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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

Current Events and Continuing Education for the 3rd through the 17th of July, 2009

 

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Declaration Day is coming up fast!!

Make your plans now to be at the Fourth Annual CtC Declaration Day Party on July 4 in Commerce Twp., Michigan!!

This is your last chance to be let me know you want to be included...

 

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CtC Warrior Michael Higgins and Element 115 present:

'Warrior'

Be one.

 

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Here Are Some Of This Edition's Highlights

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Regular Features:

And, as always, much, much more...

 

 

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Thank you for your courtesy.

 

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You can't understand the present if you don't understand the past...

Illuminating Anniversaries Of This Week

 

July 3- In 1775, George Washington takes command of the Continental Army.  In 1778, British Loyalists massacre 360 American patriots in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania.  In 1884, the Dow Jones publishes its first stock average.  In 1890, Idaho is admitted to the union as the 43rd of the several states.  In 1952, the United States Congress approves what passes for Puerto Rico's Constitution.  In 1988, the USS Vincennes shoots down Iran Air flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 aboard.

 

Anniversaries of interest for each day of the upcoming week will be found throughout the newsletter below.

 

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FOREWORD

This is just for those in the "tax honesty" community...

 

"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

 

Hunting For Holes Is An Empty Exercise, And Just What A Corrupt Government Wants You To Be Doing

 

I had occasion this week to browse a few CtC state forum exchanges, and I was disturbed to encounter several ongoing discussions of the, "Why is it that some of us keep facing balky tax-agency behavior?  What are we missing?" variety.  The underlying notion is that there is something overlooked in CtC that is being exploited to legitimize the scattershot tax-agency bad behavior to which a few CtC-educated filers have been subjected over the years, even while most continue to win victory after victory in invoking and upholding the law without ever having to deal with any evasions by the relevant governments.

 

Simply observing that the bad behavior is scattershot should be enough to put such errant notions to rest by itself.  Obviously, if there were actually "something missing" from what CtC teaches about the law that legitimizes tax-agency resistance to educated, accurate filings, it would be being exploited uniformly.  There would be no victories to post-- or certainly none since 2004, when, according to the testimony of IRS agent Shauna Henline, CtC-educated returns began being subjected to special scrutiny in addition to the standard extra attention that any filing showing little or no "income"-- but seeking the return of amounts withheld-- already receives.

 

Even more obviously, if there was something missing from what CtC teaches about the law that legitimizes tax-agency resistance to educated, accurate filings, there wouldn't be a single case of an agency attempting to offer resistance to such a filing-- sometimes stretching out for more than a year of intense contact between the agency and the educated filer-- before ultimately surrendering to that filing, as is documented in the dozens of such cases presented in the 'Every Which Way But Loose' series and the 'Victory Highlights'.  (You'll see the latest of these posted this week as 'Every Which Way But Loose' Episode XXVI-- Forest Anderson's slap-down of an IRS effort to disregard his educated filing for 2007, making for his fifth victory on behalf of the rule of law so far.)

 

For that matter, if there was something missing from what CtC teaches about the law that legitimizes tax-agency resistance to educated, accurate filings, the IRS would have been able to actually win (or at least engage in) a court case against me.  Instead, it was forced to formally concede that it cannot by withdrawing from its first three attempts, and then eventually resorted to an elaborate charade of bringing a bogus "lawsuit" against my wife and me in which the district court carefully makes a deliberate series of due process (and other) errors so as to enable it to issue a "ruling" which is inherently void, but which the IRS and DOJ have callously flashed in front of the naive as a "victory", confident that most folks won't trouble themselves to look behind the press release and learn the truth.

 

Folks, those of you that have been doing so have got to stop wasting time looking for holes to plug.  There are no holes.

 

What you have learned in CtC is the complete picture.  The constant capitulation to CtC, more and more evidence of which is posted every week at losthorizons.com in a multitude of different ways, makes this unmistakably clear.  The fact that the beneficiaries of the corrupt status quo haven't stopped flailing about looking for ways of evading the truth, and haven't abandoned periodically testing such ploys and evasions on unfortunate victims who then have to ride out and defeat their own personal little storm of bureaucratic bad behavior, isn't an indication of holes.  It is simply an indication that those who deny the truth and the law are thuggish criminals who will persist in trying to keep their gravy-train rolling for as long as possible.

