After more than a year of trying, including a 17 day fast by Bob Schulz of the We The People Foundation, the meeting was originally scheduled for September 25th and 26th of last year. Of course, the events of September 11th canceled that. Recently, the meeting was rescheduled for February 27th and 28th of this year.

About a year ago, the We The People Foundation was paying for and running full-page ads in USA Today. Ads that laid out one heck of a case for why the Internal Revenue Service or the government had no right to collect a personal income tax or make employers withhold money for such a tax. Even claiming that the original 1913 legislation for such a tax had never been properly ratified. Copies of these ads are still available on their web site.

Congressman Bartlett, a man who defines himself as a citizen-legislator and not a politician, now says that he's upset by the "Don't File Until The Trial" campaign We The People is currently promoting. As if a public terrorized by the IRS is suddenly going to develop the courage to not file their tax returns unless they've got money coming back, of course.

Come off it congressman. There's nothing in this campaign that wasn't stated clearly in the full-page ads run by the same organization a year ago. What is it you're afraid of?

We've got to conclude that the government has no valid defense and would take any excuse to put the subject to rest, to avoid answering the allegations. The timing of this meeting still left a month and a half for people to pay their taxes, to beat the deadline of April fifteenth.

Our governmental servants have lost the battle by refusing to show up. They have no answer to the charges. Isn't that obvious???