Time: Sat Nov 02 05:46:11 1996
To: pmitch@primenet.com
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: state Citizen cannot vote
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>Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 05:41:57
>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repealed.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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