By Roland A. Croteau



August 6, 2002

President George W. Bush

1600 Pennsylvania Ave

Washington, D.C. 20500



Dear President Bush,

In July 2001, Mr. Schulz and myself hand delivered a Remonstrance to your
office. In that remonstrance was a list of grievances. We were petitioning you
per our First Amendment guarantee.

Over the following three weeks, we repeated our efforts with Speaker Hastert's
Office, Leader Daschle's Office, Mr. Schulz's Congressman and Senator's, my
Congressman and Senator's, Representative Ron Paul's Office and all the
members of his "Liberty Committee." Finally, Congressman Roscoe Bartlett heard
our plea.

During the course of all this, thousands of e-mails, faxes, letters, phone
calls and mailgrams were pouring into the Capitol urging a quick response as
Mr. Schulz and I were on a fast until we either received an answer or died.
All we wanted was a public meeting for our experts to confront government's
experts regarding the Income Tax. Even though we were able to obtain a written
promise, those meetings never happened. Government reneged.

Mr. President, I've spent the last 23 years learning the true history of our
country and love it more today than ever. Our Founding Fathers' were grand men
of wisdom and left us a blueprint for a successful society. And successful we
were until the Civil War, the passage of the unconstitutional Federal Reserve
Act and the birth of its illegitimate child, the IRS. Our Founding Fathers
warned what would happen to America in the event bankers got control of our
money supply. It took several decades but their prophecies have come to pass.

There can no longer be any question as to the reality of America's situation.
America has been under a defacto, military-rule government that is controlled
by the money powers, since before I was born. That is not the dejure
government as established by our Founding Fathers.

Understanding this sets me at conflict for I cannot serve two masters. I am
unable to pledge allegiance to the Declaration of Independence, The
Constitution for these United States of America and It's Bill of Rights while
pledging allegiance to the defacto, military rule government functioning in
Washington, DC and the several states.

Defacto government pretending to be dejure government has led me to believe a
lie. But I now know the difference and find I must submit the following
Affidavit: Statement of Fact, Declaration of Independence and Rules of
Engagement.

The government operating in DC and throughout the several states does not work
for my best interest; in fact, it has silently declared war on me. The
"Patriot Act" of 2001 declares those who make frequent references to the
Constitution for these United States of America, to be enemies of the state.
Professing Christian are enemies of the state. The language claims we are
"terrorist's."

No Mr. President. I say no to you and all government that accuses me of
terrorism. To the contrary, the state has become the terrorist. I fear for my
property and my life but not from outside forces. I fear the defacto
governments of Washington, DC and the governments of all 50 states. I am aware
of the unconstitutional "Presidential Directives" and "Executive Orders" and
now, state law, CLAIMING any un-named emergency gives it the right to take all
that I own and separate me from my family.

The UNITED STATES, Washington, DC government, has become the very thing it
claims to stand against. It has become the communist leader of the world,
impressing it's socialistic will on any who dare stand against it. The
government you sit atop is imperialistic and has a military presence in over
100 countries. It is out-of-the-closet and out-of-control. It admits to
installing governments and declaring wars unconstitutionally on foreign
countries...all in the name of national security.

If I speak to these issues, I am now labeled a "terrorist."

No Mr. President, I am the patriot. Government is the terrorist.

Mr. President, something has gone very wrong and I know what it is;
government, through stealth, trickery and legalese has taken what is not
theirs. They have stolen the sovereignty of its people.

I have educated myself, understand the truth and am reclaiming my sovereignty.

The attached Affidavit: Statement of Facts, Declaration of Independence and
Rules of Engagement are self-explanatory.

Sincerely,

Roland A. Croteau

AFFIDAVIT. July 30, 2002:

To all,

It has become apparent to me, We the People of the 50 states are in deep
do-do. Whatever this thing we call government is, it sure ain't working for
me. I do not believe there is enough time to get enough people educated and
more importantly, united before something catastrophic happens to us as a
people/society/country. That being the case I have already or will be
submitting the following to the President, Hastert, Daschle, my Congressmen in
DC and at the state level (along with our local officials), as soon as
possible.

I believe I unwittingly gave away my personal sovereignty years ago and I
intend to reclaim it right now.

The hour is late. The following is my Affidavit: Statement of Facts,
Declaration of Independence and Rules of Engagement. Benjamin Franklin said,
"We can all hang together or separately." If I am to hang separately it shall
be for the reasons stated below and I should like a record of it somewhere.
And what better reposit than you, the people who are most aware of our
struggle.

Many believe we can take this country back legally and peacefully. For that I
pray. But common sense tells me we are short of time to organize and unite to
the level we must to be successful. Not only must we fill every office in the
land with honorable, Constitutionally educated people but we must remove the
Federal Reserve and the Eastern Establishment. Has power ever relinquished
power without a violent upheaval?

Some may think I'm giving up. Nothing could be further from the truth. I see
my path and will walk it. Our Founders told us what kind of commitment we must
have to acquire freedom by taking the pledge. Today I take that same pledge
and offer the same commitment to my Creator.

With that said, I hope you will read the following.

