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it would mean the government's been concealing and
denying the truth for years
on end,
and everybody knows THAT would never happen...
(Edward Snowden, come home! It was all just a bad dream; there really is
No Such Agency!)
Do you
know someone truly steeped in the Kool-Aid?
I mean
someone who finds it easier to believe that the far-better-educated,
far-more-suspicious-of-government Americans of a hundred years ago were
complete morons who granted authority to the state to take whatever it
wished from themselves and their posterity than to imagine that they
themselves simply misunderstand the true nature of the income tax? Even
while knowing that their beliefs about the tax are derived entirely from
the representations of those who profit from those beliefs (like tax
bureaucrats and "tax professionals")?
Do you
know someone like that? Shake them awake with the latest (fourteenth)
edition of
CtC!
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restoration of the rule of law-- PLEASE DO IT!! But I'd appreciate your
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December 21- In 1620, William Bradford and the
other Mayflower Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock. In 1913, the
first crossword puzzle is published in the New York World. In
1937, the first full-length animated film-- Walt Disney's 'Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs'-- premiers. In 1954, my darling
Doreen was born. In 1967, the first heart transplant recipient
dies 18 days after the operation. In 1968, Apollo 8, the first
manned expedition to the Moon, launches from Kennedy Space
Center. In 1988, a bomb explodes on Pan Am flight 103 over
Lockerbie, Scotland.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter
below.
The "law enforcement" wing of the state
stealing more from Americans last year (under the "asset
forfeiture" pretext) than was taken from them in all
private-sector burglaries combined;
Neo-con nutcases in control of US foreign policy persistently
embroiling Americans in endless wars in the Middle-East (and
elsewhere);
United States officials deliberately destabilizing Ukraine in an effort
to foment war with
nuclear-armed Russia;
Government-crimes whistleblowers Julian Assange, Chelsea
Manning, Edward Snowden and others remaining imprisoned or
in exile while Jonathan Pollard, the most damaging spy in
modern American history and one who actually sold America
out for money, gets an early release from prison due to
pressure from a corruptly-influential foreign state;
The NSA and other well-financed spy agencies conducting
unhindered constant illegal surveillance of every American,
including dirt-gathering, control-acquiring surveillance of
our representatives in Congress;
United States debt climbing, unhindered, to nearly $19
trillion-- more than $58,000 per man, woman and child in the
country-- even as trillions more are extracted from the
productive sector of the economy annually to keep in high
cotton a public sector that focuses much of its attention on
nothing but this extraction effort and its pretexts and
justifications;
and so much more...
I have to ask: How're those political and judicial solutions
working for you?
And then I must re-iterate:
The Founders' Defense Against
Sociopaths In Office
"In order to get power and retain it, it is
necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with
goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness,
such as pride, cunning and cruelty."
-Leo Tolstoy
IT IS WELL ESTABLISHED that there are an inordinate number of
sociopaths in public office as compared to the
general population. As observed by
Martha Stout, clinical psychologist and author of
The Sociopath Next Door,
"[P]oliticians are more likely than people in the general
population to be sociopaths. I think you would find no expert in
the field of sociopathy/psychopathy/antisocial personality
disorder who would dispute this..."
These sociopaths are people of the "power
sickness",
characterized by narcissism, self-importance, a willingness to
manipulate others and the charm to do it effectively, and a
perpetual habit of deflecting blame when their self-interested
actions cause harm to others, all stemming from a basic lack of
conscience. See
here,
here,
here and
here.
This overrepresentation of sociopaths in the
"political class" is no surprise. After all, public office
offers all the things gratifying to such people. Office-holders
get lots of attention from others, much of it fawning; they get
easy money and lots of it; they get the opportunity to rule over
other people; and they face a standard of success that relies
more on a skill at bullsh*tting than on the hard work needed to
actually gratify the needs and desires of strangers, such as is
required in any other occupation.
Further, the skills needed to achieve public office-- being
willing and able to convincingly paint a rosier, more desirable
picture than any honest opponent would have the moral turpitude
to offer; charisma; and an obsession with self-aggrandizement--
are all the natural traits of the sociopath. Healthy men and
women are hard-pressed to compete against these political
"naturals" in any but the most extraordinary circumstances.
