Former
IRS Special Agent Reflects On Shared Birthday With Income Tax
Joseph Ronald Banister is a former special
agent of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service
and IRS whistleblower. Banister resigned from the IRS and later appeared on the
television program Sixty Minutes II challenging the conduct of the IRS
concerning legal issues with taxation. Banister's books and other material
challenge the legality of some aspects of the income tax.
“If the federal
government can deceive out of you and/or steal from you a penny or a dollar,
they can deceive or steal all of your property. “
Dear Friends,
Although not widely publicized in the past, I learned during the early phase
of my investigation into the federal income tax system that I have the dubious
"honor" of sharing the same birth date as our contemporary federal
income tax system.
February 25th has been a pivotal date not only in my own life
but in the lives of every single American that has lived since the dawn of the
20th century. Let us take a closer look, in chronological
order, at what that date has meant to me during my lifetime as well as the
founding and ongoing cover-up of the horrible injustice that is the federal
income tax system in America.
On February 25th, 1913, U.S. Secretary of State Philander Knox
issued his formal certification enabling the 16th Amendment to
become officially and formally part of the U.S. Constitution. Fifty
years later, to the day, on February 25th, 1963, I was born in San
Jose, California. Eighty-six years later, to the day, February 25th,
1999, after having served approximately five and one-half years as an Internal
Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division Special Agent, I resigned from
the IRS after having confronted my IRS supervisors with evidence that the
federal income tax was being administered and enforced beyond what the law and
Constitution authorized. One hundred years later, to the day, February
25th, 2013, I give thanks to God that I can celebrate my fiftieth
birthday but I must also painfully acknowledge the
100-year "birthday" of the nightmarish federal income tax apparatus
that continues to haunt the American people.
My intention in writing to you to today is not to provide a definitive
exegesis addressing all of the ills of the federal income tax system.
I will not at this time be addressing the fraudulent
ratification of the 16th amendment nor will I be addressing the
lies that the Internal Revenue Service has told the American public about the constitutional
definition of the term "income" nor the suspicious
refusals to dialogue with me when opportunities came about nor the fact
that the IRS's
own internal structure provides further proof that the agency has been
lying to the American people for decades about their federal income tax
obligations nor the minefield
prepared for Americans who question the boundaries of IRS authority and/or
IRS tactics.
No, listing and describing the horrible ramifications of the system
"born" on this day 100 years ago could fill many volumes and is way
beyond the scope of this brief birthday message to my friends.
I can only write to encourage you to verify the facts for yourself and
then disseminate those facts to your fellow Americans as widely and rapidly as
possible. I believe the facts will lead you to conclude, as I
have concluded, that federal government legislators and bureaucrats lied to the
American people in order to usher in the 16th (income tax) Amendment
in the first place.
I believe the facts will lead you to further conclude, as I have
concluded, that legislators and bureaucrats throughout the past 100 years,
along with a willing and complicit "mainstream" media, have continued
to perpetrate numerous other deceits and fraudulent machinations to fool
unsuspecting Americans into believing the level of authority the IRS exercises
is the level of authority granted to it by the Constitution and the law.
In short, the IRS takes advantage of the American public's trust and limited
knowledge about income taxation restrictions in order to protect various lies
and deceits that are now as much as 100 years old.
If the federal government can deceive out of
you and/or steal from you a penny or a dollar, they can deceive or steal all of
your property. And if the
federal government and complicit state governments can steal from or unjustly
accuse any of your fellow Americans, they will eventually get around to
stealing from or unjustly accusing you.
I hope you will dedicate yourself to work for honesty in taxation,
especially income taxation, and help me diminish and one day stop IRS
persecutions that have been visited upon our fellow Americans. I
have dedicated myself to doing so. I am not even asking (and actually
would discourage) you to battle with the IRS one on one. You can simply
spread the word quietly and politely, but fervently, to your fellow Americans
and encourage them to see how we all have been lied to for now these 100 years.
I offer my sincerest gratitude to all who have prayed for me and
supported me in other ways these past 14 years (from my February 25th,
1999 IRS resignation date through today).
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Although quite a bit more white hairs are found on my head these days, I
will do my best to continue "fighting government bullies" as I have
done since 1999.
Warmest Regards,
Joe Banister
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will continue to send a free Attorney Larry Becraft Research CD to any donor
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mention that you want the CD gift. Don't forget that Attorney Becraft
(and some unsung heroes) created an incredible researching tool all in one
CD-ROM. He has compiled the most comprehensive, easy to access history
of the federal income tax laws I have ever laid my eyes on.
