Saturday, June 17, 2006

Maryland's 'Tolerant' Republican Governor Fires 'Intolerant' Christian Employee For Expressing Christian Beliefs

COMMUNIST U.S. POLITICS / SUPPRESSING FREEDOM OF SPEECH -- FREEDOM OF RELIGION: MARYLAND'S 'TOLERANT' REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR FIRES 'INTOLERANT' CHRISTIAN

SmileyFlagWaver-1 Smith reaffirmed his beliefs - expressed on the show 21 This Week, a political roundtable that runs on cable Channel 21 in Montgomery County - and said he is entitled to his opinion.

"The notion that I consider homosexual behavior as deviant behavior is correct," Smith said.

When asked whether he should apologize to Graham for upsetting him, Smith said he would not. "I'm sorry that he feels that way, but I don't agree that his lifestyle is an appropriate way to live one's life," he said.

Republican Party's Continual Betrayal Of Conservative Christians

Republican Maryland Governor Caves To Radical Homosexual Extremists -- Fires Christian Employee For Publicly Expressing His Catholic Beliefs

Ehrlich Appointee Fired Over Remark

Transit Official Equates Gay Lifestyle With Deviancy

~ By Jennifer Skalka

Sun Reporter

Originally published June 16, 2006

WASHINGTON // Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. fired one of his appointees to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority yesterday after the board member asserted on a local cable talk show that homosexuals lived a life of "sexual deviancy."

The termination came a few hours after Metro board member Robert J. Smith, an architect and unsuccessful Republican candidate for the General Assembly from Montgomery County, was publicly confronted by a transit board colleague. Board member Jim Graham, a District of Columbia councilman who is openly gay, called on Smith to disavow his remarks or resign during yesterday's regular meeting of the panel, which oversees Metro business.

Graham said he was gratified that Ehrlich decided to replace Smith. Earlier in the day, Smith said that he stood by his beliefs, which he said stemmed from his Roman Catholic faith, and insisted that he would not resign unless ordered by the governor.

"Governor Ehrlich got it; Mr. Smith was clueless until the end," Graham said. "This is serious. To defend this point of view is beyond the pale. And so I think Governor Ehrlich got that very clearly, very quickly. So I appreciate his action."

Ehrlich said in a statement that Smith would be replaced immediately.

"Robert Smith's comments were highly inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable," the governor said. "They are in direct conflict to my administration's commitment to inclusiveness, tolerance and opportunity."

In an interview last night, Smith criticized Ehrlich for bowing to public pressure. "At this juncture, I assume that the confrontation that arose today and the heat it generated was too much to take in an election year," he said. "I'm disappointed that the governor's office kind of reacted with dispatch to a groundswell of press criticism without contacting me."

Earlier, Smith was unrepentant in a discussion with reporters, saying that Graham was attempting to create "high theater" and that Smith's personal views should not have been aired in that forum. Smith also reaffirmed his beliefs - expressed on the show 21 This Week, a political roundtable that runs on cable Channel 21 in Montgomery County - and said he is entitled to his opinion.

"The notion that I consider homosexual behavior as deviant behavior is correct," Smith said.

When asked whether he should apologize to Graham for upsetting him, Smith said he would not. "I'm sorry that he feels that way, but I don't agree that his lifestyle is an appropriate way to live one's life," he said.

Smith becomes one of just a few Ehrlich appointees terminated for behavior. In early 2005, former aide Joseph F. Steffen Jr. was fired after acknowledging that he spread rumors about Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley, a political rival of the governor's, on the Internet. In May of last year, the governor fired the head of an Eastern Shore judicial nominating committee after the official used a derogatory term for Mexicans in his personal Web log.

The Metro board is composed of six voting members, two each appointed by the top elected official from Maryland, Washington and Virginia; and six nonvoting members.

Ehrlich appointed Smith, who received $21,000 annually for the post, in 2003.

The governor named Raymond J. Briscuso Jr., a Bethesda resident and biotechnology consultant, to the remainder of Smith's three-year term. Briscuso served as Maryland coordinator of George H.W. Bush's 1988 presidential campaign and ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1990 as a Republican.

Metro board chairwoman Gladys W. Mack, a representative of the district, said yesterday that Smith's remarks reflected "a high level of intolerance."

"I think in an environment where human rights and equal treatment is certainly our public goal, I was surprised that someone who sits as a public official on a board would make that kind of a statement," she said.

Metro officials said that unlike their employees, board members are not covered by the organization's anti-discrimination policy. Still, the transit authority's interim general manager, Dan Tangherlini, issued a letter to Metro's 10,000 employees last night reassuring them that the organization is committed to "fair and equal treatment of all employees."

"I want to take this opportunity to re-affirm to all WMATA employees that discrimination of any kind will not be tolerated," he wrote.

Smith's remarks came during a show taped June 9 that has aired at least three times since. The discussion included a proposed federal gay marriage ban.

"That doesn't mean that government should proffer a special place of entitlement within the laws of the United States for persons of sexual deviancy," Smith said in the conversation about the rights of gays and lesbians.

Casey Aiken, executive producer of 21 This Week, said Smith has been a regular panelist for years and would be invited back. "We're not in the business of censoring free speech and political debate," he said.

In criticizing Smith during the Metro board meeting, Graham invoked the openly gay brother of Maryland Department of Transportation Secretary Robert L. Flanagan. Edward Flanagan of Vermont is a state senator and former state auditor who ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate.

"I wonder if the secretary of transportation considers his brother to be a sexual deviant," Graham said. "I can say that I do not consider myself to be a sexual deviant."

Bob Flanagan said he would not comment about Smith but said only that he is "very proud" of his brother.

jennifer.skalka@baltsun.com

June 16, 2006

'Tolerant' Governor Fires 'Intolerant' Christian

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A public official in Maryland has been fired by the Republican governor because he merely expressed his personal beliefs and the teaching of his church that homosexuality is immoral. Robert Smith was fired from his position on the Metro board by Gov. Robert Ehrlich, Jr. after a homosexual complained.

Gov. Ehrlich said he is intolerant to any view that opposes the full social acceptance of homosexual behavior and its promotion in government. He said Smith's comments were "highly inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable. They are in direct conflict to my administration's commitment to...tolerance." Gov. Ehrlich contradicted his own statement! He is promoting tolerance toward homosexual practice while being intolerant to Smith's Christian beliefs and the teaching of his church.

To read the article by the Baltimore Sun newspaper, click here.

