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EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA'S MINORITY VOICE - SINCE 1987
If we take back our democracy, we Tll take back our stree
This past February, the House
of Representatives passed a bill
which would kill the oexclusionary
rule ? the rule that says the evi-
dence obtained in an illegal search
cannot be introduced at trial. This
bill was part of the oTaking Back
Our Streets Act, ? the Republicans T
attempt to rewrite last year Ts $30
billion Crime Bill, to make it even
tougher on criminals. However,
the bill takes back some of our
constitutional rights as well.
The fourth amendment to the
Constitution guarantees the nght
of Americans to be osecure in their
persons, houses, papers, and ef-
fects, against unreasonable
searches and seizures. ? This right
cannot be violated, unless the po-
lice obtain a warrant from ajudge.
To get the warrant, the police must
swear an oath that they have oprob-
able cause ?: the belief that a crime
has been or will be committed, and
that evidence of this crime can be
found in the location to be searched.
The warrant must spell out in de-
tail the place to be searched and
the persons or things to be seized.
Under the exclusionary rule, if
the police went ahead witha search
andseizure withouta warrantthat _
satisfied all these fourth amend-"
ment requirements, then the evi-
dence seized could not be used
against the defendant. There have
been occasions when highly in-
criminating evidence, illegally ob-
tained, has been excluded from a
trial, leading to the acquittal of
defendants who may have been
guilty. Some of our lawmakers
whose zeal in fighting crime has
led them into murky constitu-
tional waters have seized on these
instances to justify doing away
with the exclusionary rule.
Critics of the exclusionary rule
say that it puts obstacles in the
way of police officers trying to do
their job. But the exclusionary
rule reinforces and supports the
professionalism of our police, by
ensuring that if they do not builda
case within constituitional con-
straints, then they have no case at
all. The rule has given crucial pro-
tection to people of color, whom
the police often pursue without
any regard for their constitutional
rights. ;
The lawmakers who want'to do
away with the rule say they want
to make allowances for occasions
when the police make ogood faith ?
mistakes. But something as basic
as our Americn way of life as the
right to be secure in ourown homes
_should not be compromised to
make allowances for official blun-
ders.
Reparations and Black Taxation pleadings and
debate changes to direct action
By: Robert Brock
The direction of the Reparations
Movement of Black Americans of
slaves T descent has changed from
pleading and debate to that of
action and a dramatic challenge
to pay no income taxes to the fed-
eral government based on a suit
which questions the legality of
forcing Black Americans to pay
taxes, according to Robert Brock,
Founder of the Self Determina-
tion Committee, a Black national-
istcommunity-based organization
whose aim is to assist and direct
Black U.S. slave descendants in
obtaining the right of self-deter-
mination and freedom, repara-
tions, and repatriation.
He said that the suit against
the Internal Revenue Service was
filedin April, 1993 using Interna-
tional Law by Leonard Ashton who
is refusing to pay taxes.
The pleading and debate which
involves filing complaints or mak-
ing statements of what happened
to Blacks in the past 1s what repa-
rations have been about, but that
is what is changing.
The basis of the suit, Brock,
common law attorney for Ashton
said, is that emancipated slaves
never agreed to be governed by
the United States. Because they
never mutually established alle-
giance with the federal govern-
ment, they are not required to
perform the duties of citizenship,
one of which is being taxed by the
government.
Asthe suit slowly moved through
the United States District Court
in Los Angeles, Ashton filed a
motion for Request and Order for
Judicial Notice of status of citizen-
ship and the Fourteenth Amend-
ment under Rule 201, and in open
court before Judge Davies at a
hearing on October 4, 1993 made a
~bold disclaimer to the Court of
the: 1.U.S. Constitution,
2.13,14th Amendments, and
Civil Rights Laws 3. and all other
laws, statutes, rules, regulations,
orders and commands of the United
States on the grounds that Leonard
Ashton and 49 millions of U.S.
slaves T descendants of African Oni-
gin National Ancestry had never
consented, agreed to, or voted on
or swore to uphold the U.S. Consti-
tution and its laws and statues,
one of them being the LR.S.
Presently, the suit, on appeal to
the Ninth Circuit Court of Ap-
peals, lists four issues on which
the refusal of slave descendants to
pay taxes is based, said Brock:
A. Mutuality
B. Disclaimer,
C. Domicile, and
D. Jurisdiction based on Slavery.
There is no showing nor have
the U.S. Courts answered, of any
mutuality or consent through a
Jural process by Black slave de-
scendants of the U.S. Constitu-
tion and laws as to association by
citizenship, and it appears that
the Unites States has agreed to
this issue by their silence and re-
fusal to answer, said Brock.
In support of Ashton Ts issue on
mutuality, Brock pointed out that
the following seven slave clauses
in the U.S. Constitution negates
any mutuality to the U.S. Consti-
tution, and further, said Brock,
othe U.S. Constitution, used to
enslave Blacks cannot be the
means to free or make Blacks citi-
zens. ?
Slave Clause: oThe Migration or
Importation of such persons as
any of the States now existing
shall think proper to admit, shall
not be prohibited by the Congress
prior to the Year one thousand
eight hundred and eight, but a tax
or duty may be imposed on such
Importation, not exceeding ten
dollars for such Person. ? Consti-
tution, Article I, Section 9, Clause
I)
Slave Clause: oThe United
States shall protect..., and on Ap-
plication of the Legislature, or of
the Executive against domestic
violence. ? Constitution, Article IV,
Section 4).
Slave Clause: oNo person held
to Service or Labour in one State,
under the laws theredf, escaping
into another, shall,in Consequence
of any law or Regulation therein
Federal Court dodges sensitive
issue of black taxation
oThe judge resorted to any ex-
cuse as a rationale to dispose of
this hearing, since if the merits of
this case were to so much as get
into the court, we would have won
a-priori because al] of the premises
of our action, from decades of re-
search, are unimpeachable. ?
By Dr. Robert Brock, President,
Self Determination Committee
oWe Blacks of U.S., Slaves T De-
scent are going forward on a foun-
dation of just a few very simple
premises:
1. The essence of a nation is
people, not mere land mass;
2. Black people, slaves and
slaves T descendants had no par-
ticipation, consent or mutuality in
the creation " and/or establish-
ment of the United States Consti-
tution, its Amendments, nor and
laws promulgated thereunder;
3. A circumstance wherein laws
are made by one to be obeyed by
another without his mutual con-
sent constitutes slavery; and
Blacks having recently discovered
that their captivity and slavery is
couched and hidden in obedience
to laws and the judiciary, under
the guise of olaw enforcement ? did
the following in this lawsuit
against the I.R.S. and the U.S:
a. Recognized and states that
Blacks of slave and slaves T descent
are heldin captivity and the condi-
tion and status of physical slavery
by acts of undeclared war of en-
slavement as enemy aliens, and
b. By force of arms, are pres-
ently under- obedience and au-
thority of the U.S. Constitution.
