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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 (fourteenth)
edition of
CtC!
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others! Sharing this page is an important means of moving toward the
restoration of the rule of law-- PLEASE DO IT!! But I'd appreciate your
doing so by directing your friends here themselves, rather than by copying
and emailing the material.
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April 25- In 1846, a U.S. patrol excursion
across the Texas border into Mexico precipitates the
Mexican-American War. In 1859, ground is broken for the Suez
Canal. In 1898, the United States declares war on Spain, using
the pretext of the mysterious sinking of the USS Maine in a
Cuban harbor. The war resulted in U.S. claims of ownership of
the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico, and a more limited
sovereignty over Cuba. In 1916, Britain declares martial law in
Ireland in response to the Easter Uprisings. In 1953, the
structure of DNA is described. In 1961, the integrated circuit
is patented. In 1983, Pioneer 10, launched March 2, 1972,
passes the orbit of Pluto.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter
below.
EVERY SPRING FOR TWELVE YEARS NOW an annual flood of
CtC-educated
victories in recovering amounts withheld under the
"ignorance tax" regime during the previous year has begun.
Usually the checks and notices don't begin arriving in mailboxes until April,
and often late April. This means that the
first of them don't make it to me soon enough for
posting before "tax day".
I'm pleased to say that this year is an exception,
if just barely. Only last Monday, while the Mid-Edition Update
mailer was going out, the first two
CtC-educated
victories for the rule of law concerning 2015-- both federal--
were shared with me for sharing with you.
THE FIRST OF THESE UPLIFTING VICTORIES has been
accomplished by Christopher and Ashley
Huber:
Here are the docs filed in order to secure this refund of
all nominal "federal income tax withheld". (For reasons of their
own, Christopher and Ashley didn't include equally-refundable
amounts withheld as Social Security and Medicare taxes in their
claim.)
***
HERE'S OUR SECOND 2015 VICTORY FOR POSTING, secured
by TJ Hendrickson:
TJ didn't get this 100% refund of all amounts
withheld (Social Security and Medicare withholdings as well as
all others) in the form of a check, due to its diversion by the
IRS to what is claimed to be an "unpaid balance" on a different
"account" (but which is in dispute). This is, nonetheless, a
square government acknowledgement that nothing was owed as tax
in connection with TJ's earnings. As the notice reports; every
penny withheld from TJ during 2015 was an "overpayment", and
every penny has been credited back to him; .
The filing made to establish these facts and secure
this refund (which is TJ's fourth
CtC-educated
victory) can be seen
here.
***
LAST WEEK I OFFERED what I think to be a useful
twist on an old bit of wisdom ascribed to various notables of
the 18th century by modern-day lovers of liberty: "All that is necessary for the defeat of evil
is that good men should do something."
In the spirit of that observation I say,
CONGRATULATIONS! and hats off to Christopher, Ashley and TJ!!
Like all the others whose evidence of honorable service on
behalf of the rule of law graces
the LostHorizons Bulletin Board, these three good Americans
have done something, and the
rest of us are the better for it.
"So long as the people do not care to exercise their
freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are
active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any
number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon
sleeping men."
–Voltarine de Cleyre
(Do YOU have a victory to share?
Click here for guidance on how to do so.)
*****
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.
The failure to sound the alarm-bells now means
funeral bells will soon be ringing
ON MARCH 11, 2016, a panel of the Sixth Circuit
Court of Appeals issued a decision denying Doreen Hendrickson's
appeal of her 2014 conviction on a single count of "criminal
contempt of court". The decision upholds unprecedented orders
compelling a government adversary in a legal contest to make
government-dictated, government-benefitting false testimony.
Also upheld is an equally-unprecedented jury
instruction relieving the government of the burden of proving a
statutory element of a charged offense:
"[I]t is not a defense to the crime of contempt that the
court order that the defendant is accused of violating was
unlawful or unconstitutional."
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.)
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.
"We went after Iraq, they did not knock down the
World Trade Center.
It wasn’t the Iraqis that knocked down the World
Trade Center, we went after Iraq, we decimated the country,
Iran’s taking over, okay. But it wasn’t the Iraqis, you will
find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center.
Because they have papers in there that are very
secret, you may find it’s the Saudis, okay?
But you will find out."
