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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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My special thanks to Sofia Smallstorm for putting these flyers together!

(Note: You can double the power of this flyer by printing Dave Dassie's Filer's Flow Chart on the back!)

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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:

• "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.

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

Standing Against A New Serfdom

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

-Lord Acton

In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the church in Wittenburg and sparked the Protestant revolution.  The Christian world-- indeed, the Western world and everywhere else influenced by the Western world-- has never been the same since.  And yet the key concept that lay at the heart of that revolution was nothing more than: "We can read, too."

Prior to Luther's revolutionary act, the Roman Catholic Church had, over centuries, lost its spiritual moorings to the point of assuming a self-serving "gatekeeper of knowledge" role indistinguishable from that of any shaman graced with a naive tribe of hapless victims.  Correspondingly, most of the rest of the population had descended to the spiritual and secular status of serfs-- pacified "human resources" conditioned to doing as instructed by the priesthood because (as they allowed themselves to be told) scripture said that was how things were to be.

All that was necessary to lock this state of affairs into place and keep it there for, oh, 1,200 years or so was the Church having successfully claimed to itself alone the authority to read scripture and declare its meaning.  This having once been accomplished (partly by argument that the proposition was itself scripturally-based and then more practically by a carefully maintained lack of general access to the scriptures themselves and the education necessary to read them), the scriptures were unsurprisingly revealed to be "living scriptures", undergoing a steady "evolution" which inexorably expanded the power and wealth of the Church, and subordinated everyone else.

Martin Luther, himself a Catholic priest (and thus equipped with the access and education necessary to read the scripture), began the process of undoing this centuries-old, inevitably-corrupting power structure by first recognizing and declaring the doctrinal argument for the exclusivity of priestly authority to be unsound.  Then, far more significantly, Luther translated the scripture from Latin into the vernacular, and printed and distributed copies far and wide.

The masses of the people, once able and encouraged to read for themselves the words upon which the Church's claims of authority were based, dared to disagree.  In a great, sustained convulsion, those with the brains and the courage to do so rose to assert and reclaim their mastery of their own spiritual and secular lives.  For the first time in centuries, the Church's claims in regard to scriptural words and meaning were answered by a firm, "Sorry, no.  We, too, can read, and that's not what it says!"  The secular power of the Roman Catholic Church was broken, and both it, and the world, were transformed-- very much for the better in each case.

In America today, we face the threat of another effort to gather power into the hands of a priesthood and reduce the rest of us to serfdom.  Just as was done by the Roman Catholic Church when drifting into its period of corruption, a would-be ruling class seeks to monopolize the authority to declare the meaning of the words by which other exercises of power are authorized.

Here and now, of course, that effort focuses on the meaning of our written laws.  The current American political elite, having been allowed to do so for several generations now without meaningful opposition, has already traveled far down the road to utter, arrogant disregard of those laws-- chiefly through the diligent work of the federal judiciary.  That dedicated army of carefully-chosen sappers, with increasing frequency and ever-more arrogant flagrancy, ascribes meaning to our laws in plain defiance of their actual words and purposes, and dares the rest of us to disagree.  Unsurprisingly, these "creative" readings of our fundamental law and the statutes which draw their authority from that fundamental law inexorably expand the power and wealth of the State, and subordinate everyone else.

Most prominently in recent years have been a series of federal court rulings concerning habeas corpus, speech rights, search and seizure authority, and an endless series of allegedly "interstate commerce clause"-related cases.  These indefensible and lawless rulings follow many more from prior decades, and more still are yet to come.  We're all awaiting an upcoming unconstitutional ruling concerning the Second Amendment; and the increasing desperation of the federal and state governments to overcome the effects of CtC's revelations about the "income" tax is likely to spawn its own brood of ill-favored judicial progeny.  (The feeble couple of efforts in that latter regard so far have been decidedly circumspect, though.  Such efforts have sought to mischaracterize CtC itself, rather than the relevant law, since the book has laid out the reality of that law too clearly for its direct misconstruction.)

Still, unlike Luther, who rose in the face of a millennium of precedent, and in a culture in which the idea of challenging the established power-structure was utterly alien, the corruption against which we must stand is itself alien to our cultural tradition, and has only acquired its sway within living memory.  Our business of standing up and looking after our interests as free, self-governing men and women is as nothing compared to what was required of those who have gone before us.

Nor is what we are called upon to do complex.  Indeed, the task we face requires nothing more than modest study, a little courage, and an abiding regard for our own dignity.

After all, we, too, can read.

