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Ninth Circuit Rules 85-Year-Old Tax Protester Should Stay In Jail

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“Irwin Schiff is probably one of the more famous alternate tax thinkers.  His seminal work ‘How Anyone Can Stop Paying Income Taxes‘ is available in hardcover on Amazon for one cent.  In his twilight years (He was born in 1928), he has been living in free federal housing.  According to the Bureau of Prison Inmate locator he is at Fort Worth FCI with a projected release date of July 26, 2017.  His son, Peter, who considers him ‘America’s foremost political prisoner’ has been campaigning for his release.  You can order your ‘Free Irwin’ T-shirt here for $25.  The Ninth Circuit had disappointing news for Mr. Schiff yesterday.  His appeal has been turned down.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2013/11/08/ninth-circuit-rules-against-irwin-schiff-sentence-appeal/

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Bitcoin Grows Up But That Means FBAR Filings

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“First, you must report your worldwide income on your tax return. Plus, if you have foreign accounts aggregating more than $10,000 at any time during the year, you must file Treasury Form TDF 90-22.1, also known as an FBAR. They go to FinCEN, not to the IRS.  Subject to a higher (generally $50,000 asset threshold), you may also need to file an IRS Form 8938 to report your foreign accounts and assets. The latter is the new FATCA form, part of the dreaded law that ropes in foreign financial institutions to report to the IRS.  Penalties for tax and FBAR violations can be severe. In fact, FBAR violations can draw far worse civil or criminal penalties than tax violations.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2013/12/06/bitcoin-grows-up-but-that-means-fbar-filings/

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Thousands of nonviolent offenders get life without parole: ACLU study

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“More than 3,200 inmates will likely die in U.S. prisons serving life sentences for nonviolent crimes such as theft and drug possession, including at least 49 in Oklahoma.  Nearly 80 percent were convicted of nonviolent drug-related crimes such as possession or distribution and 20 percent were convicted of nonviolent property crimes such as theft, according to the report.  Mandatory minimum sentences and harsh sentences for repeat offenders or drug crimes have built a system where people can die in prison for stealing sports jerseys or carrying drugs for an abusive boyfriend.  Taxpayers will spend more than $500,000 to incarcerate individual convicts for these crimes.”

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/thousands-of-nonviolent-offenders-get-life-without-parole-aclu-study/article_8b5c9c58-e674-5bb0-ad43-fd9e8a1d0316.html

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Juan Llanos About Bitcoin Licensing

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“If you are a Bitcoin entrepreneur anywhere in the world you need to watch this interview with Juan Llanos, member of the regulatory affairs committee of the Bitcoin Foundation.
In many cases it doesn’t matter where your company is located, what matters is where your customers reside!  Also, if you are a Bitcoin enthusiast and customer of new Bitcoin services, this concerns you too. The rules are strict and if your wallet or exchange providers are not properly licensed you could lose your money.”

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23 Petty Crimes That Land People in Prison for Life Without Parole

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“The vast majority (83 percent) of life sentences examined by the ACLU were mandatory, meaning that the presiding judge had no choice but to sentence the defendant to a life behind bars. Mandatory sentences often result from repeat offender laws and draconian sentencing rules such as these federal standards for drug convictions.  The data examined by the ACLU comes from the federal prison system and nine state penal systems that responded to open-records requests. This means the true number of nonviolent offenders serving life without parole is higher.  Most of the nonviolent offenders sentenced to life without parole were racial minorities.”

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/23-petty-crimes-prison-life-without-parole

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This Man Will Die in Jail For Marijuana Possession

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“Chris Mizanskey wants to know why his father will die in jail for a marijuana possession offense.  Jeff Mizanskey is serving a sentence of life without parole for possession of five pounds of marijuana.  He’s a victim of Missouri’s three strike rule, which means that you can get life without parole for your third felony. That’s true even in a case like Mizanskey’s, a man who had never served jail time before, never had any violence on his record, and had no criminal record besides the three pot possession charges.  Missouri’s law is unusually harsh in that it applies the three strike rule to any drug charges, without any exacerbating factors.”

http://politix.topix.com/homepage/8876-this-man-will-die-in-jail-for-marijuana-possession

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Sex Offenders Have To Pay To Live In Various States Under New Laws

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“Officials say $20 of each fee would go to local law enforcement and $30 would go to the state. If offenders don’t pay the annual fee, they face misdemeanor charges.  Snyder said the law brings Michigan in line with neighboring states that require sex offenders to pay for the operating cost of sex offender websites. He said Indiana charges $50 per year, while Illinois and Ohio charge offenders $100 per year.  The state said the move could bring in about $540,000 more in revenue each year.  One of the first bills Snyder signed this session expanded the public sex offender registry to include more people who commit certain crimes against minors, like possessing child pornography.”

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/11/06/gov-snyder-signs-bill-for-annual-sex-offender-fee/

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How Prosecutors Hijacked Grand Juries

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“Federal Rules of Evidence do not apply; Grand juries are conducted by or for prosecutors only; Neither witnesses nor targets have legal representation; Grand jury targets, even if they make a request, may not get to testify; Jurors can act on tips or rumors.  As a result:  Grand Juries have no power to prevent prosecutors from using a mere indictment as an excuse to seize property;  And once a defendant loses his or her property, he or she may no longer have the resources to mount a defense; This often allows prosecutors to force defendants to make deals. So much for innocent until proven guilty!”

http://www.downsizedc.org/blog/how-prosecutors-hijacked-grand-juries

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Should States Be Held Liable for Executing an Innocent Individual?

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“142 death row inmates have been exonerated while on death row since 1973. The execution of an innocent individual, therefore, is not out of the realm of possibility and, unfortunately, has likely occurred on at least ten occasions.  Considering that wrongful executions are a very real possibility, the following questions emerge. Does executing an innocent individual violate any law or the US Constitution? If so, can anything be done to remedy or prevent such a violation (other than abolishing the death penalty altogether, which would clearly end the possibility of a wrongful execution)? The answer to both of these questions is yes.”

http://jurist.org/dateline/2013/10/nicole-megale-prisoners-rights.php

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Why I Will Never, Ever, Go Back to the United States

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“In the five hours that followed, I was questioned twice more. During the first round I told, amongst others, my life’s story, about my second novel’s plot, gave my publisher’s name, my bank’s name and my real estate agent’s name. Together we went through all the photos on my laptop and messages my phones had been receiving for the past months. They wrote down the names of everybody I had been in touch with. They brought me back. In the car, no words were said. It was no use. I was defeated. To the Canadian border they said:  ‘We got another one. This one is from the Netherlands.'”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/niels-gerson-lohman/us-border-crossing_b_4098130.html

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