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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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February 22- In 1732, George Washington is
born. In 1819, Spain sells Florida to the United States for $5
million. In 1856, the Republican Party opens its first national
convention. In 1879, the first Woolworth's 5-and-Dime opens.
In 1943, captured members of the Nazi resistance movement in
Germany-- the White Rose-- are executed after a show-trial in
Hitler's "People's Court". In 1997, a team of Scottish
scientists announce the successful cloning of an adult sheep.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter
below.
Regarding a massive government
acknowledgement of the truth; a massive government effort to
evade; and a massively corrupt judicial precedent about to take
root.
This article is long, my friends, but it is
important, and rich with links to previously unseen
documentation. Please read it all, and share it around, too.
I THINK WE CAN WE ALL AGREE that where the establishment of
corrupt and evil state practices is concerned, an ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of cure. It is a whole lot easier to
stop a dangerous precedent from being created than to dislodge
one once in place.
In light of that wisdom, it seems plain that when an evil
precedent-creation-in-progress is exposed, it is the duty of
every responsible American to raise the hue and cry until the
threat to our liberties and the rule of law is abandoned.
This is especially true when the evil is being committed not just
by a lone villain but by a team in both the executive and the
judiciary, and is clearly meant to "normalize" the corruption
being practiced.
Right now, just such an evil precedent-creation is
in progress. And it's a doozy, spelling the death of due process
in federal courts.
The suit (which ended up before one of the judges
involved in the failed prior efforts) alleged that refunds made
to the author and his wife of all that had been withheld from
them in 2002 and 2003 were just big mistakes. The suit falsely
claimed that the government had made the refunds
because it was unaware that the couple had had earnings during
those years, and now that it realized the truth, it wanted the
money back.
In fact,
the government had received both W-2 and 1099 forms from
those who had paid the couple for their work and was well aware
at the time the refunds were issued that considerable amounts
had been paid to them. The attorney responsible for the
"lawsuit" was
forced to eventually admit this when questioned
under oath years later (and, of course,
the refunds themselves put the lie to this absurd
pretense, consisting, as they did, of tens of thousands of
dollars that had been withheld
from the couple).
That initial and ultimately abandoned suppression effort-- which
was predicated on characterizing what was revealed in the book
as false-- began in August of 2003, and the couple's first
refund wasn't issued until November of that year. Their second
refund was issued in September of 2004, at the very time the
initial bogus assaults on the book were well underway in courts
in both Michigan and California.
Plainly, the claim
by this tax division DOJ attorney
that these long-fussed-over refunds
of every penny withheld, including Social security and Medicare
taxes,
were just mistakes that "slipped through the cracks" was
false. Add in the fact that they were made
to the author of a book
that explains how and why exactly such refunds are proper and
compulsory whom the
same DOJ tax division--
at the IRS's insistence--
was simultaneously suing in multiple courts in hope of having the
book suppressed, and the "mistakes" assertion was ludicrously,
almost comically mendacious.
HOWEVER,
HONESTY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS "LAWSUIT". The object of
this corrupt exercise was
suppression of the revelatory book by other means, the initial
injunctive efforts having failed.
The new game plan was to
fabricate the appearance that a court had considered the
arguments of the book and found them wanting, so that word could
go out to that effect. While the book would still be available,
Americans who might otherwise read it and learn the truth about
the tax-- the very truth that had compelled the issuance of the
refunds being lied about in the lawsuit-- wouldn't bother.
But there was a problem. The falsehood about the
refunds being just "mistakes" served as a pretext for bringing a
complaint under the "erroneous refund" statute (however
corruptly), but the government still had no grounds for alleging
that the couple owed any taxes for the years involved.
Not to worry though. Where there are no scruples,
there is always a way, so...
The government asked the court to order the couple
to declare-- under oath-- that they repudiated their previous
freely-made testimony to the contrary and now believed
themselves to have done taxable things and to be in debt to the
government. If made, such declarations would establish the
otherwise non-existent tax debts.
(Tellingly, government officials could also make
these declarations over a sworn signature and establish, prima
facie, the alleged tax debts on which this bogus suit was
predicated, but none has ever been willing to do so. Equally
telling, even now, more than ten years since each of these
refunds were issued, and despite all the intense government
attention discussed above and below, there has still never been
a tax assessed on these folks for those years, as is shown in
the Treasury Department Certificates of Assessment and IRS
transcripts seen
here.)
Of course, even corrupt judges need pretexts for
their actions, especially wildly improper actions like what was
being asked for in this case. So the government and the court
undertook a series of further falsehoods.
STEP ONE: The government alleged that the book this
whole shabby corruption was trying to keep Americans from
reading-- Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About
Taxation In America (CtC)-- argues that only federal, state
and local government workers are subject to the income tax. This
is a patently frivolous notion which CtC very plainly not only
does not argue, but decisively debunks.
Indeed, though very few Americans filing in harmony
with the revelations of the book are government workers of any
description, many-- including the author-- have occasion to
report the receipt of "income" of various kinds and in various
amounts most or all years. Clearly, these private-sector CtC-educated
Americans acknowledge themselves capable of being subject to the
tax, and would-- and do-- find themselves liable should their
"income" exceed the exemption amount.
Nonetheless, and despite being clearly put on
notice to the contrary, the
judge played her part. She "found" this false ascription of a
nonsensical argument to CtC to be true as part of a
formal judicial ruling, even though
she never actually read the book.
