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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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February 1- In 1814, the Mayon Volcano erupts.
In 1861, Texas becomes the seventh of the several states to
secede from the Union. In 1920, the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police begin operations. In 1942, Vidkun Quisling is appointed
Premier of Norway by the Nazi occupiers. In 1968, South
Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan is
photographed summarily executing North Viet Cong officer Nguyen
Van Lem in an intersection in Saigon. In 1979, convicted bank
robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence
is commuted by Jimmy Carter. In 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini
returns to Tehran after 15 years in exile. In 1992, Warren
Anderson, ex-CEO of Union Carbide, is declared a fugitive from
justice by India's Chief Judicial Magistrate of Bhopal for
failing to appear in proceedings concerning the Bhopal chemical
plant disaster in which a probable 16,000 people died from
exposure to toxic gas. In 2003, the space shuttle Columbia
disintegrates during re-entry. In 2004, Janet Jackson has a
wardrobe malfunction.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter
below.
Another educated American couple send the tax-robot
reeling away
SCOTT AND DEBBIE GILLESPIE are a couple of real
Americans standing tall for the rule of law and for their
rights. Last week Scott and Debbie won their second victory on
behalf of both, turning an IRS effort to tax earnings the
Gillespies had said were not taxable into a,
"Thank you for your response to the notice we sent to you about
your 2013 taxes. We're pleased to tell you that the information
you provided resolved the tax issue in question and that our
inquiry is now closed."
Here's the story: In 2014, Scott and Debbie filed
this return concerning 2013. As is seen, Debbie did not
dispute the characterization of her earnings during that year as
"wages" (and a W-2, not included in this posting, was attached to
the return accordingly). But as is also seen, Scott DID rebut
allegations from HIS payer that his activities as a contractor
(and the earnings that resulted) were taxable.
The IRS didn't like that rebuttal, and very much
preferred Scott's payer's allegation. About three months ago,
the agency sent Scott and Debbie a "proposed tax due" notice,
reciting the payer's numbers and calculating an unpaid tax
liability for the Gillespies of $2,010:
But Scott and Debbie know the law, and were neither
intimidated, nor misled by this agency effort to get them to
reverse themselves and declare that what Scott does for a living
is taxable when they know it is not. Scott fired back
this letter in response to the "proposal", making all of
this perfectly clear.
A couple of long months went by, during which who
knows what was going on in the bowels of the bureaucracy. But
finally, on January 19, the IRS acknowledged the correctness of
Scott and Debbie's position:
HATS OFF TO SCOTT AND DEBBIE GILLESPIE, who
stand tall for the truth and the law! Their victory for 2013
joins other confrontation-episodes in the 'Every
Which Way But Loose' collection, and the overall long list
of posted victories for the rule of law by
CtC-educated American men and women posted on
the Lost Horizons Bulletin Board.
But while you do, watch out for that tax-collecting
robot... I think it's going to explode!!
P.S. Scott and Debbie really are serious warriors
for the law. They are currently prosecuting a lawsuit to compel
the processing of their thus-far-resisted claim for refund by
the United States of what was withheld from them in 2012. Hats
off, again!
P.P.S. Speaking of serious warrior-work: C'mon,
people! Get those
Operation Uki Goshi videos into me!!!
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 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.
The Most Serious Threat To Our American
Heritage Today
What's being done to Doreen, and why, makes all the
other corruption pale by comparison
HEY, WHILE THINKING ABOUT
Doreen's case the
other day, I was struck by something that had never occurred to
me before. This realization springs from the fact that not only
is Doreen being punished for refusing to declare a belief that
she does not hold, but she is being punished for refusing to
make expressions that she considers generally harmful.
That is, like I and every other educated American,
Doreen believes that to suggest that the unapportioned income tax can be lawfully applied to common,
unprivileged activities like hers is corrupting of the
Constitution and the rule of law. Such a suggestion would be not
only wrong objectively but would elevate the rule of
officeholders and their whims over the rule of the People and
the law they have laid upon their governments.
In short, what Doreen is being punished for not
saying is a form of government propaganda, aimed at
misleading
and subjugating the American people. Indeed, when the
pernicious, illegal orders were made, it was actually stated
that they were intended to influence the thinking of other
Americans.
