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Saturday, May 24, 2003
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5/24/2003 01:40:00 PM
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5/24/2003 10:13:00 AM
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Worldnetdaily Covers Gene ChapmanA Texas man in the 40th day of a hunger strike will be surrounded by supporters today as he hosts a rally meant to draw attention to his willingness to die for his cause. Read the entire article here.
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5/24/2003 08:53:00 AM
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Brett Heeke RespondsFrom: Brett Heeke Based on the Kay Bailey Hutchinson fax, I called Nancy Aiello's office to dig deeper into the response that was made. It turns out that Rosemary Wallace who works for Nancy worked with a legal counsel to draft the response to Kay Bailey. I asked her and Nancy about Treasury Decision 2303 and they did not know of it. That's when they admitted the letter was drafted by a legal counsel. I then asked them to forward some rebuttal questions to this person. They said they would do so. Here is what I sent to them on Friday at 2PM. -----Original Message----- From: Brett Heeke Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 1:17 PM To: 'rosemary.wallace@irs.gov' Subject: Hi Rosemary Hi Rosemary, Thank you for taking my call today. Please forward the following to the appropriate legal counsel that drafted the letter to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Congressman Burgess of Texas in response to the fast that Gene Chapman is pursuing. It would be appreciated if I could get a response as soon as possible. Sincerely, Brett Heeke -------------------------------------------- Page 3 of the letter states: The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution removed the need for the apportionment of an income tax, and the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of an income tax enacted after ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment in Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co. 240 U.S. 1 (1916)." Given this statement, I have some questions for you: According to Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 1, Congress has the power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises. It stipulates all Duties, Imposts, and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States. What are excises? Article 1 Section 9 stipulates that no Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration. What are direct taxes? The 16th Amendment states that Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. In your opinion, what did the 16th Amendment accomplish? Did it repeal Article 1 Section 9 clause above? The Supreme Court ruled early on that the 16th amendment did NOT change anything: The Sixteenth Amendment... has no real bearing and may be put out of view. As pointed out in recent decisions, it does not extend the taxing power to new or excepted subjects." [William E. Peck & Co. v. Lowe, 247 U.S. 165 (1918)] According to the Supreme Court in Brushaber v. Union Pacific (240 U.S. 1), and again in Stanton v. Baltic Mining (240 U.S. 103) the income tax is, and has always been, an indirect "excise" tax, which never required apportionment. The Secretary of the Treasury agreed with the Court in Treasury Decision 2303: "The Sixteenth Amendment. The provisions of the sixteenth amendment conferred no new power of taxation, but simply prohibited [Congress' original power to tax incomes] from being taken out of the category of indirect taxation, to which it inherently belonged, and being placed in the category of direct taxation subject to apportionment."[Treasury Decision 2303] Additionally, the Internal Revenue Manual says the following, in section 4.10.7.2.9.8 (05-14-1999): Importance of Court Decisions 1. Decisions made at various levels of the court system are considered to be interpretations of tax laws and may be used by either examiners or taxpayers to support a position. 2. Certain court cases lend more weight to a position than others. A case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court becomes the law of the land and takes precedence over decisions of lower courts. The Internal Revenue Service must follow Supreme Court decisions. For examiners, Supreme Court decisions have the same weight as the Code. 3. Decisions made by lower courts, such as Tax Court, District Courts, or Claims Court, are binding on the Service only for the particular taxpayer and the years litigated. Adverse decisions of lower courts do not require the Service to alter its position for other taxpayers. Furthermore, the Congressional Record from March 27, 1943 stated this: The income tax is, therefore, not a tax on income as such. It is an excise tax with respect to certain activities and privileges, which is measured by reference to the income that they produce. The income is not the subject of the tax: it is the basis for determining the amount of tax. House Congressional Record, 3-27-43, page 2580 Given all this, how can wages earned in any State of the Union be lawfully subject to an indirect excise tax? Friday, May 23, 2003
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5/23/2003 05:08:00 PM
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Day Thirty-Nine"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." Winston Churchill. audblog audio post
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Thursday, May 22, 2003
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5/22/2003 03:50:00 PM
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Day Thirty-Eight Listen to more here.
In a government of the people, by the people, and for the people I think it's important that we contemplate what liberty really means in the minds of the founding fathers. And of course the Bible is the theological presupposition for the Constitution. Listen to more here.
