Karen Kline
Santa Fe, NM 87505
Ralph Castillo
Inspector
Department of the Treasury, IRS
Internal Security
P.O. Box 25458
Phoenix, AZ 65002
Dear Mr. Castillo,
I'm not going to thank you for your visit only because I'm trying to
get out of the habit of thanking people since the words and the
process have come to be the opposite of the words and meaning
that are their origin. The word thank comes From the Greek word,
think. Thus originally it meant thinking about someone, holding
them in your thoughts as a result of something they said or did.
Today we use the words at the beginning of letters, “Thank you
for,” and with that dismiss whatever it was. I don’t want to dismiss
things anymore that people did that are of value to me. In the case
of your visit, it indicates that someone, Mr. Skadden, actually heard
a letter that I wrote.
From the content of what you said, it sounds as if you can’t do
anything to alter the situation now that it is so extremely bad, in
terms of helping me, but perhaps, having seen this you will see that
this is not a good thing to do to people. By that I mean that if IRS
has levied me three times, and each of those times there was
something deeply wrong in what they did and how they did it, then
we have to consider that this is happening to a percentage of the 2.3
million people who are levied in a year. And there is mostly nothing
the poor ones of us can do to protect ourselves.
The reason I am writing to you, rather than Mr. Roybal, is that you
recognized immediately when I showed you the crimped pipe that it
was not a good job, whereas Mr. Roybal’s face did not register this.
Also, you seemed to be the person with the driving energy of the
visit.
Now, I'm glad you gave me your card with your address, since it
occurred to me after you left that IRS would say they had offered
me a chance to meet with them besides the chance described in the
letter of which I gave you a copy. The other chance involved,
however, the same man I was telling you about, the one who holds
the mortgage on my six hundred square foot condo, who would
take it in a moment if I fall the requisite amount behind to allow him
to do that. I believe this to be the case since he asked me when he
could take it. Also, I once did a real estate transaction with him and
at closing he said he would not close unless there was a concession
from . . . and so my commission was cut. I wasn't actually at the
closing, since I was in England at the time, I mentioned to you that
my son is there, but the fact is that his tactic saved him money,
even if it was rather tacky. (I wonder if that's where the word
“tacky” comes from . . . tactic. Nope, tactics comes from the
Greek, tacky from “an inferior horse," as per American Heritage
Dictionary.)
Okay, so following the November 16, 1994 letter enclosed,
Richardson's office arranged with this man that he would meet with
me and IRS. Now, the problem inherent in this is that at this time
Richardson's office and this man were negotiating a lease. The man
was at that time their landlord. He had an interest in doing them a
favor so as to keep them as a tenant, since he was also raising their
rent and they were considering moving which later they did. From
my point of view, a meeting of this nature would put me in a very
questionable situation, since from my previous meeting with IRS I
knew I could not trust them or their word, from my previous
dealings with this man, my “friend" I could not believe he would
put my interest before his own, and from the letter written by
Richardson's office, they clearly had no understanding of the basic
problems involved. I mean, I had written to Richardson's office
after my meeting with Damian Ackerman--who had said people call
him Dan, so that I sometimes refer to him as Dan Ackerman--
saying that he had not kept his word, and Richardson's office did
not object to his behavior. By this time I had heard Richardson's
people say more than once, “You can’t change IRS, just pay
them.” In view of that attitude, I could see they weren't going to
even attempt to help me. In fact, they appeared to be helping IRS.
Now, it is interesting that the evening of the day of your visit
Frontline ran a program entitled Do You Want to Buy a President.
It featured a lot of information on big political contributors, Archer
Daniels Midland: a Mr. Andreas, though I am unsure of the spelling
of his name, the Gallo wine people, Mr. Lintner, again I am unsure
of the spelling, who has Chiquita bananas among other things. In
the case of Gallo, a large contribution went to Dole, and Dole wrote
and saw passed a bit of tax code that provided for Gallo to get more
money to Gallo heirs than would otherwise have been the case. I
believe that particular contribution was for $50,000, but it may have
been more. There were many instances of this kind of thing cited
by the program, so that I was even more sure that my little yellow
cards, "Whatever you do, don’t vote for Dote,” are worth
distributing. And it also explains how there can be over 7,000,000
words in the tax code when the Bible only has 730,000 according to
Steve Forbes. (I mentioned this to you.)
Do you see what I'm getting at? 1 don't have the money to hire a
lawyer to protect myself from IRS, but Mr. Gallo and others can
pay $50,000 at a whack to protect themselves in very specific
legislation to favor their interests.
Which brings me to the problem of Rosemary Abascal and Betsy
Donnelly and Jeanne Kearney.and Damian Akerman, versus IRS as
a whole. While I object to the way these individual people treated
me, I believe the problem was that IRS sanctions their behavior.
