I Stand With Doreen

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IN ONE OF THOSE SERENDIPITOUS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF THE TRUTH that inevitably appear whenever the government acts against it, Doreen's sentencing proceedings yielded up a telling admission by the DOJ attorneys prosecuting her case. Likely blind to the larger implications and simply focused on doing their best to smear Doreen, these attorneys admitted that contrary to the endlessly-flogged bs from the "suppress CtC" troll community, there are practically no CtC-educated filers with victories posted at losthorizons.com who are targets of any adverse government attention, whether to reverse their refunds or otherwise.

The government wanted badly to tar Doreen by associating her with "tax scofflaws", and it did the best it could. What was its best? To declare that its records show that all of 25 people whose victories are posted on losthorizons.com are being targeted by some kind of IRS attention.

Yes, that's right, not 2,500, not 250, but 25, from a total posted list of 1,200 victories, themselves just a sampling of the hundreds of thousands overall.

Trying to use the petition condemning the lawlessness of Doreen's persecution and calling for her exoneration against her by suggesting she was supported by ne'er-do-wells and criminals who needed a good drubbing of Doreen to set the fear of the State in their hearts, the prosecutors said this:

"As we point out in our Sentencing Memorandum, the people who signed that petition and who are the followers of the outcome of this case are exactly the kind of people who need to be deterred from violating the tax laws. The public records show that more than 120 of them are in some kind of tax trouble already. Typically in the State and local records they are subject to Federal or State tax liens. At least 25 of these individuals have documents posted on the Lost Horizons website as an example of these so-called victories of rule of law."

See the transcript page here.

(The tool making these declarations goes on to say, "These are people that have actually obtained fraudulent refunds based on the scheme promoted by the Defendant." But this is purely gratuitous rhetoric intended to mislead and prejudice the judge to whom these remarks were directed.

No one has ever been accused of fraud in regard to a proper CtC-educated filing-- not even Doreen herself, or me, for that matter. Further, the fellow's own prior statement about these folks simply being subject to tax liens belies this hyperbolic assertion. People believed by the government to have obtained fraudulent refunds don't just have liens filed against them; and frankly, even liens mean nothing. Liens are routinely filed as a purely bureaucratic exercise without the slightest evidence behind them-- or even so much as a signature-- just on the basis of some as-yet-unproven, and possibly entirely-spurious allegation of a tax deficiency.)

SO, THE BEST THE GOVERNMENT CAN DO in trying to smear Doreen by pointing at people with a CtC-association who it claims are in trouble with the government is a measly 25 folks with victories posted (out of 1,200 such posted victories, many of which are years old). And the worst it can say is that these folks have perhaps as much as a tax lien filed against them...

But even that measly 25 doesn't mean what it is meant to be mistaken for by this DOJ hack. Rather, it means the opposite when subjected to a moment's thought.

That moment's thought reveals that the problems (such as they may be) of every one of even that measly 25 are actually just holdover problems from past bad practices engaged-in before the discovery of CtC (which unfortunately cannot rectify EVERY consequence of past bad practices) or are purely contrived harassments targeting particular individuals for particular reasons. Obviously, if those problems were simply a consequence of CtC-educated practices, the number of folks to which the government could and would refer would be something a whole lot closer to 1,200 at least, if not thousands and thousands... And had this government hack been able to say ANYTHING adverse about more than this special handful of 25 victors, he surely would have done so.

NEXT TIME YOU HEAR FROM THE TROLL COMMUNITY that everybody acting on a CtC education is bound for misery and comeuppance and an eventual reversal of his or her victory, tell them to crawl back into the darkness. A swift kick to help them on their way might not be out of line, either.

America's Only Hope Lies In Spreading The Truth About The Tax

Reliance on the courts, the political process or the timely conversion of the masses to an ideology of freedom by punditry and educational programs are pipe-dreams.

I was amused (in a grim sort of way) at the irony of a recent column by a self-described libertarian pundit, titled, 'Conservative Blindness on Iran'. The writer chastises the neo-con nut-case community for a mote in its eye while blithely putting the beam in his own on display.

The hypocritical column critiques neo-con pundits for their deliberate refusal to see deeper than the 1979 embassy hostage-taking when writing about the boogieman-du-jour, Iran. But immediately after pouring a little well-deserved scorn on his targets for treating a willful blindness to any facts which put the national-security state in the wrong as a principle of "patriotism", the columnist declares (emphasis added):

"Of course, such principles don’t apply to libertarians. Not only are we not reluctant to acknowledge that the national-security state has engaged in horrific wrongdoing since its inception, we would dismantle this Cold War dinosaur and restore a constitutionally limited republic to our land."

Really? When are you planning to start, friend?

There being no advice to his readers to learn CtC's revelations about the state's real taxing structure and authority, this writer's fine intentions are as bankable as those of any cheap political hack-- meaning not worth the paper on which they are printed. Like those political hacks, the writer hopes to be judged solely by those professed good intentions, with his ongoing financial support of the state he loves to denounce, and his failure to actually help restrain and dismantle it or introduce his readers to the means by which this can be done, both conveniently overlooked.

