Sovereignty Education and
Defense Ministry (SEDM)
Comes now, _________________________________________________(print your FULL legal birthname legibly), who desires to join the fellowship and the ministry of Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry (SEDM). In consideration of the valuable information offered by the Ministry, I declare my consent to abide unconditionally with this agreement by any one or more of the following means: 1. Signing this Member Agreement and faxing or mailing it to the Ministry. 2. Downloading any of the free materials or information available on the SEDM website at http://sedm.org. 3. Making a donation to the ministry. 4. Participating in the Ministry as a volunteer or agent. 5. Signing up to be part of our Member Forums. 6. Using any of the licensed or copyrighted materials appearing on this website as evidence in a legal proceeding, and especially one involving any Member or Officer of this ministry. In joining the ministry by the above methods, I declare that: 1. I believe in God. 2. I put service to God and His Laws (found in His Holy book) above either self or man or government. 3. I consider justice and truth more important than personal profit or material wealth or personal security. 4. I am not a "tax protester", a "tax denier", or "tax defier", but rather a crime fighter who seeks to enforce the law and preserve the requirement for express, written, fully informed consent of the governed that is the origin of all of the just authority of government according to the Declaration of Independence. 5. I am NOT ANTI-government, but rather pro SELF-government under the authority of only God's laws. I regard this as an essential element of my religious practices and beliefs. 9. I am a human being and not a legal "person" whose legal “domicile” is either within a de jure state of the Union and outside of federal territory, or within the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. My King, my Savior, my Lawgiver, my Judge, and my ONLY protector is Jesus Christ and not any vain man or earthly government. I may not bow down to nor serve any other false gods, including governments, because this is idolatry. See the link and quote below for the reasons why this is: Why Domicile and Becoming a "Taxpayer" Require Your Consent, Form #05.002; http://sedm.org/Forms/MemLaw/Domicile.pdf
10.
I am a “nonresident
alien” under
26 U.S.C. §7701(b)(1)(B) and a “transient foreigner” on the earth. See: 11. I am a "stateless person" within the meaning of 28 U.S.C. §1332(a) immune from the jurisdiction of the federal courts, which are all Article IV, legislative, territorial courts. 12. I am NOT:
Instead, my earnings and all of my property is a “foreign estate” as described in 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(31) and not subject to the jurisdiction of the Internal Revenue Code. I am a Secured Party to the Constitution as I do not live within the exclusive or general jurisdiction of the Federal Government but temporarily occupy (not “reside” or "inhabit" within) the 50 states of the Union. As such, the Special Law found in Title 26 does not apply to me, which is confirmed by the Legislative Intent of the 16th Amendment. See The Great IRS Hoax, sections 4.11 through 4.11.13 and 5.2.14 for overwhelming evidence supporting this firm conviction of mine. 13. I am a reasonable, responsible, patriotic, and open-minded individual who, like the ministry, simply wants an honest and accountable government that diligently obeys and respects the Constitution, enacted positive law, and does not try to enforce that which is not enacted positive law. Every American expects and deserves a government that respects the requirement for "consent" in every interaction between it and its inhabitants, including in the area of taxation (see http://sedm.org/Forms/MemLaw/Domicile.pdf). The reason is that the Declaration of Independence says that all just powers of government are based on the “consent of the governed”. Where there is no explicit, written, informed consent, there is no authority and nothing but tyranny and injustice. Because it is not respecting these limits on its authority, then I cannot and will not subsidize or condone or aid any efforts which would conflict with these objectives with my earnings or my labor or my tacit consent or obedience:
I understand that it is the policy of the ministry not to provide legal advice or representation, but instead to teach and empower the sovereign people themselves to manage their own legal affairs without the involvement of either the ministry or a corrupted legal profession. I understand that it is not the mission or goal of the ministry to make legal recommendations or judgments about my status as either a “taxpayer” or a “nontaxpayer”. Furthermore, I understand that only I, under the Internal Revenue Code, and not the IRS (see Internal Revenue Manual section 5.1.11.6.8 and 26 U.S.C. §6020(b)) nor the courts of justice (see 28 U.S.C. §2201(a)), nor anyone in government, may determine whether I as a human being and NOT a "person" am “liable” for Subtitle A income taxes under the Internal Revenue Code. This is a result of the fact that “Our tax system is based upon voluntary [self] assessment and payment, not upon distraint “, according to the U.S. Supreme Court in Flora v. United States, 362 U.S. 145 (1959).
