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Legal Sparring Continues in Bitcoin User's Battle with IRS Tax Sweep (fortune.com)
In a strange twist, Coindesk reports that the IRS has, somewhat indirectly, removed one target from its broad request for data about U.S. users of the Bitcoin exchange Coinbase. It no longer wants data about Jeffrey Berns, a lawyer who also happens to be fighting the IRS's "John Doe" request in court. From a report on Fortune: Berns originally filed a motion on December 13th asking the U.S. District Court for Northern California to stop the IRS' subpoena of Coinbase records. The IRS believes that its request, filed in November, is justified because Bitcoin owners "may fail, or may have failed, to comply with one or more provisions of the internal revenue laws." Berns is represented by his own law firm, Berns Weiss, whose motion argues that the IRS data search is "an abuse of process" and "overbroad." Berns has said his motion is intended to defend not only himself, but all targeted users. But according to a December 28th court filing by the IRS, Berns is no longer a target of its records request because he identified himself in his own filing, and the request is only for unidentified users. Therefore, the IRS argues, Berns is not a party to proceedings and his request to block the data grab should be thrown out of court. In response, Berns Weiss had its own spin, telling Coindesk that "The IRS's willingness to withdraw the summons as to Mr. Berns only because it is now aware of his identity," and without the additional information they're seeking about many other Coinbase users, "Makes it clear that the IRS does not have a legitimate purpose in seeking substantial personal and financial information concerning approximately 3 million Americans."
There's NOTHING "fair" about your "govenment" rulers.
They ARE out to track, trace, identify, mark and database, rob, steal, and even rape you on behalf of the people they really represent... and that's NOT YOU.
The "govenment" is th "by force" faction and henchmen of the ruling elite.
You are NOT and will never be an elite.
Therefore you are a slave.
This is nothing more than a data grab by the elite.
Data *IS* control and power.
And IF they find any of you not paying up your money to them in taxes, and mortgage, and market inflation,
they WILL come and ARREST YOU and DRAIN YOUR ASS DRY OF ALL YOUR FUNDS.
If you THINK, really really hard, there is NOT ONE thing your so called "government" does or provides that you cannot do voluntarily on your own by association with other like minded people. If there are not enough volunteers to do a thing, then that thing was truly not worth doing in the first place.
No! Today is about the *unjust process* of turning everyone who isn't a millionaire INTO A SLAVE TO MAKE THE MILLIONAIRES RICHER and YOU POORER and totally ensuring that YOUR EVERY MOVEMENT is tracked, recorded, and controlled FOREVER, and ALL YOUR FAMILY AND CHILDREND AND FRIENDS too, so that the elites REMAIN IN POWER over you.
They fucking HATE bitcoin.
If you like Bitcoin, you better seriously consider FIGHTING BACK.
RIGHT NOW.