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Show us the law!
by
Claude Bohn
“Our
Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it
teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the
Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law; it
invites every man to become a law unto himself.” – Supreme
Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis.
“The
law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it!
The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow
an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of
greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is
supposed to punish! - Frederic Bastiat, The Law
(1850).
“See
if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to
other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one
citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen cannot do
without committing a crime.” – Frederic Bastiat, The Law
(1850).
On
page 11A of the USA Today
newspaper for Feb. 16, 2001, a group calling itself the “We the People
Foundation for Constitutional Education” (www.givemeliberty.org)
had published a full page advertisement featuring 3 FORMER IRS
employees who have quit their lucrative jobs with that agency and, along
with a growing number of former and present IRS officers, attorneys,
Cerified Public Accountants, and retired judges, have asserted that:
1.)
There is NO LAW that requires most Americans to file a tax return,
pay the federal income tax nor have the tax withheld from their earnings.
2.)
In 1913, the 16th Amendment (the ‘income’ tax
Amendment) was fraudulently illegally declared to be ratified by a lame
duck Secretary of State days before leaving office.
3.)
Also in 1913, Congress created the Federal Reserve System, a
banking cartel organized by the largest private banks in the country. And,
by 1933, this cartel of PRIVATE BANKS (the Federal Reserve System) had
been granted the power to:
A.)
Fabricate money out of thin air,
B.)
Charge interest to the Government (i.e. – the
taxpayers) for the use of THE FED’S CURRENCY,
C.)
Receive taxes to pay the interest on the debt created, to be paid
with the American people’s gold and silver.
D.)
And that this was – and is – all done in clear violation of the
United States Constitution!
The
ad claims further, that:
4.)
Those who file a Form 1040 “voluntarily” waive (surrender)
their 5th Amendment right not to bear witness against
themselves; and that the IRS routinely violates citizens’ 4th
Amendment rights against illegal search and seizure without a warrant
issued by a court upon probable cause and supported by oath and
affirmation. IRS levies and seizures are unenforceable because the IRS is
UNABLE and UNWILLING to swear under oath that a law has been violated or
that there is probable cause of a violation.
5.)
Furthermore, the IRS, as standard operating procedure, routinely
violates citizens’ due process rights in its administrative procedures
and operates far outside the law. And the courts cannot be relied upon to
strike down such actions.
These
are some pretty serious charges – if true; wouldn’t you agree?
But,
before you follow the lead of the posturing politicians and their
sycophants in the mainstream media and dismiss these allegations out of
hand as preposterous, let me ask one question; wouldn’t you like to know
if any of these allegations are true? Even if they are not, it would
certainly go a long way towards providing peace of mind to those of us in
doubt. And it would seem, that, an answer to the simple and straight
forward question asked in the ad itself would be the very least that is
owed to the American taxpayer by their representatives and public
servants, namely, SHOW US THE LAW! Show us the law that requires American
citizens, living and working solely in the 50 states that make up the
Union, to file and pay “income” taxes on their wages. Simple, no? So
why won’t they do it? Their silence speaks volumes.
Additionally,
World Net Daily, an online publication, published a related article on
March 2, 2001 (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news
/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21899)
dealing with the recent phenomenon of employers refusing to deduct federal
income and payroll taxes from the paychecks of their employees because,
they assert, they are not required by law to do so. [Please see
Congressman Ron Paul’s comments regarding this subject as they apply to
the recent actions by the government regarding the seizure of the
Indianapolis Baptist Temple: (http://www.house.gov/paul/tst
/tst2001/tst022601.htm).
Again, the press and the politicians are - instead of investigating,
collecting and disseminating the truth - attempting to deny these actions
and allegations out of hand, while offering only vague and confusing
“justifications” for the “income” tax and dismissing these people
as “tax cheats,” thereby further clouding an already nebulous and
confusing subject and injecting more doubt.
Wouldn’t
you like to know the truth? After all, any LEGITIMATE government
needs revenues in order to carry out its LEGITIMATE duties and
functions, and I for one am happy to pay any such LEGITIMATE tax to
support those LEGITIMATE duties and functions; however, IF these
allegations are true, then, a great hoax, a FRAUD, has been
perpetrated upon the American people by their own government and their
representatives for well near a century now. Wouldn’t you like to know
the truth?
(Editor’s
note: While this is certainly
an interesting intellectual exercise, please note that, if you fail to pay
your taxes and are caught, the guns that will be pointed at you when the
police haul you off to jail will be very real.)
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