You can be witness to a historic event
on June 14-17 (or longer) in Sacramento, California
IRS will be dealt a major defeat.

Ex-IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent Joe
Banister will be going to trial for exposing IRS'
unlawful and unconstitutional activities. You can
watch and be a part of Joe Banister's victory over the
IRS later this month.

Joe Banister from 1997 till 1999, on his own time and
money investigated the legality of the Federal Income
Tax . In early 1999 he submitted his 90 page report,
which outlined why the Federal Income Tax has been
enforced on the American People in violation of
American's Constitutional protected rights to the IRS
to refute. Rather than answering what appears to many
to be very easy answers (just show him the law), the
IRS encouraged his resignation.

Banister quit the IRS, which was paying him close to
$80,000 per year, with a wife, 2 kids, home mortgage
payment to support and no job in the wings. Banister
went on a personal crusade to expose the lies and
fraud of the Federal Income Tax to the American
People. He spoke to groups of citizens, on radio and
other forums and shared his story and findings
whenever he could. One of the groups he spoke at was
the employees a company in Northern California.

The IRS is calling Banister's speech before these an
act to "impede, impair, obstruct and defeat the IRS in
ascertainment, computation, assessment and collection
of [various] taxes owed by this company and its
employees to the IRS! So, the IRS, in violation of the
heart of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution,
which guarantees free speech, is trying to paint the
political free speech of Banister as an act of
conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Government.

This kind of trials belong to Nazi Germany, the Former
Soviet Union, China, Cuba or Iran, NOT AMERICA!

Banister also prepared amended tax returns for the
owner of this company, which were factually accurate
and complete. This return disagreed with the IRS'
interpretation of the LAW. Based on Banister's
interpretation of the LAW, this company owner was due
a refund of overpaid taxes. By law, the company owner
HAD TO fill out and submit these form to the IRS if he
had a disagreement over the interpretation of the laws
that applied to his refund claim.

IRS did not give a refund to the company owner, yet
the IRS claims that it was "defrauded" by Banister and
the company owner to the tune of about $250,000! For
doing the above, the U.S. Government is now charging
Banister with conspiracy to defraud the U.S.
Government and filing a false claim with the U.S.
Government!!

So based on this case, if you blow the whistle on IRS'
unlawful conduct, you will be criminally charged by
the U.S. Government!If you disagree with the IRS'
interpretation of the law and submit a claim based on
your understanding of the law, you will be criminally
charged by the U.S. Government!!

IS THIS THE AMERICA THE GREAT FOUNDING FATHERS OF
THESE GREAT UNITED STATES FOUGHT THE BRITISH KING AND
RISKED THEIR LIFE AND LIMB FOR?
IS THIS THE AMERICAN YOU WANT TO LIVE IN??
IS THIS THE AMERICA YOU WISH TO LEAVE TO YOUR CHILDREN
AND GRAND CHILDREN???

Now, here is the good news:

Joe Banister had done his homework very well. He
can properly and fully explain his action to a jury of
fellow American Citizens.
Joe Banister has some of the best lawyers in the
Freedom Law Movement representing him. Jeffrey
Dickstien has a very good track record of beating the
IRS; even for defendants who were far less prepared
and knowledgeable than Joe Banister.

Here is what YOU can do:

1) Attend the Trail on June 14, 2005 in Sacramento.
The trail will last a few days and may be up to 2
weeks. Come as much as you can. Come for a full day
half a day if that is all you can take off from work.
But most importantly, COME, SEE AND SUPPORT JOE
BANISTER! You want to be present and watch history in
the making by watching Joe Banister beat the IRS in
court in Sacramento at the court room of Judge
William B. Shubb at 9 AM.

Please remain very polite and courteous in the
courthouse, as Joe Banister has always been. We need
to be examples of fine citizen conduct when observing
the Government at work.

2) Donate generously to Joe Banister's Legal Defense
Fund. Good legal help is not free, nor is it cheap. It
takes a LOT of work and preparation to battle the
Government lawyers that practically have unlimited
funds to throw in to nail their intended victim. The
Government will try to use every technicality in their
favor and Joe Banister needs to be able to do the same
in this battle for freedom.

Joe Banister's victory will be a LOUD BOOM heard all
over America. A loud BANG that WE the People are
masters of our public servants and they will NOT get
away with abusing the legal process to silence their
critics. Banister's victory will be a historical event
you can tell your kids and grand kids about, years
from now. If you want Joe Banister to beat the IRS,
support him by donating to the Joe Baister defence
fund.

http://www.freedomabovefortune.com

And the verdict is NOT GUILTY!!!!!

June 23, 2005

Former IRS CID Special Agent Joseph Banister Acquitted of Tax Fraud And Conspiracy

Government Unable To Prove U.S. Law
Requires Income Tax Withholding or Filing

Sacramento California -- On Thursday June 23, a federal jury found former IRS Criminal Investigative Division (CID) Special Agent and CPA Joseph Banister not guilty of all counts alleging criminal tax fraud and conspiracy related to actions he took on behalf of a California business owner who had openly defied the IRS over several years by stopping withholding of all income and employment taxes from the paychecks of his workers.

During the trial the Department of Justice was unable to put forth any evidence that Banister had either engaged in a conspiracy or had acted unlawfully when he shared legal research with business owner Al Thompson concluding that he had no legal obligation to withhold taxes from his workers or when he (Banister) prepared corrected tax returns for Thompson claiming his taxable income was, under U.S. law, zero.

During the trial, Banister's former supervisor at IRS’s San Jose CID office, Robert Gorini (who testified via video recording) when pointedly asked, was unable to cite any U.S. law that required Banister to pay income taxes.

Banister, who was forced to resign in 1999 after questioning IRS officials about their legal authority, gave Thompson’s worker’s a presentation in 2000 which reviewed his detailed investigative research of U.S. tax law which concluded that not only did the IRS lack any authority to impose income taxes on the workers, but there was no legal requirement for the business to withhold any taxes from the worker's paychecks.

Banister is part of a nationwide effort seeking to force the U.S. Government to respond to a series of detailed legal Petitions for Redress of Grievances directly challenging the authority of the IRS. Last summer, the We The People Foundation initiated a landmark lawsuit with 2000 plaintiffs against the government because it has refused to answer the Petitions.

The Right-To-Petition lawsuit, of which Banister is a plaintiff, is the first time in history that U.S. courts have been asked to define the meaning of the final ten words of the First Amendment.

Court documents for the RTP lawsuit and scholarly research regarding the Right to Petition can be downloaded from the Lawsuit Information Center on www.GiveMeLiberty.org.

Following the verdict, Banister was greeted by a throng of WTP supporters and members of his family.

Tomorrow, WTP will publish additional details of this important news and stream video of post-verdict interviews of Banister & several of the jurors.