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WE THE PEOPLE v. THE U.S. GOVERNMENT The Lawsuit to Restore Constitutional
Order
7-25-03
WE THE PEOPLE
v.
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
The Lawsuit to Restore Constitutional Order
History Making Lawsuit Proceeds
Legal Team Engaged
Law Professors Back Us:
Right to Petition is THE Cornerstone of Popular Sovereignty
Join & Support The Lawsuit
Five years ago, We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education
was established by a group of ordinary Americans who deeply love our
country, and are devoted to the eternal cause of human freedom.
We are not political activists, nor are we aligned with any of the
numerous special interest groups that conspire to undermine the essential
principles upon which our great nation was established. As sovereign
American citizens, we do not define ourselves by any political label. We
are not Democrats, Republicans, or Independents.
We, simply, are Americans, and we are dedicated to the proposition
that all men are created equal, and that every human being on earth is
endowed by his Creator with certain unalienable rights. As Americans, we
believe that our right to life, liberty and property comes to us, not from
government beneficence, but from God’s grace and love.
Over the past few decades, we have painfully observed the
deterioration of our nation’s moral fabric, and the insidious assault on our
Constitutional form of government by powerful political, financial and
industrial special interests. With heavy hearts, we have watched our
beloved Country drift from its moorings of personal freedom, equal justice,
due process of law, and respect for private property. We have observed,
with great sorrow and consternation, America’s gradual transformation into a
socialist welfare state, dominated by a ruling class of political and
financial elites.
In desperation, many of us have rushed into the arms of political
parties and action groups in search of truth. We felt the sting of helpless
despair as our beloved Country fell prey to a governing class of
power-hungry, self-indulgent prevaricators who view the People’s faith in
God, our love of freedom, and our devotion to the principles memorialized in
our Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights, with utter
contempt.
We must recognize that America has become a divided nation. The
fabric of our society is no longer held together by the common threads of
faith, justice, self-reliance and love of liberty that gave us strength as a
fledgling nation.
A large percentage of Americans—a numerical majority--have now grown
dependent on government for their sustenance and well-being. Americans no
longer stand together in jealous defense of our unalienable rights and
freedoms. We have turned away from a long and vigilant struggle to preserve
the founding traditions of our Constitutional Republic. We have traded our
precious liberties, for which hundreds of thousands of American soldiers
made the ultimate sacrifice, to a corrupt, unaccountable and excessively
powerful central government.
And what did We The People receive in return for our liberty? Special
government privileges and hand-outs that first had to be coerced from our
fellow citizens. We have conveniently forgotten that Government produces
nothing, and has nothing to give us that it does not first take from someone
else who works to produce it.
We have voluntarily surrendered our dignity and self-respect as a
People, and chosen instead, to assume the comfortable and secure lower
station of indentured servants--of government owned chattel. We have been
indoctrinated to accept the flawed notion that freedom is an illusion, and
led to believe that self-reliance, personal responsibility, independent
thought, and private property are “selfish”, “anti-government” and
“unpatriotic”.
Over the past 75-80 years, the executive, legislative and judicial
branches of the federal government, abetted by the major media’s constant
manipulation of public opinion, have colluded to promote the specious
concept that moderation in pursuit of justice is a virtue, and that
extremism in defense of liberty is a vice.
We have come to accept that our unalienable rights as American
citizens are not those which were recognized by our founding fathers and
enumerated in the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights, but
rather, whatever the ruling class in America determines them to be.
How could this have happened to us as a free People? Is it too late
to restore our country to its rightful place as one nation under God, with
liberty and justice for all?
We The People must now decide who we are, and what we truly stand for
as Americans. It is our destiny to choose between the animating contest of
freedom, and the tranquility of servitude. Will we decide to passively
accept the destruction of our beloved Country from within, or will it be our
solemn conviction to defend our precious freedom against all enemies, both
foreign and domestic? Will we, together, stand in spirit with those
brilliant and courageous men who gave us The Declaration of Independence,
the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights? Will we, together, resolve to
pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor to the restoration of
the divinely inspired American Republic?
It is by Divine Providence that we each possess the innate capacity to
comprehend the relationship that should properly exist between sovereign
People and their servant government. In the dark history that preceded our
founding as a nation, the cause of human freedom was subdued by the forces
of tyranny, oppression and injustice. At that critical moment in history, a
fledgling nation was called forth as the light of liberty to the world.
It is now our destiny as a free people, and our sacred responsibility
as sovereign citizens, to preserve, protect and defend the precious
liberties without which the concept of America has no meaning.
After two and a quarter centuries, We The People, once again, stand at
the crossroads of history. The voices of those who paid the ultimate
sacrifice for our liberty, now call out to each of us to choose the path
that will take America to its ultimate destination. Will we choose the
steep and rocky path that leads to freedom, or take the wide and heavily
traveled path that leads to tyranny and destruction? There are no
alternatives. There is no middle ground between slavery and freedom,
between justice and injustice, between honor and perfidy, between life and
death. We The People must now decide where we stand.
If it is our destiny to live as a free people--to have honest,
accountable and moral government--then we must act now. There is no
tomorrow, no next week or next year.
Our Constitution and Bill of Rights are being violently assaulted by a
class of people---a self-anointed governing class---that believes it is
exempt from the lawful and moral obligations imposed upon it by our founding
principles of Constitutional governance. We must send a clarion message to
career politicians, entrenched bureaucrats and the corrupt special interests
that control them, that America’s servant government will be held
accountable for its actions, and that We The People will never surrender our
freedom. We will not be denied our unalienable rights to life, liberty and
property. We will accept nothing less than a servant government that
functions within the limits imposed on its power by the Constitution and
Bill of Rights.
As sovereign American citizens, we must stand firm in our conviction
that no person is free whose labor is owned by another. The fruit of a man’s
labor is his most essential personal property. Freedom cannot peaceably
exist in the presence of slavery. If we tolerate the insulting, spurious
claim that government owns our labor, we are reduced to nothing more than
chattel, government property to be exploited and dominated.