Based on this "false and frivolous argument in CtC"
fraud, the court also "found" that the couple's original,
freely-made testimony regarding the taxable character of their
earnings for the years in question-- which was declaredly in
harmony with the book-- was false (meaning "they don't really
believe what they say they do about their earnings").
STEP TWO: The government introduced as an exhibit a
purported IRS "Examination Report" bearing numbers which would
suggest, if taken at face value, a specialist's conclusion that
the couple actually had earned "income" subject to tax and owed
accordingly. In actuality, the report was bogus, as was admitted
by the examiner herself in an associated--but separate--
declaration:
(Think about this for a moment. Despite all the
pretenses of "error" and "false and frivolous arguments" and
their intense interest in this case, the IRS and DOJ couldn't
gin up a formal conclusion that this couple owed any tax on
their earnings for these years, and instead were compelled to
resort to this fraudulent pretense! It's hard to imagine a more
definitive acknowledgement of the accuracy and unassailability
of the book all this is meant to discourage Americans from
reading.)
STEP THREE: The judge issues a ruling (actually
written in its entirety by the DOJ attorney) but bearing the
judge's signature. In this ruling the judge "finds" in the book
she never read the absurd argument the government needs to be
"found" there in order to make this all work, and "finds" that
the couple had "income" and is liable for taxes which the IRS
itself left-handedly admits they are not by failing to produce a
real "examination report" saying otherwise and deploying a fake
one instead, and which it will not assess even now, twelve and
thirteen years after the periods in question and eight years
since this "ruling".
More, this ruling adopts the government's requested
"remedy" for its problems in this case, and orders the couple to
declare they believe that they owe the government the taxes the
IRS will not declare to be owed but which were "found" by the
judge. This is the critical element of the whole scheme, because
if done, such declarations give the whole corrupt project
legitimacy, and take everyone who has participated off the hook
for their crimes.
The judge also grants another request of the
government. She issues an order prohibiting the couple from ever
filing a return in the future "based on the false and frivolous
claim in 'Cracking the Code' that only federal, state and local
government workers are subject to the tax" which was "found"
there by the judge who never read the book.
The purpose of this second order is a bit harder to
fathom, but it is likely meant to equip the DOJ and IRS (and
their cadre of supporters in the tax-preparation and litigation
industries) with PR material for the discouragement of potential
readers of CtC. In fact, in her DOJ-written "ruling" the judge
actually refers to an alleged government interest in
discouraging inconvenient testimony by other Americans as a
rationalization for the order-- what legitimate court rulings
describe as "chilling speech". (In a happy irony, this effort
has back-fired
as
tens of thousands of CtC readers file returns based on what
really IS in the book and receive billions in complete refunds,
dramatically emphasizing that these judicial "findings" that the
book makes these or any other "false and frivolous" claims about the law are simply
corrupt frauds meant to mislead the American public.)
In any event, what matters for purpose of this
discussion is that, like the order commanding the couple to
declare they believe
their 2002 and 2003 earnings to be taxable
and thereby enable the government to claim ownership of
their property,
this second order dictating what they are NOT to say also
violates the First and Fifth Amendment in the same degree. It
just does it in reverse.
By the way, all of this happened
without so much as a single hearing. At no point did the
couple get a chance to actually confront anyone or challenge
anything the judge was "finding" to be true. Their demand for a
jury trial in the case was ignored (and never even
acknowledged).
And all of these corruptions, frauds and
illegitimating improprieties notwithstanding, the "ruling" in
this case has been being touted by the government and its
troll-associates as its evidence that "the courts have ruled
against CtC". Properly understood, of course, this "ruling" is
actually evidence that the government hasn't a shred of
legitimate challenge to CtC, and has, in fact, entirely
surrendered to its revelations. The only reason for all this
lying is a lack of honest argument.
Being the psychos that they are, the corrupt
elements of the state responsible for all this fraud lash out.
The wife of the couple at whom the bogus, rights-violating
lawsuit was aimed is indicted on a charge of criminal contempt
of court for resisting the orders made back in 2007 and
exercising her rights of speech, conscience and due process.
The new case ends up in the courtroom of a
colleague of the earlier judge, and another one of those who
presided over the original efforts against CtC... Two trials
ensue.
Desperately anxious to hedge the pretense of
legitimacy of the lawsuit and its outcome with the pretense of a
jury verdict on its behalf, the government and judge put in the
fix. A team of specialist gunslingers from the DOJ Tax division
are flown in from Washington to do battle with this untrained,
inexperienced and non-legally-oriented housewife and
homeschooling mom, who defends herself.
The indictment and the instructions to the jury
carefully misstate one of the orders from the lawsuit ruling.
The
actual order on this subject prohibits the filing of a
return based on the alleged claim of CtC that only federal,
state and local government workers are subject to the tax, but
of course, the book doesn't say this.
Knowing that it would be pretty difficult to
get anywhere with an accusation of having violated an order
prohibiting a completely fictional transgression, the indictment
and the instruction to the jury misstate this order as
prohibiting the filing of a "false" return-- something believed
easier to put into the minds of jurors who are all victims of
lifelong disinformation about the nature of the income tax.
Even with this false ploy in place no chances are taken.
The jury is also instructed that
it need not unanimously agree that the defendant actually
did either of the two possible acts of offense alleged in the
indictment.
But all of this failed. Even with the lawless
"unanimity" relief and all the other cheats afforded to the
prosecutors, the jury deadlocks.
