LIBERTY TREE Vol. 9, No. 8— July, 2007 TTHEY SSHOWED TTHEIR HHAND The cards are now on the table ... The Liberty Tree , St. John’s Campus Annapolis, and a radio network is still the trump Maryland By John B. Kotmair, Jr. rite July 26 th down as a falsehood, yet many more were to follow. WW day of infamy. On that The DOJ accused us of violating 26 USC § day, Judges Wilkinson, Traxler, 6700, Promoting abusive tax shelters , and § 6701, and Duncan of the Fourth Penalties for aiding and abetting understatement of Circuit Court of Appeals set tax liability. Since neither defendant is or was aside all pretense and openly involved in such activity, we asked the DOJ what declared they intend to shut evidence or witnesses they had. Their response: down the educational efforts of Kotmair had knowledge of the violations, and it the Constitutional Revivalist Movement. The three would be forthcoming in his deposition. However, rubber-stamped the DOJ and IRS’ wishes by since neither defendant violates these statutes, the affirming the lower court’s injunction order against evidence could not and did not surface during the Fellowship, and their one-paragraph decision deposition. This is why the DOJ creatively invented contained neither explanation nor excuse. While claims, such as that the membership assistance SAPF will continue with the next step of its appeal, program incites individuals to commit tax crimes, we must proceed full speed ahead with the only and why it has invented false statements to put in plan which can expose these frauds to the masses: a SAPF’s mouth, such as the claim that SAPF tells talk radio network. members that letters written on their behalf can As SAPF members know, the DOJ filed a remove a legal obligation to file. complaint for a permanent injunction against John In a pretrial phone conference, District Court Baptist Kotmair, Jr. d.b.a. Save-A-Patriot Judge Nickerson told us a trial on the merits was Fellowship (SAPF) and National Workers Rights unlikely; the case would probably be decided on Committee (NWRC), and SAPF, an unincorporated motions for summary judgment. We filed said association, on May 13, 2005. Announcing the motions: I requested dismissal because a previous complaint in the Liberty Tree, I said at the time: If court decision had already settled that I did not do the court declared the Fellowship’s operation legal business as SAPF, and SAPF argued that no in 1996, it must certainly be legal in 2005. If the evidence existed of § 6700 and § 6701 violations, or IRS could not find any criminal activity in 1993, and 1994, while they had all of our computers and paper files, surely they would not find any in 2005. The first thing the Fellowship noticed was that the complaint was based in part on the postings of two websites which did not belong to SAPF. As the Wilkinson, Traxler, and Duncan, infamous judges of the suit progressed, the evidence of this was Fourth Circuit who affirmed the lower court’s injunction overwhelming, and the DOJ had to admit it. That order so as to shut SAPF’s mouth. They won’t succeed in was the first and last time they admitted to a preventing the truth from being known, however. Copyright at Common Law by Save-A-Patriot Fellowship Post Office Box 91, Westminster, Md. 21158 of impeding the IRS. The DOJ argued there was district court ruling that the Fellowship has the evidence, and introduced affidavits from witnesses right to exist as an unincorporated association, the SAPF was never allowed to depose. All such Fellowship has the potential of continuing the testimony was rebutted by counter-affidavit, and in educational effort through over-the-airwaves FM such a controversy of material facts, court rules talk radio. Mass education of the public is the require a trial. (At trial, both parties can introduce trump card the government wants to avoid. By and cross-examine witnesses, so that the facts — taking SAPF out ahead of the curve, the expected the truth — can come out.) Summary judgment, on result would be SAPF members jumping ship the other hand, is only a device for deciding issues because some Fellowship “services” are no longer of law when no disputes exist regarding the facts. available. Suspecting this, I already forwarded a It is a violation of due process to use summary letter on July 13 th asking members to pledge at judgment, as Nickerson did in our case, to decide least 20 FRNs per month to keep the Fellowship on the facts. Nickerson’s disregard of the rules afloat while working towards re-starting the radio resulted in a permanent injunction order so vague network. Initial responses have been very positive; that SAPF and I cannot even determine which if you have not yet returned