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Current Events and Continuing Education for April 3 through April 16, 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

 

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Features in this edition:

(Click on the underlined text to jump to each feature. To return, use your browser's "back" button. Please keep in mind that many more items of interest are to be found between featured articles, so your most profitable course is to scroll through the whole page...)

Some critiques, some compliments, and some advice:

An Open Letter To President Trump

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Rockin' the law...

This Week's New Victory Posts

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An outstanding example of outreach:

Seen In The Local Newspaper Last Week...

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Out with the socialist state-worship; in with real American spirit!

We Need A New 'Pledge Of Allegiance'!

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Time for some push-back...

Have You Been Harassed By "Frivolous" Threats?

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Have you heard a discouraging word?

The Truth About Trolleries

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Since you can't rely on the state to abide by the law...

The Fourth Amendment Enforcement Locker

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Other Voices

'The Beneficiaries Of Conflict With Russia'

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Setting 'em straight:

Questions For The Silent So-Called "Alt-Media"

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Share, share, share, people

Got Twitter?

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The most important question facing Americans today:

What Do The People Do About The Rogue State?

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Guess what? There are only two possibilities:

You Either Stand Up For The Truth, Or You've Surrendered To The Lie

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Spotlights on the past that help bring clarity to the present:

Illuminating Anniversaries for this week

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Got something to say?

Your Comments

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My interview by Lana Lotkeff for Radio 3Fourteen can be found here.

 

The Fifteenth Upgraded Edition of CtC is Now Available!

BTW, a word of caution to everyone-- copies of CtC sold anywhere except from the link above may not be current editions (which is now the fifteenth). CHECK, and if you can't get that assurance from the seller, don't buy. I do upgrades in EVERY edition. As many printings as a copy is below the fifteenth is as many upgrades behind it is.

Get The Short, Easy Intro To The Liberating Truth About The Tax

 

Click here for the current Mid-Edition Update posts

Featured In This Update:

How Do You Know When The State Is Lying?

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The Constitutional Tax Structure: A Study

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Debunking the "They'll Just Print The Money" Myth

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The Delusional Style In American Politics- Redux

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Thinking Outside The Box About Those Evil Rooskies

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Regarding State Group Membership

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Project Paradigm-Shift

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Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!

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A "Pragmatic" Perspective On The Tax And The Rule Of Law

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Your Comments

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"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")?

 

Do you know someone like that? Shake them awake with the latest (fifteenth) edition of CtC!

 

 

I'm delighted when anyone wishes to share what I have posted here with others! Sharing this page is an important means of moving toward the restoration of the rule of law-- PLEASE DO IT!! But I'd appreciate your doing so by directing your friends here themselves, rather than by copying and emailing the material.

 

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You can't understand the present if you don't understand the past...

Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

April 10- In 1606, the charter of The Virginia Company of London is granted by James I.  In 1710, the first copyright law is issued in Britain.  In 1816, the Second Bank of the United States is created.  In 1864, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph of the Austrian Habsburg family is crowned Emperor of Mexico.  In 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is founded.  In 1869, José Marti founds the Cuban Revolutionary Party.  In 1912, the RMS Titanic leaves port on her maiden voyage.  In 1971, China hosts the US Table Tennis team for a week of competition.

 

Anniversaries of interest for each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter below.

 

"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."

-Samuel Adams

 

Fear nothing but God

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

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

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Join me on The Power Hour Friday morning, April 14 at 9 AM EDST

And btw, 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 here!!

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An Open Letter To President Trump

A little "flyover country" wisdom that I hope'll do you some good...

PRESIDENT TRUMP, Sunday night we had the American Country Music Awards show. Taking advantage of the coincidence I'm going to borrow from that genre to remind you that you've got to dance with the one that brung ya if you want things to go well.

Right now your toddler of an administration is beset from all sides. You need all the friends you can get, and that means you need to keep and cultivate those who reached out to you and reached out for you in order to put you where you are today.

Let me tell you how to do that:

STOP WITH THE "REPEAL AND REPLACE" GIBBERISH ABOUT OBAMACARE! No one who got excited about your candidacy did so because they imagined you (or Paul Ryan) had a better plan for government control of healthcare's 17% of the economy. They did so because you made them believe you were going to yank that 17% back out of the jaws of Leviathan and let it resume its proper place in the free market from which Obama had kidnapped it.

