Types of Membership, Services Provided, and Associated Costs
The Save-A-Patriot Fellowship
"Where Liberty Comes First" -
* For a Fellowship Program Agreement (membership application) contact or call:
Jim Deal
Independent Representative: SAPF
(713) 393-3117
BACKGROUND: The Fellowship is a 1st Amendment educational association - not a business, for-profit, "non-profit" or otherwise - and holds no federal or state ID numbers.
On December 18, 1996, federal Judge Marvin Garbis ruled in United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Civil Action # MJG-95-935, that the SAPF is an "unincorporated association", a fact already well understood by Fellowship members (although we appreciate the judge’s honesty).
The SAPF is headquartered in Westminster, Maryland, and comprises a staff of approximately two dozen staffers and workers, including a receptionist, office manager, bookstore supervisor, mail department staff, case workers, paralegals, legal researchers, editors, resident night watchman, offset printer and others.
John B. Kotmair, Jr., Founder and Fiduciary of the SAPF does not withhold tax from Fellowship employees and never has (note: employee in the common usage of the term, not "covered employee", a legally defined term for one participating in social security).
If the IRS is ever able to produce the law that would require John to do so (presumably they are still looking for it), John would of course obey the law and begin withholding immediately.
The IRS has also never made any attempt to levy upon the pay of fellowship workers.
As one turns off the main street in downtown Westminster and onto Carroll Street, the building on the right with the sign "Save-A-Patriot Fellowship" displayed prominently over the door immediately comes into view (limited parking available at headquarters - expanded parking is available up the street on the right in the large parking lot opposite the church). As you pass through the Fellowship’s main front door and through the lobby, you are greeted by the receptionist.
A walking tour through the sprawling facility reveals numerous workspaces manned by case workers and paralegals seated before IBM computers, a large presentation area where Saturday night meetings are regularly held for the public, a 30 gigabyte video editing suite, spacious offices, an in-house offset printing facility, and a cavernous storage area serviced by a rear loading dock.
The Fellowship is a thriving, vital hub of activity, educating and supporting the freedom of untold numbers of patriotic Americans in every State of the republic.
WHO WE ARE—WHAT WE DO: Since the era of President Roosevelt, our system of justice has "presumed" that the government has legal jurisdiction with regard to any given agency (as well as the body of law that agency is charged with administering) and that its contentions are correct. Therefore, any burden of proof to the contrary falls upon the individual. This reversal of presumption in disregard of constitutional ethic has resulted in Courts ruling that rights "will [no longer] be passively protected" and that "they must [now] be aggressively asserted."
The Fellowship is a national association of individuals who are aware that various government agencies - and the IRS in particular - are systematically infringing upon individual rights. Members are also aware that this infringement is often a direct result of inadequately trained government employees who are more concerned with adhering to administrative "policy" than to the law itself, and that such policy often runs counter to the constitutional limitations that are imposed on the government.
When someone joins the Fellowship, it is a foregone conclusion that that they are, to whatever extent, "Fed"-up with the government bureaucracy that has brought this about, and are particularly concerned with the IRS and its propensity to misapply the law and to illegally enforce its provisions. Fellowship members know that the bureaucrats keep the multitudes in line and in F.E.A.R. (F.alse E.vidence A.ppearing R.eal) by using the news media to plant stories suggesting that resistance is useless and reprisal is swift and painful.
These "reminders" and a lifetime of Pavlovian conditioning make it difficult for most people to take the first break-away step. However, since Fellowship members have taken the time to educate themselves and prepare a proper legal defense, the risk has been removed!
MISSION AND PURPOSE: The purpose of the Fellowship is to provide mutual aid, support, and assistance to those who wish to assert their rights. This is accomplished in a number of ways.
FIRST, the Fellowship operates much like an insurance company in that members pledge to assist other members should they suffer a loss of cash or property as a result of illegal IRS collection practices and confiscations. A detailed explanation of how this reimbursement program works can be found in the "Fellowship Program Agreement" (application for membership).
Please note that this Member Assistance Program (MAP) does NOT extend to money residing in a bank account or to other forms of "electronic monies" (stocks, annuities, 401(k), IRS, etc.) since a member exposing such monies to easy electronic plunder would clearly have demonstrated a lack of due diligence in protecting his or her property.
SAPF assessments to members have in the past been made semi-annually to annually but are now computer invoiced to members on a monthly basis. Several years ago, annual assessments totaled as high as F$550 per member, however assessments today are averaging less than F$20 per month.