The
CD-ROM includes more recent information such as a report from a 1975
investigation of the IRS, Title 26 of the Code of Federal Regulations from
1999, the entire Internal Revenue Code from January, 2002, Statutes At Large
111 through 121 (105th Congress through 110th Congress - roughly 1997 through
2007) and earlier information such as the Revenue Acts of 1919, 1921, 1924,
1926, 1928, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1938, tax regulations from some of the
aforementioned years, a mind-blowing 31 page "secret" memorandum
written in 1945 later declassified regarding the history of the "Bureau of
Internal Revenue" (which is the earlier name of the agency we know
today as the "IRS"), the entire 1939 Internal Revenue Code, the
entire 1954 Internal Revenue Code (prepared by the Joint Committee on Taxation
in 1992).
Many
of these documents were created in word-searchable format so you can search for
any specific word you can think of. It would take hundreds of hours to
create such a resource from scratch and Larry's hard work has saved us from
doing so. As Larry told my listeners the last time he was on the show, it
is critical for Americans to learn more about what the tax laws actually say -
what the tax laws said in 1913 when the contemporary income tax came into being
and what the tax laws have said ever since then, all the way up to the present
day.
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by check or money order are gratefully accepted and can be made payable to
"Joseph Banister" and mailed to me at 1805 N. Carson Street, Carson
City, Nevada 89701. Keep in mind that money orders (with an anonymous
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privacy you desire. Attorney Becraft appeared on the Freedom Above
Fortune Radio Show on September 18, 2010 and spent the entire two hour program
discussing and explaining the contents of the CD - an archive of this show is
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on the left hand side of the page under the "Saturday, September 18,
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the recent acquittal on all charges leveled against me, please visit http://www.ninehundred.net/banister
, http://www.joebanister.blogspot.com/
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(click on "IRS Lockout Update").
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. Archives of my "Freedom Above Fortune Radio Show" that had
broadcasted on wtprn.com are temporarily available at http://mp3.wtprn.com/Banister07.html
and http://mp3.wtprn.com/Banister08.html
.
-Prayers
in support of this effort are always welcomed and encouraged. May we all
focus on giving glory to God and obeying His Commandments, especially the
Commandment not to take His Name in vain. Let us shower God with our
devotion so that He will more abundantly shower our nation with blessings.
-Contributions
to my legal defense fund are also welcomed due to the significant costs of
defending against multiple and continuing government attacks. I also
spend a significant amount of my personal time fighting this battle and
speaking out. Your contributions help me keep the fight alive.
Checks or money orders are gratefully accepted and can be made payable to
"Joseph Banister" to assist me with legal expenses and can be mailed
to 1805 N. Carson Street, Carson City, Nevada 89701. Money orders or cash may
provide a greater degree of privacy to the donor than checks so use your own
discretion based on the degree of privacy you desire.
-Visithttp://www.ninehundred.net/banister
for more information as to how you can obtain information about my recent trial
and contribute to my legal defense fund at the same time as well as a biography
with exhibits (scroll down the page).
-My
sincere thanks to those who have prayed for the success of our efforts and/or
contributed to my legal defense fund. Your continued support is enabling me to
illustrate, in detail and in a very public manner, that the IRS does not
prevail against citizens because the agency adheres to the rule of law, but
that the IRS prevails against citizens because the agency ignores the law,
twists the meaning of the law, and overwhelms the citizen with economic and
legal burdens. In a school yard, such tactics are called "Bullying".
In a government setting, such tactics are called "Tyranny".
This
effort is the equivalent of ganging up on the bully and sending him to reform
school where he belongs.
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Kind
regards,
Joseph
R. (Joe) Banister
Former
IRS Criminal Investigation Division Special Agent
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II
Chronicles 7:14:
And
my people, upon whom my name is called, being converted, shall make
supplication to me, and seek out my face, and do penance for their most wicked
ways: then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal
their land.
Exodus
20:7:
Thou
shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold
him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.
Matthew
5:27-28:
You
have heard that it was said to them of old: "Thou shalt not commit
adultery". But I say to you that whosoever shall look on a woman to
lust after her hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.
John
6:51-52:
I
am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this
bread, he shall live forever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for
the life of the world.
George
Orwell, 1984:
"You
are a slow learner, Winston," said O'Brien gently.
"How
can I help it?" he blubbered. "How can I help seeing what is in front
of my eyes? Two and two are four."
"Sometimes,
Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three.
Sometimes
they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become
sane."