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Shane Trejo (The Pontiac Tribune) — Doreen
Hendrickson is a mild-mannered and demure mother of two. She seems more
like someone you would see at a church picnic rather than in a jail
house.
Thanks to the dirty tricks and heavy hands of
the authoritarian federal government, she may be incarcerated very soon.
Denied her basic rights in the court of law, Doreen Hendrickson was
convicted of contempt of court on July 25, 2014.
Her tale is certainly unusual.
Doreen Hendrickson, along with her husband Pete, are libertarian activists who file
tax returns in an unconventional way and encourage others to do the
same. Because of this, Doreen was charged by the federal government with
defying two court orders.
“One commanded Doreen to repudiate her
previously-filed, sworn tax returns and replace them with new ones
containing testimony dictated by the government,” her husband Pete
Hendrickson said. “Doreen was ordered to swear to her personal belief in
the testimony she was ordered to make and to conceal the fact that the
returns she was ordered to make would be coerced and false.”
In short, Doreen was faced with an ultimatum.
She could obey the court order and say she falsified a tax return
(a felony), or she could stand by her word and her conscience by
refusing to obey the court order that would force her to perjure
herself. Doreen did what was right and chose the noble option.
Now she may pay a huge price for such integrity.
“I am accused by the government of having
committed a crime for refusing to obey an order to swear to facts I do
not believe are true. I agreed to obey the order if I could also simply
add to my signature that I had been ordered by a judge to swear to the
facts. That didn’t suit the government however. Not only must I obey an
order to swear to something I do not believe, but I am not allowed to
indicate that I’ve been ordered to swear under threat of imprisonment.” –
Doreen Hendrickson
When you take a closer look at Doreen and Pete’s
activism and the ramifications it could have if widely adopted, it
becomes clear as to why the federal government feels so threatened. They
are desperate to make an example out of them.
Whereas many complain about federal government
corruption and do nothing about it, Doreen’s husband Pete developed a
plan to help people protect their economic freedom while chipping away
at federal power. He outlined it in his book, Cracking the Code, which
in 2003 released the incredible information he compiled about the income
tax and the 16th Amendment.
“The limited nature of the income tax is not a
matter of my opinion,” Pete Hendrickson says. “In addition to the clear
words of the law, dozens of United States Supreme Court
rulings agree with my research and analysis, while no Supreme Court
rulings support any alternative view, including the broad
misunderstanding of the law the IRS likes to encourage.”
Although the information offered in Cracking the
Code was not secret, it was deliberately kept hidden from the public
for many years by the feds’ and their lackeys.
For generations, Americans have been filing tax
returns erroneously and paying more than their ‘fair share’ to Uncle
Sam. This truth had fallen by the wayside over the years, but thanks to
Pete’s research detailed in his book, it has been revived. Since
Cracking the Code was released over a decade ago, tens of thousands have
taken his advice and received complete income tax refunds.
Hendrickson estimates that at least $2.3 billion
has been forced out of federal coffers and back into the rightful hands
of hard-working Americans.
“All of these refunds have been thoroughly
vetted by the government before being issued, and all have issued even
while the government has striven mightily to suppress the knowledge of
the law by which these claims are made,” Pete Hendrickson said.
“Cracking the Code invokes the mechanism provided by the Founders for
keeping the State restrained and obedient to the law.”
However, this success has come at a price for
Pete Hendrickson. Because of the overarching implications that his ideas
could have in restricting federal power, he and his wife have come
under constant attack by the feds. Falsifying and trumping up charges to
discredit and destroy their opposition is one of their common tactics
to maintain power.
Ever since Cracking the Code was released, the
feds have been trying to destroy the Hendrickson family. Pete has
already had to serve jail-time, and now his wife may be forced to do the
same.
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Doreen was not allowed to reference any Supreme Court cases that would have demonstrated her innocence to the jury.
She was not allowed to reference the thousands
of stories from Americans who received refunds because they filed tax
returns based off of information obtained from Pete’s book. Government
attorneys lied about a relevant statute and tried to prevent giving the
text of the statute from going to the jury.
Mrs. Hendrickson was not even allowed to get
through her opening and closing statements. She was taunted by the
arrogant judge and not given the proper time to make her case.
To put it quite simply:
This case was a miscarriage of justice. This was
a kangaroo court. This was a railroading. This was a dog and pony show.
It was a disgrace to everything that America was founded upon.
“Judges don’t get too far in the system by
remembering what the law is and who it’s for,” court-watcher Brian
Wright said. Wright penned a book called the Motor City Witchcraft
Trials about Doreen’s case. “The current lot of judges at all levels has
deteriorated into yes men to whatever mobster, especially federal with
DHS and the national security state apparatus, tells them to dance.”
To add insult to injury, the jury was instructed NOT to consider the Constitution of the United States
while considering the verdict. They were told, “It is not a defense to
the crime of contempt that the court order was unlawful or
unconstitutional.”
This twisting of the rule of law, common sense,
and basic human decency resulted in what would have been otherwise a
completely incomprehensible guilty verdict for Doreen Hendrickson.
At a time when the United States houses the
largest prison population in the history of the world and jails are
busting at the seams trying to house all of these offenders, a temperate
homemaker will possibly be behind bars soon merely for obeying her
conscience and standing on principle.
In spite of posing a threat to nobody and
committing a ‘crime’ that is highly dubious, to put it mildly, she could
face YEARS in prison regardless.
However, this story is not over.
power-to-the-people02
We are not forced to allow this travesty to
occur unabated. Government officials can be pressured by the public. If
local citizens of southeast Michigan can flood the court room at
Doreen’s upcoming sentencing hearing, we can put the fear of God into
this crooked judge.
The judge will know that all eyes are on her.
She will know this story will not die quietly. Our actions could
conceivably affect how Doreen is sentenced.
Hopefully there will be many journalists and
activists showing up to her court hearing to make sure this story does
not go unnoticed. If we don’t stand for Doreen Hendrickson now, it could
be us or our loved ones who the government comes for next.
It is time to say enough is enough. Now is the time to stand up for a good person who desperately needs us.
The hearing takes place on Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 10:30 am at the following address:
231 W Lafayette Ave
Detroit, MI 48226-2702
2nd floor
Fighting corruption requires sacrifice. It takes blood, sweat and tears.
If we show up in full force to Doreen’s
sentencing, we can make a powerful statement that corruption in the
Judicial system will not be tolerated. All individuals deserve a fair
shake in court, and Doreen clearly did not receive that.
