A Remonstrance is signed at Citizens' Summit
to end the illegal operations of the IRS.
This Remonstrance was publicly read and then signed by scores of
individuals from dozens of states,
who attended the "Citizens' Summit to End the Illegal Operations of the
IRS," at a meeting assembled in
Washington DC at the National Press Club on November 13, 1999. Four
original copies of the
Remonstrance will be delivered to the leaders of each branch of the
federal government, at 11:00 am on
April 13, 2000, after other citizens have had an opportunity to
electronically sign it.
You may add your voice to this effort in support of the Constitution
and the Rule of Law, simply by
entering the information requested at the end of the Remonstrance.
We the People Congress, in meeting assembled
in Washington, DC on November 13, 1999...
REMONSTRANCE
We, the undersigned citizens of the United States of America, acting
in good faith and impelled
by our devotion to our Constitutional-Republic, present this
Remonstrance to the leaders of our
federal government in order to draw attention to and express deep
concerns that have
accumulated over many years regarding the federal income and social
security tax system.
Our grievances are several:
The proof is manifest for all to see that the 16th Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution was
illegally and fraudulently proclaimed to be ratified in 1913 by a
lame-duck Secretary of State just
days before he left office. An official attempt by a leading,
currently-sitting U.S. Senator to pay
to have the evidence suppressed, to avoid publication and to
maintain secrecy, has been
exposed at this meeting this day.
The federal courts for decades, ruling in cases challenging the
constitutional validity of the 16th
Amendment, have issued a series of largely unintelligible rulings
that fail even to recognize the
basic question of whether the income tax is a direct tax or an
excise tax, suggesting, for instance,
that the income tax is "in the nature of" an indirect, excise tax,
reflecting the mood of powerful
special interests of that day.
Again, the federal courts since 1985, on hearing cases challenging
the ratification of the 16th
Amendment as being fraudulent, have ruled that the issue of
fraudulence is political and,
therefore, non-justiciable -- to be dealt with by Congress. This
obviously constitutes an evasion
of responsibility by the courts, since fraud is a legal, rather than
a political question. In ruling in
this way, the courts have abdicated their constitutional
responsibilities under our system of
checks and balances.
Congress, in turn, has called this issue of fraud to be a matter for
the courts.
In addition to the 16th Amendment ratification issue, there simply
is no law or regulation that
makes most citizens liable to file and pay federal income and social
security taxes nor to have
those taxes withheld from the money they earn, yet, the Internal
Revenue Code is enforced by
the Executive as though the taxes were, indeed, compulsory, imposing
interest and penalties,
including incarceration for willful failure to file the voluntary
tax.
Citizens have the right to clear and precisely worded laws that are
not vague. Yet, the income
tax laws are deliberately written in the most disorganized manner
imaginable, with the frequent
use of double-negatives, circular reasoning, disconnected sections
without reference or
cross-reference, and other legal gimmicks that intentionally
obfuscate and confuse matters
beyond comprehension of even highly trained professionals. It must
be concluded that the U.S.
Supreme Court, which, in 1916, attempted to keep the income tax
constitutional by suggesting
that it was "in the nature" of an excise tax, if required to rule
today on the constitutionality of the
16th Amendment, would in no way be able to find the 1999 tax
constitutional on the simple basis
that it is clearly not uniform, which is a constitutional mandate
for excise taxes.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) says the income tax is voluntary.
This is an obvious fiction.
In their application and enforcement, the tax code and the
regulations have all the force and
effect of compulsory law. Yet, the notion that the tax is voluntary
has been confirmed by a
federal appeals court. Few people know that the tax is voluntary and
that when they "voluntarily"
submit their tax forms they also "voluntarily" waive their 5th
Amendment rights against
self-incrimination. This is a form of coercion to which the courts
have turned a blind eye, ruling
that the waiver of 5th Amendment rights was "voluntary."
Many outrageous IRS practices have been revealed and detailed to the
public by congressional
hearings, but little has been done about it.
Thousands of citizens are jailed or financially destroyed by the IRS
for not paying taxes that are
not expressly sanctioned by law, while being denied their most basic
due process rights. And,
since the courts have ruled that the fraudulent ratification of the
16th Amendment is a political
question, by definition, those in jail are political prisoners, a
condition that is illegal in this country.
The IRS is conspicuously used by the Executive to carry out
retribution against political
adversaries. This is a growing threat to fundamental freedoms.
Federal judges, members of Congress, and other government officials
are themselves afraid of
the IRS, which compiles and maintains secret files on them.
The abuses and lawlessness exemplified by the governmental conduct
described above
undermine the foundations of our nation and tear apart the very
fabric of our
Constitutional-Republic.
Therefore, we hereby petition the leaders of our federal government
to take immediate and
forthright action that will result in the redress of these
grievances. We call for a thorough overhaul
of the IRS and its administrative procedures to make its operations
and agents completely
accountable to the Constitution and constitutional law. We demand
the immediate release of all
political prisoners. We call for the creation of a Judicial Review
Commission to hear and decide
on complaints against federal judges who make rulings that support
violations of the rights of
citizens which are rooted and grounded in the Constitution and
constitutional law.
Sign the Remonstrance
http://www.givemeliberty.org/features/taxes/remonstrance/index.htm
Bard
"We have fled from the political Sodom;
let us not look back, lest we perish
and become a monument of infamy
and derision to the world"
-- Samuel Adams
(An Oration Delivered at the
State House in Philadelphia,
to a Very Numerous Audience,
on Thursday the 1st of August, 1776)
Source of Quotation: Fighting for Liberty and Virtue:
Political and Cultural Wars in
Eighteenth-Century America,
by Marvin Olasky (1995)
Have y'all signed the Remonstrance at http://www.givemeliberty.org?
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