Given this remarkably-aligned package of
requirements and rewards, it's no surprise that sociopaths
gravitate toward public office and achieve it in numbers
disproportionate to their representation within the general
population of healthy men and women. The top prizes go to
the very worst of them, and the losers satisfy themselves by
joining the swarm of petty functionaries with clipboards that
fills government buildings coast-to-coast.
SO, PUBLIC OFFICES ARE TYPICALLY nests of snakes,
supported by nests of lesser but just-as-reptilian creatures,
including, of course, all the appointees selected by the chief
sociopaths (judges, department heads, commission members and so
forth), who are from the ranks of those congenial to their
benefactors' characters and desires. This has always been the
case, from the very beginning of any kind of hierarchic ruling
structure in any human society.
And sociopaths in positions of authority are dangerous!
No one in his or her right mind wants these folks wielding
significant power that is capable of causing harm on any kind of
mass scale, whether at home or abroad.
HAPPILY,
THOSE WHO FOUNDED THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA knew all
about sociopaths, their lusts, and their skills. Adams,
Jefferson, Madison and the rest were close and accomplished
students of history and psychology, and had their own personal
lifelong experiences with public office-holders, both elected
and appointed. The Founders recognized the danger these
mentally-ill but eminently-functional types represented to
decent society and the principles of liberty.
At the same time, the Founders also recognized that
some form of power-managing societal organization was
inevitable, whether theoretically "necessary" or not. So, they
made provisions to structure that organization so as to provide
for the accommodation of the inevitable while strictly
protecting against the threat of sociopaths using the structure
to do great harm or become an existential threat to the liberty
of the People.
THE FOUNDERS' CHOSEN DEFENSES AGAINST THE
SOCIOPATHS were two-fold. Informing both was an understanding
that while power cannot be kept from bad people, and any degree
of power corrupts even good people once it is in their hands, if
the power that bad people are able to wield is small, then the
harm done by them can be kept small and tolerable.
The lesser (less relied upon) of the Founders'
defenses against sociopathy was the recognizably weak measure of
granting public officialdom only express, limited powers. The
Founders were not fools, and they were well aware that the very
same public officials they meant to restrain would assume for
themselves the authority to interpret those limitations, and
would do so in a fashion which would, over time, nullify them.
It was also understood that the class of public officials and
those who supported their elevation would also end up
manipulating the electoral process so as to largely ensure their
perpetuation in office.
Thus, the second, and far more powerful and
reliable defense: the juxtaposing of the personal interests of
individual men and women directly against the desires of those
in office by carefully-designed rules controlling the federal
government's taxing authority. Here, too, expressions in the
fundamental law were involved, but those regarding taxation are
unique among the delegated powers in several
critically-important ways.
First of all, under the unique rules controlling
federal government (fedgov) taxing powers, the fedgov is given a
means by which an unlimited amount of wealth can be commandeered
at the sole discretion of Congress and the President-- but
only if liability is laid exclusively on union-state governments.
This is "direct" taxation.
Because the population of a state in the aggregate
will ultimately pay all direct tax levies, an explicit incentive
exists for residents of the state to pressure its congressional
delegation to keep direct taxes low. Further, because
apportionment (the mechanism by which liabilities among the
states are distributed) lays the burden for a tax upon a state
based on its proportion of the national population, not its
proportion of the national wealth, the overall per capita burden
of any direct tax cannot exceed the whatever the poorest state
is able to pay, again forcing direct taxes to remain low.
On the other hand, indirect taxes cannot be
collected unless individuals have chosen to engage in
government-privileged economic activities rather than common
economic activities engaged in by right. Thus, every individual
is entirely in control of how much, if anything, he or she will
pay the government in indirect taxes, such as the "income tax".
Because every individual naturally seeks to
optimize the gains from all effort, individuals will keep
privileged economic activity at a minimum, unless the rates of
tax are kept so low that the overall net gains from privileged
activities exceed those that can be had through unprivileged
economic activity, even with the additional burden of the tax
factored in as a cost. Either way, the power accruing to the
government through the capture of indirect tax revenues is kept
small.