 

THE MOST EFFECTIVE MEANS DEPLOYED BY THESE THUGS IN THEIR STRUGGLE TO EVADE THE TRUTH AND THE LAW IS GETTING YOU TO SPEND YOUR TIME AND ENERGY TRYING TO IDENTIFY OR PLUG NON-EXISTENT HOLES!

 

When you're looking for "holes" (or letting fear of them sap your strength) you're NOT out in the community explaining to everyone you can that unapportioned federal capitations-- that is, taxes on general, unprivileged receipts or earnings-- are illegal; that what can (and does) qualify as "income" within the context of the unapportioned "income tax" is therefore necessarily (and as a matter of statutory specification) circumscribed accordingly; and that the government is doing everything it can to keep the American people from becoming aware of these facts, by doing everything it can to discourage the reading of a transformational little book entitled 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America'.

 

When you're looking for "holes" (or letting fear of them sap your strength), you're NOT confidently moving forward, introducing your testimony, and standing up prominently as an example to all of what a real American does to uphold and enforce the Constitution against all its enemies, foreign and domestic.

 

When you're looking for "holes" (or letting fear of them sap your strength), you're NOT impatiently correcting or dismissing every "tax honesty" guru, media-figure, or simple correspondent who persists in wallowing in CtC-denial.

 

When you're looking for "holes" (or letting fear of them sap your strength), you're NOT rebutting or deleting every "silver-bullet" email about social security numbers, or citizenship and residency, or Title 15, or PRA, or UCC, or whatever else is the "distraction-of-the-week" launched into cyberspace by an "ignorance tax"-addicted government desperate to keep you in a state of confusion; desperate to keep you milling about and ineffective; and most of all desperate to keep you doing ANYTHING except forthrightly acting on what you have learned about the law in CtC and spreading the word to others.

 

The facts are simple and inescapable:

  • CtC presents the complete, liberating truth about the income tax, which will prevail universally when enough Americans know that truth;

  • the government is corruptly addicted to the convenience, wealth and power it enjoys by exploiting general public ignorance of that truth;

  • the government is persistently flailing about trying to suppress that truth both by periodic efforts to intimidate individual educated filers, and by constant efforts to put disinformation and doubt into circulation; and

  • the only way those efforts at suppression can succeed is if you cooperate, by letting yourself be distracted or intimidated into inaction or silence.

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ARE YOU READY?

 

There is an important new film that ALL AMERICANS need to watch.  They won't though, unless YOU see that they do.  If each of you receiving this newsletter send this link: http://www.losthorizons.com/AreYouReady.htm to ten others and urge them to go there and watch, this film will be seen by hundreds of thousands of eyes (and if you send to 100 others, so much the better).

 

Please do this.

 

PLEASE drop all other issues, arguments, study and whatever else you're doing for as long as it takes to send this film to everyone you can.  Make it go viral.  Help infect every American with a fever for action on behalf of the rule of law.

 

After Sending 'Are You Ready?' To Everyone In Your Address Book...

 

...send it to Jacob Hornberger at FFF (jhornberger@fff.org); Lew Rockwell (Lew@LewRockwell.com); Paul Craig Roberts at paulcraigroberts@yahoo.com; Glenn Greenwald at GGreenwald@gclaw.us; Thomas E. Woods, Jr. at woods@mises.org; and any others you know who are blessed with a bully pulpit and not invested in Leviathan.  Attach the file found at www.losthorizons.com/Intro.pdf, and the one at www.losthorizons.com/PostSCPetition.pdf.

 

All of these folks are true lovers of liberty, and are good at heart, but all have also dodged learning (or facing) the truth about the tax, and thus have never lent their significant voices to helping that liberating truth do the transformational work of which it alone is capable.  They all need to be gently and courteously persuaded to begin doing their part, and to join with those Americans who are actually acting to restore the rule of law, not just complaining about its demise.

 

Be prepared to direct them to particularly illuminating episodes in the 'Every Which Way But Loose' series, such as those here, here and here; and to the other films and resources posted here; but mostly be prepared to do a little courteous dialoguing, while staying adamantly on point that consideration be given only to the facts, rather than what "everybody knows".

 

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C'mon, People!  Let's Make MORE Warrior Videos!

 

NO ONE ELSE IS GOING TO DO THIS FOR YOU

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."

