imagine that you are a clerk, you send notice to someone that they are to appear in court and you get this response (from the detax Canada website):
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Anyways, the detax Canada website (which I find to be quite comical) is located at: http://www.detaxcanada.org This thread is inspired by a similar one calling for stories of failures of US freeman movement people. I thought I would start one for the Canadian equivalent and post some of my stories here. This is a long post already but I will post some stories here in the near future. Meanwhile, if anyone has any comments or stories feel free. |
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Thanks for this. I also find this stuff fascinating/amusing/enraging. IANAL, but I do have a law degree. (No desire to practice. Prefer to do policy work). I hadn't heard of detax Canada before. Not nearly as slick as the sales pitch by Robert Menard and co., but still amusing based on a first glance.
It's amazing how similar all of the legal woo is, whether it manifests as "sovereign citizens", FOTL, or whatever. Menard, for example, actively translates American redemption scams into Canadian terms and sells DVDs and study packages. But it's all the same crap. Thanks for the new excuse to procrastinate! |
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Yowza. This Warman chap is a real piece of work:
"In the early ’80s, Warman – a Canadian by birth – was living in the San Francisco suburb of Benicia. While working as a pilot for American Airlines, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service audited him and determined he owed a substantial amount of unreported tax dollars. Things went downhill fast. Allegedly, Warman threatened the IRS agents with violence if they tried to collect. This was an imprudent action – around the same time, Gordon Kahl, a member of the Posse, made headlines for getting in a deadly shootout with U.S. federal marshals when they tried to arrest him for violating his parole. Kahl did time for not paying his taxes. Suffice to say, the authorities may have been a bit touchy. Warman was arrested, lost his pilot’s licence, was fired from his job and found his wife had committed suicide (Warman maintains IRS agents murdered her). The trauma and legal problems caused him to hightail it back to Canada." http://www.ffwdweekly.com/Issues/2003/0807/cover.htm Typically, he's also a raging anti-semite. |
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Curses! Foiled again!
"So-called 'employees' are having CRA re-assess their returns based upon the T-4 slip sent to CRA by the 'employer'. That is the document the employer sends to you sometime during January or February stating 'employee 'income'. In my filing instructions, I suggest that you amend the copy of the T-4, which shows 'income' and wages withheld and sent to CRA by the 'employer'. The amendment is to cross out the term 'employee', and print in beside it, 'agent', and initial the change. However, CRA is disregarding this amendment, and using the T-4 slip sent to them directly by the 'employer' showing that the 'legal identity' strawman name 'is the employee earning the money', and using that income number to issue their re-assessment. Conclusion: I don't currently have a solution to this problem (peaceful, anyway), so if someone out there can come up with an idea how to deal with it - that is, for those who are trapped into being an 'employee' , please let me know." http://www.detaxcanada.org/filing%20problems.rtf |
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Umm... something I found on Wiki:
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As for the "freeman" who is unhappy about being an employee, I might suggest that he simply quit his job and let some poor bugger who's spent a few months trying desperately to get "trapped into being an employee" have it. He can check back in a year or so and let everybody know how that worked out. |
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Yeah, dammit! Where's the Rush of CTists? Hell, I'd settle for the Guess Who of FOTL CTists. They could use this as their theme song:
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I'd be interested to know if any of these Canadian 'detaxers' (I honestly didn't know there was a Canadian version of this American phenomenon) have used the public health care system at any point.
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The problem is, most of the conspiracies involving Canadians are actually true. Teh Evidences:
It's from the CBC, it's True! |
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Here are some nice snippets of what some Canadian judges have had to say about detaxers:
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And if you want a longer read, here is Warman's assault conviction. LINK He of course appealed the decision and lost, but this is a pretty good decision in my opinion because the judge gives Warman every benefit of the doubt and deals with his issues rather than dismissing them as often happens. Often if a judge dismisses a ridiculous argument out of hand, this is cited as further proof that they all know they are wrong but are just afraid to enforce the detaxer's position because of pressure and what have you. For further reading if you are interested: A case dissecting the "natural person" argument: LINK Another "natural person" case where the guy tried to build on the above case with more ridiculous arguments: LINK Here a guy tried to pay his taxes in Columbian Pesos based on the difference between the one stroke dollar sign ($) and the two stroke dollar sign. Not a classic detaxer argument but along the same lines in terms of logic: LINK Another pretty comical one: LINK |
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I agree. The obiter in that decision is really quite inspiring. He could have just brushed all the freemanism aside and dealt with the main issue (the assault), but he wrote a passionate, yet respectful affirmation of the justness of Canadian society and of our legal system.