Addressing his views on homosexual marriage, Smith said: "Homosexual behavior, in my view, is deviant. I'm a Roman Catholic. The comments I make in public outside of my [Metro board job] I'm entitled to make." His personal beliefs, he said, have "absolutely nothing to do with running trains and buses and have not affected my actions or decisions on this board."

Smith responded to a speaker who said homosexuals do not want the government interfering in their sex life. "That's fine, that's fine," Smith said. "But that doesn't mean that government should proffer a special place of entitlement within the laws of the United States for persons of sexual deviancy."

Smith said he has always supported the transit agency's policy against all forms of discrimination. Asked if he planned to apologize to Metro board member Jim Graham, an open homosexual who called for Smith's firing, Smith replied: "I didn't make the comments to Mr. Graham...I'm sorry he feels that way. I don't agree that his lifestyle is an appropriate way to lead one's life."

Smith was fired not because he wasn't doing a good job. He was fired not because of his practice, but because of his thinking! He was fired because he held different beliefs. So much for tolerance!

If this firing stands, it means that any Christian who states publicly that homosexual practice is morally wrong does so at the risk of being fired.

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Sunday, June 11, 2006

In Defense Of Ann Coulter -- Author, Journalist, Lawyer

MEDIA & POLITICS / IN DEFENSE OF AUTHOR, JOURNALIST, LAWYER -- ANN COULTER

SmileyFlagWaver-1 The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20) and accompanying laws based on them produced a civilization that gave us freedom, safety and morality but what do we have today since they’ve been removed from the public arena? Chaos! Rampant crime! Dictatorial regulations!

In America today we have the almighty dollar (now worth nearly less than it costs to print it due to inflation and the national debt) that men are worshipping. The Puritans who settled in Massachusetts Bay Colony declared Sunday a day of rest. The settlers etched their decrees on blue paper that became known as Blue Laws that kept shops closed on Sunday. In the 1970s Blue Laws still kept shops in some areas from opening but today we find more people at the massive shopping malls than we see in church. Our system has become “godless” caused by “godless” people in the two-party system characterized by pride, greed, war and covetousness.

IN DEFENSE OF BOMB THROWER ANN COULTER

~ By Betty Freauf

June 11, 2006

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What a gal! While Ann Coulter has had pies thrown at her she seems ever so capable of tossing a few back. She does not fear vilification by the liberals. In fact, she seems to do everything she can to irritate them and they foolishly take the bait. Ann Coulter, author and frequent guest on FOX, recently published a book Godless. Some moderates, but mostly the liberal media and spokespeople for liberal causes and organizations have taken so many potshots at her they’ve pushed her book sales to #1 on Amazon. Does this blond bombshell know how to sell books, or what? I noticed on a recent TV interview with Sean Hannity of FOX that her standing-room only audience at what appeared to be a book-signing event applauded her boldness and radio talk show Laura Ingraham’s poll gave Ann an 82% approval rating.

I admit I haven’t read the book but I understand it exposes the “Cult of Victimology.” If someone becomes a “victim, it frees them of personal responsibility for their actions because it can’t really be their fault. There is always someone or something else to take the blame. We have created a society in which the word “victim” has essentially lost its meaning and while I’m assuming Ann mentioned a plethora of “victims” in her book, the one her critics have zeroed in and perhaps even taken out of context are her comments about the four widows from Flight 93.

I am still waiting to see pictures of that airplane as well as the one that allegedly hit the Pentagon. Morbid pictures abound as I draft this article of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi but it’s a mystery to me why John Doe public have never been allowed to see pictures of those two airplanes or parts thereof.

During their darkest moments and yet still grieving, these 9-11 widows were thrust into the spotlight appearing on numerous TV shows, giving interviews all the time not realizing if they made any comments of a political nature, they could be challenged. Conflicting emotions arise when “political power” is joined to the victim status. It’s unfortunate but it happens all the time.

What drives this victimization? The media, of course. The Diane Sawyers, Oprahs of the airwaves eager to be the first ones to get the story seek subjective rather than objective coverage and consequently the stories come out slanted. I know a woman whose twin sister died in the TWA 800 fatality. Investigators said that TWA 800 was brought down by a fuel tank explosion but independent experts point to compelling evidence of a missile attack. When I saw her sister’s picture on the news, not realizing she had a twin, I thought it was her. But how many relatives of those “victims” were compensated? I haven’t heard. Had the manufacturer of TWA 800 been sued, I’m sure that would have been all over the headlines.

It was reported in the book Barbarians Inside the Gates by Don de Grand Pré that John Swinton, a leading editor of note prior to WWI, also passed judgment on the press at an annual dinner of the American Press Association when he said: “The man who would be so foolish as to write his honest opinion, my occupation … would be gone in less than 24 hours. The man who would be so foolish as to write his honest opinion would soon be on the streets in search of another job. It is the duty of New York journalists to lie, to distort, to revile, to toady at the feet of mammon and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or what amounts to the same thing, his salary. We are the tools and the vassals of the rich behind the scenes. We are Marionettes. These men pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our capacities are all the property of these men …” (P. 363) In other words, they are intellectual prostitutes and many stories in our local papers outside of the east coast are often reprints from those newspapers, information from the wire service or press releases.

I also find it interesting during the same time frame that al-Zarqawi, who we would assume to be blown to kingdom come by two 500-pound bombs that flattened the two-story house where he was staying, the secret society of Bilderbergers, were meeting in Ottawa, Canada for their annual event where they formulate world policies with their agenda of One World Government. While journalists from around the world came to Ottawa, have you read in your American newspapers of these leading politicians, political advisors, media owners and executives, CEOs of multinational companies, banking executives, military leaders and educationalists attending this meeting the weekend of June 9, 10th and 11th? It’s only been recently that the established media has written brief articles about this group but yet it is not headline news whereas al-Zarqawi was.

When journalist and filmmaker Alex Jones and his camera crew got off the airplane to try to cover this secret Bilderberger event, they were met with harassment by Canadian police and interrogated for 15 hours. You can read about it on www.infowars.com In July 2000 Alex infiltrated the Bohemian Grove (of trees) becoming the first journalist to capture and expose the bizarre, Luciferian ceremonies with a hidden camera where the world’s elite meet for the last two weeks in July. It has been described as the “greatest men’s party on earth.” They’ve been gathering at the Redwood retreat on the Russian River in Sonoma County, California a few miles north of Santa Rosa for over 100 years.