FOR A FEW WEEKS NOW I'VE HAD AN ENDORSEMENT of
Donald Trump posted
here. With an important series of primaries looming, I think
it's a good time to post a few more words on behalf of this
fellow who is the worst of all candidates-- except for all the
others:
...and as noted in the quote with which this
article opened, Trump is more interested in seeing to it
that Americans know what really happened on 9/11 than in
shielding and appeasing states and state leaders for whom
the political elite in Washington harbor an undue and
unhealthy affection.
I WANT GOOD RELATIONS with Russia; honesty about
Iran and the Ukraine; severing of the unnatural and improper
Israel/US Master/Blaster relationship; the truth about 9/11; an
end to aggressive war-making and the enrichment and empowerment
of the war-mongers; and a purge of all the connected and
entrenched deadwood in Washington. We might see some of
these things done during a Trump administration.
We also might see none of these things done should
Trump take office. But as I see things from a perspective of 40
years of close attention to the American political scene, we'll
have the opposite of each of these beneficial changes if Cruz,
Clinton, Kasich or Sanders gets into office.
Each of these alternative candidates will worsen
some or all of the things already gone so dangerously wrong in
Washington. After all, each of these alternative candidates has
been there and in power while these evils have flourished, or is
beholden to those benefiting from them.
Further, these alternative candidates, being
polished and practiced log-rollers and back-scratchers
accustomed to working with others of their own kind and
comfortable with any despicable domestic policy proposal to come
down the pike will actually get some of those domestic policies
passed into law (think "Obamacare", or "The PATRIOT Act"). The
ham-handed and doesn't-play-well-with-others Trump never will,
even should he really try (and his truly outrageous domestic
policy positions, as articulated so far, would be struck down by
the courts even if they managed to make it into law).
In sum, the alternatives to Trump are
business-as-usual-dangerous on both the foreign-policy side and
the domestic-policy side. Trump will only be effective on
foreign policy, and will tend to be effective in a good way.
There is little attractive about Donald Trump. But
he's not one of them, and that's good enough.
Go Trump.
P.S. There is an interesting website now operating
at
http://libertariansfortrump.org/. Many good articles by many
good people making arguments similar to my comments above. It's
worth a visit.
April 26- In 1607, English colonists make
landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia before going on to establish
Jamestown. In 1865, Confederate General Joseph Johnson
surrenders to Union General William Tecumseh Sherman near
Durham, North Carolina; and John Wilkes Booth is reportedly
found and killed by Union cavalry troops in North Virginia. In
1933, the Gestapo is established in Germany. In 1982, a South
Korean police officer spends eight hours using his
department-issued weapons (and a few others selected from the
police armory) systematically killing 57 civilians-- most in
their homes, but the first three being the local telephone
exchange operators.
Educated, grown-up American Brendan Trainor shares
his excellent example
Mr. Vance:
Very good article on tax deductions "Are
tax deductions subsidies?" LewRockwell.com April 14,
2016.
However, unless that actress who lobbied
Congress received her salary from a federal grant or
contract of some kind, she really didn't have to lobby
Congress for her deduction. She could have simply
rebutted the presumption that her earnings were
statutory wages as declared by those who issued her a
W-2 or 1099, on her tax return, like thousands of
Americans do today.
Ms. Karas did her lobbying in 1986, so she
can be forgiven for believing that she had to travel to
Washington DC to get a deduction. However, in 1986 there
were people criticizing her understanding of the tax
laws, but due to the inability of the mainstream media
to understand them, or desire to understand them,
she may not have heard of these criticisms. Or perhaps
being someone of "New York Values", she herself did not
want to understand them.
In 2003, a libertarian in Michigan named
Peter Hendrickson wrote the book on tax deductions,
which thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of
Americans use to get the biggest deductions of all- a
100% refund of income tax withholdings, and if asked for
, social security and medicare taxes as well. All these
taxes are excise taxes, and as such cannot be laid on
unwilling participants in the free market economy.
Perhaps you would like more information on
this "biggest loophole of all?". I will send a link for
you to Mr. Hendrickson's website, called
Lost
Horizons.