As I send out each copy I will be including a cover letter. The first one sent
was to President Bush. I'll forward a copy of it also.

We must each do what we must do. Some will argue these actions are senseless
but obviously, not to me. Fighting on a kabillion different fronts is
senseless to me for it is hacking at the branches rather than the root. They
are all wonderful efforts but when the day is done...the tree is still
standing and more suckers are growing off the trunk. The freedom fighting
community finds it's energy spent in a kabillion different directions and
remains the "non-moving - movement."

For the life of me, I cannot understand why (especially with the internet), we
seem unable to identify the root of our problems and lay down our individual
battles long enough to organize and unite. It seems to me we are missing
something so I must fight the most productive way I can.

I hope you read will the following in it's entirety, remember it and if it
inspires you to do something, I will thank God for having given me the
gumption to do this thing.

Roland

AFFIDAVIT: "STATEMENT OF FACTS", "DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE", AND "RULES OF
ENGAGEMENT"
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for me to dissolve
the political bands which have connected me with another, and to assume among
the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of
Nature and of Nature's God entitle me, a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that I should declare the causes which impel me to
separation.

I hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, that to secure these
rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their JUST powers from
the CONSENT of the governed.

That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is
my Right and the Right of The People to alter or abolish it, and to institute
new Government, laying it's foundation on such Principles and organizing it's
powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety
and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long
established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and
accordingly all experience has shown, that mankind and myself are more
disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right
themselves/myself by abolishing the forms to which they/I are accustomed.

But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same
Object, evinces a design to reduce them/me to absolute Despotism, it is
their/my right, IT IS MY DUTY, TO THROW OFF SUCH GOVERNMENT and provide new
Guards for my/their future security.

Such has been my patient suffering and now, of necessity, through study and
experience, my Conscience will no longer allow me to tolerate an
out-of-control, evil Government parading as the Government "We The People"
established on March 1, 1781 with a lawfully constructed Constitution which I
was led to believe I inherited but never did.

The history of the UNITED STATES Government is a history of repeated injuries
and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute
Tyranny over all citizens of the 50 States. Let facts be submitted to a candid
world.

The following is a very limited list of abuses perpetrated on the citizen's of
these United States of America and myself. In all cases, government willfully
took advantage of my innocence and ignorance.

At age fourteen I was told I could not work on a tobacco farm in Connecticut
without a Social Security number. A lie. I unwittingly, personally signed that
illegal contract actually believing I was a "good American", consequently,
this UNCONSTITUTIONAL government, started extorting "withholding taxes" under
"defacto, color of law, policy" while I was yet a child.

My parents were told I needed an unconstitutional state "Birth Certificate." A
lie. But establishing my "straw man, corporate person."

When I was old enough to travel I was told I needed an unconstitutional state
"Driver's License." A lie.



When I married, I was told I needed an unconstitutional state "Marriage
License." A lie.

When I opened a bank account I was told I needed an unconstitutional Social
Security number. A lie.

Being a product of the "public" and Catholic educational systems, it was many
years before I was able to uncover the truth for it was never taught.

The UNITED STATES Government is a perverted bifurcation of the original
Republican form of Government as established by our Founding Fathers. All of
their attending agencies at the Federal, State and Local levels are a mirror
image of the "defacto", UNITED STATES Government, which is a totalitarian/fasci
st/communist police-state regime. That is not my government. I can no longer
pledge my allegiance to it. I pledge my allegiance to my God as describe at
the beginning of this document and the original Constitution and Bill of
Rights, as intended, by the Founders of this country we call the united States
of America.

I am aware of the following and the ultimate harm it has caused me personally:

The passage of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913 which created an
unconstitutional, privately-owned central banking system and it's attendant
private collection agency that has become the Internal Revenue Service. This
system of stealth and fraud has enslaved an entire nation in a PERPETUAL DEBT
system.

The supposed passage of the "16th (Income Tax Amendment," which can be proven
was never ratified, but did incrementally develop into a communistic,
graduated tax system. That fraud alone has stolen years of my working life and
that of my fellow citizens. Those ill-begotten funds were and are being used
for the destruction of America. Unknowingly, the American people have funded
their own destruction as we are being socially engineered into a New World
Order of governance, a world where sovereignty and freedom are "obsolete."

The conclusions of President Ronald Reagan's "Grace Commission" Not one penny
of all income tax money collected is used to run (Constitutional) Government.
($1.3 TRILLION being collected this year!)

The Panic of 1909 and the 20 year moratorium in which the UNITED STATES
Government agreed to repay it's debt to private banking (deliberately failing
it's obligation) and the resulting, controlled "Crash of 1929."

The "installment" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as President to "save the
country" with socialistic "New Deal" policies, (including, but not limited to,
the Social Security Tax) and the eventual "Victory Tax" which hoodwinked the
country into accepting income tax "withholdings" from their paychecks.

Roosevelt's "Trading With the Enemies Act" which effectively made me an enemy
of the Federal Government, UNITED STATES, Washington, D.C., the Corporate
Government...before I was born.

