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The News Current Events and Continuing Education for May 15 through May 28, 2017 “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” -James Madison
"There are two distinct classes of men...those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes." - Thomas Paine C'mon! CtC can't be right! You're crazy! If CtC were actually right, it would mean the government's been concealing and denying the truth for years on end, and everybody knows THAT would never happen... (Edward Snowden, come home! It was all just a bad dream; there really is No Such Agency!)
Do you know someone truly steeped in the Kool-Aid?
I mean someone who finds it easier to believe that the far-better-educated, far-more-suspicious-of-government Americans of a hundred years ago were complete morons who granted authority to the state to take whatever it wished from themselves and their posterity than to imagine that they themselves simply misunderstand the true nature of the income tax? Even while knowing that their beliefs about the tax are derived entirely from the representations of those who profit from those beliefs (like tax bureaucrats and "tax professionals")?
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-Samuel Adams
This means always do what's right, fearlessly Tell the truth, always, and never suffer a lie to live. “When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.” -Yevgeny Yevtushenko *** Before we get to the 'Deferential Disease' below... Get the upcoming Tenth Annual Declaration Day Party on your calendar! It'll be Sunday, July 2, here in beautiful Commerce Twp., Michigan! See you then!! And btw, with Declaration Day coming up for everyone whether with us or not, I'd like to remind you all of the new Pledge of Allegiance, and encourage its use wherever you are:
(Get this pledge as a .pdf here.) *** OVER THE LAST TWO WEEKS I've posted two detailed exposés (here and here) of "official" lies meant to keep the sheeple in the barn and discourage resistance to the "ignorance tax" scheme by which the income tax has been widely misapplied for most of the last 75 years. Indeed, these lies are meant to discourage even efforts to discover the truth, apparently reflecting a government anxiety that such efforts won't result in independent verification of what the government suggests is true about the income tax. Accordingly, and hoping that everyone will familiarize themselves with the two exposés and keep them very much in mind, I'd like to offer this edited version of an article I first posted here a few years ago that is highly relevant to all this: The Deferential Disease "A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate" -Thomas Jefferson IN HIS SERIES OF WRITINGS on what he aptly names the Sacred Non-Aggression Principle, libertarian philosopher, activist and author Brian R. Wright coined a compelling and important term: The Power Sickness. Wright uses the term in reference
to violators of the non-aggression principle-- people who
act to satisfy Such men and women are infected with the Power Sickness, by which they are made depraved and unfit for any position of trust or honor while simultaneously being drawn to positions of authority. TODAY I WANT TO ADD a related term to the lexicon: The Deferential Disease. This is the ailment under the influence of which some people resort-- like little children-- to the authority of others in matters of conscience and law, knowledge and belief. Sufferers of the Deferential Disease are those to whom a declaration by an "authority figure" trumps, and, in fact, renders mute and invisible, any evidence to the contrary. Deferential Disease victims thus are the natural prey of officials with the Power Sickness. The latter need simply declare what they wish believed by those they would rule and exploit, and the former will defer with a minimal amount of fuss. THERE IS NO BETTER EXAMPLE of the Deferential Disease at work than the modern "income tax" scam. Reliant entirely on false mythology, the scam persists today solely by virtue of the Deferential Disease. For more than a decade the entire unambiguous, easily-presented and easily-accessible body of historical and legal evidence which exposes the scam and reveals the true nature of the tax has been available for study, in a simple ten-age primer here, and more comprehensively here and here. Every person with an interest-- and everyone has an interest in any proposition by which up to half their productive output is said to be claimable by someone else-- has been able to look for themselves at what the law says. For more than a decade anyone who cared to try has had ample opportunity to challenge or dispute any of that truth-revealing, lie-exposing evidence. Every person with an interest in the tax has been able to look for, and weigh the implications of, any such challenge, or lack thereof. But those with the Deferential Disease simply don't look.. Instead, they inexplicably assume goodness and integrity in people in authority (who, more often than not, are people of the Power Sickness) and ask them what the Deferentials should believe is true. Conditioned into the grip of their illness by a lifetime of manipulation, those suffering from the Deferential Disease don't even entertain the thought that those to whose words they defer have interests of their own. What