Or perhaps not. Perhaps like most of the
libertarian/conservative establishment, you want to deny
the reality of how the income tax actually works. Too
bad, because then you will continue to write articles on
the tax that are of limited truth and will not advance
the cause of liberty very far. Just as the
libertarian/conservative establishment lost the biggest
tax case of recent times, the Obamacare case, NFIB vs
Sebellius, because they didn't understand the income
tax. Instead of admitting their ignorance of the tax
laws, they continue to blame Chief Justice Roberts.
Who will you blame? Despite your lack of
intellectual curiosity as displayed by your
unwillingness so far to engage this libertarian in
Michigan, thousands of Americans will find their
way to the Lost Horizons website, and the people's
knowledge will grow. When the truth becomes more widely
known, and your children ask did you speak up, what will
you tell them?
"McFloyd" on who got the tax wrong, and who gets it
right
*****
The IRS and SSA Share A Nice
Institutional Acknowledgement Of CtC
It's always gratifying when these agencies just
come right out and admit the truth...
OVER THE 12+ YEARS SINCE
CtC REVEALED the liberating truth about the income tax,
government agencies have steadily issued acknowledgements of
that truth to the real American men and women who have applied
those revelations and upheld the true rule of law. These
acknowledgements most commonly take the form of
complete refunds of every penny taken from someone under the
auspices of the tax.
But sometimes other forms of acknowledgement are
presented. Today we're going to look at one of these more
unusual varieties, an example of which was recently sent to one
of those real Americans who are standing up to enforce the
Constitution.
THE GOOD FELLOW WHO RECEIVED the unusual
acknowledgement at which we're about to look is an accomplished
upholder of the law. He has three proudly-posted victories to
his credit so far since learning the truth about the tax a few
years ago, successfully overcoming false assertions that his
earnings were subject to the income tax, and recovering
everything withheld from him in connection with that tax during
each of those three years.
But for today, this gentleman's name is going to go
unmentioned, because despite the IRS having faced the truth
concerning his earnings for each of those other years (after
subjecting each claim to the agency's routine rigorous scrutiny),
for some reason the IRS employee that began to process this
man's 2012 filing has been dragging his or her feet. A lawsuit
is in progress, and what we're going to look at is relevant to
that. Our friend doesn't want to show his hand too soon.
So, there is no name to show until this contest is
over. But the chink in the tax agency's stonewall that was
revealed a few weeks ago will be of great interest to all
nonetheless.
WITHOUT ANY PROMPTING, and to our hero's
considerable surprise, out of the blue and into the mailbox came
a notice from the Social Security Administration announcing the
IRS acknowledgment that our hero's earnings as a contractor in
2012 don't qualify as IRC-defined "self-employment income" (the
kind of contractor pay that is subject to the tax). Our hero's
educated rebuttal of the contrary "1099-MISC" assertions of his
payer, on which the tax agency had been mindlessly relying, has
prevailed.
This kind of inter-agency acknowledgement happens
constantly. But for the filer to get notice of it is rare.
The SSA's accounting of taxable earnings
used to calculate any benefits for which our friend might someday
want to apply has been reduced accordingly, of course. But even
if the gentleman hasn't already accumulated the maximum credit
(as many folks of a certain age have done long since, over years
of suffering the misapplication of the tax prior to learning the
truth) I don't think he minds...
Here's the notice:
Isn't it nice when these bureaucrats finally give
up on lying and stonewalling and just do the right thing?
Frankly, I'm as happy for the one that found the right path to
walk here as I am for our hero.
***
P. S. Want more?
Click here to see some even more fascinating
acknowledgements by the IRS of the complete accuracy of the
liberating truth about the income tax revealed in
CtC. If you've got what it takes to recognize "back-door"
acknowledgements, read
this page, too.
April 27- In 1773,
the British Parliament grants a monopoly of tea imports into
North America to the politically-connected British East India
Company. In 1861, Lincoln suspends habeas corpus in order to
facilitate his suppression of dissent against his policies. In
1945, Benito Mussolini is captured by Italian partisans while
trying to escape Italy disguised as a German soldier. In 1974,
10,000 march in Washington calling for Richard Nixon's
impeachment. In 2002, the last successful signal exchange with
the Pioneer 10 spacecraft takes place as it continues its
journey toward interstellar space.
True American Joe Black Testifies And Shares Victories For
Liberty And The Rule Of Law
...as every American
should...
