"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 from the link above may not
be a current edition. CHECK. It matters.
***
Get the upcoming
Tenth Annual Declaration Day Partyon your calendar! It'll be Sunday,
July 2, here in beautiful Commerce Twp., Michigan! See you
then!!
***
More Real Americans Share More Real Victories For The Rule Of Law!
"The greatest menace to freedom is an inert
people.”
-Louis Brandeis
STEVEN TILDEN has learned
the true nature of the
income tax, and how, when and why to say "NO!" to the
systematic misapplication of the tax by which most Americans
have been abused all their working lives. 17 days ago, after a brief delay dealing with an
"identity challenge" by the IRS, Steven's educated expression
secured a complete refund from the feds of everything
withheld
from him during 2016-- Social security, Medicare and all:
Here are the docs filed by
Steven which compelled the United
States to abandon trying to run the "ignorance tax" game on
him and instead face the facts and abide by the law as
written.
***
NEXT WE HAVE RICHARD A., also sharing a complete
federal refund of everything withheld from him in 2016, also
issued 17 days ago:
Here
is the claim Richard submitted that produced this victory for
the rule of law.
***
FINALLY, YOUNG KARA MELDRUM has proven that "grown
up" can be a thing in the heart and spirit even when one has
seen no special number of birthdays pass. Kara shares her first
victory-- a complete refund of everything withheld from her and
given over to Michigan during 2016 in connection with the income
tax:
Here is Kara's claim for the return of all her property, it
having been determined that none of her earnings qualify as
"income" relevant to the tax.
***
GOTTA LOVE these fine, heroic Americans!
Steven, Richard and Kara have stepped up like the
real American heroes they are
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?
Regarding judicial gibberish so thickly and richly
wrong one has to figure it's deliberate.
I HAPPENED TO COME ACROSS a reference to the
bizarre 1984 ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals cited
as
Parker v. Comm'r, 724 F.2d 469 the other day. I've written about this case
before, but it's such a good
example of judicial misdeeds that it merits a revisit.
The underlying case is of little interest. Parker
had filed run-of-the-mill "tax protestor" returns. As described
in the circuit court ruling:
[Parker's] 1977 return contained only his name,
address, social security number and signature. The income and
deduction portions of Parker's 1040 and 1040X Forms contained
only asterisks or the entry "none" or "object,
self-incrimination." Parker did not provide the information
essential to a determination of tax liability but attached to
his protest return excerpts from cases and other materials
discussing the fifth amendment privilege against
self-incrimination.
At trial, [Parker] conceded unreported income
from wages, pension benefits, and long-term capital gains, but
challenged the Commissioner's allowances for rental losses and
medical expenses. He also opposed the [willful refusal to file]
penalty. The Tax Court upheld the Commissioner's determinations,
including the imposition of the penalty. Finding no error of
fact or law we affirm.
The reason Parkeris significant is that in
response to Parker's contention on appeal that, "the IRS and the
government in general, including the judiciary, mistakenly
interpret the sixteenth amendment as allowing a direct tax on
property (wages, salaries, commissions, etc.) without
apportionment." the 5th Circuit appellate panel says:
"The Supreme Court promptly determined in
Brushaber v. Union Pacific Ry. Co., 240 U.S. 1, 36 S.Ct. 236, 60
L.Ed. 493 (1916), that the sixteenth amendment provided the
needed constitutional basis for the imposition of a direct
non-apportioned income tax."
Wow!
It's hard to think of any judicial declaration more
squarely contrary to reality. That is, it's hard to think of a
judicial declaration more dramatically and indisputably wrong.
Going straight to the really low-hanging fruit
available for bitch-slapping this lunacy and the morons or
scoundrels from whom it issued-- the words of
the Brushaber court itself-- we find that the unanimous
Supreme Court says exactly the opposite of the raving (or
deliberate lie) by the Parker court:
"We are of opinion, however, that the confusion is not
inherent, but rather arises from the conclusion that the 16th
Amendment provides for a hitherto unknown power of taxation;
that is, a power to levy an income tax which, although direct,
should not be subject to the regulation of apportionment
applicable to all other direct taxes. And the far-reaching
effect of this erroneous assumption will be made clear by
generalizing the many contentions advanced in argument to
support it...”
After generalizing the many contentions advanced in
argument to support the erroneous conclusion that the 16th Amendment
provides for a power to levy an income tax which is both direct and
not subject to the regulation of apportionment, the Brushaber court goes
on to point out that the very suggestion of a non-apportioned direct
tax is idiotic (okay, they don't use "idiotic"...), because that would cause:
“...one provision of the Constitution [to] destroy another;
that is, [it] would result in bringing the provisions of the
Amendment [supposedly] exempting a direct tax from apportionment
into irreconcilable conflict with the general requirement that
all direct taxes be apportioned."
