Whereas:

The federal Income Tax was not allowed by the original United States Constitution and was in fact held invalid by the United States Supreme Court; and

Then, with tragic effect, the Congress of the United States voted to refer to the States what became ratified as the 16th amendment to the Constitution to permit income taxation; and

The Declaration of Independence observed that when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security; and

We in the Declaration called out England for, among other things, For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent; and

America was founded on the bedrock principles of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and

It is impossible to argue in good faith that the Internal Revenue Code has not turned into "a long train of abuses and usurpations;" and

It is impossible to argue in good faith that the American people have truly given their Consent to the monstrosity of the Internal Revenue Code; and

It is impossible to argue in good faith that the federal Internal Revenue Code is consistent with America's commitment to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness; and

The federal income tax having become a monstrous engine of suppression of our Prosperity, our Liberty, and our Dignity;

Now Therefore, July 12th, 2009 being the 100th anniversary, to the day, of Congress voting for the Constitutional Amendment giving Congress the power to impose a federal Income Tax, We hereby

Declare July 12th to be a National Day of Mourning and encourage all Americans to peacefully protest the federal Income Tax and call for the complete REPEAL of the 16th Amendment, and moreover call upon:

Congress to introduce legislation, as they did with the 18th Amendment, to REPEAL the 16th Amendment;

All State legislators to call upon Congress to enact legislation authorizing them to vote for REPEAL of the 16th Amendment;

All nonprofit institutions, both secular and sacred, to adopt this Resolution of a National Day of Mourning and call for REPEAL and to disseminate it among their communities; and

All businesses, labor unions, trade associations, political action committees, and individuals to pledge to withhold all political contributions to any elected official political committee who has not made an unequivocal commitment to support REPEAL of the 16th Amendment, and, above all,

All Americans to speak to, call, and write their elected officials to demand REPEAL of the 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

We hereby pledge ourselves to the REPEAL of the 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution and to demand the same from our political, policy, social, business, labor, academic, religious and cultural leaders.