I personally think you are giving them to much credit. Maybe the country with a BLOATED military budget will just capture there leader and slaughter him too ?
Like I said previously, I do not have enough information to make a judgment about this subject one way or another at present time.
I had a friend who was totally convinced by that and many other arguments about a semilar subjects, in the long run it ruined his life. If you don't fear the Communist, if you don't fear Al Queda(sp) You should FEAR the IRS. They'll F you over. I;m not even going to watch it as I know what it is all about. Just rescently, Actor Wesley Snipe had hired those same people and Wisly is not a fugitive or was...The IRS was looking for him, but he was in Africa filming a film. (Google Wesley Snipe).
There is a lot of people out there promoting 'tax protest' arguments that don't work, you have to be careful. Not to say that you necessarily have to pay up if you have SSN (there are methods that do work, albeit very small % of them), but getting rid of SSN is probably by far the easiest one, because it simply takes jurisdiction away from IRS
First of all, the requisite number of states ratified the amendment based on the number of states that were in the union at the time. If only those states were used -now- it would not have been ratified, but the amendment was ratified.