4-13-03
America: It’s
Time to Stop Withholding
Schulz Organizing, On the Road
DOJ and IRS Getting More Desperate
Bob
Schulz, Chairman of We The People is on the road and headed around the
country to organize Operation Stop Withholding and to teach workers and
employers about what
US tax laws really say and to organize WTP
supporters and WTP Congress members to get the word out about this
constitutional crisis and encourage participation in the larger regional
meetings.
Schulz, who has already held several well attended meetings since April 5th
is currently in Texas
and headed west. Today (April 13) he held a meeting in Dallas, Texas and is
headed for meetings commencing tomorrow in Austin, San Antonio, El Paso,
Albuquerque and finally Phoenix before taking a one-week break. The Stop
Withholding meetings are free, open to the public and continue again on
Saturday, April 26th in Irvine California. The meeting schedule
then continues through northern California, and up through the Northwest
before Schulz heads back east through the mid-west. Click here to see the
meeting
schedule.
The
meetings Schulz recently held in Nashua, New Hampshire; Asheville, North
Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia; Tampa, Florida and Houston, Texas were attended
by several hundred workers and those running companies and have already
resulted in several significant and emerging organizational initiatives
involving unions, workers, attorneys, etc. Schulz will provide details of
the ongoing initiatives during future meetings.
The
two scheduled meetings for
Irvine,
California
are for workers and companies and comprise the second in a set of larger
“regional” meetings that will provide an extensive review of the laws
governing withholding and the procedures and forms needed to legally
terminate wage withholding.
Former IRS Agents, CPAs and attorneys will be present at all regional
meetings to provide direct answers to questions from participants. The first
“regional” meeting was held on April 5th in Nashua, New
Hampshire. Schulz was aided by former IRS Revenue Agent John Turner and
former IRS Office of Counsel Attorney Paul Chappell who addressed the crowds
and took questions from participants.
Please check the schedule and get to these important meetings! We still need supporters to help set up a number of meetings and
arrange for local printing of the Stop Withholding
forms and
instructions that are distributed for free to all meeting
participants. With the help of
donations, WTP is
providing the significant financing for these nationwide meetings.
The
local Area Director for the IRS and the local US Attorney for the Department
of Justice continue to be formally notified of each Stop Withholding meeting
and are being repeatedly requested to attend the meetings, and to inform
WTP if any materials being discussed or presented are misleading or in any
way false.
To
date, neither the IRS nor DOJ has responded.
Legal Defense Association
For
those that desire formal, low cost legal protection for their actions
regarding withholding or the filing of income tax returns, we again bring
you notice of the new We The People Legal Defense Association.
The
WTP-LDA has been formed to provide a collective, unified, organized legal
defense organization staffed with full time attorneys, paralegals, and
support staff to represent its Members against taxing authorities attempting
to, unlawfully, assess and collect income taxes. Membership is open to both
Companies and Workers, whether you are currently involved in a dispute with
a taxing authority or not. The foundational basis of the defense are the
Right to Petition and the specific legal charges asserted at the February,
2002 Truth-in-Taxation Hearing and in the income tax Petition(s) for Redress
of Grievances.
Attorneys, subject matter experts and paralegals will, per the terms of the
agreement, provide
at NO additional cost, full, formal legal representation to all
Members in their contacts with the IRS, DOJ, etc.
Please
see the WTP-LDA agreement for full details and specific instructions on how
to apply for membership.
Please note: Because of the significant start-up and operational costs of
running a professional legal operation, the WTP-LDA cannot, and will
not, become formally “activated” until a critical mass of membership
applications have been received by WTP.
Please
get your application in now. Click here for WTP-LDA
Application
and instructions.
DOJ and IRS Are Really Reaching Now
Not
content to merely ignore administrative due process and coerce the influence
the entire Justice system to quell dissent, the IRS has for sometime now
called for a jihad to stifle even mere public discussion of the tax laws of
this nation. We have more news on two of the most recent attacks.
On
Thursday, April 10th, the DOJ moved against California attorney
Ed Rivera. In the DOJ press release, DOJ claims that Rivera is allegedly
“falsely advising customers that they do not have to pay federal taxes.”
The release goes on to
characterize Rivera as a "Tax scammer that enriches (himself) by helping
others violate the law" and by selling opinion letters “falsely stating that
his customers are not liable for federal income taxes; he represents his
customers before the Internal Revenue Service for the stated purpose of
determining their ‘non-liability’ for all federal taxes; and he sells an
‘asset protection’ service that he falsely implies can shield his customers'
assets from IRS levies.”
A few
interesting perspectives to consider:
Rivera, as an attorney, is in the business – as ALL lawyers are
– of analyzing the law, the specifics situations of his clients and drawing
legal conclusions about the law and its applicability.
Are they telling him he can’t practice his profession? It is apparent that
DOJ now intends to suppress and stifle those few who dare draw differing
legal conclusions from the official version – even if they are a licensed
attorney and have a First Amendment right to do so regardless of their
professional license.
Second, DOJ attacks Rivera for telling his clients they are not liable for
federal taxes. Of course, DOJ could quickly end all these “improper” and
“false” legal representations if they would simply clarify a few details of
US
tax law relating to who is actually liable for the income tax.
