S. 1813 – MAP

IRS-take-what-you-have

Word on the blogosphere has it that the MAP-21 transportation bill
allows the federal government to revoke the Second Amendment of citizens
accused of not paying taxes. ~ Kurt Nimmo

S. 1813
or MAP-21 (short for Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century) was
sponsored by California Democrat Barbara Boxer and passed in the Senate
earlier this year. It is described as a “bill to reauthorize
Federal-aid highway safety construction programs, and for other
purposes.”

Critics argue that “hidden legislative jargon” in the bill gives the
IRS the authority to grab anybody’s passport who is accused of owing
$50,000 or more in delinquent taxes.

“According to the text of the bill, if the IRS Secretary is informed
by the Commissioner that an individual owes $50,000 or more, the
Secretary is authorized to have the head of the State Department revoke
the individual’s passport.

In other words, get audited and have your
passport revoked now, fight for your due process later,”

Helen Whalen Cohen
wrote in April, a month after the bill cleared the hurdles and became
law. Specifically, the tax provisions of the bill are a direct violation
of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution.

A post on the Franklin County Va. Patriots
blog reports that gun rights activists are also concerned the
government will use additional legalese in the bill to deny the Second
Amendment to gun owners also behind taxes the IRS claims they owe.

According to the blog, activists are worried about pages 1320-1324 in the MAP-21 bill:

This subsection is entitled, “Firearms.” While the
wording is in obscure legalese, it seems to be saying that the person
designated as “the Secretary” is given broad powers over permits and the
revocation of permits. And this power is described under the section
that specifically deals with firearms.

Lawyers may debate whether or not the wording of the bill gives the
IRS the power to suspend gun rights. But government watchdogs have
become alarmed over the tendency of legislation to be written in such a
manner as to create broad leeway for interpretation, meaning that
nebulous wording often leads to an interpretation of the law that
confirms the suspicions of many citizens that the federal government is
relentlessly engaged in power grabs aimed at limiting the Constitutional
rights of Americans.

The New American covered the prospect of the IRS imposing firearm
restrictions on Americans accused of owing the government money. “The
broad language found within this provision has raised concerns among
those who believe the Secretary could use the interpretive powers
defined here to revoke permits to transport guns and ammunition in all
realms of transportation,” Raven Clabough wrote on April 25.

Language in the bill is, at best, ambiguous, as the Franklin County
Va. Patriots blog notes, but considering numerous efforts by the federal
government to roll back not only the Second Amendment but entire
sections of the Bill of Rights, we cannot dismiss the rising tide of
concern about yet another sneak attack on the right to possess firearms
as merely a paranoid conspiracy theory.

 

Kurt Nimmo – June 22, 2012 – PrisonPlanet

 

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