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“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
Mid-Edition Update for December 21, 2015
Featured In This Update: Does Anyone Remember The Irish? *** Poisonous Pieties Offend The Spirit Of The Season *** Soviet-Style Justice: Whistleblower Experiences Nightmare In Federal Prison *** A Nice Commentary On Liberty-Targeting Lies And Hysteria About "Climate Change" *** Regarding "Astroturf" And Trolls *** *** Watching The Watchmen- Updated *** Updates on Doreen's case can be found here. And Don't Miss These: Regarding State Group Membership *** The Educated American's Tax Filing Flow Chart *** *** *** *** A "Pragmatic" Perspective On The Tax And The Rule Of Law *** Illuminating Anniversaries For This Week *** *** ...and much, much more!
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"The preservation of a free government requires, not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained, but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great barrier which defends the rights of the people. The rulers who are guilty of such encroachment exceed the commission from which they derive their authority, and are TYRANTS. The people who submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them and are slaves….." -James Madison
Does Anyone Remember The Irish? The good folk of the Emerald Isle offer an important historical lesson for Americans today THERE'S A LOT OF EFFORT BEING EXPENDED BY CERTAIN MANIPULATIVE TYPES to drum into Americans' heads the notions that Islam is a fundamentally-violent and aggressive faith. We are also encouraged to imagine that hostility by Muslims toward Americans, Britons and the French is due to that fundamental cultural barbarism and a "hatred of our freedoms". The purpose of the cognitive assaults demonizing Islam is to keep folks from thinking about possible alternative explanations for the very real hostility that does indeed exist in certain quarters. This is because consideration of alternative explanations for the hostility might lead to an end to that hostility, and that would remove from the playing field what has been a very useful pretext for the luxurious growth and maintenance of the "national security state" apparatus and all its beneficiaries. Can't have that! Well, actually, most of us would love to have an end to both the hostility and the hugely expensive, rights-trampling apparatus that it is cited to justify. Therefore, against the idiotic "there is terrorism because Islam is inherently violent/it's a religious war/they hate us for our freedoms" drumbeat I invite America to remember the Irish. TO BEGIN WITH, LET'S REMEMBER that the Irish are NOT MUSLIM. Certainly during the 20th Century which is the focus of this reminiscence there were precious few Muslims in Ireland, even as immigrants from other places. So, again, the Irish are NOT MUSLIM. Nonetheless... Throughout a portion of the 20th Century groups of Irishmen (and possibly Irishwomen) made their way into England and places Englishmen could be found and committed acts of violence and terrorism, even though they were NOT MUSLIM. Irish hostility toward England was implacable and embedded in the entire community, as this letter found by a friend in the attic a few years ago makes clear:
Pretty hostile, isn't it? If you just did some word substitutions, this letter could be one of the writings presented by the national security apparatus as evidence of the radical extremism of any Muslim terrorist suspect of the last twenty years. But the Irish are NOT MUSLIM. So, what was going on? The Irish were NOT MUSLIM, but their lands WERE occupied by a militarily-superior invading force from another country which was imposing its will upon them for its own purposes. And THAT'S the reason they struck back, in the only way they could, until the invader gave up and withdrew from all but a small portion of the island. Since that withdrawal there has been NO IRISH TERRORISM.* And this is so even though the religion of the Irish didn't change and the freedoms of the erstwhile target of Irish hostility remain the same. Think about it. THIS MID-EDITION UPDATE IS MY LAST POST BEFORE CHRISTMAS, and I'm going to take the occasion to ask all of you for a Christmas present: As you visit with family and friends from around the neighborhood and around the country, please remind everyone about the Irish. Urge thoughtful reflection in place of mindless drumbeats. The former is much better suited to the spirit of the season than is the latter. *** *Violence associated with disagreements between inhabitants of Northern Ireland, the portion of the island which remains in British hands by majority vote of its inhabitants, does not qualify as "Irish terrorism" as used here, however much it might be called "Northern Ireland terrorism". That said, the violence by disaffected Northern Irelanders-- that is, those whose portion of Ireland remains under British control-- really makes the same point as the history of the Republic of Ireland, however much the clarity of the situation is complicated by the transplanting of British loyalists into that district over the last several centuries. *** P.S. IT SHOULD BE UNDERSTOOD that this article isn't about whether Islam is or isn't violent. It is simply to observe that current expressions of hostility toward the West by some folks who happen to be Muslim have motivations that need no religious component and can be explained without any reference to religion. By reference to the historical record-- specifically, the history of Irish hostility and violence, and its causes and cures-- it is clear that those non-religious motivations are sufficient, and removing them ends the violence that they engender. That said, let me also say this, however: The argument that Islam is inherently violent and compels its adherents to war on "infidels" falls to another aspect of the historical record, in my opinion. I think