"Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and the
Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster,
and what has happened once in 6,000 years,
may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution,
for if the American Constitution should fail,
there will be anarchy throughout the world."
Daniel Webster
"If money is wanted
by Rulers
who have in any manner
oppressed the People
,
they may retain it
until their grievances
are redressed
,
and
thus peaceably
procure relief,
without trusting to
despised petitions
or disturbing
the public tranquility."
Journals of the Continental Congress,
1:105-113
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DearPatriots and
Friends of We The People Foundation:
As I write this letter, I realize how many of you
have been receiving WTP
information and updates over
many years. I have been so grateful for your
interest, support, strength and encouragement on
this challenging journey,
to protect and defend the
letter and spirit of our Constitution of The United
States of America.
On
this Christmas day, and faced with our daunting
cause, we are reminded of scripture. In Paul�s
letter to the Romans he wrote:
��.There is no authority except that which God has
established. The
authorities that exist have been established by God.
For rulers are not a
terror to good works, but to evil. For he is God�s
servant to do you good.
��.For he is God�s minister, an avenger to
execute
God�s wrath on him
who practices evil, so be afraid�for he does not
bear the sword in vain.
For because of this you also pay taxes, for the
authorities are God�s
ministers attending continually to this very
thing�� Romans 13:1-6
And from Jefferson we have:
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the
liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have
removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the
minds of the people that these liberties are a gift
from God? That they are not to be violated but with
His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I
reflect that God is just, and that His justice
cannot sleep forever." (excerpts are inscribed on
the walls of the Jefferson Memorial in the nations
capital) [Source: Merrill . D. Peterson, ed.,
Jefferson Writings, (New York: Literary Classics of
the United States, Inc., 1984), Vol. IV, p. 289.
From Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia,
Query XVIII, 1781.]
Jefferson wasn�t the only Founder moved by such
reasoning. They all knew the evils associated with a
reliance on the whims of men, elected or otherwise,
for individual Liberties and Freedoms.
In our article posted here on December 5, 2008, we asked, �What
must a free
people do, and what is the appropriate
next step, if Mr. Obama refuses to
respond to our
Open Letter and the Supreme Court refuses to hear
the Petitions
by attorneys Donofrio, Berg and Taitz
challenging Obama�s citizenship status?�
A violation of the �natural born citizen�
clause of the Constitution by Mr. Obama is so
egregious and blatant in its nature that it
marks the overt and wholesale abandonment of the
Constitution by the Government, making this our
�capstone grievance,� capping even the other abusive
Constitutional violations this
Foundation has sought
to correct.
As planned, on Monday and Wednesday of this
week, WTP published the full-page
Open Letter to Mr. Obama in the
Chicago Tribune. The letter respectfully
requests that he direct the state of Hawaii to
provide access to his original 1961 (�vault�) birth
certificate, and that he arrange for delivery to the
National Press Club of certain other documents, all
for the purpose of providing evidence of his
eligibility.
The public response and attention by the
media, has been nothing short of astonishing.
Full-Page Citizenship Challenge To Run Twice,
December 1st and 3rd
D.C. National Press Club Event: Dec 8th
Our full-page Open
Letter to Mr. Obama will be published in the
Chicago Tribune on both Monday, December 1, 2008
and Wednesday, December 3, 2008. It
will appear in the main news section.
Click here to view a copy of the
final ad.
Chicago is Mr. Obama�s hometown. His transition team
is operating out of the
Kluczynski Federal
Building in downtown Chicago. He is known to be a
regular reader of the Tribune, Chicago�s
principal newspaper, with a daily circulation of
over a half-million readers.
The Open Letter to Mr. Obama is a formal
Petition for a Redress (Remedy) for the alleged
violation of the �natural born citizen� clause of
the Constitution of the United States of America.
Mr. Obama is respectfully requested to direct the
Hawaiian officials to provide access to his
original birth certificate on December 5-7 by
our team of forensic scientists, and to provide
additional documentary evidence establishing his
citizenship status prior to our Washington, D.C.
press conference on December 8.
In our three prior articles we discussed our
intention to publish an open letter to
President-Elect Obama in USA TODAY. In effect, the
open letter would be a
Petition for Redress of a
violation of the natural born citizen clause of the
Constitution (Article II, Section 1).
The First Amendment to the Constitution
guarantees a citizen�s Right to Petition officials
of the Government for Redress (i.e., for a Remedy)
of alleged violations
of the Constitution. Inherent
in the Right to Redress is the citizen�s Right to a
response.
We are in the process of raising $90,000 to
pay for the publication of the Open Letter and a
room at the National Press Club to discuss any
response by Mr. Obama.
Time is of the essence. We would like to
publish the open letter next week and hold the press
conference at the National Press club one week
later, in advance
of the dates when the Electoral
College�s state electors are certified cast their
votes. If Mr. Obama is not able to prove his
eligibility, the electors will have to
cast their
votes for someone else for it would be treason to
the Constitution to
cast their votes for a usurper.
The purpose of this update is twofold: (1)
to provide the updated total of the funds received
to date; and (2), to respond to some of the comments
we have received regarding the open letter.
In our two prior articles we discussed our intention
to publish a full-page
open letter to President-Elect Obama
in
USA TODAY. In effect, the open letter would be a
Petition for Redress of a violation of the natural
born citizen clause
of the Constitution (Article II,
Section 1).
