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Readers of 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America' have already retained or taken back well over
from the federal and state governments-- including Social Security and Medicare 'contributions'-- and kept it in their own pockets where it belongs, simply by knowing what the law actually says. These Americans have gotten back every penny they've paid or had withheld from them during the year in connection with the "income tax", and have secured written acknowledgements that they owed nothing-- many for several years in a row now.
YOU NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH, TOO!!
THE LOST HORIZONS NEWS
May 9 & 16, 2008
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Here Are Some Of This Edition's Highlights
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Dear friends, I'm delighted when anyone wishes to share what I have posted here with others! But I'd appreciate your doing so by directing your friends here themselves, rather than by copying and emailing the material.
Thank you for your courtesy.
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Significant anniversaries of this fortnight:
May 9- In 1945, Vidkun Quisling, who had been installed as Premier of Norway after the country had been invaded and occupied by Germany, is arrested. He would later be executed for treason. In 1974, formal impeachment proceedings against Richard Nixon for offenses stemming from a warrantless surveillance scheme begin in the House of Representatives. (Continued below...) |
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This is just for those in the "tax honesty" community...
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"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." -Samuel Adams
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C'Mon, People! Let's Make A Warrior Video! "In times of change, those who are ready to learn will inherit the world, while those who believe they know will be marvelously prepared to deal with a world that has ceased to exist." -Eric Hoffer
As we all know, seeing is believing, and more people will watch a ten-minute video than will read a web page or printout. Having watched the remarkable outreach success of the video presentations made to promote the Ron Paul Revolution, I think that the truth about the income tax needs to take a page from that play-book.
Therefore, I'm asking everyone to spend a few minutes in front of his or her webcam to record a brief testimonial to be included in a video compilation that I suspect will help get the word out like nothing else. An example of what I mean can be seen here. This is recorded at 640 x 480, VGA format, and saved as a .wmv (Windows movie file). (.Avi, .mpeg1 or .mpeg2 formats are also fine, but please try to stick with one of these.) Finished file size is about 1.5MB for this statement, the text of which is, "I'm (your name). I learned the fascinating truth about the income tax at losthorizons.com. Then I filed a tax return knowledgably for the first time in my life and got back every penny withheld from me, including Social Security taxes."
This script should be modified if appropriate to your victory. For instance, yours might be:
Show the checks, notices, transcripts and so forth, as I have done in the example. Keep the clip short (but unrushed). If you are inspired to add something motivational after the script, please do! Just keep it to a single, concise additional sentence. Then email me your clip, and we'll show the YouTube world that free men and women don't wait on some political (or other) process before exercising their rights.
By the way, everyone is more than welcome to also create and post complete videos of their own, as well...
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The Desperation Of The "Ignorance Tax" Defenders IGNORANCE TAX: An unnecessary exaction suffered out of ignorance as to its lawful objects and the means of its application by someone too lazy, frightened or misled to learn how it really works and to what it really applies. See "Income Tax", "Social Security Tax", "Medicare Tax" and "Federal Unemployment Tax".
A NOTABLE UPSURGE IN CtC-EDUCATED VICTORIES issuing forth over the last several weeks have been matched by a corresponding upsurge in the efforts of the IRS and its tools to spread dissuasions, distractions and disinformation about CtC. Somehow, I don't believe that this is a mere coincidence...
Some of these efforts are pseudo-sophisticated, involving the presentation of of elaborate legal theories. Often these theories are "supported" by voluminous excerpts of statutes-- modern or ancient-- and a half-dozen out-of-context or incomplete judicial citations. In other cases the theorists rely on little more than admittedly impressive (sometimes even worrisome) expressions of sincerity on the part of the presenter. The two things all these theories have in common (other than being wrong) are poor research (or the deliberate omission of relevant material which would contradict the desired conclusion) and the notable lack of any concrete evidence of their ever having been implemented productively (and often, a lack of evidence of their ever having been implemented at all...).
Sometimes what is presented in furtherance of these efforts to dissuade, distract and distort doesn't involve any theorizing or assertions about the law, but is merely disingenuous.
Here are just a few examples of what I have seen moving around throughout the patriot community, during the time since the last edition of this newsletter:
(This awkward assertion was accompanied by a three-page opinion by a district court judge so heavily redacted by the person circulating it that it is not possible for a recipient to look into the matter for him- or herself (see it here). The only thing that can be gleaned from this model of obfuscation is that it concerns a habeas corpus petition.)
My response (to each of those sending me the same thing for comment):
(There may well be folks out there that have been convicted of something or other in connection with filings showing no "income", or filings involving rebuttal instruments such as 4852s, for instance, and reporting little or no "income" as well. However, such filings can't be presumed to have been accurate and proper, or to reflect any knowledge of CtC at all.