it is axiomatic that any creed which did demand pro-active aggression from its adherents would within a few centuries either conquer the world or be rendered extinct. Islam has been around for 1400 years. Yet in all that time its adherents have neither conquered the world nor perished on the spear-points of those their religion supposedly compels them to attack. I am aware that those clinging to the demonization of Islam and its adherents sometimes quote things said by folks like the Barbary Pirates and other aggressive historical Muslim figures who used religious citations to justify bad behavior. But those citations were just that-- resorts to religion as a justification for bad behavior. EVERY aggressor of ANY faith has ALWAYS used religion-- either of the scriptural variety or the nationalist-- as an incentive for the troops and a balm for the fears of those whose loved ones were being marched, some of them, to their deaths in service to the ambitious general. See a few relevant words by Mark Twain here. Such callous resorts do not mean that the religion itself actually demands aggressive war from its adherents. Other demonizers claim that the words of the Quran itself directly require violent war upon non-believers by Muslims. I find these claims hard to credit. Translations of the Quran are just that: translations. As I don't read Arabic, I am not in a position to directly rebut what others who claim to do so might say they derive from the text. But the historic record is clear-- Muslims do not maniacally attack all infidels under any compulsion from their faith. Were they to do so, every one of them would be dead long since, or would be dying in regular endless waves breaking on the rocks of the superior military might of the infidels with which they are surrounded, year after year-- and every single year of the last 1400, as each generation reached the age of requirement or ability. This endless wave of unilateral and unanimous attacks does not happen, and has never happened. Thus, whatever some translator might say, it is clear that actual Muslims do not find themselves compelled by their religion to attack infidels. Further, the translated portions purportedly advocating violence, even as presented by the demonizers, are nuanced in ways that merit close attention. I have seen the following supposed excerpts from the Quran presented by those who attack Islam as inherently violent and aggressive: 2:191 And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. And fight not with them at the Inviolable Place of Worship until they first attack you there, but if they attack you (there) then slay them. Such is the reward of disbelievers. 2:193 And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah. 2:216 Warfare is ordained for you, though it is hateful unto you; but it may happen that ye hate a thing which is good for you, and it may happen that ye love a thing which is bad for you. Allah knoweth, ye know not. 2:244 Fight in the way of Allah, and know that Allah is Hearer, Knower. 5:33 The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom. But I have also seen the following pointed out by other students of the subject: The true definition of an infidel from what I researched and read about within those particular verses is anyone who is an oppressor, terrorist, or a violent instigator upon a society. Infidel DOES NOT refer to anyone who's a non-Muslim, which seems to be an interpretation of what an infidel is today by many in the west. If that were so, then the Quran would be contradicting itself because it preaches to respect anyone, no matter the race, creed, or political system. Unfortunately, many Islamic governments don't live by this ruling and treat any non-Arab or non-Muslims as 2nd class citizens and don't respect their individuality and freedoms. The corruption is within the leadership from most Middle Eastern countries, for whatever reason, and that's why there's a civil unrest between the citizens and their respective rulers. and, The verses cited (e.g. 2:191-193) do NOT advocate killing infidels simply because they are infidels. Nowhere in the Quran does it say to kill all infidels. In fact, the Quran explicitly forbids killing except in defense against an enemy which seeks to destroy Islam or make war on Allah, or someone who has attacked one's home or family. These are the "them" to which 2:191-193 refers. Looking at the specific language of the "demonizing" citations, it seems to me that these rebuttals fit. In the verse 5:33 cited, for instance, the reference to the target of violence is "those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land". This is by no means "all non-believers", or even any non-believers simply because they are non-believers. Rather, the verse speaks of a defensive response to aggression against the believers or against Islam generally (that is, an effort to extirpate Islam), and a corrective response to corruption by [whoever: government officials; imams; the neighbors...]. Similarly, the language cited from 2:191 and 2:193 unquestionably refers to defense and holding ground, not aggressive war: "drive them out of the places whence they drove you out" and "fight them until persecution is no more." The statement in 2:216 that: "Warfare is ordained for you" seems most likely an acknowledgement that Muslims can expect persecution and to be made war upon (as is true of every new faith to arise amidst established competitors). The only difference between this declaration and the others cited and what is found in much of the writings of Paul, and other early Christians is that the Quran apparently doesn't give Christ's instruction to "turn the other cheek." This makes it a faith less accepting of anticipated abuse and persecution, but not one of aggression, and in that, simply closer to the Judaism expressed in the Old Testament than to the Christianity of the New. Further, let's look at the stuff that is omitted from presentations of portions meant to be taken as evidence of aggressive and violent exhortations, such as those above. I'm going to insert in red what comes before and between the first two excerpts above: 2:190 Fight in the Cause of Allah those who fight you, and do not transgress limits [begin not hostility]: For Allah loves not transgressors. 