There Are No Taxes In Eritrea; It's All Extortion Money!
17 August 2012
Op-Ed
To Whom It May Concern, especially Canada, The Netherlands, and the USA: Say all you want and give all the reasons in the world, Eritrea tyrant's financial transactions under the guise of exile tax are bare-naked criminal activities that must be arrested stat.
What taxes? What taxes are you talking about folks? There is/are no tax/taxes in Eritrea; it is all extortion money. Whatever money Eritrea tyrant collects from the people of Eritrea under the guise of tax is money collected by the barrel of the gun.
Eritrea tyrant Isias Afareki has no constitutional legitimacy, authority, or popular consent to collect taxes in Eritrea and anywhere else in the world and the tyrant cannot claim that and has not and did not invoke that either when he was confronted by Canada in this matter recently click here. The click renders the message "error 404 File Not Found' because the tyrant has removed and destroyed the file from his website for it was simply embarrassing, ridiculous, baseless, and an argument that would not hold water vis a vis the Canadian charges of extortion!
Common sense has it that: Where there are taxes there are laws, where there are laws there is a legislative body/parliament, and where there is a parliament there are elections, where there are elections there is a government, and where there is a government there is constitutional governance. None, absolutely none of the above exists in Eritrea that Eritrea tyrant Isias Afareki has turned into a Gangland!
Absent that, nothing but the barrel of the gun legitimizes or gives Eritrea tyrant the right to levy taxes from the people of Eritrea any where in the world. And that is broad daylight banditry, extortion par excellence, and extra-judicial means the tyrant may pursue only in his own backyard that he controls by the barrel of the gun. That alone, in and of itself, is more than enough grounds, not to speak of the incriminating findings of the UN Monitoring Group, to stop Eritrea tyrant from pursuing his criminal activities of exacting money under the guise of exile tax from citizens of Canada, The Netherlands, USA and anywhere else in the world.
Taxes are mandated by laws; laws that are enacted by a duly elected and constitutionally authorized legislative body. As stated above, that is not the case in Eritrea. There, the barrel of the gun mandates whatever money Eritrea tyrant levies under the guise of taxes. And that is plane banditry and robbery to say the least.
Where laws mandate taxes, it is every citizen's duty to pay taxes for evasion has severe legal consequences. It is not duty but extortion when citizens are asked/compelled to pay money mandated by the barrel of the gun.
Let it be clear, no one is talking about fees paid for consular services rendered by any consulate. That is legit for there is no free service. But what has people's salaries and taxes to do with that? Raising those issues is nothing but intimidation and threats to deny the services!
Enough is enough! Eritrea tyrant has gotten away with this criminal activity with impunity for over two decades. The Netherlands, Canada, USA and the rest of the international community cannot and must not allow such criminal activities of Eritrea tyrant to be pursued in their respective territories. Therefore, it behooves those nations to bring an immediate end to such shamelessly overt criminal activities by closing the tyrant's consulates and other offices, only effective way for that is the primary raison d'etre of the consulates.
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