Please listen, People of America….can you hear the distant cry of
freedom? The voice of those who came before us, who purchased our precious
freedom with their blood and sacrifice, are calling us home.
With all this in mind, we have decided the appropriate next step will
be to test the attitude of the Supreme Court with a class-action lawsuit
seeking a declaration of our Rights and injunctive relief.
A few days ago we posted an open message to President Bush and the
leaders of Congress, putting them on notice that we would soon file a class
action lawsuit seeking a declaration of our Rights regarding the Petition
Clause of the First Amendment.
Here are a few of the questions that will be presented for the court’s
determination in the lawsuit that we file in federal District Court in
Washington, DC.
a.. Do the People have an unalienable, First Amendment Right to
Petition their elected representatives in the Executive and Legislative
Branches for Redress of Grievances regarding abuses of their taxing,
war-making, debt-incurring and police powers?
b.. Does the People’s Right to Petition for Redress of Grievances
include the Right to have those Petitions heard and honestly answered?
c.. Does the Right to Petition for Redress include the Right to
withhold taxes until the government hears and answers the Petition?
d.. Does the Right to Petition protect petitioners from government
Retaliation?
How important is this lawsuit?
At stake is the most unique system of governance on earth – a
Constitutional Republic in which sovereignty resides in the People, not the
government. Nowhere else on the globe or in history have People other than
Americans enjoyed “popular sovereignty” – a government OF, BY and FOR the
People. In no other country do the People have the Right to impose defined
limits and powers on the government.
In America, the People are the source of all political power, and ALL
those who serve in government are limited by written Constitutions. All
those in government – elected or appointed -- can ONLY do what the law
specifically authorizes them to do; if it is not written down, they cannot
do it. This is what it means to be free.
At stake is the only national Constitution intended to be a set of
principles to govern THE GOVERNMENT.
At stake are constitutional principles that are unique and essential
to America’s greatness: that all individuals are created equal; that all
individuals are endowed by their CREATOR -- nature’s GOD -- with certain
unalienable Rights; that all individuals have these Rights for no other
reason than they are alive; that all individuals have the Right to LIBERTY;
that all individuals have the Right to FREEDOM from government that
infringes on their unalienable Rights, or that otherwise steps outside the
boundaries drawn around its power to tax, its power to make war, its power
to incur debt and make money, its power to police the peace and enforce the
laws, or any other power to which the People have consented.
At stake is the AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE, the great American experiment in
self-government that has served individual Americans so well and which so
many individuals around the world have aimed to reach.
Please remember this: Over 200 years ago, while thirteen independent,
sovereign American States were struggling to develop their identity as the
world’s first Constitutional Republic, every major European nation was
moving toward a diametrically opposite form of government, one that is now
commonly referred to as “social democracy”, where sovereignty rests with
the government, not the People; where the People have privileges granted by
government, rather than unalienable Rights; where the purpose of government
is to take money from those who earn it and give it to those who don’t earn
it; where the government confiscates the fruit of the People’s labor and
uses it to financially support and keep in power an elite governing class
comprised of legions of privileged autocrats.
Please know this: All nations in Europe are still socialist
democracies and their self-serving governments have NEVER stopped trying to
convert the American Way to the European Way.
Please understand this: if the People lose this lawsuit, we will lose
OUR way.
The Constitution is hanging by a thread. That thread is the Right to
Petition government for a Redress of Grievances.
We now have people like Rep. Henry Hyde saying “events have overtaken
our Constitution”, and that our Constitution has become “anachronistic.” We
now have law school professors like Allen Dershowitz teaching that “we have
no unalienable Rights”, and that “government should not be limited by a
written Constitution because government can do good things for People.”
Simply put, we will not have another opportunity like we have right
now to bring together the collective will of the People to peacefully
restore our Constitution.
Hanging in the balance is “popular sovereignty,” the ability of
individuals to question the behavior of their servant government and to hold
their servant government accountable to the Constitution and Bill of Rights,
thereby limiting its enumerated powers and preventing its infringement upon
the individual Rights of the People.
Without the Right to Petition our servant government for a Redress of
Grievances, and the government’s obligation to honestly answer, the only way
the People will be able to have their voices heard will be on Election Day.
What that means, of course, is our Republic will have been replaced by a
Democracy, where only the majority’s voice will be heard by the government.
Remember Germany in the 1930’s, when the majority voted to support the
government. The Petitions of the minority were ignored, and those who
questioned the government’s authority were systematically persecuted or
destroyed.
Please take a hard look at what is now happening in America:
We have an ill-advised majority supporting a government that is
routinely applying the armed forces in hostilities overseas without a
congressional declaration of war as required by the Constitution, while
taxing the labor of the working men and women of America to pay for the
mischief.
We have an ill-advised majority supporting a government that is
routinely violating the individual’s speech, press, assembly, due process
and privacy rights (for instance, spying on People in their homes, libraries
and houses of worship, searching and seizing People’s property based on
“reasonable cause” instead of “probable cause” as required by the
constitution, and suspending habeas corpus, attorney, jury and speedy trial
protections), while taxing the labor of the working men and women of America
to pay for the mischief.
We have an ill-advised majority supporting a government that is
incurring public debt in spite of constitutional restrictions while taxing
the labor of the working men and women of America to pay for the treachery.
We have an ill-advised majority supporting a government that, in spite
of constitutional restrictions,
is directly taxing the labor of the working men and women of America,
and forcing companies to withhold
that direct tax from the wages and earnings of their workers.
We have an ill-advised majority supporting a government that, without
legal authority, is collecting its direct tax on the labor of working
Americans through a nationwide campaign of fear, intimidation and coercion,
and by the use of swarms of armed agents to illegally search and seize
private property, in violation of the People’s right to due process of law.
We have a well-advised minority that has humbly exercised their First
Amendment Right to Petition the government for a redress of these
grievances, setting a high standard for such Petitions in terms of
rationality, intelligence and professionalism.