The main reasons I am involving the ministry is: 1. To mature and strengthen my Christian faith. 2. To enhance my relationship to the Creator by learning and obeying His Holy Laws and bringing myself into complete submission exclusively to His will in every area of my life. 3. To help me get educated about my God-given rights and how to defend them. The main reason I have to take personal responsibility for defending my rights in this way is because government has refused its duty under the Constitution to do so. Therefore, the Master must do what the servant is maliciously unwilling to do. Below are what a few prominent authorities say about the virtues of education, and the Constitutionally protected Free Assembly which it is based upon:
The only thing I will use the materials, education, or information for that are provided by the ministry is to worship, serve, and glorify my Creator above every man, ruler, law, or government and to Petition the Government for a Redress of Grievances of wrongs against my life, liberty, property, and family that violate either the Creator’s Sovereign Laws or man’s laws. This is an exercise of my religious faith and my right to Petition the Government that is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. This is a lawful purpose so that it can never be said that either I nor the ministry are engaging in unlawful activity subject to any penalty or other unconstitutional “Bill of Attainder”. 1. I agree and commit to diligently educate myself by regularly reading and studying the word of God. 2. I agree to regularly study, learn, and obey man's law and to use that knowledge to ensure that our public servants remain accountable to us, who are the true sovereigns and “governing authorities" within our system of Republican government. I will do this by reading the The Great IRS Hoax book and other free sources of enacted law and judicial precedent. The purpose of reading these materials is so that I can learn how to love my neighbor out of obedience to the last six commandments of the ten commandments.
3. I agree to help educate all the people I know and come in contact with who believe in God about everything that I learn by reading and studying God's laws and man's laws and participating in the ministry. 4. I agree and commit to defend the credibility and integrity of the this fellowship and ministry and every member by promptly contacting the ministry in writing via the Contact Us page if or when I find anything that is either erroneous or inconsistent with the law when or if I find it so that it may be promptly corrected. If I don’t, and if I am a government employee, officer, or agent, then I become a Member in Bad Standing. 5. I accept my share of the obligation to financially support this religious ministry through free will offerings so that we as a fellowship may continue to glorify and serve the Lord by setting the captives everywhere free from slavery to sin using the Truth by giving them education and tools to defend the sovereignty that comes only from God. I understand that if I am ever to achieve the status of being able to defend the sovereignty that God gave me when He created me, then I must be willing and able to: 1. Educate myself as education is primary to understanding the law regarding the federal income tax. 2. Refuse to accept the vain and self-serving edicts of a judge or lawyer [who in most cases have illegal conflicts of interest in violation of 28 U.S.C. §144, 28 U.S.C. §455, and 18 U.S.C. §208] to tell me what the law says, but instead to read it for myself and reach my own conclusions. 3. Trust my own education when I am reading and researching the law for myself. 4. As a free moral agent, I take complete and personal and exclusive responsibility for myself in all aspects of my conclusions and decisions as a result of my educational pursuits. I must take exclusive and personal responsibility for myself because the tyranny we face on the part of the government at present was created mainly by the government exploiting the human weakness to evade responsibility. See Great IRS Hoax section 4.3.10 to learn why and how our public servants have invidiously and covertly corrupted the morals of the people by exploiting this human weakness. 5. Apply what I have learned about the law to my specific situation and then to confidently challenge those who would question my conclusions by demanding that they prove me wrong by their presentment of Implementing Regulations published in the Federal Register to demonstrate the law and the facts properly and correctly. 