Chapter X
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE ?
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;
that put darkness for light, and light for darkness.
—Isaiah 5:20
In the past few chapters we have briefly reviewed some of the horrors which the luciferian conspirators have inflicted on our nation, our money and our humane heritage. We are beset on all sides by the crumbling social structures of civilization and their replacement by a sinister, alien concept of life. It is from the evil and cunning minds of these arch criminals who have occupied high places for generations, that we now see the kind of world shaping up which is being planned for us. Education is in a state of chaos. Inflation and taxes are eroding the lifetime savings of millions. Crime is mounting everywhere. Endless legislative betrayals continue unabated. Perpetual wars rage so that the “new world order” may be established. All of our present-day woes have been meticulously planned and executed with the cunning of a congregation of demons. The total indebtedness of governments, national, state and local, amounts to almost fifty per cent of the earnings of the wage earner. “The public debt is now one trillion, six hundred seventy-five billion dollars, or $8,210 for each and every American.”[1] It is becoming more and more apparent that this monumental amount cannot be repaid—nor was it intended to be paid. The counterfeiters who manipulate our money have a better plan. They will simply declare that the bankruptcy of the nation authorizes them to seize the property of the people in lieu of payment. This will then give banker-boy Marx’s platform for the abolition of private property its golden moment. The property formerly owned by the people who earned it through their labor and initiative will have it confiscated (nationalized) and title transferred to the money mob and their conspiratorial ally, the government.
Our future prospects are bleak indeed unless this downward thrust toward chaos and tyranny is stopped. But before any steps can be taken for the restoration of a sane and civilized society, it will be necessary to reorient our attitudes and values. The tyrannists have been twisting our thinking for so long that we now mindlessly accept their totalitarian and anti-intellectual pronouncements. Through the use of semantics and tortured terminology, a guilt complex has been created within the productive group, while greedy demands and burning hatreds are nurtured within other groups. The sins of the money mob are blamed on the producers of the wealth, both individual and corporate. The contrived wars, chaos and money manipulation which results in recessions, business slumps and unemployment are the result of the control of the world’s wealth through the private issuance of money. This crazy situation will continue unabated unless outraged and informed Americans resurrect the Spirit of 1776 and rise up against the traitors who are legislating the death of this nation.
Old ideas die hard, especially when the process of thinking has been all but destroyed and replaced by Pavlovian conditioning. If we are to counteract the effects of our manipulated mentalities and misinformation, it will be necessary to a) identify the enemy, b) understand the nature and function of money, and c) know the Constitution and other laws which have been enacted to protect the citizen and his rights.
Know the Constitution. It is not obsolete—and it has not been legally amended or repealed. It has been usurped and replaced by illegal legislation. Only those who would rule without restraint wish to demolish the protections for citizens established in the Constitution. Remember, all legislation must be based on the supreme law of the land. Any legislator who refuses to obey the law of the land must be removed from office. Government employees who refuse to abide by the Constitution have violated their oath of office. This not only includes the president, but senators, congressmen and hundreds of other categories of government personnel. These people are our servants—not our masters. Art. II, Sec 4 of the Constitution provides that :
The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. (emphasis added).
The use of this section alone would virtually empty not only Congress, but would leave state and city legislative halls almost depopulated. Institution of mass trials would probably not be necessary as the conviction of several carefully-chosen, highly-placed betrayers would certainly filter the message down to other levels of legislative exploiters.
Article 3, Clause 1 of the Constitution permits judges to hold office only during good behavior. This should give the aggrieved citizen a cue for further action with respect to errant public servants. Remember too that judges took an oath to uphold the Constitution (Title 28 USC 453). We have allowed the usurpers to legislate madly for too long. It is now time for the citizen to awaken to both his rights and responsibilities regarding a government structure which is becoming a menacing and exploitive enemy.