-Edmund Burke

 

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:

  • "I'm _________.  I learned the fascinating truth about the income tax at losthorizons.com.  Then I shut down an IRS "deficiency proceeding" and got a nice, polite "closing notice" from from the agency by acting on my new knowledge of the law," or,

  • "I'm ________.  I learned the fascinating truth about the income tax at losthorizons.com.  Since then I have filed tax returns knowledgably for the first time in my life and have gotten back every penny withheld from me, including Social Security taxes, for three years now," or,

  • "I'm ________.  I learned the fascinating truth about the income tax at losthorizons.com.  Since then I have filed tax returns knowledgably for the first time in my life and have gotten hard-copy IRS acknowledgements that I had no taxable income for the years involved, and owed no taxes at all."

  • I'm ________.  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.  I haven't gotten my money back yet, but as soon as that accurate return went in the mail, I got back my dignity as a confident, self-governing free American."

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.

 

Here's another example...

 

...and another.

 

By the way, everyone is more than welcome to also create and post complete videos of their own, as well...

Suggested topics include:

  • "U.S. courts have been reduced to gibberish (trying to deny the existence of the Fifth and Seventh Amendments, the right to testify, the meaning of plain English, etc.) in the government's desperate effort to evade the truth revealed in CtC"

  • "The Founders counted on your regard for your own property rights to keep the government in check. You've dropped the ball-- it's time to pick it back up."

  • "Do you think your earnings are "income"?  Think again..."

Here's a great example:

 

"IRS Monsters Meet CtC Sunlight"

 

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The Supreme Court Kicks The Can Down The Road

 

On June 15, the US Supreme Court shamefully declined to hear the petition filed for its review of a blatantly unlawful series of acts by both a district and an appellate court as described in detail here (and which is discussed concisely in the film 'Are You Ready?).  A petition for re-hearing will be filed.  I hope that all of you and your uncles, cousins and sainted grandmas will get involved in flooding the justices with letters before July 10 urging them to not slink away from this hot-potato a second time.

 

Many good folks participated in a multi-signature letter effort organized by the virtuous Tim Whitney over the last couple of weeks prior to the initial consideration of the petition, and a number of others acted independently, as well.  These efforts were great, but clearly not enough.  Hundreds of citizens expressing concern about this affair apparently don't mean much to the court-- perhaps thousands will.

 

That said, it's important to recognize the significance of the court's decision to avoid this case.  The issues in this petition are simple, straightforward, inescapable and profoundly important-- and completely independent of the income tax.  For instance, no one can lawfully be told what to put on ANY statement over his or her own signature.  Period.  It doesn't matter whether its a tax form or a birth certificate or a statement to the police or ANYTHING.  No court can accept the movant's allegations as fact and disregard the non-movant's rebuttals in issuing summary judgment.  Period.  It doesn't matter what the case is about.

 

In ANY other case in which these issues arose, the court would unquestionably just overrule or remand the case with appropriate instructions, as a matter of course and without a second thought.  That it did not do so emphasizes the fact that the spread of the information revealed in CtC is understood at all levels of the state as the catalyst for the transformational shift of power away from those in whose hands it is now concentrated (amongst whom are those on the federal benches, and those to whom they are beholden) and back to the hands of the people, to whom it really belongs.

 

Indeed, these issues NEVER HAVE arisen before, and thus the court's effort to dodge them is all the more telling.  That is, the lower courts' behavior is not in keeping with "settled law", such that the high court could be expected to take no special interest-- it is exactly the contrary.  The lower courts' behavior is directly in violation of numerous Constitutional and statutory provisions and well-settled doctrine pursuant to those provisions, including many Supreme Court precedential rulings.  Thus, the case is a prime one for the high court's consideration-- and yet the court declines to take it up.  This can only be out of recognition of the significance of the outcome if the issues should actually get the hearing that they merit.

 

Of course, the Supremes may also be engaging in a little gamesmanship in this evasion of its responsibilities in order to protect the PR value of these bogus "rulings" to the ignorance-tax schemers (which, you will recall, were rendered as "not for citation as precedent"-- even after a specific DoJ request to the contrary) .  For instance, the court may be silently invoking some legal gimmickry concerning "standing" or "ripeness" as a pretext for passing on the case at this point, since no effort has actually ever been made to enforce the "rulings".

