8-3-03
Must Elected Officials Answer Our Petitions?
Can We Withhold
Our Money If They Refuse?
We The
People say “YES” to both questions.
The
Founders said “YES” to both questions.
Now we
will ask the United States Supreme Court to say “YES” to both questions.
Whether the Supreme Court confirms this self-evident truth, depends on
you -- your passion for liberty, truth and justice, and your active
participation and financial support.
At
this serious moment in the life of our Country, we ask each of you to
consider making the eternal cause of freedom a real and permanent part of
your life.
Last
week we announced the soon-to-be filed class action lawsuit, “We The People
v. The United States Government.”
Unlike
every other legal argument and court action that has been advanced by the
“Freedom Movement” to date, this lawsuit does not question any specific
statute, regulation, procedural protocol, legal doctrine or judicial
interpretation.
It
does not require, nor rest upon, any analysis of administrative procedure,
delegation of authority or statutory construction. It does not require a
judgment regarding proper jurisdiction or the definition of words. It does
not require the courts to directly reverse or explain the legal labyrinth of
prior judicial decisions that has evolved into the web of tyrannical
judicial activism that presently exists in
America.
This
historic lawsuit places one core issue on the table:
Do We The American People enjoy popular sovereignty over our government,
or not?
Is the United States
Federal Government accountable to We The People, and subject to our
Petitions, or not?
This
lawsuit will challenge the entire paradigm of legal thought that has
defined the course of
America for the past 50-75
years. This
historic lawsuit will not rest on the definition of certain legal words of
art, the interpretation or application of specific Titles and Sections of
the U.S. Code, or the effect of previous court decisions.
From
the inception of our nation the Right to Petition was virtually unquestioned
as a means for individuals to be heard by Congress. As required, Congress
directly answered these Petitions and even crafted significant volumes of
legislation upon their content. In the early 1830’s Congress began to
receive an abundance of Petitions from abolitionists against slavery. In
1840, southern Congressmen succeeded in getting the House to pass a “gag
rule,” requiring the permanent tabling of all such Petitions. The Rule
was not challenged in court and became procedural precedent until the
Right to Petition effectively became the “forgotten Right”. In 1845, under
John Quincy Adams’ leadership the unconstitutional gag rule was repealed,
but, by then it was too late, the precedent was established.
People
have fought to protect, preserve and defend this ancient Right for hundreds
of years, ever since the Middle Ages. It is the sole instrument by which the
People, either as individuals, or as minority groups, can peacefully secure
and exercise the unalienable Right to individual freedom that is God’s
blessing to every human being.
Once
the court, as we believe it must, recognizes this forgotten Right, elected
officials at every level of government will once again be forced to
listen and respond to the concerns of their constituents, rather than
lobbyists alone. Individuals and small groups of Americans will once again
be able to hold their elected officials directly accountable to the
spirit and intent of the Constitution. And where government persists in
unconstitutional acts, the People will be able to lawfully withhold their
taxes until their questions are honestly answered and the grievances are
remedied. Click
here for a
sample of the arguments
we will present to the court.
If the
People of this nation can quickly assemble and publicly demand this
declaration of our Rights by the courts, the days of despotism are most
assuredly numbered.
We
must convince the Court that the American People, in large numbers, are
keenly interested in this defining legal issue. The Court must feel the
searing white-hot light of public scrutiny being focused on this issue.
Otherwise, the court may politicize the issue, choosing the status-quo over
the spirit and intent of the Constitution: choosing political expediency
over truth, liberty and justice. Judges are not omniscient. They are not
gods or god-like. They are political beings. They suffer from the same human
imperfections, flaws and lapses in judgment that effect us all.
Please
donate.
There is much to
do.
We
would like to immediately run at least one full-page announcement in USA
Today about our class action lawsuit, and arrange for broad media coverage
of this historic event. Click here for the
draft
USA TODAY announcement, which will cost approximately $70,000.
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We are
close to forcing a final, peaceful end to the dark days of unaccountable,
out-of-control government in America. If we are going to prevail in this
historic fight for human freedom, We The People Foundation must have an
adequate, predictable level of funding to execute our legal strategy and
plans, and to ensure that we can repel the government forces that are
presently allied against the American People. Time is critical. We need
your regular financial support to win.