Well I always have my references to "A fools voice is know by a multitude of words.", the Bible says in Proverbs. That's the first thing that popped up in my mind. You would think "Where is my tax liability in the law?" would be a chapter and verse kind of thing. We preachers are big on chapter and verse and so that's what I was looking for. Listen to more here.
Otherwise you're going to be dealing with violent revolution down the road and I think we need to try to do everything we can to stay away from violent revolution if at all possible. Listen to more here.
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5/22/2003 03:17:00 PM
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Responses From Senator And Congressman Have Been PostedThe full replies from Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and Congressman Michael Burgess have been posted at Gene's web site... http://www.in-austin.com/death-fast
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5/22/2003 04:55:00 AM
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Remembering Bobby Sands...on this day in the year 1981: Bobby Sands dies in prison Hunger striker Bobby Sands has died in prison 66 days after first refusing to eat. Wednesday, May 21, 2003
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5/21/2003 09:59:00 PM
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Senator Hutchison Faxes Response To Gene ChapmanWe only have the cover page at this time. Stay tuned for scan of full document. Fax from Senator Hutchison.
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5/21/2003 03:41:00 PM
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Day Thirty-Seven Listen to more here.
I spent a littel time on the phone with the director of the M K Gandhi Institue For Non-Violence in Memphis, Tennessee today. She and I talked about the morality of the fast and I read several letters that Mahatma Gandhi wrote that's kept on their website. Letters that he had written about motivations for fasting. Proper motivations and improper motivations. I feel that my motivation is proper because I'm simply asking a question. There's a paragraph at the end of one of the letters he writes, I think it's The Ethics Of Fasting on the website there, and he talks about it's wrong to coerce someone who believes that they are right but just to get an answer to a question is not a problem. Listen to more here.
I'm still hanging in there and still going strong for the fast. We have to evaluate both sides of the material and be objective about it. We have to let our opponents have an equal opportunity to make their case. We have to become one with truth. If they present the truth we have to move toward that truth and respect it. And we hope the opponents will come towards truth as well. Listen to more here.
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
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5/20/2003 04:19:00 PM
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Day Thirty-Six Listen to more here.
That's about all I can do folks. I'm going to have to leave it in your hands and God's hands and let ya'll carry this thing on any further. I've made arrangements for my funeral at the Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. I want four songs sung. I want Yesterday from the Beatles. By an acoustic guitar with a singer. I want Blackbird by Paul McCartney on acoustic guitar with a singer. And then there's a lady there named Faye Carter and she's a vocalist there at Lakewood in Houston where I attend church. And I want her to sing two songs. I want her to sing Where Could I Go But To The Lord and the last one is Precious Lord, it's a song I taught her. And she'll know exactly what song it is. I want the procession to go out to the San Jacinto Monument, I call it the Alter Of Freedom that Abraham Lincoln wrote about. It's where I go to pray a lot. Of course I had family that fought there with Sam Houston against Santa Anna so it's a place that I go to pray quite often. I want my Mother to scatter my ashes there under the oak trees with the funeral procession. And that's about it. I just want to make sure I got that out there before I lost any more clarity. I'm going to leave it in God's hands now. Listen to more here.
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5/20/2003 02:57:00 PM
by Gene
Bob Schulz Will Be With Gene Chapman On Saturday“I will be with Gene on Saturday,” said Bob Schulz. “I urge everyone to make the sacrifice. Be there. Bring your ‘Live Free or Die’ and ‘Liberty’ flags. Wear your ‘Tyranny Response Team’ windbreakers. Let’s all hold hands and pray for Gene. Let us pray with Gene that our servant government will finally honor its obligation to respond to the People’s Petition for Redress of Grievances regarding the income tax. Let us all pray for the courage of our convictions as we collectively commit to retain our money until these grievances are redressed.” Read the entire article here. This was front page news today at givemeliberty.org.
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5/20/2003 02:54:00 PM
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Gene Chapman Front Page News At WorldnetdailyGene Chapman made the front page news today at Worldnetdaily. Read the entire article here.
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5/20/2003 02:52:00 PM
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Gene Too Tired For Radio InterviewsI received a call from a Houston radio show Peggy and from Fox News Live John Constantino 212-301-3337. I called Gene and Gene told me that he is too tired to do any more radio interviews. He said he will try to do the audioblog interview here at genechapman.blogspot.com tonight. Monday, May 19, 2003
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5/19/2003 03:16:00 PM
by Gene
Day Thirty-Five Listen to more here.
