Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Barclays' $453M Fine for US Energy Market-Rigging Upheld


Barclays' $453M Fine for US Energy Market-Rigging Upheld
July 17, 2013

The most disturbing part about this story is the nonchalant dialogue that was captured from the perpetrators who were actually caught rigging the rates. The quotes are below. The energy market effects the price of gasoline, heating oil, propane and every variation thereof. ~BK

US regulators have upheld a fine on Barclays and four of its traders of $453m (£300m) for allegedly manipulating electricity prices.

Barclays must pay $435m within 30 days, while one trader must pay $15m and three others $1m each.

Barclays must also forgo $34.9m in profits, which will be distributed to low-income aid programmes in Arizona, California, Oregon and Washington.

Barclays said it intended to "vigorously defend this matter".

The fines were first proposed by staff at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) last October, and have now been upheld by the body's board of commissioners.

FERC accused Barclays of manipulating the electricity markets in California and other states from November 2006 to December 2008.

But the bank said in a statement: "We are disappointed by the action that FERC took today. We believe the penalty assessed by the FERC is without basis, and we strongly disagree with the allegations made."

In addition to the company fine, Barclays traders Daniel Brin, Scott Connelly, Karen Levine and Ryan Smith - who are accused of manipulating an index relating to electric energy prices in the western part of the US - were ordered to pay substantial sums.

Mr Connelly must pay $15m, while Mr Brin, Ms Levine and Mr Smith were told they owed $1m each.

'Crazy - I love it'

Regulators relied on electronic communication between the traders to build their case.

In a series of electronic messages, according to the FERC complaint, the traders boasted of their ability to manipulate markets.


In an email exchange, one of Mr Connelly's colleagues asks: "You going to have fun with the index all month?" and in another, Mr Connelly responds to details of market volatility with: "Crazy - I love it."

One exchange, dubbed the "Friday burrito incident" in the report, is singled out for particular mention.

The FERC alleges that Mr Connelly sought to deliberately misdirect a staff member of the Western Power Trading Forum, who published an energy newsletter called the Friday Burrito.

The FERC alleges that Mr Connelly responded to an article noting unusual patterns of trading with a seemingly innocuous explanation denying manipulation and told the publisher to "embrace the change". Mr Connelly then allowed his response to be published anonymously.

All four traders have left the firm.

This is the latest scandal to rock the bank.

Barclays was fined £290m last year by UK and US regulators for attempting to rig the key Libor interest rate.

'You are Being Tracked': ACLU Reveals Docs of Mass License Plate Reader Surveillance


'You are Being Tracked': ACLU Reveals Docs of Mass License Plate Reader Surveillance
July 17, 2013

I realize this kind of story is same ol', same ol' these days, but it's important to share it nonetheless. Consider it another piece to the very elaborate web of surveillance puzzle. The snowball is rolling down the hill and gaining velocity and volume quicker now than EVER. All of this is unprecedented on so many levels. Watch in awe as history is made before your eyes. ~BK

http://rt.com/usa/aclu-license-plate-surveillance-216/


A "License Plate Reader" or LPR, one of two mounted on the trunk of a Metropolotian Police Department(MPD) is seen on a police car in Washington, DC (AFP Photo/Paul J. Richards)


The American Civil Liberties Union has released documents confirming that police license plate readers capture vast amounts of data on innocent people, and in many instances this intelligence is kept forever.

According to documents obtained through a number of Freedom of Information Act requests filed by ACLU offices across the United States, law enforcement agencies are tracking the whereabouts of innocent persons en masse by utilizing a still up-and-coming technology.

License place readers are among the latest items being regularly added to the arsenal of law enforcement gizmos and gadgets, but documents obtained through the FOIA requests have prompted the ACLU to acknowledge that safeguards that would properly protect the privacy of Americans are largely absent.

When a police department deploys license plate readers on top of patrol cars or at fixed locations, it lets officers see a snapshot of every vehicle that passes by a particular point. From there, that information can be matched against a database that contains automobiles involved in criminal investigations or cars whose owners may already be in trouble with the law. According to the ACLU, though, the data that’s collected and routinely stored reveal much more than the location of suspected scofflaws.


