1.1. Get educated. Most people are victimized and plundered
by the government because they are ignorant of the law and therefore
accommodating of whatever the government demands.
1.2. Educate your children about the frauds discussed in this
document so they aren’t plundered either.
1.3. Stop withholding in whatever way you can.
1.4. Do not use banks in this country. Instead, have someone
else maintain your account in their name and put your money in their
accounts, and have a private agreement with them in writing that says
you, not them, are liable for any consequences resulting from these
accounts. You can also use third party checks from others to pay
your bills.
1.5. Use cash for most transactions and do not produce a paper
trail for any transaction.
1.6. Use E-Gold to exchange funds, which is perfectly protected
from encroachments by the government.
1.7. Refuse to use U.S. currency for your transactions, bartering.
1.8. Put your assets inside of a pure trust so that your estate
is “plunder-proof”
1.9. Make yourself judgment proof.
1.10. Get a Common Law marriage, so that your relationship is
protected from state intervention.
1.11. Expatriate so that you become a nonresident alien who does
not owe tax.
2.1. Do NOT get a marriage license. Instead, get a common
law marriage so that the state has ABSOLUTELY NO jurisdiction over you
or your family.
2.2. Use your Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights to protect your
privacy.
2.2.1. Tell NO ONE that you have ANY books or records.
2.2.2. Ensure that your marital agreement and common law marriage
protects your privacy by requiring your spouse to NOT testify against
you or about you in any trial.
2.2.3. DO NOT provide any books, records, or testimony to any
government official unless it favors your position.
2.2.4. If you are subpoenaed or summoned to a court hearing, then
make sure you show up but plead the Fifth Amendment in answer to every
question.
2.2.5. You ARE NOT obligated to justify why you plead that way
to a judge or anyone else, and don’t let an extortionist federal judge
call you into his chambers in private to ask you questions and have
you tell him ANYTHING in order to establish that it is OK for you to
plead the Fifth because you aren’t required to!
2.3. Do not give Socialist Security Numbers to your children.
2.4. Protect your privacy vigilantly.
2.5. Perform transactions in cash.
2.6. Use barter.
2.7. Use offshore bank accounts.
2.8. Insist that your federal government employer respect your
Privacy Act rights by not divulging either your Social Security Number
or other personal information to the federal government.
2.9. Keep your personal records in a safe place in the custody
of an anonymous third party.
3.1. Lawyers are very expensive. Unhesitatingly litigate
in pro per (without full-counsel but with a legal coach instead) against
the U.S. government every time they violate your rights or try to impose
an income tax that they have no jurisdiction to impose. This will
cause their legal expenses to be greater than any taxes or plundered
property they might be able to seize from you illegally.
3.2. Flood their overworked revenue agents with correspondence
and use the Uniform Commercial Code and the Law of Presumptions to establish
facts in your favor by their default and failure to respond.
3.3. Use the law itself to give their auditors and revenue agents
a difficult time using the tactics found in this book, and especially
during audits or in your correspondence.
3.4. Demand due process and a court hearing before they
seize, lien, or levy your property.
3.5. Shift the burden of proof to them to show your income
tax liability. Use the UCC to do this.
3.6. Reference this book and the website it appears on and our
movie in all your correspondence with the IRS, so that their agents
begin to learn the truth for themselves, and quit in droves. This
will create a severe training and workload problem for their personnel.
3.7. Apply the knowledge you gain in this book whenever you serve
jury duty. Surreptitiously nullify any case you serve on that
involves collection of income taxes. This is how slavery and abolition
were ended in the northern states after the civil war and it’s called
jury nullification.
REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES BEFORE TAXES
Especially When The Taxes Are Used To Compound The Grievances
(No Answers, No Taxes)
byRobert L. Schulz
Chairman, We The People Congress
Presented at Freedom Drive 2002
The National Mall, Washington DC
November 14, 2002
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Acknowledgement
Bob Schulz wishes to acknowledge and thank Anthony Hargis
for his fine research paper, "
The
Lost Right, Redress of Grievances." (undated). Bob’s speech
draws heavily on that research and the underlying documents.
