The Winnipeg Sun from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada • 2

2wiNNIPEG SUN MONDAY OCTOBER 1 5 2001 TODAY IN THE Math-based language confounds courts Reaching Over 1B8OQO Manitobans Daily visit us at fyiwinnlpegcom BEDLAM BREAKFAST OP-ED CONNECT II SPORTS J1 SUNSHINE GIRI StX SPOTLIGHT MOVIESTV vu INDEX MISS LONELYHEARTS HOROSCOPE COMICS 47 ANNOUNCEMENTS 1 CtASSIFIEDS CROSSWORD SUNSHINEBCnr' WEATHER IMqrfeOutleali Mainly cloudy with scattered showers (pop 40XL High 7 EDMONTON fCPl apparently nonsensical language kmntBd by an Miencanwnocnms ik counsvp wars ana Drmg consensus io ralgiom is Niowlng up in Canadbn tax courts BS'BS MAAIa-l MAMImH MAIAUw-f LnTTEPV NtJMBEBS People hoping to dodge income taxes have recently frustrated judges across the Prairies by citing David Wynn noun-heavy phrases known as In The Truth Wynn Miller a legal scholar based in Milwaukee calls the language used in courts printed newspapers and taught in schools the court is Using fiction and the defendant is using fact the two cant Wynn Miller said in a telephone interview i Dantea Rosenberg protests outside Revenue Canada offices In IS During her mischief trial her incoherent speeches slumped the court guage which is peppered with odd punctuation The judge was not impressed when -Sereda 60 answered hinf' the sovereign hyphen authority of the Andrew hyphen William colon Sereda is for the stating of the authority of the Sereda who had been fined earlier for not filing a tax return was in court on a charge of foiling to comply with a order to co-operate with tax officials He later apologized in court and promised to shape up but could not be reached fin: comment cm whether he still uses the language In Winnipeg a judge in a recent mischief trial ordered a psychiatric assessment for Denise Rosenberg after she claimed that her status as a exempted her from prosecution in Canada Rosenberg and her husband had made similar arguments in -1999 before Revenue Canada seized all their belongings for tor of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation receives a few calls a year from tax dodgers who subscribe to similar beliefk While the federation would like to see taxes lowered or eliminated through constitutional methods Carpay said he cannot support people who call him with odd theories foiling to pay more than $1 million in back taxes Although she was found fit to stand trial on the mischief charge Rosenberg continued to stump courtroom officials with her incoherent speeches As in case several supporters came out to rally behind Rosenberg's cause including a translator who wanted to use language Paul and Myraa Schuck who live 30 kilometres north of Calgary spent 19 dajrs in jail in August after they tried unsuccessfully to use it to defend themselves on tax charges John Carpay Alberta direc 024 prV' CITY CYCLES iMeNt piMijiiiJAMIvt r-njTAnT-1 in (fif Ubb bHiiJBIN INAAnimbiWMi hews nhiii nnaiAiMMTjami NEWS FAX Ml-tm OPS J3Z-Z71! NEWS MBS I MAS MA UK lHil WwpHi iim MU DAWSON JIHSM AMI STJIOff JK-Z7K MngingBHoi QVEdfer JOHN BUBOH JB-ZJSI RACHEL MORGAN J3f-Z7l( ArAsMMndngEdfer HyBNor JOHNIBBU JS2-Z7U JAMES OXONNOR JK-ZM EfltaHnmenVSunAjfEdkr PMoEdtar MAM HAMM J8-Z7M FIMi nyriMi A3M774 Sports EdNor JB-Z7Z1 In recent cases Canadian judges have called the bizarre language and jailed its speakers for contempt or ordered them to undergo psychiatric tests Wynn Miller 52 created his mathematically based language more than two decades ago and calls its adherents the Universal Postal Union He claims to have thousands of students taught through the Internet and videotaped seminars in Vancouver Winnipeg Kelowna Edmonton and Montreal Earlier this month Calgary naturopath Andrew Sereda was jailed for contempt of court after addressing a judge in Wynn truth lan occasionally get a phone call from these people and they seem to enjoy arguing very he said Wynn Miller who been allowed into Canada to give his seminars for at least two yean says most people who contact him have tax problems But his true cause is to the anyone on the planet Earth ever gone to war over a math he asked There has never been a dispute over math It is absolute science Language is the court Is using fiction and the defendant Is using fact die two translate In The Truth creator David Wym Miller.