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As the chief fiduciary officers of the Corporation known as The United Church of Canada, you bear personal liability for the following crimes, which I publicly charge you and your church of committing:

1. Violating international law by aiding and abetting a war-making government, namely, the government of Canada, in its unprovoked attack on a non-aggressor sovereign nation, the country of Afghanistan, and

2. Actively defrauding and robbing the people of Canada by your falsely posing as a Christian religious body in order to avoid paying taxes.

On the first charge:

As a creation of the government of Canada in 1925, the United Church of Canada has faithfully preached compliance with war taxes and warfare from its pulpits during every war engaged in by Canada since that year, and has maintained active chaplaincy programs within the Canadian army, navy and air force. This institutional involvement in militarism by the United Church has allowed the machinery of war to murder untold numbers of innocent people.

As further proof of your intentional involvement in war, in 1991 and 2002, the United Church actually refused not only a call by non-violent Christians and Quakers to end those chaplaincy programs, but their additional call for a stance of neutrality by Canada towards the nations of Iraq and Afghanistan, in accordance with the teachings of Jesus.

Such a refusal by the United Church to abide by the simplest and most basic commands of Jesus illuminates the actual nature of your corporation as a state-affiliated rather than a religious body. Further proof of this is that, as an arm of the government, the United Church of Canada led the domestic war against aboriginal nations in your assault on their land and children by your administering of the terrorist “Indian Residential Schools”, in which more than 50,000 innocent children died as a result of a deliberate policy and practice by your church of ethnic cleansing, germ warfare, and systemic homicide. Such are the actions of a war-making government towards a conquered people, not a religious body.

The huge deception and fraud being perpetrated on the people of Canada by your church is illustrated not only by such murderous actions by your church, but by the simple fact that there is nothing within your founding charter, or in the federal legislation that created your church, that requires that you as a body either endorse wars by Canada or operate chaplaincy programs within the Canadian military - any more than you were ever legally authorized to commit genocide and warfare against the indigenous people of Canada. And yet your church has systematically engaged and is engaging in these crimes while operating under the guise of a religious, "charitable" Christian body.

Under the law, that is known as fraud.

Consequently, as a Christ-posturing body which denies Christ and his teachings in practice, the United Church of Canada must do one of two things in order to avoid prosecution for fraud: either your church must publicly disavow the non-violent teachings of Jesus and declare itself to be a non-Christian and non-religious organization, or you must immediately end all of your military chaplaincy programs which help sustain the Canadian military in its illegal war against the Afghan people.

On the second charge:

It would be more than naive of me and others to expect your church to deny its nature as an offspring of the state itself, and challenge the arrangement whereby war-blessing church is protected by an appreciative war-making state in a happy if adulterous marriage of convenience. What we do expect is some honesty about the nature of that relationship, as do the many thousands of tithing church members whose money is helping to fund the murder of Afghans and other people by your church’s maintenance of the infrastructure of the Canadian military.

I, and they, and every tax-paying Canadian citizen who financially supports your church, expect a moral accounting by a church that claims to be preaching the words of Jesus of Nazareth, who told us to put away our swords, embrace our persecutors, and not shed blood, for any reason whatsoever. For only by acting as such an expression of Jesus himself can you, as a body, expect to receive any form of tax exemption under Canadian law.

Under the Income Tax Act of Canada, your church is absolved from paying any taxes in Canada because of your official status as a religious body, not a "charity". Taxpayers in Canada pay more than $15 billion every year under the mistaken perception that your church, and others, are actually behaving in a religious, Christian manner. The point is, why should every household in Canada continue to pay an estimated $2,200 every year to carry your tax burden for you when you are actively defrauding the people and government of Canada by your posturing as a religious body?

The only basis on which the United Church of Canada is not paying taxes every year is its supposed status as a religious body, since it is not operating as a charity, which must designate all of its revenue to strictly charitable purposes - not to the corporate investments, public relations firms, institutional maintenance and legal advisors which consume much of the United Church's revenue. And yet, according to the Income Tax Act, a religious body must "actively advance the teachings and morals" of its religion.

Since the United Church of Canada refuses to advance, that is, practice, the essential teaching of Christianity - the non-violent love of enemies and a refusal to support war - it can and must be disqualified from eligibility for tax exemption under Canadian law.

1. The United Church of Canada is actively colluding in crimes under international law by supporting a machinery of warfare by the Canadian state against a non-aggressor nation, the sovereign state of Afghanistan.

2. The United Church of Canada has actively defrauded the people of Canada and has consequently robbed them of at least $100 billion in unpaid taxes since 1925.

3. Consequently, you, Jim Sinclair and Peter Short, are personally liable and responsible for these crimes, as is every official of the United Church of Canada. You are therefore declared to be criminals under the laws of Canada and international law, and are subject to immediate citizens' arrest if Canadian authorities refuse to detain you.

4. The United Church of Canada must immediately begin paying back to the people of Canada all of the monies fraudulently taken from them by the United Church's non-payment of taxes, by mortgaging all of its property and selling all of its investments, lands, and other revenues.

5. The United Church of Canada must immediately be disqualified from eligibility for tax exemption under the Income Tax Act of Canada.

A Public Declaration of Notice and Demand, Made this 17th day of January, 2007, by me,

Rev. Kevin Daniel Annett,

a free and unalienable person under Common Law jurisdiction, and a minister of the Gospel of Christ as protected under the Criminal Code of Canada