“At first the captured plate data was used just to check against lists of cars law enforcement hoped to locate for various reasons,” ACLU staff attorney Catherine Crump wrote on the non-profit group’s website Wednesday morning. “But increasingly, all of this data is being fed into massive databases that contain the location information of many millions of innocent Americans stretching back for months or even years,”she wrote.

Crump and company filed FOIA requests to agencies in 38 states and Washington, DC compelling police departments there to provide them with information detailing their use of license plate readers. In response, the ACLU received 26,000 pages of information that it has analyzed and now made public.



Additionally, the ACLU has released “You Are Being Tracked,” a 37-page report that offers the background on a technology that’s being regularly used notwithstanding objections from civil libertarians and others. Those objections, noted Crump, come amid two other large issues: the government’s increasing use of significantly telling surveillance devices and the public’s mass ignorance about the issue.

“As it becomes increasingly clear that ours is an era of mass surveillance facilitated by ever cheaper and more powerful computing technology, it is critical we learn how this technology is being used,” Crump wrote. “License plate readers are just one example of a disturbing phenomenon: the government is increasingly using new technology to collect information about all of us, all the time and to store it forever – providing a complete record of our lives for it to access at will.”

And while telephony metadata, Internet inbox intelligence and IP records can reveal an awful lot, scanning city streets and logging the locations of cars can provide the police with more than just a lot of useless data. License plate readers do occasionally prove effect with regards to locating criminal suspects or cars involved in crimes, but they are also allowing police to slowly build profiles painting a picture of the daily, weekly or annual driving habits of anyone, anywhere.

“A person who knows all of another’s travels can deduce whether he is a weekly church goer, a heavy drinker, a regular at the gym, an unfaithful husband, an outpatient receiving medical treatment, an associate of particular individuals or political groups — and not just one such fact about a person, but all such facts,” the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled in 2010.

 ACLU National        
Will America be a place where govt tracks you whenever you drive? Plate readers make it possible
http://www.aclu.org/plates 
According to “You Are Being Tracked,” license plate readers are configured to store not just snap shots of nearby autos, but also the license plate number, the date, time and location. All of this data is then placed into a local database that can in many instances by shared with other regional systems across the country.

“As a result,” reads the report, “these data are retained permanently and shared widely with few or no restrictions on how they can be used.”

The ACLU’s research has sparsely linked the use of license plate readers to solving criminal investigations, but it has uncovered a number of shocking statistics about how much information is being kept and what that could do to influence the way people interact outside of their homes.

“The implementation of automatic license plate readers poses serious privacy and other civil liberties threats,” the report read. “More and more cameras, longer retention periods and widespread sharing allow law enforcement agents to assemble the individual puzzle pieces of where we have been over time into a single, high-resolution image of our lives. The knowledge that one is subject to constant monitoring can chill the exercise of our cherished rights to free speech and association.”

“If not properly secured, license plate reader databases open the door to abusive tracking, enabling anyone with access to pry into the lives of his boss, his ex-wife or his romantic, political or workplace rivals.”



Indeed, data being collected by these scanners are already being compiled in the same facilities where other personally identifiable information is collected by the buckets.

In Maryland, for example, the Greenbelt Police Department feeds information picked up from license plate readers to the state’s fusion center — a federally assisted data facility that collects all sorts of information sent from agencies, including surveillance camera footage and Federal Bureau of Investigation field reports. That information can then easily be sent to other fusion centers, and the ACLU notes that the Greenbelt facility already participates in a program that puts its data into the hands of DC, Virginia and other out-of-state authorities.

Coupled with the FBI’s current plan to put the driver’s license photos of 14 million Americans in one database accessible to agents anywhere by next year, the government is quickly providing investigators with the means to create fully detailed dossiers on anyone, brimming with everything from where someone goes shopping and how they get to the store, to the individualized biometric information about a person’s left eyeball.

