FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs)

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Questions about the effectiveness of our materials, membership, or the benefits of membership

QUESTION 0.01:

Question 0.01:  I am on the verge of becoming a member, but I would like to know the benefits of membership and if I can be helped?

 

Answer 0.01:   Our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 (Section 5, item 8) and our Articles of Mission, Form #01.004 (Section 3.8) make it abundantly clear that no one in the ministry is authorized to promise anything or share subjective opinions about the "benefits" of our strictly religious and educational materials and information.  The goal is not to be personally "helped" in an earthly or physical way, but achieving salvation by honoring and obeying God and His laws, and man's laws to the extent that they don't conflict with God's laws.  If personal or financial benefit is more important to you than loving your neighbor by learning and following God's law and man's law, then you are on the wrong website because you are an idolator who worships money or prosperity and not God.  Jesus said that where a man's treasure is, there his heart will be also. Matt. 6:19-21. Is God your treasure or is wealth your treasure?  If you are approaching membership with the attitude of "what's in it for me", then you have the wrong motive and are discouraged and prohibited from becoming a Member (see Matt. 26:15).  Our Articles of Mission, Form #01.004 and our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 also both make it abundantly clear that the purpose of this website is exclusively to glorify and worship the one and only God through obedience, truth, legal education and political action and not personal gain or economic benefit.  Our goal is to love our neighbor by learning and obeying God's laws and thereby DO JUSTICE as Micah 6:8 requires.  It is only through our own weakness and persecution in satisfying that great commission of our Lord that God can be glorified.  It is only by our denying self and placing God ABOVE self through our actions and choices that this ministry and this website can even be thought of as a religious ministry in any sense of the word.  You probably know that, but you just want to tempt us and test us like the Pharisees did to Jesus to see if we also know it because you are probably from the government/Satan and want to discredit and persecute us:

"And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh [the IRS and the Federal Reserve and a corrupt government] was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.  Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me.  And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong."
[2 Cor. 12:7-10, Bible, NKJV]

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.  But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.  If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.  But let him ask in faith, with no doubting [of US or your own understanding of the man's law illuminated by the Holy Spirit], for he who doubts [such as you] is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.  For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;  he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways."
[James 1:2-8, Bible, NKJV]

Your question reveals that you may be unwilling to allow yourself to be weak and vulnerable, and thereby exercise faith in God instead of trusting man/mammon/government.  Do you not want to trust God or give God any room to operate in your life? Do you not want to carry the cross of Jesus as He requires of you in Matt. 10:34-39?  It sounds to us like you may want insurance, not salvation or education.  Click here (OFFSITE LINK) for an article on this subject.  If that is the case, you need faith and trust in God, not help from us.  Is Jesus your Savior and indemnification from the liability for Hell but NOT your Lord and the object of your supreme allegiance and worship/obedience?  Jesus isn't your Sovereign Lord and He isn't above all the other idols you worship unless your are willing to risk persecution, pain, financial loss in obedience to Him and thereby forsake your other idols.  In that case, you are worshipping a false religion and we don't want you in this ministry.  How can God show His face if you give Him no room to work miracles in your life?  Jesus said in Matt. 6:25-34 not to worry about tomorrow, and you seem worried.  That kind of fear is of the devil, not the Lord.

"But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things [security, prosperity, and protection] shall be added to you."
[Matt. 6:33, Bible, NKJV]

If Jesus had only looked on His ministry based on the personal or financial benefit to Him and not others, do you think we would still be hearing about and reading about and following Him today?  Instead, when the money changers took over the Ministry, he was furious.

"But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."

[1 Tim. 6:9-10, Bible, NKJV]

Then God said to him: “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked long life for yourself, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice, behold, I have done according to your words; see, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has not been anyone like you before you, nor shall any like you arise after you. And I have also given you what you have not asked: both riches and honor, so that there shall not be anyone like you among the kings [Sovereigns] all your days. So if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
[1 Kings 3:11-14, Bible, NKJV]

And when one of the Apostles proposed to abuse the power of God to earn money, he was strongly rebuked, just as we rebuke all those who pursue this ministry for the sake of money.

And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money, saying, “Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”

But Peter said to him, “Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money! You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight of God. Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.”

Then Simon answered and said, “Pray to the Lord for me, that none of the things which you have spoken may come upon me.”
[Acts 8:18-24, Bible, NKJV]

SEDM is a Ministry, a religious Fellowship, and a political action group.  People can't and don't join bona-fide, legitimate religious ministries for selfish or economic reasons, but exclusively for spiritual reasons.    The only legitimate spiritual reason identified in the Bible and the one mentioned in the Ten Commandments is love and obedience to God.  The Bible Book of Ecclesiastes says "this is man's all". 

"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:

Fear God and keep His commandments,
For this is man’s all.
For God will bring every work into judgment,
Including every secret thing,
Whether good or evil."

[Eccl. 12:13-14, Bible, NKJV]

Your question erroneously and maliciously presupposes that we are a business or government 501(c)(3) corporation focused on "customer service" like all the other corrupted churches out there that are selling their sheep to the government for twenty pieces of silver by lying to them about  the proper relationship of Christians and churches to government. We are not a "business", nor do we sell anything.  We don't do this for money.  We aren't man pleasers and we don't have any "customers" or do any advertising.  We are ONLY God pleasers.  God is our only "customer". 

“Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve [ONLY] Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods [and totalitarian socialist governments] which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. [as SLAVES and] Serve the LORD!
[Joshua 24:14, Bible, NKJV]

If you read the words of Jesus in the New Testament, you will find that the only people that He ever criticized or got angry at were the Pharisees and the lawyers, and He did so precisely because they were man pleasers instead of God pleasers (see Luke 11:37-54).  We don't ever want to be the object of that kind of condemnation or ridicule from our Lord and ONLY King, Lawgiver, and Judge.  The only "benefit" of membership is eternal salvation through faith, love and trust in God, and obedience of God's laws.  According to Jesus Christ, obedience to God's laws is the essence of how we love and honor ONLY Him.  See John 14:21, 1 John 4:16, 1 John 2:3-6.  If love for the Father and humble obedience to His Holy laws as His steward and fiduciary isn't a worthy and satisfactory SOLE reason to join this ministry, then you are a lukewarm Christian and we vomit you out of our mouth and our Ministry and cast you into outer darkness as Jesus did in Rev. 3:16, and as the host did at the parable of the marriage supper to all who were invited but either refused to come or came dressed improperly (see Matt. 22:1-14):

"So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth."
[Rev. 3:16, Bible, NKJV]

You're a hypocrite if you expect your public servants to obey and honor you as their Master and Sovereign if you won't do the same thing and honor God as your King, Lawgiver, and Judge.  Please don't try to commercialize and denigrate us by connecting us with filthy lucre or bringing your own private agenda,  commerce, and money changing inside our Ministry doors. 

"Feed the flock of God which is among you [as ministers to them and with God's pure and holy knowledge and wisdom], taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint [or compulsion], but willingly; not for filthy lucre [money], but of a ready mind;

Neither as being lords [tyrants] over God's heritage [or His flock or people], but being [good] examples to the flock.

And when the chief Shepherd [God] shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away."

[1 Peter 5:2-4, Bible, KVJ]

If you were of the Father and the Father was in you, you wouldn't even be asking the above question.  The Bible says in John 10:7-21 that the sheep in the flock that is this ministry will recognize their Father's voice if they are His.  Do you recognize the voice of the Father in the doctrine and teachings of this ministry and more importantly, are you willing to obey the Father's call to do justice and love mercy and walk humbly before Him (Micah 6:8) as the main goal of your life?  If not, then please go back to your comfortable government cage, and waste away the rest of what we believe God will end up judging (Rev. 20:11-15) as an irresponsible and hedonistic life in government employment rearranging deck chairs on the sinking Titanic.  In the meantime, we'll sit here patiently building Noah's Spiritual Ark and filling it with God's treasures of wisdom, discretion, and knowledge while we are ridiculed by nonbelievers and lukewarm Christians around us, all of whom will eventually be drowned by their own selfishness, ignorance, and indifference (OFFSITE LINK) to the evil that is eventually going to engulf and destroy all that makes life worth living and all the liberties and freedoms we hold so dear.  Our prayers are with you in your own quest for truth, justice, and a small, accountable, lawful, and responsible limited government.

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QUESTION 0.02:

Question 0.02:  Do you have any information about successes of your users in using the educational materials offered on the SEDM website?

 

I don't mean to be rude, I'm just asking if there is a body of evidence that exists to demonstrate that your methods work. For example, Peter Eric Hendrickson maintains a list of refund checks from the U.S. Treasury and state treasuries on his website at http://www.losthorizons.com as well as a running total of all of these checks (currently $9.92 million). The names and addresses on each check are blurred out in order to protect the identity of each person, but the amount and the unique check # and Treasury Dept. seal are on them to prove that they aren't phonies.
 
Before I throw in with a group of people, I like to know--so far as possible--that they aren't simply theory-crafting and that they have accomplished real world victories for the rule of law. I do not feel that it should come across as rude or uppity to request such information, just sane and rational. Let me be clear once again: I am NOT asking for any personal identifying information, just evidence that would demonstrate that some of the methods described herein have actually worked. My experience has been that many times in the Truth Movement, people have wonderful ideas based on the law, and in theory they work, but in de facto practice, the IRS or whatever agency just ignores you, the judge is corrupt, and you get slapped with a huge fine. Then, when you turn to the people who offered the advice they say "Hey, you use our information at your own risk." Seems rather unsporting to lead lambs to the slaughter. 

Answer 0.02:  We have a question for you:  How do you define "success"?  If your criteria includes anything commercial, then you are on the wrong website and you are violating our Member Agreement.  One of the main goals of this website is to learn, obey, and enforce God's law and man's law.  How is it that the "success" of such a goal can be measured?  We haven't figured that out yet and maybe you can help us to define what it is that we are measuring. 

1. We spend all day every day looking at court cases and trying to find even one occasion where anyone in the government and especially the courts or the legal profession has discredited any argument or where any of the information on this website is proved inconsistent with what the law actually says.  We have found nothing. 

2. We invite any and all to review and rebut our materials in our forums, and no one has.  We get over 15000 visitors a month, and many of those are attorneys, and no one has yet refuted any of our information with evidence.  They may not like it, but they can't disprove it.

3. Our materials have been also reviewed and by the federal courts and the Dept. of Justice during a two year tax shelter injunction suit.  The government was given a copy of the entire website on DVD and asked to disclose anything that was false, fraudulent, or inconsistent with prevailing law and told that if they didn't do so within 30 days, then under Fed.R.Civ. P. 8(b)(6), they conclusively agree with it and are estopped from further challenging its accuracy.  They didn't provide any evidence on the record that it was false as requested and therefore they agree under the Federal Rules.  See section 10 of our About Us page for details on the unsuccessful injunction proceeding against on of our members.

4. Our members have met with the IRS and asked them to provide an itemized list of anything that is false, fraudulent, or inconsistent with prevailing law signed under penalty of perjury and they wouldn't do it.   Therefore, under Fed.R. Civ.P. 8(b)(6), they agree with the accuracy of our materials  and are estopped from later challenging our materials.

5. Our Members have been using our materials for five years and never seen anything from a credible source (consistent with our Reasonable Belief About Income Tax Liability, Form #05.007) that would authoritatively contradict anything currently posted here coming from the government.  We provide forums for people to post their experiences and we have never seen anything posted in the forums that would contradict any of our materials.

Since we can't and won't use a commercial criteria for success, then the above are the metrics we have come up with and they all establish that our materials are truthful, accurate, and consistent with prevailing law, which is the way we define "success" and the ONLY way that we can define success without violating our Member Agreement.  If you have a better way to define success that is not commercial, then please help us.

Now let me ask you another thing:  Was Jesus "successful"?  He did nothing but endlessly suffer for pursuing truth and justice, and was never identified in the Bible as prosperous.  He is our role model as Christians and He had no commercial motive but just wanted people to learn and obey God's Laws.  On that subject, He said:

"He who has [understands and learns] My commandments [laws in the Bible (OFFSITE LINK)] and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him."
[John 14:21, Bible, NKJV]

The Bible also says that "love" is the essence of who God is (1 John 4:8, 16).  If the essence of God is Love and the essence of love is obedience to God's Law, then the essence of being a Christian is learning and obeying God's laws regardless of the commercial cost, which is the main goal of this religious website.  How to you measure the success of that?  In that sense, we have only one "customer", who is God.  We aren't here to be man pleasers and you are a man.  All efforts to collect commercial success statistics just corrupt our religious ministry and connect us to filthy lucre.  We want to love you by setting you free with the Truth and by proving its the truth by ensuring that it is uncontroverted as we have done, but you cannot have a commercial motive for obtaining it and what you DO with it is entirely your choice and responsibility.  Everyone who will argue against the Truth will always do so for a commercial reason to benefit themselves.  When you pursue the Truth, Jesus PROMISED that you are sure to be persecuted and injured.  THAT is how He defines success and in that sense, everything we do is "successful".  He was, in fact, crucified some say because he was a tax protester.  See Luke 23:2.  Click here for more details on this.

We wish we had more feedback from our Members so that we could offer you scientific statistics on the consequences of using our materials.  Before we could offer such information, we would need a good definition of "success" that no one seems to be able to define quantitatively.  Consequently, there is no information we can provide to you about the probability of "success" in using our educational materials until you tell us what it means beyond what we have tried to define here. 

If you have a story or anecdote you'd like to share about the use of our materials, please either submit it through our Contact Us page or post it in our Member Forums!  We encourage you to get an account on Westlaw or Versuslaw and do the "due diligence" case research yourself to verify that what we are telling you is truthful rather than relying on anything that we say.  Our Member Agreement says you can't rely on anything we say anyway, so why would you even ask us?  The ONLY thing that you can rely on is what the law actually says, so why would you ask for an opinion that you aren't allowed to rely on anyway?

If you find anything wrong with what we have to offer, just point it out.  We don't censor our forums and we put them there so that the quality of the information and services that we offer can be consistently improved based on informed readers like yourself.  You are the only one who is responsible for your own choices and actions, and we will do nothing to help offload that responsibility to us.  That would simply undermine your sovereignty, which we simply won't do.

Lastly, please be advised that our About Us page says that no one at SEDM is allowed to share subjective opinions about the effectiveness of our materials and are ONLY allowed to provide scientific statistics if available.  Since we don't have any such statistics, then there is absolutely nothing we can do to answer your question.

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QUESTION 0.03:

Question 0.03:  Do you have any statistics on the "performance" or "effectiveness" of your response letters?  I'd like to know more about what I'm getting.

 

Answer 0.03:   Unfortunately, we are not presently equipped with the technology resources or staff to keep detailed statistics but would like to be eventually so we have a method to continually improve our offerings.  "Success" is a very subjective and ambiguous term unless it is defined and you didn't define it.  To know about the effectiveness of our response letters, we would need disciplined feedback from our readers.  In practice, we find that most readers do not want to be burdened with providing feedback and don't want to have to digest or make sense out of the numerical statistics that would be generated from such feedback either.

We do know that if you do not respond to Federal letters then you lose on your "dishonor" under the rules of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC).  Dishonor occurs in two methods: 1) Silence, and 2) Arguing.  For more details on the rules for commercial law, click here.

We prefer to educate you about how to remain in Honor.  You accomplish this by a conditional acceptance made by the response letter which in effect states that you conditionally accept the government offer to get you to admit liability and payment for such liability upon proof of claim that you are a party made liable via an Implementing Regulation published in the Federal Register and that you have your legal residence and/or principle place of business within an internal revenue district.

The government has no proof of any Implementing Regulation published in the Federal Register.  The government agents have taken an Oath of Office to well and faithfully discharge the duties of their office and to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States to which American Nationals are secured parties to that very Constitution. Not a bad bargain.

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QUESTION 0.04:

Question 0.04:  Are Bivens Actions effective and worth the trouble?  Why is IMF Decoding important and does your MF Decoder decode EPMF or IRAF files?  If so, is it necessary that these be decoded?

 

Answer 0.04:   Some answers:

1. We can't determine how effective a Bivens Action might be in your particular case because we can't give legal advice.  Litigation is always a gamble and results are unpredictable.  Click here (OFFSITE LINK) if you want some government statistics on how effective they are.  Get an account on http://versuslaw.com for $19.95/month and search the case databases on your own to determine for yourself how effective they are.  That is what we would do to answer the question for ourselves and certainly, there is nothing stopping you from doing it either.

2. Since we don't do any of this for money and want to be around over the long term to help educate you and earn your trust through our objectivity, there is no motivation for us to affect or influence your judgment to our financial benefit.  Consequently, we won't make recommendations about which option is best for you that involve any financial consequence.  Therefore, you can read the detailed free MF Decoder manual at http://sedm.org/ItemInfo/Programs/MFDecoder/MFDecoder.htm.  If you don't think the program or the documentation make sense or that you could not run it yourself, then you have answered your own question.  If not, go ahead and flip a coin or ask a more knowledgeable friend.

3. As far as decoding, absolutely everything we know about decoding and the decoding process is thoroughly explained at:
   http://sedm.org/ItemInfo/Services/IMFDecoding/IMFDecoding.htm
   http://sedm.org/ItemInfo/Programs/MFDecoder/MFDecoder.htm
   http://sedm.org/LibertyU/IMFDecoding.pdf

There is nothing we can add to the description there or the free manual that is available on the MF Decoder page, which are very thorough.  You will have to make your own determination about whether the service might help you, because we can't give legal advice and we don't want to either advertise or promote anything.  We are simply here to help those who can make their own informed decisions as "nontaxpayers" about what they need, and those decisions must be based entirely upon our Reasonable Belief About Income Tax Liability, Form #05.007 memorandum of law and nothing else, and ESPECIALLY not anything we might say.

4. Neither the MF Decoder Software nor the Full Service decoding examine IRAF files.  You are on your own with those.

Once again, our Articles of Mission, Form #01.004 say very explicitly we can't give legal advice or make any kind of promises or assurances about anything offered on this website.  False promises are the basis for how the government slanders and shuts down those it targets for illegal persecution, because allegations of false promises are used to accuse individuals of "false commercial speech" that hurts people.  We can therefore have no part in answering such a question.  The most we can say is that we have done our best to ensure that everything we offer is completely consistent with the latest versions of the Internal Revenue Code, the Treasury Regulations, the Internal Revenue Manual, and other IRS publications.  It is for you as an informed consumer to decide whether we have been effective at that mission, and it would be a conflict of interest for us to influence you in one direction or another.  Our tools and offerings are only as accurate as the government's propaganda...Oops, I mean code (not "law", but "code") and publications .  Caveat emptor.

"If a nation [or a people] expects to be ignorant [or dependent on anyone] and free... it expects what never was and never will be.”
[Thomas Jefferson]

If our materials are inconsistent with reality or prevailing law, it is only because the government:

1. Refuses to accept responsibility for the accuracy of their publications, phone support, or statements.  Why then do you want us to take more responsibility for our statements than the government does for theirs?  Read the amazing truth of this matter for yourself:

   http://famguardian.org/Subjects/Taxes/Articles/IRSNotResponsible.htm  (OFFSITE LINK)

2. Refuses to accept our repeated invitations to contact us informally and administratively to help us correct the information we offer, in violation of their Internal Revenue Manual section 1.1.1.1, which says their mission is to: "Provide America’s taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and by applying the tax law with integrity and fairness to all."  The "fairness to all" part of that mission statement implies that they owe an equal duty to those who are not "taxpayers", such as us, and that duty has been maliciously neglected to date by them.  Equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment Section 1 demands that they provide an equal degree of help to "nontaxpayers" in defending their status as "nontaxpayers" and explaining to them why the IRC does NOT apply to them.

3. Refuses to make available the necessary publications and internal policy documents which might allow us to correct any errors, after repeated good faith attempts by us and several others to obtain the information.  In fact, they have systematically withheld, hid, and obfuscated the information necessary to improve our tools and  publications in an attempt to interfere with the process of determining the validity of the false and illegal assessments they have been making on nontaxpayers.  That is called "obstruction of justice" and "extortion" and hypocrisy in our book.  It also violates the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. Chapter 41, Subchapter V, which requires that all parties subject to federal jurisdiction MUST be able and willing within 30 days to provide all information necessary to determine the validity of any imputed debt, whether a tax debt or not.

You are the sovereign and you and only you can determine what is right for you based on your own reading of the extensive information available in the legal resources referenced on both this website and the Family Guardian website. You must base your decision about what is best on what the government says constitutes a Reasonable Belief About Income Tax Liability, Form #05.007 and consistent with our Member Agreement, Form #01.001.  If these sources of information and belief aren't enough, then the problem isn't a deficiency of information, but rather a crisis of confidence in yourself and your ability to govern your own life and make your own decisions.  No amount of marketing on our part can compensate for a crisis of confidence on your part.  The government likes and actually helps "manufacture" people who feel inadequate to make their own decisions, because they make good sheep and targets for exploitation and extortion.  They do this in the public fool, I mean "school", system.  Spread your wings and learn to fly or forever be chained to the federal plantation (Babylon the Great Harlot).  America will be the land of the free when it is the land of the brave, and bravery has to start with you.  Please read this page and our "About Us" pages if you have any doubts about these issues.  Good luck and God bless in your own sovereign quest for Truth and justice.