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For more on this incredibly important subject, please take a few moments and read the following:

'Upholding The Law'

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NOTE: This editorial is not to be taken as critical or disparaging of the Catholic Church today-- a church in which I myself was raised and for which I have great respect, especially in recent years.  Nor is it intended as an endorsement of any other church or religious perspective.  The history discussed here is presented not for its own sake, but merely as a useful model of how power, when allowed to become centralized, is bad for all concerned, and especially so when that power concentration involves control over the tools of knowledge and dissent.

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"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

-Thomas Jefferson

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WHEN AM I GOING TO BE ABLE TO ANNOUNCE YOUR VICTORY FOR 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:

'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America' has gone to its ninth printing!   This latest edition is distinguished by a broadly revised appendix, including sections on filling out forms, on the history of the current withholding provisions, on the legal meaning of "State" and "Person", on references in the law to "professions, trades, employments, vocations, etc.", on the "code" language about refunds, on "non-resident aliens" and "citizenship and residency, and on the meaning of "trade or business".   (NOTE: Versions of much of this new material can also be found posted in the Digital Appendix and the FAQ pages.)

 

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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Aren't You Really, Really Glad YOU'VE Taken Control Of Whether Any Of YOUR Money Goes To Washington, Just As The Founders Intended?

 

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Click here for an in-depth discussion of the enormously counter-productive practice of "non-filing"

 

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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?

 

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  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".

 

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Nothing But The Truth, Baby!

 

Wear this new T-Shirt proudly, and tell the enemies of the law that if they don't like Constitutional limits, they should find someplace else to live!

 

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A Brief Introduction To The Fascinating Truth About The American Income Tax (A bite-size summary of the first few chapters of ‘Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America’)   This important educational resource has been updated with a good deal more Supreme Court jurisprudence on the meaning of "income" and the 16th Amendment.   If you have downloaded this file before, replace with the new version (updated 2-08-08)   If you want to win, YOU'VE got to go to the trouble to send this .pdf file to every single person in your address book, whether it's your mother, your accountant, your bowling team, whoever.   Even better, sit down with these folks and read this document together.   I guarantee that if even just a few hundred thousand Americans who are not already sensitized to the "income" tax issue get this file, knowledge of the truth about the tax will irreversibly take root in the population as a whole.   Seriously.  Do you want to win?  Spread this file around.  Doing so will accomplish more than anything that happens in a courtroom, more than any argument you make with any bureaucrat, more than ANYTHING else that you can do. Are You Not Bothering? Then You're Just Talking The Talk.   You've GOT To Walk The Walk If You Want To Win.   "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   (Introductory and supplemental audio/video resources can be found on Page Two below)

 

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Wesley Snipes-- The Latest Victim Of "Non-Filing"   Actor Wesley Snipes was harshly sentenced Thursday, being given the maximum possible prison time-- one year each for each of his three failure-to-file convictions, to be served consecutively.  U.S. District Court Judge William Terrell Hodges also sentenced Snipes to one year of probation.  The discussion of Snipes conviction that I posted in February can be seen below:   Late last week actor Wesley Snipes and his co-defendants heard from the jury in his highly-publicized trial on various "tax crimes".  Snipes was found guilty on three counts of "failure to file".  He was acquitted on another three counts of that offense, and also on charges of conspiracy and fraud.  Co-defendants Eddie Kahn and Douglas Rosile were convicted of conspiracy and fraud.   Those felony conspiracy and fraud charges involved Snipes' effort to claim a refund of amounts previously treated as payments of tax during 1997 on his original return for that year by the filing of an amended return.  Lacking an accurate understanding of what they were dealing with, the return (and thus, the claim) Snipes filed with the advice of his codefendants was inadvertently (and pointlessly) rendered invalid by the addition of a "no" to the jurat (so that it read "under no penalties of perjury").  Further, the rationale under which the claim was made was the "861" misunderstanding, and, as is typical of filings made under that misunderstanding, several pages of "861"-related material were attached to the return but nothing rebutting any information returns concerning Snipes' receipts for the year were included.  See the return here.   Nonetheless, Snipes succeeded in convincing the jurors that insofar as the felony charges were concerned, his behavior lacked willfulness-- that is, the deliberate violation of a known legal duty.  This was based on his defense argument that he was simply an unwitting victim of his codefendant's influence and manipulations.  Judging by what was presented at trial about his voluminous mailings to the IRS and other behavior over the years, this is more than highly unlikely, but Snipes' star-power appears to have served him well with the jury.   Snipes got the benefit of a vaguely more credible doubt regarding three of the failure-to-file charges as well, claiming that he believed that he couldn't be required to file returns that he (inexplicably) imagined would constitute evidence against himself once he became aware that he was under investigation (even though the investigation was for behavior in previous years...).  Star-power doubtless helped him successfully skate on that thin ice, as well.  No such rationale was available for the years 1999, 2000 and 2001, though, and so the "There Is No Law" and "861" nonsense-- the continued noisy advocacy of which prevented Snipes from learning the actual truth about the law at any time over the last four-and-a-half years-- have claimed another victim.   Nor is the system done with Snipes, by the way, even without regard to what kind of time he will serve and fine he will pay.  Like others distracted from the truth about the tax and misled into "non-filing" despite allegations of the receipt of "income" (including even those entirely acquitted of any criminal culpability for this choice, such as Tom Cryer and Vernie Kuglin) Snipes can now count on a civil trial to collect a whole lot of money from him (if he doesn't just make himself liable by creating a bunch of tax returns in continuing ignorance and hand over the money, as his equally ignorant attorneys have declared he will).  It's a pity.  Even at this late date, Snipes could still spare himself a good deal of financial and moral abuse if he would just learn the truth.