But are these practices doing any good? With regards to the license plate readers, the ACLU doesn’t seem to think they’re all that effective. In the instance of readers deployed across Maryland, the ACLU noted that for every one million plates read, only 47 were potentially associated with more serious crimes, such as a stolen vehicle, a violent gang or a sex offender. They add, however, that “even these 47 alerts may not have helped the police catch criminals or prevent crimes. While people on the violent gang, terrorist, and sex offender lists are under general suspicion, they are not necessarily wanted for any present wrongdoing.”

“In short, Maryland’s license plate readers collect massive amounts of data, almost none of which are tied to any known or even suspected wrongdoing,” wrote the ACLU.

In some jurisdictions, that information is then held forever. FOIA requests obtained by the ACLU estimated that authorities in Jersey City, New Jersey have accumulated 10 million license plate records as of last year — in a town of only 250,000 — because retention policies allow officials to keep that data for five years. In Milpitas, California — a town with roughly four times the population — has no retention policy and has picked up around 4.7 million plates.

The ACLU will host a question-and-answer session on the website Reddit.com this Thursday to explain more.

I U/V Expressions...



I U/V Expressions...
July 17, 2013

Big thanks to Niclas Linden for these beautiful works of art :) 

Dedicated to my dear friend Vera...may the energetic trail guide you gracefully into the loving arms of the Universe <3

Why the Whole Banking System is a Scam -- Political Rant "they" Don't Want You to See


Why the Whole Banking System is a Scam -- Political Rant "they" Don't Want You to See
July 17th, 2013

In-Joy the Show Wed 7/17 w/Special Guest Kelly-Ann Maddox


In-Joy the Show Wed 7/17 w/Special Guest Kelly-Ann Maddox
July 2, 2013

Join Judy Jandora and I tonight with our wonderful guest Kelly-Ann Maddox, AKA The Four Queens on YouTube and Facebook. Kelly-Ann lives in the UK and is such a bright light with a deep and wide ranging understanding of the psychology of the spiritual journey. Along with sharing her wisdom with all on YouTube, she has earned her diploma as a Spiritual Counselor and offers highly sought after Spiritual based Tarot Readings from her Etsy shop. She's also quite a writer and working on a novel at the time. WE are excited to share her unique brand of wisdom and insight with all of you.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thecollectiveimagination/2013/07/17/in-joy-the-show-1

Humanity is in the midst of the great shift of the ages, prophesied and written about in many ancient text throughout the world. Our options now are to fall into the old paradigm of fear that brings pain, or the feel freedom of love that brings JOY.

Join hosts, Judy Jandora and Brian Kelly each week as they share their upbeat stories and laughter along with some well earned wisdom to help uplift your spirit,s as well as offer some tools to use in your daily lives.

BE In~Joy! You ARE LOVE!

Here's a little taste of Kelly-Ann's incredible wisdom:

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Irish People Shut Down REPO Auction


Irish People Shut Down REPO Auction
July 16, 2013

LOVE this! Just more proof the people have had it and will no longer stand by and watch corruption play itself out, at the expense of our brothers/sisters of Humanity. Change is coming HERE!! ~BK

Legal Proof Paying Taxes is VOLUNTARY -- Challenging the IRS -- Know Your Rights



Legal Proof Paying Taxes is VOLUNTARY -- Challenging the IRS -- Know Your Rights
July 16, 2013

This outstanding piece of work was sent to me back on June 15th. I've fallen a bit behind on email over the last month or two, so I must have missed it somehow. It's funny that on the very day after I open up a letter from the State of California Franchise Tax Board, claiming I owe them upwards of $4,000, something told me I needed to comb my emails to make sure I didn't miss anything pressing. Interesting synchronicity indeed. 