Keep calling those Senators and those Congressmen. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Congressman Michael Burgess. Call 'em up. Tell 'em what's going on. Be sure and come out this Saturday, May 24, for the rally outside the IRS building there at the corner of Woodward Street and Parker Lane here in Austin 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m . Bring your friends - all of them! I think Bob Shulz is supposed to say something about it on We The People. We got people coming from Little Rock and maybe even as far away as Virginia. Hope to see you - yes, you! Perhaps if enough people show up the news media will notice that there is something more to this than just a guy losing some weight. And to put things into perspective - Gene may not make it to Saturday, May 31. Listen to more here.
Appreciate the fark.com link - thanks! Sunday, May 18, 2003
Posted
5/18/2003 11:50:00 PM
by Gene
VOINOVICH AMENDMENT TO STIMULUS BILL PASSES SENATECreates Blue Ribbon Commission to Recommend Comprehensive Tax Reform Thursday, May 15, 2003 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate today unanimously passed an amendment by U.S. Senator George V. Voinovich (R-OH) creating a special blue ribbon commission to make recommendations to Congress on comprehensive tax reform. The amendment was added to the stimulus tax cut bill currently being debated in the Senate. “Throughout the debate on the stimulus package I have become increasingly convinced of the need for overall tax reform. We need a tax code that is simple, fair and honest and this amendment starts that process. It’s long overdue,” said Voinovich. Read entire article here. http://voinovich.senate.gov/ Thank you David Marsh for the link.
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5/18/2003 09:33:00 PM
by Gene
Bob Schulz Responds To IRS EmailYesterday, the IRS responded to an e-mail sent on behalf of Chapman to the IRS internet “help line.” The carefully worded deceptions in the responses are worth noting for the record given that a man is about to die to get his single question about US tax law answered. The most glaring problem with the IRS response is that, once again, IRS fails to cite any specific law that actually makes Gene Chapman, or anyone, liable to pay the tax. The e-mail response from IRS is reproduced below in italics with WTP comments noted. Read the full article here.
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5/18/2003 06:11:00 PM
by Gene
Thurston Bell Responds To IRS EmailThurston Bell has responded to the email sent to Gene Chapman by the IRS. This webpage, from my understanding of the words used, assumes that liability is already established as well as an amount, as it discusses the fact that taxes must be paid. This is not responsive to the specific question of Mr. Chapman, and is an AUTHORITARIAN statement that is not acceptable to a free society. This situation that the IRS is facing with Mr. Chapman and thousands and thousands of the growing informed is fomented for one reason alone. THE IRS CANNOT AFFORD DISCUSSION OF THE LAW FOR IT CANNOT AFFORD FOR ITS EMPLOYEES TO BE EDUCATED ON THE LAW. Losing those employees is a loss of their FORCE MULTIPLIER,....TERROR/FEAR. Read Thurston's response at the Thurston Bell blog. Here is the permalink to Thurston Bell's response.
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5/18/2003 05:06:00 PM
by Gene
Day Thirty-Four Listen to more here.
Barring me fallilng down dead from a heart failure from the fifty pound weight loss in thirty days, I've got another two or three weeks left before I would expect to not be able to go on with life. Beginning of June or so that's probably going to be all I've got left in me. We are definitely in the death zone. Listen to more here.
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If a 100% tax on labor is absolute slavery, cut and dried, then wouldn't it stand that a 1% tax on labor is a degree of slavery? And if property is the physical manifestation of labor, then isn't a tax on property "slavery" in it's end? And for one to impose slavery to any degree upon a free person is "andrapodistes" (I Timothy 1:10): "one who unjustly reduces free men to slavery." Right out of the Greek lexicon.
"menstealers"/ "enslavers" (I Timothy 1:10): (Greek word: andrapodistes) Those who impose a taxing of labor (i.e. property/ income tax) upon uncondemned free persons; thus, under the judgment of the Moral Law of God. "Slave" (I Corinthians 7:23): (Greek word: dulos) One whose labor and/ or benefit thereof is by force claimed by another. Christians are instructed to persue freedom from slavery: "[I]f you may be made free [from slavery (taxation of labor and/ or property)], use it rather [for the winning of souls to Christ for salvation]" (I Corinthians 7:21b).
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