Opinion: Always bet on Snipes
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Welcome back to the United States, Wesley Snipes. The Blade star has posted bail and will be allowed to return to Namibia to finish filming the ‘futuristic western’ Gallow Walker. He’s due to return January 10 to face charges of conspiracy to defraud the IRS. Coverage from Orlando Sentinel staff writer Pedro Ruz Gutierrez here. If you’ve been following the Snipes tax saga as eagerly as I have, you know that the real star of the story is not the Hollywood action hunk but the alternative tax theorist Eddie Khan. Snipes, to his immense credit, is going to bat for Khan as boldly as his ‘Willie Mays Hayes’ character once went to bat for Chief Wahoo in Major League. Here’s an excerpt from the CableACE Award-winning actor’s exchange with Sentinel blogger Scott Maxwell:
Some update on Eddie Kahn extredition? From Panama. Reports have it that the FBI a month ago approached Eddie , with a request that he turn himself in. Subsequent to his refusal, the FBI issued a warrant for his arrest. The Panamanian Immigration revoked his visa using perjury as the basis. Kahn retained a Panamanian Lawyer named Sandra xxx? to assist on his behalf. He went to the Immigration to get things worked out, and there was arrested, incarcerated over night and flown out of the country at dawn. The lawyer had secured a habeas on Eddie from a Panamanian Magistrate, presented it to the Police and was told Kahn had already been deported. It’s reported the FBI nor did the Police Department produce any legal paperwork in support of the action. The PaPanamanianawyer is filing paperwork in the U.S to be filed in Federal Court, alleging, criminal acts committed by the FBI, including kikidnapping, falserrest and denial of due process. The Lawyer claims Mr. Khans paperwork was in order and he was tricked into appearing at the Immigration Offices so there he would be arrested. Kahn’s wife is also being forced to leave the country of Panama The mp3 of this story and interview with Kahn lawyer can be found on truthradio.com/Audio/Kahn.mp3
The audio link is a combination of James Spader’s Boston Legal peroration on refusal to pay taxes as free speech (a favorite clip among anarcho-libertoids) and a radio show full of sob stories from callers. So I can’t really recommend it. If you want to watch the Boston Legal clip, which is pretty Spaderiffic, YouTube has the answer:
Here’s the clip: