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By Dan Pilla, Sr.

It has been a trying, but exciting year as we have moved closer to a declaration by the High Court of our Rights and the Government’s obligations under the Petition Clause of the First Amendment.  

Our civic education and civic actions continue to arouse interest and gain support from the People, many more of whom are beginning to understand the true meaning of the Petition Clause and its power to hold Government accountable to the letter and spirit of each provision of the Constitution. 

Just as discontent breeds change, change breeds discontent. The Government is not happy with our activities and is doing what it can to chill the enthusiasm of people to associate with us. The Government has a vested interest in the status quo. Our Government does not want to be held accountable. No government does. 

The battle for Liberty continues – as it must.

Faced with a shrinking window of opportunity within which to defeat the despots who threaten our Liberty, this Foundation -- your Foundation -- is more in need of your support and commitment than ever.

The good news is that our work is making progress.  The growing attacks by the Government are clear evidence of our continuing advancement toward our goals of restoring Constitutional Order and securing Liberty for our posterity.

Despite the government’s best efforts to shut this organization down, cripple its support base and halt the flow of damaging information emanating from our public communications, educational activism and federal litigation, we are still here -- fighting strongly and successfully.

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On November 6, 2006, a lone man in a “V” mask and clothing visited security checkpoints at the White House, the main Treasury Building, the Department of Justice and the Capitol, to deliver a letter and the Petitions for Redress. A short videotape of the encounters has made its way around the Internet, including links from sites such as MySpace.com.

The letter informed the leaders of the Executive and Legislative branches of the federal government that up to 100 people in “V” masks and clothing would gather in silent vigil at those locations on November 14^th to await a response to the Petitions for Redress.

True to his word, at 11:00 A.M. on Tuesday, November 14, 2006, nearly 100 men and women in “V” masks and clothing could be seen walking along different streets in downtown Washington, DC, all heading to Lafayette Park across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House.

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At the White House about a dozen Secret Service agents appeared on foot, bicycles and car to meet “V.” While virtuously assuring the security of the state, they were curious about the image of “V” and asked many questions. Most, when asked if they had seen the movie “V for Vendetta”, smiled their approval.

When an agent asked if “V” would remove his mask for identification purposes, “V” explained that would defeat the very purpose of the mask, which was to give expression to the fact that the nation was becoming a police state, that too many people were becoming afraid to be identified as dissenters or protestors, and that this was not in the long term interest of a free people.  The agents accepted the veracity of “V’s” message and refrained from veering “V” from his vanguard visit as the vox populi.

Many law enforcement agents dutifully responded to the first impression security concerns caused by “V’s” dramatic and startling presence at the seat of governmental power. All but one who confronted “V” were generally pleasant, professional and ultimately respectful of the voraciously valued Rights of peaceful protest, dissent and Petition that “V” was claiming and exercising.

On November 1^st Schulz petitioned the Court to Quash the Summons on the ground that it was issued in spite of constitutional prohibitions barring retaliation by the government against those exercising Constitutionally protected Rights, including the First Amendment Right to Petition.

Schulz also charged the Summons was a brash act of insolence by IRS for violating a 2005 ruling from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals which defined the Due Process requirements for enforcing IRS administrative actions, and that IRS had acted in bad faith. Like Schulz, the bank is question is also domiciled in the Second Circuit. 

On November 3^rd Schulz asked the Court to order the IRS to Show Cause why the IRS should not be enjoined from enforcing the Summons until the case was finally determined, including any appeal thereof. Schulz also asked the Court to include a TRO in its order.

The District Court Order granted Schulz all the protections he requested, including ordering IRS to immediately notify the Bank by telephone that it was not to comply with the demands of the Summons.
 

Click here for a copy of the District Court’s Order of November 6th.

Click here for a copy of the papers filed on November 3: Schulz’s proposed Order to Show Cause, Schulz’s Memorandum of Law, Schulz’s Declaration #2, and Schulz’s Declaration #3. 

