"The preservation of a free government requires, not
merely that the metes and bounds which separate
each department of power be invariably maintained, but
more especially that neither of them be suffered to
overleap the great barrier which defends the rights
of the people. The rulers who are guilty of such
encroachment exceed the commission from which they derive
their authority, and are TYRANTS. The people who
submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves
nor by an authority derived from them and are slaves….."
Btw, a copy of
CtC from anywhere except the link above may not
be a current edition. CHECK. It matters. Also, there
ARE no e-book, Kindle or .pdf versions of
CtC. Don't get taken in by efforts to sell you--
or even give you for free-- any such thing.
***
JFK conspiracy? No
problem... Income Tax conspiracy? C'mon, man, don't
be silly! How could that ever happen?!
Cognitive dissonance in action.
THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF RECENT
CARRYING-ON by people
who are certain that official crimes and cover-ups were
involved in the JFK assassination. The outcries have
been prompted by the outrageous Oct. 26 renewed
sequestering of CIA records which otherwise would
shed some light on the matter.
But leaving aside the questions about
the Kennedy affair for a moment, these passionate
denunciations themselves raise a question in my
mind: How many of these same very vocal pundits and
bloggers and tweeters--
already proven able to grasp government deception and
criminality-- nonetheless refuse to acknowledge the
possibility of a government scheme concealing the
true nature of the income tax and exploiting the
consequent widespread ignorance about how the tax
actually works and on what it actually falls?
I CAN ANSWER THE QUESTION MYSELF, of
course. Many of the very same folks who are 100%
certain that the JFK assassination was--
a crime by rogue elements of the US
government itself, and
has been kept from revelation by a
much larger conspiracy, on behalf of mere
political interests and the purported benefits
of "stability" and "confidence in government" by
many participants over the decades with nothing
personal at stake--
...can't even imagine that such things
could have ever happened in regard to the income
tax.
This blindness to
the income tax scheme
(or better put, the "ignorance tax" scheme) while
simultaneously embracing the JFK assassination and
cover-up scheme is ironic.
Even the JFK conspiracy crowd itself
concedes that a really inarguable "smoking gun" in that case has yet
to see the light of day; hence the complaints over
the continued sequestration of documents. The income
tax conspiracy, on the other hand, is already
fully-revealed in all its shabby corruption, at even
more than a mere "smoking gun" level. Unlike the JFK
crimes, there are no hidden records still allowing
for the harboring of doubts.
THERE'S A FURTHER IRONY in this
cognitively dissonant embrace of the not-yet-"smoking gun"-proven
JFK scheme but not the fully-"smoking gun"-proven
"ignorance tax" scheme. This arises from the
fact that the JFK truthers' own "motive" argument--
that Kennedy's murder was committed by cold-warriors
who saw Kennedy's turn toward detente with the USSR
and Cuba as a genuine threat to national security--
is far more strongly applicable to the "ignorance tax"
scheme.
After all,
JFK was just one man-- and one who might have been
out of office before long. Further, he could be thwarted by
congress in many ways, as well as by
his military subordinates,
members of his cabinet and others. While he may have
been seen as a threat to national security, it was
very much within limits, and temporary in any event.
The "ignorance tax" scheme,
in stark contrast, is the only means available to
accomplish a perpetual and absolute "cold-warrior"
requirement of diverting a river of wealth
sufficient to pay for all the
bombs, surveillance hardware, black-ops and all the
rest of the infrastructure of the national security
state from the pockets of individual Americans into
the hands of those who imagine they know better how
to use that money. And
that's just what it does.
HERE'S A FINAL IRONY that I'll propose
in this commentary:
On November 10, a back-seat-to-nobody
JFK conspiracy enthusiast--
Jacob Hornberger of the 'Future of Freedom
Foundation'-- posted
a column in which he derides
a mainstream journalist who had interviewed John Tunheim,
the chairman of the 'Assassination Records Review
Board' set up in 1992 to decide the fate of the
unreleased JFK documents (and which ultimately
decided they should be released this past October
26). Hornberger's complaint was the failure of his
target too pursue what Hornberger thinks are obvious
questions about his favorite mystery.
Hornberger recites the following list
of speculations as to why the journalist, Chris
Hrapsky of TV station KARE in Minneapolis-St. Paul,
dropped the ball and failed to follow-up when given
an opening for questioning Tunheim about a pretty
well-supported speculation that the Kennedy autopsy
report was fraudulent:
"Perhaps it was just ignorance of the
facts that prevented Hrapsky from following up on
one of the critical questions he asked Tunheim. Or
perhaps it’s what might be called the “inconceivable
mindset” that afflicts many mainstream reporters and
commentators when it comes to the JFK assassination,
a mindset that holds that it is simply inconceivable
that the U.S. national-security establishment would
carry out a domestic regime-change operation, even
if national security ostensibly required it. Maybe
Hrapsky was scared of how his employer might react
if he made a deeper exploration into what the ARRB
found. Maybe he was worried about being labeled a
communist sympathizer or a conspiracy theorist. Or
perhaps it was just a deep-seated fear of exploring
what some consider a very frightening possibility,
one they simply cannot confront mentally or
emotionally — that the U.S. national-security
establishment acted to protect national security by
removing Kennedy from power, just as it did with
regime-change operations in Iran, Guatemala, Congo,
Cuba, Chile, and other places."
So here's the irony: Hornberger is not
only an ardent, back-seat-to-nobody JFK conspiracy
enthusiast. He is also a vocal booster of the
standard statist mythology about the income tax
(such as
here, to pick just one of many errant posts over
the years), and an
"I-refuse-to-even-look-at-the-evidence" CtC
denier,
despite having been directly presented on many
occasions over many years with every form of CtC
evidence and authorities, by me personally and a
number of other folks, as well.
Hornberger's persistent refusal to face
the truth, prompts some speculations, just as Chris Hrapsky's failure to follow up on the JFK autopsy
issue prompted Hornberger's own speculations. There
is nowhere that I have seen such speculations better
expressed than in Hornberger's own well-chosen
words, to whit:
Perhaps it is just what might be called the “inconceivable
mindset” that afflicts Hornberger when it comes to the
"ignorance tax" scheme,
a mindset that holds that it is simply inconceivable
that elements of the U.S. government would cultivate
popular misunderstanding of the income tax and then
exploit it to not-quite-illegally extract $trillions
from deceived Americans, even
if national security ostensibly required it. Maybe Hornberger
is scared of how his donors might react if he made a
deeper exploration into what
CtC reveals.
Maybe he's worried about being labeled a "tax
protester" or a conspiracy theorist. Or
perhaps it's just a deep-seated fear of exploring
what some consider a very frightening possibility,
one they simply cannot confront mentally or
emotionally — that the U.S. national-security
establishment has acted to protect national security by
a massive, sustained subterfuge, just as it has done
in covering up the truth about the removal of Kennedy from power
and the
regime-change operations in Iran, Guatemala, Congo,
Cuba, Chile, and other places.
Here's my advice for Hornberger: Next
time you've done such a fine job polishing some
well-turned phrases for the critique of someone else
playing the "See no evil" monkey, Jacob, look at
them closely. You'll see your own reflection looking
back at you.
To everyone else, I'll point out that
Jacob Hornberger is far from the only pundit who
embraces "truth" notions about JFK and other things
(often perfectly soundly) while at the same time
having an enormous blind spot regarding the thoroughly-proven,
critically-important
CtC-revealed truth about the
income tax (indeed, see Greg Sutton's reply to one
such errant pundit further down on this page). The same, of course, is true of many,
many non-pundit Americans.
USE THE POINTS MADE ABOVE TO HELP WAKE
THESE PEOPLE UP!! Like Hornberger, they don't know
what they don't know, and they simply have to be
persuaded to start looking at what they have never
actually explored.
"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be
believed."
