Time: Sat Nov 09 05:13:43 1996 To: mleeiv@u.washington.edu From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: State Citizens Cannot Vote Cc: Bcc: >Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 12:56:53 >From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] >Subject: State Citizens Cannot Vote > >[This text is formatted in Courier 11, non-proportional spacing.] > > >For Immediate Release November 2, 1996 > > State Citizens Cannot Vote > > by > > Paul Andrew Mitchell > All Rights Reserved > (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American Laws never repealed.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 classes of >citizenship in America, not one, the Jury Selection and Service > > > State Citizens Cannot Vote: Page 1 of 2 > >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. > > >Common Law Copyright >Paul Andrew Mitchell >Counselor at Law, federal witness >and Citizen of Arizona state >All Rights Reserved Without Prejudice >November 2, 1996 > > > # # # > > > > > State Citizens Cannot Vote: Page 2 of 2 >
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