Federal jury finds Pete Hendrickson guilty

Many many strong American hearts will be sadden by this news, especially those who know Pete personally.  

Some have warned Pete that the government would use government-controll ed courtroom tactics to ensure that the jury would hear only what the government wanted them to hear.  

Frankly, is this outcome much of a surprise to anyone who has been observing history and keeping score.  Given the mind-set of the majority of the people who now live in America, and the fact that there are very few loyal Americans left in this country. 

For just like the time of the 1st American Revolution, when there were far more Tories than there were loyal Americans, very few living in America at that time actually who knew what the Laws and the Constitution said or stood for.  Nor were there but a few who fully understood the governing principles of the Rule of Law.  Those who signed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America truly understood these principles, and those of Liberty and Freedom.  The rest were mere by-standers who held a wide mix of values and loyalties.

   Someone have personally observed events over the past 60 years or so and have asked:

1. Is the Rule of Law and the Constitution no longer in effect in America?
2. Do either bullies or criminals have a good track record of honoring the Rule of Law and the Constitution?
3. Are either bullies or criminals willing to lie, cheat, steal and also use guns to kill anyone who confront them?
4. Think back into history, did the Founding Fathers carry only words on paper to their confrontations with the British Government?
5. If not, what other resources and tactics did the Founding Fathers utilize, that modern Defenders of Freedom have not?

How many (especially those who have received their property back from the government), must now wonder, will the government's next step be to go after them for:

1. The over $10 Million in private property that has been rightfully and lawfully returned to the people.
2. Fines and/or fees that the IRS may come up with in order to punish those who have confronted IRS and their deceptive and seemingly criminal scheme?

Does there now exist a basis for considering a new American Colony (located who knows where), wherein the people who share the values enumerated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America can live their lives and work together in peace, liberty and freedom.  What do you think?

A final and most important question is, what can all of us come together to DO that will effectively ensure that Pete Doreen Hendrickson do not to jail?

Federal jury finds tax protestor guilty Paul Egan / The Detroit News

Detroit -- A federal jury today convicted tax protester and author Peter Hendrickson on 10 counts of filing false documents.

Hendrickson, 54, of Commerce Township, author of "Cracking the Code," could face prison when he is sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Gerald E. Rosen on Feb. 9. Each count is a three-year felony.

Hendrickson' s trial began last Tuesday on charges he falsely reported zero or nominal income on his 2000 to 2006 tax returns when he actually earned tens of thousands of dollars each year.  

Testifying in his own defense, Hendrickson told jurors that income  tax is an excise tax and excise taxes may only be levied upon those who benefit from a government privilege such as a government job.

But the government called expert witnesses from the Internal Revenue  Service who rejected Hendrickson' s arguments.

The jury deliberated less than half a day.

Hendrickson, who was comforted by his wife Doreen and other family members following the verdict, said he plans to appeal.

He criticized Rosen for instructing the jurors on what the law said, rather than giving them copies of the relevant statutes to read for themselves.

"He relieved the prosecution of its burden in this case," Hendrickson said of the judge.

In 2007, U.S. District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds permanently barred Hendrickson and his wife from filing tax returns on which they falsely reported their incomes as zero. The order came in response to a lawsuit filed against Hendrickson by the U.S. Justice Department. Edmunds found Hendrickson' s position on income tax to be "false and frivolous."

Hendrickson, who remains free on bond to await his sentencing, was convicted in 1992, for failing to file a federal income tax return and for a conspiracy involving a fire bomb placed in a bin at a Royal Oak post office.

Hendrickson could face sentencing guidelines of 21 to 27 months on the latest convictions, an official said.

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