Amendments, and laws, and,
c. by the Fourteenth Amend-
ment, without Blacks consent, are
made: oResident Aliens in the Ter-
ritory of the United States, sub-
jecting Blacks to the allegiance
and duties of government and citi-
zenship, one of them being taxa-
tion. ?
4. There never was any consent
or mutuality to be under the laws
of the United States nor its U.S.
Constitution by slaves & U.S.
Slaves T Descendants and the fol-
lowing seven U.S. Constitutional
slave Clauses negate any mutual-
ity or consent;
5. Amaxim of law is that silence
means consent, baring the statute
of limitation, this suit made a bold
disclaimer of the above manner
and way the U.S. Government and
its White sovereign Citizens made
us Black subject to allegiance and
duties, and burdensof government,
two of them being:
a. ojuristice artificial persons, ?
and by force arms, subjected to the
jurisdiction of the United States
ascitizens and resident of the State
b. Direct Taxation of slaves T de-
scendants by IRS/FTB Ts. 6. The
Domicile of Black slaves T descen-
dants.19 that of Africa
/ T 1. Jurisdiction can only be legal
over Blacks if the above there:
mutuality, mutuality, and domi-
cile are legal from the beginning;
8. All 49 millions of Blacks of
United States Slaves and Slaves T
Descent of African National] Ori-
~gin, an Ethnic Group, presently
resident in the Territory of the
United States, through this U.S.
District Court law suit has united
and demanded the U.S Govern-
ment and its White People, that if
they and the.I.R.S. want 49 mil-
lions of Blacks to continue paying
)
income taxes every April 15, then
they must oanswer, this, our law-
suit and prove by Judicial Notice
of Black STATUS-"Not Verified ?
by bringing documents into open
court as to the way and manner
the U.S. Government made all
Blacks part of its government was
legal to begin with, ? THUS:
9. All Blacks of Slaves Descent
shall not pay any taxes, comes
April 15, according to law, until
such time as the Defendants
United States and the I.R.S. and
F.T.B Ts, by legal and lawful means
prove the above;
10. A slave-master/owner is re-
sponsible for his slaves under the
principle of Respondent Superior
in the same manner that a parent
is responsible for its children or an
employer/business is for its em-
ployees/agents;
11. Only the (White) slave mas-
ter/owner cancommit acrime. The
Black slaves T Descendants can only
disobey;
12. As to all 49 millions of Blacks
of slaves T descent being charged
with a crime for not paying taxes
according to the above way, man-
ner and circumstances, on April
15, or not even responding to the
L.R.S. Letter or other Command to
pay taxes, this lawsuit states the
following, and the U.S. is put on
Notice: oThis action having alleged
Mutuality, Disclaimer, Domicile,
and said jusisdiction based on sla-
very and captivity, and that the
making of all Blacks of slaves T de-
scent non persons and legislative
persons after the law in violation
of International Law,(Black Plain-
(Continued on Page 5)
be discharged from Service or
Labour but shall be delivered up
on claim of the Party to whom
such Service or Labour may be
due. ? Constitution, Article IV, Sec-
tion 2, Clause 3. Slave Clause: oTo
provide for calling forth the mili-
tia to execute the Union, suppress
Insurrections and repel Invasions ?
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 15).
Slave Clause: ...provided that
no Amendment which may be
made prior to the Year One thou-
sandeight hundred and eight shall
in any manner affect the first and
fourth Clauses in the Ninth Sec-
tion of the first Article ?. (Constitu-
tion, Article V).
Slave Clause: oNo Capitation,
or other direct Tax, shall be laid,
unless in Proportion to the Census
of Enumeration herein before di
rected to be taken ?. (Constitution,
Article, 1, Section 9, Clause 4).
Slave Clause: oRepresentative
and direct Taxes shall be appor-
tioned among the several States
which may be included within this
Union, according to the whole
Number of free Persons, including
those bound to Service for a Term
of Years, and excluding Indians
not taxed, three-fifths of all other
Persons ?. Constitution, Article I,
Section 2, Clause 3). (The three-
fifths ofa Person was how all slaves
were counted legally.)
In descending order, Brock
shows a negation of mutuality as
follow:
The 14th Amendment was forced
on Black slaves and their descen-
dants. The Dred Scott Decision
(Continued on page 4)
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WEEK OF APRIL 17- Pi
There is no question that violent
crime 1s a serious problem in
America, for all our citizens. But
we still live in democracy under
the rule of law, which in America
includes the precious guarantees
embodied in the Bill of Rights.
There is a long tradition of au-
thoritanan regimes suspending
civil liberties in the name of public
safety. But thatis not, forthe most
part, our American tradition. And
it is astounding to realize that this
bill is being championed by some
of the very same Republicans who
promised that once they were in
charge, government wou!d not in-
trude in our lives.
Asif this bill weren pad enough,
consider the process by which it
was passed. The House Judiciary
Committee held no hearings on
the bill. There was, therefore, no
public discussion or input from
constitutional experts, police of-
ficers or citizens advocacy groups.
At one point during the vote, Rep.
Mel Watts (D-NC), a member of
the Congressional Black Caucus,
offered an amendment to the bill
in form of the text of the Fourth
Amendment, to try to restore the
rights that the majority of his col-
leagues were so eager to take
away. Rep. Watt Ts amendment,
actually the Fourth Amendment,
was rejected by a vote of 303 to
~121, showing how little regard our
elected officials have for the basic
laws and principles of democracy.
Gun Ban Repeal To .
Start in Earnest
On Friday, March 31, the first of
three hearings were held in the
congressional effort to repeal Presi-
dent Clinton Ts gun ban. Friday Ts
hearing began at 10:00 a.m. in
roon 2141 of the Rayburn House
Office Building. Testimony was
given before the House sub-com-
mittee on crime chaired by Con-
gressman Bill McCollum. Testify-
ing will be numerous people who
have used firearms in self-defense,
many of them used firearms cur-
rently banned under the 1994
Crime Bill.
Additionally, on the 3ist, re-
nowned authorities on the issue of
self-defense, the criminal misuse
of firearms, and youth violence
will also testify before the commit-
tee.
On April 5, the second hearing
before Congressman McCollum Ts
committee will focus on the mean-
ing of the Second Amendment. Re-
nowned scholars, who are all cur-
rently law professors, and whom
have published books on the Sec-
ond Amendment including the his-
torical origins and current-day
implications wil! give testimony.
Also on April 5, aw enforcement
officers of all ranks will testify
that law enforcement is far from
agreement with the Clinton gun
ban.
Clayton announces
Water Grant
(Washington, D.C.) Congress-
woman Eva M. Clayton announces
the award of a more than $2
million grant to the Warren County
Water and Sewer District tocon-
struct a central water distnbution
system to serve the townships of
Shady Creek, Shocco and
Warrenton.
oThis grant will provide the area
an opportunity to bolster its water
service to hundreds of customers, ?
said Clayton. oI am delighted that
North Carolinians continue to re-
ceive resources to improve their
way of life. ?
The Rural Utilities Service grant
will be used to construct a central
water distribution system to serve
three townships.
