Current Events and Continuing Education for January
11 through January 24, 2016
“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
Happily, we latter-day Americans need not engage in revolution,
we need merely adopt the resolution in our hearts and minds to
which Adams refers, and stand up for the law laid down by our
revolutionary ancestors. Do it! Adopt that resolution! And then
share it with the world.
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whole page...)
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!
I'm delighted when anyone wishes to share what I have posted here with
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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January 18- In 1788, the first shiploads of
English convicts arrive at Botany Bay in Australia. In 1861,
Georgia becomes the fifth of the several states to secede from
the Union. In 1896, the world gets its first look at an X-ray
machine. In 1911, an aircraft lands on a ship for the first
time (Eugene Ely pilots a plane onto the deck of the USS
Pennsylvania in San Francisco harbor). In 1990, Washington,
D.C. mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession. In
1998, the Clinton-Lewinsky affair is revealed by an internet
news outlet. In 2012, the effort by the United States to
compromise the freedom and integrity of the internet under the
"Stop Online Piracy Act" and the "Protect Internet Privacy Act"
is met with a coordinated "Blackout Day" in protest by numerous
major internet operations.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter
below.
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.
Speaking Of Clarity Of Mind And Doing
The Right Thing...
I ASK ALL OF YOU who favor both to send up a prayer
that the judges hearing oral arguments in
Doreen's appeal in Cincinnati this Thursday have their minds
and their spirits filled with light. Should this happen a grave
injustice will be undone (and much other good will come of it,
as well).
If anyone is interested in being with me on
Thursday, the arguments are being made in room 607 before judges
Silar, Cook and Kethledge at the
Potter Stewart U.S. Courthouse. The courthouse is located at
100 East Fifth Street in downtown Cincinnati (the corner of
Fifth Street between Walnut and Main Streets).
Officially, the time is 9:00 AM, although
proceedings in our case might begin a bit later than that.
Please dress and comport as though for church.
***
HEY, BTW, 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 in any way 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.
Television is a wasteland, but every now and then
something worthwhile appears...
I WILL CONFESS WITHOUT MUCH SHAME that while Doreen
has been suffering
her ordeal of injustice I have distracted myself with
television on many evenings. Our kids have thoughtfully tried to
recommend programs I might find suitable for this escapism, and
the other day TJ urged me to try a program called 'Hell
on Wheels' with him.
I didn't expect to find the show appealing due to
its title and the description of the program as a western set in
the 1860s-- a setting usually providing an opportunity for
writers to demonstrate their historical ignorance and, in recent
decades, their loyalty to political correctness. But though I've
seen only three episodes, and may yet come to be disappointed,
so far the program is remarkable in its historical accuracy.
THE STORY IS BUILT around Union war crimes and the
corruption of the Union-Pacific railroad project, and so far the
program is nailing the latter in a way I've never seen from
Hollywood or Burbank. As such, this AMC-produced TV show is
actually important, and should be widely viewed by adults,
certainly, and even kids of an age to comfortably handle the raw
realities of life, the airing of which an accurate presentation
of life in a tent-town on the edge of the frontier makes
inevitable.
Not only is the rare historical accuracy of the
show important in its own right, but the subject so accurately
portrayed (so far) merits special attention from those
interested in the truth about the income tax. It was precisely
the corruption and excesses of the national railroad schemes
which led the American public to demand a revival of the dormant
income tax in 1894.
This was followed by a call for an amendment to the
Constitution (the Sixteenth Amendment) when the application of
the revived tax to the profits of the corrupt public officials
and their private cronies from the exploitation of public
property involved in the railroads was thwarted by the Supreme
Court ruling in Pollock v. Farmer's Loan & Trust. The
details of this sequence of events can be seen
here, and the overall story of the Sixteenth Amendment can
be seen
here.
WATCH THIS SHOW, 'Hell on Wheels'-- at least for as
long as it stays historically accurate. It's now available on
Netflix, and perhaps other places, as well. The material is
important, and it's very pleasing to see it on-screen in the
mainstream, even if in an otherwise very gritty presentation.
It's equally important that those rare truth-tellers in media
get rewarded with an audience, which sends an encouraging
message to the industry that it can do well by doing good.
The endless parade of "social media" projects has
left me behind, I'm afraid...
FOR A FEW YEARS NOW I HAVE BEEN RECEIVING EMAILS
that read something like: "I’d like to add you to my
professional network on LinkedIn". I have in every case simply
deleted these, presuming that they were some kind of spam.
But I realize belatedly that I've probably been
very wrong about the nature of these emails. I've just assumed
against them due to the obviously mechanical character of their
text, which is pretty-much always the same, and conveys
the sense that at best, they are auto-generated (such as to
everyone in a member's address book by default?) and not the
conscious act of someone who actually knows me (or of me) and
genuinely wants to get connected with me somehow.
