Silenced!
On
January 10, 2008, the Federal District Court in Chicago issued a permanent injunction against Bill Benson on
the grounds that by offering information demonstrating that the 16th Amendment was
not legally ratified, he was promoting an abusive tax shelter. The Court then refused
to look at the government-certified documentary evidence, deciding instead that
the facts necessary to prove his statements true were "irrelevant."
What has America come to when the government we created to protect our rights can
accuse us of lying and then prohibit us from presenting a defense in a court of
law?
. . .
The Premise
The federal government rests its authority to collect income tax on the 16th Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution—the federal income tax amendment—which was
allegedly ratified in 1913.
"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever
source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard
to any census or enumeration."
—The 16th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
It was a shocking revelation; it reached deep to the core of our American system of government.
The Discovery
Article V of the U.S. Constitution defines the ratification process and requires
three-fourths of the states to ratify any amendment proposed by Congress. There
were fourty-eight states in the American Union in 1913, meaning that affirmative
action of thirty-six was necessary for ratification. In February 1913, Secretary
of State Philander Knox proclaimed that thirty-eight had ratified the Amendment.In 1984 Bill Benson began a research project, never before performed, to investigate the process of ratification of the 16th Amendment. After traveling to the capitols of the New England states and reviewing the journals of the state legislative bodies, he saw that many states had not ratified. He continued his research at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.; it was here that Bill found his Golden Key.
This damning piece of evidence is a sixteen-page memorandum from the Solicitor of the Department of State, among whose duties is the provision of legal opinions for the Secretary of State. In this memorandum, the Solicitor lists the many errors he found in the ratification process.
These four states are among the thirty-eight from which Philander Knox claimed ratification:
- California: The legislature never recorded any vote on any proposal to adopt the amendment proposed by Congress.
- Kentucky: The Senate voted on the resolution, but rejected it by a vote of nine in favor and twenty-two opposed.
- Minnesota: The State sent nothing to the Secretary of State in Washington.
- Oklahoma: The Senate amended the language of the 16th Amendment to have a precisely opposite meaning.
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Since thirty-six states were needed for ratification, the failure of thirteen to ratify was fatal to the Amendment. This occurs within the major (first three) defects tabulated in Defects in Ratification of the 16th Amendment. Even if we were to ignore defects of spelling, capitalization and punctuation, we would still have only two states which successfully ratified.
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