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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Commerce Twp., Michigan, April 22, 2015
A Michigan woman is calling on Governor Rick Snyder to intervene and protect her from being put in a federal prison after what she calls a crudely engineered criminal conviction for her refusal to comply with unlawful orders of a federal court—orders commanding her not just that she must testify, but what she must say.
Doreen Hendrickson was charged two years ago with criminal contempt of court for refusing to comply with DOJ- and IRS-requested orders from a federal court in 2007. The court commanded Hendrickson to amend her freely-made tax returns for 2002 and 2003 with content dictated by the tax agency, by which she would be made to declare that all her earnings for those years are subject to the income tax. She eventually did submit the amended returns, but with a declaration that she had been coerced. The DOJ told the judge that the IRS could not process her returns under those circumstances.
The judge then ordered Mrs. Hendrickson to sign the dictated-content forms declaring under oath that she personally believes what she has been ordered to say, and to conceal the fact that the words are not her own. Such orders have never been made to an American before in history, whether in regard to a tax return or any other kind of document or testimony. “This is not a tax case. This is about my right to be in charge of my own testimony, to speak my conscience, and to protect my own property interests in a legal contest, even when that contest is with my government,” Hendrickson says. “If the court can force me to amend my return, put numbers on it dictated by the IRS that I know aren’t correct, and make me hide the fact that I was coerced, then you might as well set fire to the Bill of Rights.”
Mrs. Hendrickson has consistently said she doesn't believe that all of her earnings are, in fact, taxable-- a view the IRS itself took when first presented with her original returns, and which it has never contradicted over any agency official's signature. In fact, even now, many years since those original returns were filed and many years since Mrs. Hendrickson was ordered to change them, the United States Department of Treasury records continue to agree with Hendrickson's original figures.
Mrs. Hendrickson has testified to her actual beliefs on affidavits and in live testimony under oath in every hearing and trial that has been held concerning the matter. The government has never produced any evidence to the contrary, always simply arguing that she ought to believe differently because the IRS wants her to, and because the judge appears to believe what Hendrickson is being ordered to say.
Mrs. Hendrickson views the orders made to her to be violations of her right to control the content of her own speech, and of her right to due process, since the orders demand that she declare agreement with her adversary's position on the taxable character of certain kinds of earnings-- a matter which otherwise would likely be in dispute in future litigations between her and the United States.
Mrs. Hendrickson also views the orders as a violation of her right to refuse to be a witness against herself, since being forced to declare something contradicting her prior-filed returns now would not only compel her to commit perjury today, but would amount to a declaration that her previously-made testimony was false.
Mrs. Hendrickson strenuously argues that the orders she is accused of disobeying are unlawful, and therefore her refusal cannot be criminal contempt. After all, the statute she is accused of violating, specifically qualifies that it is disobedience of a lawful order that is punishable.
The government attorneys and the judge that presided over her trials apparently agree. At the government’s urging the judge instructed Mrs. Hendrickson's jury that it must disregard the unlawfulness or unconstitutionality of the orders when deciding whether she was guilty of criminal contempt for resisting them.
The judge also instructed the jury that it need not unanimously find that Hendrickson actually did either of the two distinct alleged acts of contempt with which she was charged—another unprecedented feature of her trial. The trial ended in November, 2013 in a hung jury, and the government then tried again in July of 2014. At the close of the second trial, her jury, thus instructed, declared Mrs. Hendrickson to be guilty.
On April 9, 2015, Judge Victoria Roberts of the U.S. District Court in Detroit sentenced Mrs. Hendrickson to 18 months in prison. Mrs. Hendrickson was ordered to surrender herself into federal custody within 60 days—IF she submitted new amended returns with the government’s numbers and without any hint that they were coerced or disclaimed—otherwise, she would be forced to surrender within 30 days. Thus, the court continues to pressure Mrs. Hendrickson not only to give up her civil rights, but to commit a felony by filing false tax returns.
“This case is unprecedented. Mrs. Hendrickson is appealing, and we are confident that the Sixth Circuit will do the right thing and see this trial and conviction as unsupportable in a free society,” said her attorney, Mark Cedrone of Philadelphia. Fearing, however, that she will be made to suffer this penalty even while waiting for her appeal to be heard, Mrs. Hendrickson has asked Michigan's Governor Rick Snyder and Attorney General Bill Schuette to stand in vindication of her Constitutionally-secured rights between her and the federal officials.
Governor Snyder and AG Schuette have not yet responded to Mrs. Hendrickson's request.