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The founding fathers, in an act of the Continental Congress
in 1774, said, "If money is wanted by Rulers who have in any manner
oppressed the People, [the People] may retain [their money] until
their grievances are redressed, and thus peaceably procure relief,
without trusting to despised petitions or disturbing the public
tranquility." [see
Journals of the Continental Congress, Wednesday, October 26, 1774]
This very American Right of Redress of Grievances Before Taxes
is deeply embedded in our law.
The founding fathers could hardly have used words more clear
when they declared, "the people … may retain [their money] until
their grievances are [remedied]."
By these words, the founding fathers fully recognized and
clearly stated: that the Right of Redress of Grievances includes
the right of Redress Before payment of Taxes, that this Right of
Redress Before Taxes lies in the hands of the People, that this
Right is the People’s non-violent, peaceful means to procuring a
remedy to their grievances without having to depend on – or place
their trust in -- the government’s willingness to respond to the
People’s petitions and without having to resort to violence.
Before going further, I’d like to clarify two points: first,
the question we are dealing with here is not whether the government
has the power to tax, but whether the government is abusing its
constitutionally limited power to tax; and second, there is the
question of whether the government is using the tax revenue to effect
other abuses of its authority.
The founding fathers were well acquainted with the fact that
government is the enemy of Freedom, that those wielding governmental
power despise petitions from the People; the representatives of
the People, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that
they are the People themselves and exhibit strong symptoms of impatience
and disgust at the least sign of opposition from any quarter.
The founding fathers knew that it was possible for the institutions
of the Congress, the Executive and the Courts to someday begin to
fail in their duty to protect the people from tyranny. They knew
that unless the People had the right to withhold their money from
the government their grievances might fall on deaf ears and Liberty
would give way to tyranny, despotism and involuntary servitude.
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution states
clearly and unambiguously, "Congress shall make NO law …abridging
…the right of the people … to petition the government for a redress
of grievances."
While some Rights are reserved with qualifications in the
Bill of Rights, there are none whatsoever pertaining to the Right
of Redress. There are no limits on the Right of Redress. Any constitutional
offense is legitimately petitionable.
We have established that the Founding Fathers clearly declared
that the Right of Redress of Grievances includes the Right to withhold
payment of taxes while the grievance remains. By the 1st Amendment,
the founding fathers secured for posterity the Right of Redress
of Grievances Before payment of Taxes and they made the Right of
Redress Before Taxes operate against "the government," that is,
against all branches of "the government," -- the legislative, the
executive and the judicial branches. Redress reaches all.
Notice that the founding fathers, sitting as the Continental
Congress in 1774, held that this Right of Redress Before Taxes was
the means by which "the public tranquility" was to be maintained.
Then, sitting as the Constitutional Convention, the founding fathers
declared that one of the major purposes of the (federal) government
was to "insure domestic tranquility." Therefore, whenever this Right
of Redress is violated, the People have a double grievance: a denial
of justice by the government and, an incitement by the government
to general unrest.
Today, our concern is the grievance that falls under the heading
of a design to subvert the Constitution and laws of the country
by those wielding governmental power.
Under this heading, all officers of the government are liable,
if they strayed from their oath of office.
If we are to secure our Rights, we must rely on the laws of
nature and a reasoned sense of innovation. To rely on precedent
is to oppress posterity with the ignorance or chains of their fathers.
Being forced by the government to rely on precedent is, itself,
a grievance.
The sequence of Redress Before Taxes was well established
in English law at a time when great numbers of Englishmen traveled
to America. They brought with them English history and English law:
they brought with them the principle of "taxes with consent"; the
unlawfulness of "troops quartered in private homes," of "cruel and
unusual punishments," and a whole collection of Rights, such as
Redress, Speech, Assembly and Trial by Jury.
Any notion, spurious act of Congress or opinion by a Court
that taxes must by paid before Redress is a perversion of Natural
Law, of modern English law, of the American Constitution and of
Truth and Justice.
The reverse principle of "Taxes Before Redress" is based on
the essence of monarchy and kingly power: the king owns everything
under his domain. People possess property under a monarch by his
grace alone. Since a king owns everything under his domain, he merely
has to speak to lawfully dispose of his property. Thus, if a king
imposed a tax on land he imposed it on his own land and whoever
occupied the land was obligated to pay the tax to the king’s treasury.