NOTE: In light of my recent transition to alternative newsletter-announcement delivery
systems from email to "social media" posts (as well
as
RSS feed), I feel compelled to point out that for those who have it, a fear
of "social media" accounts is misplaced. Typically
all that is needed to open one is an email address,
which you already have, and possibly your age (or at
least, that you are an adult).
You don't even have
to use your real name to open these accounts,
usually. Consequently, no unwanted exposure will
occur from having a "social media" account as long
as you don't post anything personal on those
outlets.
Indeed, you don't ever have to post
anything at all on a facebook, twitter or GAB
account, but you will still get my posts. Further,
you can repost my posts on your own page (or
"re-tweet" them) and you will do much to help
advance the cause while still exposing nothing
personal about yourself.
Can "The United States"
Really Commit A Federal Crime?
For instance, is a "prosecution" which
is an express federal crime really done by "The
United States", whose Congress has prohibited the
action?
AS MOST OF YOU KNOW, MY WIFE, DOREEN,
is facing another session in Rm. 101. The scheduled
abuse is punishment for Doreen's refusal to "get her
head right" and believe what the state wants her to
believe (or at least to say she does, over her sworn
signature).
For those unfamiliar, here's the
backstory, in a nutshell: The Tax Division of the
DoJ badly wants to be able to say that what Doreen
and I received in 2002 and 2003 was "income", and
that we owed tax for those years
in the hope that it would confuse
CtC-educated
Americans, discourage others from becoming
CtC-educated,
and dissuade media attention to the
CtC story.
But it cannot do so
without a declaration by one or both of us that this
is true (because it isn't, and
no one in the
government will himself say otherwise), and we had
already said under oath that these things aren't
true.
THE AGENCY'S SOLUTION was to
contrive a
bogus court order in 2007 demanding that we
repudiate our sworn testimony and replace it with
words written by the agency, over sworn signatures,
and with no disclaimers. In the face of our refusal
to create these false statements, Doreen has been
subjected to relentless abuse by the agency
for the last 4 1/2 years, with the
cooperation of a number of federal judges. It had
been hoped that the pressure and pain would cause
her to crack and issue the desired lies.
This past September the demand for the
false statements was finally abandoned. But Doreen was
ordered to report to a federal prison a second time
anyway,
for a bit more suffering as a parting slap by
the frustrated criminals for her temerity in
continuing to refuse their illegal demands.
Shortly after the issuance of that
sentence, and having become aware of a statute
explicitly criminalizing the orders over which
Doreen was charged, we filed a Motion to Vacate her
conviction. See it
here (and see the accompanying exhibits
here).
SO HERE'S A THOUGHT that occurred to me
the other day in light of the issue raised and the
arguments made in the motion to vacate: The United
States Congress is, Constitutionally, the
pre-eminent branch of the federal government (that
is, of the "United States"), notwithstanding lip
service paid to "co-equal branches" and all that.
Just consider the fact that Congress can bind the
executive by legislation, and can preclude
jurisdiction to the courts, for instance, not to
mention the power of impeachment.
In any event, Congress certainly is the
"United States" at least as much as is the executive
branch, and is explicitly the portion of the "United
States" empowered to determine what acts constitute
criminal offenses against the "United States" or are
subject to "United States" prosecutions. So in light
of these facts, can a purported prosecution that is
itself an act criminalized by Congress-- that is,
which is an offense the "United States" as
determined by the branch authorized to make such
decisions, actually be an act of, or on behalf of,
the United States?
To put it another way, can the "United
States" actually be the actor involved in committing
a federal crime? Doesn't the fact that Doreen's
prosecution is a federal crime mean that it is not
really being done by the "United States" at all
(since the United States has said it is prohibited)?
Hasn't Doreen's prosecution and persecution actually
been done just by rogue actors at the Department of
Justice pretending to represent the "United States"?
It seems to me that this takes one
directly into the territory in which the law-abiding
courts have recognized exceptions to
conduct-of-office-immunity, by operation of the same
principles, as, for instance,
"[An] officer may be sued...if he acts
in excess of his statutory authority or in violation
of the Constitution for then he ceases to represent
the Government."
Brookfield Co. v. Stewart
, 234 F. Supp 94, 99 (U.S.D.C., Wash. D.C. 1964)
I'M FINDING THESE QUESTIONS intriguing.
I will welcome and appreciate the comments of anyone
caring to give them thoughtful consideration.
A FEW FOLKS SEEKING internal IRS
documentation connected with alleged "frivolous
return penalties" by personal visits to local
'Taxpayer Assistance Centers' have been treated to
runarounds by the agents with whom they have dealt.
These have amusingly ranged from an affected blank
stare and professed ignorance of even what forms
8278 and 12775 might be, to declarations that the
person asking-- the one who has been threatened with
the alleged penalty-- has no right to see these
forms.
This sporadic stonewalling is doubtless
practiced in recognition of the fact that if these
forms were not produced and approved in the required
manner and by the required several parties specified
in the relevant authorities, there has been no valid
FRP asserted or assessed (and if the forms and such
HAVE been produced and approved and so forth, but
indicate a
fake list basis or other flaws, then again,
there has been no valid FRP asserted or assessed).
Here is how, for instance, the requirement and
significance of the form the 8278 is specified in
the law and in the IRM:
26 U.S.C. § 6751-
Procedural requirements
(b) Approval of assessment
(1) In general
No penalty under this title
shall be assessed unless the initial determination
of such assessment is personally approved (in
writing) by the immediate supervisor of the
individual making such determination or such higher
level official as the Secretary may designate.
I.R.M. 25.25.10.8.1
(09-30-2016):
Penalty Case Creation
1. Frivolous returns/claims
will have been screened and forwarded for penalty
processing after one of the following scenarios:
A. Taxpayer responded to
the Letter 3176C/CP 72, but the response was not
received timely (late response).
Note: Ensure an extension
was not granted before processing response as
untimely.
B. Taxpayer responded to
the Letter 3176C/CP 72 with frivolous return or
correspondence.
C. Suspense period of
Letter 3176C has expired and no response received.
2. Create a new issue on
FRP Master and select applicable action code, for
each penalty being assessed from the list available
on FRP Master.
3. Research account for the
specific tax period to ensure that all receipts are
considered in the determination.
Reminder:
DO NOT ESTAB [a
command code for requesting screen images in order
to check for input errors -PH] for documents if the
return is electronic. ESTAB all paper returns. Prior
to receipt, if research supports that a paper return
is frivolous, create issue and follow established
work process. Upon receipt of return, scan into FRP
Master Database and attach image to issue number.
4. Review any taxpayer
replies to ensure that penalties are not assessed if
any corrected, non-frivolous returns were filed.
5. Review taxpayer account
for pertinent freezes or controls and work
accordingly.
6. Prepare Form 8278,
Assessment and Abatement of Miscellaneous Civil
Penalties, indicating:
Taxpayer's name
Tax Period
TIN
Next to "6702 (a)
Frivolous tax return" input the form that is
frivolous and the received date
Input ‘X’ (X=number of
penalties being assessed) or "Number of
Violations"
Input "$X" for the
"Amount Assessed " ,(X= $5,000 times the number
of penalties being assessed)
Provide at least
one argument number as basis for the penalty in
the remarks section.
signature date - the
earliest date the return/claim was signed by the
taxpayer. If no signature, write "N/A"
"Originator" :
Technician’s name
Date: today's date
Organization Code:
Employee IDRS number
Phone: Technician or
manager’s phone number
Note: If assessing
more than one tax period, fill out a separate Form
8278 for each tax period. Multiple assessments of
identical penalties for the same taxpayer in the
same tax period may be consolidated on Form 8278,
Assessment and Abatement of Miscellaneous Civil
Penalties, as a single assessment if assessed at the
same time. Pursuant to IRC Section 6751(b), written
management approval must be indicated before
assessing the IRC Section 6702 penalty. This written
managerial approval should be indicated on Form
8278.