Texe Marrs in his book Circle of Intrigue says on page 23 the Illuminati bigwigs meet for pagan ceremonies interspersed with frenetic homosexual activity, political speeches and economic deal making. Now this statement may sound outrageous until a person reading the Bible learns about the pagans meeting in the “grove of trees” where obelisks are worshipped and are associated with obscene images of wood and metal linking ancient worship of Baal through sodomy and other sexual perversions. And let us not forget about that obelisk on the Capitol grounds in Washington, D.C.

There are numerous interlocks of these world movers and shakers which include the Rockefeller front called the Trilateral Commission (TC) and Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) with about 4200 members founded in 1921 as a front organization for J. P. Morgan and company and makes foreign policy decisions. The CFR has been called the “invisible government” because hundreds of U.S. government administrators and diplomats are chosen from within its ranks regardless of which party has held the White House. Its most current goal is to build a “North American Community” which envisions a common border around the U.S., Mexico and Canada by the year 2012. Bush has already signed the “partnership” with the heads of the other two countries and now you’ve heard the rest of the story and why President Bush has been hesitant stopping illegals at our borders and why President Bush called the Minutemen vigilantes.

The Yale Skull and Bones crowd of which President George Bush and his presidential opponent, John Kerry, are “brothers” seems to serve as some type of a “farm team” for the CFR about which the average person has never heard about and yet is a major part of the unseen government of the U.S. It’s not unusual for Bill O’Reilly at FOX to interview members of the CFR while failing to expose its agenda. So much for “fair and balanced” reporting and keeping Americans in the dark and I doubt very much that Ann Coulter mentioned this in her book either or she wouldn’t be allowed on FOX to promote the book. Then we have the Rhodes Scholar society said to be the germination for the CFR. A counterpart to the CFR in London is the Royal Institute for International Affairs.

A friend of mine tells the story about her son being acquainted with a limo driver who picked these powerful people up from the San Francisco airport and transported them to the Bohemian Grove. Before Reagan’s election, the limo driver said if he were a betting man he’d have a sure thing on whom to place his wager for president. On one trip the passengers had decided that Reagan was to be the next president.

But back to Ann Coulter and her critics. Senator Hillary Clinton also attacked Ann receiving an immediate resounding response from her regarding her philandering husband. As First Lady she stood by her man and said her husband, the President, was a “victim” of a right-wing conspiracy and The Los Angeles Times reported Monica became known at the White House as “the stalker.” And an August 2, 1999 news article reported the First Lady traced her husband’s infidelity to childhood abuse leading to Bill’s sex scandals. Bill became a “victim.” I wonder if God believes still unrepentant Bill is a “victim.”

Yes, victims abound. The most recent “victim” is Democrat Congressman Jefferson allegedly found with $90,000 in bribe money in his deep freeze and immediately his colleagues in both parties jumped on board saying he was a “victim.”

Did Ann mention in her book all those “victims” of cancer? If we can put a man on the moon surely we can believe the reports there is a cure. However, it would put a lot of professional medical people on the unemployment line if the cure were released not to mention the pharmaceuticals and all the money they make on drugs, the donations they make to politicians to make sure they continue to receive tax money for searching for a cure. And it would put a stop to the United Nation’s Population reduction program.

Then we have the affirmative action laws that created a whole new group of “victims” but did not achieve the purported objectives but instead achieved resentment and negative feelings among black and whites.

Did Ann mention in her book compulsory education makes “victims” out of captive children as they are indoctrinated into globalism and the one-world government agenda. In the 90s men’s athletic programs were dumped to satisfy Title IX quotas making the boys “victims” of quotas.

How much print do I want to give to the child abuse industry where many innocent “victims” went to prison, lost their professions and were forced into bankruptcy to pay for attorneys on these false child abuse charges. The social workers and hand-picked “expert” witnesses at trials are paid very well to lie on the stand with complete immunity.

I read recently in my newspaper where two 911 dispatchers in Detroit, Michigan are being charged in neglect and could get a year in jail if convicted of the misdemeanor of not believing a little five- year- old child when he called 911 to say his mother had collapsed. They ignored the call and she died.

Children often die in the custody of the state child protection agencies and yet they hide behind “immunity” and “confidentiality” laws and rarely, if ever, get convicted. If they should lose their jobs, we soon read they appealed their case to some governmental agency and soon they are re-instated with full pay and/or back pay or they quietly lateral to another department.

There was enough coverage about the pedophile Catholic priests and their “victims” so I won’t waste a lot of ink on the subject except to say these pedophiles were quietly transferred to another diocese only to molest again. In therapy the priests became the real “victims,” they were told, due to immature sexual development in their early years.

And then we have all those homosexual “victims” whose sexual orientation became a political target only after they came out of the closet with their “in your face” attitude demanding “equal rights.”

And lastly, I’ll end with the funny story about the ladies who wanted to become airplane pilots and became “victims” when it was discovered very small, light weight women could not be safely ejected from the aircraft. A “victim” of Watergate, G. Gordon Liddy, author of When I was a Kid says the feminists and liberals then wanted to spend several billion dollars redesigning the aircraft to ensure it was “user friendly” for ALL women. So then he asks, “Why not redesign the aircraft for the visually impaired, those with flat feet” and other silly examples.

After “victimology” became popular, the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (P.L. 98-473) and similar state laws opened up a kettle of worms and state legislators created “Victims of Crime Assistance Programs” bringing about temptations for those handling those accounts and “victims” became “victims” again. A former employee of the California Department of Corrections handled just such accounts in Malheur County, Oregon and later was charged with forgery and theft.

Ann speaks up, gives her personal opinions and then takes the heat with her quick recall and responses to her accusers. Even weak-kneed moderates with microphones in hand claim she does her homework and often interview her on their shows; however, I believe Ann is wrong in one area. It’s not necessarily the Godless causing problems in America today. She says she’s a Christian but she fails to remember that it was the religious leaders who put Jesus on the Cross. It was those leaders who worked the onlookers into a frenzy until they were yelling “Crucify Him.”

The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20) and accompanying laws based on them produced a civilization that gave us freedom, safety and morality but what do we have today since they’ve been removed from the public arena? Chaos! Rampant crime! Dictatorial regulations!

America needs a heart transplant. We all fall short of the glory of God. I believe America may be on the verge of judgment for lack of repentance. Whether God will allow our enemies to take us into captivity by illegals as he did his own chosen people due to disobedience or whether He’ll use continued weather conditions such as hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, droughts is hard to say. But if God’s patience and mercy has run out and He’s saying enough is enough perhaps we’d better get in, sit down, buckle up and enjoy the ride. Things are NOT going to get better.

