Subject: Missed Opportunity? Maybe not. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear Subscriber, Yesterday I got a call from CNBC, to see if I could do an on-camera interview for a few-minute segment about the Wesley Snipes trial. As it happened, it wasn't possible for me to do it then. (I'm not sure if the segment happened anyway.) In retrospect, I'm not particularly sorry it didn't work out. The other "guest" was going to be David Cay Johnston, IRS Minister of Propaganda who writes for the New York Times. That in itself is rather telling. Why would a "reporter" be on a show basically playing the part of the pro-IRS advocate? Anyway, the segment was to be only four minutes long, so the chances of getting anything worthwhile in was slim to none anyway. Even a one-hour show is only enough to scratch the surface, and that's if actual discussion is allowed. Of course, Mr. Johnston would harp on the two things he always harps on: 1) the government people who have ASSERTED that the 861 evidence is wrong (or "frivolous"), and 2) what happens to people who understand the issue and act accordingly. And he would avoid like the plague the SUBSTANCE of the issue. (The number of times Mr. Johnston has flip-flopped on the issue, both on his description of the 861 evidence and his response to it, makes Mitt Romney look consistent.) I would have liked to have asked Mr. Johnston why it is that he has NEVER, in any of the articles he has written about the 861 evidence, mentioned a web site where his readers could go to learn more about the issue. He has, however, mentioned the establishment stooges at "Quatloos," as if THAT substance-free slander-fest is a respectable, reasonable web site. In the end, I don't think the mainstream media will ever be the way to get the truth out. They are about sound bites and sensationalism, and keep their message simplistic enough for couch potato America. The majority of mainstream media viewers consist of unthinking doofuses like the ones who convicted me, and Tessa, and Dr. Tom, and many others, based entirely on the argument that the government "told us" we were wrong. Trying to get them to think outside of the box is a lost cause, and I'm finished wasting effort on that. As for the people who CAN think for themselves, and who actually care about things like evidence and logic--well, they probably aren't wasting time watching the superficial propaganda that the mainstream media tries to pass off as "news." So the truth will just have to continue to crawl forward through the alternative means of communication, like the internet. Of course the feds, with the help of the courts, are trying to silence the truth there, too. Speaking of which, I'm now off of "supervised release." I hope to rebuild some of the perfectly protected free speech that was formerly on web sites like www.taxableincome.net and www.861.info, before the U.S. "Department and Justice," with the help of Judge Michael Baylson, unconstitutionally coerced me into taking them down prior to my sentencing. Yes, I'll be filing returns pretending my income is taxable, and giving the IRS money I don't owe. But I won't shut up. Sincerely, Larken Rose http://www.861.info (P.S. Though it sounds weird, in a way I'm happy to announce that Tessa and I earned so little in 2007 that the IRS will be getting dang near nothing from us, even using their standard misapplication of the law.) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify Charset: UTF8 Version: Hush 2.5 wpwEAQECAAYFAkeOMkQACgkQGmVFo/iGj322FgP9Gvhfjm7FUbcOpZ9FeHt1V2HWkvvp vNM/TO0ex05epTOFjNa7cInmLG+Gi7LeXmODCPvCVV3qI4C/tXjCwXbfA/eyoIvlPoft ZcQmG68fk/ZpXsS+s1qmnrDws8LbodZ/yJ6VpXqmuy2PTz0eiKBl0EImTa8NOoYlPgG2 MWsbHNo= =FP9r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, send a blank message to 861-on@mail-list.com