Eight-and-a-half months later, the government tries
again. All the previous cheats remained in place, and this time
the housewife was prevented from making her opening statement,
was constantly hectored from the bench, and many of her exhibits
were disallowed.
The reading to the jury
of
court rulings on speech rights and void judgments
was thwarted, and in the end of trial, sensing another loss, the
prosecutors engaged in a deliberate fraud, introducing
previously unseen documents which were falsely declared to be
proof that the initial failed efforts to suppress CtC way back
in 2004 and 2005 discussed (and
thoroughly documented) at the beginning of this commentary
(and in which the trial judge was involved) were no such thing,
but were instead really just a routine audit of the defendant's
husband.
The falsely-represented documents, which themselves
betrayed the falseness of what the prosecutors said about them
but which the defendant was given no chance to examine at the
time, were kept from the jury.
After trial, the fraud was proven, and then
admitted by the prosecutors. Nonetheless, the judge has refused
to overturn the falsely-secured guilty verdict returned by the
jury this time. (A Motion to Vacate detailing the fraud can be
seen
here, with relevant exhibits
here,
here,
here and
here; and a Motion for Reconsideration detailing the
misconstructions of the denial of that first motion--
with exhibits attached--
can be seen
here.)
SO, HERE COMES THE DARKNESS. On the 9th of
April this viciously assaulted housewife and mother is due to be
sentenced for her "crime" of resisting orders issued in a
completely fraudulent judicial proceeding of eight years ago
after suffering through two completely fraudulent criminal
trials.
By this completion of the assault on one righteous
and upright American woman, the assault on all our
Constitutionally-guaranteed rights of speech, conscience and due
process will also be completed. The evil precedent that a court
can order someone to make
dictated and false testimony
favorable to a government case against her, and punish her for
refusing, will be established.
Just as pernicious as the violation of speech and
due process rights involved here is the pretense argued by the
government throughout these trials-- which is that the juries
should assume that what this woman was told to declare herself
to believe really IS her belief, despite her sworn protestations
to the contrary, because she had been told to say these
things by government officials, and who could plausibly
disbelieve what government officials said?
If this precedent is successfully planted in April,
every American will have suffered, right then, a profound wound
to what remains of the rule of law today. This one will be a
bleeder, and impossible to undo without pounds of difficult cure.
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas famously
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." Right
now, in this case and the entire sequence of frauds that lie
behind it, the chill and stink of corruption are in the air. We
ignore them at our peril.
Raise a hue and cry.
Demand the honest attention of the media and
everyone else. Blog and post
and tweet to inform all you can of
the liberating, state-restraining truth about the tax being
revealingly evaded by the government and its courts. Be in
Detroit on April 9 to show support for the rule of law and
opposition to corruption.
Don't just curse the darkness that is falling, but
fan your own flame and become a bright point of light against
it.
NOTE: To all those clinging to denial of CtC's
accuracy about the tax for whatever reason-- be it your own
theories about the law; reflexive skepticism about anything
contrary to your long-held beliefs, or whatever-- you must
account for the facts and government behavior documented in the
discussion above. Remember, an honest but mistaken man, upon
being confronted with the truth, either ceases to be mistaken,
or ceases to be honest.
NOTE II: What is presented above deals with only a
portion of the continuous government efforts to suppress CtC
over all of the years since its publication in 2003. A more
comprehensive discussion of these efforts can be found
here.
NOTE III: Are you a legal professional, or
otherwise able to write a 'Friend of the Court' brief for
filing, if possible, in Doreen's case?
Contact me.
Time, unfortunately, is on the side of the
well-funded disinformation specialists
OVER THE YEARS, I HAVE
DEMONSTRATED FAR BEYOND
RATIONAL DOUBT OR HONEST DISPUTE that for the last 75 years
the income tax has been systematically mis-administered so
as to capture far more revenue and from far more earners
than it should and would were its actual statutory limits
more broadly understood. I have further shown that this is
not because of some quirk in the law being exploited by the
IRS but solely because of the ignorance of the Americans to
whom it ends up being misapplied.
At the same time, I've
also plainly shown that the collapse of the rule of law
and metastasizing of the rogue State now threatening the
well-being of every American (and possibly the entire world)
coincides with, and results directly and exclusively from,
the onset of the mis-application of the income tax in the
early 1940s.
In short, I've shown the nature of the problem
about which every non-state-coopted pundit steadily warns,
and the nature of the solution to that problem. What's more,
I introduce, highlight, and celebrate the tens of thousands
of other American men and women who have also learned these
facts and are leading the way down the only path to that
solution.
NEARLY EVERY WEEK FOR NINE YEARS, I have shared
my posts about all these things with all of you. For the
last three years, I have copied those folks in the
(purportedly) non-state-coopted media whose email addresses
I believe I have.
At the same time, week after week the
well-financed and much more influential enemies of the
state-restraining, liberty-enhancing truth have steadily
injected more and more noise into the ether in an attempt to
drown out my signal. This means that the window of
opportunity in which the liberating truth has a realistic
chance to do its good work-- which it can only do by
becoming widely known-- is finite and narrowing.
And yet every week the acknowledgements and
desperately-needed signal-amplification offered by the
purportedly-non-coopted media amount to... nada. Zero,
zilch, radio silence.
This won't do. It also makes no sense-- unless
my emails to these folks simply aren't getting through.