Putting the two varieties of tax together, Congress
has a deep and broad authority to tax. At the same time, the
rules under which Congress is exclusively allowed to exercise
this authority impose extremely powerful, diffuse, wide-reaching
and self-activating constraints on how much power its exercise
puts into the hands of those in public office.
And those constraints operate by virtue of natural
incentives needing no special political organization on their
behalf. No other provision of the Constitution either
authorizing a power of Congress or limiting congressional
discretion shares this effective duality of character, and is so
unassailable either politically or through creative
"construction" of the law.
SO, THIS IS HOW THE FOUNDERS, in their far-seeing
wisdom, solved the age-old problem of sociopaths in office. They
set up a structure limiting the power those sociopaths can wield
which does not rely on the inherently unreliable checks
and balances of different branches of government, which are
always at risk of corruption from "checks and balances" into
"You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours."
Instead, the Founders invoke and rely upon the
discipline and energy of the competing interests of the
individual Americans from whose pockets the power must be taken
and against whom it would be exercised. People looking out for
#1 look hard and sharply, and in doing so benefit all of society
by keeping the sociopath-infested state from growing large, and
therefore dangerous.
NEEDLESS TO SAY, THE SOCIOPATHS have struggled over
the centuries to escape the constraints of the Founders' design,
but to no avail. It has only been by the flimsy artifice of
absurd myths about the nature of the indirect "income tax"
that any evasion has been managed. But even this evasion is not
an escape.
It is true that under the influence of the
sociopaths' myths many Americans have been fooled into treating
all their economic activity as federally-privileged and subject
to tax during the last 75 years, and this has allowed much more
power to accrue to the sociopaths than any sensible person would
want.
But the mistreatment of activity as privileged and
subject to the tax remains entirely within the discretion of
each individual, however much that discretion is being
controlled in its exercise by state-encouraged ignorance about
the tax. The rules have merely been evaded, and only so far as
the state can promote and maintain that ignorance. The rules
have not been escaped.
Nor will those rules be escaped. It is
telling that the mistreatment of activities as taxable by which
the sociopaths benefit has not been accomplished by convincing
Americans that is it good for their power to change hands. As
the Founders understood, this will never happen, and
has never happened.
Only the fostering of falsehoods about the nature
of the tax and the rules to which it is subject have
accomplished this undesirable transfer, which remains entirely
vulnerable at all times to the simple expedient of
informing misled Americans of the truth about the tax and
the rules under which it operates. As rapidly as that
re-empowering information spreads the power available to the
sociopaths diminishes, and nothing is needed to secure that
relief except that spread of knowledge.
Already the tide is starting to turn back toward
liberty and limited government under the law.
Many Americans have learned the truth about the tax and have
re-claimed their power, keeping it from the sociopaths and
protecting all of us from harm. Meet some of these truly heroic
American men and women
here.
If you're not already
CtC-educated about the tax and the Constitutional structure
designed by the Founders, start learning the truth
here, and share it with everyone you know.
Being safe from the war-mongering,
injustice-committing, liberty-crushing, self-enriching
sociopaths is really as simple as this single question:
Has Oregon Criminalized "Frivolous
Return" Penalties And Threats?
It sure would appear so, and I'll bet every other
state has basically the same law...
CTC WARRIOR ROD SCHMIDT has found the statute on
Oregon's books that appears to explicitly criminalize
anyone-- state official or federal--
threatening to penalize someone unless the target waives
his or her right to testify freely and changes what has been
honestly said on a tax return to a lie that the coercing
criminal would rather see:
Oregon Laws/Criminal Procedures/Chapter 163
Offenses Against Persons
(1) A person commits the crime of
coercion when the person compels or induces another
person to engage in conduct from which the other person
has a legal right to abstain, or to abstain from
engaging in conduct in which the other person has a
legal right to engage, by means of instilling in the
other person a fear that, if the other person refrains
from the conduct compelled or induced or engages in
conduct contrary to the compulsion or inducement, the
actor or another will:
(a) Unlawfully cause physical
injury to some person;
(b) Unlawfully cause damage to
property;
(c) Engage in conduct
constituting a crime;
(d) Falsely accuse some person
of a crime or cause criminal charges to be instituted
against the person;
(e) Cause or continue a strike,
boycott or other collective action injurious to some
persons business, except that such a threat is not
deemed coercive when the act or omission compelled is
for the benefit of the group in whose interest the actor
purports to act;
(f) Testify falsely or provide
false information or withhold testimony or information
with respect to another's legal claim or defense; or
(g) Unlawfully use or
abuse the person's position as a public servant by
performing some act within or related to official
duties, or by failing or refusing to perform an official
duty, in such manner as to affect some person adversely.
