Without looking into it? Isn't that what's referred to as "the pot calling the kettle black"? Have you looked into any of what you yourself are saying? Did you read any of what I posted? While he did owe the govt. taxes, that is not what they were there to arrest him for and that is definitely not what they shot him for. They don't shoot you for not paying your taxes. They were there to arrest him for threatening to shoot others and for assault with a deadly weaopon. He shot a deputy. That's why they shot him. His unpaid taxes had nothing to do with it.
Btw, he was wrong about the income tax. It is not unconstitutional. The 16th ammendment says:
The 16th ammendment was ratified by 42 of the 46 states, which is more than the required 3/4 to ratify an ammendment.
Who was threatened? What were the circumstances? Really, too little is known about what happened to argue about Bill Cooper one way or the other. He had a warrant for tax evasion. Warrant - an instrument, issued by a magistrate, authorizing an officer to make an arrest. Deputies being there for anything else only adds to what they would've/should/ve already been there for. I'm willing to concede that you are right. Like I said before Cooper was a hothead, I really can't defend him. Without knowing the circumstances of his "assault" on a passerby- for all we know it was a trumped up pretext to taking him in. Better to take him that way then to make him a martyr for standing up for his rights. That said, I could be completely wrong. I try to get as much info as I can, then go with what I know.
About those rights and the 16th amendment:
In 1895 the Supreme Court of the U.S. declared a direct income tax on individuals unconstitutional. We had enough money to run our government through tariffs ect. We even had surpluses some years, difficult to comprehend eh? Robert Owens testified to Congress(later) that the banking industry at the time was itentionally causing panics to bring about nationwide financial reform(The Panic of 1907). This was one of the ways they "scared" Congress into passing the 16th amendment- I believe it was 1909. The amendment was introduced through Nelson Aldrich, who was related through the marriage of his daughter to the Rockefeller banking family. The amendment was declared ratified by secretary of state Philander Knox in 1913. Philander Knox was previously a long time lawyer of the Carnegies and Rockefellers and also an advocate of the League of Nations.
Here's the kicker: In 1985, Bill Benson and M. J. “Red” Beckman published The Law That Never Was, an exhaustive study investigating the ratification process of the 16th Amendment.
Benson and Beckman investigated the records of all 48 state legislatures that existed in that period. The authors discovered many anomalies that raised serious questions about whether the 16th Amendment was properly ratified. For example, California legislators allegedly were among those who ratified the amendment, but no record exists in the California legislative history. Kentucky legislators voted against the amendment 22 to 9, but the ratification record shows legislators voting for the amendment. The reason for this confusion was that originally Kentucky legislators had approved the amendment and then, after urging from Governor Augustus E. Willson, had re-voted disapproval. Despite these anomalies, Secretary of State Philander Knox certified the ratification. Without discussion or debate, Knox personally decided that state legislators could not rescind their ratification vote.
Here's a site that lists more of the anomalies:
HOW SOME STATES DID NOT LEGALLY RATIFY THE 16TH AMENDMENT
Another kicker:
Where do these taxes on us go? In 1984 the Grace Commission Report to President Ronald Reagan stated:
With two-thirds of everyone's personal income taxes wasted or not collected, 100 percent of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal debt and by Federal Government contributions to transfer payments. In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services which taxpayers expect from their Government.
Grace Commission Report (PPSS)
All our money from federal income taxes is going to waste as interest payments- mostly to the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve was created, you guessed it
, in 1913... The same year personal income taxes began! Coincidence? The Federal Reserve was thought up by the same bankers who scared everyone in 1907. They got the government's permission to counterfeit money and then they charge us interest for it. Everytime our gov comes up short on money, they goes to the Fed. The Fed prints money out of nothing and loans it back to us at interest. Best scam ever
The Fed owns at least half of our national debt(
http://dollardaze.org/blog/?post_id=00211). The rest is to the public and foreign govs. Many of those foreign govs are controlled by their own respective national banks. That taken into consideration its more like 75% of our debt is fraudulent.
This is what is destroying our country, and this is just barely covering the tip of the iceberg