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The News Current Events and Continuing Education for April 30 through May 13, 2018 “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
"There are two distinct classes of men...those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes." - Thomas Paine C'mon! CtC can't be right! You're crazy! If CtC were actually right, it would mean the government's been concealing and denying the truth for years on end, and everybody knows THAT would never happen... (Edward Snowden, come home! It was all just a bad dream; there really is No Such Agency!)
Do you know someone truly steeped in the Kool-Aid?
I mean someone who finds it easier to believe that the far-better-educated, far-more-suspicious-of-government Americans of a hundred years ago were complete morons who granted authority to the state to take whatever it wished from themselves and their posterity than to imagine that they themselves simply misunderstand the true nature of the income tax? Even while knowing that their beliefs about the tax are derived entirely from the representations of those who profit from those beliefs (like tax bureaucrats and "tax professionals")?
Do you know someone like that? Shake them awake with the latest (fifteenth) edition of CtC!
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Friends! The Eleventh Annual Declaration Day Party is less than two months away!! It'll be Saturday, June 30, here in beautiful Commerce Twp., Michigan. Get your RSVPs in!! *** Pardon The Dust! The Site Map Has Had An Overhaul!! And I think everyone will find it MUCH more useful now. EVERY NOW AND THEN I BECOME CONSCIOUS OF THE FACT that this site is suffering from a harmful quirk of one kind or another. These quirks result from the fact that over the fifteen years in which losthorizons.com has been growing like Topsy, the growth has been more often reactive than planned. By far, the greatest part of this website has been created in response to external events. These include, for instance, the deployment of new dodges by a tax agencies trying to evade CtC-educated filings, new government efforts to suppress CtC's revelations or new bits of "tax honesty guru" nonsense meant to distract people from the truth. ONE OF THE AREAS in which such a harmful quirk has metastasized is the very important Site Map. Up until today that page has been entirely constructed by tacking new links under the last links to be tacked on, with only the most rudimentary and hastily-done organization. Worse, the labeling of links within the map have often relied on prior knowledge on the part of visitors. These labels, in many cases, are just the titles of the newsletter articles by which the linked materials began. Anyone not a newsletter reader when the initiating events first prompted response has been left to exploration in order to discover why the link should be followed and the material studied and shared. IN LIGHT OF ALL THIS, I have undertaken to deeply revise the lh Site Map page, and I think everyone-- even long-time and leathery veteran warriors-- will find it MUCH more useful than it had been. Follow the link below to the revised page (and just in case of caching, please refresh the page once it has opened): The Newly-Revised Site Map Page Please let me know if you find it an improvement.
Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend A Word To America's Crazy Uncle From The Father Of Our Country There's never been a better time for revisiting this wisdom. ON SEPTEMBER 19, 1796, George Washington's farewell address was published as an open letter to the American public. Among much other wisdom, the man so universally respected by the Founders as to have been unanimously elected president of the convention that drafted our current United States Constitution made the following observations regarding prudent, productive, and liberty-protective foreign policy: "...[N]othing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The Nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim. "So likewise, a passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite Nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite Nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the Nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained; and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation." WHAT DOES THIS SAY TO US (and especially to Donald Trump)? Here's what: Sh*t-can the bad attitude toward Russia and Iran, dammit, and fire anyone who harbors it! Russia is a country whose people heroically threw off a deeply-embedded vicious totalitarian state not long ago (maybe this is why some folks hate it so much?). It is properly secular and tolerant of all faiths (while being more Christian than the USA has been for decades), has far lower taxes than those imposed by the United States and a much more lasseiz-faire regulatory demeanor, and has been doing everything possible to be a good neighbor to the rest of the world for many, many years. The United States should be doing everything possible to be its friend. Iran, though a theocracy, is religiously and ethnically open (for example, Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in Iran right now; Sunnis Muslims live there alongside the Shi'ite majority; and Jews are a protected religious minority with expressly-reserved seats in Parliament). It has a long history of non-aggression, and has been relentlessly and viciously victimized by the United States over the last 65 years. We owe it our good behavior. Sh*t-can the creepy mooning over Britain, Israel and Saudi Arabia, dammit, and fire anyone afflicted by it! Britain for many years now has been a political and cultural embarrassment to Western civilization, and even before that had a long history of deception as a routine tool of "statecraft", lawless "might makes right" military aggressions, and basic unscrupulousness in regard to the rest of the world. Israel and Saudi Arabia are apartheid-esque theocracies which have succeeded in establishing "Master-Blaster" relationships with the United States (with them in the "master" seat) by buying influence in Washington (often with money taken from Americans). Israel is aggressively, disruptively and unscrupulously expansionist; Saudi Arabia is the