ONE IN A MILLION
"Pat Shannan uses the truth to create wonderful fiction."
George Hansen, Seven term, U.S. Congressman
One in a Million is much more than "An IRS Travesty," as advertised on the cover. It would be more accurate to call it
a love story, a murder mystery, a portrait of violent retaliation, and an expose' of suppressed information - all wrapped
up into one. This historical novel revolves around the real tax fight carried on by the American citizenry during the 1980s and depicts the depths of deception to which their adversary, the Internal Revenue Service, will sink in order to preserve its hoax.
On Friday, July 7, 2000, USA Today ran a full page advertisement, an open letter to "We the People," explaining the mountain of evidence proving that most American citizens are not required to file an income tax return and cannot even do so without waiving their constitutional rights. These arguments are so legally sound that several researchers have offered rewards of upwards of $50,000 to anyone who can prove them wrong. Following more than a decade of such highly publicized offers, there have been no takers.
Former IRS/CID gun-toter Joe Banister of California quit his $76,000 agent's position after discovering he was enforcing non-laws and upon the refusal of his superiors to answer his penetrating questions. INS Officer Gary Phillips, the office supervisor at the SeaTac Airport for nearly twenty years, was driven into seclusion out of fear for his life. His crime? He wrote letters to Janet Reno and more than a hundred other judges and legislators, asking the wrong questions. Literally hundreds of thousands of Americans are languishing in federal penitentiaries around the nation as political prisoners because they challenged the validity of the IRS.
In truth, the Federal Reserve and the Internal Revenue Service are twin sisters of deception and were both foisted on the American people in the same year - 1913. Stop and think: If the federal government can create all the paper and credit it needs for whatever whim, then what need does it have for taxes? Since June 24, 1968, the last day one could redeem his paper money for specie, there has no such thing as "taxpayer's money." It is all government money. Consequently, the citizens don't fund the government anymore and the whole taxing scheme is a charade. Americans must be led to believe that they are supporting government in order to maintain the sham. The bureaucracy flourishes while private business deteriorates.
Actually, there are but two reasons for the income tax. One is to maintain a government dossier on all of the citizens and the other is to "vacuum up" the excess credit each year in order to prevent hyperinflation.
In One in a Million, Brock Freeman, a self-made millionaire real estate developer in Kansas City, discovers the hypocrisy after someone inside the IRS changes his 1040 form to reflect an extra tax of some $200,000. During Brock's research to discover these well-hidden truths, he also uncovers a rogue team of killers within the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service. This secret "hit squad" is murdering patriots in a dozen different states and takes its private orders from a highly placed official inside the IRS headquarters in Washington. Brock, with his Christian principles soundly instilled since youth, is reluctant to move forcibly against this faction until his life is devastated by their violent actions, and he must graduate from passive to active resistance.
He enlists the aid of two willing and very able confederates. Bowie Crockett, a mountain of a man at 6'8" and 300 pounds, is a former CIA operative from the jungles of the Golden Triangle and Central America. Bill Banneker is a wiry little Black man from Indianapolis with the cunning of a weasel. He has never filed an income tax form, never applied for a social security number, and never been fingerprinted.
The havoc created by this unusual coalition is devastating to their enemy. One in a Million is 280 pages of both thrilling drama and priceless education. A page-turner that you simply cannot put down. You will find yourself wondering just exactly where does the real life end and the fiction start or vice versa.
IRS GETS WHAT'S COMING
By Fred Lingel
Although Pat Shannan is best known as an investigative journalist who deals in facts, what many of Pat’s readers don’t know is that he is also the author of a fascinating, fast-moving novel that tackles one of the most controversial subjects in the American political arena today: the corrupt and un-Constitutional U.S. tax system and the ugly collection agency for the banker-controlled Federal Reserve System known as the Internal Revenue Service, an out-of-control police state agency that has terrorized Americans for generations.
Entitled One in a Million: An IRS Travesty, the book is 270 pages of hard-hitting and well-written drama, telling the harrowing story of a successful American businessman and devoted family man who found his life turned upside down by corrupt IRS insiders after he dared to delve—like other patriots—into researching the history of our tax system and its insidious origins.
Although the book is a novel, it is founded on truth, in more ways than one. Without ever once interfering with his course of telling a slam-bang story, Pat effectively weaves into the narrative factual data about the IRS and the Federal Reserve conspiracy and other little-known aspects of American and world history. Pat’s inspiration for the book was a real-life case of IRS treachery that led to the suicide of a good and decent American woman, Chavala Warman, in whose memory the book is dedicated.
However, be warned: this is not a book for those who like to think that “our” government is good and that the IRS is just another government agency that’s trying to keep our system running. One in a Million describes how a gutsy group of Americans from all walks of life—a colorful collection of hard-driving patriots—decided that it was time to turn the tables on the IRS and give it a dose of its own medicine.
The IRS will not like people reading this book, because it might give them ideas that the IRS might not like. But if the IRS had not assembled such an ugly record, then people would not be inclined to think nasty things about the IRS thugs who make a living seizing people’s homes and automobiles and furniture and family heirlooms.
And in Pat’s book, rest assured, more than a few IRS “seizure specialists” lose a lot—including one who literally loses his head.
You’ll find yourself alternately amused and horrified as you read this book, and you might even find yourself cheering out loud as the patriots give it to the IRS thugs and give it to them good. Pat’s writing style is fluid and the book moves swiftly as Shannan recounts the clever and methodical planning and measures undertaken by the patriots as they move against the IRS schemers they’ve targeted for special treatment.
The book is a dynamic combination of the best of Sylvestor Stallone’s Rambo and Rocky, Charles Bronson’s Death Wish, Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry and Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence all rolled up into one. You will love it.
Over the years, although there have been a lot of political novels, the amazing thing is that very few writers in the patriot movement have dared to delve into this line of writing, perhaps because most patriots are so busy dealing with realities that they never have considered the possibility that those hard political realities can be effectively dealt with and effectively articulated in the form of a novel. So thanks to Pat Shannan for showing that it can be done and done well.
Some of the endorsements for the book are worth noting. For example, former U.S. Rep. George V. Hansen (R-Idaho)—long an outspoken critic of the IRS, for which reason he was politically targeted by the Justice Department and jailed on trumped-up corruption charges that were later overturned--but only after he spent a year in prison—had this to say: “Pat Shannan uses the truth to create wonderful fiction.” And Ted Gunderson, who retired as special agent in charge of the FBI office in Los Angeles, said that Shannan’s book “provides an insight into the inner workings of an evil international shadow government that affects our lives on a daily basis.” Coming from two individuals who were high-ranking figures in the American government and know whereof they speak, these endorsements mean a lot.
As good a novelist as any of those big-name authors who crank out best-sellers by the dozens, Shannan has contributed a real winner in the realm of political literature that would serve as a hallmark work, even if he had never written another word in his lifetime. You’ll enjoy this book. That’s a guarantee—and particularly if you don’t like paying taxes.
We won’t ruin the fun by telling you where or how Pat came up with title. That’s something you’ll have to find out for yourself. And that alone is worth the price of the book.
Read One in a Million. It is truly one in a million.
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