And now Doreen is being punished for refusing to
play a role in that propaganda effort. So here's my new thought:
Is this not indistinguishable in every important respect from
what is sometimes done to POWs, whose captors demand statements
and confessions and other expressions, to be used as propaganda
on their captors behalf, with punishments to follow for refusal
to cooperate?
Your comments would be most welcome, and your
expansion on this point, and bringing it into discussions
whenever possible, would also be appreciated.
February 2- In 1653, New Amsterdam is
incorporated (later renamed New York City). In 1709, Alexander
Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring
Daniel Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe'. In 1790, the United States
Supreme Court convenes for the first time. In 1848, the first
shipload of Chinese emigrants arrives in San Francisco. In
1876, baseball's National League is formed. In 1880, the first
electric streetlight is installed, in Wabash, Indiana. In 1887,
Punxsutawney Phil takes the stage for the first time. In 1913,
Grand Central Station opens in New York City. In 1922, James
Joyce's 'Ulysses' is published. In 1933, Hitler dissolves the
German Parliament. In 1940, Frank Sinatra debuts with the Tommy
Dorsey Orchestra. In 1972, the British Embassy in Dublin is
destroyed by protestors after 27 unarmed civil rights marchers
are shot in Derry by British troops, resulting in 14
fatalities. In 1989, the last Soviet armored column is driven
out of Afghanistan after a ten-year bleeding of the USSR.
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).
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
February 3- In 1690,
the Massachusetts colonial government issues the American
continent's first paper "money". In 1809, the Illinois
Territory is formed. In 1913, the 16th Amendment-- the most
deliberately misrepresented Constitutional amendment of all, bar
none-- is declared ratified. All the amendment did was overrule
the limited effect of the Pollock v. Farmer's Loan & Trust
ruling by the Supreme Court in 1895, which had prevented
dividends and rent connected with the exercise of federal
privilege from being subject to the tax like other "income" had
been for decades based on a view the court took of their
relationship of those particular gains to the sources from which
they are derived. To learn the whole story of the 16th
Amendment, click
here. In 1940, Pierre Laval is installed as head of
government in Vichy, France, by the occupying Nazis. In 1959,
the music dies in Iowa. In 1966, the unmanned Soviet Luna 9
spacecraft successfully lands on the Moon. In 1969, Yasser
Arafat is appointed head of the PLO by the Palestinian National
Congress. In 1971, Frank Serpico is shot, but survives to
testify about the drug-war-fueled corruption of fellow New York
City police officers.
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).
February 4- In 1789,
George Washington is unanimously elected first President of the
United States by the Electoral College. In 1792, Washington is
unanimously re-elected. In 1801, John Marshall is sworn in as
Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1861, delegates
from six of the seceding states form the Confederate States of
America. In 1899, the Philippine-American War begins (a
resistance of the Philippine population against American
annexation of the country in which over a million Philippine
citizens will be killed).
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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 specialistss
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
February 5- In 1778,
South Carolina becomes the first of the several states to ratify
the Articles of Confederation. In 1918, Stephen W. Thompson
shoots down a German plane in a dogfight-- the first aerial
victory for the U.S. military. In 1919, United Artists is
formed by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and
D. W. Griffith. In 1958, the U.S. loses a hydrogen bomb (still
unrecovered) off the coast of Savannah, Georgia. In 1968, the
Battle of Khe Sanh begins. In 1971, Apollo 14 lands on the
Moon. In 1988, CIA-asset-turned-Panamanian-strongman Manuel
Noriega is indicted on "drug smuggling" and "money laundering"
charges.
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!!
This story is a bit old, but the point Greenwald makes,
and the practice he denounces, both remain very current.
U.S. Media Condemns Iran's "Aggression" in
Intercepting U.S. Naval Ships- In Iranian Waters
by Glenn Greenwald
News
broke last night, hours before President Obama’s State of the
Union address, that two U.S. Navy ships “in the Persian Gulf” were
“seized” by Iran, and the 10 sailors on board were “arrested.” The
Iranian government quickly said, and even the U.S. government itself
seemed to acknowledge, that these ships had entered Iranian waters
without permission, and were thus inside Iranian territory when
detained. CNN’s Barbara Starr, as she always does, immediately went
on the air with Wolf Blitzer to
read what U.S. officials told her to say: “We are told that
right now, what the U.S. thinks may have happened, is that one of
these small boats experienced a mechanical problem … perhaps
beginning to drift. … It was at that point, the theory goes right
now, that they drifted into Iranian territorial waters.”
