Appendix I
Notice to 50 Governors
Reader's Notes:
MEMO
TO: Friends,
Neighbors, Colleagues
and all
interested parties
FROM: Paul
Andrew Mitchell, Founder
Account
for Better Citizenship
DATE: September
10, 1991
SUBJECT: Enclosed
Letter to 50 State Governors
Enclosed
please find a copy of our letter and attachments to the 50 Governors of the
sovereign States of the Union.
With this
letter, we place these 50 Governors on notice that a great fraud and deception
have been fastened upon the American people.
This fraud
and deception are the result of a private credit monopoly (the Federal Reserve
System) and a repressive and confiscatory taxing syndicate (the Internal
Revenue Service) that have been imposed upon us without our consent.
We petition
the Governors to understand that heavy government borrowing and excessive
taxation go hand-in-hand, that a foreign jurisdiction has obtained control of
money and credit in America, and that the situation is now so serious, it
threatens systematically to corrupt and destroy the very foundations of our
modern civilization.
Help us to
assist the Governors to understand that Congress has seized vast powers from
the States for the federal government by means of gross deficit spending, heavy
government borrowing, and unlawful delegation of monetary powers to a private
banking cartel.
Help us to
abolish the specter of modern slavery which now threatens to destroy the
essential rights and freedoms which made this a great nation and the envy of
others around the world.
Please join
us in demanding the 50 Governors to act decisively in accordance with their
solemn oath of office: to uphold and
defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, both foreign and domestic.
Help us to
restore a government which has drifted so far off course, it hardly resembles
the constitutional republic it was designed to be.
Account for
Better Citizenship
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San Rafael,
California state
Account for Better Citizenship
c/o general delivery
San Rafael, California state
Postal Code 94901/tdc
Governor [date]
Office of the Governor
State Capitol
City, State
Dear Governor :
We are writing
in order to notify you formally that a great fraud and deception have been
fastened upon the people of your State.
In so doing, we place you on
notice of this fraud and deception, and request that you exercise your
solemn oath of office to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United
States and the rights of the people.
Our
forefathers waged the War of Independence, suffered enormous sacrifices, and
even gave their lives to sever our nation from an unlawful jurisdiction imposed
on them by the King of England. This
jurisdiction is known as Admiralty Law.
Its primary beneficiary is the Federal Reserve System, a private credit
monopoly once described by Congressman Louis T. McFadden as "one of the most corrupt institutions the
world has ever known".
Congressman McFadden was Chairman of the House Banking and Currency
Committee from 1927 to 1933.
By utter
deceit and a failure to abide by the mandates of the U.S. Constitution, our
lawmakers have imposed this same unlawful jurisdiction back upon the
people. This was done through the
chicanery and great pressure applied by the international banking community,
whose aim has always been to control the issuance of money and credit. Foremost among these bankers was Mayer
Amschel Rothschild who stated,
"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes the laws."
We are now in
an undeclared economic war, and the enemy is winning!
If the people
of this nation had not been raped by the great banking cartels, we would have
no poor or homeless in our nation; to
quote an editorial in the London Times in 1865, we would by now have
become:
"... prosperous beyond precedent in
the history of the civilized governments of the world."
This same editorial
went on to predict that our nation would pay off its debts and be without a
debt. It would have all the money
necessary to carry on its commerce. The
brains and wealth of all countries would go to North America. For these reasons, the London Times
urged that our government be destroyed, or it would destroy every monarchy on
the globe!
American history reveals that Benjamin Franklin traveled
to England as a representative of the Colonies. The British officials there asked how it was the Colonies managed
to collect enough taxes to build poor houses, and how they handled this
terrible burden of caring for the poor.
Franklin's reply was simple and direct:
"We have no poor houses in the
Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the
Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds."
He went on to explain the underlying reason for this:
"It is because in the Colonies we
issue our own paper money. We call it
Colonial Script, and we issue only enough to move all goods freely from the
producers to the Consumers; and as we
create our money, we control the purchasing power of money, and have no
interest to pay."
As Franklin
knew so well, this system guarantees honest money. There would be no need for inflation or deflation, as long as the
money supply was kept equal to the value of goods to be moved.
Contrast this
condition to that of England: all her
money was borrowed from banks, and repressive taxes were laid upon the
people. Banks usurped the government's
right to create and regulate money.
Banks created money or credit "out of thin air", by mere
bookkeeping entries, with no labor or wealth involved or exchanged.
Today, we suffer from the same debt money
system here in America. As a result,
the nation's wealth is being systematically transferred from a nation of
producers to a syndicate of lenders, who have done nothing in any way to earn
it or warrant it.
Why should
the people pay tribute to a private credit monopoly for the benefit of using
their own money? The people retain an
unalienable right to create their own medium of exchange, through their elected
representatives in the Congress of the United States, as mandated by the
Constitution. When this right was
challenged by the British, the Colonists went to war. Benjamin Franklin identified this as the real reason for the War
of Independence:
"The Colonies would gladly have borne
the little tax on tea and other matters, had it not been that England took away
from the Colonies their money, which created unemployment and
dissatisfaction."
