Aww! Levi Johnston Wants To Be A Flex-Daddy

Probably best if Levi Johnston does remain flexible. He'll be bending over in the azz for cash trade within two years. It's only a half-step down from what he's doing, now. Imagine how purrrfect Andy Sullivan's world will be when Johnston's doing gay porn for food? Andy wants to be the truf to your power, Levi! Bring it on home for daddy, boy!

Bristol Palin, the 19-year-old daughter of the former Republican vice presidential candidate, is seeking $22,750 - $1,750 a month - from her ex-fiance to cover the 13 months since the birth of their son, Tripp.

Johnston has paid $4,400 so far.

Thomas Van Flein, Bristol Palin's attorney, says she and Johnston appear to be making progress toward a fair resolution.

Comments

[LastRick]

I guess whoring himself out to the talk show circuit and adult magazines didn't pan out like he thought it would.

[Roger Knight]

I agree that Levi has been a bit of a lout. But like I keep saying, there is no excuse for violating the Constitution.

$1750 per month child support order. Enforceable by contempt proceedings, arrest and imprisonment, in direct violation of Article I Section 17 of the Alaska Constitution. Where during such contempt proceedings, the judge or commissioner often orders the noncustodial parent to make 3, 5, or 10 job contacts each week until he finds work, or to work at least 30 hours per week at whatever job can be found. In Levi's case, I guess he would have to turn tricks or sell cocaine to come up with $1750 per month if his Hollywood career peters out.

There is a reason the Constitution prohibits slavery and involuntary servitde. An order to pay child support is most certainly NOT a punishment for a crime whereof the party has been duly convicted.

If I was Levi's attorney, I would threaten to plead the Antipeonage Act, 42 USC 1994 and 18 USC 1581 and be LOUD about it.

It would not so much threaten the Palin family, they have plenty of money, the kid is not doing without. But it would blackmail the ENTIRE LEGAL SYSTEM because Peonage, 18 USC 1581, is a CRIME.

[Live Free Or Die]

But the NON-payment of court ordered child support IS a crime, with punishments being pretty much at the Court's discretion.
Maybe I should try to not pay my 'voluntary' income tax, because it violates the Antipeonage Act. Wonder how that would turn out?

[FeFe]

I thought Levi was entertaining the offer to be the second male prostitute in Nevada. Of course, he may choose gay p0rn to appease his fan base.

[Roger Knight]

LFOD, income tax is voluntary in this way: you can voluntarily choose not to earn income, and therefore not incur income tax liability. A child support order does not allow this option. The liability is IMPOSED, at an arbitrarily decided monthly rate not always based on reality or reason, and cannot be reduced merely because you reduced your income, even if the reason your income is reduced is because you got laid off from your job.

Where a court can acknowledge the loss of job, when it requires the noncustodial parent to seek employment and report back on such effort and to accept whatever job is offered, that is where everyone involved, including such judge, should be indicted for the crime defined by 18 USC 1581.

For if this is not involuntary servitude, then the 13th Amendment is a dead letter. And NO parent is protected by the Constitution, for all parents have a duty to support their children.

[Consumer Unit 5012]

Live Free Or Die: "Maybe I should try to not pay my 'voluntary' income tax, because it violates the Antipeonage Act. Wonder how that would turn out?"

Write us from prison and let us know how it goes.

(Scary thing is, there's lots of people who actually try legal shenanigans like that. Doesn't work too well for them.)

[Roger Knight]

5012, some people are thick like that! The easiest way to avoid paying income taxes is to simply not file a return! If you did not have an above the table job, there aren't these employer supplied W-3's to rat you out as having earned income. Below a certain level, you are not even required to file a return. But if you earned some income where the tax is withheld, you have to file a return if you want a refund.

These bozos will ask, "What statute or law says you have to pay an income tax?"

Title 26 United States Code. Constitutionally authorized by the 16th Amendment.

The 13th Amendment prohibits requiring someone to work. The 16th Amendment authorizes Congress to levy a tax on any income earned by any labor, which has to be voluntary to be lawful.

To say my argument about mandatory child support being prohibited by the Antipeonage Act and the 13th Amendment, is the same as saying income tax is similarly prohibited misses the obvious fact that the tax does not require employment, it merely taxes the wages earned by employment. The IRS does not require any person to earn any amount of money at all. A child support order, however, is a requirement to earn a certain level of income, and where that level can only be met by labor, it is a direct violation of the 13th Amendment.

I write this not so much as to convince LFOD, he is either a troll pulling our legs or one of those sad and confused souls so thick as to be incapable of comprehending concepts even as simple as the proposition that there are 64 square furlongs in a square mile. And yes I have met people to whom explaining that is impossible even while using a chessboard as a prop to illustrate the proposition.

I made these posts for the benefit of those readers who are capable of understanding simple propositions and the meaning of the words of the English language in which our laws are written.