“We Support Our Troops When They Shoot Their Officers”

When I started doing tax resistance, someone predictably asked me why I didn’t just leave if I hated this country so much. I gave my own predictable answer right back.

There are those who do renounce their citizenship and leave the U.S., many in order to avoid paying its taxes. Now they have their own web page, the Official Taxpatriates Page.

Perhaps the time to support the troops has finally arrived.

A U.S. Army staff sergeant was charged with murdering his two commanders last week at a base outside Baghdad, the military said Thursday in what is believed to be the first case of an American soldier in Iraq accused of killing his superiors.

For more on “fragging” see The Picket Line 21 October 2004.