The First Amendment to the Constitution
guarantees a citizen�s Right to Petition officials
of the Government for Redress (i.e., for a Remedy)
of alleged violations of the Constitution. Inherent
in the Right to Redress is the citizen�s Right to a
response.
We are in the process of raising $90,000 to
pay for the publication of the Open Letter and a
room at the National Press Club to publicly discuss
any response by Mr. Obama.
Time is of the essence. We would like to
publish the open letter next week and hold the press
conference at the National Press club one week
later, in advance of the dates when the Electoral
College�s state electors are certified cast their
votes. If Mr. Obama is not able to prove his
eligibility, the electors will have to cast their
votes for someone else for it would be treason to
the Constitution to cast their votes for a usurper.
The purpose of this update is twofold: (1)
to provide the updated total of the funds received
to date; and (2), to review some of the evidence.
On Friday evening, October 31, 2008, under the
heading, �WTP
USA TODAY AD ON TAP,� WTP
announced our intention to publish an open letter to
Barack Obama asking him to provide certain documents
to prove he was a natural born citizen of the United
States who had not relinquished his American
citizenship. We provided a
draft of the letter and requested
donations to cover the cost � approximately $90.000.
For the next three days, leading
up to Election Day, we heard from people supportive
of the idea, some of whom contributed more than
$5,000 for the project, believing as we did, that
Mr. Obama would win the popular vote.
During those three days leading
up to Election Day we also heard from people who
were not supportive of the idea, some of whom sent
us information that they said proved Mr. Obama was a
natural born citizen of the United States.
We did not hear from anyone
representing Mr. Obama offering, say, to provide the
requested information.
WTP USA TODAY AD ON
TAP:
Obama: Show Evidence of
U.S. Citizenship or Withdraw
Bank Bailout Case Gets Scalia's Attention
In defense of the Natural Born Citizen clause of the
U.S. Constitution, and in the wake of last Friday�s
decision by a federal judge in Berg v Obama,
we feel compelled to run a full page ad in USA
TODAY.
Click here for a copy of the full-page ad we
intend to run if we are able to
raise the money.
As I begin to write this article, I am on the train from D.C.
to the BWI airport,
heading home, having filed yet
another set of papers in the Supreme Court of
the
United States in defense of the Constitution. Once
again, the Government
is in the process of
attempting to seize power from the People.
This time, regarding the A.I.G. and $700 Billion Wall Street
bailout plans, I filed
an emergency motion asking
the U.S. Supreme Court to restrain the Government
from giving or lending taxpayer funds or credit in
exchange for private assets in aid of private
corporations, unless and until the government
defendants could show
the Court where in the
Constitution it provides that the People have agreed
to share with the Government their power to purchase
private assets such as �toxic� mortgage-related
assets and non-toxic shares of bank stocks.
My argument is the People never gave that power to the
Government and the Government has taken another step
outside the boundaries We the People have drawn
around its limited, enumerated powers.
AIG Has Already Consumed
$61B of $85B Government Loan
Early this morning, WTP Chairman Bob Schulz filed a
supplemental Memorandum of Law in support of the
Emergency Appeal to the Second Circuit Court of
Appeals contesting last week's order of the U.S.
District Court in Albany which barred any injunctive relief in WTP's constitutional
challenge to the Wall Street bailout. The lower
court had (erroneously) ruled that its jurisdiction
to impose injunctive relief was not properly
invoked.
The supplemental brief brings additional facts before the
appellate court including added urgency supported by
a report in The New York Times that over just
several days, insurance giant and bailout recipient
AIG have already expended $61 billion of the $85 billion loan
extended to them via the Treasury and Federal
Reserve. That loan, made days prior to the passage
of the "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of
2008", i.e., without any congressional
authority whatsoever, along with the full EESA, are
being challenged on the ground that the acts all
lack Constitutional authority.
USDC Order Obstructing
Bailout Lawsuits
Appealed to U.S. Court of Appeals
An emergency appeal challenging a ruling by the U.S. District
Court in Albany
denying two requests for emergency injunctions to
halt the Wall Street bailouts was filed today in the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in
Manhattan. As the bailout crisis evolved
rapidly over the last ten days, We The People Foundation
Chairman Bob Schulz filed two lawsuits seeking to
block the bailouts by challenging the underlying
authority of the Government.
Federal
District Court Obstructs Lawsuits
Challenging Authority for Bailouts
Judiciary Scuttles Motions Demanding U.S.
Produce Evidence of Constitutional Authority
Late last week, WTP Chairman and constitutional
activist Robert Schulz filed a federal lawsuit in
United States District Court in Albany seeking to
halt the execution of the emergency bailout of Wall
Street insurance giant American Insurance Group, AIG.
On Wednesday, Schulz filed a second federal lawsuit
seeking to block the larger Wall Street bank bailout
currently being negotiated through the U.S.
Congress.
Yesterday, while ignoring the dissimilar legal
issues raised in the two lawsuits, the U.S. District
Court issued an Order combining the two cases into a
single case and denying the applications for
injunctive relief requested. The Court, in effect,
ducked a judicial (and very public) hearing to
examine the critical legal question at the heart of
the bailouts: What Constitutional authority
exists for the
U.S. Government or Federal Reserve to use public (taxpayer) funds for
definitively private purposes?(continued...)
On
the day following the 221st anniversary of the
signing of the U.S. Constitution, WTP Chairman and
constitutional activist Robert Schulz today filed a
federal
lawsuit in United States District Court in
Albany seeking to halt the execution
of the
emergency bailout of American International Group,
Inc. (AIG) by the
United States Government and the
Federal Reserve.
