May 21, 1997
Senators & Representatives
Legislature of the State of Oklahoma
Oklahoma State Capitol
Oklahoma City 74605/tdc
OKLAHOMA STATE
Re: A State of Emergency Now Exists
Dear Senators & Representatives:
Attached to or enclosed with this letter, you will find a
copy of a law suit, Dan Leslie, Meador v. Commissioners of the
Oklahoma Tax Commission and the Oklahoma Tax Commission. As
exhibits, there is a copy of the administrative agreement
effected in 1982-83 between the Oklahoma Tax Commission and the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, which authorized the Internal
Revenue Service, allegedly an agency of the United States
Department of the Treasury, to take the lead in administering
"state qualified tax" prescribed in the Internal Revenue Code of
1954 (Vol. 68A, Statutes at Large), as amended in 1986 and since,
a public notice memorandum published in The Journal Record in
summer 1996 which identifies the Internal Revenue Service as an
agency of the Department of the Treasury, Puerto Rico, and a
letter to me from David K. Smith, the OTC State-Federal
Coordinator, acknowledging the Agreement on Coordination of Tax
Administration between OTC & IRS.
The enclosed suit, filed in the district court for Oklahoma
County (#CJ-97-3501-63), strikes at the heart of both State and
Federal tax systems. The OTC-IRS Agreement is of no lawful
effect, and as the suit demonstrates, is patently
unconstitutional for what it implicitly accommodates: State
officials, whether legislative, administrative or judicial,
cannot accommodate the exercise of a Federal power which is not
authorized by the Constitution of the United States, thus sayeth
the Separation of Powers Doctrine (Tenth Amendment). Beyond
constitutional condemnation of the OTC-IRS Agreement, there is no
State or Federal law authorizing the United States Department of
the Treasury, the Department of the Treasury, Puerto Rico, the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, or the Internal Revenue Service
to enter such agreements with the Oklahoma Tax Commission. The
OTC-IRS Agreement is patently fraud, and must be nullified, nunc
pro tunc.
If you will refer to Section 3.1 of the Agreement, you will
find the list of "State" taxes premised on Federal grants of
taxing authority (Buck Act, 4 U.S.C. §§ 105-110; 5 U.S.C. §§
5512, 5516, 5517 & 5520; see E.O. #11833, published following §
5520). All of these taxes will be unenforceable, or at least
restricted to United States territorial jurisdiction in Oklahoma,
so State revenue will plummet.
Please be advised that copies of the OTC-Commissioner of
Internal Revenue Agreement, the suit, and other support
materials, are being circulated nationally. Within a reasonably
short time, Oklahoma sister States will be confronted with the
same crisis. Each State tax commission has a comparable bogus
agreement with IRS in place, and each will be nullified. The
enclosed suit was filed first, but another State might beat us to
the punch so far as actual nullification. However, regardless of
where the first nullification is, it will have a domino effect,
with the rest following behind.
Additionally, this information, including this letter, is
being and will be generally circulated by every available means
-- assault against people dedicated to restoring constitutional
rule must stop!
Also be advised that freedom of information requests, under
provisions of the Oklahoma Administrative Procedures Act, have
been sent to the Oklahoma Attorney General, W. A. Drew Edmondson,
to secure copies of administratively-effected "intergovernmental"
agreements which accommodate exercise of Federal civil
enforcement authority throughout Oklahoma, despite United States
jurisdiction being clearly limited to that provided at 18 U.S.C.
§ 7(3) -- the United States has "militia" or military enforcement
authority in Union states only in the event of invasion or civil
uprising (Art. IV § 4). Congress is authorized to prescribe
punishment for counterfeiting securities and current coin of the
United States (Art. I § 8.6), to prescribe punishment for treason
(Art. III § 3.2), and for securing civil and voting rights of
"citizens of the United States" (Fourteenth Amendment and various
amendments since). That's it! Yet by colorable administrative
agreements and orders, such as the OTC-IRS Agreement, State
administrative officers have accommodated what amounts to treason
against the sovereign people of Oklahoma.
