4-03-03
Hunger
Fast Ends With No Answers
DOJ:
“We’ll Answer Their Questions – By Prosecuting”
Tax Jihad Continues: Ban Free Speech
Shortly before 5 PM on the 30th day of her hunger strike (April 3rd)
the front desk at Rose Lear’s DC hotel called her room and informed her she
had just received a several page fax. It was from Michigan Congressman
Peter Hoekstra. It was the reply Lear had risked her life for.
It was
supposed to contain specific answers to each of the 537 “true or false” type
questions about US
income tax law that Lear formally served on her Congressman as a Petition
for Redress of Grievances.
Although Hoekstra, according to Lear, had specifically directed his staff to
answer the questions, the final, official Congressional response to Rose
Lear was simply more avoidance and tired legal drivel apparently penned by a
Hoekstra congressional aide assisted by a government attorney.
The questions were not answered.
Click
here to read Rep. Hoekstra’s response to Rose Lear.
After
initially reading the “response” Lear initiated a heated call to Hoekstra’s
office and demanded to talk to the Congressman. He was not available.
By
Thursday night, after contemplating the situation and consulting with a
number of people, Rose announced to a small group of WTP supporters that she
was moving toward ending her fast.
She prepared a written retort to Hoekstra’s response that included
documentation from the We The People Foundation showing, clearly, that the
Congressional Research Service report cited in Hoekstra’s “response” does
not answer ANY of the 537 questions from the
Truth-in-Taxation Hearing record &
Petitions for Redress.
On Friday, Lear was able to arrange a meeting and met with Rep. Hoekstra
around noon and
delivered her written retort.
Although disturbed by the her representative’s failure to answer the
questions, Lear reported to WTP that in her Friday meeting with Hoekstra, he
offered assurances that his door would remain open to Lear and that he would
work with Lear to help obtain the official answers that Lear sought from the
IRS and DOJ. On March 28th, Hoekstra
sent letters to IRS and DOJ
requesting answers to the questions within 30 days.
Lear
remarked, it was now clear to her that “there are many on Capitol Hill that
want the same answers we all do. We are not going to stop. These questions
have to be answered.”
For
the record, Lear’s two Michigan Senators, Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin,
refused to meet with Lear during her 30-day hunger fast.
Lear
now intends to take the fight back to her home state of Michigan and
continue to apply pressure to elected representatives around the nation to
get official answers to the Petitions for Redress. She stated that she
“fully supports the WTP initiative to stop withholding and that cutting off
money was going to get their (Washington’s) attention.”
Lear
traveled home, through Chicago on Friday afternoon and has started to eat
again. She reported that she experienced some substantial fast-related
health problems on her trip but was doing well enough to make chicken soup
for herself for Saturday dinner. Lear relayed that she wanted to thank
everyone for all the support and effort expended in trying to get the
questions answered.
She
also said that she had talked to her husband William, (who called from his
Minnesota prison on Saturday), that he was elated that it was over but that
he very supportive of Rose throughout the entire fast.
WTP is
helping William Lear fight his recent conviction for “Willful Failure to
File.”
As to
actually getting official answers to the Petition questions from the
Department of Justice, the transcript from a recent hearing in the Florida
trail of Dan Prader may tell us much about the DOJ’s preferred venue to
“answer” the questions.
The DOJ is moving to permanently enjoin Prader from speaking publicly,
writing anything or selling or distributing any information about the
statutes found at IRS code Section 861 (which specifically establishes what
sources of income constitute “taxable income”.)
The
transcript from a pre-trial hearing documents the on-the-record banter
between the federal judge and US attorney Evan Davis. In the transcript, as
Sherry Jackson was completing her testimony, Davis remarks to the Court that
former IRS agent Sherry Jackson is associated with the We The People
organization. At first, attorney Davis begins to state that WTP is the
organization that “sent --” --- and he momentarily hesitates --- realizing
he is making an open reference to the formal Petitions for Redress of
Grievances.
