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Feds Censor Anti-tax Author NewsMax.comIn what could be a first, a U.S, District Court judge has banned the sale of a book by ruling that a tax-protesting author cannot sell his book attacking the legality of the federal income tax. He banned the author from so much as lecturing on the subject. Federal District Court Judge Lloyd D. George granted the government's motion to ban author Irwin Schiff from selling and distributing his book "The Federal Mafia: How The Government Illegally Imposes and Unlawfully Collects Income Taxes." The book, which Schiff says was first published in 1990, has sold more than 75,000 copies and can be found in most libraries. Where's ACLU When You Need It? On his Web site Schiff says the banning of his book was based on a hearing in which no government witness testified under oath or could be cross-examined by him. Schiff noted that Judge George banned the book without even reading it, and apparently saw it for the first time at the hearing on March 10. Schiff charged that the government's claims, on which the temporary restraining order was based, are a "tissue of lies from start to finish." "I really look forward to cross-examining any Government witness that is prepared to testify under oath, at the preliminary hearing, that even one phrase in The Federal Mafia is not legally correct," he wrote. He said the judge banned the book because it told how to file his "zero" return, a type of income tax return he says he has filed for more 10 years without legal consequences. Schiff says he is still open and operating his Las Vegas business, Freedom Books, and is free to sell his other books, such as "How Anyone Can Stop Paying Income Taxes," a 1982 best seller, and "The Great Income Tax Hoax," published in 1985. Schiff is the author of several other books on the economy, inflation, the Federal Reserve, Social Security and is writing a book titled "The Repeal of the Income Tax: And How a Criminal Judiciary Continues to Enforce It." He said the book would attempt to show why and how the income tax, passed in 1913, was repealed by Congress when it adopted the 1954 Code, which defines income as consisting only of corporate profits. Besides banning the book, Judge George's order even bars Schiff from giving lectures on the income tax. As a result, he had to call off a seminar-workshop he was planning for March 29 and 30. When his attorney, Noel Spaid of San Diego County, Calif., asked the government's attorney, Evan Davis, if Schiff "could lecture on the history of the income tax," Davis responded, "Attorney to attorney, this is too ripe for him." Spaid told Schiff that this was lawyer talk that meant Schiff could not give such a lecture without violating George's order.
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