"The hand of the diligent [and responsible and studious] will rule,
But the lazy [or irresponsible] man will be put to forced labor [government slavery!]."
[Prov. 12:24, Bible, NKJV]

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QUESTION 0.05:

Question 0.05:  I belong to The Church of The Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith and we don't believe in fellowshipping, with any other religious organization.  Our belief is based on the Bible.  I've noticed the only way one can obtain information from the Ministry, is by becoming a Member.  I ask is there any other way I can obtain your information?  I have been reading various forms of information from the Family Guardian website.  My ultimate goal is to become sovereign.

 

Answer 0.05:   Thank you for that insightful and important question.  We don't seek to force anyone to do anything.  This is a voluntary religious and/or political association of people who do nothing but share beliefs and opinions, not facts.  All you have to be in order to become a Member is believe in God, put Him first, and obey the other technical requirements of the Member Agreement, Form #01.001.  We can't and won't force you to fellowship or speak or associate with other Members if you don't want to.  You are free to redefine the spiritual aspects of the Member Agreement, Form #01.001, to replace the word "fellowship" or "Member" with whatever else you want and to describe your religious beliefs however you choose, as long as you otherwise meet all other aspects of the agreement and indeed believe in God.  We can't and won't waive any of the other terms of the agreement, however, because it is very carefully designed to avoid anything that would bring reproach upon the Lord or cause anyone to engage in any unlawful or injurious behaviors.  Send us your modified version of the agreement signed and highlight what you changed, and we will examine it and notify you whether we can accept it.  Please send both the signed acrobat version and also it in editable Microsoft Word format.  Before you make the changes, make sure you turn the Microsoft Word "Track Changes" mode on so that we can see what you changed or modified.

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QUESTION 0.06:

Question 0.06:  I don't meet all of the requirements for membership identified in the Member Agreement, Form #01.001.  Can you make an exception for me in allowing me to use your materials?

 

Answer 0.06:  We can't and won't willingly make exceptions for ANYONE.  Period. You must meet ALL of the requirements for membership identified in the Member Agreement, Form #01.001 BEFORE you "use" our materials or services, meaning send them into to any member of the legal profession of the government.   This requirement is also true even if you promise to meet the requirements in the Member Agreement, Form #01.001 but in fact haven't yet. To do otherwise would be to needlessly clog up the IRS and interfere with the lawful and constitutional administration of the Internal Revenue Code, which we don't ever want to be accused of doing.  The only people we can have as members are "nontaxpayers", who are people the IRS simply isn't lawfully allowed to "service" and who are not subject to the jurisdiction of any federal district or circuit court.  We are not a customer-driven organization or a business, but a spiritual, religious, and educational ministry.  We exist ONLY to love and serve God and teach people how to honor Him by studying and obeying His law and by loving and not hurting their neighbor in fulfillment of the two Great Commandments found in Matt. 22:36-40 in the Bible.

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QUESTION 0.07:

Question 0.07:  Your Member Agreement, Form #01.001 is only signed by the Member and not the Ministry.  Doesn't this mean it is not enforceable in court?

Answer 0.07:  Thanks for that very insightful question.  The answer is a resounding NO.  There are many legally enforceable obligations that are only signed by one party.  Let's list a few examples:

1. Tax returns.  Judges treat the obligations created by this effectively unilateral contract as a solemn obligation that people can't get out of.  That is why is it signed under penalty of perjury.

2. Trust deeds on property.  The reason they aren't signed by multiple parties is because they are frequently sold on the open market and would be unmarketable if they were.

3. Debt securities or notes.  Debt securities are supposed to be signed by the borrower AND the lender.  Look at the Federal Reserve Notes in your pocket.  There are two signatures on the notes but both parties work for the U.S. government, who is the borrower.  The lender, which is the Federal Reserve, doesn't sign.  Therefore, they FRNs are debt securities signed by only one party: The U.S. Government.

If the government wants to attack this as a defect in our Member Agreement, Form #01.001, then they are also going to have to destroy the very mechanism that allows them to assess and collect revenues under Subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code.  Our memorandum of law entitled Requirement for Consent, Form #05.003 proves that Subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code behaves as "private law" or "special law" that only applies to parties who make themselves individually subject by individual consent.  In effect, it behaves as a contractual obligation incident to federal public office and requires a signature of some kind on the part of a person in order to make them into a "taxpayer".  That signature must appear on any one of several different types of private contracts, including the SS-5, W-4, or 1040 federal return.  If a party has never signed any of these "contracts", then they cannot be a "taxpayer" under Subtitle A of the I.R.C.  Therefore, they are "nontaxpayers" not liable.

 

Some contracts also behave as "adhesion contracts", where involving oneself in a particular activity makes them subject to an agreement of some kind, even though written consent was never provided.  These kinds of contracts trigger based on an activity, rather than explicit informed consent.  For instance, criminal or penal laws act this way:  If you commit a crime, you become subject to a certain provision of the criminal code.  If you never committed the crime, you can't be subject.  Another example is engaging in foreign commerce under Subtitle D of the Internal Revenue Code.  In the case of this Ministry, viewing, using, or downloading our copyrighted and licensed materials or communicating with us in any form causes the User to become automatically subject to the terms of the SEDM Member Agreement, Form #01.001, even if they have not explicitly signed it.  You will note that the term "User" has a different meaning in the Disclaimer statement than other words on this website, and it is explicitly defined to mean anyone who views, reads, downloads, or uses any of the materials available on this website or communicates with any of the users.

 

Based on the foregoing analysis, if the government or any Member invalidates the enforceability of our Member Agreement, Form #01.001, then it would also have to declare that:

1. Federal Reserve Notes were unlawfully issued and unusable.

2. Tax returns create no obligation in law.

3. All trust deeds on real property are invalid and no one really owns real property.  The whole real estate industry is just one big fraud.

4. Social Security participation is not lawful.  The SS-5 application only has one signature.

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QUESTION 0.08:

Question 0.08:  I am having trouble faxing you the Membership Application.  May I email it to you instead?

Answer 0.08:  Yes you may.  Acrobat PDF format is preferred because these files are usually smaller.  If you scan and send as image files, the attachments may be too large to go through the email.  Generally, attachments bigger than about two megabytes will bounce.

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QUESTION 0.09:

Question 0.09:  Why do people have to consent to such a long Member Agreement, Form #01.001 in order to obtain your materials?  This seems kind of restrictive?

Answer 0.09:  There are several reasons for this.  Below are a few:

1. We want to prevent our materials from being abused or misused and thereby bringing reproach upon us, the God we serve, and the freedom community in general.  The Member Agreement, Form #01.001 section 1 is VERY specific about who can and who can't obtain our materials, to prevent them from getting in the hands of those who might abuse them.

2. We want to prevent the materials from being used for an unlawful purpose.  The audience authorized to use (e.g. send in to the government or courts) the materials excludes "taxpayers" and all those who have not done all the things necessary to become "nontaxpayers".  A "taxpayer" who uses our materials is violating the Member Agreement, Form #01.001 because he might try to abuse them to interfere with the lawful enforcement of the Internal Revenue Code in violation of 18 U.S.C. §371 and 26 U.S.C. §7212.  We as a ministry are nonresidents not subject to these statutes and not engaged in commercial activity or speech, but we don't want to target or associate with  those who might be, because this might result in a surrender of our sovereign immunity under 28 U.S.C. §1605(a)(2) and needlessly subject us to corrupted federal jurisdiction.

3. We want to require all those who read our materials to take complete, personal, and exclusive responsibility for all their actions and prevent them from blaming us for the consequences of any of their decisions or actions.  Personal responsibility is a prerequisite for being sovereign.  Those who haven't done all the study and research necessary to apply our materials properly or consistent with prevailing law will be more careful and scrupulous if they know that they must accept all the responsibility for the consequences.

4. We want to prevent those who benefit financially from perpetuating the theft, violation of law, and plunder facilitated by the present de facto system from suing or otherwise persecuting us.  The fact of the matter is that there are many who benefit financially from maintaining the present de facto government and tax system that we have and who want to prevent any changes that might undermine their livelihood.  This includes lawyers, tax preparers, CPA's, the government, etc.  Many of these professions would like to prevent the information available here from getting into your hands so that Americans don't have a chance to learn of their misdeeds, fraud, and violations of law.  Abusing legal process against us for any number of reasons are often the only way they have to inflict punishment.  Such legal terrorism amounts essentially to anti-whistle blowing activity.

5. We want to discourage the following types of people from joining, who are both high maintenance and nothing but trouble:

   5.1  Schemers with a pyramid sales deal disguised as network market.

   5.2  People who are a fry shy of a happy meal ("nut cases").

   5.3  Have an ego bigger than Bush, Clinton, Rumsfeld combined.

   5.4  Have attitude issues….some just mean.

   5.5  Those who would rather be lazy and presumptuous than do their own homework.

   5.6  Have “Hi…I’m a target painted on their face.” [aka do really stupid things]

   5.7  Want others to do ALL the work for them, including holding the government accountable to the requirements
          of law.

   5.8  Will absolutely chastise government in speech…yet still believe government wizards in courtrooms when the
         chips are down.

   5.9  Confuse winning or loosing with merit of an argument.

   5.10  Cannot understand ORGANIC, independent thought….the answer they feel is always ANYWHERE but
           within themselves.  These people are sheep and don't even realize it.

   5.11  Want someone to LEAD them and feel naked without a leader.

Consequently, the Member Agreement, Form #01.001 prevents and deters any of the unlawful or undesirable consequences above from happening.  The agreement may look way longer or way more complicated than it needs to be, but practical experience and extensive legal research has taught us that there are many modes the government and legal profession uses to attack and persecute people like us for exercising our First Amendment right to inform others about their fraud and violations of law, and we want to be ready for them.  As long as you simply read our materials, take full responsibility for your own choices and actions and don't try to blame us for them, do not ask us for advice, and don't become a mole, witness, or snitch or "kype" against us, there is nothing to fear from consenting to the Member Agreement, Form #01.001.  We're only trying to protect our First Amendment rights because this is a non-profit law enforcement and educational ministry, not a business.  We're not like the government: We don't seek to control people or coerce them to do anything.

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QUESTION 0.10:

Question 0.10:   How would one be able to benefit as a Non- Resident Alien? Am I denying that I was born in the U.S.?

Answer 0.10: By claiming yourself as a "nonresident alien", you are recognizing the separation of powers (OFFSITE LINK) put there by the founding fathers for the protection of your liberties and rights.  That separation of powers (OFFSITE LINK) makes federal jurisdiction "foreign" for nearly all subject matters and implies differences in meaning of the term "United States" between the Constitution and the federal laws that implement it.  The "U.S." as defined in federal statutes is not the "U.S." (OFFSITE LINK) that includes states of the Union indicated in the Constitution.  You need to read the following to appreciate these differences in meaning and the implications upon your citizenship and domicile:

   Why you are a "national" or a "state national" and not a statutory "U.S. citizen", Form #05.006

   http://sedm.org/Forms/FormIndex.htm

As far as the consequences of being a "nonresident alien", read our free materials below:

1. Federal and State Income Taxation of Individuals, Form #12.003:  High level summary of income taxation and what the law says about the liability of nonresident aliens.

2. Nonresident Alien Position", Form #05.020:  Detailed memorandum of law documenting all the obligations of being a nonresident alien.

Please study the above references and rebut the questions at the end of the pamphlets.  If you want to study citizenship further, read Great IRS Hoax, Form #11.302 (OFFSITE LINK) sections 4.11 and following for detailed analysis.  We can't do the home work for you. Only you can do it and reach your own conclusions.  You must be persuaded by law, facts and evidence, and not anything we tell you or write.  Our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 says that the only basis for reasonable belief about income tax liability is documented in the pamphlet Reasonable Belief About Income Tax Liability, Form #05.007.  Read and study it for yourself.  Sovereignty begins with education, and you need to get educated before you attempt to step forward and take on a corrupted and unlawfully administered system.  That education will take faith, effort, and discipline.  Your questions reveal that you need more education, which is available for free in our Liberty University.

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QUESTION 0.11:

Question 0.11:   I'm confused about contradictions with your approach to obtaining or using your materials.  I am glad that I have found your ministry on the web and I have even made a donation and downloaded Sovereign Christian Marriage, Form #06.009 and SSN Policy  Manual, Form #06.013. Though I have read the first and enjoyed it, there is something I do not understand and need clarification from you. At the beginning of Sovereign Christian Marriage, Form #06.009, there is an Important  Notes page.  The first warning on this page goes along the line "only the intended audience may use this material" the content goes on to say that if you received this [bookstore only item] from basically anyone, you are a thief and a criminal unless you agree to the SEDM Member Agreement, Form #01.001. So I clicked on the link and read the agreement. It says that in order for you to be a member you have to be an sovereign citizen, reject all earthly government and only adhere to the heavenly Father's government before all others. Then in section 6 it says a member needs to share their new light. So how can some one share their light of the SEDM ministry with some one who does not know that the Gods government comes before man? Or with people who don't know about sovereignty?  Your book is very articulate, much more than I have yet to be.  So when I try to explain this concept to people who have never understood it, let's just say I have a hard time and would like to lend them the book so that your understanding goes directly to them and won't get garbled through me. It seems to me that if Jesus took the same approach that you are taking,  He would only be preaching to the angels.  So please help me understand:

1. How I can share your knowledge with others?

2. How I can I use your knowledge even if I don't agree with all your requirements of membership ( If not convicted of a truth I have no business following it)

3. If I don't fit your membership requirements, how can I legally own a copy of your material?

4. The apparent contradiction in your message.  Your message appears to be contradictory, "here's the truth but only if you already believe it can you share or even have a copy" is that the case?

Thank you for receiving my email,  please answer my email as I'm only looking for understanding of your ministry.

Answer 0.11: Thank you for your insightful question and this opportunity to clarify our intentions.  Some answers:

1. The Bible makes it abundantly clear, including in the first four commandments, that God ALWAYS goes before government and that not observing this rule constitutes idolatry, which is the worst sin documented in the Bible.  People who don't understand this basic spiritual concept of idolatry are lukewarm Christians, and Jesus spits these people out of His mouth. Rev. 3:16, Matt. 22:1-14.  The process of getting people to the point where they at least believe in God and are reading the Holy Bible regularly and are not making government into a pagan idol is an evangelical work that is beyond the direct mission of this ministry.  We address people AFTER they have reached this point.  What the 501(c )(3) churches do often satisfies this mission or goal of getting people past the point of achieving faith and salvation and basic biblical knowledge and it is pointless to reinvent the wheel.  Our materials do, however, have an indirect affect of getting people to this point, because we apply God's word to show that they are sinning, need to repent, and are being punished because of their violation of God's laws.  That may be why the Apostle Paul and Jesus both referred to the law as the "schoolmaster":  It teaches us how to love our God and our neighbor.  See John 9:35-41; John 18:15-25.  We prefer to complement, not replace, what evangelical churches do presently in America, and to focus on help in areas that they aren't involved in but should be involved in.  These areas include biblical law, legal education, ecclesiastical courts, self-government, and specific procedures for separating oneself from the government so that we can fulfill the biblical mandate to serve ONLY God and not any government.

   “Away with you , Satan!  For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him ONLY [NOT the government!] you shall serve.’”
   [Jesus in Matt. 4:10, Bible, NKJV]

2. You don't have to agree with any of our free materials to read or share them.  You can share any of the FREE knowledge on the website with anyone you wish as long as you don't change the copyright or owner information or charge for it.  You don't need to be a member to read the free information, but you must be a member to USE it in governing your life and enforcing your rights against the government administratively, legally, or in a court of law.  This is done to ensure that you do not abuse our materials to violate any law, injure the government, or bring reproach upon yourself, us, Christianity, or the God that we serve.  By "USE" our materials, we mean employing them for any of the following specific purposes:

   2.1  Attach to correspondence sent to any third party, and especially the government or the legal profession or a business.

   2.2  Attach to legal pleadings sent to any government, court, or the legal profession.

   2.3  Attach or incorporate within any tax return or tax collection correspondence sent to the federal or state taxing authorities.

   2.4  Incorporate our materials by reference or provide a hyperlink to our website in correspondence or legal pleadings sent to any government, legal profession, or business .

   2.5  Mention anything or anyone connected with our ministry website or any member of our ministry as an authority or a basis for your beliefs about your responsibilities under the law. 

3. The distribution of the bookstore items is limited to Members only who individually obtained them, however, because most if not all of these materials at one point or another have the possibility of being used in interacting with government and the legal profession in defense of one's rights.

   3.1  We sustain our operations through the bookstore items and you will DESTROY and DISCREDIT our ministry if you give them away for free or in violation of the Member Agreement, Form #01.001 or you allow them to get in the hands of uninformed or dis-informed or  presumptuous people who intend to abuse our materials to discredit or injure themselves, Christianity, the Lord, and/or us. 

   3.2  If you want to share bookstore items with others, make a suggested donation to obtain another copy on behalf of that person and then give it to them as a gift. When you obtain our  materials through the bookstore on behalf of those who are not members, you must therefore ensure that they are warned that they cannot USE these materials to interact with the government or legal profession unless and until they become Members and that they are only for reading and entertainment UNLESS and UNTIL they meet all the requirements for being a Member. 

   The bookstore checkout process enforces the mandatory requirement to consent to the Member Agreement, Form #01.001 and therefore it is impossible to obtain our bookstore items without consenting to become a Member.  If after obtaining and reading materials from our bookstore you decide you don't agree with the requirements of membership, you will become a Member in Bad Standing.  Members in Bad Standing cannot use any of our materials in correspondence with the government, legal profession, courts, or anyone else, but may only read the materials.  You must be a Member in Good Standing in order to USE our materials for any tax years in which you use them.

4. Only if you already believe in God and have no disagreement with the the vast collection of free materials on our website other than the bookstore items can you become a Member.  There is plenty of free information to make the decision about whether our teachings are consistent with both God's Law and man's law, and that decision is one that only you can intelligently make.  We won't make it for you because you are the sovereign.  If you decide that there is some aspect of our teachings that are inconsistent with either man's law or God's law, we simply ask that you provide court admissible evidence demonstrating the same so that we can promptly fix it and remove your objections.  In practice, we have met very few people who can meet the burden of proving that anything on this website is inconsistent with the law because few people have researched the subject areas we cover as thoroughly or diligently as we have.

5. Tax related membership requirements within the SEDM Member Agreement, Form #01.001 pertain to use of our tax materials only.  If you never obtain or use materials that relate to taxes, satisfaction of the tax related requirements is irrelevant and unnecessary.  The main purpose for this requirement is to ensure that the tax materials are not abused to illegally interfere with the legitimate operations of the government.  Abusing our materials to violate either man's laws or  God's laws would bring reproach upon Christianity and the Lord that we exist to serve and honor.

Jesus said He did not come to call the righteous, but the sinners, to repentance.  Matt. 9:13; Mark 2:17.  We don't just preach to the righteous or angels or to the saved or to Members, but to EVERYONE who will hear. 

"He who has ears to her, let him hear!"

[Matt. 11:15, Matt. 13:9, Bible, NKJV]

However, for those who become ministers to others and who are using our materials to help others, teaching it, or using it to directly interact with the government or the legal profession, these people raise to the level of teachers and disciples not of us, but of the Truth.  Teachers, ministers, and disciples are called to a much higher Biblical standard of knowledge and accountability and must then become Members.  Unto he who much is given, much is expected.  Luke 12:48.  The Bible reiterates this same requirement of those who would become preachers and teachers and ministers, even to themselves, when it said:

"My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment."

[James 3:1, Bible, NKJV]

 

"Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful."
[1 Cor. 4:1-2, Bible, NKJV]

 

"We give no offense in anything, that our ministry may not be blamed. But in all things we commend ourselves as ministers of God: in much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in fastings; by purity, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by sincere love, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
[2 Cor. 6:3-10, Bible, NKJV]

Our message is not contradictory.  We want everyone to read and learn with all of our free materials.  However, if they get past the reading and learning phase and decide to actually start using our materials, most of which come from the bookstore, to interact administratively and legally with the government, legal profession, banks, and employers, we INSIST that they must first become members and comply scrupulously with the Member Agreement, Form #01.001 so that they do not injure or dishonor anyone, including themselves, the Lord, or this ministry.  In that respect, they are fulfilling the two great commandments to love God and love their neighbor by not injuring or bringing reproach upon their neighbor or God.  Matt. 22:36-40  The legal profession imposes a similar criteria for " licensing" of attorneys who "practice law", where all attorneys must be of "good moral character".  This requirement is for the protection of everyone, including foreign governments such as the "United States" corporation.  We can't demonstrate mature Christian love and be a good example if we condone things that we know will hurt others or violate the law, or if we permit others to blame us for the consequences of their own decisions and actions.  The Member Agreement, Form #01.001 requires that those who use our materials [to interact with the government or the legal profession] may not use them to violate any law and agree to accept exclusive responsibility for all their actions and choices.  You may not be knowledgeable enough at this point to appreciate how all the constraints imposed by the Member Agreement, Form #01.001 will accomplish the protection sought, but if you are diligent and study to make yourself approved of God (2 Tim. 2:15) by continually growing your spirituality and knowledge level, you will eventually appreciate everything that is in that agreement for your protection.