6. Insist that those in government service are not above the law but are mere servants to their Master, We The People. Therefore, the servants must carry the Burden of Proof and any refutable proof must be reliable, probative, and substantial which is what an Implementing Regulation published in the Federal Register accomplishes. As an Ambassador of the one and only Sovereign, who is God, I hereby state that I am formally declaring, to any and all parties interested, the following based upon my understanding of enacted federal law regarding the Subtitle A of the federal income tax: 1. The Legislative Intent of the 16th Amendment, written by President of the United States, William H. Taft on June 16, 1909, is the foundational document behind the 16th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. As this document is published in the Congressional Record of the United States Senate on pages 3344-3345 there can be no doubt as to the authenticity of this document and the expressions stipulated by the President. 2. President Taft stated in the Legislative Intent of the 16th Amendment that the federal income tax was, as recommended to Congress, levied upon the Federal Government only. Therefore those individuals who make up the Federal Government are Federal Officers, Federal Employees, and Elected Officials of the Federal Government. See The Great IRS Hoax, section 3.10.11.1 for further evidence supporting these conclusions. 3. The jurisdiction to which Subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code is made applicable is upon: a. The “federal zone”, which is to say Washington, DC and U.S. territories and other insular possessions belonging to the Federal Government. b. Admiralty jurisdiction , which is the territorial waters of the United States. c. Those with a legal "domicile" within the federal zone, including statutory "citizens of the United States” under 8 U.S.C. §1401.or "residents" under 26 U.S.C. §7701(b)(1)(A). Since I am not a domiciliary of the federal zone, then the provisions found in 26 U.S.C. §911 don't apply to me. See: http://sedm.org/Forms/MemLaw/Domicile.pdf d. Those with federal contracts or agency under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 17(b). Since I have no such contracts, then no provision of the code can be extended beyond the federal zone to apply to me through the operation of private law. See: http://sedm.org/Forms/Emancipation/SSTrustIndenture.pdf The reason for this was stated by President Taft in regard to the United States Supreme Court decision in the Pollock v. Farmer’s Loan & Trust case proving that the federal government does not have the power or the authority granted to it by the Constitution to impose an income tax upon the now 50 states of the Union. 4. The power to tax is the power to destroy.
"The
power to tax involves the power to destroy; the power to destroy may defeat and
render useless the power to create; and there is a plain repugnance in
conferring on one government [THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT] a power to control the
constitutional measures of another [WE THE PEOPLE], which other, with respect to
those very measures, is declared to be supreme over that which exerts the
control." The People created the sovereign States of the Union and through those initial States of the Union the Federal Government was created. That which was created can only be destroyed by that which created it (see VanHorne’s Lessee Dorrance, 2 U.S. 304 (1795) and The Great IRS Hoax section 5.1.1).
“What is a Constitution? It is the form of government, delineated by the
mighty hand of the people, in which certain first principles of fundamental laws
are established. The Constitution is certain and fixed; it contains the
permanent will of the people, and is the supreme law of the land; it is
paramount to the power of the Legislature, and can be revoked or altered only by
the authority that made it. The life-giving
principle and the death-doing stroke must proceed from the same hand.”
“The
great principle is this: because the constitution will not permit a state to
destroy, it will not permit a law [including a tax law] involving the power to
destroy. ” As I am one of ‘We The People’ then the federal government, as expressed by the decisions of the United States Supreme Court per the Constitution of the United States, was created by the People. As proclaimed by the Founding Fathers to the Constitution, God, our Heavenly Father, created all life. The government did not create the People and therefore it is devoid of moral authority to directly destroy or undermine the sovereignty of those people:
"Remember
the word that I said to you, "A servant is not greater than his master.' If
they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they
will keep yours also."
“Having
thus avowed my disapprobation of the purposes, for which the terms, State and
sovereign, are frequently used, and of the object, to which the application of
the last of them is almost universally made; it is now proper that I should
disclose the meaning, which I assign to both, and the application, [2
U.S. 419, 455] which I make
of the latter. In doing this, I shall have occasion incidentally to
evince, how true it is, that States and Governments were made for [and BY] man; and, at
the same time, how true it is, that his creatures and servants have first
deceived, next vilified, and, at last, oppressed their master and maker.”