Thus, they are not as much to blame as the people are who should
have been directing them to behave in a good way as opposed to
such a destructive way, people who should have been directing
them to correct their errors rather than blaming the taxpayer.
When I say that, I specifically think about how when I sent in my
911 form, I sent a copy of it to Austin and later I sent a copy to
IRS in Dallas, because I was trying to get it to someone impartial
the way the form itself says it will go to someone impartial. But
despite all my efforts, it did not go to someone impartial It went to
someone who said, Oh, I know all about this, and we are right.
IRS is right. I've known that for a long time, so to speak. I made
up those words, but they reflect the spirit of what was actually said
to me. I wrote down what was being said to me as it was being
said, and I am enclosing a copy of that, which is the September 30,
1994 letter with notes in the margins.
Now, while I believe that you did indeed come to help me, I also
cannot help but note that when it came to specific questions, Mr.
Roybal asked me if I had any weapons, to which I replied no, that it
was not my intention to harm anyone else, though it surprised me
how many people suggested to me that I should get a gun, meaning
I should kill the people who are hurting me before I kill myself.
However, this is not what I think. At the same time, neither of you
asked me for the names of the people who had told me the IRS
agent behaved as if she had "a personal vendetta” against me. I
would have thought you would have asked that question if you
were interested in investigating the problem. You see, I know that
one of the people is someone who called IRS and spoke with this
woman. It was not a person who owed me money, meaning that
therefore this is not a person whose name you have by virtue of the
fact IRS was initiating contact.
And finally, the reason I was having a hard time comprehending
who it was whom I had written to, who had initiated your visit, is
that I was certain it must be someone within IRS, someone from
the Inspector General's office down, since I had written to Valerie
Lau on October 13 and October 14. For some reason, when I wrote
those letters I had expected them to bring some sort of true look at
the problem. But that had not happened. I had had a call from a
young woman in Albuquerque who said, as IRS had always said,
that they had looked into the problem and there was no problem
and sorry for the inconvenience, if any. I had replied that what they
had done to me was not an “inconvenience” and they owed me for
what they had wrongly destroyed. She had sounded nervous after I
said that and I remember thinking that she also sounded very young.
And, a Mr. Leaf in California had written to me saying that they
would refer my problem to IRS in Washington. I wrote back to him
saying I really objected to him sending my problem to IRS, who
had been saying they were right for years, and that I also objected
to him replying to me on an unfolded sheet of paper, that he mailed
in a large brown envelope with 52 cents postage, almost double
what would have been needed had he simply folded the sheet of
paper. I said this upset me because when IRS took all of my
money, they didn’t leave me any, not enough to buy an apple and
here he was acting as if that amount of money was nothing.
I just reviewed that letter, and in fact what I did was send him a
copy of a letter to the National Taxpayers Union in which I said
that referring my problem back to IRS was like referring the people
on the commuter train to Colin Ferguson, since each of them,
Ferguson and IRS, in their own mind thought they were innocent.
So now I figure that telling you that's how I felt and what I thought,
that IRS is that completely dangerous, you will no longer by
sympathetic to me, if indeed you were. But here's the thing, if I'd
already tried really hard to get the system to have you, so to speak,
take a look at this, and my efforts failed, then what hope is there?
I must emphasize to you that I wanted the system to have sent you,
because I wanted to believe that the system wasn't all bad. But it
didn't, IRS did not take that step. I see it this way, only when I
went to an outside group, the American Tax Policy Institute did the
proper action follow. And how many people of the 2.3 million who
are levied in a year, are going to spend hours at the library looking
for addresses of people to whom they can write? I would venture to
guess that the less money these people have, who are levied, and
the more children depending on them, the fewer of them will be
able to spend that time.
Here's another thing, if I hadn’t decided to kill myself, then when
you had knocked on my door and were outside you might have
seemed like a further threat. But once I plan to kill myself, you
really can’t threaten me a whole lot. I'm saying that I already feel as
if IRS is killing me, so what more can they do that's worse? Kill me
sooner? Cause me more of the pain they've already been causing
me?
Once I talked with you for awhile I felt that perhaps you were here
to help. But I have no idea what I think that means, since as I say, I
think the system has gone pretty far wrong. What are you going to
do about Valerie Lau ignoring, me?
Send flowers to my funeral. Though in fact 1 believe that what will
happen is what happened to my office manager, he was cremated at
minimal cost and thrown to the wind. I don’t know whether you
know it but the calcium in bones makes them a bit pebble-like, they
stay underfoot. Meaning that even in the image, I will not disperse
and be gone. This has to be dealt with, because it is wrong that the
country has done this.
