No one should doubt the historical significance of November 14^th. History will come to record that The Moment of Truth on the National Mall, culminating Freedom Drive 2002, marked the place and the moment in the 21^st century when the People took a stand against governmental tyranny in America and began the process of restoring the Constitution of the United States of America to its rightful place.

Key to the restoration of our Constitution is the Peoples’ unalienable right to Petition for Redress of Grievances and our servant government’s obligation to respond.

As Bob Schulz detailed in his speech before the crowd that day, our Founding Fathers knew that if the People allowed the government to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the People’s Petitions for Redress of Grievances it would be the final expression of tyranny and despotism in America, the beginning of the end of our Constitutional Republic with its system of "separate powers’ and checks and balances, the beginning of the end of the Great American Experiment -- government of, by and for the People , the beginning of the end of government based on the consent of the People, and the beginning of the end of the most wonderful and powerful expression of the Creator’s intent for civil government – popular sovereignty and constitutionally guaranteed individual, unalienable rights.

If the People rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, without opposition and discontent, allowing the government to turn a deaf ear to the People’s intelligent and rational Petitions for Redress of Grievances, the People will, in effect, be turning their backs on the Creator and on humanity.

Must the People acquiesce? No, of course not. As a free People we were given the ultimate Power in our society. We just have to learn how to use it.

Read, learn and inwardly digest the divinely inspired words of the Founding Fathers: "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."

The founding fathers could hardly have used words more clear when they declared, "the people … may retain [their money] until their grievances are [remedied]."

By these words, the founding fathers fully recognized and clearly stated: that the Right of Redress of Grievances includes the right of redress before payment of taxes, that this right of redress before taxes lies in the hands of the People and that this Right is the People’s non-violent, peaceful means to procuring a remedy to their grievances without having depend on -- or place their trust in -- the government’s willingness to respond to the People’s petitions and without having to resort to violence.

This very American Right of Redress of Grievances Before Taxes has always been deeply embedded in our law. The time has come to use it.

As Bob Schulz reported, citing historical documents from the Revolution, the only practical, peaceful and morally appropriate option available to the People, under our present circumstances, is to withhold the payment of taxes from the government. Without money, the government cannot continue to operate outside the boundaries the People have drawn around its power, i.e., it cannot continue its abuse of power.

On November 14, 2002 our government refused to respond to the proper and well- researched Petitions for Redress concerning grave matters of freedom and liberty. They chose the line of direction the People must now take. Our mission is now clear.

Since November 14, the We The People organization has been preparing THE PLAN for the People to engage the government using strategies and tactics we have not deployed to this point. The details of the elements of THE PLAN will be posted soon. Suffice it to say, we believe the only non-violent option available is for employees, employers and the self-employed across this nation to hold and keep in their possession money they would otherwise have turned over to the government.

Ironically, in the context of income taxes, and as the research of a growing body of credentialed professionals and researchers in the Tax Honesty Movement has conclusively established, federal tax laws do not apply to most Americans’ "income" and, in any event, cannot be enforced by the US government inside the fifty states for lack of bona fide federal legislative jurisdiction. So in effect, we will be issuing a call for massive "civil obedience", i.e., "Redress BEFORE Taxes", i.e., "No Answers, NO TAXES."

Click Here  to listen to selected audio portions of the DC rally including Schulz's speech at the Moment of Truth.  (Click on the Nov 2 Freedom Drive Link)    Please note:  WTP is currently producing a video record of the November 14th event & webcast in DC. It should be available shortly after the first of the year.

Click Here  to learn more about the 400 year evolution of the Right to Petition for Redress.  This historical overview was written by Anthony Hargis. (295 KB .pdf format)

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