The project includes a storage.
tank, a booster station and distn-
bution lines. Water for the system
will be purchased from the Kerr
Lake Regional Water System and
will serve more than 800 rural
customers.
oWe welcome any opportunity to
improve the receipt of services for
the basic needs of our community, ?
said Clayton. oThis is a great op-
portunity. ?
Think tank thinks genocide
By Abiola Sinclair
Shahrazid Ali, in her controver-
sial book The Black Man Ts Guide
to Understanding the Black
Woman, while repugnant on many
levels, did raise a few valid issues.
She maintained that while poor
Black women were in a reprehen-
sible state, at least they were hav-
ing children.
And considering the decimation
of the Black race which has
dropped in number from nearly 28
percent of the total U.S. popula-
tion to only 13 percent, any major
drop in birth rate would be tanta-
mount to nearing extinction.
It is in that light that we must
analyze and begin to understand
the real intelligence behind the
hue and cry against Black people
in this county.
There are major think tanks
functioning in America in which
so-oalled academics are funded for
the sole purpose of studying the
Black problem from a White stand-
point. These think tanks recom-
mend public policy, and think
tanks like the American Enter-
prise Institute and The Progress
and Freedom Foundation, are re-
sponsible for Republican policy
directives on welfare, crime and
social programs.
Throwing ~Bell Curve T
Charles Murray (The Bell Curve)
is a fellow at The American Enter-
prise Institute, and he has come
up with measures based on his
research that ifimplemented could
further deter Blacks from having
children, thus further lower the
already low birth rate. These poli-
\
cies would also have a detrimental
effect on the children of the poor,
putting added stress on their par-
ents.
When you consider that a single
mother often gets little help rear-
ing her children and usually lives
in a high crime rate area, it is
amazing that only onein four males
have trouble with the law. Cut
these think tank advocates fewer
social programs for the poor (read
Blacks); cutting back of educa-
tional programs in prisons, which
is insane; cutting back of educa-
tion entitlement programs like
Pell, cutting back on the building
of federal housing (it was on think
tank policy advice that the Reagan
and Bush administrations refused
to build any public housing, which
resulted in homelessness, over-
crowding and entire classes of
people who could not afford to pay
their raised rents). They also ad
vocate cutbacks in day care, Job
training, etc. Why?
These programs only make sense
as social policy if the objective is
genocide by degrees. By aiming at
poor Black women, they are tak-
ing aim at the major group of
Blacks who are still producing chil-
dren.
Consider the words of Charles
Murray, the Josef Mengele of the
New World Order: girls who get
pregnant should give up their chil-
dren for adoption. Most simply
don Tt know how to be good moth-
ers. Agreat many of them have no
business being mothers, and their
feelings don Tt count as much as the
welfare of the child. Also, interra-
cial adoption are to be encouraged
to ensure that any bumper crop on
new parentless babies find homes.
These notions may well apply to
drug addicts anda few slugs whose
behavior makes the evening news,
but by and large, women have ba-
bies because they want them; don Tt
want to be in the world alone, and
often, in an age-old, misguided
attempt to trap a man.
As for rich Blacks, they squeeze
out one child, maybe two. They
also often marry White, thus even-
tually moving themselves out of
the Black race entirely, as their
children marry White 50 percent
of the time. They also take their
money out of the Black race. Thus
a poor black woman can never even
marry out of poverty as Black men
with money won't accept her. When
our situation is looked at from the
Standpoint of a steady decline in
our population due to fratricide
and hostile and erratic public poli-
cies of the last 13 years, one could
make an arguable case for geno-
cide.
If even a portion of Gingrich/
Murray/GOP program is imple-
mented now, by the year 2000,
Blacks will not have jobs. The GOP
program calls fora return to states
rights, a rollback of Affirmative
Action, which will mean neither
municipalities nor private indus-
try will be obliged to hire Blacks.
And Whites will feel justified in
the belief that all White males
should have ajob before any Black
person is hired. Their idea of mi-
nority hiring will be to hire a White
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MOT PIO
Take time to take a nap on Sun-
day afternoon.
Drink eight glasses of water a
day.
Never deprive somebody of hope.
It might be all they have.
Be thankful for every meal.
Don Tt be afraid to say, o'msorry. ?
Don Tt tailgate.
Improve your performance by
improving your attitude.
Wave at children on the
schoolbus.
Listen to your children.
Leave everything a little better
than you found it.
Leave the toilet seat in the down
position.
Keep it simple.
Keep good company.
Keep your promise.
Be kinder than necessary.
Take good care of those you love.
Make it a habit to do nice things
for people who will never find out.
Vote!
Judge your success by thedegree
you re enjoying...peace, health, and
How to live a
happy and
rewarding life
Take time to smell the roses.
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love.
Be a good loser.
Be a good winner.
Be romantic. .
Live so when your children think
of fairness, caring and integrity,
they think of you.
Enjoy real maple syrup.
Never refuse homemade brown-
ies.
Never give anyone fruitcake.
Remember other people Ts birth-
days.
Sing in the shower.
Don Tt nag. Don Tt gossip.
Don Tt expect money to bring you
happiness.
Be forgiving of yourself and oth-
ers.
Never give up on anyone.
Miracles happen everyday.
Say oThank you ? a lot.
Say oPlease ? a lot.
Take your dog to obedience
school...You'll both learn a lot.
Slow dance.
Don Tt rain on other people Ts pa-
rade.
Don Tt postpone joy.
Stop blaming others.
Take responsibility ofevery area
of your life.
Take care of your reputation. It Ts
your most valuable asset.
Count your blessings.
Whistle.
Marry only for love.
Call your mother.
Do more than is expected.
Be there when people need you.
Be someone Ts hero.
When you care about
others..When you give yourself to
help others..You make a differ-
ence.
Use your local library.
Give a hug..Give a smile..Give a
compliment..Praise but don Tt flat-
ter.
Feed your body, yes, but also
feed your friendships.
Keep a secret and you won Tt lose
friends.
Alcohol and drugs compound
troubles and worries.
The three R Ts are important "
Reading, ~Riting, and ~Rithmetic,
but Equally important are good
manners, discipline and respect
for authority. "
oA youth, when at home, should
be respectful to his elders, ? said
Confucius and Ephesians 6:1 says,
oChildren obey your parents in the
Lord for this nght. ?
Some Words to Live By:
*Speak to people. There is noth-
ing as nice as a cheerful word of
greeting.
you need to
The workshop oAn OSHA Visit:
What You Need To Know ?, will be
offered by the ECU Center for
Applied Technology at the
Greenville Hilton Inn on Thurs-
day, 27 Apmil 1995.
The workshop deals with the
logistics of an OSHA visit. Topics
to be covered are:
¢ Visit prevention and prepara-
tion
¢ Working with the compliance
officer on your site
* Post inspection activities
* Appeal rights and prepara-
*Smile at people. It takes 72
muscles to frown and only 14 to
smile.
*Call people by name. The sweet-
est music to anyone Ts ears is the
sound of his own name.