Irwin Schiff and his followers made "zero returns" into an IRS-recognized category of filing, for instance, and adherents of the "861 theory" did-- and may still do-- filings showing no "income" and even making partially correct use of 4852s in some cases. The filings of both of these groups are grounded in fundamental misunderstandings of the law though, and typically suffer from fatal flaws due to additional characteristics and/or omissions.
There also may well be folks out there with accurate CtC-educated returns and convictions co-mingled in their stories, too, by now-- returns filed in an 11th-hour effort to escape the consequences of past bad practices. I have heard from more than a few people over the last few years who, having been indicted concerning long years of operating through complex trust arrangements, or stumbling down the "corporation sole" or UCC paths, or whatever, coupled with non-filing or filing under some misunderstanding, who belatedly-- thanks in large part to the distractions and disinformation I'm addressing in this commentary-- learned of CtC, and conceived of a hope that they would be able to make their problems all go away.
Unfortunately, most crimes of the sort involved here are, however improperly, treated as crimes of intent-- that is, hinging on what the actor believed and meant to accomplish when the act was committed, without regard for any objective reality about whether a liability really existed, and so forth. In such cases, the belated filing of even the most accurate return can prove to be effectively immaterial to the charges. Any convictions that may have occurred in such cases wouldn't be convictions "because of using the Cracking the Code material"-- they would be convictions DESPITE "using the Cracking the Code material".)
Then there was this one:
(Asked for comment, I responded as follows:
The "AHA!" assertion above had closely followed another of a similar sort circulated a few days previously, apparently posted on some newsgroup or forum page in regard to the Wesley Snipes conviction:
(Asked if I had any comment, I responded with the following:
(Included on the first linked page to which I referred my correspondent above are the standing IRS instructions for how to withhold from those who do not have or do not furnish an SSN. Read that again, if necessary: the standing IRS instructions for how to withhold from those who do not have or do not furnish an SSN or other TIN... Understand this clearly. The way the tax really works doesn't depend on anyone giving a number to anyone else; and giving a number to anyone else doesn't cause the process to inexorably come to bear on one, either. Read www.losthorizons.com/appendix.htm#W-4s to get a quick understanding of this.))
In light of these latter two entries, and as an aside to the more general remarks of this commentary, I'll take this opportunity to observe that the folks playing at this SSN fetish in particular almost have to be a tax agency-run group. They endlessly seek to convince everyone that the application of the tax to anyone's receipts revolves around the existence of a number which the individual involved can do nothing about! The number belongs to the SSA, not the individual, and the individual has no power to remove the number from existence (and in many cases had nothing to do with its coming into existence in the first place, either). What better way to keep victims of the "ignorance tax" spinning their wheels in complete ineffectiveness than to convince them-- or even just encourage them to suspect-- that their only solution to their troubles lies in something they cannot accomplish?
Therefore, for the benefit of those subjected to the harangues of these folks without yet having been inoculated by reading CtC: The tax applies whether you "have" or don't "have" (or use or don't use) a social security number. It applies whether you are a "U.S. Citizen" (or "U.S. citizen", or "non-resident alien", or "resident alien", or "U.S. national", or "state citizen" or even the Man in the Moon), BECAUSE IT DOESN'T APPLY BASED ON YOUR STATUS, BUT UPON WHAT YOU HAVE DONE.
The legal (taxable) nature of "what you have done" doesn't depend on status either-- that is, your activities are not (and do not become) "taxable activities" because of your status as a U.S. Citizen, etc.. No one's receipts qualify as "wages", for instance, (relevant to the "income" tax) just because someone calls (or treats) him or her an "employee", or because he or she is (or is called) a "U.S. Citizen" (or "U.S. citizen", or "non-resident alien", or "resident alien", or "U.S. national", or "state citizen" or the Man in the Moon). Nor do anyone's investment gains or other receipts become "capital gains" or other variously-denominated forms of "income" because of any status consideration.
Nor do they qualify because the recipient has communicated a Social Security number to the payer. Receipts qualify as "wages" ONLY WHEN THEY ARE PAID TO SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY IS A FEDERAL WORKER AS DEFINED IN THE RELEVANT STATUTES, AND ARE PAID TO THAT PERSON FOR PERFORMING SERVICE AS SUCH. INVESTMENT GAINS ONLY QUALIFY AS "CAPITAL GAINS" WHEN THEY REALLY DO PROCEED FROM PARTICIPATING IN THE EXERCISE OF FEDERAL POWER, PRIVILEGE OR PREROGATIVE BY WAY OF INVESTMENT.
It's this simple: If a receipt doesn't ACTUALLY proceed from an inherently federally-taxable activity (that is, an activity which is, by its nature, federally-taxable as "income" NO MATTER WHO PERFORMS IT), it doesn't represent "income". I'll put this in another way: the ONLY entity whose "status" could be said to cause its gain-producing activities to be "taxable activities" is the federal government itself (including all of its agencies, corporations and instrumentalities), but only because being what it is, everything it does is, in fact, inherently the exercise of a federal power or prerogative (a "taxable activity").
