Hovind : Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee - HAH!

[CapelDodger]

I don't think anyone anywhere LIKES paying taxes - they seem to be a universally implemented necessary evil.

A legacy tax wouldn't hit anyone but the dead, who are, if anything, already as pissed-off as they'll ever be. No hard-earned money is lost (except by the occasional Playboy centrefold "lady").

 

[Tailgater]

What is a legacy tax? Like an estate tax?

 

[Ausmerican]

I'll concede Hovind isn't the best example to use when disussing this issue. Damn fundy nut job.

Hovind isn't the best example to use when discussing this issue in a thread about Hovinds behaviour in regards to this issue? Do you have a better example?

 

[Checkmite]

He was referring to the issue of tax evasion.

 

[Skeptic]

More Hovind hilarity:

For years, he has claimed that he is employed by God and has no income or property because everything he owns belongs to God. Hovind's attorney, Assistant Public Defender Kafahni Nkrumah

(Big surprise there--as if any non-court-appointed lawyer would like to defend this nut...)

told
> U.S. Magistrate Judge Miles Davis at a hearing Monday that his client
> did not want to enter a plea because he does not believe the United
> States, the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Attorney's Office
> "have jurisdiction in this matter."

(Wanna bet?)

When pressed by Davis to enter a plea of either guilty or not guilty,
> Hovind said he wished to enter a plea of "subornation of false
> muster."

(Whatever that is)

When asked where he lived, Kent Hovind replied, "I live in the church
> of Jesus Christ, which is located all over the world. I have no
> residence."

 

[Darat]

Can a judge in a USA court deem that the defendant is insane and have him detained indefinitely in a secure hospital?

 

[Cleon]

Can a judge in a USA court deem that the defendant is insane and have him detained indefinitely in a secure hospital?

A qualified "yes."

The defendant himself would have to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. Sometimes the defense attorney can do this without the defendant's express permission, but it's really tough, and the public defender probably isn't all that motivated to try. He would have to say that the defendant is not competent to stand trial, and there would be a series of psychological/psychiatric interviews with Hovind followed by a hearing.

Even then, the judge probably couldn't swing "indefinite" detention unless Hovind is a huge danger to himself and/or others (i.e., a murder trial). At most he would be remanded to a hospital for a few years and then released pending a positive psych evaluation.

 

[Zep]

Skeptic, that's hilarious!

I'd love to ask his bank manager where the $250,000 prize money is for his "world-famous challenge" to skeptics. My bet is that it is floating at a marina in Bermuda.