In addition to law suits against carefully selected politicians, the Internal Revenue Service must be challenged. At the present time, there is a growing number of informed individuals who are refusing to pay income taxes. Among these courageous constitutionalists is Mr. Austin T. Flett, of 134 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60603. Mr. Flett has not paid any income tax for about ten years, and to date, has successfully challenged the IRS on legal and constitutional grounds. Another challenger to the probate and income tax racket is Lucille E. Moran, who maintains that the entire Internal Revenue Statutes are a denial of our natural rights and a violation of due process of law.
In her book How to Refuse Income Taxes Legally,[2] Miss Moran outlines the step by step methods whereby Americans may use the Constitution, as well as natural law, for the protection of their property and self preservation.
Most of the “laws” now being passed by our multiple governments, (national, state and local) are unconstitutional, but the income tax is the place to hit, as the whole fraudulent system is based on usury and confiscation of the money of productive citizens by those who produce nothing. The Income Tax form violates your constitutional rights in demanding that the taxpayer sign the return under penalty of perjury.[3] Due process of law provides that a person may not be charged with a crime without being confronted by his accuser and without the presentation of adequate evidence by the state. This self-incrimination clause obviates the necessity by the government of having to gather or prepare adequate evidence because a confession of guilt has already been obtained from the criminal (e.g. the taxpayer) when he signed the return. Whatever happened to the concept that a man is innocent until proved guilty ? These tactics also violate the following amendments of the United States Constitution :
Amendment V : No person may be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself; nor be deprived of life, liberty or properly without due process of law: ...
Since hundreds of Communists and other criminals have availed themselves of this constitutional protection, why should it not apply to the rest of the citizens ?
The Fourth Amendment guarantees the “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.
If an IRS agent arrives at your office or home demanding to rummage through your business or private papers, refer him to Amendment Four which further states that :
no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Any evidence which the IRS may wish to use against the taxpayer (criminal) must be obtained without your cooperation. How long do you think the IRS could continue to operate as it presently does if they were obliged to obey the Constitution ?
Amendment VI provides that a citizen must be given the right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him.
The IRS is so contemptuous of the rights of citizens that it has established a method whereby an informer may cause an investigation of a taxpayer simply by relating his suspicions to an IRS agent by phone or letter or filing an informers form. He may then file a claim for ten per cent of any money collected as a result of this procedure. Furthermore, the informer’s identity is not revealed to the taxpayer defendant. How’s that for justice ?
Amendment VI guarantees the right of trial by jury in criminal cases. Tax cases involving fines and jail sentences come under the category of criminal law and should never be heard by an administrative agency. Administrative bodies operate under their own rules and regulations (e.g. administrative) and not constitutional law. The Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 is an attempt to legalize illegality. It was passed by voice vote by a supine Congress so that no record of the voting could be made. Although the Act violates the Constitution at every turn, the American Bar Association meekly accepted this legislative outrage. Administrative law is now taught in law schools throughout the nation as the law of the land and the multiple administrative bureaus within the government structure are now functioning under color of law because of this unconstitutional legislation.
An even more devious method of bypassing the Constitution and establishing a dictatorship is found via the executive order route. These “orders” or legislative fiats by an executive are not passed by Congress but are ordered by the president. They are published in the Federal Register by the Office of Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, Washington, D.C. 20408, “under the authority of the Federal Register Act,” approved July 26, 1935. (49 Stat. 500, amended. 44 USC Ch. 15.) With this illegal power the president can create new agencies, rule without Congressional approval and assume the powers of a dictator.
Another problem with tax cases is the lack of uniformity in decisions, even in cases where a similarity of circumstances may exist. This is highly discriminatory as it violates your rights to equal protection under the law.
Art. 1, Sec. 9, Clause 3 : Prohibits bills of attainder and ex post facto laws. A bill of attainder is a legislative act which inflicts punishment without a judicial trial. How many times do you feel that tax decisions in these administrative bodies have violated this provision of the Constitution ? An ex post facto law is one which is made retroactive. There are literally hundreds of acts by Congress, as well as decisions by various administrative bodies, which continually violate this provision that protects a citizen from prosecution for an act which was not unlawful when committed, but which was later made illegal. The whole unconstitutional system would dissolve if people were aware of their civil rights and demanded strict adherence to the Constitution.