7. Update activity on the
CC TXMOD control to "2APPROV" .
8. Submit case for written
approval on Form 8278, "Assessment and Abatement of
Miscellaneous Civil Penalties" .
25.25.10.8.2 (09-15-2017)
Penalty Assessment
1. Upon written managerial
approval for penalty assessment on Form 8278,
Assessment and Abatement of Miscellaneous Civil
Penalties, establish a CC TXMOD control on MFT 55
using CC ACTON with the activity "8278APPRVD" . Scan
the approved Form 8278 into FRP Master and attach to
applicable penalty issues when selecting the
appropriate closing code.
Reminder:
For joint filing status
frivolous returns, assess penalty on each taxpayer
by creating CC TXMOD MFT 55 on each TIN.
Those undertaking this important
inquiry-- whether in hope of qualifying for
the Pushback Project (there's still time,
barely...) or for other reasons-- should do so armed with this information.
It should help dispel the evasions and result in
satisfaction of these important and completely
legitimate requests.
Do
yourself and society a favor-- read this to your
kids.
THANKSGIVING DAY IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE
special days of the year, and not because of the
great food. The real virtues of this unique American
celebration lie in the lessons in humility and
maturity offered by its history.
The virtuous lessons to which I refer
are offered only by Thanksgiving's true history,
however. That true history is the exact opposite of
the bogus, "Thank God (sorry... politically
incorrect... make that, "Thank Fortuitous Random
Chance") we were saved from starvation by the
generosity of our neighbors-- see how wonderful
socialism can be!" nonsense which too many Americans
have been misled into imagining to be the truth.
In fact, the feast we commemorate on
the fourth Thursday of November had nothing
whatsoever to do with "generosity". What we actually
commemorate on Thanksgiving is the Plymouth Rock
colonists' recognition of the evils of socialism and
the goodness of Adam Smith's "invisible hand" of
profit-motivation unleashed by security in property
rights.
It was that 11th-hour epiphany after a
disastrous experiment with communitarian soulfulness
that saved the colony from starvation. Thanks be to
God, indeed, for that merciful and timely grant of
wisdom.
IN VERY BRIEF SUMMARY, the Plymouth
Rock colony began as a commune, organized under the
principle that the proceeds of every individual's
labors would be claimed of right by the community as
a whole, and then redistributed in equal measure to
every member. This system lasted for several years,
during which the colony grew ever more hungry and
impoverished.
Unable to keep the fruit of their
labors for themselves, and with the unproductive
receiving the same out of the communal resources as
those who worked hard, soon no one worked hard. To
do so was a fool's game.
The only competition un-smothered by
the communitarian rule was the race to the bottom in
the avoidance of labor. Every year the crops were
thinner; every year the shares distributed to each
colonist were more meager.
Finally, in 1623 and on the verge of
the colony's failure (that is, the death of all the
colonists), the feel-good socialist lunacy was
recognized as the deadly mental virus that it is.
The ruinous pretense that the community had a
rightful claim on the food produced by each member
was abandoned, and the colonist's rights to their
own production was secured.
As it was recounted (in third-person
format) in 1623 by William Bradford, Governor of the
Colony:
...so they began to think how they
might raise as much corn as they could, and obtain a
better crop than they had done, that they might not
still thus languish in misery.
At length, after much debate of
things, the Governor (with the advice of the
chiefest amongst them) gave way that they should set
corn every man for his own particular, and in that
regard trust to themselves; in all other things to
go on in the general way as before. And so assigned
to every family a parcel of land, according to the
proportion of their number, for that end, only for
present use (but made no division for inheritance)
and ranged all boys and youth under some family.
This had very good success, for it
made all hands very industrious, so as much more
corn was planted than otherwise would have been by
any means the Governor or any other could use, and
saved him a great deal of trouble, and gave far
better content. The women now went willingly into
the field, and took their little ones with them to
set corn; which before would allege weakness and
inability; whom to have compelled would have been
thought great tyranny and oppression.
Thus, the deadly madness of socialism
was replaced with a pragmatic expression of two
natural laws: 1.
no
person (and no group of persons, acting under
whatever title or label or pretense it may) can
rightfully dictate the disposal of the product of
another's labor; and 2.
no society can violate a natural law without
suffering the harmful consequences. It was only then
that the colony had its first bountiful harvest, for
which the members properly gave thanks.
IT IS THE BENEFICIAL CONSEQUENCE of the
Plymouth Rock Colony's epiphany concerning the
destructive follies of socialism and the rewarding
virtues of natural law that we have celebrated on
Thanksgiving over the years. Here is William
Bradford again, expressing the lesson taken by these
ancestors of the American revolutionaries of a
century-and-a-half hence:
The experience that was had in this
common course and condition, tried sundry years and
that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince
the vanity of that conceit of Plato's and other
ancients applauded by some of later times; that the
taking away of property and bringing in community
into a commonwealth would make them happy and
flourishing; as if they were wiser than God.
Needless to say, the experience of the
Plymouth Rock Colony was firmly in the American
memory at the time that our founding principles were
spelled out. It is unsurprising that the colonists'
hard-won wisdom deeply informs the Declaration of
Independence, the principles enshrined in which are
declared to be the Laws of Nature and of Nature's
God.
It is unsurprising that the Articles of
Confederation and our federal and various state
Constitutions are constructed around the core
principle that no government (which is, in theory,
the agent of the community acting as a whole) has a
claim of right to any property other than its own,
or that which is produced by the exercise of its own
unique prerogatives. The Plymouth Rock Colonists
taught us the fatal folly of having things any other
way.
THE VIRTUOUS LESSONS LEARNED by the
Plymouth Rock Colony's near-disastrous experiment
with a fancied and prideful "alternative" to the
basic reality of natural law is well-worth the
giving of thanks. So is the wisdom of our Founders
in taking those lessons to heart and hardwiring them
into our American legal structure.
With these things firmly in mind as the
real reasons for celebration, I wish you all a Happy
Thanksgiving. I hope that it finds you all well, and
leaves you all comfortably stuffed with the good
food and good cheer for which this holiday is
casually and warmly known.
But I also hope that you all dwell for
a few minutes on the more sober aspects of this
commemoration. I especially hope you see to it that
your children understand the truth (rather than the
warm fuzzy fictions that they have been taught in
their government schools and through the mindless
popular culture).
The real lessons of Thanksgiving are
very important lessons. Our societal well-being
depends on those lessons remaining embedded in our
American consciousness and institutions.
It has been famously and wisely
observed that those who allow themselves to be
ignorant of history lessons are doomed to repeat
them, and we don't want our children or
grandchildren to have to repeat this one. The good
Lord might not be so forgiving of their arrogance
the second time around.
A simple way for everyone to get a lot
done, fast, that no one is doing.
SO, A MONTH AGO I posted the following
on this page (and it has remained here ever since):
IF EVERY STATE GROUP (or anyone else) were
to devote some time and effort
to scheduling and hosting presentations of
this video to CPA and legal firms, a whole lot of
good could be done in a very short order.
The requirements are simple. Book an hour
with the chosen firm, with the understanding that all
professional staff will be assembled for the presentation.
A thoughtful introduction should make this inexpensive
and easy.
Explain that all you are asking for is
an opportunity to show a video in which some facts about
the income tax are revealed on the basis of which tens
of thousands of Americans have recovered $billions from
the IRS and three dozen state tax agencies over the
course of more than 14 years now, by way of a quarter
of a million claims made with the tax agencies, and
even in the face of agency resistance of several different
kinds.
SOME FIRMS MAY SHOO YOU AWAY, certainly.
But some will not.
Arrive at the appointed hour in a group,
dressed business casual or better and groomed for church.
