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For Immediate Release                            November 2, 1996

                  "State Citizens Cannot Vote"

by

                Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S.

              All Rights Reserved without Prejudice

                         (November 1996)

PAYSON, ARIZONA.   A  State Citizen  will be denied the chance to

vote on  Tuesday, if  the State  of Arizona  has its  way.   Paul

Andrew Mitchell,  Counselor at  Law and federal witness, has been

using every  administrative means  available  to  register  as  a

"Qualified Elector"  for next  Tuesday's general election.  There

is only  one problem:  he is not a federal citizen, and the voter

registration form  requires that  he certify,  under  penalty  of

perjury, that he is a federal citizen.  Moreover, the penalty for

falsifying information on an Arizona voter registration affidavit

is a class 6 felony conviction.

     Mitchell has  been researching  the federal constitution and

statute laws  full-time for 7 years now.  Among his findings is a

discovery of several court cases which held that Americans can be

State  Citizens  without  also  being  "citizens  of  the  United

States," or  "federal citizens,"  as they  are also called in the

legal dictionaries.   Mitchell  has  come  to  believe  that  the

federal government  has  lately  become  a  criminal  enterprise,

relying upon  blatant  extortion  to  collect  money  and  coerce

cooperation from  the American  People.   He wants no part of the

federal government,  until and  unless its  agents start  obeying

American Laws  never repealed.    Mitchell  is  also  working  to

restore integrity to the American court system.

     As Counselor  at Law in a federal case in which a grand jury

had subpoened  the books  and records  of an  Arizona pure trust,

Mitchell's research  led him to find further flaws in the federal

Jury Selection  and Service Act, the law which Congress passed to

select and  convene federal  grand and  trial  juries.    In  one

section of  this law, Congress makes it a federal policy that all

citizens shall  have the  opportunity to  serve on  federal grand

juries and  federal  trial  juries.    Then,  4  sections  later,

Congress makes  it a  requirement that jury candidates be federal

citizens before they are qualified to serve.  There is no mention

of State  Citizens anywhere  in this Act, and no regulations have

been promulgated for it either.

     The U.S.  Supreme Court  has already  ruled, more than once,

that  class discrimination in  the selection of juries is grounds

for disqualifying  the entire jury, even if the individual jurors

are otherwise qualified.  Imagine if the law said that only women

could serve  on federal  juries; this  would be  a clear  case of

class  discrimination,   because  men   would  be  systematically

excluded  as  a class.   Because  there  are  two (2) classes  of

citizenship in  America, not  one, the Jury Selection and Service

Act is unconstitutional for limiting jury service to one and only

one of  those two  classes of  citizens.   So, if you are a State

Citizen who  is not  also a  federal citizen, you can't vote, you

can't serve  on a grand jury, and you can't serve on a trial jury

either.

     Paul Mitchell is now faced with some very difficult choices.

As a  political activist,  with degrees  in Political Science and

Public Administration, and seven years of constitutional research

under his  belt, and  with proof of his birth to American parents

within one  of the  several Union  States, he  is now  denied any

voice in the management of his State and federal governments.  He

cannot vote, he cannot serve on a grand jury, and he cannot serve

on a trial jury.  And, of course, the government contends that it

can continue to tax such a man, without representation within the

Congress.   "No taxation  without  representation"  was  a  proud

rallying cry  for many  Americans  who  eventually  defeated  the

British in the Revolutionary War, despite enormous odds.

     Mitchell recently  escalated the  matter by  filing a formal

written  Notice and Demand  with Arizona Governor Fife Symington,

to order  that State's Attorney General to register Mitchell as a

qualified elector.   Rumor  has it  that the  AG is  refusing  to

disclose the  registry of  State Citizens  who  now  inhabit  the

Arizona Republic.   Mitchell  tried  to  confirm  this  rumor  by

demanding that  he be  added to the registry, so that he may have

an opportunity  to choose  his representative  in  the  House  of

Representatives in  Washington, D.C.   Courts have ruled that the

Right to  choose our  representatives is a fundamental Right, and

Congress has made it a felony to deprive Citizens of any of their

fundamental Rights, in the federal criminal code (18 U.S.C. 241).

After receiving  Mitchell's Notice  and Demand,  someone  in  the

Governor's  office   sent  Mitchell  another  voter  registration

affidavit:   FOR U.S.  CITIZENS ONLY -- IT IS A CLASS 6 FELONY TO

FALSIFY THIS FORM!  There  was no  return address on the envelope

which bore  the form,  through U.S.  Mail.  It is also a crime to

put fraudulent material into the U.S. Mail.

     Mitchell is preparing to  sue the State of Arizona,  and all

government employees who have chosen to ignore this problem, soon

after Tuesday's election, if Arizona cannot come up with a way to

get Mitchell  to the  polls by  the time  they close  on Tuesday.

Paul Andrew  Mitchell may soon become the Susan B. Anthony of the

Twentieth Century.

Common Law Copyright

Paul Andrew Mitchell

Counselor at Law, federal witness

and Citizen of Arizona State

All Rights Reserved without Prejudice

November 2, 1996

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