Amendment XIII prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude. The forcing of individuals and business organizations to hire accountants and other personnel to keep books and collect taxes for the government without compensation constitutes involuntary servitude. Employers are now made felons if they refuse to collect income and social security taxes for the government.
ARE YOU AN UNPAID TAX COLLECTOR FOR THE IRS ?26 USC 7202 : Willful Failure to Collect or Pay Over Tax : Any person required under this title to collect, account for, and pay over any tax imposed by this title who willfully fails to collect or truthfully account for and pay over such tax shall, in addition to other penalties provided by law, be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $10,000, or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution. Aug. 16, 1964, c. 736, 68 A. Star. 851.
26 USC 7203 : Willful Failure to File Return, Supply Information, or Pay Tax. (You can go to jail for failure to file a return, keep records or supply information.)
Any person required under this title to pay any estimated tax or tax, or required by this title or by regulations made under authority thereof to make a return (other than a return required under authority of section 6015 or section 6018), keep any records, or supply any information, who willfully fails to pay such estimated tax or tax, make such return, keep such records, or supply such information, at the time or time required by law or regulations, shall, in addition to other penalties provided by law, be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $10.000, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, together with the costs of prosecution. Aug. 16, 1954, c. 736, 68A. Stat. 851.
This is the type of administrative law and unconstitutional legislation which has been ground out in a continuing stream for decades. Anyone with a reasonable knowledge of the Constitution alone, would be able to defend himself against these tyrannical rules and regulations which make an ordinary citizen a criminal for failure to comply with arbitrary and illegal legislation.
There are also many other statutes which implement the Constitution and protect the citizen from the caprice and folly of government officials.
18 USC 241 is an example. This act is entitled Conspiracy Against Rights of Citizens. “If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or Laws of the United States or because of his having so exercised the same, ... they shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”
Although this law was enacted in 1870, it was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1966 Case No. 59 and 60, October Term, 1965, U.S. vs. Cecil Ray Price etal. The court’s opinion stated : “The language of Sec. 241 is plain and unlimited. As we have discussed, its language embraces all the rights and privileges secured to citizens by all of the Constitution and all of the laws of the U.S.”
You are the sovereign citizen, and public officials are your servants. There has been a remarkable drift away from these fundamental principles upon which our government was founded, but few politicians would dare publicly contradict these basic tenets. When violations occur in official acts, the time has now come for the people, to begin to pick up the reins of government and halt the drive toward a world dictatorship. The time for apathy has passed. George has been “doing it” for too many years, and he has failed miserably in his job. Now an informed America must begin the long process of restoring a constitutional republic which is our heritage—and the process of ridding ourselves of the political degenerates who would enslave us.
In dealing with the IRS there is another, largely unused, statute which has been designed to protect the citizen. Title 26 USC 7214 reads as follows :
OFFENSES BY OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE UNITED STATES(a) Unlawful acts of revenue officers or agents. Any officer or employee of the United States acting in connection with any revenue law of the United States—
(1) who is guilty of any extortion or willful oppression under color of law; or
(2) who knowingly demands other or greater sums than are authorized by law, or receives any fee, compensation, or reward, except as by law prescribed, for the performance of any duty; or
(3) who with intent to defeat the application of any provision of this title fails to perform any of the duties of his office or employment; or
(4) who conspires or colludes with any other person to defraud the United States; or
(5) who knowingly makes opportunity for any person to defraud the United States; or
(6) who does or omits to do any act with intent to enable any other person to defraud the United States; or
(7) who makes or signs any fraudulent entry in any book or makes or signs any fraudulent certificate, return, or statement; or
(8) who, having knowledge or information of the violation of any revenue law by any person, or of fraud committed by any person against the United States under any revenue law, fails to report, in writing, such knowledge or information to the Secretary or his delegate; or
(9) who demands, or accepts, or attempts to collect, directly or indirectly as payment or gift, or otherwise, any sum of money or other thing of value for the compromise, adjustment, or settlement of any charge or complaint for any violation or alleged violation of law, except as expressly authorized by law so to do :
Shall be dismissed from office or discharged from employment and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. The court may in its discretion award out of the fine so imposed an amount, not in excess of one-half thereof, for the use of the informer. if any, who shall be ascertained by the judgment of the court. The court also shall render judgment against the said officer or employee for the amount of damages sustained in favor of the party injured, to be collected by execution.