Have your most articulate, persuasive speaker take the
lead, but all be alert and attentive, sending out a
calm, confident and positive vibe.
Understand and communicate with your demeanor
that you are not there to debate anything. Rather, you
are there to show these folks things they don't know,
and need to know.
Bring a big monitor, speakers and a laptop
with which you can access the video. Rehearse and be
able to make your connections and be up and running
in moments with no fuss.
Play the video. Hand out printed copies
of
this document to everyone in attendance. Thank your
audience for their time and attention, and take your
leave.
When out of sight, clap each other on the
back for an important job well done and head out for
your next appointment (or to a nice group meal to celebrate,
compare notes and plan your next activist outing).
NOW, I DON'T THINK ANYONE CAN SAY that
this program is too difficult. And I can't imagine
that anyone would argue that there is no chance of
some serious good being done if any given individual
or group in a "tax profession" saw that video and
read that document.
But I haven't heard from ONE person
that has undertaken to do this.
I hear from all of you all the time
telling me about how hard it is to get through to
the people you try to introduce to CtC's liberating,
republic-restoring revelations. So I go to the
trouble of writing wake-up paper after wake-up
paper.
I even do a power-point of a
seriously-revealing, seriously comprehensive but
still short and accessible compilation and arrange
to be filmed presenting it, so that YOU will have it
as a tool for the kind of activism I explain in the
simplest, most "Insert tab "A" into slot "B"..."
fashion. And what happens?
Nothing.
It's a shame. You can't score the goal
if you don't take the shot, my friends.
"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."
THE ALWAYS EXCELLENT
CtC WARRIOR GREG
SUTTON has taken a great shot at educating another of
the many pundits who,
like Jacob Hornberger discussed above, get lots of eyeball time
talking about the income tax and related subjects
while knowing nothing at all about the subject (and
thus doing harm by spreading their own
misunderstandings). In this case the pundit is
Laurence Vance, and the column that prompted Greg's
ministrations can be seen
here.
In his column Vance natters on about
federal unemployment insurance as though he is
equipped to do so, while plainly having no clue
about its actual legal character. Here is Greg,
doing his civic duty in educating this fellow
American about this very important subject:
Hey Laurence, there is an
old adage that when reading and analyzing law there
are three things that must be continually observed:
context, context and context. And yes your article
misses all three of them!
One of the first decisions
of the Supreme Court noted that Federal jurisdiction
was extremely limited. What type or class of
employees or employers would fall within this very
limited jurisdiction? Who can Congress tax, surtax,
provide retirement benefits for, provide
unemployment compensation benefits for, and
otherwise generally regulate? Duh! Its own
employees, employers, instrumentalities, contractors
and anybody else that falls under the teeny weeny
Federal umbrella. Can the states voluntarily join in
the fun so that their employees, employers,
instrumentalities, contractors etc. are covered
under the partnership? The Supreme Court said yes in
Stewart Machine. The court also noted that
the employment and unemployment surtaxes to the
general income tax were excises or privilege taxes
just like the income tax they were appended to. So,
under the Constitution only those who voluntarily
engage in the exercise of federal privilege, of
whatever sort, can these taxes and regulations
apply.
This severe limitation of
its applicability has confounded many a progressive
legislator. The question was how to make it a
universal tax without actually changing the law from
that of an excise to that of a capitation or direct
tax, which a universal tax on everything that comes
in would be, without apportionment. In order to get
the general populace on the privilege tax rolls they
had to get them to sign up for a Federal privilege.
That was the actual purpose of the felonious
misapplication of the Social Security Act: to get
everyone who signed up, be they actual Federal
employees or employers or not, presumptively
privileged. When withholding kicked in during WWII
the government sent everyone who claimed to be an
employer pursuant to the Social Security Act tax
forms to begin withholding from themselves and their
so-called employees. To get away with all these
shenanigans and shut any naysayers up, the
government and its intellectual camp-followers
resorted to a claimed Constitutional authority.
This supposedly apparent
authority was the 16th Amendment, which they claimed
had allowed a capitation or direct income tax
without apportionment. The desperation of this claim
is measured by the fact that the Supreme Court in
Brushaber in 1916 had specifically rejected this
argument which had been popularized by progressive
political economists and their adoring journalists
during the ratification process of the 16th
Amendment and after. The Supreme Court had taken
this large bundle of appeals cases known as
Brushaber to forever settle the issue of the
purpose and scope of the 16th Amendment and the true
nature of the income tax, to stop the flurry of
litigation that the claims of these progressive
political economists had brought. The Brushaber
court decided unanimously that the income tax was an
excise and was enforced as such, and further, that
the purpose of the Amendment was to overturn the
Pollock decision and the scope was to return the
tax to what it was before the Pollock
decision had exempted privileged income derived from
the millions of acres of Federal land granted to the
railroads to assist them with the financing of the
building of the roads.
Unfortunately the scheme
worked without a hitch. War is the health of the
State after all. Everyone felt compelled to
contribute to the new Paternal State and the
proffered details of the authorities and methods
used to accomplish this Fair Share ideal were never
questioned. Until now.
I urge you to take a little
time and learn the real truth about the income tax.
I suggest you start here:
ED FROM PENNSYLVANIA shares a refund of
a local mis-application of the tax:
***
And VINCENT AND SHELLY T.'s (quirky) notice
of their latest victory for the rule of law is now posted:
I say quirky because this notice
declares only a victory-in-progress.
Vincent and Shelly's claim was for the full amount
listed in this notice ($17,026). The IRS acknowledges
that the couple received no "wages" or "income" under
any other name (and refunds the normal tax accordingly),
but is still taking a shot at keeping the FICA surtaxes
collected from them, even though those also only arise
upon the receipt of "wages" everyone agrees were not
received...
It's a shame that bad apples in the IRS
sometimes make things difficult for good people like
Vincent and Shelly. But of course, no sensible person
expects liberty to always come easily.
ANYWAY, HATS OFF to Emily, David, Ed, Vincent
and Shelly!
These good Americans have all stepped up
and acted to restrain the dangerous and corrupt state
and uphold the rule of law, something desperately needed
from everyone.
Emily, David, Ed, Vincent and Shelly's
victories join those of the tens of thousands of other
awakened and activated Americans represented
here, and constitute more critical steps toward
the restoration of
the Founders republic and the true rule of law.
Don't you wish your victories were proudly
posted, too?
*I don't really know the exact numbers
of these latest posted victories, only that they are
likely to be at a minimum somewhere in the neighborhood
indicated, and actually likely to be a good deal higher.
See
this for the calculation factors, which you can
apply for yourself.
I assign the numbers as I do in the title
of this post in order to make a point-- whatever the
exact numbers are, they are enormously large, and represent
a hugely important and utterly unique sustained series
of events in American history. And yet, the vast majority
of Americans KNOW NOTHING WHATEVER ABOUT IT.
How can this be? Doesn't ANYONE reading
these newsletters and familiar with these events know
a journalist?
The degree to which this all goes unremarked
just boggles the mind. I hope and pray that this silence,
this muffling of the liberating truth, ends soon, and
I ask any of you that can help to please do so.
DON DON LA VIGNE, a long-time warrior
and real American grown-up, shares a nice and inspiring
testimonial on what
CtC has done for him for over nine years now:
A Fine Presentation On The
Pernicious Practice Of "Civil Asset Forfeiture"
Another excellent video by Jerry Day.
THE INVOCATION OF RIGHTS of which Jerry
speaks can be found as a .pdf
here. The large-scale solution to the legal and
paradigmatic pollution within which things like
"civil asset forfeiture" become normalized can be
found
here.
Say, wouldn't it be nice if Jerry Day
were to do one of his excellent videos about the
CtC suppression campaign? Sure would. Maybe
those of you who know him should urge him to do
so...
"Like a muddied stream or a polluted fountain
is the righteous man who gives way before the wicked."
