Btw, a copy of
CtC from anywhere except the link above may not
be a current edition. CHECK. It matters. Also, there
ARE no e-book, Kindle or .pdf versions of
CtC. Don't get taken in by efforts to sell you--
or even give you for free-- any such thing.
*****
"The preservation of a free government requires, not
merely that the metes and bounds which separate
each department of power be invariably maintained, but
more especially that neither of them be suffered to
overleap the great barrier which defends the rights
of the people. The rulers who are guilty of such
encroachment exceed the commission from which they derive
their authority, and are TYRANTS. The people who
submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves
nor by an authority derived from them and are slaves….."
This year we'll not only
feature the best company in the country, fine music
and summertime cuisine and Curmudgeon's Croquet, but
we'll also have fireworks on the lake after dusk!
Get your RSVPs in
now!!
***
More Fresh 2017 Victories
(And One Interesting 2016 Victory)!
Knowing what you're doing means getting
that obnoxious interest-free loan to America's crazy
(and increasingly irresponsible) Uncle Sam back in
your own pocket as soon as possible...
IT'S ALWAYS GREAT TO POST EARLY
VICTORIES EACH YEAR. These are accomplished by folks
who are fully-educated and righteously impatient
with the abuse to which they were subjected the
previous year by ignorant payers and the exploitive
bureaucrats with whose near-fraudulent admonitions
those payers cooperated.
I've already posted a few of these
right-from-the-get-go refunds. But with the first
federal victory for 2017 now in hand, that's a good enough reason to
celebrate some more good Americans and their
accomplishments on behalf of the rule of law!
Here is the return for 2017 filed by
Rudy and Hody to produce this victory.
***
TJ Hendrickson
Here is the return that secured this complete
refund of everything withheld and given to Michigan
during 2017.
***
FINALLY, I'M GOING TO SHARE one more
recent victory-- a victory-in-progress, actually,
secured last month by Mike and Lynn:
It will be noticed that this is a
refund of 2016 withholdings, not 2017, so it's a bit
out-of-category, as it were. But Mike and Lynn's
robot-rattling victory is the kind worth sharing at
any time.
The refund amount proposed consists of
only what was withheld from Mike and Lynn as nominal
"federal income tax", with the IRS slyly proposing
to just keep the FICA withheld, in the apparent hope
that Mike and Lynn won't understand that it has no
basis for doing so, or will view this as a good
"compromise settlement" in exchange for not having
to go to any further trouble to get all their
property back, as they are entitled to do.
But as part of the paperwork with this
refund notice, the IRS has already acknowledged that
Mike and Lynn had no "wages" in 2016 (the "AGI"
reported consists solely of "unemployment" benefits):
Thus, it has been admitted that the
couple did nothing on which a liability for FICA
taxes could arise, and by the government's own
declarations it is established that Mike and Lynn
are entitled to the return of those withholdings...
which brings us to the really interesting part of
this story.
Go back to the refund notice above and
observe that in the small text to the left of the
"Summary"
it says,, "We believe there's a miscalculation
on your 2016 Form 1040, which affects the following
area of your return: Tax Payments. We made changes
to your return that correct this error. As a result,
you are due a refund of $35,006.38"
Now look at the top line of the "Your
payments and credits" section in the report above
from the second page of the CP12 (which can be seen
in its entirety
here). It says, "Income tax withheld, line 64"
and shows a figure of $34,568.00.* But this number
is simply
the amount actually withheld and reclaimed by Mike
and Lynn on line 64 of their return-- $61,768.55--
less the FICA amounts withheld which made up nearly
half the total.
In other words, the IRS proposed
changes (and despite the "We made changes to your
return..." language these are just proposals with
which the service hopes Mike and Lynn will go along)
is really just a self-serving fabrication,
pretending that the other $27K+ wasn't withheld at
all (which would mean that the folks paying Mike and
Lynn enough to have withheld $34K+ in nominal
federal income tax simply didn't bother withholding
any FICA... Oh, what a tangled web...).
Mike and Lynn will need to go to a
little more trouble yet to get all their property
back. But the government has already admitted it is
owed to them, and that's way more than half the
battle.
Well done, Mike and Lynn!
But,
Watch out for that robot! I
think it's going to explode!!
(*Interestingly, the $34,568.00 is a
sloppily calculated difference, arrived at by
dropping all non-whole-dollars without regard to the
rounding rules. Whoever is responsible for this
faked-up "amount withheld" was apparently moving
fast and with a sweaty brow and guilty conscience.)
***
Eric's, Brian's, Rudy & Hody's,
TJ's and Mike & Lynn's victories join those of the tens of thousands of other
awakened and activated Americans represented
here. Each constitutes another critical step toward
the restoration of
the Founders republic and the true rule of law.
Don't you wish your victories were proudly
posted, too?
Trolls keep struggling to discourage
educated filings-- "1040 alternatives" is one such
attempt.
TEN YEARS AGO, THE IGNORANCE TAX
SCHEMERS HAD FAILED in their initial attempts to
suppress
CtC by outright ban. They then turned to a
kangaroo-court contrivance meant to put me on ice
for a few years.
The hope in this latter approach was
that the bogus "judicial outcome" would plant in the
mind of anyone not already knowledgeable and engaged
enough to recognize
the illegitimacy of that trial the notion that
CtC
is flawed in some way. There was also probably some
hope that even those who did know enough to
recognize the bogus character of the "judicial"
farce would be intimidated by what was done to me
and stand down.
THE LATTER HOPE was dashed, I'm happy
to say. The
CtC-educated are made of the stuff of
heroes, and cannot be frightened into lies or
silence. Even while I languished in durance vile,
the
CtC-educated continued to make their
claims-- and complete refunds continued to pour from
federal and state governments, just as before the
show-trial charade.
In many ways, the continuation of those
refunds-- even while the researcher and author
responsible for the knowledge on which they are
based sits in prison on the absurd charge that he
doesn't believe in the truth of his own published
conclusions--
dramatically underscored the perfect accuracy of
CtC and the government's complete lack of
legitimate recourse against it. This made the
whole trumped-up assault on me have the opposite
effect from the one desired-- at least with those
already who knew enough to be aware of both
phenomena.
BUT THE FAKED CONVICTION DID
have the result desired with many of the folks who
WEREN'T paying close attention ten years ago.
These folks, who lack personal knowledge of the
events of that time-- not knowing what they don't
know, as it were-- are easy victims of government
trolls who point to that conviction and claim that
it proves flaws in
CtC's revelations.
Some of the trolls argue that the
contrived conviction proves that
CtC's revelations about the nature of the
tax are wrong. Others argue that it proves that
CtC's analysis and presentation of
procedural steps by which to deal with the mis-administration
of the tax are wrong.
Both kinds of trolls, of course, do all
they can to guide their marks away from the
quarter-million-and-growing instances of
CtC
being decisively proven correct on both counts. Both
kinds also do all they can to promote rumors of
CtC-filings drawing IRS penalties, while
doing all that they can to keep the very telling
revelations of the hoax behind what "penalty"
threats there are from being seen.
The object of both efforts is to
discourage Americans from filing tax returns which
dispute the characterization of payments made to
them as being from the conduct of taxable
activities. In effect, the object is to herd the
victims of these trollish efforts into "non-filing"
of one kind or another. Non-filing is the second
best possible outcome for the "ignorance tax"
schemers behind only outright agreement on tax forms
with allegations that payments received were from
taxable activities.
