Via ElfNinosMom today comes
the sad news that one of our
favorite Presidential candidates may have to drop out of the race due to government persecution.
Gene Dropping Out of Presidential Race?
Gene posted the following on his blog today:
IRS Finds Chapman
Well, the IRS has sent a letter to my employer to take my checks, down to $168 per week, so I’m off to new adventures. I’m praying about a walk in the desert to visit with God on the matter. Being a homeless man is attractive to me in the world we live in. Lots of homeless people come from IRS issues, I’ve found.
I’ll attend LP and CP events, as I can, but God has clearly opened up a new direction for me, and His priorities are gonna be #1.
Gene Chapman
Libertarian Man
ChapmanForPresident08.com
Honestly, I’m not surprised the IRS found him. They always do. Gene owes a lot of back taxes (he filed false returns saying he had zero income), and he tells people that if they follow his plan they can avoid paying taxes too. The fact that he reveals his work information on the internet probably didn’t help.
Of course, people do live on $168/week, and even support kids on that much money (or less). Gene doesn’t maintain a residence, and he has no dependents. He just doesn’t want to pay money to the IRS, so he quit his job. It’s kind of hard to feel sorry for him or anybody else in his position, to be honest, since he does have the option of working.
I would hate to see him homeless again, but of course he would be homeless by choice since he has the option of not quitting his job, and apparently the option of staying with his mother (in an audioblog, Gene said he’s having boxes shipped to her home). I’m sure most homeless people wish they had the luxury of those choices.
I say “homeless again” because it wouldn’t be the first time Gene was homeless by choice due to his tax problems. The last time, he was living in his very small dilapidated RV in a state park, and eating in homeless shelters and soup kitchens. While living under those conditions, he decided to set himself on fire at an IRS building.
Who knows what he’ll do this time, but he will definitely do something nutty because that’s his modus operandi whenever the IRS slaps a lien on his paycheck. It won’t surprise me at all if he ends up in another psychiatric hospital due to attempting to off himself in some bizarre manner.
All in all, the news brings me no pleasure whatsoever, and I can find no humor in it. I’m torn between feeling sorry for him, and thinking he made his own bed and now must lie in it. I guess I feel a little of both.
Either way, it will be difficult if not impossible for him to continue his campaign while homeless or wandering the desert. As Gene says, “We will see”.
Well, that saves the party from him at least. Hollist won’t campaign outside of the West Coast so that takes care of the crazies.
To paraphrase Richard M. Nixon, you may not have Gene Chapman to kick around anymore for very much longer.
Loser is as Loser does.
Pity smells like eucalyptus.
If he can’t shout a beer
who gives a fuck?
Were you at the Halliburton meeting with J.I.S.M. and Dick Cheney? And if so, are the rumors true?
Well, if he would have told the IRS what he needed for living expenses, he wouldn’t have the maximum levy brought against him. That said, if Chapman was smart enough to do that, he would have been smart enough to understand the plain language of Title 26.
One less nut job to eliminate before Denver, 2008.
Yours truly,
Mr. X
…what a maroon…
hi, Mr. X!
We’ve been looking for you.
I think Stuart wants you to write here, I sure would.
The Chapman obituary was premature, though, he’s still trying to run.
ChapmanForPresident08.com
For all the details, and check out the comments sections – they are the best part.
I didn’t know I was hiding or hard to find.
Last time I googled you I got some old blog you abandoned a long time ago, I think.
Actually that was the second-to-last time, I found some email address for you through your state party’s LP page and passed it on to Stuart, but I’m not sure if he ever wrote you or not or if it’s one that you check.
Anyway, good to see you here, hope you stick around.