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"Federal Income Taxes,

The IRS and

The Federal Reserve"

by

Paul Andrew Mitchell, Founder

Account for Better Citizenship
c/o general delivery
San Rafael, California Republic
Postal Zone 94901/TDC

A Transcript of the Videotape

Pre-Recorded on December 10, 1991
in the Professional Studios of:

Viacom Cablevision
1111 Andersen Drive
San Rafael, California Republic
Postal Zone 94901/TDC

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Hello, ladies and gentlemen.

My name is Paul Andrew Mitchell.

I am the founder of the Account for Better Citizenship.

For the next 30 minutes, I will be talking to you about federal income
taxes, the IRS, and the federal reserve system.

If you have a VCR, you might want to insert a blank tape and record the
next half-hour. You are going to hear some things that you might want to
hear again, or to replay later on for your family, friends, and neighbors.

If you don't have a VCR, at the end of this program we will tell you
how to obtain a transcript of this program.

Let me first introduce myself. Before founding the Account for Better
Citizenship, I studied to be a Catholic priest for almost 6 years.

I have a Bachelor's degree from UCLA in Political Science.

I have a Master's degree in Public Administration from the University

of California at Irvine.

I have also completed 5 of the required 7 courses for a Master's degree

in the Program in Social Ecology, also at the University of California at
Irvine.

I have more than 20 years of professional experience in public policy,

environmental planning, and computer systems development.

Now, before you get the wrong idea, I want you to understand that I
have always had to work for a living.

When I graduated from college, I was over $6,000 in debt to banks for
student loans and other financial aid.

I have always paid the taxes I owed. I have obeyed the law. And I
have never been arrested.

During those 20 years of experience, I came to tolerate the normal

shenanigans I witnessed in American politics ...

... until June of 1990, when I was presented with real material
evidence that the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was never ratified.

You may already know that the 16th Amendment is the so-called "income
tax" amendment.

I investigated and found that some 17,000 State-certified documents

have been assembled to prove that the 16th Amendment is really a fraud.

The U.S. Secretary of State in the year 1913, a man by the name of
Philander Knox, simply "declared" it ratified, in the face of serious

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problems which he knew existed with the ratification in several of the

States.

You should know that it takes three-fourths (3/4) of the States to

ratify an amendment to the Constitution for the United States.

Let me give you just a few examples of the obstacles which this
amendment encountered in some of the States.

In the State of Illinois, a State court ruled that "it never became a
law, and was as much a nullity as if it had been the act, or declaration, of
an unauthorized assemblage of individuals."

In the State of Arkansas, the Governor vetoed the proposed amendment

and the State Legislature never overrode his veto. You should know that the
Arkansas Constitution does not exempt amendments from requiring a Governor's
signature.

In Kentucky, the Senate Journal contains a clear statement that 9

Kentucky Senators voted FOR the amendment, and 22 voted AGAINST the
amendment. And yet, Philander Knox declared that the State of Kentucky
ratified the 16th Amendment.

This is obviously a serious matter, because we now have evidence that

one or more federal officials have actually tampered with the supreme law of
the land, contrary to their own sworn oaths of office.

The year was 19131, an ominous year in the history of America.

In that same year, the Federal Reserve was established.

Look in your wallet for a moment, and pull out a Federal Reserve Note.
Already, you have a big problem in your hands.

First of all, the Federal Reserve is not "federal". It is no more

federal than Federal Express, or Federated Hardware Stores. There is no
government copyright or trademark on using the word "federal".

Secondly, there is no "reserve". If we have time, we will explain what

is meant by "fractional reserve banking".

Thirdly, Federal Reserve Notes are not real promissory notes, because
they do not promise to pay anything, like gold, or silver, or any real
substance.

The Federal Reserve System was conceived by a conspiracy of bankers and

politicians who met secretly off the coast of Georgia to create the Federal
Reserve Act.

This Act of Congress was designed to remove the Constitution as a

constraint on the financial operations of the U.S. government.

1
. On the pre-recorded video tape, Mr. Mitchell erred by stating that the
year was 1916. The correct year was 1913.

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It created a private credit monopoly which Congressman Louis T.

McFadden once called "one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever
known". Congressman McFadden was Chairman of the House Banking and Currency
Committee from 1920 to 1933.

The operations of the Federal Reserve are complicated and secretive.

For example, this huge syndicate of private banks has never been publicly
audited.

I will do my best to simplify the operations of the Federal Reserve for

you.

The Federal Reserve System is set up to encourage Congress to spend

money it doesn't have -- lots of it.

Rather than honestly taxing Americans for all the money it wants to
spend, Congress runs up a huge deficit which it covers by printing ink on
paper and calling it bonds, or Treasury Bills.

Some of these T-bills are purchased by hard-working Americans like you

and me, with money that we obtained from real labor, something that has real
value.