The lawsuit asserts that the commitment of public
funds and credit for the direct benefit of privately
owned AIG is an ultra vires action by the United
States Government and Federal Reserve, i.e.,
beyond the limited legal authority granted
by the
Constitution. The lawsuit asks for a "show cause"
hearing demanding that
the Government produce
evidence of its legal authority to commit public
funds for such a purpose, as well as emergency and
permanent injunctions halting the
bailout
transaction. (continued...)
Thus far, Texas Rep. Ron Paul has �responded� to the
Petitions for Redress by having them �forwarded to
the Clerk of the House.�
While such a move is unique among the Members of the House,
and is not a bad first step in etching the concept
of Government accountability into the minds of some
of the Members and advancing ever so slightly the
question of the constitutional meaning of the last
ten words of the First Amendment, it is highly
unlikely that the Petitions for Redress will advance
to House Committees for consideration, much less a
vote to provide Redress. With the possible exception
of Ron Paul, we know of no other politician willing
to consider the notion of being held accountable to
the People outside the periodic electoral process.
Picture this: Thousands of Americans gather in Washington on Constitution Day
2008 to Hunger for Freedom in their own country:
Americans hungering for Freedom at home
Picture this as the headline and news story that could
accompany each photo:
Don't miss this important update!
Mass Hunger Strike to Restore Constitutional
Order
Commences in U.S. Capital
WASHINGTON, 9/18 --
On September
17, 2008, the 221st anniversary of
the U.S. Constitution,
thousands of Americans gathered in Washington, DC to begin to
�Hunger for Redress.�
They began their mass hunger strike to draw
worldwide attention to the fact
that the Government
of the United States of America has not only been
flagrantly violating its own Constitution,
it now refuses to respond
or even acknowledge
the People's Petitions for Redress of these
Grievances despite the fact the Constitution requires the
Government to do so:
Will Rep. Ron Paul Provide Redress?
This nation is rushing headlong into debt,
dependency and decay.
Unconstitutional acts have
become the precedent for more of the same,
which
become precedent for still further acts of
despotism.
Can the People elect their way out of such
tyranny?
Unfortunately, no! It is not possible, as
Ron Paul�s candidacy has proven. Every time he
exposed the constitutional truth regarding an issue
(e.g., the undeclared
Iraq war and the Federal Reserve System) he lost a
block of voters who possess
a vested interest in the
status quo.
Bob Schulz Coming To A Theater Near You?
WTP�s Plan to Restore Constitutional Order is on
track, but running behind schedule.
By now, the Petitions for Redress should
have been delivered to every member of Congress and
we should have been able to proudly proclaim,
�Congress has been served!�
Unfortunately, we're not quite there yet.
To begin with, we timely mailed 1219 sets of
Petition packages to over 700 people who volunteered
to serve 535 members of Congress in their district
offices on June 30, 2008, and to return to us a notarized proof of
service.
By July 3rd and again after the
July 4th weekend we had received and were
processing hundreds of returns from volunteers who
had successfully completed service. However, by July
10th it was apparent that 129 of the 535
members of Congress had still not been served!
(continued...) Click
Here To Access the Update
June 25,
2008
"PUBLICITY BOMB:" More Tools
Three days ago we called upon our supporters to help ignite a
"publicity
bomb" regarding next week's historical service
of legal
Notice and Demand upon every member of Congress
regarding several First Amendment Petitions for
Redress
of Grievances. We are pleased to announce that a
number of newspapers have already published the
suggested "Letter to the Editor."
We are making the following items available to further assist
you in
interacting with the media:
(continued...) Click
Here To Access the Update
June 22,
2008
NEXT: "PUBLICITY BOMB"
HERE: FREE AND EASY TOOL
June 30, 2008 may go down in history as the day Americans
began, in earnest,
the moral and solemn process of holding their
Government accountable to the Constitution by
directly exercising their unalienable and individual
Right of
Redress, rather than depending upon the will of the
majority of votes as cast
in local precincts, the halls of Congress or the
inner chambers of our
courthouses.
(continued...)
In announcing the end to his campaign for
political office last Thursday,
Ron Paul called upon the People to do something that
really makes a difference
in the fight for freedom, to give the establishment
the fight of its life, to save the country. (continued...)
It
is no secret that Ron Paul's campaign for President
with his message of
Freedom has resonated with many
People, piqued their interest in the
Constitution
and demonstrated that the way our system of
governance
is working is in sharp contrast to the
way it was designed to work.
Despite
this organization's prior efforts involving the production
and promotion of Aaron Russo's film documentary, "America
Freedom to Fascism" (which featured both Ron Paul and the
work of the We The People Foundation for Constitutional
Education, Inc.), many of these new Sons of Liberty do not
-- as yet -- know
much about the WTP organization and our
profound plan to restore
Constitutional Order.
Taking the Revolution to YouTube &
Google:
The Profound Plan For Freedom
he profound Plan put forth by WTP to
continue Ron Paul�s peaceful Revolution through
civic action has now been posted as a video on
YouTube.com and Google Video.
The Cure For Ron Paul's Issues:
A Profound Plan For Freedom
This message is for all people who support
Ron Paul's message of Freedom and want to know what
they can do as a "Freedom Keeper."
Listed just below are seven activities of
the federal government that are
un-constitutional.
