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Yesterday the federal district court in Chicago dismissed the summons enforcement
case brought by the IRS to obtain the names and addresses of those who obtained
the information provided by Bill Benson regarding the non-ratification of the 16th
Amendment. A copy of the order
of dismissal is attached.
When the IRS failed to obtain an order in the injunction case to obtain the so called
"customer list" of Bill Benson, they served Bill with an IRS administrative
summons to obtain the same information. Bill responded by claiming his rights under
the First and Fifth Amendments. The government followed up with a summons enforcement
action. Yesterday, the court dismissed the case.
Bill and I want to thank each of you who have made a donation to allow the continued
efforts to preserve our First and Fifth Amendments. The petition for writ of certiorari
has just been proof read by a professional proof reader, and the final version ready
for filing with the Supreme Court is expected to be ready later today. As soon as
it is received, it will be posted at
http://jeffdickstein.com/supreme.aspx. We plan to file the petition with the
Supreme Court on October 16th. Your donations provided the funds for the printing
of the petition and the filing fee.
Once we receive the final formatted version of the petition for writ of cert, we
will be contacting numerous First Amendment groups to solicit the filing of amicus
briefs with the Supreme Court to improve our chances of obtaining cert. A couple
of you provided the contact information for such groups, and we thank you for that.
On the day we file the petition with the Supreme Court we will be sending out an
Action Alert e-mail asking you to send it to everyone in your address book, and
to post it on blogs and everywhere else on the Internet you can. The goal is to
have as many people as possible read the Action Alert and to click on the link to
the website where people can easily send letters to newspapers, tv and radio stations,
as well as to Congress.
The original plan was to commission a Capwiz site for this purpose. We fell way
short of sufficient funds for the commission, but did receive enough funds to hire
someone to build a website with similar functionality. We have also hired a professional
courtroom artist to provide artwork for the site. Several of you provided comments,
suggestions and criticism of the website design, and we thank you for that imput.
HELP NEEDED. The following link contain the names of numerous Tea Party groups.
http://912dc.org/about/event-coordinators/
We need people to collect the numerous e-mail addresses and to send out the Action
Alert at the appropriate time. For example, at
http://www.teapartypatriots.org/ there is a list of groups from each of the
50 States, and if you click on a state, there are several people listed. Each person
listed should receive a copy of the Action Alert e-mail for distribution to their
contacts. If you can help collect the e-mail addresses and/or are willing to send
out the Action Alerts, please let me know and I will coordinate the effort, unless
one or more of you will take on the responsibility to coordinate the effort. There
is only so much time and I am pretty well tied up with the larger scale planning
and implementation. We really need your help here!!
I have drafted a petition for writ of mandamus to be filed in the 11th Circuit asking
them to order the district court judge to rule on the issues of the 16th Amendment
in a criminal case in Florida. I represent two of 13 defendants there. Just as in
the Benson case, the district court failed to address the issues raised. I expect
the 11th Circuit to refuse to issue the mandamus, and then we can take that denial
to the Supreme Court, so there will be two cases on the same subject matter, one
civil and one criminal. I am waiting to file the petition for writ of mandamus to
obtain optimal timing with the filing of Benson's petition for writ of cert.
We would also like to send out PR releases, but that will take more donations. http://jeffdickstein.com/donate.aspx.
We are also, thanks to the help of a couple of people, designing a bumper sticker
and t-shirt campaign to bring publicity to the lawsuit and to expand grassroots
awareness.
Once again, Bill Benson and I want to thank you for all of your effort to date.
Lets keep the momentum going.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey A. Dickstein
Attorney at Law
500 W. Bradley Rd., C-208
Fox Point, WI 53217
(414) 446-4264
[email protected]
www.JeffDickstein.com