Is it "unlawful" to use one's official position to
try to compel an American to say what he or she would not say
absent the threat, or to not say what he or she would, absent
the threat? Well, there's a simple reason the government asked
for
Doreen's jury to be instructed to disregard the unlawfulness
of the orders attempting to control her speech in exactly
this fashion: SUCH ATTEMPTS ARE UNLAWFUL.
See a drill-down on why such coercion is illegal
here. (This analysis is focused on the specifics of Doreen's
case, but the legal authorities presented are universal in their
application.)
Further, I think that any state official who
declined to prosecute such crimes by tax agency personnel and
others would themselves then be chargeable with a related crime.
Think "conspiracy to coerce", or "aiding and abetting"... Any
temptation to balk on a prosecution would involve gambling that
no one higher up the food chain will choose otherwise, and why
risk that? To spare some corrupt and universally-despised tax
agent from having to face a legitimate charge?
I also think this statute of Oregon's, in
particular, cuts nicely past "immunity" nonsense with its
"unlawfully" element, putting the issue squarely and
unambiguously into the province of a jury.
SO, NICE JOB, ROD! I think all Oregonians are well
served by this initiative.
Can anyone find similar laws in other states? Send
them along and I'll put together
a resource page so victims of these corrupt coercion efforts
can start seeking criminal charges against those who would
trample on their rights.
NOTE: Steven Jones has located and passed along New
York's version of this statute, which is now added to the
resource page.
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.
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.
December 22- In 1864,
Savannah, Georgia is taken by William Tecumseh Sherman, the last
conquest in his and Abraham Lincoln's barbaric "March to the
Sea". In 1937, the Lincoln Tunnel in New York City opens to
traffic. In 1942, Adolph Hitler orders the military development
of the V-2 rocket. In 1965, rural roads in the United Kingdom
get speed limits for the first time (70 mph).
“I didn’t say it would be easy, I just said
it would be the truth.”
-Morpheus
Make someone you love sweat bullets this
year...
(...and show them you think they're the greatest!)
I think we'd all agree that sometimes
the truth can be a pesky thing-- demanding,
disturbing, and seriously inconvenient. The
fact is, when you know the truth, you have
to act on it, or be party to a lie; and when
that lie is old, entrenched, vigorously
defended and comfortingly familiar, the
correcting truth can be very hard to learn,
and even harder to act upon.
Learning the truth about the income
tax means setting aside misconceptions
nurtured for a lifetime. Acting on that
truth means abandoning lifelong servility to
the state through the offices of the IRS-- the one organization whose
carefully cultivated reputation as a rabid
junkyard dog is feared by everyone in
America.
Both of those things are really hard!
However, those very same challenges also
make
'Cracking the Code-...' the most
rewarding gift to get or give this holiday
season.
After all, how better could you communicate
to those you love the high degree of esteem
in which you hold them? How more certain of
your high regard could they be made, after
such a display of your faith in their
character?
(Helping them stop unnecessary losses of up
to 40% or more of their earnings each year
goes over pretty well, too, by the way...)
So, pass out a little
panic this year.
Then stand back and watch your special
someone standtall, like the
real American he or she was born to be.
Warriors! Don't
Forget About Grandpa!!
The sequel to
CtC is
now available!! Click the image below for details!
If You're Already a
CtC Warrior, Aren't You Really, Really Glad YOU'VE
Taken Control Of Whether Any Of YOUR Money Goes To
Washington, Just As The Founders Intended?
If You're
Not A
CtC Warrior, Isn't It Time You Became One?
