Meeting Tuesday, June 22 at 6 pm (potluck)

Brushfire Alliance is pleased to announce that State Rep. Phil Hart will be
the guest speaker at our June 22nd Brushfire Meeting to be held at the Latah
County Fairgrounds in the kitchen meeting room.

There is a potluck at 6:00 and the meeting starts at 7:00 PM.
Please bring a main dish, salad or dessert to share, and
come hear the truth from the horse's mouth!
I want to see a big crowd of patriots here!

Also speaking will be Gary Brown, the founder and President of "Reach
America" - a constitution education outreach organization.

For more information please call: 208-301-2412.

Kind Regards,

Karen Calisterio & Paula Bauer
Brushfire Alliance


Below is a recent email received by Karen:

-----Original Message-----

Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 6:44 PM
Subject: The Empire Strikes Back: The Persecution of Rep. Phil Hart by the
Media after he Helped to Defeat RINOs

Several weeks ago, against great odds, Constitutionalists scored
important victories across Northern Idaho, including taking over the
Kootenai County Republican Central Committee and the victory of underdog
conservative candidate Raul Labrador. You did not expect the Empire to
just sit back and lick its wounds did you? No, they struck back, and
struck back hard!

I wanted to make people aware of a horrible mischaracterization of Idaho
Representative Phil Hart's situation in the media. For those of you who
know Phil, he is a great proponent of Constitutional freedom and
liberty. This past election he helped to elect several constitutional
candidates over establishment RINOs such as the race between Vito
Barbieri and Duane Rasmussen. Well, I think it is reasonable to
speculate that the recent negative press regarding tax liens against
Phil is payback by those in the establishment which also are still
fuming about losing control of the Kootenai County Republican Central
Committee. What these stories are NOT reporting on is the complete and
total railroad job by the IRS.

I have spoken to Phil on the issue and here are the facts as I
understand them. As many of you know, Phil Hart did write a book
challenging the legality of the federal income tax system as now
administered and has also sponsored a bill to end the Idaho state income
tax (also explicitly prohibited by the Idaho state constitution which
limits taxation to property--which income is SPECIFICALLY NOT under
Idaho law). However, these tax liens are NOT from him not filing or
paying the taxes he really owes. Phil Hart voluntarily re-entered the
system as a filer, filed his past returns, and paid his tax
liabilities. However, the IRS wants revenge on anyone who stands up to
them, so what do they do -- they then instigate and audit of EIGHT years
of tax returns which lasted for FOUR years. In the process they tried
to get Phil to release the names and addresses of EVERY person who
bought one of his books, which he refused to do. Ultimately, they
ARBITRARILY COMPLETELY DISALLOWED ALL OF HIS BUSINESS EXPENSES. This
would be like paying $100 for an item and selling it at a $125 price
retail, and pocketing a $25 and the IRS arbitrarily saying that the $100
costs do not count and the person owes taxes on the full $125! There
are multiple reports of the IRS maliciously doing this to many people
across the country, which SHOULD HAVE been the real story behind these
reports.

The IRS sent Phil a Notice of Deficiency while he was in legislative
session. Under the Constitution of Idaho, such a notice would be
invalid while the legislature was in session, a prerogative which Phil
told me the IRS has adhered to in the past when it was brought up. This
time, they just ignored it. As a result, Phil was unable to file a
timely notice of challenge of the unlawful assessment in Tax Court, and
he was completely RAILROADED through the system. After the expired
notice of deficiency went unchallenged the IRS was able to file the
liens which are in the press. By the way, the NOD process the IRS
commonly uses is in my opinion (and anyone else with common sense) a
complete and total rejection of due process and can be considered a bill
of pains and penalties (the personal property adjunct to a bill of
attainder) since it allows the seizure of property WITHOUT ANY JUDICIAL
REVIEW OR COURT HEARING WHATSOEVER BY DEFAULT. If you do not explicitly
ask for due process in a very limited amount of time, you DO NOT GET
IT! Did you think only the Soviet Union allowed people to be by default
declared guilty without a hearing -- well welcome to the USSA!

I would urge everyone here to get the word out far and wide that this is
not a story about a legislator who cheated on his taxes, it is the story
about how the American Gestapo, the IRS, will completely violate due
process to persecute anyone who stands up to the corrupt establishment.
It is even possible that there are those who are distributing this story
hoping to get Phil removed from office hoping to get a RINO appointed to
his position in the legislature given that the RINOs lost a lot of races
in northern Idaho that they probably felt entitled to. I would
encourage everyone to support Phil and spread the true story of what is
going on far and wide across Idaho. Also feel free to express your
opinion in this poll http://polldaddy.com/poll/3349618/

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