With the exception of Ron Paul, all of this year's
presidential candidates, past and present, would
have us believe these activities are mere matters of
public policy.
Ron Paul says "NO!" -- These are not matters of public policy, they are
VIOLATIONS of the Constitution.
Courts Colluding With White House
to Avoid Accountability
The proof is in.
The federal courts have been found to be
co-conspirators with the Executive Branch in a collusive
scheme to avoid being held accountable to the Constitution
by the People.
There can
be no doubt. The federal judiciary is now being utilized as
an weapon
of oppression rather than for the ends of Justice for which
it was designed.
Not only has the Judiciary abandoned its role as an
independent arbiter of legal controversies involving injured
citizens seeking remediation for Government wrongs, the
Judiciary now refuses to even discuss the most basic,
underlying Founding Principles upon which our Republic
rests, i.e., the Rights of the People to Sovereignty and to
hold Government accountable -- particularly its obligation
to respond to Petitions for Redress of constitutional torts
as provided by the First Amendment.
The most egregious result of these developments is that not
only are the People effectively unable to secure Redress
against Government entities that have harmed them, but the
Judiciary has now abdicated its fundamental function under
the Constitution by refusing to interpret the Constitution
where questions of the Sovereignty of the People are
implicated. (continued...)
WTP
Chairman Bob Schulz will speak at next Tuesday's Freedom
Rally in Washington DC.
The April 15th event features numerous individuals speaking
in defense of the Constitution, including presidential
candidate Rep. Ron Paul. It will take place on the grassy
protest area just off the west steps of the U.S. Capitol and
also feature live entertainment throughout the duration.
Responding to invitations from Ron Paul revolutionaries in
New England and Florida, WTP Chairman Bob Schulz
traveled to Concord, Massachusetts and Clearwater,
Florida the last two weekends to determine the level
of interest among the revolutionaries in a bold but
doable Plan for preserving and enhancing Freedom in
America.
At the end of his presentation, Bob asked the standing room
only audiences if they thought the Plan had the
potential of reversing America�s headlong rush
toward debt, dependency and decay, if the Plan was
sound enough for their participation and if Bob
should embark on a tour of the Country to promote
the Plan.
Petition for Rehearing Filed
in Landmark Right-to-Petition Case
Taking advantage of one final procedural step to ask
the U.S. Supreme
Court to hear the landmark Right to Petition case,
on February 1st
Bob Schulz filed a Petition for Rehearing.
�According to its own precedent, this Court would be
abdicating its duty and committing treason to the
Constitution if it fails to [accept jurisdiction
and hear this case]� wrote Schulz. �Tyranny marks a
government that
ignores its free People.�
Schulz also wrote that it would be �shameful� for
the Court to fail to hear this first impression
question of extreme public importance involving the
interpretation
of the Constitution while agreeing to hear the
probate/bankruptcy/defamation
case of Anna Nicole Smith.
�Shall the People in republican America, with its
written Constitution for the protection of the
public Rights and a body of strictly limited powers,
now be forbidden to do that which the Framers�
intended?� asked Schulz.
Please consider a
donationto help finance
the work
of the WTP Foundation.
January
22, 2008
New Hampshire
Recount Underway
Join the
Live Interactive Video Forum!
As we
previously announced, following the discovery of large
statistical anomalies indicating possible evidence of voter
machine fraud, WTP is in New Hampshire to help
witness the recount of its primary ballots.
Live
Interactive Video Conferencing from NH
To
broadcast its recount coverage, WTP is making available a
state-of-the-art Internet video conferencing system so that
our supporters can be kept
abreast of the developments as
they unfold live. We are currently scheduling several live breaking news
updates scheduled each day...
Witnesses
to the very first parts of the recount have already reported
broken ballot-box seals and recounts exposing significant
discrepancies
between the reported machine totals and the
recount totals.
We urge
everyone to help stand watch over the recount by subscribing
to WTP�s video Recount Forum.
Forum
participants will be able to have unlimited, LIVE
video/interactive access to the WTP Recount Forum for a
donation of only $15.
REMEMBER �
you must manually register
(STEP #2)
to
obtain your password after donating to the
Congress.
In the last Update, we reported the Supreme Court of the
United States assigned Docket Numbers to our Petition for
Writ of Certiorari (07-680 for the Petition by attorney Mark
Lane, and 07-681 for the Petition by Bob Schulz).
We also reported the Government then had the choice of filing
a Response to our Petition or a waiver of its right to file
a Response.
This week, the Government filed a WAIVER, surrendering its
right to file a Response to the Petitions.
U.S. Supreme Court Dockets
Landmark Right to Petition Case
Two days ago, the U.S. Supreme Court docketed two
Petitions for Writ of
Certiorari arising from the same decision by the
United States Court of Appeals in the case titled,
We The People v. United States. The Supreme
Court will consider the two Petitions together.
One Petition for Writ of Certiorari, submitted by WTP
Chairman Robert Schulz, was assigned Docket Number
07-681. The second Petition for Writ of Certiorari,
filed by attorney
Mark Lane, who is representing the remaining
Plaintiffs, was assigned Docket Number 07-680.
By the end of the year we will know whether the nation's
Highest Court will take upon itself the burden of
considering -- for the first time in the
Republic's history -- the constitutional meaning
of the last ten words of the First Amendment, i.e.,
the People's Right to Petition the Government for a
Redress of Grievances.