However, we have arrogant Executive and Legislative branches that have
utterly ignored the People’s Petitions
for Redress. The Executive and the Congress have refused to hear the
People’s Petitions for Redress of Grievances, much less, honestly answer our
Petitions, as the original intent of the Constitution mandates.
To make matters worse, we have an Executive Branch, which in spite of
Constitutional guarantees, is harassing and penalizing those individuals
whose Petitions for Redress of Grievances have gone unanswered and who now
are acting to stop the withholding and payment of the illegal direct tax on
labor. And, we have ill-advised tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court
that are cooperating in this abuse of federal power.
The Lawsuit
The only thing standing between the People and total tyranny and
despotism is the Constitution, and the will of the minority to defend it--no
matter the degree of hostility or contention, no matter the cost.
We have been working behind the scenes for several months compiling
and organizing the legal arguments and preparing to deploy the suit while
simultaneously executing Operation Stop Withholding and conducting the
normal business of WTP.
This lawsuit takes America into un-charted legal waters, in that the
First Amendment Right to Petition, until now, has never been squarely put
before the Judiciary.
The facts are not in question. Our Petitions have been proper,
containing both a declaration of significant grievances and a prayer for
relief. The Petitions are of unquestionable public and Constitutional
importance.
We have completed a review of the case law and the historic literature
on the People’s Right To Petition. While there is virtually no on-point case
law regarding the Petition Clause we have discovered ten Law Review articles
published since 1986. All authors appear to be in full support of our
position that government must hear and honestly answer our Petitions, and
that the constitutional Right To Petition trumps any government claim of
sovereign immunity.
We urge everyone to read each of these enormously important articles.
Every American should know the history, meaning, effect and significance of
the First Amendment’s Petition Clause – the “Holy Grail” of popular
sovereignty. With this knowledge, you will be better able to understand,
articulate and communicate the critical role that this Right will play in
restoring our Constitution. Click here to access the Law Review articles.
We have drafted a 46-page Verified Complaint, a 150-page Memorandum of
Law and a 31-page Affidavit, which has 62 annexed Exhibits. These
substantial documents will be made public following additional draft reviews
by our legal counsel and their filing in court.
We The People Foundation has entered into a Retainer Agreement with
The Lane Law Firm. Mr. Mark Lane, an exceptionally qualified and nationally
prominent attorney, will be in charge of the case. Click here for Mr. Lane’s
curriculum vitae.
The first phase of Mr.Lane’s work will be to prepare and file a
complaint that will, in his words, “secure serious consideration by the
United States District Court, the United States Court of Appeals and the
United States Supreme Court.”
We have also drafted and released a Preliminary Statement of the Case
and a preliminary Class Definition.
We will not seek money damages. We will seek a declaration of our
rights and equitable relief in the form of temporary and preliminary court
injunctions prohibiting and enjoining the IRS and Department of Justice from
taking any enforcement action related to Subtitle A of the Internal Revenue
Code, pending a final determination of the issues presented and raised in
the lawsuit.
The members of the class action will be rewarded by the knowledge that
they acted to preserve, protect and defend our Constitution and way of life
in America; that they served their country in its time of greatest need;
that they restored honest, accountable, servant government to our nation.
As members of the class action, we will work together to achieve a
permanent end to the government’s illegal direct tax on labor, its
prosecution of undeclared wars, its abuse of domestic police powers, its
unconstitutional and out-of-control debt spending, and its arrogant
violations of the People’s unalienable rights to privacy, due process of law
and equal justice.
We have created an internet based “Information Center” for the class
action lawsuit. It will contain links to all the case documents, latest
news, key information links and materials to help communicate with our
nation about this historic undertaking.
The class action lawsuit, and the associated support activities
necessary to achieve our objectives, including a major mass media and public
awareness campaign, will be financed solely by tax deductible donations to
the We The People Foundation.
We are not naïve. We know what we are up against. There will be no
instant gratification. We know, for instance, that this lawsuit goes to the
very heart of the government’s power, and that the government will not
concede that ill-gotten power without a fight. We know that the IRS and DOJ
will attempt to motion us to death, and that the federal courts have a
vested interest in the status-quo. We know that we will be jerked up and
down, from the District Court, to Appeals Court, and to the Supreme Court,
like a yo-yo over the next few years. But, be assured, We The People will
ultimately prevail in asserting our rightful authority over our servant
government. We will not be denied our freedom.
We know that on the question of continuing the injunction against the
IRS and the DOJ for the duration of the lawsuit, a balancing of the equities
will weigh in favor of the plaintiff class. When presented with the
irrefutable facts, the courts will be compelled to acknowledge that the
federal government has the Constitutional authority to simply print whatever
amount of currency it needs, without incurring the usury that is unlawfully
imposed on the People by the private Federal Reserve System. The courts
must also acknowledge that the government is Constitutionally authorized to
rely on excise taxes, tariffs, imposts and duties on corporate privileges
and imports to defray its legitimate functions.
This class action lawsuit will be a watershed event in American
history. It will be a multi-million dollar, no-holds barred effort
involving highly skilled and committed attorneys, extensive & sustained
public communications (mass media purchases in print, radio and other
mediums), technology development, logistical support, dedicated,
professional staff management, and centralized physical offices. The recent
hiring of Devvy Kidd as the National Director for the WTP Congress and the
opening of our new WTPC headquarters near Washington, DC are just the
beginning of this effort.
Since 1776, there has never been a time in America when We The People
have had so much at stake. Our resolve to secure the freedom that is
rightfully ours will be fiercely challenged by the federal government. The
powerful forces that are entrenched in Washington, DC will not give up
without a fight.
Within the week, We The People Foundation will release a
comprehensive, integrated plan of action that will explain how we intend to
win this fight.
Here is what you can do now:
Join the Lawsuit:
We hereby invite all Americans concerned with restoring Constitutional
order to support the class-action lawsuit by joining as members of the
plaintiff class.
There is no cost to join the lawsuit as a member of the plaintiff
class.
Members of the plaintiff class will not have to appear in court or
file any papers, motions, etc. The class is represented by the plaintiff
attorneys at no cost to the class members. See the link above to join by
mail.
