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“On May 12, 2006 in Peoria, Illinois, the attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) begged the court to dismiss all charges against IRS victim Robert Lawrence in federal District Court.
The motion for dismissal came on the heels of a surprise tactic by Lawrence’s defense attorney Oscar Stilley.The tactic threatened exposure of IRS’s on-going efforts to defraud the public. The move put DOJ attorneys in a state of panic that left them with only one alternative: beg for dismissal, with prejudice.

Stilley’s tactic paid off. Sixty days earlier, the DOJ had indicted Lawrence on three counts of willful failure to file a 1040 form, and three felony counts of income tax evasion. The federal Judge dismissed all charges with prejudice, meaning the DOJ cannot charge Lawrence with those crimes again.

The trial was to have started on Monday morning, May 15th.

On Wednesday, May 10, Stilley mailed a set of documents to the DOJ in response to DOJ’s discovery demands. The documents revealed to DOJ for the first time that Lawrence was basing his entire defense on an act of Congress, 44 U.S.C. 3500 – 3520, also known as the “Paperwork Reduction Act” (PRA).

In Section 3512 of the Act, titled “Public Protection,” it says that no person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with an agency’s collection of information request (such as a 1040 form), if the request does not display a valid control number assigned by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in accordance with the requirements of the Act, or if the agency fails to inform the person who is to respond to the collection of information that he is not required to respond to the collection of information request unless it displays a valid control number.

In Section 3512 Congress went on to authorize that the protection provided by Section 3512 may be raised in the form of a complete defense at any time during an agency’s administrative process (such as an IRS Tax Court or Collection and Due Process Hearing) or during a judicial proceeding (such as Lawrence’s criminal trial).

In sum, the PRA requires that all government agencies display valid OMB control numbers and certain disclosures directly on all information collection forms that the public is requested to file. Lawrence’s sole defense was he was not required to file an IRS Form 1040 because it displays an invalid OMB control number.

Government officials knew that if the case went to trial, it would expose the fraudulent, counterfeit 1040. They also must have known that a trial would expose the ongoing conspiracy between OMB and IRS to publish 1040 forms each year that those agencies knew were in violation of the PRA. That would raise the issue that the Form 1040, with its invalid control number, is being used by the Government to cover up the underlying constitutional tort — that is, the enforcement of a direct, unapportioned tax on the labor of every working man, women and child in America.

Any information collection form, such as IRS Form 1040, which lacks bona fide statutory authority or which conflicts with the Constitution, cannot be issued an OMB control number. If a control number were issued for such a form, the form would be invalid and of no force and effect.

Under the facts and circumstances of the last 24 years, it is safe to say that IRS Form 1040 is a fraudulent, counterfeit, bootleg form. Government officials responsible for this fraud should be investigated and face indictment for willfully making and sponsoring false instruments.

Caught between a rock and a hard place, the DOJ and IRS decided not to let the Lawrence case proceed because it would reveal one critical and damning fact:

The PRA law protects those that fail to file IRS bootleg Form 1040

The DOJ knew that it stood a significant chance of losing the case, and if that happened, the press and others would quickly spread the word, and leave only fools to ever file a 1040 again. Oscar Stilley’s pleadings and documents made these points quite clear:

IRS Form 1040 violates the federal Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) and is therefore a legally invalid form.

Under the Public Protection clause of the PRA, no person can be penalized for failing to file a 1040 if the IRS fails to fully comply with the PRA.

The PRA statutes explicitly provide that a PRA challenge is a complete defense and can be raised in any administrative or judicial proceeding.

The IRS Individual Form 1040 has not and cannot comply with the requirements of the PRA because no existing statute authorizes the IRS to impose or collect the federal income tax from individuals. That lack of bona fide authority makes it impossible for IRS to avoid violating the PRA.
We The People Foundation has researched the facts, law and circumstances surrounding this case, and has determined that:

A public trial would have opened a “Pandora’s Box” of legal evidence and government testimony under oath that would establish the IRS 1040 form as both fraudulent and counterfeit.

Oscar Stilley’s PRA defense “checkmated” the DOJ and IRS

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) appears to have been complicit with IRS in deceiving the public and in helping perpetuate the 1040 fraud by promulgating federal regulations that negate the plain language of the PRA laws passed by Congress and by allowing the IRS to continually skirt the explicit requirements of those statutes
Accordingly, We The People Foundation has petitioned the U.S. Attorney General, the IRS Commissioner, and Director of the OMB, requesting an official explanation of their conduct in Peoria.

See the petition below. It includes links to all relevant statutes, regulations, court decisions, Federal Register publications, law review articles, Lawrence case pleadings, and the discovery documents sent by defense counsel Stilley to the DOJ.”

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We The People Foundation
For Constitutional Education, Inc.

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Telephone: (518) 656-3578 Fax: (518) 656-9724

Is anything more damaging to the already tepid and ignored anti-war movement than Cindy Sheehan? She has gone from an earnest mother questioning the validity of her sons death to a shrieking circus act. Her Crawford roadside vigil was an authentic act of grieving and questioning. Now she comes across as a politicized tool of the left and someone who has decided Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes is not quite enough. She has made statements on foreign policy that not only detract from her original message but are also anti-semitic.
1. “He was killed for lies (her son) and for a PNAC neo-con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the army to protect America and not Israel.”
2. Ms. Sheehan has also apparently called repeatedly for Israel to ” end the occupation”.
3. One of her primary supporters is the Crawford Peace House, whose web site displays a picture of “Palestine” in the place of the State of Israel.
4. The National Vanguard ,a group of white supremists, have also hailed her apparent recognition of the dangers to American society from the Jews.Now she is on a hunger strike. She will be fine as she has more than demonstrated that she feeds on media attention, not cheetos and mountain dew like the rest of us.
The usual Hollywood liberals have shown their support with their stated intent to join her, in a what they call a “rolling hunger strike”. Sean Penn and thyroid eyed Susan Sarandon have pledged to not eat for 24 hours and then pass it on to the next self important actor. Penn and his ilk suffer from a common delusion that fame equals intelligence. At least we will be safe in the knowledge that our beloved hollywood stars will survive their cushy hunger strike and are only 24 hours away from a power lunch at Spago’s.
The left still has not learned that if you shriek long and hard enough that people become tired of the noise and stop listening.
The people of this country have shown that they do not support this war or the simpleton in the white house. Yet, they have done very little about it. Why? because those who have assumed a leadership role against the war are not voices of reason and statesmanship. They are hysterical and self righteous hair pullers who are one step away from being sullen teenagers complaining about how life isnt fair when they get grounded for staying out too late.