I share this not to try to and convince anyone to stop paying their taxes. I share it to express the importance of doing our homework and knowing our rights. At this time of great transition, it's more than important. It's crucial. As I said on the radio show last night, it is our very consent to the systems that enslave us that voluntarily gives our power away, to be controlled by another. The IRS, the government, the banks, the courts don't take it from us....we give it to them. Well, I don't know about everyone else but I AM DONE giving mine away. "They" can try and come after me all "they" want. I know my rights, well enough anyway, to defend myself against what I KNOW to be True. The burden of proof lies on "them" to prove their power and jurisdiction over me which they DO NOT possess, in any way, shape, or form. When we share this attitude en masse, governments collapse. Revolutions ensue. Let us hold the intention for a peaceful transition. Without violence or bloodshed. How that takes place is up to us, "the people." We must continue to light the way. 

"This world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

A BIG THANK YOU to my anonymous contact who pieced this all together. It's a bit long but absolutely brilliant. It goes to show how far a little research can go in defending our liberties. 

Note: I changed the name to my own to keep my contact anonymous :)

Brian Kelly recently received a Notice of Proposed Assessment. I'm the Administrator of Brian Kelly and hereby protest this proposed assessment. There is a clear distinction in this particular between an individual and a corporation, and that the latter has no right to refuse to submit its books and papers for an examination at the suit of the state. The individual may stand upon his constitutional rights as a citizen. 

Brian Kelly is entitled to carry on his private business in his own way. Brian Kelly's power to contract is unlimited. He owes no duty to the state or to his neighbors to divulge his business, or to open his doors to an investigation, so far as it may tend to criminate him. 

Brian Kelly owes no such duty to the state, since he receives nothing therefrom, beyond the protection of his life and property. 

Brian Kelly's rights are such as existed by the law of the land long antecedent to the organization of the state, and can only be taken from him by due process of law, and in accordance with the Constitution. 

Among Brian Kelly's rights are a refusal to incriminate himself, and the immunity of himself and his property from arrest or seizure except under a warrant of the law. He owes nothing to the public so long as he does not trespass upon their rights. The IRS was a privately owned corporation that is now a foreclosed entity that never was a part of congress or the government. 

God created men as executor & beneficiaries over the land, and no entity stands in between man and God. You must provide the following if he is even going to consider payment, let alone assume you have the authority over him.

1. Provide material evidence demonstrating that Brian Kelly created, incurred, agreed or consented to the alleged liability.

2. Provide sworn, verified declaration and identification of law that also verifies that the IRS is not a foreclosed entity (according to UCC Doc # 2012127914 Nov 28 2012, WA DC UCC Doc# 2012114776 Oct 24 2012, DECLARATION AND ORDER: UCC Doc # 2012096074, masquerading as a government entity with a higher authority than the Creator. 

3. Provide for me where it states that the IRS, which is not congress, can tax wages and compensation for personal services, instead of just the gain or profit derived indirectly from them. 
 
4. Provide me the statute that makes him viable to pay taxes. 

 5. Provide evidence that disputes the fact that paying taxes is VOLUNTARY for a non-government employee. I have not seen any facts or been provided any evidence or claims that Brian Kelly is a public officer, employee, or elected official to any alleged government agency. Please provide any such evidence exists. A suggestion would be to produce the payroll records that Brian Kelly was performing the service or acting as a government employee to perform a function of government. I have enclosed Brian Kelly's Oath and Bond of Protector to the ONE PEOPLE which is renewed every eighty days.

6. Provide Material evidence that not one penny of the taxes, previously paid to the IRS, has not been spent on the murder of innocent men, women and children in Syria, Iraq, or anywhere else in the world.

7. Provide Material evidence demonstrating that The INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE (IRS) has the legal right to demand payment for the taxable income for Brian Kelly for the tax years 2011-2013 including interest and penalty charges.

8. Provide Material evidence that Brian Kelly agreed or consented to the estimation by The INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE (IRS) of the alleged “amount he owes on this account.”
Please note:

Should any individual pursue any actions on behalf of a foreclosed Bank or “Government”, causing another individual any damage as herein described, they in their individual and unlimited capacity are absolutely liable. Please note invoice enclosed.

