"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolucionary act." "~ George Orwell" "I set out on a journey to make a film about whether or not there was a law requiring" "Americans to pay an income tax... or was the tax a fraud being perpetraded by the American government." "This process of discovery brought something more dangerous and frightening to my attention..." "now I will bring it to yours." "In 1913 America was a free country." "Then a band of powerful bankers achieved their fathers' and grandfathers' goal." "America has never been the same." "Soon the world will not be the same." "The year was 1913." "Woodrow Wilson was president." "And powerfull banking interests, who have been trying for years, finally achieved their long-term goal of a silent culp de stat by taking control of the American government." "The first thing they did to accomplish their takeover, was convince the secretary of state Phil Andrew Knox to lie to the American people and tell them that the 16th Amendment, the income tax Amendment, have been legally ratified by the states... when it was not." "The Bankers knew that this tax will ultimately end up in their pockets." "Because of this fraud, the American people were led to believe there was now a tax on their labour." "Congress and the President are completely aware of this fraud, and it was even cited in a recent court case." ""If you... examined [The 16th Amendement] carefully, you would find that a sufficient number of states never ratified that amendment. "" "U.S District Court Judge James C. Fox 2003" "That very same year, the bankers commited their second, and by far, the most diabolical fraud ever perpetrated on the American people." "By bribeing senators, to pay us the "Federal Reserve Act", without the required constitutional Amendment." "They did this during Christmas vacation, when many senators were home, celebrating the holidays with their families, and that's how the unconstitutional "Federal Reserve Act" came in to being." "They were very clever, and they understood that whoever issued the money for America, would control the government." "The bankers won, and the American people lost because most politicians will sell their soul for a dollar." "And now the Federal Reserve can issue dollars legally..." "As Mayer Rothschild said:" ""Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws. "" "He knew that he and the other bankers will now control the laws of the nation." "Government gave these bankers one of its most important powers, and now had to borrow money from them and pay interest to finance the government." "So, the American people were forced to lower their standard of living, and pay a graduated income tax to the governemnt." "Just so the government could give these bankers more profits." "President Woodrow Wilson, who signed the "Federal Reserve Act" into law, later said in regret:" ""I am a most unhappy man." "I have unwittingly ruined my country." "A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit." "We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men. "" "Woodrow Wilson - 1919" "Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Chairman:" "The Federal Reserve was created by Congress in 1913, and it was entrusted with the power, granted originally to the Congress by the US constitution, to coin money and regulate the value thereof." "Aaron Russo's AMERICA From Freedom to fascism" "Let's begin our journey and discover how these two frauds changed America we'll start with the IRS." ""The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. " ~Mark Twain" " What's your name?" " Jane." "Hi, Jane, I'm Aaron Russo, I produced a movie tra..." " Is this a Joke?" " No, no, no, this is not a joke..." "No, no, no, I produced a movie "Trading Places" with Eddie Murphy and "The Rose" with Bette Midler, many movies..." "I'm doing a feature film, and my film is about my quest to find out whether or not people pay income taxes." " Do you pay an income tax?" " Yes, I do." "Have you ever seen a law that requires you to pay an income tax?" "Have I ever read it?" "you mean in the pages, black and white...?" "No, no..." "So you pay the income tax, I assume." "Of late?" "Actually, no, I didn't file last year, but a..." "I'm sorry, is this on film?" "!" "No, I PAY my taxes!" "My question to you is:" "Have you ever seen a law that says you have to pay an income tax?" "The law is that guy carring 'n wearing that badge and a gun, that's the one that puts you in jail." "That's the law." "Actually I can't stand the IRS, they're evil..." "Do You have any fear of IRS?" " Uhm... not really. 'Cause I'm Canadian." "I think it's actually unconstitutional, is what I've heard." "But... ehm... but to avoid any hassle, I pay it." "If there was none law and I wasn't afraid of them coming and taking me to jail, absolutely I wouldn't pay taxes." "OK then no, I wouldn't pay income taxes." " Ahmm..." " It's a no brainer, you wouldn't pay it." "I wouldn't pay it." "Why would anybody?" "Because that's... that's what they tell us we must do, else we're bad Americans." " Would you pay it?" " No." " Would you pay it?" " No!" "Why would you pay taxes if you don't have to?" "What if I told you that all your money... the income tax pay... that's paid to the income tax, just goes to pay the interest on the national debt?" "That's incredible." "That's truly incredible." "I thought it was for infrastructure and all the other stuff." "The income tax is not legal because it would be a direct tax, and it is not apportioned, as the Constitution demands." "If it is against the Constitution then why are we doing it?" ""The power to tax is the power to destroy. "" "~Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall" "A partial list of taxes Americans are forced to pay" "Accounts Receivable Tax" "Automobile Registration Tax" "Building Permit Tax" "Capital Gains Tax" "CDL License Tax" "Cigarette Tax" "Corporate Income Tax" "Court Fines" "Dog License Tax" "Estate Tax" "Federal Unemployment Tax" "Fishing License Tax" "Food License Tax" "Fuel Permit Tax" "Gasoline Tax (42 cents per gallon)" "Hunting License Tax" "Inheritance Tax Interest Expense" "Inventory Tax" "IRS Interest Charges" "Liquor Tax" "Local Income Tax" "Luxury Taxes" "Marriage License Tax" "Medicare Tax" "Parking Meters" "Property Tax" "Real Estate Tax" "Septic Permit Tax" "Service Charge Taxes" "Social Security Tax" "Road Usage Taxes" "Sales Taxes" "Recreational Vehicle Tax" "Road Toll Booth Taxes" "School Tax" "State Income Tax" "State Unemployment Tax" "Telephone Federal Excise Tax" "Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax" "Telephone Federal, State and Local Subcharge Taxes" "Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax" "Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax" "Telephone State and Local Tax" "Telephone Usage Charge Tax" "Toll Bridge Taxes" "Toll Tunnel Taxes" "Traffic Fine Taxes" "Trailer Registration Tax" "Utility Taxes" "Vehicle License Registration Tax" "Vehicle Sales Tax" "Watercraft Registration Tax" "Well Permit Tax" "Workers Compensation Tax and then there's the..." "FEDERAL INCOME TAX" "It really sucks IRS" "An Aaron Russo Film" "I really expected that, of course there is a law that you can point to in the law book, the code that requires you to file a tax return, of course there is." "Maybe I don't know what it is as we..." "as he was speaking to me... but sure..." "So, naively, I agreed to go out and researched it and get back to him." "Three and a half months later I was at that point where I cound't find the statute that clearly made a person liable." "At least not me, and most people I know, and I had no choice in my mind except to resign." "I had to leave the IRS because I've presented evidence that I had accumulated indicating that the Agency was violating the law and violating people's rights, and I asked the Agency for a response to my sincere concerns," "and the answer I got was that they would not respond to my concerns, and that they would provide me with the paperwork necessary to turn in my resignation." "The "We the People" Fundation for constitutional education put a full page ad in "USA Today" on july 7th 2000." "and within the body of that ad, was a US$ 50,000 challenge for anyone that could show the law... and to me US$ 50,000 is a lot of money, so I went after that and did the research based on the fact that I thought," "let's put this baby to bed, I'm hearing all these rumors, you know," "I'm gonna kill two birds with one stone," "I'll answer these people's questions they're asking me, and then I'll win these US$ 50,000." "And, you know, based on the research that I did, throughout the year 2000 and that I'm still doing, I have not found that law." "I've asked Congress, we've asked a lot of people in the IRS," "IRS commissioner's helpers..." "... they can't answer, because if they answer, the American people are gonna know that this whole thing is a fraud." "I was surprised to hear these highly trained and decorated IRS agents telling me there was no law requiring american citizens to file a 1040 or to pay an income tax on their labour." "I haven't filed a federal income tax return since I left." "I have not filed a tax return since 1999." "Approximately 67 milion people don't file income tax return." "I've made a decision to go to Washington so I could attend the "We the People" Foundation press conference." "They were going to serve a "Class action lawsuit" on the IRS signed by over 3,000 people because the IRS has refused to show the law that makes Americans liable to file a 1040 or to pay an income tax on their labour." "I was very curious as to why the IRS refused to show the law." "As it seems such a simple thing to do." "Yet I was skeptical about the foundation's claims... there had to be a law, right?" "I mean we've all been told over and over again that we have to pay income taxes." "No answers, No taxes!" "Most people believe that the income tax system is legal, and that the revenue from the tax is used in the public interest." "However there is a substantial conclusive body of evidence that proves that our income tax system represents the most pernicious form of tyranny." "It is the greates hoax ever perpetrated by government against the working men and women of America." "American citizens along with the foundation have been asking the IRS to specifically provide them with the underline legal foundation upon which they administer and enforce the personal income tax laws in our country." "At the national level, when people would attempt to contact somebody of a much higher authority, say... the commissioner... it's the same kind of thing." "They would get answers that were, in effect, non-answers." "David Cay Johnston from "New York Times":" "There are people standing outside today, who assert that no law requires to pay taxes, and you... will not answer their petition to the government, as to whether they're required to pay taxes." "Are they required to pay taxes?" "I've been paying my taxes ever since I had my first job and I think it's a... it's a fundamental construct of our nation that, that... those of us who expect and demand the services from our government," "that the government provides, be they the protection of our country through the military, or be they the education of our children, or be they the protection of our environment, that, that... we must pay for those services." "So, yes, I think there's a fundamental obligation, and that is an understood and well accepted one." "Why