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
Media Noticing WTP�s
First Amendment Battle
at Second Circuit
Click Here
September 2
U.S. Court of
Appeals Orders
Oral Arguments For September 18thClick
Here
August 31
Dramatic
Development
U.S. Court of Appeals
Rules WTP
Does Not Have To Disclose
Identities of
Supporters
Click Here
August 25, 2007
Sleightful
Once again, our servant federal Government has employed an
indirect, ingenious, and most cunning means to achieve a
nefarious end.
Whether the end is a justification for an immoral war against
Iraq
or a war against the Right to Petition and accountability,
it makes no difference to the Government � the ends justify
the means.
Doubtless, from the White House to the Government�s lawyers
and tax collectors, we have a clever bunch of tyrants
treading on us.
Here�s a clue to the latest factual chapter in the continuing
epic tale about WTP and the Right to Petition, which we
present to you below:
"WMD"
is to the war against Iraq
as WTP�s "Blue Folder" is
to the war against the Right to Petition
Don't miss this important update about WTP's fight
against the IRS "6700" lawsuit!
August 15, 2007
WTP Takes Action Against Vote Fraud
Diebold
Vote Machines Fail In Iowa
Last
Thursday, two days before the August 11th presidential Iowa
Straw Poll, Bob Schulz and seven other Plaintiffs filed suit
in federal court in Des Moines, Iowa seeking to permanently
prohibit the state of Iowa from conducting any Straw Poll,
Caucus, Primary, Special or General Election unless the
voting and vote counting was open, verifiable, machine-free,
and computer-free.
Upon
filing the suit, the Plaintiffs formally asked the Court for
emergency injunctive relief, i.e., to order state election
officials to modify the voting procedures for the Iowa Straw
Poll to insure the validity of the voting process.
Specifically, the desired order sought to eliminate the use
of Diebold voting machines that had been officially
decertified by the state of California on August 3rd, to
assure that the ballots were never out of public view, to
force state election officials to publicly hand-count the
ballots at each voting station and to announce the results
and to conduct the tabulation of the vote station subtotals
under full public observation.
Protecting Ron Paul, the Rest
of the �2nd Tier� and America
Citizen
Vigilance Essential
As things stand today, about 60
citizen camera crews and about 200 citizen volunteers are
needed to conduct a �citizens� exit poll� to double
check
the easily rigged Diebold electronic voting machines which
the Iowa GOP intends to use to �count� the vote at the
Ames,
Iowa Straw Poll on August 11, 2007 � just a week from now.
If you can possibly attend
and/or donate to help with this �citizens� exit
poll� � see
the action items at the end of this update � but
first:
Picture this:
Next Saturday, from 10 am to 6
pm, more than 25,000 residents of the State of Iowa will
arrive on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames. They
will be 18 years of age or older. They will be there to
choose one man from a list of eleven men as their choice to
be the next President of the United States of America.
At one of 60 vote stations they
will receive a paper ballot. They will pencil in an oval
next to the candidate of their choice. They will enter the
paper ballot into a machine that will scan the entire ballot
and record the vote. After voting, each voter will place a
thumb into a container of purple ink.
After scanning each ballot the machine will deposit the
ballot into a �black box� within the Diebold machine. At 6
pm each machine and black box are transported to a
centralized �tabulation� room. The door to the room
will
be closed to the public.
This material
has been deleted pursuant
to a US District Court Order. It will be Appealed.
June 24, 2007
Read It
Twice:
En Banc Request Filed in DC
Day of
Prayer and Fasting: July 1st
On Friday,
June 22, 2007, the United States Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit received the original and
nineteen copies of the People�s Petition for En Banc
consideration in the case We The People v. United States,
Case No 05-5359.
A link to the People�s Petition is located at the end of
this article. WE RECOMMEND YOU READ IT TWICE to absorb the
finer points or if you don�t understand a word or concept.
The future of the great American experiment in
self-government hangs in the balance. To use the vernacular,
�It�s crunch time.� This is the second highest
Court in the
land.
What
started in 1999 as a straightforward, honest effort to help
Joe Banister obtain answers from the IRS to his petition
regarding the alleged fraudulent origin and illegal
operation and enforcement of the federal income tax system,
has taken on the nature of an epic, characterized by events
of historical, legendary and exceptional importance.
Our epic is
about nothing less than the Right of the People to hold the
Government accountable to the Constitution by claiming and
exercising the capstone Right guaranteed by the First
Amendment: �Congress shall make no
law�abridging�the right
of the people�to petition the Government for a redress of
grievances.�
Our epic is
about the deeds of modern heroic Freedom Keepers, expressing
the ideals, character, and traditions Free Men experienced
during the first years of our nation, in their exercise of
their Right to Petition for Redress of constitutional
torts.
Our epic is
unfolding against a background of warfare between the
Constitution and unconstitutional acts of Government
that violate the tax, war, money and privacy clauses of the
Constitution.
Our epic
includes men of strong heart and character, unafraid to
confront those that would seek to deny them their Liberty,
and lesser souls as well, either too enamored with power or
rapt with fear to proudly proclaim the self-evident truths
and Principles of Nature that beckoned the dawn of the
Republic.
9/11: Why They Attacked Us
Bin Laden: In His Own Words
WTP: Petition For
Redress
Please
sit and take a deep breath, or even two, before you begin
reading this article.
Sometimes the truth can hurt -- a lot. This may be one of
those times. It was for us.
