I won’t take to heart the accusation that I hate the United States–a refrain from a commenter Adam West at Think Progress.  It is not surprising that those Homelanders who support Obama, see dissension on extra-territorial taxation, FATCA, and citizenship as unpatriotic.  As too often occurs, nationalism and political partisanship become mixed into an idolatrous blend.  Back when George W. Bush was president,  these same people often insisted that their protests against him were not unpatriotic. Who can forget Hillary Clinton’s passionate plea for the right to question the current administration?

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Some Americans disturb me. Yesterday, a commenter told me to eff-off on my timeline on Facebook. I had expressed opinions at Think Progress that he didn’t appreciate so he came over and told me to eff  myself (but he used the real f-word).  Later he took down his comment. Still, we cannot judge an entire country on the basis of isolated trolls on the internet, who may only be interested in writing offensive comments in order to piss you off. However, some months ago, I received  from a former US government employee a private email that mocked me because I am a Christian. Of course, this same man also scorned my views on his own blog (without mentioning me or the Isaac Brock Society by name), but to take it to the level of sending me a taunt to my personal email is somehow barbaric.   This former government employee undoubtedly has a very high opinion of himself. But why do these Americans drop the level of conversation to a child’s game, whereby they get their five-year old jollies? The man that told me to eff-off on Facebook claimed that he represented the majority of Americans, judging by the last two presidential elections.  So alleged US persons, please meet your persecutor: the Obama voter.

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I wonder when the arses that are leading the various nations of the world will stand up to the United States. For one, the Canadian government has claimed that they are powerless to change US law, and so they are working on an IGA to sell out Canadian citizens to the IRS. Why don’t they invoke international law?  Because they don’t have the balls, and until our leaders each get a pair, they are not worthy of our support.  The law in question is the Master Nationality Rule.  Here is an excerpt from a blog which shows that both FATCA and citizenship-based taxation are illegal according to international law (emphasis mine):

While nationality laws can be rather straight forward to those who lived in their native countries and never emigrated it can be confusing to those whose families had emigrated to different places over the generation or in a few cases those who marry people from different countries.

What many are unaware of is that there is something under International treaties called The Master Nationality Rule. It is listed under Article 4 of The Hague Convention on Certain Questions Relating to the Conflict of Nationality Laws of 1930. In terms of practical effect, it means that when a citizen is in the country of one of his two or more nationalities, that country has the right to treat that person as if he or she were solely a citizen or national of that country. This includes the right to impose military service obligations, require the person to enter and or exit the country using the country’s documentations, or to require an exit permit or other restrictions to leave the country. If any of the above is an issue there is little if anything the consulate of the person’s other country of citizenship can do as the Master Nationality Rule states that “a State may not afford diplomatic protection to one of its nationals against a state whose nationality such person also possesses.” The UK Home Office explains this rule as “the practical effect of this Article is that where a person is a national of, for example, two States (A and B), and is in the territory of State A, then State B has no right to claim that person as its national or to intervene on that person’s behalf.

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Anti-FATCA Campaign Picking Up Visibility in U.S., Canada!

As noted previously, one of the key advantages of proponents of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (“FATCA”) have had going for them is that almost no one in the United States knows much about FATCA. That’s why the “worst law most Americans have never heard of” continues to make headway, slow and uncertain though it is, despite its numerous fatal defects.

This “under the radar” advantage makes it all the easier for the U.S. Treasury Department to sell the supposed “inevitability” of complying with it to foreign governments and institutions, who wrong assume FATCA is a “done deal” in the United States.

Some recent developments put that advantage in doubt.

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Hey folks, this is hot off the Press Secrectary Jay Carney who said that Obama believes that the circumstances of one’s birth should not determine a person’s destiny.

He said this today during a press conference.  Can anyone dig up a video or a transcript?

UPDATE:  Here is something that WhatamI found from last February:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/12/president-barack-obamas-state-union-address

Tonight, let’s also recognize that there are communities in this country where no matter how hard you work, it’s virtually impossible to get ahead. Factory towns decimated from years of plants packing up. Inescapable pockets of poverty, urban and rural, where young adults are still fighting for their first job. America is not a place where chance of birth or circumstance should decide our destiny. And that is why we need to build new ladders of opportunity into the middle class for all who are willing to climb them.

US Tax By Default

Galloway interviews a certain Gwen (no last name to protect the innocent).

When it rains it pours.