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PETITION FOR REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES
RELATING TO THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
WHEREAS, on November 8th, 2002, every member of United States Congress in
the House of Representatives and Senate, the President and other
officials, were served with a Petition for Redress of Grievances
regarding the Federal Reserve system, and
WHEREAS, such Petition for Redress was
subsequently ignored, and
WHEREAS, The Constitution of the United
States of America delegates to Congress alone the power to coin money
and regulate the value of foreign exchange (and implicitly the currency
in circulation), and
WHEREAS, The Constitution does not, by its
terms or by necessary and unavoidable implication, authorize Congress to
pursue any positive monetary policy or to delegate control over monetary
policy to any central bank, such as the United States Federal Reserve
System, and
WHEREAS, Every American citizen has an
unalienable right to freedom from a government that, without the
People’s prior and explicit consent, would either pursue a positive
program of monetary policy or would turn over control of America’s
monetary policy to any un-elected and politically unaccountable body,
and
WHEREAS, on August 9,
2007, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit erred, in relying on two inapposite decisions by the Supreme
Court of the United States and holding that the Government does not have
to listen or respond to Petitions for Redress of Grievances from the
People, and
WHEREAS, on February 22,
2008, the Supreme Court of the United States committed treason to the
Constitution by refusing to hear the First Amendment case, We The
People v. United States (case No. 07- 681), calling for a judicial
declaration -- for the first time in history -- of the Rights of
the People and the obligations of the Government under the
“accountability clause” of the Constitution – that is, the last ten
words of the First Amendment.
WHEREAS, all men are created equal and are
endowed by their "Creator" with certain unalienable rights, and
WHEREAS, if the Creator has, in fact,
gratuitously provided, equipped and enriched the People with Rights, it
follows that those Rights belong to the People and to the Creator,
and it follows that any affront to the Constitution (as when government
violates an unalienable Right) is an affront to the Creator, and
WHEREAS, if our Rights come from the
Creator, only the Creator can frustrate,
deny or defeat those Rights -- that is, government cannot abridge what
God alone has manifest and bestowed upon the People, and
WHEREAS, the Constitution of the United
States of America is a strongly worded,
Divinely inspired, set of principles
expressly intended to govern the government, not the People, and
WHEREAS, by the terms and provisions of
the written Constitution, the People have expressly established their
government and empowered it to act in only certain ways, while purposely
and patently restricting and prohibiting it in other certain ways, and
WHEREAS, the Constitution of the United
States of America guarantees to every American citizen and to those
lawfully on our soil, the unalienable Rights to Life, Liberty, Property,
Privacy and to Due Process of Law as well as other Rights, enumerated or
not, and
WHEREAS, the Constitution prohibits and
restricts the federal Government from infringing upon those Rights, and
WHEREAS, each of the Constitution’s
prohibitions and restrictions on government’s authority is, in fact,
another unalienable Right enjoyed by every American citizen and to those
individuals lawfully upon our soil, and
WHEREAS, the People of this nation are
entitled, by Right, to a Constitutionally valid form of money and system
of national monetary policy as well as the protection of their other
Constitutionally protected unalienable Rights,
Now therefore:
WE THE PEOPLE
hereby Petition the Executive and Legislative branches of the federal
Government, yet again, for Redress of Grievances Relating to the
abuses of the Federal Reserve System.
WE THE PEOPLE find ourselves, once
again, in the position of having to admit that in every stage of our
oppression we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms, our
repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury, and that
a Government that ignores its People is unfit to be the ruler of a free
People.
WE THE PEOPLE, by and through the
unalienable Right guaranteed by First and Ninth Amendments to the
Constitution of the United States of America, instruct the President
and each member of Congress to honor their oaths of office and their
constitutional obligation by responding to this Petition for Redress,
providing formal, specific answers to the questions contained herein,
no later than (40) forty days reckoning from the date of service of
this Petition for Redress.
