For the jury to convict, they have to be shown the law that Snipes is accused of breaking, and moreover, they have to prove that he intended to break it.
If Snipes truly believed that there is a question of the legality of the tax laws, if indeed a reasonable person looking at the available evidence might conclude there is a problem with the legality of the income tax (As Judge James C. Fox did in Sullivan V. United States), then Snipes may be in arrears on his taxes, but there is no demonstrable criminal intent.
Plus, we now have the star witness for the prosecution exposed in a lie by a video on YouTube!
Since the courts and judges are paid from tax money I do not expect a fair or impartial hearing on the matter. The judge will try to fry Snipes as an example to anyone who dares doubt the word of the government (that lied us into a pointless war of conquest with claims of Saddam's nookular bombs).
But regardless of what happens to Wesley Snipes, the attention the case is receiving is causing more and more Americans to take a closer look at whether or not the income tax is in fact legal or not.
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