EDUCATED AMERICAN GROWN-UP JOE BLACK has
stood up and acted to enforce the law upon its domestic
enemies-- or, at least, upon agencies of the state whose
operators seem to happily exploit ignorance and mis-apply the
law at every chance for their personal benefit.
Get inspired and encouraged by Joe's video sharing his spirit,
his testimony and the acknowledgements he has secured:
Find more testimonial videos
here, and please, people, share these around as widely as
you can. To learn what, how and why to share your own testimony
(with or without mere practical victories to go along with the
far more important spiritual victories that are the real heart
of
CtC), click
here.
You, like most folks, have been fooled into inadvertently
agreeing that your economic activities are exercises of
privilege, thereby allowing the tax to be applied to your
earnings. Why is this so hard for you to admit?
I GUESS THESE ACTUALLY LEAD TO A THIRD SIMPLE QUESTION: If you
really feel that all these things of which you complain are so
bad, why are you not helping more Americans understand the
nature of the tax and the ill effects of it being misunderstood
and misapplied?
Learn how and why you should ask every journalist in the
so-called "alt-media" these questions
here.
PRO TIP: By the
physics of the law, an indirect tax is necessarily a
privilege tax. Here's why:
The distinction between a
direct tax and an indirect tax is incidence. A
direct tax arises by the direct imposition of the
taxer, without any election of the taxed (other than
that of authorizing the taxing power in the first
place).
An
indirect tax arises by the taxed
choosing to to do
something by which the taxer's claim is then
created. The choice that is a valid object of an
indirect tax can't be anything done as an exercise
of an untaxable right. Nor can it be any activity of
necessity. A tax on anything done by necessity would
arise not by actual election of the taxed but simply
because the tax had been imposed by the taxer. Such
a tax, whatever it may be called, would be in actual
substance a direct tax, even if one that arose only
intermittently. Think of a tax on eating, for
example, or working, or engaging in trade with
others (all of which are things done by right as
well as by necessity, but you get the point).
What is left as the
valid object of an indirect tax is the exercise of
privilege-- something done not by right, and
therefore done by the permission of the taxer (who,
due to being possessed of an ownership right in the
thing being permitted, is entitled to claim of
portion of the proceeds when the thing is profitably
used).
"[Although the Legislature
may declare as privileges and tax as such for State
revenue purposes those pursuits and occupations that
are not matters of common right], the Legislature
has no power to declare as a privilege and tax for
revenue purposes occupations that are of common
right."
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...
PRO TIP: The
argument that a concept explicitly given a statutory
definition for purposes of this or that chapter or
"title" has the same meaning as the common word the
legislature has borrowed for its label-- which
meaning plainly didn't suit the legislature's
purposes, hence its replacement-- is a preposterous
reading of the law.
“It is axiomatic that the
statutory definition of the term excludes unstated
meanings of that term.”
Meese v. Keene
, 481
U.S. 465 (1987);
“[W]e are not at liberty to
put our gloss on the definition that Congress
provided by looking to the generally accepted
meaning of the defined term.”
Tenn. Prot. & Advocacy Inc. v. Wells,
371 F.3d 342 (6th Cir. 2004).
In light of
the actual evidence, those
who doubt or
deny the accuracy and correctness of
CtC just
because government officials make weaselly
representations against it are like the 16th-century Europeans who
were mystified by
Copernicus getting all those
astronomical predictions right even though the
church had said he was wrong.
ARE YOU JUST LEARNING ABOUT the crime against your
rights and the rule of law by means of a heinous crime by which
Doreen Hendrickson is being victimized? Get up to speed with
this and
this, and this film:
The longer but much more comprehensive and
question-answering backstory (the "why" history leading up to
this unprecedented assault on the First Amendment and principles
of due process) can be found
here.
DOREEN'S ADDRESS: Doreen Hendrickson 48564-039, FPC
Alderson A-4, P.O. Box A, Alderson, WV 24910. She would love
to hear your encouragement, uplift, appreciation and solidarity,
and she can even be sent paperback books, as long as the
envelope in which they are packaged has clearly written at the
top: Paperback Book Enclosed.
