posted 07-21-2001 02:41 PM            

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 20, 2001 CONTACT:
Mike Bodine (518) 656-3578

DOJ and the U.S. Congress Officially Commit to Send IRS Tax and Legal Experts to Appear on Capitol Hill. Public Hearing to be Conducted by Rep. Roscoe Bartlett and Rep. Henry Hyde to Answer Citizens' Challenges of IRS Jurisdiction and Illegal Enforcement of U.S. Tax Law.

Washington D.C. -- We The People Foundation For Constitutional Education, Inc. announce that the Department of Justice and the U.S. Congress have committed, in writing, to appear with IRS representatives in a recorded, public meeting to officially answer to charges challenging the legal jurisdiction of the IRS and the enforcement of U.S. income tax laws against U.S. citizens.

Department of Justice U.S. Assistant Attorney General Dan Bryant and Congressmen Roscoe Bartlett (MD) signed the written agreement Friday that commits the government to send their top tax and legal experts to a two-day September hearing to be conducted on Capitol Hill. These actions are in response to a proper petition for redress of grievances brought by Robert Schulz, Chairman of the Foundation. Schulz ended his 3-week hunger fast mid-afternoon today after having secured official commitment from representatives of the U.S. Government that his formal petition will be answered.

Schulz has been in Washington since July 4th on a hunger fast until death, if needed, to force the government to respond to his legal Remonstrance, a petition for redress of grievances. These grievances include challenges of IRS jurisdiction, routine and gross violations of due process by the IRS, the refusal of the IRS to cite the specific law that requires employers or employees to withhold taxes and the fraudulent ratification of the 16th (Income Tax) Amendment.

DOJ's Bryant is quoted, "The American people are entitled to answers. It is in our nation's interest that we participate and answer these questions."

While largely ignored by the media and other government officials, Rep. Bartlett has stood alone on the Hill (until recently) in public defense of Schulz's absolute Constitutional Right to petition for redress and be answered by the government. On Tuesday, Bartlett initiated a formal Congressional Inquiry to the IRS demanding official government responses for Schulz.

Today, DOJ's Dan Bryant agreed to Rep. Bartlett's requirements that the "congressional briefing-like hearings" be conducted in public and be recorded and broadcast live. The meetings will have appropriate procedural controls and security. It is expected Rep. Henry Hyde (IL), former Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee will gavel the sessions.

Schulz was "elated that government officials have finally responded as they are required by both the 1st Amendment to the Constitution and their oaths of office."

The agreement, penned on Congressional letterhead, was signed at the Department of Justice headquarters. Bryant assured both Rep. Bartlett and Schulz there is "virtually no chance of being overridden on this matter." Bartlett promised Schulz, "I assure you. The IRS will be there at those meetings."

Schulz continued, "I have met with these gentlemen face-to-face and have looked in their eyes. I am satisfied they are men of honor. We have cemented our agreement with a handshake. The fast ends today.

After decades of obfuscation, avoidance, creative restructuring and 'simplification' of the 9,500-page tax code, the truth is about to be revealed. The Sovereign Citizens have exercised their Right to petition.

It is no coincidence that President Bush revealed in this week's New York Times that the government has begun to publicly discuss alternative tax systems, including disposal of the entire tax code. The internet and talk radio have facilitated detailed research, documentation and discussion of these charges across the nation.

If our income tax system is publicly confirmed to be without force of law upon the People, and is truly as 'voluntary' as the IRS so often advertises, it is highly likely that the government may move quickly to implement a replacement tax such as a national sales tax. The People must remain vigilant that one illegal tax is not replaced by another.

The taxing powers granted to the federal government by our Constitution are explicit, limited and must be complied with. Since 1787, the mechanism for an orderly and peaceful transition to a legal tax system has resided in Article 1 Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution. This is a states' Rights issue.

The day that our government has shunned has arrived. The Sovereign Citizens have formally demanded and exercised their Rights. We The People have been heard."

posted 07-23-2001 12:30 AM            

[Numerous DanMeador list subscribers sent comments about hearings
scheduled as a result of Bob Schultz' hunger strike. I've pasted some of
the more interesting in without comment. Dan]

Dan,
I'm in the camp that I don't think we should get too excited about the
hearing.
This is going to be members of Congress asking the representatives from DOJ and IRS
questions about tax law. That is not the same as Bob Schultz asking
questions. Do you
remember the Congressional hearings on Waco? There will be carefully
crafted questions
(over which Bob will have little or no input/control) and there will be
equally carefully
crafted answers. Both the questions and the answers will make use of
legal terms, the
specific definitions of which the public will not know or understand.
{Remember Bill
Clinton the legal term "sexual relations"?] In short it will be a white wash.

Bob should have held out for a public meeting at which he, or other
Patriots, would have
the right to ask questions and then continue to probe when vague or
misleading answers are given.

Too bad. I thought we where on the verge of getting some public
answers. This "hearing"
will be twisted into a defeat for the tax honesty movement. After the
hearing, IRS/DOJ
reps will say, "See...we answered all the questions they've been
squawking about we proved
they were mistaken. Now these issues are put to rest for all time.
Anyone who asks these
questions now is simply a tax evader".
Dave
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

What a joke. It will be just like the Church hearings and nothing will
change. Watch and see. They cannot ever admit they
are culpible because they can never right the wrongs or make financial
reparations for what they have done without
complete collapse of government and total loss of faith of the American
People. You are going to see the most amazing legal
double talk and dancing around answers that anyone has ever seen in
history. And then Congress and the Justice
Department will rule that no one has any more excuses to challenge their
jurisdiction or authority. You are all so very
innocent it is incredible... or is the correct word STUPID?

You might want to study the Church, and Warren Commission hearings as
well as all the recent hearings involving the IRS
before thinking you are going to win any victory with these habitual
liars and traitors. Also Iran/Contra...
William Cooper