The transcript shows Davis quickly recovers and continues that WTP has “held
rallies in Washington, DC” and claims that “the 16th Amendment
was never ratified” curtly adding that “people are in jail over making that
argument.”
Davis
continues, “They (WTP) try to raise 500 questions or so that they claim the
government hasn’t answered, although they are getting their answer in the
due course of litigation, which is the appropriate place for them to hear a
response to that.”
By
his statement, DOJ
attorney Davis is clearly implying that the government despises Petitions
for Redress and We The People will get our answers, in due course, as we
endure civil and criminal prosecution by the Department of Justice, on their
turf, before a highly politicized and corrupt judiciary.
Note:
You don’t get to be a judge unless you are appointed or designated for the
ballot by the same political parties that are responsible for appointing and
designating those in the executive and legislative branches that are abusing
their taxing and police powers. Click
Here to see the relevant page
from the transcript.
The
recent civil prosecutions of Prader, Dave Bosset, Thurston Bell and the
recent move to ban Irwin Schiff’s book “The Federal Mafia” also raise the
chilling specter that in a supposedly free nation, with a bedrock First
Amendment protecting free speech, one can be banned from talking publicly or
writing about certain parts of US law.
The
First Amendment implications are obvious and staggering.
Even the ACLU has taken notice and last week intervened in Schiff's case.
Click here to read the news article from the Las Vegas Journal Review.
The US
government, clearly trying to quiet the articulate and compelling voices and
research of those that have raised serious questions about the legal
authority and unlawful enforcement of the tax, has now stooped to
effectively suspend the First Amendment to avoid answering the questions.
Incredulously, the DOJ is claiming that analyzing, talking and writing about
the laws of this nation is “commercial speech” and therefore, not subject to
the protections of the First Amendment.
It is
quite clear by the ferocity, level and nature of DOJ attacks on those that
have best expressed and documented the Achilles’ heels of the tax fraud
that the government’s current tax system is currently at real, substantial
risk of failing.
The Truth-in-Taxation movement, no longer an easily managed nuisance,
characterized by underground book publishing and poorly researched legal
assertions is now organized nationwide, accessible on-line 24/7, and armed
with legal research rivaling the best analyses of law ever done on any
subject.
The movement, as demonstrated by Rose Lear and We The People, is fully
committed to securing justice and exercising our endowed Rights. The
movement grows daily as former IRS agents, attorneys, CPAs, business owners
and others of professional caliber join our ranks. These minds are not
easily swayed by the word “frivolous” when confronted with the real details
of the law and the fraud. Most damning for the government is the fact that
no matter how hard they try to stop it, more and more average Americans
learn of this battle and about what the law really says – and
doesn’t say – each and every day.
Because it is a fraud, the government continues to pump out propaganda,
instill fear in those that dare to speak the truth and prosecute and
incarcerate those that dare to stand for the Constitution and the spiritual
principles it embodies.
The system is crumbling and the government is plainly attempting to delay
the day of reckoning. Every act and prosecution, each more desperate than
the last, in their attempt to silence, contain and control the truth only
serves to beg the obvious, “WHY won’t they just answer the questions?”
The
fact our elected representatives, our judges and the police agencies of our
government would let a woman die in the halls of Congress for want of
a few answers, that they would ban a book and move to silence those that
speak about the law and continue to knowingly prosecute
and incarcerate innocent American citizens under US laws that
do not apply them should be a rude wake-up call for this nation.
The true evil our nation faces comes not from dictators in foreign lands.
It has arisen instead domestically, in plain sight, fed by the apathy,
ignorance, fear and greed of the American people that have let their
Constitution be openly thrashed and their Treasury sold to the highest
bidding political and monetary interests without resistance.
It is
clear – we will NOT be getting answers from this government unless, and
until, sufficient numbers of We The People come together, pool our
resources, talents and energy and work tenaciously to expose the truth and
cut off the funding source that finances these continued abuses.
In the
end, the truth will become evident to all and our government, and our
nation, will pay the ever growing price for these acts of tyranny.
As
Rose Lear defiantly uttered, “We’re NOT going away.”
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