[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 43 (Tuesday, April 19, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: April 19, 1994]
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                         PERSECUTION BY THE IRS

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker,

There once was a newsman from Miami.
His newspaper made the IRS feel quite clammy.
He began to reveal the IRS's illegal deals,
and wound up with inmates as family.

  That is no joke, Mr. Speaker, Attorney Heller for the Miami News 
wrote stories about illegal tactics of the IRS. He was then targeted by 
the IRS, and a court finally said this and wrote in their report, he 
was hounded, he was hassled, he was harassed, he was prosecuted, he was 
persecuted, he was terrorized, he was stigmatized, and they ultimately 
imprisoned him, and the judge said, what was very simple, Attorney 
Heller could not prove he was innocent, and said the IRS used illegal 
testimony to put him in jail.
  This is no joke. Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Concord in 
Lexington. Minutemen and Founders are rolling over in their graves. 
Congress has allowed the IRS to trash the Constitution. H.R. 3261 and 
Discharge Petition 12 says the burden of proof is on the IRS.
  If Jeffrey Dahlmer is innocent until proven guilty, why in God's name 
is not a taxpayer? Think about it.

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