 

Or, the court may be taking one step further back, and its declining to take the case may be in silent recognition of the fact that these rulings are simply and plainly void on their face:

Void judgment. One which has has no legal force or effect, invalidity of which may be asserted by any person whose rights are affected at any time and at any place directly or collaterally. Reynolds v. Volunteer State Life Ins. Co., Tex.Civ.App., 80 S.W.2d 1087, 1092. One which from its inception is and forever continues to be absolutely null, without legal efficacy, ineffectual to bind parties or support a right, of no legal force and effect whatever, and incapable of confirmation, ratification, or enforcement in any manner or to any degree. Judgment is a "void judgment" if court that rendered judgment lacked jurisdiction of the subject matter, or of the parties, or acted in a manner inconsistent with due process. Klugh v. U.S., D.C.S.C., 610 F.Supp. 892, 901.  Black's dictionary of Law, Sixth Edition.

But this is a distinction without a difference, because again, in any other case in which the same bad behavior had taken place in the lower courts-- but in which the continuity of the "ignorance tax" scheme was not at risk--, the court would certainly have accepted the petition just on the basis of the due process and other procedural violations alone.

 

Make no mistake.  You CtC warriors are the force that stands on the verge of restoring the Constitutional republic designed by the Founders.  Those who oppose that design understand this, and you must understand it, too.

 

(Click here for information on how you can help see to it that the petition for re-hearing is granted.)

 

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Please do your part!!

 

"Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated."

-Thomas Paine

 

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Brian Wright of 'The Coffee Coaster' has posted a new review of CtC here.

 

Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

July 4- In 1776, the Declaration of Independence is formally adopted by the Second Continental Congress.  In 1826, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both pass from among us.  In 1845, Henry David Thoreau begins his two-year sojourn at Walden Pond.  In 1862, Lewis Carroll spins a yarn for Alice Liddell.  In 1934, the engineering for an atomic bomb is patented by Leo Szilard.  In 1946, 48 years after the United States claimed ownership of the Philippines and crushed resistance to its occupation at the cost of a million dead Filipinos, the country is granted independence.

 

 

CtC-Educated Lawyers: It's Time To Queue Up!

Those of you in the legal profession need to step forward and become part of a coordinated, mutually-supportive squadron focused on developing strategy and deploying the law in courtrooms across the country.  There's a lot of suing that needs doing right now.

 

Are you ready for a challenge that'll put some real meaning behind all the effort you went through to get your credentials?  Send me an email.

 

THE PRICE OF BEING RIGHT

Corrupt elements in the federal government have tried four times over the last five years to keep the liberating truth revealed in CtC from the eyes of the American people.  Now, as another "tax season" approaches, they're trying again.

 

Click here to learn about this latest effort to keep YOU in helpless, exploited ignorance,

and about how you can help thwart it.

 

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

July 5- In 1687, Isaac Newton publishes his 'Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica', laying out the foundation of his revolution in human understanding of the natural world.  In 1865, the Salvation Army is founded in East London.  In 1937, the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada-- 113 O F-- is reached.  In 1946, the bikini is introduced in France.  In 1954, Rock 'n' Roll is born, with Elvis Presley's first commercial recording session.  In 1996, Dolly the sheep is produced by cloning.  In 1999, President Clinton imposes trade and economic sanctions against the Taliban government of Afghanistan.

 

JOIN THE THOUSANDS OF WARRIORS IN CtC FORUMS!

 

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“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

-James Madison

 

How About You?

 

Are You Governing Yourself?

 

Get The Knowledge, Reclaim Your Power, And Stand With The Founders

 

 

ILLUMINATING EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

 

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Have You Visited This Page Yet?

 

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CtC Warrior David Sides says, "Bumper stickers?  Nice, but NOT BIG ENOUGH!"

 

(By the way, Dave's got it precisely right-- If you want your power to be secure, your neighbors have to be empowered with the same knowledge that you've acquired.  Click here for ideas about spreading the truth.)

 

An Important Announcement Concerning Forum Participation

 

I rely on everyone posting on any CtC forum to help keep the forum in focus, and productive. Posts amounting to offenses of the sort described in the note titled 'A Word To CtC State And National Forum Participants' found here, persistent straying from the three primary purposes of the forum listed in the same note, or evidence of a failure to keep current with the Lost Horizons newsletters may result in removal from a forum without prior notice.