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).rong>
"[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:
December 23- In 1913,
Woodrow Wilson signs the Federal Reserve Act. In 1947, Bell Lab
scientists demonstrate the transistor. In 1979, Soviet forces
occupy Kabul, Afghanistan. In 1986, Dick Routan and Jeana
Yeager's 'Voyager' becomes the first aircraft to circumnavigate
the globe non-stop.
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).
December 24- In 1851, a
fire destroys about two-thirds of the collection of the Library
of Congress. In 1906, the first radio broadcast is made. In
1943, Dwight Eisenhower is named Supreme Allied Commander in
World War II. In 1968, the crew of the USS Pueblo is released
by North Korea after being held 11 months on suspicion of being
spies.
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Ignorance of the true nature of the "income" tax
has gagged, gutted and seduced-into-disgrace America's
ministerial community. This must change.
You're a
passenger on a riverboat that relies on regular
contributions of fuel from the passengers to
keep moving forward. You see an unsurvivable
waterfall ahead, and note a
soon-to-be-irresistible current growing stronger
each day. What does common sense suggest?
Time, unfortunately, is on the side of the
well-funded disinformation specialists
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
December 25- This is
the day traditionally celebrated as the birthday, in the year 0,
of the world-changing political radical and convicted felon
named Jesus of Nazareth, who has been worshipped by billions
over the many centuries since as the incarnated Son of God, and
the start of the historical period known as Anno Domini (AD).
In 1066, William the Conqueror is crowned King of England. In
1776, George Washington and the Continental Army cross the
Delaware River to attack Britain's Hessian mercenaries in
Trenton, New Jersey. In 1868, President Andrew Johnson grants
unconditional pardons to all Confederate soldiers. In 1914,
German and British soldiers on the Western Front observe a
Christmas truce for the day. In 1989, deposed president of
Romania Nicolai Ceaucescu and his wife First-Deputy Prime
Minister Elena are tried for treason, convicted, and executed.
In 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the USSR, resigns; and
Ukraine secedes from the union.
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!!
The Paris attack is playing out as I expected. The
French government is attacking French civil liberty with legislation
similar to the US PATRIOT Act. Readers in France have informed me
that 84% of the French people, according to a poll, are content to
be spied upon as long as it keeps them safe. This means that only
16% of the French nation is not brain dead.
Another reader informs me that a TV news station read a
letter left behind by one of the alleged ISIL bombers, a letter
written in perfect English. Really! I mean, Really! Those with their
secret agendas know how stupid the Western peoples are, collectively
a hopeless basket case.
French and American politicians are demanding that NATO
Article 5 be used to put NATO boots on the ground in Syria. This is
important not in order to fight ISIL, which the Russians are
successfully doing, but to overthrow Assad under the pretext of
fighting ISIL, a crazy policy that could bring conflict with Russia.
Alternatively, to avoid conflict with Russia,
Washington can take advantage of the Russian government’s hope that
the Paris attack will show the West that Putin was correct that the
West should join Russia in opposing ISIL. Once a NATO-Russian
coalition, as advocated by French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, is
formed, Putin becomes the West’s captive in the overthrow of Assad.
To insure that no one is informed of the true facts by
the English language Russian media, such as RT and Sputnik, the US
Senate arranged hearings on foreign propaganda. Kenneth Weinstein, a
member of the US Broadcasting Board of Governors, that is, the
censors, told the senators that RT, Sputnik, and a variety of other
truthful news sources are “well-funded state propaganda outlets.”
In other words, only believe what you read in
Washington-controlled propaganda outlets such as the New York Times,
Washington Post, Fox News, CNN, BBC, NPR, and so forth.
NOW
CONSIDER: Isn't it a shame that Dr. Roberts doesn't know
the truth about the income tax and therefore doesn't advise his
readers about the key mechanism provided by the Founders by which
the People can peacefully restrain the state, even when a monolithic
political class isn't interested in being restrained?
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..."
December 26- In 1776,
the Continental Army defeats the British in the battle of
Trenton, New Jersey. In 1799, thousands attend George
Washington's funeral. In 1860, the first inter-club soccer
match is held, in Sheffield, England. In 1898, Marie and Pierre
Curie announce the isolation of radium. In 1919, Babe Ruth is
sold to the Yankees by the Boston Red Sox. In 1933, FM radio is
patented. In 1972, 120 B-52 Stratofortress bombers attack Hanoi
in the Strategic Air Command's largest-ever combat mission. In
1982, TIME Magazine's "man of the year" is the personal
computer. In 1991, the USSR formally dissolves.
