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Date: March 31, 2007 10:40:23 PM PDT
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Subject: Petition
January 20, 2007
The Wait Is Almost Over
http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/UPDATE/Update2007-01-20.htm
Decision Expected Before GML 2007
Within months, in all probability just before the Easter break, the
hot topic of the day in every single law school in America will be
the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals in our case entitled, We
The People v. The U.S. Government.
http://boards.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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the only questions before the the United States Court of Appeals
in Washington DC are:
1) Whether the Government is obligated to respond with specific,
formal answers to WE THE PEOPLE FOUNDATION'S four
Petitions for Redress regarding the Government's violation of
the tax, war powers, privacy, and money clauses of the Constitution,
and
2) If the People have the Right to withdraw their financial
support from the Government if the Government refuses to
respond.
Given the enormous and far-reaching implications of this decision,
either in favor of the People or against them, law school
professors everywhere will be anxious to analyze and “mine” the
decision, discussing it in their faculty and academic forums and
bringing it the attention of the young minds that fill their
classrooms. Many will likely rush to further explore the gravity of
the ruling and publish articles in Law Review journals.
It will be an exciting time, indeed -- especially for the ordinary
non-aligned citizen taxpayers of this great Country.
The excitement will permeate Give Me Liberty 2007, our three-day
conference scheduled for March 29-31.
Think about it. For the first time in the entire history of our
nation -- since the adoption of our Bill of Rights in 1791-- a
Court is about to declare the legal meaning of one of the five
individual Rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.
Not just any Right, but the mother of all Rights -- the Right that
caps all the others, the so-called “Capstone Right.”
The First Amendment is, undoubtedly, the most important sentence in
the entire Constitution. It reads, “Congress shall make no law
respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the
press; or the Right of the People peaceably to assemble, and to
Petition the government for a Redress of Grievances.”
Within the meaning of the last ten words of the First Amendment is
the Right of each individual (and the minority) to hold government
accountable to each and every provision of the Constitution,
including all the other enumerated and un-enumerated Rights. This
is why the Petition Clause is called the “Capstone Right.”
What good would it do to design and adopt a Constitution based on
popular sovereignty that guaranteed individual, un-alienable
Rights, if the individual himself had not the power to prevent the
Government from violating those Rights, non-violently?
Given the historical evidentiary documentation regarding the Right
of Petition and the common sense design of our Constitution, we
believe the Court has no choice but to declare that when the
Government violates the Constitution, the People have the Right to
Petition the Government for a Redress of Grievances, the Government
has an obligation to respond to the Petitions, and the People have
the Right to withdraw their financial support from the Government
until their Grievances are Redressed.
With accountability in government restored as more People claim and
exercise this profound reborn Right, the unsound, cracked, flawed,
shaky, rickety checks and balances of today’s system of governance
will become a thing of the past -- topics for the constitutional
historians of tomorrow.
There will be an enormous shift in the balance of political power,
with the ultimate power coming to rest once again with the People,
where it was meant to be in the first place -- decreed by Divine
Providence. Constitutional governance will once again be carried
out in decency and good order, faithful to the purposes it was
originally intended, including the preservation, protection and
enhancement of individual Liberty.
Given the degree of craziness that currently rules our Republic,
the Court’s coming decision is just what the doctor ordered.
We now have cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression, and
where once we had the freedom to object, to think and speak as we
saw fit, we now have censors, sensors and surveillance, coercing
our conformity and soliciting our submission.
We now have a government that commits us to perpetual un-declared
wars. This in spite of the war powers clauses of the Constitution.
The Government now forces every one of us -- every working man,
woman and child -- to work for the Government, a Government that
takes more than half of what you earn BEFORE you can go to the
grocery store, pay your utility bills or even pay the rent. This,
in spite of the tax clauses of the Constitution.
The Government has debased our economy, first by turning control of
our currency over to a cartel of private banks – the Federal
Reserve System – and then systematically converting us from a debt-
free nation to the world’s greatest debtor nation, with no
possibility of ever paying down the principal on the debt, BUT
taxing our labor to pay the interest to the cartel on trillions of
dollars of public debt. Any reasonable person would call it
slavery. This, in spite of the money clauses of the Constitution.
The Government, as a thief in the night, has snatched our privacy
as it slowly converts America to a Police State, with national ID
cards, domestic wiretapping, spy chips and database systems to
track our purchases, money, travels and property; warrant-less
wiretaps; secret searches of our homes; and secret examinations of
our mail. This in spite of the privacy clauses of the Constitution.
