{"id":23111,"date":"2015-10-18T08:08:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T15:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=23111"},"modified":"2015-10-18T08:08:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T15:08:57","slug":"irwin-schiff-dies-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/18\/irwin-schiff-dies-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Irwin Schiff dies in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irwin Schiff, the father (or perhaps grandfather, as <i>Forbes<\/i> observes) of the modern tax-resistance movement <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/peterjreilly\/2015\/10\/17\/irwin-schiff-famed-tax-protester-dies-in-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\">has died in prison<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His son Peter tried to get him a compassionate release, but the feds kept the poor old man in his cage.<\/p>\n<p>I had the privilege of meeting Irwin Schiff in the 1980s. It was my job to drive him around for a series of local appearances in the city where I lived then. He was a very nice man, an inspiration, and &#8212; whether you think <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irwin_Schiff\" target=\"_blank\">his theories<\/a> were right or wrong &#8212; a brave man of conviction.*<\/p>\n<p><i>*Tragically, that&#8217;s &#8220;conviction&#8221; in more than one sense of the word.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(H\/T jed for the sad news.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irwin Schiff, the father (or perhaps grandfather, as Forbes observes) of the modern tax-resistance movement has died in prison. His son Peter tried to get him a compassionate release, but the feds kept the poor old man in his cage. I had the privilege of meeting Irwin Schiff in the 1980s. It was my job to drive him around for a series of local appearances in the city where I lived then. He was a very nice man, an inspiration, and &#8212; whether you think his theories were right or wrong &#8212; a brave man of conviction.* *Tragically, that&#8217;s &#8220;conviction&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/18\/irwin-schiff-dies-in-prison\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Irwin Schiff dies in prison<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}