A tax, then, being a part of the king’s property, was legally presumed
to be in the possession of the king before and after its assessment.
Since the landholder, or landless subject, enjoyed the privilege
of tenancy on the land only by the will of the king, he could be
required to pay over the tax before he could contest the assessment—or
redress a grievance.
Thus, the theory that a tax must be paid before redress rests
on the presumption that society is organized as a monarchy; that
all people living therein exist by grace of an autocrat – whether
one man or an assembly of men. This proposition was soundly rejected
by the Founders in designing our unique system of governance.
In America, such presumptions constitute grievances. The first
duty of any officer is to uphold the Constitution – the entire Constitution,
without reservation and without bribery or blackmail.
Petitioning the government for a Redress of Grievance naturally
includes the ability to compel admissions – the production of information
and answers to questions.
Jefferson wrote, "The right of freely examining public characters
and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon,…has
ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other
right."
According to the Right of Redress, as the Founders described
it, we have a right to withhold taxes if government violates our
rights. But, as American courts describe the Right, we must suffer
the injury, pay the taxes, and only then, sue for Redress against
an adversary with unlimited resources.
The idea that taxes are to be paid before redress is asserted
by Congress in the Internal Revenue Code at Section 7421 [the Anti
Injunction Act], which states, "no suit for the purpose of restraining
the assessment or collection of any tax shall be maintained in any
court by any person …."
How repugnant! American government is supposed to be organized
to protect American citizens; but section 7421 [the Anti Injunction
Act] authorizes the IRS to destroy them with impunity and the judiciary
is cooperating with the executive and legislative branches in a
collective decision to deny the People their constitutional Rights.
Such acts of government are unconstitutional and must be stopped.
In America, the right to petition our government for redress
of grievances is the basis of our liberty. Our founders explicitly
recognized this right in the first amendment to our constitution
-- for they understood that without it, we could not have a servant
government whose power is defined and limited by the consent of
the people.
In America, the right to petition our government for a Redress
of Grievances is an unalienable right. It derives from our faith
in a supreme being - an ultimate moral authority from whom we gain
our understanding of equality, justice and the rule of law. Implicit
in our first amendment constitutional right to petition our government
for a redress of grievances, is the government's absolute moral
and legal obligation to respond honestly and completely to the people's
petition.
This is the essential cornerstone of Popular Sovereignty --
a government of the People, by the People and for the People.
In 1791, the right to petition became primary among the Rights
of the People of the United States of America, as expressed in,
and guaranteed by, the First Amendment.
Some would now have us believe that our First Amendment right
of petition is nothing more than a guarantee of free speech; that
this vital constitutional protection - the very basis of our liberty
- is simply a right to voice our grievances to the government. Some
would try to convince us that We The People do not have the absolute
right to an honest and complete response to our petitions -- or
the authority to demand that our government correct the abuses and
violations of our liberties that result in our petitions. Some would
even go so far as to say it is merely a Right to complain, with
no expectation of response.
This is nonsense! This is dangerous talk to a free people.
We will not listen to those who would denigrate our Constitution,
and undermine the principles of liberty and justice that gave birth
to our nation. At best they are imbeciles, and at worst they are
tyrants -- or "sharing bedrooms" with tyrants.
We must guard against this nonsense. We must harden our hearts
to these false notions that government is God. We must recognize
that even in the long run government can never be rational, without
a principled Constitution firmly rooted in Liberty. Government has
but one legitimate purpose -- to serve and protect all of the people
equally. Government is not God. It is our servant. It is accountable
to the People.
The right to Petition for Redress of Grievances is the final
protection -- the final, peaceful check and balance in our system
of Constitutional government in which the government derives its
limited powers from the consent of the sovereign people. This is
the right which publicly reveals and reiterates for all, who is
Master and who is Servant.
The way the system is now working is in sharp contrast to
the way it was designed to work. The servant is taking over the
House: the government has brought us to the brink; the Constitution
is hanging by a thread.
Not only is the government neglecting its duties, it is operating
outside the boundaries the People have drawn around its powers.
These are some of our grievances.
