Time: Sat Nov 02 05:30:01 1996
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: state Citizen cannot vote
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For Immediate Release November 2, 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repealed.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 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. 242). 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.
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