Sincerely,
Karen Kline
Copy to Mr. Skadden
Santa Fe, NM 87505
Ralph Castillo
Inspector
Department of the Treasury, IRS
Internal Security
P.O. Box 25458
Phoenix, AZ 65002
Dear Mr. Castillo,
I'm not going to thank you for your visit only because I'm trying to
get out of the habit of thanking people since the words and the
process have come to be the opposite of the words and meaning
that are their origin. The word thank comes From the Greek word,
think. Thus originally it meant thinking about someone, holding
them in your thoughts as a result of something they said or did.
Today we use the words at the beginning of letters, “Thank you
for,” and with that dismiss whatever it was. I don’t want to dismiss
things anymore that people did that are of value to me. In the case
of your visit, it indicates that someone, Mr. Skadden, actually heard
a letter that I wrote.
From the content of what you said, it sounds as if you can’t do
anything to alter the situation now that it is so extremely bad, in
terms of helping me, but perhaps, having seen this you will see that
this is not a good thing to do to people. By that I mean that if IRS
has levied me three times, and each of those times there was
something deeply wrong in what they did and how they did it, then
we have to consider that this is happening to a percentage of the 2.3
million people who are levied in a year. And there is mostly nothing
the poor ones of us can do to protect ourselves.
The reason I am writing to you, rather than Mr. Roybal, is that you
recognized immediately when I showed you the crimped pipe that it
was not a good job, whereas Mr. Roybal’s face did not register this.
Also, you seemed to be the person with the driving energy of the
visit.
Now, I'm glad you gave me your card with your address, since it
occurred to me after you left that IRS would say they had offered
me a chance to meet with them besides the chance described in the
letter of which I gave you a copy. The other chance involved,
however, the same man I was telling you about, the one who holds
the mortgage on my six hundred square foot condo, who would
take it in a moment if I fall the requisite amount behind to allow him
to do that. I believe this to be the case since he asked me when he
could take it. Also, I once did a real estate transaction with him and
at closing he said he would not close unless there was a concession
from . . . and so my commission was cut. I wasn't actually at the
closing, since I was in England at the time, I mentioned to you that
my son is there, but the fact is that his tactic saved him money,
even if it was rather tacky. (I wonder if that's where the word
“tacky” comes from . . . tactic. Nope, tactics comes from the
Greek, tacky from “an inferior horse," as per American Heritage
Dictionary.)
Okay, so following the November 16, 1994 letter enclosed,
Richardson's office arranged with this man that he would meet with
me and IRS. Now, the problem inherent in this is that at this time
Richardson's office and this man were negotiating a lease. The man
was at that time their landlord. He had an interest in doing them a
favor so as to keep them as a tenant, since he was also raising their
rent and they were considering moving which later they did. From
my point of view, a meeting of this nature would put me in a very
questionable situation, since from my previous meeting with IRS I
knew I could not trust them or their word, from my previous
dealings with this man, my “friend" I could not believe he would
put my interest before his own, and from the letter written by
Richardson's office, they clearly had no understanding of the basic
problems involved. I mean, I had written to Richardson's office
after my meeting with Damian Ackerman--who had said people call
him Dan, so that I sometimes refer to him as Dan Ackerman--
saying that he had not kept his word, and Richardson's office did
not object to his behavior. By this time I had heard Richardson's
people say more than once, “You can’t change IRS, just pay
them.” In view of that attitude, I could see they weren't going to
even attempt to help me. In fact, they appeared to be helping IRS.
Now, it is interesting that the evening of the day of your visit
Frontline ran a program entitled Do You Want to Buy a President.
It featured a lot of information on big political contributors, Archer
Daniels Midland: a Mr. Andreas, though I am unsure of the spelling
of his name, the Gallo wine people, Mr. Lintner, again I am unsure
of the spelling, who has Chiquita bananas among other things. In
the case of Gallo, a large contribution went to Dole, and Dole wrote
and saw passed a bit of tax code that provided for Gallo to get more
money to Gallo heirs than would otherwise have been the case. I
believe that particular contribution was for $50,000, but it may have
been more. There were many instances of this kind of thing cited
by the program, so that I was even more sure that my little yellow
cards, "Whatever you do, don’t vote for Dote,” are worth
distributing. And it also explains how there can be over 7,000,000
words in the tax code when the Bible only has 730,000 according to
Steve Forbes. (I mentioned this to you.)
Do you see what I'm getting at? 1 don't have the money to hire a
lawyer to protect myself from IRS, but Mr. Gallo and others can
pay $50,000 at a whack to protect themselves in very specific
legislation to favor their interests.
Which brings me to the problem of Rosemary Abascal and Betsy
Donnelly and Jeanne Kearney.and Damian Akerman, versus IRS as
a whole. While I object to the way these individual people treated
me, I believe the problem was that IRS sanctions their behavior.