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Betty is a former Oregon Republican party activist having served as state party secretary, county chairman, 5th congressional vice chairman and then elected chairman, and a precinct worker for many years. But Betty gave up on the two-party system in 2004 and joined the Constitutional Party.

Betty is a researcher specializing in education, a freelance journalist and a regular contributor to www.NewsWithViews.com

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Defending Ann Coulter From Jersey Girls

~ By Alan Caruba

Defending Ann Coulter, who has come under attack by Senators Hillary Clinton (D.-N.Y.) and Frank Lautenberg (D.-N.J.), seems to be an oxymoron. She is the last person who needs to be defended, given the fact that she is a lawyer who presumably can defend herself and possesses a positively frightening intellect and wit.

It happens, however, that along with several hundred thousand other people, I have actually read her new book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism. I herewith stipulate that I have read her previous books as well. Oddly, while I am constantly entertained by her columns, I am frequently put off by her appearances on television in which she comes off as someone who knows she is the smartest person in the room and makes no pretence about it. A little humility, please!

While promoting her book on television, Coulter made reference to a group of New Jersey women whose husbands were killed in the attack on the World Trade Center because, these “Jersey girls,” having received huge compensations for their loss, then went public blaming President Bush for having failed to anticipate and prevent the 9/11 attacks. The mainstream media made much of them while ignoring some very key factors that undermined their views. Coulter, of course, did not.

Following Coulter’s television appearance, on June 7 the two senators attacked her and her book. Lautenberg said, “Ms. Coulter’s shameless attack on the victims of the worst act of terrorism in American history engenders disgust.” Clinton suggested that “Perhaps her book should have been called ‘Heartless,’” and called Coulter’s comments “a vicious, mean-spirited attack on people whom I’ve known over the last four and a half years to be concerned deeply about the safely and security of our country.”

Noticeably missing from the press reports was any mention of what Coulter actually wrote. “The 9/11 Commission was a scam and a fraud, the sole purpose of which was to cover up the disasters of the Clinton administration and distract the nation’s leaders during wartime. Not only did the Jersey girls claim credit for this Clinton whitewash machine, they spent most of the hearings denouncing the Bush administration for not stopping the 9/11 attacks from the weak position handed it by the Clinton administration.”

The gist of what Kristen Breitweiser, Lorie Van Auken, Mindy Kleinberg, and Patty Casazza claimed was that an August 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing should have alerted Bush to order immediate action to prevent 9/11. Coulter notes in her book that “all the information about bin Laden in the August PDB comes from the nineties. Not one fact in the PDB is more recent than 1999.” This inconvenient fact was rarely, if ever, mentioned by the media.

“Mostly the witches of East Brunswick wanted George Bush to apologize for not being Bill Clinton,” was Coulter’s take on the Jersey girls, but, “The rest of the nation was more interested in knowing why the FBI was prevented from being given intelligence about 9/11 terrorists here in the United States more than a year before the attack…” The answer is that Clinton’s deputy attorney general, Jamie Gorelick, “had specifically prohibited intelligence agents from telling law enforcement agents about suspected terrorists in the country.” And who did the Democrats put on the 9/11 Commission? Jamie Gorelick!

Adding to her criticism of the Jersey girls, Coulter wrote, “Needless to say, the Democrat ratpack gals endorsed John Kerry for president.” A whole lot of partisanship was going on! The June 8 Associated Press rendition of Lautenberg’s and Clinton’s comments contained no balancing statements of support for Coulter except to note at the very end, “Coulter’s new book was Amazon.com’s most popular selection last night.”

If, at this point, you want to read some vicious, mean-spirited quotes by Clinton, they and others have been gathered together in a new book, “I’ve Always Been a Yankees Fan: Hillary Clinton in Her Own Words” by Thomas D. Kuiper. In a foreword by Dick Morris, he writes, “Hillary thinks that nobody is keeping track and that her quotes will never catch up with her.”

Following her now classic statement that a “vast right-wing conspiracy” had been “conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president”, Hillary reportedly told her aides, “That’ll teach them to f*** with us.” History, of course, would reveal that President Clinton was guilty of having sex in the Oval Office, lying to a federal judge about it, was disbarred, and, in his final hours as president, engaged in an orgy of very questionable pardons. Et cetera!

In a speech to religious leaders in 1997, Hillary said, “I have to confess that it’s crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.”

The author of Godless: The Church of Liberalism does a very good job making her case and if some Jersey girls get a public spanking in the process, so be it.

Mr. Caruba writes a weekly column, "Warning Signs," posted on the Internet site of the National Anxiety Center.

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No Tolerance For Illegal Aliens In Mexico

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION / YANKEE, GO HOME - NO TOLERANCE FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN MEXICO

SmileyFlagWaver-1 The issue of illegal immigration is not a matter of race, creed or color. Laws which govern the orderly flow of legal immigrants and non-immigrants are very similar worldwide. In most nations, national security, public safety, and economics are all linked to Immigration standards of admission with strict enforcement of all statutes.

In a quest for "cheap labor” and illicit votes, both political parties have condoned the violation of laws long established by Congress.

ILLEGAL ALIEN AMNESTY, GUEST WORKERS, LAW & POLITICS

~ John W. Slagle
June 10, 2006
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I love this nation. I believe the United States was once a sovereign republic with policies that were not directed by Mexico or any foreign nation.

For over three decades, political apathy regarding Immigration and Naturalization Laws has resulted in a very serious problem within this country.

In a quest for "cheap labor” and illicit votes, both political parties have condoned the violation of laws long established by Congress, 8 USC 1324, 1325, and 1326 INA.

The issue of illegal immigration is not a matter of race, creed or color. Laws which govern the orderly flow of legal immigrants and non-immigrants are very similar worldwide. In most nations, national security, public safety, and economics are all linked to Immigration standards of admission with strict enforcement of all statutes.

Stateside, non enforcement of Immigration statutes have resulted in an inept, now defunct government agency, INS. The President of the United States is very proud that any foreign national who can walk across the Rio Grande is welcome, despite violation of law, 8 USC 1325. Catering to Mexico's policies, demands also seem to be a priority in Washington with most elected officials including the U.S. Senate.

Special Interest Groups consider U.S. Immigration laws racist, inhumane and unjust. A possible answer to the problem would be abolishing all U.S. Immigration Statutes and adopting "word for word” Mexico's standards and law per their government constitution. How could any group in the United States including LULAC or ACLU be offended?