2:191 And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. And fight not with them at the Inviolable Place of Worship until they first attack you there, but if they attack you (there) then slay them. Such is the reward of disbelievers. 2:192 But if they cease, Allah is Forgiving, Most Merciful 2:193 And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah. Then there is this instruction, which the purveyors of the aggressive/violent/slay-or-convert-all-infidels myth about Islam never share: 2:256 Let there be no compulsion in Religion, Truth stands out clear from error; Whoever rejects Evil and believes in Allah [God] has grasped the most trustworthy handhold, that never breaks. And Allah hears and knows all things. I find the latter portion of this admonition of acceptance to be in the spirit of C.S. Lewis's depiction of divine perspective in 'The Last Battle', when Aslan declares that all good that is done, even when done not in His name but another, is nonetheless done in His service, and is so recognized. Finally, let me add this caveat to my words above about the historical record: There ARE minor heretical offshoots of Islam, such as Wahabism, that are (or seem to be) maniacally militant. But they are not representative of Islam generally, in my view. In closing, I want it understood that just as my main article about the evidence to be gleaned from the history of the Irish and the British occupation was not intended to be a commentary about Islam or its character, but only a lesson that violence by people in the positions of many Muslims can be attributed to motivations having nothing to do with religion, so, too, this extended follow-up note is not intended to be a defense of Islam, or an authoritative analysis of that faith. I am not Muslim, nor am I an Islamic scholar. But I am a lover of truth and clear-thinking. I hate spin, and I hate agenda-serving myths drummed out into the public square-- especially myths on the widespread adoption of which will be based policies for which I and mine will be called upon to pay, in one way or another. I also hate myths designed to marginalize or demonize anyone. Such myths are pure evil, and to not speak out against them is a moral crime, as I see it. Post a comment on this article Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend Poisonous Pieties Offend The Spirit Of The Season Let's pay attention to the words of the one whose birth we celebrate this week... ONE OF THE FAVORITE PLOYS OF DESPOTS and would-be despots to pacify the masses they intend to exploit is through the corruption of scripture and religious doctrine. The classic example of this is the recital of Jesus' words, "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's" in order to pacify an uncertain host so that a governmental parasite can more easily have its meal of taxes. This line is cited as though everyone is to take for granted that some percentage of the wealth they create or acquire is actually, and automatically, "Caesar's"! This is nonsense, of course, both as to the matter of to whom any given wealth belongs, and that of what Jesus was really saying. All wealth (or a part of all wealth) DOESN'T belong to "Caesar", and Jesus DIDN'T say that it does. What Jesus said is, "Render unto Caesar THAT WHICH IS CAESAR'S..." The reality is that Jesus' admonition about "rendering unto Caesar" is a plain and straightforward endorsement of the principle behind legitimate excise taxation: an actor (such as the state) whose stuff was used to produce wealth has a legitimate claim against the wealth, and it is proper that "his" part should be "rendered unto" him. This is precisely how the "income" excise works. It is a tax on gains realized through the use of privileges, prerogatives and/or property belonging to the federal government, to part of which that government therefore has a legitimate claim. As used in the context of the tax, "income" means gains so realized-- any and all of which, by virtue of that legal character, potentially "belong to Caesar". By virtue of the same principle, of course, the federal government has NO claim by way of this type of tax to gains NOT created or acquired through the use of its privileges, prerogatives and/or property, and a thorough study of the federal "income" tax structure reveals that the tax scrupulously abides by this limitation. We don't actually have any "Caesar" in America and we've never authorized the State to act as though we do; in fact, we've explicitly prohibited the State from trying act that way. Properly understood (rather than in a corruption intended to serve the voracious State), and as expressed in the principles of excise taxation, what Jesus said is, "Render unto Caesar [ONLY] that which is Caesar's..." Click here to read the rest of this observation Now share these links with everyone in your address book and then have a very Merry Christmas, knowing you've helped elevate real moral values over the merely mundane ambitions of the state Post a comment on this article Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend Soviet-Style Justice: Whistleblower Experiences ‘Nightmare’ in Federal Prison A new article about the outrage being committed against Doreen and everyone's Rule of Law JOURNALIST SHANE TREJO has posted a new article on Doreen's ordeal here. Please read it and share it as widely as you can. Post a comment on this article Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend A Nice Commentary On Liberty-Targeting Lies And Hysteria About "Climate Change" Here's Another: (H/T to Peter Gibbons for finding and forwarding this timely gem.)
