More on Hovind
Jennifer Epstein has a sympathetic account of Kent Hovind’s sentencing. Interesting if you want to know more about what happened aside from the actual sentencing.
And the Pensacola News Journal has a delightfully snarky editorial entitled “Earth to ‘Dr. Dino’: Please pay your taxes and start facing reality”:
In court, Hovind offers the judge a deal: Release him and he will stop suing the government.
Hovind blames his problems on lawyers, another pastor, the Internal Revenue Service. His own sins are minor.
“I forgot to dot some i’s and cross some t’s,” he said.
And apparently he really is as stupid as all that:
He talked tough in telephone conversations from Escambia County Jail, where he was held while waiting to be sentenced Friday on 58 charges.
Although phones include warnings that conversations are recorded, he didn’t mince words as he ran up eight hours of calls per week.
He vowed to “make life miserable” for the IRS, keep suing the government and promote his cockamamie theory that he’s tax-exempt.
This call will be monitored, and not just for quality assurance purposes. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say may be used against you.