they are told is then just accepted without a thought and with the complete subordination of their own intellectual liberty and integrity to whatever they are told. Liberating truths about the law, and damning exposures of corruption and exploitation, go entirely unremarked in a complete surrender of sovereignty by citizen to the state. What is the meaning of "self-government" or "government by the People" in the case of a person who defers to declarations regarding the limits and meaning of the law by those the Constitution is designed to subordinate? As Jefferson observes, “To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions (is) a very dangerous doctrine indeed and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.” -Thomas Jefferson In short, and more bluntly, anyone who fails to read the law and related material for him- or herself and instead relies on any expression or behavior of state actors or anyone else as the source of his or her own opinions or conclusions is raging with the fevered dementia of Deferential Disease. These sufferers should be pitied, and they should be cured, through vigorous insistence by their wiser friends and correspondents to READ THE LAW THEMSELVES! "It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error." -U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson ALTHOUGH MUCH MORE COULD BE SAID about the Deferential Disease, I will close this commentary with only one further observation: Silence in the face of the state's false myths and its promotion of fears and misunderstandings is also an expression of the disease. Indeed, such silence is the worst and most harmful deferral of authority to the state. It is a deferral of control over the public perception of reality to those of the Power Sickness, and in an age of state power such as we live with today, control over public perception is control over you and I. Those who know the truth must take a stool at the lunch-counter, sitting straight and proud. They must sit down in the front of the bus. They must nail their 95 challenges to the cathedral door. Those who know the truth must become an academic force, injecting medicine into the public forum by sharing and teaching what is found here and here and here and here, and other informational resources assembled here. If those who know the truth don't stand and speak and denounce and defy, the lies win, the truth fades and liberty dies. Be the cure, not the disease. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
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This Week's Victories By This Week's Heroes Real grown-up Americans really rockin' the law! THOMAS JEFFERSON HENDRICKSON starts us out this week with a complete refund of everything withheld from him and given over to Michigan during 2016. TJ's victory in holding the state to the law of the land and keeping his property and the associated power in his own hands arrived just two days ago:
Here is the filing that produced this victory for the rule of law. *** BRIAN WRIGHT joins TJ for accolades today, with his own complete refund from Michigan of everything withheld during 2016:
Here is the filing that secured Brian's latest victory for the law. BTW, Brian asked me to post this note he has written to the CtC community. *** GOTTA LOVE these fine, heroic Americans! TJ and Brian have stepped up and acted to restrain the dangerous and corrupt state and uphold the rule of law, something desperately needed from everyone. Their victories join those of the tens of thousands of other awakened and activated Americans represented here, and are 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? It's easy. Stand up on behalf of the law, and then share the evidence. That's all there is to it!
"Be the change you want to see in the world." -Mohandas Gandhi
Care to post a comment on this article? Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend The U.S. Income Tax: An Excise On The Profitable Exploitation Of Federal Privilege The U.S. Ignorance Tax: The Profitable Exploitation of Confusion About The Income Tax ***** Recent Tweets Re: Seth Rich- when a robbery at gunpoint gets "botched" the victim is shot in the front, not the back. *** If Seth Rich leaked emails proving the corrupt shafting of Bernie Sanders (a socialist nut, but due fair treatment) he's a truth hero. *** I don't know much about the Seth Rich story, but I'd like those who badmouth the recent allegations to explain WikiLeaks' reward offer... *** Isn't anyone striving to poison relations btwn the US and Russia at least crazy, if not an outright enemy of the American people? *** The only things accomplished by the drug war are enrichment of cartels and job security for bureaucrats. Who's pulling Session's strings? *** Jefferson said that if faced with having to choose, he'd rather have newspapers (WikiLeaks) than government (CIA, et al). Me, too. *** Word to Pompeo: the CIA is the Deep State's intelligence service. Wikileaks is the American people's intelligence service. *** Sick of the incessant psychopathic war-mongering? The Founders gave us a solution: losthorizons.com/Documents/CtCLife.htm *** Do you know the definition of "false flag"? Find it here. *****
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” -James Madison
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Thank goodness the sun is now shining...
