Irwin Schiff Letter

Gene Chapman
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April 28, 2012

Irwin Schiff
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Dear Irwin,

It was quite a shock to get your letter in the context that I just received an invitation to interview for an undergraduate volunteer position at the Innocence Project at a local law school.  I mentioned your case to a few mutual friends as one of the purposes of wanting to join, so I would be curious to know if your letter was a pure coincidence, just out of curiosity, nothing more.

I hope to learn from participation in the project either ways in which we can free you or overturn the taxation of labor altogether.  Obviously, I'll be trying to turn all the attention I can your way, while there.  This is pretty heady stuff for a trucker trying to be a lawyer, but I'm at base camp on Mt. Everest, you might say.

I am happy to hear that your family is being recognized in Germany.  I'll get my contacts to look into your suggested Internet materials.

This summer, I have a welding class to keep me in good shape for a local welding job should my local trucking job fall apart.   My trucking career got hammered by two speeding tickets in 2007,  running for the LP nomination that could be easily explained in FBI counter intelligence terms, but who knows.  Maybe I'm just an old fart who needs to get out of a truck.  I have been out of financial aid since last June, as I have around 300 hours of undergraduate work behind me. I'm twenty-four hours from a bachelor's with economics heavy in the mix and over fifty hours from a pure economics (BS) degree that would open the door to the Ph. D. economics path.  I have a math class this summer to see if the Ph. D. economics route is realistic.

I'm looking at either law school or a master's in something like social economy after the first bachelor's degree.  The sociology degree path seems already approved, if I want it.  My proposed thesis is something like,  Sociological Retardation of Children, Adult Individuals and Cultures Relative to the Imposition of the Dynamics of Slavery (i. e.  Taxation of Labor, Taxation of Property, Numbering People as Cattle, Debt Service, Theft of the Value of Labor Through Monetary Inflation).  All the professors I know and with whom I interact are on board with it.  It is to be done along the lines of Dr. Kenneth B. Clark's doll test that was the basis of the Brown v. Board of Education case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and integrated the U. S. Public school system.

Dr. Cornel West of Princeton University and I shared some emails, and the book he suggested, Slavery and Social Death:  A Comparative Study, by Orlando Patterson, gets into a term, "wage slavery," discussed by Karl Marx.  I am hoping to go that "slavery" route on a constitutional challenge to the personal income tax, as well.  I'm pulling every rabbit out of every hat I can for you and the cause.

That's enough for now, I suppose.

Most respectfully,



Gene Chapman

Gandhiji and Abortion

Interestingly, Mahatma Gandhi left the door open to abortion in his book, India of My Dreams. As I contemplate his thought process, I think of a woman as the captain of a ship while she is pregnant. She has lives on board for which she is responsible. Yes, she may take life, but no, that authority is not absolute. There is and should be a hearing, as with a captain at sea, when the taking of life is made by another.

Carl Sagan said, "Life exists when a carbon based unit grows as the result of the consumption of another carbon based unit." So we know that that which is within the woman is life, human in nature. And "vibrancy" is only a debate about when ones' life is valuable enough to be protected or not by adults. Is a 90 year old man vibrant enough to be protected? and so forth. So, I suggest that we not do violence to women who choose to terminate a pregnancy, but neither should we allow the captain to kill off those aboard the ship at their whim.

Gandhiji viewed crime as a mental illness that should be treated. When a woman ends a pregnancy, she should be evaluated to see if there was cause. If there was not cause, then she is treated for mental illness.

Gene Chapman, CEO

Mahatma Gandhi Global Library and Book Exchange