-Proverbs 25:26
"A nation of sheep begets a government
of wolves."
CAN CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE how abysmally
stupid someone would have to be to continue to doubt
or deny that
CtC has revealed the actual, complete and insurmountable
truth about the income tax in light of the overwhelming
mountain of
historical,
legal,
practical and
logical evidence to the contrary? (Not to mention
the
outright lies and even
ludicrous hoaxes the executive and some corrupt
members of the judiciary have been caught at in desperate
efforts to conceal the truth...)
Plainly any such denier must either be
abysmally stupid or be an abysmally corrupt government
official or other person who sees him or herself as
benefitting from the lies about the tax by which America
has suffered for 75 years now.
Isn't this true?
I HOI HOPE NOBODY OUT THERE is tolerating
a single
CtC denier anywhere within the "tax honesty" or
"activist" communities. Such people-- and they are definitely
out there, flogging their pet
tin-foil-hat theories-- are the millstone around
the neck of the rest of us, keeping the truth about
the tax from getting the audience it needs in order
to bring about the transformation of the American landscape
which it is uniquely capable of doing.
Nor should anyone be tolerating denial,
either implicit or explicit, by any lawyer, accountant,
journalist, judge, elected official or bureaucrat. "Denial"
by any of these types is collusion and corruption, or
rank cowardice at best.
MORE, DENIAL OF THE OBVIOUS AND STATE-RESTRAINING
TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX might have a sinister aspect, as
well. The State, whose growth and power are made possible
by the lies about the tax which the deniers enable,
is the mechanism by which some exercise control over
others through the application (or credible threat)
of violence.
The bulked-up State, in short, is the means
by which some rule others. The larger the State, the
more successfully it rules, and the more easily it can
brush aside or overpower Constitutionally-based objections
to its edicts, exploitations and abuses.
I don't personally imagine a long-running,
deliberate and closely-controlled effort to subjugate
the American people. I discuss this in the "Interlude"
portion of
CtC, as many of you will recall, where I argue instead
that the only large-scale and long-running "conspiracy"
in America is a soft one-- a coincidental conspiracy
of interests.
In my view America suffers from Adam Smith's
"invisible hand" in reverse: the evil effect of many
individuals unwisely entrusted with too much power who,
in using it to look out for their own interests individually,
work a massive harm to society.
But the growth of the State unquestionably
serves to create the tool by which deliberate subjugation
could be accomplished. Indeed, the overgrown State made
uniquely possible by the misapplication of the income
tax is the ONLY means by which the American people could
be subjugated.
And who knows? Maybe I'm wrong in my view,
and those seeing a darker picture are right.
Warrior Rick Van Camp recently shared with
me a few words from that darker perspective which ends
with a key point that is just as cogent whether you
see Leviathan growing among us for the one reason or
the other:
In 1913 Woodrow Wilson stated:
“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s
views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest
men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and
manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that
there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle,
so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive,
that they better not speak above their breath when they
speak in condemnation of it.”
And this continues today. When
opportunistic liars like Al Gore can make hundreds of
millions from outright lies and manipulation of Science
while producing a "carbon footprint" of at least 100
people, when a treasonous dog like Obama can plot the
overthrow of an elected President in Public and get
away with it without a whimper from the so-called Press,
or the Congress; when tens of millions of "Americans"
can vote for a continuation of nanny-state entitlements
while allowing their children to be indoctrinated by
those who would continue them as children, when a once-proud
and independent people submit reflexively to a militarized
State army of (now armed) bureaucratic functionaries
who grope their women and young daughters in airports
and soon bus and train stations, invade their homes
on the slightest pretext (more than 50,000 SWAT raids
last year) and terrorize, injure and sometimes murder
innocents...
That organized, subtle and
watchful power is HERE, among us, and in your face.
And YOU pay for it.
YOU PAY FOR IT. That's the big point.
If you're a
CtC denier, it doesn't matter whether what's going
on is grayish or pitch-black-- either way, YOU'RE PAYING
FOR IT.
I don't mean, "You're paying the price,
sweetie". I mean YOU ARE PERSONALLY FINANCING WHAT IS
BEING DONE TO YOU AND TO YOUR CHILDREN AND TO THIS WONDERFUL
COUNTRY. And you're doing so voluntarily, and in most
cases, simply because you refuse to learn or accept
what
CtC has revealed. In a word, you're daft.
And as for "official" and "professional"
CtC deniers, you're the ones keeping the lie
going to which the daft succumb. There's a word for
that, too. Despicable.
"It is impossible to calculate the moral
mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying
has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted
and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe
his professional belief to things he does not believe
he has prepared himself for the commission of every
other crime."
-Thomas Paine
***
LITTLE BIT OF A P. S. on this article:
I have to cut a pass to a lot of folks out there not
yet embracing
CtC and acting on its revelations to help transform
America. I'm talking about the huge majority of folks
who have never heard of any of this, or who have only
seen the lies and smears and pretenses of "official"
resistance to
CtC (such as are discussed
here,
here,
here and
here).
These folks effectively serve as weight
on the deniers' side of the scale-- and also finance
the Beast-- because I haven't been able to get my videos
or other liberation information to them. I'm talking
about your Uncle Jerry (or Aunt Sally, or Junior, or
your buddy Sam, or whoever).
I haven't been able to get my liberating
information to these folks because I DON'T KNOW THEM.
I have no contact info, and I wouldn't know the best
way to speak to them, even if I did.
YOU have to speak to these folks, and introduce
and share the material. Think about it. When was the
last time you forwarded one of my videos around to
everyone in your
address book?
Do you not do it because you don't think
your family, friends and acquaintances would be interested?
You're wrong. Last autumn 62,979,879 Americans voted
for Donald Trump in the hope that he would restore the
republic. Plenty of people are interested in freedom
and the rule of law.
In aIn a minute you're going to watch Arron
Reeves' wonderful video on his awakening to the truth
about the tax, and what that means to him. Are you going
to share it as widely as the next Kardashian video will
get shared? I hope so.
It is because that DOESN'T get done that
"official" deniers get away with it. I want you to think
about that.
Do you want to get to where you don't have
to file claims for the return of your property at all,
because it never got diverted in the first place? That
will happen the moment that my videos get a million
viewings in a few weeks like some do, instead of struggling
for a year or more to reach a few thousand. It won't
happen before that.
The "official" deniers can control a slow
burning fire. Our fire has to get vigorous, and
only you can make that happen.
An old joke, but in regard to this deceiver,
not a laughing matter at all.
““When principles that run against your
deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle
is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must,
at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions
bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your
faith.
Looking For A Litigator Who
Wants To Do Well While Doing Good
THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENT presents details
of a long-running (and still-ongoing) violation of the
speech, conscience and due-process rights of two Americans.
The offenses, in a nutshell, involve a federal district
court attempting to dictate to these two folks-- word
for word-- sworn "testimony" they are ordered to make
in a legal contest with the government.
Click the link below to read the brief.
You'll find it thoroughly supported with relevant testimony
by the chief perpetrator and other similarly unambiguous
exhibits.
"Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never did and it never will. 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, and these will continue till they have been
resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The
limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of
those whom they suppress."
-Frederick Douglass
"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."
…The US may be
the only country in the world where people working
in the non-federal private sector must commit
perjury in order to owe and pay ‘God’s things
to Caesar’?
If you work in the
private sector, stop falsely swearing that your
private-sector earnings are federal “income”1.
Perjury is a crime. Exercise the law’s
provision for protecting your private-sector
earnings from the 154-year-old2 indirect
excise known as the federal income tax.
Rebut fraudulent allegations made by your payers
regarding the legal nature of your work and
the earnings derived therefrom, so that you
pay only your fair share. Join the hundreds
of thousands of honest, law-abiding Americans
who have been doing so for more than a decade.