Click here for a copy of the papers filed on November 1: Schulz’s Petition to Quash, Schulz’s Memorandum of Law, and Schulz’s Declaration #1.

Click here to read the June 2005 ruling from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Schulz v. IRS barring IRS from enforcing any administrative enforcement action without first filing suit to enforce such administrative action in federal district court and providing the enforcement target an opportunity for a full, adversarial Article III judicial hearing.

Today, WTP Chairman Bob Schulz flew to Washington, DC to file a motion for “Post Argument Communication” with the US Court of Appeals, augmenting several arguments made on behalf of the Plaintiffs by Right-to-Petition lawsuit counsel Mark Lane on October 6th.

By prior order of the Court, each side was represented by a single attorney at the hearing.  Schulz, as the lone pro-se Plaintiff (i.e., not represented by Lane), was not given an opportunity to address the court.

Schulz’s motion clarifies that the public “fisc” (i.e., treasury) could be affected if the Court were to uphold the People’s Right to retain their money to secure Redress, but states that such effect on the fisc, with respect to the Plaintiffs, would not only be negligible in the context of a $2.7 trillion annual federal budget, but that the impact in the future would ultimately be determined by the Government’s own choices regarding its proclivity to commit ongoing constitutional torts against the People.

The motion also augments Plaintiff arguments regarding the Government’s oft-repeated assertions that it enjoys “sovereign immunity” from lawsuits by the People.  Schulz clarifies that the act of Retaining money to secure Redress is not equivalent to a “monetary claim” against the Government and its treasury. This legal distinction by itself, favors recognition of jurisdiction for the People under existing federal statutes, notwithstanding the separate and significant Constitutional arguments justifying jurisdiction.

Schulz additionally argues that despite the admission that withholding of money could negatively impact the fisc and would temporarily suspend tax enforcement actions against the Plaintiffs, such facts do not give license to the Government to unilaterally alter the fundamental limitations on government authority set forth in the Constitution, nor does it allow the Government, via Acts of Congress, to alter the fundamental fiduciary relationship that exists between the People and their servant Government.

The Court is currently considering the People’s appeal and their Emergency Motion for injunctive relief.


Click here to read Schulz’s Motion for Post Argument Communication  

Click here to read the transcript of the October 6th Oral Arguments

Last week, the Foundation filed its Reply Brief. The People, once again, challenged the specious arguments made by the Department of Justice that claim the Government must give its permission before the People can sue it, and (without citing any law or provision of the Constitution) that the Government is under no obligation to respond to the People’s Petitions for Redress of Grievances.

November 14^th In DC

It is now past Sunday evening. We trust many of you were able to watch the movie “V for Vendetta,” and that you agree with us that the movie presents a powerful concept for a large scale public demonstration that we might be able to make use of.  

We intend to do so. A plan is in the works. This week we need to travel to DC to make certain arrangements. Later this week, upon our return, we will post an article with the details of the plan. 



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Foundation’s Tax Filings
Document Crippling Damage
From IRS Attacks

WTP Needs Your Help

As we reported in our last update, this past week the Plaintiffs in the Right to Petition lawsuit formally filed an Emergency Motion for Injunctive Relief seeking the protection of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, DC from IRS “enforcement” actions.  

The Motion’s supporting documents included a Declaration by Bob Schulz that included copies of all of the Foundation’s tax returns.  Until now they had not been published by WTP. Federal law requires foundations such as ours to provide a copy of our tax filing (Form 990) to persons so requesting one. 

Interestingly, only David Cay Johnston of The New York Times and financial consultant J.J. McNab have contacted the Foundation requesting copies of the Foundation’s tax filing(s). They made their requests about two years ago. We complied. We have not received a similar request since then.

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Court of Appeals Hears Oral Arguments,
WTP Files Motion For Injunctive Protection


“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"
       - William Shakespeare, Henry IV  (Act III, Scene I)

’Tis nothing truer this week following a series of dramatic events regarding the Right to Petition that are so exceptional and moving they could be experienced as a dramatic play – the drama of the making of our own history.

