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...Hovind said he suspected he is being targeted because of his religious beliefs and questioned the timing of the raids a day before the April 15 tax-filing deadline.

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Originally posted by Maverick

How this affect the possibilities for me to discover the law of the pendulum in his "theme park"? :-)

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Now we get to the really disturbing part.

In another section of his site, Hovind explains why he doesn't pay income tax and why he declines to have a social-security number.

In explaining this, Hovind references the red and blue pills featured in the fantasy movie The Matrix. In the movie, Laurence Fishburn offers Keanu Reeves a red pill to wake up from a fictional illusion and join the real world, or a blue pill to remain in fantasy land. Hovind is one of the lucky ones who knows the truth. He has taken the red pill.

According to Hovind, a conspiracy of government leaders in the 1930s destroyed the United States government and created the UNITED STATES corporation. The all-caps denotation is important, because said leaders used the tricky new name to fool us "blue-pillers."

Then, these leaders invented social-security numbers to create "strawmen," mirror identities that exist on paper only but allow the government to tax us and pay the national debt. Of course, these strawmen are also spelled with all capital letters, just like they are on drivers' licenses and any other legal documents the government uses to trick people into signing away their lives.

This delusional theory is becoming very popular among right-wing Internet circles, and Hovind urges readers to distance themselves from their strawmen or entirely sever their connections with the government -- and reality, while they're at it.