But the deficits have become so huge, the wage earners do not have
enough money to purchase all these bonds every year.

So, Congress walks across the street, and offers these bonds to the
Federal Reserve. The FED says, "Sure, we'll buy those bonds. Your interest
rate is 8.25, or 9 and a half. Take it or leave it."

Congress always takes it, because there's nobody else with that kind of
money. Remember, the Federal Reserve is a private credit MONOPOLY.

Now, what does the FED use to purchase those bonds?

They CREATE money OUT OF THIN AIR, using bookkeeping entries to

manufacture credit out of nothing. They used to use pen and ink, then
typewriters, now computers do the job.

This artificial money would normally create very rapid inflation. This
happened in Germany just prior to World War II, when Louis McFadden was a
Congressman. It eventually took a wheel barrow full of Deutsche marks to buy
one loaf of bread. Can you imagine that?

The bankers realized that a mechanism was needed to withdraw this

artificial money out of circulation as quickly as it was put into
circulation.

Enter the Internal Revenue Service.

The IRS is really a collection agency for the Federal Reserve.

The FED pumps money into the economy, and the IRS sucks it out of the
economy.

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This has the effect of artificially maintaining the purchasing power of

this "fiat money", as it is called by monetary experts.

This is one of the PRIMARY PURPOSES of the income tax.

We know this to be true, because a man named Beardsley Ruml explained

it clearly in an essay he published in 1946. Beardsley Ruml was chairman of
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, so he was in a position to know.

The shocking fact is that Federal income taxes do not pay for any
government services; they are used to make interest payments on the federal
debt. These interest payments are now approaching 40 percent of the federal
budget.

Now, the Federal Reserve Act is unconstitutional for many reasons,

foremost among which is that Congress delegated to a private corporation a
power which Congress never had, that is, to counterfeit money.

It is unlawful for Congress to exercise a power which is not authorized

to it by the Constitution. The People (you and I) and the States reserve ALL
powers not expressly delegated to the federal government.

Congress got hooked on this sweetheart deal and started spending money
so fast, it quickly bankrupted the Federal Government.

This may also come as a shock to many of you. And you might feel that
what we are about to say is paranoid or crazy. We felt this way too when we
first discovered it. We couldn't believe it. So we investigated.

Our research discovered that the bankers foreclosed on the United

States Treasury no later than the year 1933. They called the loans and
confiscated all the gold then held by the U.S. Treasury.

An Act of Congress caused all that gold to be transferred to the

Federal Reserve banks. Remember, those are private banks. And the Treasury
Department is NOT the U.S. Treasury Department.

To secure the rest of their debt, Congress then liened, in effect, on

the future property and earnings of all the American people, through Social
Security taxes, payroll withholding taxes, inheritance taxes, and the like.

Congress mortgaged the American people, using our labor and our
property as collateral.

What Congress did was analogous to this: I walk into a large

department store and see a new toaster I want. I tell the sales person to
ship it to my home tomorrow, and to send the bill to Willie Brown.

Now, when Willie Brown gets the bill for this toaster, he's going to be
pretty mad, and rightly so. He didn't order the toaster; he doesn't own the
toaster; he wasn't a party to the transaction. In fact, he didn't even know
about it. And yet, I am holding him responsible to pay for the toaster.

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In this example, I am Congress; the department store is the Federal

Reserve; and Willie Brown represents the American people.
This is fraud, because Congress did not openly and freely disclose the real
reasons for its actions.

Lack of full disclosure is grounds for fraud in any contract. The

Uniform Commercial Code says so.

And yet, all Americans are being unlawfully enslaved by this fraud, to
help discharge the debt which Congress has tried to impose upon all of us.

Now, at this point, we will show you how to contact us to obtain more
information about this fraud. If you're not recording this program, get a
pencil and write down our mailing address:

Account for Better Citizenship

c/o general delivery
San Rafael, California Republic
Postal Code 94901/TDC

If you will send us a stamped, self-addressed envelope, we will be

happy to send you a free reading list, and also a list of organizations which
you can contact to obtain more information and to get yourself more involved.

We will also send you a list of other documents which you can purchase
directly from us.

For example, we have already filed several formal complaints with the
Congress of the United States concerning the 16th Amendment fraud. These
complaints include a request for a Grand Jury Investigation right here in
Marin County.

Another document is a formal letter to all the Governors of the 50

States, putting them on notice of the great fraud and deception under which
the American people now suffer. This letter includes a series of attachments
which fully document the fraud and deception.

Now, I want to talk a little bit about the law itself, the Internal
Revenue Code, and the IRS administration of that law.

The law and its administration are two completely different things.

Under the Constitution, federal direct taxes on private property must

be apportioned. Your wages are private property. Apportionment means that
California pays 10 percent of the bill, if California has 10 percent of the
nation's population. This is one of the reasons why we have a census every
decade.