Before continuing, please remember: we are only the
messengers; we deal with facts, not opinions; the Country
and the Government are two separate things; we will forever
love our Country and be willing to give our lives in defense
of its system of governance � as designed and set forth
in our founding document � but, we should always
distrust the Government; we avoid all political questions;
we seek only to hold those in Government accountable to
Truth, Justice and the Constitution, regardless of their
political stripes; we have confronted Democrat and
Republican administrations with equal fervor.
The last few months have been difficult ones for us. We have
gone through an uncomfortable paradigm shift in our
understanding of how our government has become unaccountable
to the People and in coming to grips with the incredible
risks our beloved Republic now faces.
Last week
we received yet another batch of e-mails in response to our
recent articles regarding the question of US foreign policy
and the Constitutional violations that result from that
policy. One email consisted of no message but a simple terse
subject line that read simply, �We Are Israel.�
At the time, we had no idea what was meant by those three
words. Now we do.
It has come
to pass that the meaning of two of the most important words
in America�s vocabulary -- �Income� and
�Israel� -- appear
to have been hijacked for nefarious ends.
Israel Lobby
& U.S. Foreign Policy:
Apartheid and Manipulation
In our
March 18, 2007 article we raised the question of whether
U.S. Middle East policy was repugnant to the General Welfare
Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Specifically, we presented several questions that we
believed needed to be answered: �What if the fundamental
Rights, Liberties and Freedoms of Americans were being
curtailed because the United States was becoming a police
State? What if the United States
was becoming a Police State because it was engaged in
a War on Terror?
What if the War on Terror was a result of hostilities
directed towards the United States because the United States
was annually giving billions of dollars of its tax
revenues to the Government of Israel, who was using that
money to pay its military to seize and occupy territories
belonging to Palestinians -- a people of a different
ethnicity and religion -- and to support the tyranny of
Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing against the Palestinians?
On April 7,
2007 we reported that we had received a number of sharp and
caustic emails following the announcement that we would
openly and objectively discuss the constitutionality of
America�s financial and military support of Israel, the role
that America has played directly and indirectly in the
destruction of Palestine society, the �War on Terror� that
has consumed our nation, and the developing Police State and
erosion of individual Liberty and the rule of Law here at
home.
On March
18th we posted an article titled �Mid-East Policy
vs. the U.S. Constitution� in which we said we were inviting
representatives of the Israel Lobby (AIPAC) and the
Governments of the United States, Israel and Palestine to
attend GML 2007 to comment on the accuracy of a recent paper
published by Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt,
entitled, �The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,� and
a
book published recently by Jimmy Carter entitled, �Palestine
Peace Not Apartheid.�
We wrote
that according to Mearsheimer, Walt and Carter, the United
States has abandoned its own national interest and security
to advance the interests of Israel, that neither strategic
nor moral arguments can justify America�s unconditional
support for Israel, that the United States has become the de
facto enabler of Israel�s unlawful expansion and military
occupation of the Palestinian Territories, that the United
States is paying for the destruction of the Palestinian
society, that U.S. policy in the Middle East (including
giving Israel well over $140 billion in U.S. income tax
revenues) has been driven by the activities of the �Israel
Lobby,� and that the Israel Lobby attacks any person or
organization that criticizes or is perceived to be a threat
to Israel�s interests.
We wrote
that if, in fact, the information presented by the
Professors and Carter was correct, it must be concluded
thatU.S. Foreign Policy is repugnant to the General
Welfare clause of the Constitution.
For
decades, the US Congress, Executive law enforcement agencies
and certain federal Courts have been cooperating in a
collective decision to disarm all Americans except
themselves.
Despite the
exacting, and prohibitory language of the Second Amendment
that specifically protects the individual�s Right to Keep
and Bear Arms, the federal government has embarked on a
broad program of regulation, licensing, and police action to
eviscerate the natural Right as it existed since long before
the Constitution was adopted.
The Right
to Keep and Bear arms is so crucial to the protection of
Life and Liberty that any infringement of that Right must be
viewed as a high-order threat to Life and Liberty.
When
exercised individually, the Right provides for the security
of one�s person, family and property. When exercised
collectively, the Right insures that the People always
possess the means to free themselves from a despotic or
tyrannical government.
There
should be no doubt as to the true purpose of the Second
Amendment, despite the platitudes of politicians who
sermonize about public safety and the lengthy dicta of some
federal judges who attempt to rewrite history and want us to
believe that words do not mean what they say, and that we
should passively defer to our political leaders for our
protection.
The Right is not simply about the right to hunt ducks or
shoot clay pigeons. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is
ultimately about the absolute Right of a free People to
ensure that they always possess the collective capability to
claim and exercise the Right of Revolution, if necessary, to
secure Redress against constitutional torts and
tyrannical government.
After
many supporters responded to our call for $159 donations to
assist others secure lodging for the upcoming Give Me
Liberty 2007 conference, WTP is now poised to offer a
limited number of free hotel room-nights to
conference attendees seeking assistance in lowering their
conference lodging costs.
As you
know, last week
we began to offer a (free) 3-day, live
pay-per-view Internet webcast and DVD/CD-ROM record of the
conference proceedings in exchange for a donation of $159.
Each
donation of $159 enables WTP to directly
subsidize the cost of a single night�s lodging for a room at
the conference Hilton venue.
We are now
ready to offer a limited number of free hotel-night stays to
conference attendees. We hope that by lowering the cost of
lodging, many more will be able to participate in our
important event.