Best regards,

Administrator of Brian Kelly
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Court cases,


1914: Weeks v. U.S., 232 U.S. 383. Established that illegally
obtained evidence may not be used by the court or admitted into
evidence. This case is very useful in refuting the use by the IRS of
income tax returns that were submitted involuntarily (note that these
returns must say "submitted under compulsion in violation of 5th
Amendment rights" or some such thing at the bottom.

1916: Brushaber vs. Union Pacific Railroad, 240 U.S. 1. Established
that the 16th Amendment had no affect on the constitution, and that
income taxes could only be sustained as excise taxes and not as direct
taxes.

"...the proposition and the contentions under [the 16th
Amendment]...would cause one provision of the Constitution to destroy
another; That is, they would result in bringing the provisions of the
Amendment exempting a direct tax from apportionment into
irreconcilable conflict with the general requirement that all direct
taxes be apportioned;

This result, instead of simplifying the situation and making clear the
limitations of the taxing power, which obviously the Amendment must
have intended to accomplish, would create radical and destructive
changes in our constitutional system and multiply confusion.

Moreover in addition the Conclusion reached in the Pollock Case did
not in any degree involve holding that income taxes generically and
necessarily came within the class of direct taxes on property, but on
the contrary recognized the fact that taxation on income was in its
nature an excise entitled to be enforced as such unless and until it
was concluded that to enforce it would amount to accomplishing the
result which the requirement as to apportionment of direct taxation
was adopted to prevent, in which case the duty would arise to
disregard form and consider substance alone and hence subject the tax
to the regulation as to apportionment which otherwise as an excise
would not apply to it.

....the Amendment demonstrates that no such purpose was intended and
on the contrary shows that it was drawn with the object of maintaining
the limitations of the Constitution and harmonizing their operation."

....the [16th] Amendment contains nothing repudiating or challenging
the ruling in the Pollock Case that the word direct had a broader
significance since it embraced also taxes levied directly on personal
property because of its ownership, and therefore the Amendment at
least impliedly makes such wider significance a part of the
Constitution -- a condition which clearly demonstrates that the
purpose was not to change the existing interpretation except to the
extent necessary to accomplish the result intended, that is, the
prevention of the resort to the sources from which a taxed income was
derived in order to cause a direct tax on the income to be a direct
tax on the source itself and thereby to take an income tax out of the
class of excises, duties and imposts and place it in the class of
direct taxes...

Indeed in the light of the history which we have given and of the
decision in the Pollock Case and the ground upon which the ruling in
that case was based, there is no escape from the Conclusion that the
Amendment was drawn for the purpose of doing away for the future with
the principle upon which the Pollock Case was decided, that is, of
determining whether a tax on income was direct not by a consideration
of the burden placed on the taxed income upon which it directly
operated, but by taking into view the burden which resulted on the
property from which the income was derived, since in express terms the
Amendment provides that income taxes, from whatever source the income
may be derived, shall not be subject to the regulation of apportionment.


1922: Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co., 259 U.S. 20.

Prohibited Congress from legislating or controlling benefits that
employers provide to their employees. A major blow against socialism
in America! "Out of a proper respect for the acts of a co-ordinate
branch of the government, this court has gone far to sustain taxing
acts as such, even though there has been ground for suspecting, from
the weight of the tax, it was intended to destroy its subject. But in
the act before [259 U.S. 20, 38] us the presumption of validity
cannot prevail, because the proof of the contrary is found on the very
face of its provisions. Grant the validity of this law, and all that
Congress would need to do, hereafter, in seeking to take over to its
control any one of the great number of subjects of public interest,
jurisdiction of which the states have never parted with, and which are
reserved to them by the Tenth Amendment, would be to enact a detailed
measure of complete regulation of the subject and enforce it by a
socalled tax upon departures from it. To give such magic to the word
'tax' would be to break down all constitutional limitation of the
powers of Congress and completely wipe out the sovereignty of the
states. "


1930: Lucas v. Earl, 281 U.S. 111.

The Supreme Court ruled that wages and compensation for personal
services were not to be taxed in their entirety, but instead, the gain
or profit derived indirectly from them.