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Thanks for posting your experience with this, OP. I think what this shows is that there is a real cost to us all for the Freeman/Anti-Tax woos. Its not only the people who believe in this stuff that end up paying far more in the end than if they simply embraced reality, but there is a cost to deal with all this that all tax payers end up paying for. It, again, reminds me that Freeman on the Land mythology is the perfect answer for the "But what harm could it cause to let them believe?" line of thinking.
As always, I am astounded that anyone could think this would work. Everyone has been at points in their life when they needed money and wanted simple answers...but even at those low points, I just do not understand how Freeman woo becomes attractive. The entire thing is based on the idea that there is a massive, global cabal so evil and so powerful that they can trick us all into believing that we have to obey the law when we really don't...but the vast cabal simply lays down and gives up if we utter the words "strawman" and "I do not consent." If this were true, this vast legal conspiracy cabal is both so powerful and so utterly stupid that we have nothing to worry about from them to begin with. |
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It is sad that even on a public forum such as this that lawyers resort to the use of the Aristotleian 'Fallacies of Philosophy' to present their opinion, rather than putting up an honest debate on the issues presented on such websites as 'detaxcanada.org'.
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http://www.splcenter.org/get-informe...sues/2010/fall
A look at the "Sovereign Citizen" killers in the US. |
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Ah, no, Eldon. Post your evidence here. We will wait.
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Excerpt from " /fairshare " on the DetaxCanada website linked by OP:
In 1946, Beardsley Ruml - then Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of NYC, told the truth in a speech titled "Taxes For Revenue Are Obsolete". Mr. Ruml explained that, since a government can easily print all the paper money it needs, in any amount, and therefore does not need to tax anyone, an income tax is maintained to siphon excess paper out of circulation, to stabilize the purchasing power of paper money (i.e., regulate inflation) and prevent the hyperinflation that would ordinarily result from printing too much paper!Now you know the truth behind the 'income tax'. Yet, not one American in a million heard Mr. Ruml's speech (And that is a good thing or they might have marched on Washington!). Ample paper must continuously be taxed (siphoned) out of circulation to keep pace with the interest payments on the national debt, being made to the mostly foreign bankers who designed and control the Federal Reserve System. In 1982, the prestigious, private-sector Grace Commission, in their cost-cutting report to President Reagan, confirmed the ineptness of the income tax to control inflation. The following quote by the Commission confirms that they do not even understand how the income tax functions, and that the present rate of taxation does not pay the interest for the use of the money printed by the Federal Reserve Bank and thus cannot even begin to affect the growth of the national debt... "100% [of income taxes] collected is absorbed solely by interest on the federal debt ... all income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from the government." (This position has no semblance of reality with the position of the Federal Reserve Bank. Anyone care to guess why? ) Shocked? You should be! The Commission's report was apparently written to make certain that most hard-working Americans will never know, or even believe, the hidden connection between fraudulent paper money and the taxes they pay on their own labor (fraudulently seized from their paychecks and bank accounts by the Federal Reserve Bank's "strong arm" collection agency, the IRS). |
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Detax Canada does not promote or support any of those which you mention.
1. Income tax is only applicable to a fictional legal name created by Government by changing the family name to a 'sur' or primary name. It is not applicable to a living adult man, unless that man has , with full knowledge of terms, voluntarily entered into a contract of servitude to be an accessory attached to the Crown or State owned (intellectual property) name. 2. Any 'citizen', using the Roman source definition, is a 'subject/slave of the State. As with 'natural person', the adjective preceding the term does not change the status of the entity. 3. The term 'freeman' is synonomous with the terms 'citizen, subject, person'; all meaning that the intended subject man to whom it is applied is of slave status. The original Magna Carta of 1215, which was voided by the Pope, the overlord of England, contained the term 'liber homo' (2 separate words meaning free man, or free will man) when claiming the rights to due process of law for a living man. The Pope could have none of this in his fascist world. |
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Everything. The Bank of Canada voting shares were sold to the Federal Reserve Bank of NYC in 1936. An equal number of non-voting shares were then created and sold back to the Canadian Government. All major banks in Canada have a representatibe of the Federal Reserve on their board of directors.