 

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

July 6- In 1415, early Protestant reformer John Huss is burned at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church.  In 1535, Sir Thomas More is executed by English King Henry VIII for refusing to countenance Henry's decision to formally transform the Church of England into a Protestant church.  In 1785, the dollar of silver-- 27 grams-- is chosen as the official American currency.  In 1854, the first Republican Party convention is held.  In 1887, the King of Hawaii is forced at gunpoint to sign a new Constitution written by Americans living in the islands which transferred power to the foreigners and set the stage for Hawaii's annexation by the United States.

 

THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDED READING:

 

'Pep Rallies and Public Schools: How the State Programs Us for War' by J. L. Bryan

 

Appearing Again By Popular Demand:

'The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude' by Étienne de la Boétie

 

And Another Special "Held-Over" Reading Recommendation:

'Too Legit To Quit' by Myron Weber

 

Aren't you glad that as a CtC Warrior YOU'VE taken control of how much of YOUR WEALTH facilitates Washington's misbehavior?!

 

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and about how you can help thwart it.

 

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Please do your part!!

 

"Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated."

-Thomas Paine

 

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The Fourth Annual CtC Warrior Declaration Day* Party Is Coming On Fast!!

 

Make Your Plans For July 4 NOW, 'Cause Once Again, The Party's At Pete And Doreen's Place,

And If You're A CtC Warrior On My Email List, You're Invited!!

 

We'll supply the dogs, the chips, the pool and the place.  You bring your love of liberty, your conversation, and your kids, too!

 

If you're within striking distance of SE Michigan and care to join us, please RSVP to feedback '@' losthorizons.com ASAP, with "Party" in the subject line, and further details will be provided.  (Delete the spaces and apostrophes in the email address to make it work...)

 

I hope to see you all there!

 

*Declaration Day: The day the American colonists expressed their intention to be free and individually sovereign at any cost, even that of their lives.  Although it is true that an important kind of independence was realized that day, it was an independence of the spirit only.  Nobody found themselves free to go about their business the next day, unmolested in the exercise of their new liberty due to having laid their claim to that liberty.  It was not until many bloody years after formally declaring that they

"...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;"

and recognized

 "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed,"

and

"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness;"

that Americans actually found themselves able to exercise a true, hard-won independence.

 

The declaration was the key and critical first step.  It put the sacred honor of the declarants at stake in their faithful enforcement of that bold resolution.  Once having said 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 [the people's] right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security,"

there's no going back to subordination with one's honor intact.

 

Thus we properly celebrate the 4th of July as the anniversary of the public announcement of the revolutionary's momentous decision.  But it is equally proper to be mindful that independence was merely the destination on the horizon toward which the colonists resolutely set their course that day.  It was only faithful, stubborn, come-hell-or-high-water-enforcement that actually secured-- seven long years and much hell-and-high-water later-- the practical reality of the independence bravely declared in that summer of 1776.

 

There is little more important to the long-term health of America than how our children are educated.

HOMESCHOOL YOUR KIDS!

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-James Madison

 

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"Peter Hendrickson has done it again!  'Upholding The Law' does for individual liberties what 'Cracking the Code' did for tax law compliance: exposes the reader to the unalienable truth!"

-Jesse Herron, Bill Of Rights Press, Fort Collins, Colorado

 

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

July 7- In 1863, The Union institutes a draft during the War Between The States-- exemptions are available for $100.  In 1898, Hawaii is annexed by the United States.  In 2005 four explosions occur in the British mass-transit system, duplicating in remarkably precise detail the storyline of a "training exercise" against possible "terrorism" being conducted in exactly the same locations at exactly the same times.  The event briefly raises Prime Minister Tony Blair's abysmal approval rating to it's highest point in two years, before it drops again back into the low 30s.

 

  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".

 

 

 

"It ain't what ya don't know that hurts ya. What really puts a hurtin' on ya is what ya knows for sure, that just ain't so."

--  Uncle Remus

 

Do you imagine that you know what 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America' says without having read the book (or that CtC is missing something relevant to the "income" tax)?

 

CLICK HERE

 

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The Supreme Court Has Kicked The Can Down The Road-- But There's One More Chance To Call the Justices To Their Senses And Their Responsibilities!!

The Petition To The United States Supreme Court

"It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error."