Contrary to popular belief, Mexico has very strict immigration laws which are enforced by every police agency in the country. The Bureau of Immigration can call upon any law enforcement officer to assist in their mission. Citizens from the United States traveling in Mexico without proper documents are subject to arrest as illegal aliens.

Mexican law requires proof of citizenship, passport, photo I.D. destination and purpose of travel for any foreign national entering the Country. The foreign national cannot work and must have monetary funds to support their stay in Mexico.

Non-Immigrants, FM-3s must provide proof of identity as well as a financial statement, proof of income. This income must be 250 times the minimum wages paid in Mexico City.

To fully immigrate as an FM-2, proof of income required is 400 times the minimum wages paid in Mexico City. The elite ruling class of Mexico does not appreciate immigrants that are not self-supporting or illegal aliens competing for jobs. Amnesty for law breakers is not an option for any person worldwide who enters Mexico without documents or inspection.

Voting regulations in Mexico are very strict to prevent voter fraud in elections. What an amazing concept. Proof of identity with a government issued photo voter ID is required to vote within a polling district. A fingerprint is also taken to prevent fraud. Elections are very serious business in Mexico compared to the United States of America.

Mexico controls their Borders with armed military troops. The fact that many military or police units are corrupt and 65 percent of cocaine and marijuana seized in the U.S. comes from Mexico is still not on the political "radar" in Washington D.C. 2006.

In 1989, the U.S. Government had fully armed squads of U.S. Marines as well as Army National Guard air support wings assisting in narcotics interdictions along the Arizona Border. It was a very effective operation, perhaps too effective! Politicians in Mexico were "outraged" that U.S. Marines were deployed along high intensity smuggling areas.

Very specific rules of engagement were in place for our Marines. If fired upon by armed smugglers while supporting U.S. Border Patrol missions they had the option of returning fire ending the situation.

As the President of the United States and the U.S. Senate strives to comply with the Mexican Government disregarding the U.S. Constitution, existing laws and the majority will of voters, our lawmakers should also adopt Mexico’s Immigration regulations. Federal Immigration and Naturalization Requirements, criminal provisions in Mexico and most civilized nations are not subject to political intervention but a rule of law enforced by every commissioned law enforcement agency. In the United States of America, elected leaders for decades have created the Illegal Immigration Crisis by ignoring existing “Laws” and National Security “common sense” on our Borders and Sea Ports. For years, Human Smugglers I’ve arrested have stated that being caught was a part of the game, a “joke.” Most organized Smugglers spent less time in jail than the many months it took to gain prosecutable evidence in an felony investigation under 8 USC 1324.

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Saturday, June 10, 2006

IRS 1040 Checkmate? -- PRA Law Protects Those That Fail To File IRS Bootleg Form 1040

TAXES / PRA LAW PROTECTS THOSE THAT FAIL TO FILE IRS BOOTLEG FORM 1040

SmileyFlagWaver-1 On May 12, 2006 in Peoria, Illinois, the attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) begged the court to dismiss all charges against IRS victim Robert Lawrence in federal District Court.

The motion for dismissal came on the heels of a surprise tactic by Lawrence's defense attorney Oscar Stilley.

The tactic threatened exposure of IRS's on-going efforts to defraud the public. The move put DOJ attorneys in a state of panic that left them with only one alternative: beg for dismissal, with prejudice.

1040 Checkmate?

DOJ Dismisses Felony Tax Prosecution
-- With Prejudice -- After PRA Defense Raised

Evidence OMB Complicit In Income Tax Fraud

DOJ & IRS Petitioned To Explain

On May 12, 2006 in Peoria, Illinois, the attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) begged the court to dismiss all charges against IRS victim Robert Lawrence in federal District Court.

The motion for dismissal came on the heels of a surprise tactic by Lawrence's defense attorney Oscar Stilley.

Stilley's tactic paid off. Sixty days earlier, the DOJ had indicted Lawrence on three counts of willful failure to file a 1040 form, and three felony counts of income tax evasion. The federal Judge dismissed all charges with prejudice, meaning the DOJ cannot charge Lawrence with those crimes again.

The trial was to have started on Monday morning, May 15^th.

On Wednesday, May 10, Stilley mailed a set of documents to the DOJ in response to DOJ's discovery demands. The documents revealed to DOJ for the first time that Lawrence was basing his entire defense on an act of Congress, 44 U.S.C. 3500 - 3520, also known as the "Paperwork Reduction Act" (PRA).

In Section 3512 of the Act, titled "Public Protection," it says that no person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with an agency's collection of information request (such as a 1040 form), if the request does not display a valid control number assigned by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in accordance with the requirements of the Act, or if the agency fails to inform the person who is to respond to the collection of information that he is not required to respond to the collection of information request unless it displays a valid control number.

In Section 3512 Congress went on to authorize that the protection provided by Section 3512 may be raised in the form of a complete defense at any time during an agency's administrative process (such as an IRS Tax Court or Collection and Due Process Hearing) or during a judicial proceeding (such as Lawrence's criminal trial).

In sum, the PRA requires that all government agencies display valid OMB control numbers and certain disclosures directly on all information collection forms that the public is requested to file. Lawrence's sole defense was he was not required to file an IRS Form 1040 because it displays an invalid OMB control number.

Government officials knew that if the case went to trial, it would expose the fraudulent, counterfeit 1040. They also must have known that a trial would expose the ongoing conspiracy between OMB and IRS to publish 1040 forms each year that those agencies knew were in violation of the PRA. That would raise the issue that the Form 1040, with its invalid control number, is being used by the Government to cover up the underlying constitutional tort -- that is, the enforcement of a direct, unapportioned tax on the labor of every working man, women and child in America.

Any information collection form, such as IRS Form 1040, which lacks bona fide statutory authority or which conflicts with the Constitution, cannot be issued an OMB control number. If a control number were issued for such a form, the form would be invalid and of no force and effect.

Under the facts and circumstances of the last 24 years, it is safe to say that IRS Form 1040 is a fraudulent, counterfeit, bootleg form. Government officials responsible for this fraud should be investigated and face indictment for willfully making and sponsoring false instruments.

Caught between a rock and a hard place, the DOJ and IRS decided not to let the Lawrence case proceed because it would reveal one critical and damning fact:

The PRA Law Protects Those That Fail To File IRS Bootleg Form 1040

The DOJ knew that it stood a significant chance of losing the case, and if that happened, the press and others would quickly spread the word, and leave only fools to ever file a 1040 again. Oscar Stilley's pleadings and documents made these points quite clear:

IRS Form 1040 violates the federal Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) and is therefore a legally invalid form.