First: In violation of the War Powers Clauses of the Constitution,
the President has colluded with the Congress to pass legislation
that authorizes the President to apply the armed forces of the United
States of America in hostilities in Iraq without a congressional
Declaration of War.
Second: In a hasty response to widespread fear and panic following
9/11, our elected representatives voted on the "U.S.A. Patriot Act"
(with many having not read it), which by the plain language of the
Act, violates and seizes a number of the unalienable rights of the
People.
Third: Our government has relinquished direct control of the
monetary system of this nation to a privately owned central bank
and has transformed our money into nothing but limitless debt. And,
a significant portion of the Federal Reserve stock is held by foreign
entities.
And Fourth, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Internal
Revenue Service reneged on their July 2001 agreement to appear at
a public forum to answer the People’s Remonstrance and well-documented
legal charges directly asserting the lack of statutory or Constitutional
authority for the federal income tax and the systemic abuses of
our unalienable rights in the daily operations of the IRS.
These are tyrannical and despotic acts. Are they to be tolerated
by the People?
Let us thank our forefathers for their vision, foresight and
innate understanding of the nature of man, political power, and
government corruption in recognizing the explicit right of the People
to petition their government for redress.
On October 7, 2002, four Petitions for Redress of these grievances
were posted on the internet. The four Petitions, signed by thousands
of American citizens who reside in all 435 Congressional Districts,
were hand delivered to the offices of each member of the House of
Representatives and each member of the Senate (in Washington DC)
on November 8, 2002 (last Friday). Then, the Petitions were each
formally served on the President on the twelfth.
The Petitions address specific constitutional grievances relating
to: 1) the War Powers Clauses of the Constitution and the Iraq Resolution;
2) the privacy, due process and free speech clauses of the Constitution
and the USA Patriot Act; 3) the money clauses of the Constitution
and the Federal Reserve System; and 4) the tax-related clauses of
the Constitution and the federal Income Tax system.
With the exception of the Income Tax Petition, the Petitions
for Redress include specific questions, which We the People expected
to be answered. The Petitions respectfully requested each congressperson
and the President to send a representative to meet with the People
at 2 P.M. today, right here on the National Mall, to either answer
the questions OR tell the People when the questions will be answered.
With respect to the Income Tax Petition, we are further along.
Those questions have already gone unanswered by the government following
its receipt of an earlier Petition for Redress. The current, second,
Petition on the Income Tax Grievances moved the petitioning process
to the next level with its list of demands. There is more to the
petitioning process than the mere submittal of the "despised" petitions.
With today’s failure to respond, we can see a clear pattern.
Our elected representatives do not feel compelled to respond to
the People.
We must take the appropriate next step. As of two o’clock
today, the government has left us no choice but to engage in civil
action – a pro-active, non-violent mass movement, with the explicit
goal of restoring the Republic by bringing the government back under
the control of the People and our Rule Book – the Constitution of
the United States of America.
This meeting here on the National Mall is the culmination
of Freedom Drive 2002. On November 8, citizens from across the nation
began driving in caravans toward Washington DC, to peaceably assemble
here to await the government’s response to their Petitions.
We appear to have reached the point where the institutions
of the Court and the Congress and the Executive have failed in their
Constitutional duty to protect the people from tyranny, The government
is refusing to answer the People’s allegations of governmental wrongdoing.
Unless the People withhold their money from the government their
grievances will fall on deaf ears and Liberty will give way to tyranny,
despotism and involuntary, economic servitude.
Every adult in this nation has a personal duty and a moral
responsibility, that stem directly from our heritage, to repel the
tyrannical acts of those to whom the People have granted well defined
and limited powers.
The right to Petition is the foundation of Popular Sovereignty
and is the direct vehicle for the peaceful, non-violent resolution
of matters involving errant government. This right is the procedural
mechanism that enables the People to call any branch of their servant
government before them.
In America, there are only two things that stand between the
people and government tyranny -- our Constitution, and our will
as a free people to protect and defend it.
These petitions are about us -- We the People. They are proof
of our resolve to correct our government’s abusive and unlawful
behavior.
As a People, who are we? And who do we want to be? What kind
of country do we want to leave to our children and future generations
of Americans?
Will we tolerate tyranny merely to be comfortable?