Thus, they are not as much to blame as the people are who should
have been directing them to behave in a good way as opposed to
such a destructive way, people who should have been directing
them to correct their errors rather than blaming the taxpayer.
When I say that, I specifically think about how when I sent in my
911 form, I sent a copy of it to Austin and later I sent a copy to
IRS in Dallas, because I was trying to get it to someone impartial
the way the form itself says it will go to someone impartial. But
despite all my efforts, it did not go to someone impartial It went to
someone who said, Oh, I know all about this, and we are right.
IRS is right. I've known that for a long time, so to speak. I made
up those words, but they reflect the spirit of what was actually said
to me. I wrote down what was being said to me as it was being
said, and I am enclosing a copy of that, which is the September 30,
1994 letter with notes in the margins.
Now, while I believe that you did indeed come to help me, I also
cannot help but note that when it came to specific questions, Mr.
Roybal asked me if I had any weapons, to which I replied no, that it
was not my intention to harm anyone else, though it surprised me
how many people suggested to me that I should get a gun, meaning
I should kill the people who are hurting me before I kill myself.
However, this is not what I think. At the same time, neither of you
asked me for the names of the people who had told me the IRS
agent behaved as if she had "a personal vendetta” against me. I
would have thought you would have asked that question if you
were interested in investigating the problem. You see, I know that
one of the people is someone who called IRS and spoke with this
woman. It was not a person who owed me money, meaning that
therefore this is not a person whose name you have by virtue of the
fact IRS was initiating contact.
And finally, the reason I was having a hard time comprehending
who it was whom I had written to, who had initiated your visit, is
that I was certain it must be someone within IRS, someone from
the Inspector General's office down, since I had written to Valerie
Lau on October 13 and October 14. For some reason, when I wrote
those letters I had expected them to bring some sort of true look at
the problem. But that had not happened. I had had a call from a
young woman in Albuquerque who said, as IRS had always said,
that they had looked into the problem and there was no problem
and sorry for the inconvenience, if any. I had replied that what they
had done to me was not an “inconvenience” and they owed me for
what they had wrongly destroyed. She had sounded nervous after I
said that and I remember thinking that she also sounded very young.
And, a Mr. Leaf in California had written to me saying that they
would refer my problem to IRS in Washington. I wrote back to him
saying I really objected to him sending my problem to IRS, who
had been saying they were right for years, and that I also objected
to him replying to me on an unfolded sheet of paper, that he mailed
in a large brown envelope with 52 cents postage, almost double
what would have been needed had he simply folded the sheet of
paper. I said this upset me because when IRS took all of my
money, they didn’t leave me any, not enough to buy an apple and
here he was acting as if that amount of money was nothing.
I just reviewed that letter, and in fact what I did was send him a
copy of a letter to the National Taxpayers Union in which I said
that referring my problem back to IRS was like referring the people
on the commuter train to Colin Ferguson, since each of them,
Ferguson and IRS, in their own mind thought they were innocent.
So now I figure that telling you that's how I felt and what I thought,
that IRS is that completely dangerous, you will no longer by
sympathetic to me, if indeed you were. But here's the thing, if I'd
already tried really hard to get the system to have you, so to speak,
take a look at this, and my efforts failed, then what hope is there?
I must emphasize to you that I wanted the system to have sent you,
because I wanted to believe that the system wasn't all bad. But it
didn't, IRS did not take that step. I see it this way, only when I
went to an outside group, the American Tax Policy Institute did the
proper action follow. And how many people of the 2.3 million who
are levied in a year, are going to spend hours at the library looking
for addresses of people to whom they can write? I would venture to
guess that the less money these people have, who are levied, and
the more children depending on them, the fewer of them will be
able to spend that time.
Here's another thing, if I hadn’t decided to kill myself, then when
you had knocked on my door and were outside you might have
seemed like a further threat. But once I plan to kill myself, you
really can’t threaten me a whole lot. I'm saying that I already feel as
if IRS is killing me, so what more can they do that's worse? Kill me
sooner? Cause me more of the pain they've already been causing
me?
Once I talked with you for awhile I felt that perhaps you were here
to help. But I have no idea what I think that means, since as I say, I
think the system has gone pretty far wrong. What are you going to
do about Valerie Lau ignoring, me?
Send flowers to my funeral. Though in fact 1 believe that what will
happen is what happened to my office manager, he was cremated at
minimal cost and thrown to the wind. I don’t know whether you
know it but the calcium in bones makes them a bit pebble-like, they
stay underfoot. Meaning that even in the image, I will not disperse
and be gone. This has to be dealt with, because it is wrong that the
country has done this.
Sincerely,
Karen Kline
Copy to Mr. Skadden
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