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Current Events and Continuing Education for April 26 through May 9, 2015
“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
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Features in this edition: (Click on the underlined text to jump to each feature. To return, use your browser's "back" button. Please keep in mind that many more items of interest are to be found between featured articles, so your most profitable course is to scroll through the whole page...) Let the truth prevail *** Other Voices U.S. Military Should Stay Home: America, Not Iran, Is The Biggest Threat To Mideast Stability *** Held Over: What's missing from all the 'Iran' stuff; a bit of good journalism on the origin of ISIS; a very virtuous bill introduced in the House; George Carlin is suitably honored; the NSA shooting; a telling evasion in Doreen's re-trial; more... *** Share, share, share, people *** The most important question facing Americans today: What Do The People Do About The Rogue State? *** Guess what? There are only two possibilities: You Either Stand Up For The Truth, Or You've Surrendered To The Lie *** Spotlights on the past that help bring clarity to the present: Illuminating Anniversaries for this week *** Got something to say? ***
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"There are two distinct classes of men...those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes."
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C'mon! CtC can't be right! You're crazy!
If CtC were actually right,
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")?
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I Stand With Doreen First of all, THANK YOU!!! to everyone who has been helping get the word out... Here's how the campaign is going, and what's new... WE RECEIVED A RESPONSE FROM OUR COUNTY SHERIFF to our request for his help in defending Doreen's rights that puts the unique character of this case into focus. Michael Bouchard, sheriff of Oakland County, Michigan, wrote back: Dear Doreen: I appreciate you taking the time to contact the Sheriff’s Office with your concerns. However, as the Sheriff, I am not allowed nor do I have the authority by law to intervene with any court cases or judicial proceedings. I would encourage you to seek legal counsel on this matter. Sincerely, Michael J. Bouchard Oakland County Sheriff President Emeritus, Major County Sheriffs’ Association of America Bouchard's response nicely illustrates the unprecedented and pardigm-shattering situation here, in which Doreen is being victimized by members of the federal judiciary in cooperation with with rights-violating executive-branch actors. Everyone is conditioned to resort to the federal judiciary as the arbiters of last resort, and even to buy into what has long been the fiction that those judges are objective and personally-disengaged. Consequently, many whose positions charge them with responsibilities relevant to this kind of situation just collapse into complete incomprehension when faced with the actions of the judges involved in Doreen's case, which involve crystal-clear and unmistakable Constitutional violations with absolutely zero cover of precedent or credible rationalization. That no-place-to-hide quality is unique. Even when a court is dealing with a Fourth Amendment violation by the NSA, or even a torture case, there actually are judicial precedents (the virtues of which are irrelevant for purposes of this point) and there is the "national security" rationale (the virtues of which are irrelevant for purposes of this point. But the orders made to Doreen, very much to the contrary, are completely unprecedented. Further, they not only serve no defensible government interest but are in service to a government interest (the control of inconvenient speech and due process rights) which the government is expressly prohibited from advancing and the courts are expressly prohibited from finding to be compelling. In fact, the Bill of Rights says that it is a compelling governmental and judicial interest to ensure that no one is ever subject to orders like those made to Doreen, and no one is ever punished for resisting such orders. So someone like Michael Bouchard, who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution, is not only authorized but is required to "intervene with any court case or judicial proceeding" of this kind. There is nothing in the law that says that Constitutional violations by members of the judiciary, or those committed under the cover of a "judicial proceeding" are somehow excused. A lot of folks have spoken well to me of Sheriff Richard Mack, formerly of Graham County, Arizona, as one who recognizes the primacy of authority and responsibility of a county sheriff in terms of law enforcement. I wonder if he would recognize the realities of this situation that Michael Bouchard is missing. If anyone knows him, perhaps they could ask him about this and let me know what he has to say (and if it's the right answer, encourage Mack to explain it to Sheriff Bouchard...) *** SCORES AND SCORES OF FOLKS have been sending me word and copies of what they have sent to news organizations about the assault on Doreen's rights. It's beginning to work-- I've been contacted by several media outlets and we will begin getting some traction soon. This is wonderful, and all thanks to you. Also, last week's press release is posted on Liberty Crier here. Commenting is available (and would be helpful). HERE IS THE LATEST PIECE for distribution to news organizations (and my thanks to the most excellent Tim O'Brien for putting this one together):
