More on Rick Stanley

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_2957949,00.html

IRS raid tactics ripped
Tax foe expects criminal charges for 'telling truth'
By Karen Abbott, Rocky Mountain News
June 12, 2004
Rick Stanley can't wait to take on the IRS.
"I'm really looking forward to being the one that brings them down," he said Friday - two days after Internal Revenue Service and other federal agents raided his home and business, Stanley Fastener & Shop Supply on East 39th Avenue in northeast Denver.

The 49-year-old gun rights champion and income tax opponent, who ran unsuccessfully for the a U.S. Senate seat in 2002 as a Libertarian, said he was lured away to a Perkins restaurant Wednesday morning by someone pretending to be a potential customer.
But when Stanley drove into the Perkins parking lot, he was surrounded by law enforcement officers.
They searched him and his car and said they didn't want him present at the raid because they were worried about "officer safety," Stanley said.
He said he called on some customers and stopped at a diner for hot chocolate and a cinnamon roll before returning to his business.
There, he said, officers with guns had herded his wife, a secretary, a driver, the Stanley's daughter and their 3-year-old granddaughter into his office.
He said agents took customers' payment checks to the business, his wife's pistol and "just about every piece of paper with a name or phone number or address on it."
"I believe they're looking at filing criminal charges against me for interfering with IRS ability to collect taxes, because I'm handing out information that tells the truth," Stanley said.
He said he gives away tapes and CDs arguing that Americans who engage in no international commerce and earn only domestic income - himself included - don't have to pay federal income taxes.
"I pay all types of taxes - taxes on alcohol and gas taxes and property taxes and sales tax," Stanley said.
"But I have no IRS income tax liability."
Stanley faces a jury trial this month in Adams County District Court on two felony charges of influencing a public official.
He allegedly warned a judge in writing that his misdemeanor firearms conviction should be overturned or the judge could be charged with treason and a "warrant" would be issued against the judge by Stanley's "Mutual Defense Pact Militia."
That firearms conviction stemmed from a September 2002 incident in which Stanley carried a loaded revolver on his hip to Thornton's Harvestfest in a municipal park.
"The government is trying to take me down in as many ways as possible," Stanley said.
"We're going to whip them real bad, and they know it."
In addition, a Denver jury convicted Stanley in 2002 of the misdemeanor crime of carrying a loaded semiautomatic handgun in his holster at a downtown Denver park during a December 2001 rally celebrating the Bill of Rights.
Stanley said he took the gun to the rally as a deliberate challenge to Denver's gun-control ordinance, which he considers unconstitutional.
"All this stuff is costing me hundreds of thousands of dollars," he said.
"I'm willing to pay the price to expose the fraud and deceit and lies of the IRS and the government and the judiciary."
"They're trying to demonize me to be some kind of crazy judge-threatening wacko," Stanley said. "It's just not going to fly."
abbottk@RockyMountainNews.com or 303-892-5188

It sounds like he is planning on fighting back. I wish him luck. There is a lot at stake for him and his family. It will also be a case for us as libertarians to watch as others of us may (or may not) be doing some of the same things Rick is getting into trouble for and so we will need to watch his case closely. In any case many of us who visit this blog know Rick or at least have made his acquaintance.

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Sounds like he is a moron