*Be friendly and helpful. If you
would like to have friends..be
friendly.
*Be generous with praise. Cau-
tious with criticism.
*Be alert to give service. What
counts most in life is what you do
for others.
*Be thoughful of the opinions of
others. There are three sides to
controversy; yours, the other
fellow Ts and the right one.
One Nation Under God
For many of us, the family we
dreamed of never happened; abuse,
alcohol, materialism, divorce, por-
nography, drugs. These problems
are real. But how do we deal with
theseissues? Without strong moral
values these problems will only
get worse. People search for an-
swers from government, money,
or education..and find none.
It seems like fun to get bombed.
But the morning after is murder. I
wonder where this party life is
really leading? I Tm getting a little
light-headed. My good time party-
life is not a party anymore. Having
a baby is an awesome thing. Hav-
ing a baby when I Tm not married is
something else...scary!
We must have something be-
yond ourselves...not just better
laws or a higher standard. Evi-
dence shows that Jesus not only
took the punishment for our sin,
he provided the way for us to be
reunited to God. Do you realize
how much Jesus has done for us?
God gave us a gift that can Tt be
bought at any price. There Ts no
way to earn it...or deserve it. Fan-
tastic! He is a friend who loved me
even before I heard of him. I could
use a real friend.
Strength for Life: Phillippians
4:13 oI can do all things through
Christ which strengtheneth me. ?
Help for Problems: Matthew
11:28-29. oCome unto me all ye
that labor and are heavy laden
and I will give you rest... ?
Home Rules
If you sleep on it....make it up
If you wear it........... hang it up
If you drop it............ pick it up
If you step on it......wipe it off
If you open it........... close it
If you empty it........ fill it up
Ifit rings... eee answer it
If it howls... feed it
If it cnes....... eee love it
An OSHA Visit: what
know
tion. The instructor for the work-
shop is a former director of NC
OSHA.
The cost is $69.00, which in-
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early registration discountis avail-
able. For more information con-
tact:
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East Carolina University
Willis Building
Greenville, NC 27858
Ph. (919) 328-6708
Fax (919) 328-4356
April is Child Abuse
Prevention Month
Governor Hunt has again pro-
claimed April as oChild Abuse Pre-
vention Month ? in North Caro-
lina. Last year, over 95,000 boys
and girls were reported abused or
neglected in our state. And for
every reported case of abuse, many
more tragic incidents go unre-
ported. Children of all social, eco-
nomic, and ethnic backgrounds -
here in our own communities are
being deprived of basic necessi-
ties, emotionally battered, even
beaten or burned.
These are not pleasant thoughts,
but there is some good news. Pre-
vent Child Abuse, North Carolina,
the single, statewide, not-for-profit
organization dedicated to prevent-
ing the hurt before it happens, and
thousands of other individuals, or-
ganizations and groups havejoined
together to provide education, sup-
port and programs that can pre-
vent child abuse and neglect.
If you would like to join our ef-
forts to keep our children safe from
harm during April, Child Abuse
Prevention Month, and all year
long, please contact Prevent Child
Abuse, North Carolina at 1-800-
354-KIDS or the Craven County
Council on Women, Inc. at 919-
636-3381.
Blue Ribbons for Kids
For more than a decade, April
has been proclaimed oChild Abuse
Prevention Month ? in North Caro-
lina. In our continuing efforts to
educate and raise awareness on
the increasing incidents of child
abuse and neglect, prevent child
abuse, North Carolina and hun-
dreds of thousands of North Caro-
linians are taking part in the Blue
Ribbon Campaign. Our goal for
April, 1995 is to distribute 250,000
blue ribbons across our state to
symbolize our commitment to
keeping North Carolina Ts Children
safe.
One person can make a differ-
ence. The Blue Ribbon Campaign
was started by a grandmother
NC Mutual
contributes
Nathan Garrett, a Certified Pub-
lic Accountant from Durham, is
among the first friends or alumni
of North Carolina Central Univer-
sity to take advantage of a new
Heritage Plan insurance policy
offered by North Carolina Mutual
Life Insurance Co. The plan per-
mits the purchase of a life insur-
ance policy from the insurance
Black facts
By Okeora Keoba
The ankh is a symbol that be-
came very popular among the
populations in ancient and mod-
ern Egypt. It means everlasting
and eternal life.
Isis and Horus were the world Ts
first mother and child. Their story
can be traced back to Africa, in
Kemet (Egypt) 10,000 years be-
fore Christ.
The native African inhabitants
named their land Kemet, mean-
ing the Blackland. Egypt was the
name the Greek invaders gave it.
Geographically, Egypt is located
in Northeast Africa. Writing, medi-
cine, philosophy, surgery, science
and mathematics were developed
in Egypt.
Africa is so huge that Japan, the
United States, Europe and India
can fit inside it. Africa covers
11,700,000 square miles.
Africa is the richest and second
largest dontinent in the world.
Over 300 minerals and resources
can be found in Africa.
Africa contains 52 countries.
The human race began in Af-
rica.
whose grandson was killed as a
result of child abuse. This cam-
paign, which has spread nation-
wide, is her personal effort to stop
this senseless tragedy.
If you have been part of our Blue
Ribbon for Kids Campaign in the
past Thank You - and we hope you
will join us again this year. If you
have not participated, we encour-
age you to be a part of this effort.
Simply contact the Prevent Child
Abuse, North Carolina office at 1-
800-354-KIDS or the Craven
County Council on Women, Inc. at
919-636-3381 to receive your blue
ribbon for kids and additional in-
formation on how you can prevent
child abuse.
Life
to NCCU
company with a built-in contribu-
tion to NCCU. Shown with Mr.
Garrett are Chancellor Julius L.
Chambers of NCCU; Charles
Blackmon, senior vice president of
North Carolina Mutual Life In-
surance Co., second from nght;
and Leroy Walker, Jr., executive
director of the NCCU Foundation.
Letter
My name is Samuel Atknson of
Greenville. lam writing this letter
to let the black/white community
of Pitt County know that unjustice
was brought against me in my
case.
I been charged on several felony
drug charges; I never sold any
drugs in my life time. The depart-
ment of Pitt County violated my
constitutional rights concerning
the way they found me guiity. The
officer in charge A.P. White didn Tt
have a search warrant or read me
my rights during the arrest but
the court went along with the case.
I have three charges of selling
and delivering to an undercover
officer against me based on his
word against mine, but his word
stood upin court even though they
had no evidence. I just want the
community of Pitt County to know
that the justice system has their
own ways of making the laws. We
as a black community need to get
involved with the justice system.
I would like to thank you all for
taking time out to read this letter.
Samuel Atknson
1570 Prison Camp Rd.
Williamston, N.C.
9A, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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IN BETHEL, N.C.
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You may make your application with the Quail
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oIn the sale or rental of housing or residential lots.
oIn advertising the sale or rental of housing.
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LOW AND MODERATE
INCOME FAMILIES
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IN FOUNTAIN, N.C.