LAST WEEK, AS IT HAPPENS, I heard from
two different victims of these troll-efforts. Both
were being counseled-- independently, by two
ostensibly unconnected voices-- to not file 1040s or
other government forms on the argument that doing so
created a vulnerability to "frivolous return
penalties". Instead, went the counsel, the marks
should file "alternative" instruments of some kind,
on the notion that the non-1040 instruments can't
qualify for any penalty.
It's a clever trick. Convince people
that
CtC-educated 1040s are penalized, and that
they can get the same beneficial result of educated
filings without using the vulnerable forms, and you
can get them to leave "income" allegations
unrebutted and able to be exploited for as many
years as you can keep these poor folks frightened
and fooled.
The whole concept is nonsense, of
course. Attempting to file with some document
imagined to not be a return, and therefore not
vulnerable to "frivolous return penalty" threats is
fundamentally futile. Consider:
The law provides that the form and
manner by which someone can meet tax reporting
obligations is as directed by the Secretary of
the Treasury*;
The Secretary has directed that
this be done by something which purports to be a
return (and meets a couple of other
qualifications)**;
Only something purporting to be a
return, then, can address tax liability
allegations; and
The law concerning the "frivolous
return penalty" (26 U.S.C. § 6702) provides
that the penalty can be brought to bear against
anything which purports to be a return
(and which meets a few other qualifications as
well, of course)***.
Thus, any "alternative" document used
in hope of immunization from the FRP threat either
won't avoid that threat, or, if it does, will only
do so because it is of no value in addressing tax
liability allegations.
NOW, OF COURSE,
CtC-EDUCATED RETURNS
AREN'T actually
subject to the FRPs. This is unambiguously shown by
the IRS having found it necessary to resort to a
fake "frivolous positions" list hoax to pretend that
they are, so as to make the "alternative instrument"
ploy work.
But, of course, the targets of the
"alternative return" ploy don't get told to go look
at ANYTHING on
losthorizons.com, and particularly
not anything concerning the "frivolous return
penalties". In fact, those poor folks get told to
avoid
losthorizons.com entirely, 'cause, well, you
know... Pete went to prison, so he clearly doesn't
really know what he's talking about...
So, these poor folks won't just either
not protect themselves from the tax or not protect
themselves from "frivolous penalty" threats; they
also won't learn
how to respond to such threats, thus possibly
allowing even hoax threats to become real hazards.
Further still, the use of a so-called
"alternative" instrument in lieu of a normal form is
as much as to put a sign on one's back announcing
oneself to be both scared (and therefore a ready
target for intimidation), and ill-grounded in legal
principles and tax law in particular. These are the
things corrupt "ignorance tax" schemers look for
when choosing who to harass, threaten and resist, so
the use of "alternative" instruments is an
invitation to all of these things.
PRETTY SHABBY STUFF, and a real tragedy
since this nonsense has successfully driven a lot of
good people off the field of battle and onto the
pointless sidelines. There they sit, imagining that
they have fired the "silver bullet" and all will be
well.
These folks even become spokespeople
themselves for the same ruinous "alternative return"
mistake. All-in-all, the "frivolous return penalty"
scam has become one of the "ignorance tax" schemers'
best weapons.
Maybe the points made above explaining
the mistakes underlying the "alternative return"
error-- simple facts about the law that reach past
ignorance of the kangaroo-court shenanigans
resulting in my poster-child imprisonment-- will
help put an end to this problem and bring its
victims back into play. I hope everyone will share
this article with anyone they know or suspect to
have fallen prey to the "alternative return" scam,
and help make that happen.
NOTE: Further material related to the
"alternative return" scam can be found
here and
here.
NOTE II: THE "FRIVOLOUS RETURN PENALTY"
HOAX that is deployed to frighten some folks into
embracing mistaken notions like "alternative
returns" is just an act of corruption, pure and
simple. And there ARE no "silver bullet"
solutions to corruption.
The only solution to corruption is
exposure.
Happily, the corruption of the
"ignorance tax" scheme is
easily exposed, as is the effort to shore it up
against
CtC-educated Americans by way of
"penalty" threats.
Use these links.
Furnish them to every lawyer you can
reach. Many may blow you off, but every now and then
you'll encounter one who won't. Furnish them to
every journalist you can reach. Many may blow you
off, but every now and then you'll encounter one who
won't.
GET ME ON YOUR FAVORITE RADIO SHOW. Get
me in front of your civic group. Organize seminars.
I'll go anywhere in the country to educate any
decent-sized group of Americans willing to listen
and learn.
"Silver Bullets" aren't the solution. OUTREACH is the solution.
Your fellow Americans WANT the
freedom and dignity and respect for the rule of law
which the revelations in
CtC provide. When enough of them learn the
truth, all the corruption crumbles away, and the
corrupt actors can't do anything to stop that
crumbling away. That's why
so much effort is devoted to keeping people from
learning about CtC.
Make it happen, Cap'n.
* "Provided, that any party, in
his or her own behalf, or as guardian or trustee, as
aforesaid, shall be permitted to declare, under oath
or affirmation, the form and manner of which
shall be prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue,..."
Revenue Act of 1862, § 93
*** "First, there must be
sufficient data to calculate tax liability; second,
the document must purport to be a return;
third, there must be an honest and reasonable
attempt to satisfy the requirements of the tax law;
and fourth, the taxpayer must execute the return
under penalties of perjury." Beard v.
Commissioner , 82 T.C. 766, 777 (1984), aff’d per
curiam , 793 F.2d 139 (6th Cir. 1986) (defining a
valid tax return)
*** "(a) Civil penalty for
frivolous tax returns: A person shall pay a penalty
of $5,000 if— (1) such person files what purports
to be a return of a tax imposed by this title
but which—..." 26 U.S.C. § 6702 - Frivolous tax
submissions
IRS "IDENTITY VERIFICATION" CHALLENGES
have become more common in recent years. Over the
last few seasons I've heard from at least 15 or 20
people that their filings first generated one of
these challenges before their claimed refunds or
credits issued.
A number of victories involving these
challenges are posted on
the Bulletin Board, with the challenge form
included in the posted docs. Every scrupulous reader
of these newsletters will have seen those, and the
comments I posted with them.
THESE CHALLENGES are by no means
specific to
CtC-educated filings. For several years now
the IRS has listed identity theft as among the
commonest filing scams with which it is faced.
These fraudulent filings are made by
people who have gotten ID information for someone
else (perhaps due to one of the several incidents
over the last decade in which millions of SSNs have
been hacked from various government agencies and
private businesses). They then file returns
fraudulently claiming refunds of some amount or
another of what was actually withheld from the
victim (determined I know not how), but to be sent
to the fraudulent filer's address.
The identity-verification process thus
is geared toward having the person at the address
on the challenged return, and to which the refund
check will be sent, prove that they are the person
whose withholdings are involved in the refund.
Usually this is done by having that recipient
person, to whom the challenge form is sent, read off
entries from a previous tax return (which only the
proper person is expected to know) and entries off
the current return (which will demonstrate that
they-- the proper person-- are the one who put those
entries on the form).
SOMETIMES THE INDIVIDUAL facing the
challenge is asked to appear in person at a local
IRS office with photo ID. Usually that will only
happen if some glitch arises in the phone-call
procedure, such as the filer balking at reading off
the "income" figure on the returns, due to thinking
it is some kind of trap.
It's not a trap-- the IRS agent on the
other end doesn't care whether the figure read off
is $0 or anything else. They just care that it
matches what they are looking at on the forms in
their hands (though an eyebrow might be raised at
that $0, and there might even be an effort to
initiate a dialogue about it, which, in my view,
should simply be politely declined, as being
irrelevant to the purpose of the phone call).