didn't he answer the question:" "Is there a law?" "Joe Banister and I had a meeting... in the White House with the President Clinton's economic advisor Jason Furman." "He accepted the remonstrants for the president," "On June 2nd I called and spoke with him, his words were:" ""We have decided that the issue of the legality of the income tax is not a high priority matter for the White House, and we will not be participating in any conference on the subject. "" ""We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans. "" "~ Bill Clinton March 11, 1993" ""Legal oponents of President Bill Clinton were singled out for tax audits. "" "~ Paul Breslan IRS Official from court Records" "I decided not to eat until my death, or until the government agree to send their experts to meet with the experts from the tax honesty movement." "And with the help of congressman Bartlett, a deal was made." "I'm very pleased that through these several prime weeks, and now months, that we have secured the agreement of the IRS and the justice department, because some of the questions are beyond the preview of the IRS, that they will both attend a public symposium," "where this issues can be formally addressed." "Last Thanksgiving, DOJ and IRS notified congressman Bartlett, that they would not participate." "Congressman Bartlett then waited until late January." "He informed me that he would not be participating." "Why do you think you've being able to get away with not paying or filing your income taxes for so long?" "Well, first of all I've not gotten away with anything, I'm not hiding from anyone." "I'm simply asking the IRS to show me the laws that apparently require me to do these things and they are suspiciously reticent to answer questions for me, and of course there are milions of other people, many other organizations" "who have attempted to get answers." "They act very suspiciously when asked to simply sit down at the table with the American people and discuss what their obligations are." "Rather then pointing up a chair, they pull out a club." "Aaron Russo:" "As a matter of fact, David Cay Johnston of the New York Times asked Terry Lemons of the IRS:" ""Why won't the IRS answer the questions set forth in the petitions from the American people?"" "Mr. Lemons response was:" ""The government is answering the questions through enforcement actions in the courts. "" "This is a very chilling remark on the government's use of brute force instead of civility and logic." "The federal government itself refuses to provide the american people who are coercevily being subjected to this extraction of their private property without any underline legal justification." "There is no law... there is no law that requires the average" "American worker in a private sector to pay a direct unapportioned tax on their labour and compensation for services." "There is no law." "The march will stop in front of the IRS building." "Aaron Russo:" "They're now going to serve a "Class action lawsuit" on the IRS." "Very courageous." "My name is Charles, and I'm here to serve this complaint on behalf of the American people, to the IRS." "The complaint is accompanied by an affidavit... it's a..." " No cameras, no cameras..." " Under the hand of Robert Schulz." "Case was served... we'll call you with the case number." "Case has been filed, we'll call you with the case number." "Thank you." "Ok, thank you." "We appreciate your time." "Manifestant:" "America, baby... freedom!" "Today effectively the people have said to their servant government that our rights are not going to be any longer denied." "And that we're gonna have answers to our petition our legitimate lawfull petitions for which we address our grievances, which are guaranteed in the First Amendment to our Constituition." "So, once and for all, we're gonna get an answer." "On August 31, 2005 federal judge Emmet Sullivan ruled the government does not have to answer the American people's questions, even though it is guaranteed in the First Amendment." "Our courts have made the decision that government does not have to show the law that it enforces." "and the press never reported on this." "Have we given this judge the authority to overrule the Constitiution?" "The very fundation of american life?" ""None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. "" "~ Goethe" "I believe that in both spirit and substance our tax system has come to be unamerican." "Death and taxes maybe inevitable, but unjust taxes are not." "Now, Mr. Handy, I'd like to ask you something." "What does the government do with all the money we give them in taxes?" "When president Reagan was elected one of the first thing that he did was appoint a blue ribbon panel of of bussiness people headed by Peter Grace and is commonly refered to as the "Grace commision"." "And their job was to research all the various areas of the federal government and make a report." "One of the quotes from the Grace commision is:" ""100% of what is collected is absorb solely by interest on the federal debt, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickle is spent on the services tax payers expect from government. "" "If we pay the salaries of the congressmen and the senators," " we're supporting them, aren't we?" " Well, yes!" "Well, then why can't we list them as dependants and deduct them?" "We've been brainwashed, people have been told, you know, that you need this income tax system to fund government, which is absolutely ridiculous, I mean, my question is:" ""Well, if that's true, how did we fund government from 1776 to 1913?"." "The main purpose of the income tax is not to raise revenue but to redistribute wealth and to control society." "A lot of people might say:" ""If there wasn't an income tax, what would happen to education?"." "They don't understand that education is paid for the most part out of state and local taxes, your property taxes," "People might say: "Well, how we're gonna build and maintain our highways if there's no money coming in to the government, we need our highways?"" "There is a tax in every gallon of gasoline that people buy." "Proceeds from the income tax do not pay for highway construction." "The amount of money that we spend on defense is exactly equal to the amount of corporate income tax." "Which is quite legal and quite constitutional." "I think we should not want the income tax for several reasons." "One is that it is the instrument of totalitarianism, it is the means by which the government can manipulate people, and put you into a condition of servitude." "Every year, you give the federal government a form that says," ""here is how my money worked. "" "If you lie, you can go to prison." "So you are required to give them a financial statement, that under the force of law could put you in prison, if it's not impeccable, right?" "And under the law, they're supposed to do the same." "They're supposed to give you back a financial statement that says," ""here's what we did with your money" ... except you comply and they don't." "In fiscal 99, the Department of Defense had 1.1 trillion of undocumentable adjustments." ""Undocumentable adjustment" means the money is..." "MISSING!" "The following year they had 2.3 trillion of undocumentable adjustments." "I decided to call the IRS." "I spoke to Anthony Burke in media relations." "He was very nice to me, and I explained to him that I was an award winning film producer, and I was doing a documentary on the IRS." "He seemed a bit stunned by this." "Then explained to me that comissioner Evanson nor anybody else will go on film to discuss the income tax." "But he did say he would call me back." "I thanked him for that, but i could't help wondering, why was the government making it so difficult for people to see the law?" "So I decided to bring my crew down to the IRS building to see if I can find some emloyees to interview." "And here's what happend..." "Police:" "I said you cannot film here, that's it." "But why, who... who are you to tell me I can't film here?" "What's the law?" "Just tell me where is the law that says that." "Can you show me the law that says I can't film here?" " Is America a free country?" " I said he can't film here!" "And he's asking now million questions." "I told him it's the federal government law... hey, I told him he can't film here, and he told me he's a citizen and all that." "He told I can't film here and I'm saying where's the law that says I can't film here?" "I'm asking another question..." "Sir?" "Then homeland security showed up, because I was such a threat to Washington." " You've got a driver's license all?" " Yeah, I do." "Put that away from me..." "After convinceing homeland security I really wasn't Osama Bin Laden," "I kept wishing the IRS would allow me to interview somebody." "Why wouldn't they show the law?" "What were they so nervous about?" "I began to have a frightening thought:" "What if was our own government we had to be afraid of?" "With that disturbing thought in my mind, I went to see a group of tax experts." "You can look through the statutes, and look for the law that requires you to pay, and when you do that, you can't identify a law that requires the average person in America who earns a wage," "works in private business, to pay an income tax." "The constitution allowes for two kinds of taxes:" "they're called direct and indirect." "The federal government in the Constitution can tax almost anything, as long as it apportions the tax if its direct." "A direct tax must be apportioned." "~ U.S. Constitution" "Apportion:" "to divide equally amongst the people" "The indirect tax is for example an excise tax," "I can avoid the excise tax on gasoline, I can choose to ride my bicycle." "I can avoid the excise tax on tabacco," "I can choose not to smoke or I can grow my own tabacco." "All indirect taxes must be the same (uniform) throughout all the states." "~ U.S. Constitution" "The income tax which is being applied now, doesn't meet the criteria of either direct or indirect taxes." "The IRS claims that in 1913 the 16th Amendment, the income tax Amendment, allowed the government a third form of taxation." "What was the Supreme Court ruling on that?" "Irvin Schiff:" "The Supreme Court in the case of Stanton vs Baltic Mining." "I mean what could be clearer than this?" ""The provisions of the 16th amendment can prove no new power of taxation. "" "The Rushaver case also said that the 16th Amendment did not impose any new taxes and did not change any of the taxing restrictions of the Constitution." "There were also several other major Supreme Court cases in that same period from 1916 up to until about 1923." "Stratton Independence vs. Hobart, Southern Pacific vs. Lowe," "Bowers vs. Kerbaugh-Empire Co., 271 U.S. 170" "Burnet vs. Harmel," "Doyle vs. Mitchell Bros. CO.," "It's actually very simple." "Congress tried to do an act, an Income Tax in 1894." "The Supreme Court said that's unconstitutional." "When the Supreme Court says something is unconstitutional, it's unconstitutional." "They tried again in 1913 and the Supreme Court said the 16th Amendment confer no new power of taxation." "So, if they didn't have it then and they didn't get it, they don't have it." "There is no constitutional basis for a tax on the wages of Americans living and working in the 50 States of the Union." "Period." "End of argument!" "I have a letter here, from Daniel Inouyes office of the United States Senate that says..." ""Based on the research performed by the Congressional Research Service, there is no