The problem is as much political as judicial -- there will
be no judicial remedies until there are political remedies. If I
permitted this suit to be held under wraps, it would go nowhere.
Much of the professional law fraternity, including inordinate
numbers of public prosecutors, attorneys general, and judicial
officers, is aligned hip and thigh to shield and accommodate
Cooperative Federalism, what amounts to a code name for tyranny
against constitutional government and the sovereign people.
Thus, the engagement must move to open political ground so the
truth, which has finally been unearthed and assembled into an
intelligible picture, can be told to everyone. And it is most
important that the telling begins here - that those vested with
offices of public trust, who have pledged by oath to uphold and
defend the Constitution of the United States and constitutions of
the several States, are informed and provided with sufficient
evidence and detail to act decisively to uphold their respective
oaths of office.
Once the truth has been told, it cannot be silenced.
Consequently, from this point forward, each public servant
exposed to the compelling law and evidence of fraud exposed in
the enclosed suit has an unavoidable choice: Choose this day
whom you serve!
Possibly a personal perspective will temper the tone of this
letter: Attorney General Edmondson recently hosted a conference
of state attorneys general. At or toward the end, one of the
participants allegedly expressed consternation about not being
able to identify "movement leadership" - the "movement" being the
Christian patriot or constitutionalist movement.
I chuckled as there is a reason "leadership" can't be
isolated and identified. When I mentioned the comment to someone
from Oregon, he laughed, too. "Of course they can't find the
leader - they're looking in the wrong place. He isn't presently
incarnate on earth!"
God is doing the work through people prepared for the task,
no leader is needed. At 3:30 a.m. the morning of Friday, May 16,
I woke wide awake knowing the OTC-IRC Agreement was at the
Oklahoma Tax Commission or somewhere else at the Capitol. My
wife and I were at the Capitol before people were officially at
work -- by 9 a.m., following our noses more than anything, we
figuratively had Mr. Smith against the wall. We picked the OTC-
IRS Agreement up after lunch. In the next two days, a fellow
researcher and I had the thing dismantled and exposed -- core
information went to several researchers across the country,
administrative and criminal complaint letters were in the mail
Monday, and the suit included with this letter was completed late
Tuesday night. In four days, with people around the country
contributing, the deed was done -- the previous model of proper
State and Federal taxing authority was ripped apart then re-
assembled around the hard evidence that State officials are
responsible for accommodating, and participating in, Federal
tyranny.
Many of the so-called "Christian patriots" involved with
cutting-edge research are extremely capable where intellect is
concerned, but more important than intellect, they have Spiritual
guidance and revelation that enables them to ferret out well
hidden secrets such as the OTC-IRS Agreement. And they both
contribute to and draw from a common pool -- a common pool of
information, which is expanding rapidly, and a common guide and
inspiration, the Holy Spirit of God.
At first I considered limiting use of the fraudulent OTC-IRS
Agreement so public officials could mull things over, consider
alternatives, etc., and decide on a reasonable course which might
minimize disturbance. That might still be my preference except
Federal mercenaries have reached an almost frenzied level of
mayhem against the patriot community. Issues must immediately
come to a head in a forum that offers the opportunity to
peacefully restore constitutional rule and America's sovereignty
and solvency.
Scripture tells us that life is in the blood -- the blood of
institutions and most abstract systems, whether public or
private, is money. The OTC-IRS Agreement is the Achilles Heel
for both State and Federal tax systems -- without the seeming
State grant of authority, de facto Federal agencies such as IRS,
BATF, FBI, et al., cannot, contrary to constitutional
restrictions, run rough-shod across the reserved independence of
the several States and the sovereign American people. Federal
encroachment is accommodated by State officers. Without
accommodation, Federal government his to climb back into its
proper constitutional box.
The beginning-place is here, at home: Legislatures of the
several States must re-assert State authority in order to restore
a balance of power and curtail the plunder by central government.
American founders structured the constitutional republic with the
purpose of preventing travail America is suffering today.