There's nothing to be concerned about
in these challenges for any honest filer. Here is
how the process is described by the excellent
Emily
Marcellus:
On April 3rd I filed an
honest and educated original self-assessment for
2016.
On May 24th I received an
LTR 4883c requesting me to verify my identity by
phone.
In mid June I made the
phone call which was easy enough. They asked me for
the following information
"Social security number
Full name as written on
2016 return
Current address
Mothers birth name
Fathers birth name
Prior year main source
of income
Amount of taxes paid
from that main source of income
Current year refund
amount
Current year adjusted
gross income
Address listed on 2016
return”
THEN I Received my refund
plus interest. It was a wonderful day with lots of
jumping up and down and cheering :)
You're playing in the big league,
Warriors. Have big league tools.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE ONE, GET A SCANNER.
Photos of documents taken with your smart-phone
don't make for worthwhile or transmittable archives.
Have a printer along with that scanner.
Do your filings and correspondences and so forth on
your computer, and saved on your own hard drive, not
in "the cloud", and print and mail anything you are
sending to anyone related to the tax, rather than
use "fill-in-the-field" on-line forms.
KEEP HARD COPIES or scans of hard
copies, of everything you send anywhere (scanned
after signing and dating) and everything you
receive. Keep your postal receipts showing when and
where you mailed things, even if not sending
certified or signature required.
Make a file folder for every filing,
and keep everything related to it in that folder. Be
organized and be scrupulous. It's really that
simple.
Take care of the little things by habit.
Doing so could pay dividends in the unforeseeable
future.
It's along the lines of Poor Richard's wise
counsel: You watch the pennies and the dollars
will watch themselves.
A little more debunk of this harmfully
persistent foolishness.
I HAD THE CRAZY "SECTION 83 THEORY"
brought back to my attention the other day by a
correspondent who heard it being flogged about the
"tax honesty" village square yet again on someone's
"talk shoe" or internet radio show, as has happened
every few months for years now. As usual, reflecting
on it brought to mind yet more reasons why this
"theory" should be recognized on its face as not
only wrong, but absurd.
It also brought to mind how nonsense
about "Section 83"-- and other gibberish which
reflects a stubborn refusal to recognize
the real nature of the income tax despite every
possible authority being in 100% harmony on the
subject, with more than
a quarter-of-a-million concrete practical
demonstrations of that nature and that harmony
being in hand and on display for all to see--
is responsible for evils like my wife, Doreen, being
stuck in a federal prison camp, as explained
here.
In fact, this gibberish-- along with
"Lofton" nonsense, and SEDM's 1500 pages of errors,
and "There is no law" lunacy, and so on-- is responsible
for every single bit of resistance and hardship
suffered by ANYONE in America in regard to the
income tax, especially including every
CtC-educated filer who has ever gotten anything but complete
and quiet cooperation from any tax agency.
Any educated filer who hasn't simply gotten his
or her money back without fuss every single time should be as angry
with these ego-maniacal "Section 83" cretins and
their ilk as I
am. (See
this for further discussion of this point.)
SO, MINDFUL OF ALL THAT IS AT STAKE and
the consequent importance of each and every one of
you working hard to drum crap like this out of the
public square, I spent some time adding to the "Misunderstandings"
post in which I debunk "Section 83":
"Section 83" Nonsense
A NEW VERSION OF "SILVER-BULLET" FANTASY has lately been circulating
briskly within the "tax honesty movement". This one is the notion
that
Section 83 of the tax code
is the long-sought mystical
secret word by which the mis-application of the tax was
secretly undone by Congress half a century ago.
Here's the proposition: In 1969, Congress gutted the
then 107-year-old structure of the income tax as applied to
pay-for-labor by implementing a change under which the
tax now applies only to the difference between the value of the money
you got paid for working and the value you gave for that money--
which is to say, the value of your labor... which is to say, what you got paid for it
That is, in regard to pay for work, the tax now only applies to
a "difference" which will always be $0, according to the "Section
83" theorists.
SO, TO CONTINUE THE THEORISTS' STORY: Congress makes this dramatic
change to the long-standing tax law in 1969, without
saying a word about it to anyone. For some reason, despite the dramatic change in the
law every single member of Congress and their aides, and every IRS worker, and every executive department legislative
draftsman and aide, and every federal judge continues to pay taxes
on every penny they are paid for their work
over the intervening years.
Moreover, every one of the friends and family members of all these
thousands of government actors with intimate
knowledge of the change the "Section 83" theorists claim took place
in 1969 does the same, continuing to pay taxes on every penny they
earn, regardless of what they do for a living. No one asserts the
alleged change; and no court challenge is ever brought arguing for
the benefit of the alleged change.
Not that section 83 hasn't been the object of litigation, mind
you. It has been the object of a lot of litigation,
continuously, from very early on after its addition to tax law 49
years ago.
But somehow not one litigant ever argued what the "Section 83" theorists
claim the addition is all about (or has as its effect). Nor has any court ever found any
such thing, even though considerable discussion of the history and
purpose of the section has been presented in the course of these
litigations and rulings...*
Because the notions of those flogging "Section 83" as a dramatic
transformation of tax law, or as a silver-bullet escape hatch, are
nonsense.
Why Not A Community Service
Requirement For The Use Of Welfare Schools?
After all, while we want to maintain
the safety net, we also want to discourage harmful reliance
upon it...
LAST WEEK THE MICHIGAN SENATE passed a
bill requiring able-bodied Medicaid recipients to
work, be in school or be getting job-training in
order to qualify for the welfare. This is the latest
in a decades-long effort by Michigan and many other
states to discourage reliance on the crutch of
public assistance, which becomes practically a
life-style choice for some when allowed to be too
painless an option.
I have an idea for the good senators
(and those of the other states) for an extension of
this reasoning into a previously untouched area,
and one which I think does more harm to society than
any other aspect of the "safety net". I think
beneficiaries of welfare ("public") schools should
be required to "give back" with community service,
such as picking up trash on roads within the school
district; or perhaps light road-repair labor, or
janitorial and gardening work at public facilities.
Remarkably apt words in regard to what
was demanded of Doreen...
WHILE LOOKING SOMETHING UP THE OTHER
DAY I came across these words, which my source
declares to be from the Catholic Catechism:
"It is a duty to reject false oaths
that others might try to impose; an oath may be made
false because it attests to a lie, because an
illegitimate authority is requiring it, or because
the purpose of the oath is contrary to God's law or
human dignity."
Are these expressions not 100% on point
with what Doreen is being punished for refusing to
do? If you are not already familiar with it read
this motion to see just how precisely the
assault on Doreen tracks the church's proscription
in each and every respect. And I don't doubt that
every other organized faith has words of exactly the
same sort within its own catechism, doctrine and
teachings, as well (with the exception of the false
"faith" of statism).
SO, WHAT DOES THIS SAY about the nature
of the creatures who have locked Doreen away, and
imposed such suffering upon her and her loved ones
for simply doing her duty and refusing to make false
oaths?
My question is essentially rhetorical,
of course. But I think it important that masks of
"official" positions and stature never be allowed to
obscure reality.
We need to view anyone in positions of
trust and honor in a cold and knowing light, and
never assume that they are due the least respect
until they have proven their quality. This example
should help keep us all awake in that regard.
Would You Do It?
(By the way, I would very much welcome
videos of any of you or your friends, acquaintances or random
strangers on the street answering this same question, which I
would then incorporate into this film in order to make it even
stronger.)