QUESTION 0.12:

Question 0.12:    Is there someone in my area who I could talk to or ask questions about a specific document or process on your website?

Answer 0.12:  Our members value their privacy highly. Both we and our members are forbidden by our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 from giving out personal information of our members or sharing subjective opinions or promises about the effectiveness any of our materials. Therefore, such an inquiry would be pointless. A main goal of this website is to read, learn, and obey God's and Man's law and to preserve as much freedom and sovereignty in the process as we can.  We do not have statistics on the success of our methods nor do we offer a social network to help you to implement what is on this website other than our forums, which would seem to be the motivation behind this sort of question.

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QUESTION 0.13:

Question 0.13:    I need winning court cases as authorities that prove your materials will work.  Can you provide this?

Answer 0.13:   One of the goals of this website is to PREVENT the need to litigate by filling your administrative record with such damning evidence, that no one in their right mind would criminally prosecute a Member for a tax crime or take you on civilly.  Consequently, we don't have much to offer you in the way of court cases.

 

Furthermore, we remind you that we aren't a business, we don't "market" our materials, and we are prohibited by our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 from making promises about the effectiveness of our materials.  We don't have statistics to offer you and even if we did, some malicious and malingering public dis-servant would argue that they are wrong, that they relied on them, and then shut us down for false advertising.  It is a hazard to our wellbeing to offer the information you seek and all you are proving by your question is that you care more about personal benefit and commerce than you care about making sure that the truth continues to be available to the masses.  It is precisely this kind of greed, envy, and selfishness that created all the corruption in our tax, government, and legal systems that is so extensively documented on this website in the first place and we certainly don't need more of the same.

"Buy the truth, and sell it not; [also] wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.."
[Proverbs 23:23, Bible, NKJV]

The goal of this ministry isn't to "win" or personally benefit, but to learn and follow the law.  All you prove by your question is that you have a purely commercial or personal motive and we discourage those with such motives from becoming members.  Our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 prohibits use of our materials for commercial purposes or anything other than moral or spiritual reasons.  The goal is to love our neighbor by learning and following the law.  Often, this approach is more inconvenient and costly than simply doing what "everyone else does" or what simply "feels good".  If Jesus simply did "what everyone else does", or "what feels good", we wouldn't be reading and eagerly learning about Him still today.

 

We avoid these sort of questions because we don't do this for money and we aren't here to "promote" or "promise" or "market" anything.  We are GOD pleasers, not MAN pleasers.  That singular attitude and motive is behind every legitimate, real religious enterprise, including ours.  If you find cases in which parties have litigated using our materials, we would be happy to repost them here as they are found.  The only cases we know of right now are the cases described in the following links.  By providing these links, we don't mean to indicate that it is a "win", but simply an example.  Whether they are a "win" or "successful" is very subjective.  Even if you gave us your criteria for what "winning" means, we couldn't apply it because our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 prohibits us from making legal determinations.  In these cases, the arguments used on this website were never directly rebutted, but the "taxpayer" judge who had a conflict of interest in criminal violation of 18 U.S.C. §208 did what he wanted anyway because he loved YOUR MONEY more than he loved truth or justice:

1. C. Hansen

   1.1  Federal District Court Rules on Hansen Injunction (OFFSITE LINK)

   1.2  Case History of C. Hansen (OFFSITE LINK)

2. Actor Wesley Snipes (OFFSITE LINK):  When he was tried in 2008 on conspiracy to defraud the United States and failure to file, he sent in a tax return that contained materials on this website.  He was acquitted of the conspiracy charges based on the information in his tax return.  Case No. 5:06-cr-22(S1) in the Southern District of Florida.  Get an account on PACER and read the court docket yourself online if you want to know how this case was handled.

For additional litigation anecdotes, see the following forums.  Very few of the cases mentioned in those forums directly deal with materials on this website, but the forum is useful nevertheless:

Family Guardian Forums-> Events -> Courts, Litigation, and Prosecutions (OFFSITE LINK)

Lastly, we also wish to emphasize that in the many years our Members have spent researching the many subjects covered on our website and the thousands of cases and statutes we have read verifying our information, we have NEVER:

1. Seen a court rebut any of the information we post here with anything other than simply an inadmissible presumption or political opinion unsupported by legally admissible evidence of any kind. 

2. Seen any enacted positive law that contradicts anything on our website, and enacted positive law is the only thing that our Members are allowed to rely on as a basis for reasonable belief.

3. Been contacted by or been able to find any representative from the government and especially from the IRS who was willing to meet with us to present legally admissible evidence signed under penalty of perjury that contradicted anything on this website.  This, in spite of the fact that we have asked every government representative, and especially IRS representative, to meet with us and discuss anything they think is wrong and to produce legally admissible evidence to support their belief that it is wrong.

The reason for the above is that you can't argue with the truth without making an IDIOT and a FOOL out of yourself.  There will be many people who will not LIKE the truth and will criticize the messenger who brings the truth just as they persecuted Jesus, but NO ONE can argue with the truth without removing all doubt that they are a FOOL. 

"It is better to remain quiet and to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

The great thing about the truth is that it is the ONLY thing that is completely consistent with itself and completely consistent with every aspect of reality.  The minute ignorant people with an agenda step forward to argue with the truths on our website  is the minute they start contradicting themselves and thereby tacitly admit that they are LYING or JUST PLAIN IGNORANT.  This is because some aspect of what they say will always be inconsistent with either the facts or something else they say and it is usually easy to spot these things after studying the truth for so long.

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QUESTION 0.14:

Question 0.14:    I have a job with the state or federal government.  Can I still be a member or do I need to quit?  I read through the membership agreement and can agree to everything required. However, I have a dilemma: I was recently hired by ____________________________, where I am employed as an ___________ .  Should I resign from __________ in order to become a member? If I resign from _________ I would be unemployed and prospects for employment in the private sector are not good in this economy.

 

I read the definitions of "employee" and I am not an elected official or officer. After reading through the definitions and statutes several times I think I can reasonably conclude that I could be employed by the government but not be a statutory "employee" of the government.

 

I think more study might be required.  I am confused and am writing to ask you if you can point me in the right direction so I may better understand how to resolve this dilemma?

Answer 0.14:   All "taxpayers" are public officers within the Internal Revenue Code.  See:

1. The "Trade or Business" Scam, Form #05.001

2. Why Your Government is Either a Thief or You are a "Public Officer" for Income Tax Purposes, Form #05.008

3. Who are "Taxpayers" and Who Needs a "Taxpayer Identification Number"?, Form #05.013

The "employee" who is the subject of Subtitle C of the I.R.C. MUST therefore be engaged in a public office in the government or he/she cannot lawfully have information returns filed against them.  Anyone who files information returns against those not already lawfully occupying a public office is impersonating a public officer in criminal violation of 18 U.S.C. §912.  This is because the only authority for filing information returns at 26 U.S.C.  6041(a) requires that only those engaged in a "trade or business", which is then defined as "the functions of a public office" in 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(26), can be a proper or lawful subject of information returns such as forms 1042-S, 1098, 1099, W-2, etc.  We can't see any way that a "person" (who by the way is also a public officer) could lawfully exercise "the functions of a public office" WITHOUT also being in fact and in deed a "public officer" of the U.S. government.  To conclude otherwise would be to sanction the crime of impersonating a public officer found in 18 U.S.C. §912.

 

This same "employee" is also defined in 5 U.S.C. §2105(a) to EXCLUDE common workers or those OTHER than public officers.  Therefore, pursuant to Title 5 of the U.S. code and the definition of "employee" found at 26 U.S.C. §3401(c ) and 26 CFR §31.3401(c )-1, ordinary workers cannot be "taxpayers" and it would be a crime in violation of 18 U.S.C. §912 to "elect" oneself into a public office using IRS form W-4 or any other tax form for that matter.  We have not yet found any provision of the I.R.C. that authorizes any tax form to be used to CREATE a new public office.  The only thing the I.R.C. can therefore lawfully do is regulate the conduct of those ALREADY lawfully occupying said offices in the only place they are authorized to be exercised, which is the District of Columbia pursuant to 4 U.S.C. §72.  This is also covered in the following article:

Secretary's Authority in the Several States Pursuant to 4 U.S.C. 72 (OFFSITE LINK)

To make a long story short, we therefore conclude the following:

1. Ordinary government workers are not "public officers".  Neither they nor any third party filing information returns can unilaterally elect themselves into a public office using any tax form.

2. The only place public officers can lawfully serve is in the District of Columbia all other places expressly designated by Congress pursuant to 4 U.S.C. §72.  This is why:

   2.1  The term "United States" is defined to include the District of Columbia in 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(9) and (a)(10).

   2.2  The I.R.C moves all "citizens" and "residents" to the District of Columbia if they are not situated on federal territory.  See
          26 U.S.C. §7408(d) and 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(39).

   2.3  The "citizen" or "resident" referred to as the "taxpayer" in the I.R.C. relates to the public office and not the human being
          filling the office. The public office is domiciled in the District of Columbia pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 17(b) but not necessarily
          the human being filling the office.  See Section 9 of the following:

           Citizenship, Domicile, and Tax Status Options, Form #10.003

3. It constitutes election fraud to use a tax form to "elect" a person into a public office without their consent and especially without their knowledge.

4. It constitutes bribery to procure a public office in violation of 18 U.S.C. §210 and bribery pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §201 for a "withholding agent", who is also a "public officer" pursuant to 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(16), to withhold monies on those not otherwise lawfully engaged in a "public office".

5. The IRS is unlawfully abusing TINs and SSNs as de facto licenses to engage in "public offices" within states of the Union, which the Supreme Court has held that they CANNOT do.  In most cases, in fact, these "licenses" were illegally obtained because obtained by those not actually domiciled and physically present on federal territory at the time of application.  There is no definition of "State" within the Social Security Act that includes any state of the Union and therefore they are purposefully excluded and cannot lawfully be added by judicial fiat because this violates the separation of powers doctrine:

   “Thus, Congress having power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes, may, without doubt, provide for granting coasting licenses, licenses to pilots, licenses to trade with the Indians, and any other licenses necessary or proper for the exercise of that great and extensive power; and the same observation is applicable to every other power of Congress, to the exercise of which the granting of licenses may be incident. All such licenses confer authority, and give rights to the licensee.

    

   But very different considerations apply to the internal commerce or domestic trade of the States. Over this commerce and trade Congress has no power of regulation nor any direct control. This power belongs exclusively to the States. No interference by Congress with the business of citizens transacted within a State is warranted by the Constitution, except such as is strictly incidental to the exercise of powers clearly granted to the legislature. The power to authorize a business within a State is plainly repugnant to the exclusive power of the State over the same subject. It is true that the power of Congress to tax is a very extensive power. It is given in the Constitution, with only one exception and only two qualifications. Congress cannot tax exports, and it must impose direct taxes by the rule of apportionment, and indirect taxes by the rule of uniformity. Thus limited, and thus only, it reaches every subject, and may be exercised at discretion. But, it reaches only existing subjects. Congress cannot authorize [e.g. "license", either directly or indirectly] a  trade or business within a State in order to tax it.” 

   [License Tax Cases, 72 U.S. 462, 18 L.Ed. 497, 5 Wall. 462, 2 A.F.T.R. 2224 (1866)]

Consequently, we can find no reason to believe that one may be a "taxpayer" who does not occupy a public office in the government as either an elected or appointed official or as an officer of a federal corporation that itself is an "office" within the government.  If you find evidence to the contrary, we would love to see it and please send it to us as soon as you find it.  You can find a detailed analysis of the above conclusions in the following:

Nonresident Alien Position, Form #05.020, Section 13

Note that we aren't making a legal determination in your specific case, nor does our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 allow us to.  Therefore, please don't come back to use and ask us to do so by applying the above to your specific situation, because then we are rendering legal advice.  We speak here only in general terms and do so as a matter of opinion and belief, and not FACT.  Our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 in fact requires that you may not interpret anything on this website as factual or actionable, so you have to make your own decisions based on reading the law for yourself and applying it to your specific circumstances.

 

If you want to determine for yourself whether your job satisfies all the legal requirements for being a "public office" that we are aware of, then we recommend examining the following.  You'll have to make the determination yourself as the "sovereign", because we can't and won't do it for you:

The "Trade or Business" Scam, Section 11 (OFFSITE LINK)

With all the above said, we are not adverse to having federal workers not engaged in a government public office to participate as Members so long as they satisfy all the following precautionary requirements:

1. They do not use any of our forms or procedures in connection with any of their government compensation.

2. The only thing they can use our forms or procedures for is earnings NOT connected with their job within the government and not originating from within the "United States", meaning their PRIVATE earnings ONLY.  All such earnings are classified as a "foreign estate" pursuant to 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(31) beyond the jurisdiction of the Internal Revenue Code.

3. If they have private compensation not originating from the government and not connected to a "public office" and they file a tax return, they must emphasize that all other compensation is a "foreign estate" pursuant to 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(31) not connected with a "trade or business" and not originating from "sources within the United States" as defined in 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(9) and (a)(10) and earned by someone who is a "nonresident alien" but not a "taxpayer", "individual", or "employee". 

4. They must prevent false information returns from being filed relating to their private compensation and rebut all those information returns that are filed connecting their private, non-governmental compensation to a "public office".  This will ensure that they  rebut all false presumptions that might convert their private property to a public use or a public office and make them at least appear to be a "taxpayer".  See:

      Correcting Erroneous Information Returns, Form #04.001

5. They must comply with every provision of the Member Agreement, Form #01.001 just like everyone else in connection with their PRIVATE compensation not connected to any public office or originating from the "United States" (government).

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If your question is not answered in this section, please visit the following area in our forums for additional questions and answers:

Requests for services or assistance

QUESTION 1.01:

Question 1.01:  What do you tell "taxpayers" who need help or want to use your materials?

Answer 1.01:  We tell them the following:

1. You're looking on the WRONG website!  You should be consulting http://www.irs.gov for educational materials.

2. "Taxpayers" ought to pay whatever the IRS says they owe.  A "taxpayer" is what the Bible calls a "HARLOT", and that profession demands bending over frequently.  If you're going to choose to do something, you ought to at least commit to being good at it.  "Whore" is a good word for it too:  They want your body but not your brain engaged.  Your body is a metaphor for the collection of all your  rights to life, liberty, and property.  The Bible calls the collection of all such "taxpayers" within a given country by the affectionate term "Babylon the Great Harlot", and describes them in detail in Revelations 17 and 18.

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
[Samuel Adams ]

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"I refuse to allow any IRS or State revenue officer to call me or any client a "taxpayer". Just because I may look like one or have the attributes of one does not necessarily make me one. To one IRS lady, and I have no reason to doubt that she fits this category, I use the following example. "Miss you have all of the equipment to be a whore, but that does not make you one by presumption." Until it is proven by a preponderance of evidence I must assume you are a lady and you will be treated as such. Please have the same respect for me, and don't slander my reputation and defame my character by calling me a whore for the government, which is what a "taxpayer" is." 
[courtesy of Eugene Pringle]

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"But money demands of you the highest virtues, if you wish to make it or to keep it. Men who have no courage, pride, or self-esteem, men who have no moral sense of their right to their money and are not willing to defend it as they defend their life, men who apologize for being rich--will not remain rich for long. They are the natural bait for the swarms of looters [in the IRS and the government] that stay under rocks for centuries, but come crawling out at the first smell of a man who begs to be forgiven for the guilt of owning wealth. They will hasten to relieve him of the guilt--and of his life, as he deserves.

"Then you will see the rise of the double standard--the men who live by force [the government and the IRS and dishonest lawyers], yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their looted money--the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue. In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law [judge-made law, in this case]--men who use force to seize the wealth of DISARMED victims--then money becomes its creators' avenger. Such looters [IRS] believe it safe to rob defenseless [made ignorant of the law by sneaky lawyers and politicians who run the public education system, in this case] men, once they've passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter. " 
[Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, p. 387]

3. Thanks a lot for subsidizing the spread of socialism and humanism and idolatry and the persecution and slander of innocent, law-abiding fellow Americans with your "donations".  Thanks for bowing down to the new god and political religion called GOVERNMENT when no law or regulation requires it.  Is THAT how you fulfill God's law and commandment to "love your neighbor" and to put Him first and serve ONLY HIM: by subsidizing the lynching and illegal persecution of "nontaxpayers" by the IRS and by rewarding and encouraging irresponsibility and government dependency?  Does illegally bribing public officials with money that no law requires you to pay make you into a better Christian?

"You shall have no other gods [INCLUDING GOVERNMENTS OR PUBLIC DISSERVANTS] before Me.
"You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them [the government] nor serve them [with your labor or your earnings from labor]. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments."
[The Ten Commandments, Exodus 20:3-6, Bible, NKJV]

Can a person be a friend of the government and the IRS by sending them an illegal bribe that no law requires them to pay and illegally impersonate a "public officer" in criminal violation of 18 U.S.C. §912 and yet not be an enemy of God?:

"Adulterers and adulteresses!  Do you now know that friendship [and "citizenship"] with the world is enmity with God?   Whoever therefore wants to be a friend ["citizen" or "taxpayer" or "resident"] of the world makes himself an enemy of God." 
[James 4:4, Bible, NKJV]

Don't cry on our shoulder...put on your knee pads and your mini skirt and your cheap makeup and stand on the local street corner for the next IRS John who comes along and wants his way with you: and pay up! 

“One who turns his ear from hearing [or reading and learning] the law [God's and man's law], even his prayer [and his LIFE, for that matter] is an abomination.”
[Prov. 28:9 , Bible, NKJV]

On the other hand, if you want to get educated to learn at least enough to determine by reading the law for yourself whether you even are a "taxpayer", instead of believing an ignorant, complacent, presumptuous, misguided, thieving, conniving public dis-servant who has an illegal conflict of interest to tell you, then there still may be hope for you yet. 

“But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a DOER of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.” 
[James 1:25, Bible, NKJV]

If you would like to know more about who are "taxpayers" based on your own reading of the law, see our free pamphlet Who are 'taxpayers' and who needs a 'Taxpayer Identification Number', Form #05.013.  And please don't take our word for it, because our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 and our Reasonable Belief About Income Tax Liability, Form #05.007 pamphlet both say you aren't allowed to. Read the government's own words and laws for yourself, because that's the only reasonable basis for belief anyway.

“Wisdom calls aloud outside; she raises her voice in the open squares, she cries out in the chief concourses, at the openings of the gates in the city she speaks her words; how long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?  For scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge.  Turn at my rebuke; surely I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.  Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded, because you disdained my counsel [and My law: God's law], and would have none of my rebuke, I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your terror [and the IRS] comes.  When your terror [and the IRS] comes like a storm, and your destruction comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.  Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.  Because they hated knowledge [and were too lazy and complacent to seek it out], and did not choose the fear of the Lord.  They have none of my counsel and despised my every rebuke.  Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled to the full with their own fancies.  For the turning away of the simple will slay them.  And the complacency of fools will destroy them; but whoever listens to me [God and the wisdom that comes ONLY from God] will dwell safely, and will be secure, without fear of evil.” 
[Prov. 1:20-33, Bible, NKJV]

"The fear of the Lord is the BEGINNING of knowledge." 
[Prov. 1:7, Bible, NKJV]

"The fear of the LORD is to hate evil [and the evil practiced by the IRS and corrupt judges and politicians]; Pride and arrogance and the evil way And the perverse mouth I hate."
[Prov. 8:13, Bible, NKJV]

Yes, fellow Americans...hate IS a family value and even a Christian and a biblical value, so long as the hate is directed at evil behavior instead of evil people, and so long that it doesn't translate into violence against anyone. That's the same thing our police do: hate the crime and punish it, but respect and try to reform the criminal.  If our public SERVANTS can do it, then certainly their masters, the American people can do it.  To admit otherwise is to admit that the servant is greater than the master. 

Remember the word that I said to you, "A [public] servant is not greater than his master [the American People].' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you [because you emphasize this relationship]. If they kept My word [God's Law], they will keep yours [the Constitution] also."
[Jesus in John 15:20, Bible, NKJV]

“No legislative act [of the SERVANT] contrary to the Constitution [delegation of authority from the MASTER] can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy [public SERVANT] is greater than his principal [the sovereign American People]; that the servant is above the master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the [SOVEREIGN] people [as individuals]; that men, acting by virtue of [delegated] powers may do not only what their [delegated] powers do not authorize, but what they forbid…[text omitted]  It is not otherwise  to be supposed that the Constitution could intend to enable the representatives of the people to substitute their will to that of their constituents. It is far more rational to suppose, that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the legislature, in order, among other things, to keep the latter within the limits assigned to their authority. The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts.  A Constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by judges, as fundamental law [a DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY FROM THE MASTER TO THE SERVANT]. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, the Constitution is to be preferred to the statute.”
[Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Paper # 78]

This website is a satisfaction of that very calling to hate evil (fear the Lord) right from the Bible.