The Government has become despotic and tyrannical, doing whatever
it wants, treating persons taken in anti-terror campaigns in
inhumane and un-constitutional ways, establishing secret prisons
run by the CIA, sanctioning interrogations that are, by any
definition torture. This, in spite of the due process and no cruel
and unusual punishment clauses of the Constitution.
The Government ignores our immigration laws. This is spite of the
Faithfully Execute clause of the Constitution.
The Government bans cameras in our courtroom depriving the vast
public the ability to monitor and systemically review the workings
of the Judiciary. This, in spite of the Public Trial clause of the
Constitution.
The Government prevents defendants in tax trial from defending
themselves by preventing the jurors from seeing the defendant’s
evidence and hearing the defendant’s witnesses. This is spite of
the Due Process and Fair Trial provisions of our Constitution.
Despite the explicit, prohibitory text of the Second Amendment, the
government has sought to disarm the populace by requiring the
registration and strict control of all firearms and by prohibiting
well-regulated state militias.
Even in the most personal matters of choice involving health care,
the tentacles of the government reach out to regulate, monitor and
control.
How did this happen? Who’s to blame?
Certainly there are those who are more responsible than others, and
they will be held accountable. But, truth be told, if we are
looking for the guilty we need only look into the mirror.
We know why we did it. First, we were taught in our government
schools that the Government was always benevolent, always had the
public interest uppermost in its collective mind, and could be
trusted to do the right thing. When there was a problem, we were
taught to look not to ourselves, our churches or our communities
for solutions, but to the government for help.
We were NOT taught the history, meaning, effect and significance of
every provision of our founding documents, the Declaration of
Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Then, we became afraid. Who wouldn’t be, with the television
parroting the Government’s constant threats of endless war, terror
and disease?
There have been myriad problems that have conspired to rob us of
our common sense, temporarily blinding us to the essential
principles and to the value inherent in continued reliance on self,
individualism and moral obligations.
Fear mongering got the best of us and in our panic we allowed an
“imperial presidency”, a compliant Congress and a politicized
Judiciary to take charge of our lives, all promising security in
exchange for our money and our obedience.
We didn’t realize that when birds are put in cages they are safe
and secure, but the caged bird is not free.
We failed to think about our Founding Documents -- the Declaration
of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and their
essential principles of Nature and Spirit that the Creator breathed
into them as part of the gift of Liberty.
We failed to remember that in America, the People are the true
Sovereigns and that the Constitution is a set of written
restrictions to govern THE GOVERNMENT.
Ignorant of our duty, we unknowingly allowed our Government to step
outside the boundaries that we, the People, have drawn around its
power, thus allowing our government servants to take (temporary)
possession of a boundless field of power.
Becoming fearful, ignorant and unjustifiably submissive, we failed
to recognize and act upon the fact that the Constitution of the
United States of America is all that stands between us and total
tyranny, and that the Constitution cannot defend itself.
The upcoming decision in We The People v United States will indeed
be an historical moment. If the Court rules as we believe it must,
it will restore the balance of power. It will level the playing field.
For far too long, our government has been unaccountable, allowed to
act as though the Constitution is (at best) an “ala carte” menu,
and (at worst) just a piece of paper.
The Court’s decision will remind us that the People have the
ultimate power in our society, that we have an ever-developing
responsibility – a personal duty -- as we go through our lives, to
know what our Rights are, to remain forever vigilant, and to teach
our children and our neighbors about the gift of Liberty.
The Court’s decision will breathe new life into our Republic and
the 230 year old “experiment” in self-government. Apathy in America
will decline as the People rediscover the forgotten Right to hold
Government accountable, reacquainting themselves with the power and
the benefits of their Right to Petition Government for Redress of
Grievances.
Prayerfully, like an old fashioned Church revival, People will
shout “hallelujah,” giving thanks for the Court’s declaration,
committing themselves anew, as the colonialists did before them, to
guard Freedom, to closely watch how government acts, to compare its
behavior with the requirements of our Constitutions, and to hold
the government accountable to the Constitutions, doing whatever is
necessary, to keep Government inside the boundaries the People have
drawn around its power.
Armed with the intent of our Creator, and the decision from the
U.S. Court of Appeals, we, the People, will soon restore the
Constitution and resume the historical journey to live as Free Men
begun by our Founders over two centuries ago.
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