provisions which specifically and unequivocally require an individual to pay an income tax. "" "Period." "End of story." "There is no law." "And to date nobody has been able to show that there is a law for the average American citizen working day-in and day-out to pay an income tax." "The definition of income in the Constitution was given in the Eisner versus Macomber case, and it turns on gains or profits that are made from some activity." "Doyle vs. Mitchell, 247 U.S. 179, 1918, this is what they've said..." ""The idea of gain or increase arising from corporate activities"" "In other words, it doesn't mean wages, it doesn't mean dividends, it doesn't mean alimony." "It means a gain or a profit arising from corporate activities." "These liens that are recorded against people by the government for tax liens are nothing more than allegations." "They are non substantive." "They have never been determined by a neutral third-party such as a Court, to have one shred of validity." "If you ever get a notice of an audit, or anything else, the first thing you should do is a Freedom of Information Act request for records that they're using to substantiate or justify the audit." "There's nothing in the Internal Revenue Code that creates any such thing as an income tax evasion or crime, there's nothing in the code that allows IRS agents to seize property." "The government is involved in judicial black-mail." "The government knows that if it legally seizes somebody's property, that person does not have the funds, and he can't even get a lawyer who can help him." "I conducted investigations in the title 18 of the criminal code," "The U.S. Criminal Code, and in there the statutes and regulations are very specific, as for what's violating the statute." "In the Internal Revenue Code Title 26, there is nothing specific in there." "I mean, even FBI fear the IRS." "You have to understand that an agency which will unlawfully impose a tax that doesn't exist, is not going to care." "If we the people don't know what our rights are, they're not gonna tell us." "If Americans just learned that the IRS was actually knowingly deceiving them, that would be enough for them to rise up and put a stop to it." "This small booklet includes the Constitution of the U.S., the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independance, this is a document every citizen should read." "It's a document which freed an entire nation." "This is the Internal Revenue Code." "And this document, and the unlawfull application of this document by the IRS has enslaved the nation that this document attempted to free." "Aaron Russo:" "I was very impressed by the people in the tax honesty movement." "They weren't cooks, they were highly intelligent, well researched and very genuine." "I was wondering why I've never heard about all these Supreme Court decisions in the media!" "So I really wanted the IRS's point of view, because to get the true story it was imperative I hear both sides." "I kept wishing Anthony Burke would call me back." "He seemed like an honest man." "I then proceeded to call my message machine." "Anthony Burke on message phone machine:" "Hi, this message is for Aaron Russo." "This is Anthony Burke of the IRS." "Let me suggest some people that you might wanna think about talking to." "One would be Don Alexander, who is a former commissioner, he's here in town in Washington." "Another would be Sheldon Cohen who is both a former commissioner and former chief counselor." "All those guys I think can answer your questions about, you know, where in the tax law says that you have to pay taxes." "Aaron Russo:" "Well, good news, I thought." "So I called Sheldon Cohen because he used to be the IRS commissioner, he wrote the tax code, and he was also general counselor to the IRS." "He is a true expert and I cound't find a better person to answer my questions." "He graciously agreed to my interview." "The reason that I'm doing this documentary is because there are many people in America today who believe that there is no law that requires them to pay an income tax or file a 1040." "And there are many people going to jail for it, fighting over it." "Cohen:" "The Internal Revenue Code is autorized by the 16th Amendment." "Aaron:" "I think it should be clarified," "I think government should be transparent to the people." "Why isn't the IRS commissioner sit down with them and just explain it in clear English why..." "I don't think they really care." "I just think they're playing word-games." "You don't think they're sincere to people?" "No, I don't think they're sincere to people." "What does voluntary compliance mean?" "And why does the IRS code say it is voluntary to comply, not mandatory?" ""... voluntary compliance... "" "That's a word, euphemism, we use..." "We use "voluntary compliance" when we talk about traffic signals, most people... at 2 o'clock in the morning, do you stop at a red light?" " Yeah..." " Is there a cop there?" "Sometimes I don't." "I do, I do, and most of us do." "Most of us do." "Right." "But that's "voluntary compliance"." "That was a complete perversion of logic." "Traffic code state that is mandatory to stop at the red light." "The IRS code says it is voluntary to comply." "Mandatory and voluntary are the complete opposite of each other, yet he want us to believe that they mean the same thing." ""Your income tax is a 100% voluntary tax, and your liquor tax is a 100% enforced tax." "The situation is as different as night and day. "" "~ Dwight E. Avis, Head of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division Bureau of Internal Revenue" "So can the government criminally prosecute somebody of the information put on the 1040?" "Yes." "Right, so doesn't avoid the 5th Amendment?" "No." "But the 5th Amendment says I don't have to do anything that incriminates myself." "Well, it doesn't incriminate you to put..." "to put you in compound." "But you said before I can be put in jail for it." "The commissioner wants us to believe, that although IRS demands that you fill out the 1040 and you can go to jail for it, that they are not violating a 5th amendment rights of self-incrimination." "That is absurd." "Isn't it true that the word "income"" "is not defined anywhere in the Internal Revenue Code?" "The law says that the government has the right to tax income from any source it derive." "So, but the word "income" is not defined in the Code, it just says income, without a definition." " That's right." " Or what income is?" "Correct?" "But there are many different kinds of taxes... well, how can an American citizen know what the income is if the code doesn't define it?" "If they're paying an income tax..." "Because the courts will define it." "Do you remember what constituitional attorney Edwin Vieira said?" "The definition of "income" in the Constitution was given in the Eisner versus Macomber case, and it turns on gains or profits that are made from some activity." "So the Supreme Court has ruled." "Income is not wages, is not labour." "It's gained from corporate activity." "I believe that a man's labour is his private property." "That's your view but it's not the law." "The Supreme Court even said your labour is your private property." "When I go to work for somebody it's a trade, it's an even exchange," "I do some work, you give me some money." ""Chief among such contracts is that of personal employment by which labor and other services are EXCHANGED for money or other forms of property. "" "Coppage v. Kansas, 236 U.S. 1, 14 (1914)" "In 1916, we had the Brushaber case and the Stanton case, and the Brushaber case and the Stanton case said that the 16th amendment gave the government no new taxing power." "I'm not gonna argue the niceties of that with you..." "It came up again in the case Kolpect v. Lowe, where the Supreme Court said 16th Amendment did not extend Congress's taxing power to any new or accepted subjects." "In other words, if you weren't taxable before the 16th you weren't taxable after 16th..." "Today I interviewed a juror... we sat on a case, and they've found the person not guilty... for lack of filing, ok?" "I asked them why they found them not guilty, and she said because the IRS couldn't show us the law that made them liable to file a 1040." "All they need to do, if there is a law... is to show us the law." "Which of course they never did." " And the reason they didn't do it was why?" " As there is no law." "Title 26 requires you to file a return." "But doesn't title 26 have to be in compliance with the Supreme Court decisions?" "(?" ") You're gonna take a 1920 case and superimpose it on the holding (?" ")" "turn around the code that was written after it?" "No, that's not..." "I can't believe in what I've just heard!" "Rewind!" "You're gonna take a 1920 case and superimpose it on the holding turn around the code that was written after it?" "No, that's not..." "Remember he said earlier the IRC was authorized by the 16th Amendment?" "The Internal Revenue Code is autorized by the 16th Amendment." "Remember, the Supreme Court said the 16th Amendment did not give the government any new taxing power!" "These decisions have never been overturned." "Let's listen further." "Can the low courts overrule the Supreme Court?" "No." "How are they putting people in jail today for not paying a tax on their labor when the Supreme Court said they don't have to?" "But doesn't the IRS code have to be in compliance with the Supreme Court?" "!" "That is my question!" "Aaron, this is a waste of time, because whatever I say, you're not gonna believe." "He is right." "I don't believe him, and neither should you." "He wants us to believe we should obey the IRS code!" "Which is being enforced in violation of the many Supreme Court decisions." "The Supreme Court made a decision." "No, no, thank you, thank you, Aaron, I think we're finished." "I'm sorry Mr. Cohen you're doing that..." "Well, I'm sorry that you constantly reargue the point." "You're liable because the law says that you're liable and the courts say the law says you're liable and thats why you're liable." "You see, he's talking about the lower courts, who are not in compliance with the Supreme Court... as they have to be..." "Doesn't the court have to be in compliance with the Supreme Court?" " The Supreme Court has so held." " Where?" "You caught me unprepared!" " I'll come back..." " I don't wanna do that." " But let me ask you a hipotetical question?" " No." "You're making silly arguments, Aaron." "Why is a Supreme Court decision a silly argument?" "Well, because it is inapplicable!" "That made my heart stop!" "He just said Supreme Court decisions do not apply to the IRS." "That's the behavior you would expect from a totalitarian country, maybe China or Russia or Cuba, not from America." "That's just making up the law as they go along." "Now I knew the tax honesty movement was right." "The IRS thrives on intimidation, fear, not by a law." "It's no different than a criminal protection racket using force to extract your money from you." "Then the former IRS commissioner, now working at the prestigious Washington law firm, threatens me... watch!" "Aaron you understand Yiddish?" "Gornischt helfen!" "For those of you who don't understand Yiddish, that means "Nothing will help you"." "Now it all became clear." "I understood why the IRS wouldn't go on camera and talk about where the law was." "I understood why all those senators I called refused to be interviewed." "There is no law." "And now you know what our political leaders and the courts