Wait to File Until the Trial!

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 14 Jan 2002 13:00:00 GMT

From kaba:

I have never run into anyone who hated guns if they had ever shot one. -- Pat Cleaver

We the People - Wait to File Until the Trial! - Bob Schulz'es group is encouraging people to wait to file their federal income taxes until after the hearing on February 27. Boy, I'd love to write "zero" in all the income spaces and get back every penny of my stolen tax money. Wouldn't you? [geneice]

The We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education has launched Operation "Wait to File Until the Trial". This effort is to inform as many Americans as possible that:

The very legality of the U.S. income tax system goes on trial February 27th at a congressionally sponsored public hearing on Capitol Hill. This historic event is the result of a three-year effort by the We The People Foundation For Constitutional Education and thousands of supporters nationwide.
At the 2-day hearing, we expect to prove conclusively that the IRS does not have the legal authority to force employers to withhold taxes from the paychecks of their employees, or to force most Americans to file a return or pay the income tax.
If the research is confirmed publicly, most Americans may be entitled to a refund of 100% of the income tax paid or withheld in 2001.
All Americans should wait until the public hearing before they file their tax returns. Hear the facts. Judge the truth.

Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk - Sane and Sensible Immigration Policies After September 11 - Dr. Paul thinks we should increase security at the borders to keep potential terrorists out rather than reduce freedoms for citizens in order to attempt to discover terrorists after they enter the country. He also calls for the end of the welfare state so that those who come here will do so because they want freedom instead of for a hand-out. Ending welfare makes sense to me. Closing the borders does not.

The Libertarian Enterprise has a new issue: "Grab Something and Run!" Articles I liked:

Bill Clinton's Reichstag Fire by L. Neil Smith - written after the Oklahoma City bombing, this piece is as relevant today to the bombings in New York and DC as it was then. Just change the names from Slick Willy and his minions to GW and his. The script remains the same.
First, all federal agencies must be disarmed, their employees forbidden to carry personal weapons on the job (or to wear masks or to affect military clothing), and their heavy weaponry and vehicles-of- war surrendered to the nearest units of a denationalized National Guard. These agencies must then be reduced to that number specifically authorized by the Constitution under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. If a few remaining federal investigators wish something to be done that is both lawful and requires the use of force, they may apply to local law enforcement for assistance -- and, more importantly, for consent.

Next, the "War on Drugs", a disastrous Republican error which, by design or otherwise, has provided most of the justification for government incursions on individual liberty in recent years -- and which has served only to enhance departmental appropriations, numbers of personnel, and the dictatorial power of bureaucrats and politicians (while enriching their nominal enemies the so-called drug lords) -- must come to an immediate, screeching halt. It was never anything but a war on the Bill of Rights in any case. And any law -- like RICO -- which authorizes unconstitutional seizures of property must be repealed.
Anti-terrorist Laws Will Create New Terrorists by John Bottoms - How Amerika's war on terror will become a war on its own patriots.
But Americans have yet to think through the blowback from our new USA PATRIOT Act (www.cga.state.ct.us/2001/rpt/olr/htm/2001-r-0851.htm), which empowers federal agents to tap your phone, intercept your emails and web browsing choices, clandestinely enter your home and copy your private information, snoop in your finances, and incarcerate for indefinite periods those they label "terror suspects". This new law only legalizes the piecemeal destruction of the Bill of Rights which has been going on for years. Not far off are National ID "smart cards" based on Larry Ellison's Oracle software (www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,48482,00.html), and travel permits if you choose to drive to avoid the indignities and inconveniences of air travel. Of course, in this new environment federal cops will have nearly unlimited de facto powers, for what judge is going to stop them? The same one who refused to put Lon Horiuchi (www.metnews.com/articles/hori091701.htm) on trial for the Ruby Ridge and Waco murders?

Thousands will refuse to be searched, numbered, dehumanized and treated as cattle or subjects of the state. These will be the ones who remember and value what it is to be an American, and refuse to submit. Increasingly brutal enforcement will drive them underground if they don't die in firefights or languish in the new gulags built to house them.

Jason Mundy at the Pinedale (Wyoming) Roundup - ATF Search - Coerced Consent - Craig Storer was routed out of his house on a Sunday morning by armed men. Turns out they were b.a.t.f. and local sheriff's deputies looking for "illegal weapons". They had no search warrant, but coerced a consent to search out of him. Nazi pigs! [kaba]

"They told me they were there to search the house. I asked then if they had a warrant," said Mr. Storer. They did not. An ATF agent instead presented Mr. Storer with a consent form to sign allowing the ATF agents and the Sheriff's deputies to search his trailer.

Mr. Storer, still in his pajamas and his hands on his head, surrounded by armed officers, was given an option. He and his girlfriend, who was wearing a t-shirt and little else, could wait outside in the cold until the ATF could obtain a warrant on a Sunday morning, or he could just sign the consent.

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Every man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission.

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Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bear arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason, then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.

-- L. Neil Smith

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Any official, appointed or elected, at any level of government, who attempts, through legislative act or other means, to nullify, evade, or avoid the provisions of the first ten amendments to this Constitution, or of the Thirteenth Amendment, shall be summarily removed from office, and, upon conviction, deprived of all pay and benefits including pension, and sentenced to imprisonment for life.

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Based on 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, and some of its own empirical work, the panel couldn't identify a single gun control regulation that reduced violent crime, suicide or accidents.

-- John Lott, commenting on the National Academy of Sciences report on gun control laws.

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Zero Aggression Principle ("Zap")

"A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim."

-- L. Neil Smith

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Why Did It Have to be... Guns?

Make no mistake: all politicians -- even those ostensibly on the side of guns and gun ownership -- hate the issue and anyone, like me, who insists on bringing it up. They hate it because it's an X-ray machine. It's a Vulcan mind-meld. It's the ultimate test to which any politician -- or political philosophy -- can be put.

If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.

If he isn't genuinely enthusiastic about his average constituent stuffing that weapon into a purse or pocket or tucking it under a coat and walking home without asking anybody's permission, he's a four-flusher, no matter what he claims.

What his attitude -- toward your ownership and use of weapons -- conveys is his real attitude about you. And if he doesn't trust you, then why in the name of John Moses Browning should you trust him?

-- L. Neil Smith

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"Tell me," I was once asked, "What do you think about gun control? Give me the short answer." To which I replied, "If you try to take our firearms we will kill you."

-- Mike Vanderboegh

Also from The Atlanta Declaration:

... like going to the bathroom, breathing, eating, sleeping, or making love, it turns out that self-defense is a bodily function one cannot safely or effectively delegate to a second party.

-- L. Neil Smith

This does not mean that "Marijuana should be available by prescription." It means that morphine sulfate should be available in five pound bags at the supermarket for a couple of bucks, like sugar... but probably in a different aisle, to avoid confusion.

-- Vin Suprynowicz

If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.

-- Edward Abbey

The state can only survive as long as a majority is programmed to believe that theft isn't wrong if it's called taxation or asset forfeiture or eminent domain, that assault and kidnapping isn't wrong if it's called arrest, that mass murder isn't wrong if it's called war.

-- Bill St. Clair