1938: Hassett v. Welch, 303 U.S. 303.

Ruled that disputes over uncertainties in the tax code should be
resolved in favor of the taxpayer. "In view of other settled rules of
statutory construction, which teach that... if doubt exists as to the
construction of a taxing statute, the doubt should be resolved in
favor of the taxpayer..."


1959: Flora v. United, 362 US 145.

Ruled that our tax system is based on voluntary assessment and
payment, not on force or coercion. "Our system of taxation is based
upon voluntary assessment and payment, not upon distraint."


1970: Brady v. U.S., 397 U.S. 742 at 748.

Supreme Court ruled that: "Waivers of Constitutional Rights not only
must be voluntary, they must be knowingly intelligent acts, done with
sufficient awareness of the relevant circumstances and consequences."


1975: Garner v. United States, 424 U.S. 648.

Supreme Court ruled that income taxes constitute the compelled
testimony of a witness: "The information revealed in the preparation
and filing of an income tax return is, for the purposes of Fifth
Amendment analysis, the testimony of a witness."

"Government compels the filing of a return much as it compels, for
example, the appearance of a `witness' before a grand jury."


1978: Central Illinois Public Service Co. v. United States, 435 U.S.
21.

Established that wages and income are NOT equivalent as far as taxes
on income are concerned.

"Decided cases have made the distinction between wages and income and
have refused to equate the two in withholding or similar
controversies.

Peoples Life Ins. Co. v. United States, 179 Ct. Cl. 318, 332, 373
F.2d 924, 932 (1967);

Humble Pipe Line Co. v. United States, 194 Ct. Cl. 944, 950, 442
F.2d 1353, 1356 (1971);

Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. United States, 194 Ct. Cl. 920, 442
F.2d 1362 (1971);

Stubbs, Overbeck & Associates v. United States, 445 F.2d 1142 (CA5
1971);

Royster Co. v. United States, 479 F.2d, at 390; Acacia

Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. United States, 272 F. Supp. 188 (Md. 1967)."


1985: U.S. v. Doe, 465 U.S. 605.

The production of evidence or subpoenaed tax documents cannot be
compelled. "We conclude that the Court of Appeals erred in holding
that the contents of the subpoenaed documents were privileged under
the Fifth Amendment. The act of producing the documents at issue in
this case is privileged and cannot be compelled without a statutory
grant of use immunity pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 6002 and 6003."


1991: Cheek v. United States, 498 U.S. 192.

Held that if the defendant has a subjective good faith belief no
matter how unreasonable, that he or she was not required to file a tax
return, the government cannot establish that the defendant acted
willfully in not filing an income tax return. In other words, that
the defendant shirked a legal duty that he knew existed.


1992: United States v. Burke, 504 U.S. 229, 119 L Ed 2d 34, 112 S
Ct. 1867.

Court held that income that is taxed under the 16th Amendment must
come from a "source". Congress's intent through 61 of the Internal
Revenue Code [26 USCS 61(a)]--which provides that gross income means
all income from whatever source derived, subject to only the
exclusions specifically enumerated elsewhere in the Code...and
61(a)'s statutory precursors..."


1995: U.S. v. Lopez, 000 U.S. U10287.

Establishes strict limits on the constitutional power and jurisdiction
of the federal government inside the 50 States.

"We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal
Government of enumerated powers. See U.S. Const., Art. I, 8. As
James Madison wrote, "[t]he powers delegated by the proposed
Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those
which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and
indefinite." The Federalist No. 45, pp. 292-293 (C. Rossiter ed.
1961). This constitutionally mandated division of authority "was
adopted by the Framers to ensure protection of our fundamental
liberties."

Gregory v. Ashcroft, 501 U.S. 452, 458 (1991) (internal quotation
marks omitted). "Just as the separation and independence of the
coordinate branches of the Federal Government serves to prevent the
accumulation of excessive power in any one branch, a healthy balance
of power between the States and the Federal Government will reduce the
risk of tyranny and abuse from either front." Ibid.