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QUESTION 1.02:

Question 1.02:  I need a lawyer to represent me in court or with the government.  Can you recommend one in my area?

 

Answer 1.02:  Anyone who thinks they need a "lawyer" to represent them hasn't been reading the materials we recommend.  For an answer to that question, please read the following articles:

• Why you don't want to hire an attorney  (OFFSITE LINK)

• Petition for Admission to Practice  (OFFSITE LINK)

• Unlicensed Practice of Law, Form #05.026

• Woe to You Lawyers! (OFFSITE LINK)-book

The conclusion of the above four articles is that:

1. You can't hire a lawyer to represent you if you want to challenge jurisdiction in a court of law

2. When you hire a lawyer to represent you, then you become a "ward of the court" and are treated as mentally incompetent

3. The lawyer is there to represent and promote the interests of the government over and above that of your own, and when the two are in conflict, then the government interest will always take precedence because if it doesn't, his license to practice law will be pulled and he will literally starve to death beyond that point

4. The only way that you can obtain the services of an attorney is as a coach, and not as a representative, and it is best if he is not licensed by the state even in that capacity, because he has a conflict of interest and allegiance if he does.

The Sovereignty Forms and Instructions Online, Form #10.004 area of the Family Guardian website, under Instruction 5.4 entitled "Get a legal 'coach' if prosecuted by the IRS" says that the only legitimate reason to hire a legal professional is as a legal coach and advisor, but not to represent you in court.  Remember that sovereignty and dependency are mutually exclusive.  If you want to be sovereign, then you can't depend on a lawyer with a license from the corrupted government you are trying to fight in order to properly defend your constitutional rights.  The key to sovereignty is education and self-government.  We aren't self-governing if we have to depend on anyone for anything.  We are a government of law and not of men.  Lawyers are men and they shouldn't be allowed to govern your life or financially enslave you at $300/hour on the pretense that they are trying to defend your liberty.  That isn't liberty:  it's trading "Big brother" for "little brother", and the lawyer is "little brother" and becomes your new king and ruler when you hire him, and in most cases that is the only role he will accept for himself, because that is the only way he can justify holding your life, liberty, and property hostage for an exorbitant $300/hour.

 

Our assertion is that if you aren't willing to get educated and take full responsibility for your life in all respects at some point, then you ought to pay the government whatever they say you owe and bend over, because that is the reward for people who are lazy, ignorant, or dependent on anyone or anything but God.  See Great IRS Hoax, Form #11.302, section 1.8 for authorities on this derived right from the Bible.  Please don't shoot the messenger, which is us, because this is exactly the same message that God gives us in the Bible. 

"The hand of the diligent will rule, But the lazy [or irresponsible] man will be put to forced labor."

[Prov. 12:24, Bible, NKJV]

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance, and the price of eternal vigilance is eternal education and eternal action.  God calls us to DO justice, not to just talk about it.  Talk is cheap.

 

On the other hand, if you are just getting started in your journey to get educated and take control of your life back from the government and the legal profession, and you want the assistance of a "coach" and not someone licensed by the government to "represent you" in court or in front of the IRS, then we have information for you.  An excellent catalog of many of  the main resources we rely can be found on the Family Guardian website on the Getting Help page.  As a non-profit ministry, we don't have the resources to maintain a national database of people who can help you, so we can't provide someone in your specific area in most cases, but those resources are a good place to start.  If you can't find someone on that list, then we recommend at least reading chapter 5 of the Great IRS Hoax, Form #11.302 to get you up to speed and then using the Test for Tax Professionals on the Family Guardian Website to interview attorneys in your area to find one who can answer the greatest number of the questions correctly.

 

Good luck, and our prayers are with you, my friend.  God bless you!

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QUESTION 1.03:

Question 1.03:  I would like to purchase your complete program that I will need to respond to the IRS. My computer is presently operating with Windows XP and with WordPerfect 9. Do you have disk that are compatible with my program? How do you receive payment. I need immediate delivery if possible. thank you. If I am not available speak to my secretary. She can arrange payment and is familiar with my computer and what will be compatible.

 

Answer 1.03:  First of all, we don't know what you mean by "program".  There are no "programs" here and we don't advertise or market anything, nor guarantee any specific result for any of the items offered here, which are all strictly educational in nature.  Our only goal here is to worship, serve, and obey the Lord and to ensure that public servants obey the law and we wouldn't call that a "program".  Second of all, we don't sell anything on this website and you can't "purchase" anything here.  To "purchase" something, you must have lawful "money".  The definition of "money"(OFFSITE LINK) in Black's Law Dictionary excludes "notes", which means that Federal Reserve Notes are NOT lawful money.  Click here for details on this SCAM.  Third, this is not a business but a religious ministry which does not sell anything.  You can obtain items from our Ministry Bookstore for free if you can prove you are needy or by making a donation to the ministry.  Fourth of all, since we don't give legal advice, we can't tell you what you need from a legal or procedural standpoint other than what item contains the information relevant to your situation.  Beyond that, you and only you are responsible for yourself, and you must decide entirely on your own and based on the detailed description of our offerings exactly what you need.  Any other approach would require us to give legal advice and for you to basically admit that you don't want to take responsibility for yourself and don't want to be sovereign over your life.  This website is only intended for educated people who want to be in complete control of their lives and insist on not being dependent on anyone.  Therefore, you will need to go to our opening page at http://sedm.org and browse our offerings and determine exactly what is right for your situation.  Before you decide to obtain anything, you should ensure that you agree to abide by our Member Agreement, Form #01.001, because you cannot and should get anything without agreeing to the Member Agreement, Form #01.001.  Among the requirements of that agreement are that before you can use the offerings of SEDM:

1. You commit yourself to getting educated using our materials and by reading the law yourself.

2. Based on that education, you have independently determined that you are a "nontaxpayer".

3. You agree not to use any of the materials on this website for an unlawful purpose.

After you have decided what you need based on the above education, you will need to have a Visa, or Mastercard or a debit or credit card to make your donation with. 

 

As far as support for "WordPerfect", the only word processing documents offered by SEDM are federal and state response letters.  These  response letters appearing are available only in Microsoft Word and are not supported by any other word processing program.  Therefore, you must obtain either Microsoft Office or Microsoft Word separately in order to use the automated response letters on this website.  Most other items available are Adobe Acrobat files which can be viewed and printed with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader available for download at http://adobe.com.

 

Lastly, we only deal with principals, not agents, and we insist on complete contact information if you want us to talk with you.  We can't deal with your Secretary, but only you.  If you want us to call you back, then please ensure that Anonymous Call Blocking is disabled on your telephone if you have that feature, or we can't return your inquiry and will ignore it.    Good luck and thanks for your interest in our ministry!

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QUESTION 1.04:

Question 1.04:  I need urgent help. I have been exempt from taxes since 2001. The IRS has created my 2001 tax forms, filling in the information they know of, and sent it to me for signature. It declares that I owe the IRS almost $4,000.00 and it is due in 60 days. Please HELP! The phone number listed is my cell phone and I am reachable at the number 24/7!

 

Answer 1.04:   First of all, we can't help people out who are "taxpayers" and you didn't specify if you are or aren't.  Your email should be accompanied by a signed Member Agreement, Form #01.001 indicating that you AREN'T a "taxpayer".  You can read the Great IRS Hoax, Form #11.302 to determine for yourself whether you are, but we can't make that determination for you.  When you email us to ask for help, the email should be accompanied by the attached or faxed Member Agreement, Form #01.001 indicating that you are a "nontaxpayer". 

 

Secondly, we can't recommend what to do for your specific case.  We can offer options that might help, information, and services that will help you decide what to do and provide evidence to support your contention that you are a "nontaxpayer" who is not "liable", but we can't tell you what you specifically need to do for a given circumstance because we can't give legal advice.  Therefore, you will have to be very specific about what it is you want from us.  Your email didn't say.  We can offer options to Members, but only you can choose what option is best for you based on the best information available.

 

Based on your comments, you haven't been reading or following our materials, because the W-4 Exempt is the wrong form for most Americans.  Americans domiciled in states of the Union are "nonresident aliens" but not aliens or "individuals" and they must file a AMENDED W-8BEN form, not a W-4 Exempt in order to stop federal withholding.  You can't be a member and use the W-4 or 1099 form for withholding or reporting, unless you are doing it under duress and you notify the government of the existence of duress.  This subject is exhaustively covered in our Great IRS Hoax, Form #11.302, sections 5.6.12 through 5.6.12.7.  Step 4.13 in the Sovereignty Forms and Instructions Online, Form #10.004 area of the Family Guardian Website contains details on the proper procedure to follow to stop withholding, and these instructions haven't been followed in your case.  The Family Guardian Website also has a whole book devoted to stopping withholding, which also emphasizes avoiding the W-4 form.  It's called Federal and State Tax Withholding Options for Private Employers, Form #09.001.

 

In your case, it sounds like the IRS is trying to scare you into paying money that you don't owe.  If you want a response letter to send to them, then we provide that on our website.  Look up the form number and then find the response letter in or Federal Response Letter area.  Next, you are going to have to decide what else you want us to do for you that might help you deal with this situation better.  You can look in our catalog and decide for yourself. However, if you have been "exempt" for three years and haven't been studying diligently that whole time to prepare for this inevitable day and want to be rescued at the last minute without having to take charge or take personal responsibility for getting educated, then we can't help you.  This approach, in fact, is biblical.  It is exactly the same approach the Lord takes towards us:

“Wisdom calls aloud outside; she raises her voice in the open squares, she cries out in the chief concourses, at the openings of the gates in the city she speaks her words; how long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?  For scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge.  Turn at my rebuke; surely I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.  Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded, because you disdained my counsel, and would have none of my rebuke, I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your terror comes.  When your terror comes like a storm, and your destruction comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.  Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.  Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord.  They have none of my counsel and despised my every rebuke.  Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled to the full with their own fancies.  For the turning away of the simple will slay them.  And the complacency of fools will destroy them; but whoever listens to Me [the Lord, and indirectly us as his agents] will dwell safely, and will be secure, without fear of evil.” 

[Prov. 1:20-33, Bible]

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.  Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me” 
[Hosea 4:6 , Bible, NKJV]

“One who turns his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.”
[Prov. 28:9 , Bible, NKJV]

"Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand all." 
[Prov. 28:5, Bible, NKJV]

We can only help people who want to be free, and that desire must manifest itself through eternal education and the pursuit of wisdom, whose only source is God, and whose secondary source is our materials, which are based on the word of God.

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.  The price of eternal vigilance is eternal education."

 

We recognize that you may feel fearful and afraid and anxious in your circumstance, but you must realize that this fear results mainly from ignorance and lack of faith/trust in God. The only antidote for ignorance is diligent education using both the Bible and our ministry materials.  The only antidote for lack of faith in God is to read His word daily and to pray to and trust in Him:

Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.

Do not be wise in your own eyes;
Fear the LORD and depart from evil.
It will be health to your flesh,
And strength to your bones.

Honor the LORD with your possessions,
And with the firstfruits of all your increase;
So your barns will be filled with plenty,
And your vats will overflow with new wine.
[Prov. 3:5-10, Bible, NKJV]

Good luck, and please send us a signed Member Agreement, Form #01.001 via email or fax before we can help you.  We can only help those who comply fully with and consent unconditionally to abide by the Member Agreement, Form #01.001.  Once you have done this, you may obtain information from our offerings.

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QUESTION 1.05:

Question 1.05:  I'm facing tax problems for the years 2001,2002,2003. I've filed returns for those years and paid $5.00 for each year. Will going through the Master File Decoding process for those years be effective? What is the cost for a single filer to go through this process? (Full Service)

Answer 1.05:  IMF Decoding is available on the SEDM Ministry Bookstore for the suggested donation identified.  However, our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 and Terms of Use and Disclaimer (Section 1) all clearly say we can't help people who are "taxpayers" and you sound like you are likely a "taxpayer" because you filed a return and claimed an amount due.  If you did any of the following, then you contradicted our Member Agreement, Form #01.001, are not a "nontaxpayer", and may not avail yourselves of any part of this website:

1. Did not rebut all information returns filed against you in every collection notice you receive from the taxing authorities.  The Member Agreement, Form #01.001, Section 3 requires you to promptly and regularly rebut all information returns filed against you so that nothing connects you with the " trade or business" franchise.  This is done using the following:

   Correcting Erroneous Information Returns, Form #04.001

2. Paid money on the return and didn't ask for it ALL back.  This meant you had a nonzero liability and are therefore a " taxpayer".

3. Filed a 1040 form instead of the Federal Nonresident Nonstatutory Claim for Return of Funds Unlawfully Paid to the Government, Forms #15.001 or #15.002 or IRS Form 1040NR plus the Tax Form Attachment, Form #04.201 for a "national" and a "nonresident alien".  This provided the government with court-admissible evidence that you are a "U.S. person" who falsely claims to be a "citizen" (person born in D.C. or the territories) or a "resident" (alien) under federal law.  We can't help people who commit perjury under penalty of perjury.  That's unwise and will not only discredit you, but also us eventually if we associate with or help you.  Sovereignty starts with getting educated and thereby not deceiving the government about our true status by putting falsehoods on government forms.  Click here for details on why this approach is simply WRONG and will get you in LOTS of trouble eventually.

4. Filed a W-4 form instead of the proper AMENDED W-8BEN form to control your withholding.  See the free third party booklet Federal and State Tax Withholding Options for Private Employers, Form #09.001 for details on how to do withholding.  The only exception is if you were under duress, in which case you must file a criminal complaint against your employer and subsequently diligently correct all information returns as indicated in step 1 above.

5. Filed an SS-5 form and did not rescind the application by sending in the  Resignation of Compelled Social Security Trustee, Form #06.002 document.

6. Provided an SSN or TIN on any government form or did not refute all uses by the government of such numbers in connection with you using the Wrong Party Notice.  Our article entitled " About SSNs/TINs on Government Correspondence" proves all those who use an identifying number effectively become federal employees on official business. Federal employees and personnel and contractors are the only proper subject of Subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code because it cannot lawfully be enforced against anyone else.  See:

   6.1  The Trade or Business Scam, Form #05.001

   6.2  Why Your Government is Either a Thief or You are a "Public Officer" for Income Tax Purposes, Form #05.008

   6.3  Why Penalties are Illegal for Anything but Federal Employees, Contractors, and Agents, #05.010

7. Did not go back and correct false government records reflecting your citizenship as directed at step 3.13 of the Sovereignty Forms and Instructions Online, Form #10.004 (OFFSITE LINK), and remove all SSNs and TINs as directed in About SSNs/TINs on Government Correspondence, Form #05.012 on the following forms and government records:

   7.1  Voter registration

   7.2  Passport

   7.3  Government benefit applications.

   7.4  Tax returns.

   7.5  Employment applications and records

8. Created a false presumption that you are engaged in a taxable activity called a "trade or business" by participating in any of the following "privileged" activities ( click here for details) that represent federal "employee" compensation:

   8.1  Claimed a graduated rate of tax on any earnings under 26 U.S.C. §1.

   8.2  Claimed earned income credit under 26 U.S.C. §32.

   8.3  Claimed any deductions under 26 U.S.C. §162.

The Member Agreement, Form #01.001 that must be signed and unconditionally consented to before we begin the decoding process requires the client to say they are a "nontaxpayer" under penalty of perjury.  You couldn't possibly sign such an agreement without lying if the returns you filed had any tax owing or if they were 1040 returns instead of the required Federal Nonresident Nonstatutory Claim for Return of Funds Unlawfully Paid to the Government, Form #15.001 or 1040NR returns for people who are "nationals" but not "citizens" (under 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(21)) and "nonresident aliens".

If you have since changed your mind and become a "nontaxpayer" for the years that you need help with, and have already filed corrected 1040NR returns claiming no tax owing, that you are a "nonresident alien", and have discontinued using SSNs and TINs on all government correspondence, then we might be able to help you.  If you either haven't yet done this or don't intend on doing it before involving us in your situation, then we simply can't help you.  If that is the case, we're sorry and wish you the best of luck. 

[EDITORIAL COMMENT:  This person sounds like a government mole, because NO ONE we have ever met pays only $5.00 on a tax return or pays the same amount three years in a row.]

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QUESTION 1.06:

Question 1.06:  Do you offer services or help with a specific problem rather than just education?

 

Answer 1.06:  The only type of services we offer are the following.  These services are only offered to those who are Members and who consent unconditionally to our Member Agreement, Form #01.001:

1. Educational services.  These services would be designed to educate you about what the law says and where to find information about a given subject that relates to either your situation or to a specific situation.

2. Paralegal document preparation service.  This service requires that you submit our Litigation Support Client Intake Packet application, Form #01.003.

3. IMF decoding service.  The output of that service is simply copyrighted documents and evidence useful to you in your own fight against illegal activity on the part of the government. 

All the above information produced is intended to be used only in petitioning the government for a Redress of Grievances under the First Amendment, which is a protected right under the Constitution.  We can't and won't "represent" people before the IRS or in a court of law, complete IRS Form 2848 to act as power of attorney and thereby become subject to the I.R.C., nor can we render legal advice like a lawyer would.  We can tell you what we would do if we were in your situation, but not what you should do.  We can present information and options that may be useful to you in reaching a decision about what to do with your situation, but we can't and won't pick which option is best for you, nor will we ever present less than two options.

 

We otherwise can't and won't undermine your sovereignty by having you financially equip us to take over running your life so you can be a robot and do only what we tell you to do.  That would not only make us just as bad as what the government is trying to do right now to you, but it would also be a supreme insult to your intelligence and would actually accomplish the OPPOSITE goal of this website.  We want to educate and empower people to govern their own lives and defend their own liberties, rather than spread more Ignorance Related Slavery (IRS), which is what the government is so famous for doing.  If ignorance and laziness and irresponsibility are the enemy that created the mess we are in to begin with, it makes no sense to perpetuate more of it simply because doing so might benefit us economically.  That would be hypocrisy and would also represent the WORSE kind of greed and usury on our part.  Click here for an excellent article explaining this subject of personal responsibility.  We aren't interested in building any "empires" and we will never be anything more than be your devoted SERVANT, which means you can't be anything more than a leader and manager of your own life and the government that was created to SERVE you, as God intended.  Stretch your wings and learn to fly, or the government will eventually clip them and chain you to their feudal tax grindstone as their indentured serf.  Life isn't fair, and this reality is part of the curse that God bestowed upon Adam and all of us for Eve's original sin:

"Cursed is the ground for your sake;
In toil you shall eat of it
All the days of your life.
Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you,
And you shall eat the herb of the field.
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread
Till you return to the ground,
For out of it you were taken;
For dust you are,
And to dust you shall return."
[Gen. 3:17-19, Bible, NKJV]

We also can't help you to undermine God's sovereignty by enabling or encouraging you to circumvent or nullify His curse above.  He is saying above that He wants us to take personal responsibility for ourselves and not to avoid responsibility for our sin.  God was the "breadwinner" before the fall.  When Adam and Eve decided to do things their own way, they got kicked out of the Garden and were told they would have to toil to support themselves.  This is exactly what parents to do their children to force them to mature and learn.  The reason people permit governments to become socialist, grow so big, and steal so much of their money is because they want to transfer responsibility away from themselves and thereby commit mutiny in defying God's command to take personal responsibility.  They want to sin without responsibility.  They want comfort and prosperity without sacrifice, honor, or personal responsibility.  They want freedom without a fight.  They want what never has been and never will be.  The price of freedom is eternal, personal vigilance.  There is no other easier way to liberation.  The only person who ever promised an easier way was Satan, and when he did that to Eve, he was LYING.  The fact that she believed him is the only reason we still live on this cursed planet since then. All rights derive from duties to a higher being.  He who is not willing to accept that he has duties to God to support himself,  and not be a burden or a harm to others simply cannot have rights.  That's the Golden rule: You cannot deserve or have a claim to that which you are not willing to give or earn personally.  Without rights, we all become animals and Beasts of burden for those Capitalists (not socialists) and tyrants who are willing to take responsibility and make things happen. 

“The hand of the diligent [and the educated] will rule, but the lazy [or irresponsible] man will be put to forced labor [slavery!].” 
[Prov. 12:24, Bible, NKJV]

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QUESTION 1.07:

Question 1.07:  Do you offer state or federal tax lien or levy removal?

 

Answer 1.07:  Not at this time, but we are working on a book that describes at least one way of doing this.

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QUESTION 1.08:

Question 1.08:  I am in a severe financial bind and desperately need one of your items because I'm being persecuted financially by the government.  I can't afford to meet the suggested donation amount for the item or service I need and was wondering if there is a way you can arrange a special discount in my particular case?