A Review of CtC by Derek Cushman
You can also find this film at https://vimeo.com/175424277. Regarding Trolleries (Deceitful efforts to discourage Americans from learning the truth about the "income tax")
FOR ALL THE YEARS SINCE 2003 when CtC was first published, the government has engaged in a concerted effort to frighten people away from its truths. This effort involves official government websites and press releases touting an occasional court ruling that appears to be at odds with some CtC-revelation (but without details sufficient to expose the real substance of the ruling)-- and sometimes even more mendacious behavior. Click here for the rest of this article
Care to post a comment on this article? Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend ***** Are the presentations and resources offered on this site and in my other work of any value to you?
Tim Kendrick has posted a video on YouTube regarding donations. I didn't know what to do about it to begin with; I don't do what I do intending for anyone to feel obligated in any way. But of course, no one IS obligated. I will continue to make my work freely-available here, and in my books for only the cost of a cheap paperback. Thus, even though I post it here below, Tim's very thoughtful personal resolution and encouragement to others is just an invitation for consideration by those who may not be conscious of the fact that I can't do what I do without support. No one is to feel any pressure from it; if it moves anyone to act let it be solely because it seems right.
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Why Does The Government Lie About 'Cracking the Code'? THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION is the key to the restoration of the republic and the rule of law in America. See it below. (NOTE: It's very important that the entire 24 minutes be viewed.)
This video can also be found on YouTube at https://youtu.be/hgzzYl-eeUI. Here are links to the two pages to which viewers are directed at the end of the film: The Crime of the Century and The Truth About The 16th Amendment. The other two mentioned in the film are this one (the "bulletin board" stack of 1,200 or so posted refunds and other victories in knowledgably applying the law; and this one (the collection of resisted claims and the outcomes of those little battles). PLEASE be a real activist about sending this link to every single person in your address book, and about sharing it through facebook, reddit, twitter, and any other distribution channel with which you are familiar. Send it to every journalist you can. It's time to really make something happen. Accompany your emails and posts with with a strong admonishment to watch the film through, and that doing so will show the viewer an individual-empowering, state-restraining truth about the income tax which the government has been trying to keep hidden from view for 75 years and which that person really needs to know. BY THE WAY, as is impossible to miss, I have neither the skills nor the tools to make even moderately good films. This is simply not my forte. Anyone able to do better is encouraged to talk to me about that. As is ALSO impossible to miss, though-- even in my amateur production-- reader video testimonials have GREAT POWER. Send me yours.
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***** How To Be A Leader In The CtC Community It's simple: KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX IN DETAIL KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE RESOURCES BE FAMILIAR WITH THE SCAMS, THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS, AND THE TROLL-POLLUTION TAKE CHARGE IN YOUR STATE FORUM, HELPING EVERYONE TO THINK CLEARLY AND STAY ON TOPIC All-in-all, just be the sort of person for others that you would go to yourself for trustworthy leadership. Leadership is a challenge. But it's not complicated, and you can do it.
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True American Joe Black Testifies And Shares Victories For Liberty And The Rule Of Law ...as every American should... EDUCATED AMERICAN GROWN-UP JOE BLACK has stood up and acted to enforce the law upon its domestic enemies-- or, at least, upon agencies of the state whose operators seem to happily exploit ignorance and mis-apply the law at every chance for their personal benefit. Get inspired and encouraged by Joe's video sharing his spirit, his testimony and the acknowledgements he has secured:
Find more testimonial videos here, and please, people, share these around as widely as you can. To learn what, how and why to share your own testimony (with or without mere practical victories to go along with the far more important spiritual victories that are the real heart of CtC), click here/a>.
