Time: Wed Nov 13 23:14:11 1996
To: joseph.d.robertson@nhmccd.cc.tx.us
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: State Citizens Cannot Vote
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>Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 09:44:14
>To: Jim Harnsberger
>From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
>Subject: State Citizens Cannot Vote
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>For Immediate Release November 2, 1996
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> State Citizens Cannot Vote
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> by
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> Paul Andrew Mitchell
> All Rights Reserved
> (November 1996)
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>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.
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> 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American Laws never repealed.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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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>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.
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> 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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>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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