We believe
that President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated for his creation of
"United States Notes", and for his refusal to borrow debt money from
banks. Lincoln was quoted to say:
"The people can and will be furnished
with a currency as safe as their own Government. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of
humanity. Democracy will rise superior
to the money power."
Governor, with your help, and with the grace of God,
this can still happen.
Governor, we expect you to understand that debt money
and excessive taxes go hand-in-hand.
Today, Americans pay over 10,000
PERCENT more in taxes than did Colonial Americans. Federal income taxes are confiscated under
duress, even though they are voluntary under law, and apply only to persons in
federal enclaves or possessions.
The framers
made it plain that "No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in
consequence of appropriations made by Law" (Article I, Section 9, Clause
7). Nevertheless, a philosophy of
"tax, tax; spend, spend; elect, elect" began in the Roosevelt
era when the U.S. Supreme Court relaxed traditional restrictions on the Federal
Government in the Butler case (297 US 1, 1936).
In this case,
the Court interpreted the "general welfare" clause as a general grant
of power to Congress to tax and spend for anything
it felt was in the interest of the
nation's welfare. This ruling opened
the U.S. Treasury to unlimited looting by politicians who saw this as a golden
opportunity to increase taxes and buy votes with federally funded projects in
their respective States. A massive
share of this funding is now done through heavy government borrowing!
Governor, if this situation is not
changed, the destiny of our nation is literally in the hands of international
bankers and their cohorts. As German statesman and soldier Bismarck predicted:
"The death of Lincoln was a disaster
for Christendom .... I fear that
foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control
the exuberant riches of America and use them systematically to corrupt modern
civilization. They will not hesitate to
plunge the whole of Christendom into wars and chaos in order that the earth shall
become their inheritance."
For our own
sake, and for the sake of our posterity, we pray that you will be earnest in
your endeavor to help set our nation aright.
Honor your oath of office, so that your constituents and our Creator may
properly show you respect, and that you too may proclaim, with Benjamin
Franklin:
"I
can appear cheerfully before God fearing nothing from His justice in this
particular."
Governor,
join us to help restore the laws and liberties that our founding fathers fought
so hard to win and leave to us, their posterity.
Please take
the time necessary to study personally the material enclosed with this
letter. It summarizes the fraud we now
suffer, from a private credit monopoly and a confiscatory taxing syndicate
imposed upon us without our consent.
Then, honor us
by acting decisively in accordance with your solemn oath of office: to uphold and defend the Constitution of the
United States from all enemies, both foreign and domestic, so help you God.
Yours for liberty and justice,
/s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell, Founder /s/ Leigh Waddell
Account for Better Citizenship Secretary
attachments:
Graph of U.S. National Debt
"Why,
Pilgrim, Don't You Act?"
"Promises
Made, Promises Broken"
"How It
All Began"
"The Rothschild-Hamilton
Money and Banking System"
"The
Lost Document"
"What
You Should Know About the Federal Reserve System"
Letter to 60
Minutes, by Paul Andrew Mitchell, 5/29/91
Letter to 60
Minutes, by Godfrey Lehman, 5/21/91
Letter to Louis Roseman, by Paul Andrew
Mitchell, 5/2/91
"The Two
United States and the Law," by Howard Freeman
"$10,000
Reward"
Selected Bibliography
enclosure:
A Moderate
Proposal for Restoring Prosperity
Individual
and National, by Jean Carpenter
Why, Pilgrim, Don't You Act?
an excerpt from the book Tax Scam, by Alan Stang:
"As you know, the Constitution
reserves the power over money to the Congress, which power Congress is
forbidden to delegate. How would you respond,
were Congress illegally to give its power to a private corporation, like Ford
or Xerox, or Occidental Petroleum or IBM, or a new corporation organized for
the purpose? Suppose Congress
confiscated your gold and gave it to that private corporation. Suppose that private corporation issued
currency the government forced you to use, and on which it forced you to pay
interest. Suppose that private
corporation extended credit ('cheap money') and then called the loans; did so time after time, creating endless
boom and bust; thereby farming the
farmer and bringing the people to their knees
-- protesting all the while in a
blizzard of propaganda that it was fighting these things.
"How would you respond? Do we exaggerate when we speculate that you
would call it the biggest scandal of all time?
Are we far afield when we guess that you would demand a special
prosecutor, complete with hearings, to expose the conspiracy; seizure of the corporation's assets and
abolition of the corporation; long
prison terms for the perpetrators, in government and out; and restoration to Congress of the money
power, in obedience to the Constitution?
"Pilgrim, if that is close to
what you would demand, may we ask respectfully why you have not demanded
it --
because the private corporation we have been talking about is the
Federal Reserve System.