Care to post a comment on this article? Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend Two Simple Questions For Every Silent "Alt-Media" Journalist The silence of these folks is the liberation bottleneck. Maybe this'll help, if enough people ask... HERE'S A SIMPLE QUESTION: The income tax is, and always has been, an excise tax on privilege. This is established beyond any controversy whatever by repeated Supreme Court rulings, the words of the related laws, and, since 2003, by hundreds of thousands of acknowledgements by federal and state tax agencies. You, like most folks, have been fooled into inadvertently agreeing that your economic activities are exercises of privilege, thereby allowing the tax to be applied to your earnings. Why is this so hard for you to admit? HERE'S ANOTHER SIMPLE QUESTION: You and everyone else being fooled into agreeing that your economic activities are privileged and thereby allowing them to be taxed is what enables the flow of wealth that finances all the bad things done by the state of which you complain in every column. Why is this so hard for you to admit? I GUESS THESE ACTUALLY LEAD TO A THIRD SIMPLE QUESTION: If you really feel that all these things of which you complain are so bad, why are you not helping more Americans understand the true nature of the tax and the ill effects of it being misunderstood and misapplied? *****
The 'Watching the Watchmen Amendment' If you're not talking this one up everywhere and helping generate a buzz, you don't really want liberty and the rule of law...
Do you have a victory to share? Click here to learn how to do so.
If you're working on one, and just getting stonewalled or speed-bumped, you can still be recognized! Go here to learn what to do. Learn The Liberating Truth About The Tax NEW! Orders of twelve or more books now come with a free DVD containing six informative and inspiring videos-- 112 minutes in all. Click here for the details. ***** Did you miss the 'Set Your Church Free' commentaries? Ignorance of the true nature of the "income" tax has gagged, gutted and seduced-into-disgrace America's ministerial community. This must change.
Copy and post this one around, people!/p>
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Media Evasion Of CtC Must End, Now Time, unfortunately, is on the side of the well-funded disinformation specialists class
Illuminating anniversaries of this week: May 26- In 1868,
President Andrew Johnson escapes impeachment for allegedly
disregarding a Congressional enactment (the Tenure of Office
Act) by a single vote. In 1879, the invading British military
gained control of Afghanistan, formalized under the Treaty of
Gandamak. In 1896, Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia, begins
his reign. In 1927, Ford ceases production of the Model T. In
2004, the New York Time publicly admits to contributing to Bush
administration lies about Iraq being in possession of "weapons
of mass destruction".
Are You Having Trouble Spreading The Word? SKEPTICISM (SOMETIMES INVOKED BY FEAR) IS TO BE EXPECTED when you're trying to explain to someone that everything they've been encouraged their whole lives to believe about something as entrenched and significant as the income tax is basically nonsense. So here's a way to help cut through the resistance: Ask your listener how he or she would react if you were to show an announcement from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue admitting that the tax doesn't apply to the earnings of most Americans and is misapplied most of the time because people don't understand how it works? Or how about if you showed a ruling from the Supreme Court saying the same? Now you just have to explain that you're going to show exactly those things-- but because the state really doesn't want people to know this, these things haven't been said quite as forthrightly as we would all wish. It's going to take a bit more work to take these admissions in than is sufficient for just reading a press release. But it'll be worth the effort... *****
Real Americans don't accommodate fog, lies and a sliding scale of adherence to the rule of law. Real American men and women stand up for the truth and the law, come what may, knowing that it is only by setting the bar at the top and enforcing it, come what may, that liberties are secured.
"Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." -Thomas Paine
OUTREACH!!! JOB ONE, PEOPLE!!! SPREAD. THE. WORD. ONLY ONE THING WILL WIN YOU YOUR LIBERTY: Spreading the truth. Accordingly, I've assembled outreach resources into a new, dedicated page. Find it here, and please, USE THESE TOOLS!! I can't do this all by myself. "In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -George Orwell *****
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” -James Madison
How About You?
Are You Governing Yourself? Get The Knowledge, Reclaim Your Power, And Stand With The Founders
There is little more important to the long-term health of America than how our children are educated..