Get this as a .pdf here. 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. *** I HOPE EVERYONE IS TAKING THE OPPORTUNITY to raise the consciousness of their interlocutors with the "Why?" point when discussing what's being done to Doreen. Find some words on this point here and in the two installments of my post-sentencing-seminar videos (found here and here). As always, the corrupt always go too far for their own good with their evil-- at least, too far for their own good if people like you and me make use of their excesses. Here, this can be done by helping others recognize that the degree of nakedness in defiance of the law being revealed in the assault on Doreen would only happen as a desperate effort to evade a very real threat to the vampire state-- a threat as unlike any other and as potent on behalf of liberty as the violations by the state in its efforts to evade that threat are unlike any others. *** OF NECESSITY, I AM ASKING FOR HELP with Doreen's legal expenses. It is my experience that when the name Hendrickson appears on the caption, courts find themselves under pressure from their clients to creatively misunderstand arguments or authorities. Thus, my requests for oral arguments in the appellate court have always been denied whenever I have handled my own cases. I am sure the same would be true for Doreen. But I believe it is harder for the courts to refuse such requests when put by a licensed attorney admitted to practice before a given court. Partly for that reason, and partly to enjoy the benefit of his many years of experience and excellent quality of work, we are retaining a lawyer I know well and deem to be an honorable man, and who is committed to working closely with me on Doreen's appeal. All his good qualities notwithstanding, though, Mark is not free, or even cheap. Thus, I am asking all those who can and care to do so to help as much as you can. Donations can be sent to Doreen Hendrickson at 232 Oriole St., Commerce Twp., Michigan 48382. Mark "legal expenses" on the memo line or an accompanying note and you'll get back a specially-made "care bracelet" bearing the message "I STAND WITH DOREEN" and an icon of an American Eagle, which will help you engage in conversations with others about just what is going on here, and will ultimately become a treasured remembrance of your participation in important events, as well. *** FINALLY, FOR NOW, I HOPE EVERYONE WILL UNDERSTAND and forgive that my ability to timely respond to email is even more compromised than usual, just as is my ability to post the fresh and eclectic material I usually offer on this page. I've had much to do working on things in Doreen's case, as well as the press releases and other materials you've been seeing-- and dealing with the responses to same. Please be patient; I will get to everything I can as soon as I can. That said, let me re-iterate my deep and most sincere appreciation to everyone who has joined me in standing with Doreen, and with the Founders. Although I am behind in my individual response to your emails and letters, please know that every note of support and every notice of what has been done to help spread the word and call on Michigan's officials to do their duty pursuant to their oaths of office and the responsibility with which they have been entrusted (and to call on officials in other states to do the same, as many of you have done), is a huge uplift to our spirits. At the risk of sounding corny as hell, you really are the wind beneath our wings. ***
from Amazing Spider-Man #537 DON'T MISS MY APPEARANCE on Ethann Fox's Conscious Consumer Network show from 7 to 9 PM EST today only. "A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate" -Thomas Jefferson Care to post a comment on this article? Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend ***** 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. The law only reads one way , and the government reads it exactly the same way I read it. The misapplication happens not by disagreement over what the law says, but by simple exploitation of the fact that YOU haven't ever read the law at all, and it has been constructed in a way to allow that ignorance to be used against you, with your unwitting cooperation.As a consequence, revealing the truth about the tax simply enables American men and women to act knowledgeably in accordance with the law, and informs them of the fact that their prior ignorance has been ruthlessly exploited to their great harm for all their working lives. Serendipitously, coming to understand the tax also provides a deep and liberating education in federal law and the real legal relationship of citizen and state generally. The revelations of CtC don't call for a revolution. They simply call for a restoration of the law by knowledgeable action fully within and respectful of the existing legal structure, in which every American can enthusiastically participate with no qualms or trepidations. It's really this simple: All that is necessary to restore limited government and the law in America is for enough Americans to learn the truth about the income tax. At the same time, nothing else will do. *** THE STATE WHOSE LAWLESS PRACTICES AND AMBITIONS will be reined-in once enough Americans come to know the truth about the tax is very conscious of this reality. This is why its efforts to suppress CtC-- the sole and exclusively-complete and accurate presentation of the truth about the tax-- have even gone so far as unprecedented government-sought court orders commanding that my wife and I pretend to repudiate our sworn tax-return testimony and replace it with government-dictated disavowals of what CtC reveals. By itself this should answer any doubt anyone reading this might harbor about all that I have said here. This deep a step into the swamp would never be taken except in direst need. To put it another way, you can tell when you're right over the target by the heaviness of the defensive flak. CtC is drawing a flak-attack such as nothing else ever has, because it IS the one and only stake poised right over the vampire's heart, needing only enough Americans to pile on and drive it home. I know how surreal this is, and how difficult to credit. With all the sturm und drang on so many issues reverberating in the media and on everyone's radar-screens, the idea that there should be a superbug able to take down the monster, and that this little chunk of information from this obscure source should be it, seems impossible. But while it may seem impossible to you, every act by the state makes clear that IT doesn't think it impossible at all; quite the contrary. After all, what else has prompted an explicit government campaign to misrepresent the content of a book (as shown here and here)? What else has prompted the state to seek plainly unconstitutional court orders such as those mentioned above, one deliberately adopting as a "judicial finding" the government's misrepresentation of that book (and purporting to take control, by prior restraint, of sworn declarations of belief on tax forms), and the other commanding the book's author to replace his research-based conclusions about the suitability of his earnings for reporting on a tax return with contrary declarations dictated by the government, to create the appearance that the author had repudiated his research? What else has prompted an outright hoax on a government