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H. L. Mencken Post a comment on this article Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend
Featured Victory
I'M PLEASED TO ADD A VICTORY TO THE POSTED TOTAL that had actually been won a few years ago but had never been shared until now. Prompted, perhaps, by my very seriously-meant admonition here, Q. Z. has belatedly shared a $24K+ complete federal refund of everything withheld during 2012, plus interest. Well done, Q.! By itself, Q.'s victory is wonderful, of course. ALL such victories for the rule of law over a revenue-collection structure that is 75 years into systemic misapplication of the tax whenever ignorance or intimidation can be exploited are wonderful, and worthy of celebration. However, in this case, Q. happens to have included a cover letter very explicitly laying out the meaning of her filing. This feature makes her newly-shared victory particularly worthy of attention. Q.'s cover letter makes crystal-clear that her refund was issued by an open-eyed government agency. The IRS was fully apprised of exactly what was being claimed, and why, before it agreed with the claim and cut that $24,317.53 check returning every penny withheld from Q. during 2012, Social security and Medicare taxes included-- plus interest. Here is the letter:
Here's the check:
The filing accompanied by the cover letter above (with Schedule A omitted) can be seen here. MY HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS TO Q. on her victory on behalf of the rule of law. Had she not gotten educated about the real nature of the income tax, and stood up and acted, the unscrupulous state would have happily kept her money with a smirk at its success in "working-around" critically-important Constitutional provisions through the exploitation of ignorance and intimidation. ON THE OTHER HAND, my heartiest denunciations for those incomprehensibly-stubborn people who persist in mindless denial of the truth about the tax revealed exclusively in 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America.' Were they to acknowledge that endlessly-proven truth I wouldn't have to go to the trouble of posting yet more evidence like that above, over and over and over. More, were those deniers to stop lying to themselves about CtC and the truth about the tax, all of us would be living RIGHT NOW in a transformed America. If you or anyone you know is suffering any injustice or outrage at the hands of the arrogant, overgrown, law-defying state, blame the CtC deniers. "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." -U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson (BTW, there is no special benefit or virtue to cover letters generally, or to Q.'s in particular, from any kind of legal standpoint. Such letters do not prompt lawful responses from government agencies which otherwise wouldn't be forthcoming. A properly-made claim using only the government-published forms for that purpose is all that is needed to get that lawful response, as is amply demonstrated by the hundreds of thousands of such lawful responses and complete refunds secured with only those instruments. BTW II, Q.s cover letter furnished me with a nice opportunity to make the point about CtC-educated refunds never being "slips through some crack", as those in denial yet cling-to with a degree of absurdity that became mind-bogglingly indefensible years ago, after the first ten or twenty thousand refunds were issued. But the IRS's own program documentation has always made clear to anyone not dedicated to blindness that every such refund has always been thoroughly vetted before being issued. See this.)
Post a comment on this article Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend Have I Ever Mentioned That The Revelations Of CtC Are Targeted By Trolls? FORMER CBS REPORTER SHERYL ATKISSON describes how this kind of dis-information campaign is done. Despite the annoying preliminary 15 seconds or so of advertising, this video of her presentation is very much worth watching: (H/T to Greg Belcher for finding and forwarding this great presentation.) Losthorizons.com is one of those websites specifically-targeted by the corrupt interests at Wikipedia described by Atkisson. The behind-the-scenes folks at that site won't allow links on their pages to anything posted at losthorizons.com, nor even just text corrections of misinformation in their pages about the income tax. That's the least of it. Click here for some specific discussion of the enormous campaign that's been actively spreading false information in hope of discouraging legitimate media attention, as well as men and women simply seeking the truth about the tax and liberty from the scourge of the "ignorance tax". PLEASE GIVE SOME SERIOUS THOUGHT to the fact that YOU being secure in your own freedom rests on others learning the truth as well, and recognize that it falls to you to help overcome the dis-information campaign. Post and share your videos; share your victories; help silence the agents-provocateur and distraction-injectors whose nonsense is discussed and debunked here; and widely (and frankly, impatiently) share this page, this page and this page, challenging everyone in your address book to disconnect the phone and the TV for an afternoon and get educated. Doing these things will be what makes it happen, Cap'n.
Post a comment on this article Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend A Housekeeping Note OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS I've heard from a number of folks that a firewall known as "Comodo" blocks access to this website. This is apparently a glitch in that program. This site is safe, as can be seen by going to https://google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagnostic/index.html#url=losthorizons.com.Please share this info with others in your own address book so it gets around-- obviously those suffering the ill effects of this defect in Comodo won't be able to see it here themselves until they go into their firewall settings and manually whitelist losthorizons.com. ALSO!!! Please go to the trouble of sharing the email you got alerting you to this new newsletter posting with as many people as possible. Over the course of time the ISP I use (Yahoo) is periodically put on "spam" blacklists. If I do a sending of newsletter announcements during such an interval, my address can get tagged that way, too, and my email can then end up disappearing into spam folders in the email systems of what are actually newsletter subscribers. Unless told to look for them and whitelist mail from @losthorizons.com, some of these folks won't ever know that this has happened. *****
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WANTED! Your Article!! Sharpen those pens, people! MY FRIENDS, THIS NEWSLETTER NEEDS your creativity, your clear thinking, and your expressive energy! In short, this newsletter needs your journalism! I know that writing for public consumption isn't everyone's cup of tea. But those who CAN string a few words together can importantly serve the educated, activist community by writing and submitting thoughtful, well-researched and persuasive articles on certain topics for posting on these pages. Here are several topics for which submissions are desired:
Articles should be 1500 words or less, with working titles and author's name at the beginning. Composition should strive for two and three sentence paragraphs organized in the form of a theme paper. Intend to persuade and inspire, not browbeat. Format should be either .doc or .odt. All submissions selected for posting may be subject to editing. BTW, CtC Warrior Greg Sutton has just had a good educational/inspirational article published here.