Again, we ask: What does a free People do when confronted
with a government that refuses to honor, and systemically schemes
to evade, the boundaries and limitations established for it by We
the People?
We stand at the brink of a Constitutionally unauthorized war
and the meltdown of a monetary system based on the endless conjuring
of debt. Under the guise of "protecting" us from terrorists,
our government is attempting to seize our most fundamental rights
and deprive us of their protections. To finance it all, the
IRS and the Department of Justice use intimidation by, and the power
of, the police state to enforce and prosecute offenses of tax "laws"
--- yet they continue to refuse to cite the specific legal authority
that purportedly allows them to enforce those laws.
If the People fail to act, we will end forever the chapter
in human history when a People reigned sovereign, and the chains
of a written constitution limited and bound their government to
their service.
We have a choice. YOU have a choice.
We came for answers, but we did not get them. Now we demand
that our government obey the Constitution, which, after all is a
strongly worded set of principles to govern the government, not
the people.
By the terms and provisions of the Constitution the People
have not only formed their government and enabled the government
to act in certain ways, they have purposely and markedly restricted
and prohibited the government from acting in certain other ways.
The nature of our resistance is clear. It is not an act of
anarchy or rebellion; rather it is an act of resistance to a government
that is violating the purposes for which the Creator -- through
the People and the Constitution -- has ordained civil government.
We are not "anti-war." We are not "anti-tax." We are "pro-constitution"
and "anti-fraud."
Thus far we have pursued peaceful reconciliation and petition.
It is the President and the Congress who have refused to respond
to our Petitions for Redress of Grievances, in violation of the
1st Amendment.
We did not initiate this conflict. We have been fully committed
to peaceful reconciliation and have pursued that course for decades.
We have no desire for resistance or violence of any kind.
However, in the People's peaceful reconciliation attempts, the People's
petitions and appeals have been met with force, and in some instances
with near- military force.
The defense of our homes, families, properties and possessions
is a most important point to us. It is our heritage. It is our Right.
There is not the most distant thought of subverting the government
or of hurting the interest of the people of America, but of defending
our personal Rights, Freedoms and Liberties from unjust encroachment.
There was not the least desire of withdrawing our allegiance
from the leaders of the branches until it became absolutely necessary
-- and, indeed, it has been their own choice.
Our political leaders know that our cause is just.
They know that we, the People, struggle for that freedom to
which all men are entitled -- that we struggle against oppression,
seizure, plunder, extortion and more than savage barbarity.
We are not moved by any light or hasty suggestion of anger
or revenge. Through every possible change of fortune we adhere peaceably
to this determination.
Our property and happiness have been attacked. Our self-defense
against an aggressor government is righteous.
Our civil action is for the cause of civil justice -- a righteous
struggle, undertaken in defense of our property, our happiness and
our families. It is to oppose the invasions of usurped power. We
will bravely suffer present hardships and face future dangers, to
secure the rights of humanity and the blessings of freedom for generations
yet unborn.
It is our obligation, as responsible citizens of this country,
to set a proper value upon, and to defend to the utmost, our just
rights and the blessings of Life and Liberty. Without this personal
commitment, a few unprincipled individuals would tyrannize the People,
and make the passive multitude the slaves of their power. Thus it
is that civil action is not only justifiable, but an indispensable
duty to correct these wrongs.
It is upon these principles that we are resisting the government
and will oppose force with force.
How?
Any wage earner who gives money to the federal government
and any employer who withholds money from the paychecks of working
Americans is undermining the People’s Rights, Freedoms and Liberties.
Under the present circumstances, their behavior must be considered
to be un-American.
As our Founders said so clearly: "If money is wanted by Rulers
who have in any manner oppressed the People, [the People] may retain
[their money] until their grievances are redressed, and thus peaceably
procure relief, without trusting to despised petitions or disturbing
the public tranquility."
How?
We the People must get Redress of Grievances before payment
of taxes.
No Answers. No Taxes!
Finally, the book of Nehemiah chapter 5 describes
what both we and our government must do in order to repair a very abusive,
unjust, and unfair income tax system. Nehemiah, the governor,
wrote the passage below. Think of him as the U.S. Congress, the
President, and our state legislators and governors, who collectively
are the “governors” of our time: