October 24, 2007
Speaking To Power
This week, the We The People organization Petitioned the
Judiciary of the
United States,
twice, on the Record, in what we believe is a historical,
intellectually compelling defense of the Constitution and
the People’s Right to hold the Government accountable to it.
Intense in degree and quality, an ardent, passionate prayer
for a Writ of Certiorari was filed in the Supreme Court of
the
United States in the landmark Right-to-Petition lawsuit,
We The People v. United States.
An equally forceful and cogent legal memorandum was filed in
the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in
United States
v. We The People. (Links below)
We The
People v. United States,
is the historical case filed in the DC District Court in
2004, by nearly 2000 citizens representing all 50 states.
The “declaratory judgment” action seeks a declaration by the
Judicial branch regarding the collateral Rights of the
People and the obligations of the Government under the
Petition Clause of the First Amendment, i.e., what has been
termed by this Foundation as the “Accountability” Clause:
“Congress shall make no law…abridging…the right of the
People … to Petition the Government for Redress of
Grievances.”
Referred to by scholars as the “capstone” Right, the
contemporary historical understanding and record of the
Accountability Clause clearly shows its intended purpose is
to maintain the carefully crafted balance of power between
the People and the Government.
The following is the Question that is now before the United
States Supreme Court:
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If “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom
of speech, or of the press, or the right of the
people to peaceably assemble, and to Petition the
government for Redress of Grievances” (First
Amendment), and if “The enumeration in the
Constitution of certain Rights shall not be
construed to deny or disparage others retained by
the People” (Ninth Amendment) and if, “The Right of
the People to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers and effects, against unreasonable searches
and seizures shall not be violated,”(Fourth
Amendment) and if, “No person shall be…deprived of
life, liberty, or property without Due Process of
law….” (Fifth Amendment), and if the Constitution
must be construed in its entirety, and if
the Government has committed acts that have violated
that Constitution, do Plaintiffs acting in their
individual private capacities have a Right to
an official response from Government to their
Petitions for Redress of constitutional torts,
and if Government refuses to respond to those
Petitions, are the People not then free to retain
their money until their Grievances are Redressed
and, if the People do withdraw their financial
support from the Government for that reason, is the
Government not then prohibited from retaliating
against those People by enforcing the internal
revenue laws against those People via summonses,
liens, levies and seizures, and prosecutions, and
otherwise seeking to prevent those People from
freely Speaking out and Associating with other
People for the purposes of furthering public debate,
altering the way the Government operates, and
exposing and correcting those un-Constitutional
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In December, if all goes according to schedule, the Supreme
Court will announce if it has decided to hear the case.
United
States v. We The People
is the lawsuit filed in April 2007 by the Government against
Bob Schulz and the We The People organization in the U.S.
District Court for the Northern District of New York. This
civil injunction action seeks to prevent Schulz and the We
The People organization from freely distributing the
so-called, “Blue Folder.”
The folder contains information relating to the legality of
the institutionalized practice of the Government in forcing
entities to withhold pay from workers and to divert that pay
to the Government. The Blue Folder was first served on the
Government by Schulz as a Petition for Redress of the
Grievance, with a Notice that unless the Government
responded by denying any of the statements contained within
the Folder, WTP would freely distribute it to workers and
company officials.
The Government did not respond, notwithstanding its duty to
do so.
In the Spring of 2003, considering the Government’s silence
to be admission, the Foundation distributed thousands of
copies of the Folder for free at dozens of meetings across
America, and the information was posted on the website for
free download.
Four years later the Government brought the action in spite
of the numerous, explicit protections afforded by the
Speech, Press, Assembly and Petition Clauses of the First
Amendment and despite the fact that no reasonable person
could properly characterize the political Speech contained
within the Blue Folder as a commercial, "abusive tax
shelter."
With these two lawsuits, the federal Judicial department is
now poised, for the first time in history, to
recognize and declare the original intent and purpose of the
power of the People embodied in the political clauses of the
First Amendment, specifically the protections afforded to
the People when claiming, exercising and enforcing the Right
to Petition: “Congress shall make no law…abridging the
freedom of Speech, or of the Press, or of the Right of the
People to peaceably Assemble and to Petition the Government
for Redress of Grievances”.
People who have been following the continuing struggles for
Liberty have a keen appreciation of the patient’s current
health. The sad truth is, should the Judiciary fail to
administer the Founding Principles and Grand Rights to a
resolution of the questions presented to the Courts in these
two lawsuits our Republic will surely succumb to the twin
cancers of tyranny and despotism.
With regard to our
First
Amendment,
first impression, questions now before the Courts, there
really is, and can be, no "middle ground" under our system
of self-government and Popular Sovereignty. Either the
People are Free or they are not. Either the Government is
a servant government, beholden to the People and constrained
in its authority to act by the written word of the
Constitution and Bill of Rights, or it is the Master of our
house -- the
United
States of America.
Let us pray
that the federal Judiciary, although potentially biased and
prejudiced because of its inherent conflict of interest,
will rise above the temptations of politicization and fear
of Ordered Liberty, to stand soundly for the protection and
preservation of the unalienable Rights of Men, as endowed by
their Creator.
So much is at stake. We hope you will invest the personal
time to study the two legal memorandums and urge others to
read them as well. We stand upon a great moment of
history. The People need to know and understand the gravity
of the issues now pending before the Judiciary.
Any and all comments and suggestions are welcomed,
Click Here.
Read the
Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the
U.S. Supreme Court
(We
The People v
U.S.)
and the
Appendix
Read the
Appeal to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals:
(U.S.
v We The People)
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As you read this e-mail, the Petition for Writ of Certiorari
appealing the landmark Right-to-Petition lawsuit is being
processed by the Clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court.
If the Justices on the Supreme Court vote to grant
Certiorari and hear our appeal, we may be within months of
receiving one of the most historic Supreme Court rulings
ever handed down since the dawn of the Republic.
If the Court rules in our favor, as we believe it must, the
People will have, for the first time in over a century, a
legal tool -- a sword, that will enable each of us to
peacefully cure the constitutional torts we have suffered
and endured. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to state that
this lawsuit holds the potential to set the course of
history for the nation from this point forward.
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Related Links:
Any and all comments and suggestions are welcomed,
Click Here.
Read the
Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the
U.S. Supreme Court
(We
The People v U.S.) and the
Appendix
Read the
Appeal to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals:
(U.S.
v We The People)
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lawsuit.
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