There is only one functional exception to these rules, and that is that anyone can cause even their receipts which are not inherently "income" to be legally treated as such, by actively declaring them to be so ON A TAX RETURN (and only on a tax return), or by passively defaulting to the same effect in the face of relevant "information return" testimony.
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Whether deploying pseudo-sophisticated or merely ludicrous "theories", or nothing but simple distortion, all of these efforts at dissuasion, distraction and disinformation share two key characteristics: they involve a calculated suppression of relevant facts, and they rely on those who they hope will be taken in-- and will help spread the nonsense-- to make no effort to verify or analyze what is being promoted.
Actually, there is one other key characteristic to these efforts: they all work to delay, if not thwart, the overall victory of the truth about the "income" tax over the lie by which Americans have been effectively enslaved for more than 70 years. Consequently, these efforts MUST be opposed.
I have long maintained a request for your help in addressing these efforts here. Please, PLEASE, follow that link. Read that page, take it seriously, and do your part.
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The March To Victory There is only one place where actual, positive victories on behalf of the truth about the income tax are being won, and that is within the ranks of those educated by 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America'. Here are this week's additions to the ever-growing mountain of such victories, each of which represents a concrete shift of overall power and control away from the state and back to individual Americans where it belongs.
Taking Action (And ONLY Taking Action) Brings Results
Ever notice how everybody complains about the overgrown, arrogant federal government, but nobody actually does anything about it? Well, actually, some of us DO do something about it.
The Americans you're about to meet know the difference between talking the talk and walking the walk. These heroes read 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America' and learned the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about the "income" tax. They know who's really in charge, and how, and why. They're done arguing with the social director about the best arrangement of the deck chairs on the Titanic, and have gone down to the engine room to make some changes. (Interestingly, April 15 was the date the Titanic sank...)
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How About You? Have You Done Your Fair Share In Support Of The Rule Of Law ?!
Or are you STILL unable to let actual hard facts and evidence overcome the mere propaganda you've been fed all your life by those with a well-defined and substantial financial interest in keeping you mindlessly ignorant of the truth about the tax?
If this is still true, after everything you've read to get to this point, you're probably hopeless, but click here, anyway.
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Those who are NOT hopeless will be interested in knowing that:
By the way, those who have stood up and taken proper action WITHOUT having yet enjoyed a lawful response are already victors as well. The moment that a proper and accurate filing is made the virtuous blow on behalf of the rule of law has been struck.
The moment that a proper and accurate filing is made the entire exploitation-of-ignorance-as-usual machine stops dead for that filer and that period, and there's no restarting it again (unless the filer can be intimidated into rescission...). At that point, all current and future illegitimate claims to the filer's property are undone, and the filer's claim for the return of any relevant property is established. It's just a matter of waiting for the headless chicken to stop running around.
However, I don't have a simple way to display victories at that stage of progress.
If you're in the category of those who have acted, but whose proper filings are being resisted, rest assured that your victory IS recognized and honored. And watch this space. In some not-too-distant future newsletter, I'll be announcing a program for displaying you and your victory-in-waiting.
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Of Ongoing Interest
I might be movin' to Montana, soon... (As was recommended here long ago, the governor of Montana has told the "Dept. of Homeland Security" to shove its "REAL ID", sensibly reasoning that the entire population of a state isn't going to be cut off from federal courts and commercial air travel in service to an indefensible and unconstitutional neofascist scheme...)
On a somewhat related subject, click here and here for material regarding passports and SSNs
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Faux News- We Distort, You Subside...
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Want The Truth About Global Warming? Click Below And Watch This Important Film 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' (Heard a lot of hoopla about greater-than-normal melting on the western edge of Antarctica lately? Turns out there's an active volcano beneath that ice...)
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A good, detailed history of the current conflict in the Middle East...
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A remarkable 62-year-old explanation of what's going on in Washington today...
Aren't You Glad You've Taken Control Of Whether Any Of YOUR Money Goes To Washington, Just As The Framers Intended?
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A page devoted to the 9/11 pretext and how it's being used "What luck for the
rulers that men do not think."
Those continuing to be taken in by the ridiculous and thoroughly debunked mythology about the events of 9/11 endlessly promoted and exploited by the Bush administration and its fellow travelers really need to wake up, and do so quickly. (Click here for a short video nicely expressing this crass and cynical exploitation.)
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"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of -James Madison
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Going On Offense
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Preparing For The Writs Of Mandamus As useful material is contributed for the development of the writ action, the contributions will be noted below. The material itself will be found appended to the preparatory document linked above. 12/26/07 Warrior Thomas Wilson has contributed
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