***** Some Observations Regarding Educated And Accurate Filing
Have You Taken A Military, Law Enforcement or Public Office Oath To Uphold And Defend The Constitution? IGNORANCE TAX: An unnecessary exaction suffered out of ignorance as to its lawful objects and the means of its application by someone too lazy, frightened or misled to learn how it really works and to what it really applies. See "Income Tax", "Social Security Tax", "Medicare Tax" and "Federal Unemployment Tax".
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More Than Two Thirds Of The Several States That Collect "Income" Taxes Have Now Acknowledged The Truth About The Law As Revealed In CtC, And Have Issued Complete Refunds Accordingly! See The Following Chart...
'The BOSTONIAN'S Paying the EXCISE-MAN, or TARRING & FEATHERING' (1774)/p> (How our forefathers responded to arrogant "Rule of Law defiers"...)
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HELP SPREAD THE LIBERATING TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Taxes are not raised to carry on wars, wars are raised to carry on taxes." -Thomas Paine
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Law Professor James Duane Says: "Don't Talk To The Police. Period."
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Films That Belong In Every Home Library
Ever Wonder How Much An Unrestrained FedState Would Like To Tap You For?
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Warrior David Larson shares this beautiful little farce, wryly observing that, "Depositors have "..not lost one penny.." - OK we could agree on that simple statement ..how about the purchasing power of that same penny 'not lost'?"
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Last Word "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -Samuel Adams, Architect of the First American Revolution
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***** About The Author Pete Hendrickson is possibly the most effective lawyer in history, even while never having set foot in a law school, nor ever being a card-carrying member of "the bar". He is the first American in history to secure a complete refund of Social Security and Medicare ‘contributions’ withheld from his earnings (along with all other property taken for federal taxes); further, since 2003 students of his legal analyses and arguments in ‘Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America’’ (CtC), and its sequel, 'Was Grandpa Really a Moron?' have been routinely retaining and recovering billions of dollars which otherwise-- wrongly, but as a matter of course-- would have gone to federal or state government treasuries. This despite concerted efforts by government to suppress his work, and in some cases vigorously oppose the claims by his students. Hendrickson is also a widely-read essayist on matters of politics, public policy and law; many of these works are collected in his second book, ‘Upholding the Law And Other Observations’. He is a member of Mensa; an award-winning artist; and has paid his dues as a youth soccer coach. He is a long-time political activist as well, and has served as co-chair and platform convention delegate of Michigan’s largest county Libertarian Party organization; as a consultant to the National Right to Work Foundation and Citizens for a Sound Economy; as a member of the Heartland Institute; and as a member of the International Society for Individual Liberty. He is a frequent radio-show guest on stations across the country. Hendrickson's business career has included nearly a decade-and-a-half at the leading edge of the renewable-energy industry, both as Director of Purchasing and Materials Management and member of the R&D board at Starpak Energy Systems, the mid-west's then-largest solar heating and energy-recovery-and re-utilization company; and as founder and president of AFJ Inc., a high-efficiency lighting design, manufacture and installation firm. Beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing for the twelve years before his present full-time focus on the restoration of the rule of law in America, Hendrickson directed purchasing activities for the $84 million-a-year multi-family-housing division of the Farmington Hills, Michigan branch of Edward Rose and Sons, with responsibility for 18,000+ apartments, direct supervision of 35 technicians and agents, and incidental authority over several hundred divisional workers. He also ran the division's 10 cable television earth-station and distribution systems in four states, and designed and administered the company's website. On rather the other end of the spectrum, amidst these more mundane pursuits Hendrickson co-founded and was the primary creative force behind a small board- and card-game company that enjoyed a modest success for several years. Hendrickson makes his home in southeast Michigan, with his wife and two children. He is currently working on his next book. © All written and graphic material on this page and website are copyrighted by Peter E. Hendrickson, unless otherwise attributed. |
their own interests by the forced subordination of others.
The class includes "officials" who act under the guise of necessities of "state",
complete with intellectual apologists defending their crimes, as
well as those of humbler appetites and demeanor, such as rapists, murderers and purely
private protection-racketeers.
below.