- Millions of Americans have read the Joseph Banister story.
For those who may not know of this courageous individual, a short refresher
is in order. Joseph was an IRS CID agent (Criminal Investigation Division)
for a little over five years. In late 1996, he happened to hear some information
about the nature of the income tax on a radio show. After two years of
trying to prove the so-called "tax protesters" wrong regarding
their beliefs, he finally concluded that the "tax honesty" individuals
were indeed correct in their analysis of the income tax and its voluntary
nature.
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- Joseph had no choice but to resign his job, which at
that time paid $80,000 per year. You see, this remarkable young man could
no longer perform his duties as a CID agent after he discovered the truth.
He could not look in the mirror every morning knowing that it was the IRS,
his employer, who was breaking the law and committing fraud against the
American people. How many people do you know would give up their $80,000
a year job for something called integrity?
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- With no paycheck coming in, times got tough for this
young man; a husband and father of two young boys who attended private
Catholic school. However, as a college graduate with a CPA license, Joseph
began the process of building a clientele, appearing at numerous events
throughout the country and in his soft spoken manner, he told his story
and why he could no longer participate in this fraud against his fellow
Americans.
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- As time has gone by, the IRS attempted to silence this
courageous young man by making sure he knew a grand jury was sniffing around
him. Then the IRS began contacting Joseph's clients and scaring them off
so that his income began to once again dwindle. When that didn't work,
suddenly the State of California took an interest in him. Stepping up this
Nazi style persecution, the State of California is now attempting to take
away his CPA license. Not because he has violated any law, but to shut
up this courageous young man and deny him the right to work in his profession
- all because he told a truth which threatens the powerful, global, banking
cartel.
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- Joseph's "trial" is now set for December 1,
2003. His "public" trial has shockingly has been moved to Coast
Guard Island in Alameda, California and no civilians will be allowed on
this military reservation. A civil matter regarding a CPA license will
be heard in a star chamber, closed off from any public scrutiny. The tyranny
doesn't stop there. According to Joseph:
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- "My requests for discovery (in other words, requests
to obtain IRS documents that might enable me to understand the allegations
made against me) have been DENIED. My request to present evidence and witnesses
that would prove the baselessness of the allegations against me have been
DENIED. As if being prevented from properly defending myself was not enough,
the IRS shockingly admitted in their own pleadings that they used their
criminal investigation component by privately conferencing with both IRS
Criminal Investigation Special Agents and Department of Justice Prosecutors
to coordinate parallel civil and criminal proceedings against me without
notice. The IRS admitted they conducted surveillance on my speaking engagements
and eavesdropped on my political conversations and appearances. Recently,
the IRS tapped its computer database of information from other taxpayers,
prying into private financial intimacies and private accounts with banks
and businesses, to use this information in this case. Is there anyone who
still does not understand why I confronted this agency with their wrongdoing
and resigned?"
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- America: This is what your fear of your own government
is protecting. And, let us not forget how much money it costs to retain
a qualified criminal defense attorney. This writer started the "Buck
for Banister" campaign in order to help this fine man pay his huge
legal bills. If you wish to help, go to: www.freedomabovefortune.com
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- Joseph is not alone
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- Let us now to to Oregon in the case of Lanis Metteer
vs the IRS, US District Court for District of Oregon. In this case Judge
Garr King refused to allow four expert witnesses give testimony for Mr.
Metteer before the jury. Who were these expert witnesses? Some cammie clad
"tax protesters"? No, they were all former IRS employees; three
of them resigned after they found out the true nature of the voluntary
income tax. They are: John Turner, former IRS Revenue Officer, Sherry Jackson,
former IRS forensic accountant and Joseph Banister, former IRS CID agent.
Paul Chappell who is an attorney, before his retirement worked in the Office
of the Chief Council (IRS) in Washington, DC, writing legal opinions for
17 years.
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- All of these experts were at the court house awaiting
their opportunity to testify in Mr. Metteer's case. All of these expert
witnesses were allowed to present their credentials to the judge and then
Judge King refused to allow their testimony before the jury, with the exception
of Paul Chappell, who was only allowed a very limited window to discuss
trusts. America: this heinous flavor of tyranny is what you are protecting
with your fear of your own government.
