FreeStater Tax Denier arrested for welfare fraud

[Demosthenes]

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Case ID: P2-2009-1087A
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Case Description

Case ID: P2-2009-1087A - SHARON ANKROM

Court : (SC) SUPERIOR COURT Location : (P) PROVIDENCE COUNTY
Filing Date: Friday , February 20th, 2009
Type: F - FELONY
Status: none

Arrest Information


Arresting Agency : RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL

Charges


Charge# Charge Disposition / Date Sentence / Judge
1 OMUFP >$500/FELONY
2 FLS DOC TO PUB OFF/EMPLO/AGEN
3 WELFARE FRAUD >$500

Case Event Schedule

Event Date Location Judge
PRE-ARRAIGNMENT DISP CONFERENC 04-MAY-2009
6th District Court BURKE, MAGISTRATE
ARRAIGNMENT 11-MAY-2009
6th District Court BURKE, MAGISTRATE
PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE 13-JUL-2009
PROVIDENCE COUNTY MCATEE, MAGISTRATE


Case Parties

Type ID Name Aliases
DEFENDANT @10887339 ANKROM, SHARON L none
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND STATE OF RHODE ISLAND none

Attorneys

No Attorneys were found.

Docket Entries

Description
20-FEB-2009 INITIAL CASE DATA ENTRY
14-APR-2009 INFORMATION FILED
04-MAY-2009 DEFT DOES NOT APPEAR
06-MAY-2009 DATE DELETED
06-MAY-2009 DATE DELETED
08-MAY-2009 WARRANT ISSUED

[Demosthenes]

OMUFP = Obtaining Money under False Pretense
FLS DOC TO PUB OFF/EMPLO/AGEN = False Document to Public Official/Employer/Agency
Welfare Fraud > $500 is self-explanatory

[Dezcad]

Some background to this story is here.

[LPC]

Isn't "FreeStater Tax Denier" redundant?

[Demosthenes]

Isn't "FreeStater Tax Denier" redundant?

No. Most of the FreeStaters who stood outside the Brown house and courtroom with signs aren't tax deniers; they're anarchists. Many of them expressed discomfort during the standoff over Ed's whole "show me the law" spiel and wished that Ed had simply said "Hell no" instead. Their discomfort wasn't enough to make them walk away, however, because supporting Ed got them on to national TV and newspapers.

[LPC]

Most of the FreeStaters who stood outside the Brown house and courtroom with signs aren't tax deniers; they're anarchists.

Potaeto, potato.

Most tax deniers are anarchists.

[Gregg]

Some background to this story is here.

I do like the irony of a tax protester looking for advice on how to not lose her welfare/childcare benefits on a libertarian forum.

[Thule]

I do like the irony of a tax protester looking for advice on how to not lose her welfare/childcare benefits on a libertarian forum.

At least some of the residents show enough consistency to point this out. Nothing ticks me off more than people who claim all kinds of benefits, while at the same time claiming to be completely independent of the .gov.

[Demosthenes]

Most of the FreeStaters who stood outside the Brown house and courtroom with signs aren't tax deniers; they're anarchists.

Potaeto, potato.

Most tax deniers are anarchists.

I think most tax deniers are founding father worshipers. They have this mythical notion of what the government was like in the late 18th century and want to replicate that mythical government now.

[Nikki]

Something about white, male, property-holders might upset a number of them

[Pottapaug1938]

Demosthenes: "I think most tax deniers are founding father worshipers. They have this mythical notion of what the government was like in the late 18th century and want to replicate that mythical government now."

They also have a mythical notion of what the founding fathers stoood for, on the sound bite/Classic Comics intellectual level. I've heard them thunder "no taxation without representation!" as if it's a mantra which trumps all efforts to resist their TP idiocy. I'll bet that not one in a hundred of them can actually cite the context in which the original words were delivered. "We, The People" is another mantra. You all know most of the others.

To be fair to the TPers, though, ignorance about our country's history is not limited to them. I wonder how many people, for example, can name all three branches of government; or how many people think that the Declaration of Independence is a part of our constitutional system. And, even if they know the basics, they all too often don't understand them. I'll never forget reading about an old experiment in which the title of the Bill of Rights was removed from a text of the amendments contained in them, after which people were approached and asked to sign a statement in their support. Quite a few people angrily refused to sign in support of this "Communist document", and quite a few people think that the protections in the Bill of Rights were something cooked up by lefties in the 20th century. This problem will not go away until we restore, to our educational system, a course in civics and American history which moves beyond soundbites in to a detained analysis, not only of WHAT kind of government we have, but WHY it was created that way.

[LPC]

Something about white, male, property-holders might upset a number of them

Or reassure them.

[notorial dissent]

Most of the FreeStaters who stood outside the Brown house and courtroom with signs aren't tax deniers; they're anarchists.

Potaeto, potato.

Most tax deniers are anarchists.

I think most tax deniers are founding father worshipers. They have this mythical notion of what the government was like in the late 18th century and want to replicate that mythical government now.

I find the comment mildly amusing in an upchucky sort of way, since all the evidence I have seen to date indicates that they have little to no awareness of American history, Civics having totally elluded them in life, and haven’t a clue as to what the Revolution(remembering Franklin’s quote) and what those men even thought or stood for. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be quite so idolizing. Washington’s opinion alone would ruin them for days.

Something about white, male, property-holders might upset a number of them

And, let’s not forget belonging to the “right” church, which I’m betting none of them do.

In other words, they'd be living in hovels, earning next to nothing, having no prospects, and getting progressively more ignorant with each generation. Oh wait, they're doing that now, and all on their own, how progressive!!!!!!!!