have known for decades, and have tried to cover up." "The US constitution strictly forbids a direct unapportioned tax on the wages and salaries of american citizens." "The U.S. Supreme Court has consistently ruled that the income tax is a tax on profits and gains, not on labour and wages." "On behalf of the American people, I challenge the IRS to show me a statute that allows a direct unapportioned tax on the wages and labour of the American people." "And if I'm wrong, I would give my most humble apologies to the IRS." "If IRS is wrong and there is no law, then every person that has been jailed should be let out of jail immediately, and any assets seized should be return to their rightful owners." "If this is a nation of laws and a free country, then the IRS should show the law to the American people." "I felt an overwhelming need to understand why juries would find the innocent people guilty of not filling a tax return, when there was no law requiring them to do so." "So I went to talk to Mossie Brookes, a juror used to common sense, and did not allow the judge to reroute the jury into a guilty verdict." "The Government v. Whitey Harrell" "He was being tried for four counts of not filling his income tax..." " Ok." " And our question was..." "What is to decide?" "Either he did or he didn't." "It never occured to us that he might actually be innocent while at the same time not filling." "In the federal government it is not a felony not to file taxes." "Finally they said: ok, if we're gonna get this guy, we're gonna have to put it in the state." "They called up the IRS agent, Agent Craner." " Craner?" " Yes." "This is Kent Dorey, he is also an investigator." "Did you get my request for a copy of the delegation of authority order?" "Right... and I talked to my boss about that and he said that my badge is that." "Your badge is the authority." "Hum, and I thought it had to be in writing." "The last question that the defense asked him was:" "Did you write any of this down?" "And Agent Craner looked right at him, and right at us and he said:" "I never wrote anything down." "And yet when we saw the video, there he was writing notes... you know, and so..." "I'm thinking, ok, at this point the judge is supposed to say:" "Agent Craner, it is clear that you have commited perjury." "It wasn't even noticed." "It finally came to the climax." "Mr. Harrell looked right at the prosecutor, and he said:" "I will tell you the same thing I have told over and over again to government officials." "You show me the law that requires me to file a tax return and I'll be glad to do it." "And I ask under..." "what is the requirement, that you claim, I'm required to do theses things?" "And the requirement under the regulations is what section?" "My question to you is:" "What particular acts are we discussing here that I'm liable to do these things that you claim I'm liable to do?" "Your exact question would be again?" "What is the section that what?" "I guess I'm still not understanding your question, Mr. Harrel." "Well, you must be familiar with the police powers you have to enforce." "The prosecutor absolutely ignored him!" "And he started to slandering Mr. Harrell." "Just started attacking his character." "They're calling us taxees, they're calling us fanatics, they're calling us weirdos," "I don't care what you call me, but I have one question..." "Where is the law?" "Show me the law!" "They can't let this turn into a rational debate, because if they do, they'll lose it!" "So they have to insult people and say it's frivolous." "We felt like that there was an overall arrogance and that they were re-routing Mr. Harrell and wanting us to participate." "Judge Cougan, he looked right at us and he said:" "I will instruct the jury according to the law." "We were sent to deliberation." "The judge promised us that he would give us the law." "And we looked, and we looked and it was not there." "We wrote a note to the judge asking for a copy of the law... 10 minutes later we get a note back." "You have everything you need." "But there was no law." "And he had promised us." "At that point I felt betrayed." "I felt like: this man promised us the law, and that's what this whole thing is about... the law." "We've requested and he still denies us the law." " And the reason they didn't do it was why?" " As there is no law." "Remember we were talking about the Illinois state law here?" "Which is a law in Illinois..." "So we got out that law and we've read it several times and I said: ok, wait, wait, wait, you know, 'cause they kept saying..." "But this is a law in Illinois and I said:" "Look at the beginning of the..." "It says: anyone required to file a federal income tax return, is required to file an Illinois tax return." "I said: if it is true that he's not required to file a federal return then that nullifies the Illinois law." "Two people, they kept saying:" "but he's gonna get by with it." "And I said what is he getting by with but his rights?" "If there is no law he's not breaking a law." "He's just standing on his rights." "Are we gonna deny him that?" "It's when this one juror sat back and kinda rolled his eyes and he said..." "You mean... we don't have to pay taxes?" "All of a sudden we realise that this trial was much bigger, and the ramifications of this trial were gonna be so broad, if it actually got out?" "I mean, it's like we have just discovered this great government secret." "And so when we came out for the delivering out the verdict the Judge was..." "I'm sure, even at this point" "I'm sure he still thought we would pass given guilty verdict." "And the reason I say that is because of the look on his face, when the first "not guilty" was read." "His face just turned white..." "it was like:" "I don't believe this!" "This second time, you could hear people out in the audience in the courtroom just going... wow!" ", you know... and the judge is just getting red in the face, and he was just livid!" "and the judge got up and left..." "I sat there and I thought: this truly is a victory for the people, and I have never felt more patriotic, and I knew that we had done the right thing." "I looked at that man, Mr. Harrell, and I thought... the system might not work all the time, but this time, for that man, it did." "In November 2004, the government arrested former IRS criminal investigator Joe Banister." "They charged him of fraud for telling the American people the truth about the income tax laws." "The jury obviously agreed with Joe." "Well it just showed Mr. Banister to be honest and straightforward, and working within the law." "Wernest Cougland, a Federal Express pilot claimed there was no law requiring Americans to file an income tax, she also won in court." "24 people were criminally charged by the IRS, because they claimed there was no law requiring them to file an income tax return." "The fact is neither the judge, nor prosecutor or the IRS could bring that statute in there, because it's not in the books." "The jury came back with an acquittal for everyone." "When the matter is put to the test, which means in terms of... in court, an enforcement action, there is a 100% success rate in shooting down these arguements." "The mafia has a code and they follow it, and it's a code of honour, but the IRS has no code... of honor." ""The IRS selectively audited taxpayers who were poor and vulnerable they routinely fabricated evidence against taxpayers they encouraged agents to 'stick it' to taxpayers. "" "~Jennifer Long IRS Agent" "Meet George Dawson, a federal judge presiding over the Irvin Shiff tax case, who denied Irvin the ability to prove to a jury that there was no law requiring Americans to file an income tax return." "He denied Irvin the right to prove to a jury there was no law by stateing..." "Judge Dawson:" ""I will not allow the law in my courtroom!"" "But the judge made sure the government never had to show the law as written by telling the jury..." "Judge Dawson's Jury Instructions "You must follow the law as I give it to you. "" "Nobody can know what the law is, because the law is what the judges say the law is!" "The lower courts today will not allow people, especially in tax cases, to bring in Supreme Court decisions as their evidence." "Irwin Schiff: "But the Supreme Court said... " Judge Dawson: "Irrelevant!" "Denied!"" "Irwin Schiff: "The Supreme Court is irrelevant?" Judge Dawson: "Irrelevant!" "Denied!"" "Here we have a federal judge, re-routing an American citizen by saying Supreme Court decisions are irrelevant." "And again nothing from the press defending our freedoms." "Irwin Schiff was found guilty and sentenced to 13 years in prison... for a non-crime." "So if you ever find yourself as a juror, on a tax case... be sure to ask the judge to show you the statute written by Congress that allowes the government to tax the wages of the American people." "If the judge can't show you the law, then how can you possibly in good conscience convict someone and destroy their life." ""The pages of history shine on instances of the jury's exercise of its prerogative to disregard instructions of the judge... " ~U.S. v. Dougherty - 1972" "Let's see how the IRS treated one of the America's greatest heroes, and someone I cherished as a child." "Joe Lewis was an American icon, victorious in his first 27 fights the brown bomber quickly rose to a heavyweight champion of the world...." "His 1938 KO of German Max Schmeling, who represented Hitler's Aryan ideal, earn him the admiration of millions of Americans." "Right after Pearl Harbour was bombed," "Joe had a title fight where he donated his fee to navy war relief." "Well, I'm not working for nothing, I'm working for my country." "And I think that's about the greatest piece of work that anybody can do." "Well, I certainly agree with you for that, you turning over a lot of money." "Well, we all turned over a lot for this country at the time." "Joe volunteered for the segregated Army and defended his title while in the service." "This time donateing his normal fee to Army relief." "I've only done what any red-blooded American would do." "Since the checks were in Joe's name the IRS taxed him on their full amount even though he never saw a penny of it..." "At the end of the war Joe was awarded the "Legion of Merit"." "But what most people didn't know was that the IRS was charging him" "US$ 50,000 a year in interest alone on his debt." "When Joe's beloved mother died leaving him US$ 600 the IRS immediately siezed it." "They also confiscated all of his children's cross-funds." "Joe was forced to continuing fighting until he was 37 and out of shape just to pay off his ever-mounting debt to the IRS, which grew to US$ 1,000,000, $100,000 a year just in interest." "At the end of his life, Joe was forced to become a greeter at the Las Vegas hotel just to make ends meet." "It was a shameful thing to see a man like him, great fighter, great human being, being humiliated and destroyed in this manner, because, afterall, when you owe internal revenue money, no matter what you have, they take away from you." "And they took a lot away from Joe Lewis..." "Former German opponent Max Schmeling paid for Joe's funeral." "I made a decision to drive to Virginia Beach, from Washington, because I heard stories about two law-abiding families who had been brutalized by the IRS." "They were falsely accused by their book-keepeer of being drug-smugglers and tax cheats." "And incredibly to me, without any investigation the IRS proceeded to raid their place of bussines and their homes even though they had done absolutely nothing wrong." "John Colaprete:" " On Saturday morning, four different raiding parties, proceeded to raid for locations, on a Saturday, the day before Easter." "Edy Miller:" " I was the manager on duty, and I was up in the deli, and people came through the door..." "Aaron:" " How many came into the door?" "Edy:" "Maybe about 15 to 20 people." "Aaron: 15 to 20 armed agents?" "Yea, with dogs, with guns, they made me get everybody everybody... they went in the kitchen, they went in the deli, they went all over the restaurant." "Told... told all the customers, took forks out of their hands, while they were eating their breakfast, and told them they had to leave." "Scotty Mller:" "I've got the frantic call from Edy, and... she said something's wrong, anyway, I jumped out of bed, and I immediately run to the shower..." "I'm in the shower... and the next thing I know I hear my son yelling "Daaad!"