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applications for one, two and three bedroom apart-
ments at Deerfield |, and Deerfield || on Lynch
Street in Fountain, N.C. You may make your appli-
cation with the Deerfield site manager, Maggie
Farmer at apartment 8A, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
TDD (919) 946-0062
We Do Business In Accordance With The
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(Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968)
oIT IS ILLEGAL TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ANY PER-
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NATIONAL ORIGIN
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_THE "M"-VOICE- WEEK OF APRIL 17- ~-
Wicker First Annual Conference on Civil War Period in North Carolina
The N.C. Civil War Tourism
Council is providing a three day
opportunity to be immersed in Civil
War history during their first an-
nual statewide conference, oNorth
Carolina: The Civil War Connec-
tion, ? April 21-23. Retired New
York Times columnist and Civil
War novelist Tom Wicker will be
the keynote speaker at the confer-
ence, to be held at the Omni
Durham Hotel and Durham Civic
Centerin downtown Durham,N.C.
Registration for the conference
is $130, which includes meals, re-
freshments, a Friday evening ban-
quet featuring Wicker and a Sat-
urday reception. For registration
information. call (919) 328-6143 or
The Civil
ida 21
Noon-1:30p.m. Registration
1:30 - 2:00 p.m. Introduction
Remarks Gordon Clapp, executive
director of the N.C. Civil War Tour-
ism Council.
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Session 1: oCon-
federate Golialh: The Battle of Fort
Fisher ? Rod Gragg, author of the
best selling Confederate Goliath:
The Battle of Fort Fisher, will dis-
cuss the Confederate Ts largest
earthworks fort and the final battle
of Fort Fisher which led to the fall
of Wilmington and the cutting off
of supplies to General Robert E.
Lee Ts army in Virginia.
3:00 -4.15 p.m. Session 2: oWho's
Confederacy? ? North Carolina Ts
decision to join the Confederacy
was not made quickly nor unani-
mously. A panel discussion by Wil-
liam Barney, professor of history
at UNC-Chapel Hill; William Har-
ris, history department chairman
at N.C. State University; and
David Smiley, professor of history
at Wake Forest University will
focus on the attitudes of North
Carolinians towards the conflict
and the state Ts position. All three
are authorities on the Civil War,
Reconstruction and the southern
history.
4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Session 3:
oSounds of War ? Sherrill Martin,
professor of music at UNC-
Wilmington, along with other
music colleagues, uses a mixture
of period music and slides to ex-
plore the types, purpose and influ-
ence of music during the Civil War.
6:00-7:00p.m. Reception
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Dinner and Key-
note address - oNorth Carolina: A
Linchpin of the Confederacy ? Rec-
ognized as a retired associate edi-
(800) 767-9111.
In addition to his distinguished
career as a journalist, associate
editor -and columnist at The New
York Times Wicker is the author of
four non-fiction books and eight
novels, including Unto This Hour,
a Civil War novel. The battle of the
Second Bull Run, which took place
August 28-30, 1862 in Manassas,
Va., provides the setting and fac-
tual background for the book.
Wicker writes in his postscript to
the novel that Unto This Hour was
the culmination ofa decade of read-
ing about the war and five years of
research and writing.
A native of Hamlet, N.C., and a
graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill,
Wicker spent the early part of his
journalism career writing for
North Carolina papers such as the
Sandhill Citizen The Robesonian
and Winston-Salem Journal be-
fore joining The New York Times
from which he retired in 1991. °
Wicker claims . that he first had
the idea of writing a Civil War
novel when he was a very young
man reading romantic accounts of
the war. Unto This Hour takes a
realistic and sometimes gory look
at the war and how it affected all
types of people. Published in 1984,
it soon became a best seller, as
have several of Wicker Ts other
books. His keynote address will
provide an overview of North
Carolina Ts role in the conflict.
In addition to Wicker, the con-
ference brings together some of
the foremost authorities on the
state Ts 19th-century history. Schol-
ars from six of the state Ts univer-
sities and several published au-
thors and historians will examine
many different aspects of the Civil
War. Topics range from discus-
sions of specific battles to explora-
tions of how the war affected the
state Ts citizens, including women
and African Americans.
The N.C. Civil War Tourism
Council is a non-profit organiza-
tion comprised of individuals rep-
resenting private and public orga-
nizations working to develop, pro-
War connection agenda
tor and columnist for The New
York Times, Tom Wicker is also a
North Carolina native who has
been a long time student of the
Civil War and has written a best
selling fiction, Unto This Hour,
about the battle known as the Sec-
ond Bull Run. The many years of
research Wicker completed before
writing this novel has provided
him with a vast knowledge of not
only the battles, but of the people
who lived and died during the war.
Saturday, April 22 ;
9:00 -10.15 a.m. Session 4: oThe
War & Slavery ? John Hope
Franklin, aJames B. Duke Profes-
sor Emeritus at Duke University
and a professor of legal] history
with the Duke University Law
School, will be joined by Freddie
Parker, associate professor of his-.
tory at N.C. Central University,
and John David Smith, professor
of history at N.C. State Univer-
sity, to examine the issue of sla-
very and discuss the lives of Afri-
can-American during the Civil
War. ,
10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Session 5:
oLast Stand in The Carolinas: The
Battle of Bentonville ? Although it
was the largest battle in North
Carolina, anda significant conflict
of the war, the Battle of Bentonville
has received only cursory cover-
age in Civil War publications, un-
til now. After extensive research
and hours spent retracing the steps
of soldiers on the battleground,
Mark Bradley is releasing his find-
ings in a new book due out this
summer. During the conference
he will discuss detaiis previously
unpublished and new insights to
the struggle that occurred there
March 19-21, 1865.
11:45 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch presen-
Read to your
children
tation: oThe Civil War Woman ?
Sylvia Kidd Ray, journalist and
historian from Newton, N.C., has
compiled a wealth of knowledge
and anecdotes about the role of
women during the war. Her lunch
time presentation examines the
many types of lives women led
during the war.
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Session 6: oThe
Washington Duke Family "Typi-
cal and Atypical Tarheels ? Robert
Durden, professor of history at
Duke University, focuses on the
life of tobacco magnate Washing-
ton Duke. Like many North
Carolina Ts in the 1860s, Duke was
a hardworking yeoman farmer
with little education who joined
the confederate army when
drafted. However, unlike the typi-
cal Tarheel, after the Civil War
Duke capitalized on the Northern-
ers T newly developed taste for the
Bright Leaf and made his fortune.
2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Question and
Answer Session Conference speak-
ers and panelists return to the
stage to answer questions from
the audience. Moderated by Dr.
William Price, director, N.C. De-
partment of Archives and History.
5:30 -7:00 p.m. Reception at
Bennett Place in Durham Confer-
ence participants attend a special
after-hours tour and program at
the Bennett Place State Historic
Site in Durham. Guides in cos-
tume will provide tours of the farm
home where the largest surrender
of Civil War troops occurred while
period cavalry will demonstrate
tactical moves. Showing off the
fashions of the day, men, women
and children will don Civil War
period uniforms and civilian cloth-
ing for a fashion show.