There are several reasons why my emails may not
be making it. Some are as mundane as the possibility that
they are being spam-filtered away from these folks' inboxes.
It is known to me that, for instance, anyone on a pacbell,
swbell or optonline server won't receive my emails-- these
servers systematically (and apparently automatically, for
reasons known only to their programmers) reject my emails as
spam. There may be others that do the same without doing
bounce-backs to me to let me know.
Then there are darker possibilities. As
was posted here a few months ago in a letter from an
educated American who works for the City of Los Angeles,
while no other websites that might be described as "outside
the box" are known to be so treated, access to
losthorizons.com is blocked on the city's
internet-capable computers. Wikipedia won't allow links to
documents posted on
losthorizons.com. Recent additions to the ongoing
treasure-trove of revelations from the heroic Edward Snowden
have awakened us all to the possibility of other knobblings
of the same sort on a grander scale. It's also possible that
some of these folks may simply have closed their own minds.
IN RESPONSE TO THIS PROBLEM, I
am going to ask for everyone's help. Following is a short
list of publicly-available alt-media-pundit email addresses
which I have accumulated.
Because my emails do not seem to be making it
through to these folks, I'd be grateful if you were to see
if yours do. Compose your own thoughtful, courteous but
plain-spoken entreaties and admonishments to these folks
making clear to them that patriotic, activist and educated
Americans are wondering why they are not contributing their
voices on the side of the angels in this
critically-important contest between State-serving myths and
corruption and the liberating truth. Forward my emails to
them, as well.
EXPECT RESISTANCE FROM THESE FOLKS! All of them
are likely to think they already know all about the income
tax, and will have opinions based on either some theories of
their own or from the "tax honesty" community. Or they will
be standard victims of "ignorance tax" mythologies.
These folks are also likely to imagine that
they're just being told about another version of Irwin
Schiff. Some will even reflexively resort to the troll sites
and other noise generators maintained by the IRS and DOJ on
the internet and fall prey to the fallacious notion that
since I have been attacked by the government what I say must
somehow be wrong, despite all the unambiguous evidence to
the contrary. (This is as crazy as concluding that because
John Kirkiaou and Chelsea Manning are in prison, and the
government is salivating over the prospect of getting its
prosecutorial hands on Edward Snowden and Julian Assange and
Kangarooing them in as well, all the state crimes these
folks revealed must not really have happened. But believe it
or not, people can be that thoroughly conditioned to
worship the State.)
None of these folks will know a tenth of
what you know about the tax. None of them will know a
hundredth of what you know about
CtC, its history, and the ferocious campaign to keep
people like them from knowing the truth about it.
For one reason or another, I am unable to deal
with this problem myself; your help will be greatly
appreciated and may do much good. The email addresses are
all offered with disabling formatting to protect against
abuse from spiders, so to use them, please replace the "at"
with @. By the by, if you have any other addresses of the
same sort, please share them with me for addition to this
list. (For instance, I have long sought an address for Paul
Craig Roberts, whose work I esteem, and who seems to me a
very likely ally in this fight, but who I am unable to
contact, even through his website "contact form".)
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 New Book On The Truth About The
Tax
TOM BOTTARO, ChFC, HAS JUST PUBLISHED 'SECRETS of the Income Tax Code- What the IRS
doesn't want you to know!' Tom's book is a nice,
accessible drill-down on several key aspects of the tax.
Find it
here.
Find many other printables and
sharables suited to every different occasion and purpose
here.
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."
A teacher asked
her 6th grade class how many of them were fans of Big Government.
Not really knowing what a Big Government fan is, but wanting to be liked by
the
teacher, all the kids raised their hands except for TJ.
The teacher asked TJ why he has decided to be different...again.
TJ said, "Because I'm not a fan of Big Government."
The teacher asked, "Why aren't you a fan of Big Government?"
TJ said, "Because I'm a libertarian."
The teacher asked him why he's a libertarian. TJ answered, "Well,
my Dad's a libertarian and my Mom's a libertarian, so I'm a libertarian."
Annoyed by this answer, the teacher asked, "If your dad were a moron and
your mom were an idiot, what would that make you?"
With a big smile, TJ replied, "That would make me a fan of Big
Government."
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
February 23- In 1836,
the Battle of the Alamo begins. In 1903, the puppet-government
installed by the U.S. Marines in Cuba agrees to lease Guantanamo
Bay to the United States "in perpetuity". In 1904, the United
States buys the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million. In 1954,
mass inoculations of children with the Salk Polio vaccine
begin. In 1955, SEATO meets for the first time.
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.
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."
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!!
There is a brouhaha underway about an American
journalist who told a story about being in a helicopter in a war
zone. The helicopter was hit and had to land. Which war zone and
when I don’t know. The US has created so many war zones that it is
difficult to keep up with them all, and as you will see, I am not
interested in the story for its own sake.
It turns out that the journalist has remembered
incorrectly. He was in a helicopter in a war zone, but it wasn’t hit
and didn’t have to land. The journalist has been accused of lying in
order to make himself seem to be “a more seasoned war correspondent
than he is.”
The journalist’s presstitute colleagues are all over
him with accusations. He has even had to apologize to the troops.
Which troops and why is unclear. The American requirement that
everyone apologize for every word reminds me of the old Soviet
practice, real or alleged by anti-communists, that required Soviet
citizens to self-criticize.