." "Scotty's son:" "I went like this... boom!" "I was slamed against the door and I fall down with a gun in my head." "And they "Where is Scotty Miller?", and I "Dad!"" "that's all I'm doing, is yelling, scared, frighten to death." "Then the next thing I hear is "Mr. Miller"... the shower curtain is jerked back..." "I've got a gun pointed at my head..." ""Hold it right there. "" "The screams from the little girls who where at a pyjama-party with my daughter, it was 4 little girls there, with my daughter, of course, mayhem!" "Scotty's daughter:" "There were about 3 men in my bedroom, huge guns, he followed us, and wanted to watch us get dressed, and I tried to shut the door, and he puts his foot in the door... like he was gonna sit there and watch us changing our clothes." "I was like "Excuse me!" "No!"." " Our neighbours there all standing out..." " Were you still naked?" "Well, I..., they handed me a towel, at that point, I had a towel wrapped aroud me." " Did the towel fit?" " Hardly..." "Hahah!" "Hardly!" "At this point, you know, they were talking about weapons, and it's crazy!" "I mean, they were looking everywhere, going through all my drawers, and I reached for my underwear drawer, to get some underwear," "(?" ") They said "Don't touch it!" "?", they're locking their guns up..." ""Hold it right there, don't move around, don't you move... "" "Uohhh!" "I'd just like to get some underwear on here, you know, I was..." "Women standing here..." "They keep everything..." "How did you conduct your business if the IRS took everything?" "We had to do it out of a shoebox, so we keep going... because we've requested these things, and I'm told that the government really not..." "Once they do raid... so... but they are supposed at least let you, until you're charged with something, continue bussiness..." "This wasn't the case, they've kept everything." " So you haven't even been charged?" " Absolutely not!" "Charged with what?" "!" "When you speak IRS the whole world shrivels up... the whole world gets fearful to a point where, "let's not talk about it"" "I testified before the Congress..." "I would like to know why this dark entity known as the IRS has come into my life and refused to leave." "I raised my children with a zero tolerance to dishonesty, and now they must hear allegations?" "That I'm a major drug-dealer and a tax cheat?" "!" "A lot of people out there are being abused, and lot of people saying "look, I'll pay it!" "Just go away!" "Just go away... "" "When all that happen we had thought on bankruptcy, we had cars taken away from us, kept my daughter from going to college." "Do they ever think about the lives that they just destroyed?" "They think about the ruination of homes and property?" "No, in this case we would have never thought this could happen to us." "We've never done anything wrong." "How can this happen in America when, in my case, personally," "I thought that I was doing everything right, I served my country!" "I've been to college." "At least I've done something in my life." "I got a speeding ticket one time," "I've payed my taxes for 40, 50 years, whatever it was." "I've never been auditted..." "what happened here?" "!" "I had this really uncomfortable feeling in the pit of my stomach, as I was thinking to myself how did America transformed itself from being a truly free country with a serving government... where individual rights were protected by a Constitution," "to being a country that talked about being free, but really wasn't..." "The change started, when the Federal Reserve came into existence, and America adopted one of the major planks of the Communist Manifesto, by bringing to America this central bank." "The very same people that backed the Federal Reserve System, also backed the graduated income tax, a second plank from the Communist Manifesto." "Did you know the Federal Reserve is a private bank, an out of the government agency?" "No, I wasn't aware of that." "It's a private bank?" "That would scare me quite a bit." "What if you'd learn that the Federal Reserve makes money off the taxes you pay?" " How'd you feel about that?" " Angry?" "Like I'm feeling right now!" "I would feel cheated by my government." "I'd be angry." "It's really frustrating that we're paying money for something that isn't benefiting us in any way whatsoever..." "Kinda sucks." "They're pretty much in control of everything." "I decided to drive back to Washington to see Dr. Ron Paul." "He had been a Congressman for over 20 years." "I had met him previously in 1998 when I was running for government in Nevada." "And I knew him to be an honest and sincere man." "And I thought he'd be very helpful in letting me know what the future holds for the American people." "Who owns the Federal Reserve?" "It's secret and we can't find out what's happening, so, but the Congress created it, and it's not authorized in the Constitution." "The Government borrows money from a private corporation useing the name 'federal' that prints United States on it." "And then it pays back to the Fed, which is owned by private banks." "We don't know who all those private banks are." "The money that the government is paying back to the private bankers is the money that comes from you and me." "Why in the world would the American government borrow money and pay fees on it, when it has the authority to make the money itself interest free?" "Our national debt:" "US$ 6,116,475,366,155" "The Federal Reserve is no more federal than Federal Express." "I've never seen a full list of ownership for the Fed, I don't think anybody has." "The Government works for a private bank, and the private bank works for its owners." "They're the true masters." "People talked to me about the issue of republican vs. democrat, as if they dont get it, and I say look, here's the way you get it." "It's organized crime." "All you do is you call the republicans the Genovesis and you call the democrats the Gambinos." "The people at the top they treat it like a crap game, like it's their crap game, like they're making lots of money." "Occasionaly, someone at the table shoots each other, but the moment anything threatens their crap game, they all unite to protect it." "They're both controled by the same financial, economic and corporate interest." "Once the banks get into the picture and they form a partnership with the government, the government gives them the legal power now to create bank issued money backed by the coercive power of the government to require everybody to accept that bank money." "In the course of the last century, they've converted this nation from a nation of independent freeholders... to a nation of employees... and they're just one step away from being serves." "Most people spend the great bulk of their money for taxes, interest and inflation." "And all of that money goes to these two groups that comprise the cartel, and they're partner of the federal government." "It's not a coincidence." "So, if Congress use its legal authority to shut down the Federal Reserve System, the American people would be much better off..." ""The government should create, issue and circulate all the currency." "Creating and issuing money is the supreme prerogative of government and its greatest creative opportunity." "Adopting these principles will save the taxpayers immense sums of interest and money will cease to be the master and become the servant of humanity. "" "~ Abraham Lincoln" "Young people today are conditioned from practically from the cradle on up, to think that credit is a wonderfull thing..." "You don't wanna damage your credit." "You wanna do what you can so that you can go to the bank and get a good loan." "There are no, no people who own their own property, who own their own houses, who own their own business, who finance their own business." "There are only debters." "The average young person today has no concept that he's being drowned into a web, a trap." "Like he is in the feudalist system, only he's going to like it, he's gonna think this is wonderful, I've got my new red Corvette and I'm in debt for the rest of my life, but I'm looking good!" "The decision was made, you know, let's get all the debt up, let's move the jobs abroad and instead of re-engineering your skills we're gonna dumb down America and so the middle class will dissapear." "Really, what most of the people of this country have become is... food for the dead machine." "When a person borrows money and puts a noose around their neck, and makes them servant for the lender, which is exactlly what the Federal Reserve System is design to do." "And now our Congress, so dominated by the banks, is helping them to entrap people even further, by passing new bankruptcy laws making it more difficult for the people to declare bankruptcy and get a fresh start." "While at the same time allowing the banks to charge very high rates of interest." "This is the way the democrats and republicans, working with the banks, legally enslave the nation." "Credit card industry's a huge political contributor," " and unfortunatelly a number of..." " Can it be that..." "It just seems so, like I say, just bold, you know, this idea that credit card industry gives a lot of money to the government so they will protect them even to the abject disinterest of their own constituents." "Umm... that happens kind of a lot." "The board of directors of the Federal Reserve System is chosen by the president from a list prepared by the bankers themselves." "The process of finding the Greenspan's replacement is ongoing and is being managed by a small group of people responsible for coming up with a list of nominees." "It's important that whomever I pick... ahmmm... is viewed as an independent person from politics." ""If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency... the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property, until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. "" "~ Thomas Jefferson" "So the Federal Reserve is actually an illegal entity functioning within government?" "It's illegal and what we have given to this so called "Agency"" "is the authority to counterfeit money." "Do you have any points of view about the Federal Reserve and how the Federal Reserve operates?" "They just enter something on the computer," ""Oh, you need 20 billion today?" "Here's 20 billion", but they've got that out of thin air." "It came out of thin air, it goes to the treasury, the treasury then pays the bills." "So it's no diferent than Monopoly money." "Two pieces of paper." "Federal Reserve Corp. Parker Bros. Corp." "Both have the