The Constitution delegates to Congress the power "[t]o regulate
Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with
the Indian Tribes." U.S. Const., Art. I, 8, cl. 3. The Court,
through Chief Justice Marshall, first defined the nature of Congress'
commerce power in Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1, 189-190 (1824):

"Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more: it is
intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations,
and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by
prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse."

The commerce power "is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe
the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all
others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to
its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations, other than are
prescribed in the constitution." Id., at 196. The Gibbons Court,
however, acknowledged that limitations on the commerce power are
inherent in the very language of the Commerce Clause.

"It is not intended to say that these words comprehend that commerce,
which is completely internal, which is carried on between man and man
in a State, or between different parts of the same State, and which
does not extend to or affect other States. Such a power would be
inconvenient, and is certainly unnecessary.

"Comprehensive as the word `among' is, it may very properly be
restricted to that commerce which concerns more States than one. . .
. The enumeration presupposes something not enumerated; and that
something, if we regard the language or the subject of the sentence,
must be the exclusively internal commerce of a State." Id., at
194-195.

For nearly a century thereafter, the Court's Commerce Clause decisions
dealt but rarely with the extent of Congress' power, and almost
entirely with the Commerce Clause as a limit on state legislation that
discriminated against interstate commerce. See, e.g., Veazie v.
Moor, 14 How. 568, 573-575 (1853) (upholding a state-created
steamboat monopoly because it involved regulation of wholly internal
commerce); Kidd v. Pearson, 128 U.S. 1, 17, 20-22 (1888) (upholding
a state prohibition on the manufacture of intoxicating liquor because
the commerce power "does not comprehend the purely domestic commerce
of a State which is carried on between man and man within a State or
between different parts of the same State"); see also L. Tribe,
American Constitutional Law 306 (2d ed. 1988). Under this line of
precedent, the Court held that certain categories of activity such as
"production," "manufacturing," and "mining" were within the province
of state governments, and thus were beyond the power of Congress under
the Commerce Clause. See Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111, 121
(1942) (describing development of Commerce Clause jurisprudence).


[.]


Consistent with this structure, we have identified three broad
categories of activity that Congress may regulate under its commerce
power. Perez v. United States, supra, at 150; see also Hodel v.
Virginia Surface Mining & Reclamation Assn., supra, at 276-277.
First, Congress may regulate the use of the channels of interstate
commerce. See, e.g., Darby, 312 U.S., at 114 ; Heart of Atlanta
Motel, supra, at 256. "`[T]he authority of Congress to keep the
channels of interstate commerce free from immoral and injurious uses
has been frequently sustained, and is no longer open to question.'"
[quoting Caminetti v. United States, 242 U.S. 470, 491 (1917)].
Second, Congress is empowered to regulate and protect the
instrumentalities of interstate commerce, or persons or things in
interstate commerce, even though the threat may come only from
intrastate activities. See, e.g., Shreveport Rate Cases, 234 U.S.
342 (1914); Southern R. Co. v. United States, 222 U.S. 20 (1911)
(upholding amendments to Safety Appliance Act as applied to vehicles
used in intrastate commerce); Perez, supra, at 150 ("[F]or example,
the destruction of an aircraft (18 U.S.C. 32), or . . . thefts
from interstate shipments (18 U.S.C. 659)"). Finally, Congress' commerce authority includes the power to regulate those activities
having a substantial relation to interstate commerce, Jones & Laughlin
Steel, 301 U.S., at 37 , i.e., those activities that substantially
affect interstate commerce. Wirtz, supra, at 196, n. 27.