[Alan Stang, Tax Scam, Research
Publications]
[P. O. Box 84902, Phoenix, Arizona
85071, 1988]
[pages 228-229]
Promises Made, Promises Broken
In promoting passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913,
its sponsors, and those working to see it passed, made ten promises:
1. To
operate entirely under the direction and control of the President and his
appointees to the Board of Governors.
2. To
pay interest to the government for the privilege of printing Federal Reserve
Notes as the nation's currency.
3. To
perform many banking services for the government free of charge.
4. To
manage the nation's money supply so as to stabilize the dollar which, in turn, would
stabilize prices.
5. To
remove the United States from the control of Wall Street.
6. To
prevent depressions and eliminate "boom and bust" cycles.
7. To
be a friend and helper to farmers and to the monetary needs of small
businesses.
8. To
create a system that would remain forever decentralized, so each Federal
Reserve Bank would have as much influence in monetary policies as the one in
New York City.
9. To
protect American interests against foreign monetary assaults.
10. To supervise and inspect local banks and
provide funds when they were pressed by unexpected demands.
Contrary to promises, the effects of the Federal Reserve
Act have been disastrous:
1. Judged by the promises at the time the act
was passed, including a stable currency and elimination of boom and bust
cycles, the Fed must be rated, at best, a colossal failure.
2. The Federal Reserve action of curtailing the
nation's money supply by a third in 1929 converted a serious recession into a
disastrous depression, destroying one-third of the nation's banks in the
process.
3. Judged on the basis of the U.S. Constitution
and by the intent of its framers, the Federal Reserve Act and amendments are
clearly unconstitutional.
4. The present system, requiring people and businesses
to pay interest to the banks on every Federal Reserve dollar in circulation, is
a devastating and needless burden, adding to bankruptcies in a recession and
severely hampering recovery. An Honest
Money System, based on debt-free money, is essential to the economic well-being
of the people all across the U.S.
5. An unstable national money supply is a
debilitating handicap at best and, at worst, not only causes but worsens
"boom or bust" business cycles so destructive of the people's best
interests.
6. The people of America now suffer from
needless recessions brought on by the cumulative effects of inflation and
interest-bearing debt financing encouraged by the Federal Reserve System.
How It All Began
an excerpt from the book A Writ for Martyrs, by
Eustace Mullins:
"The income tax amendment and the
Federal Reserve Act were passed in the same year, 1913, because they function
as an essential team, and were planned to do so. The Federal Reserve districts and the Internal Revenue Districts
are "new states," which have been established within the
jurisdictions of legal states of the Union.
But why were they so established, and why are they co-functional? The Internal Revenue Service has the duty of
collecting large amounts of taxes from employed Americans, solely as an agent
of the Federal Reserve System. It was
not accidental, nor was it coincidental, that these acts coincided with the
preparations of World War I. The
necessity for income tax "collections" did not become obvious for
some years. The U.S. Congress had
awarded the Federal Reserve System the power to issue money, despite the fact
that the Federal Reserve bank stock was entirely owned by private stockholders. The Federal Reserve System then began to
issue large amounts of profitable interest-bearing "U.S. dollars,"
without control from any government agency.
It became apparent that the Federal Reserve System must set up its own
system of controls, which it did through the Internal Revenue Service. Here again, the "Service" was not
a service to the U.S. Government, nor a service to the American people. It was a service to the Federal Reserve
System. The IRS performed the necessary
task of "sopping up" the enormous amounts of money issued by the
private stockholders of the Federal Reserve System to finance their systematic
acquisition of all the property of the people of the United States.
"If these billions of paper
instruments remained in continuous circulation, they would become mere
assignats, not worth a Continental. The
money is controlled by confiscatory taxation through the agency of the Internal
Revenue Service. The system was laid
down by David Ricardo, son of Abraham Israel, an Amsterdam stock manipulator
who moved to England and made a fortune with the Rothschilds in the Waterloo
speculations. Ricardo developed the
technique of controlling the people through taxation. His direct descendant, Rita Ricardo Campbell, now advises
President Reagan on Social Security.
"As the largely worthless paper
assignats are forcibly removed from circulation by the zealous activities of
the Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Reserve System can then issue more
billions of paper currency to the public.
The constant flow of "new money" deceives the public into
thinking these assignats have real value.
"The IRS also fulfills Ricardo's
dictum that the worker must never be allowed to enjoy more than a bare
subsistence wage. Income tax,
withholding tax, Social Security tax and other taxes fulfill Ricardo's dictum. With no money beyond bare subsistence, the
workers are effectively prevented from engaging in political activity. In effect, the IRS functions as the slave
overseer of the great American plantation, plying the lash freely in order to
keep the workers bent to their tasks. However,
neither the function of sopping up paper money for the Federal Reserve System
nor the controlling of the workers by robbing them of their wages is a proper
function of the United States Government."
[Eustace Mullins, A Writ for
Martyrs]
[published by O.T.U. Christ Church]
[P. O. Box 1105, Staunton, VA 24401,
1985]
[pages 190-191]
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