same amount of backing none." "The cost of living is so high today because the Federal Reserve and the federal government have destroyed the purchasing power of the dollar." "The dollar today is actually worth about 4 cents." "Despite the fact that the government, the Federal Reserve and the media keep telling us that they're protecting the value of the dollar... this is a lie." "All coutries who have ever attempted to create money out of thin air, the currency is eventually destroyed." "Why did we give a monopoly of creating money out of the thin air to a private corporation?" "The result is exactly the same as if someone were picking your pocket every year..." "because that's exactly what they're doing." "Originally, paper was a receipt, which is used as evidence that the money exists." "Over the years, of course, the government has disconnected the paper from the actual tangible substance which is money." "So, now we have a piece of paper which is evidence of... nothing." "In the past, people were able to take their receipts, the paper, to the bank and get the real money, the gold, in exchange for the receipt." "This limited the amount of money that could be printed, thereby protecting the purchasing power of your savings." "Bush:" "You don't have to worry." "Woman:" "That's good, because I work three jobs and I feel like I contribute." "You work three jobs?" "Three jobs, yes." "Uniquely American, ain't it?" "That is fantastic." ""In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation." "There is no safe store of value." "Gold stands as a protector of property rights. "" "Alan Greespan, before he went to work for the Federal Reserve System." "Now Alan Greenspan and the other central bankers want you to believe that the receipt, the paper, is the real money." "This is nothing more than sleight of hand." "It's a magician's trick, because for them to maintain control over the government and the people, they have to convince you that this paper is really money, because that is the essence of their power and our powerlessness to maintain control over our own government." ""Wake up, you idiots!" "Whatever made you think paper was so valuable?"" "~ Kurt Vonnegut Galapagos" ""Paper is poverty... it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself. "" "~ Thomas Jefferson" "What happened to the gold in Fort Knox?" "Nobody really knows, when I served on the Gold Comission" "I asked them too... really, you know, do another audit," "I remember it was 15x2 said we don't need to audit the gold." "It's supposed to be the American people's gold and so we would like an accounting to tell the American people what is there..." "I've been told that the Federal Reserve has taken control of the gold as collateral for the dollars they print." "They list gold on their balance sheet." "How can the Federal Reserve, this private bank list gold on their balance sheet?" "They claim they're holding that for the treasury." "So that puts private bankers in control of the American gold." "They could have taken all of America's wealth." "That's a possibility." "Shouldn't the Congress stand up and say:" ""Where is the American people's gold?"" "They had not audited it." "They control the money of America and it's not audited?" "There's no audit." "Wait a second, doesn't the Federal Reserve work underneath the Congress?" "Congress ignores their responsibilty to do any oversight." "The President really has no control nor does the Congress have any control over this cartel, it just has the apperance of control." "In the final analysis, the Federal Reserve bankers, with the help of the democrats and republicans in Congress, have swindle the American people." "They have taken the true wealth of America, the gold and given us a piece of paper in return." "And again, not a word from the press." "These frauds are going to continue until Congress is no longer intimidated by the Federal Reserve bankers and Congress uses their legal authority to shut down the Federal Reserve System and to stop this loss of our freedoms." ""Who controls food supply controls the people;" "who controls energy can control whole continents;" "who controls money controls the world. "" "~ Henry Kissinger" "Is there a law that requires people to file a 1040?" "Not explicity, but it's certainly implied." " Well, implied by force?" " Yeah." "But is there a law?" "I can't cite a law, no, I cannot... but, ahmm... you know..." "If they think it's the law and have all the guns..." "You know, it's an authoritarian approach." "Well, yes, but that's totalitarianism." "That's not a country run by by law." "Do you think America is going deeper and deeper into becoming a police state?" "And if so, in what ways do you see that as a congressman?" "Yeah, I think we're moving in that direction because there's not much we can do without permission." "The absence of a police state is that people are free and if you don't commit crimes you can do what you want." "But today, you can't open up a business, you can't develop land, you can hardly do anything, you can't go to the bank, you can't go to the doctor." "without the government knowing what you are doing." "They talk about medical privacy, that's gone; financial privacy, that's gone;" "the right to own property, that is essentially gone." "So, you have to get permission from the government for almost everything, and if that is a definition of a police state, that you can't do anything unless the government gives you permission, we're well on our way..." "This is something that people, eventually, I hope, will get sick and tired of and say, you know, enough is enough..." ""I sincerely believe the banking institutions having the issuing power of money, are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies. "" "~Thomas Jefferson" "You must understand the Federal Reserve is a cartel made up by the major banks in America, and they are the ones that are running the show, not the federal government." "The powers that be behind the system, the financial interests, are able to exercise a disproportional amount of influence not only on the economic structure of the country, but the political structure." "President Bush has signed executive orders giving authority to impose martial law and suspend habeas corpus." "This gives him dictatorial power over the people, without any checks and balances." "The government can jail you for life without charges, without a trial, and without a lawyer." "Because of globalization the U.S. must accept other nations' laws." "Under the CAFTA treaty the sale of vitamins and suplements will be illegal." "This would be like the ultimate reaching of government into our personal health lifes, which would be unbelievable, and not even our government, but some, you know, bureaucratic, difuse, multinational, secretive government." "EXECUTIVE ORDER #10999 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation." "EXECUTIVE ORDER #11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision." "EXECUTIVE ORDER #11921 Provides that the President can declare a state of emergency that is not defined, and Congress cannot review the action for six months." "Senate bill #1873 allows the government to vaccinate you with untested vaccines against your will." "The FDA says Americans do not have a right to know which foods are genetically modified." "Congressman Sensenbrenner's bill (HR 1528) requires you to spy on your neighbors, including wearing a wire." "Refusal would be punishable by a mandatory prison sentence of at least two years." "The government claims the power to seize all financial instruments:" "currency, gold, silver, and everything else if they deem an emergency exists." "~Treasury Department Letter August 12, 2005" "There are 190 countries in the world." "America has bases in 130 of them." "The PATRIOT Act permits:" "*Secret FBI and police searches of your home and office." "*Secret government wiretaps on your phone, computer and/or Internet activity." "*Secret investigations of your bank records, credit cards and other financial records." "*Secret investigations of your library and book activities." "*Secret examination of your medical, travel and business records." "*The freezing of funds and assets without prior notice or appeal." "*The creation of secret "watch lists" that ban those named from air and other travel." ""The constituition is just a goddamn piece of paper. "" "~George W. Bush" " Nov. 2005 Capital Hill Blue" "I just want to assure the American people then when I've got the authority to do this..." "The American people expect us to protect them and protect their civil liberties, I'm going to do that." "Preserve, protect and defend the Constituition of the U.S. so help me God." "...so help me God." "During the 1990's President Clinton monitored millions of private calls placed by U.S. citizens." "He did this under a secret program code named Echelon." "The widespread use of wiretapping Americans during the Clinton administration proves this practice was not started because of 9/11, but is standard procedure." "What happens if your own government is using more force and more coercion on its own citizens for the purpose of achieving its political ends?" "Is that government engaging in terrorism?" "Now let's watch the government add insult to injury to the people of New Orleans." "No one will be able to be armed." "We will take all the weapons." "That happened today at this wealthy neighborhood where home owners had armed themselves to protect their mansions." "Residents were handcuffed on the ground in the end police took their weapons but let them stay in their homes." "Wasn't it kind and generous of the government to allow people to stay in their own homes?" "How thoughtful!" "Of course, they couldn't defend themselves from looters..." "For many of the police an guard troops it is an uncomfortable job to do this in an American city." "You never expect to do this in on your own country." "Walking up and down these streets you don't wanna think about the stuff you're gonna have to do." "We are losing our right to property." "The government is gaining more pretext to seize it using... the power to confiscate with eminent domain." "The asset forfeiture loss have proliferated... it's easier for the prosecutors committed to make accusation against you... and confiscate your property even though they have no evidence that you've done anything wrong." "Guilt or innocence doesn't really matter that much because it's very convenient for the government." "Unfortunately, what is being sold to the American people today... as americanism... if you peel off the label you find so much similarity to what we were fighting against when we were fighting communism and nazism and fascism." "The government is now putting a national ID card together and they want checkpoints?" "We will be carrying our papers and they have recommended there'd be checkpoints throughout the country." "Isn't that a nazi Germany that everybody in America was against?" ""Papers, please." "May I see your papers?"" " May we see your papers?" " I don't think I have them on me." "In that case we have to ask you to come along." "Wait, it's possible that I..." "yes, here they are." "These papers expired 3 weeks ago." "You have to come along." "Halt!" "Halt!" "The new legislation that the National ID Card is, in it, it takes 3, 4 pages to describe, and it will be connected with our driver's licenses, the states will be instructed on exactly what they have to do," "social security numbers will be