If all
attorneys are officers of the courts that make up the
judicial branch of the government, then the government now
has one of its best and brightest members challenging the
legality of the operation and enforcement of the federal
income tax system on constitutional and statutory grounds
.
GML 2007 is
being held at the Hilton Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia,
Thursday-Saturday, March 29-31.
We
contracted with the hotel for 350 room-nights spread between
Wednesday night, March 28 and Saturday night, March 31. We
guaranteed payment for 80% (280) rooms at $159 each, plus
10% in taxes. As of today, the number of room reservations
for GML 2007 at the Hilton is well below 280, meaning WTP is
now faced with having to pay a very stiff penalty unless we
come up with a solution to the problem.
The
feedback we are receiving from our supporters is that the
overall cost of transportation, lodging and conference
registration is too high-- enough to discourage attendance.
In
addition, we are finding that some people who have
registered early for the conference found they could obtain
a package including air transportation to DC and lodging at
another hotel for a total cost just above that we had
arranged for the cost of the rooms alone at the conference
Hilton.
Our $159.00 Solution
In order to
resolve this dilemma, we have developed a solution that we
hope will enable many more people to attend the conference
and also give those that help us the opportunity to
participate in the conference.
Schulz To Speak On Using Right To Petition
To Halt Illegal Immigration, NAU
This coming Saturday, Sunday and Monday (February 24, 25 and
26) the Texas, Arizona and Florida chapters of We The People
Congress will host public meetings with Bob Schulz, Chairman
of We The People Foundation and We The People Congress.
Schulz
will discuss the profound, constitutionally prescribed solution
available to
the People to force the government to faithfully execute the immigration
laws, to withdraw from all negotiations aimed at merging the United
States
with Mexico and Canada, and to end the ongoing efforts to build a
privately
operated, super inter-modal transportation system from Mexico to Canada
cutting across America�s heartland.
Schulz will also provide an update on the landmark Right-to-Petition
lawsuit
and the upcoming
Give Me
Liberty 2007 conference to be held in Alexandria, Virginia, March
29-31.
This weekend's schedule:
McQueeney, Texas:
Saturday,
February 24th, 3 PM Chandler,
Arizona: Sunday, February 25, 12
PM - 3 PM
Tampa, Florida: Monday, February 26th, 7
PM - 9 PM
February 12, 2007
North American Union:
A Profound Solution
To The Treachery
If Faced With Treason
We The People Have A Duty,
And The Legal Power To End It
In
yesterday�s article on Illegal Immigration we
showed that Mexico
is invading the United States: This is a war without a
declaration of war.
We also
showed that the President of the United States was adhering
to this enemy of the United States by giving aid and comfort
to Mexico and its invaders and that Congress was
acquiescing: This is treason.
We also
showed that the People have the Duty, the Right and the
constitutional Power to peaceably procure relief by forcing
the Government of the United States to faithfully execute
the immigration laws and to otherwise honor and defend the
Constitution: This is the power of the First Amendment Right
to Petition for Redress of Grievances.
The �North American
Union�
Illustration of proposed
NAFTA commercial super-highway system
Today, we cover the �rest of the story,� that
explains
why the President of the United States has attached
himself to the political leaders of Mexico by personal
union and conformity of principles and opinions.
The
rumors of a North American Union are true.
The
evidence is mounting. The President and the Congress,
who have obviously allowed the invasion from Mexico to
go unchecked for years, would now compound that
constitutional tort by �legalizing� the invasion.
How? By creating a North American Union (NAU)
eliminating the borders of the United States with Mexico
and Canada, and replacing their existing currencies with
a new common currency � the
�Amero.�
If The Government Will Not
Act,
We The People Have A Duty,
And The Legal Power To End It
Some months ago over 500,000 illegal immigrants took to
the streets of Los Angeles in bold defiance of the
immigration laws of the
United States.
Similar demonstrations were also held that day and in
the days following in other American cities.
The speakers who addressed the illegal immigrants at the
demonstrations and the signs being carried by the
demonstrators themselves were openly proclaiming the
true purpose of the unlawful, and virtually unchecked,
mass migration across our southern border. It�s a
message that is now often and openly repeated by opinion
leaders in the illegal immigrant community.
For
instance, Jose Angel Gutierrez, a Professor at the
University of Texas in Arlington has said publicly, �This is
our homeland. We belong here. We cannot, we will not, and we
must not be made illegal in our homeland. We are not
immigrants�We are free to travel the length and breath of
the Americas
because we belong here. We are millions. We just have to
survive. We have an aging white America. They are not making
babies. They are dying. It is a matter of time. The
explosion is in our population.�
Retrial: Possible Peaceful Solution to the Brown Dilemma
�Law represents the effort of man to organize society;
governments,
the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.�
Henry Ward Beecher
"The right to sue and defend in the courts is the alternative
of force. In an organized society it is the right conservative of all
other rights,
and lies at the foundation of orderly government."
Chambers v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 207
U.S.
148
On
January 12, Ed Brown of Plainfield, New Hampshire
walked out of his federal criminal tax trial protesting
what he claimed was the District Court�s unjust
deprivation of his Rights to Due Process and a Fair
Trial. He retreated to his rural home and publicly
announced that he would resort to armed resistance if
U.S. officials attempted to intercede or further deprive
him his constitutionally protected Rights.