Post a comment on this article Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend ***** Why Aren't People Suing? SO, I WONDER HOW MANY FOLKS have thought about the fact that the First Amendment prohibits even a bogus "frivolous return penalty" threat, such as the customized "3176C" notices that a few educated filers have received over the years (see here, here and here for some examples)? After all, a "frivolous penalty" threat amounts to a threat by the government to punish someone for saying what the government wishes they would not say (or for not saying what the government wishes they would say). Even when the threat is entirely reliant on the timidity and cooperation of the target for its effect or an outright hoax, the object of the exercise is to control the target's speech. Thus even when technically toothless it remains a gross violation of the Constitution and the victim's rights. The threat is also intended to influence the target into at least withdrawing a claim to the refund of withheld or paid-in property, which would then default to government ownership (and really, the threat is meant to coerce an active endorsement of a government claim to the property, giving the appearance that the government's taking control of that property is proper and beyond legal challenge). Thus, these "frivolous penalty" threats are doubly criminal. AFTER ALL, PROHIBITING INHERENTLY CORRUPT exercises of state power of precisely this sort is the reason we have a "freedom of speech" element in the First Amendment. Americans can't be made to say things for the government's benefit, nor punished for saying things the government finds inconvenient or at its expense-- this is perhaps the most thoroughly-settled aspect of Constitutional law there is. See a nice summary of Supreme Court case-law on this point in sections A., B. and C. of this paper. Plainly, there is no exception to the amendment's provision whereby the government can simply argue, "We can punish you until you say what we want you to say, either directly or by being silent in the face of the allegations of others, as long as we call your expressions "frivolous", or exercise the coercion in the context of taxation..." I think people subjected to this rights violation should be furious and in a suing mood, don't you? (BTW, as an interesting side note, consider the limiting factor built in to the legitimate application of the 'frivolous return penalty" provisions, confining their application to those who are speaking not for themselves, and not as sovereign individuals in their own capacity, but on behalf of someone else, and as a legal duty, not an elective act: 26 USC § 6671 - Rule for application of assessable penalties (b) Person defined The term “person”, as used in this subchapter, includes an officer or employee of a corporation, or a member or employee of a partnership, who as such officer, employee, or member is under a duty to perform the act in respect of which the violation occurs. The relevant speech of those within this specialized sub-class of "person" can perhaps be deemed outside the First Amendment's ambit. By this mechanism the "frivolous return penalty" is harmonized with the Constitution. By the same token, the First Amendment prohibition of government speech-violations against undistinguished persons means that the sub-class defined at 26 USSC § 6671 must necessarily be confined to those described in that definition, per CtC scholarship. If that sub-class were not so confined, but deemed to extend to any kind of persons other than those circumscribed by a "limited-expansion-only" construction of the definition, the "frivolous penalty" would be unconstitutional.) "Like a muddied stream or a polluted fountain is the righteous man who gives way before the wicked." -Proverbs 25:26
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More Educated Americans Testify, Showing Why The Deep State Fears CtC "If the taxpayers of this country ever discovered that we operate on 98% bluff, the entire system will collapse." -Reported remark by an internal revenue service officer to Sen. Henry E. Bellmon (R. Okla.) on April 15, 1971.
"The Tax Code represents the genius of legal fiction... The IRS has never really known why people pay the income tax... The IRS encourages voluntary compliance, through FEAR." -Jack Warren Wade Jr., former IRS officer in charge of the IRS Nationwide Revenue Officer Training Program, in his book ‘When You Owe The IRS’ CtC-EDUCATED, AMERICAN HERITAGE-LOVING grown-up Joe Black shares his testimony here. Tom Romin shares his testimony here. Greg Sutton shares his here. Enjoy Robert Harvey's testimony here. Tom's and Greg's and Robert's words, like those of others here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here, and all those whose evidence has been shared here, are solid examples of why the Deep State fears CtC. It's this simple: If you study CtC you will know the truth about the tax. Further, you will know that you know the truth, beyond any doubt. ONLY CtC will give you that certainty, because CtC is exclusively and uniquely complete and correct, as can be seen by any of thousands of different acknowledgements of every possible kind, from this to this to this to this. Most telling, in its own way, is the government robotically resorting for years now to the strawman of falsely ascribing to CtC the ridiculous arguments that "wages are not income" and that only federal, state and local government workers are subject to the tax. This false ascription is then used as the basis for claiming the book is "false and frivolous"-- a lame and transparent dodge begging the question of why the state won't acknowledge what the book REALLY says and then attempt to dispute THAT. Once you know the truth revealed in CtC, acting in accordance with that truth WILL liberate you from being an ignorance tax serf. This, the deep state fears mightily. FURTHER, ACTING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THAT deeply-known truth can NEVER legitimately qualify as any kind of a "tax crime", or for any penalties or fines. This is not only because what CtC teaches about the law and the tax is technically and legally correct, but also because all tax crimes are crimes of "intent" and all penalties rest for their legitimacy on "intent". An educated filing in sincere accordance with what is known and believed to be true and correct cannot be lawfully treated as invalid, criminal or subject to penalty. Any effort by the state to claim otherwise is inherently corrupt. Nor can any accurate and truthful filing be overcome by any lawful means, which is why the state is so focused on forcing Doreen to declare that she doesn't believe what CtC teaches, with the openly-declared hope that her doing so would discourage other