Contemporary expert commentary on the Brushaber
decision emphasizes the fact that it actually says the opposite of
the bizarre and incorrect declaration of the Parker court:
"The Amendment, the
[Supreme] court said, judged by the purpose for which it was passed,
does not treat income taxes as direct taxes but simply removed the
ground which led to their being considered as such in the Pollock
case, namely, the source of the income. Therefore, they are again to
be classified in the class of indirect taxes to which they by nature
belong."
"In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., Mr. C. J. White,
upholding the income tax imposed by the Tariff Act of 1913,
construed the Amendment as a declaration that an income tax is
"indirect," rather than as making an exception to the rule that
direct taxes must be apportioned."
"The income tax... ...is an excise tax with respect to certain
activities and privileges which is measured by reference to the
income which they produce. The income is not the subject of the tax;
it is the basis for determining the amount of tax.”
...and,
"[T]he amendment made it
possible to bring investment income within the scope of the general
income-tax law, but did not change the character of the tax. It is still
fundamentally an excise or duty..."
"The Supreme Court, in a
decision written by Chief Justice White, first noted that the Sixteenth
Amendment did not authorize any new type of tax, nor did it repeal or revoke
the tax clauses of Article I of the Constitution, quoted above. Direct
taxes were, notwithstanding the advent of the Sixteenth Amendment, still
subject to the rule of apportionment…"
Legislative Attorney of the
American Law Division of the Library of Congress Howard M. Zaritsky in his
1979 Report No. 80-19A, entitled 'Some Constitutional Questions
Regarding the Federal Income Tax Laws'
Twenty years after Brushaber, the Supreme Court
reiterates its unequivocal holding that the 16th Amendment did NOT
authorize a "direct, non-apportioned tax" of any kind or on anything
in dismissing an argument that a federal tax on "income" (in this
case under the provisions of the Social security act) can be
construed as a
direct non-apportioned tax:
"If [a] tax is a
direct one, it shall be apportioned according to the census or enumeration.
If it is a duty, impost, or excise, it shall be uniform throughout the
United States. Together, these classes include every form of tax appropriate
to sovereignty. Cf. Burnet v. Brooks, 288 U. S. 378, 288 U. S. 403, 288 U.
S. 405; Brushaber v. Union Pacific R. Co., 240 U. S. 1, 240 U. S. 12 Whether the
[income] tax is to be classified as an "excise"
is in truth not of critical importance [for purposes of this analysis]. If not that, it
is an "impost", or a "duty". A capitation or other "direct" tax it
certainly is not."
SO, THE 5th CIRCUIT IS FLATLY WRONG in its declaration in
Parker. Indeed, the Parker court is
crazy wrong. The Brushaber court says
the exact opposite of
what Parker asserts, and in no uncertain terms, a fact
universally recognized and repeated over subsequent decades by
every possible authority.
However, despite being glaringly wrong on what the
Brushaber court says, the Parker ruling has been blindly cited by
several
subsequent courts as authority for the flatly wrong-- indeed,
crazy wrong-- prospect that the income tax is a non-apportioned
direct tax. This misconstruction has then supported rulings which
fail to recognize the tax as the
excise it actually
is, with all the implications thereof.
Garbage in, garbage out.
If we let this go on, we'll soon be buried in
garbage.
"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
P. S. BY MANAGING TO MUSTER only a blatant lie as
its pretended rebuttal of Alton Parker's assertion about the tax
being improperly applied as a non-apportioned direct tax, the
5th Circuit panel actually admits the truth of that assertion.
As the Supreme Court observes concerning the evidentiary
significance of silence:
"Indeed, as Mr. Justice Brandeis declared,
speaking for a unanimous court in the Tod case, supra, which
involved a deportation: "Silence is often evidence of
the most persuasive character." 263 U.S. at 263 U. S.
153-154. And just last Term, in Hale, supra, the Court
recognized that "[f]ailure to contest an assertion . . .
is considered evidence of acquiescence . . . if it would have
been natural under the circumstances to object to the assertion
in question." 422 U.S. at 422 U. S. 176. [footnote 3]."
An outright lie is simply an amplification of this
sort of evidentiary silence. It is a "doubling down" of evasive
deceit.
The lie doesn't change what Brushaber
actually says, or its supremacy as settled law. The lie simply
demonstrates and emphasizes that government actors who attempt
to administer the income tax as a non-apportioned direct tax do
so without any actual authority for those actions and in
defiance of the actual lawful nature of the tax.
P. P. S. IT'S AN UNFORTUNATE REALITY OF OUR CORRUPT
TIMES that nonsense like that of the Parker court goes
into the record. Despite not even being a holding by the
Parker court itself but just a lie about the holding of the
Brushaber court, it is gratuitously treated as a
precedent for subsequent flawed
rulings.
Altogether these flawed rulings clog up the legal landscape like brambles in the
forest. They lead to ever-more confusion in the law and often deep
injustices.
