- Dear Members,
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- My showing 60 Minutes that I want am willing to meet
with them and am not hiding, will help me indict the credibility of 60
Minutes with REAL evidence and not MERE words and beliefs of the average
man or woman. Also, if they were to interview me, I would insist on having
my own video tape running at the same time.
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- Although I have a tendency to believe that the media
is not our friend and that I would approach a meeting with someone like
Mike Wallace with a certain level of suspicion, I MUST at least once hold
my hand out in TRUTH and HONOR on the record, and then make a record of
what it is that they do. This will prove that they lack credibility and
are not to be trusted and have NO honor to the public service that they
are to effect under the Freedom of Speech. If not for Freedom of Speech,
then they are not honorably using the 1st Amendment, which is not about
merely speaking, it is about questions, discussions, and debating the TRUTH
and to state facts without FEAR.
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- If they are my enemy, I must prove it, and then expose
them; and then I must destroy them with their own weapon....for they are
more powerful than I. They may speak of me for 20 minutes, but I will speak
of them every day at NITE.org
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- Please help me. This test will expose 60 Minutes once
and for all. They will either do our bidding by forcing TRUE public debate,
or they will destroy their own legitimacy.
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- Thurston P. Bell
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- (This is Maddie, below are some letters from members
that are being sent and will be published on our website. Also, if you
haven't already done so, please look at ALL the feedback left by members
here: www.nite.org
and please do leave your feedback. There are two feedback posts we
will NOT be publishing, one is vulgar and came from Steve Deluca and the
other is from Taxgate researcher Sean O'Hara making smart-alecky comments
like "Tax Moses Bell".
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- We are making history, one way or the other and it's
important to VOICE your opinion. We spoke with the receptionist at 60
Minutes and he said that writing letters is the best way to communicate
with them. NOT e-mail or phone.) _____
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- Mr. Don Hewitt,
Executive Producer 60 Minutes
524 West 57th St.
New York, New York 10019
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- Dear Mr. Hewitt:
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- It has been brought to my attention that 60 Minutes is
looking at a story on employers not withholding the usual panoply of taxes.
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- I also understand that you have been in touch with Joe
Banister who is lining up another ex-IRS agent. You are probably looking
to run the story before April 15th.
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- Although you may not have formerly interviewed Joe yet,
is it true that you are in touch with him and making some preliminary arrangements?
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- Let me just say that any story that concerns the above
mentioned topic would be shallow indeed, if the individual who bears the
primary and overwhelming responsibility for the research and utilization
of the data by such employers were not also interviewed! That individual
is Mr. Thurston Bell and it is from Mr. Bell that Joe Banister obtained
the limited information that he has. Joe knows only enough to be "dangerous."
Without Thurston Bell, none of the employers who have taken this stand
would have done so.
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- The subject of the federal income tax is one that I have
studied in depth as a professional for the past seven years. I have read
every book that one of the pioneers in this "movement" has written,
Irwin Schiff. I have compared his information with countless other so called
tax experts like, Wayne Benson, Eddie Kahn, Eddie Rivera, Larry Becraft,
Richard Clark, Lynne Meredith, Pastor Richard Standring, et al. All of
these mentioned and 99% of all the rest unmentioned, in my opinion provide
information that sooner or later will get the person utilizing their off
point strategies "tarred and feathered" by the Service. But they
fill their pocket books nonetheless.
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- Only one individual in my examination of the literature
and research has provided truly useful, affordable, effective, factual,
and legal information that proves conclusively that the IRS is completely
contemptuous of numerous Constitutional rights afforded Americans, not
the least of which is Due Process which is a story in itself, and that
individual is Thurston Bell.
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- In conclusion then, any 60 Minutes national news show
on this very important subject without the participation and input of this
superior researcher would not be a reflection of the historic professionalism
of your show. So I urge you to avoid at all costs setting up the American
people once again as cannon fodder for the IRS and let the truth come from
the "horse's mouth," Thurston Bell.
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- Yours truly, T. Michael Haney, CFP
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- Mike Wallace 60 Minutes 524 West 57th Street New York,
NY 10019 December 29, 2000
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- Dear Mr. Wallace, I understand that you or an associate
is making preparations to do a story featuring former IRS agent Joe Banister
regarding the withholding of income taxes. Since many people view your
program as representing "serious" investigative reporting, may
I recommend that the very first homework you should undertake, if you haven't
already, is that which will put you in touch with the only repeatedly successful
expert on the subject, to my knowledge, in the country. His name is Thurston
Bell and he is the founder of the National Institute for Taxation Education
(www.nite.org).
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- I do not know Mr. Banister personally, and although he
may be a fine man and well-intentioned, there is ample evidence that he
simply does not have a sufficient grasp of the code and the positions which
have been successfully used to present his case authoritatively. And in
presenting a story that could have a direct impact upon literally tens
of millions of Americans, I'm sure you would want to present the most authoritative
expert who can be found.
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- To a certain extent, of course, that is a judgment call,
but I would like to think that you would prefer to make that an informed
call. To be unaware of the seminal work done on this issue by Thurston
Bell, or to present on 60 Minutes simply the derivative work done by others
after being alerted to the role of Mr. Bell in formulating the strategy,
would be tantamount, in my opinion, to willfully misleading the vast audience
of your program. I know that is not your intention.
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- The decision is yours, naturally, but I'm confident that
Mr. Bell would be responsive to any inquiries from you. He may be contacted
through the website cited above.
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- I have enjoyed many of your reports in the past, and
look forward to the continuation of full, accurate and authoritative reporting
on 60 Minutes.
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- Kind regards,
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- Harold Long
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- cc: Don Hewitt Thurston Bell
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- Don Hewitt,
Exec. Producer 60 Minutes
524 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
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- Dear Mr. Hewitt,
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- It has come to my attention that 60 Minutes is preparing
a segment concerning the growing number of U.S. employers who are no longer
reporting employee or independent contractor income to IRS. I understand
that the segment will be based on your interview with Mr. Joe Banister,
the ex-IRS CID agent who has become allied with the tax protestor movement
in this nation.
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- While I believe the subject matter is worthy of the attention
of a show of the caliber of 60 Minutes, I must tell you that it would be
a basic error to use Mr. Banister as an authority on the subject. He is
far from that, notwithstanding his former connection to the IRS. The true
nature of the subject is not that of protesting the income tax. It is
based instead on the growing insistence that the IRS follow due process
of law-which it has broadly disdained to do in its Nazi-like tax collection
practices. Mr. Banister was part of those practices until, he says,
he began to doubt that the income tax was basically legal. Whereupon
he joined with a group of nut cases who claim the Sixteenth Amendment was
never ratified, the IRS is bogus, and a string of other fanciful theories.
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- Truth be told, sir, Mr. Banister knows little or nothing
of the lawful basis for what these employers are doing. The person centrally
responsible for researching the law and basing those employer's successful
actions squarely on due process is a man by the name of Thurston P. Bell,
a paralegal who founded and heads the National Institute of Taxation Education.
Bell's organization has achieved notable success in backing down IRS
by dint of the tax code and IRS's own manual. He's the key and responsible
authority on the matter-not an off-topic Johnny-come-wrongly like Mr. Banister.
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- At the very least, you should interview Mr. Bell to get
the full and accurate story. You may reach him through the NITE web site
at www.nite.org. I would like to stress again that Mr. Bell is not a
tax protester, but one who advocates and relishes the rule of law for everyone,
especially including the IRS.
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- Sincerely,
Tom Bottaro
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