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- Dr. Steve Roebuck is a dentist in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Agents wearing bulletproof vests and side arms raided his office and threw
Dr. Roebuck in the county jail without bail for willful failure to file
an income tax return and because he very correctly interpreted the withholding
laws and stopped withholding taxes from his employees paychecks. Judge
Terrance Boyle stated that this Christian man who never hurt a flea was
"unfit the walk the streets of their town." Did Dr. Roebuck,
an educated man, just decide to stop voluntarily filing and paying taxes
without first researching the law? Hardly. He spent eight years studying
and researching the law.
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- On September 4, 2001, Dr. Roebuck appeared in court and
entered a plea of not guilty. The now too common kangaroo court ruled and
Dr. Roebuck went to jail for breaking not a single law. But the message
the IRS sent was very clear: question our laws and we will destroy you.
America: this is what you are protecting with your fear. In my piece IRS
Makes Chilling Proclamation I quoted a recent statement by Terry Lemons,
an IRS spokes mouth who said that the government is answering legitimate
legal questions raised by law-abiding Americans via the petition process
with "enforcement actions." America: your fear feeds this tyranny.
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- Sybil Ludington
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- Sybil Ludington was a typical 16 year old girl in 1777.
She was the eldest of 12 children and was often responsible for taking
care of her younger siblings. She was putting the younger children to bed
on the night of April 26, 1777, when word reached her house that the British
were burning the town of Danbury, Connecticut, which was only 25 miles
away. Her father was a colonel in the local militia. His men were scattered
over a wide area around the Ludington house in Fredericksburg, New York
(now Ludington).
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- Sybil convinced her father to let her ride and summon
the men. She rode on horseback over 40 miles on dark, unmarked roads to
spread the alert. Her course took her down through Carmel, on to Mahopac,
and around to Kent Cliffs and Farmers Mills and back home. She rode alone
with only a stick to prod her horse Star and to knock on the doors spreading
the alert in time. The men whom she helped to gather arrived just in time
to help drive the British, under the command of General William Tyron (who
was also colonial governor of New York), back to their ships in Long Island
Sound. Sybil Ludington was a true American Hero. (Told by Mrs. Todd James)
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- Don't confuse fear with cowardice
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- A sixteen year old girl didn't allow her fear to turn
her into a coward. In the movie, Braveheart, William Wallace tells the
"nobles" that if they don't stand with him, then they are cowards
and he's ashamed to call them his countrymen. I am proud to call individuals
like Joe Banister my fellow countryman and I say it with pride. As the
Executive Director for We the People Congress, Inc., I work with extraordinary
people every day who don't confuse fear with cowardice. Americans should
fear these gangsters who run the IRS, but we have no other choice except
to stand and fight for freedom and for our children's tomorrows as a free
people. We refuse to allow fear of our government to rule our lives. We
will not be cowards in the face of tyranny.
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- However, we cannot be free as long as the yoke of tyranny
rests upon our shoulders in the form of this immoral, progressive income
tax. We cannot be a free people while congressionally sanctioned thugs
called the IRS continue to terrorize and jail our fellow countrymen and
women for nothing more than blowing the whistle on the fraud being perpetrated
upon our people. Yes, the IRS has the power to destroy, but we the people
have more power. I respectfully encourage you to join we the people in
our upcoming lawsuit to settle a very important question on our First Amendment
right to petition and why this is so important to your life and the future
of this Republic.
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- All those who have gone before us felt fear, but they
did not let that stop their quest to birth this Constitutional Republic
for future generations. Let us not abandon or ignore those who are standing
firm and tall against tyranny because we feel fear. Stay the course, America.
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- Devvy Kidd is the Executive Director of We the People
Congress, Inc., based in Annapolis, Maryland; WTPC is an affiliate of We
the People Foundation. Devvy is a contributing writer for www.NewsWithViews.com
Devvy's web site is: www.devvy.com E-Mail: devvyk@earthlink.net
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