WE THE PEOPLE reaffirm the essential principle underlying our
system of governance, as expressed by the Founders, “whenever the ends
of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered,
and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of
right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government, for the
doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is
absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.”
See Declaration of Independence and the New Hampshire Constitution,
Article 10.
WE THE PEOPLE reaffirm the
essential principle underlying our system of governance, as expressed by
the Founders, that “If money is wanted by Rulers who have in any
manner oppressed the People, they may retain it until their
grievances are redressed, and thus peaceably procure relief,
without trusting to despised petitions or disturbing the public
tranquility” and “how efficacious its [the privilege of giving or
withholding our money] intercession for redress of grievances and
establishment of rights, and how improvident would be the surrender of
so powerful a mediator.” (Journals of the Continental Congress,
1:105-113 and Jefferson’s papers 1:225).
WE THE PEOPLE instruct the
President and each member of Congress to respond to this Petition by
providing formal, specific answers to the following questions:
| 1. |
Do you admit that our government, the United
States of America, does not own any of the stock in the Federal
Reserve Banks? |
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| 2. |
Do you admit that the Federal Reserve System
consists of a Board of Governors in Washington D.C., plus a group of
privately held (but privately and publicly administered)
Corporations, including 12 main banks and 32 regional branch banks?
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Do you admit that the President, with the advice
and consent of the Senate, appoints all
seven members of the Federal
Reserve Board? |
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| 4. |
Do you admit that the Federal Reserve’s member
banks are controlled by private individuals and corporations, often
acting in concert, that receive profits from their ownership and
operation of our country’s monetary system? |
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| 5. |
Do you admit that the Federal Reserve Board is a
government agency or instrumentality? |
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| 6. |
Do you admit that for the first twenty years,
Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) had to be redeemed in lawful money by
Reserve Banks and member banks (12 U.S.C. Section 411); or, failing
redemption, the United States could assert a lien on all the Reserve
banks’ assets (12 U.S.C. Section 413)? |
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Do you admit that since 1933 FRNs may be redeemed
only by other FRNs? |
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| 8. |
Do you admit that our money, the Federal Reserve
Notes, with the exception of minor or trivial amounts, are not
backed by anything other than the federal government’s power to
collect taxes? |
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| 9. |
Do you admit that since 1933 currency issues,
including FRNs, have been created and are created with no external
limit from nothing but paper and ink? |
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| 10. |
Do you
admit that the assets of the Federal Reserve System are not composed
of anything other than about $13.24 billion of gold
certificates in the Federal Reserve Banks and Special Drawing Rights
(SDRs), about $581.24 billion of U.S. securities held
outright, about $76 billion in repurchase agreements (“repros”),
about $144.8 billion in loans, and about $70.13 billion
of premises and equipment of the Federal Reserve Banks themselves
and other assets or, do you believe the Federal Reserve System owns
or has claims to assets that the System does not list in its normal
public disclosures? |
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| 11. |
Do you
admit that the total assets of the Federal Reserve equals about
$885.4 billion? |
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| 12. |
Do you
admit that all gold owned by the Federal Reserve System was handed
over to the Treasury Department in 1934 and that the Federal Reserve
received certificates for the gold and carries these certificates as
assets at $42.22 per ounce ($11 billion total value)? |
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Do you admit that the Federal Reserve System’s 12
main and 32 branch banks obtain Federal Reserve currency notes from
the Bureau of Printing and Engraving for approximately two cents per
piece of paper, regardless of denomination, and uses them to
purchase Treasury debt for which the Treasury is liable for the full
face amount of each bill, note or bond, plus interest? |
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Do you admit that, except for discounted bills,
by selling a $100 US Treasury Security to the Federal Reserve, the
federal government is agreeing to pay the Federal Reserve the full
amount of the principal of the Security ($100) plus an interest
payment? |
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| 15. |
Do you
admit that it is estimated that only $312 billion in Federal
Reserve Notes are in circulation in the USA (approximately 40%)? |
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Do you
admit that it is estimated that the other $468 billion in
Federal Reserve Notes are in circulation overseas (approximately
60%)? |
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| 17. |
