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What We're Monitoring. About NCSE. Our History. Our People. Our Financials. Annual Reports. Media Center. Our Partners. Need a Speaker? An implication of YEC with more real world consequences is a fairly massive conspiracy, since YEC contradicts "establishment science" in the fields of biology, geology and astronomy. A conspiracy of the required scale appears to be quite reasonable to Kent Hovind. I don't know how many people want to invest nearly three hours of lifespan in this epic, so if you want to get to the enumeration of conspiracies, start around As Hovind explains it people who believe they are created, do not make good slaves.
They are the type of people who will throw tea in the harbor. That is why the people who want to institute a New World Order don't want to allow the teaching of creation in the schools. Hovind believes that there is a secretive elite manipulating events to bring about the New World Order.
He starts off with the Protocols of Zion, but indicates that it was not really the Jews; it was the bankers. It goes back further. I have always been puzzled by the people who are sometimes referred to as "tax protesters", although they will call themselves other things. Although, people will often talk about the immense complexity of the Internal Revenue Code, with it's 80, pages I don't think that is the right number, but it is not really important , the statutory scheme behind basic compliance for most ordinary people is relatively simple.
Section 1 imposes a tax on income with rate tables. Section 61 defines income very broadly including by way of example "compensation for services" and Section requires filing if income is over fairly low thresholds. Of course, if you stop there, you may end up paying more than you have to, but you will know enough to be in basic compliance.
If you start looking through the Code, you will, however, find that most of it does not apply to you, since you are probably not running a bank, a mutual fund or a life insurance company. You are probably not maintaining inventories or mining. Tax protesters tend to take add a lot of complications to the simple elements of basic compliance and argue that the sixteenth amendment didn't really pass or wages are not income or a host of other things.
They will maintain that most of us are deceived into paying an income tax that is not really applicable to us.
Now, in order, to believe those things in the face of an overwhelming number of court decisions that say they are wrong, you have to believe in a conspiracy that includes pretty much the entire federal judiciary.
As noted above, conspiracies of that magnitude are perfectly plausible to Kent Hovind and his supporters. Kent Hovind adamantly maintains that he is not a "tax protester". I have some issues with that. If you go to the flagship website of his supporters FreeKent you can follow the links to Proof Number one " Letters from professionals absolve Kent Hovind from all wrong-doing ". The first letter is from Kent to one of the professionals and starts with:.
The responses are something of potpourri of tax protester arguments , that have been ruled by courts to be frivolous. As Hovindicators often correctly point out Kent Hovind was not convicted of tax evasions, so the letters, which were clearly meant to set up what is called a Cheek defense , really have little to do with what he was convicted of.
A bit after the two minute mark Kent says that everybody should follow the law including the government and that he has not filed in 28 years and if there is a law that requires filing, he would like to see it. The discussion that follows has nothing to do with his status as a minister and his vow of poverty. A bit past the six minute mark he launches into the explanation as to why trading services for money is not "income". At , he gives a qualified plug to Irwin Schiff, who may well have originated many of the arguments used by, for lack of a better term, tax protesters.
Irwin Schiff is also in federal prison. Kent Hovind's supporters are waging an intense social media campaign on his behalf. There are regular calls, more than daily lately, from Kent and his co-defendant Paul John Hansen and weekly conference call meetings of his supporters along with other material.
Hovindicators are hoping to have a stronger turn-out at the upcoming trial than they did at the first. They have gotten a good amount of attention in alternative Christian right wing media including Wall Builders and Alex Jones.
They are frustrated that they have not gotten closer to the mainstream and that they are not receiving much support from other creationists and evangelicals particularly Baptist churches in Pensacola. I checked the one from yesterday — it contains a long rant about the US prison system in which he claims the system of Biblical punishments was better, that getting a fine and 40 lashes was more humane than locking someone up.
Their big book of morality would say that Kent was acting like he should have, and that his girlfriend should have received the lashing. Shoving away from a raging idiot that ignited near-equal rage, yeah. Incoming artillery, a no brainer on throwing someone down into cover. I can see conditions to harm someone that way, such as an antimasker trying to rip a mask off.
Well, that and trying to cause mass harm, such as an increasing number of mass shooters have tried, the potential victim thrown down, then hopefully, the shooter. My preferred violence involves me attempting to make music from a violin. Better if you have a wool blanket to wrap them in. Best if the blanket is saturated with fire retardant chemicals. Keeping someone in prison is not cheap.
That Hovind feller seems unstable, and a compulsive liar.
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