Sunday, April 23
10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Reenactment of
the Surrender at Bennett Place
The war ended for the Carolinas,
Georgia, and Florida on April 26,
1865, when Gen. Joseph E.
Johnston surrendered his confed-
mote and preserve the history of
North Carolina during the Civil
War period. This conference is one
of many ways the Council is work-
ing to educate the public and en-
courage visitation to Civil War
related historic sites. The confer-
ence is cosponsored by East Caro-
lina University Ts Division of Con-
tinuing Education and Summer
School.
erate troops to Union Gen. Will-
iam T. Sherman at the Bennett
family farm home, close to the
Durham Station. Reenactors por-
traying Johnston, Sherman and
others on the scene will recreate
the negotiations and the troops
surrender at the Bennett Place
State Historic Site in Durham.
14
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All recruits participate in an active physical condition-
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THE VOI WEEK OF APRIL 17 - APRIL 23, 1995
from Page 1
Federal Court dodges ©
tiffs having presently disclaimed
all local or U.S. Constitution laws
and statutes and rules,etc) Hu-
man Rights Provisions of the Char-
ter of the United Nations Organi-
zation, the Genocide Convention,
Slavery conventions, Interna-
tional Covenant on civil and Po-
litical Rights, Chapter XIII, XII,
and XI, Article 73 abcde of the
Charter of the United Nations, a
Treaty, the Defendants United
States must overcome the follow-
ing two jurisdictional rules in the
Judicial Notice of Status-Not
Verified requested by Plaintiff
Blacks before the I.R.S. and the
U.S. can obtain jurisdiction by all
legal means which is necessary
before Blacks or obligated by law
to pay taxes:
Ruleone: oThat in view of the
true and legal status of United
States of America slaves and
slaves descendants of African ori-
gin ancestry an ethnic grou, alien
resident in the Territory of the
United States, as per their con-
tract of citizenship and associa-
tion, wherein there is a disclaimer
of said citizenship and associa-
tion, no indictment can lie in ab-
sence of proof of crime. ?
Rule two: oThe Government
of the United States must have
jurisdiction of said U.S. Slaves T
Descendants (variously and
sundrily called oNegroes ?, o:col-
ored" oAfrican-Americans ?) and
that there is no prosecution in the
absence of jurisdiction and before
a crime by slaves Tdescendants
there must be a violation of the
law and the Courts must have
jurisdiction. ?
13. The Defendant United
States having failed to answer or
respond to Black Peoples demand
as to their status through judicial
determination at Rule 201 hear-
ing in open Court,and having dis-
claimed all U.S. laws, there being
no showing on the part of the
United States to prove such, the
49 millions of Blacks of slave T de-
scent lists the the following items
and actions through odirect action
struggles ? to achieve liberties,
freedom, and self-determination
and all of its attendant benefits,
such as: a. not to comply with the
illegal laws to pay taxes to the
I.R.S. and the United States on
April 15th, b. To recover all illegal
paid taxes, c. To organize and sup-
port actions for self-determination,
liberties and reparations, d. To
use all means of international law,
law of self defense to obtain these
rights.
In support of the above items
18a,b,c. and to obtain self-deter-
mination, having disclaimed De-
fendants Laws, the Black People
will continue to use international
laws, such as: oThe U.N. General
Assembly Resolution 2625, ex-
presses the options available to a
people entitled to exercise the right
to self-determination by that
people ? Preamble: oThe estab-
lishment of a sovereign and inde-
pendent state, and the free asso-
ciation or integration with an in-
dependent state on the emergence
or any other self influence stat-
utes freely determined by a people;
constitutes modes of implement-
ing the right of self-determination
by that people. ?
oItis a violation of International
Law for a state to attempt to
criminalize the Black U.S. Slaves T
Descendants T odirect actions
struggles ? listed here in 13abcd
above to achieve self-determina-
tion. Black Slaves T Descendants
have the right by law not to pay
taxes, and the right to exercise self
defense, ? and according to the au-
thoritative United Nations Reso-
lutions 2625 of 1970: oEvery
state has a duty to refrain from
forcible action which deprives
people...of their right to self-deter-
mination and freedom and inde-
pendence, ? and oresolutions 33/22
and 33/24 (1978) which condemns
the imprisonment and detention
of people fighting colonialism (sla-
very). ?
Algiers Declaration: Affirms that
the peoples of the world have an
equal right to liberty, the nght to
free themselves from any foreign
interference and to choose their
own government and the right, if
they are under subjection (here,
the United States has violated this
law and has put Black People here
in the United States under subject
ion by the following words in the
U.S. Constitution, 14th Amend-
ment: o...and subject to the juris-
diction thereof,.. ?), to fight for their
liberation.
oThis assurance is specified in
Article I: ~every people has a nght
PickOr THE
to existence T, and Article VI; every
people has the right to break away
from any colonial or foreign domi-
nation whether direct or indirect
and from any racist regime ?.
Finally, the two international
covenant Ts on economic, social and
cultural rights and the interna-
tional covenant on Civil and Po-
litical rights are initiated by acom-
mon Article (1) indicating a place
of primacy for self-determination.
Also, the violation of the ~core T of
Slaves Descendants Human
Rights: A. self-determination, B.
non-self-governing peoples under
Article 73abcde, C. forced associa-
tion and subjection to the U.S.
jurisdiction under the 14th Amend-
ment, and D. acts infringing prin-
ciples of law creating rights the
beneficiaries of which do not have
legal personality as required by
Articles 2 4 & 6 of Universal Dec-
laration of Human Rights.
14. Enslavement is an act of
war. oThrough the unilateral ac-
tions of Invasion of the Lands of
Africa, the committing of an unde-
clared war of enslavement by the
United States against Africans by
U.S. Constitution, Article I, Sec-
tion 9, Clause 1, and the hereafter
listed slaves clauses;
15. If a Black man kills a white
man, it is an act of self-defense/
rebellion against a captor in war,
the whites being the aggressors
and the war is one continuous act
to date;
16. The laws of Nature, law of
self-preservation, and Interna-
tional Law are here the applicable
laws, since the United States can-
not be sued for slavery, since it
allowed Negro slavery by its laws
and Constitution, but then,howcan
the United States use its Consti-
tution to tax Blacks of slaves T de-
scent? Are we to say the United
States is immune from slavery
charges?
You see, slavery preceded all
founding documents of the United
States of the North American con-
tinent " both state and federal,
there fore, there can be no docu-
ments tending to prove associa-
tion with the United States by
legal means, and until such docu-
ments are presented here in open
Court, Black are not obligated by
law to pay taxes.
The circumstances and status of
Blacks of U.S. Slaves T Descent re-
sults from one continuous and con-
tinuing act to the present date.
We Blacks are in hot pursuit of
the very same issue which was the
focus of the famous U.S. Supreme
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Court ruling regarding Dred
Scott Ts status. We Blacks are in
complete agreement with the
Court Ts ruling. It is clear that Dred
Scott did not come under the pre-
view of the United States Consti-
tution. We Blacks just want the
White Courts to take cognizance
of this indisputable fact and abide
by and according to this funda-
mental fact. ?
