June 29, 2004
 

Third Message To Plaintiffs

Editor’s note: The following message is the 3rd in a series and was e-mailed today to all the people who have indicated an interest in becoming a member of the plaintiff class in the Right to Petition Lawsuit.

For scheduling purposes, please note that the events of July 19th at the National Press Club in Washington, DC are scheduled to start at 9 AM and end by 5 PM.

All attending are asked to be settled into their seats at the National Press Club by 8:45 AM.

We have received a response from the White House to our May10th letter to President Bush and Senator Kerry. We have not received a response from Treasury Secretary Snow, Attorney General Ashcroft or IRS Commissioner Everson.

Should any of the officials attend, or send representatives, they will be given the opportunity to address the issues and answer the questions presented in our Petitions for Redress of Grievances relating to the Income Tax and the Iraq Resolution.

Regardless, two constitutional scholars and Mark Lane will speak on the subject of the Right To Petition before we march to the District Court to file our motion for injunctive relief.

The National Press Club is located at 529 14th Street, NW, Washington DC, which is on the corner of “F” Street. The nearest Metro Stop is “Metro Center.”

 

Bill’s Bus

Bill Stegmeier, our state coordinator in South Dakota, is putting together a chartered bus trip to DC. The bus will be traveling I-80 to Chicago, down to I-70 and on to DC.

Anyone along the route from SD to DC that may need a ride, should call Bill at 605-368-2780.   

Bill has a good idea. We ask everyone, especially our county and state coordinators, to contact his or her local bus company. Obtain a quote for chartered bus trip to DC and back, spending a minimum of one day in DC. Determine the number of seats and the time and location for departure. Please do this immediately. Email the info to Bob@givemeliberty.org. We will post the details and send them to everyone on our full mailing list to urge them to “pick a bus” from the list.

Today’s buses have all the comforts of home (well almost) and are equipped with DVD, CD and tape players to educate and entertain.
 

If By Car

For those who decide to travel by car and who have room for passengers, we ask them to email Bob@givemeliberty.org to provide their names and sex, their phone number, the time and location of departure and what route to DC they will be taking. Please do this immediately. We will also post those details.


 

If By Plane

Two days left for folks in the Portland, Tampa and Nashville areas to fly to Baltimore Washington International and to take advantage of the deep discount available from SouthWest Airlines: $69 one-way, to/from Nashville, TN; $99 one-way, to/from Portland, OR $79 one-way, to/from Tampa Bay, FL

From BWI, people can take a free shuttle to the train station and ride the train to Union Station in DC. Shuttle transportation between BWI and DC area hotels runs around $35 round trip.

 

Room Sharing

Everyone wanting to share a room at the hotel should email Bob@givemeliberty.org to provide their names and sex, and their phone numbers. Remember to book your discount hotel room at the Washington Plaza Hotel before July 3rd.  Call 1-800-424-1140 or 202-842-1300 to make your reservations. Let them know you are with the We The People Foundation and refer to Group Rate # 3856 ($84 / night). 
 

Register Now 

Yes, we are asking you to put your name on a list, to let us and everyone else know you will be attending the July 19 event in defense of the Constitution. Don’t be bashful. It’s time for your courage to overcome any fear. It’s time to stand and be counted.  

Click here to let us know you will be there. Let everyone know your name and what city and state you are from and that you plan to be in DC on the 19th, standing in defense of the Constitution. We will regularly post updated lists showing those who have declared themselves.
 

Stats

So far, so good. As of Tuesday afternoon, people from 33 states have declared they will be in DC for the July 19th events.

It will be very important to be able to say that we have a delegation of people from all 50 states in DC in support of the filing of the motion to enjoin the IRS and the DOJ from engaging in any further enforcement actions against the plaintiffs until the questions underlying our complaint are determined by the court.

Thus far, the following states are un-represented: Alabama, Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, W. Virginia, and Wyoming.

 

Deception

On June 28th NewsWithViews posted an article titled, “Right To Petition Lawsuit Dismissed.”

As will be shown below, this headline appears to be nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to dilute and diffuse support for the upcoming July 19th WTP events and Right to Petition class-action lawsuit. The author herself admits (near the end of the lengthy article) that the case she is writing about is not about the Right to Petition.

From the article we see it is about a California man who filed a case in federal court for a Writ of Mandamus, asking the court to order the Governor to provide his definition of the Right to keep and bear arms. The federal court dismissed the case (he should have filed in state court). An appeal was taken to the federal court of appeals where it was, of course, dismissed without opinion. The U.S. Supreme Court was asked to hear the case. It refused to do so. The man then went back to the federal court of appeals where he lodged a complaint against the three judges who dismissed his appeal without opinion, charging them with violating his “civil right to petition for redress.” That complaint was likewise dismissed, as it should have been. An appeals court does not have to give a reason for affirming a lower court’s dismissal, especially in an action that is clearly frivolous and where the court does not have any jurisdiction.

The author’s assertion that ordinary people can defend their Right to Petition by filing a “simple” Order to Show Cause for $300 is highly misleading.

Orders to Show Cause don’t cost anything. It costs approximately $300 to initiate a lawsuit. Once the complaint is filed, the court can be motioned to hear the case earlier than the normal return date, say in seven days rather than 28 days. An Order to Show Cause is simply a form of motion to move up the initial hearing date. Judges often deny requests for an Order to Show Cause, seeing no urgency to bring the case on earlier than normal. Regardless, once the case is on the court’s calendar, the parties go at it hammer and tong. Lots of papers (Briefs, Affidavits, Motions, etc.) get filed, discovery procedures are often engaged in, trials are conducted, interim decisions are often rendered, appeals are made to higher courts, remands can occur, final decisions are rendered, followed by more appeals.

For the record, the papers and legal arguments to be filed in our Right To Petition lawsuit, will be anything but “the usual briefs.”

Granted, NewsWithViews publishes opinion pieces and has the right to do so, but its credibility and journalistic integrity “take it on the chin” when it publishes articles about such trivial matters as the California case, a case of virtually no interest to its readers. The article begs the question, “What was the real motive behind the publication of this article?”


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