Current Events and Continuing Education for December
28, 2015 through January 10, 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.
(Click on the underlined text to jump to each feature. To
return, use your browser's "back" button. Please keep in mind that
many more items of interest are to be found between featured
articles, so your most profitable course is to scroll through the
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.
***
The Newsletter is interested in your work! If
you are a writer, scholar, or just a dedicated Warrior with a good
story to tell, please consider sharing your words and your wisdom with our
thousands of readers!
Click here to learn how.
January 4- In 1884, the socialist "Fabian
Society" is founded in London, England. In 1885, the first
successful appendectomy is performed. In 1896, Utah becomes the
45th sovereign American state and is admitted to the union as
such. In 1903, Thomas Edison electrocutes an elephant named 'Topsy'
in an effort to demonstrate the danger of alternating current
over his preferred direct current technology. In 1965, Lyndon
Johnson announces the assault on fiscal sanity and the
Constitution known as the 'Great Society'. In 1974, Richard
Nixon defies a Senate subpoena for 'Watergate'-related
documents. In 1999, Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of
Minnesota.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter
below.
What's it going to be? A Hallmark New Year, or a
Grown-Up New Year?
AS EVERYONE KNOWS, there is a tradition of making
resolutions with the start of a new year. The shedding of the
old calendar and its replacement with a fresh one sets the stage
for the shedding of old habits and practices which time has
proven unwise, and their replacement with new ones that seem
more likely to effect one's safety and happiness.
Tomorrow night all across the country American men
and women will raise a toast and grin at each other. They will
cheer as the clock strikes midnight.
At the same time, inside their hearts each
reveler will face a question. Should our cultural tradition of
re-appraisal, and a slap on the re-set button, be taken
seriously? Or will this be just another big party and then,
after a day-off to let the hangover pass,
back to delusional, self-destructive distraction and paralysis?
That is, will it then be back to the business-as-usual pretense
that everything will be all right in the end without anyone having to break a sweat
or be inconvenienced?
The people who live off your labor and the wealth
you produce, which otherwise would be going to the needs of your
family and the causes you favor, and who are easing your
liberties away from you day after day under one pretext or
another, really, really want your answer to be "Party, Dude!
Resolutions? I dunno...less partying in 2016, maybe? Hey, I've
got it! I'll start using that old Stairmaster in the basement
again!"
But could anything be crazier than to respond to
this moment with that kind of tripe?
AS WEARISOME AS IT IS TO constantly be pointing out
the ever-more-frantic assault on our unique, fragile
and precious American system of Constitutional
rule of law by a corrupt class with a firm grip on the
levers of institutional power, I have to say this once again: If you don't
recognize the cold, hard and tight hand of a burgeoning police
state closing around you, you are in denial, or asleep.
Think about 24/7 universal surveillance by the NSA
and other agencies of the state. Think about a prison population
greater by far-- per capita!-- than even any outright,
declaredly totalitarian state on the planet. Think about laws
meant to be understood as requiring the purchase of
government-mandated products and services. Think about the
militarized police army across the country, and how often its
casual violence draws no punishment for the offenders. Think
about a "civil forfeiture" structure whose haul for that
militarized police army exceeded all burglaries combined,
nationwide, last year.
Think about "free speech zones". The punishment
Lois Lerner, James Clapper, Hillary Clinton, and all the
torturers didn't get.
Think about how government schools are operated
these days, with ID tags and armed guards in the hallways,
arresting children for being themselves. Think of all the kids
in those schools that are routinely drugged away from normal
developmental patterns. Think of all the history, economics and
critical thinking skills that are not taught to the vast
majority of the nations school-kids, while deference to
authority-figures and worship of the state are taught instead.
Think about programs like, "See something, say something." The
evidence is endless.
If you DO perceive the cold, hard grip of that
growing police-state, and aren't
brain-dead, you know something has to be done, and quickly. What
you very much need to also recognize is that the truth
about the income tax-- as exclusively revealed in depth in 'Cracking
the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America',
and as concisely summarized for easy intake and sharing in 'The
Fascinating Truth About The 16th Amendment'-- has proven to
be the one package of information which will
motivate and inspire the average American to real
activism on behalf of critical liberties and the rule of law in
opposition to the threat.
I know some will not even consider the truth of
what I've just said. They will imagine I'm just trying to sell
books, and spend no time thinking about the actual record of
events over the last twelve years since
CtC was written.
Please don't do that; please do think
about that record, a useful picture of which can be found
here. Then think about this: The information
in 'The
Fascinating Truth About The 16th Amendment', and what is
linked from
this site map page are all that anyone with the least bit of
a head on his shoulders needs to proceed, without a dime
out-of-pocket. This isn't about me.
What this IS about is getting a large enough
fraction of the American people up and at it.
And that means it's about YOU resolving to
spread the links people need in order to get informed and
inspired. It's about YOU resolving to make and share
the inspirational videos I've been asking you for, and doing
it TODAY. It's about you being an encouraging light to everyone,
and driving out all discouragement and darkness.