Answer 1.08:  SEDM is a religious and charitable organization, and we are glad to help people as resources permit who can demonstrate with evidence that they have been good stewards over the gifts God has given them and yet are still unable to meet their obligations.  If you can prove that you are genuinely needy, then we will entertain an act of grace and charity to help you in your situation.  That proof would need to take the form of all of the following:

1. An affidavit listing income, expense, asset, and liability

2. A statement of earnings prepared and signed by your private employer

3. A copy of the IRS levy notice(s) which are interfering with you having the resources to defend yourself.

4. A signed Member Agreement, Form #01.001

We aren't interested in what you personally "feel" you need, but the actual reality of your situation related by independent, uninvolved, third parties in a signed or affidavit form.  You can fax such evidence to our phone number at 800-753-7661 and we will consider pro bono help upon receipt of said proof.

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QUESTION 1.09:

Question 1.09:  I received a Federal letter number 2566(SC) and I'm not sure if the response you have will work for me.  You have a response for Federal Letter 2566 but not for Letter 2566(SC).  Can you offer an opinion or give advice about whether letter 2566 will work for me?

Answer 1.09:  SEDM does NOT give legal advice or make legal determinations about your status.  All we can say is compare the 2566(SC) letter you received with the sample IRS 2566 letter we have on the SEDM website.  If the two seem similar enough, then you may want to get that response.  Otherwise, please request the New Federal Response Letter shopping cart item and a new response will be created for you that can be used as a starting point for responding.  We can't make the decision for you as to which of the two options will work in your case because that would require us to be intimately familiar with your situation and to make a legal determination based on that situation.  You are the sovereign, and you need to make your own decisions and begin exercising your power of choice wisely.  Spread your wings and fly or forever be chained to the federal plantation.  It's your choice.  Our article entitled Writing Effective Response Letters, Form #09.006 contains information which may be helpful in making this choice that only you can make.  Our Articles of Mission, Form #01.004 say we simply aren't allowed to make legal determinations or tell you what you should do.  Sorry. If you want us to continue to be available to serve your needs, then you need to help us by not asking questions like that.  Only those who can make their own decisions are truly sovereign, and sovereign people are the only people we can educate and thereby help.  Good luck!

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QUESTION 1.10:

Question 1.10:  I am presently domiciled in the New York state (and NOT the "State of New York"), and have been since February of 2005.  Prior to that I was domiciled in the commonwealth of Massachusetts.  The Massachusetts Department of revenue has levied my bank account and stolen over $13,000.  This was done last fall  They have levied my wages at my former employer in Massachusetts who still owed me money from a contract I completed for them.  Now, as I am domiciled in the state of New York, and I work for a firm in the state of Washington, the Massachusetts Dept of Revenue has sent a letter to the company in Washington state to levy my wages.  I do not feel that they have any jurisdiction over me in this scenario, (not that they ever did).  Can you point me to some educational material that I could use to support myself in fighting this levy and keeping my money for which I labored?  Any help, advice or direction that you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1.10:  First of all, if you are earning "wages" as legally defined, then you are not the target of illegal enforcement, but rather are acting like a "public officer" and ought to quit complaining.  You can't be a Member of this fellowship and earn "wages" because we don't allow "public officers" engaged in the "trade or business" franchise to participate as Members.  Furthermore, we can't talk to or help people who are not Members.  You better do your homework and read our Federal and State Tax Withholding Options for Private Employers, Form #04.101 because your misunderstanding of the law and your confusion of "words of art" with everyday words is making you into a government serf.

 

Secondly, your situation is covered in a book entitled "Conflicts in a Nutshell" by West Publishing.  See:

http://west.thomson.com/product/22088447/product.asp

We highly recommend getting this excellent book, because it really fits the picture together.  The third edition discusses extraterritorial tax enforcement on page 140, section 52.  As we understand it, the laws of the former state of your domicile are foreign with respect to the state you are now in and with respect to any other state.  The supreme court has said the following:

“Every State or nation possesses an exclusive sovereignty and jurisdiction within her own territory, and her laws affect and bind all property and persons residing within it. It may regulate the manner and circumstances under which property is held, and the condition, capacity, and state of all persons therein, and also the remedy and modes of administering justice. And it is equally true that no State or nation can affect or bind property out of its territory, or persons not residing within it. No State therefore can enact laws to operate beyond its own dominions, and if it attempts to do so, it may be lawfully refused obedience. Such laws can have no inherent authority extraterritorially. This is the necessary result of the independence of distinct and separate sovereignties.”

 

"Now it follows from these principles that whatever force or effect the laws of one State or nation may have in the territories of another must depend solely upon the laws and municipal regulations of the latter, upon its own jurisprudence and polity, and upon its own express or tacit consent.”
[Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sanford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856)]

Therefore, your former domiciliary state may not extend its revenue laws beyond its borders and adversely affect your rights in what amounts to a foreign country called Washington state.  They lack territorial or in personam jurisdiction.  Whoever in a company surrenders earnings wrongfully based on a levy or lien that has no jurisdiction is personally liable in state court for a tort and an illegal injury, as far as we understand it.    We can't tell you what you should do or give legal advice, but if we faced that situation personally, we would sue the payroll clerk individually, and not the company, and get the withheld earnings from the clerk's pay.  Below is what the above book says on p. 140 on this subject:

§ Tax Claims

 

"At an earlier time it was assumed that a forum would refuse to entertain a claim by another state's tax official to collect the latter's taxes from a person found in the forum.  Some cases so held (e.g. Colorado, NY 1921), but there is really no reason for such trepidation, at least within the United States, where the federal constitution oversees all state and federal laws to assure minimal fairness.  The refusal has therefore been criticized as encouraging "willful, dishonest tax evasion" (Oklahoma ex re. Oklahoma Tax Comm'n, Ark.1955).  Perhaps it is this supervisory function of the constitution that has let to today's more receptive attitude among the states of the United States.  Tax claims have often been entertained in sister-state courts (e.g. J.A. Holshouser Co. v. Gold Hill Copper Co, 138 N.C. 248, 50 S.E. 650 (N.C. 1905); City of Detroit v. Gould, 12 Ill.2d 197m 146 N.E.2d 61 (Ill.1957)).  Some states have reciprocity statutes in the tax area.  These direct local courts to 7entertain the tax claims of only those states that do likewise (e.g., NY Tax L. §902).

 

"The U.S. Supreme Court, in holding that a judgment for taxes must be given full faith and credit (Milwaukee, USSC 1935), left open the question of whether the constitution requires a state to entertain a direct claim (i.e., one not yet reduced to judgment) for taxes by a sister state or one of its taxing units.  Of course, the fact that recognition become mandatory when the tax claim is reduced to judgment teaches the taxing unit to being the tax suit at home, invoking a longarm statute against the taxpayer if necessary (longarm jurisdiction is available for tax claims, see U.S. v. Montreal Trust, 358 F.2d 239 (2nd Cir. 1966), 384 U.S. 919, 86 S.Ct. 1366, 16 L.Ed.2d 440 (1966)).  Since the judgment secures mandatory recognition and as simple a phenomenon as a longarm statute can secure that judgment at home, the taxing unit pursuing the taxpayer outside the state should do so with a judgment, which insists on recognition, instead of the underlying claim itself, whose call on recognition is less certain." 
[Conflicts in a Nutshell, Third Edition, ISBN 0-314-16066-3]

According to the above, it would appear that the Mass. Dept of Revenue must pursue a judgment in Washington State before they can attempt collection there.  An administrative levy or lien from a foreign state cannot have any authority outside the state that issued it, based on the above.  However, you shouldn't trust anything we say and instead investigate this matter fully yourself by reading the above book and looking at the above references.  We hope this gives you a starting point for your own studies. Another instructive Supreme Court case on this subject that you might want to read is Milwaukee v. White, 296 U.S. 268 (1935).

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QUESTION 1.11:

Question 1.11:  I want to become a Member and I need you to help me prepare an IRS 1040 form so I can get all my money back from the IRS.  Can you help me?

Answer 1.11:  You are NOT reading our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 or you wouldn't be asking that question.  Our Member Agreement, Form #01.001, Section 5, Item 7 says we are prohibited from either advising in the preparation of tax returns or assisting people in filing of returns.  This prohibition is also repeated in our Articles of Mission, Form #01.004, Section 2.5, item 6.  We are also not allowed to engage in any commercial activities, and filing of returns is a commercial activity.  There are NO exceptions to this policy.

This is exclusively a free speech website intended only to educate and empower people to obey the law and govern their own lives without any outside influences or help, including from the government.  The only thing we produce is education and information.  What you do with that information and education is entirely up to you.  You are the sovereign, and you must take total and complete and exclusive personal responsibility for your life by educating yourself and fighting your own battles based not on what we say, but on what the law says.  If you aren't up to this task, then you are headed for trouble and may as well kiss your rights and any possibility of freedom goodbye, because your LYING public servants will promote, abuse, and exploit your ignorance to make you into their whore if you don't.  We're sorry, but that is the naked reality of the situation and we know the Truth hurts, but you MUST hear this or you will become another victim:

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."  
[James Madison]

The decision of whether to file or how to file is entirely up to you.  However, you CANNOT be a Member of SEDM if you file a "resident alien" tax form such as IRS form 1040.  IRS Publication 7130 says that only "citizens and residents" of the "United States" (federal zone), who collectively are called "U.S. persons" and " domiciliaries", may file IRS form 1040.  This requirement is also repeated in 26 CFR §1.6012-1(a), which says that only statutory (and NOT constitutional) 'U.S. citizens and residents" have an obligation to file a tax return.  The IRS form 1040 is ONLY for such persons, all of whose earnings are from the "trade or business"/public office franchise.  The only people who can read or use this website are:

• Nonresident aliens

• Nontaxpayers

• Not engaged in a " trade or business"

• Not "U.S. persons" as defined in 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(30) . . . AND

• Not federal employees or contractors or "instrumentalities"

If you decide to file any kind of return as a Member, you MUST file the AMENDED Federal 1040NR with the Tax Form Attachment, Form #04.201 or the Federal Nonresident Nonstatutory Claim for Return of Funds Unlawfully Paid to the Government, , Form #15.001 or 15.002 that can only indicate a ZERO liability, zero earnings from a "trade or business" or from the "United States" (District of Columbia) and which rebuts all information returns filed against you.  This requirement exists to prevent either us or you from bringing reproach upon the God we serve and upon the freedom community as a whole. Any filing of "resident" 1040 (rather than 1040NR) forms, regardless of the liability indicated on the form, is totally inappropriate for any of our Members.  You only have two choices:  obey the Member Agreement, Form #01.001 completely and consistently or quit using our information and become a Member in Bad Standing.  There is no middle ground on this issue.  Sorry to be so harsh, but the naked reality is that we walk a tight-rope here because the government will always have us under a microscope.

If you want further information about filing of no liability 1040NR returns as a " nonresident alien", the FREE information on Family Guardian in the Sovereignty Forms and Instructions Online, Form #10.004,  may prove helpful.  Click on "Forms" in the upper left corner and look at items 7.1 through 7.16 on the left hand side.  We are NOT responsible for their offerings and maintain no financial relationships with the Family Guardian Fellowship.  Users and not us assume all responsibility and liability for the consequences of reading their free information and any information available on this website.

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QUESTION 1.12:

Question 1.12:  I am facing a willful failure to file prosecution.  Can you point me at information and resources that will help me prepare a defense in court?

Answer 1.12:  Information that may be helpful in preparing your defense includes the following:

1. The Government "Benefits" Scam, Form #05.040-describes how to defend yourself against the main argument the government uses in all criminal tax prosecutions

2. Litigation Tools Page-forms and pleadings you can use as a starting point if you are handling the litigation yourself.

3. Legal Requirement to File Federal Income Tax Returns, Form #05.009-memorandum of law on our Forms page.

   • Sample

   • PDF in member subscriptions

   • Member Subscriptions

4. The "Trade or Business" Scam,  Form #05.001-memorandum of law on our Forms page.  the basis for why the government falsely believes that you earned "gross income" for those years. 

5. Why Domicile and Becoming a "Taxpayer" Require Your Consent, Form #05.002-shows why income taxes and government civil jurisdiction is voluntary

6. Correcting Erroneous Information Returns, Form #04.001-use this to send in and zero out the erroneous reports connecting you to a "trade or business", if you are not in fact engaged in this activity.

7. years in question, to nullify the requirement to file for those years.

8. Reasonable Belief About Income Tax Liability, #05.007-use this pamphlet to describe the basis for your belief about why you didn't have to file.  All tax crimes have "willfulness" as a prerequisite and this pamphlet shows there is no basis to believe there is a requirement to file because there is no credible information one can trust or belief establishing a liability.

9. Responding to a Criminal Tax Indictment, Litigation Tool #01.003-background on how to respond

10. Federal Criminal Practice, James Publishing-excellent attorney practice guide dealing with Federal Criminal Practice.  This is what your attorney will use to defend you.  Very affordable and comes with sample forms.  Updated frequently to keep it current.  Best of its kind that we know of.

Our Articles of Mission, Form #01.004 prohibit us from giving legal advice, but we can certainly point you a relevant law from the sources above in helping you make an informed choice about what to do.

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QUESTION 1.13:

Question 1.13:  My private employer is trying to FORCE me to provide a Social Security Number, a Taxpayer Identification Number, or a W-9 form.  What can I do to respond to this?

Answer 1.13:  Before you get started on this problem, you should read the following free resources to get some background on how to proceed:

1. Income Tax Withholding and Reporting Course, Form #12.004

2. Federal and State Tax Withholding Options for Private Employers, Form #09.001.  Especially sections 20 through 22 and subsections.

Information that may be helpful in preparing your defense includes the following:

1. You can give them the following form and demand that they rebut it:

   Why It is Illegal for Me to Request or Use a "Taxpayer Identification Number", Form #04.205

2. You can quote 42 U.S.C. §408, which says that it is illegal to compel anyone to disclose or use a Social Security Number.

   TITLE 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE

   CHAPTER 7 - SOCIAL SECURITY

   SUBCHAPTER II - FEDERAL OLD-AGE, SURVIVORS, AND DISABILITY INSURANCE BENEFITS

   Sec. 408. Penalties

   (a) In general
   Whoever -...

   (8) discloses, uses, or compels the disclosure of the social security number of any person in violation of the laws of the United States; shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both.

3. You can tell them that you do not have a "Social Security Number" because you have never lawfully participated and couldn't lawfully consent to participate.  Then you can show them:

   3.1    Why You Aren't Eligible for Social Security, Form #06.001

   3.2  The resignation document you sent in, if you sent it in at (Members are REQUIRED to do this):
          Resignation of Compelled Social Security Trustee, Form #06.002

   3.3  Social Security Form 521 showing that you quit the social security program:
          http://famguardian.org/TaxFreedom/Instructions/3.17QuitSocialSecurity.htm

4. You can show them the signed letter from the Social Security Administration admitting that you aren't required to have or use the number:
   SEDM Exhibit 1014
   http://sedm.org/Exhibits/EX1014.pdf

5. You can give them our free pamphlet Who are 'taxpayers' and who needs a 'Taxpayer Identification Number', Form #05.013 and demand that they rebut the questions at the end.  It's also a good idea to offer to sit down with anyone who is confronting you on this issue and educate them about the content of this pamphlet.

6. You can print out and hand them a copy of the following:
   Reasonable Cause Regulations and Requirements for Missing and Incorrect Name/TINs, IRS Publication 1586
   http://famguardian.org/TaxFreedom/Forms/IRS/IRSPub1586.pdf

7. You can download the free Federal and State Tax Withholding Options for Private Employers book, Form #09.001 and refer to sections  24.3.1 and 24.3.5 for further details.  Section 27.12 also has a form you can use as a substitute for the W-9 form so that you can comply by submitting the form but still protect yourself and your privacy.  Read this book carefully and it will answer most of your questions.

8. You can tell them that it is illegal to use government property for a private purpose and that you do not consent to act as a voluntary federal "public official" or employee without extra pay.  20 CFR  §422.103(d) identifies the Social Security Number as government property, and to use this "public property" for a private purpose constitutes embezzlement and impersonating a federal employee, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §912.

9. If the person doing the compelling is not the owner of the organization, you can tell the person that you are going to sue them personally for recruiting you into slavery, in violation of the Thirteenth Amendment, 42 U.S.C. §1994, and 18 U.S.C. §1581.

10. You can show them the definition of "married" and "unmarried" individuals in 26 CFR §1.1-1(a)(2)(ii), who are "aliens engaged in a 'trade or business'" and then explain that you are neither an "alien" or engaged in a "trade or business".  See:

    The "Trade or Business" Scam, Form #05.001

11. You tell them you are a "nonresident alien" and quote them 26 CFR  §1.872-2(f), which says you are not subject to withholding and give them a modified W-8BEN form.  See:

    10.1  About IRS Form W-8BEN, Form #04.202.

    10.2  Nonresident Alien Position, Form #05.020.

12. If you are self-supporting and not an "employee" [ federal instrumentality] but a private contractor, you can identify yourself as a " nonresident alien" and read them 26 U.S.C. §1402(b), which says that "nonresident aliens" do not earn "self employment income" and therefore need not report.

Whichever one or more of the above options you select:

1. Make sure you either have witnesses present or send everything registered overnight mail with return receipt.  That way, you will have proof, if they decide to discriminate by either not hiring or firing you for basically refusing to violate the law or reward their ignorance with a surrender of your sovereign immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

2. Do NOT allow them to fill out IRS form 1042-S on your earnings, because this will illegally make them "gross income" and connect them to a "trade or business".  This is explained in the free   Federal and State Tax Withholding Options for Private Employers book, Form #09.001, section 19.3.

3. Do NOT allow them to fill out IRS form 1099 on your earnings, because this form is ONLY for use in connection with a "trade or business", which you are not involved in.  See:

   Correcting Erroneous IRS Form 1099s, Form #04.005.

4. Do NOT allow them to fill out IRS form W-2 on your earnings, because this is ONLY in connection with a "trade or business", which in most cases you are not engaged in.  See:

   Correcting Erroneous IRS Form W-2's, Form #04.002

5. If they fill out false information returns, such as W-2, 1042-S, 1098, or 1099, against you, make sure to correct them promptly after they are filed in order to avoid becoming the target of unlawful IRS collection activity in accordance with the following:

   5.1  Income Tax Withholding and Reporting Course, Form #12.004.

   5.2  Correcting Erroneous Information Returns, Form #04.001 (consolidates the following four links into one file)

   5.3  Correcting Erroneous IRS form 1042's, Form #04.003

   5.4  Correcting Erroneous IRS form 1098's, Form #04.004

   5.5  Correcting Erroneous IRS form 1099's, Form #04.005

   5.6  Correcting Erroneous IRS form W-2's, Form #04.006

If you want further details, the subject of Socialist INSecutiry Numbers is exhaustively covered in the following free memorandum of law on our website:

About SSNs/TINs on Government Forms and Correspondence, Form #-5.012

http://sedm.org/Forms/MemLaw/AboutSSNsAndTINs.pdf

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QUESTION 1.14:

Question 1.14:  I am marrying a foreign wife and I want to protect her rights and avoid all the government fraud paperwork.  Is there a way to marry her without a license and what should I look out for in this process.

I have recently submitted a Petition for Alien Fiance (I-129F) to the USCIS  This will allow for my fiance who lives in ________[foreign country] to come to the United States where I will have to marry her within 90-days of her arrival.  I have recently discovered many of the evil truths about our government and wish that our marriage/union be kept out of the jurisdiction of the State of Indiana (where we will marry).  But, in order for me to change her status from a non-Immigrant status to an Immigrant status I have to fill out form I-485.  I-485 requires that I submit the following:

1. Fiance Petition Approval (which we will receive and allows for her entry into this country)

2. Marriage certificate

3. I-94 Form proving that she entered the country at a US point of entry

My question(s) are as follows:

1. Is there a way that I can marry without a marriage license in the State of Indiana and still obtain a valid Marriage Certificate?

2. Are there any forms or things that I should be aware (and for that matter beware) of in regards to the Fiance Visa process?

Thanks so much for your prompt reply.

Answer 1.14:  The method we use the case of our family members is the following:

1.  Marry without a license by using the marriage contract in our book:
Sovereign Christina Marriage, Form #06.008.

2.  Have the contract notarized, in which case it is an official record.

3.  Present that notarized contract as proof of marriage.  You can add to that a Certificate of Marriage included with the book that you can have a pastor sign.  You can also have that document notarized if you like as well and even record it with the county recorder, but only if you don't mind losing your privacy.  A list of pastors who will marry without licenses is at:
http://famguardian.org/Subjects/FamilyLaw/Marriage/Pastors.htm (OFFSITE LINK)

4.  Present a certified copy of the signed certificate plus the first and last page of the marriage contract to those who need proof of valid marriage.  Your marriage qualifies as a "foreign marriage" under most state laws, and most state laws require states to legally recognize the existence of such marriage under the terms of the "foreign law" (God's law and the private contract) which consummated them.  If they argue with you about the validity of the foreign marriage, refer them to the Family Code in your state and the section that says they have to recognize it.  Click here to look up the laws for your state.