The outright betrayal of the American people by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt and his administration regarding foreknowledge of the attack on
Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941) and our consequent involvement in World War
II, fought to create the establishment of the United Nations (because
"President Woodrow Wilson's war" (WWI) failed to establish a workable "League
of Nations." Unbelievable treasonous evil.

HJR192; stole America's Constitutional money (currency backed by gold) in 1933
by the Roosevelt Administration.

* The theft/elimination of Constitutional Article III Courts.

* The corrupt "private" judicial system operating in "maritime law."

* The unconstitutional "Presidential Directives and Executive Orders."

* The unconstitutional "police actions" of Korea, Viet Nam, Iraq and Bosnia
(to name just a few).

* Our military under UN authority and the acceptance of foreign troops on our
soil. Absolute treason!

* Government selling nuclear trade secrets to the Chinese during the Clinton
administration. More treason! (And no consequences.)

The treasonous acts, either wittingly or unwittingly, of virtually every
President and Congressman since the Lincoln administration (1861) and their
failure to uphold their oaths of office.

Government complicity and foreknowledge in the bombing of the World Trade
Centers in New York City in 1993 and the ultimate destruction of that complex
on September 11, 2001 for the purpose of scaring America into an ever-larger
police-state.

* The unlawful/evil siege and use of military forces resulting in the deaths
of innocent men, women and children at the Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.

* The killing of an unarmed mother and baby at "Ruby Ridge," Idaho.

* The illegal drug trafficking of the Central Intelligence Agency to fund
unconstitutional/covert activities.

* The unlawful/unconstitutional use of high-tech surveillance equipment by
this government against its people it sees as "subjects."

* Government complicity in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the cover-up and blocking of an open, truthful
investigation.

* The secret High-frequency Auroral Activity Research Project known as
H.A.A.R.P., MKUltra and a number of other covert activities being used against
We The People.

The ongoing harassment of the IRS has caused me years of personal experience
presenting remonstrance's, plea's and petitions for the UNITED STATES
Government to uphold it's Constitutional contract with me/We The People to
"redress" my/our grievances as guaranteed in the Bill of Rights regarding a
PUBLIC meeting to answer questions on the income tax system. The UNITED STATES
failed its contractual obligation and personally betrayed me. It WILL NOT
respond to me/ We The People.

* The "Patriot Act" that no Congressman was allowed to read before passage and
is nothing more than another "tool" to give dictatorial power to an already
out-of-control despotic government. According to this "Act," I can now be
classified a "terrorist" for my Christian beliefs.

To sum up, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!! Whatever Government claims to be in Washington,
DC and the 50 States, it is painfully obvious they are not duly constituted
governments of We The People as intended by the Founders and documented by
"The Declaration of Independence," "The Constitution for these united States
of America" and "The Bill of Rights."

THEREFORE, BE IT KNOWN by all who read this presentment, I Roland Alexander
Croteau, will no longer conform to "color of law" statutes, rules, or
policies. I can no longer recognize and do denounce this "defacto," foreign
Government.

I, being the ultimate jurist, do reclaim my sovereignty. I will live under my
God's laws: "Love the Lord my God with all my heart, mind and soul and love my
neighbor as myself."

I, the sovereign, will live in agreement with the original Constitution for
these united States of America and it's Bill of Rights, as intended, for it is
an extension of my God's Laws.

BE IT ALSO KNOWN, I have no intention to harm anyone. I wish to live in peace.
HOWEVER, in the course of the administrations of my duties to live under these
agreements should this foreign Government, calling itself the UNITED STATES,
or any form or extension of that Government, being state or local, not
conforming to original, Constitutional Law, as intended, come against me with
a "color of law" tax or any "rule, policy or statute" that is unconstitutional
with intent to cause me harm in the form of penalty, fine, confiscation of
property, incarceration or death, without my guarantee of "Due Process" in a
duly constituted, original-Constitution, Article III court, I will use every
common sense remedy available including the exercise of my Second Amendment
Right. To state this as plainly as possible, I understand Government,
ultimately, IS force and to resist unconstitutional, evil, armed force, I will
exercise my God-given right to defend myself, my family, and my property with
the use of armed force. (Government; meaning any person initiating anything
unconstitutional against me.)

I come to this conclusion because all remedy for justice has been removed from
our system. This "government" has silently declared war on me. Should I not
activate my God-given, Constitutionally guaranteed rights, this government
will surely kill me slowly or quickly. Insanity is at the helm and rampant in
what used to be my country, America. I am trapped. There is nowhere to flee.
This is my last and only alternative.

To posterity I say this: the current governments of this land have declared
war on its people. I WILL LIVE FREE OR DIE. Should I die at the hands of this
police state, BE IT KNOWN; I WAS MURDERED.

This day I take the pledge of my Founding Father's:

"I pledge my life, my fortune and my sacred honor," to all who follow in this
endeavor to reclaim OUR HOMELAND, while restoring justice and sanity. If you
be not of like mind or Spirit, I say this; "If ye love wealth better than
liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of
freedom, go home from me in peace. I ask not your counsel or arms. May your
chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were my
countrymen."

For myself, I echo the sentiments heard down through the ages as eloquently
expressed by one of our Founding Father's, Patrick Henry...

"GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH" I submit to tyranny in any form no longer.