Donate:
As we stated previously, the entire cost of this history altering
initiative will be funded solely through donations to the WTP Foundation and
the WTP Congress.
This struggle will be extended and will require a steady, predictable
level of funding to execute and finance the sustained legal costs,
nationwide public awareness campaign, logistical support and ongoing
operations of our organization.
The vision of raising several million dollars may appear difficult,
but is readily achievable if each of us shares a portion of the burden.
Numbers count for everything and even small donations add up very quickly.
We all know that nothing less than our Republic and our Freedom are at
stake. If each family would commit a regular, manageable portion of their
monthly income to our common cause, we would immediately be able to reach
out in a sustained and extensive manner, far beyond our current supporters
to the vast expanse of America. This important commitment requires
individual sacrifice and personal reflection on the priorities in our lives.
We trust you have seen the results our organization has delivered over
the last several years.
We trust you have seen our unwavering, deeply personal commitment to
the protection of Liberty.
It is your generosity and commitment that have taken us this far, and
it will be that same devotion that will ultimately enable us to prevail.
Reflect on this: What is freedom worth to you and your family? To
what will you be called in life that will matter more than this?
The lawsuit has started and the substantial legal bills have begun to
arrive. The support activities are proceeding. Without doubt, we need your
immediate assistance. Our commitment is unwavering, but we cannot succeed
unless we join together and stand as one.
We The People will publish periodic financial statements showing the
sources and uses of all funds. The first of such statements is currently
being prepared by our outside auditors and will soon be released along with
our new organizational brochure.
Click Here to make a donation. You have our sincerest Thanks.
Our secure, on-line system supports one-time, monthly and
twice-monthly e-donations. We support all the major credit cards and can
process donations from your checking account and PayPal as well. Our
subscription-type donations can be stopped or changed by you at anytime
either on-line or by request to our offices. We can also process any form
of donation via mail. Our mailing address is: WTP, 2458 Ridge Road,
Queensbury, NY 12804. All donations to the WTP Foundation are tax
deductible.
Spread The Word:
Concerned Americans need to hear the news. To this end, WTP has
developed an initial series of public communications materials to inform,
educate and attract support and participation in the suit.
The initial set includes a flyer, a Media Kit, a color news insert
featuring the Petitions and a 50–page information packet that includes forms
and instructions on how to join the lawsuit as a member of the plaintiff
class. Right-Click here to download the 1.3 MB .pdf information package.
We encourage wide distribution of the package electronically and in
hard-copy format to reach those without ready, regular access to the
internet.
All of these materials can be found at the lawsuit Information Center.
Be At The Lawsuit Filing Event in DC
A large public media event is being planned to mark the filing of this
historic legal action.
The suit will be filed in US District Court in the District of
Columbia. Although the date is subject to change, we plan to file the
action on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2003.
Details of this event are being developed and will be released soon.
The filing will be marked by a press conference and public gathering to
insure that history properly marks and records this important day.
Everyone is urged to begin to make arrangements to be in Washington in
support of the filing of the lawsuit and the related media event.
Join the WTP Congress
The WTP Congress is the grassroots activist organization that is
charged with raising public awareness and educating local communities about
the lawsuit and its associated support activities. The WTP Congress will
also engage in fund raising, the recruitment Plaintiffs for the class action
and helping organize people everywhere to institutionalize vigilance in
their own cities and states.
Click here to become a member of the WTP Congress and to work with
local members of the We The People Congress. Please also consider
volunteering as a local or state WTP Coordinator. We need your
contributions of organizational, management and communications skills.
Be sure to also check out your local WTP Congress web pages for local
contact information, scheduled meetings as well as local activist activities
and news.
Click here to access the lawsuit Information Center:
Inside the Center, you will be able to:
a.. Read the published law review articles regarding the Right to
Petition
b.. Print out the lawsuit flyers
c.. Join the lawsuit as a class member plaintiff
d.. Sign the Petitions for Redress of Grievances
e.. Obtain a copy of the lawsuit Information Package
f.. Make a donation
And much more. . .
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and are devoted to the eternal cause of human freedom.
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
are not political activists, nor are we aligned with any of the numerous
special interest groups that conspire to undermine the essential
principles upon which our great nation was established. As sovereign
American citizens, we do not define ourselves by any political
label. We are not Democrats, Republicans, or Independents.
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We,
simply, are Americans, and we are dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal, and that every human being on earth is endowed by
his Creator with certain unalienable rights. As Americans, we believe that
our right to life, liberty and property comes to us, not from government
beneficence, but from God’s grace and love. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Over
the past few decades, we have painfully observed the deterioration of our
nation’s moral fabric, and the insidious assault on our Constitutional
form of government by powerful political, financial and industrial special
interests. With heavy hearts, we have watched our beloved Country
drift from its moorings of personal freedom, equal justice, due process of
law, and respect for private property. We have observed, with great
sorrow and consternation, </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">America</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">’s gradual transformation into
a socialist welfare state, dominated by a ruling class of political and
financial elites. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In
desperation, many of us have rushed into the arms of political parties and
action groups in search of truth. We felt the sting of helpless
despair as our beloved Country fell prey to a governing class of
power-hungry, self-indulgent prevaricators who view the People’s faith in
God, our love of freedom, and our devotion to the principles memorialized
in our Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights, with
utter contempt. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
must recognize that </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">America</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> has become a divided
nation. The fabric of our society is no longer held together by the
common threads of faith, justice, self-reliance and love of liberty that
gave us strength as a fledgling nation. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A
large percentage of Americans—a numerical majority--have now grown
dependent on government for their sustenance and well-being.
Americans no longer stand together in jealous defense of our unalienable
rights and freedoms. We have turned away from a long and vigilant struggle
to preserve the founding traditions of our Constitutional Republic.
