ABOUT THE HEARING - THE HEARING PARTICIPANTS
About the Hearing
WASHINGTON D.C.: Two hundred eighty-four (284) United States Congressmen, Congresswomen, and Senators want to eliminate the federal income tax and abolish the IRS.
On February 27th and 28th, 2002, a two-day hearing on Capitol Hill was scheduled to directly challenge the legality and constitutionality of the federal income tax.
Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (Maryland) agreed to chair the event at which constitutional experts and U.S. Representatives were to question representatives of the Department of Justice and the IRS who agreed to officially answer under oath the specific charges challenging the legal jurisdiction of the IRS and the unlawful enforcement of the income tax laws against U.S. citizens.
Years of legal research have resulted in the following, startling conclusions which the government has refused to specifically respond.
On February 27th and 28th, 2002, many of the questions raised over several decades regarding the income tax will be answered:
- There is NO law that requires most Americans to pay any taxes on their income or file a tax return.
- The 16th (Income Tax) Amendment was ratified via FRAUD in 1913.
- If you do file, you have waived your 5th Amendment (Miranda) rights. The government can NEVER force anyone to waive his/her constitutional rights.
At the hearing, the legal research and evidence compiled by tax researchers, scholars and attorneys across the nation will be publicly put forth to the government. The government will be asked to officially answer very detailed inquiries about the 9500 page tax code and the constitutional issues raised by the income tax.
You have an opportunity to watch the hearing and/or obtain copies of the evidence and video copies of the historic proceedings.
The Hearing Preparations
45 Attorneys, CPAs, top tax researchers, information technology consultants and former government officials met in early September 2001 in Las Vegas to organize, plan and execute work activities in preparation for the upcoming hearing.
The two-day meeting, according to Bob Schulz, of We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education, and other participants "vastly exceeded expectations". As leader of the WTP organization, Schulz was elated after observing the "who's who" of the tax honesty movement work side by side on subject matter teams to develop specific lines of inquiry and evidence for the hearing. The all-day planning sessions went well into Saturday night and adjourned late Sunday afternoon.
Schulz and lead attorneys for the effort termed the meetings "models of productive teamwork". Schulz remarked, "It was gratifying to see these very intelligent and strong willed individuals work shoulder to shoulder, set aside their philosophical differences and engage in a very professional manner to plan and develop the high-quality work needed for the hearing."
The group of 45 people was organized into a number of focused inquiry teams, each responsible for a specific segment of the hearing. The primary lines of inquiry fall into several categories including: IRS jurisdiction; statutory and regulatory questions of liability; Constitutional questions such as the fraudulent ratification of the 16th Amendment; 5th Amendment issues (Miranda & due process rights), and 4th Amendment questions dealing with illegal IRS seizures, liens and levies lacking warrants or court orders; and a miscellaneous team covering IMF files, IRS records systems, etc.
Other team personnel were mobilized to address technology, public awareness and hearing logistics issues.
The group will be utilizing the latest information technologies to organize and communicate during the weeks preceding the hearing. This includes a secure, data encrypted Internet based work collaboration and team communications software system. At the actual hearing, a high-tech document management and evidence presentation system will be deployed, facilitating the rapid search, retrieval and display of regulations, publications, statutes, and supporting evidence.
The "top level" questions for DOJ and IRS generated from the planning effort will be provided to the government in a pre-hearing exchange. The questions will also be posted on the Internet at that time. The government has committed to provide their expected rebuttal replies a week later.