Wesley Snipes to Serve Three Years for Tax Evasion

In case anyone hasn’t noticed, actor Wesley Snipes, who is a renown tax protester, has been sentenced to three years for tax evasion. Incidentally, the federal judge presiding at his trial has declined his appeal for a new trial.

‘The defendant Snipes had a fair trial … The time has come for the judgment to be enforced,’ U.S. District Judge Terrell Hodges said in his ruling.

Revoking bail for the 48-year-old star of the ‘Blade’ trilogy, the judge ordered him to report to prison as directed by the U.S. Marshals Service or Bureau of Prisons.

“Fair trial”? What drug has this judge been smoking? The high-profile felony case was a joke to begin with, simply because the court refused to allow Snipes to meet with jurors for interviews and would not allow motions for a new trial.

And he calls it a “fair trial.”

While I disagree with Snipes’ tax protester arguments (which basically state that the federal income tax isn’t legal), I agree that income taxation employed by the State is coercion. If anything, it amounts to nothing but thievery by the vile hands of the State.

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