A few additional points may be helpful in dealing with IRS tyranny. The taxpayer must be advised of his legal rights and should be entitled to council provided at government expense. Remember, those who rule must obey the law, and internal revenue agents are no exception. They may not use force or threats in connection with income tax collection. Furthermore, if a lien is filed against property, the case should be taken out of the category of administrative law and placed before a court. The Constitution provides that the defendant is entitled to a speedy and quick trial in criminal cases. This would preclude the harassing and delaying tactics used by the IRS to coerce people into accepting their unscrupulous decisions. Another point to remember is that any threat sent through the mail by the IRS or any other governmental agency may be used as testimony in court if the citizen-victim is intimidated or threatened.
In addition to constitutional grounds, we should refuse to pay our income tax for the following reasons :
THE INCOME TAX IS LEGALIZED THEFT1. It was never intended as a device to raise revenue for the government, but was designed as the means of paying for the bonds which are issued by the government in exchange for worthless Federal Reserve Notes.
2. The income lax is unnecessary. The income tax could be abolished if we restored the money-issuing power to Congress as provided in Art. 1, Sec. 8, Para. 5 of the Constitution. Money would then be spent into circulation debt free and would circulate for years without the necessity of paying interest on it.
3. The government functioned for 137 years without an income tax. It can do so again.
4. The income tax is discriminatory and denies due process and equal protection of the laws. It was designed to confiscate the earnings of the “have nots,” e.g. the productive middle and working classes and permit the “haves,” (the wealthy) to escape from this form of taxation through such tax-dodging devices as foundations, trusts, etc.
5. The income tax exists because of our antiquated, unconstitutional, usurious and immoral money system.
6. The progressive, graduated income tax is the second plank in Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto.
7. The Income Tax Amendment was passed in February, 1913, in anticipation of the passage of the Federal Reserve Banking Act which followed in December of that year. The existence of this privately-owned, money-issuing monopoly handed the control of the economy of the United States over to this criminal cartel.
8. The United States is doomed to eternal debt and eventual bankruptcy because every dollar needed for expenses or even debt retirement must be borrowed at interest from this unconstitutional monopoly.
9. The Federal Reserve Banks pay no income tax (12 USC 531) although their income from the INTEREST ON THE NATIONAL DEBT ALONE NOW AMOUNTS TO OVER $19 BILLION PER YEAR.
10. The Income Tax Amendment requires that a tax be paid on income. Can Federal Reserve Notes or bank-created credits through bookkeeping entries be properly called income ? By definition, Federal Reserve Notes are obligations of the United States (12 USC 411). This means that bills of credit or circulating debts constitute our medium of exchange. Can a debt be considered income ?
A growing number of people are becoming aware of the nature of the Federal Reserve conspiracy and are attempting to alert others into an understanding of the basic causes of multiple perils now facing our nation. Attorney Jerome Daly was the first person to legally test the validity of Federal Reserve Notes in court. This case was heard in the Township of Credit River, Minnesota, County of Scott, and decision was rendered by Judge Martin V. Mahoney on Dec. 7, 1968. Suit was brought against Mr. Daly by the First National Bank of Montgomery to recover possession of property on which the mortgage had been in default at the time foreclosure proceedings were started. Mr. Daly contested Plaintiff’s title because of the failure of a lawful consideration supporting the Note and Mortgage. The $14,000 note was secured by a bookkeeping entry and therefore ruled null and void and of no effect. In other words, no actual money had ever been loaned, it was merely a credit entry or creation by the bank. On the appeal it was necessary to tender two Federal Reserve Notes to the court. Judge Martin V. Mahoney refused to accept the Federal Reserve Notes and ruled that they were contrary to the Constitution which gives Congress the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof, and therefore unlawful and void. He further stated that “the creation of money and credit by bookkeeping entries is unconstitutional and void.”
