Rose Lear
1264 Montgomery Ave.
Muskegon, Michigan 49441

March, 24, 2003

Congressman Peter Hoekstra
2234 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-2202

Dear Rep. Hoekstra:

Today is the 20^th day I have not eaten any food. I WILL NOT EAT unless, and until, you answer the Peoples’ Petitions for Redress of Grievances regarding the Individual Income Tax.

On April 13, 2000, the We The People organization (of which I am a member) formally petitioned the leaders of all three branches of the federal government for a Redress of Grievances regarding the income tax. There was no response.

On July 20, 2001, on the 20^th day of a hunger fast by Bob Schulz, the IRS and the DOJ formally agreed to participate in a two-day truth-in-taxation hearing to answer our questions and to otherwise respond to our Petition for Redress regarding the income tax. DOJ and IRS later reneged on their formal agreement.

On February 27 and 28, 2002, Schulz and We The People, conducted the Citizens’ Truth-in-Taxation Hearing, without the government. Our questions were answered, under oath, by credentialed professionals including tax attorneys, CPAs, a forensic accountant, three former IRS agents, a constitutional attorney, two tax law researchers and even a former IRS Office of Counsel attorney.

On April 15, 2002, I again Petitioned you personally and included a copy of the record of the hearing. There was no response.

On November 8^th, 2002 we again served on you another Petition for Redress concerning the income tax that was signed by me and thousands of others. There was no response. To this day, the U.S. has steadfastly refused to provide any official response to the legal charges made in any of these Petitions for Redress.

As an official of the United States Government, you have a personal, moral and legal obligation to respond to these Petitions which raise critical issues of law, Constitutional Rights and individual Liberty -- and the flagrant abuses of such by the U.S. Government. I will wait in public each workday upon the doorstep to your Capitol Hill office until my death, OR until you provide official responses to each and every specific legal claim raised in these formal Petitions.

I will keep the following daily schedule until I am unable to do so:

Noon – 1 PM, at the Russell Senate Office Building
1PM – 2 PM, at the Hart Senate Office Building
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM at the Rayburn House Office Building

I can be reached locally at the Washington Plaza Hotel. My phone number there is (202) 842-1300. I can also be contacted by cell phone, (518) 573-8046.

Sincerely,

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Rose Lear