Unfortunately this drama is for real. It is the People who, as protagonist, act upon their divinely illuminated character.  The servant of the People - their government - plays the antagonist.  The conflict is sharp, prolonged and injurious, and travels to lands where the Law can only find resolution in favor of the People. Upon the stage of engagement tenaciously hangs the backdrop of the Constitution.

Freedom is the prize to be seized or lost, Liberty the fire which drives the heart. When the curtain finally falls, the outcome will, win or lose - and for better or worse, forever determine the fate of the nation and its People. 

This is our unfolding drama.  It is nothing less than the irrepressible conflict, the perpetual and unavoidable confrontation between men and their servant governments seeking to grasp and zealously enjoy the fruits of Sovereignty, but which (unfortunately for the Government), are the Natural, and unalienable Right of the People.  

The events of the last several weeks, focusing squarely upon our exercise of the First Amendment Petition for Redress of Grievance have exposed an artful, insolent principle by which our government has acted against not only the People, but against Nature itself.

Our government has been bared in public, their words to read, their voices to be heard, clamoring deceitfully that it can operate without constitutional restraint and without judicial review unless it waives, by law, what it says is its “sovereign immunity.”  

As we have reported, our landmark lawsuit for a declaration of the Rights of the People under the Petition Clause of the First Amendment has, after two years reached the United States Court of Appeals in Washington DC. The matter was fully briefed by May, 2006.

In its Response Brief to the Court, the Government argued first and foremost that because the Government did not waive its “sovereign immunity,” the Court had no jurisdiction to hear our case. In our Reply Brief, we argued that sovereign immunity was a myth that certainly could not apply to Constitutional questions such as ours.

This past week culminated in two profound events stemming from the landmark Right-to-Petition lawsuit: the submission of a Motion for Injunction against the Government to protect those supporting the Right to Petition process, and public oral arguments were held before the Court of Appeals.

In the Motion for Injunction, the People have documented a far-reaching and systemic program of legal and administrative abuse by the Government against the Plaintiffs (and others supporting the WTP Foundation) that amounts to nothing less than criminal obstruction of justice.  Additionally, in its public oral arguments, the Government committed itself further to its ostentatious contention that it is does not have to answer to the People and that the People have no legal jurisdiction to sue it. 

These momentous events, ushered to the Court of Appeals by the We The People Foundation, mark a clear turning point in the historical drama to secure the Right to Petition and repel the escalating encroachments upon our Liberty by our own government.

With the hand of Providence and the annals of history on our side, the day of our vindication may finally be within sight.

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Be sure to watch the video archives of the 14 local events that were held on the Right-to-Petition tour stretching from Concord, Massachusetts to Austin, Texas.  Webcasts!

SATURDAY  July 22  Houston, Texas 
SUNDAY  July 23  Austin, Texas 

This weekend’s Texas events scheduled for Houston and Austin will proceed as planned.  

Guest speakers for the Saturday event in Houston are U.S. Congressman Ron Paul (Texas) and Jim Cabaniss, president of AVIDD, American Veterans In Domestic Defense. Note: At press time, we were still waiting for final confirmation from Ron Paul. 

Guest speakers for the Sunday WTP event include Liz MacIntyre, co-author of “Spychips” detailing corporate and government plans to track every aspect of Americans’ lives with RFID chips and Jon Roland, founder of the Constitution Society.

Both events are from 3 PM - 5 PM.   

SATURDAY  July 22  Houston, Texas

Houston Baptist University
Mabee Theater
7502 Fondren Rd.
Houston, Texas  77074

www.hbu.edu
Direction & Maps:  http://www.hbu.edu/Pages/cinfo/F2drctns.html

SUNDAY  July 23  Austin, Texas  

Woodland Hotel & Conference Center
3401 S. I-35 (Exit #232A)
Austin, Texas  78741

www.woodwardaustin.com
Directions & Maps:  http://www.woodwardaustin.com/index.asp 

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Read Bob Schulz's important message to the Freedom Movement entitled "Coalesce or Capitulate -- An Open Invitation"

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An Open Invitation

All organizations concerned about the steady erosion of Freedom in America must coalesce and set joint strategies if we are to compete against the new world order and restore the Constitution.  Until recently, this was an outlier concept, lying away from the operational orientation of many organizations. Today, many leaders of these organizations, by necessity and the realization of our situation, have begun to trumpet the idea.  