 

There IS A Law By Means Of Which ANY American Can Be Made Liable For The Income Tax, And This Is How It Works (Or, "Non-Filers Are An Errant Tax Agency's Best Friends")

 

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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.)

 

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This week's recommended reading:

'Worse Than The Draft' by Tom Chartier; 'A Brand New Idea' by Vin Suprynowicz

Mid-Edition Update

"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

"Help!-II" Has Been Updated

The discussion of what's really behind occasional tax agency balkiness and harassment at Help!-II has been updated for a bit more clarity and completeness.  Everyone on the receiving end of tax-agency scary-paper campaigns, or who is exposed to discouraging postings by, or about, others concerning such campaigns (which include "frivolous penalty" threats or allegations, "We changed your account..." assertions, and so forth) should visit or re-visit this page and read carefully and thoroughly (which means following provided links, as well).

(Some related updating of the page 'Regarding The Levy Power' has also been done; and an example of an "aggregate summary record of assessment"-- occasionally used in an apparent effort to conceal the fact that despite scary-paper agency allusions to an assessment, no actual assessment exists-- has been posted and linked from both of these updated pages.)

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Regarding The Enormously Important Power Of The Jury

An installment of an old television show called 'At Issue' was brought to my attention this week by activist Rose Lear.  This particular installment deals with the critically important power of any jury to nullify unconstitutional laws by preventing them from being enforced in any case whatever.  This power has been rightly called one of the key bastions of Liberty, and guaranteed access to its benefits is enshrined in the Bill of Rights in recognition of the fact that even governments theoretically disciplined by a democratic electoral process, and theoretically bound down by the chains of a written Constitution granting only carefully enumerated and limited powers, can find ways of behaving corruptly.

The three parts of the program can be viewed at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA4GKG__B-s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRdse8zBzyI

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbw8rF_hA9I

Please follow-up on the viewing of these videos by reading 'The Power Of The Jury' and 'A Brief Commentary On Misunderstandings Of 'Citizenship', Serving On Juries, Voting, And The Fourteenth Amendment'.

(NOTE: I am almost reluctant to share these videos, because Larry Dodge makes a reference to "Admiralty Courts" when discussing an 18th century British version of an "administrative court".  The erroneous-- and perhaps deliberately spread-- notion that federal district courts are all "admiralty courts" has long preyed on some within the "tax honesty" community.  Even though Mr. Dodge is clearly speaking of a British court, and one explicitly created in connection with the British "Navigation Acts" passed in an attempt to control commerce by oceangoing vessels, some of those misled by the American "admiralty courts" notion are bound to suffer an, "Aha!" moment when hearing this reference.

Well, there they are anyway.  I'll simply hope that those suffering from the misunderstanding about admiralty law will take a moment and read this.)

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A Few Tips For Making Best Use Of This Site

When directed to a page by topic or link, read everything.

I know that this can mean the investment of a lot of time, attention and effort, but although some may imagine otherwise, I don't write as much as I do because I can't think of any other way to spend my time...

Furthermore, when you encounter a hyperlink within, or associated with, the text you are reading, follow it!

It is pretty common these days for web-based material to be littered with hyperlinks.  Sometimes the purpose is to provide definitions or examples, in order to ensure that folks reading the original material aren't presented with a word or reference which they don't understand.  Sometimes the links lead to illustrations pertinent to the original text.

It is common-- and perfectly understandable-- for folks who are confident that they are familiar with language or references within the main text they are reading to get in the habit of skipping over included links.  I do it all the time, myself!

However, I very rarely include links for definitional or explanatory purposes; and when I DO make a link out of text in one page it is generally to another self-contained page, rather than merely illustrative material.  These other pages contain material the clear understanding of which I deem highly important for the proper and complete understanding of the original page.  (Links to CtC, the Victories pages, CtC Warriors and so on are obvious exceptions to this general rule.  On the other hand, a link to the victory Highlights page, which might seem like such an exception, is not.  The special selection of victories on that page, and the filed docs and tax-agency correspondences included therewith, themselves constitute highly instructive material which merits careful attention.  Thus care needs to be taken in all cases.)

