Editing Gordon Kahl (section)

==Early life==
Gordon Kahl was born in [[Wells County, North Dakota]], on January 8, 1920, to Frederick (1886–1953) and Edna (Laudenslager) Kahl (1892–1967). Kahl had three sisters and one brother. Raised on a farm,<ref name="richards">Don L. Richards, {{cite web|url=http://geocities.com/dangbob01/kahl.htm |title=''Death and Taxes'' |accessdate=October 11, 2010 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027113923/http://geocities.com/dangbob01/kahl.htm |archivedate=October 27, 2009 }} New York FLP News, No. 6, April 1984</ref> Kahl was a highly decorated [[gun turret| turret gunner]] during [[World War II]], shooting down ten enemy planes.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Wayne |last=King |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1DE163FF932A1575BC0A966958260 |title=A Farmer's Fatal Obsession With Jews and Taxes |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 21, 1990}}</ref> After the war, "he had a {{convert|400|acre|km2|adj=on}} farm near Heaton, Wells County, North Dakota,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sonictremormedia.com/gnd/heaton.html |title=Ghosts Of North Dakota |accessdate=2008-11-24 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828115157/http://www.sonictremormedia.com/gnd/heaton.html |archivedate=August 28, 2008 }}</ref> [but] bounced around the Texas oilfields in later life as a mechanic and general worker."<ref name="richards" />

In 1967, Kahl wrote a letter to the [[Internal Revenue Service]] stating that he would no longer "pay tithes to the [[Synagogue of Satan]] under the 2nd plank of the [[Communist Manifesto]]".<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|pages=51–52}} In 1975 Kahl organized the first [[Texas]] chapter of the Posse Comitatus and became the state coordinator. In 1976 he appeared on a Texas [[television program]] with fellow tax protester William M. Rinehart and stated that the [[Income tax in the United States|income tax]] was illegal and encouraged others not to pay their income taxes.{{Citation needed|date=August 2007}}