5.  If they balk because your certificate and copy of the contract are not a "government record", show them the notarization of the contract and/or the certificate.  Notaries are officers of the government so it is "government issued".  If you have it recorded, you can also show them the stamped version from the Country Recorder and even give them a certified color copy if they want.

6.  Make sure when you fill out all the government paperwork, such as the I-94 and I129F, that you neither include nor provide any identifying government numbers and indicate that you DO NOT intend to apply for nor receive Social Security or a Taxpayer Identification Number.  The reasons are explained at:
Resignation of Compelled Social Security Trustee, Form #06.002

We don't have time to hold your hand on this.  You need to read our book Sovereign Christian Marriage, Form #06.008, which will clear up most of your questions.  That book also has a sample contract you can start with.  However, it WILL NOT work and we don't recommend using it if if both of you are not Christians.

"Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?" 
[2 Cor. 6:14, Bible, NKJV]

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QUESTION 1.15:

Question 1.15:  Do you have any information on professional licensing? I live in California and am a real estate agent with a dreaded license. How can I legally operate without one? No broker would hire me. I am already dealing with not signing a w-9 form, as to do so after not filing for many years would be my downfall. Any info on that as well? How to handle an broker who thinks he has to obtain a w-9 form for the irs? How about liens that are already on your credit report? Is there a way to get them removed? I know I have so many questions, but I am embroiled with all of these battles, yet I want to make a difference for all in the future to come.

Answer 1.15:  We have a section in our Liberty University specifically intended to help people avoid franchises and licenses of every description.  Click on the link below to visit:

 

   Liberty University, Section 4:  Avoiding Franchises and Licenses

 

Other than the information at the link above, we don't have specific information about professional licensing.  However, if you read the state laws governing professional licensing, you will find that they almost universally require that you live in the "State", which is usually defined as the federal areas within the exterior limits of most states of the Union.  If you can find that statute, and point it out to the person you need to convince, that should settle it.  We don't keep track of all these statutes for each state because it it very burdensome, but you can do a search on your own for your state:

     State Legal Resources
     http://famguardian.org/TaxFreedom/LegalRef/StateLegalResources.htm

The fact that people won't hire or employ you because you refuse to be a privileged alien in your own country is a cause for a discrimination lawsuit. Its best to show them the law before doing anything that drastic, but these are the essentials.

The W-9 is only necessary in the case of an alien.  This is confirmed in the case of the following:

    About SSNs/TINs on Government Forms and Correspondences, Form #05.012
    http://sedm.org/Forms/MemLaw/AboutSSNsAndTINs.pdf

If you are having trouble with people insisting that you fill out a W-9 and therefore commit perjury under penalty of perjury by declaring yourself to be an alien, then we recommend using the following to educate and convince them:

     Who are Taxpayers and Who Needs a Taxpayer Identification Number?, Form #05.013
     http://sedm.org/Forms/MemLaw/WhoAreTaxpayers.pdf

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QUESTION 1.16:

Question 1.16:  Why won't you answer my question?  You said you can't give legal advice and therefore can't answer it.

Answer 1.16:  You aren't getting answers because you aren't following the strict protocol for asking questions.  Our ministry observes very stringent constraints relating to all its communications with Members and other third parties.  If you either attempt to contact us to ask a question using our Contact Us page or you intend to post a question you may have to our Member Forums, you are required to strictly observe these guidelines or your communication will either be ignored, flagged as a violation, or deleted.  The purpose for these guidelines is to avoid and prevent the following:

1.   Giving anyone the opportunity or excuse to blame us for their choices or actions or the consequences of their choices and actions.  Sovereigns take exclusive and personal responsibility for everything they say, do, and choose.

2.   Misunderstandings caused by abuse of “words of art”.

3.   False presumptions by law enforcement personnel about the nature of our ministry, our members, or our activities.

4.   Creating the false appearance that we intend to violate any law and thereby make us the unjust and undeserving subject of a criminal investigation or enforcement activity.

5.   Violating any part of our Member Agreement, Form #01.001.

6.   The rendering of legal advice.  Our Member Agreement strictly forbids us to give legal advice.

Therefore, in all communications with us, any member of the ministry, or any third party about our ministry or the services or information that it offers, the following rules for communication must be observed in asking questions:

1.   You must emphasize at the end of your question that you are not asking for legal advice.

2.   You should seek more than one option in pursuing the course that you want to undertake, with the goal of deciding for yourself based on the best information available, which is the best option.  You can share your choice and the reasons for your choice on our forums if you like.

3.   You must ask for law and information that is pertinent to the hypothetical situation you describe and not to YOUR situation.

4.   You should avoid “words of art” or at least qualify their meaning when you use them.   See the following for examples of “words of art”:

4.1.  Sovereignty Forms and Instructions Online, Form #10.004: Cites by Topic

http://famguardian.org/TaxFreedom/FormsInstr-Cites.htm (OFFSITE LINK)

4.2.  Great IRS Hoax, Form #11.302, Section 3.9.1 :
      http://famguardian.org/Publications/GreatIRSHoax/GreatIRSHoax.htm  (OFFSITE LINK)

5.   You should avoid “privileged” words.  See Sovereignty Forms and Instructions Online, Form #10.004, Instructions, Step 2.6 :
http://famguardian.org/TaxFreedom/Instructions/2.6WatchLanguageWithGovt.htm (OFFSITE LINK)

6.   You aren't allowed to personalize questions, refer to "I", or "me" or "my" in your question.  The only pronoun you can use is "you" and be referring to us.

7.   If you refer to anyone other than us in your question, you have to refer to them as "a human being" or "a hypothetical human being" who is a Member.

8.   You cannot use the words "should" or "must" in a question.  That would constitute advice.  Instead, you have to use the word "may" or "might".

The reason for the above is that if you are the sovereign, then we can't and won't insult you or replace your intelligence by trying to make decisions for you.  You can't be sovereign and let someone else run, or even suggest how to run, your life.  We emphasize this in our Member Agreement, Form #01.001.  Let us give you a few examples to illustrate:  The forbidden "advice" words are in red and the statement on the right removes them.

 

#	Bad way to ask the question	Right way to ask the question.	Reason
1	What should I do?	1.  What would you do if you were in the hypothetical situation I just described? 2.  What law and other information might be pertinent to a hypothetical person in the situation I just described?	You can't personalize your questions because then the answers become legal advice.
2	I am going to. . .	This hypothetical person might do. . .	You can't personalize your questions because then the answers become legal advice.
3	The IRS told my employer. . .	What if the IRS told a private employer. . .	Only "public officers" have "employers".  You can't be a Member and also be a "public officer".  See   Federal and State Tax Withholding Options for Private Employers, Form #09.001
4	Is there anything else I should do?	Is there anything that a person in the situation I described can study on this website that might help them?	You need information to study, not advice.  We aren't an insurance company and we can't act as your parent or legal representative.  The most we can do is  point you to law and other information that might be helpful and relevant, but we can't advise or insure or indemnify you against your own mistakes.
5	Why should I trust or believe what you say or that it is factual or truthful?	What law is consistent with what you just said?  Where and how can I find that law so I can read it myself?	The only reasonable basis for believing ANYTHING on this website is your own reading of the law, and not anything we or anyone else says, including government employees or publications.
6	How many people have been successful using this technique?	Is what you just described completely consistent with what the law says?  Where does the law say that?  Why doesn't the IRS follow the law on this subject?	"Success" is a very subjective word and everyone has a different definition.  We aren't allowed to share personal information about other members and we don't compile statistics on the success of the techniques and laws described on this website because each person has a different definition of success.  We aren't an insurance company.  All we can do is show you the law that is pertinent to help you live within its limitations, or to explain why that law is pertinent to a certain circumstance.

One last very important point.  Even if you follow the protocol for asking questions above, and successfully get your questions answered, be advised that our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 says that you agree to take complete, exclusive, and personal responsibility for all of your choices and that you aren't allowed to believe anything that anyone, including either us or those in government, says.  Instead, it says that you can ONLY rely upon your own reading of the law itself as a reasonable basis for your belief.  This is also covered in our Reasonable Belief About Liability pamphlet, Form #05.007, which you should read.  If you want to be a sovereign, then you must take exclusive and personal responsibility for all your choices.  Sovereignty begins with personal responsibility.  Therefore, if you are harmed because you didn't do all your homework or didn't read all the relevant laws or more usually, because the government didn't follow the law, then you are not allowed to blame us or transfer responsibility to us for that consequence.  It is human nature to try to blame or transfer responsibility to anyone but you for your own choices, but our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 says you aren't allowed to victimize us in that way.  This tendency is thoroughly described in the article below

• The Unlimited Liability Universe (OFFSITE LINK)

If you fail to abide by the rules or any part of the rules for asking questions documented herein, the rules for interpreting the meaning of your words and statements shall be those that appear in the following:

1.   Tax Form Attachment, Form #04.201, Section 4
http://sedm.org/Forms/FormIndex.htm

2.   Legal Notice of Change in Domicile/Citizenship Records and Divorce from the United States, Form #10.001, Section 8.6.1 and following
http://sedm.org/Forms/FormIndex.htm

We repeat the content of this FAQ in section 10 of our Path to Freedom, Form #09.015 to ensure that everyone is aware of it in all their interactions with this ministry and all of its Members.

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QUESTION 1.17:

Question 1.17:  I want to continue receiving Social Security, Medicare, SSI, or other government checks or "benefits" but also no longer want be subject to federal jurisdiction or venue or be a "taxpayer".  Can you help?

Answer 1.17:  You are asking for an impossibility and we simply can't and won't help you in any way:

1. You want dependency and sovereignty at the same time.  This is impossible.

2. You want to collect money from the government that you aren't willing to earn by paying taxes.  In effect, you want something for nothing.  Since the government doesn't produce anything and you aren't willing to pay your way, indirectly that choice compels them to become a thief on your behalf, and the people they are going to STEAL from are mainly those who don't want to participate.  That means US!  We can't aid or abet thieves.

3. You want rights without the responsibilities that give rise to them.  All rights originate from duties and responsibilities to a higher power.  If you don't believe in God, then that higher power is the government.

4. You want to receive "public funds" as a "private person", which is illegal and constitutes embezzlement in violation of 18 U.S.C. §641.  The only people who can lawfully receive "public funds" are public officers.  Otherwise, you are converting "public property" to "private use", which is a polite way of saying that you are STEALING government funds.  One must be a "public officer" in order to receive "public funds", and "public officers" are the main "taxpayers" under Subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code.  Those who are "public officers" are "U.S. persons" pursuant to 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(30) and we can't help or educate any "U.S. person" without violating the Member Agreement, Form #01.001.

5. You are asking us to help you continue receiving money unlawfully from the government, even if you were a "public officer".  The definition of "State" in the Social Security Act (see 42 U.S.C. §1301(a)(1)) does NOT include states of the Union.  No one domiciled in a state of the Union can lawfully collect Social Security and it is a violation of the separation of powers doctrine, treason, and a violation of the Social Security Act if they do.  See the following for details:

      Why You Aren't Eligible for Social Security, Form #06.001

6. You are violating the law by asking to receive a "benefit" while being unwilling to reimburse the government for every penny you receive in "benefits".  You MUST pull your own weight.  Social Security is NOT a "trust fund" or an investment.  Everything goes from hand-to-hand and the so-called "lock box" is full of IOU's, not your money.  The government cannot lawfully abuse its taxing power to redistribute wealth, but only to pay for its own employees and agents in the official execution of their constitutionally authorized duties.  You therefore must become part of the government and subject to their jurisdiction to receive any kind of benefit from them.

   “The Government urges that the Power Company is estopped to question the validity of the Act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority, and hence that the stockholders, suing in the right of the corporation, cannot [297 U.S. 323] maintain this suit.  …..  The principle is invoked that one who accepts the benefit of a statute cannot be heard to question its constitutionality.  Great Falls Manufacturing Co. v. Attorney General, 124 U.S. 581; Wall v. Parrot Silver & Copper Co., 244 U.S. 407; St. Louis Casting Co. v. Prendergast Construction Co., 260 U.S. 469.“

   [Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Auth., 297 U.S. 288 (1936)]

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   CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE

   DIVISION 3.  OBLIGATIONS

   PART 2.  CONTRACTS

   CHAPTER 3.  CONSENT

   Section 1589

    

   1589.  A voluntary acceptance of the benefit of a [government benefit] transaction is equivalent to a consent to all the obligations [and legal liabilities] arising from it, so far as the facts are known, or ought to be known, to the person accepting.

We cover the subject of the government "benefits" in the following publication.  In that publication, we conclude that all such programs are Ponzi schemes that injure rather than improve society.

The Government "Benefits" Scam, Form #05.040

• Sample

• Click here (Member Subscriptions, 426 Kbytes) to view the very important form.  SEDM Form #05.040.  Requires free Adobe Acrobat Reader version 5.0 or later.

• Member Subscriptions-how to gain access to this brief

If you want to know all the obligations which arise out of participating in the Social Security program, why it is EVIL and unlawful, and why and how to quit, see:

1. Resignation of Compelled Social Security Trustee, Form #06.002
   http://sedm.org/Forms/AvoidingFranch/SSTrustIndenture.pdf

2. Social Security: Mark of the Beast, Form #11.407 (OFFSITE LINK)

Can't you see how irrational it is to ask us to help you?  Freedom and sovereignty BEGIN with COMPLETE, TOTAL, and PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY for every aspect of oneself.  As long as you are eating out of anyone's hand, including the government, then the only choice you have is to lick the hand that feeds you.  You can't be half pregnant or half free.

“If a nation expects to be ignorant [or dependent on anyone] and free... it expects what never was and never will be.”

[Thomas Jefferson]

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“Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have.   The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.” 

[Thomas Jefferson]

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Mr. Logan: "...Natural laws can not be created, repealed, or modified by legislation. Congress should know there are many things which it can not do..."

 

"It is now proposed to make the Federal Government the guardian of its citizens. If that should be done, the Nation soon must perish. There can only be a free nation when the people themselves are free and administer the government which they have set up to protect their rights. Where the general government must provide work, and incidentally food and clothing for its citizens, freedom and individuality will be destroyed and eventually the citizens will become serfs to the general government..."

[Congressional Record-Senate, Volume 77- Part 4, June 10, 1933, Page 12522;
SOURCE:  http://famguardian.org/TaxFreedom/CitesByTopic/Sovereignty-CongRecord-Senate-JUNE101932.pdf]

The beginning of our Federal and State Income Taxation of Individuals Course, Form #12.003 says we can't help people steal and that is what you are asking us to help you do.  Our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 also says we can't help "taxpayers" and that is what you are if you are receiving Social Security benefits.  26 U.S.C. §871(a)(3) says that Social Security Benefits constitute "gross income" and therefore are taxable.  Our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 also says you won't ask us to violate any enacted law or help you violate any law, which is what you are asking us to do. We strongly discourage all "taxpayers" and government "benefit" recipients from becoming members or from using our materials because they are both synonymous and those who fit this category would be unlawfully interfering with the administration of the internal revenue laws by using our materials without satisfying all of the criteria for being a Member.  Unless and until you completely disassociate with THE BEAST that has become our de facto lawless government by sending in the Resignation of Compelled Social Security Trustee, Form #06.002 document above, we can't and won't help you because you are a "taxpayer", whether you know it or not.  Sending in this document is also a mandatory requirement of Section 2.2 of our Member Agreement, Form #01.001.  On this subject, the Bible says:

‘Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive her plagues.

“For her [our corrupted de facto WHORE government] sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

[Rev. 18:1-8, Bible, NKJV]

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QUESTION 1.18:

Question 1.18:  I sent in the Legal Notice of Change in Domicile/Citizenship Records and Divorce from the United States, Form #10.001 and the Dept. of State sent me a LAME response or left me hanging.  For instance, the Dept. of State said that we cannot relinquish nationality via the mail.  We might need help to respond to the letter and also help in following their direction to go to a US consular office in a foreign state to renounce US citizenship.  What should I do?

Answer 1.18:  The only approved method for changing your DOMICILE and resulting citizenship that is available on our website is the following form:

 

   Legal Notice of Change in Domicile/Citizenship Records and Divorce from the United States, Form #10.001
   http://sedm.org/Forms/FormIndex.htm

 

That form clearly DOES NOT ask for an abandonment of NATIONALITY or EXPATRIATION.  In Section 2, the form specifically warns the recipient, which is the Dept. of State, NOT to address how to abandon nationality or expatriate, but simply to correct records to remove your status as a STATUTORY "U.S. citizen" pursuant to 8 U.S.C. §1401.  Therefore, the Dept. of State is either not reading your correspondence or refusing to address the issues raised therein because it would be too incriminating.  It is your job to ensure that they give you exactly and only what the form itself asks for which is:

1. An apostilled original version of the document returned to you.

2. A confirmation that they have updated all government records in their care, custody, and control which reflect your citizenship and domicile. The specific change requested is that you become a nonresident alien not engaged in a "trade or business", a "non-citizen national" pursuant to 8 U.S.C. §1101(a)(21) and 8 U.S.C. §1452.

It also appears that you either may not have read the Legal Notice yourself or do not understand what you read.  We don't recommend expatriation and the form itself explains why, and yet here you are asking for help expatriating.  We can't help or advise you in how to use our materials in OTHER than approved methods, and you are doing the WRONG thing!

 

If may also be that you did not use the latest version of the form, because older versions are likely to be less effective than newer versions.  Therefore, look at the revision date at the top of the first page and compare it with what is currently available on our website so that you used the very latest version.

 

Please therefore do your homework and thoroughly read, use, and follow the latest version of the form based on the instructions included.  If the Dept. of State didn't respond as directed in the form itself and ignored Section 2 of the form, as it appears they did in your case, then resend it to them and DEMAND that they read and follow what is in section 2 and do as directed in the form, instead of giving non-responsive answers. Insist that they give you the two things indicated above and tell them that you aren't interested in policy.  They are trying to dodge bullets by sending you a canned response that is completely irrelevant and does not address anything in the letter.  Demand that they directly address what you are asking for in the letter.  If that doesn't work, call them and ask them what part of the letter they didn't understand.  The squeaky wheel will get the grease but they will do as much foot-dragging as they can because they don't want you escaping their jurisdiction, undermining their power and control over you, and becoming sovereign.

 

Ultimately, if all they come back with is basically policy statements and don't quote any statute, regulation, or caselaw that supports their position, then basically they are not honoring the law because everything they do must be authorized by some law.  In a "society of law" such as we have in America, anyone in government who operates exclusively by "policy" and ignores the law has devolved us into a "society of men".  Ultimately, all such persons the U.S. Congress identifies as communists, as confirmed by 50 U.S.C. §841, which says that anyone who refuses to recognize or abide by the constitutional and statutory legal constraints on their behavior is a communist.  The only recourse you have in responding to such communists is to undertake a Bivens action against them personally for denying you your rights.  See 42 U.S.C.A. §1483 for details on how to do this.

 

If after doing your own homework and writing a response or several responses, you find something that motivates them to do the job you asked them to do, then please forward it to us so everyone can benefit from it.  Ultimately, however, we are not staffed to personally help everyone who might have trouble with this procedure, and especially not without compensation.  We remind our readers that sovereignty is a "do it yourself" thing that will demand a lifetime of learning and consistent effort to maintain and protect.  No one but you personally can make it happen ultimately.  Accepting the responsibility for that challenge is the essence of what it means to be a good citizen and a patriotic American.

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QUESTION 1.19:

Question 1.19:  I have a loan or debt I want to cancel.  Can you point me at the information on your site that addresses how to do this?

 

Answer 1.19:  Debt cancellation is an activity prohibited by our Member Agreement, Form #01.001, Section 5, item 13 as well as Item 13 of the Prohibited Activities section of our About Us page.  We don't get involved in commercial issues or debt cancellation.  We are a religious ministry, not a commercial business.  If you contracted a loan, you should pay it.  The Bible says says in Deut. 15:1-3 that debts should be cancelled by the lenders who are fellow believers every seven years, but it doesn't say that the borrowers can cancel debts.

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QUESTION 1.20:

Question 1.20:  The IRS is unlawfully levying my Social Security Benefits.  Do you have a remedy that will resolve this problem?

 

Answer 1.20:  You have visited this website because you want to hear the Truth.  Please don't take any of the answers to your question personally, but they are the Truth and you shouldn't be surprised or offended to hear us speaking the Truth in this, the last bastion of sanity, reason, and righteousness on the planet.  Some answers:

1. Social Security levies are UNLAWFUL pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1717.  Any amount they levy under the Federal Payment Levy Program (FPLP) is illegal and you have standing in federal court to sue the person who authorized the illegal levy.  We hope you're not surprised that your government isn't reading or obeying the law.  They never do, which is one of many reasons why you can't apply for or receive or participate in any of their fraudulent "franchises" and still have any so-called "rights" left.  They only care about Number One, and we'll give you a hint:  You're NOT number one.