Thus, the federal government has no authority to impose the Subtitle A federal income tax directly upon ‘We The People’ domiciled within states of the Union without apportionment, unless they provide individual, informed consent in writing and thereby contract away their Constitutional rights. Instead, it can tax only those who volunteer or choose absent duress to make themselves subject to the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code by voluntarily entering into federal employment or conducting a "trade or business" or other voluntary excise taxable activity. See The Great IRS Hoax sections 5.1.1 and 5.2.11 for further evidence supporting this position. 5. Since 1939, the Internal Revenue Code has been repealed (see 53 Stat. 1, Section 4) and is not now enacted into positive law. This is confirmed by examining the legislative notes under 1 U.S.C. §204. Neither have I ever seen a tax case where the government as the moving party has ever been required by any court to prove that a section of the I.R.C. they were citing as authority WAS positive law. This is an obvious violation of the Constitutional requirement for due process of law as well as a violation of my religious beliefs, which say in Numbers 15:30 that “presumption” is a sin. “Presumption” and “due process” are mutually exclusive conditions, in fact. Consequently, Subtitle A of the I.R.C. is nothing but a repealed “code” and not an enacted positive law. It is the “bible” for a state-sponsored religious cult. Therefore, it is an official, state-sponsored religion based on usually false "presumption" which is observed only by those who voluntarily consent to join it and be bound by it. My beliefs prohibit me from joining such a damaging, socialist cult. As evidence, see: What Pastors Need to Know About Government and Taxation-a presentation that summarizes the relationship of legitimate religions to political religions. http://sedm.org/LibertyU/WhatPastorsNeedToKnow.pdf
“You shall not follow a [democratic] crowd to do evil; nor
shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert
justice.”
“Away with you , Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your
God, and Him ONLY [NOT the government or a corrupted state]
you shall serve.’”
"Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to
visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from
the world [and the corrupted governments and laws of the world]."
"And you shall be holy to Me [God], for I the Lord am holy, and have
separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine." 6. There are no Implementing Regulations published in the Federal Register which impose the federal income tax upon American Citizens / American Nationals, of which I am one. The requirement upon the Internal Revenue Service to publish any obligation is found in 5 U.S.C. §552(a)(1), 5 U.S.C. §553(a)(2), 26 CFR §601.702(a)(1), 31 CFR §1.3(a)(4), and 44 U.S.C. §1505(a). The Effect of Failure to Publish in the Federal Register is located in 26 CFR §601.702(a)(2)(ii) and 5 U.S.C. §552(a)(1). It is my understanding from a legal opinion letter written by Michael L. White, Federal Attorney, Office of the Federal Register that there are no Implementing Regulations which have imposed upon American Citizens/ American Nationals an obligation for the Subtitle A federal income tax who are not federal instrumentalities, federal employees, federal contractors, or federal benefit recipients. The only people who could lawfully be the proper subjects of the I.R.C. Subtitle A income tax are therefore groups expressly exempted from the requirement for publication in the Federal Register by 5 U.S.C. §553(a) and 44 U.S.C. §1505(a)(1). Click here for further details about the missing regulations that are required in order to lawfully enforce Subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code or visit: http://sedm.org/Forms/Discovery/IRSDueProcMtgHandout.pdf. Neither can any of these requirements be waived in my case, because I neither consent to be a “taxpayer”, nor do I have any income “effectively connected with a trade or business”, which is a public office in the United States government, as required by 26 CFR 1.1-1(a)(2)(ii). Neither do I have any income from the “United States” under 26 U.S.C. §871(a) that is not connected with a “trade or business”. Therefore, my entire estate is classified as a “foreign estate” not subject to the Internal Revenue Code as defined in 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(31). 