We don't want any replacement! We want you to repeal Obamacare and, optimally, continue by repealing every other tentacle of the state wrapped around any aspect of the medical, healthcare and health insurance fields.

See this for guidance. Following these prescriptions will provide a huge boost in prosperity to everyone except government bureaucrats, doctors, hospitals, HMOs and big insurance companies. That means: "big boost in prosperity for 300 million Americans" at the expense of reduced luxury benefits from a rigged-system to the small fraction remaining. Do the math.

Restoring every aspect of medicine to the complete free market will do you a world of political good. It's also not only the right thing to do from a statesmanship perspective, but the right thing to do from a moral perspective, too. Rent-seeking by special interests is always evil.

SCRAP THESE INSANE PLANS TO INCREASE MILITARY SPENDING! You should be cutting military spending!!

Want to refresh and renew exhausted resources? That's fine.

Do it by resolving to have fewer of them altogether, like, say, about 3/4 of what we have now. Then spend part of the funding surplus that results from that reduction on polishing up that 75% 'til it shines brightly, while paying down the national debt with the rest.

Restore the Department of Defense's mission to DEFENSE. No more messing in other people's backyards (or living rooms, as would be a more apt description of the evils visited upon the world by the demonic neocons who have controlled United States foreign policy for the last 37 years or so).

Your base was yours because it believed you meant to do just what I've described-- pull in the bloody horns and start the settle-back from rampaging Hulk to restrained Bruce Banner. Let's face it. We don't need the Hulk.

America is absolutely invulnerable to any kind of military threat. A little terrorism might happen here or there, but that kind of thing cannot be stopped no matter how much "stamping-out" is attempted, and the math doesn't work.

The money sucked out of the economy for a massive military cuts what people can spend on looking after themselves and what can be spent publicly on keeping infrastructure safe. I can't prove it, but I'd bet that more Americans have died in the last 17 years because of crappy roads or an inability to afford air-conditioning than have been killed by terrorists (or Russians).

If you factor in all our young men and women killed or grievously wounded doing all that Hulking-around, the obscene imbalance is even worse.

Here's the bottom line: The people who put you in office don't give a damn about whether Sunnis or Shias control the Middle East, or whether Assad stays in power in Syria or not. They would rather Israel and Egypt and Saudi Arabia make peace with their neighbors and their own citizens than be protected from having to do so by American arms and American foreign aid. And they couldn't care less about the success of the Nazis currently running Western Ukraine, or the fate of the Baltic states, or Montenegro.

Your base neither hates nor fears Russia, China, or Iran. They don't even worry about North Korea.

Pull in those damn horns, boot every war-monger out of your administration, and cultivate honest peace and friendship with all nations and entangling alliances with none. You will renew the support of your enthusiastic base and even capture a whole lot of new supporters.

DROP THE HYPERVENTILATED ISLAMAPHOBIA! It makes you sound like an hysterical middle-school girl. It also makes you sound like you're plagued with inner uncertainties.

Jefferson once observed that actual truth doesn't need censorship or oppression to help it defeat lies. The same principle applies here, and this is the picture it paints: Anyone who wants to forcibly suppress a religion is admitting that he doesn't think his own religion can win on its virtues.

Shame on you.

Further, neither I nor anyone I know has ever been harmed here in America by a Muslim as a result or as an expression of that person being a Muslim. But EVERYONE I know has been harmed by the "national security state" apparatus set up or sustained on the pretext of protecting us all from Islam.

The only threats anyone here might face from people who happen to be Muslim would be because we have been breaking into their homes and killing them for about the last 70 years. If we had been treating the Swiss and the Swedes the way we have treated Iranians, Iraqis and Palestinians over the same 70 years, we'd have as much to fear from them as we do now from our Muslim victims. Would you then be rousing the rabble against "the evils of Lutheranism"?

C'mon, President Trump. Don't be that kind of a demagogue.

Have your travel ban, if you like, but be upfront. Squarely state that it isn't because we fear Islam, but because we fear blowback, and because what blowback might be coming our way just happens to be from mostly Muslim countries.

DROP THE DAMNED WAR ON DRUGS! What the hell is wrong with you, flogging this now-nearly 50-year-old assault on liberty on for yet more laps? Do you not realize this is just a job-security program for a giant chunk of law-enforcement and prison industry workers AND for drug dealers as well?