But can dozens of individual freedom organizations, each fighting as best it can to defend their piece of constitutional turf  - in other words, territory where “my way” and “my issue” is treasured as holy writ - ever find a way to pull together against the forces arrayed by a tough, challenging new world order?

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More: Invitation to Speak & Invitation Video

Bob and the WTP group at Independence Mall in Philadelphia.  Pictured (left to right) on a balcony overlooking Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell center are Bob and Judy Schulz, CBS television star Pauley Perrette (NCIS), attorney Mark Lane, and Vanessa and Mike of the We The People home office.

We urge all Liberty leaders and opinion-makers that have an interest in joining the Right to Petition alliance or have an desire to appear as a featured speaker on one of the (free) live scheduled WTP Internet broadcasts to read the invitation from WTP Chairman Bob Schulz.

Please get to one of the WTP meetings as the RTP tour makes its way across America and help support our efforts to coalesce all the leading Freedom organizations in pursuing the execution and enforcement of the Right to Petition strategy as a non-political, peaceful means of defending our Constitution. We need your help to make our tour succeed and to secure Liberty against those that would destroy it..

Watch the archived videos of the WTP broadcast events....
The latest archive is 7/8 from Annapolis, Maryland. The featured speaker was C. William Michaels, attorney sponsoring the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and author of "No Greater Threat".

Watch the LIVE broadcasts....
Next live event is Monday, 8 PM EDT.

Volunteer to help with the tour....We need help in every one of the 70+ scheduled tour cities....

Check the schedule for all the latest details....
 

Video Archives Of First Events Available Now

Hartford & Philly Next Events

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The motion for dismissal came on the heels of a surprise tactic by Lawrence’s defense attorney Oscar Stilley. 

The tactic threatened exposure of IRS’s on-going efforts to defraud the public.  The move put DOJ attorneys in a state of panic that left them with only one alternative: beg for dismissal, with prejudice.

Stilley’s tactic paid off.  Sixty days earlier, the DOJ had indicted Lawrence on three counts of willful failure to file a 1040 form, and three felony counts of income tax evasion. The federal Judge dismissed all charges with prejudice, meaning the DOJ cannot charge Lawrence with those crimes again.

The trial was to have started on Monday morning, May 15^th. 

On Wednesday, May 10, Stilley mailed a set of documents to the DOJ in response to DOJ’s discovery demands. The documents revealed to DOJ for the first time that Lawrence was basing his entire defense on an act of Congress, 44 U.S.C. 3500 – 3520, also known as the "Paperwork Reduction Act" (PRA).

In Section 3512 of the Act, titled "Public Protection," it says that no person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with an agency’s collection of information request (such as a 1040 form), if the request does not display a valid control number assigned by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in accordance with the requirements of the Act, or if the agency fails to inform the person who is to respond to the collection of information that he is not required to respond to the collection of information request unless it displays a valid control number.

In Section 3512 Congress went on to authorize that the protection provided by Section 3512 may be raised in the form of a complete defense at any time during an agency’s administrative process (such as an IRS Tax Court or Collection and Due Process Hearing) or during a judicial proceeding (such as Lawrence’s criminal trial).

In sum, the PRA requires that all government agencies display valid OMB control numbers and certain disclosures directly on all information collection forms that the public is requested to file. Lawrence's sole  defense was he was not required to file an IRS Form 1040 because it displays an invalid OMB control number.

