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personal accountability. Most large federal agencies have a “voicemail jail” front end to their phone support so that it 1 is virtually impossible to get through to a specific person to complain or to talk to the last person who helped you. 2 When you login to their website, you will also find that there is no way to find the identify or contact information of a 3 specific person or their specific job function. This discourages personal responsibility by specific government servants, 4 which in turn encourages abuse and tyranny. Bureaucrats just love this approach, because then they can say they must 5 be doing what Americans want because they never hear any complaints! The IRS support line, for instance, is an 6 example of that. It takes almost two hours on hold waiting to get help, when they talk to you they are trained to be 7 rude if you bring up the law, they won’t give you their full name or direct phone number, and it is virtually impossible 8 to talk to the same person who was handling your case on the last call. This is no accident: it is a defect in customer 9 service deliberately engineered to frustrate, exasperate, and alienate you so that you will just pay up and go away. 10 4. When the government maintains records about you, they will frequently choose to code the information and then not 11 publish the meaning of the codes, so that even if you do obtain a copy of the record, it is meaningless without the “code 12 book”. This is the technique used both by the IRS and many state taxing authorities. The IRS’ electronic information 13 about “taxpayers” is called the “Individual Master File ” and it took us nearly a year to figure out how the codes work 14 and then design a program to decode the content of the files. About ten days before we released the program to do the 15 decoding called the Master File (MF) Decoder, the IRS launched an investigation of us and called us in for an audit, 16 presumably to prevent the program from getting into the hands of the American Public. 17 When you complain about any of the above violations of the requirement for consent, government dis-servants will 18 frequently say “We are just ‘clerks’ and are not empowered to change the system”, and then they will give you an address 19 to write to, knowing that most people don’t like to write and that letters can more easily be ignored and forgotten than live 20 phone calls. If you then write the appropriate party to complain, your letter will either be ignored or they will send you a 21 flattering form letter that doesn’t deal substantially with any of your concerns, and in effect, blow you off and never deal 22 with the problem. All the while, they can use the following additional standard excuses with innocent impunity, such as: 23 This kind of evasion of responsibility and violation of rights and privacy using computers as the means is the similar to the 29 kind of evasion practiced by the U.S. Congress, in fact, in the context of tax collection. When our country was founded, 30 taxation without representation was the biggest cause for the revolution. After we won the revolution and separated from 31 Great Britain, our new federal government put the representation and taxation function in the same place: The House of 32 Representatives, which is part of the Legislative Branch. The House of Representatives was meant to represent the people 33 while the Senate represented the states. As long as the “purse”, which is the responsibility and authority to collect taxes, 34 remained under the control of the People in the House of Representatives, we had “taxation with representation”. When the 35 exigencies of the Civil War happened in the 1860’s, the first thing the IRS did was try to move the tax collection function to 36 the Executive Branch, thus separating the representation from the taxation function. Déjà vu all over again! The “Bureau 37 of Internal Revenue” (BIR) was put into the Executive Branch instead of the Legislative Branch, and was assigned the 38 responsibility to collect taxes to pay for the Civil War. When the people complained, they complained bitterly about 39 “taxation without representation”, and about the injustice and violation of the Constitution that was being wrought by the 40 this expediency. Instead of Congress taking responsibility for the monster they created, they blamed it on the excesses and 41 abuses of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (B.I.R.) and the Executive Branch! They turned the rogue organization they 42 created into the whipping boy for all of the complaints and told constituents that they had no control over the Executive 43 Branch because of the separation of powers! In fact, they were violating the Constitution and the Separation of Powers 44 Doctrine by trying to delegate the tax collection function to the Executive Branch and they should have been impeached! 45 No sovereign power of any branch of government can be delegated to another branch. 46 1. “Please write your Congressman if you don’t like it.” 24 2. “We can’t give you the benefit until you give us your Social Security Number.” 25 3. “Why don’t you talk to someone who cares?” 26 4. “We’re too busy around here to deal with your personal concerns. Can’t you see how many people there are in line 27 behind you?” 28

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In the former Soviet Union, the government terrorized the citizens using a secret police force called the KGB. They made 48 everyone into informants to the KGB by offering rewards to people who would snitch on their “comrades”. The 49 government, in such a scenario, becomes a terrorist organization. The secrecy surrounding the KGB was the main source 50 of government terror because its activities were kept secret and the government-controlled press did not report on their 51

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