At the same time, you can't possibly think it is actually curbing drug use, unless you've been "using" yourself and the thinking-cap has gotten a bit askew. The evidence to the contrary is all around and unmistakable, not least in the very fact that we're fifty years into this thuggishness.

Wars that drag on for fifty years are wars that have been lost. After all the money and destruction of that "war", drugs are just as available as ever. And at higher potencies and lower prices, to hear your own drug warriors tell it.

GET GOING ON THE PROSECUTIONS of the criminals infesting the last few administrations. You campaigned on "draining the swamp". You do that, in large part, by punishing last year's swamp creature for his or her crimes. Only the deterrence effect of punishing last year's crimes makes the waters in Washington undesirable to the kind of creatures we don't want there anymore.

Why hasn't James Clapper been clapped in irons yet for his perjury? Where is the indictment for Hillary Clinton and her cronies for violating her security duties in order to make political use of government secrets (among other things)? What about the people who tortured Chelsea Manning for years during [her] custody?

ONE LAST CRITIQUE (for now), that'll really help you defend yourself against your tormentors and underminers: Catch on to the fact that the Freedom Caucus, and what it holds dear, outperforms you with your base, politically. Justin Amash beat your numbers in his district last November by 8 points.

Show some fidelity to the policies you pitched during the campaign, and pitch some extra good woo toward that 8 points-worth of activist Americans that are found all over the country, and you could spank Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi right back into their progressive snake-pits.

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NOW, ON THE OTHER HAND, you HAVE gotten a bunch of things right for your real base, too, and they merit pointing out. Your "dump two regs for every new one adopted" thing is outstanding-- in principle, anyway. Make it really happen as advertised!

Your plan to defund the NEA, CPB, GCCI and numerous other boondoggles, is great, too. And your proposal to cut many other agencies and programs pretty deeply (by Washington standards) makes every liberty-loving American's heart sing.

This is all good. Make it all much, much better by defunding the agencies that spy on all of us all the time, and the ones that seize property from people who've been convicted of nothing, in what are really nothing more and nothing less than street-thug-grade shakedowns. Get rid of the TSA, too, and every other "security theater" money-suck.

Your apparent embodiment of the contempt most thinking people have for the statist-infested "main-stream-media" pressitutes (I'll tell any lie you want for A-list status at your next Georgetown party, big boy...") is most admirable and appreciated. The same for what we think is your genuine disdain for the "intelligence industry".

We've all looked with favor on your political support for Brexit and the impulse that drives it. Do more of that! Support secession movements everywhere and always, and you will be loved.

FINALLY, let me remind you, Mr. President, of a couple of things on which you campaigned (or at least promised to do) which were very helpful in boosting your numbers. Actually pursuing these worthy goals will be very helpful to you now, as well.

Re-investigate (or really, investigate for the first time) 9/11. Everyone on the planet knows the official story is a steaming pile of bull-deuces. A lot of us care.

Audit the Fed. A lot of us care about that, too.

Best Wishes,

-Pete Hendrickson

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Tweets and Near Tweets

SO, THE WIKILEAKS "VAULT 7" DUMP reveals that the CIA routinely dressed its cyberwar malware up with markers made to give the appearance of Russian origin. Will the Congressional "intelligence" committees looking into the supposed "Russian Hacking/Election-Meddling" be keeping this in mind as they proceed?

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If we're stuck with Obamacare, best learn now that at least the tax penalty doesn't apply to most Americans: Click here 

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When I can get away w/ surveilling who I want by nominally targeting another, you can call it "incidental" but I'll call it "convenient"...

Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

April 11- In 1775, the last execution for witchcraft in Germany is carried out.  In 1876, the American Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is established.  In 1951, Harry Truman relieves Douglas MacArthur of command in Korea for insubordination.  In 1970, Apollo 13 is launched.  In 2002, an attempted coup fails to oust Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.

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This Week's New Victory Posts

Real victories in enforcing the Constitution by real American heroes.

GEORGIA JOHN gets us started today with his second victory in 5 months. Like his last one, this complete refund is from Georgia and by a return amending an original filed before John learned the true nature of the tax.

Also like John's last victory, this new one, which is for 2013 and was secured just after the turn of the new year, has a healthy dollop of interest added. This is to account for the couple of years the state had John's money despite him actually, as it turns out, not being liable for any income tax on his unprivileged earnings.