Possibly the greater blame lies with the people. If we are
sovereign, we have an obligation as well as a benefit. Several
generations have failed the obligation, this generation is
rapidly losing the benefit. So the people must speak, and they
must demand that those who have pledged themselves by sacred oath
to uphold and defend applicable constitutions honor their
respective oaths. Those who fail the task must be exposed and
identified as morally reprobate -- they shall be known by their
works, Jesus said.
If law prevails, an emergency is at hand. You must act.
Frittering time away with hypothetical disputes is over --
either we have constitutional government or we don't.
In order to avoid chaos, I would suggest that the
Legislature of the State of Oklahoma establish a Committee for
Correspondence on the order of those recommended by Thomas
Jefferson in the Kentucky Resolutions. It is time for the Union
of several States to re-assert leadership and put an end to the
macabre Cooperative Federalism scheme that has undermined
national sovereignty and solvency. I would also suggest that the
committee be established separate from legislative entities
sponsored by or that operate in conjunction with The Council of
State Governments as this organization is among the chief
vehicles for Cooperative Federalism.
Oklahoma in particular has suffered ill effects of this
scheme, along with all other interior natural resource States, as
we have fallen to 47th in per capita income and are otherwise
suffering unavoidable effects of the mathematically impossible
economic grist mill. I believe we have both incentive and the
ability to provide national leadership in the effort to
peacefully restore constitutional rule.
I would like to conclude with an account related by a
Nazarene evangelist friend, Sherman Reed: Sherman attended an
international conference of evangelicals held in West Germany
several years ago. The theme was the relationship of western
Christianity to communism. As a major conference project,
participants constructed a list of ten things they believed had
to happen. The first two items on the list were as follows:
Communism had to fail because it is a mathematically impossible
scheme, and the Berlin Wall had to come down as it served as a
central icon for European Communism. However, after completing
the list, every conference participant expressed discouragement
-- not one believed he would live to see anything on the list
come to pass.
Four months later, Sherman picked up pieces to the Berlin
Wall as souvenirs for his children and grandchildren. The Wall
came down suddenly, without anyone spilling blood -- it was one
of the greatest miracles of the latter twentieth century.
When Sherman shares the account in a sermon, his theme is,
"God is doing more than we can see."
Today, God is doing more than any of you can see and
certainly more than I can see. The enclosed civil suit exposes
more than most of you know about fraudulent State and Federal
income tax systems and how Cooperative Federalism works, and
you're the people who are supposed to be custodians of Oklahoma's
best interest -- you're supposed to be guarding and tending to
the interests of neighbors, friends and your respective
communities. Yet I would venture that not one in ten knows
enough about Oklahoma and United States constitutions to make
more than a spot on a match-head. If Oklahoma is to provide
leadership in a drive to restore constitutional rule, you are
among those who must man the front lines. With truth exposed and
framed by evidence such as the OTC-IRS Agreement and other
irrefutable documentation coming on line, you will have a
groundswell of support. But there must be commitment and
resolve. Learning what you need to know is part of the
requirement -- there must be an awakening, and a stir from
lethargy.
Scripture has the appearance of a paradox some might be
familiar with: "Many are called, but few are chosen."
It would seem that the verse should be, "Many are called but
few will answer." But it isn't. The seeming paradox is resolved
only when we realize that God is in charge, not us. God creates
the instrument -- he tempers the mettle and makes the tool. As a
master craftsman might pick up several pieces of wood for a
certain cabinet door, then finally choose the one with the
characteristics he likes best for the work, God chooses whom he
will. It has been that way through time. It is also that way
today -- that's the reason "leaders" aren't particularly visible
in a formidable political force rising up across America.
Are members of the Oklahoma Legislature among those chosen
to help break the invisible barrier of Cooperative Federalism,
our equivalent to the Berlin Wall? Time will tell.
I encourage you to call on all your resources, intellectual,
emotional, and spiritual, and most of all, call on God. If God
be for us, who can withstand?
Regards,
/s/ Dan Meador
Dan Meador
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