***
NOTE: I expect sophists might reply to
this article with, "But the false attestation Doreen
was ordered to make on tax forms doesn't invoke the
name of God, so it's not the kind meant in the
Catholic Catechism quoted above." I challenge those
folks to think the whole thing through carefully.
I believe such challengers will
eventually agree that the principle is the same, and
surely the church teaching cited here comprehends
false declarations of all kinds, however worded. In
any event, it is the sense of the one making the
attestation as to her duties, and to whom they are
due, that establishes just what is being invoked--
not the mere words used.
NOTE II: Following up on the point
above, please see related material
here and
here.
***
Doreen's address:
Doreen Hendrickson 48564-039
FPC Alderson A-4
P.O. Box A
Alderson, WV 24910
Letters, books (which must come in
packages that are boldly-marked "Paperback Book
Enclosed") and cards (which must actually be written
in by the sender) are always much appreciated.
Anyone
wanting to put a few dollars in Doreen's "commissary
account" can do so by sending a postal money order--
made payable to "Doreen Hendrickson 48564-039"-- to:
WHAT'S LEFT IS MERELY THAT many American governments-- which
are
compelled to acknowledge the three facts above when
invoked by someone who has read
this book and therefore knows how to do so, as
indisputably proven
here,
here and
here--
don't want American citizens to know these three facts, or
how to invoke them. This is proven
here and
here.
And that's the whole of the
rubber-hitting-the-road legal and practical truth
about the tax! All that's left out is how to put
this information into effect against
the scheme that
has exploited widespread ignorance about it for the
last 80 years. For that, direct your student to
CtC.
Teach it to everyone you know. If they pooh-pooh it
that's fine. You will have planted a seed. Walk away
with a smile and try again with the next person.
Some soil is immediately fertile, some needs time to
soften up before the seed works its way in and takes
root.
AT THE SAME TIME that you teach those you know
personally, send
this short, 7-page brief to every
lawyer, law professor, and law student that whose
contact information you can find. Send it to every
CPA you can find, and every judge, every tax agency
worker and every HR department worker.
Send
this article to every journalist, reporter,
editor and pundit you can reach.
Never forget that these are all Americans, too, just
like you. They are just ignorant, not stupid, and
for the most part, not evil, either. Some of them
will look and learn.
The NOT-Smiling But Still Very Earnest Afterword
ONE OTHER THING NEEDS TO BE SAID. The
obvious implication of the historical and legal
FACTS (not theories) presented above is that should
anyone acting in conflict with these
facts-- be it a revenue
department worker, a government attorney, a
legislator, a
judge or a tax-return filer--
that person would be committing a
crime.
To construe (or administer) the tax in
any way contrary to what is presented above is to
participate in the imposition of an unapportioned
capitation. Unapportioned capitations are
expressly prohibited by the Constitution.
Thus, the crimes committed by anyone construing or administering, or enabling
the construction or administration of the income tax
in any way contrary to what is presented above are
not only statutory violations of one kind or
another. In every case these crimes amount to
subversion of the Constitution, as well.
Such crimes are not academic.
This isn't a game, and what's going when the income
tax is misconstrued or mis-administered isn't
the reflection of a mere disagreement.
Misconstruction and mis-adminstration of the income
tax, in defiance and subversion of the
Constitutional prohibition on unapportioned
capitations, is a coup being
attempted against the American people. It's serious
as a heart attack, and should be taken that way.
"As nightfall does not come at once,
neither does oppression. In both instances, there's
a twilight where everything remains seemingly
unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must
be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest
we become unwitting victims of the darkness."/p>
-United States Supreme Court Justice
William O. Douglas
"Tax Honesty" BS Is What Has Doreen In Prison Today
...just as much as does official
corruption.
IN THE LAST MID-EDITION UPDATE I wrote
about "Judge Anna" And Bat-Sh*t
Crazy "Birth Certificate" Drivel. In the last
newsletter main edition page I had need to post an article about
a seemingly viral infection of the community based
on
nonsense about HR1, more distribution of which
continues despite my debunk.
Over the years I have posted dozens of
debunks of dozens of similar packages of nonsense,
as can be seen
here. These debunks are thorough and
dispositive. Continued promotion of any of them can
only be seen as the deliberate sowing of
disinformation and discord.
These endless injections of distracting
and misleading gibberish (whether obvious gibberish
or subtler gibberish that actually gives a surface
impression of harmonizing with, or even
supplementing
the truth about the tax) serve-- either
deliberately or mindlessly-- to keep the community
out of focus and disunited in purpose. Thus, this
community is rendered a blunt instrument at best,
where a razor-sharp stake for the vampire's breast
is needed.
Thus, the weight brought to bear on
that stake, whatever the condition of its point, is
light when it ought to be-- and needs to be-- crushingly
heavy.
IN LIGHT OF ALL THAT I want to say something really brief
and really heart-felt: Just as much as it is due
to the corruption of certain despicable government
"officials", my beloved bride is where she is today
because of the promoters and purveyors of the kind
of horseshit of which I speak.
If not for those dis-unifying
distractions, the truth about the tax-- fifteen
years now in circulation and with an endless
mountain of
evidence and
authority behind it-- would have won the day
over the "ignorance tax" schemers long ago. We would
likely even have restored the republic overall, by
now.
Either way, it is beyond question that
in an America in which the truth revealed in
CtC were as widely known as it would be without
these hindering distractions,
no federal court
could have accomplished the crimes needed to put my Doreen
in prison.
Nor would anybody else be facing
any resistance or official misbehavior in regard to
the tax, for that matter.
SO, HERE IT IS, BALDLY, as I feel
compelled to say it today: Are you a purveyor of
supposed income-tax-relevant material that does not
appear in my work? Then you are a purveyor of
poison, and you are my enemy.
A simple way for everyone to get a lot
done, fast, that no one is doing.
SO, MONTHS AGO I posted the following
on this page (and it has remained here ever since):
IF EVERY STATE GROUP (or anyone else) were
to devote some time and effort
to scheduling and hosting presentations of
this video to CPA and legal firms, a whole lot of
good could be done in a very short order.
The requirements are simple. Book an hour
with the chosen firm, with the understanding that all
professional staff will be assembled for the presentation.
A thoughtful introduction should make this inexpensive
and easy.
Explain that all you are asking for is
an opportunity to show a video in which some facts about
the income tax are revealed on the basis of which tens
of thousands of Americans have recovered $billions from
the IRS and three dozen state tax agencies over the
course of more than 14 years now, by way of a quarter
of a million claims made with the tax agencies, and
even in the face of agency resistance of several different
kinds.
SOME FIRMS MAY SHOO YOU AWAY, certainly.
But some will not.
Arrive at the appointed hour in a group,
dressed business casual or better and groomed for church.
Have your most articulate, persuasive speaker take the
lead, but all be alert and attentive, sending out a
calm, confident and positive vibe.
Understand and communicate with your demeanor
that you are not there to debate anything. Rather, you
are there to show these folks things they don't know,
and need to know.
Bring a big monitor, speakers and a laptop
with which you can access the video. Rehearse and be
able to make your connections and be up and running
in moments with no fuss.
Play the video. Hand out printed copies
of
this document to everyone in attendance. Thank your
audience for their time and attention, and take your
leave.
When out of sight, clap each other on the
back for an important job well done and head out for
your next appointment (or to a nice group meal to celebrate,
compare notes and plan your next activist outing).