In its administration of the internal revenue laws, the IRS is now

imposing income taxes as direct taxes without apportionment, and cites the
16th Amendment for its authority to do so. Well, you now know that the 16th
Amendment never happened.

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Another big problem is the legal definition of "income". Believe it or

not, the term "income" is not defined anywhere in the Internal Revenue Code.
All by itself, this renders the law null and void for vagueness.

On numerous occasions, the U.S. Supreme Court has already decided that
"income" means profit or gain, and wages are not income. In one of the most
famous of cases to decide this question, the case of Eisner versus Macomber,
the Supreme Court said:

... it is essential to distinguish between what is and what is not

income, and to apply that distinction according to truth and substance,
without regard to form.

And, in what must have been one of its finest hours, that same Court
also said:

Congress cannot by any definition it may adopt conclude the matter [of
defining income], since it cannot by legislation alter the
Constitution, from which alone it derives its power to legislate, and
within whose limitations alone that power can be lawfully exercised.

Now, the law is something entirely different from the IRS

administration of that law. In order to understand the law itself, we have
consulted with legal investigators, attorneys, professors, and paralegals.
With their expert help, we have come to conclude the following:

The citizens and residents of the United States are required to pay
income taxes. But what is meant by the term "United States" in the Internal
Revenue Code?

Well, this term has three different meanings, depending on the context.
First, it may mean the name of a sovereign nation occupying the position of
other sovereigns in the family of nations.

Secondly, it may mean the collective name for the 50 States which are
united by and under the Constitution.

Thirdly, it can also mean the territory over which the federal
government has exclusive jurisdiction. This territory includes only the
District of Columbia, and the limited territories and possessions which
belong to the Congress of the United States. These are places like Guam,
Midway, and the Virgin Islands; they do NOT include the 50 States of the
Union. Congress does not own California, for example.

When the law states that citizens and residents of the United States
are required to pay income taxes, the law is using the term "United States"
in this third sense.

The law says that if you're not a "United States citizen", then you're
an "alien". Also, the law says that if you're not a "resident of the United
States", then you're a non-resident.

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Accordingly, most American Citizens, born free in one of the 50 States,

living and working in one of the 50 States, are therefore NONRESIDENT ALIENS
according to the Internal Revenue Code.

I know it sounds strange, but the law is not referring to creatures

from outer space. The law is referring to the creations of lawyers. You are
"alien" with respect to the federal government's areas of exclusive
jurisdiction, if you were born outside those areas.

You are a "citizen" of the federal government if you were born in the
District of Columbia or in one of these limited other areas, or if you
elected to become a "citizen" through a process known as naturalization.

There are only 2 reasons why NONRESIDENT ALIENS must pay federal income
taxes:

(1) They either have income that is effectively connected with a

trade or business inside the United States (using the third,
limited definition of the United States), and/or

(2) They have income from a source inside the United States (again,
using this third, limited definition).

Aside from these exceptions, nonresident aliens pay no taxes on their

earnings.

So, talk with your CPA or tax attorney, and be sure to clarify your
status. You may want to consider filing IRS Form 1040NR next April 15. If
you have no income which falls into these two categories, then you can put
ZERO on line 23, the income total.

Be careful about attaching any W-2 or 1099 forms. Section 6065 of the
Internal Revenue Code requires that such documents be certified. If they are
not certified, they are not valid.

Now, if you have ever filed one or more 1040 forms in the past, the
government is entitled to presume that you are a person who is required to
file a return and to pay federal income taxes.

This is called the "law of presumption", and your 1040 forms can be
used as evidence to prove that you are required to pay, even when you are
not. So, you may need to reverse this presumption on their part, to prevent
this from happening.

Thus, you should consider setting the record straight by sending a

formal AFFIDAVIT to the Secretary of the Treasury, which will clarify your
actual status and leave no doubt about their lack of jurisdiction over you.

On the list of organizations we will send to you, there are several

groups around the country who can assist you in preparing and executing this
affidavit.

Enough of these details for now.

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To summarize, chances are, you have been volunteering federal income

taxes in the past, and there is actually no legal requirement for you to
continue doing so in the future.

If you would like me to speak with your CPA or tax attorney, I will be
happy to share the results of our research with them.

In the meantime, get yourself involved, and study the Constitution.

Find out how interesting and exciting it can be.

You have often heard that we get the government we deserve. Let's do
everything we can to deserve the very best government that any nation has
ever had.

I say these things because I hold these truths to be self-evident:

That all of us are created equal;

That we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights;

That among these, are the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness;

That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among us,

deriving their just powers from our consent;

And that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these

ends, it is our right to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new
government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its
powers in such form, as to us shall seem most likely to effect our safety and
our happiness.

And to this end, I dedicate my life, my fortune, and my sacred honor.

Thank you very much.

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