The corporate business office of the corporation called Canada is in Washington, DC. Look it up on Dunn and Bradstreet. Both the IRS and Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) operate under the International Monetary Fund, which is directly owned (behind veils) by the Pontiff of Rome. CRA operates above and outside Canadian law as proven by the fact that CRA can confiscate Canadian OAS, CPP and military pension when all three of the statutes covering those say 'no attachments of benefits in law or in equity'. Operating under the property right based feudal system 'master/servant law', CRA edicts and demands trump statutory law. |
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This had nothing to do with the Detax Canada program. The human defendant 'identified' himself as an accessory attached to Crown property (the legal name), and that allowed the judge to apply the legal maxim: accessio cedit principali'.
With that, the judge applied the Roman treatment upon disobedient slaves that is was succinctly stated in the Fugitive Slave Act (USA) of 1850, section 6: "In no trial or hearing under this act shall the testimony of such alleged fugitive be admitted in evidence;" |
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You deny the validity of income tax. You advocate individual sovereignty over parliamentary sovereignty. You advocate separating the natural person from the legal person.
That's three for three. I guess you lied.
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Canadian judges don't apply Roman law. Canadian judges don't apply American law, especially American law that is no longer good law even in America.
We can read. We can read that case. We can see how well your doctrine of the natural/legal person distinction holds up to legal scrutiny. It doesn't. |
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Wrong. I don't advocate 'sovereignty. I advocate 'free will status'. The only separation I show for natural and artificial/legal person is that natural means a man in servitude to the corporate Crown, and an artificial person being a ship or make believe ship - an incorporated body.
There is, and cannot be authorative case law for dismissed cases for want of jurisdiction over a free will man. Canada, as a corporate body is a Province of the Holy Roman Empire of the Pontiff of Rome/Vatican. Incorporation of bodies politic (policy enforcing corporate bodies) is totally a Roman Empire thing, as is statutory law that is applicable to corporate members called 'persons' - slave crewmembers on the make-believe ship at sea. Is that so? The Popes of 1455 and 1493 declared by Papal Bull that all European discovered lands belonged to the Pontiff of Rome. The Papal Bull of 1302 declared all humankind as being 'subjects of (slaves of) the Pontiff of Rome. (look up on GOOGLE). The Protestant separation of King Henry VII's time only separated the sub-corporate body, the Roman Catholic Church, but did not nullify the treaty between King John and Pope Innocent III of 1213, which declared England and the Monarch of England vassals FOREVER of the Holy Roman Empire. When a new Pope is Crowned as King of Heaven, of Earth and of Hell, this declaration is made: "Receive the tiara adorned with three crowns and know that thou art Father of princes and kings, Ruler of the world, Vicar of our Savior Jesus Christ". Do you think that the Pope exercises secular 'Ruler of the World' by sprinkling holy water? |
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The Declaration made of the powers of the Pope: "Receive the tiara adorned with three crowns and know that thou art Father of princes and kings, Ruler of the world, Vicar of our Savior Jesus Christ". - Shows both a secular and a religious role for the Pope. He is creator of Kings and Princes, Ruler of the World in the secular (worldly) role, and God incarnate on Earth as his religious role.
The making of England - later Great Britain (in 1213) - as a vassal state of the Holy Roman Empire FOREVER (a secular Empire, not religious/ecclestical) was a secular tie. The English protestant move was just a separation of the sub-corporate Anglican Church from the sub-corporae Roman Catholic Church. "None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free." Goethe "None are so blind as those who will not see." |
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Who Owns You?
1. The IRS is not a U.S. Government Agency. It is an Agency of the IMF. (Diversified Metal Products v. IRS et al. CV-93-405E-EJE U.S.D.C.D.I., Public Law 94-564, Senate Report 94-1148 pg. 5967, Reorganization Plan No. 26, Public Law 102-391.) 2. The IMF is an Agency of the UN. (Blacks Law Dictionary 6th Ed. Pg. 816) 3. The U.S. Has not had a Treasury since 1921. (41 Stat. Ch.214 pg. 654) 4. The U.S. Treasury is now the IMF. (Presidential Documents Volume 29-No.4 pg.113, 22 U.S.C. 285-288)
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ok,
1. Saying you're the leader of the world, and being the leader of the world are two entirely separate things. The Pop has not held any real power for a very long time. The historical enemies of the papacy made sure of this. 2. English Protestantism was a full blown separation of the churches. Catholics were hunted and burned for being catholic. I hate to sound arrogant but your knowledge of history is seriously flawed. Take some history courses at an accredited university. |
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