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"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
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his book(s). He has, brilliantly and lucidly, "cracked the
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-Mark C. Phillips, JD
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“Thanks again for your efforts, Pete. They mean an awful lot
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-Eric Smithers, JD
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making this my new avenue of law practice."
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"It is not the function of our Government to keep
the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the
citizen to keep the Government from falling into error."
-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
More Than Two Thirds Of The Several States That Collect "Income" Taxes
Have Now Acknowledged The Truth About The Law As Revealed In CtC, And Have
Issued Complete Refunds Accordingly! See The Following Chart...
&
'The BOSTONIAN'S Paying the EXCISE-MAN, or TARRING & FEATHERING' (1774)
(How our forefathers responded to arrogant "Rule of Law defiers"...)
“All truth
passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently
opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident.”
-Arthur
Schopenhauer
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The Willingness Of Some People To Trade Liberty For
Convenience Is Without Limit
Some Observations About Current Political Efforts
To Evade The Truth, Such As The "Fair Tax" Scheme
Warrior David
Larson shares this beautiful little farce, wryly observing that,
"Depositors have "..not lost one penny.." - OK we could agree on that simple
statement ..how about the purchasing power of
that same penny 'not lost'?"
December 27- In 1945, the World Bank and
International Monetary Fund are created. In 1949, Indonesia
secures its independence from The Netherlands. In 1979, the
USSR invades Afghanistan, the futile and fatal overextension
that leads to its collapse 12 years later. In 2007, former
Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated. In
2008, Israel launches a three-week assault on Gaza called
'Operation Cast Lead'.
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We
seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that
feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget
that ye were our countrymen."
-Samuel
Adams, Architect of the First American Revolution
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Hendrickson is also a widely-read essayist on matters of
politics, public policy and law; many of these works are
collected in his second book, ‘Upholding
the Law And Other Observations’. He is a member of
Mensa; an
award-winning artist; and has paid his dues as a youth
soccer coach. He is a long-time political activist as
well, and has served as co-chair and platform convention
delegate of Michigan’s largest county Libertarian Party
organization; as a consultant to the National Right to Work
Foundation and Citizens for a Sound Economy; as a member of the
Heartland Institute; and as a member of the International
Society for Individual Liberty. He is a frequent
radio-show guest on stations across the country.
Hendrickson's business career has included nearly a
decade-and-a-half at the leading edge of the renewable-energy
industry, both as Director of Purchasing and Materials
Management and member of the R&D board at Starpak Energy
Systems, the mid-west's then-largest solar heating and
energy-recovery-and re-utilization company; and as founder and
president of AFJ Inc., a high-efficiency lighting design,
manufacture and installation firm.
Beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing for the twelve years
before his present full-time focus on the restoration of the
rule of law in America, Hendrickson directed purchasing
activities for the $84 million-a-year multi-family-housing
division of the Farmington Hills, Michigan branch of Edward Rose
and Sons, with responsibility for 18,000+ apartments, direct
supervision of 35 technicians and agents, and incidental
authority over several hundred divisional workers. He also
ran the division's 10 cable television earth-station and
distribution systems in four states, and designed and
administered the company's website.
On
rather the other end of the spectrum, amidst these more mundane
pursuits Hendrickson co-founded and was the primary creative
force behind a small
board- and
card-game company that enjoyed a modest success for several
years.
Hendrickson makes his home in southeast Michigan, with his wife
and two children. He is currently working on his next
book.
HAPPILY,
THOSE WHO FOUNDED THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN AMERICA knew all
about sociopaths, their lusts, and their skills. Adams,
Jefferson, Madison and the rest were close and accomplished
students of history and psychology, and had their own personal
lifelong experiences with public office-holders, both elected
and appointed. The Founders recognized the danger these
mentally-ill but eminently-functional types represented to
decent society and the principles of liberty.
below.