Learn how for free at losthorizons.com.
1--“We must reject…
…the broad contention submitted in behalf of
the government that all receipts—everything
that comes in—are income…”.
United States Supreme
Court, So. Pacific v. Lowe, 247 U.S. 330, (1918)
2—The income tax in
the United States was first instituted into
law on July 1, 1862, during Lincoln’s presidency
under the excise laws of the United States.
The preamble to the 1939 Internal Revenue Code
traces its roots to this original income tax
law.
Trolls Against The Truth: A
Dis-Information Campaign
UNLESS YOU'VE LOOKED, you can have no idea
of the volume, intensity and mendacity deployed in the
government's efforts to discourage Americans from learning
what is revealed in
CtC. It's truly astonishing.
A lot of folks are aware of the show-trial
events in which my wife and I have received state-engineered
public beatings meant to scare people away from the
truth about the "ignorance tax" scam. But many are unaware
of the overall campaign. This is a shame, really, because
a focused propaganda effort like this one is a very
powerful acknowledgement of the significance of
CtC's revelations.
While the majority of Americans do not
yet know how
CtC protects them from the vampire state, the vampire
itself certainly does. Dis-information campaigns like
this one make that very clear.
FORMER CBS REPORTER SHERYL ATKISSON describes
some aspects of this sort of dis-information campaign
in the following video. Despite the annoying preliminary
15 seconds or so of advertising, her presentation is
very much worth watching:
(H/T to Greg Belcher for finding
and forwarding this great presentation.)
Losthorizons.com is one of those websites specifically-targeted
by the corrupt interests at Wikipedia described by Atkisson.
The behind-the-scenes folks at that site won't allow
links on their pages to anything posted at
losthorizons.com, nor even just text corrections
of misinformation in their pages about the income tax.
That's the least of it. Click
here for some specific discussion of the enormous
scare campaign that's been actively spreading false
information in hope of discouraging legitimate media
attention, as well as men and women simply seeking the
truth about the tax and liberty from the scourge of
the "ignorance tax".
PLEASE GIVE SOME SERIOUS THOUGHT to the
fact that YOU being secure in your own freedom rests
on others learning the truth as well, and recognize
that it falls to you to help overcome the dis-information
campaign. Post and share
your videos;
share your victories; help silence the agents-provocateur
and distraction-injectors whose nonsense is discussed
and debunked
here; and widely (and frankly, impatiently) share
this page,
this page and
this page, challenging everyone in your address
book to disconnect the phone and the TV for an afternoon
and get educated.
Doing these things will be what makes it
happen, Cap'n.
An Excellent New Video About
The Government Effort To Suppress CtC Has Hit YouTube!
DEREK CUSHMAN HAS POSTED a powerful presentation
on government lies, propaganda and misinformation about
CtC designed to discourage more Americans from reading
the book and getting free of the misadministration of
the tax:
Watch it and share it, folks. This film
will help a lot of people who have been taken in by
the lies understand how they've been manipulated, and
prompt a proper desire to learn the truth about the
tax.
Well done, Derek!
P.S. If there were a thousand videos out
there debunking government lies and encouraging Americans
to learn the truth like this one does, the "ignorance
tax" scheme would collapse in a month. So,
where's yours?
Please Help losthorizons.com
Be As Effective As Possible!
OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS I've heard from
a number of folks that a firewall known as "Comodo"
blocks access to this website. This is apparently a
glitch in that program. This site is safe, as can be
seen by going
here.
Please share this info with others in your
own address book so it gets around-- obviously those
suffering the ill effects of this defect in Comodo won't
be able to see it here themselves until they go into
their firewall settings and manually whitelist
losthorizons.com.
MY FRIENDS, THIS NEWSLETTER NEEDS your
creativity, your clear thinking, and your expressive
energy! In short, this newsletter needs your journalism!
I know that writing for public consumption
isn't everyone's cup of tea. But those who CAN string
a few words together can importantly serve the educated,
activist community by writing and submitting thoughtful,
well-researched and persuasive articles on certain topics
for posting on these pages.
Here are several topics for which submissions
are desired:
Why the media is silent about the astonishing
13-years-and-counting history of government acknowledgements
of the accuracy of CtC's revelations and its simultaneous
efforts to keep Americans from knowing about those
revelations.
Why educating more Americans about
the true history and actual provisions of the income
tax is the most important thing that anyone seeking
to restrain the state and restore the republic can
do today.
Why "tax honesty gurus" stay mum about
CtC and its unprecedented accomplishments in freeing
people from improper application of the tax.
Why hunkering down in every-man-for-himself
silence in the face of statist and fascist assaults
on the rule of law leads to greater harm than what
is hunkered-down against; that is, how fearful behavior
just strengthens the thing feared.
How much better it is to encourage
(and practice) bravery, honesty and openness than
to counsel (and succumb to) fear, lies and concealment.
Articles should be 1500 words or less,
with working titles and author's name at the beginning.
Composition should strive for two and three sentence
paragraphs organized in the form of a theme paper. Intend
to persuade and inspire, not browbeat. Format should
be either .doc or .odt. All submissions selected for
posting may be subject to editing.
Submit to the regular (non-encrypted) address
found
here, as an attachment to an email.
In Passing... Three cheers
for Russia, which has stepped up to join Iran
in aid of its long-time ally Syria against the
noxious "Islamic State" nutcases that have sprung
up like toadstools in the wake of the destabilization
of the Middle East by the noxious neocon nutcases
running Washington for the last 15 years.
More Educated Americans Testify,
Showing Why The Deep State Fears CtC
"If the taxpayers of this country ever
discovered that we operate on 98% bluff, the entire
system will collapse."
-Reported remark by an internal revenue
service officer to Sen. Henry E. Bellmon (R. Okla.)
on April 15, 1971.
"The Tax Code represents the genius of
legal fiction... The IRS has never really known
why people pay the income tax... The IRS encourages
voluntary compliance, through FEAR."
-Jack Warren Wade Jr., former IRS officer
in charge of the IRS Nationwide Revenue Officer Training
Program, in his book ‘When You Owe The IRS’
CtC-EDUCATED, AMERICAN HERITAGE-LOVING
grown-up Joe Black shares his testimony
here. Tom Romin shares
his testimony
here. Greg Sutton shares his
here. Enjoy Robert Harvey's testimony
here. Joe's, Tom's and Greg's and
Robert's words, like those of others that can be found
here, are solid examples of why the Deep State fears
CtC.
It's this simple: If you study
CtC you will know the truth about the tax.
Further, you will know that you know the truth,
beyond any doubt.
ONLY
CtC will give you that certainty, because
CtC is exclusively and uniquely complete and correct,
as can be seen by any of thousands of different acknowledgements
of every possible kind, from
this to
this to
this to
this.
Most telling, in its own way, is the government
robotically resorting for years now to the strawman
of
falsely ascribing to CtC the ridiculous arguments
that "wages are not income" and that only federal, state
and local government workers are subject to the tax.
This false ascription is then used as the basis for
claiming the book is "false and frivolous"-- a lame
and transparent dodge begging the question of why the
state won't acknowledge what the book
REALLY says and then attempt to dispute THAT.
Once you know the truth revealed in
CtC, acting in accordance with that truth WILL liberate
you from being an ignorance tax serf. This, the deep
state fears mightily.
FURTHER, ACTING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THAT
deeply-known truth can NEVER legitimately qualify as
any kind of a "tax crime", or for any penalties or fines.
This is not only because what
CtC teaches about the law and the tax is technically
and legally correct, but also because all tax crimes
are crimes of "intent" and all penalties rest for their
legitimacy on "intent".
An educated filing in sincere accordance
with what is known and believed to be true and correct
cannot be lawfully treated as invalid, criminal or subject
to penalty. Any effort by the state to claim otherwise
is inherently corrupt.