Another attorney, Mr. Mobley Millam, resigned his position in 1968 as Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California to test the legality of Federal Reserve Notes. He filed suit against the U.S. Government and the Federal Reserve System on Oct. 31, 1969. Defendants defaulted by not appearing in court but another suit is now pending.
At the time of filing, Attorney Millam stated : “Most people do not know it but the Federal Reserve is privately owned and its owners are not only getting rich at our expense but are also creating the huge public debt which is the basic cause of the inflation which is tearing this country apart.”
VALIDITY OF FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES AS VIEWED BY SOME WELL-KNOWN STOCK MARKET ANALYSTS
C.V. Myers
Myers Financial Review
903 Lancaster Bldg,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
(Sept. 5, 1969)
Federal Reserve Notes are not lawful money within the contemplation of the United States Constitution and are null and void.
Harry Schulz
The Harry Schulz Letter
170 Sloane St.
London, S.W., England
(Sept. 4, 1969)
The questionable legality of $-bills issued by the Federal Reserve Bank (not to mention the questionable desirability of the FRB itself) may become the greatest issue of our times.
Maj. L.L.B. Angas
Digest No. 496
Saxtons River, Vermont 06154
(Feb. 28, 1970)
The purpose of this Debate 25 (Dig. 496) is to show : the complete idiocy of a MONEY SYSTEM whereunder money is LOANED into circulation as in England and USA. (Issuing of the Money-Supply should be completely divorced from the demand for new loans.)
The ground has been broken by these few courageous and far-sighted individuals in attempting to challenge the stranglehold of this legalized crime syndicate. American people are now beginning to find out about the magnitude of the betrayal which has made the financial rape of this nation possible. The secret is leaking out and the government monopolists are getting nervous. It is our turn now to apply pressure on them until they rectify the iniquities they have inflicted on our nation. Our country has been stolen from us by these criminal money monopolists and their evil political collaborators. We must now take it back. The money mafia must be stripped of its usurious power and its illegally-obtained wealth confiscated to pay back some of the staggering debts they have inflicted upon our nation and its citizens.
A review of the political program which has been relentlessly pursued for generations reveals its reactionary and feudalistic character :
THIS IS COMRADE X’s PLATFORM
(the platform advocated by big money and its acquiescent agent, big government)
1. My party will rule the world. Abolition of all other political parties.
2. Abolish all private property.
3. Abolish the family : children to become property of and raised by the state.
4. Abolish all vestiges of religion and morality.
5. Institute total regimentation of education. No view conflicting with those advocated by the state will be permitted.
6. Institute class warfare : everyone must hate and be suspicious of everyone else—even child against parent. Remember Jerry Rubin recently advocated that children kill their parents.
7. Total regimentation of industry : workers will be assigned jobs. Working conditions and pay will be regulated by the state. No right to change jobs permitted without consent of government. Abolition of unions.
8. Nationalization of all transportation and communications.
9. Nationalization of all banking and the establishment of a central bank under party control. (We already have the central bank in the Federal Reserve Banking System.)
10. Government control of all housing.
11. Incidentally, we will also have to kill Forty or fifty million of your countrymen to achieve our glorious revolution. Your cities and countryside will be burned and destroyed.
12. From the anguish, terror and devastation, the remaining population will turn to our party for the restoration of law and order—Communist style.