Please make that resolution tomorrow (or right
now). Your liberty and the future well-being of your children
rest on your choice.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When
it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
SPEAKING OF RESOLUTION, I want to share with you an example of
the real
deal. As you all know, my beloved bride, Doreen, has been
imprisoned for refusing to waive her rights to control her own
speech and conscience.
The government itself has admitted that Doreen's
original, educated returns are correct, in every way possible.
These include its assessments, its refusal to create contrary
returns which are
statutorily-mandated
if it believed otherwise, its issuing of refunds in accordance with
those original returns after extraordinary scrutiny, and its
resort to a fake "examination report" and series of frauds and
lies in a sham courtroom proceeding in which it pretended the
refunds made were just big mistakes (before going on to make the
same "mistake" a hundred thousand more times, and continuing to
do so even as you read these words-- a "mistake" also being
made routinely by three dozen state governments, as well), all
of which is detailed and documented
here.
But in the hope that you (and members of the press)
won't look at the real backstory, but instead just focus on
"Pete Hendrickson's wife in prison", and thus be scared away
from
Pete Hendrickson's work, Doreen was show-trialed into an
18-month prison sentence for refusing to obey orders made by a
judge at the government's request that she repudiate her
original return testimony and replace it with lies about
believing her common-place, unprivileged earnings to be
taxable-- again, something no government official has dared ever
say under oath. These were orders so blatantly illegal that the
government had to have the trial judge instruct the jury that it
could not consider the unlawfulness or unconstitutionality of
the orders a defense to the charge of "contempt" for disobeying
them in order to get the jury to helplessly convict, as it did.
(This still took two bites at the apple for the
government to get this accomplished. The first time, even with
that instruction the jury refused to convict, because Doreen
read the jurors what the Supreme Court has said about orders of
the sort she resisted. In the second go-round, she was prevented
from doing this...)
SO, FOR THE PAST SEVEN MONTHS, Doreen has
languished in a federal prison in Alderson, West Virginia,
awaiting the outcome of her appeal (oral arguments are being
heard in two weeks). While there, Doreen has been occupying her
bleak time with some of the educational programs made available
at the place. A project was required of those participating in
one of those classes earlier this month-- the creation of a
collage title "Life Re-Imagined". The object was to induce some
sort of breast-beating, "How will I do things differently once
I'm free again" self-criticism exercise
by the women attending. But in one case, there was nothing to
criticize...
Here is Doreen's collage, which brought a unique,
unanimous ovation from everyone in the class when she unveiled
it for viewing:
Is it any surprise that I'm in love with this woman?
***
BTW, here's another image to study and think about,
followed by a different question to answer. It is, after all,
decision-time...
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.
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.
January 5- In 1759,
George marries Martha. In 1781, Richmond, Virginia is burned by
British forces led by Benedict Arnold. In 1914, the Ford Motor
Company announces an eight-hour workday, and a minimum
$5-per-day rate-of-pay. In 1918, the "Free Committee for a
German Workers' Peace" (later changed to the National Socialist
German Workers (Nazi) Party), is founded. In 1933, construction
begins on the Golden Gate bridge.
Two Simple Questions For Every Silent
"Alt-Media" Journalist
The silence of these folks is the
liberation bottleneck. Maybe this'll help, if enough people
ask...
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 6- In 1553,
Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, Peru. In 1838, Samuel Morse
successfully tests his 'telegraph'. In 1907, Maria Montessori
opens her first school in Rome. In 1912, New Mexico is admitted
to the union as the 47th of the several states. In 1929, Mother
Teresa arrives in Calcutta. In 1936, the U.S. Supreme Court
rules that Roosevelt's 'New Deal' Agriculture Adjustment Act is
unconstitutional.
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 7- In 1782, the
Bank of North America, the first United States national bank,
opens for business (it continues today as Wachovia Bank). In
1927, the first trans-Atlantic telephone call is made. In 1953,
Truman announces the development of the hydrogen bomb. In 1980,
Jimmy Carter signs off on a $1.5 billion dollar federal loan to
the Chrysler Corporation. Constitutional scholars are still
scratching their heads and searching for the authority for
that... In 1999, the impeachment of Bill Clinton begins. In
2015, shootings of curious character in the details suggesting
false-flag possibilities but ascribed to Islamic extremists
enraged by what they viewed as sacrilegious cartoons about
Mohammed take place in Paris, France, and lead to a massive
re-affirmation throughout the Western world of the unequivocal
sacredness of unconstrained speech rights.
*****
NEW! Orders of twelve or more books now come with a free DVD
containing six informative and inspiring videos-- 112 minutes in
all. Click
here for the details.
Do you have a victory to share?
Click
here to learn how to do so.
If you're working on one, and just getting stonewalled
or speed-bumped, you can still be recognized! Go
here to learn what to do.
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:
January 8- In 1790,
George Washington delivers the first State of the Union speech.
In 1835, the United States national debt hit $0 for the only
time, after Andrew Jackson succeeded in shutting down the Second
Bank of the United States (an early version of the Federal
reserve). In 1973, the trial of the Watergate burglars begins.