Here is John's latest refund check:

The notice from the state concerning the interest added can be seen here; John's amended return can be seen here.

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BILLY DALE shares his first educated filing victory with this week's posts-- a complete refund of everything withheld and given to Oklahoma against the possibility of an income tax liability during 2016. Here is Billy's refund:

The filing that produced this complete refund can be seen here. Billy's clear and straightforward cover letter statement is particularly worthy of attention, making inarguable that everybody knew just what they were doing in seeking, and on the other side, in honoring, this claim for refund.

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NEXT WE CELEBRATE BRANDON LITTLE, who also shares an Oklahoma victory for 2016 this week. Brandon got the acknowledgement from the state on this first victory of his resolution to restore the rule of law about four weeks ago:

Here is Brandon's filing that produced this admission and refund, and as with his friend Billy Dale's, the nature of Brandon's claim for the return of his property is very clearly articulated.

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WE'LL CLOSE THIS WEEK'S POSTINGS with the debut victory of GRAHAM ZELT, who most of you will already know thanks to his excellent video posted last October. Just 11 days ago Graham had the enormous pleasure and spiritual uplift of California's humble acknowledgement of the realities of the law and its return of everything withheld during 2016 in the face of Graham's stand-up insistence that the law be obeyed.

Here is that acknowledgement:

...and here is Graham's claim that produced that acknowledgement, which, like those of Billy and Brandon above, is equipped with a nice, concise and unmistakable statement of intent and meaning, and has the added feature of a particularly outstanding 1099-rebuttal declaration included, as well.

GOTTA LOVE these fine, heroic Americans!

John, Billy, Brandon and Graham 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!

NOTE: I really hope everyone steps up to help end the ruinous media silence on CtC's revelations and all that has transpired since they were first presented to the world more than 13 years ago. Please do go here. Read that short discussion of media evasion, and take on the activism I ask people to undertake at the end. It really matters.

This might help:

200,000 Admissions Against Interest

...or this:

Feeding Leviathan

...or this:

The Cost Of The Tax

...or this:

The Biggest Snow-Job In World History

NOTE II: It's been ten years or so since the last time the price of my books went up (from $19.95 to $24.95) I find it necessary to bump up a bit once again. Beginning on April 15-- why not, eh? ;>)-- book prices will increase to $29.95, and the CtC Companion CD and warrior-wear items will go up to $24.95. Orders postmarked before that date will be honored at the current prices.

(Can't wait 'til we hit full-spectrum victory and resume the gold standard, so this sort of thing needn't be bothered with any longer...)

“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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"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do."

-Everett Hale

(...and every other person who has ever deserved liberty...)

 

Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

April 12- In 1633, the examination of Galileo by the Inquisition begins.  In 1776, the North Carolina Provincial Congress instructs its delegation to the Continental Congress to vote for independence.  In 1861, Lincoln's provocation of re-supplying Fort Sumter in South Carolina has its intended effect, and the War Between the States begins.  In 1945, FDR dies in office; Vice President Harry Truman takes over.  In 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin becomes the first human to visit outer space and to orbit the Earth.  In 1999, Bill Clinton is held in contempt of court for giving intentionally misleading statements in connection with the civil case brought against him by Paula Jones.

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The Biggest Snow-Job In World History: The Myth That 1913 America Adopted A Marxist Progressive Tax On "All That Comes In"

Thank goodness the sun is now shining...

 

PRO TIP: If I were the IRS and I wanted to discourage people from rebutting allegations that they had done things I can tax, and keep them from successfully reclaiming withheld or paid-in money, I would salt the "tax honesty" community with passionate-seeming "legal researchers" who would warn anyone whose ear they captured that filing a 1040 is a bad idea for one reason or another...

  

A Review of CtC by Derek Cushman

You can also find this film at https://vimeo.com/175424277.

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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.

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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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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

April 13- In 1743, Thomas Jefferson is born.  In 1796, the first elephant arrives in the USA.  In 1829, the British Parliament acknowledges the religious freedom of Roman Catholics.  In 1902, James C. Penney opens his first store (in Kemmerer, Wyoming).  In 1953, CIA director Allen Dulles launches the project of experimenting with drug-induced mind-control on unwitting American victims known as MK-ULTRA.  In 1970, Apollo 13 has a problem when an oxygen tank explodes.

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How To Be A Leader In The CtC Community

It's simple

KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX IN DETAIL

LEAD BY EXAMPLE

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.