HERE'S THE THING, my fine-talking friend (and every other mere and motionless gripe-monger and critic of the empire): talk is cheap, and worse than pointless. Talking about how bad things are without acting to fix them does nothing but foster a delusional sense that the problem is being attended-to while in fact, all that is happening is that precious time and narrowing opportunities are passing away.

We've had this explained to us by better men than me. For example, last Monday was the 240th anniversary of Patrick Henry's rightly celebrated, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" speech. How glorious and inspiring are those seven ringing words!

But as inspiring of high feeling as those seven ringing words can be, today we would be better off paying attention to those which preceded them in Henry's famous oration. Let's remember that what prompted Henry's speech was the inclination of many in his native Virginia to just keep talking about the frightening darkness that was approaching, rather than doing what was really needed-- shutting-up and putting-up.

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power.

This fine-talking columnist and any other writer or commentator that criticizes the state or warns darkly of how bad things are getting, or declares his resolve in favor of restoring the limited government under the rule of law bequeathed to us by the Founders but does not end his or her comments with a direction to losthorizons.com or Cracking the Code is a hypocrite.

Such folks refuse to match their deeds to their words. They condemn the rogue state but don't accompany their implicit (or sometimes explicit) exhortations to action against the threat with information on the one and only way effective action can be taken short of taking up arms.

NOTHING BUT CtC AND THE TRUTH IT REVEALS WILL DO THE JOB.

Don't get me wrong. I take a backseat to no one in my admiration and appreciation for Edward Snowden, William Binney, Thomas Drake and the various other whistleblowers who have revealed to the world the systematic violation of the Fourth Amendment committed by the United States (by which I mean the government unit that goes by that name). I feel the same abiding affection for those who revealed and alerted us all to any and every other evil committed by the state.

Nor do I stint in my admiration and appreciation for the handful of actual journalists plying that noble profession in the USA and elsewhere, the members of which can be recognized by their uncompromising presentation and coverage of the revelations of Snowden and all the others. But all that admiration and appreciation notwithstanding, all those revelations and all that coverage are going to do no immediate good.

Revealing these violations empowers Americans and others to know what's being done to them, and to scream and sue and politic about them. But it has not and will not compel the violators (whose compatriots and enablers and co-conspirators run the courts in which the suits are brought and the political process in which the screaming and politicking is done) to do anything different.

The fact is, revelations of these violations are merely road-markers identifying yet more clearly the path down which we are going at an increasingly alarming pace.

BUT THERE IS A REVELATION which DOES promise to actually be a solution, not just a highlighting of the problem. This revelation empowers individual Americans to do all that needs to be done, with no reliance on a highly-unlikely sudden embrace of virtue by the very malefactors whose evil needs to be rectified.

The revelation of which I speak is the simple, powerful, unambiguous truth about the income tax.

The truth about the tax is so plainly-evident and thoroughly-supported by every possible authority that anyone spending as little as two hours reading through this paper will irrevocably know it and understand it. That truth is so unmistakable once an accurate presentation has been taken in that it can never again be forgotten or misunderstood, and it inescapably compels right behavior from everyone who comes to know it (except those whose agenda is advanced by violation of the law).

One of the key aspects of the tax that comes to be understood by that reading is that its application under the law is entirely within the control of each individual, rather than being an externally-imposed extraction.

Those who learn the liberating truth about the tax discover that most of them have actually been simply hood-winked into agreeing to the otherwise improper application of the tax to their earnings and wealth. All their working lives they've been saying "Yes" to being taxed to feed Leviathan, when they could have been saying "No" and retaining control over the use and disposition of their hard-earned property.

In practical terms suited to the context of this observation, this means that while most anyone reading about Edward Snowden's revelations will get righteously pissed and paranoid but have no recourse for anything further, that same person, upon reading CtC's revelations, will promptly cut the NSA's funding, and do so as part of a larger, comprehensive withdrawal of consent to Leviathan's illegal excesses in what is actually a meaningful manner.

In fact, that withdrawal of fuel and consent supporting Leviathan is the implementation of the Framers' Constitutional provision of a "Smithian" invisible hand by which each person's attention to his own self-interest automatically and organically provides for the well-being of society overall. The Founding generation was far-sighted, and knew that it is the nature of states to metastasize into a grave threat like the one confronting us today if not checked by individual Americans acting from outside the errant institutional structure.

And if you give it a moment's thought, you'll understand how powerful a solution the Framers provided for us. Consider the effect of 10 million Americans saying "No" instead of "Yes" on their tax returns next month because they have learned they never should have been saying "Yes" in the first place. That WILL actually make a difference-- hugely, meaningfully, and right now!

No amount of journalism about this abuse or that usurpation will do the same, or will do anything at all except inflict upon the American people a will-sapping sense of despair.

I WANT TO REPEAT AND EMPHASIZE for those not yet knowing the truth about the tax: The individual control over the application of the tax to which I have referred IS the law. This is NOT a matter of how I think taxes ought to work in America, or the application of some "rights" doctrine by which I argue that the tax law should be read in some particular way contrary to how the government reads it.