UserX
I agree with you.
Most Americans dutifully pay their income taxes to the IRS every year, even though neither the IRS nor the U.S. Supreme Court can actually prove there is a law requiring them to. They pay it because they're afraid of the private IRS (not a governmental agency by the way) having the cops haul them off to prison.
My mother and I got into an argument about this a couple of weeks ago. She kept going on and on about how bad prison is because I refuse to file or pay my taxes. My point to her was that somewhere, sometime people have to start standing up for the rights we were granted by the founding fathers, regardless of what happens to them.
Not only that, but the supreme court has ruled in FAVOR of the defendant several times in cases where they haven't paid their taxes, citing that the income tax is unconstitutional.
Americans have no effing clue what rights they're supposed to have.
Driving, for instance, is a constitutional right. The problem is people are so butt blind that they sign over that right when they fill out the forms for their driver license, making it a contract between them and the state to give up this right.
I, for one, no longer have a license and continue to drive without it. I have a copy of the constitution in my car, and also the specific clauses entitling me to drive if I ever get pulled over.
I refuse to bow down to the state.
Same goes for the patriot acts. People don't seem to get the simple concept that if the government writes a law and passes it, yet it violates the consitution....then that law is automatically null and void. No matter what the media and the government tell you, it is NULL AND VOID.
This American isn't a pussy, and I will fight for my rights.