7. The meaning of the word “income” both at the time the 16th Amendment was ratified and now means “corporate profit”, and that I am not a corporation or a legal fiction called a “person” who is the proper subject of Subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code. See The Great IRS Hoax, sections 5.1.1 and 5.6.5 for a thorough analysis of why this is the only rational conclusion that a reasonable person can make. “Income has been taken to mean the same thing as used in the Corporation Excise Tax Act of 1909 (36 Stat. 112) in the 16th Amendment, and in the various revenue acts subsequently passed.” [Bowers v. Kerbaugh-Empire Co., 271 U.S. 170, 174, (1926)] I have come to my determination that I am one who is OUTSIDE the jurisdictional application for the federal income taxes expressed in Subtitle A, Subtitle B, and/or Subtitle C by all the above and other information not mentioned. This conclusion was reached by me independently and voluntarily. I am a “NONTAXPAYER” based upon enacted federal law and as such am neither of the subject nor of the object of federal revenue laws. I would like further education and help from ‘SEDM’ and others in affiliation with this group in protecting my rights and my property as a person who has such legal status. I am being compelled to pursue this education and participation in the ministry not only because the IRS and state taxing authorities won’t help or educate “nontaxpayers”, but also self-servingly refuse to even acknowledge their existence in violation of 18 U.S.C. §208. I believe that this kind of bad faith behavior is a violation of equal protection of the laws and a breach of fiduciary duty under the Constitution by our public DIS-servants. See:
2.2 Tax Returns and government correspondence I understand that the ministry does not prepare or assist in the preparation of tax returns nor advise members to either file or not to file, and especially not for “taxpayers”. Instead, filing of returns is entirely my decision and responsibility, should I choose to do so. I agree that if I submit any kind of "return" to the Internal Revenue Service, that the return will be on a MODIFIED or SUBSTITUTE form 1040NR or 1040NR-EZ and NOT on a form 1040 from this point forward and for any tax years which I request help from SEDM for. I will use modified forms rather than standard government forms, because these forms either misrepresent my status or create false presumptions about me that could prejudice my Constitutional rights. When or if I submit such forms to the IRS, I will: 1. Attach corrected information returns prepared in accordance with the following:
2. Attach the Tax Form Attachment, Form #04.201 or a similar substitute to prevent “words of art” from injuring my rights. 3. Attach the Affidavit of Citizenship, Domicile, and Tax Status, Form #02.001 or a similar substitute form to ensure that my status is accurately reflected in my administrative record. 4. NOT indicate a tax liability. The amount owed must be zero. 5. NOT identify myself as a “taxpayer”, an “individual”, a “U.S. person”, a “citizen” (which is a person born in the District of Columbia or the territories of the United States), or a “resident” (which is an alien) under federal law 6. NOT take any deductions (under 26 U.S.C. §162), exemptions, or credits (under 26 U.S.C. §32). 7. NOT indicate any earnings in connection with a “trade or business”, which is defined as a “public office” in 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(26). 8. NOT indicate any identifying number on the return other than possibly an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) applied for with an Amended Form W-7. If I need to reference an account associated with an SSN or TIN, I will attach correspondence sent to me by others that indicates the WRONG number and point out that it is WRONG. Only domiciliaries of federal territory can use or apply for an SSN or TIN and I am neither. Even the status described at 26 CFR §301.6109-1(g)(1)(i), which is a “nonresident alien individual” rather than a “nonresident alien NON-individual”, is a person with a domicile on federal territory. I will do the above because SEDM does not and cannot help “taxpayers”, and violating any of the above constraints could contribute to making me into a “taxpayer” engaged in a taxable activity called a "trade or business". I agree to read chapter 4 of the Great IRS Hoax book, so that I can learn my correct citizenship status and rights, which is that of a “non-citizen national” under 8 U.S.C. §1452 and either 8 U.S.C. §1101(a)(21) or 8 U.S.C. §1101(a)(22)(B). I also agree to: 1. Resign as Compelled Social Security Trustee as described below:
2. Provide to the state and federal governments legal notice that I have legally divorced them and changed my domicile to the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth and/or the nonfederal areas within my de jure state.
3. Use Amended instead of standard government forms from the address below: http://famguardian.org/TaxFreedom/Forms/IRS/IRSFormsPubs.htm 4. If compelled by threat of penalty to use standard government forms, to attach the following forms to the standard government forms according to the instructions provided:
I will NEVER again put any identifying number, whether it be an SSN, TIN, or EIN, on ANY correspondence or government form that I send to the federal or state or local government authorities. If the government sends me any correspondence or notice bearing an identifying number allegedly associated with me, I will dispute the number and renounce any connection as Trustee or fiduciary or beneficiary to any government program, entitlement, or benefit. I will do this because I may not accept the Mark of the Beast and may not fornicate with the beast by involving myself in “commerce” with it, as described in the following three articles:
1.
About SSNs/TINs on Tax Correspondence, Form #07.017:
2.
Who are “taxpayers” and who needs a “Taxpayer Identification Number”?,
Form #05.013:
3.
