Author Archives: Petros

We have set it up so that all subscribers at isaacbrocksociety.com will continue to receive a notice each time there is a new post at the isaacbrocksociety.ca.

At 2:30 pm, we will end the ability to make new posts and comments at isaacbrocksociety.com.  Every current author will also receive an email presently with a password to login to the new site at this page:  http://isaacbrocksociety.ca/wp-admin/

Good luck to us all.

UPDATE:  Mission accomplished at 3:00 pm.  All authors should have received an email with login information.  If anyone has not received their email, please send me a message:

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Please note that I’ve begun the process of moving this blog to isaacbrocksociety.ca.  Therefore, I have shut off comments on every post before 1 June 2012.  My goal is that by Tuesday evening, the blog will be completely moved to it’s new site.

Background

The Isaac Brock Society started as an informal group of Canadians who began meeting in person and through email to discuss their US tax and citizenship problems. Some of these people were taking part in a discussion at the Expat Forum in the Fall of 2011. I was in contact with one of them because she had commented on my blog, and when I saw what she was involved in a lively discussion at Expat Forum, I joined in there.

Then, we started to see censorship at the Expat Forum, followed by censorship of attempts to discuss openly the censorship. A whole new genre was born: the Expat Forum moderator joke, but I digress.  I was horrified by the Expat Forum’s censorship of our important discussion. So I reached out to some of the people affected by it, and suggested that we begin a new site where we were in control. Then, I was brought into an e-mail conversation of five other Brockers. We decided to start this site at WordPress.com because I offered to administrate it and (1) WordPress.com was what I knew how to do; (2) WordPress blogs are great a product; (3) I didn’t know how to do a forum or run forum software; (4) it was cheap (our current hosting costs have been $25 total).

The Issues

For awhile now, some people have urged me to leave WordPress.com.  Here are some of the issues, which have recently converged into a major headache for me and I’ve had to take some steps to address them this week:

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Don Whiteley asks what would happen if Kenya emulated the citizenship and taxation policies of the United States:

I offered a commentary on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, showing how the United States violates the letter and spirit of nearly every single right through its extra-territorial policiesof citizenship based taxation. For those who are sick of this, we probably have the basis of bringing a legitimate complaint against the United States at the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights.  Now, if we were to succeed in bringing a legitimate complaint, we could create a lot of bad publicity for Schumer, Boehner, Casey, Reed, Geithner, Shulman and Obama.  So I reproduce the complaint procedure here and I open up this question to discussion–What are the pros and cons? How should we go about doing this as a group?

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Is it bad in Obama’s America?  Yes it is, very bad.  Monty Pelerin who wrote with me the article “When government turns predator“, has written another post, “Government Extends Its Tyrannical Role As Predator“, in which he features the question of civil forfeiture.  Reading about this subject makes me wonder if God has put me in Canada for the same reason that he put Joseph in Egypt, “You intended it for evil but God intended it for good,” he said to his brothers who had sold him into slavery.  For Joseph went to Egypt, and as a result, was able to save his entire family–his aged father and his brothers who hated him, their wives, children and all the servants in their households.  Am I in Canada to be able to save my dear dad and my family from a crisis in the United States, when things go really bad there?

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Al Lewis, whose earlier story castigated rich people who expatriate, now has done an article telling the other side of the story.

Tax man makes it hard to be an American/ Commentary: Tough IRS rules hit the little guys hard

He interviews some guy named Peter Dunn and plugs his blog, the Isaac Brock Society.