Writes Bill Butler: "Comments from Dan Scott, Robert Beale's first attorney, on tax protesters and the government's true religion:
"'They all go to trial,' he said. 'They have a given belief system and are all incapable of admitting they are wrong. You hope to talk some out of it and tell them they will lose, that they will go to jail, but they never listen.'
"He said clients most often find their way into a tax crusade through failed farms, or religion.
"'Once they adopt it, it becomes a religion,' he said. 'If you don't agree with them, it's because you don't understand and you're attacking their religion. Then the government goes absolutely bananas for the same reason, because [the resisters] are attacking the government's religion -- taxes.'" Read the whole story.