Under the Public Protection clause of the PRA, no person can be penalized for failing to file a 1040 if the IRS fails to fully comply with the PRA.

The PRA statutes explicitly provide that a PRA challenge is a complete defense and can be raised in any administrative or judicial proceeding.

The IRS Individual Form 1040 has not and cannot comply with the requirements of the PRA because no existing statute authorizes the IRS to impose or collect the federal income tax from individuals. That lack of bona fide authority makes it impossible for IRS to avoid violating the PRA.

We The People Foundation has researched the facts, law and circumstances surrounding this case, and has determined that:

A public trial would have opened a 'Pandora's Box' of legal evidence and government testimony under oath that would establish the IRS 1040 form as both fraudulent and counterfeit.

Oscar Stilley's PRA defense 'checkmated' the DOJ and IRS

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) appears to have been complicit with IRS in deceiving the public and in helping perpetuate the 1040 fraud by promulgating federal regulations that negate the plain language of the PRA laws passed by Congress and by allowing the IRS to continually skirt the explicit requirements of those statutes

Accordingly, We The People Foundation has petitioned the U.S. Attorney General, the IRS Commissioner, and Director of the OMB, requesting an official explanation of their conduct in Peoria.

See the petition below. It includes links to all relevant statutes, regulations, court decisions, Federal Register publications, law review articles, Lawrence case pleadings, and the discovery documents sent by defense counsel Stilley to the DOJ.

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We The People Foundation
For Constitutional Education, Inc.

2458 Ridge Road, Queensbury, NY 12804
Telephone: (518) 656-3578 Fax: (518) 656-9724

June 9, 2006

VIA CERTIFIED RETURN RECEIPT MAIL

Hon. Alberto R. Gonzales
Attorney General of the U.S.
Dept. of Justice Rm. 4400
950 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.
Washington, DC 20530-0001

Mr. Mark Everson, Commissioner
Internal Revenue Service
1111 Constitution Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20224

Re: Petition for Redress of Grievance -- No requirement to file fraudulent 1040 Form.

Gentlemen:

Please take notice of this Petition requesting a public explanation of your recent conduct in Peoria, Illinois, regarding the case of U.S. v Robert Lawrence.

What you did seems remarkable by virtue of its inconsistency.

On March 17, 2006 you had the Grand Jury indict Robert Lawrence on three counts of tax evasion and three counts of willful failure to file a personal income tax return.

However, on May 12, 2006, the Friday before the Monday start of the trial, you suddenly asked federal Judge Michael Mihm to dismiss all six counts with prejudice.

Indicting and then permanently dismissing without any court action occurs so rarely as to require the Department of Justice to post a public explanation in order to satisfy the public's curiosity about this strange working of justice. This Foundation decided to investigate the facts and circumstances of the Lawrence case because we found no such public notice in Peoria, on the DOJ website, or in any other public forum. We wanted to determine the probable cause of DOJ's remarkable act.

Our research has led us to conclude that:

The DOJ filed the criminal complaint against Lawrence because it intended to abuse Lawrence's rights under the constitution and law pursuant thereto.

The appearance of the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) in Lawrence's pleading sent a shock through the DOJ because Congress intended it to protect the public from IRS abuse, and the DOJ had no defense against it.

Even though the DOJ knew about the PRA in advance, its revelation virtually forced you and the DOJ attorney to dismiss rather than to lose the case and risk public awareness of the power of the PRA in protecting the public.

The DOJ therefore has little interest in justice in cases it prosecutes for the IRS, but wants only to obtain wrongful convictions of innocent people whom the IRS intends to abuse by misapplication of law.

Those are our conclusions. We want you to answer to the accuracy of those conclusions. Additionally, consider these questions about the power of the PRA.

1. Did the PRA force the DOJ to ask Judge Mihm to dismiss the Grand Jury's Lawrence indictment with prejudice?

2. Did the PRA force the DOJ to ask the Court to dismiss all counts in the indictment?

3. Did the PRA force the DOJ to dismiss a case it had worked for years putting together against Lawrence?

4. Did the PRA force the DOJ to dismiss the case against Lawrence on the last business day before the trial was to begin?

5. Did the PRA force the DOJ to dismiss the case with the requirement that it would never again attempt to prosecute Lawrence for those alleged crimes?

The Internet and wires were alive with such questions and rumors following DOJ's sudden and remarkable dismissal motion that was filed at 2 p.m. on May 12, 2006.

To determine cause and effect, and put the rumors to rest, we started our investigation by obtaining the Docket Sheet for U.S. v Lawrence, Case No. 06-cr-10019, U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois (Peoria).

From the Docket Sheet we obtained and read copies of the Indictment and each of the Lawrence's pleadings including:

#04 First Motion for Bill of Particulars.
#07 Motion for Bill of Particulars to be directed by the Court.
#08 Motion to Continue April 13^th arraignment pending responses to #04.
#09 Brief re #07 and #08.
#19 Proposed Voir Dire questions
#25 Notice of Expert Witnesses, and opposition to continuance.

From the Docket Sheet we obtained and read copies of each of the government's pleadings, including:

#10 Response to #4, #7 and #8
#12 Motion for Discovery
#15 Notice of Non-Disclosure
#17 Exhibit List
#18 Motion in Limine
#20 Motion to Continue Trial
#22 Notice of Expert Witnesses
#23 Notice of Filing Expert Resume
#24 Motion for Protective Order
#26 Proposed Voir Dire
#27 Motion to Dismiss with Prejudice Counts 1-6.

We obtained and read copies of the following documents that were not filed with the Court but were delivered to DOJ on May 11, 2006 by Lawrence's attorney (Oscar Stilley) in response to DOJ's discovery demands.