(*) Note: the symbol "F$" is used to designate a denomination of Federal Reserve Note Accounting Units (some call these "FRAUD"s -)
Today’s lower assessment amounts reflect a decrease in the number of incidents of damages against members, due to:
1) The ever increasing effectiveness of the Fellowship’s legal support and assistance;
2) The Fellowship’s rapidly expanding nationwide membership base with scores of members now joining daily, and;
3) The increasing frequency with which Limited Members are joining in advance of any actions they may decide to take AFTER becoming properly educated. In other words, more and more Americans are "coming on board" before they are in the "eleventh hour" in their dealings with the IRS.
Under the Fellowship’s criminal coverage, the family of an incarcerated member would receive F$25,000 per year or any part thereof.
SECOND, the Fellowship provides educational material and resources in the form of newsletters, videos, audio cassettes, and books. The bimonthly membership newsletter "Reasonable Action" (available to members only) has for the past twelve years been one of the most highly respected patriot tax publications in the nation. A complimentary copy is provided upon request to any prospective Fellowship member. Back issues are available to members only (see below).
THIRD, the Fellowship has researched and developed legal defensive weapons to protect its members’ Liberty and Property, and provides assistance via its paralegal and case development departments. Should the IRS attempt to contact a member, caseworkers are available to handle the correspondence and address any improper requests or allegations. If the IRS attempts to move forward with an improper lien or illegal collection action, paralegals are available to assist
PATRIOT DEFENSE FUND: SAPF also offers a separate Patriot Defense Fund (PDF) - a "fellowship within a fellowship" to defray the cost of defending in a criminal tax trial (F$10,000) or appealing a conviction (F$5,000). One must first be a member in good standing of the SAPF to be eligible to join the PDF. Please refer to the PDF membership applications for full details.
These powerful, mutual "protection" programs go a long way towards removing the fear of asserting one’s rights in the face of increasingly oppressive taxing authorities. With the financial threat of asserting one’s liberty thereby removed by spreading the reimbursement costs among all members, "closet" Patriots are joining the Fellowship in droves.
*** Welcome to the Constitutional Revivalist Movement! ***
WHAT SAPF IS NOT: The Fellowship is NOT a "tax protest" organization, but a First Amendment association dedicated to confining IRS and other government personnel within the written law. The association recognizes the necessity of taxation (raising of revenues) but also recognizes that this necessity has provisions in the law and that the government in meeting its exigencies may not extend its activities beyond the law.
The Fellowship actively promotes the study of the law and the assertion of one’s rights in accordance with the law. Since it does not "protest" or "object" to any tax - income or otherwise - it is NOT a "tax protest" organization.
DO YOU KNOW YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE LAW?: The law must be written in clear language so that any Citizen of average intelligence can understand it, otherwise, as the courts have ruled, it must be held "void for vagueness". When it comes to the law, only the citizen can decide if s/he is liable for federal and/or state income taxes and to file returns.
THE COMMON UNDERSTANDING OF MAN CANNOT BE APPLIED TO THE LAW!:
"Because of what appears to be a lawful command on the surface, many Citizens, because of their respect for what appears to be law, are cunningly coerced into waiving their rights due to ignorance." - U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. v. Minker, 350 US 179 at 187.
In our constitutionally limited Republic, rights cannot be taxed but privileges can be taxed, which is why there is freedom in understanding your actual, legal liabilities and legal requirements under the law.
REMEMBER: It’s not always what you don’t know that can hurt you the most, ... but what you "know" ... THAT JUST ISN’T SO!!!
TYPES OF MEMBERSHIP AND ASSOCIATED COSTS—
LIMITED MASTER MEMBERSHIP: A one-time payment of F$350 is required for the primary adult member in a given household to join SAPF as a Limited Master Member. The Limited Membership is an educational membership ONLY and therefore does not include access to Fellowship legal defense and support services available to Full Members only.
However, the Affidavit of Revocation and Rescission (to revoke the SS-5 application which resulted in a Social Security Number Account being established) is available to the Limited Member as are all materials available through the Fellowship Bookstore, including all back issues of "RA", which Limited Members are highly encouraged to purchase and study (see the back pages of any recent issue of RA for a current listing of available materials).
FULL MASTER MEMBERSHIP: A one-time payment of F$675 is required for a Full Master Membership. This is a legal defense and support membership which provides access to the Case Development Department (member is assigned a personal case worker to respond under Power of Attorney to correspondence received by the member from the IRS, to make Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act requests, and other case development work), Paralegal Department assistance (court filings and motions, bankruptcy to stay IRS collection actions, etc.), and access to the National Worker’s Rights Committee (assists members with employment related issues such as stopping withholding in the workplace, with state tax issues and with criminal investigations).