Americans from acting on what they also believe. LIKE HENRY BELLMON WAS TOLD, the "ignorance tax" scheme relies on bluff-- pretending that the truth is what the government suggests that it is (despite what the law and the courts and every other authority have actually been saying about it for 150 years). And like Jack Warren Wade, Jr. says, the scheme relies on fear-- doing everything possible to make people afraid to act on their scheme-shattering knowledge of the truth. In short, the "ignorance tax" scheme can only survive if Americans can be bluffed into not seeking out the truth, and if those who learn that truth can be discouraged from acting on that truth. But those who know the truth, and know they know the truth, cannot not act. Acting on the truth is a moral imperative, as well as a legal imperative. The undaunted actions of those who know the truth are "calls" against the bluff. Each "call" ratchets-up the spread of the truth exponentially and forces state acknowledgement of that truth, one way or another; and each such acknowledgment takes America one step closer to freedom from the 75-year state-unleashing, people-restraining "ignorance tax" scheme. And THAT's why the deep state fears CtC. "Be the change you want to see in the world." -Mohandas Gandhi
Post a comment on this article I HAVE DONE MY BEST to lead this country to liberty from the mis-applied income tax. I have labored hard. I've shed a lot of sweat, a fair bit of blood and more than a few tears. But I seem to be pretty poor at that kind of work, because... Right now, having just been forced to deliver my beloved bride to a prison camp, I'm bleeding pretty heavily. And yet, when I have asked all of you for what I firmly believe is a necessary resource to move the ball downfield and give my darling wife (and all the rest of us) the best chance at justice and an end to the assault on the rule of law-- simple testimonial videos requiring nothing from any of you but the phone in your pocket and three minutes of speaking from the heart-- I have had only a handful of people answer my call. I CAN'T KEEP GOING THIS WAY. I have to be able to turn my attention away from writing new persuasive or skepticism-addressing articles week after week, and toward research, analysis and educational presentations that will benefit everyone already in this community. I need time to do some suing, and to bring together the resources and talent toward that end. As said, it is my firm belief that your testimonial videos are the resource that I need to make big things happen, and they are unquestionably the thing I need to allow me to turn my attention away from trying to get horses to drink at the waterhole to which I have led them. Your words, in your great numbers and all in your own different ways, will do that better than anything I write possibly could. And yet, you are not providing them, even despite my having been asking you for them for many years now (I renewed my entreaties as a front-page item just lately, in response to the media skepticism over what has been done to Doreen, but I first posted my request for these something along the lines of eight years ago...). Therefore, with enormous reluctance, I am making portions of this website restricted access only. People have been urging me to do this for years now, telling me I should impose a charge to access my work-product, so as to enable me to keep producing. I have never been inclined to do so. I ask for donations, and will continue to do that, and if they do not come, then I will conclude that my work is of no value to anyone, and I will close shop. But I now WILL charge a special something for access to some key portions of that work-- testimonial videos, as discussed, described and demonstrated here. STARTING TODAY, SELECTED PAGES CONSTITUTING primarily "legal resources" pages will require passwords for access, and to get a password, I need your video. Similarly, if an email comes my way asking for guidance or assistance, it had best have a video attached, if I don't already have yours posted. I hate to play it this way, but I want to win. I'll tell you a story from when I was coaching my kids in soccer. Both of my kids at a certain age in their careers had run into a wall common to all but the very exceptional. They had gotten to be pretty good, and they wanted to enjoy the benefits of their hard work. But the arrival of this interest coincided with a new self-consciousness which made them reluctant to risk failing and looking foolish. So, they were hanging back from seizing the main chance when it appeared, and driving for the goal. My solution was to post on the wall of our dining room a couple of simple points about self-discipline, the chief of which is this: You can't score a goal if you don't take a shot. That's how it is here, too. If you don't stand up, you are laying down, and you'll never score that goal. Here is what my kids live by now, in their own version of that lesson. I hear it from them all the time as they excel (accompanied by the sound of a father's breast swelling with pride): Go hard, or go home. You, too. Go hard, or go home. Send those videos. Do I ask for a lot? I want your victories to post, your financial support, your efforts spreading the word, and your beautiful faces and inspiring words, too. It IS a lot. But I'll let Frederick Douglas explain: "Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation…want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters…. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." Fear nothing but God. Post a comment on this article Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend Give Yourself A 30% Raise: A New Flyer
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What Makes YOU A Warrior For The Truth? We each have our reasons, and our story. It's time, and it's needed, for you to share yours with the world.
"The day we see truth and do not speak is the day we begin to die." -Martin Luther King, Jr. What does it for you? Is it simply because no moral and upstanding person has any choice when it comes to telling the truth over his or her signature, whether on tax forms or anywhere else?
Is it recognition of the critical importance of the rule of law, and the knowledge that if everybody leaves its caretaking to someone else, it will soon be lost to us completely?
Is it the money?
Maybe it's just simple respect for your own rights as a human being, who is not and cannot be not involuntarily subordinated to others?
Maybe it's just simple respect for your general civic responsibility to be the grown-up and enforce frugality and restraint on a big, powerful creature of our own devising which otherwise is like a badly-raised teenage boy given whiskey and car keys and let loose on the road to wreak havoc?
