11-10-03
WHY You Should Help
Lawsuit Funding Progress
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Continued thanks to the many that have contributed to what is expected
to be a legal battle of historic proportions and untold significance to
the future of the Republic.
To
date, approximately $50,000 of the $285,000 necessary to move the Right
To Petition lawsuit forward into the courts has been raised.
So everyone can see
how quickly we are making progress, we will periodically update our home
web page with new totals reflected in the graphic.
Bob Schulz also
wants to briefly recap for everyone WHY they should support this
historic lawsuit and WHY this case, above all other attempts to date,
has a significant chance of making history:
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1) The
lawsuit is NOT about income taxes.
It is about the Right to ASK our elected representatives
QUESTIONS about their behavior if we suspect they are violating our
individual and unalienable Rights or are otherwise violating the
Constitution. Further, this lawsuit is about our Right to get
ANSWERS and our Right to RETAIN our money if government
refuses to answer our questions.
By placing the 1st
Amendment Right to Petition issue squarely before the Judiciary, this
lawsuit clearly and unambiguously presents the most fundamental legal
question: Is the U.S. Government a servant government, limited by a
written Constitution, or is it free to ignore the Constitution and do
whatever it wants to do?
There CAN BE NO
MIDDLE GROUND in the Court's answer. The Court will either re-affirm
that the People are sovereign and have the ultimate power in our
society, or it will say that ours is a government of, by and for the
government – that is, the State.
Is our country a
CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, with individual and unalienable Rights
enforceable by Petitions for Redress, or has our country become a
DEMOCRACY, where the only Rights are those of the majority as derived
from the ballot box?
As an American, what
is the answer to this question worth?
2)
This is a “first impression” lawsuit -- the courts have NOT ruled
on the meaning of this “forgotten” Right – the Right to Petition the
government for a Redress of Grievances.
Amazingly, unlike the extensive examination the courts have engaged in
regarding such Rights as free press, free speech, search and seizure,
due process, etc., the courts have NEVER ruled on the substantive
meaning and implications of the last ten words of the First Amendment.
In short, this
lawsuit does NOT require the court to address two hundred years of
twisted, contorted legal precedent. As a "new" matter before the court,
the Judiciary will be called upon to interpret the original intent of
the framers of the Constitution and consider the historical application,
and the means of securing and exercising this Right.
In those respects, the historical record is clear: until approximately
1840, the Right of Petition was used extensively by Individuals to
question the behavior or their elected representatives, and they always
received an answer, even from their federal congressmen. Because of the
large number of Petitions from abolitionists in the 1830s, Congress
passed an in-house rule requiring the permanent tabling of all such
Petitions.
Unfortunately, the People did nothing to enforce their Right to receive
an answer to their Petitions. There was no “tax revolt.” There was no
court challenge. Consequently, that behavior of Congress became the
precedent for further acts of silence by Congressmen (and, eventually,
all elected officials) in receipt of Petitions for Redress of
Grievances.
Today, the only People our elected representatives respond to are
lobbyists. Unless you can deliver wads of money and/or blocks of votes,
any response you might get from your elected representative to a
meaningful Petition for Redress will be a “non-responsive” response.
The historical
record shows the Founding Fathers articulated -- in their OWN WORDS --
that the People have the Right to withhold their money until their
grievances are redressed. Paradoxically, the powers contained in this
core Right may be the VERY REASON it has not been litigated to
date. Everything in the legal literature indicates that there is only
ONE losing party with regard to the Right to Petition -- and it is
not the People.
If the servant
government is taking over the house, do we have the Right to starve the
servant if the servant decides it does not have to answer to us, and
will not justify its behavior?
As an American, what
is the answer to this question worth?
3) The Right to Petition for Redress of Grievances includes the Right
of Protection from Retaliation.
As plaintiffs in the
suit, we enjoy a legal PRESUMPTION of protection -- particularly where
constitutionally protected Rights are involved.
The nature of the
lawsuit's 1st Amendment arguments and irrefutable
Constitutional truths regarding the nature of popular sovereignty,
should prevent the government from being able to advance, via statutory
or judicial sophistry, ANY valid legal argument that can deny this
protection to us, the Plaintiff-Petitioners.
If we are
successful, as we believe we will be, IRS and DOJ will be STOPPED, i.e.,
ENJOINED, from enforcing ANY tax collection efforts against ANY member
of the plaintiff class until the merits of the case are decided.
In practical terms, this means NO more liens, levies, demand
letters, prosecutions, hearings, harassment, armed raids, summonses,
filings of individual tax returns (Form 1040), tax withholding by
employers, etc., at least until such time that the court makes a formal determination on the
issues raised in the lawsuit.
As an American, what
is this legal protection from IRS and DOJ retaliation worth?
4)
A "window of opportunity" to manifest history...
Unless we commit
ourselves to this cause, act soon and act together, We the People may
soon lose what opportunity remains to end the abuses we endure.
It is no secret that
our government is out of control and on a trajectory that will
ultimately result in tragedy for the People, and the irretrievable loss
of freedom. It is time to pool our resources, commit to our cause and
get on with the defense of our freedom. Freedom has never been free.
Those that have fought for and defended it know this best.
We again refer to
the history books that our grandchildren will someday study. There are
many possible futures for our Republic, but only one in which the People
enjoy true Liberty. That potential future requires us to act -- and act
now. Time, events and Providence have brought us to the moment where a
personal decision must be made. If we do nothing, the results are
easily predictable. It is, really -- and truly, our choice.
To put our objective
in practical terms, if just 780 more Patriots were to donate $300 each,
we would be in court within a week.
Will you go down in
history as an American who committed to seize the moment – to sail the
boisterous sea of Liberty in the interest of defending the Constitution
-- or will you be one of the faceless Americans who chose to endure the
calm sea of despotism?
Please join with
us and help create history the way a free People would want it to
be recorded.
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