"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.
***
What Do Tom Paine, Nelson
Mandela, George Washington, Edward Snowden, Samuel
Adams and Jesus Christ Have In Common?
Along with Gandhi, Joan of Arc, Daniel
Ellsberg, William Tindale...
HERE IT IS: All of these heroes
were/are felons, as
determined by the governments and through
application of the legal practices
of their times and places. (I know Edward
Snowden hasn't been convicted yet, and Ellsberg's
prosecution was derailed on a technicality but if anyone
doubts that felony conviction would be the outcome
of Snowden being
captured and tried in any federal court, and was in
store for Ellsberg had things proceeded normally, well, pick
your joke ending...)
I don't think people often reflect on
this sort of thing, especially in our current
tumultuous times. This results in a
dangerously-accommodating response to "official"
denunciations.
FOR INSTANCE, I am constantly struck
these days by a lack of the word "allegedly" in news
blurbs. Where at one time journalists were
scrupulously careful not to buy into the notion that
an accused was therefore presumptively guilty, and
to remind readers of this critically-important
perspective, today this proper impartiality has gone
by the wayside.
One of the hallmarks of today's "fake
news" is the omission of such qualifiers. Fake news is actually propaganda
masquerading as journalism, and it can, in many
cases, be recognized by its explicit or implicit
assertions as fact of what is not actually supported
by adequate, relevant and tested evidence in the
record-- one of the hallmarks of which is a failure
to make the "allegedly" admission when discussing
any disputed matter that hasn't been through a
proper, impartial adversarial contest.
OF THE SAME STRIPE as the
"journalistic" failure to acknowledge mere
allegations for what they are is the assumption that
anyone with whose case we are not familiar, and who
bears the red letter on the breast, must have done
something actually improperly harmful to someone or
some group in some way. This as distinct from simply
violating some edict purchased by a favored campaign
donor or designed to entrench those in power against
righteous upset. Let's never forget what Jefferson
observed:
"The legitimate powers of government
extend to such acts only as are injurious to
others."
and
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed
action according to our will within limits drawn
around us by the equal rights of others. I do not
add ‘within the limits of the law’, because law
is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when
it violates the rights of the individual."
EXTENDING THE SAME PRINCIPLE OF
PERSPECTIVE further still, let's also recognize its
application in matters of the "other"-- foreign
peoples, or those of cultural or historical
grounding which is different from our own. We have
seen a lot of condemnation by mere labeling done
against a lot of "others" in recent decades. Think
of the ascriptions of "terrorist" as the best and
most lively example.
This brings us full circle, in fact.
Samuel Adams and George Washington were labeled
"terrorists" (whether with that word itself or
others of the same sort) by the authorities of their
day, as were Gandhi, Joan d'Arc, Nelson Mandela,
Michael Collins, William Wallace, Benjamin Martin,
and on and on.
Today more than ever we are being
treated to relentless deployment of "evil-doer"
labels. These deployments are in the expectation
that our reflexive buy-in to "official"
denunciations will introduce emotional noise and
interfere with clear-thinking about issues like the
prospect of killing a lot of Iranians, provoking
species-suicidal war with their ally, Russia,
and the genocide in Yemen and apartheid being
suffered by dis-possessed Palestinians, both of
which are made possible by Washington.
We should not let ourselves be so
easily manipulated. When you see a scornful or
prejudicial label in a news report or a government
pronouncement, think about who else has been so
marked by disapproval and hung on a cross of one
kind or another. Then push out the noise and think
for yourself.
"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be
believed."
-I. F. Stone
***
NOTE: In light of my transition this
week 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.
There's an important lesson being
taught by the "national anthem" thing.
LAST WEEK I POSTED
an article pointing
out that the 'Star Spangled Banner' is actually just
the official theme song of the federal government,
not of the American people. As I said,
It is no more appropriate for private
persons to stand and uncover when the anthem is
played (or to feel compelled to do so) than it is
for private businesses to close-- or feel compelled
to close-- on a "national holiday".
The contrary perception and reflexive behavior so many
have had fastened upon them is really rather creepy when you think
about it, right? All those American men and women who rise up and
rotate en masse toward the federal totem like automatons when
this particular tune begins, acting as though everyone is part of
the federal machine -- it's like discovering that you're immersed in
a gathering of
the pod-people.
BUT THERE'S A BROADER POINT to be made, or
observed, from an understanding of the legal reality
of the "national anthem". That legal reality nicely
and accessibly illustrates the fact that the "United
States" (as in, the federal government entity
headquartered in Washington DC) is NOT the American
people, or "America" in general (or in any respect
whatever).
In fact, the "United States" is a
discrete thing-- a little subdivision of America with its
own special song, motto, tree, hierarchy of
officers, and designated days of memorial and
holiday. Although some Americans have adopted some
of these things for themselves (and all have been
encouraged to do so for reasons which will be
discussed below), none of these things are of the
American people. That is, "President's Day" is not
YOUR holiday.