Nor can any accurate and truthful filing
be overcome by any lawful means, which is why the state
is so focused on forcing Doreen to declare that she
doesn't believe what
CtC teaches, with the openly-declared hope that
her doing so would discourage other Americans from acting
on what they also believe.
In short, the "ignorance tax" scheme can
only survive if Americans can be bluffed into not seeking
out the truth, and if those who learn that truth can
be discouraged from acting on that truth.
But those who know the truth, and know
they know the truth, cannot not act.
Acting on the truth is a moral imperative,
as well as a legal imperative.
The undaunted actions of those who know
the truth are "calls" against the bluff. Each "call"
ratchets-up the spread of the truth exponentially and
forces state acknowledgement of that truth, one way
or another; and each such acknowledgment takes America
one step closer to
freedom
from the 75-year state-unleashing, people-restraining
"ignorance tax" scheme.
I HAVE DONE MY BEST to lead this country
to liberty from the mis-applied income tax. I have labored
hard. I've shed a lot of sweat, a fair bit of blood
and more than a few tears. But I seem to be pretty poor
at that kind of work.
When I have asked all of you for what I
firmly believe is a necessary resource to move the ball
downfield and give all of us the best chance at justice
and an end to the assault on the rule of law-- simple
testimonial videos requiring nothing from any of you
but the phone in your pocket and three minutes of speaking
from the heart-- I have had only a handful of people
answer my call.
I CAN'T KEEP GOING THIS WAY. I have to
be able to turn my attention away from writing new persuasive
or skepticism-addressing articles week after week, and
toward research, analysis and educational presentations
that will benefit everyone already in this community.
I need time to do some suing, and to bring together
the resources and talent toward that end.
As said, it is my firm belief that your
testimonial videos are the resource that I need to make
big things happen, and they are unquestionably the thing
I need to allow me to turn my attention away from trying
to get horses to drink at the waterhole to which I have
led them. Your words, in your great numbers and all
in your own different ways, will do that better than
anything I write possibly could.
And yet, you are not providing them. This,
despite my having been asking you for them for many
years now.
Therefore, with enormous reluctance, I
am making portions of this website restricted access
only. People have been urging me to do this for years
now, telling me I should impose a charge to access my
work-product, so as to enable me to keep producing.
I have never been inclined to charge fees
for access. I ask for donations, and will continue to
do that, and if they do not come, then I will conclude
that my work is of no value to anyone, and I will close
shop.
But I now WILL charge a special something
for access to some key portions of that work-- testimonial
videos, as discussed, described and demonstrated
here.
SELECTED PAGES CONSTITUTING primarily "legal
resources" pages now require passwords for access, and
to get a password, I need your video. Similarly, if
an email comes my way asking for guidance or assistance,
it had best have a video attached, if I don't already
have yours posted.
I hate to play it this way, but I want
to win.
I'll tell you a story from when I was coaching
my kids in soccer. Both of my kids at a certain age
in their careers had run into a wall common to all but
the very exceptional. They had gotten to be pretty good,
and they wanted to enjoy the benefits of their hard
work. But the arrival of this interest coincided with
a new self-consciousness which made them reluctant to
risk failing and looking foolish. So, they were hanging
back from seizing the main chance when it appeared,
and driving for the goal.
My solution was to post on the wall of
our dining room a couple of simple points about self-discipline,
the chief of which is this: You can't score a goal if
you don't take a shot.
That's how it is here, too. If you don't
stand up, you are laying down, and you'll never score
that goal.
Here is what my kids live by now, in their
own version of that lesson. I hear it from them all
the time as they excel (accompanied by the sound of
a father's breast swelling with pride): Go hard,
or go home.
You, too. Go hard, or go home.
Send those videos.
Do I ask for a lot? I want your victories
to post, your financial support, your efforts at spreading
the word, and your beautiful faces and inspiring words,
too. It IS a lot.
But I'll let Thomas Paine explain:
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered;
yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder
the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we
obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows
how to put a proper price on its goods; and it would
be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as freedom
should not be highly rated.”
We each have our reasons, and our story.
It's time, and it's needed, for you to share yours with
the world.
"The day we see truth and do not speak
is the day we begin to die."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
What does it for you?
Is it simply because no moral and upstanding
person has any choice when it comes to telling the truth
over his or her signature, whether on tax forms or anywhere
else?
Is it recognition of the critical importance
of the rule of law, and the knowledge that if everybody
leaves its caretaking to someone else, it will soon
be lost to us completely?
Is it the money?
Maybe it's just simple respect for your
own rights as a human being, who is not and cannot be
not involuntarily subordinated to others?
Maybe it's just simple respect for your
general civic responsibility to be the grown-up and
enforce frugality and restraint on a big, powerful creature
of our own devising which otherwise is like a badly-raised
teenage boy given whiskey and car keys and let loose
on the road to wreak havoc?
Or is it, perhaps, a more acute anxiety
that if our bonfire of a state isn't damped, and quickly,
it'll soon burn down the house around us all?
What IS it that firms up your jaw and stiffens
your resolve?
It's time to take off the bushel and
share your light!
I would like you to think about what it
is that motivates you for a few moments (or all day,
if you like), and then send me your thoughts. I want
to put YOUR reasons to work inspiring folks who don't
yet understand what this is all about.
In this day and age, the most effective
way for you to share your thinking for the benefit of
others is to video-record yourself talking about how
you feel, and explaining what inspires and motivates
YOU.
All you need is a webcam or cell-phone
equipped with a camera. If you don't have, or know how
to use, one of these, have a friend help.
If needed, write a little script for yourself.
Better, though, to just speak extemporaneously, after
spending a little time sorting out your thoughts and
getting down into your heart. Perhaps make it a video
of someone in your family, or a close friend, interviewing
you.
Dress "business casual". Be well-groomed.
Keep yourself to no more than 2 or 3 minutes,
and keep in mind that the purpose is not to educate,
but to INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE and ENERGIZE. Your video will
be one of many to be shared.
You needn't feel any obligation to be profound,
and you shouldn't try to explain anything about the
law, other than to say that you have read it and you
know it's on your side. You just need to be sincere,
and uplifting. Your object is to make your audience
want to have what you have, and to be where you are
in your heart.
Keep in mind that you're speaking to an
audience that doesn't yet know ANYTHING about the subject,
and whose first reaction is, "This must be illegal;
this must be dangerous; this is too good to be true."
You want to pull that audience right past such things,
and straight to a focus on truth, morality, and our
American heritage of liberty and the rule of law.
Remember: INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE, ENERGIZE.
Speak about rights. Speak about morality,
and the obligation of a grown-up and responsible person
to speak the truth and to enforce the Constitution.
Speak about everyone's duty
to give to God what is God's, always, and to Caesar
only what is really Caesar's. Speak of your obligation
to respect yourself, and to look out for the current
and future well-being of your children and your fellow
citizens. Speak of
CtC, and what its information has done for your
understanding and resolve. Show the book.
If you have had victories, describe them.
Better still, show them, if possible.
Be clear about just what you accomplished:
EVERYTHING back-- Social Security, Medicare and all;
a "notice of deficiency" closing notice; an on-paper
agreement or acknowledgment that your earnings weren't
subject to the tax and everything withheld or paid-in
was an "overpayment"; a transcript showing all $0s;
or whatever happened.
When you speak of state victories, name
the state. If you had to overcome balkiness from a tax
agency before winning any victory, describe that, too!
If you're in a battle now, speak of your
resolve to uphold the law, come what may. If you haven't
yet begun to act, speak of your decision to do so, and
your plans.
Remember, your purpose is to INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE
and ENERGIZE.
If you're dealing with ongoing balkiness,
describe that, too, if you wish-- but be sure to explain
why you're not discouraged, and why you are not standing
down, not slinking back into the barn, and not choosing
to endorse the lies.