BUT STILL, I know nothing about "LinkedIn" and why
I should want to accept any of these invites. So if it's not too
much trouble, please, someone who is a member and can do so,
tell me what this is, how to know an apparent invite is real,
and why I should accept any of them. I'll be grateful for the
help.
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.
January 19- In 1883, Roselle, New Jersey
becomes the first town with a pole-strung electricity grid. In
1920, the U.S. Senate votes to keep the United States out of the
League of Nations. In 1937, Howard Hughes set a record flying
from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25
seconds. In 1977, snow falls in Miami, Florida-- the only time
this has happened in the history of the city (the Bahamas got
some that day, too). In 1983, Apple announces its first
computer with a GUI and a mouse.
A complete refund of Social Security and Medicare-- which was
all that had been withheld-- along with the first educated-filer
Obamacare exemption form posted thus far on these pages.
BARRY SULLIVAN IS AN ACTIVE AND ACCOMPLISHED WARRIOR for
liberty, the truth, and the rule of law. Today Barry shares his
latest victory: a refund of everything withheld from him and
deposited with the federal government
during 2014
in connection with the
"income tax" and a concrete acknowledgement by the government
that Barry's unprivileged private-sector economic activities are
not subject to the tax.
Barry's refund is small. It consists solely of FICA withholdings
(Social security and Medicare taxes) taken from Barry during a
brief stint working for someone other than himself. Thus,
Barry's 2014 refund isn't going to ring the bell like any of the
$25,000, $50,000 and $75,000 refund checks from federal and
state treasury departments also posted on this site.
However, Barry's latest victory is notable and worthy of
featured status because Barry is the first educated filer to
share a victory in which the Obamacare tax provision is
addressed using the Treasury Department form published for this
purpose. Many Americans will find this example to be of great
interest.
I also like
the customized explanatory statements used on Barry's rebuttal
documents. They nicely emphasize and enhance the clarity of
Barry's latest evidence of the truth about the tax and about
educated filings and claims made in conformance with that truth.
Let's start with the check:
Here is the return that Barry submitted to secure this 100%
refund.
As can be seen, Barry incorporated three
"information returns" into his filing:
A Form 4852 substituting for a "1099-R" on
which amounts distributed to Barry by a life insurance
company are acknowledged and an erroneous assertion
regarding the "taxable amount" of the distribution are
rebutted with a correct figure;
An undisputed 1099-INT reporting taxable
interest paid to Barry by the federal government; and
Another Form 4852 substituting for
an errant
W-2 from the company that withheld from Barry the money
returned to him by way of the check above, to which the
accurate information from the W-2 (the amounts withheld) has
been transcribed, and by which the inaccurate information on
the W-2 (amounts listed as "wages" but which were actually
paid in connection with non-federally-privileged activities)
is
rebutted.
You'll have also seen that Barry included one other
form in his filing: Form 8965. The form 8965 is the one provided
by the Treasury Department for addressing the application of the
Obamacare "Didn't-buy-what-we-wanted-you-to-buy" punishment tax.
Barry's use of the form makes this the first educated filing
posted on these pages in which this form appears.
Having researched the
tax-related aspects of Obamacare, Barry was able to make
proper use of the Form 8965, per the following on the first page
of its
instructions under the sub-heading "Who Must File" (emphasis
added):
If you are not required to file a tax
return, your tax household is exempt from the shared
responsibility payment and you do not need to file a tax return
to claim the coverage exemption. However, if you are not
required to file a tax return but choose to file anyway, claim
the coverage exemption on line 7a or 7b of Form 8965.
As said in the first sentence of this instruction,
simply having less "income" than the personal exemption amount,
and thus no requirement to file regardless of how high overall
earnings may have been, automatically exempts one from the
Obamacare "punishment-for-disobedience" tax. Accordingly, it
could be argued that use of Form 8965 is superfluous in any
case, whether one files a return for one's own purposes, like
Barry did in order to get back what was improperly withheld from
him, or not.
Indeed, a number of folks have
apparently dealt with the situation from that perspective, and
with the agreement of the government. Several examples are
posted
here.
But it's nice to see each option
explored, too, if only for educational purposes. Barry's
thoroughly-vetted return package unsurprisingly passed
muster as indicated by the issuance of his complete refund check
three weeks ago, once again proving the truth of Madison's
always timely admonition:
“Knowledge will forever
govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own
governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge
gives.”
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:
January 20-
In 1265, the first English Parliament holds its inaugural
meeting. In 1649, Charles I of England goes on trial for
treason and other high crimes. In 1841, Britain occupies the
island of Hong Kong. In 1885, the roller-coaster is patented.