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!!
What’s in Store for Our Freedoms in 2016?
More of Everything We Don’t Want
by John Whitehead
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to
repeat it.”
—George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Vol. 1
In Harold Ramis’ classic 1993 comedy Groundhog Day, TV
weatherman Phil Connors (played by Bill Murray) is forced to live
the same day over and over again until he not only gains some
insight into his life but changes his priorities. Similarly, as I
illustrate in my book 'Battlefield America: The War on the American
People', we in the emerging American police state find ourselves
reliving the same set of circumstances over and over again—egregious
surveillance, strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens,
government spying, the criminalization of lawful activities,
warmongering, etc.—although with far fewer moments of comic
hilarity.
What remains to be seen is whether 2016 will bring more
of the same or whether “we the people” will wake up from our
somnambulant states. Indeed, when it comes to civil liberties and
freedom, 2015 was far from a banner year.
The following is just a sampling of what we can look
forward to repeating if we don’t find some way to push back against
the menace of an overreaching, aggressive, invasive, militarized
surveillance state.
More surveillance. The surveillance
state is alive and well and kicking privacy to shreds in America.
Whether you’re walking through a store, driving your car, checking
email, or talking to friends and family on the phone, you can be
sure that some government agency, whether the NSA or some other
entity, will still be listening in and tracking your behavior. This
doesn’t even begin to touch on the corporate trackers that monitor
your purchases, web browsing, Facebook posts and other activities
taking place in the cyber sphere. We are now in a state of
transition with the police state shifting into high-gear under the
auspices of the surveillance state. In such an environment, we
are all suspects to be spied on, searched, scanned, frisked,
monitored, tracked and treated as if we’re potentially guilty of
some wrongdoing or other. Even our homes provide little protection
against government intrusions. Police agencies, already empowered to
crash through your door if they suspect you’re up to no good, now
have radars
that allow them to “see” through the walls of your home.
More militarized police. Americans
will continue to be rendered powerless in the face of militarized
police. In early America, government agents were not permitted to
enter one’s home without permission or in a deceitful manner. And
citizens could resist arrest when a police officer tried to restrain
them without proper justification or a warrant. Daring to dispute a
warrant with a police official today who is armed with high-tech
military weapons would be nothing short of suicidal. Moreover, as
police forces across the country continue to be transformed into
extensions of the military, Americans
are finding their once-peaceful communities transformed into
military outposts, complete with tanks, weaponry, and other
equipment designed for the battlefield. Having already transformed
local police into extensions of the military, now the Department of
Homeland Security, the Justice Department and the FBI are preparing
to turn the nation’s police officers into techno-warriors, complete
with iris scanners, body scanners, thermal imaging Doppler radar
devices, facial recognition programs, license plate readers, cell
phone Stingray devices and so much more.
Here's another question for you: When was the last time
you screamed at John to do so, in the same sense of urgency his
words are meant to inspire in you? Maybe you should do that today...
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 9- In 1788,
Connecticut becomes the fifth of the several states to ratify
the United States Constitution and authorize the new version of
the federal government. In 1861, Mississippi becomes the second
of the several states to secede from the Union. In 1951, the
United Nations headquarters in New York City opens for
business. In 1968, snow begins falling for the first (and so
far only) time in Mexico City, continuing off and on for the
next two days. In 2015, the alleged perpetrators of the
shootings in Paris two days previously (the 'Charlie Hebdo'
shootings) are silenced by police gunfire.
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
Learn what these colleagues already know, then step forward and
become part of a coordinated, mutually-supportive squadron
focused on developing strategy and deploying the law in
courtrooms across the country. There's a lot of suing that
needs doing right now.
Are you ready for a challenge that'll put some real meaning
behind all the effort you went through to get your credentials?
Send me an email.
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
Get your FREE* CtC bumper sticker and help spread the word!
Just send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Lost Horizons, Bumper
Sticker Offer, 232 Oriole Rd., Commerce Twp., MI 48382
(*If you want to throw a few bucks into the envelope to help
with costs, that'd be nice, but it's entirely optional...)
*****
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 10- In 49 B.C., Julius Caesar crosses
the Rubicon. In 1776, Tom Paine's 'Common Sense' is published.
In 1861, Florida becomes the third of the several states to
secede from the Union. In 1870, John D. Rockefeller
incorporates Standard Oil. In 1920, the League of Nations holds
its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles, which
ends World War I under terms which set the stage for World War
II.
"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
OK, Now Back To Your Regularly Scheduled Programming:
Is this newsletter of any value to you? If so, please
consider a donation
to help keep it available, or it soon won't be. Donations can
be sent to:
Want to get on the Newsletter mailing list? Just send an email from
the address you want added to SubscribeMe 'at' losthorizons.com with
"Subscribe me" in the subject line, and your name in the body!
To comment on any article in this newsletter (or to read
comments of
others), click on the
below.
(It may take a while for your newly-posted comments to
appear; also, please understand that this is NOT a place for posing
questions
about individual tax situations.)
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.
below.