Third,
on the matter of “asset protection” IRS may regrettably be correct. How can
Rivera truthfully assert that his clients can protect their assets by taking
advantage of totally legal and legitimate asset protection devices provided
by both common law and by federal statute? As we know, the IRS simply ignores the law,
the People’s property and due process rights and simply seizes -- via coercion
and color of law
-- what it wants, from whomever it wants – and the Courts, of course, provide no
effective legal recourse.
Click
here to read the
DOJ
press release on Ed Rivera.
Irwin Schiff Update
Irwin
Schiff with two of his company employees stood in Las Vegas District Court
on Friday to continue his battle against the IRS which is attempting to ban
sales and/or distribution of Schiff’s book “The Federal Mafia” and to
prevent Schiff from speaking in public about the tax laws of the United
States.
In
Friday’s hearing, the government called no witnesses. Schiff put three of
his clients on the stand that testified they had read his materials,
considered the law and acted accordingly without damage caused by Schiff.
The government refused to cross examine any Schiff witness.
The
following snippet was from the hearing: (Schiff) "There is no law in the
internal revenue code that says you must pay income tax," Schiff said. The
judge interrupted, saying: "That's your opinion." Schiff replied, "It's
fact. OK, it's also my opinion that 2 and 2 is 4."
Because of the widespread First Amendment issues, the hearing is receiving
some limited national media attention. Click here to read
several news stories about the
hearing. The judge has continued the proceeding and asked for written
briefs by May 1.
The
Schiff situation is incremental evidence that the federal income tax system
is faltering and slowly collapsing from within. That the government would
risk a full-frontal assault on the First Amendment to stifle purely
political speech – the apex of free speech protected by the Constitution --
is telling indeed.
As we
noted earlier, the Nevada ACLU has already intervened in the case arguing
strongly that regardless of Schiff’s legal conclusions or interpretations of
law. Schiff must be protected in his right to speak about the law and to
sell his books. In this case, the government has moved to ban a book and a
man’s words simply because he disagrees with the IRS.
Knowing Schiff, the government may soon find itself in a very difficult
position. It is asking in a public trial to ban a book without directly
confronting the underlying truth or falsity of the words contained within.
It is straining logic to insist that the words in this book are directly
“inciting” imminent illegal activity resulting in damage. Of course books
about snipers, nuclear bombs and terrorist procedures are all perfectly
legal – but not about US tax law.
It is
one thing for the
US
to focus their prosecution on the supposedly “lost” taxes the government
will never collect. It is quite another, however, to claim damages and then
fail to publicly confront and establish the burden of proof, as the
plaintiff, that it’s damages are due to Schiff’s FALSE statements, and that
that those false statements somehow “incite” immediate lawless action and
imminent damage to the government.
Schiff’s case also raises other potentially troublesome legal issues for the
DOJ. Are other books and publications that offer tax advice to be banned as
well? What about the standard tax preparation books that assist people claim
deductions, exemptions, income allocations, etc.? What about the “Big X”
accounting firms that publish books and offer advice to their clients? Who
is to be the arbiter of what constitutes a “false” legal position?
Is Schiff’s interpretation of US law to be singled out and effectively
converted into a CRIME simply because it allows his readers and clients to
“deduct” ALL of their “income” on a tax return?
Are Schiff and others being singled out simply because they have found the
“Mother of All Tax Deductions?” Is ANYONE that disagrees in writing or in
public with the IRS now subject to a federal injunction? Will the Court
allow this injunction without any substantive due process as to examining
the underlying statutes and Supreme Court decisions which back Schiff’s
positions and to which the IRS is legally bound?
In the
end, and even with the IRS, the Court must maintain some facade of
impartiality.
The Court dares not openly crush the First Amendment based on a simplistic
claim of DIRECT damages arising from the uttering of Schiff’s “frivolous”
beliefs. Indeed, the court should perform its Constitutional duty and call
the government on the carpet to formally and officially rebut Schiff’s
specific legal arguments.
But in a larger sense, Schiff should not even be in the position he is in.
From a First Amendment framework it matters not what he writes or speaks.
He has simply written a book and People may or may not later consider his
ideas and/or follow his advice. These are merely the words of a single
man. Why is the government so afraid of these words? WHY are
they trying to suppress these words? Does the IRS trump the
First Amendment? Does Schiff have the RIGHT to be wrong?
And of
course – THAT is the real problem here. Schiff’s book IS unlike most books
ever written and the government wants this information banned ASAP.
Schiff’s words, like the words of many others over many years, have finally
lead to the deciphering and incontrovertible documentation detailing the tax
fraud. This information continues to move throughout the nation at light
speed and is, without doubt, causing the very attacks Schiff and others are
currently enduring.
What
we are witnessing is an unanticipated shift in the Tax Honesty battlefield.
The government, in its yearning to delay what may be the final days of
tax fraud, now finds itself in public court, openly attempting to quash the
First Amendment right of free speech. Even the media starts to take
notice when its corner of the Constitution is threatened.
Banning Schiff’s book and his unalienable right to free speech might be
that one step over line the People, and this nation, will not tolerate.
Schiff’s “The Federal Mafia” is not yelling “fire” in a
crowded theater.
His book represents what this nation stands for – or at least used to.
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