used, some type of physical proof such as fingerprints or retinal prints have to be on it." "This law, known as the "Real ID Act," takes effect in May, 2008." "Anyone without the card would not be permitted to board an airplane," "Amtrak train, open a bank account, or enter a federal building." "The bill mandates that all driver's licenses contain "common readable technology. "" "A Radio frequency identification chip will be used." "It is time to wake up, America." "These ID cards are not about defeating terrorism." "But they are all about controlling the American people." "I arranged an interview with Katherine Albrecht, a leading authority on the RFID chip." "Her book entitled "Spy Chips" is the definitive book on the subject." "I wanted to finf out just how dangerous these chips are to our liberties." "RFID is a technology that uses tiny computer chips the size of a grain of sand or even smaller hooked up to miniature antennas to transmit information about items at a distance." "Back in 1999, Procter  Gamble, Gillette and MIT got together to find a way to commercialize this technology and make it small enough, make it efficient enough and make it low cost enough to... essentially their dream is to put one of these tiny computer chips" "on every physical item manufactured on planet Earth." "The latest technology for identifying people at the point of sale, for identifying people when they make purchases is actually the implantable chip." "That you can actually embed directly into human flesh." "It's a tiny glass capsule about the size of a grain of rice." "It contains an RFID computer chip with a coilled antenna and it can transmit information also with a distance." "US group implants electronic tags in workers." "Can a microscopic tag being implanted in a person's body to track his every movement?" "There's actually discussion about that." "You will rule on that, mark my words, before your tenure is over." "Homeland Security folks, the Department of Defense and others have expressed an interest in being able to more closely monitor the US populace and one way to do that, of course, woulb be being able to determine who buys what and where they take those things." "Washington" " A massive database that the government will use to monitor every purchase made by every American citizen is a necessary tool in the war on terror, the Pentagon said yesterday." "Radio waves can travel through walls, they can travel through wood, they can travel through the things we normally rely on to protect our privacy." "For example, your purse, your backpack, your pocket, anything you're wearing or carrying." "Kraft Philadelphia cream cheese has been tagged with an RFID and sold to consumers as have Mach-3 razor products and other Gillette razor products without the knowledge of the consumer." "One of the tiny chips could actually even be the dot on the letter "i"" "on the back of the fine print on the package that you purchase." "They were talking about having reading devices in every airport, on every bus, on every train, on every port, on every dock." "One the most worrysome applications of RFID are proposals to put them into cash." "Meaning that you would be able to track every bank note, where it had been, who it had been issue to and create, in essence, an audit trail." "That would, essencially, take away the anonimity of cash that we now enjoy today." "The ATM machine itself, as the money came through the roller device, would be reading each number and they would know who you are because, of course, you identify yourself at the bank before you take the money out," "and down the road, when you go to pay at a major retailer, it would also be possible for them, as they're putting the money into the cash drawer, they simply feed it through a little reader device, it would go in," "it would tag that number and transfer possession from Aaron Russo say to Walmart." "Once everything you do is tied down to a single number and there is no longer the ability to pay with cash, then all it takes to render you a non-citizen is to simply turn that chip off." "You will no longer be able to really participate in any functioning society including buy food." "So, through the implementation of the Federal Reserve System, the Americans citizen has gone from being a private individual, who had real money, gold and his possession, that was private, to a citizen who has no privacy" "because all money is now being digitized." "They can deduct whatever amount of money they want out of your digits, whenever they want, they can trace you whenever they want, you'll be at their mercy." "God forbid that we allow this to happen in America." "This is absolutely Orwellian, I mean it's talking about Big Brother looking over your shoulder and absolutely everything you do, every purchase you make, every place you go, every company you interact with, all of that would be reported back, potentially, to the government." ""And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in the right hand, or in their forehead:" "And that no man might buy or sell save he had the mark. "" "~Revelation 13:16" "Pizza Palace, garanteed to have in 30 minutes or it's free." " This is Mary." "May I take your order?" " Hi, Mary." "Yes, I'd like to order." " Is this Mr. Kelly?" " Yes." "Thank you for calling again, sir." "Assure your National Identification Number is 6102049998-45-54610." "Is that correct?" " Yes." " Thank you, Mr. Kelly." "I see you live at 736 Montrose Court, bur your calling from your cell phone." " Are you at home?" " I'm just leaving work, but I..." "We can do delivery to Bob Plaza Supply." " That's at 175 Lincoln Avenue, yes?" " No, I'm on my way home." " How do you know all this stuff?" " We just got wired into the system, sir." "Oh, well, I'd like to order a couple one of your double meat special pizzas." "Sure thing." "There'll be a new $20 charge for that, sir." "What do you mean?" "Sir, the system shows me that your medical records indicate that you've high blood pressure and extremely high colesterol." "Luckily we have a new agreement with your National Healthcare Provider that allows us to sell you double meat pies as long as you agree to waive" " all future claims of liability." " What?" "Do you agree, sir?" "You can sign the form when we deliver, but there is a charge for processing." "The total is $67.00 even." "US$ 67.00?" "That includes the delivery surcharge, US$ 15.00, to cover the added risk to our driver of travelling to an orange zone." " I live in an orange zone?" " Now you do." "Looks like there was another robbery on Montrose yesterday." "Hmm, you could save US$ 48.00 if you order our special Sprout Submarine Combo and pick it up yourself." "Comes with tofu sticks, those are very tasty, sir, good value too." "But I want double meat!" "Well, I'm sure you can afford the US$ 67.00 then." "You just bought those tickets to Hawaii, they weren't cheap, hein?" "Oh, but I see you checked out the Budget Beach Bum at the library last week." " Hmm, up to you, sir." " Right, right." "I'll get the sprout subs." "Good choice, sir." "Gotta watch that weight to get in the beach, hein?" "42 inches?" "Wow." "Man, I'd say tofu and sprouts is like... required." "That's how much?" "Just between you and me, there's a $3.00 off coupon in this month's" "Total Men's Fitness magazine." "Your wife Betty subscribed to that, right?" "Anyhow, quit that and is 19.99 even." "Oh, looks like you maxed out on all your credit cards." "Bring cash, ok?" "Have we become so controlled and so ignorant about our rights... that big instituitions and big government can do whatever they want with us even without our approval?" "I knew for certain the Founding Fathers would resist to the death what is happening in America today." "And I for one will not accept the National ID Card." "And if nobody accepts the National ID Card and nobody can board a plane without one, then let the airlines go bankrupt." "And if you can't open a bank account on a big money center bank then open an account on a small local bank." "And if you can't walk into a federal building" "I personally would consider that a blessing." "Don't allow these instituitions to dictate to us how we conduct our lives." "This is America and we have free choice." "We, the people, have all the power." "Not the government." "Government gets its power from us." "Not the other way around." "Think on all the men and women who died in all our wars, fighting for freedom, not Federal Reserve bankers." "Do you think they sacrificed their lives so that Americans can be chipped like a dog?" "So we can all have a roaming device inside us?" "No." "This ID card is the last step before they implant us." "And that's precisely the reason nobody should accept one." "And do you know what they're gonna do?" "They're gonna call in the propaganda machine." "The media!" "And try and sell this as if were in everybody's best interest." "I'm working on a product that we have called internally a PLD." "PLD stands for Personal Locating Device which is an implantable GPS for which our company owns a patent." "The hybrid of the two of these products being Digital Angel and Verichip is what we call PLD." "PLD should be in prototype form by the end of this year, by December of 2002, and we're already working with the Food and Drug Administration, as well as Legislative agencies with these products and ultimately with the PLD." "FDA approves consumer chip for humans." "Medical milestone or privacy invasion?" "We have a Florida family who are really pioneers in a brave new world." "They have volunteer to be the first ever to have microchip identification devices implanted into their bodies." "After 9/11 I was really concerned with the security of my family." "I wouldn't mind having something planted permanently in my arm... that would identify me." "Talk about identification papers." "Watch what happens to a woman in Florida whose license was suspended." "Get out of the car or I'm going to tase you." "(?" ") The next ?" "Lay down on your stomach!" "On your stomach." "Do it now." "Put your hands behind your back." "Do it now." "Do it now or you're gonna get tased again." "Do it now!" " I can't!" " Do it now!" "On your back." "Put your hands behind your back." " I can't!" "I can't!" " Sure you can." "Come here." "Oh, God." "You got blood on your arm." "Oh, my God!" "(?" ")- ?" "you tased me and you handcuffed me!" " Yea, you're under arrest." " For what reason?" " You're license is suspended." "All the power is in the people." "And to the extent that government becomes alienated from the people, does things the people don't want, power is transfered 'til you finally come to a police state, totalitarian state, whatever the word you wanna give it, where the desires of the people really have no consequence." "They go out and they vote, doesn't make any difference which candidate they elect." "Forum on the 2004 Presidential Election 12/13/2004" "I'm a programmer, I worked for NASA, I worked for Exxon Mobil," "I worked for the Department of Transportation." "Clinton Eugene Curtis - computer programmer" "Mr. Curtis, are there programs that can be used to secretly fix elections?" " Yes." " How do you know that could be the case?" "Because at October, 2000, I wrote a prototype for president," "(?" ") congressman Tom Feeney, at the company I worked for ?" "Florida did just that." "(?" ") And we say Jed ?" "did just that... it would rig an election?" "It would flip the vote 51/49... to whoever you wanted it that go to and whichever