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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?

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PRO TIP: By the physics of the law, an indirect tax is necessarily a privilege tax. Here's why:

The distinction between a direct tax and an indirect tax is incidence. A direct tax arises by the direct imposition of the taxer, without any election of the taxed (other than that of authorizing the taxing power in the first place).

An indirect tax arises by the taxed choosing t to to to to do something by which the taxer's claim is then created. The choice that is a valid object of an indirect tax can't be anything done as an exercise of an untaxable right. Nor can it be any activity of necessity. A tax on anything done by necessity would arise not by actual election of the taxed but simply because the tax had been imposed by the taxer. Such a tax, whatever it may be called, would be in actual substance a direct tax, even if one that arose only intermittently. Think of a tax on eating, for example, or working, or engaging in trade with others (all of which are things done by right as well as by necessity, but you get the point).

What is left as the valid object of an indirect tax is the exercise of privilege-- something done not by right, and therefore done by the permission of the taxer (who, due to being possessed of an ownership right in the thing being permitted, is entitled to claim of portion of the proceeds when the thing is profitably used).

"[Although the Legislature may declare as privileges and tax as such for State revenue purposes those pursuits and occupations that are not matters of common right], the Legislature has no power to declare as a privilege and tax for revenue purposes occupations that are of common right."

Sims v. Ahrens, 167 Ark. 557, 271 SW 720 594, 595 (Ark. 1925)

 

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...

 

PRO TIP: The argument that a concept explicitly given a statutory definition for purposes of this or that chapter or "title" has the same meaning as the common word the legislature has borrowed for its label-- which meaning plainly didn't suit the legislature's purposes, hence its replacement-- is a preposterous reading of the law.

“It is axiomatic that the statutory definition of the term excludes unstated meanings of that term.” 

Meese v. Keene, 481 U.S. 465 (1987);

“[W]e are not at liberty to put our gloss on the definition that Congress provided by looking to the generally accepted meaning of the defined term.”

Tenn. Prot. & Advocacy Inc. v. Wells, 371 F.3d 342 (6th Cir. 2004).

 

 

In light of the actual evidence, those who doubt or deny the accuracy and correctness of CtC just because some government officials denounce it are like the 16th-century Europeans who were mystified by Copernicus getting all those astronomical predictions right even though the church had said he was wrong.

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

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Did you miss the 'Set Your Church Free' commentaries?

Set Your Church Free

Ignorance of the true nature of the "income" tax has gagged, gutted and seduced-into-disgrace America's ministerial community. This must change.

YoYou're a passenger on a riverboat that relies on regular contributions of fuel from the passengers to keep moving forward. You see an unsurvivable waterfall ahead, and note a soon-to-be-irresistible current growing stronger each day. What does common sense suggest? suggest?  

ShadowGraph

Copy and post this one around, people!

 

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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:

April 14- In 1775, Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush found North America's first abolitionist society.  In 1828, Noah Webster copyrights his first dictionary.  In 1860, the first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California.  In 1865, John Wilkes Booth shouts the Virginia state motto, "Sic semper tyrannis!" after shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre.  In 1912, the RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and begins to take on water.  In 1988, the Soviet Union commits to the abandonment of its occupation of Afghanistan.

 

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...

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The Liberating Truth About The 16th Amendment

IFIF YOU'RE NOT SPREADING THIS LINK with every bit of energy you can, to school libraries, homeschool families and community groups, your neighbors, your family members, your pastors and co-congregationalists, journalists, lawyers, CPAs, members of congress, tax-agency workers, Wikipedia, Anonymous, WikiLeaks, the Tax Foundation, everyone in the "tax honesty" movement, the 9/11 truth movement, other activist movements and everyone else, you have only yourself to blame for your troubles with the tax, and a whole lot else of which you might complain. It's on you.

WRITE A NICE, FRIENDLY AND BRIEF introductory note explaining what will be seen at the link-- cryptic is bad; excited is good-- and then send this WMI (weapon of mass instruction) far and wide.

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

-Thomas Jefferson

 

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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

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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!!

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“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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OTHER VOICES:

The Beneficiaries Of Conflict With Russia

by Brian Cloughley

On  January 30 NBC News reported that “On a snowy Polish plain dominated by Russian forces for decades, American tanks and troops sent a message to Moscow and demonstrated the firepower of the NATO alliance. Amid concerns that President Donald Trump’s commitment to NATO is wavering, the tanks fired salvos that declared the 28-nation alliance a vital deterrent in a dangerous new world.”