-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson

 

QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW

 

1. Does a court, or any agency of the government, possess the lawful authority to compel an American man or woman to declare to be true and correct to the best of his or her own knowledge and belief, over his or her own signature, particular words and other explicit testimony dictated and/or specified by the court or government agency, and which he or she does not, in fact believe to be true and correct;

 

2. Does a court, or any agency of the government, possess the lawful authority to compel an American man or woman to stand silent in the face of testimony made by others which is about, or which affects, him or her, or to compel an American man or woman to adopt such testimony made by others as his or her own, when that American man or woman believes that testimony made by others to be erroneous or false;

 

3. Can the federal courts grant summary judgment to the United States-- on its own motion, in a suit which it has brought seeking to assert a claim to the property of an American man or woman-- by unilaterally construing all material-fact-related assertions of the movant United States to be true, and by disregarding or construing to be false all of the contradictory assertions of the non-movant American man or woman;

 

4. Can the federal courts issue federal tax-related injunctions despite the provisions of the Declaratory Act, permit litigation barred by the doctrine of res judicata and collateral estoppel as enunciated in Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and sanction an American man or woman for appealing judicial decisions purporting to do all of the above.

 

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After receiving the additional information it requested about the case back in March, the court docketed the petition on May 14, 2009, as case no. 08-1399.  On June 15, the court declined the petition without comment.  A petition for re-hearing will be filed by July 10, which is also the cut-off date for letters to the justices urging them to re-connect with their integrity and do the right thing.

 

How Does The Rule of Law Fade Away?

 

Bit by bit.

 

The erosion happens with every individual acquiescence to (or cooperation with) any state exercise of authority not granted.  Mindless or timid acceptance of the "ignorance tax"* is a good example.

 

It also happens with every bad or corrupt judicial ruling, if such rulings are allowed to stand by an American people who don't bother watching what their black-robed public servants are up to.

 

The restoration of the rule of law can also happen bit by bit.  For instance, every American who goes to the trouble of learning the truth about the "income" tax, and then stands up to ensure that it is administered within its limits helps to rebuild the structure of law set up by the founders and upon which the preservation of our individual liberty depends.

 

Similarly, each time enough Americans make clear that they are watching their judicial servants, and mean to see the law honored in the courtroom, bad judicial practices and systemic disrespect for the rule of law can be reversed.

 

You are all already standing up for the law on the "income" tax front.  Right now, there's a need for serious citizen-oversight of the judiciary by way of this petition.  However, the odds that the high court will hear this case are low unless YOU make clear that YOU CARE, by indicating this to individual justices on the court, and seeing to it that others do the same.

 

Corruption, like rust, never sleeps, which is why we, as caretakers of our liberty and rule of law, can't either.  Don't think that you don't need to act because someone else will.  That's how nothing gets done.

 

Don't think that you can't act.  You can.

 

The issues in this case are obvious, and easy to understand and discuss.  They are such as to inspire anyone who reads them and has the least respect for the law and concern for their own future and that of their children to a heartfelt and serious expression of concern.

 

Letters for this purpose don't need to be long and elaborate.  They simply need to be articulate and thoughtfully written, and that just means spending about as much time as you spent writing a decent paper in one of your college courses.

 

If you simply can't write well enough, so be it; but you can strongly encourage those who can to do so.  There's a lot at stake for everyone in this matter, and it is REALLY IMPORTANT that it comes out right.

 

Please act, and within the window that expires on July 10.

 

*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".

 

Those interested in writing letters urging the court to take up the case can contact the Supreme Court at:

Justice (or Chief Justice) (Justice's Full Name)
Supreme Court of the United States
One First Street N.E.
Washington, DC 20543

 

Again, those wishing to act must do so without delay.  There is only a brief window, which closes July 10.  Those wishing to participate in a group effort can do so at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Help-Pete-Now.

 

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

July 8- In 1775, the Continental Congress sends its final appeal to King George to redress the colonists' grievances.  The King pays attention as respectfully as today's federal government does to the Constitution.  In 1776, the Declaration of Independence is read aloud to the people of Philadelphia, and the Liberty Bell is rung.

 

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'The BOSTONIAN'S Paying the EXCISE-MAN, or TARRING & FEATHERING' (1774)

(How our forefathers responded to arrogant "Rule of Law defiers"...)

 

A Word To The Law-Defiers...

FOR SOME TIME NOW you've gotten away with it.  You've bled the public treasury; you've bled the American military; you've defied the Constitution and the rule of law in service to your own ambitions and interests.  But the fact that you've gotten away with it so far doesn't mean that the law has changed.  It hasn't.

