The Texas rancher was living his worst nightmare. He was embroiled in an income tax case with the federal government that was intent on foreclosing on his ranch, taking everything and leaving nothing due to unpaid liens.
The rancher’s effort to fight back turned the incident into a landmark case. On September 14, 2015, he filed a petition in United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Lufkin Division Case No. 9:14-CV-138 that challenged the Constitutional authority of the feds to usurp the authority of the courts in Tyler County, Texas.
The United States had 14 days to respond, but remained silent, apparently the first and only time that the government failed to respond to a jurisdiction challenge.
The rancher was not dissuaded. On September 30, 2015, he filed a Demand for Dismissal. Again, there was no response. How can the worst nightmare become even worse? The rancher will likely answer that when the Federal Court in conjunction with the IRS is trying to illegally seize your property while ignoring your legal rights, this is about as bad as your nightmare can be.
All within the rights of the rancher, his petition claimed that the Federal Court lacked the territorial and personal jurisdiction in Tyler Country, Texas, and demanded a dismissal of the case. The text of the petition indicated that the law was on his side.
Read the next page to find out what happened to the Texas rancher and to the Constitutional rights of all Americans.
Of course they do have the Ability to Demand cooperation by using economic pressure… Called “Extortion”, even upon the states and this is how they overreach their supposed lawful realm of influence.
Yep. Totally agree. But when Trump gets in office, he will do that…alas it will be promarily Republicans.
Drain the Swamp.
Except that we get to vote, get paid for our labor, freedom to move, marry, own property. Yep. Slaves.
We get to vote in elections that are often rigged, get our productive labor taxed through threat of coercion, and our freedoms are all under growing threat. It’s not North Korea yet, but that’s the direction we’re headed if enough of us don’t wake up. Are you asleep or a globalist troll, Matthew E. Ryan?
That is a myth. The type of flag does not confir jurisdiction or authority.
It’s a dud.
If by “heavy duty” you mean “non-sensical pile of gibberish”, then yes.
Better read some of the pleadings before saying this proves anything.
Among other things, the defendant, John Parks Towbridge, Jr., based his defense on the contention in his pleadings that the only states in the United States are “the District of Columbia, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and no other,” and that the geographical United States is comprised of only those territories.
This would certainly be news to the writers and ratifiers of the Constitution, who clearly described the nation as “the United States.” This at a time before the District of Columbus had been created and before the listed territories became U.S. possessions.
It would also be news to those who petitioned the federal government to be accepted into the United States as a state pursuant to Article IV, Section 3. In fact, the territories and district Towbridge listed are not states at all.
Quite honestly, it is all gibberish and nonsense. I have seen it before from the posse comitatus movement, the militia movement, the freeman movement, and a couple of short-lived movements I don’t recall at this point.
It is no different than those who claimed that because a Federal Reserve publication stated that when you borrow money, you create money, they did not have to repay any debts they incurred, that in fact, the creditor owed them money.
I might note that Towbridge lost at every turn, because his legal arguments are utter and complete nonsense.
Michael Peterson — Not only that, the sheriff has no jurisdiction over the courtroom, other than enforcing the laws of the United States, state, and potentially the county.
It is John Parks Towbridge, Jr. since it is a District Court case, not a Court of Appeals or SCOTUS case, I do not know of any place to see the actual pleadings, other than PACER, a subscription service.
Towbridge’s pleadings are utter nonsense. His defense is based on his contention that only D.C. and certain territories are states and that it is only they that are part of the United States, so the federal government has no authority over him or his property, since he is a resident of Texas and his property is located in Texas, and thus outside the U.S.