NOW, I DON'T THINK ANYONE CAN SAY that
this program is too difficult. And I can't imagine
that anyone would argue that there is no chance of
some serious good being done if any given individual
or group in a "tax profession" saw that video and
read that document.
But I haven't heard from ONE person
that has undertaken to do this.
II hear from all of you all the time
telling me about how hard it is to get through to
the people you try to introduce to CtC's liberating,
republic-restoring revelations. So I go to the
trouble of writing wake-up paper after wake-up
paper.
I even do a power-point of a
seriously-revealing, seriously comprehensive but
still short and accessible compilation and arrange
to be filmed presenting it, so that YOU will have it
as a tool for the kind of activism I explain in the
simplest, most "Insert tab "A" into slot "B"..."
fashion. And what happens?
Nothing.
It's a shame. You can't score the goal
if you don't take the shot, my friends.
"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."
DON DON LA VIGNE, a long-time warrior
and real American grown-up, shares a nice and inspiring
testimonial on what
CtC has done for him for over nine years now:
*****
"Like a muddied stream or a polluted fountain
is the righteous man who gives way before the wicked."
-Proverbs 25:26
"A nation of sheep begets a government
of wolves."
CAN CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE how abysmally
stupid someone would have to be to continue to doubt
or deny that
CtC has revealed the actual, complete and insurmountable
truth about the income tax in light of the overwhelming
mountain of
historical,
legal,
practical and
logical evidence to the contrary? (Not to mention
the
outright lies and even
ludicrous hoaxes the executive and some corrupt
members of the judiciary have been caught at in desperate
efforts to conceal the truth...)
Plainly any such denier must either be
abysmally stupid or be an abysmally corrupt government
official or other person who sees him or herself as
benefitting from the lies about the tax by which America
has suffered for 75 years now.
Isn't this true?
I HOI HOPE NOBODY OUT THERE is tolerating
a single
CtC denier anywhere within the "tax honesty" or
"activist" communities. Such people-- and they are definitely
out there, flogging their pet
tin-foil-hat theories-- are the millstone around
the neck of the rest of us, keeping the truth about
the tax from getting the audience it needs in order
to bring about the transformation of the American landscape
which it is uniquely capable of doing.
Nor should anyone be tolerating denial,
either implicit or explicit, by any lawyer, accountant,
journalist, judge, elected official or bureaucrat. "Denial"
by any of these types is collusion and corruption, or
rank cowardice at best.
MORE, DENIAL OF THE OBVIOUS AND STATE-RESTRAINING
TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX might have a sinister aspect, as
well. The State, whose growth and power are made possible
by the lies about the tax which the deniers enable,
is the mechanism by which some exercise control over
others through the application (or credible threat)
of violence.
The bulked-up State, in short, is the means
by which some rule others. The larger the State, the
more successfully it rules, and the more easily it can
brush aside or overpower Constitutionally-based objections
to its edicts, exploitations and abuses.
I don't personally imagine a long-running,
deliberate and closely-controlled effort to subjugate
the American people. I discuss this in the "Interlude"
portion of
CtC, as many of you will recall, where I argue instead
that the only large-scale and long-running "conspiracy"
in America is a soft one-- a coincidental conspiracy
of interests.
In my view America suffers from Adam Smith's
"invisible hand" in reverse: the evil effect of many
individuals unwisely entrusted with too much power who,
in using it to look out for their own interests individually,
work a massive harm to society.
But the growth of the State unquestionably
serves to create the tool by which deliberate subjugation
could be accomplished. Indeed, the overgrown State made
uniquely possible by the misapplication of the income
tax is the ONLY means by which the American people could
be subjugated.
And who knows? Maybe I'm wrong in my view,
and those seeing a darker picture are right.
Warrior Rick Van Camp recently shared with
me a few words from that darker perspective which ends
with a key point that is just as cogent whether you
see Leviathan growing among us for the one reason or
the other:
In 1913 Woodrow Wilson stated:
“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s
views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest
men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and
manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that
there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle,
so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive,
that they better not speak above their breath when they
speak in condemnation of it.”
And this continues today. When
opportunistic liars like Al Gore can make hundreds of
millions from outright lies and manipulation of Science
while producing a "carbon footprint" of at least 100
people, when a treasonous dog like Obama can plot the
overthrow of an elected President in Public and get
away with it without a whimper from the so-called Press,
or the Congress; when tens of millions of "Americans"
can vote for a continuation of nanny-state entitlements
while allowing their children to be indoctrinated by
those who would continue them as children, when a once-proud
and independent people submit reflexively to a militarized
State army of (now armed) bureaucratic functionaries
who grope their women and young daughters in airports
and soon bus and train stations, invade their homes
on the slightest pretext (more than 50,000 SWAT raids
last year) and terrorize, injure and sometimes murder
innocents...
That organized, subtle and
watchful power is HERE, among us, and in your face.
And YOU pay for it.
YOU PAY FOR IT. That's the big point.
If you're a
CtC denier, it doesn't matter whether what's going
on is grayish or pitch-black-- either way, YOU'RE PAYING
FOR IT.
I don't mean, "You're paying the price,
sweetie". I mean YOU ARE PERSONALLY FINANCING WHAT IS
BEING DONE TO YOU AND TO YOUR CHILDREN AND TO THIS WONDERFUL
COUNTRY. And you're doing so voluntarily, and in most
cases, simply because you refuse to learn or accept
what
CtC has revealed. In a word, you're daft.
And as for "official" and "professional"
CtC deniers, you're the ones keeping the lie
going to which the daft succumb. There's a word for
that, too. Despicable.
"It is impossible to calculate the moral
mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying
has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted
and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe
his professional belief to things he does not believe
he has prepared himself for the commission of every
other crime."
-Thomas Paine
***
LITTLE BIT OF A P. S. on this article:
I have to cut a pass to a lot of folks out there not
yet embracing
CtC and acting on its revelations to help transform
America. I'm talking about the huge majority of folks
who have never heard of any of this, or who have only
seen the lies and smears and pretenses of "official"
resistance to
CtC (such as are discussed
here,
here,
here and
here).
These folks effectively serve as weight
on the deniers' side of the scale-- and also finance
the Beast-- because I haven't been able to get my videos
or other liberation information to them. I'm talking
about your Uncle Jerry (or Aunt Sally, or Junior, or
your buddy Sam, or whoever).
I haven't been able to get my liberating
information to these folks because I DON'T KNOW THEM.
I have no contact info, and I wouldn't know the best
way to speak to them, even if I did.
YOU have to speak to these folks, and introduce
and share the material. Think about it. When was the
last time you forwarded one of my videos around to
everyone in your
address book?
Do you not do it because you don't think
your family, friends and acquaintances would be interested?
You're wrong. In 2016 62,979,879 Americans voted
for Donald Trump in the hope that he would restore the
republic. Plenty of people are interested in freedom
and the rule of law.
In aIn a minute you're going to watch Arron
Reeves' wonderful video on his awakening to the truth
about the tax, and what that means to him. Are you going
to share it as widely as the next Kardashian video will
get shared? I hope so.
It is because that DOESN'T get done that
"official" deniers get away with it. I want you to think
about that.
Do you want to get to where you don't have
to file claims for the return of your property at all,
because it never got diverted in the first place? That
will happen the moment that my videos get a million
viewings in a few weeks like some do, instead of struggling
for a year or more to reach a few thousand. It won't
happen before that.
The "official" deniers can control a slow
burning fire. Our fire has to get vigorous, and
only you can make that happen.
An old joke, but in regard to this deceiver,
not a laughing matter at all.
