Pay Your Taxes, Go to Gitmo?

Garsmith — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:00:46 +0000

Pay Your Taxes, Go to Gitmo?

Does Paying Taxes Violate the Law against Providing Aid and Support to a Terrorist Organization?

Gar Smith / Environmentalists Against War (www.envirosagainstwar.org)

(April 13, 2014) -- With April 15 fast approaching, I have just finished mailing my 1040. This year, I didn't owe taxes and, boy, am I relieved. Not because I can't afford to cut a check, it's just that I don't want to spend the next six years in a federal prison for violating the provisions of US Code Title 18 -- Crimes and Criminal Procedures.

That's exactly what happened to Ahmed Taalil Mohamud, a cab driver in Anaheim, California, who was sentenced to six years in prison for, as the Associated Press put it, "funneling thousands of dollars to a terrorist organization" in Somalia.

Obama's A-Bomb Budget: Cutting Disarmament Programs to Pay for New Nukes

Garsmith — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:57:15 +0000

Obama's A-bomb Budget:

At The Hague, Obama Decries the Nuclear Threat;

At Home His New Budget Stokes the Atomic Furnace

Gar Smith

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Pay Your Taxes, Go to Gitmo?

Obama's A-Bomb Budget: Cutting Disarmament Programs to Pay for New Nukes