Social Security: Mark of the Beast, Form #11.407: 2.3 Tax Withholding and Reporting In the context of tax withholding and reporting, I agree from this point forward: 1. To stop submitting IRS form W-4 or the equivalent state form to my private, non-federal employer except under duress because I am not an “employee” under the Internal Revenue Code 2. To stop calling my earnings “wages” because the only people who can earn “wages” as legally defined are those who sign a contract or agreement as shown in 26 U.S.C. §3402(p) and 26 CFR §31.3401(a)-3. 3. To NOT describe myself as "exempt", but rather "not subject", or to at least define the term "exempt" as meaning "not subject" on any form that I fill out. See Section 5.10 of the following for the reasons why:
4. To identify myself instead as a “nonresident alien NON-individual”, a “transient foreigner”, or a “nonresident”. 5. If I am compelled to submit a standard, unmodified tax withholding or reporting form, I will attach the following forms and indicate on the government form “Not valid without the Tax Form Attachment and Affidavit of Citizenship, Domicile, and Tax Status signed and attached.”: 5.1. Tax Form Attachment, Form #04.201 http://sedm.org/Forms/FormIndex.htm 5.2. Affidavit of Citizenship, Domicile, and Tax Status, Form #02.001 http://sedm.org/Forms/FormIndex.htm 6. To NOT identify myself on any government form as an "taxpayer", “employee”, "employer", “citizen”, “resident”, “individual”, “U.S. person”, “nonresident alien individual”, or “alien individual”. If any of these words appears near or under the signature block, I will line it out and put “Signer” or “NONtaxpayer”. 7. To use the modified form W-8BEN to control my withholding and submit it using the instructions contained in the pamphlet entitled Federal and State Withholding options for Private Employers. If I give my private employer anything, it will be to request termination of withholding as either an affidavit or a W-8BEN. The only circumstances where this requirement may be waived is any of the following: 1. My private employer threatens to fire me or not hire me for failure to submit a W-4. In this case, I will attach a statement to the W-4 indicating that I am under duress using the attachments provided in the pamphlet Federal and State Withholding Options for Private Employers.
2. My
private employer directs me unlawfully to use the WRONG form or not to use the
attachments provided and I feel threatened about losing my job and unable to sue
him as he rightfully deserves. In that case, I will file
AMENDED/CORRECTED/SUBSTITUTE information returns at the end of the year zero’ing
out his fraudulent income reports and leaving the IRS with no evidence upon
which to base an assessment. I will use the directions located below for that
purpose: I agree to correct all information returns submitted against me promptly and regularly using the resources below, and to do everything that I can to prevent these false reports from being submitted to begin with: 1. Correcting Erroneous Information Returns, Form #04.001 http://sedm.org/Forms/FormIndex.htm 2. Correcting Erroneous IRS Form 1042’s, Form #04.003 http://sedm.org/Forms/FormIndex.htm 3. Correcting Erroneous IRS Form 1098’s, Form #04.004 http://sedm.org/Forms/FormIndex.htm 4. Correcting Erroneous IRS Form 1099’s, Form #04.005 http://sedm.org/Forms/FormIndex.htm 5. Correcting Erroneous IRS Form W-2’s, Form #04.006 http://sedm.org/Forms/FormIndex.htm I will include copies of corrected information returns generated using the procedures above in all the following cases: 1. If I submit an IRS return or Tax Statement. 2. In response to every federal or state tax collection notice. 3. In every litigation involving my personal tax liability. I agree to follow the following procedure for achieving and defending my sovereign status:
I agree to abide by the SEDM page entitled “Terms of Use” appearing at the address below:
Ministry reserves the right to change the Terms of Use at any time without notice to members, but agrees to post the latest version of the Terms of Use Policy at the above address on the World Wide Web at all times. I agree that I will not involve SEDM in any tax years for which I did not completely follow these filing and withholding requirements, or did not retroactively correct my status with the IRS and state taxing authorities to reflect compliance with these requirements for the years that I need help with. I acknowledge that this requirement originates from the need to avoid jeopardizing my "nontaxpayer" and "nonresident alien" filing status and to protect both my credibility and that of SEDM. 4. Prohibited ActivitiesAs a Member, I agree never to use any of the Ministry materials or services for an unlawful purpose, and agree never at any time to solicit the Ministry to engage in any of the following specifically prohibited activities or use Ministry materials for any of the following purposes. 1. Offering information or assistance to “taxpayers”, "U.S. citizens", "U.S. persons", U.S. "residents", or those with income "effectively connected with a trade or business in the United States". We assume no responsibility for the misuse of our materials by persons who violate our Member Agreement. 2. Offering information or assistance to atheists or those who do not believe in God. God's punishment for those who do not obey and respect Him and His sacred laws is slavery and servitude, and we cannot interfere with His sovereign punishment for disobedience. To do otherwise would be to commit mutiny against God. We cannot love God on the one hand, and interfere with the enforcement of His laws on the other hand. See Great IRS Hoax section 4.3.10 and our Articles of Mission section 1.2 for evidence supporting this requirement of God's laws.