UPGRADING FROM LIMITED TO FULL MEMBER: A Limited Member can upgrade his or her membership status to that of Full Member at any time by returning their original Fellowship Program Agreement to their original enrolling Independent Representative, along with a completed and revised Fellowship Program Agreement indicating the upgrade to Full Member, and making the F$325 balance of membership payment (the difference in initial joining fees between the Limited and Full memberships).
CO-MEMBERSHIP: Additional members of the same household age 18 or over and residing at the same physical address (spouse, adult child, parent or other family member) may join as a Co-Member at the same time as the Master Limited or Full Member or at any time in the future by filling out a Fellowship Program Agreement and enclosing a payment of F$100.
The Co-Member has the same status as the Master Membership to which it is "attached", Therefore, when a Master Limited Member upgrades to Master Full Member, the Co-Member’s status also upgrades to Full Member (no paperwork is required from the Co-Member to accomplish this upgrade).
MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS: A payment of F$70 per member is required each year to renew each separate membership (whether Limited, Full, or Co-Member) and will be billed to the member on the anniversary date of his or her enrollment.
MEMBERSHIP ID NUMBER: Within a short period from receipt of an application for membership at Fellowship headquarters, the newly accepted member’s original, signed application will be returned directly to the member with an assigned membership number written on it, indicating formal acceptance into the Fellowship and eligibility to immediately access appropriate Fellowship services.
A new member does not have to wait for his or her Membership ID no. to be assigned in order to contact headquarters and request services or assistance. For this reason, if a Full Member requires case development work, this may be started immediately (see "Your Case Worker" below).
Please note that no membership lists or copies of application(s) are kept at Fellowship headquarters in order to fully protect the privacy of the membership. All records are kept at undisclosed, redundant off site locations. Likewise, the Fellowship does not make its membership list available to any other party under any circumstances.
MEMBERSHIP ENROLLMENT: Members are enrolled into the Fellowship by exam-certified Independent Representatives nationwide. An enrollment commission is retained by the enrolling IR. Many member/IR’s support their families part or full-time through their educational/enrollment activities. An SAPF Limited or Full member in good standing can register to take the IR Certifying Examination at any time.
For a Fellowship Program Agreement (membership application) contact or call:
Jim Deal
Independent Representative: SAPF
(713) 393-3117CASE DEVELOPMENT UNDER POWER OF ATTORNEY: A Full Member has the option of giving Power of Attorney (POA) to Fellowship founder and fiduciary, John Kotmair, and most members do. As soon the new Full Member’s application for membership has been received at Fellowship headquarters, s/he should call the Fellowship to obtain the name of his/her caseworker. This person will be available to answer the member’s questions regarding any correspondence received by the member from the IRS.
Under no circumstances will the caseworker provide legal or other tax advice, however s/he will gladly review the member’s available options under the law and explain what other members have done in similar circumstances.
Case development is managed under the POA program, where the member’s due process rights are asserted by exhausting all of the member’s available due process rights and administrative remedies by timely responding to all IRS letters, rebutting incorrect presumptions, putting IRS on legal notice of the misapplication of their own code resulting in wrongful procedure against the member, etc.
Under POA, a copy of all IRS correspondence received by the member is immediately forwarded to his or her caseworker, including a copy of the front face of the envelope that it arrived in. NEVER, EVER SEND ORIGINAL IRS DOCUMENTS TO THE FELLOWSHIP!
The case worker prepares the proper legal "vehicle" (reply correspondence) on the member’s behalf and forwards it to the IRS, certified mail, return receipt requested. A copy of this letter is sent to the member with an invoice for the service performed (see "Payments" below).
The case worker will forward a customized POA form. The original POA form must be retained by the member and copied from as needed (do not use the original). POA’s must be signed in visibly blue ink only (light blue is preferable) as the IRS will claim that POA’s signed in black ink may be copies (when clearly they are not - a tiresome but predictable delaying tactic).
The IRS refuses to honor POA’s that are over sixty (60) days old, therefore the member under case development must forward his or her case worker three (3) current, signed and notarized or co-witnessed POA’s at least each forty-five (45) days.
"VEHICLES": Letters generated by SAPF on behalf of Full Members are called "vehicles" which may be responses to correspondence received by the member from the IRS or may be actions the member him/herself initiates. Each vehicle is reviewed by several levels of highly trained SAPF staff for legal and grammatical accuracy. Since vehicles are generated on the member’s behalf in a timely manner upon request, with value being thereby advanced to the member prior to their being billed for SAPF services, the following timely payment options are offered to keep the Fellowship financially healthy.