source of Wahabbist Islamic radicalism. Both are responsible for endless Middle-East conflicts and abuses of poorly-defended victims; both have been eating meals taken from the tables of American citizens for decades; and both should be kept at arm's length rather than hugged so closely that we get their fleas. MR. TRUMP, YOU CAMPAIGNED on "America First", and were elected in the (presently dashed) expectation that you would implement it. If this phrase means anything at all, it means that NO OTHER COUNTRY'S INTERESTS ARE WORTH ONE DROP OF AMERICAN BLOOD, OR ONE DOLLAR OF AMERICAN TREASURE. Their enemies are NOT our enemies, and their friends are NOT our friends, and this can't be evaded by any pretenses about "strategic" considerations. "America First" also means not swaggering around the world creating pretexts for pissing away American treasure through hostile posturing-- or outright aggression-- against people who haven't invaded our shores. Listen to Father George. AND HERE'S MY WORD TO EVERYONE ELSE: Stop leaving critical calls like these up to political hacks. How has that ever worked for you in the past? Use the tools the Founders provided for us all, as discussed here. Take seriously Saruman's question:
Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend Dave Jackson Testifies JFK conspiracy? No problem... Income Tax conspiracy? C'mon, man, don't be silly! How could that ever happen?! Cognitive dissonance in action. THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF CARRYING-ON recently by people who are certain that official crimes and cover-ups were involved in the JFK assassination. The outcries had been prompted by the outrageous Oct. 26, 2017 and April 26, 2018 renewed sequestration of CIA records which otherwise would shed some light on the matter. But leaving aside the questions about the Kennedy affair for a moment, these passionate denunciations themselves raise a question in my mind: How many of these same very vocal pundits and bloggers and tweeters-- already proven able to grasp government deception and criminality-- nonetheless refuse to acknowledge the possibility of a government scheme concealing the true nature of the income tax and exploiting the consequent widespread ignorance about how the tax actually works and on what it actually falls? I CAN ANSWER THE QUESTION MYSELF, of course. Many of the very same folks who are 100% certain that the JFK assassination was--
...can't even imagine that such things could have ever happened in regard to the income tax. This blindness to the income tax scheme (or better put, the "ignorance tax" scheme) while simultaneously embracing the JFK assassination and cover-up scheme is ironic. Even the JFK conspiracy crowd itself concedes that a really inarguable "smoking gun" in that case has yet to see the light of day; hence the complaints over the continued sequestration of documents. The income tax conspiracy, on the other hand, is already fully-revealed in all its shabby corruption, at even more than a mere "smoking gun" level. Unlike the JFK crimes, there are no hidden records still allowing for the harboring of doubts. THERE'S A FURTHER IRONY in this cognitively dissonant embrace of the not-yet-"smoking gun"-proven JFK scheme but not the fully-"smoking gun"-proven "ignorance tax" scheme. This arises from the fact that the JFK truthers' own "motive" argument-- that Kennedy's murder was committed by cold-warriors who saw Kennedy's turn toward detente with the USSR and Cuba as a genuine threat to national security-- is far more strongly applicable to the "ignorance tax" scheme. After all, JFK was just one man-- and one who might have been out of office before long. Further, he could be thwarted by congress in many ways, as well as by his military subordinates, members of his cabinet and others. While he may have been seen as a threat to national security, it was very much within limits, and temporary in any event. The "ignorance tax" scheme, in stark contrast, is the only means available to accomplish a perpetual and absolute "cold-warrior" requirement of diverting a river of wealth sufficient to pay for all the bombs, surveillance hardware, black-ops and all the rest of the infrastructure of the national security state from the pockets of individual Americans into the hands of those who imagine they know better how to use that money. And that's just what it does. HERE'S A FINAL IRONY that I'll propose in this commentary: On November 10, 2017 a back-seat-to-nobody JFK conspiracy enthusiast-- Jacob Hornberger of the 'Future of Freedom Foundation'-- posted a column in which he derides a mainstream journalist who had interviewed John Tunheim, the chairman of the 'Assassination Records Review Board' set up in 1992 to decide the fate of the unreleased JFK documents (and which ultimately decided they should be released this past October 26). Hornberger's complaint was the failure of his target too pursue what Hornberger thinks are obvious questions about his favorite mystery. Hornberger recites the following list of speculations as to why the journalist, Chris Hrapsky of TV station KARE in Minneapolis-St. Paul, dropped the ball and failed to follow-up when given an opening for questioning Tunheim about a pretty well-supported speculation that the Kennedy autopsy report was fraudulent: "Perhaps it was just ignorance of the facts that prevented Hrapsky from following up on one of the critical questions he asked Tunheim. Or perhaps it’s what might be called the “inconceivable mindset” that afflicts many mainstream reporters and commentators when it comes to the JFK assassination, a mindset that holds that it is simply inconceivable that the U.S. national-security establishment would carry out a domestic regime-change operation, even if national security ostensibly required it. Maybe Hrapsky was scared of how his employer might react if he made a deeper exploration into what the ARRB found. Maybe he was worried about being labeled a communist sympathizer or a conspiracy theorist. Or perhaps it was just a deep-seated fear of exploring what some consider a very frightening possibility, one they simply cannot confront mentally or emotionally — that the U.S. national-security establishment acted to protect national security by removing Kennedy from