Or is it, perhaps, a more acute anxiety that if our bonfire of a state isn't damped, and quickly, it'll soon burn down the house around us all?
What IS it that firms up your jaw and stiffens your resolve?
It's time to take off the bushel and share your light!
I would like you to think about what it is that motivates you for a few moments (or all day, if you like), and then send me your thoughts. I want to put YOUR reasons to work inspiring folks who don't yet understand what this is all about.
In this day and age, the most effective way for you to share your thinking for the benefit of others is to video-record yourself talking about how you feel, and explaining what inspires and motivates YOU.
All you need is a webcam or cell-phone equipped with a camera. If you don't have, or know how to use, one of these, have a friend help.
If needed, write a little script for yourself. Better, though, to just speak extemporaneously, after spending a little time sorting out your thoughts and getting down into your heart. Perhaps make it a video of someone in your family, or a close friend, interviewing you.
Keep yourself to no more than 2 or 3 minutes, and keep in mind that the purpose is not to educate, but to INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE and ENERGIZE. Your video will be one of many to be shared.
You needn't feel any obligation to be profound, and you shouldn't try to explain anything about the law, other than to say that you have read it and you know it's on your side. You just need to be sincere, and uplifting. Your object is to make your audience want to have what you have, and to be where you are in your heart.
Keep in mind that you're speaking to an audience that doesn't yet know ANYTHING about the subject, and whose first reaction is, "This must be illegal; this must be dangerous; this is too good to be true." You want to pull that audience right past such things, and straight to a focus on truth, morality, and our American heritage of liberty and the rule of law.
Remember: INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE, ENERGIZE.
Speak about rights. Speak about morality, and the obligation of a grown-up and responsible person to speak the truth and to enforce the Constitution. Speak about everyone's duty to give to God what is God's, always, and to Caesar only what is really Caesar's. Speak of your obligation to respect yourself, and to look out for the current and future well-being of your children and your fellow citizens. Speak of CtC, and what its information has done for your understanding and resolve. Show the book.
If you have had victories, describe them. Better still, show them, if possible.
Be clear about just what you accomplished: EVERYTHING back-- Social Security, Medicare and all; a "notice of deficiency" closing notice; an on-paper agreement or acknowledgment that your earnings weren't subject to the tax and everything withheld or paid-in was an "overpayment"; a transcript showing all $0s; or whatever happened.
When you speak of state victories, name the state. If you had to overcome balkiness from a tax agency before winning any victory, describe that, too!
If you're in a battle now, speak of your resolve to uphold the law, come what may. If you haven't yet begun to act, speak of your decision to do so, and your plans.
Remember, your purpose is to INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE and ENERGIZE.
If you're dealing with ongoing balkiness, describe that, too, if you wish-- but be sure to explain why you're not discouraged, and why you are not standing down, not slinking back into the barn, and not choosing to endorse the lies.
Mention what you do for a living, whether you're a doctor, homemaker, lawyer, trucker, IT guy or gal, or a retiree or student. Help people understand that the company of grown-up activist Americans they are being invited to join cuts across all demographics and all interests-- with the common denominator being respect for the law and love of the principles on which this great country was founded.
This is your chance to get a LOT accomplished.
We've all had frustrating occasions of trying to explain all this to a friend, neighbor, family member or co-worker, only to pile up against the wall of a mind not yet ready to listen and learn. Here is your chance to address a self-selected audience of folks who have themselves decided that it's time for them to begin paying attention, and have clicked on your testimonial for exactly that reason.
Further, think about this: You want judges, bureaucrats, CPAs, lawyers, the HR people where you work, your pastors, your neighbors and everyone else to acknowledge the truth about the tax openly and straightforwardly. How and why would these folks do this if YOU won't? You want these folks to learn the truth. Why would they even recognize that there is a truth to be learned if you won't attest to having learned it yourself? You've got to stand up, face forward and chin up and tell these folks that you have studied and checked and verified and seen the evidence and seen the government evasions and you know that the tax is not the capitation that the beneficiary government wants everyone to think it is but a benign, but strictly limited thing, and that they need to study and learn that, too. Again, if you have victories to show, that's nice, and powerful, too. But you don't have to have victories to display in order to declare your knowledge of what the law says. I've never flown around the world, but I've seen the evidence and considered the arguments, and I'm not hesitant to declare it a sphere... Even those of you who haven't yet studied CtC have surely read this short document, and have verified everything in it for yourself. You should therefore be declaring its veracity and its message, loud and proud. Again, if you won't say it, how can you hope that others will ever even bother to look at the facts? Be the change you want to see in the world, or there won't be any change. So, please make and send those videos right away! You can share them with me via a cloud-based drive space like OneDrive.Live.com or GoogleDrive, or mail DVDs to me at 232 Oriole St., Commerce Twp., Michigan 48382, or even email to me if each file is no more than 20 megs (and you can break a video up if need be-- I can reassemble them). Render as .mpg or mp4, if possible; if not, send them how you have them and I'll make them work.
Remember, the restoration of institutional respect for individual rights and the rule of law depends on enough individuals insisting upon it. Do your part to let those starting to rub the sleep from their eyes know that there is a community already waiting for their fellowship with open arms and open hearts and shining spirits.
