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We The People Foundation For
Constitutional Education, Inc.
2458 Ridge Road, Queensbury, NY 12804
May 10, 2004
Hon. George W.
Bush VIA CERTIFIED RETURN RECEIPT
President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20500
Hon. John Kerry
VIA CERTIFIED RETURN RECEIPT
United States Senator
304 RUSSELL SENATE OFF BLDG
WASHINGTON DC 20510
Re: Petitions for Redress of Grievances
Dear President Bush and Senator Kerry:
The purpose of this letter is to
respectfully invite you (or a representative) to attend a symposium to be
held at the National Press Club on July 19, 2004, to address a few
questions derived from the People’s Petitions for Redress of Grievances
relating to the Iraqi Resolution and to the federal income tax system.
The symposium and this invitation
represent the appropriate next step in the People’s
on-going Petitions for Redress of Grievances relating to the Iraq
Resolution, the Patriot Act, the Income Tax and the Federal Reserve – a
Petition process that has yet to be respected by the government and which
portends unintended consequences of momentous proportions.
Thus far, our repeated
petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
On April 13, 2000, April 15, 2002
and again on November 8-12, 2002, you were served with Petitions for
Redress, signed by thousands of Americans, petitions that presented our
grievances and included our prayers for relief. Our grievances were each
supported by evidentiary proof of unconstitutional and illegal behavior by
the Executive and Legislative branches. Initially, the relief we requested
was merely answers to troubling questions.
On November 14, 2002, nearly one
thousand people from Massachusetts to Texas and beyond stood on the
National Mall to hear from your representatives when your experts would be
available to answer our questions. The event was webcast, live to
thousands more People.
As was the case with the earlier
delivery of our Petitions for Redress (when the leaders of the Executive
and Legislative failed to respond), neither of you sent a representative
to meet with the People on the Mall on November 14, 2002, nor did you
respond to the Petitions.
With compelling evidence that the
Executive and Legislative were acting without the consent of the People
and in spite of specific Constitutional prohibitions restricting such
acts, and having had their written Petitions for Redress of Grievances
ignored by the Executive and Legislative, the free People took their
Petition for Redress process one step further, as is their Right under the
Petition clause. The People began to enforce their Right by retaining
their money.
The Right of the People to enforce
their Rights by retaining their money is irrefutable: “When money is
wanted by rulers who have in any manner oppressed the People, they may
retain it until their grievances are redressed, and thus peaceably procure
relief, without trusting to the despised petitions or disturbing the
public tranquility.”
With our Founder’s guiding words the People have begun to retain their
money from their rulers until their grievances are redressed – that is,
until their questions are answered. If it were not for this fundamentally
protected Right of enforcement, there would be no other practicable
means for a free individual or a free minority to peaceably hold
the government accountable to the Constitution and, specifically, to
enforce the Right of Petition for Redress.
People, as earners of salaries,
wages and compensation for their labor, began to approach their public and
private corporations with requests to stop withholding money from their
paychecks and turning that money over to the IRS. All such requests were
in writing, were respectful and cited supporting law. While some
corporations agreed, the vast majority refused, without responding to the
legal evidence, but saying, “The IRS told us not to stop withholding.”
The Executive, with the
acquiescence of the Legislative and often with the cooperation of the
lesser courts, has been responding swiftly and harshly through
unwarranted, heavy-handed enforcement actions, routinely and grossly
violating the People’s due process Rights. The Richard Simkanin case in
the 5th Circuit and the 9th Circuit’s handling of
the Phil Hart case are prime examples of such tyrannical behavior, now
widespread across America.
Added to the oppressions the
People are experiencing at the hands of the Executive (with acquiescence
by the Legislature), as a result of the People’s Petition for Redress of
grievances relating to the “income” tax, are the mounting oppressions the
People are suffering as a result of the continued failure of the Executive
and Legislature to respond to the People’s Petition for Redress regarding
the war powers clauses of the Constitution and the Iraq Resolution.
The time has come for the People
to demand an end to prosecutions against citizens and businesses for
failing to file and failing to withhold the “income” tax. Not only is the
government expressly prohibited from directly taxing the labor of ordinary
Americans, but the government is now using the bread taken from the mouths
of these workers to (unconstitutionally) finance the application of the
armed forces in hostilities overseas, without a formal declaration of war.
For the People, the situation
has become intolerable. We know our Rights. We know our Rights have
been endowed by our Creator, not the State. We know our Rights are
Individual and Unalienable. We know the Constitution is a set of
principles to govern the government. This piece of paper, and the will
of the People to defend it, are all that stand between the People and
tyranny.
We know government is the natural
enemy of Freedom and the People have a duty to protect our country from
our government. We know that any Right of the People that is not
enforceable by the People is not a Right.
We know we have only the Ballot
and the Petition for Redress to peaceably hold our government accountable.