power, just as it did with regime-change operations in Iran, Guatemala, Congo, Cuba, Chile, and other places." So here's the irony: Hornberger is not only an ardent, back-seat-to-nobody JFK conspiracy enthusiast. He is also a vocal booster of the standard statist mythology about the income tax (such as here and here, to pick just a couple out of many errant posts over the years), and an "I-refuse-to-even-look-at-the-evidence" CtC denier, despite having been directly presented on many occasions over many years with every form of CtC evidence and authorities, by me personally and a number of other folks, as well. Hornberger's persistent refusal to face the truth, prompts some speculations, just as Chris Hrapsky's failure to follow up on the JFK autopsy issue prompted Hornberger's own speculations. There is nowhere that I have seen such speculations better expressed than in Hornberger's own well-chosen words, to whit: Perhaps it is just what might be called the “inconceivable mindset” that afflicts Hornberger when it comes to the "ignorance tax" scheme, a mindset that holds that it is simply inconceivable that elements of the U.S. government would cultivate popular misunderstanding of the income tax and then exploit it to not-quite-illegally extract $trillions from deceived Americans, even if national security ostensibly required it. Maybe Hornberger is scared of how his donors might react if he made a deeper exploration into what CtC reveals. Maybe he's worried about being labeled a "tax protester" or a conspiracy theorist. Or perhaps it's just a deep-seated fear of exploring what some consider a very frightening possibility, one they simply cannot confront mentally or emotionally — that the U.S. national-security establishment has acted to protect national security by a massive, sustained subterfuge, just as it has done in covering up the truth about the removal of Kennedy from power and the regime-change operations in Iran, Guatemala, Congo, Cuba, Chile, and other places. Here's my advice for Hornberger: Next time you've done such a fine job polishing some well-turned phrases for the critique of someone else playing the "See no evil" monkey, Jacob, look at them closely. You'll see your own reflection looking back at you. To everyone else, I'll point out that Jacob Hornberger is far from the only pundit who embraces "truth" notions about JFK and other things (often perfectly soundly) while at the same time having an enormous blind spot regarding the thoroughly-proven, critically-important CtC-revealed truth about the income tax. The same, of course, is true of many, many non-pundit Americans. USE THE POINTS MADE ABOVE TO HELP WAKE THESE PEOPLE UP!! Like Hornberger, they don't know what they don't know, and they simply have to be persuaded to start looking at what they have never actually explored. "All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed." -I. F. Stone NOTE: This article is permalinked here.
Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend An Open Letter To Ron Paul, C4L, The LP, And Everyone Who Fancies Himself A "Real Republican" ...along with anyone else who claims fealty to liberty and the rule of law. Dr. Paul, and all the rest: Though I'm sorry to say it, the subject today is hypocrisy. YOUR hypocrisy. Let me explain. Sometime over the last couple of months, you probably signed documents giving the federal government permission to use large amounts of your money to finance or support:
YOU PROBABLY SIGNED DOCUMENTS GIVING PERMISSION to the feds to do all these things with YOUR money. You probably pro-actively signed-up as a partner with the government in doing all these things, and you did it voluntarily. Oh, you'll try to dodge responsibility. You'll pretend that you were compelled by law to declare all your earnings to be tax-relevant "income" by listing them in the "income" fields on a 1040 and signing it as true, complete and correct. But you know better. It is 2018. At this point, it is not credible that you are unaware of the $BILLIONS in tax refunds secured by readers of 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America'. It is not possible that you are unaware of the 250,000+ government admissions of the book's accuracy, or the even more telling admissions in the form of unprecedented efforts to suppress the book. To not know these things at this point, 15 years on since their inception, is nearly impossible. And frankly, even if you happen to have been so remarkably disengaged with current events over that 15 years as to honestly not know about CtC, you're still not off the hook. You're smart enough to have recognized-- all on your own-- that a 1040 is a declaratory instrument. You're smart enough to understand the implications of that declaratory legal character. You're smart enough to understand that what is listed as "income" on such a form is being declared by the signer to be properly subject to the government's tax. You probably even understand that "information returns" such as W-2s and 1099s constitute allegations by those who paid you that you were paid for federally-privileged, taxable activities. You probably have enough legal acumen to be aware that you are encouraged to attach those third-party "information returns" to your 1040 because doing so makes their allegations into your own testimony. You're also smart enough to realize that the signer of a tax return has a choice. He can declare his earnings to be properly subject to the tax by reporting them as "income" on that tax-relevant form. Or he can dispute that his earnings are properly subject to the tax by not doing so. The signer has every right to register his dispute in that fashion, and doing so is completely lawful. Finally, you're also smart enough to realize that engaging in politicking or punditry against the tax IS NOT A MEANINGFUL PROTEST OF ANYTHING. It means nothing when you have signed under penalties of perjury declaring the government's claim to your enabling funds. Protests made afterward or elsewhere are just theater. The notion that it is a valid solution from any kind of personal integrity standpoint to say, "Here's my money, Leviathan... but oh, I don't think you should have it, and the things you do with it are so terrible... blah, blah blah..." is nonsense. It's just a buy-in