National Public Radio (2-5-15) thought this story of
the American journalist was so important that the program played a
recording of the journalist telling his story. It sounded like a
good story to me. The audience enjoyed it and was laughing. The
journalist telling the story did not claim any heroism on his part
or any failure on the part of the helicopter crew. It is normal for
helicopters to take hits in war zones.
Aren't you REALLY, REALLY glad YOU'VE
had the fortitude and clarity of vision to do
the only thing that will actually make a
difference by taking control of how much of YOUR WEALTH facilitates
government
misbehavior?
Now ask yourself this: Have I really done
all that I can to
urge everyone I
know to also stand up and act in the only way that will really bring
about change in my 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..."
February 24- In 1803,
the United States Supreme Court issues its decision in Marbury
v. Madison, asserting its power of "judicial review". In 1839,
William Otis receives a patent for the steam shovel. In 1863,
the western half of New Mexico Territory is carved off to become
Arizona Territory. In 1893, the American University is
chartered by Congress. In 1920, the German Worker's Party adds
"National Socialist" to its name, thus becoming the "Nazi
Party". In 1970, National Public Radio is founded. In 1989, a
United Airlines flight from Hawaii to New Zealand suffers a
fuselage breach over the Pacific. 9 passengers are sucked out
of the plane. In 2008, Fidel Castor retires after fifty years
as dictator of Cuba. During most of that period a United States
embargo succeeded in contributing mightily to the impoverishment
of the Cuban people, while also preventing the uplifting
subversion that exposure to the prosperity of a free society
would have engendered, and all without doing anything whatever
to unseat the despotic Castro regime...
Are You Ready
For More Power?
"Peter Hendrickson has done it again! 'Upholding The
Law' does for individual liberties what 'Cracking the Code' did
for tax law compliance: exposes the reader to the unalienable
truth!"
-Jesse Herron, Bill Of Rights Press, Fort Collins, Colorado
A musical treat; TVs that may be too smart for your own
good; a pet peeve; a few words about measles; and more...
CtC WARRIOR 'MEDIAMIKE" and his "wake up" band 'Terranomaly'
have put some nice liberty-loving and open-your-eyes sentiments
to music. Listen to their tune 'New American Anthem'
here.
***
BEEN SUCKED IN TO BUYING A "SMART" TV? Here's what one major
manufacturer has buried deep inside its "privacy policy":
"Please be aware that if your spoken words include
personal or other sensitive information, that information will be
among the data captured and transmitted to a third party."
I KNOW THIS REALLY BELONGS IN A 'PET PEEVES' COLUMN, but I have
to complain that lately every day seems fraught with the peril
of encountering another misuse of the word "fraught" as though
it were a noun. An example would be, "The day was fraught."
It's an adjective, people. There's no such condition as simply
"being fraught"...
***
THAT 100 OR SO CASES OF MEASLES is made into a 24/7 news topic
is pretty bizarre to me. When I was a kid, measles routinely
appeared among our huge baby-boomer population, just as it had
for every generation prior. It was no big deal.
While there are extremely rare cases in which complications do
occur and the illness proves to be far more serious, such cases
ARE exceedingly rare. In my childhood, when measles was far more
common and I knew a lot of kids who contracted it (including two
of my siblings) I never saw any adult, including the doctors,
EVER react to a measles diagnosis with alarm or anxiety. Measles
was no fun, but it was also simply no big deal.
On the other hand, the idea that you or I or anyone should be
considered duty-bound to put someone else's idea of what is best
concerning the disposition of our bodies, behaviors and choices
ahead of our own IS a big deal-- and a great evil. Collectivism
is the most dangerous disease on Planet Earth. Even pre-vaccine, only a few hundred deaths per year could be
attributed to measles in the US, with the number in precipitous
decline:
Collectivism, on the other hand, killed hundreds of millions in
the places where it took hold (the Soviet Union, Communist
China, Cambodia, Nazi Germany, and so on). It is the far greater
danger.
Those who are themselves unvaccinated for some reason but afraid
of contracting the disease anyway can wear surgical masks and
gloves whenever out in public. That's all that's needed to deal
with what little real issue there is here, and the only solution
compatible with liberty and good sense. As Thomas Jefferson
dryly put it, "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences
attending too much liberty than those attending too small a
degree of it."
***
IS IT TOO MUCH TO HOPE THAT BRIAN WILLIAMS has convinced
"mainstream America" that it simply can't trust what it is told
by "mainstream media"? (Probably...)
***
MY SON TJ FOUND THIS LITTLE GEM on the 'net the other day:
***
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SAY, HAVE YOU EVER GIVEN ANY THOUGHT to
what will happen when 30 million other Americans-- or even just 3
million-- learn what you
know about the "income" tax and begin following your example of
acting to protect your own interests and uphold the law?
THERE'S THIS THING CALLED "TWITTER"... What an
off-putting name! I'm a man of what I fear is quickly becoming "the
old school", and I have great difficulty imagining myself
"tweeting"...
But as most of you probably know far better than I do,
Twitter is an amazing way to communicate with a huge number of
people-- at least, if one's "tweets" get attention and are shared by
others. As of July of 2014, there were more than 645 million Twitter
participants. Out of respect for this reality, I opened
a
Twitter account some time ago, and actually "tweeted" newsletter
post announcements for a little while last year.