We know the Ballot is for the majority to hold government accountable to
public opinion. We know the Petition is for the Individual and the
Minority to hold government accountable to the Constitution.
We know we must defend the
Constitution or lose it.
Should the July 19 symposium be as
fruitless as prior opportunities that we have presented to the Executive
and Legislative branches to properly respond to our Petitions for Redress,
it will be necessary for the People to test the attitude of the Judiciary
by requesting a declaration that under the circumstances of our case, we
have a fundamental Right to enforce our Right to Petition the
government for a Redress of Grievances by retaining our money until our
grievances are redressed. Furthermore, that the Right to Petition for
Redress includes protection from retaliation by the government –
that is, that the Executive is prohibited by Constitutional mandate from
retaliating against those that would seek to exercise and enforce this --
or any fundamental Right.
If necessary, on July 20 2004, we
will motion the Court for an order to temporarily and preliminarily enjoin
and prohibit the Executive from taking any further retaliatory/enforcement
actions against the Petitioners, and we will motion the court for an order
expediting the proceeding.
Attached to and made a part hereof
is a letter of even date by the undersigned. It is addressed to the
Treasury Secretary Snow and Attorney General Ashcroft. The letter and its
two attachments present the substance of the most damning documentary
evidence to date that the government is acting ultra vires (i.e.,
without bona fide authority), in forcing ordinary Americans to file
and pay an un-apportioned, direct tax on their salaries, wages and
compensation, and in forcing American companies to withhold and turn over
to the IRS a percentage of the earnings of those American citizens.
At the end of the Attachments are
a few questions we demand be answered at the recorded, public forum on
July 19 – questions aimed at settling the grievances of the People
regarding the Executive branch’s operation and enforcement of the “income”
tax.
Also to be answered on July 19 are
the limited number of questions contained in our Petition for Redress of
Grievances regarding the Iraq Resolution (copy attached).
Much of the current upheaval in
America and arguably, across our planet, has been brought about by the
direct failure of this government to answer for many years the proper
questions from the People – and thereby, be held accountable to the
Constitution. People at home and abroad are finally beginning to see much
of our government, as we now see it -- as an enemy of Freedom, with
no credibility to its specious claims of being limited by written
constitutions or in protecting, preserving and enhancing Freedom and the
Divine, Natural Rights of Man.
Your attention is respectfully
directed to the fact that the Petitioners, as have YOU on
many occasions, pledged allegiance to this Republic. On many occasions we
have, as have YOU, taken an oath to defend the United States
of America from all enemies foreign and domestic.
We are duty bound; for us, these
are not empty words. We have a moral, if not a legal obligation to act in
defense of our Constitution. The power of a moral obligation is a binding
power. We have a duty to perform -- conduct owed.
When faced with the blatant,
unconstitutional and illegal behavior of government, it is the duty of the
People to act -- not to hesitate or waver, or throw into doubt, their
solemn determination and sworn oath to protect the Country and
Constitution. We are indeed, indebted to our Creator, and to those who
have come before us, for services received, and dearly paid.
Our Petitions are prayers and
supplications for Rights, not favors. As an elected
representative of the People, I urge you to vigilantly reflect upon the
full implications of your coming decisions. In the end, as it has been
before, the Right to Petition, as the essence of the protection and
exercise of all Individual Rights, will be no small matter.
I ask you to rise with – not against the People and perform your
sworn duty. I ask you to breathe new life into the last ten words of
the First Amendment. I challenge you to embrace, and bring forth the Light
that is America, and insure that this Divine gift is not lost to
fear or the base pursuits of man. Ultimately, we shall be free, or we
shall not. In your hands and heart the chosen path to our future awaits.
This letter is to be considered
part of the People’s Petitions for Redress of Grievances regarding the
Iraq Resolution, the Patriot Act, the Income Tax and the Federal Reserve
previously served upon you and other government officials.
I respectfully request, by copy of
this letter to Commissioner Everson, that his copy, with attachments, be
added to my individual master file at the IRS.
An early reply to this letter
would be appreciated.
Respectfully yours,
______________________
Robert L. Schulz
Chairman
Enc.
CC: Hon. John W. Snow VIA CERTIFIED RETURN
RECEIPT (with attachments)
Treasury Secretary
Main Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20220
Hon. John Ashcroft VIA CERTIFIED
RETURN RECEIPT (with attachments)
Attorney General of the United States
U.S. Department of Justice-Main
950 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20530
Mr. Mark Everson, Commissioner VIA CERTIFIED RETURN
RECEIPT (with attachments)
Internal Revenue Service
1111 Constitution Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20224
Footnotes:
Click Here to access the
letter to Treasury Secretary Snow and US Attorney General Ashcroft
Click Here to access
Attachment #1 (overview & full research) and
Attachment #2 (overview & full research, including on-line access to
the evidence)
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