to some kind of state-empowering "social contract" bs. You know that. You also know you have the option to actually and meaningfully say "No!" as tens of thousands of your fellow Americans do every year (and thereby keep your money in your own hands, but even if you don't believe that, and figure it will just be seized from you anyway is not relevant to the point here). You just don't have the sand to not tug your forelock and say "Yes" when the revenue-hungry state glares and you and demands that you do so. Further, in permitting the government to tax as "income" your unprivileged earnings-- as you have always done, and are about to do again-- you are participating in a federal imposition of an unapportioned capitation, which is a Constitutional violation. You are being party to a truly heinous crime. SO, HERE'S THE THING, MY FRIENDS: You have no business complaining about all the evils of the Leviathan state while at the same time voluntarily PAYING FOR THEM. Such complaints alongside such compliance is HYPOCRISY. Either shut up and go away, OR (and this is very much my preference), start putting your money where your mouth is (to deploy a remarkably apt metaphor). You probably already DO know the truth. Have some self-respect and get on your feet. If you really don't know the truth yet, here is the law in a concise seven pages and here is how the tax structure works, in a concise eight pages. Get up to speed and get in gear. The rest of us have been eagerly awaiting your company on the field. "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God." -Thomas Jefferson -Pete Hendrickson *** *Because his earnings have been alleged to be tax-relevant "income" on "information returns" such as W-2s, 1099s or K-1s by those who made payments to him, and he has been made aware of these allegations by being sent copies of these forms, a recipient who fails to file at all is presumed thereby to be agreeing with those allegations by default. *** NOTE: When I say "an open letter" I mean a letter for YOU TO SEND to everyone you can. Ron Paul will never see it on my site. He doesn't come here-- that's the problem. A dozen people have given him copies of CtC over the years. He doesn't read them. Dr. Paul apparently needs to be shamed into reading one of those many copies given to him. The leadership at C4L, and the LP, and all those who fancy themselves to be "Real Republicans" dedicated to respect for the Constitution and opposed to the overweening State need to be shamed into facing the truth about the tax and their enabling of the very things they decry. Or, let me be more generous than I am above: People don't know what they don't know, and are pretty skilled at avoiding information that will alert them to their ignorance. Such people have to be helped to see the truth. *** BTW: MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE sits in a federal prison camp right now after a show-trial exercise in judicial corruption staged solely in support of exactly the sort of pretended or willful ignorance discussed above. The idea is to hang someone prominently in the crow-cage to suggest "official disagreement" with what simple logic and the plain and simple facts make perfectly clear to anyone who will consider them (as though that were the relevant measure of the truth or rightness of all things, even if sincere). There is no "official disagreement" of course-- just corrupt official displeasure. This made clear by the broad and deep river of admissions over a decade-and-a-half, by the record of dodges and evasions engaged in by the same hanging government in lieu of actual disputes of anything in CtC, and even by the details of Doreen's victimization. This hideous injustice alone should be enough to turn those to whom this open letter is addressed white as sheets and firmly resolved to man-up-- or should I say, American-up. For those interested: 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: Federal Bureau of Prisons Doreen Hendrickson 48564-039 P.O. Box 474701 Des Moines, IA 50947-0001
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The First 2017 Victory Is Posted! A nice, prompt 100% refund from California. ADADRIAN C. has launched the 2017 victory posts with this fine 100% refund of everything withheld from him during that year and given over to California as "income" tax:
Adrian got his educated return in early, and bless him for his refusal to be patient at getting his own money back in his own pocket where it belongs! *** AS LONG AS WE'RE IN A "VICTORIES MODE", let's celebrate a few other recent victories, as well. Roger B. secured this nice victory in January, after challenges to his withholding amounts and a well-answered "frivolous" allegation:
It'll be noted that this is a "change form", by which the United States agrees that Roger is due $17,798 back (which was everything withheld from him during 2014 under Chapter 24 provisions) while trying to keep the amounts withheld under Chapter 21, for no defensible reason. (The validity of the tax related to either withholding protocol hinges on the same facts-- see this for a bit more on the subject.) Here is Roger's filing; here is the initial challenge to his claim of amounts withheld (which was to ALL of the amounts withheld, btw); and here is Roger's response. Months later came this "frivolous" allegation in hope of frightening Roger into withdrawing his refund claim, to which Roger responded with this. After all that, at long last came the acknowledgement above showing the United States admission that Roger had done nothing qualifying for the tax, but proposing to return only two-thirds of his money. Roger has responded with an "I do not agree" which the IRS followed with a repeat of its "frivolous" threat-- we'll watch the further progress of this victory-in-progress with considerable interest. *** SETH shares a victory with the state of Hawaii for 2016:
*** AND SHAWN WEILER shares his federal victory (with interest) for 2016:
(FICA withholdings are not included here; Shawn chose not to pursue his claim for their return for reasons of his own.) ***
Adrian's and Roger's and Seth's and Shawn'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? It's easy. Stand up on behalf of the law, and then share the evidence. That's all there is to it!
Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend The Law, In Seven Pages Really. HERE IS HOW THE SCHEME WORKS, IN 8 PAGES. HERE IS HOW TO OVERCOME THE SCHEME AND ENFORCE THE LAW, IN 256 PAGES. Share these all, everywhere you can. Be your most creative self in sending and "selling" these links. Do memes; make gifs; respond to everything in the news that would be or have been better had the state been small, or if Americans kept their money for their own uses. If you pay attention to the news and train yourself to apply these perspectives, you will see a dozen things of which you can make use in awakening other Americans to the virtues of having the income tax correctly administered. Please, for my sake, for your own sake, for the sake of your children and their future, make that use.
Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend *** A VERY IMPORTANT NOTE FOR EVERYONE!!! DUE TO CHRONIC AND ESCALATING interferences by ISPs (or others) which have made newsletter emails an extremely time-consuming and increasingly unreliable announcement mechanism, I have transitioned to alternative announcement methods. These include:
If you choose one of these social media options (or use them in addition to other means, as I wish you would), PLEASE get the full value out of them by diligently "liking" and "retweeting" or "sharing" or "reposting" my posts! That will significantly improve their visibility to others, and very much help the cause!!
(Members of the state CtC Warrior forums in AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, MI, MN, MO, NE, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, SC, TX, UT, VA, WA or WI, will continue to get the regular announcements if the membership is set to receive email updates.) NOTE: I will still not be engaging in correspondence by any of these alternative, social media means-- those wishing to correspond should continue to use email for this purpose. NOTE II: PLEASE help ensure that others in the CtC community know about this change in newsletter delivery!!
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The craziness of the neo-con nutcases in Washington is starting to generate its predictable blowback, but on a much more dangerous scale than in the recent past. Based on relentless hostile rhetoric and steady efforts at military encirclement the Russian Federation Armed Forces Command has concluded that the United States intends to launch a pre-emptive nuclear attack on Russia. While this perception continues to be fed, the risk of a prophylactic Russian first strike exists and grows more perilous. The persistent, recently-escalated, plainly unfounded and deliberately provocative saber-rattling against Iran-- a long-time close ally and buffer-state of Russia's, the destabilization or regime-change within which would be another substantial threat factor-- has magnified the intensity of the peril. So, more than ever...
What You Need To Know If CtC Doesn't Spread Like Wildfire RIGHT NOW So The Nut-Cases Can Be Stripped Of Their Resources: NOT THAT "DUCK AND COVER" would do you or your kids any good, of course... The Russian Federation has 7,400 nuclear warheads and the means to deliver them. China is coming on strong, too, these days. Perhaps you imagine the US has some magical technological advantage that will protect us when all the nut-case bellicosity leads to its inevitable outcome? Read this, this, this, this and this. And in any event, don't forget the inescapable issue of nuclear winter and fallout-- the world-killing harm from either of which doesn't require even a single Russian or Chinese warhead to hit a target. Really, it's this simple:
Spread CtC's revelations like wild-fire.
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A Call To Action Or Two Nothing happens if you do nothing.