We have traded our precious liberties, for which hundreds of thousands of
American soldiers made the ultimate sacrifice, to a corrupt, unaccountable
and excessively powerful central government. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">And
what did We The People receive in return for our liberty? Special
government privileges and hand-outs that first had to be coerced from our
fellow citizens. We have conveniently forgotten that
Government produces nothing, and has nothing to give us that it does not
first take from someone else who works to produce it. <BR><BR>We
have voluntarily surrendered our dignity and self-respect as a People, and
chosen instead, to assume the comfortable and secure lower station of
indentured servants--of government owned chattel. We have been
indoctrinated to accept the flawed notion that freedom is an illusion, and
led to believe that self-reliance, personal responsibility, independent
thought, and private property are “selfish”, “anti-government” and
“unpatriotic”. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Over
the past 75-80 years, the executive, legislative and judicial branches of
the federal government, abetted by the major media’s constant manipulation
of public opinion, have colluded to promote the specious concept that
moderation in pursuit of justice is a virtue, and that extremism in
defense of liberty is a vice. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
have come to accept that our unalienable rights as American citizens are
not those which were recognized by our founding fathers and enumerated in
the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights, but rather, whatever
the ruling class in America determines them to be. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">How
could this have happened to us as a free People? Is it too late to
restore our country to its rightful place as one nation under God, with
liberty and justice for all? </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
The People must now decide who we are, and what we truly stand for as
Americans. It is our destiny to choose between the animating contest
of freedom, and the tranquility of servitude. Will we decide to
passively accept the destruction of our beloved Country from within, or
will it be our solemn conviction to defend our precious freedom against
all enemies, both foreign and domestic? Will we, together, stand in
spirit with those brilliant and courageous men who gave us The Declaration
of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights? Will we,
together, resolve to pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor
to the restoration of the divinely inspired </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">American</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Republic</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">? </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">It is
by Divine Providence that we each possess the innate capacity to
comprehend the relationship that should properly exist between sovereign
People and their servant government. In the dark history that
preceded our founding as a nation, the cause of human freedom was subdued
by the forces of tyranny, oppression and injustice. At that critical
moment in history, a fledgling nation was called forth as the light of
liberty to the world. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">It
is now our destiny as a free people, and our sacred responsibility as
sovereign citizens, to preserve, protect and defend the precious liberties
without which the concept of </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">America</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> has no
meaning. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">After
two and a quarter centuries, We The People, once again, stand at the
crossroads of history. The voices of those who paid the ultimate
sacrifice for our liberty, now call out to each of us to choose the path
that will take America to its ultimate destination. Will we choose
the steep and rocky path that leads to freedom, or take the wide and
heavily traveled path that leads to tyranny and destruction? There
are no alternatives. There is no middle ground between slavery and
freedom, between justice and injustice, between honor and perfidy, between
life and death. We The People must now decide where we stand.
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">If it
is our destiny to live as a free people--to have honest, accountable and
moral government--then we must act now. There is no tomorrow, no
next week or next year. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Our
Constitution and Bill of Rights are being violently assaulted by a class
of people---a self-anointed governing class---that believes it is exempt
from the lawful and moral obligations imposed upon it by our founding
principles of Constitutional governance. We must send a clarion
message to career politicians, entrenched bureaucrats and the corrupt
special interests that control them, that America’s servant government
will be held accountable for its actions, and that We The People will
never surrender our freedom. We will not be denied our unalienable
rights to life, liberty and property. We will accept nothing less
than a servant government that functions within the limits imposed on its
power by the Constitution and Bill of Rights. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">As
sovereign American citizens, we must stand firm in our conviction that no
person is free whose labor is owned by another. The fruit of a man’s labor
is his most essential personal property. Freedom cannot peaceably
exist in the presence of slavery. If we tolerate the insulting,
spurious claim that government owns our labor, we are reduced to nothing
more than chattel, government property to be exploited and dominated.
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Please listen, People of
</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">America</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">….can you hear the distant cry
of freedom? The voice of those who came before us, who purchased our
precious freedom with their blood and sacrifice, are calling us
home. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">With
all this in mind, we have decided the appropriate next step will be to
test the attitude of the Supreme Court with a class-action lawsuit seeking
a declaration of our Rights and injunctive relief. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A few
days ago we posted an <U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
href="Update07-20-03.htm" target=_top>open message</A></SPAN></U> to
President Bush and the leaders of Congress, putting them on notice that we
would soon file a class action lawsuit seeking a declaration of our Rights
regarding the Petition Clause of the First Amendment. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Here
are a few of the questions that will be presented for the court’s
determination in the lawsuit that we file in federal District Court in
Washington, DC. </SPAN></P>
<UL style="MARGIN-TOP: 0in; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in" type=disc>
<LI class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Do
the People have an unalienable, First Amendment Right to Petition their
elected representatives in the Executive and Legislative Branches for
Redress of Grievances regarding abuses of their taxing, war-making,
debt-incurring and police powers?</SPAN>
<LI class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Does the People’s Right to
Petition for Redress of Grievances include the Right to have those
Petitions heard and honestly answered? </SPAN>
<LI class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Does the Right to Petition
for Redress include the Right to withhold taxes until the government
hears and answers the Petition?</SPAN>
<LI class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Does the Right to Petition
protect petitioners from government Retaliation? </SPAN></LI></UL>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3><BR>How important is
this lawsuit? </FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">At
stake is the most unique system of governance on earth – a Constitutional
Republic in which sovereignty resides in the People, not the government.
Nowhere else on the globe or in history have People other than Americans
enjoyed “popular sovereignty” – a government OF, BY and FOR the People. In
no other country do the People have the Right to impose defined limits and
powers on the government.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In
America, the People are the source of all political power, and ALL those
who serve in government are limited by written Constitutions. All those in
government – elected or appointed -- can ONLY do what the law specifically
authorizes them to do; if it is not written down, they cannot do it. This
is what it means to be free. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">At
stake is the only national Constitution intended to be a set of principles
to govern THE GOVERNMENT. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">At
stake are constitutional principles that are unique and essential to
America’s greatness: that all <U>individuals</U> are created equal; that
all <U>individuals</U> are endowed by their CREATOR -- nature’s GOD --
with certain unalienable Rights; that all <U>individuals</U> have these
Rights for no other reason than they are alive; that all
<U>individuals</U> have the Right to LIBERTY; that all <U>individuals</U>
have the Right to FREEDOM from government that infringes on their
unalienable Rights, or that otherwise steps outside the boundaries drawn
around its power to tax, its power to make war, its power to incur debt
and make money, its power to police the peace and enforce the laws, or any
other power to which the People have consented. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">At
stake is the AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE, the great American experiment in
self-government that has served <U>individual</U> Americans so well and
which so many <U>individuals</U> around the world have aimed to reach.