Perhaps the very best illustration of
this fact is to be seen in the various federal
fortresses implanted amongst the several states--
both the military outposts and the "federal
buildings" in which federal courtrooms and other
offices are located. Go visit one of these federal
buildings sometime, if you never have before. You
will very quickly realize that once inside those
walls you are not in Kansas anymore.
IN DEFIANCE OF THE REALITY, Americans are
heavily encouraged to treat "national" ceremonies
and observances and totems as their own. This
is a crass "engineering
of consent"
attempt to cause a subconscious conflation of
personal, individual identity and interests with the
identity and interests of the state (which will be
the partner who determines what those interests are,
by the way-- it won't be you enjoying that power).
The kerfuffle about the NFL and the
national anthem is an outstanding illustration of
this fact.
In 2009 the feds began paying NFL team owners to
have players line up and take the position during
the playing of the anthem, and to facilitate
other jingoistic displays during high-profile
sporting events. The idea is to condition kids and
simple-minded adults into transferring to the state
and its practices their adulatory enthusiasm for
athletes and the starry-eye effect of all the
high-powered pomp with which such spectacles are
presented.
DON'T LET YOURSELF be taken in. If you
want to memorialize veterans on the same day as the
feds designate, please do so, and bless you! But
don't think it's YOUR legal duty
to do it on that day, and don't let Sunday-- either
in the pew or after the tailgater-- be brainwashing
day for you and your kids.
A simple way for everyone to get a lot
done, fast.
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).
"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."
So, Donald Trump, Exalted By
Some As A Political Messiah, Elevates Another Swamp
Creature To Power...
...in what is just the most recent
same-ol' same-ol' Texas side-step by the Donald.
DJT HAS NAMED LONGTIME SWAMP DENIZEN
Jerome Powell as the new head of the Fed. Should
anyone be surprised that the self-declared
outside-the-beltway Donald somehow just couldn't
find anyone from outside the beltway to take over
this well-spring of swamp-water? Only the naive.
The fact is, other than in his creation
of a very few very modest islands (like Scott Pruitt
at EPA and... well, like Scott Pruitt at EPA),
Donald Trump has been a swamp-creature like no
other, showing everyone how its done when a pro is
in charge. We have had spurious bombings of other
sovereign nations and peoples, career military
apparatchiks placed in key positions in the civilian
government. We have had protectionism and corporate
welfare.
We have even had a bow to the very worst
in the CIA, NSA and FBI by way of holding back
from release to the people supposedly in charge (us)
of 54-year-old documents concerning the murder (that
is, the illegitimate removal from power) of someone
we (the people supposedly in charge) selected for a
position of trust and responsibility.
The pretext for this really quite
outrageous act by the Donald regarding the JFK files
is ludicrous. We are told that letting us see what
other people decided two generations ago to keep
hidden from our parents and grandparents somehow so
deeply imperils the effectiveness of current-day
(54-years-later) secretive operations as to be
ruinous to those current operations.
Further, and more absurd still, we are
told (or it is implied) that the preservation of
those current operations from even the
manifestly-remote if not altogether specious threat
to them of the 54-year-old revelations is more
important than the bosses (us) knowing who
assassinated their (our) pick for CEO and saw to it
that power shifted to someone else. We are told (or
it is implied) that concealing ancient intelligence
practices is more important than us being able to
determine if perhaps all our post-JFK CEO-picks have
actually been operating under the thumb of the
assassins, in the knowledge that if they stray too
far from the reservation they could have a Dealey
Plaza of their own.
I COULD GO ON AND ON listing betrayals
of DJT's anti-RINO electorate, but I mention Trump
at all only for service as the latest and greatest
illustration of an American political principle I
conceived of last April: The Delusional Style In
American Politics. In light of current events, my
discussion of the subject appears to merit another
airing (and maybe even being put on a regular
schedule for re-posting...), so here it is.
The Delusional Style In
American Politics
We should be so lucky as to have an
actual "paranoid style" motivating voters...
A LOT OF INTERESTING QUIRKS in the
American political psyche were highlighted during
the last year and a half of presidential
campaigning. The one most interesting to me is the
widely-held notion that it's possible to have a big,
rich and activist state which, despite these
attributes, nonetheless humbly respects and protects
individual rights and subordinates itself to the
rule of law.
Accompanying this peculiar notion of a
humble and respectful superstate is another silly
idea-- that Americans can persistently send large
amounts of money to Washington and their local
statehouse and yet simultaneously be rescued from
having to do so by people from Washington and their
local statehouses. Both of these crazy ideas are
expressions of the Delusional Style of American
Politics.
The recent "repeal Obamacare" debacle
should prove to all that no remedy for Leviathan
will be found in the political process. Even just
this one recent statist offense-- a takeover of the
healthcare market not fully in place until only two
years ago and which is
widely despised and considered a harmful wreck by
Democrat and Republican voters alike-- is so
invulnerable to a political remedy that a "reform"
was the best the political process could muster, and
even that half-assed effort failed.
I BELIEVE DELUSIONAL EXPECTATIONS of a
humble Leviathan and saintly office-holders are the
result of a relentless campaign by every political
hack of the last 119 years to misconstrue the
concept of "American Exceptionalism". Under the
misconstruction, America-- or the American structure
of government-- is imagined to be inherently
incapable of elevating scoundrels, incompetents and
outright criminals to office, or, at a minimum, is
imagined to be self-correcting should this have
happened by means of the same mechanisms that
allowed the problem to arise in the first place.