THE VIDEO OF MY JULY 16 PRESENTATION on judicial fraud to conceal the true legal character of the income tax is posted here. Everyone should see it and share it like crazy.* It is hugely powerful and WILL successfully educate even the most stubbornly skeptical and disengaged. Video of the Q&A session that followed that presentation can be seen here; this is also a "must see". *Here's a sample formulation for sharing: The American people have been victimized by massive and sustained corruption in the federal judiciary in order to fuel the ambitions of the Deep State. See the incontrovertible evidence at https://youtu.be/105GKdmJ9HU. This enormous harm can be remedied, but the path to that solution begins with widespread awareness of the problem. Please watch the film yourself, and please pass this wake-up call along as widely and urgently as possible. If you have a serious-minded group that you think will benefit from an in-person presentation on this long-running assault on the rule of law in America, contact me. Further... A call to action CLEARLY, THE MERE AIRING OF THE JUDICIAL AND EXECUTIVE CRIMES revealed in the presentation discussed above is not enough. What is revealed here is a vicious widespread plot to destroy our Constitutional republic. It can be stopped, and it must be stopped, and all culpable parties-- who have each and every one grossly betrayed and defiled the trust and honor the people of America have bestowed upon them-- should be harshly punished. Therefore... I call on every law-respecting journalist to raise the hue and cry about these outrages. I urge every American reading these words to join me in demanding action. Append this article or this video (or both) to an introductory note and a demand for action, and mail it to Jeff Sessions, Paul Ryan, your federal and state congressional delegations and to every journalist possible. This will ensure that these folks will be made aware of this matter, and cannot say otherwise as an excuse for inaction. Click on the name below for contact info: Journalists (this is a short list-- you may know or have access to more; send to all of them) Your mom, your dad, your sibs, your best friend, the guys and gals at the office or the plant, etc.-- you have these addresses or must find them on your own. ALSO!!! Send to law school faculty!!! Find schools, faculty names and contact info however you can and send! Send to every lawyer you can find. Understand, if YOU haven't shared this film with any given judge, prosecutor or attorney, he or she will not have ever seen any of the information presented. He or she will not only know nothing of the truth about the tax, but will believe the untruths about the tax which the falsifying officials exposed in the film (and in the text treatments of the same material here and here) have been peddling on behalf of the "ignorance tax" scheme. Don't make the mistake of imagining that "they all know the truth, and are part of a giant conspiracy against it." This is not true. Most of those folks have never seen even a single one of the authorities you have seen in these presentations. They never knew there was a reason to look for them. Certainly none of them have ever seen this material knowledgeably assembled and presented. YOU have to show it to them. If you haven't done so, assume that no one has. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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****** On Criminal Complaints For Filing False IRs Getting practical on a core element of the "ignorance tax" scheme.
"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." -Edward R. Murrow
What Is Paid For By The "Ignorance Tax" LOTS of very bad things... The U.S. Income Tax: An Excise On The Profitable Exploitation Of Federal Privilege The U.S. Ignorance Tax: The Profitable Exploitation of Confusion About The Income Tax I WAS IN A GROUP THE OTHER DAY in which I overheard, "The income tax just goes to pay the interest on the national debt!" Would that it were so... The statement is a long-standing misconstruction of something said by Peter Grace of the Reagan-era Grace Commission, which had been tasked with an analysis of the federal budget. Grace attempted to illustrate the significance of the federal debt burden by pointing out that the interest paid on that monstrous debt was so much as to more-or-less match the amount taken in by the income tax-- an amount that is a metaphorical synonym for "huge". Money, of course, is fungible, so even if the tax take were earmarked for the interest payment, that would simply free up other funds for other uses. Thus, the "earmarking " concept is illusory at best. Income tax revenue gets spent for any and all government purposes, just as is true of every other dime that goes into the general fund. Further, Grace undervalued the income tax dramatically. This is because Grace didn't understand that FICA (Social security and Medicare) taxes are just income "surtaxes"-- meaning income taxes like any others, despite the misleading application-specific label of "employment taxes". As a result of this misunderstanding Grace failed to factor this additional enormous amount into his casual analogy. The reality is that the income tax take-- by which we really mean the "ignorance tax" take, since we're talking about the amount captured by government through exploitation of ignorance about what is really subject to the income tax under the law-- is many times the amount paid in interest on the national debt. Last year, for instance, the interest payment was about $432 billion. The ignorance tax total was a whopping $3.9 trillion. MY POINT HERE IS NOT TO CRITIQUE THE GRACE REPORT, however. I'm only interested in stopping its mistakes from being repeated and persisting as a false "factoid". The reason I'm concerned is that the throw-off, "It just goes to pay the interest on the national debt..." line, though not meant as, or in support of, anything but a disparagement of the tax, actually serves to minimize or conceal the horrendous evil for which the tax really does pay. Lets look at a small sampling of the things made possible by the ignorance tax:
NOW LET'S LOOK at what preservation of the "ignorance tax" scheme has made valuable to the schemers, and therefore an increasing part of our lives:
EVERYTHING LISTED ABOVE IS what is actually paid-for by the "ignorance tax", either in the conventional sense of being financed with its enormous, corruption-inducing aggregation of wealth into the hands of a political class with feet of clay, or as a price we all pay by the degradation and loss of our principles and our values. Is all this really how a sensible people want to be spending their resources? I think not, but this IS what we're doing now, because of all those not yet awakened to the truth about the income tax. Be an alarm clock.