 

Everything that was unconstitutional before your creative excesses remains so, and all of those creative excesses have been, and remain, illegal.

 

For instance, consider the "retroactive immunity" pretenses intended to shield the nation-wide warrantless wiretap teleco-conspirators.

 

DON'T make the mistake of thinking that Congressional and Presidential action on this bill has actually retroactively immunized anyone from anything.  It hasn't.

 

Neither Congress nor the president have the authority to retroactively immunize anybody, and especially not from civil liability to other people.  Even if the Constitution didn't prohibit such a grotesquely corrupt idea, when all is said and done, NO ONE can be relieved of his or her legal obligations to ME by the decision of ANY third party that isn't on a jury.

 

However much any corrupt political hacks want to behave as though they have shielded themselves and anyone else from the consequences of their joint lawlessness, it's only a dream that's due to evaporate as more of America wakes up.  The moment the rule of law is fully restored, THE LAWLESS ARE TOAST.

 

The same goes for anyone else imagining that they will find an enduring shield for their bad behavior in some creative, convenient "interpretation" of the law or "assumption of authority" on any other front.  NO.

 

When the time comes, "Hey, I had this Justice Department memorandum!" won't cut it.  Nor will, "I was just following orders!"

 

When the time comes, nothing will "cut it" but the law having its way.  And it will. 

 

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CtC-related hits between April 1, 2006 (when logging began under the old server) and August 31, 2007 totaled 17,277,595!

 

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The Willingness Of Some People To Trade Liberty For Convenience Is Without Limit

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Warrior David Larson shares this beautiful little farce, wryly observing that, "Depositors have "..not lost one penny.." - OK we could agree on that simple statement  ..how about the purchasing power of that same penny 'not lost' ?"

 

REGARDING MONEY

 

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

July 9- In 1810, Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland.  In 1816, Argentina declares independence from Spain.  In 1900, the Commonwealth of Australia is created.  In 1922, Johnny Weissmuller sets a new world record with a 58.6 second 100 meter freestyle swim.  In 1958, a 524-meter tsunami-- the highest wave ever recorded-- strikes Lituya Bay, Alaska.

 

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Last Word

 

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

-Samuel Adams, Architect of the American Revolution

 

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About The Author

 

Pete Hendrickson enjoys the distinction of being the first American in history to secure a complete refund of Social Security and Medicare ‘contributions’ withheld from his earnings (along with all other property taken for federal taxes).  He is far from the last, though-- readers of his seminal work, ‘Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America’ have been doing the same ever since the book first appeared in 2003.

 

Hendrickson is also a widely-read essayist on matters of politics, public policy and law; many of these works are collected in his second book, ‘Upholding the Law And Other Observations’.  He is a member of Mensa; an award-winning artist; and has paid his dues as a youth soccer coach.  He is a long-time political activist as well, and has served as co-chair and platform convention delegate of Michigan’s largest county Libertarian Party organization; as a consultant to the National Right to Work Foundation and Citizens for a Sound Economy; as a member of the Heartland Institute; and as a member of the International Society for Individual Liberty.  He is a frequent radio-show guest on stations across the country.

 

Hendrickson's business career has included nearly a decade-and-a-half at the leading edge of the renewable-energy industry, both as Director of Purchasing and Materials Management and member of the R&D board at Starpak Energy Systems, the mid-west's then-largest solar heating and energy-recovery-and re-utilization company; and as founder and president of AFJ Inc., a high-efficiency lighting design, manufacture and installation firm.

 

Beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing for the twelve years before his present full-time focus on the restoration of the rule of law in America, Hendrickson directed purchasing activities for the $84 million-a-year multi-family-housing division of the Farmington Hills, Michigan branch of Edward Rose and Sons, with responsibility for 18,000+ apartments, direct supervision of 35 technicians and agents, and incidental authority over several hundred divisional workers.  He also ran the division's 10 cable television earth-station and distribution systems in four states, and designed and administered the company's website.

 

On rather the other end of the spectrum, amidst these more mundane pursuits Hendrickson co-founded and was the primary creative force behind a small board- and card-game company that enjoyed a modest success for several years.

 

 Hendrickson makes his home in southeast Michigan, with his wife and two children.  He is currently working on his third book.

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