Do you admit the national debt, the sum total of
all outstanding US Treasury Securities ( not including governmental
guarantees and other contingent and conditional obligations), is
approximately $9 trillion? |
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| 18. |
Do you
admit that the $9 trillion national debt can never be paid-off with
the Federal Reserve Notes if there are only $780 billion Federal
Reserve Notes in circulation (absent a long-term, extraordinarily
oppressive and over-burdensome system of taxation aimed at
circulating the currency back into the government’s hands), i.e.,
that the supply of "currency" whether in either physical FRNs or
accounting/book entries must be increased endlessly (inflation) in
order to make the payments of interest and principal on both
national and privately held debts that are denominated in FRNs? |
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| 19. |
Do you admit that when a worker "deposits" his
paycheck in a bank or writes a check, there is NO exchange of actual
FRNs and only an accounting entry takes place and that for every $1
deposited in a member bank, approximately $9 can be lent out through
the Fractional Reserve Policy and, in any event, the public is never
informed of the inherently unstable nature of the system? |
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| 20. |
Do you admit that whereas Federal Reserve Notes
are units of exchange, bank money (credit money) is units of
account, and absent laws requiring a higher reserve
requirement, banks can expand deposit accounts to 9+ times
exchange? |
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| 21. |
Do you admit that when a member bank lends a
customer "money" it merely credits the customer’s account with a
book entry, never actually depositing Federal Reserve Notes in the
customer’s account? |
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| 22. |
Do you admit this is the reason why only $312
billion Federal Reserve Notes in domestic
circulation have been pyramided to support a $14 trillion
dollar economy? |
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| 23. |
Do you admit that when the Federal Reserve Act
was passed (on Christmas Eve) in 1913, Federal Reserve Notes became
one of four forms of competing currency (specie, treasury notes or
greenbacks, national bank notes and FRNs)? |
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| 24. |
Do you admit that in 1933, Congress passed a law
making Federal Reserve Notes "legal tender," thereby transferring
the power to coin and issue our nation's money from Congress to the
Federal Reserve? |
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| 25. |
Do you admit that in 1933 (revised in 1935),
Congress passed a law purportedly transferring the power to regulate
interest rates and thereby the relative value of money, from
Congress to the Federal Open Market Committee (currently comprised
of up to 7 members of the Board of Governors and up to 5 voting
representatives of Federal Reserve Banks)? |
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| 26. |
Do you admit that our country now borrows what
should be our own money from the Federal Reserve (a "private"
corporation that is, in fact, heavily politically influenced by the
President through the Secretary of the Treasury), paying interest
for the privilege? |
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| 27. |
Do you admit that the Secretary of the Treasury
and the Federal Reserve have knowledge of and has acted in close
coordination with the Treasury Department’s Exchange Stabilization
Fund (ESF) to manipulate and suppress the price of gold in an effort
to keep the perceived value of the dollar relatively high? |
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| 28. |
Do you admit that the Secretary of the Treasury
and the Federal Reserve have acted in close coordination with the
central banks and governments of foreign nations to suppress the
price of gold? |
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| 29. |
Do you admit that a portion of the ownership of
the Federal Reserve is held by foreign entities and that the current
statutes allow for ownership of a controlling interest in its
Federal Reserve Bank stock? |
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| 30. |
Do you admit that there is a risk that there
could be significant and unavoidable conflicts of interest between
the private (and not insignificantly foreign) owners of the Federal
Reserve Banks and the American people that are forced by law to use
its FRNs? |
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| 31. |
Do you admit that the Treasury Department’s ESF
has directly engaged and/or colluded with foreign governments and/or
central banks to intervene in the world’s financial markets in order
to manipulate market outcomes? |
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| 32. |
Do you admit similar manipulation regarding gold
and equity markets? |
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| 33. |
Do you admit that the Treasury Department’s ESF,
under U.S. law, is held accountable only to the President and its
books and records are open for public examination only through a
limited degree and untimely disclosures? |
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| 34. |
Do you admit that the whole of the Federal
Reserve System has never been independently audited? |
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| 35. |
Do you admit that there is a currently pending
House Resolution calling for a complete audit of the Federal Reserve