2. We can't help or interact with those who are not Members because we don't want to interfere with the lawful administration of any government function or franchise.

3. Our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 requires QUITTING social security.

4. If you are drawing Social Security benefits, then you didn't quit and are violating the Member Agreement, Form #01.001.

5. If you are participating in Social Security, then you are a "taxpayer". 26 U.S.C. §861(a)(8) says all Social Security benefits constitute "gross income" that is subject to tax.  Our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 prohibits us from helping or dealing with "taxpayers" or "U.S. persons" and you are both if you are participating in Social Security.

6. Our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 also says that you won't ask us to violate it, which is what you did.

7. Read Question 1.1 above for additional suggestions we have for "taxpayers".

Sorry, but we can't help you until you disconnect from the Beast as mandated by the Member Agreement, Form #01.001 and quit accepting food for yourself that is being stolen from your unwilling neighbor, of which we are a part.  Your neighbor wouldn't be participating if he or she wasn't forced to and if he was offered an informed choice to quit.  The Bible commands us not to steal (Exodus 20:15) and not to associate with those who do (Prov. 1:10-19).  On the other hand, we do wish to thank you for hastening the inevitable demise of a pagan socialist welfare state that is headed for rapid and eventual destruction, thanks to people like you.  Keep up the GREAT work.  A major financial meltdown is the only way to wake of the complaisant ignorant masses who tolerate and perpetuate the fraud that has become our pagan government and the sooner it happens, the better.

"Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful."
[Prov. 27:6, Bible, NKJV]

If you want to know all the reasons why you can't and shouldn't participate in Social Security, See:

• Social Security: Mark of the Beast (OFFSITE LINK)

• Socialism: The New American Civil Religion, Form #05.016

• Resignation of Compelled Social Security Trustee, Form #06.002

• The Coming Crisis: How Government Dependency Threatens America's Freedom (OFFSITE LINK)-Heritage Foundation, May 8, 2001

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QUESTION 1.21:

Question 1.21:  I'm a "bogus taxpayer".  Do you have a program or process for me to become a "nontaxpayer" and do you help with that process?  Do you help in any other way other than providing you a well put together website of truth for us the non-taxpayer?

 

Answer 1.21:  We can't help or advise "taxpayers", and especially not tax collectors such as yourself!  You can't be a "taxpayer" and use any of our materials or obtain any of our bookstore materials.  Nor can you be a "bogus taxpayer".  YOU and ONLY YOU must determine independently that you are a "nontaxpayer" based on studying the enacted law  BEFORE you use any of our materials, and we can't and won't help directly with making "taxpayers" into "nontaxpayers".  That is your job based on your own reading of the law and the free materials on this website.  We have found that most people who have been acting like "taxpayers" got into that position mainly because of ignorance by either filling out forms incorrectly or or passively tolerating ignorant violations of law by third parties and not correcting or prosecuting these violations.  They always were "nontaxpayers" but they didn't realize it until they actually read the law for themselves.  We emphasize that reading the authoritative sources of belief documented in our Reasonable Belief About Income Tax Liability, Form #05.007 pamphlet is the only way to determine your own status, and the only type of evidence upon which you can base a reasonable belief based on what the law and the courts themselves say.

 

Read our FAQs, item 5.10.  That FAQ describes the process we used in our own case to correct government records to correctly reflect our status as a "nontaxpayer".  However, whether that process is appropriate for you and your circumstances is entirely and exclusively your choice and responsibility.  Our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 specifically prohibits us from making determinations about your legal status or providing legal advice.  We aren't even allowed to talk with you until you sign and submit a Member Agreement, Form #01.001.  If you want to criticize our approach of refusing to determine your legal or tax status, remember that it is EXACTLY the same approach used by the federal courts AND the IRS.  The Declaratory Judgments Act, 28 U.S.C. §2201(a), prohibits federal courts from making declaratory judgments about rights or status on the subject of "taxes".

Specifically, Rowen seeks a declaratory judgment against the United States of America with respect to "whether or not the plaintiff is a taxpayer pursuant to, and/or under 26 U.S.C. § 7701(a)(14)." (See Compl. at 2.) This Court lacks jurisdiction to issue a declaratory judgment "with respect to Federal taxes other than actions brought under section 7428 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986," a code section that is not at issue in the instant action. See 28 U.S.C. § 2201; see also Hughes v. United States, 953 F.2d 531, 536-537 (9th Cir. 1991) (affirming dismissal of claim for declaratory relief under § 2201 where claim concerned question of tax liability). Accordingly, defendant's motion to dismiss is hereby GRANTED, and the instant action is hereby DISMISSED.

[Rowen v. U.S., 05-3766MMC. (N.D.Cal. 11/02/2005)]

AFTER you have independently determined that you are a "nontaxpayer" and signed and submitted the Member Agreement, Form #01.001 via fax, then and only then can we help you, and the limit of the help that we can provide is identified in our bookstore offerings.  In summary, we can:

1. Provide additional legal and freedom and religious educational materials to help your progress and learning.  See our Ministry Bookstore.

2. Prepare Federal Response Letters or State Response Letters to ensure the government respects the laws dealing with "nontaxpayers".  These are a starting point to help you respond, but you may still need to improve them to fit your case.

3. Help in the preparation of legal pleadings.

4. Do IMF Decoding to uncover fraud introduced into IRS records relating to your status.

5. Integrate any new research you may uncover into our materials to improve them.  We always welcome suggestions on how to make our materials more useful or accurate.

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QUESTION 1.22:

Question 1.22:  I would either like to get a tax collection due process hearing or am preparing for an upcoming one.  Do you have information to help someone in my circumstance?

 

Answer 1.22:  See the following forms on the forms page at:

http://sedm.org/Forms/FormIndex.htm

The forms are:

1. Modified IRS form 12153, Form #03.011.  Use this form to request the due process hearing.

2. Handling and getting a collection due process hearing, Form #09.007.  Simplified procedures for handling the hearing.

3. Nontaxpayer's Audit Defense Manual, Form #06.011.  A manual that thoroughly covers all aspects about how to handle the hearing.

4. IRS Due Process Meeting Handout, Form #03.008.  A handout to provide at the hearing that very successfully challenges jurisdiction.  Send BEFORE the hearing as well.

You can also find the above list of forms on our Forms Page, under Section 2.7.

Beyond that, we can't give legal advice and we are not equipped to answer your many personal questions.  You must earn your sovereignty through committed study.

Our prayers are with you!

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QUESTION 1.23:

Question 1.23:  I have been studying sovereignty and would like to ask some questions.  Can I call?

 

Answer 1.23:  In order for people who contact us to get questions answered, they should do as we suggest in our Contact Us page FIRST:

1. You must FIRST be a Member before we can answer your questions.  This means you must have faxed us a signed Member Agreement, Form #01.001 before contacting us. We cannot talk with anyone who does not unconditionally consent to and comply with our Member Agreement, Form #01.001. We may also ask you before we talk to you whether you consent to our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 and if you don't, we reserve the right not to speak with you.

2. You should contact us via our Contact Us page FIRST before attempting a phone call.  We only entertain phone contact as a last resort because it is so resource and time intensive and compromise our privacy.

3. If you are calling with a general question, you have first taken the time to scan and hopefully read these Frequently Asked Questions, because chances are your question is already answered here. This area is carefully organized to make finding the answer to your question quick and convenient.

4. You may not violate the Member Agreement, Form #01.001 or our Articles of Mission, Form #01.004 by asking for legal advice.  Therefore, you must follow the protocol for asking questions documented earlier in FAQ #1.16.

5. You may not ask us to do any of the specifically prohibited things in our Member Agreement, Form #01.001, Section 5 during your contact with us, including ask for assurances or promises about the effectiveness of any of our materials.  Answers to all such questions, if they are given in violation of our Member Agreement, Form #01.001, should be considered religious and political beliefs that are nonfactual and non-actionable and not admissible as evidence pursuant to Federal Rule of Evidence 610.  This is the only way to interpret such responses consistent with our Disclaimer.

6. If you are calling about an order of one of our bookstore items, you have your order number and other personal information ready to give to us so we can verify your identity and standing to call.

7. If you are calling about a response letter, please also have the letter or notice number ready to give to us so we know what you are asking questions about and can promptly help you.

Some people wonder why we cannot answer questions from non-Members.  The answer is that if they do not possess enough intellectual capital and self-confidence to read enough of our materials here to determine for themselves if they are sovereign and "nontaxpayers" and need someone else to make that determination for them, then they do not have the ingredients necessary to be sovereign.  Such people are incapable of self-government and need a huge "nanny government" to protect them from themselves.  They should to return to their government cage and spend the rest of their lives in economic servitude.  Sovereigns don't ask for permission to do or to be anything from anyone.  They make their own decisions and trust no one else but themselves to make decisions that affect them.  Sovereignty begins with taking personal and exclusive responsibility for yourself.  Sovereigns guard their autonomy jealously and delegate NONE of their God given authority to ANYONE, including us.  Sovereignty begins with SELF GOVERNMENT. 

"It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights... Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power... Our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no further, our confidence may go... In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
[Thomas Jefferson: Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798. ME 17:388]

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“We of this mighty western Republic have to grapple with the dangers that spring from popular self-government tried on a scale incomparably vaster than ever before in the history of mankind, and from an abounding material prosperity greater also than anything which the world has hitherto seen.

As regards the first set of dangers, it behooves us to remember that men can never escape being governed.  Either they must govern [and fully support] themselves or they must submit to being governed by others.  If from lawlessness or fickleness, from folly or self-indulgence, they refuse to govern themselves then most assuredly in the end they will have to be governed from the outside [by public "servants"].  They can prevent the need of government from without only by showing they possess the power of government from within.  A sovereign cannot make excuses for his failures; a sovereign must accept the responsibility for the exercise of power that inheres in him [by not becoming a permanent burden to others]; and where, as is true in our Republic, the people are sovereign, then the people must show a sober understanding and a sane and steadfast purpose if they are to preserve that orderly liberty upon which as a foundation every republic must rest.”

[President Theodore Roosevelt; Opening of the Jamestown Exposition; Norfolk, VA, April 26, 1907]

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QUESTION 1.24:

Question 1.24:  I am accessing the information on your website and my system appears to lock up.  I am under the gun and need to view the materials on your website.  What should I do?

 

Answer 1.24:  Chances are that one of the following problems exists.

1.  You don't have the free Adobe Acrobat reader installed on your computer.  This will cause your computer to not be able to display PDF files that you click on inside the browser, which may make it appear that it has hanged.

2.  You are using an old, outdated version of the free Adobe Reader software and need to upgrade to the latest free version by clicking here.  That would be version 8.0 currently. If you are using older versions, you may have problems, crashes, etc.

3.  You clicked on a large PDF file from within your browser and are using a slow dial-up internet connection.  Some files are large, such as our books or the Black's Law dictionary. If you are using a slow dial-up line, the system may appear to lock up when trying to view these large files inside your browser.  Therefore, you should right click on the item inside your browser and download it to your computer and THEN and only then open it locally rather than from within your browser.

4.   Your computer has a virus and you need to fix it.  Please install anti-virus software and try again.

As last resort, you can obtain all the materials on our website on a single DVD for quick viewing. That would be our Sovereignty Research DVD, Form #11.101.

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If your question is not answered in this section, please visit the following area in our forums for additional questions and answers:

Ordering, refund, donation, or membership issues

QUESTION 2.01:

Question 2.01:  I don't have a Mastercard or Visa credit or debit card and I don't want to get one.  I don't want my personal information in anyone's database because my privacy is important to me.  I'd rather send you a money order or a personal check.  Can you accommodate that?

 

Answer 2.01:  Unfortunately, everything obtained in our Ministry Bookstore can only be obtained online and electronically.  We don't accept postal money orders or personal checks or phone orders.  This would require us to significantly expand our staff and would detract from our main mission of doing research to develop useful and timely educational materials that are helpful and relevant for our many members.  Anyone who has either a debit/check card or a credit card that says "Mastercard" or "Visa" on can make donations to our Ministry Bookstore.  Many people also overlook the fact that most American banks issue "check cards", which are actually debit cards that say "Mastercard" or "Visa" on them and which act like credit cards but  which do not require either credit or an SSN to have.  This is the approach we use and it is quite convenient but also doesn't force us to use or have credit.  This is the approach that we recommend to our Members.

 

If you don't have either a Debit or Credit card that says "Mastercard" or "Visa" on them, we suggest one of the following two options:

1. You can use cash to obtain a gift debit card or have someone order one for you online and pay them cash.  Gift cards are available in amounts up to $500 and they are great for anonymous online internet purchases.  They are available from http://simongiftcard.com or at most shopping malls at the mall service desk.  If you get it at the mall service desk, you hand them cash and they hand you the card.  They don't ask for any kind of identifying information so the card isn't tied to a specific person.

2. You can also find a friend or relative who does and have them submit the donation order for you.  You can place the order in your name and then enter a completely different name for the credit card information than you had for the order information.  The orderer and the person making the donation do not have to be the same person or the same name as long as they are both accurate.  Then you can give the person whose debit/credit card you used cash to reimburse them for the charge on their card.  For more information, see our "Store Policies" page.  One of the reasons we also don't accept postal money orders is because the checks say on them "Only valid within the United States", and so they cannot be cashed outside the United States or in Canada.

Some users have also expressed concern that the payment records can be summonsed by the IRS from our provider.  This is not true, because both our payment provider and the account that the merchant account deposits into are outside of the country.

 

Some users have also expressed concern that they can't find a gift card as indicated above and therefore would be compelled to accept the Mark of the Beast in order to obtain a credit or debit card to make a donation to our store.  We agree that those who use this website should not be having or using SSN's, TINs, or credit, because the Bible forbids using all of them.  However, these complaints are simply untrue and unfounded.  You still have the second option above of using someone else's card to make the payment and paying them cash, or better yet, Section 8 of the following article describes how to open a non-interest bearing checking account at most banks as a nonresident alien, which you can then get a Debit card for that has the Mastercard or Visa logo on it.  This will allow you do make online payments without a Social Security Number and without using or accepting the Mark of the Beast (SSN or TIN) or using credit and still fully satisfy the requirements of our Member Agreement, Form #01.001.

About IRS Form W-8BEN, Form #04.202

If you disregard our clear prohibitions and warnings relating to mail orders, personal checks, or money orders and attempt to phone call us about "bending the rules" in your special case or if you send us a money order or personal check rather than use our Ministry Bookstore to make the donation, then we will:

1. NOT return your phone call.

2. Destroy and not cash any checks or money orders you send us via postal mail.  Your mail donations WILL NOT be cashed, but simply shredded and destroyed, so please don't waste your time and your money trying to bend the rules that are there for very specific reasons.

3. Think of you as a mole who is trying to compromise and destroy the integrity and privacy and mission of this ministry.

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QUESTION 2.02:

Question 2.02:  Why don't you accept postal or money or cash donations or orders?

 

Answer 2.02:   There are many reasons for this, including:

1. Internet donations are easier to manage and are automated.  Consequently, we avoid the need to have a big staff to handle orders or do accounting of postal orders and answer the phones to deal with the logistics of supporting it.  This keeps the costs of running the ministry to a minimum so that we can focus our energies on the important task of doing research and producing new and useful information for our many readers.

2. Internet orders protect privacy of all parties better.  The information is destroyed after only a short time, so that there are no records of what happened and no humans who could compromise your personal information or accumulate papers that could be raided or subpeonad. 

3. Automated ordering also allows the delivery of materials to be automated as well, so as to minimize staffing requirements and cost of running the ministry.  We can outsource order fulfillment and use fulfillment providers that are outside of the federal jurisdiction so that the government may not unlawfully interfere with satisfying our contractual obligations and fiduciary duty to our many Members.

4. Postal (snail) mail is slow and prone to long and inconvenient delays and human error.

5. The U.S. Postal service commonly acts as spies for the IRS and the government, and elimination of postal mail prevents the possibility of a compromise of your privacy by the SPIES at the postal service.

6. Forcing people to use the Ministry Bookstore also ensures that it is IMPOSSIBLE for them not to be informed about our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 and the requirement to sign it and abide by it before they can obtain anything from the ministry.  The automated ordering process automatically informs users of the requirements for membership and the prohibition AGAINST ordering without signing and unconditionally agreeing to the terms of the Member Agreement, Form #01.001.  This saves us time and staff asking people who interact with us manually if they have read and agreed to our agreement.  It also ensures that treacherous public servants or malicious enemies can't try to contact us manually and bypass reading or agreeing to the agreement and thereby escape consenting to its anti-mole provisions.

7. Providing all offerings and services electronically allows us to be much more flexible and to service our member from anywhere in the world inexpensively and conveniently.  This allows us to quickly adapt to and mitigate interference from a totally corrupted government intent on making it difficult for those who expect it to obey the law and respect the rights of all within its jurisdiction.

There are many other additional reasons, but these are the most important ones.  The only downside to forcing users to use the Ministry Bookstore is that it is inconvenient for the computer illiterate and makes it difficult for users who don't have debit or credit cards to get our materials.  This problem is easily overcome by having such users give cash to friends and family that DO have debit or credit cards and having THEM order it instead.  This is a small price to pay for the many conveniences and protections afforded by automated, online ordering and donations.  We believe the many advantages of this approach far outweigh the one drawback and we hope you agree with us and will accommodate this minor inconvenience.

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QUESTION 2.03:

Question 2.03:  When I try to donate online using my debit card, the transaction is repeatedly rejected by your website.  Why is this?

 

Answer 2.03:   Two possible situations are causing this problem:

1. You are using a proxy server with your web browser.   Our payment processor has very strict security controls that do not permit proxy server use in order to prevent credit card fraud. We do not have the ability to disable this feature so please do not call us to ask us to disable this feature.  Our payment checkout screen warns you of this, so please pay attention to the warning and configure your computer accordingly to work around the problem.

2. You are using a debit card that doesn't work outside the United States.  We are in Canada.

To work around problem #1 above, you must do one of the following three things:

1. Disable the proxy server within your browser or

2. Use another browser that doesn't use a proxy server in order to complete a transaction through our payment processor.

3. Use another computer that does not have proxy server enabled.

Problem number 2 happens mainly with debit cards, and very infrequently with credit cards. Credit cards are intended for those who travel outside the country, and because they charge high rates of interest, the credit card companies have a big cash reserve of interest payments to handle instances of the fraudulent use of credit cards outside the country, so they are more willing to allow use of the cards outside the country.

 

Debit cards are a different story.  Banks don't charge fees to their account holders for the debit cards and there are no interest payment reserves they can draw upon in the case of fraud.  Consequently, banks will deliberately limit the geographical coverage of the card to keep the instances of fraud lower and thereby decrease their overhead cost to keep it in line with the fees and interest they get from their checking accounts.  The most common geographical limitation of most American debit cards is to limit them to the country that they were issued within.  American banks that want to cut their costs so that they are more competitive with other rival banks will therefore limit their debit cards so they don't work outside the United States of America (the states).  Since we are outside of the states of the Union and are located in Canada, then debit cards with this limitation won't work by default on our Canadian website.  What complicates this problem is that the banks don't even tell their customers about the geographical limitations on their debit cards, so most users aren't even aware of it until they run up against a roadblock ordering from another country on the Internet.  Then we are forced to educate them.

 

When transactions are rejected, our merchant account provider has no way of telling why the transaction was declined by your bank, so we can't tell you either.  Users call us up all the time complaining about this problem, saying that their debit card is "good", that there is money in their account, and that there is no reason the transaction shouldn't go through.  They then call their bank to find out what happened, and the bank will report that they did not decline any transactions.  In fact, the transactions were thrown out by Mastercard/VISA before they ever even got to the bank but after they were transmitted by our merchant account provider because the bank told Mastercard/VISA not to forward any transactions outside the country for approval.  We're sure you can see that a lot of "finger-pointing" happens when people try to use debit cards that have this "invisible" geographical limitation in order to make donations to our ministry.  The easy way to end the controversy is that if your transactions were repeatedly declined by our website, then please resist the temptation to call us immediately.  Instead, simply call your bank and specifically ask them if your VISA or MASTERCARD debit card is limited so that it only works within the United States of America.  If it is, then:

1. First try calling your bank and asking the bank if they can temporarily remove the geographical limitations applicable to your credit or debit card. Tell them that you are either going on travel or attempting to use the card for an international purchase.  Many banks can remove the geographical limitations for a period of time you specify but leave it on by default in order to prevent international credit card fraud or identity theft liability.  In many cases, they may ask you a security question in order to prevent identity theft so be prepared to give them whatever security information they ask for when you call them.

2. If the first step doesn't work, you may also try getting an anonymous gift card with the VISA or Mastercard logo on it that you can use for online payments.  One provider that is good is http://simongiftcard.com.  Radio shack also sells a special VISA card that is only for anonymous online purchases and which you can recharge when it gets low.

3. Next, you may try getting an account and a debit card from a different bank that doesn't have the geographical limitations on their debit cards.  Below is an article that explains how to open a non-interest bearing account as a nonresident alien without using an SSN or TIN.