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Form 1040 with OMB # 1545-0074 for years 1992 through 2005
Form 1040A with OMB # 1545-0085 for years 1992 through 2004
Form 1040A with OMB # 1545-0074 for year 2005
Form 1040EZ with OMB # 1545-0675 for years 1992 through 2004
Form 1040EZ with OMB # 1545-0074 for year 2005
Form 1040ES with OMB # 1545-0087 for years 1992 through 2005
Form 1040ES with OMB # 1545-0074 for year 2006
Form 2555 with OMB # 1545-0067 for year 2004
Form 2555 with OMB # 1545-0074 for year 2005
Instructions for form 1040 for years 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005
SF-83 Application for 1986
83-I Application for 1998

We obtained and read copies of the following court decisions regarding the PRA:

Dole v. United Steelworkers Of America Et Al., 494 U.S. 26 (1990)
United States v. Collins, 920 F.2d 619 (10^th Cir. 1990)
United States v. Dawes, 951 F.2d 1189 (10^th Cir. 1991)
Salberg v. United States, 969 F.2d 379 (7^th Cir. 1992)
United States v. Wunder, 919 F.2d 34 (6^th Cir. 1990)
United States v. Hicks, 947 F.2d 1356 (9^th Cir. 1991)
United States v. Hatch, 919 F.2d 1394 (9^th Cir. 1990)
United States v. Smith, 866 F.2d 1092; (9^th Cir. 1989)
United States v. Neff, 954 F.2d 698 (11^th Cir. 1992)
United States v. Holden, 963 F.2d 1114 (8^th Cir. 1992)

We obtained and read the following Law Review Article regarding the PRA:

49 ADMIN. L. REV. 111, Paperwork Redux: The (Stronger) Paperwork Reduction Act Of 1995, by Jeffrey S. Lubbers.

We obtained and read a copy of each Notice of Proposed Rule Making and each Final Rule as published in the Federal Register by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), who was designated in the PRA as the overseer of all collection information:

47 FR 39515. Notice of proposed rulemaking 5 CFR Part 1320. Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President. September 8, 1982.

48 FR 13666. Final rule. 5 CFR Part 1320. Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President. March 31, 1983

52 FR 27768. Notice of proposed rulemaking. 5 CFR Part 1320. Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President. July 23, 1987

53 FR 16618. Final rule. 5 CFR Part 1320. Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President. May 10, 1988

60 FR 30441. Notice of proposed rulemaking. 5 CFR Part 1320. Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President. June 8, 1995

60 FR 44981. Final rule. 5 CFR Part 1320. Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President. August 29, 1995

We obtained and read every section of the PRA including:

44 USCS ' 3501. Purpose
44 USCS ' 3502. Definitions
44 USCS ' 3503. Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
44 USCS ' 3504. Authority and functions of Director
44 USCS ' 3505. Assignment of tasks and deadlines
44 USCS ' 3506. Federal agency responsibilities
44 USCS ' 3507. Public information collection activities; submission to Director; approval and delegation
44 USCS ' 3508. Determination of necessity for information; hearing
44 USCS ' 3509. Designation of central collection agency
44 USCS ' 3510. Cooperation of agencies in making information available
44 USCS ' 3511. Establishment and operation of Government Information Locator Service
44 USCS ' 3512. Public protection
44 USCS ' 3513. Director review of agency activities; reporting; agency response
44 USCS ' 3514. Responsiveness to Congress
44 USCS ' 3515. Administrative powers
44 USCS ' 3516. Rules and regulations
44 USCS ' 3517. Consultation with other agencies and the public
44 USCS ' 3518. Effect on existing laws and regulations
44 USCS ' 3519. Access to information
44 USCS ' 3520. Establishment of task force on information collection and dissemination
44 USCS ' 3521. Authorization of appropriations

We obtained and read every section of 5 CFR Part 1320, which are OMB's regulations implementing the PRA:

Section 1320.1 Purpose
Section 1320.2 Effect
Section 1320.3 Definitions
Section 1320.4 Coverage
Section 1320.5 General Requirements
Section 1320.6 Public protection
Section 1320.7 Agency head and Senior Official responsibilities
Section 1320.8 Agency collection of information responsibilities
Section 1320.9 Agency certifications for proposed collections of information
Section 1320.10 Clearance of collections of information, other than those contained in proposed rules or in current rules
Section 1320.11 Clearance of collections of information in proposed rules
Section 1320.12 Clearance of collections of information in current rules
Section 1320.13 Emergency processing
Section 1320.14 Public access
Section 1320.15 Independent regulatory agency override authority.

Based on our review of these documents, we believe the following:

The DOJ dismissed the indictment against Lawrence, with prejudice, upon DOJ's receipt from Lawrence's attorney (on May 11, the eve of the trial) of the documents Lawrence intended to enter into evidence.

The DOJ was not going to be able to keep the evidence from the jury because it did not have time to manipulate the Court before the trial began.

As the PRA explicitly authorized him to do, Lawrence intended to argue a PRA defense, based on the fact that the IRS form 1040 did not bear a valid control number assigned by the OMB Director in accordance with the PRA.

The DOJ concluded that the jury would acquit Lawrence based on his knowledge that the Court could not penalize him for failing to file a form 1040 because of the invalid control number.

The DOJ knew the jury would hear evidence that supported Lawrence, and that the evidence (the lack of a valid control number on the 1040, and the absence of other disclosure, use and approval requirements mandated by the PRA) would destroy the DOJ's case.

The DOJ realized that if the case went to trial, not only the jury, but the whole body politic would learn that no person has been required to file a 1040 because the form has never displayed a valid control number assigned by the OMB Director in accordance with the PRA.

From our research, we have also concluded that:

1. The IRS, with some cooperation by the OMB, at least since 1995, has knowingly violated the requirements of the PRA by failing to obtain and print a valid OMB control number on Form 1040 and other IRS forms.

2. The IRS follows the policy of unlawfully persecuting, penalizing, and prosecuting individuals for failure to file a 1040, rather than admitting that the 1040 serves as a 'bootleg' form due to its violation of federal law by not bearing a valid OMB control number.

Examples of IRS violations of the PRA and its implementing regulations that invalidate Form 1040 include these:

1. IRS has continually violated PRA Section 3506(c)(1)(B)(iii). The section mandates that the 1040 form must inform the recipient of:

(I) the reasons the information is being collected;

(II) the way such information is to be used;

(III) an estimate, to the extent practicable, of the burden of the collection;

(IV) whether responses to the collection of information are voluntary, required to obtain a benefit, or mandatory; and

(V) the fact that an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a 1040 form unless it displays a valid control number (i.e., issued in accordance with the requirements of PRA).

2. IRS has continually violated of PRA Section 3507(a)(1)(C). The section mandates that the IRS shall not conduct or sponsor the collection of information via a 1040 unless in advance of the adoption or revision of the 1040 the IRS has submitted to OMB the proposed 1040 form along with copies of pertinent statutory authority and regulations authorizing the IRS to collect the information on the 1040 form. The clearance packages that the IRS submits to the OMB make no mention of IRC Section 1, 61, 63, 6011, 6012, 6091, 7203 or any of the other sections federal judges alternately cite as 'the' authority that authorizes IRS to collect information via the 1040.