But this is crazy-talk. Incumbents in
high office have enjoyed re-election odds of over
90% for decades, with only few and slight occasional
dips down to the upper 80s for the House and little
more volatility for the Senate. The bureaucrats that
actually interpret and administer policy are in
office for life, as are the judges and justices that
write and re-write and interpret and enforce
whatever they fancy as the law.
Under no circumstances does the
American structure contain meaningful
self-correcting mechanisms by way of the political
process. Quite the contrary, in fact.
Like any other, the American political
process tends to cement into place the status quo
generally. Also like most any other, the American
political process tends to steadily raise the bar of
political-class bad behavior which will be
punished-- or even remarked at all-- by their
fellows, who conveniently reserve unto themselves
the power of punishment.
AGAIN, THE VIEW THAT AMERICAN
EXCEPTIONALISM LIES in our political structure,
which somehow can be counted on to produce good
rulers or at least discipline the bad ones, is the
source of delusion. In fact, that delusional notion
is nearly the precise opposite of the truth.
American exceptionalism actually lies
in the fact that key areas of power and
decision-making are Constitutionally-withheld from
our governmental organs and those who find their way
into office, no matter how good or bad they may be.
As Jefferson said, explaining this point, "Let
no more be heard of confidence in [any
officeholder], but bind him down from mischief by
the chains of the Constitution."
Areas from which politicians and their
cronies and appointees are kept by the chains of the
Constitution are left to states (themselves bound
down by their own Constitutions), and, more broadly
and more importantly, to the rule of individual
Americans. The Founders understood that individual
Americans, and ONLY individual Americans, would, in
exercising their power on behalf of their own
self-interest in each such area, further the
well-being of all in a natural "invisible hand"
ripple-effect dynamic of sobriety and prosperity as
first (or at least, most famously) spelled out by
Adam Smith in his 1776 masterwork, 'The Wealth of
Nations'.
Chief among the areas of power withheld
from unreliable office-holders is the disposal of
the wealth of individual citizens. The Constitution
is carefully designed to prevent the state-- that
is, the organ embodying the aggregate will of the
majority-- from exercising control over any
individual's wealth or means of acquiring wealth.
The Founders well understood that
control over the means by which a man satisfies his
wants is control over his will-- which is to say,
despotism. Our federal and state Constitutions
proscribe all means by which governments and those
who run them can exercise despotism.
Thus we have the great rules of federal
taxation by which any and all capitations and other
direct taxes (click
here to see what this means-- it's not what you
think) are confined to application by the mechanism
of
apportionment. Only indirect taxes (click
here to see what this means-- it's not what you
think), which by their nature leave regulation of
their burden in the hands of the individual (click
here to see what this means-- it's not what you
think), can be applied without this insulating
device.
IT IS THESE CONTROLLING PROVISIONS
RELATED TO TAXATION, along with other strict limits
on government power and authority, that make America
exceptional. It is not our political structure;
rather, it is what we keep from being vulnerable to
the products of our political structure.
Reliance on the political process, and
hoping that White Knights will be produced thereby
who will save us from the corruption and criminality
of the last products of the political process, is
just the usual delusional stupidity that has plagued
and paralyzed mankind since the first naif hoped the
new king would have lesser appetites than the one
just departed. Only the exceptional withholding of
power from any and all office-holders will do the
trick.
"A slave is one who waits for someone
to come and free him."
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.
INVOKING AN IMAGE OF PETER FALK'S "Columbo"
character, an internet wag has shared out some
amusing provocations:
Just one more thing... on equal pay.
If women do the same job for less money, why do
companies hire men to do the same job for more
money?
Just one more thing... on Sanctuary
Cities. If you rob a bank in a Sanctuary City, is
it illegal or is it just an Undocumented Withdrawal?
Just one more thing... on The Women's
March. If Liberals don't believe in biological
gender then why did they march for women's rights?
Just one more thing... on the Russians
hacking the election. How did the Russians get
Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC to steal the
Primary from Bernie Sanders? How did Russia get
Donna Brazile to leak debate questions to Hillary
Clinton in advance of the debates?
Just one more thing... on Democrats and
the Electoral College. Why is it that Democrats
think Super delegates are fine, but they have a
problem with the Electoral College?
Just one more thing... on Hillary's
speeches. If Hillary's speeches are worth $250,000
an hour, how come no one shows up to her free ones?
Just one more thing... on Russia
manipulating our election. We're supposed to
conclude that the Russians manipulated our election
because they supposedly exposed how the Clinton
campaign and DNC were manipulating our election
(through the alleged-- but still never supported by
evidence-- Russian DNC/Podesta email dump to
Wikileaks)?
Just one more thing... on Trump's
'Locker Room Banter'. Why is it that Liberals and
the Media are upset about the words Trump used 11
years ago but they are all right with adult men
using the Ladies Room today with your Wives
and Daughters?
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.
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