your pledge, please activities are considered violations of the law and consider doing so immediately. so enjoined (forbidden). Motions for a trial and Because the judiciary’s intention is now modification of the order were made, but abundantly clear, SAPF, along with Truth Attack, Nickerson denied everything except a stay pending is accelerating the completion of the DVD to appeal. The appeal brief to the Fourth Circuit promote the talk radio network, and urging all detailed Nickerson’s erroneous findings, Patriot organizations to join the effort. challenged the subject matter jurisdiction for the Organizations that join will have air time for their injunction, and requested, at the very least, an organization free of charge, so long as their shows actual trial. are factual and the information offered can be Caught between exposing the DOJ’s lies or documented. totally disregarding the Constitution, the court It strikes me that the Christian community had made a clear choice for the latter. In fact, the one- better think hard about the court’s actions against paragraph, unpublished decision is sad evidence SAPF, and seriously consider joining the radio that our Republic is indistinguishable from 1930s- effort to educate Americans on their fast- era Nazi Germany. The complete dockets are vanishing liberty and form of government. For posted at SAPF’s website; examine the court when it comes down to it, WHOSE SIDE ARE papers carefully, and I am positive you will come YOU ON? The side of those who are desperately to the same conclusion. trying to keep the Constitutional Republic given to From the beginning, we suspected the July 26 th us by the Founding Fathers and Constitutional betrayal, surmising the DOJ would not bring such a Framers — a republic based on God’s plan for frivolous suit without the cooperation of the government — or the side of the satanically- federal courts. But hope springs eternal, and we driven global elitists working to bring about thought the appellate court might remand for a (however inadvertently) the prophecies of trial. Of course, if that happened, the DOJ would Revelation? have no evidence to present, and there would be a For the reasons above, the establishment of the chance for the First Amendment to be upheld. talk radio network and the preservation of Save- Instead, the decision to affirm the lower court tells A-Patriot Fellowship are the most important every educational Patriot organization that the fix contemporary Patriot actions to be taken. is in, they too will be shut down in their time. Therefore, I request that you take the following Other Patriot organizations were attacked at the actions: same time as SAPF, but it appears the design was • if you have not forwarded your pledge, to put SAPF on the fast track to this decision. please do so now; Why? Quite possibly because, due to the 1996 (Continued on page 4) A note from Tommy Cryer In order to raise money to buy the trial transcript so IRS LOSES we can all read it free of charge, we are offering a free CD for each $50 contribution toward the cost of Louisiana lawyer ACQUITTED of the transcript. The CD will contain the entire con- tents of Tom’s “notorious notebook,” his testimony “willful failure to file” outline and his “templates” showing the scope of regulatory authority, taxing authority and the income In early July, Attorney Tom Cryer of Shreveport, tax (all matching up perfectly). If you would like a Louisiana, was found not guilty of willful failure to copy of the “notorious notebook,” help us pay for the file by a federal jury. He’s taking that win to another transcript and we’ll send you one. Send donation to: level, making the call to Patriot groups to stand to- Truth Attack gether to get the truth about taxes and our Constitu- 4348 Youree Drive tional form of government to the people. As part of Shreveport, LA 71105 that effort, he is now working with SAPF on the pro- motional DVD for the radio network. [Cryer] said the free exchange of labor for compensa- The jury’s decision has received some favorable tion has been upheld as a right by the Supreme Court, but press; below is a partial reprint of an article published that doesn't necessarily make the compensation income. by World Net Daily. If ever such an argument were to be presented IRS loses challenge to prove tax liability widely, Cryer said, the income to the federal government The Internal Revenue Service has lost a lawyer’s would plummet. But ... expenses could be reduced challenge in front of a jury to prove a constitutional equally by eliminating programs, departments and agen- foundation for the nation’s income tax, and the victori- cies that also have no foundation in the Constitution.