Anyway, I am a million miles from being knowledgeable
about how this media tool can best be used. But from within the
limits of my understanding, it seems to me that right now would be a
good time to try to make use of it, and that if everyone who has an
account (or who can take a few moments
to open one)
goes to
my account and clicks the "follow" button, and then begins posting the following tweets (and "re-tweeting"
mine and everyone else's
posts and replies), something important might be accomplished.
Each of the following tweets are within posting lengths
and ready to simply copy and paste into a "new tweet" field:
Send any or all of these prepared tweets, or make your
own. Just pick a link from the
Site Map and add the hashtag #TheTruthAboutTheTax and some text
that you think will intrigue. You can even use
https://hootsuite.com/
or to schedule tweets to be sent automatically at various times of
day.
If you add a hashtag from another existing
tweet-thread, your tweets will go to everyone following that thread,
too. Those folks will then not only see your tweets, but also be
able to engage with the #TheTruthAboutTheTax thread themselves.
For instance, there is a hashtag "#Tax" currently in
use. If you add that tag to a tweet from the list above (or one of
your own of a similar sort), you can get your tweet in front of
everyone in the other thread as well as the
#TheTruthAboutTheTax thread.
Such a tweet would look like this, for example:
You can see what hashtags are "trending" (that is,
getting LOTS of views) on the left side of your twitter account
page. If any appear at any point which seem a reasonable fit (they
change from time to time), use those as the add-ons to maximize the
impact. (Keep in mind that if you add a hashtag, you may need to
shorten the message in order to keep within the 140-character limit.
The same issue may arise when you re-tweet, if the system adds a
reference to the original tweeter such as "@losthorizons1".)
You can also target tweets to specific recipients by
prefacing them with "@" and that person's account name. For
instance, to ensure that Glenn Greenwald receives a tweet, even
though he's not following me, I can preface a tweet with @ggreenwald,
as in:
Here are some more possibly useful Twitter contacts:
Andrew Napolitano: @Judgenap
John Stossel: @FBNStossel
Alex Jones: @RealAlexJones
Lew Rockwell: @lewrockwell
Paul Craig Roberts: @PCraigRoberts
Bruce Fein: @BruceFeinEsq
Dr. Chuck Baldwin: @drchuckbaldwin
Pat Buchanan: @PatrickBuchanan
Be prepared to dialogue with
respondents, answer questions, reassure skeptics and correct trolls,
but remember that everyone can step in to help with these tasks, so
they won't fall on you, personally, any more than you want.
Should be fun, and with any luck, this will do a lot of good for a
lot of folks in a very short period of time.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing
that ever has."
-Margaret Mead
P.S. After first inviting everyone to
participate in the important outreach/education project laid
out above, I received a disturbingly large number of
expressions very hostile to (or paranoid about) social media
in general. I want to take a few moments for some comments
on this subject.
I am aware of the widespread disinclination
toward social media. Indeed, I share that disinclination,
both as to its use as a public billboard for all manner of
what I regard as more properly private details of one's
life, and as to its hazard as a handy and easily abused
repository of personal information. It is the latter concern
that motivates those explaining why they have deliberately
not participated in my "twitter project", many of whom have
heard for years that, in fact, "facebook", for instance, is,
in part at least, an NSA creation.
I can't speak to the origin of "facebook" with
any authority. But I can apply a little logic and say that
having a facebook page is only a breach of personal
information security to the degree that the page is used as
a billboard for things better kept private.
As you surely are all aware, there is a
LostHorizons facebook page. I created it a few years
ago, and with rare exceptions, the only thing ever posted to
it are weekly newsletter update announcements. Those
announcements are received by (at the moment) 899 people who
otherwise might never be aware of them, since many of those
who live in that [facebook] world simply don't use email
anymore at all.
Because I only post what I do, I need have no
concerns about security. Nothing is there to be data-mined
against my wishes, and it is not a log of my comings and
goings and daily activities and events, as is true of those
who treat a facebook page as an online diary to which
everyone has a key.
Twitter doesn't even have the potential
for the hazards of facebook. Twitter is oriented to
notational text posts and nothing else (more CAN be posted,
within strict limits, but the interface doesn't invite
them). Twitter accounts can be anonymous-- go to the library
(or download and install the
Tor
browser) and open a gmail account, then use it to open a
twitter account with a fake name, if you like.
But even if anonymity were not possible, the
remedy for any security concern is simply to not post
anything in an undisciplined fashion. And even if anonymity
were not possible, and some kind of inchoate security hazard
were inevitable, there is still good reason to use these
media for certain purposes.
Twitter, at least, has great power as
an outreach tool. As noted above, there are (as of July of 2014)
645,750,000 users of Twitter. Read that number again:
more than 645 million!
To inflexibly avoid the use of a tool like
Twitter for fear of being noticed is to put a gag in your
own mouth, and ensure that the liberating, law-supporting,
state-restraining truth that you are able to share will
never benefit from the weight of your testimony and support
in the powerful way that it could and should. You can't
score goals if you don't take shots, and you can't take
shots if you don't take the field.
I HAVE A TERRIBLE CONCERN that many in this
community aren't boldly taking the field and boldly taking
their shots. Doing so amounts to nothing more complicated
than diligently and unapologeticly spreading of the webpages
and other files linked from
http://losthorizons.com/SiteMap.htm, but many may not be
doing this due to fears of being noticed. Being noticed may
be a legitimate expectation, but so what?
Of course the lawless state, the bane of which
is sunlight and the truth, will do everything it can to
discourage you from shedding that sunlight and spreading
that truth. But just as "of course", you must do it!