From all of the above, it is obvi-
ous as to why the Federal Courts
ododged ? the sensitive issue of
Black. Taxation by the
Dismissal.The dismissal was not
of the lawsuit, but of a Motion by
Plaintiff Leonard Ashton, a slaves
descendant of African Origin, fora
Request of Judicial Notice of Citi-
zenship-Not Verified to be heard
in Federal Courtin Los Angeles on
February 27, 1995 at 1:30 p.m.
Over 225 Black men and women of
U.S. Slaves Descent, concerned
about their rights to self-determi-
nation, and No Black Taxation
Before Black Reparations showed
up to the doors of Court Room 890
in the Roybal Building to hear the
case, but were locked out.
Judge John G. Davies, the jurist
who recently heard the second trial
of the Los Angeles police officers
accused of violating the civil rights
of Black motorist Rodney King,
and who handed down extremely
short sentences to the two cops
who were convinced, issued an
Order Dispensing with Oral Argu-
ment and Taking Motion for Judi-
cial Notice of Citizenship Not Veri-
fied Under Submission. Plaintiff
Leonard Ashton had not received
this Motion as of the date of hear-
ing, nor was the Motion of file in
the U.S. Clerks office on February
27, 1995.
The actions of Judge Davies is
surely one of oDodging ? the issues
which prevented Plaintiff Leonard
Ashton from making a record by
both his oral input as well as his
objection to the United States, to
be used for future Appellate Re-
view by the Courts and by the
World Court, the International
Law of the United Nations. The
large gathering of Blacks who was
locked out by the Court, met out-
side of the Court Room and planned
direct actions of not paying taxes
until the Defendant United States
responded to the issues, instead of
their oducking ? and ododging ?.
Several Black participants noticed
that the O.J. trial got much public-
ity. Judge Davies, having not al-
lowed Ashton, and his Common
Law Counsel, Robert Brock to have
Oral Arguments, oDodged ? the is-
sues again by issuing an Order
Denying Plaintiff Leonard
Ashton Ts Motion for Judicial No-
tice for Citizenship Status "Not
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Reparations & Black Taxation
was forced on Blacks,
The U.S. Constitution was forced
on Black,
The territorial jurisdiction and
laws are forced on Blacks,
The taxing, tax codes and laws
are forced on Blacks.
There is no lawful showing on
the part of the United States in
this suit of any mutuality or con-
sent to any act orlawsof the United
States. Thus. said Brock, the act of
taxation is by force, and acts or
attempts to arrest Blacks for not
paying taxes before proof, hear-
ing, or dismissal by the Court and
the United States is a violation of
International Law and law or self-
defense and is war continued, and
this causing direct action is what
is changing in the strategy of
Blacks to direct action said Brock.
Disclaimer (2)
The disclaimer maintains that
the federal government shall prove
citizenship by association of 49
millions Black slave descendants
of African National Origin before
any Blacks are obligated to pay
taxes tothe .R.S.
Brock is personally providing
forms to any and all U.S. slave
descendants in support of this suit
and disclaimer of paying taxes,
and Black people as a group orga-
nized can now change from plead-
ing to direct action, which is doing
something about our condition.
-In support of Ashton Ts dis-
claimer, the United States and the
Courts are put on Notice by filing
the following war clause:
oThat in view of this war pres-
ently continuing Blacks, Appel-
lants, who also have the rights to
enforce a decision, suspend this
war in favor of legal means through
this suit in an attempt to resolve
this war by Defendants I.R.S. and
U.S. stop and not continue to use
law and motion until after and
before a judicial determination of
status anddisclaimer, beginning
at the point of the 13th Article
Amendment. ?
Domicile, unless the United
States can show that there has
been achangeof 49 million Blacks T
oAlien status ? by mutuality and
consent, said Brock, all acts from
the original war (taking captive
Blacks from Africa) and captivity
continuous as one act and one con-
tinuous act to the present date
hereof.
Unless the United States can
show mutuality in place of sla-
very, the domicile of all 49 million
Blacks of slaves descent is that of
the place of captivity and war "
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dence citizenship under the 14th
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As to domicile, Brock said, oThe
domicile gained by free birth of
Africans in Africa cannot be
changed by a slave birth in the
United States, and the Rules are:
1. It lies upon the other side
(U.S. & I.R.S.) to show that the
clear, unquestioned domicile,
gained by birth of Africans in Af-
rica was abandoned and given up.
2. That the domicile of origin is
the domicile of every person until
that is abandoned and another
gained.
3, That no domicile can be ac-
quired, until the person is free
and sui jursi.
Jurisdiction based on slavery
The Defendant United States
contended in its Appeal Brief that:
oIt is simply indisputable that
in abrogation of the Dred Scott
Decision the 13th and 14th
Amendments abolished slavery
and made each and every person
born or naturalized in the United
States citizens of the United
States. ?
This-statement is an admission
by the United States that the
present jurisdiction is based on
slavery and not free and mutual
choice of Blacks.
The jurisdiction and Negro sla-
very existed before the Dred Scott
Decision and it existed after the
Dred Scott Decision, and the 13th
Amendment only ended and abol-
ished chattel and individual own-
ership of slaves as chattel, said
Brock, andit certainly didnotend
captivity and physical slavery.
The suit having alleged dis-
claimer, mutuality, domicile and
jurisdiction based on slavery as
defense for Blacks not to pay taxes,
until the Defendant I.R.S. and
U.S. overcome these defenses, the
suit also alleges two jurisdictional
Rules:
Rule 1: oThat in view of the true
and legal status of Appellant
Leonard Ashton, and all other 49
millions of Appellants T class or
group of: United States Slaves
and Slaves T descendants of Afn-
can National Origin, an ethnic
group, resident in the territory of
the United States, as per their
contract of citizenship, wherein
there is a disclaimer of citizen-
ship and association, no indict-
ment can lie in absence of proof of
crime. ?
Rule 2: oThe government of the
United States must have jurisdic-
tion of Blacks of Slaves T Descent,
and that there is no prosecution
in the absence of jurisdiction, and
before a crime by 49 million of
Blacks for not paying taxes etc.,
there must be a violation of the
law and the violator must be sub-
ject of the law, and the Court
must have jurisdiction. If the
Court does not have jurisdiction
to hear this matter at-Law, it also
doesn Tt have the jurisdiction to
make a determination, judicial to
Dismiss such matter or to use any
other such rule and law and or-
ders.
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Just on general principle! Because
if you wait, you may not have any!
You are continually being pro-
grammed to hate yourselfand your
own life-giving abilities. You are
being punished for being a woman
and for the natural biological in-
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world, even under the worst situa-
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In fact, if these so-called scien-
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they think they do, they would
realize that the worse things are
the more life force struggles to
assert and maintain itself. That is
why the better off people are, the
less they are likely to produce.
There needs to be a Black baby
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If you plan to have one, have two;
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And Blacks should not give up
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them later when things are better.
