Tax Resistance in Kenya, Italy, and Wales

A couple bits of international tax resistance news that scrolled up my screen in recent days:

• Two Kenyan legislators are threatening to lead a mass tax strike after men who identified themselves as Kenyan police offices kidnapped two men at gunpoint and “disappeared” them (the police deny that the two men are in their custody, and the two have not been heard from since the abduction).
• The Venetian Republic, which launched a tax resistance campaign in its ongoing drive to separate from Italy, is invoking Gandhi in a lengthy theoretical justification of the tax resistance tactic.

From the 12 August 1843 Monmouthshire Merlin:

Destruction of the Walk Gate at Llandilo-Fawr.

On Monday night, this gate, which is within a very short distance of Llandilo, was demolished, and the toll-house destroyed. The whole was completed in about a quarter of an hour, while a troop of the 4^th Dragoons, who were stationed in the town, were in total ignorance of all that was going forward.