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Please remember this: Over 200
years ago, while thirteen independent, sovereign American States were
struggling to develop their identity as the world’s first Constitutional
Republic, every major European nation was moving toward a diametrically
opposite form of government, one that is now commonly referred to as
“social democracy”, where sovereignty rests with the government, not the
People; where the People have privileges granted by government, rather
than unalienable Rights; where the purpose of government is to take money
from those who earn it and give it to those who don’t earn it; where the
government confiscates the fruit of the People’s labor and uses it to
financially support and keep in power an elite governing class comprised
of legions of privileged autocrats. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Please know this: All nations
in </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Europe</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> are still socialist
democracies and their self-serving governments have NEVER stopped trying
to convert the </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">American Way to the European
Way. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Please understand this:
if the People lose this lawsuit, we will lose OUR way. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The
Constitution is hanging by a thread. That thread is the Right to Petition
government for a Redress of Grievances. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
now have people like Rep. Henry Hyde saying “events have overtaken our
Constitution”, and that our Constitution has become “anachronistic.” We
now have law school professors like Allen Dershowitz teaching that “we
have no unalienable Rights”, and that “government should not be limited by
a written Constitution because government can do good things for
People.” </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Simply put, we will not have
another opportunity like we have right now to bring together the
collective will of the People to peacefully restore our
Constitution. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hanging in the balance is
“popular sovereignty,” the ability of <U>individuals</U> to question the
behavior of their servant government and to hold their servant government
accountable to the Constitution and Bill of Rights, thereby limiting its
enumerated powers and preventing its infringement upon the individual
Rights of the People. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Without the Right to Petition
our servant government for a Redress of Grievances, and the government’s
obligation to honestly answer, the only way the People will be able to
have their voices heard will be on Election Day. What that means, of
course, is our Republic will have been replaced by a Democracy, where only
the majority’s voice will be heard by the government. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Remember Germany in the
1930’s, when the majority voted to support the government. The
Petitions of the minority were ignored, and those who questioned the
government’s authority were systematically persecuted or
destroyed.<BR> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT
size=3>Please take a hard look at what is now happening in
America:</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
have an ill-advised majority supporting a government that is routinely
applying the armed forces in hostilities overseas without a congressional
declaration of war as required by the Constitution, <I>while taxing the
labor of the working men and women of </I></SPAN><I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">America</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> to pay for the
mischief.</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
have an ill-advised majority supporting a government that is routinely
violating the individual’s speech, press, assembly, due process and
privacy rights (for instance, spying on People in their homes, libraries
and houses of worship, searching and seizing People’s property based on
“reasonable cause” instead of “probable cause” as required by the
constitution, and suspending habeas corpus, attorney, jury and speedy
trial protections), <I>while</I> <I>taxing the labor of the working men
and women of America to pay for the mischief.</I> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
have an ill-advised majority supporting a government that is incurring
public debt in spite of constitutional restrictions <I>while</I> <I>taxing
the labor of the working men and women of </I></SPAN><I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">America</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> to pay for the
treachery.</SPAN></I></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We have an
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">ill-advised <SPAN
style="COLOR: black">majority supporting a government that, in spite of
constitutional restrictions, <BR>is <I>directly taxing the labor of the
working men and women of </I></SPAN></SPAN><I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">America</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, and forcing
companies to withhold<BR>that direct tax from the wages and earnings of
their workers. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We have an
ill-advised majority supporting a government that, <I>without legal
authority, </I>is collecting its direct tax on the labor of working
Americans through a nationwide campaign of fear, intimidation and
coercion, and by the use of swarms of armed agents to illegally search and
seize private property, in violation of the People’s right to due process
of law. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
have a <I>well-advised</I> <U>minority </U>that has humbly exercised their
First Amendment Right to Petition the government for a redress of these
grievances, setting a high standard for such Petitions in terms of
rationality, intelligence and professionalism.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 5pt 0in"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">However, we have
arrogant Executive and Legislative branches that have utterly ignored the
People’s Petitions<BR>for Redress. <B><I>The Executive and the Congress
have refused to hear the People’s Petitions for Redress of Grievances,
much less, honestly answer our Petitions, as the original intent of the
Constitution mandates.</I></B></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">To
make matters worse, we have an Executive Branch, which in spite of
Constitutional guarantees, is harassing and penalizing those individuals
whose Petitions for Redress of Grievances have gone unanswered and who now
are acting to stop the withholding and payment of the illegal direct tax
on labor. And, we have ill-advised tribunals inferior to the Supreme
Court that are cooperating in this abuse of federal power.