The result of these think tank
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Federal Court dodges
Verified. without hearing and oral
input.
The Defendant US Attorney Ts
failed to file an answer responsive
to the pleading of Ashton which
alleged slavery, genocide, viola-
tion of treaties on human rights,
status not verified, disclaimer, fail-
ure of Defendant to have jurisdic-
tion by lawful and legal means,
but U.S. jurisdiction was acquired
by war, slavery, captivity, and
force, domicile and lack of mutual-
ity was also in the pleadings; and
to all of these allegations, some of
which are crime and violation of
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law by the US was not answered
by U.S. Attorneys Norma M.
Manela, Edward M. Robbins, and
Darwin Thomas, butinstead these
Attorneys gave a one paragraph
reply as following:
oPlease take notice that the US
opposes the motion of Plaintiff
Leonard Ashton for judicial notice
of his citizenship status on the
grounds that his citizenship sta-
tus is irrelevant to any issue in
this action and the motion is pa-
tently frivilous. ?
The above one paragraph reply
by the Defendant is not a factual
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Blacks tothe U.S. jurisdiction with-
out consent and mutuality or an-
swering the disclaimer is another
act of ododging ? the issues by the
dismissal. No facts were introduced
by the Defendant United States to
show how the allegations were
frivilous.
In fact the U.S. Attorneys vio-
lated the rules of Court, which
Plaintiff Leonard Ashton brought
to the attention of Judge Davies in
a Reply Motion that the Defendant
had failed to comply with Local
Rules of Court by not filing an
answer based on law and memo-
randum of a factual nature, and
not-the above asinine ofrivilous ?
statement without facts. Judge
Da t é
Davies refused to rule on this Re-
ply or require Defendant U S At-
torneys to lawfully answer.
In Judge Davis above Order De-
nying Plaintiff Ashton Ts Motion for
Judicial Notice of Citizenship "
Not Verified, the Judge stated:
oPlaintiff contends that he need
not pay income taxes because he is
not a citizen of the United States
of America ?
Plaintiff never made the above
contention not to pay taxes based
on his not being acitizen of the US, |
rather Plaintiffs contended in his|
Complaint the Defendant United:
States violated Plaintiffs Human
Rights by using illegal methods,
laws without there being at any-
time mutuality, answer to dis-
claimer, domicile, and proof that;
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ies of slaves descendants as free
people, or was the jurisdiction the
same as that jurisdiction of Dred
Scott and the slave ancestors and
antecedents of Plaintiffs, and the
legal methods to acquire that ju-
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to make a person a citizen or make
a person associated with the De-'
fendant without his consent or by
mutual means is slavery and in
violation of law and to exact taxa-
tion of a person under such cir-
cumstances and not by mutual law
is acrime under international law.
Plaintiffs contentions is the legal-
ity of how they were made citizens
or placed under the jurisdiction of
the US. The legality and way or
method of how Defendant obtained
jurisdiction over Plaintiffs is stated
in Paragraph (3) as following:
«_.and the said class was brought
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about by unilateral means of the
Defendant through U.S. Constitu-
tional Provisions and Amendments
and laws made pursuant thereto
without consent or consultation
with said U.S. Slaves T Descendant,
nor by any mutual means, law or
agreement, mutuality,... ? This
Paragraph shows the contention
of how or no legal means was used
to bring slaves and their descen-
dants into US jurisdiction by con-
sent or mutuality, which has noth-
ing to do with citizenship, but with
jurisdiction. Paragraph (6) states:
oTherefore, there presently ex-
ist two citizenships in the US Ter-
ritory...the citizenship of slaves
and their descendants are based
upon unilateral legislation, which
is class legislation "having no ba-
sis in law; and the citizenship of
whites are based on mutuality "
the basis of all law ?
Hereis shownjurisdiction forced
on Plaintiffs as citizens. The white
people are in the government by
choice and the Black people are in
government by force, unless the
US can prove by consentand docu-
mentation the laws on which citi-
zenship or the present jurisdiction
of laws by United States over
Slaves T Descendants is by force of
original captivity and slavery, and
Blacks are not obligated by LR.S.
laws and Codes and 1040 forms to
pay any taxes to the US.
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The Court did not deal with the
issues in the case. The main issue
oWhether in view of the true and
legal ostatus ? of chattel slaves,
emancipated by Presidential
Procla- mation, Lincoln, 12 Stat-
ute 1268 and by the Thirteenth
Article of Amendment and
the present ~United States of
American National Origin Ances-
try , an ethnic group, captured in
a ~War Of Enslavement T by au-
thority of Article I, Section 9,
Clause l,of the Constitution of the
US of America, and likewise by
said ~slaveclause T Imported & held
in the landed Territory of the
United States of America as physi-
cal captive slaves,have,to the
present date, obtained their origi-
nal ~liberties:-natural, personal,
and civil? ? .
No indictment can lie against
the US must have jurisdiction of
said U.S. Slaves T Descendants and
that there is no prosecution in the
absence of jurisdiction and before
a crime by Black slaves T descen-
dants, the must be a violation of
the law and the courts must have
jurisdiction.
The above two issues shows
that Plaintiff did not contend, nor
did Plaintiff allege citizenship sta-
tus as a method for not paying
taxes, as stated by Judge Davies
in his order denying plaintiff's
motion forjudicial notice of sta-
tus. Acareful readingof Plaintiffs
allegations in his motion and
memorandum for judicial notice
will show that Plaintiff put for-
ward facts to prove his disclaimer
and his request that the Defen-
dant and the (Court not use any
~law and motion T against him un-
til such time as the argument could
be hadon the disclaimer and docu-
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Judge Davies ododged ? the oral
arguments on Plaintiffa Judicial
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income which is effectively con-
nected with the conduct of a trade
or business within the U S. ?
Plaintiff has never stated that
he must not pay taxes because he
is notacitizen, but PlaintiffAshton
and Counsel Brock has alleged that
it is the legal or illegal manner in
which way Slaves T Descendants of
African origin was made to be in
the laws andjurisdiction of Defen-
dant US, which is now in violation
of slaves descendants rights un-
der treaty and international laws.
Robert Brock maintained that if
the I.R.S. want 49 millions of U.S.
Slaves T Descendants to pay taxes
April 15, then the US shall provide
facts to overcome the disclaimer,
prove mutuality, and show that
Blacks of African Descent has do-
micile in the US and that the De-
fendant US and the I.R.S. has ju-
risdiction based on law and con-
sent and not on slavery and cap-
tivity.
Plaintiff Leonard Ashton and his
Common Law Counsel, Robert
Brock appealed Judge Davies Or-
der of Dismissal to the Ninth Cir-
cuit Court of Appeals in San Fran-
cisco, California on March 10, 1995.
Brock stated that by direct ac-
tion struggle, Blacks are not obli-
gated by law to pay any taxes to
the Defendant slave holding U S,
until such time as the I.R.S. le-
gally answer our complaint, in view
of the disclaimer, mutuality, do-
micile, and jurisdiction by inter-
national law & treaty ?
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