Anyone wanting to send Doreen a few dollars for her
commissary account (with which she can get better food, soft
drinks, clothes and other amenities) can do so by mailing a
money order made payable to Doreen Hendrickson 48564039. Mail
to:
Federal Bureau of Prisons,
Doreen Hendrickson
48564-039
Post Office Box 474701
Des Moines, Iowa 50947-0001
DO YOU NOTICE THAT MESSAGE ON THE T-SHIRT being
worn by the lovely model of the 'I Stand with Doreen'
care-bracelet? It reads, THINK. It's not illegal yet!
But you know what? The charge against Doreen is an
effort by the state to make it so.
Doreen was charged, remember, with
criminally-refusing to cede control of her expressions to the
state. Now, I'll grant you that technically her thoughts would
remain her own, but if the state can dictate what everyone says,
then pretty soon that atmosphere of controlled expressions will
result in first influencing, and then ultimately controlling
what everyone thinks.
If the State gets away with establishing the
precedent that every written expression-- even just those on
testimonial instruments-- can be required to echo the state's
preferred view of things, the fate of free thinking and liberty
is obvious (and it's not good).
April 28- In 1788,
Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the United States
Constitution. In 1945, Italian fascist dictator Benito
Mussolini is executed by fed-up Italian citizens. In 1947, Thor
Heyerdahl sets out from Peru bound for Polynesia on the Kon-Tiki
raft to prove that it could be done. In 1952, the post-World
War II occupation of Japan ends after 6 1/2 years. In 1996,
President Bill Clinton testifies for the defense in the
"Whitewater" land fraud, conspiracy and political corruption
trial of his and Hillary's partners Jim and Susan MacDougall and
then-Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker.
******
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Ignorance of the true nature of the "income" tax
has gagged, gutted and seduced-into-disgrace America's
ministerial community. This must change.
You're a
passenger on a riverboat that relies on regular
contributions of fuel from the passengers to
keep moving forward. You see an unsurvivable
waterfall ahead, and note a
soon-to-be-irresistible current growing stronger
each day. What does common sense suggest?
Time, unfortunately, is on the side of the
well-funded disinformation specialists
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
April 29- In 1770,
James Cook arrives at what he names 'Botany Bay' in Australia.
In 1968, 'Hair' opens on Broadway. In 1974, Richard Nixon
releases an edited version of the Watergate-related tape
recordings made in the Oval Office. In 1975, the United States
begins evacuating Americans from Saigon in the expectation of
its imminent fall to North Vietnamese forces. In 1986, Roger
Clemens throws 20 strikeouts in nine innings. In 1992, riots
break out in Los Angeles after the acquittal of police officers
on trial for use of excessive force in the arrest of Rodney
King. In 2004, Oldsmobile builds its final car; and George W.
Bush and Dick Cheney "testify" before the "9/11 Commission",
refusing to be under oath, recorded, or witnessed by anyone but
the two commission members allowed to be present, and insisting
on "testifying" in each other's presence.
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...
IF YOU'RE NOT SPREADING THIS LINK with every bit of
energy you can, to school libraries, homeschool
families and community groups, your neighbors, your
family members, your pastors and
co-congregationalists, journalists, lawyers, CPAs,
members of congress, tax-agency workers, Wikipedia,
Anonymous, WikiLeaks, the Tax Foundation, everyone
in the "tax honesty" movement, the 9/11 truth
movement, other activist movements and everyone
else,
you have only yourself to blame for your
troubles with the tax, and a whole lot else of which
you might complain. It's on you.
WRITE A NICE, FRIENDLY AND BRIEF introductory note
explaining what will be seen at the link-- cryptic
is bad; excited is good-- and then send this WMI
(weapon of mass instruction) far and wide.
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the
harder I work, the more I have of it."
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
*****
Test Your
"Income" Tax IQ!
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!!
In the race for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump
would seem to be in the catbird seat. He has won the most states,
the most delegates and the most votes — by nearly two million.
He has brought out the largest crowds and is poised for
huge wins in the largest states of the East, New York and
Pennsylvania.
Yet, there is a growing probability that the backroom
boys will steal the nomination from him at a brokered convention in
Cleveland.
Over the weekend, Colorado awarded all 34 delegates to
Ted Cruz. The fix had been in since August, when party officials,
alarmed at Trump’s popularity, decided it would be best if Colorado
Republicans were not allowed to vote on the party’s nominee.