Further, to not do that spreading through
social media when possible is to lose the amazing benefit of
the "six degrees of separation" reality.
I hear from everyone (and especially those who
say they will not use the social media) about efforts to
spread the word to anyone that can be button-holed, and
everyone within a circle of acquaintances. These efforts are
great, important and very much should go on.
But those one can buttonhole, and those within
one's circle-- even within one's circle of email
correspondents-- make up a very limited,
non-organically-expanding target. While someone to whom you
email might choose to pass your email along, they might not,
too.
The genius of the social media is that your
messages can be found by others without you or anyone else
having to do anything, and more, as you develop a body of
contacts, their contacts come with them, to a greater or
lesser degree. Six degrees of such contact inter-linkings
and you're speaking to pretty nearly EVERYONE.
Further still, by NOT using social media for
these education and illumination efforts is to leave a huge
number of young Americans-- many of whom would leap at the
chance to do something meaningful just for the glory and the
adventure of it if they knew it was there to be done--
languishing in the darkness and burning up their real hero
energy playing fake heroes in video games because too few
light-bearers go where these young people keep their ears
and eyes.
BOTTOM LINE: Please don't stay off the soapbox!
As I said in my controversial email the other day, you have
one of the most sought-after prizes of modern American
history to offer. Shout it loud and proud, and damn the
torpedoes.
"It does not take a majority to prevail... but
rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting
brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
February 25- In 1836,
Samuel Colt receives a patent for his six-gun. In 1862, the
fiat currency known as "greenbacks" are first issued by the
United States. In 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes the first
black member of the United States Congress. In 1901, J. P.
Morgan incorporates U. S. Steel. In 1919, Oregon institutes the
first gasoline tax. In 1932, Adolph Hitler obtains German
citizenship by naturalization, allowing him to seek public
office. In 1933, the first custom-designed United States
aircraft carrier (the USS Ranger) is launched.
The
most important question facing Americans today
THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE: The People impose restraint on the rogue
state by choosing-- one by one-- to cease voluntarily turning
control over their resources to the state, and choosing instead to
retain control over those resources. This is done by refusing-- one
by one-- to engage in "income tax" excisable activities (and
refusing to blindly or fearfully allow their activities to be
treated or taken as excisable activities upon which the tax arises,
when they really are not).
The refusal of individual Americans to voluntarily engage in
excisable activities forces the state to resort to
highly-politically-accountable, highly-politically-vulnerable
alternatives revenue sources. These include options like direct,
apportioned taxes (which will not be tolerated by the people or
approved by Congress at $multi-trillion annual volumes), and/or
increased revenue tariffs (which can raise amounts adequate for
legitimate state needs, but are very self-regulating, since
consumers naturally choose domestic product alternatives when higher
tariffs raise the prices of imports beyond a certain point).
This solution is precisely the one intended and provided for by the
Founders-- who didn't impose the taxation rules in the US
Constitution just so they could admire their handwriting. They put
those rules in place in direct anticipation of state behavior of the
sort with which we are now plagued.
As even so odious a character as Hamilton pointed out in Federalist
#21:
“Imposts, excises, and, in general, all duties upon articles
of consumption, may be compared to a fluid, which will, in time,
find its level with the means of paying them. The amount to be
contributed by each citizen will in a degree be at his own
option, and can be regulated by an attention to his resources.
...If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the
collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so
great as when they are confined within proper and moderate
bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material
oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself
a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.”
What we've got today is simply the direct (and perfectly
predictable) consequences of NOT adhering to the Founders' plan. As
Frederick Douglass trenchantly observed,
“Find out just what any people
will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the
injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them."
We've got plenty of injustice and wrong these days. But our fix to
the problem was bought for us with blood a few hundred years ago.
[Y]ou really need to familiarize yourself with Pete
Hendrickson's absolutely magnificent work at his website and in
his book(s). He has, brilliantly and lucidly, "cracked the
code" regarding the federal income EXCISE tax(es)."
-Mark C. Phillips, JD
"...I find your work fascinatingly simple to understand."
-Jerry Arnowitz, JD
"Your book is a masterpiece!"
-Michael Carver, JD
"Received your book yesterday. Started reading at 11
PM, finished at 4 AM." "I have 16 feet (literally 16'
4.5") of documents supporting just about everything in your
book." "Your book should be required reading for every lawyer
before being admitted to any Bar." "I hope you sell a
million of them."
-John O'Neil Green, JD
“Thanks again for your efforts, Pete. They mean an awful lot
to a lot of people.” “…as an attorney, I am humbled by your
knowledge and ability in navigating the law. THANK YOU for
your hard work and sacrifice.”
-Eric Smithers, JD
"I am an attorney and want to give a testimonial to your
book, which I find to be compelling. I am exercising these
rights for myself and my adult children. I'm even considering
making this my new avenue of law practice."
Nancy "Ana" Garner, JD
Learn what these colleagues already know, then step forward and
become part of a coordinated, mutually-supportive squadron
focused on developing strategy and deploying the law in
courtrooms across the country. There's a lot of suing that
needs doing right now.
Are you ready for a challenge that'll put some real meaning
behind all the effort you went through to get your credentials?
Send me an email.
Have You Taken
A Military, Law Enforcement or Public Office Oath To Uphold And Defend The
Constitution?
February 26- In 1797,
the Bank of England issues its first irredeemable banknotes
after war expenses had depleted England's gold reserves.
