PRELIMINARY STATEMENT OF THE CASE
 
(Draft 7-03)

The federal government is committing wrongful, unconstitutional acts resulting in injuries, loss and damage to millions of American citizens.

In spite of Constitutional prohibitions, the Executive branch is taxing the labor of the working men and women of America, forcing companies to withhold that direct tax from the wages and earnings of their workers, and Congress has acquiesced.

In spite of Constitutional prohibitions, the Executive branch has applied the armed forces in hostilities in Iraq without a Congressional declaration of war, taxing the labor of the People to pay for the mischief, and the Congress has acquiesced.

In spite of Constitutional prohibitions, the Executive branch is printing paper money without regard to any stockpile of gold or silver, then selling that paper money to a cartel of private banks for the cost of the ink and paper, then borrowing back that paper money from that cartel with principal equal to the face amount printed on the paper money and at an interest rate determined by the cartel, then taxing the labor of citizens to pay the interest on that "debt," and the Congress has acquiesced.

In spite of Constitutional guarantees, the Executive is collecting its tax on labor through a nationwide campaign of fear, intimidation and coercion and by the use of swarms of armed agents to search and seize the private property of working Americans, and the Congress has acquiesced.

In spite of Constitutional guarantees, the Executive and the Congress have refused to hear the citizens' Petitions for Redress of these grievances.

In spite of Constitutional guarantees, the Executive is harassing and penalizing those citizens whose Petitions for Redress have gone unanswered and who now are acting to stop the withholding and payment of the illegal direct tax on labor, and tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court are cooperating in this abuse of government power.

The Constitution is hanging by a thread - the First Amendment Right to Petition, which includes the Right of Redress "BEFORE TAXES", is the only non-violent means by which the American people can directly confront unlawful government conduct. This Right to Petition is essential to the protection and preservation of individual liberty and equal justice under the law. The American People are being systematically denied this unalienable Right by the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of the federal government.

We The People have Petitioned the Executive and the Legislative branches. We now Petition to test the attitude of the Judiciary. We seek a declaration of our Rights and injunctive relief.