““When principles that run against your
deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle
is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must,
at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions
bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your
faith.
Looking For A Litigator Who
Wants To Do Well While Doing Good
THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENT presents details
of a long-running (and still-ongoing) violation of the
speech, conscience and due-process rights of two Americans.
The offenses, in a nutshell, involve a federal district
court attempting to dictate to these two folks-- word
for word-- sworn "testimony" they are ordered to make
in a legal contest with the government.
Click the link below to read the brief.
You'll find it thoroughly supported with relevant testimony
by the chief perpetrator and other similarly unambiguous
exhibits.
"Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never did and it never will. Find out just what any
people will quietly submit to and you have the exact
measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed
on them, and these will continue till they have been
resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The
limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of
those whom they suppress."
-Frederick Douglass
"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
*****
Would You Do It?
"A slave is one who waits
for someone to come and free him."
…The US may be
the only country in the world where people working
in the non-federal private sector must commit
perjury in order to owe and pay ‘God’s things
to Caesar’?
If you work in the
private sector, stop falsely swearing that your
private-sector earnings are federal “income”1.
Perjury is a crime. Exercise the law’s
provision for protecting your private-sector
earnings from the 154-year-old2 indirect
excise known as the federal income tax.
Rebut fraudulent allegations made by your payers
regarding the legal nature of your work and
the earnings derived therefrom, so that you
pay only your fair share. Join the hundreds
of thousands of honest, law-abiding Americans
who have been doing so for more than a decade.
Learn how for free at losthorizons.com.
1--“We must reject…
…the broad contention submitted in behalf of
the government that all receipts—everything
that comes in—are income…”.
United States Supreme
Court, So. Pacific v. Lowe, 247 U.S. 330, (1918)
2—The income tax in
the United States was first instituted into
law on July 1, 1862, during Lincoln’s presidency
under the excise laws of the United States.
The preamble to the 1939 Internal Revenue Code
traces its roots to this original income tax
law.
Trolls Against The Truth: A
Dis-Information Campaign
UNLESS YOU'VE LOOKED, you can have no idea
of the volume, intensity and mendacity deployed in the
government's efforts to discourage Americans from learning
what is revealed in
CtC. It's truly astonishing.
A lot of folks are aware of the show-trial
events in which my wife and I have received state-engineered
public beatings meant to scare people away from the
truth about the "ignorance tax" scam. But many are unaware
of the overall campaign. This is a shame, really, because
a focused propaganda effort like this one is a very
powerful acknowledgement of the significance of
CtC's revelations.
While the majority of Americans do not
yet know how
CtC protects them from the vampire state, the vampire
itself certainly does. Dis-information campaigns like
this one make that very clear.
FORMER CBS REPORTER SHERYL ATKISSON describes
some aspects of this sort of dis-information campaign
in the following video. Despite the annoying preliminary
15 seconds or so of advertising, her presentation is
very much worth watching:
(H/T to Greg Belcher for finding
and forwarding this great presentation.)
Losthorizons.com is one of those websites specifically-targeted
by the corrupt interests at Wikipedia described by Atkisson.
The behind-the-scenes folks at that site won't allow
links on their pages to anything posted at
losthorizons.com, nor even just text corrections
of misinformation in their pages about the income tax.
That's the least of it. Click
here for some specific discussion of the enormous
scare campaign that's been actively spreading false
information in hope of discouraging legitimate media
attention, as well as men and women simply seeking the
truth about the tax and liberty from the scourge of
the "ignorance tax".
PLEASE GIVE SOME SERIOUS THOUGHT to the
fact that YOU being secure in your own freedom rests
on others learning the truth as well, and recognize
that it falls to you to help overcome the dis-information
campaign. Post and share
your videos;
share your victories; help silence the agents-provocateur
and distraction-injectors whose nonsense is discussed
and debunked
here; and widely (and frankly, impatiently) share
this page,
this page and
this page, challenging everyone in your address
book to disconnect the phone and the TV for an afternoon
and get educated.
Doing these things will be what makes it
happen, Cap'n.
An Excellent New Video About
The Government Effort To Suppress CtC Has Hit YouTube!
DEREK CUSHMAN HAS POSTED a powerful presentation
on government lies, propaganda and misinformation about
CtC designed to discourage more Americans from reading
the book and getting free of the misadministration of
the tax:
Watch it and share it, folks. This film
will help a lot of people who have been taken in by
the lies understand how they've been manipulated, and
prompt a proper desire to learn the truth about the
tax.
Well done, Derek!
P.S. If there were a thousand videos out
there debunking government lies and encouraging Americans
to learn the truth like this one does, the "ignorance
tax" scheme would collapse in a month. So,
where's yours?
Please Help losthorizons.com
Be As Effective As Possible!
OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS I've heard from
a number of folks that a firewall known as "Comodo"
blocks access to this website. This is apparently a
glitch in that program. This site is safe, as can be
seen by going
here.
Please share this info with others in your
own address book so it gets around-- obviously those
suffering the ill effects of this defect in Comodo won't
be able to see it here themselves until they go into
their firewall settings and manually whitelist
losthorizons.com.
MY FRIENDS, THIS NEWSLETTER NEEDS your
creativity, your clear thinking, and your expressive
energy! In short, this newsletter needs your journalism!
I know that writing for public consumption
isn't everyone's cup of tea. But those who CAN string
a few words together can importantly serve the educated,
activist community by writing and submitting thoughtful,
well-researched and persuasive articles on certain topics
for posting on these pages.
Here are several topics for which submissions
are desired:
Why the media is silent about the astonishing
13-years-and-counting history of government acknowledgements
of the accuracy of CtC's revelations and its simultaneous
efforts to keep Americans from knowing about those
revelations.
Why educating more Americans about
the true history and actual provisions of the income
tax is the most important thing that anyone seeking
to restrain the state and restore the republic can
do today.
Why "tax honesty gurus" stay mum about
CtC and its unprecedented accomplishments in freeing
people from improper application of the tax.
Why hunkering down in every-man-for-himself
silence in the face of statist and fascist assaults
on the rule of law leads to greater harm than what
is hunkered-down against; that is, how fearful behavior
just strengthens the thing feared.
How much better it is to encourage
(and practice) bravery, honesty and openness than
to counsel (and succumb to) fear, lies and concealment.
Articles should be 1500 words or less,
with working titles and author's name at the beginning.
Composition should strive for two and three sentence
paragraphs organized in the form of a theme paper. Intend
to persuade and inspire, not browbeat. Format should
be either .doc or .odt. All submissions selected for
posting may be subject to editing.
Submit to the regular (non-encrypted) address
found
here, as an attachment to an email.
In Passing... Three cheers
for Russia, which has stepped up to join Iran
in aid of its long-time ally Syria against the
noxious "Islamic State" nutcases that have sprung
up like toadstools in the wake of the destabilization
of the Middle East by the noxious neocon nutcases
running Washington for the last 15 years.
More Educated Americans Testify,
Showing Why The Deep State Fears CtC
"If the taxpayers of this country ever
discovered that we operate on 98% bluff, the entire
system will collapse."
-Reported remark by an internal revenue
service officer to Sen. Henry E. Bellmon (R. Okla.)
on April 15, 1971.
"The Tax Code represents the genius of
legal fiction... The IRS has never really known
why people pay the income tax... The IRS encourages
voluntary compliance, through FEAR."
