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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 17:32:23 -0700
To: liberty-and-justice@pobox.com
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: letter to a revenue officer (fwd)
Get yourself a copy of USPS Publication 221,
and then take another look at the following
"address":
Stephen Edward Washam
c/o XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Walla Walla, Washington 99362
United States of America
The mailing location above would be re-written
as follows, using Publication 221:
Stephen Edward Washam
c/o general delivery at:
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX [P.O. Box or street location]
Walla Walla 99362/tdc
WASHINGTON STATE
Notice that the state is in ALL CAPS.
This is NOT a nomme de guerre, just the
convention established by the USPS for
foreign states.
/s/ Paul Mitchell
http://www.supremelaw.com
At 10:11 AM 7/24/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Do or make what you will of this. Feel free to forward to
>others, but please don't post to Usenet as I intend to do that
>myself from a spam-protected address.
>
>Copy-It-Right in 1997. Stephen Edward Washam
>
>Author's note: The following true copy has been slightly
>redacted to protect privacy, and reformatted for email
>transmission. -SEW
>
>
> Stephen Edward Washam
> c/o XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> Walla Walla, Washington 99362
> United States of America
>
>July 10, 1997 Certified Mail # P 449 426 194
>
>W. XXXXXXXX, Revenue Officer
>Internal Revenue Service
>1332 Grandridge Blvd., Suite 212
>Kennewick, WA 99336
>
>Re: your calling card
>
>Dear Miss, Mr., Mrs. or Ms. XXXXXXXX:
>
>Yesterday I found your calling card slipped under the door
>of my abode with a note on it requesting that I phone you
>at (509) 948-XXXX.
>
>If you have some business with me please state your claim
>or query in writing and mail it to the name and location
>specified above. I have found the written form of
>communication absolutely essential to good understanding
>and accountability and thus will not be wasting your time
>or mine with verbal interviews.
>
>In making a claim or query, please be certain to clearly
>state the full basis and specific nature of your business
>and your authority for pursuing it. If your authority is
>delegated, please provide documentation showing who
>delegated the authority to you and when.
>
>I volunteer the following, which may help to clear up some
>confusion on your part:
>
>At one time I filed so-called "income tax return" forms
>with your "agency" (whatever its true nature might be)
>because I was under the mistaken notion that some law
>required me to do so. After serious study into Title 26,
>the underlying statutes and Supreme Court decisions,
>however, I came to the conclusion that I was not required
>to file these forms or pay this so-called "income" tax.
>Thus I have not "filed" since 1985.
>
>Any forms your agency might hold with my signature on them
>are void therefore due to mistakes on my part. Whether
>these mistaken filings were induced by government agent
>fraud is another matter beyond the scope of this letter.
>
>Any other IRS or banking forms existent, which might have
>my signature upon them, are also void due to mistake,
>misinformation, fraud, inducement to fraud, extortion
>and/or duress.
>
>When I was an infant, I naively followed the advice of
>others to obtain a Social Security Account number and then
>open a savings account with a federally-insured
>institution. I could not realize at that time the profound
>implications of such an act. Important information
>regarding the obligations I would assume and the nature of
>the relationships I was entering into was never shared.
>
>I was not told that the Social Security application was at
>heart a religious document, proclaiming a lack of faith in
>God or myself to provide for my needs, and that I was
>looking instead to the state as my god and protector. I
>was not told that I was in effect declaring myself an
>incompetent pauper and throwing myself as a burden upon
>society as a whole, becoming a joint tort feasor in this
>social insurance scheme. I was not told that I was
>shirking responsibility, and that by shirking
>responsibility I was giving away freedom -- my birthright.
>I was not informed as to my duty to maintain this
>birthright for myself and for others.
>
>For these reasons, I disclaim any documents which came
>about because of the above state of affairs. I no longer
>participate in banking, either willingly or willfully, and
>I have never to my knowledge sought any kind of benefit
>from the Social Security system in any of its
>manifestations. I never intend to do so.
>
>If you wish to raise a claim against me based upon any of
>these disowned documents, please bring it forward now. If
>I do not hear back from you regarding this within a
>reasonable time - let's say 30 days - I will consider your
>claim abandoned. Since you assert via your card to be the
>officer of an entity called "Internal Revenue Service" I
>will also consider any such claim by said entity abandoned.
>
>Realize that any claim against me will need to be fully
>supported by evidence, facts and law, and that your
>specific delegated authority for bringing a claim will also
>need to be documented. An incomplete claim will be
>returned to you for clarification, as I am unable to
>respond to an incomplete claim.
>
>Revenue Officers are assumed to know the law they operate
>under and can be held accountable when they misrepresent,
>misapply or ignore that law. Caveat actor.
>
>Awaiting your speedy reply,
>
>I am
>
>
>
>
>/s/ Stephen Edward Washam
>
>distribution: Worldwide, via Internet, at my discretion.
>hard copies: wherever, at my discretion.
>
>cc: Representatives Linda Smith, Doc Hastings, George
> Nethercutt, Jack Metcalf, Jennifer Dunn, Ron Paul,
> James Traficant.
>cc: Senator Paul Coverdale[sic]
>cc: Commissioner of Internal Revenue
>cc: District Director, IRS, Seattle
>
>
>
>--
>
>Steve Washam Walla Walla, Washington sew@valint.net
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be
> a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the
> adulterers, and against false swearers, and against
> those that oppress [*] the hireling in [his] wages, the
> widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the
> stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the
> LORD of hosts. Malachi 3:5
>
> * or _DEFRAUD_, according to margin notes
>
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