Please make a habit of clicking on all provided links and at least looking briefly to ensure that the linked page is one with which you are completely familiar from another study session.

Finally, please keep in mind that, annoying though it may seem at first blush (but not, I trust, upon reflection), I constantly tweak material already posted.  Obviously this doesn't mean that every page is constantly in flux, but it does mean that if you are directed to a page that IS familiar, it's worthwhile to read it through again if it's been a month or two since your last having done so.

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Tortuous Justifications

Every Which Way But Loose- VIII   Do you remember those old sci-fi movies (and numerous 'Lost in Space' and 'Star Trek' episodes) in which an evil robot or a computer collapses into terminal dysfunction after being presented with data that "does not compute"?  The machine would flail about dangerously for a bit (or smoke and shake, and threaten to explode) before finally going limp, silent and harmless. "LOOK OUT, DOCTOR SMITH!!  DANGER!!  WARNING!!"   Some CtC Warriors are being drafted to play the part of the intrepid heroes of these space operas lately, with federal and state "income" tax agencies in the role of the neurotic robot:   Since August of 2003, when the revelations of CtC were first published, the IRS has been engaged in a desperate struggle to regain its hold of fear and confusion over those now equipped with an understanding of the long-hidden secrets of the "income" tax, and to stop that understanding from spreading.  We have seen, for instance: two revampings of the Form 4852 during that time-- both attempting to obscure the scope of that form's proper use; a carefully inaccurate allusion to a typical CtC-educated filing sit as #1 on the IRS "Dirty Dozen" list for a year (then quietly get relocated to #5 and then #7 as CtC-educated filings merely increased, and continued to prevail, making the misdirection of the listing too obvious for the agency's comfort); a multitude of constantly tweaked agency "FAQ" and "Truth About Frivolous Argument" publications seeking to instill doubts about what is taught about the law in CtC in the minds of careless readers, worthy of attention only in order to enjoy the agency's entertaining efforts to imply what it cannot simply declare, but wishes a naive reader to take from the reading. We have also seen a series of transformations in the means by which the occasional loose-cannon IRS staffer attempts to persuade a CtC-educated filer to stand down.  For a while, assertions that a filing meets the statutory definition of a "frivolous return" was the popular approach.  As more and more warriors pointed out to more and more IRS workers that making these assertions improperly is criminal under a variety of federal and state laws, this approach has declined.  It has been largely replaced by a comical kind of delay tactic, in which the agency generally sits on a filing in silence, and when contacted with an inquiry to the effect of "Where the h*ll is my property?!", responds with a claim that the agency can't find the filer's return and a request that the offended filer please send a fresh copy, or a series of "We need 45 days to look into the matter-- please be patient-- don't call us, we'll call you..." notices.   The "frivolous" thing hasn't entirely disappeared, however, and it appears to be evolving in an entertaining way.  As noted above, since CtC first laid bare the truth about the tax, the IRS has taken to making cosmetic modifications of some of its forms in an effort to confuse the folks addressed here and here.  Now another effort to mutate a tired old standard into a truth-resistant form has been made manifest as a new version of the CP15 "Notice":     Pretty scary-looking, huh?   Well, read carefully...   This new "threat" notice is a beaut.  Unlike the new LTR 3176SC discussed in our last installment of this series (see Every Which Way But Loose- VII), which actually only "proposes" a penalty, and prominently forgets to mention either of the elements of 6702(a)(1), one or the other of which MUST be established for a return to qualify as "frivolous", this new scary-paper very prominently mentions all the requisite elements of the "frivolous" penalty.   HOWEVER, look at that last paragraph!  "If you wish to contest THE ASSERTION of this penalty..."  Gotta love the craft!   Needless to say, an "assertion" of a penalty is nothing more than a "declaration" of a penalty, about as far from an "assessment" of a penalty as you could get other than by not ever bringing it up at all.  The paragraph goes on to underscore the meaninglessness of this reference by explaining that if one wished to contest this "assertion", one must pay the "penalty" first and then file a claim for refund.   No kidding...  Unless one gets taken in by this nonsense and actually sends the IRS money in response, one has suffered no harm, has nothing to contest, and has no standing from which to go through the exercise!   Man, they must be staying up REAL late trying to figure out ways to stop CtC-educated America these days!  I guess it's true that hope springs eternal...     Watch out for that robot!  I THINK IT'S GOING TO EXPLODE!! "LOOK OUT, DOCTOR SMITH!!  DANGER!!  WARNING!!"   Visit the 'Every Which Way But Loose' collection for more episodes in this series

 

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

(How our forefathers responded to arrogant "law defiers"...)

 

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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