REFUSAL TO PAY TAX
Nuremberg Trial Finding Cited BURNEY (California), April 18 A California couple is relying on a Nuremberg war crime trial finding in claiming they need legally pay only 40 per cent, of their 1961 Federal income tax. Mr and Mrs Roy Kepler refused to pay the other 60 per cent, because they said most of it would be spent for military preparation, United Press International reported.
In a letter mailed with his return, Kepler said that dur. ing the Nuremberg trials, judges had held that “every person has the duty to refuse to take part in crimes against humanity ... on both moral and legal grounds.” Kepler, father of four small children and owner of a book store near Stanford University, said neither he nor his wife was willing to co-oper-ate in preparations for war.
He said the United States was preparing “new and ever more diabolical ways to kill, burn, radiate and destroy men, women and children by the millions. We prefer to work with Americans who believe . that peace must be made through nonviolent alternatives to war,” he said.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29803, 21 April 1962, Page 14
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