At the
heart of Brown�s protest is the Court�s failure, in
denying Brown�s substantive and dispositive pre-trial
motions, to properly respond to the questions and issues
that were presented to the Court in the motions � that
is, the Court�s failure to state the facts and the
questions being presented by Brown, the law and how the
Court was applying the law to answer the questions.
Within
months, in all probability just before the Easter break, the
hot topic of the day in every single law school in America
will be the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals in our
case entitled, We The People v. The U.S.
Government.
Given the
enormous and far-reaching implications of this decision,
either in favor of the People or against them, law school
professors everywhere will be anxious to analyze and
�mine�
the decision, discussing it in their faculty and academic
forums and bringing it the attention of the young minds that
fill their classrooms. Many will likely rush to further
explore the gravity of the ruling and publish articles in
Law Review journals.
It will be
an exciting time, indeed -- especially for the ordinary
non-aligned citizen taxpayers of this great Country.
The
excitement will permeate Give Me Liberty 2007, our three-day
conference scheduled for March 29-31.
Think
about it. For the first time in the entire history of our
nation -- since the adoption of our Bill of Rights in 1791--
a Court is about to declare the legal meaning of one of the
five individual Rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.
Not just
any Right, but the mother of all Rights -- the Right that
caps all the others, the so-called �Capstone Right.�
The end of the year is rapidly approaching, which means you
have just hours left to make a 2006 tax-deductible donation
to the We The People Foundation for Constitutional
Education.
This year has been an extremely important
one.
In
January,
February and early March
,
we succeeded in getting America buzzing about �America:
Freedom to Fascism� by screening the movie in commercial
theaters in twenty-four cities, from one end of the country
to the other. WTP inspired Aaron to produce the movie, which
prominently features the work of the Foundation.
Click Here
to reserve a full hotel room or reserve a shared cost
room for the GML2007 Conference
December 17, 2006
Quitters Never Win
We
occasionally receive comments expressing strong �difference
of opinion� sent in by readers of our updates. We
expect them and are certainly not troubled by them,
especially when they contain constructive criticisms.
However, every now and then someone will send us an
exasperating message claiming, �The Constitution is
dead.�
We just
received such a message in response to our article about the
pamphlet �Democracy or Republic; Which Is It?� The
message
ended with the words, �The whole fraudulent system is kept
in place by a corrupt judiciary. Good luck telling the
troops they live in a Republic.�
This
�Constitution is dead� message came from one of many who
apparently sit in their living rooms moaning and complaining
about the state of our affairs of governance, but who remain
too afraid or too lazy to get off the sidelines and join the
team on the field, or to even cheer the team on from the
stands.
Today is
the 215th anniversary of the adoption of the Bill
of Rights.
�A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against
every government on Earth, general or particular, and what
no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.�
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, Dec. 20, 1787
The First
Amendment would guarantee, among other unalienable Rights,
the Right of the People to Petition the government for
Redress of Grievances.
In
celebration of this day, we urge the People to �use �em,
or
lose �em.
How many times have you heard people refer to America as a
�Democracy�?
We hear it
all the time from relatives, friends, news reporters, local
businessmen and from media �talking heads.� We read
it
regularly on Internet websites, newspaper articles
(including editorials), magazines, and even our children�s
textbooks. We even hear it from the President, members of
Congress, state and local elected officials, and educators
-- even those who possess a license to practice Law.
How many
times, in response, have you quietly mumbled under your
breath or shouted at the television, �It�s not a
Democracy,
it�s a Republic !!, (insert your choice of belittling
descriptor such as dimwit, meathead, dolt, nitwit,
dunderhead, etc.)�
Those of us
who know the truth of the matter could simply ignore the
ignorant and go about our lives, but cannot for a very
compelling reason: We are a nation of Law.
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.
(continued...)
U.S.
Court of Appeals Rules IRS
Cannot Apply Force Against A Tax Payer
Without A Court Order
Tax Payers Free To Ignore An IRS Summons
Queensbury, NY � On January 25, 2005, the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that taxpayers
cannot be compelled by the IRS to turn over personal and
private property to the IRS, absent a federal court order.
Click
Here For The Full Article
And The Court of Appeal's Decision
Oct 20
2004
Stopping
Undeclared Wars
"In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence
in man, but bind him
down from mischief by the chains
of the Constitution�� Thomas
Jefferson
New Damning Tax Research Released
Appropriate Next Steps Announced
Click Here to access this important WTP news article
containing "appropriate next steps," groundbreaking legal
research and new evidence exposing the income tax fraud.
Ed Note: This article and its lengthy attachments are
of significant importance in the battle to restore
Constitutional Order. Please allow ample time to study
these important research materials and announcements.
Feb 29
2004
America�s Judicial System Lies In Rot
Click
Here
to read this important WTP article
documenting the significant judicial and prosecutorial
misconduct in the federal tax trial of employer Dick
Simkanin.
The
article also contains excerpts and analysis from the
transcripts of the trial.
We would
remind our supporters to use the
"My Profile" link located on the header of every WTP web
page
This function enables you to update your personal
information,
change your e-mail address, sign up as a WTP Congress
volunteer, become a local Coordinator, perform Coordinator
restricted functions, and access the secure content
on the WTP site.
In January, 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court abdicated its duty
to hear an appeal letting stand an erroneous decision from
the
USDC in DC
claiming the
U.S. Government
has
NO
obligation
to respond to the
People or their
Petitions for Redress
of Grievances
LEARN MORE
about the lawsuit
and the profound
"Capstone Right"
that is the direct exercise of
Popular Sovereignty