ratio you wanted to win." "And would that program that you design be something that election's officials that might be on county boards of elections could detect?" "They'd never see it." "So how such a program, a secret program that fixes the election, how could it be detected?" "You would have to view either in the source code or you'd have to have a receipt and then count the hard paper against the actual vote total." "Other than that you won't see it." "Voting machine manufacturers refuse to allow anyone to see the source code." "Without paper ballots the honesty of any election cannot be verified." "Given the availibitly of such vote-rigging software and the testimony that it's been given under oath of substantial statistical anomalies, gross diferences between exit polling data and the actual tabulated results, do you have an opinion whether or not Ohio election, the Ohio election," "presidential election, was hacked?" "Yes, I would say it was." "So, in other words, there's absolutely no assurance whatsoever" "(?" ")- and anything (?" ") do with these machines?" " Absolutely none." "2004 Ohio Precinct exit poll data shows virtually irrefutable evidence of vote miscount." "~National Election Data Archive" "Anybody who trust electronic voting machine should have their head examined." ""Integrity of 2006 elections cannot be ensured. "" "~Government Accountability Office" "Many of the voting machines companies are owned and operated by foreign agencies." ""Those who vote decide nothing." "Those who count the votes decide everything. "" "~Josef Stalin Russian Dictator" "Now we can see a new world coming into view." "A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order." ""The new world order will be built..." "an end run on national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old fashioned frontal assault. "" "~Council on Foreign Relations Journal 1974, p. 558" ""We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it." "The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent. "" "~Paul Warburg" " Council on Foreign Relations and architect of the Federal Reserve System" "In an address to the U.S. Senate 2/17/1950" "There's a group that get together internationally and they sort of play God with our money." "You think that's part of what George Bush said was the one world order?" "They can't have a new world order only with, you know, world police, military..." "I think the financial system ultimately is even more important than the guns." "The central bankers of the world are working together to create a one world government, a global police state as sinister as anything George Orwell ever wrote about." "Where every person on the planet Earth will have a RFID chip implanted, where the bankers and the governments can monitor every transaction you make." "A chip in everybody would be the universal monitoring system par excellence." "Because there'd be no escape from it and you would be totally under the control of those who issue the electronic impulses in that chip." "Their strategies have been accomplished through the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and the Bank for International Settlements, which is the central bank for all the central banks of the world." "Most people don't have a clue that these unelected private bankers actually control the governments of the world." "They have financed and profitted from every war since World War I without concern for humanity." "The war in Iraq is an attempt by the Federal Reserve and their partner, the Bank of England, to control the Middle East and to make it a part of the new world order." "To defend the new world order U.S. soldiers will have to kill and die." "Arthur Schlesinger Council on Foreign Relations Journal" "Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy." "Henry Kissinger Council on Foreign Relations" "Stop the killing in the Middle East by stopping the New World Order." "Now let's listen to this quote by Robert Reich a member of president Clinton's cabinet and one of his most trusted advisors:" ""The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant." "America's domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve." "America's foreign policy is now being run by the International Monetary Fund." "When the president decides to go to war he no longer needs a declaration of war from Congress." "Dr. Carl Quigley, professor from Georgetown University, who's also president Clinton's mentor, said in his book Tragedy and Hope:" ""The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim ...nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands... able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. "" "And then president Clinton's deputy secretary of State Strobe Talbot said:" ""In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete, all States will recognize a single global authority. "" "All the supposed free trade agreements, NAFTA, GATT, CAFTA are truly nothing more than the governments of the world and the central banks working together to create a one world government." "They are not free trade." "These treaties are government managed trade." "And they are the destroying the American worker." "Through these treaties the bankers are actually beginning to control the laws of the world." "The fact is that these relationship between the bankers, the government and the usual multinational corporations is the very reason why the government no longer enforces its immigration laws." "The bankers want a one world government without borders and the American government is obeying them." "If the government was so worried about terrorism why are they leaving the borders open, but at the same time telling American citizens they need an ID card with a RFID chip." "The war on terrorism is the war on your freedom." "Osama Bin Laden could not come over here and limit your rights or my rights, to free speech, from search and seizure, from all of these elements in the Bill of Rights." "Imposible for him to do that." "They could never accomplished that on their own, but, through our government, they've apparently accomplished that." "Look what happened in Europe." "The people that voted down the European Constitution wanted each country to stay sovereign." "Yet the private central bankers are pushing the governments forward to make this constitution happen even though the people voted against it, and clearly do not want a world government, nor one European government." ""The bankers own the earth." "Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough money to buy it back again." "However, take away from them the power to create money, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in." "But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money. "" "~ Sir Josiah Stamp former Director of The Bank of England" "Now pay close attention to this quote by David Rockefeller and you'll understand what is happening in the world today and where the American people are heading as a nation." ""We are grateful to the Washington Post, the NY Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years." "It would have impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years." "But now the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government." "The supra national sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries. "" "David Rockefeller, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, actually believes that we would be better off if he and his bankers friends ran the world." ""The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes. "" "~Felix Frankfurter U.S. Supreme Court Justice" "Benito Mussolini had a great quote about fascism." "He said that fascism should be called corporatism, more properly, because it's the perfect merger of power between the corporation and the State." "That's how he defined fascism and that's what we're seeing here." "The media controls the information that a person gets." "In various ways, they can make sure that the average American watching the tube, or reading the newspaper, is going to come out with a certain mindset." "It's gonna say:" ""This is good, that's bad. "" "And that's all they have to do." "You look at the ownership of the corporate media in this country." "Who owns CBS?" "Viacom." "Who owns NBC?" "GE." "Who owns ABC?" "Disney." "Americans have been taught to expect their salvation from government instead of recognizing government as the most dangerous threat they'll face in their lives." "And the U.S. is putting together a constituition now for Iraq." "You know, why we just don't give them ours, I mean, think about it, it served us well for over 200 years and we don't appear to be using it anymore." "So, what the hell?" "!" ""It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did," "I believe there would be a revolution tomorrow morning. "" "~Henry Ford do not understand do understand" "Now that you do understand what happened in 1913..." "And how it is leading to world government, the future depends on you." "Will you choose Freedom or Slavery?" "The choice is yours..." "Because it's the people who have all the power." "Stop living in fear of your government." "Government is the servant." "We are the master." "So what are YOU going to do about it?" "Civil Disobedience." "Be willing to take part in nationwide boycotts, marches and strikes." "Force Congress to use their legal authority to shut down the Federal Reserve and stop the theft of the American people's labor and wealth." "DO NOT support any political candidate unless they sign an affidavit agreeing to close down the Federal Reserve  and stop world government." "If you're in the military or law enforcement, remember, you swore an oath to defend the American constituition, not to promote world government." "Honor your oath." "Do not accept the National ID card, even if it's your driver's license." "Because the next step will be to implant you." "Abolish computer voting in the state where you live." "Stop being good Democrats" "Stop being good Republicans" "Start being good Americans" "And when the media starts telling you the country will fall apart if this is done Don't be fooled this is just the Federal Reserve System trying to save itself." "Squash it." "I think that the ultimate choice that's being presented to mankind is that it's time to either evolve or perish." "Grow up or die." "Become adults." "Act like adults, take some responsability." "If you believe in civil desobedience and wish to organize with millions of other Americans in this battle for liberty..." "And if you choose not to help report to Central Services immediately and will have you fitted for an electronic chip... for your own safety, of course..." "I like the old idea where you could do what you thought you could do what you wanted to do, as long you didn't hurt other people." "Writer/Director Aaron Russo" "Producer/Editor Aaron Russo" "Editor Gabe Miller" "Film Archivist/Additional Narration/ 2nd Unit Director" " Richard Whitley" "Composer David Benoit" "Camera" " James Salisbury Sound Recording" " Pam Hudgens" "Sound Editor Suren" "Animator Matt Mary" "Associate Producer Sam Russo" "Consultant Robert Prechter" "This film is dedicated to the founding fathers and all the sacrifices they made to give us freedom." "Do not allow this precious gift to be taken away." "Re-transcripted, line braking e sync corrected by Tio Beto from Brazil sugestions and/or corrections, please feel free to contact me at:" "tiobetonh@gmail. com ... =Peace Through Anarchy=..."