Mn Christian Coalition founder, anti-tax zealot, on the lam...

[MnFats]

Employees of Comtrol, a small computer products company in Maple Grove, had an unusual meeting in the firm's cafeteria Tuesday.
The CEO and company founder, Robert B. Beale, 63, was on the lam, an arrest warrant issued for his failure to appear in federal court for his trial Monday. On Tuesday, his son Bradford Beale, a company vice president, apologized to employees for what happened.

Over roughly seven years, Robert Beale has waged a legal war with the Internal Revenue Service and Minnesota Revenue Department, filing rambling explanations in court, citing God, the Constitution and obscure legal decisions. He even published a full-page ad in a newspaper to make his case.

"He is very smart," said Dan Scott, his lawyer. "He is very pleasant and urbane. ... And he is absolutely dedicated to his beliefs."

Beale, an engineer, is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a groundbreaking inventor of computer technology and the owner of a company with 70 employees and revenues of $12 million to $15 million a year, say family members.

He was a Minnesota delegate to the Republican National Convention in the 1980s, Bradford Beale said, and contributed more than $10,000 to Republican candidates in the 1990s, according to Federal Election Commission records. He founded the Minnesota Christian Coalition, which is affiliated with the politically oriented Christian Coalition of America.

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[liberalmuse]

1. Hmmm...

One tax evader in Minnesota and one pedophile in Oregon down, 48 more sleezy stories about Christian Coalition leaders breaking the law and committing acts of perversion yet to come.

[Ian David]

2. Render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar's, dumbass. n/t

[Odin2005]

3. It's about time they throw that nut in the clink.