Good words from Pat Buchanan. But isn't it a shame that
he
doesn't know about 'Cracking the Code'? Don't you wish an
influential fellow like this did know?
YOU can do something about that.
Email: LindaMuller at Buchanan dot Org
Postal Address: Linda Muller c/o
Buchanan.org 707 West Main Street Smethport, Pennsylvania 16749
So ask yourself this: Have you really done
all that you can to
urge everyone
you
know to also stand up and act in the only way that will really
bring about change in your lifetime?
Why don't you start now?
Even as ardent a statist as Abraham
Lincoln, in announcing his willingness to burn the Southern states to the ground in order to
keep them paying the tariff for the benefit of Northern interests in
his first inaugural address on March 4, 1861, paid at least lip
service to the Founders design of leaving control over the fuel
available to feed the fires Washington wants to light in the hands
of the individual citizenry when he said, "Doing this I deem to
be only a simple duty on my part; and I shall perform it, unless my
rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite
means..."
April 30- In 1492,
Christopher Columbus receives his royal commission. In 1789,
George Washington takes the oath of office as the first
President of the United States. Unlike modern holders of the
office (and a few bad moves during his tenure notwithstanding),
he means it. In 1803, the United States purchases the Louisiana
Territory from France for $15 million. In 1812, the Territory
of Orleans becomes the 18th of the several states, styling
itself 'Louisiana'. In 1900, Hawaii is declared a territory of
the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor. In 1900,
Casey Jones wrecks the Cannonball Express. In 1927, the first
United States federal prison for women opens. In 1938, Porky
Pig goes on his first rabbit hunt. In 1945, Adolph Hitler and
Eva Braun commit suicide. In 1993, the World Wide Web goes
public. In 2004, photos of grotesque detainee abuse by
officials at the United States Abu Ghraib prison facility in
Iraq make it to the media. In 2009, Chrysler files for
bankruptcy.
Are You Ready
For More Power?
"Peter Hendrickson has done it again! 'Upholding The
Law' does for individual liberties what 'Cracking the Code' did
for tax law compliance: exposes the reader to the unalienable
truth!"
-Jesse Herron, Bill Of Rights Press, Fort Collins, Colorado
CtC-Educated Lawyers:
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[Y]ou really need to familiarize yourself with Pete
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-Mark C. Phillips, JD
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-John O'Neil Green, JD
“Thanks again for your efforts, Pete. They mean an awful lot
to a lot of people.” “…as an attorney, I am humbled by your
knowledge and ability in navigating the law. THANK YOU for
your hard work and sacrifice.”
-Eric Smithers, JD
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Have You Taken
A Military, Law Enforcement or Public Office Oath To Uphold And Defend The
Constitution?
"It is not the function of our Government to keep
the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the
citizen to keep the Government from falling into error."
-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
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"...)
“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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*****
The Willingness Of Some People To Trade Liberty For
Convenience Is Without Limit
Some Observations About Current Political Efforts
To Evade The Truth, Such As The "Fair Tax" Scheme
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'?"
May 1- In 1328, England recognizes Scotland as
an independent state after 32 years of attempted conquest. In
1931, the Empire State Building in New York City is dedicated.
In 1950, Guam is organized as a "State
of the United States". In 1960, the U2 spyplane piloted by
Francis Gary Powers is shot down over the Soviet Union. In
1971, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) is
formed. In 2003, George W. Bush declares: "Mission
accomplished!" in Iraq. In 2006, the government of Puerto Rico
closes its Department of Education and 42 other government
agencies in responsible recognition of its fiscal situation. In
2011, Barack Obama announces the assassination of Osama bin
Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan by a crack team of Navy Seals.
The truth of this assertion is unknown. According to the
official story, although arguably the most potentially-useful
subject of interrogation in US history (at least in the context
of the alleged "terrorist war" paradigm within which all of this
happened), and although described as unarmed and easily-taken,
bin Laden was instead summarily shot in the head. No body was
ever seen; instead it is claimed that the body was taken away by
the SEAL team and then simply dumped at sea. Considerable
evidence exists indicating that bin Laden had actually died
years earlier, in December of 2001; further, the series of
videos purportedly of bin Laden making various pronouncements
useful to the US propaganda campaign supporting its foreign and
domestic policies in the intervening years were obvious fakes.
"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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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.
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