3. Offering information or assistance to anyone who has filed a 1040 instead of the 1040NR as required by our Member Agreement or those who have indicated any tax liability or monies owed to the IRS on their return for any period they require help with. No member may have any earnings which are "effectively connected with a trade or business", which are earnings from a political office as described in 26 U.S.C. 7701(a)(26). Instead, the income, property, and earnings of our members are defined as a "foreign estate" under 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(31) 4. Getting involved in any kind of taxable or government-regulated activity, either under state or federal law. This would simply compromise our independence and create a conflict of interest with our message. Consequently, we cannot and will not operate as a privileged federal or state "corporation" or 501(c)(3) entity. To do so would be to surrender our sovereignty by fulfilling the exceptions to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act found at 28 U.S.C. §1605(a)(2). 5. Advocating or knowingly ("willfully") engaging in any kind of illegal activity, including fraud. 6. Taking any kind of leadership or power of attorney role over the lives of others. This includes, giving legal advice, making determinations about the legal status of a person, or assuming legal liability for the decisions or actions of others. As educators and paralegals but not lawyers, the most we can do is offer information to people about options they have in a given situation and then explain to them the consequences of each option by showing them what the law and the courts say on the subject. We will never offer less than two options and we will always suggest that the options we are aware of may not include all of the options available or necessarily even the best option. We will also tell our Members that the decision of which option to take is entirely their responsibility and not ours. On the occasion of every inquiry by a Member, we will also tell people that they should research and confirm everything we say and not trust anyone, including us, for complete or error-free information about the options available to them. We will never be anything more than servants of the sovereign People we serve on this website and assuming any other role undermines their sovereignty. 7. Preparing tax returns for others or advising anyone in the preparation of returns. All our members prepare their own returns, and the only type of return they are allowed to prepare and not violate our Member Agreement is a 1040NR or 1040NR-EZ return that has no tax liability listed. 8. Making any promises or assurances about either the accuracy or the success of any of the educational resources or processes we offer. Anyone who promises you ANY result or promises you entirely error free material is quite frankly a presumptuous FOOL. This is especially true in a field so deliberately and systematically obfuscated and propagandized by the government as taxation. The most we are therefore authorized to do is keep scientific statistics on the success of our methods and reveal those carefully maintained statistics to interested parties. The ministry DOES NOT authorize ANYONE to share subjective opinions about the effectiveness of our methods or materials. Any such representations by anyone associated with or involved with SEDM should be considered unauthorized, untrustworthy, and probably UNTRUE and neither we nor anyone in the ministry assume any liability for such clearly false statements. The one and only thing we can guarantee is that we as believers in God (whatever God you believe in) are going to be persecuted by evil people in the world, just as Jesus was, for obeying God's moral laws and following Jesus' example. The persecution will come because our actions , our example, and our deeds to expose the Truth will be a silent reproach and mockery to evil people throughout the world, and especially in places where such evil people congregate and concentrate, such as in government. Places where power is consolidated and centralized attract WICKED people who lust for power and who want to conceal knowledge of their treacherous, selfish, and tyrannical acts.
Furthermore, the more we attempt to separate ourselves from evil people or evil in government and the more dogmatic we become about insisting on obeying God's moral laws when they conflict with man's laws, the more these evil people will try to persecute us, just as they did with the early Jews.
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