Government officials knew that if the case went to trial, it would expose the fraudulent, counterfeit 1040. They also must have known that a trial would expose the ongoing conspiracy between OMB and IRS to publish 1040 forms each year that those agencies knew were in violation of the PRA.  That would raise the issue that the Form 1040, with its invalid control number, is being used by the Government to cover up the underlying constitutional tort -- that is, the enforcement of a direct, unapportioned tax on the labor of every working man, women and child in America.

Any information collection form, such as IRS Form 1040, which lacks bona fide statutory authority or which conflicts with the Constitution, cannot be issued an OMB control number.  If a control number were issued for such a form, the form would be invalid and of no force and effect. 

Under the facts and circumstances of the last 24 years, it is safe to say that IRS Form 1040 is a fraudulent, counterfeit, bootleg form. Government officials responsible for this fraud should be investigated and face indictment for willfully making and sponsoring false instruments.  

Caught between a rock and a hard place, the DOJ and IRS decided not to let the Lawrence case proceed because it would reveal one critical and damning fact: 

The PRA law protects those that
fail to file IRS bootleg Form 1040

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The "Why Won't They Answer Tour?" Announced
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WTP Right-to-Petition Events
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Truth: The People are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” 

Truth: The People instituted government “to secure these Rights,” no more or less. 

Truth: The People instituted written constitutions to prohibit government from doing more or less. 

Truth: The People have a Right to hold government accountable to these written constitutions. 

Truth: The People have a “Right to Petition the government for Redress” of constitutional torts. 

Truth: The People have a Right of Response from government to these Petitions for Redress.  

Truth: The People have a Right to “alter the government” when it fails to respond to such Petitions. 

Truth: The People have a Right of Enforcement of their Rights.  

Truth: The People have a Right to retain their money until their grievances are Redressed. 

The truths etched above form nothing less than the cornerstone upon which our form of governance exists and which distinguish it from every other form of government ever designed by man.  Indeed, it is solely through these Founding Principles that men can peacefully enjoy their natural dominion over servant governments and keep safe the blessings of Liberty.   

No less than the United States Supreme Court and three federal Appeals Courts are now grappling with these fundamental truths in four separate cases initiated by Bob Schulz and the We The People Foundation. 

In the coming weeks, the Justices of the United States Supreme Court and the Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the DC, Second and Ninth Circuits will, for the first time in history, address these truths as they relate to the Petition Clause of the First Amendment. 

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This past weekend, Aaron Russo’s movie received enthusiastic ovations from combined crowds numbering more than 1600. 

Last Thursday evening, “America…From Freedom to Fascism" played at downtown Chicago’s upscale independent bookstore, Transitions Bookplace.  On Friday night, writer and director Russo personally presented the 4-minute movie trailer to a packed and energized crowd of 500 at the “Kinetic Playground”, a nightclub that Russo owned and operated years ago when he was involved with the music production side of the entertainment industry. It was during this period that Russo brought the famous rock group Led Zeppelin to America and managed the career of actress/performer Bette Midler.


Packed ARCADA Theatre

On Saturday, Russo’s film played to about 700 people who gathered at the historic ARCADA Theatre in Chicago’s western suburb of St. Charles.  Following the showing, Russo was greeted by throngs of well-wishers thanking him for having the courage to make the movie and seeking his autograph on the WTP brochures that had been distributed at the event.

  Watch the PREVIEW

On Sunday, the movie screened to a full theater in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where 300 people again expressed their strong appreciation for the movie.  Below are some pictures from the Chicago event.

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475 see it at Southern Oregon University
300 at the Clarke St. Theater in Portland
550 at the Garland Theatre in Spokane

RTP Lawsuit: Government Requests More Time

April DC Events Postponed

This past weekend, the We The People Foundation sponsored three more screenings of “America…From Freedom to Fascism,” producer Aaron Russo’s compelling new documentary about the erosion of freedom in America.

On Saturday afternoon, the film played to a standing-room-only gathering in Ashland, Oregon on the SOU campus, where 450 chairs had been set up in the Ballroom in Britt Hall. On Sunday,