3. The IRS and OMB have continually violated PRA Section 3507(g) and 5 CFR Section 1320.8(b)(1). Those sections mandate that OMB control numbers must expire after three years, even if the IRS made no changes to its 1040 form during that time. Form 1040 has had the same OMB control number for 24 years. Under Section 3507(g), every OMB control number must expire every three years, or sooner. OMB approves a 1040 for only a three year period so as to ensure that at least once every three years the IRS reviews the 1040 form, publishes its review in the Federal Register, and seeks public input. Apparently, the IRS has not submitted a certification to OMB with an explanation of why it would be inappropriate for OMB to issue a control number with an expiration date.

4. The IRS has continually violated PRA Section 3512 ("Public Protection"). This section prohibits the IRS from penalizing any person for failing to file a 'bootleg' 1040. The 1040 form falls into the 'bootleg' class if it does not display a valid OMB control number and the disclaimer that no response is required without such a control number. The 1995 amendments strengthened this provision by making clear that IRS victims can invoke this protection "in the form of a complete defense, bar, or otherwise at any time during the agency administrative process or judicial action applicable thereto." In spite of this, the IRS routinely penalizes and prosecutes people for failing to file the 1040 tax return. Although required by law, IRS never informs people about the bootleg nature of the 1040 form, nor the fact that its hapless victims have no legal obligation to file such bootleg forms.

Section 3512 of the PRA, titled 'Public Protection' reads as follows:

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information that is subject to this subchapter [44 USCS ' ' 3501 et seq.] if--

(1) the collection of information does not display a valid control number assigned by the Director in accordance with this subchapter [44 USCS ' ' 3501 et seq.]; or

(2) the agency fails to inform the person who is to respond to the collection of information that such person is not required to respond to the collection of information unless it displays a valid control number.

(b) The protection provided by this section may be raised in the form of a complete defense, bar, or otherwise at any time during the agency administrative process or judicial action applicable thereto.

Because of the PRA's Public Protection clause, agencies have an incentive to make sure that all forms and related regulations bear valid, up-to-date, prominently legible OMB control numbers.

The instructions for OMB Form 83-I, which the IRS must use in submitting its request for approval of the 1040 form and an OMB control number, require each agency to submit with the form a "supporting statement" which is to "identify any legal or administrative requirements that necessitate the collection. Attach a copy of the appropriate section of each statute and regulation mandating or authorizing the collection of information." The supporting statement must also include information regarding the "burden" imposed upon the public as a result of the "collection of information."

Fortunately, Robert Lawrence knew his rights under the PRA, and DOJ attorneys knew the defense attorney had cornered them, and that they would not prevail on a Motion In Limine designed to keep Lawrence from effectively arguing a PRA defense. As I have stated, we believe this caused DOJ to dismiss the indictment against Lawrence.

As for nearly countless other individuals, they do not know their Rights or the IRS's and OMB's obligations under the PRA. As a result, the IRS and DOJ conspire at all levels, from senior executives to the lowliest agents and legal assistants, to prosecute, penalize, and victimize innocent Americans for failing to file a bootleg 1040, even though their victims have no legal obligation to file it.

The Peoria affair raises serious 'abuse of federal power' concerns. We question not only the actions of IRS and DOJ since 1981, but also OMB's behavior as it appears to have willingly looked the other way rather than to require IRS to fully comply with the Law and to report the IRS's miscreant negligence to the U.S. Treasury Secretary and the President.

In addition, various federal judges and their law clerks who know the legal meaning of the phrase, 'Notwithstanding any other provision of law,' have blatantly ignored the clear and unambiguous meaning of the provisions of the PRA. Instead of heeding it and advancing its protections to the aid of IRS victims, they have waged complicit war against the People for willful failure to file a bootleg 1040 form under any of a variety of vague, confusing, circuitous, and questionable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

We believe, in accordance with the PRA and the circumstances of the Lawrence case dismissal that Americans have no obligation to file bootleg 1040 forms that are bootleg by virtue of bearing no current, valid OMB control number. We intend to so inform supporters of our Foundation, members of the We The People Congress, and of the general public, unless you respond to this Petition for Redress with some explanation other than the one I have propounded herein.

If you agree with our analysis, we direct you in the name of the People of the United States of America to order your minions to follow the law to the letter, lest they face criminal prosecution for violating numerous laws and the Constitution of the United States of America, not the least of which are their oaths of office. Accordingly, we expect that you will correct the IRS forms so they bear the proper OMB control numbers, accurately reflecting the underlining statutory authority upon which the OMB control number relies pursuant to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act. Further we demand that you order IRS employees to immediately stop persecuting those who fail to file the fraudulent, counterfeit IRS 1040 form.

If we are mistaken in our analysis of the Lawrence case and its implications for the People of the United States of America who need not file bootleg IRS forms, please respond to this petition in a timely manner with a proper and complete explanation of our errors in fact or reasoning and a correct analysis.

Yours truly,

___________________

Robert L. Schulz
Chairman

Cc: Mr. Rob Portman, Director -- VIA CERTIFIED RETURN RECEIPT MAIL
Office of Management and Budget
725 17^th St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20503

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FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION & LEGAL RESEARCH
RELATED TO THE PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT:

The Foundation would like to extend many thanks to researcher Lindsey Springer for his contributions regarding the PRA legal research and assistance with the Lawrence case, as well as defendant Bob Lawrence and his attorney Oscar Stilley for having the courage to rely on this research in the manner they did facing numerous felony income tax charges.

Springer's website featuring his current personal PRA/APA litigation and his explanatory video can be found be found at www.PenaltyProtester.com

Please also review the extensive, ground-breaking income tax legal research (partially PRA related) made available from our website at no cost by the Foundation in 2004.

The body of work entitled, "Analysis of the Federal Income Tax Law" consists of hundreds of legal and historical documents in support of the argument that the operation and enforcement of the income tax system is illegal. The research report was included as Attachment #2 of a Petition for Redress to U.S. Government officials.

The work, authored by attorney Larry Becraft, was the subject of both state and federal litigation that began in June, 2004 and ended earlier this year.

Pursuant to the terms of the settlement agreements in those cases, the We The People Foundation's unrestricted rights to copy, publish and distribute the research was recognized.

Copies of the 400 MB research disk are available on the WTP Foundation on-line store for a nominal donation.