by the General Accounting Office? |
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| 36. |
Do you admit the Federal Reserve Board is
resisting a complete audit of the books and operations regarding
foreign exchange trading, government securities trading, and
transactions with or for the account of foreign central banks and
monetary authorities? |
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| 37. |
Do you admit the Federal Reserve interferes with
the free market’s effect on the value of Federal Reserve Notes by
trying to regulate the value of all Federal Reserve Notes? |
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| 38. |
Do you admit that the Federal Reserve determines
the amount of money in circulation and the price of credit
(including mortgage and car loan rates)? |
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| 39. |
Do you admit the Federal Reserve, at its sole
discretion, decides what the rate of interest will be that the
federal government will pay to the Federal Reserve? |
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| 40. |
Do you admit that the Federal Reserve Board
consults closely with the Secretary of the Treasury before every
important monetary policy move and that Ben Bernanke consults with
the Secretary of the Treasury before each Federal Open Market
Committee meeting? |
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| 41. |
Do you admit that under Article 1 Sections 1 and
8 of the federal Constitution, only Congress, which comprises only
the Senate and the House of Representatives, has the power to coin
money (silver and gold coin) and regulate the value thereof?
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| 42. |
Do you admit that no provision of the
Constitution gives Congress the authority to transfer any powers
granted under the Constitution to a private corporation? |
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| 43. |
Do you admit that the Federal Reserve Board is
repugnant to the Constitution? |
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| 44. |
Do you admit that the Federal Reserve Banks are
repugnant to the Constitution? |
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| 45. |
Do you admit the Constitution specifically states
that the enumeration of certain rights shall not be construed to
deny or disparage others retained by the People, and that the powers
not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the People (ninth and tenth amendments)?
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| 46. |
Do you admit the United States of America is not
just one more undifferentiated trading outpost in some great global
economy? |
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| 47. |
Do you admit the United States of America belongs
to We The People? |
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| 48. |
Do you admit the medium of exchange, that is, the
money we use in our country, is an instrumental element of national
sovereignty and is supposed to be under our control? |
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| 49. |
Do you admit that if our government needed to
spend more money than it is taking in, the Treasury does not have to
use the Federal Reserve System – the government could print the
additional money, put it into circulation and withdraw it as
necessary -- i.e., that we do not have to borrow our own money from
any central bank? |
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| 50. |
Do you admit the Federal Reserve System has never
been declared constitutional by the Supreme Court? |
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| 51. |
Do you admit there has never been a Supreme Court
case regarding the constitutionality of the Federal Reserve
System? |
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| 52. |
Do you admit that all elected officials are
required to take an oath of office to support the Constitution?
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| 53. |
Do you admit that to the extent that Congress
enacts or facilitates avoidance of clear and explicit language of
the Constitution that Congress is undermining the Constitution?
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| 54. |
Do you admit certain elected and appointed
officials, including the President, elected members of the Congress,
and appointed members of the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System are guilty of aiding and abetting the undermining of
clear and explicit language of my Constitution? |
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| 55. |
Do you admit this fits the common definition of
tyranny? |
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| 56. |
Admit or deny that the Founders, in the 1774 Journals
of the Continental Congress, expressly articulated the following:
“If money is wanted by Rulers who
have in any manner oppressed the People,
they may retain it until
their grievances are redressed,
and thus peaceably procure
relief, without trusting to despised petitions or disturbing the
public tranquility.”
1774, Journals of the Continental Congress,1:105-113 [emphasis
added]
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Admit or deny that one of the most precious Rights the
People enjoy is a government strictly limited by written Laws and
that where Law is found to be wanting, no man can be Free. |
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Respectfully submitted this
______ day of ___________________ , 200__
by:
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Last Name |
City |
State |
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