One intriguing aspect of this slanted account are the phrases “dominated by Russian forces for decades” and “vital deterrent” which are used by NBC to imply that Russia yearns, for some unspecified reason, to invade Poland. As is common in the Western media there is no justification or evidence to substantiate the suggestion that Russia is hell-bent on domination, and the fact that US troops are far from home, operating along the Russian border, is regarded as normal behaviour on the part of the world’s “indispensable nation.”

Then Reuters recorded that “Beginning in February, US military units will spread out across Poland, the Baltic states, Bulgaria, Romania and Germany for training, exercises and maintenance. The Army is also sending its 10th Combat Aviation Brigade with about 50 Black Hawk and 10 CH-47 Chinook helicopters and 1,800 personnel, as well as a separate aviation battalion with 400 troops and 24 Apache helicopters.”

As the US-NATO military alliance continues its deployments along Russia’s borders, including the US-UK supported Joint Viking 2017 exercise in Norway that began on March 1 and the deployment of  more US troops in Poland “from the start of April, as the alliance sets up a new force in response to Moscow’s 2014 annexation of Crimea,” the campaign by the US and British governments against alleged “Russian Aggression” continues to increase in volume and intensity, aided by an ever-compliant media.

Continued...

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NOW CONSIDER:

Aren't you REALLY, REALLY glad YOU'VE had the fortitude and clarity of vision to do the only thing that will restrain those in Mordor-on-the-Potomac from harming our sons and daughters and others around the world by taking control of how much of YOUR WEALTH facilitates government misbehavior?

 

Now ask yourself this: Have I really done all that I can to urge everyone I know to also stand up and act in the only way that will really bring about change in my lifetime? 

 

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Even as ardent a statist as Abraham Lincoln, in announcing his willingness to burn the Southern states to the ground in order to keep them paying the tariff for the benefit of Northern interests in his first inaugural address on March 4, 1861, paid at least lip service to the Founders design of leaving control over the fuel available to feed the fires Washington wants to light in the hands of the individual citizenry when he said, "Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part; and I shall perform it, unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means..."

Held over great reading recommendations:

Disinformation-How it works

by Brandon Smith

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The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

by Étienne de la Boétie

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

April 15- In 1755, Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language is published.  In 1865, Abraham Lincoln dies of his wounds after being shot the day before by John Wilkes Booth to the cry of "Sic semper tyrannis!"  In 1912, the "unsinkable" Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic.  In 1924, Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.  In 1947, Jackie Robinson debuts with the Brooklyn Dodgers.  In 1989, the Tiananmen Square protests begin.  In 2013, two bombs explode near the finish-line of the Boston Marathon. The incident is used as the pretext for a brief experiment with martial law in the area several days later.

 

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Was Grandpa Really a Moron

picks up where 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About The Income Tax' leaves off.

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Some Observations Regarding Educated And Accurate Filing

 

CtC-Educated Lawyers: It's Way Past Time For You All To Queue Up!

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-J-Jerry Arnowitz, JD

 

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-John O'Neil Green, JD

 

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-Eric Smithers, JD

 

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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".

"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."

-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson

 

 

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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)

(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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The Willingness Of Some People To Trade Liberty For Convenience Is Without Limit

Some Observations About Current Political Efforts To Evade The Truth, Such As The "Fair Tax" Scheme

 

Regarding "Tax Reform"

 

"Taxes are not raised to carry on wars, wars are raised to carry on taxes."

-Thomas Paine

 

Where To Find Things On This Site

 

Law Professor James Duane Says: "Don't Talk To The Police.  Period."

 

Honest Cops Agree

 

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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

 

REGARDING MONEY

 

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

April 16- In 1862, slavery is outlawed in the District of Columbia-- a year after the start of the War Between the States.  In 1941, Bob Feller throws an opening-day no-hitter for the Cleveland Indians against the Chicago White Sox.  In 1943, Albert Hofmann takes his first trip.  In 1947, approximately 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in a cargo ship in the harbor of Texas City, Texas, wreaking enormous destruction.  In 2007, a lone gunman successfully kills or wounds 55 American adults who had been denied the means of self-defense under the policies of Virginia Tech.

 

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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.