See how some of your fellow warriors for the truth have done their parts in videos sent over the years here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead
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Bob’s Bicycles or Getting Free Of The "Income" Tax Scheme Is As Easy As Falling Off A Bike
To get an idea of how today's "income" tax scheme works, try this little exercise:
Think of the federal government as a guy named Bob, who lives down the street from you in a town that is really big on bicycles. Bikes get used for commuting, deliveries, shopping, etc.. In fact, other than walking, bicycles are the exclusive form of transportation in your town. Your neighbor Bob has a by-the-mile bicycle-renting business-- "Bob's Bicycles". Bob's Bicycles is far and away the biggest business in town. Part of Bob’s success is because he does a lot of contract business. However, Bob doesn't just get paid by riders who have signed an agreement with him, or even just those using Bob's bikes. Bob gets something every time anybody in town does any riding at all, through an odd combination of circumstances that took many years to come together.
Here's how it happened...
Bob's Bicycles was launched long ago by the great grandfather of the present Bob (Bob IV). Great Grandpa Bob started out not only with a main location for his contract business-- he also had the bright idea of setting up spots around town where he parked some of his bikes for use by the more occasional rider, on an "honor system". Anyone could take and use one of these bikes, but they were expected to keep track of their mileage, and send Bob a "1040 Mileage Ridden/Rent Due Form" (and the appropriate rent), periodically. The initial design of the form was like this:
I said that Great Grandpa Bob planned to deal with these occasional riders on the "honor system", and that's true. But he liked his money, too, and didn't want to miss anything that was due him. So, after setting up the "self-serve" locations, Great Grandpa Bob went around handing out "W-2, 1099 or K-1 Rider Reporting Forms" to every other business in town. The forms-- accompanied by notices that if Bob didn't get his rent from someone riding a bicycle in connection with any business, he would sue the company involved-- said:
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You Can’t Fight Well When You Don’t Know What You’re Fighting About
If you are having an argument with the IRS or any other tax agency,
You are being targeted because REAL EVIDENCE exists that YOU PERSONALLY HAD “INCOME” to which the revenue laws apply-- even though that evidence is almost certainly incorrect, and CAN be corrected.
There IS "A Law" By Which You Can Be Made Liable, And This Is How It Works
Now Learn How To Be Master Of The Situation
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Do You Know What Happens When YOU Decide To "Let Someone Else Do It"?
NOTHING.
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do."
-Everett Hale
(...and every other person who ever really deserved liberty)
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."
-Daniel Webster
"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
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TOOLS FOR SPREADING THE LIBERATING TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX
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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!!
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"Never must thou take up a false cry, or join hands with the guilty by giving false witness in their favor. Never must thou follow with the crowd in doing wrong, or be swayed by many voices so as to give false judgment; even pity for the poor must not sway thee when judgment is to be given."
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Doing A Little High-Payoff Math
If each person receiving this newsletter each week distributed as few as 100 of any of the great outreach tools featured here to co-workers, friends, neighbors and family members (or just strangers on the street, in the mall, etc...), we could have SEVERAL MILLION new Americans suddenly introduced to the liberating truth about the tax!
Just like that! In one week!
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A Few Tips For Making Best Use Of This WebSite
USE THE SITE MAP!!!
USE THE SITE SEARCH!!!
When directed to a page by topic or link, read everything.
I know that this can mean the investment of a lot of time, attention and effort, but although some may imagine otherwise, I don't write as much as I do because I can't think of any other way to spend my time...
Furthermore, when you encounter a hyperlink within, or associated with, the text you are reading, follow it!
It is pretty common these days for web-based material to be littered with hyperlinks. Sometimes the purpose is to provide definitions or examples, in order to ensure that folks reading the original material aren't presented with a word or reference which they don't understand. Sometimes the links lead to illustrations pertinent to the original text.
It is common-- and perfectly understandable-- for folks who are confident that they are familiar with language or references within the main text they are reading to get in the habit of skipping over included links. I do it all the time, myself!
However, I very rarely include links for definitional or explanatory purposes; and when I DO make a link out of text in one page it is generally to another self-contained page, rather than merely illustrative material. These other pages contain material the clear understanding of which I deem highly important for the proper and complete understanding of the original page. (Links to CtC, the Victories pages, CtC Warriors and so on are obvious exceptions to this general rule. On the other hand, a link to the victory Highlights or 'Every Which Way But Loose' pages, which might seem like such exceptions, are not. The special selection of victories on those pages, and the filed docs and tax-agency correspondences included therewith, themselves constitute highly instructive material which merits careful attention. Thus care needs to be taken in all cases.)/p>
Please make a habit of clicking on all provided links and at least looking briefly to ensure that the linked page is one with which you are completely familiar from another study session.
Finally, please keep in mind that, annoying though it may seem at first blush (but not, I trust, upon reflection), I constantly tweak material already posted. Obviously this doesn't mean that every page is in flux at all times, but it does mean that if you are directed to a page that IS familiar, it's worthwhile to read it through again if it's been a while since your last having done so.
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