-Caveat Lector- http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a81da832b33.htm White House Gunman Was Fired by IRS WASHINGTON (AP) - Robert Pickett, who was shot outside the White House gates Wednesday after brandishing a handgun, is an Evansville, Ind., accountant who sued the government after being fired from his IRS job. Neighbors said he kept to himself and resented the tax agency. Police said Pickett had no criminal record but was once reported missing by his father in 1993 - an investigation that was suspended when Pickett resurfaced. Neighbors said the 47-year-old man was quiet, friendly and lived alone in the home his parents once owned before their deaths. "I don't recall that there were ever any cars coming in to visit or any people associating with him. He was really always by himself," said Marwan Wafa of Racine, Wis., who lived across the street from Pickett for seven years before moving last summer. An unopened newspaper from Sunday was on the front porch Wednesday of Pickett's modest two-story white house in a middle-class neighborhood in Evansville. Neighbors reacted with shock. "I was really surprised. As far as I knew, he was an outstanding neighbor," said Lewis Gates, who last saw Pickett in December. Joseph Yocum, the Evansville attorney who represented Pickett in his case against the Internal Revenue Service, said his former client was fired in the mid-1980s from a job with the tax agency. "They said he wasn't doing his job properly and having trouble with attendance," Yocum told The Associated Press in an interview. Yocum added "I understand he did" have mental problems as well. Pickett lost the appeal of his firing and later acted as his own attorney and filed a federal lawsuit in 1994 against the agency and several other federal officials, Yocum said. That lawsuit claimed, among other things, that the firing violated Pickett's constitutional rights, Yocum said. Records show a judge dismissed the lawsuit at the IRS' request and that Pickett had four other lawsuits in federal court. Mike Jewel, who lives next door to Pickett, said the accountant continued to be angry with the IRS after the litigation. "I could tell he was aggravated by the tax system and the IRS sometimes," Jewel told AP. Jewel said his florist shop had hired Pickett to do their payroll accounting work. He echoed the observations of several neighbors, saying Pickett "never talked about a personal life and I never saw him with anybody. I think he lived a very secluded and lonely life." Pickett lives in the same home where his parents did before they died. His mother died in 1987; his father in 1995, according to death records. Pickett kept his house and lawn neat and frequently jogged at night, Gates said. Evansville police said Pickett had no criminal record and that Secret Service agents were seeking a search warrant for his home. Betty Perry, who works for an Indiana child advocate service that is in the same building where Pickett worked recently, said an attorney came by Tuesday to ask about Pickett, fearing he had disappeared. "I'm so stunned because he's a really nice man," Perry said. She described him as "a very gentle, quiet man." Dana Northington, a neighbor, said he saw Pickett Tuesday as he pulled out of his garage about 4:30 p.m. Evansville Police Capt. Bill Welcher said police looked for Pickett's car at Evansville airport, but didn't find it. He said police were looking for car in Washington. Alvin Hayes, spokesman for the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, said Pickett had no violations listed on his driver's license. Doug Davidoff, spokesman for the Indiana Democratic Party, said public election records showed Pickett registered to vote in 1992 but did not cast a ballot and has not voted since. Wafa, the former neighbor, said he frequently talked with Pickett when both were outside working in their yards but never heard him express any political opinions. "He was very quiet very reserved," said Wafa. "He was a hard working person." ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: *Michael Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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