Mention what you do for a living, whether
you're a doctor, homemaker, lawyer, trucker, IT guy
or gal, or a retiree or student. Help people understand
that the company of grown-up activist Americans they
are being invited to join cuts across all demographics
and all interests-- with the common denominator being
respect for the law and love of the principles on which
this great country was founded.
This is your chance to get a LOT accomplished.
We've all had frustrating occasions of
trying to explain all this to a friend, neighbor, family
member or co-worker, only to pile up against the wall
of a mind not yet ready to listen and learn. Here is
your chance to address a self-selected audience of folks
who have themselves decided that it's time for them
to begin paying attention, and have clicked on your
testimonial for exactly that reason.
Further, think about this: You want judges,
bureaucrats, CPAs, lawyers, the HR people where you
work, your pastors, your neighbors and everyone else
to acknowledge the truth about the tax openly and straightforwardly.
How and why would these folks do this if YOU won't?
You want these folks to learn the truth.
Why would they even recognize that there is a truth
to be learned if you won't attest to having learned
it yourself? You've got to stand up, face forward and
chin up and tell these folks that you have studied and
checked and verified and seen the evidence and seen
the government evasions and you know that the tax is
not the capitation that the beneficiary government wants
everyone to think it is but a benign, but strictly limited
thing, and that they need to study and learn that, too.
Again, if you have victories to show, that's
nice, and powerful, too. But you don't have to have
victories to display in order to declare your knowledge
of what the law says. I've never flown around the world,
but I've seen the evidence and considered the arguments,
and I'm not hesitant to declare it a sphere...
Even those of you who haven't yet studied
CtC have surely read
this short document, and have verified everything
in it for yourself. You should therefore be declaring
its veracity and its message, loud and proud. Again,
if you won't say it, how can you hope that others will
ever even bother to look at the facts?
Be the change you want to see in the world,
or there won't be any change.
So, please make and send those videos
right away! You can share them with me via a cloud-based
drive space like OneDrive.Live.com or GoogleDrive, or
mail DVDs to me at 232 Oriole St., Commerce Twp., Michigan
48382, or even email to me if each file is no more than
20 megs (and you can break a video up if need be-- I
can reassemble them). Render as .mpg or mp4, if possible;
if not, send them how you have them and I'll make them
work.
Remember, the restoration of institutional
respect for individual rights and the rule of law depends
on enough individuals insisting upon it. Do your part
to let those starting to rub the sleep from their eyes
know that there is a community already waiting for their
fellowship with open arms and open hearts and shining
spirits.
See how some of your fellow warriors for
the truth have done their parts in videos sent over
the years, many of which are posted
here.
"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."
Getting Free Of The "Income" Tax Scheme Is As Easy As
Falling Off A Bike
To get an idea of how today's "income" tax scheme works,
try this little exercise:
Think of the federal government as a guy named Bob,
who lives down the street from you in a town that is
really big on bicycles. Bikes get used for commuting,
deliveries, shopping, etc.. In fact, other than walking,
bicycles are the exclusive form of transportation in
your town.
Your neighbor Bob has a by-the-mile bicycle-renting
business-- "Bob's Bicycles". Bob's Bicycles is far and
away the biggest business in town.
Part of Bob’s success is because he does a lot of contract
business. However, Bob doesn't just get paid by riders
who have signed an agreement with him, or even just
those using Bob's bikes. Bob gets something every time
anybody in town does any riding at all, through an odd
combination of circumstances that took many years to
come together.
Here's how it happened...
Bob's Bicycles was launched long ago by the great grandfather
of the present Bob (Bob IV). Great Grandpa Bob started
out not only with a main location for his contract business--
he also had the bright idea of setting up spots around
town where he parked some of his bikes for use by the
more occasional rider, on an "honor system". Anyone
could take and use one of these bikes, but they were
expected to keep track of their mileage, and send Bob
a "1040 Mileage Ridden/Rent Due Form" (and the appropriate
rent), periodically. The initial design of the form
was like this:
I, ______________,
rode a Bob's Bicycle a total of _____ miles
this year.
At Bob's rental
rate of $.15 per mile, I owe Bob $______
I said that Great Grandpa Bob planned to deal with these
occasional riders on the "honor system", and that's
true. But he liked his money, too, and didn't want to
miss anything that was due him. So, after setting up
the "self-serve" locations, Great Grandpa Bob went around
handing out "W-2, 1099 or K-1 Rider Reporting Forms"
to every other business in town. The forms-- accompanied
by notices that if Bob didn't get his rent from someone
riding a bicycle in connection with any business, he
would sue the company involved-- said:
You Can’t Fight Well When You Don’t Know
What You’re Fighting About
If you are having an argument
with the IRS or any other tax agency,
You are NOT being presumed to have made “corporate
profit”.
You are NOT being alleged to have received “foreign
income”.
You are NOT entangled in an invisible “adhesion
contract”.
You are NOT being obligated by a law whose subject
is never identified.
You are being targeted because REAL EVIDENCE exists
that YOU PERSONALLY HAD “INCOME” to which the revenue laws apply--
even though that evidence is almost certainly incorrect,
and CAN be corrected.
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!!
"Never must thou take up a false cry, or join hands
with the guilty by giving false witness in their favor. Never must
thou follow with the crowd in doing wrong, or be swayed by many
voices so as to give false judgment; even pity for the poor must
not sway thee when judgment is to be given."
-Exodus 23:1-3
Doing A Little High-Payoff Math
IF EACH PERSON receiving this newsletter each week distributed as
few as 100 of any of
the great outreach tools featured here to co-workers, friends,
neighbors and family members (or just strangers on the street, in
the mall, etc...), we could have SEVERAL MILLION new Americans
suddenly introduced to the liberating truth about the tax!
Just like that! In one week!
C'mon, people, let's roll on this!
“Most of the important things in the
world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when
there seemed to be no hope at all.”
When directed to a page by topic or link, read everything.
I know that this can mean the investment of a lot of time, attention
and effort, but although some may imagine otherwise, I don't write
as much as I do because I can't think of any other way to spend
my time...
Furthermore, when you encounter a hyperlink within, or associated
with, the text you are reading, follow it!
It is pretty common these days for web-based material to be littered
with hyperlinks. Sometimes the purpose is to provide definitions
or examples, in order to ensure that folks reading the original
material aren't presented with a word or reference which they don't
understand. Sometimes the links lead to illustrations pertinent
to the original text.
It is common-- and perfectly understandable-- for folks who are
confident that they are familiar with language or references within
the main text they are reading to get in the habit of skipping over
included links. I do it all the time, myself!
However, I very rarely include links for definitional or explanatory
purposes; and when I DO make a link out of text in one page it is
generally to another self-contained page, rather than merely illustrative
material. These other pages contain material the clear understanding
of which I deem highly important for the proper and complete understanding
of the original page. (Links to
CtC, the
Victories pages,
CtC Warriors and so on are obvious exceptions to this general
rule. On the other hand, a link to the victory
Highlights or 'Every
Which Way But Loose' pages, which might seem like such exceptions,
are not. The special selection of victories on those pages, and
the filed docs and tax-agency correspondences included therewith,
themselves constitute highly instructive material which merits careful
attention. Thus care needs to be taken in all cases.)
Please make a habit of clicking on all provided links and at least
looking briefly to ensure that the linked page is one with which
you are completely familiar from another study session.
Finally, please keep in mind that, annoying though it may seem at
first blush (but not, I trust, upon reflection), I constantly tweak
material already posted. Obviously this doesn't mean that every
page is in flux at all times, but it does mean that if you are directed
to a page that IS familiar, it's worthwhile to read it through again
if it's been a while since your last having done so.
To comment on any article in this update (or to
read comments of others), click on the
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appear; also, please understand that this is NOT a place
for posing questions about individual tax situations.)
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