website? What else has produced hundreds of thousands of complete tax refunds, Social security and all, for twelve years and counting, from every tax agency in America even while unstinting efforts are made to discourage and suppress the spread of the information by which they are secured? The ONLY thing that could prompt these extraordinary, completely unprecedented events is the correctness of all that CtC says, and the state's recognition of its superbug status. After all, iIf CtC were wrong (and therefore not the threat to ongoing state lawlessness that it is), there wouldn't be a campaign to discourage and suppress the book. I simply wouldn't have those refunds to post. Those refunds never would have happened, and certainly even if a few inexplicably "slipped through some crack" at first they would have ended many years ago, after the first few hundred at most. There'd be no effort to make me appear to have repudiated CtC-- none would be needed. It would be more than enough that I would have nothing to show in its support, and that all the thousands of readers who have independently tested my research and analysis with their own would be reporting its errors. There'd be no misrepresentation of CtC by government officials. Those officials would have no need to pretend that the book says what it does not, so as to create a false pretext for declaring it wrong. There would be no carefully-nurtured troll-campaign planted on the internet and within the "tax honesty" movement steadily pumping out dis-information about CtC. After all, why bother with such things if the book were wrong, or not the super-weapon for liberty and restraint of the state that I say it is? And there would have been no stunning array of unprecedented assaults on due process and the rule of law committed in the railroad trial of my wife, Doreen, who is being made the poster-child for the effort to frighten you away from the truth about the tax by a show of the depths of corruption to which the state is willing to sink for this purpose. Face the facts, people. CtC is it. And right now is the time to use it, because like Patrick Henry said, we only grow weaker and more in peril the longer we wait. ACT ON BEHALF OF THE LAW, NOW. If you haven't already put your education about the tax and the law to use, do it now. If you haven't already gotten that education, get it now. If you haven't already shared the introduction to the truth about the tax with everyone you know, do it now. If you HAVE already shared it, do it again, now. Burn into your brain now recognition that anyone who tells himself that it can't be as simple as CtC is in denial of the facts in front of his own nose. Burn into your brain now that anyone who lies quietly in the weeds for fear of being noticed by enemies of the truth and the law is thereby conceding victory to those enemies. Burn into your brain now that anyone who seeks to distract his fellows from CtC is a collaborator, wittingly or unwittingly, with the enemies of liberty and the Founders' republic. Burn into your brain now that anyone who gripe-mongers without referring his audience to the solution of CtC is a hypocrite. Burn into your brain now that anyone who calls himself or herself an advocate of "tax honesty" who doesn't direct his website visitors and everyone else with whom he has influence to losthorizons.com and CtC-- the exclusive sources of actual liberating truth about the tax, endlessly proven accurate in even the most challenging circumstances and on tens of thousands of occasions and by the equally-unprecedented judicial evasions and distortions mentioned above-- really isn't. WHEN YOU LOOK AROUND at what's going on in America today, you should be scared. But what you should be scared of is that you have been letting precious time slip away without having exerted your utmost to strengthen and deploy the solution that lies right at hand, while you still are able to do so. A few weeks ago I quoted William O. Douglas on this page, who said, "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." I was soft-pedaling with that quote. There is no "slight" change in the air for us to be aware of-- the fact is, darkness is already well upon us. It only seems otherwise to those not looking closely because the land is filled with bonfires in which our rights, the Constitution and the rule of law generally are being burned away. Wake to the peril; wake to the remedy. Act. NOW. PEOPLE!! I ask each of you to take a moment RIGHT NOW and email Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, urging them to take notice of what gets posted on these pages every week. Maybe hearing from all of the thousands upon thousands of Americans and others around the world who get these newsletters, all demanding the attention of these journalists to the same subject will bump one or both of them into waking to this hugely-important story. Greenwald's email address is glenn.greenwald@theintercept.com Poitras' email address is laura.poitras@theintercept.com "Be the change you want to see in the world." -Mohandas Gandhi
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Media Evasion Of CtC Must End, Now Time, unfortunately, is on the side of the well-funded disinformation specialists
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... *****
A teacher asked
her 6th grade class how many of them were fans of Big Government.
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 Care to post a comment on this article? Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend
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MMore 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...
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'The BOSTONIAN'S Paying the EXCISE-MAN, or TARRING & FEATHERING' (1774) (How our forefathers responded to arrogant "Rule of Law defiers"...)
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HELP SPREAD THE LIBERATING TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX “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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Films That Belong In Every Home Library
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Ever Wonder How Much An Unrestrained FedState Would Like To Tap You For?
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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'?"
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Last Word
"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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