(Click on Saruman to see what he means..."
Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend ***** “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 *****
Thank goodness the sun is now shining...
A Review of CtC by Derek Cushman
You can also find this film at https://vimeo.com/175424277. Regarding Trolleries (Deceitful efforts to discourage Americans from learning the truth about the "income tax")
FOR ALL THE YEARS SINCE 2003 when CtC was first published, the government has engaged in a concerted effort to frighten people away from its truths. This effort involves official government websites and press releases touting an occasional court ruling that appears to be at odds with some CtC-revelation (but without details sufficient to expose the real substance of the ruling)-- and sometimes even more mendacious behavior. Click here for the rest of this article
Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend ***** Are the presentations and resources offered on this site and in my other work of any value to you? Tim Kendrick has posted a video on YouTube regarding donations. I didn't know what to do about it to begin with; I don't do what I do intending for anyone to feel obligated in any way. But of course, no one IS obligated. I will continue to make my work freely-available here, and in my books for only the cost of a cheap paperback. Thus, even though I post it here below, Tim's very thoughtful personal resolution and encouragement to others is just an invitation for consideration by those who may not be conscious of the fact that I can't do what I do without support. No one is to feel any pressure from it; if it moves anyone to act let it be solely because it seems right.
***** Why Does The Government Lie About 'Cracking the Code'? THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION is the key to the restoration of the republic and the rule of law in America. See it below. (NOTE: It's very important that the entire 24 minutes be viewed.)
This video can also be found on YouTube at https://youtu.be/hgzzYl-eeUI. Here are links to the two pages to which viewers are directed at the end of the film: The Crime of the Century and The Truth About The 16th Amendment. The other two mentioned in the film are this one (the "bulletin board" stack of 1,200 or so posted refunds and other victories in knowledgably applying the law; and this one (the collection of resisted claims and the outcomes of those little battles). PLEASE be a real activist about sending this link to every single person in your address book, and about sharing it through facebook, reddit, twitter, and any other distribution channel with which you are familiar. Send it to every journalist you can. It's time to really make something happen. Accompany your emails and posts with with a strong admonishment to watch the film through, and that doing so will show the viewer an individual-empowering, state-restraining truth about the income tax which the government has been trying to keep hidden from view for 75 years and which that person really needs to know. BY THE WAY, as is impossible to miss, I have neither the skills nor the tools to make even moderately good films. This is simply not my forte. Anyone able to do better is encouraged to talk to me about that. As is ALSO impossible to miss, though-- even in my amateur production-- reader video testimonials have GREAT POWER. Send me yours.
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***** How To Be A Leader In The CtC Community It's simple: KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX IN DETAIL KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE RESOURCES BE FAMILIAR WITH THE SCAMS, THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS, AND THE TROLL-POLLUTION TAKE CHARGE IN YOUR STATE FORUM, HELPING EVERYONE TO THINK CLEARLY AND STAY ON TOPIC All-in-all, just be the sort of person for others that you would go to yourself for trustworthy leadership. Leadership is a challenge. But it's not complicated, and you can do it. *****
The 'Watching the Watchmen Amendment' If you're not talking this one up everywhere and helping generate a buzz, you don't really want liberty and the rule of law...
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If you're working on one, and just getting stonewalled or speed-bumped, you can still be recognized! Go here to learn what to do. Learn The Liberating Truth About The Tax NEW! Orders of twelve or more books now come with a free DVD on request containing six informative and inspiring videos-- 112 minutes in all. Click here for the details. ***** Did you miss the 'Set Your Church Free' commentaries? Ignorance of the true nature of the "income" tax has gagged, gutted and seduced-into-disgrace America's ministerial community. This must change.
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Media Evasion Of CtC Must End, Now Time, unfortunately, is on the side of the well-funded disinformation specialists class
Are You Having Trouble Spreading The Word? SKEPTICISM (SOMETIMES INVOKED BY FEAR) IS TO BE EXPECTED when you're trying to explain to someone that everything they've been encouraged their whole lives to believe about something as entrenched and significant as the income tax is basically nonsense. So here's a way to help cut through the resistance: Ask your listener how he or she would react if you were to show an announcement from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue admitting that the tax doesn't apply to the earnings of most Americans and is misapplied most of the time because people don't understand how it works? Or how about if you showed a ruling from the Supreme Court saying the same? Now you just have to explain that you're going to show exactly those things-- but because the state really doesn't want people to know this, these things haven't been said quite as forthrightly as we would all wish. It's going to take a bit more work to take these admissions in than is sufficient for just reading a press release. But it'll be worth the effort... *****
Real Americans don't accommodate fog, lies and a sliding scale of adherence to the rule of law. Real American men and women stand up for the truth and the law, come what may, knowing that it is only by setting the bar at the top and enforcing it, come what may, that liberties are secured.