It goes without saying that every country has the right
to patrol and defend its territorial waters and to intercept other
nations’ military boats that enter without permission. Indeed, the
White House itself last night was clear that, in its view, this
was “not a hostile act by Iran” and that Iran had given assurances
that the sailors would be promptly released. And this morning
they were released, exactly as Iran promised they would be,
after Iran said it determined the trespassing was accidental and the
U.S. apologized and promised no future transgressions.
Despite all of this, most U.S. news accounts last night
quickly skimmed over — or outright ignored — the rather critical
fact that the U.S. ships had “drifted into” Iranian waters.
Instead, all sorts of TV news personalities and U.S. establishment
figures puffed out their chest and instantly donned their Tough
Warrior pose to proclaim that this was an act of aggression —
virtually an act of war: not by the U.S., but by Iran. They had
taken our sailors “hostage,” showing yet again how menacing and
untrustworthy they are.
Now 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?
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..."
February 6- In 1782,
South Carolina bans paper money, after a thorough lesson in its
inherent and unavoidable evils. In 1788, Massachusetts becomes
the sixth of the several states to ratify the United States
Constitution and authorize the new version of the federal
government, under the charter of which the federal government is
given no authority to emit bills of credit or other paper
"money", but may only coin money-- a limited authority in
harmony with the identical prescription that the several states
may not emit bills of credit, nor make any thing but gold or
silver a tender in payment of debts. In 1815, New Jersey grants
the first American railroad charter (for a line between New
Brunswick and Trenton). In 1959, the first patent is issued for
an integrated circuit; and a Titan ICBM is successfully
test-fired for the first time. In 1989, the "Roundtable" talks
begin in Poland, marking the beginning of the end of communist
domination of Eastern Europe.
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:
It's Way Past Time For You All To Queue Up!
[Y]ou really need to familiarize yourself with Pete
Hendrickson's absolutely magnificent work at his website and in
his book(s). He has, brilliantly and lucidly, "cracked the
code" regarding the federal income EXCISE tax(es)."
-Mark C. Phillips, JD
"...I find your work fascinatingly simple to understand."
-Jerry Arnowitz, JD
"Your book is a masterpiece!"
-Michael Carver, JD
"Received your book yesterday. Started reading at 11
PM, finished at 4 AM." "I have 16 feet (literally 16'
4.5") of documents supporting just about everything in your
book." "Your book should be required reading for every lawyer
before being admitted to any Bar." "I hope you sell a
million of them."
-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
"I am an attorney and want to give a testimonial to your
book, which I find to be compelling. I am exercising these
rights for myself and my adult children. I'm even considering
making this my new avenue of law practice."
-Nancy "Ana" Garner, JD
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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'?"
February 7- In 1795, the Eleventh Amendment to
the United States Constitution is ratified. In 1904, a fire
breaks out in Baltimore, Maryland which will burn for 30 hours
and destroy more than 1,500 buildings. The city rebuilds and
moves on without the assistance of FEMA. Mayor Robert Lane
declares, "To suppose that the spirit of our people will not
rise to the occasion is to suppose that our people are not
genuine Americans. We shall make the fire of 1904 a landmark not
of decline but of progress." He refused all offers of
assistance, stating, "As head of this municipality, I cannot
help but feel gratified by the sympathy and the offers of
practical assistance which have been tendered to us. To them I
have in general terms replied, 'Baltimore will take care of its
own, thank you.'". In 1962, the United States bans all imports
from, and exports to, Cuba. In 1964, the Beatles arrive in
America. In 1990, the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist
Party agrees to relinquish its monopoly on power in the USSR.
In 1991, the IRA fires mortar rounds at Britain's Prime
Ministerial offices at 10 Downing Street, London. In 1992, the
European Union is created with the signing of the Maastricht
Treaty.
"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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