Contact information:
Pete Hendrickson
newsman "at" losthorizons.com
Questions concerning the ongoing federal proceedings should be directed to Mrs. Hendrickson's counsel at mec "at"cedrone-mancano.com
A .pdf of this press release can be found at http://losthorizons.com/4-
4 comments:
Unfortunately, due to the excessive length and subject matter in this press release, it is extremely unlikely that no matter where you send that "press release" that it will ever see print or be mentioned in any broadcast or any other type of main stream media. Do you think they will want something like this to get out in the open for all to see and start taking apart? NO WAY!
That being said, I sent an email to the address mentioned at the bottom of the 'press release' to her "counsel", the text of which follows. We'll see what happens. . .
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Representative,
mec at cedrone-mancano dot com
It has come to my attention that you are representing Doreen Hendrickson in a case against the tyranny of the fictitious entity know as the Internal Revenue Service, Inc.
I also understand that she is in trouble for filing fraudulent tax returns. Either way she goes, she will be charged with something. If she says now that it is correct, then she lied back then. If she stands her ground (she should do this) they have threatened to "charge" her with "criminal contempt" for not submitting to their request to lie now, which would also put her in jeopardy of being found in contempt or perjury for not telling the truth now if she does as they say and lies about what they are telling her to lie about. (A threat can make her be acting under threat, duress, and coercion, and if she mentions this at any time, the whole thing will become null and void.)
I also understand that she is being "charged" with "criminal" contempt.
I am sure you have heard the expression that you can't see the forest for the trees. Right? It is also impossible to see the forest from inside the forest. All you can see are a few trees.
So, being inside the legal machine as you are, it is easy to miss the very obvious thing that is going on here in this case that she is being charged with "criminal contempt". This is actually a legal impossibility. And even more so, a lawful impossibility.
In order for there to be a crime, there must be an injured party; A Human being who has hands to sign a complaint (affidavit of truth) that they, themselves, were damaged in some way. The court is a fiction. It has no hands to sign a complaint. Therefore it cannot in any way state that it finds anyone in "criminal contempt". If they state they are charging "criminal contempt" remind them that the court is a fiction, and therefore cannot be an injured party. Furthermore, if a judge (who is actually just an administrator) makes a *claim* (that is all it can be) that someone has committed "criminal contempt", Then that is a *NEW* claim, and therefore a NEW case to be tried in *ANOTHER* court since the "judge" cannot hear, *and rule* on the same case that they are making the claim of "criminal contempt" in. This is all hooey anyway, because there can be no charge of "criminal contempt" in the first place, due to the fact that the court (or state or any other fiction) cannot be an injured party.
She can walk simply on this.
I am not an attorney. I have no formal training. It is simply from experience that I have found that being inside a system makes it difficult sometimes to see a problem with the machine because you are inside of it. As a computer technician, sometimes a problem will be solved simply by stepping outside of it and looking at it from a different perspective. It is the same in your practice. Sometimes from inside it is easy to miss the obviuos because you are so busy trying to find precedent or some other eloquent information. And, there are some unscrupulous actors out there who are getting paid very well, for dragging things like this out instead of just doing the right thing from the get-go and closing the issue. (Not saying this is you, don't get me wrong, here. . .)
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It will be interesting to see what happens.
DS
You have to understand that this was forced and staged so that Doreen would be found guilty no matter what before April 15, and this was an attempt to scare people away from using the legal arguments contained in the book Crackin' the Code, written by her husband. The IRS has refunded millions of dollars because the arguments are correct and they are trying to scare people away from it. You can see actual refund checks posted at losthorizons.com. Tell the cabal/beast you are not going to support it any more and get your money back, as well as stop paying them. You can also avoid the Obamacare tax.
Get out people I did 15 yrs ago. Anyone that participates in this fraud is just as guilty as the ones acting on it's behalf. So not only are you paying the salaries of these monsters but your also paying for them to invade sovereign nations, kill innocent people and destroy private property.
Meanwhile, last we heard, Irwin Schiff is still incarcerated as well
for sharing to much income tax truth.
How many citizens would it take to 'storm the Bastille' to free him?
And we shouldn't let the system take Doreen either.
How can the option for remedy stick and have our will done per constitution,
when as I see it, the other side just will not budge.
Legal wrangling and BS is what they do best.
This peaceful disagreement will go on indefinitely until
some strong character walks in with a star and a pair of six-shooters,
and says, 'there's a new sheriff in town',
'you're all under arrest for miscarriage of justice'.
Can someone loan me one six-shooter?
I saw 'Bad Girls', it's a feel good western for cowgirls;
there's justice in the end...
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