The reason the nonsense arises and persists is is two-fold. The first cause of bogus judicial rulings are the
corrupt government attorneys who argue false contentions like
the lies about Brushaber seen in Parker. These
attorneys are under a duty to know and be honest about any
authorities they cite, and plainly whoever briefed the Parker
court with the Brushaber lie failed on one count or the
other. (If the court came up with the lie on its own-- as
sometimes happens when a court wants to steer a ruling in a
certain way-- then the judge responsible is just acting in
the capacity of another government attorney and this point
remains the same.)
The other cause of the hugely-destructive
proliferation of bogus judicial rulings are defendants and/or
defense counsel who naively (or lazily) take anything
said by any government attorney or any federal court since the
early 1940s at face value. This should NEVER be done.
Here are two commentaries everyone should read:
On Judicial Incentives and
Illusions Of Authority. Defending the rule of law requires
understanding of how it is being assaulted, and these pages,
like the material above, will do a lot toward providing that
understanding. I will take it as a given that nothing need be
provided in the way of incentive.
FURTHER, BAD RULINGS LIKE PARKER emphasize the
pressing and perpetual need for vigorous dissemination of accurate information and good
scholarship about the income tax and related subjects. Parker's nonsense wouldn't even have been
attempted were the general state of scholarship and public
understanding concerning
the true nature of the tax not so shabby at the time.
This community MUST engage in that vigorous
dissemination.
CtC-educated Americans are the only truth-warriors
equipped to cure the infection of ignorance about the income tax.
We must spread our medicine in every way that can be
dreamt-up, and on every occasion possible. It is liberty and the
rule of law themselves that are at stake, for when government
actors are allowed to control the historical record both of
those infinitely precious treasures are doomed.
Share this article around-- you can find it as a .pdf
here. Get it published in your local newspaper or a national
news outlet. Recognize that what this article demonstrates is
IRREFUTABLE and UNMISTAKABLE, both as to the
state's reliance on lies in scamming wealth away from every
American and as to the truth that the income tax IS an
excise tax only lawfully administered as such and only lawfully
falling on the objects suited to an excise.
Readers of any newspaper or other organ will get it.. At a minimum,
they will all understand that they have been getting screwed.
Write articles of your own.
Follow in the footsteps of
Greg Sutton,
Tom Bottaro,
Brian Swanson,
San
Diego Scott,
Brian Wright,
Brian Harriss and others whom, upon becoming
CtC-educated, promptly began producing scholarly work
of their own repackaging or expanding on what they had learned. This
community-- YOUR community-- should be abuzz with papers and
posts and research projects.
Those who haven't the skills for research should be
organizing outreach efforts and projects to get
CtC and the subsequent scholarship onto as many computer
screens as possible. A large number of you are organized into
groups in your home states. Get yourselves going on leafletting,
workshops, seminar scheduling and so on. MAKE AND POST AND SHARE
VIDEOS!
Understand, my friends, we are engaged in a battle.
The enemies of truth and freedom are vigorous in their efforts.
The friends of truth and freedom must be, too.
At the same time, understand another message of
this article. What we are battling is nothing but bull-deuce. Go
forward with complete and unshakable confidence in the rightness
of your side.
CACAN 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
legala>,
practical and
logical evidence to the
contrary? (Not to mention the
200,000 "admissions against interest" by the IRS and dozens
of state tax agencies over the last 14 years...)
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 HOPE NOBODY OUT THERE
is tolerating a single
CtC
denier anywhere within the "tax honesty" or "activist"
communities. Such people (and they are 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 is discussed here and here).
These folks are out there effectively serving as
weight on the deniers' side of the scale-- and also financing
the Beast-- because I haven't been able to get my videos or
other liberation information to your Uncle Jerry (or Aunt Sally,
or Junior, or your buddy Sam, or whoever). I haven't been able
to because I DON'T KNOW THESE PEOPLE, and have no contact info,
and wouldn't know the best way to speak to them, anyway.
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 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.
SHARE ARRON'S GOOD WORDS about truth and freedom
the way a silly cat video gets shared, people!
Make Arron's video go viral.
Be creative with your introduction. Think #EyesGetOpened;
#FreedomRocks; or "Man Learns How To Increase His Wealth By 40%
Overnight!" just to offer a few possibilities. Use your
imagination. Send it to EVERYONE, and post it on every Facebook
page out there.
***
And Here Are A Few More Good Folks With Good and Important
Things To Say:
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.
-Abraham Kuyper
*****
Debunking The "They'll Just Print The
Money" Myth
This hoary old pressure-relief nonsense needs to be
put down.
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
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OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS I've heard from a
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Please share this info with others in your own
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Over the course of time the ISP I use (Yahoo)
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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.
BTW,
CtC Warrior Greg Sutton has just had a good
educational/inspirational article published
here.
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.
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.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed
citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing
that ever has."
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 WarriorSanDiegoScott 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
below.
(I(It may take a while for your newly-posted comments to
appear; also, please understand that this is NOT a place for posing
questions about individual tax situations.)
below.