PAYMENTS FOR SERVICES AND MATERIALS: Since the Fellowship will not do business with known lawbreakers such as bankers who routinely violate the law when they turn their customers’ records and monies (i.e., private property) over to the taxing agencies, and to safeguard the financial privacy of all members, all payments to the Fellowship must be made by totally BLANK U.S. Postal Money Orders ONLY (with payor and payee areas left completely blank).
Notes may be made on the receipt after having separated it from the money order itself (top page), and kept for one’s records. NOTE: money orders from banks or convenience stores are not accepted.
All payments must be sent to SAPF via certified mail with green card return receipt requested. The postal service has an internal procedure to trace and replace lost or missing money orders.
Send cash (FRN’s) through the mail at your own risk.
A charge of F$48 is made for each vehicle. A reduction of F$10 is allowed (F$38 total) if payment is received by the Fellowship within 10 days (as judged by the postmark on the payment envelope) of the date stamped in red ink on your invoice, and a reduction of F$5 is allowed (F$43 total) if payment is received within 30 days.
Important Note: case work will be suspended during any period of delinquency in making payments for SAPF services which have already been performed.
RECORD KEEPING: It is the member’s responsibility to keep good records. All membership documents including (but not limited to) the original membership application; the originals of all IRS and and/or state taxing authority letters received by the member; all SAPF letters generated under POA on the member’s behalf; all SAPF invoices and proofs of payment of same; all postal service certified mailing receipts, and; all books and videos purchased by the member must be kept by you in a safe and secure place. To protect the member’s privacy, no records are maintained by the Fellowship. Therefore, the emphasis on good filing and record keeping on the part of the member cannot be overemphasized!
MEMBERSHIP NEWSLETTER: The Fellowship publishes an outstanding bimonthly newsletter called Reasonable Action (RA) which is available to members only and is a masterpiece of legal analysis and commentary regarding Title 26 (Internal Revenue Code) and IRS regulations, as well as numerous insightful articles dealing with taxation and other issues of concern to members.
A six-issue subscription is included with each Master or Limited Membership and can be renewed annually for F$35 six additional issues (see mailing label for issue of expiration).
The RA is offset printed by Fellowship staffers in-house, so back issues are usually available. Past RA’s are an absolutely indispensable addition to the member’s knowledge base and should be studied as part of his or her ongoing education as to the IRS’ routine misapplication and violation of the law.
PARALEGAL WORK: In the event a Full Member should need court motions or other legal actions instituted, SAPF’s paralegal department will prepare the proper documents for a reasonable fee. This department also assists Full Members in state tax issues.
NATIONAL WORKERS RIGHTS COMMITTEE: The National Workers Rights Committee (NWRC) division will prepare letters on behalf of a Full Member with regard to, among other issues, stopping the withholding of income and employment taxes in the workplace.
FREEDOMNET BBS: Similar to Prodigy or Compuserve, the SAPF bulletin board system (BBS) can be accessed by the general public 24-hours a day via computer and modem by dialing (410)-857-4455. There is no charge to access the BBS for either members or the public. Fellowship members (only) are granted access to such higher BBS areas as the entire Internal Revenue Code and Treasury regulations on CD-ROM which can be researched and downloaded online.
TELEPHONE CONSULTATIONS: John Kotmair currently takes telephone calls from both members and the general public between the hours of 10:00AM-12:00NOON and 2:00-5:00PM EST at (410)-857-4441 on Mondays only. John is available for in-person appointments in his office at the Fellowship’s Westminster, Maryland headquarters on Fridays only (although.
MAXIMIZE MEMBERSHIP WITH THESE TOOLS:
- Purchase all available back issues of Reasonable Action (published since 1987) and read them.
- Membership in the Patriot Defense Program (PDF) - F$35 annually.
Details are provided on the PDF application, available from an Independent Representative.
- The recently released, ground-breaking 12-hour SAPF video seminar titled "Just The Facts" which comes with an Affidavit of Purchase for F$210, which includes shipping and handling. An audio cassette version is also available for F$65 (the IRS and Department of Justice (DoJ) are rather reluctant to let any 12 jurors watch this entire videotape which is why they often walk away from the criminal prosecution of a well-prepared patriot).
- Copies of the Internal Revenue Code and the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 600 to end. Both are available from the Fellowship Bookstore as outlined in each RA.
For a Fellowship Program Agreement (membership application) contact or call:
Jim Deal
Independent Representative: SAPF
(713) 393-3117
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