</SPAN></P>
<H1><SPAN style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR>The
Lawsuit</SPAN></H1>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The only thing
standing between the People and total tyranny and despotism is the
Constitution, and the will of the minority to defend it--no matter the
degree of hostility or contention, <U>no matter the
cost.</U></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
have been working behind the scenes for several months compiling and
organizing the legal arguments and preparing to deploy the suit while
simultaneously executing Operation Stop Withholding and conducting the
normal business of WTP. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This
lawsuit takes </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">America</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> into un-charted legal waters,
in that the First Amendment Right to Petition, until now, has never been
squarely put before the Judiciary. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The
facts are not in question. Our Petitions have been proper,
containing both a declaration of significant grievances and a prayer for
relief. The Petitions are of unquestionable public and Constitutional
importance. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
have completed a review of the case law and the historic literature on the
People’s Right To Petition. While there is virtually no on-point case law
regarding the Petition Clause we have discovered ten Law Review articles
published since 1986. All authors appear to be in full support of our
position that government must hear and honestly answer our Petitions, and
that the constitutional Right To Petition trumps any government claim of
sovereign immunity. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
urge everyone to read each of these enormously important articles. Every
American should know the history, meaning, effect and significance of the
First Amendment’s Petition Clause – the “Holy Grail” of popular
sovereignty. With this knowledge, you will be better able to understand,
articulate and communicate the critical role that this Right will play in
restoring our Constitution. <U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
href="InfoCenter.htm" target=_top>Click here to access the Law Review
articles</A></SPAN></U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">.</SPAN> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
have drafted a <SPAN style="COLOR: black">46-page</SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"> </SPAN>Verified Complaint, a 150-page Memorandum of
Law and a 31-page Affidavit, which has 62 annexed Exhibits. <I>These
substantial documents will be made public following additional draft
reviews by our legal counsel and their filing in
court.</I> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
The People Foundation has entered into a Retainer Agreement with The Lane
Law Firm. Mr. Mark Lane, an exceptionally qualified and nationally
prominent attorney, will be in charge of the case. <U><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><A href="LaneCV.htm" target=_top>Click here for
</A></SPAN></U></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><U><A
href="LaneCV.htm" target=_top>Mr. Lane’s <I>curriculum
vitae</I></A></U>.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoBodyText><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The
first phase of Mr.Lane’s work will be to prepare and file a complaint that
will, in his words, “secure serious consideration by the United States
District Court, the United States Court of Appeals and the United States
Supreme Court.” </SPAN><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
have also drafted and released a <U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
href="PreliminaryStatementOfCase.htm" target=_top>Preliminary Statement of
the Case</A></SPAN></U> and a preliminary <U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
href="ClassDefinition.htm" target=_top>Class Definition</A></SPAN></U>.
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
will not seek money damages. We will seek a declaration of our rights and
equitable relief in the form of temporary and preliminary court
injunctions prohibiting and enjoining the IRS and Department of Justice
from taking any enforcement action related to Subtitle A of the Internal
Revenue Code, pending a final determination of the issues presented and
raised in the lawsuit. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The
members of the class action will be rewarded by the knowledge that they
acted to preserve, protect and defend our Constitution and way of life in
America; that they served their country in its time of greatest need; that
they restored honest, accountable, servant government to our
nation.<BR><BR>As members of the class action, we will work together to
achieve a permanent end to the government’s illegal direct tax on labor,
its prosecution of undeclared wars, its abuse of domestic police powers,
its unconstitutional and out-of-control debt spending, and its arrogant
violations of the People’s unalienable rights to privacy, due process of
law and equal justice.</SPAN><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
have created an internet based “<U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
href="InfoCenter.htm" target=_top>Information Center</A></SPAN></U>” for
the class action lawsuit. It will contain links to all the case
documents, latest news, key information links and materials to help
communicate with our nation about this historic undertaking.
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The
class action lawsuit, and the associated support activities necessary to
achieve our objectives, including a major mass media and public awareness
campaign, will be financed solely by tax deductible <U><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><A href="../donations/donate-join.htm"
target=_top>donations</A></SPAN></U> to the We The People
Foundation.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
are not naïve. We know what we are up against. There will be no instant
gratification. We know, for instance, <U>that this lawsuit goes to the
very heart of the government’s power</U>, and that the government will not
concede that ill-gotten power without a fight. We know that the IRS and
DOJ will attempt to motion us to death, and that the federal courts have a
vested interest in the status-quo. We know that we will be jerked up
and down, from the District Court, to Appeals Court, and to the Supreme
Court, like a yo-yo over the next few years. But, be assured, We The
People will ultimately prevail in asserting our rightful authority over
our servant government. <U>We will not be denied our
freedom</U>. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
know that on the question of continuing the injunction against the IRS and
the DOJ for the duration of the lawsuit, <U>a balancing of the equities
will weigh in favor of the plaintiff class</U>. When presented with
the irrefutable facts, the courts will be compelled to acknowledge that
the federal government has the Constitutional authority to simply print
whatever amount of currency it needs, without incurring the usury that is
unlawfully imposed on the People by the private Federal Reserve
System. The courts must also acknowledge that the government is
Constitutionally authorized to rely on excise taxes, tariffs, imposts and
duties on corporate privileges and imports to defray its legitimate
functions.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This
class action lawsuit will be a watershed event in American history.
It will be a multi-million dollar, no-holds barred effort involving highly
skilled and committed attorneys, extensive & sustained public
communications (mass media purchases in print, radio and other mediums),
technology development, logistical support, dedicated, professional staff
management, and centralized physical offices. The recent hiring of
Devvy Kidd as the National Director for the WTP Congress and the opening
of our new WTPC headquarters near </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Washington</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">DC</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> are just the beginning of
this effort.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Since
1776, there has never been a time in America when We The People have had
so much at stake. Our resolve to secure the freedom that is
rightfully ours will be fiercely challenged by the federal
government. The powerful forces that are entrenched in </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Washington</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">DC</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> will not give up without a
fight.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Within the week, We The People
Foundation will release a comprehensive, integrated plan of action that
will explain how we intend to win this fight.<BR> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT
size=3>Here is what you can do now:</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: #800000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=3>Join the
Lawsuit:</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR><BR>We hereby invite all
Americans concerned with restoring Constitutional order to support the
class-action lawsuit by joining as members of the plaintiff class.
</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">There
is <B><U>no cost</U> </B>to <U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
href="ApplyAsPlaintiff.htm" target=_top>join the lawsuit as a member of
the plaintiff class</A></SPAN></U>. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Members of the plaintiff class
will not have to appear in court or file any papers, motions, etc.