-Jack Warren Wade Jr., former IRS officer
in charge of the IRS Nationwide Revenue Officer Training
Program, in his book ‘When You Owe The IRS’
CtC-EDUCATED, AMERICAN HERITAGE-LOVING
grown-up Don La Vigne shares his testimony
here. Tom Romin shares
his testimony
here. Greg Sutton shares his
here. Enjoy Robert Harvey's testimony
here. Don's, Tom's and Greg's and
Robert's words, like those of others that can be found
here, are solid examples of why the Deep State fears
CtC.
It's this simple: If you study
CtC you will know the truth about the tax.
Further, you will know that you know the truth,
beyond any doubt.
ONLY
CtC will give you that certainty, because
CtC is exclusively and uniquely complete and correct,
as can be seen by any of thousands of different acknowledgements
of every possible kind, from
this to
this to
this to
this.
Most telling, in its own way, is the government
robotically resorting for years now to the strawman
of
falsely ascribing to CtC the ridiculous arguments
that "wages are not income" and that only federal, state
and local government workers are subject to the tax.
This false ascription is then used as the basis for
claiming the book is "false and frivolous"-- a lame
and transparent dodge begging the question of why the
state won't acknowledge what the book
REALLY says and then attempt to dispute THAT.
Once you know the truth revealed in
CtC, acting in accordance with that truth WILL liberate
you from being an ignorance tax serf. This, the deep
state fears mightily.
In short, the "ignorance tax" scheme can
only survive if Americans can be bluffed into not seeking
out the truth, and if those who learn that truth can
be discouraged from acting on that truth.
But those who know the truth, and know
they know the truth, cannot not act.
Acting on the truth is a moral imperative,
as well as a legal imperative.
The undaunted actions of those who know
the truth are "calls" against the bluff. Each "call"
ratchets-up the spread of the truth exponentially and
forces state acknowledgement of that truth, one way
or another; and each such acknowledgment takes America
one step closer to
freedom
from the 75-year state-unleashing, people-restraining
"ignorance tax" scheme.
I HAVE DONE MY BEST to lead this country
to liberty from the mis-applied income tax. I have labored
hard. I've shed a lot of sweat, a fair bit of blood
and more than a few tears. But I seem to be pretty poor
at that kind of work.
When I have asked all of you for what I
firmly believe is a necessary resource to move the ball
downfield and give all of us the best chance at justice
and an end to the assault on the rule of law-- simple
testimonial videos requiring nothing from any of you
but the phone in your pocket and three minutes of speaking
from the heart-- I have had only a handful of people
answer my call.
I CAN'T KEEP GOING THIS WAY. I have to
be able to turn my attention away from writing new persuasive
or skepticism-addressing articles week after week, and
toward research, analysis and educational presentations
that will benefit everyone already in this community.
I need time to do some suing, and to bring together
the resources and talent toward that end.
As said, it is my firm belief that your
testimonial videos are the resource that I need to make
big things happen, and they are unquestionably the thing
I need to allow me to turn my attention away from trying
to get horses to drink at the waterhole to which I have
led them. Your words, in your great numbers and all
in your own different ways, will do that better than
anything I write possibly could.
And yet, you are not providing them. This,
despite my having been asking you for them for many
years now.
Therefore, with enormous reluctance, I
am making portions of this website restricted access
only. People have been urging me to do this for years
now, telling me I should impose a charge to access my
work-product, so as to enable me to keep producing.
I have never been inclined to charge fees
for access. I ask for donations, and will continue to
do that, and if they do not come, then I will conclude
that my work is of no value to anyone, and I will close
shop.
But I now WILL charge a special something
for access to some key portions of that work-- testimonial
videos, as discussed, described and demonstrated
here.
SELECTED PAGES CONSTITUTING primarily "legal
resources" pages now require passwords for access, and
to get a password, I need your video. Similarly, if
an email comes my way asking for guidance or assistance,
it had best have a video attached, if I don't already
have yours posted.
I hate to play it this way, but I want
to win.
I'll tell you a story from when I was coaching
my kids in soccer. Both of my kids at a certain age
in their careers had run into a wall common to all but
the very exceptional. They had gotten to be pretty good,
and they wanted to enjoy the benefits of their hard
work. But the arrival of this interest coincided with
a new self-consciousness which made them reluctant to
risk failing and looking foolish. So, they were hanging
back from seizing the main chance when it appeared,
and driving for the goal.
My solution was to post on the wall of
our dining room a couple of simple points about self-discipline,
the chief of which is this: You can't score a goal if
you don't take a shot.
That's how it is here, too. If you don't
stand up, you are laying down, and you'll never score
that goal.
Here is what my kids live by now, in their
own version of that lesson. I hear it from them all
the time as they excel (accompanied by the sound of
a father's breast swelling with pride): Go hard,
or go home.
You, too. Go hard, or go home.
Send those videos.
Do I ask for a lot? I want your victories
to post, your financial support, your efforts at spreading
the word, and your beautiful faces and inspiring words,
too. It IS a lot.
But I'll let Thomas Paine explain:
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered;
yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder
the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we
obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows
how to put a proper price on its goods; and it would
be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as freedom
should not be highly rated.”
We each have our reasons, and our story.
It's time, and it's needed, for you to share yours with
the world.
"The day we see truth and do not speak
is the day we begin to die."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
What does it for you?
Is it simply because no moral and upstanding
person has any choice when it comes to telling the truth
over his or her signature, whether on tax forms or anywhere
else?
Is it recognition of the critical importance
of the rule of law, and the knowledge that if everybody
leaves its caretaking to someone else, it will soon
be lost to us completely?
Is it the money?
Maybe it's just simple respect for your
own rights as a human being, who is not and cannot be
not involuntarily subordinated to others?
Maybe it's just simple respect for your
general civic responsibility to be the grown-up and
enforce frugality and restraint on a big, powerful creature
of our own devising which otherwise is like a badly-raised
teenage boy given whiskey and car keys and let loose
on the road to wreak havoc?
Or is it, perhaps, a more acute anxiety
that if our bonfire of a state isn't damped, and quickly,
it'll soon burn down the house around us all?
What IS it that firms up your jaw and stiffens
your resolve?
It's time to take off the bushel and
share your light!
I would like you to think about what it
is that motivates you for a few moments (or all day,
if you like), and then send me your thoughts. I want
to put YOUR reasons to work inspiring folks who don't
yet understand what this is all about.
In this day and age, the most effective
way for you to share your thinking for the benefit of
others is to video-record yourself talking about how
you feel, and explaining what inspires and motivates
YOU.
All you need is a webcam or cell-phone
equipped with a camera. If you don't have, or know how
to use, one of these, have a friend help.
If needed, write a little script for yourself.
Better, though, to just speak extemporaneously, after
spending a little time sorting out your thoughts and
getting down into your heart. Perhaps make it a video
of someone in your family, or a close friend, interviewing
you.
Dress "business casual". Be well-groomed.
Keep yourself to no more than 2 or 3 minutes,
and keep in mind that the purpose is not to educate,
but to INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE and ENERGIZE. Your video will
be one of many to be shared.
You needn't feel any obligation to be profound,
and you shouldn't try to explain anything about the
law, other than to say that you have read it and you
know it's on your side. You just need to be sincere,
and uplifting. Your object is to make your audience
want to have what you have, and to be where you are
in your heart.
Keep in mind that you're speaking to an
audience that doesn't yet know ANYTHING about the subject,
and whose first reaction is, "This must be illegal;
this must be dangerous; this is too good to be true."
You want to pull that audience right past such things,
and straight to a focus on truth, morality, and our
American heritage of liberty and the rule of law.
Remember: INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE, ENERGIZE.