In 1944, the Royal Air Force drops 2,300 tons of bombs on
Berlin. In 1981, Iranian revolutionaries release 52 American
hostages upon the inauguration of Ronald Reagan, pursuant to an
earlier agreement.
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).
January 21- In 1793,
Louis XVI of France is guillotined for treason. In 1861,
Jefferson Davis resigns from the U.S. Senate. In 1908, New York
City passes an ordnance making it illegal for women to smoke in
public. In 1924, Vladimir Lenin dies. In 1950 Alger Hiss is
convicted of perjury for his denials under oath of being a
communist while a member of the U.S. State Department. In 1968,
the Battle of Khe Sanh begins in Vietnam. In 1977, President
Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all Vietnam war draft evaders. In
2008, various stock markets worldwide experience dramatic
crashes (American markets were closed for Martin Luther King Jr.
day).
******
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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:
January 22- In 1946,
the Central Intelligence Group (later the CIA), is established
by the Truman administration. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court
issues its noxious decision in Roe v. Wade.
There is a better path.
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!!
Those Demanding Free Speech Limits to Fight
ISIS Pose a Greater Threat to U.S. Than ISIS
by Glenn Greenwald
In 2006 — years before ISIS replaced al Qaeda as the
New and Unprecedentedly Evil Villain — Newt Gingrich gave a speech
in New Hampshire in which, as
he put it afterward, he “called for a serious debate about the
First Amendment and how terrorists are abusing our rights — using
them as they once used passenger jets — to threaten and kill
Americans.” In that speech,
Gingrich argued:
Either before we lose a city, or, if we are truly
stupid, after we lose a city, we will adopt rules of engagement that
use every technology we can find to break up (terrorists’) capacity
to use the internet, to break up their capacity to use free speech
[protections] and to go after people who want to kill us — to stop
them from recruiting people before they get to reach out and
convince young people to destroy their lives while destroying us.
In a follow-up
article titled “The First Amendment is Not a Suicide Pact,”
Gingrich went even further, arguing that terrorists should be
“subject to a totally different set of rules,” and called for an
international convention to decide “on what activities will not be
protected by free speech claims.”
To make his case, Gingrich cited
a 2005 Commentary article by the
extremist former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, titled “Free Speech
for Terrorists?,” the central premise of which was that “the
free-speech clause was never intended to frustrate government’s
ability to suppress true threats to national security.” In general,
McCarthy argued, we must say that “some things are truly evil,” and
“that advocating them not only fails to serve any socially desirable
purpose but guarantees more evil.” Thus, the U.S. government must
“convey in the strongest terms that the advocacy of terrorism in
this day and age is entitled to no First Amendment protection.”
Back then — just nine years ago —
Gingrich’s anti-free-speech remarks were, for the most part, quickly
dismissed as unworthy of serious debate. Even National Review, which
employs McCarthy,
included Gingrich’s anti-free speech proposal on its 2011 list
of the bad ideas the former speaker has espoused in his career. In
2006, I
argued that the Gingrich/McCarthy desire to alter the First
Amendment to fight The Terrorists was extremist even when judged by
the increasingly radical standards of the Bush/Cheney war on terror,
which by that point had already
imprisoned Americans arrested on U.S. soil with no due process
and no access to lawyers. With rare exception, Gingrich’s desire to
abridge free speech rights in the name of fighting
terrorism was dismissed as a fringe idea.
Fast forward to 2015, where the aging al Qaeda
brand has become decisively less scary and ISIS has been unveiled as
the new never-before-seen menace. There are now once again calls for
restrictions on the First Amendment’s free speech protections, but
they come not from far-right radicals in universally discredited
neocon journals, but rather from the most mainstream voices, as
highlighted this week by the New York Times.
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..."
January 23- In 393, a
nine-year-old is made co-emperor of Rome. In 1571, the Royal
(Stock) Exchange opens for business in London. In 1793, Russia
and Prussia partition Poland. In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell
becomes the first American woman awarded an M.D.. In 1973,
Richard Nixon announces a peace accord in Vietnam, a little more
than two years before the last remaining U.S. personnel in the
country and some South Vietnamese refugees are rescued by
helicopters from the roofs of buildings in besieged Saigon.
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"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
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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'?"
January 24- In 1848, James Marshall finds gold
at Sutter's Mill in California. In 1916, the U.S. Supreme Court
explains the
limited purpose and effect of the 16th Amendment in its
ruling in Brushaber v. Union Pacific R.R. Co.. In 2003, the
"United States Department Of Homeland Security" officially
begins its encroachments.
"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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