   About IRS Form W-8BEN, Form #04.202

4. If none of the above steps work, please don't call us to complain, but instead, try using a credit card instead of a debit card that doesn't have such a geographical limit.  If you don't like credit cards (like us, because they are based on FRAUD), then try going out and getting a debit card from a bank that doesn't limit its debit cards to just the United States of America.  You will save all of us a LOT of headaches answering phones and needlessly dealing with problems that can easily be anticipated and fixed and prevented long before they ever even happen.

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QUESTION 2.04:

Question 2.04:  How do the conversions work between U.S. and Canadian dollars when I donate to your ministry?

 

Answer 2.04:   Our suggested donation amounts are listed in Canadian dollars.  The conversion rates are found at:

http://x-rates.com

 

If your debit or credit card is enumerated in U.S. dollars, your bank or credit card company handles the conversion automatically and transparently using the exchange rate in effect at the instant you made the donation.  That means that if the item has a suggested donation amount of $50 Canadian and the exchange rate in effect at the instant you made the donation was 1.25 Canadian dollars for every U.S. dollar, then your U.S. account would be charged $40 American.

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QUESTION 2.05:

Question 2.05:  I hate electronic books and I don't know how to use them or open them or get them printed.  I'm terrible with computers and I'm afraid I might screw something up and waste my donation and not end up with something usable.  Can you send me a paper copy of your eBook instead through the postal mail?

 

Answer 2.05:  Unfortunately, we don't offer any books in printed form.  There are many reasons for this and here are just a few:

• Electronic books allow us to be more flexible and responsive to the evolving needs of our members and keep our materials up-to-date at all times so they are always very relevant and useful.  Conditions change rapidly in the legal and especially the tax field, and electronic books allow our materials to be more up-to-date and timely.

• Our books are updated quite frequently and if we preprinted them, most of our inventory would be out of date most of the time.

• Shipping a physical item complicates logistics and forces us to have a larger staff of people to satisfy orders.

• The process we provide to make printed copies of all of our eBooks is simple enough, we believe, so that the average person could figure it out.

• Many of our users like the eBook format, because they can store their whole library of reference materials on a USB pendrive, and very conveniently take it on the road or to work with them.  This is a big advantage, considering that some of our books are 1,700 pages in length and would take a large briefcase to carry around.

• Ebooks are easier to update.  Just copy over the old file. 

As a consequence of all the above considerations and many others, we can't offer printed versions of our electronic books. However, we do provide a procedure on the cover page of each of our electronic books that describes how to make a printed copy of any of our electronic books.  We summarize that procedure below for your convenience:

1. When you get your confirmation email back after you make your donation for the book you want, read the email and follow the directions to download the ebook onto your local hard drive.

2. Look through your local phone book to find either a Kinkos in your area or another duplicating center that will print your ebook.  The best type of duplicating business is one that:

   • Is in your local area so you can drop by and pick up your order when they are done.  If there are no duplicating businesses in your area, you use the Kinkos website and have them mail your order to you.  You can give them your credit or debit card number over the phone.  It's painless and convenient.

   • Can print on double-sided paper

   • Has a comb-binding machine (usually made by General Binding Corporation, or GBC)

   • Has a volume discount.  Office Depot charges 9 cents per side for small volumes, but lowers their prices to 5 cents if you are copying over about 100 pages.  If you don't know about this discount and don't specifically ask for it, your bill will be much higher than it needs to be.

   Our favorite two places to get eBooks printed are:

   • PrintFu-cheapest and simplest.  Everything done entirely online.

   • Kinkos Weborder

3. After you find a reputable duplicating business, submit your order by one of the following means:

   • If the ebook file is small (usually less than about 3 Mbytes), you can attach it to an email and send the email to the duplicating business.  This doesn't work for our larger ebooks, such as the Tax Fraud Prevention Manual.

   • If you can't email the file, then some companies have a web ordering system that allows you to upload the file.  For instance, Kinkos has such a web ordering system at:  http://weborder.kinkos.com  and their web ordering system works with any one of their stores nationwide.  This is the next most desirable option.

   • If you can't do a web order or email submission, the you can copy the ebook file onto your "USB pendrive" and walk down to your local duplicating store or Kinkos and hand them the disk and tell them you want to print the file.  A "USB pendrive", also called a "USB flashdisk" or "USB flashram" is an electronic, solid state storage device that is very small and fits in your pencil pocket on your  shirt.  They are very inexpensive and come in very large sizes.  Our USB flashdisk is 512 Mbytes in size, which means it can hold more data than 355 floppy disks that are each 1.44 Mbytes in size, and we paid $129 for it!  Flashdisks are also much more reliable and compact than floppy disks.  We ran our flashdisk through the washing machine twice accidentally because we forgot to check our pants pockets before we washed them, and it still worked like a champ!

4. After you get the file to the duplicating store, have them print the ebook as follows:

   • The file is in Adobe Acrobat Reader format, so please use the latest version of the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader software to open the file and print it.  If you have problems or questions about using Adobe Acrobat, click here

   • Double-sided printing only.  This will keep the size way down.

   • Bind using 19-hole comb-binding

   • Use dark blue vinyl covers front and back

   • Put the title page in front

Most duplicating centers can crank out a book in just a few short minutes, and if you order and submit online as we suggest, you won't spend any time at all waiting.  Just have them call you on the phone when they are done filling your order.  That's all there is to it.  If you don't have the skills to follow the above procedure, then you might want to get a friend to help you with it.  We have tried to make it as easy as possible to follow and we have gotten no complaints so far.  Good luck!

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QUESTION 2.06:

Question 2.06:  I obtained an earlier or older version of one of your books or software programs or CDs.  Can I have a free upgrade to the new version or do you have a discounted upgrade program for users of older versions of your offerings?

 

Answer 2.06:  We don't have a discounted upgrade program for users of older versions of our ministry offerings.  The main reason is because this would force us to not only keep records of our members, but to announce that we do so on this website in order to run the upgrade program.  Keeping records of our members would make the privacy of our members vulnerable to government intrusion and persecution of our religious ministry and first amendment association because:

1. The government might try to raid us to get records of our ministry members

2. The government might try to subpoena such records.  Those who admit they have records are powerless to resist giving them up in a legal action

3. There might be a security breach in our computer systems, which could leak out private information inadvertently

In addition, it would impose an additional burdensome manual administrative process to have to keep records of members and manually give them discounts after manually verifying that they are repeat visitors.  Consequently, we think the privacy of our members is more important than giving price breaks to loyal users.  Instead, we have chosen to keep the suggested donation amounts for our offerings low so that members can afford to come back periodically and get the new or upgrade version for the same reasonable and low suggested donation amount as new members.

 

Most Americans would unfortunately sell their sole to the devil to save a stinking nickel and do so without even realizing what they are doing.  Like Esau in the Bible, they would sell their birthright to the crafty for a bowl of pottage.  It is precisely this kind of greed that perpetuates the fraudulent and abusive aspects of the tax system to begin with.  The tax system is engineered to exploit all of your weaknesses and even you are infected by the weaknesses it exploits, based on your question.  The desire to pursue "deductions", for instance, is how they rope you into the "trade or business" franchise.  Click here and read section 13.1 to see how they exploit people's greed to enslave them (OFFSITE LINK).  Like a good Pavlov dog who has carefully been conditioned in the public fool academy (public schools) to eat out of the hand of their parens patriae benefactor government (OFFSITE LINK), you're salivating and demanding the same fraudulent and abusive treatment from us:  Something for nothing.  You're never going to achieve sovereignty by being cheap or even efficient.  The two most valuable things you can have are the TRUTH and your privacy and we're trying to help you obtain and protect both.  All you question does is seek an opportunity to surrender both in exchange for filthy lucre.

"Buy the truth, and do not sell it, also wisdom and instruction and understanding."
[Prov. 23:23, Bible, NKJV]

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If you seek her [Wisdom, Truth] as silver,
And search for her as for hidden treasures;
Then you will understand the fear of the LORD,
And find the knowledge of God.
For the LORD gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding;
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
He is a shield to those who walk uprightly;
He guards the paths of justice,
And preserves the way of His saints.
Then you will understand righteousness and justice,
Equity and every good path.
When wisdom enters your heart,
And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
Discretion will preserve you;
Understanding will keep you,
To deliver you from the way of evil,
[Prov. 2:4-12, Bible, NKJV]

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QUESTION 2.07:

Question 2.07:  I can't order anything from the Ministry Bookstore or make an online donation.  Every time I do and go to checkout, the shopping cart shows that it's empty.

 

Answer 2.07:  In order to use our Ministry Bookstore, you MUST have cookies enabled in your browser.  Without cookies, the Ministry Bookstore cannot keep track of you or your orders or allow you to checkout.  To enable cookies on your Internet Explorer Browser, do as follows:

 

1.  Select the Tools->Internet Options menu.  The Internet Options dialog box will appear.

2.  In the Internet Options Dialog Box above, click on the Privacy Tab.

3.  Once the Privacy Tab opens, drag the slider bar so that the security level is no higher than "Low".

4.  Click the "OK" button.

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QUESTION 2.08:

Question 2.08:  I received a state tax notice or federal letter or notice that I can't find a response for on your website.  Is there a way to have you make one for me and how do I initiate that process?

 

Answer 2.08:  This is what we call a "New Response Letter".  There are two types of "New Response Letters":  State and IRS.  We have two shopping cart items for each of these two options, which are listed below. 

• State New Response Letter

• Federal New Response Letter

When you click on the above two items, you will be taken to the shopping cart items, where you can make a donation and obtain a custom response letter for the precise letter you received.  Since we are anxious to develop a library of such letters and responses, then we offer a special reduction in the suggested donation for these types of letters.  Regular responses are a minimum of $50 while New Response Letters are discounted, in order to encourage you so submit your letters and help us build our arsenal and response library.  After you make your donation, we will contact you and have you fax a copy of the original letter you received, and then we will email you the response within one week of receipt.

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QUESTION 2.09:

Question 2.09:  Every time I go to the Ministry Bookstore to make a donation, it has memorized the information of the other user of my computer.  How do I change the information so that it has my information instead of him or her?

 

Answer 2.09:  The problem you are having relates to two people trying to get things from the Ministry Bookstore using the same computer and the same login.  The Ministry Bookstore uses cookies to keep track of visitors.  When your room mate or the other user of your computer got something from our Ministry Bookstore and entered that information, the Ministry Bookstore put a cookie on your computer and memorized that information.  If you want to eliminate the memorized information so you can enter your own, you can do one of three things:

1. Each user uses a different login on the computer.  The computer keeps different sets of cookies for each user login and so the Ministry Bookstore doesn't get confused when a different user on the same computer uses the Ministry Bookstore.

2. Reenter the information, correcting the memorized information so that it describes you instead of the other person.

3. Delete cookies on your Internet Browser so that all memorized information is cleared.  This is accomplished using the procedure as follows:

   • From the Tools menu of your Internet Explorer, select Internet Options.  The Internet Options dialog box will appear.

   • On the Internet Options dialog, click on the button that says Delete Cookies

   • Go back to the Ministry Bookstore and attempt to order again.  The memorized information will disappear and you will have to reenter your personal information again.

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QUESTION 2.10:

Question 2.10:  How do I buy response letters and pay for them.

 

Answer 2.10:  This is a nonprofit ministry and not a business.  You can't "buy" anything and we don't "sell" anything.  You make a donation and in exchange for your donation, you are granted access to the information you want.  It's also impossible for you to "pay" for anything, because we don't have the real kind of money mandated by our Constitution anymore, which is limited to gold and silver under Article 1, Section 10 of our Constitution.  The definition of "money" from Black's Law Dictionary confirms this below, and note that "Federal Reserve Notes" are "notes" under the definition below:

"Money:  In usual and ordinary acceptation it means coins and paper currency used as circulating medium of exchange, and does not embrace notes, bonds, evidences of debt, or other personal or real estate.  Lane v. Railey, 280 Ky. 319, 133 S.W.2d 74, 79, 81." 
[Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, p. 1005]

Information about response letters is as follows.  In the indexes below, click on "get response" if you want educational materials about how to respond to state or federal notices:

• Frequently asked questions about our response letters

• Index of Federal Notices and Letters

• Index of State tax Notices and Letters

• Support Page: Tax Response Letters

What you do with these materials is entirely up to you, but we only offer them to "nontaxpayers", so you should make sure that you comply with our Member Agreement, Form #01.001 first before attempting to obtain our strictly educational materials.  Thank you for your inquiry.

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QUESTION 2.11:

Question 2.11:  Some of your service offerings, such as lien removal, don't have suggested donation amounts listed.  How can I find out what the cost is and why can't I add these services to my shopping cart?

 

Answer 2.11:  Items that do not have suggested donation amounts underneath them or which do not have "Add to Cart" buttons in the Ministry Bookstore are not currently available.  The most likely cause for this is that we have too many clients and are all booked up.  When opportunities reopen, we reenable the shopping cart items.  You will know they are reenabled because the suggested donation amount and "Add to Cart" buttons will return.  At that time, and only at that time, can you order these items.  Until then, you will just have to wait. Come back and check periodically.  If you want to know the suggested donation amount for an item that does not have one posted, please consult our Ministry Member Catalog link at the top of the opening page at:

http://sedm.org

Alternatively, you may click here for the direct link to the Ministry Member Catalog.

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QUESTION 2.12:

Question 2.12:  How come I never got the usual confirmation email from SEDM telling me how to download the electronic book I ordered within a few minutes after placing my order?

 

Answer 2.12:   This problem is caused usually by one of two reasons: 

1. Our mail server is being filtered.  If you want to check whether our mail server is on a spam blocking list, click on the link below and look at the "Sender Base Reputation Score", which ill be "Poor" (in red) if we are being blocked.  The page also lists who is blocking us. 

     SenderBase

   We don't send out spam, but sometimes we end up in the spam blocking list anyway.  If we are being blocked, submit a request to send the download link through out Contact Us page and we will manually send it to you.

2. You are using Yahoo as an email provider.  They automatically filter and throw out ALL our emails without even putting them into your spam queue.  We warn users at the bottom of the checkout screen in bold red letters to add our domain to the "permit" list from within Yahoo Mail, but often times they miss this or don't do it.  Then they contact us wondering what happened.  If you want to fix this problem, you need to follow the directions for adding us to the spam filter permit list for your yahoo mail account described in steps 8.2 and 8.3 of our Support page.  In the future, please pay MUCH greater attention to and follow all the warnings we give you during the checkout process so that we can more efficiently serve you.  Otherwise, we will have to raise our suggested donation amounts because it is time consuming to manually work around all the problems created by people not following directions.  Sorry about this problem, but we have no control over the spam filtering policies of third party Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

3. You specified an incorrect email address when you placed the order, and the confirmation email therefore bounced.  For instance, you put a "ORG" instead of "COM" at the end of your email address, or vice versa, or you spelled your email address incorrectly.  Please be careful when you type in your email address as you are placing orders.

4. You left your SPAM filter on and never received the automated confirmation email because the SPAM filter filtered it out.  You MUST ensure that you turn off your spam filter software or it will throw away our automated order confirmation emails.  If you are either unable to turn off this software, or don't want to, then you will need to examine your spam filter queue for about a 15 minute period after you place your order so that you can manually register our source address with your spam filter and have it pass on the automated email.  The technique for doing this depends on the spam filtering software you are using, so we can't document the process for that here.  You have to figure that out yourself.

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QUESTION 2.13:

Question 2.13:  I tried downloading and installing one of the decompression utilities you recommend, but it doesn't successfully decompress the ZIP file that contains my electronic response letter or eBook.  What should I do?

 

Answer 2.13:   We use the WINZIP program exclusively to compress our files.  That software program is guaranteed to always work.  Other software programs may have problems on occasion and results may be unpredictable.  However, if you have a newer version of Windows, such as Windows XP, ZIP decompression is built in and will always work.  To solve your problem, you can either get the WINZIP program, or you can upgrade your operating system to Windows XP or later.

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QUESTION 2.14:

Question 2.14:  I'm uncomfortable about getting a response letter sight unseen.  Can you let me "preview" the whole letter before I get it?

 

Answer 2.14:   All of our response letters are copyrighted and revealing the content before making a donation would violate the copyright.  If we allowed people to preview all the letters before they got them, then we would be helping them steal our work and they would never have a reason to help sustain the great effort needed to write and update them in the first place.  We can't allow that because we won't help people steal. 

“You shall not steal." 
[Exodus 20:15, Bible, NKJV]

On the other hand, if you can prove you a genuinely needy and disadvantaged, we might help people by giving them a free response letter.

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QUESTION 2.15:

Question 2.15:  I want to get your Tax Fraud Prevention Manual, Form #06.007 but I have a slow dial-up line.  This is information I need desperately but it will take forever to download if I do it online.  Can you send me a CD instead?

 

Answer 2.15:   Thanks for the inquiry.  The Tax Fraud Prevention Manual, Form #06.007 is 20Mbytes.  An average 56kbit modem will download 7,000 bytes per second.  This means that it will take you 2,857 seconds or 47.9 minutes to download the book.  This is a quite reasonable amount of time that you can start before you go to bed or simply start before you begin cooking or eating dinner and come back and it will be finished.  There is no reason you should not be able to accommodate this.  If 48 minutes of download time is unsatisfactory, then below are some additional options you might consider:

1. Get a higher speed DSL or cable modem connection installed, if available in your area

2. Go to a public library or University or Junior College with a Flash drive or Jump drive and use their computer to download it on their high speed connection in just a couple minutes.  Most public libraries have high speed internet connections.

3. Go to a Kinkos store with a Flash drive or Jump drive and download it on their high speed connection in just a couple minutes. 

4. Go to a friend's or relative's house who has a cable modem and download it to a Flash drive or Jump drive.  You will probably spend more time driving there and back than if you just downloaded it on your dial up and waited.

5. Download it from a high speed connection at work and copy onto a Flash drive or Jump drive. 

The choice of which option you choose from above is yours.  However, we can't and won't mail you the item because there is simply no reason to.  Sorry.

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QUESTION 2.16:

Question 2.16:  I was double-debited for an item I got from your Ministry Bookstore or I ordered something from your website and it will not be useful for my situation.  Can I get a refund of my donation or a part of it?

 

Answer 2.16:   All donations to the ministry are not refundable except under the following circumstances:

1. There was a problem with the payment provider or the store software that caused your donation to be more than it should have been.  This happens, for instance, because there was trouble ordering and you were debited twice for the same item.

2. The description of the item was vague or inadequate and therefore did not include enough information for you to be able to determine whether the item was appropriate for your situation or not.  The burden of proving this is on you, the moving party.  If you ask for a refund because of this situation, your request should include a detailed explanation of why the description of the item in our Ministry Bookstore was inadequate and what it should have said in order not to confuse you or cause you to make the wrong choice.

If you were overcharged in connection with an item in our Ministry Bookstore, please send us your order number via our Contact Us Page, and describe the extra charge you want deleted and we will gladly refund it.  Please address these issues with us FIRST, before calling the credit card company or bank to complain and obtain what is called a "charge-back".  We can easily handle this situation at our level without the need to escalate it.  We prefer that you send the details via our Contact Us Page instead of calling us.  We will respond with a confirmation email saying that the extra charge has been refunded.

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QUESTION 2.17:

Question 2.17:  Your website donation amounts are in Canadian Dollars.  Where can I find the exchange rate from U.S. dollars to Canadian Dollars?

 

Answer 2.17:   You can find information about exchange rates at the web link below.  This link is also provided on our order page as well, in case you didn't notice.

http://x-rates.com

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QUESTION 2.18:

Question 2.18:  After I select the items I want, add to cart, and checkout, I get errors when your site takes me to the payment provider (Egold, etc).  What is the matter?

 

Answer 2.18:   Most likely you are trying to use our website through a wireless connection, wireless hub, proxy server, or a firewall.  Payment system providers are very picky about payments that are coming from these sources and occasionally will have trouble talking through proxy servers.  Also, wireless connections tend to be very noisy and unreliable, especially in highly populated areas where a lot of people are using wireless.  The easiest way to deal with this problem is to use a computer that has a direct Ethernet, rather than wireless, connection to make your order.  In most cases, this fixes the problem.  If you are trying to order from a work computer that has a direct Ethernet connection but uses a firewall or proxy server, perhaps the proxy server filters out the payment provider address.  It is difficult to find out which addresses are filtered out on work computers.  Therefore, you may want to try making the order from your home computer instead of your work computer and see if this fixes the problem as well.  These types of problems are very rare but we thought it was important to give you some options for dealing with them.

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QUESTION 2.19:

Question 2.19:  How do I make a donation to the ministry?  I don't see a "donate" button anywhere?

 

Answer 2.19:   Thanks for your interest in our ministry and your courage and commitment to the cause of liberty.  To make a donation to the ministry in the amount you choose, please do the following:

1. Go to the main page at http://sedm.org.

2. In the right area, click on "Services"

3. Find the shopping cart item that says "Donation" and click on it.