Speak about rights. Speak about morality,
and the obligation of a grown-up and responsible person
to speak the truth and to enforce the Constitution.
Speak about everyone's duty
to give to God what is God's, always, and to Caesar
only what is really Caesar's. Speak of your obligation
to respect yourself, and to look out for the current
and future well-being of your children and your fellow
citizens. Speak of
CtC, and what its information has done for your
understanding and resolve. Show the book.
If you have had victories, describe them.
Better still, show them, if possible.
Be clear about just what you accomplished:
EVERYTHING back-- Social Security, Medicare and all;
a "notice of deficiency" closing notice; an on-paper
agreement or acknowledgment that your earnings weren't
subject to the tax and everything withheld or paid-in
was an "overpayment"; a transcript showing all $0s;
or whatever happened.
When you speak of state victories, name
the state. If you had to overcome balkiness from a tax
agency before winning any victory, describe that, too!
If you're in a battle now, speak of your
resolve to uphold the law, come what may. If you haven't
yet begun to act, speak of your decision to do so, and
your plans.
Remember, your purpose is to INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE
and ENERGIZE.
If you're dealing with ongoing balkiness,
describe that, too, if you wish-- but be sure to explain
why you're not discouraged, and why you are not standing
down, not slinking back into the barn, and not choosing
to endorse the lies.
Mention what you do for a living, whether
you're a doctor, homemaker, lawyer, trucker, IT guy
or gal, or a retiree or student. Help people understand
that the company of grown-up activist Americans they
are being invited to join cuts across all demographics
and all interests-- with the common denominator being
respect for the law and love of the principles on which
this great country was founded.
This is your chance to get a LOT accomplished.
We've all had frustrating occasions of
trying to explain all this to a friend, neighbor, family
member or co-worker, only to pile up against the wall
of a mind not yet ready to listen and learn. Here is
your chance to address a self-selected audience of folks
who have themselves decided that it's time for them
to begin paying attention, and have clicked on your
testimonial for exactly that reason.
Further, think about this: You want judges,
bureaucrats, CPAs, lawyers, the HR people where you
work, your pastors, your neighbors and everyone else
to acknowledge the truth about the tax openly and straightforwardly.
How and why would these folks do this if YOU won't?
You want these folks to learn the truth.
Why would they even recognize that there is a truth
to be learned if you won't attest to having learned
it yourself? You've got to stand up, face forward and
chin up and tell these folks that you have studied and
checked and verified and seen the evidence and seen
the government evasions and you know that the tax is
not the capitation that the beneficiary government wants
everyone to think it is but a benign, but strictly limited
thing, and that they need to study and learn that, too.
Again, if you have victories to show, that's
nice, and powerful, too. But you don't have to have
victories to display in order to declare your knowledge
of what the law says. I've never flown around the world,
but I've seen the evidence and considered the arguments,
and I'm not hesitant to declare it a sphere...
Even those of you who haven't yet studied
CtC have surely read
this short document, and have verified everything
in it for yourself. You should therefore be declaring
its veracity and its message, loud and proud. Again,
if you won't say it, how can you hope that others will
ever even bother to look at the facts?
Be the change you want to see in the world,
or there won't be any change.
So, please make and send those videos
right away! You can share them with me via a cloud-based
drive space like OneDrive.Live.com or GoogleDrive, or
mail DVDs to me at 232 Oriole St., Commerce Twp., Michigan
48382, or even email to me if each file is no more than
20 megs (and you can break a video up if need be-- I
can reassemble them). Render as .mpg or mp4, if possible;
if not, send them how you have them and I'll make them
work.
Remember, the restoration of institutional
respect for individual rights and the rule of law depends
on enough individuals insisting upon it. Do your part
to let those starting to rub the sleep from their eyes
know that there is a community already waiting for their
fellowship with open arms and open hearts and shining
spirits.
See how some of your fellow warriors for
the truth have done their parts in videos sent over
the years, many of which are posted
here.
"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."
Getting Free Of The "Income" Tax Scheme Is As Easy As
Falling Off A Bike
To get an idea of how today's "income" tax scheme works,
try this little exercise:
Think of the federal government as a guy named Bob,
who lives down the street from you in a town that is
really big on bicycles. Bikes get used for commuting,
deliveries, shopping, etc.. In fact, other than walking,
bicycles are the exclusive form of transportation in
your town.
Your neighbor Bob has a by-the-mile bicycle-renting
business-- "Bob's Bicycles". Bob's Bicycles is far and
away the biggest business in town.
Part of Bob’s success is because he does a lot of contract
business. However, Bob doesn't just get paid by riders
who have signed an agreement with him, or even just
those using Bob's bikes. Bob gets something every time
anybody in town does any riding at all, through an odd
combination of circumstances that took many years to
come together.
Here's how it happened...
Bob's Bicycles was launched long ago by the great grandfather
of the present Bob (Bob IV). Great Grandpa Bob started
out not only with a main location for his contract business--
he also had the bright idea of setting up spots around
town where he parked some of his bikes for use by the
more occasional rider, on an "honor system". Anyone
could take and use one of these bikes, but they were
expected to keep track of their mileage, and send Bob
a "1040 Mileage Ridden/Rent Due Form" (and the appropriate
rent), periodically. The initial design of the form
was like this:
I, ______________,
rode a Bob's Bicycle a total of _____ miles
this year.
At Bob's rental
rate of $.15 per mile, I owe Bob $______
I said that Great Grandpa Bob planned to deal with these
occasional riders on the "honor system", and that's
true. But he liked his money, too, and didn't want to
miss anything that was due him. So, after setting up
the "self-serve" locations, Great Grandpa Bob went around
handing out "W-2, 1099 or K-1 Rider Reporting Forms"
to every other business in town. The forms-- accompanied
by notices that if Bob didn't get his rent from someone
riding a bicycle in connection with any business, he
would sue the company involved-- said:
You Can’t Fight Well When You Don’t Know
What You’re Fighting About
If you are having an argument
with the IRS or any other tax agency,
You are NOT being presumed to have made “corporate
profit”.
You are NOT being alleged to have received “foreign
income”.
You are NOT entangled in an invisible “adhesion
contract”.
You are NOT being obligated by a law whose subject
is never identified.
You are being targeted because REAL EVIDENCE exists
that YOU PERSONALLY HAD “INCOME” to which the revenue laws apply--
even though that evidence is almost certainly incorrect,
and CAN be corrected.
CtC WARRIOR SanDiegoScott has put together
a great little 20-question quiz to test your knowledge of the law
regarding the United States "income" tax. Test yourself, test your
friends and family! Test your accountant and tax attorney, and help
them learn the liberating truth!!
"Never must thou take up a false cry, or join hands
with the guilty by giving false witness in their favor. Never must
thou follow with the crowd in doing wrong, or be swayed by many
voices so as to give false judgment; even pity for the poor must
not sway thee when judgment is to be given."
-Exodus 23:1-3
Doing A Little High-Payoff Math
IF EACH PERSON receiving this newsletter each week distributed as
few as 100 of any of
the great outreach tools featured here to co-workers, friends,
neighbors and family members (or just strangers on the street, in
the mall, etc...), we could have SEVERAL MILLION new Americans
suddenly introduced to the liberating truth about the tax!
Just like that! In one week!
C'mon, people, let's roll on this!
“Most of the important things in the
world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when
there seemed to be no hope at all.”
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 or 'Every
Which Way But Loose' pages, which might seem like such exceptions,
are not. The special selection of victories on those pages, 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 in flux at all times, 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 while since your last having done so.