How many votes do you think Candidate X would get with this platform ? Over one billion people in 59 countries didn’t cast a vote either, but they are now living under Comrade X’s ruthless party.[4] The people didn’t vote, but their leaders did. This figure does not include the United States which has acted as financial guarantor for the exportation of Comrade X’s weird and barbaric political system.
This has been the official political program that many Washington politicians have been consistently following for the last several decades. Don’t you think it’s about time for a change ?
Now look at the platform which a Constitutionalist, and pro-American party could offer :
1. Abolition of the Income Tax.
2. Abolition of estate, death, gift and inheritance taxes.
3. Creation of a constitutional monetary system.
4. Nationalization of the Federal Reserve Banking System and abolition of all its privately-owned stock.
5. Creation of a stable dollar through the adoption of a monetary index to which issuance of money would be geared. This issuance to be in accordance with the productive needs of the nation. We would never again be faced with an artificially created money shortage with its attendant boom and bust cycles and high interest rates.
6. Abolition of war as an instrument of national policy. Wars would be outlawed EXCEPT in the event of an invasion or attack upon the United States.
7. Abolition of the draft. The armed services to be rebuilt and strengthened. All subversives and traitors to be dealt with in accordance with the penalties provided in the Constitution for such crimes. Armed services to be maintained upon a voluntary, and professional basis with pay scales equal to those of private industry.
8. Abolition of all treaty-making powers of President and/or Senate. We will no longer permit a handful of privileged tyrants to bind us to wars and continued financial exploitation for the empire-building plans of the international money pool or any other group. A strict adherence to the Constitution would have made all our foreign wars impossible. We are bound to defend ourselves only, on our own shores, against invaders. Had we remained strong and unaligned, we would have had no wars. By outlawing war as an instrument of national policy and abolishing the treaty-making power, no executive could make secret deals to commit our nation to armed intervention on behalf of any nation in the world.
9. Withdrawal from the United Nations and the expulsion of that sinister organization from our shores.
10. Immediate abolition of all foreign aid, and appropriations to any organization, group, nation, combine or agency within this or any other government. All forms of foreign subsidy outlawed. Over 70 per cent of our tax money now goes to pay for department or agencies, directly or indirectly concerned with foreign affairs. This includes our perpetual wars, defense budget, veteran payments, and foreign aid and other concealed appropriations within a multitude of budgetary headings.
11. Abolition of all unconstitutional government activities. This would include the dismantling of all the socialist agencies which are illegally meddling in the lives of the citizens.
12. Removal of the national government from such areas as education, health, welfare, foreign trade, agriculture, and all other activities not specifically mentioned in the Constitution. These problems to be dealt with at local levels and by private industry.
13. Removal of government from all business activities in which they are now engaged. Permit private enterprise to develop the vast potential which lies ahead for the nation and world without the reactionary and repressive, ever-present hand of the bureaucrat.
14. Abolition of lawmaking via the executive order route, by outlawing executive orders.
15. Abolition of poverty, hunger and tyranny. These goals will be achieved when the vast potential of competitive, free enterprise is permitted to attack these problems on a rational and non-political basis.
The future direction of our nation, our lives and those of generations yet to come depend on the decisions that an awakened America makes now.
WHICH PARTY WILL YOU CHOOSE ?
1. Remarks made by Rep. Otto E. Passman at the Liberty Lobby Rally, April 4, 1970, in Los Angeles, California.
2. Available from : Lucille E. Moran, P.O. Box 641, Tavernier, Florida, 33070. ($1.25).
3. Because of the pressures by informed citizens regarding the requirement to sign under penalty of perjury, it is no longer required. See Everyman’s Income Tax, 1969, published by the Commerce Clearing House, Chicago, Illinois, p. 65. (No document going to the IRS need be signed under penalty of perjury.)
4. Scoreboard, Communist Influence as Percentage, Belmont, Mass, American Opinion, July-August, 1970. (The 59 countries were those where Communist influence is indicated in this survey as being 90 per cent or more.)