FEDERAL CIRCUIT COURT CASES:

U.S. v. Tweel, 550 F.2d 297, 299-300 (1977)

"Silence can only be equated with fraud when there is a legal or moral
duty to speak, or when an inquiry left unanswered would be
intentionally misleading... We cannot condone this shocking
conduct...If that is the case we hope our message is clear. This sort
of deception will not be tolerated and if this is routine it should be
corrected immediately"

Lavin v. Marsh, 644 F.2nd 1378, 9th Cir., (1981)

"Persons dealing with government are charged with knowing government
statutes and regulations, and they assume the risk that government
agents may exceed their authority and provide misinformation"

Bollow v. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 650 F.2d 1093, 9th
Cir., (1981)

"All persons in the United States are chargeable with knowledge of the
Statutes-at-Large.. It is well established that anyone who deals with
the government assumes the risk that the agent acting in the
government's behalf has exceeded the bounds of his authority"

Long v. Rasmussen, 281 F. 236, at 238

"The revenue laws are a code or a system in regulation of tax
assessment and collection. They relate to taxpayers, and not to
non-taxpayers. The latter are without their scope. No procedures are
prescribed for non-taxpayers, and no attempt is made to annul any of
their rights and remedies in due course of law. With them Congress
does not assume to deal, and they are neither the subject nor the
object of the revenue laws."

Redfield v. Fisher, 292 P. 813, 135 Or. 180, 294 P.461, 73 A.L.R.
721 (1931)

"The individual, unlike the corporation, cannot be taxed for the mere
privilege of existing. The corporation is an artificial entity which
owes its existence and charter powers to the state; but the
individuals' rights to live and own property are natural rights for
the enjoyment of which an excise cannot be imposed.

U.S. v. Ballard, 535 F2d 400, cert denied, 429 U.S. 918, 50 L.Ed.2d
283, 97 S.Ct. 310 (1976)

"income" is not defined in the Internal Revenue Code

"Congress has taxed INCOME, not compensation." Conner v US 303 F
Supp. 1187 (1969) "There is a clear distinction between `profit' and
wages', or a compensation for labor. Compensation for labor (wages)
cannot be regarded as profit within the meaning of the law. The word
`profit', as ordinarily used, means the gain made upon any business or
investment- - - a different thing altogether from the mere
compensation for labor."

Oliver v Halsted, 86 SE Rep. 2nd 85e9 (1955).". . .reasonable
compensation for labor or services rendered is not profit."
Lauderdale Cemetery Assoc. V Mathews, 345 PA 239; 47 A 2d 277, 280
(1946)

"...we are of the opinion that there is a clear distinction in this
particular between an individual and a corporation, and that the
latter has no right to refuse to submit its books and papers for an
examination at the suit of the state. The individual may stand upon
his constitutional rights as a citizen. He is entitled to carry on
his private business in his own way. His power to contract is
unlimited. He owes no duty to the state or to his neighbors to
divulge his business, or to open his doors to an investigation, so far
as it may tend to criminate him. He owes no such duty to the state,
since he receives nothing therefrom, beyond the protection of his life
and property. His rights are such as existed by the law of the land
long antecedent to the organization of the state, and can only be
taken from him by due process of law, and in accordance with the
Constitution. Among his rights are a refusal to incriminate himself,
and the immunity of himself and his property from arrest or seizure
except under a warrant of the law. He owes nothing to the public so
long as he does not trespass upon their rights.

Upon the other hand, the corporation is a creature of the state. It
is presumed to be incorporated for the benefit of the public. It
receives certain special privileges and franchises, and holds them
subject to the laws of the state and the limitations of its charter.
Its powers are limited by law. It can make no contract not authorized
by its charter. Its rights to [201 U.S. 43, 75] act as a corporation
are only preserved to it so long as it obeys the laws of its creation.
There is a reserved right in the legislature to investigate its
contracts and find out whether it has exceeded its powers. It would
be a strange anomaly to hold that a state, having chartered a
corporation to make use of certain franchises, could not, in the
exercise of its sovereignty, inquire how these franchises had been
employed, and whether they had been abused, and demand the production
of the corporate books and papers for that purpose. The defense
amounts to this: That an officer of a corporation which is charged
with a criminal violation of the statute, may plead the
criminality of such corporation as a refusal to produce its books. To
state this proposition is to answer it. While an individual may
lawfully refuse to answer incriminating questions unless protected by
an immunity statute, it does not follow that a corporation, vested
with special privileges and franchises, may refuse to show its hand
when charged with an abuse of such privileges. "
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