"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
OUTREACH!!! JOB ONE, PEOPLE!!! SPREAD. THE. WORD. ONLY ONE THING WILL WIN YOU YOUR LIBERTY: Spreading the truth. Accordingly, I've assembled outreach resources into a new, dedicated page. Find it here, and please, USE THESE TOOLS!! I can't do this all by myself. "In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -George Orwell *****
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” -James Madison How About You? Are You Governing Yourself? Get The Knowledge, Reclaim Your Power, And Stand With The Founders
There is little more important to the long-term health of America than how our children are educated..
***** Some Observations Regarding Educated And Accurate Filing
Have You Taken A Military, Law Enforcement or Public Office Oath To Uphold And Defend The Constitution? IGNORANCE TAX: An unnecessary income tax exaction suffered out of ignorance as to lawful objects of the tax 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.
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'Don't Tread On Me' Polo Shirts Say It All!
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More Than Two Thirds Of The Several States That Collect "Income" Taxes Have Now Acknowledged The Truth About The Law As Revealed In CtC, And Have Issued Complete Refunds Accordingly! See The Following Chart...
'The BOSTONIAN'S Paying the EXCISE-MAN, or TARRING & FEATHERING' (1774) (How our forefathers responded to arrogant "Rule of Law defiers"...)
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HELP SPREAD THE LIBERATING TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Taxes are not raised to carry on wars, wars are raised to carry on taxes." -Thomas Paine
Where To Find Things On This Site
Law Professor James Duane Says: "Don't Talk To The Police. Period."
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Films That Belong In Every Home Library
Ever Wonder How Much An Unrestrained FedState Would Like To Tap You For?
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Warrior David Larson shares this beautiful little farce, wryly observing that, "Depositors have "..not lost one penny.." - OK we could agree on that simple statement ..how about the purchasing power of that same penny 'not lost'?"
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Last Word "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -Samuel Adams, Architect of the first American Revolution
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***** About The Author Pete Hendrickson is possibly the most effective lawyer in history, even while never having set foot in a law school, nor ever being a card-carrying member of "the bar". He is the first American in history to secure a complete refund of Social Security and Medicare ‘contributions’ withheld from his earnings (along with all other property taken for federal taxes); further, since 2003 students of his legal analyses and arguments in ‘Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America’’ (CtC), and its sequel, 'Was Grandpa Really a Moron?' have been routinely retaining and recovering billions of dollars which otherwise-- wrongly, but as a matter of course-- would have gone to federal or state government treasuries. This despite concerted efforts by government to suppress his work, and in some cases vigorously oppose the claims by his students. Hendrickson is also a widely-read essayist on matters of politics, public policy and law; many of these works are collected in his second book, ‘Upholding the Law And Other Observations’. He is a member of Mensa; an award-winning artist; and has paid his dues as a youth soccer coach. He is a long-time political activist as well, and has served as co-chair and platform convention delegate of Michigan’s largest county Libertarian Party organization; as a consultant to the National Right to Work Foundation and Citizens for a Sound Economy; as a member of the Heartland Institute; and as a member of the International Society for Individual Liberty. He is a frequent radio-show guest on stations across the country. Hendrickson's business career has included nearly a decade-and-a-half at the leading edge of the renewable-energy industry, both as Director of Purchasing and Materials Management and member of the R&D board at Starpak Energy Systems, the mid-west's then-largest solar heating and energy-recovery-and re-utilization company; and as founder and president of AFJ Inc., a high-efficiency lighting design, manufacture and installation firm. Beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing for the twelve years before his present full-time focus on the restoration of the rule of law in America, Hendrickson directed purchasing activities for the $84 million-a-year multi-family-housing division of the Farmington Hills, Michigan branch of Edward Rose and Sons, with responsibility for 18,000+ apartments, direct supervision of 35 technicians and agents, and incidental authority over several hundred divisional workers. He also ran the division's 10 cable television earth-station and distribution systems in four states, and designed and administered the company's website. On rather the other end of the spectrum, amidst these more mundane pursuits Hendrickson co-founded and was the primary creative force behind a small board- and card-game company that enjoyed a modest success for several years. Hendrickson makes his home in southeast Michigan, with his wife and two children. He is currently working on his next book. © All written and graphic material on this page and website are copyrighted by Peter E. Hendrickson, unless otherwise attributed. |