The class is represented by the plaintiff attorneys at <U>no cost to the
class members</U>. <I>See the link above to join by
mail.<BR><BR></I></SPAN><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: #800000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT
size=3><BR>Donate:</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">As we
stated previously, the entire cost of this history altering initiative
will be funded <U><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
href="../donations/donate-join.htm" target=_top>solely through
donations</A></SPAN></U> to the WTP Foundation and the WTP
Congress. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This
struggle will be extended and will require a steady, <U>predictable</U>
level of funding to execute and finance the sustained legal costs,
nationwide public awareness campaign, logistical support and ongoing
operations of our organization. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The
vision of raising several million dollars may appear difficult, but is
readily achievable if <U>each of us shares a portion of the
burden</U>. Numbers count for everything and even small donations
add up very quickly. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
all know that nothing less than our Republic and our Freedom are at
stake. If each family would commit a regular, manageable portion of
their monthly income to our common cause, we would immediately be able to
reach out in a sustained and extensive manner, far beyond our current
supporters to the vast expanse of America. This important commitment
requires individual sacrifice and personal reflection on the priorities in
our lives. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
trust you have seen the results our organization has delivered over the
last several years.<BR>We trust you have seen our unwavering, deeply
personal commitment to the protection of Liberty. <BR>It is your
generosity and commitment that have taken us this far, and it will be that
same devotion that will ultimately enable us to prevail. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Reflect on this: What is
freedom worth to you and your family? To what will you be called in
life that will matter more than this? </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The
lawsuit has started and the substantial legal bills have begun to
arrive. The support activities are proceeding. Without doubt, we
need your immediate assistance. Our commitment is unwavering, but we
cannot succeed unless we join together and stand as one. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We
The People <U>will publish periodic financial statements</U> showing the
sources and uses of all funds. The first of such statements is
currently being prepared by our outside auditors and will soon be released
along with our new organizational brochure.<BR><BR><U><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><A href="../donations/donate-join.htm"
target=_top>Click Here</A></SPAN></U> to make a donation. <I>You
have our sincerest Thanks</I>.<BR><BR><I><SPAN style="COLOR: navy">Our
secure, on-line system supports <B>one-time</B>, <B>monthly</B> and
<B>twice-monthly</B> e-donations. We support <U>all the major credit
cards</U> and can process donations from your checking account and PayPal
as well. Our subscription-type donations can be <U>stopped or
changed by you at anytime</U> either on-line or by request to our
offices. We can also process any form of donation via mail.
Our mailing address is: WTP, </SPAN></I></SPAN><I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">2458 Ridge
Road</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Queensbury</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">, </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">NY</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">12804</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">. All
donations to the WTP Foundation are <B>tax deductible</B>.</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR></SPAN><FONT color=#800000
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Spread The
Word:</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Concerned Americans need to
hear the news. To this end, WTP has developed an initial series of public
communications materials to inform, educate and attract support and
participation in the suit. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The
initial set includes a <U><FONT color=#0000ff><A
href="Documents/FlyerWTPvUS1.PDF" target=_top>flyer</A></FONT></U>, a
Media Kit, a color <SPAN
style="COLOR: blue; TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><A
href="Documents/AFPInsertMarch-03.pdf" target=_top>news insert</A></SPAN>
featuring the Petitions and a 50–page information packet that includes
forms and instructions on how to join the lawsuit as a member of the
plaintiff class.<I><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"> <U><A
href="Documents/RTP-Public-Kit.PDF"
target=_top><B>Right</B>-Click</A></U></SPAN></I> <SPAN
style="COLOR: blue">here to download the 1.3 MB .pdf information
package</SPAN>. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>W<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">e
encourage wide distribution of the package electronically and in hard-copy
format to reach those without ready, regular access to the
internet. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">All
of these materials can be found at the lawsuit </SPAN><U><A
href="InfoCenter.htm" target=_top><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Information
Center</SPAN></A></U><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT color=#800000 size=3>Be At The Lawsuit
Filing Event in DC</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">A
large public media event is being planned to mark the filing of this
historic legal action.<BR><BR>The suit will be filed in US District Court
in the District of Columbia. Although the date is subject to change,
we plan to file the action on </SPAN><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Tuesday, September
2<SUP>nd</SUP>, 2003</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Details of this event are
being developed and will be released soon. The filing will be marked
by a press conference and public gathering to insure that history properly
marks and records this important day. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Everyone is urged to begin to
make arrangements to be in Washington in support of the filing of the
lawsuit and the related media event. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR></SPAN><FONT color=#800000
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Join the WTP
Congress</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The
WTP Congress is the grassroots activist organization that is charged with
raising public awareness and educating local communities about the lawsuit
and its associated support activities. The WTP Congress will
also engage in fund raising, the recruitment Plaintiffs for the class
action and helping organize people everywhere to institutionalize
vigilance in their own cities and states. <BR><BR><U><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue"><A
href="https://givemeliberty.org/user/congress/join.aspx" target=_top>Click
here</A></SPAN></U><A
href="https://givemeliberty.org/user/congress/join.aspx" target=_top>
</A>to become a member of the WTP Congress and to work with local members
of the We The People Congress. Please also consider volunteering as
a local or state <A
href="https://givemeliberty.org/user/congress/coordinator.aspx"
target=_top>WTP Coordinator</A>. We need your contributions of
organizational, management and communications skills.<BR><BR>Be sure to
also check out your local <A
href="https://givemeliberty.org/user/congress/Map.aspx" target=_top>WTP
Congress web pages</A> for local contact information, scheduled meetings
as well as local activist activities and news.<BR> </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><U><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><BR><A
href="InfoCenter.htm" target=_top>Click here</A></SPAN></U></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> to access the lawsuit
<B><FONT color=#0000ff><U><A href="InfoCenter.htm" target=_top>Information
Center</A></U></FONT></B>:</SPAN></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>Inside the Center, you will be
able to:</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
<UL>
<LI>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Read the published law
review articles regarding the Right to Petition</SPAN></FONT> </P>
<LI>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Print out the lawsuit
flyers</SPAN></FONT> </P>
<LI>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Join the lawsuit as a class
member plaintiff</SPAN></FONT> </P>
<LI>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#0000ff>Sign the Petitions for Redress of
Grievances</FONT> </P>
<LI>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Obtain a copy of the lawsuit
Information Package</SPAN></FONT> </P>
<LI>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Make a
donation</SPAN></FONT> </P></LI></UL>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
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