Redemption of its notes in real money resumed 24 years or so
later. In 1863, Lincoln signs the National Banking Act into
law, establishing a series of national banks in competition with
private and state banks (1,644 of them by the end of 1866).
This was the first step in a process by which non-federal
currency was driven out of circulation, and which culminated
eventually in the establishment of the Federal Reserve system.
In 1993, a truck-bomb explodes in the underground garage of the
North Tower of the World Trade Center.
An Introduction To The Liberating Truth In Ten Easy Segments
Tom Bottaro,
ChFC,
CtCW, author of 'Secrets
of the Income Tax Code- A Guide for Businessmen',
has shared another fine outreach effort. Tom has been writing and
sending a series of short wake-up and educational essays to friends
and family, one by one, for some time. When Tom told me about this,
I asked him to compile the pieces and let me post them for everyone
to enjoy and share with their own people. Tom, good guy and warrior
for the truth that he is, was perfectly agreeable.
Here
is the compilation in printable .pdf format. I hope everyone
will indeed share it widely.
"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."/p>
-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
CtC Warrior David Sides says, "Bumper stickers?
Nice, but NOT BIG ENOUGH!"
(By
the way, Dave's got it precisely right-- If you want your power
to be secure, your neighbors have to be empowered with the same
knowledge that you've acquired. Click
here for ideas about
spreading the truth-- which include normal bumper stickers
available for free, by the way....)
***
Photographed on 1-70 in Missouri
***
At a rally outside the Alamo
***
CtC Warrior Brian H. in Alaska has a great INDOOR approach
to spreading the transformational truth. Here's Brian's desk at
his workplace:
You notice the big glass container to the right of the CtC
in the first pic above?
Tasty freebies for Brian's co-workers-- candy and brain-candy
all in one:
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...
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
February 27- In 1801,
the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 places the district
under the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress (within
Constitutional constraints). In 1844, the Dominican
Republic declares independence from Haiti. In 1900, the British
Labour Party is founded. In 1933, Nazi false-flag operators
ignite fires in the German Reichstag (Parliament), using the
"crisis" as a pretext for expanding government power. In 1945,
Lebanon declares independence from France. In 1951, the 22nd
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution-- limiting the president to
two terms, in disgusted reaction to the socialist excesses
fastened upon the people during FDR's twelve-year reign-- is
ratified. In 1973, the American Indian Movement occupies
Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
If You're Not Standing Up, Then You're Standing Down
...and "standing down" means "going down"...
MY FRIENDS, IT IS MY SINCERE BELIEF that this community of
activists has been encouraged, inspired, enlightened and
expanded over the years by the steady posting here of
your ongoing victories on behalf of the rule of law.
Certainly, it has been my pride and my joy to help you share
with the world your honorable testament to the liberating truth
about the tax, widespread knowledge of which is so critical to
the well-being of ourselves, our children, and our beloved
America.
However, unless YOU send those victories I can't post them.
Unless YOU stand up, your courage and commitment can't inspire
anyone.
YOU WILL RECALL THAT FOR THE LAST YEAR OR SO I've been telling
you that we are in a transformational moment. Look around at
what is going on today and recognize the truth of what I say.
Even before Edward Snowden's documentation of particular crimes
being committed against the American people the
LA Times,
NY Times,
Washington Times and other mainstream organs were
editorializing about Leviathan having grown too big, and gotten
dangerously out-of-hand (see stories at each of the preceding
links). In the Spring Rand Paul's filibuster denouncing the
lawlessness of Mordor-on-the-Potomac prompted a major buzz
across the country, and in July Justin Amash shocked Washington
by very nearly defunding a huge portion of the illegal
surveillance state's crimes.
Concurrently, this
CtC community has been winning legal victories and refunds
which are ever-more significant and telling. Consider, for
instance, the victories which have qualified for
the EWWBL collection. Every one of these is an especially
illuminating acknowledgement of the truth about the tax, and now
include a very significant two-time victory in a federal
district court.
Things are happening!
HHOW IT ALL SHAKES OUT is still up for grabs, though. This is not
the time for either complacency or paralysis, because both of
those don't amount to "doing nothing"-- instead they amount to
"standing down". And standing down means conceding the fight,
letting all these eleventh-hour sparks of light burn out
unnurtured and the moment be a transformation for the worse.
This is not the time for standing down. This is the time for a
FULL-COURT PRESS./p>
This is the time for educated American grown-ups to stand up
tall and firm, pulling others to their feet by their very
gravity. This is the time for leading the way.
STAND UP! SEND THOSE VICTORIES-- the new ones, and those of the
last few years as well. Click
here to learn how. Even if you don't have checks to scan,
send your testimonials. Learn how to do that
here.
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'?"
February 28- In 1784, John Wesley charters the
Methodist Church. In 1827, the B&O Railroad is incorporated.
In 1922, Egypt gains its independence from Britain. In 1935,
nylon is invented. In 1985, the Provisional IRA attacks the
Royal Ulster Constabulary station at Newry with mortars. In
1986, the Prime Minister of Sweden is assassinated in
Stockholm. In 1993, the BATF attempts to execute a bogus
"firearms violation" warrant by way of a massive, no-knock raid
on the home of the Branch Davidian religious sect in Waco,
Texas, as a publicity stunt. In 1998, the unmanned Global Hawk
aircraft makes its first flight. In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI
becomes the first holding his office to resign in nearly six
centuries.
"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.