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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
Mid-Edition Update for December 5, 2016
My Vote For Scalia's Seat: Alex Kozinski Of The Ninth Circuit
Featured In This Update: A Bit More About The "FRP" Fraud *** *** Other Voices: Let Us Fight Tyranny *** Are There No Experienced Lawyers Who Respect The Rule Of Law? *** What Part Of "Drain The Swamp" Do You Not Understand? *** Trolls Against The Truth: A Dis-Information Campaign *** *** Watching The Watchmen- Updated *** Updates on Doreen's case can be found here. And Don't Miss These: Regarding State Group Membership *** The Educated American's Tax Filing Flow Chart *** *** *** *** A "Pragmatic" Perspective On The Tax And The Rule Of Law *** Illuminating Anniversaries For This Week *** *** ...and much, much more!
Hot Topics In The News: And Hey! Don't miss the great stuff in the main page of this edition! ***** "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….." -James Madison Join Me On The Shields Report Tonight At 10 PM EST
The Fifteenth Upgraded Edition of CtC Is Now Available! A Bit More About The "Frivolous Return Penalty" Fraud There's a lot be dredged up from this cesspool... LAST WEEK I POSTED A THOROUGHLY-DOCUMENTED exposé of IRS false-evidence production in a case involving CtC-educated returns. The perfectly legitimate filings had been attacked with fake "frivolous return penalty" (FRP) assertions of the sort used scattershot over the last 9 years in the hope of discouraging the spread and use of CtC's individual-empowering and state-restraining information. In the trial proceedings the government was faced with an apparently unexpected challenge to produce documentation of non-existent but required supervisory approval of the asserted FRPs. Unwilling to simply drop the penalties (and open the door to a trumpeting of the thereby-demonstrated fact that such penalties asserted against CtC-educated returns are, in fact, so bogus they can't even get IRS internal approval), the government instead produced fake approval forms. Happily, the faked documents were detected and exposed. Not so happily, the tax court judge hearing the case refused to take notice of the fact that the government had produced (and was relying upon) fraudulent evidence, ruling in the government's favor anyway. The filers are now seeking justice in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. TODAY, I WANT TO SHOW EVERYONE another IRS false-document practice. This one appears to also be intended to evade the fact that no IRS official will put a signature on bogus penalty assertions, but by way of a completely different fraud. Here's what I mean: Under the provisions of 26 USC § 6751(b), the assessment of any asserted penalty requires supervisor approval: (b) Approval of assessment (1) In general No penalty under this title shall be assessed unless the initial determination of such assessment is personally approved (in writing) by the immediate supervisor of the individual making such determination or such higher level official as the Secretary may designate. However, under the "exceptions" provided for in 26 USC § 6751(b)(2)(B), penalties calculated electronically (that is, penalties in which the amount and application of the penalty can be considered variable-free and automatic), approval is not required. (2) Exceptions Paragraph (1) shall not apply to— (A) any addition to tax under section 6651, 6654, or 6655; or (B) any other penalty automatically calculated through electronic means. Here is how the IRS explains the aspect of this exception which is relevant to the FRP approval-evasion ploy (from Office of Chief Counsel Notice CC-2014-004): If the computer models through EFDS propose a penalty and the taxpayer does not reply to the automatically generated pre-notification letter [such as a "LTR 3176" -PH], then an assessment of the section 6702 penalty is made without any Service employee exercising independent judgment with respect to the applicability of the penalty. In these situations, the section 6702 penalty is automatically calculated through electronic means, and qualifies as an exception to the general rule requiring written supervisory approval of assessment. To help clarify the reasoning used in this argument, here is another, more extensive expression of the same argument, from IRM 20.1.5.1.6 (01-24-2012) Managerial Approval of Penalties, concerning the IRC 6662 accuracy-related penalties for negligence and substantial understatement: 9. Any penalties automatically calculated through electronic means are excluded from IRC 6751(b)(1) requirement. 1. When IRC 6662 accuracy-related penalties for negligence and substantial understatement are assessed under the Automated Underreporter (AUR) program without an employee independently determining the appropriateness of the penalty, then the penalty is one that is automatically calculated through electronic means and may be assessed without written supervisory approval. 2. However, if a taxpayer responds either to the initial letter proposing a penalty or to the notice of deficiency that the program automatically issues, an IRS employee will have to consider the taxpayer’s response. Therefore, the IRS employee will have to make an independent determination as to whether the response provides a basis upon which the taxpayer may avoid the penalty. The employee’s independent determination of whether the penalty is appropriate means the penalty is not automatically calculated through electronic means. Accordingly, IRC 6751(b)(1) requires managerial written approval of an employee’s determination to assert the penalty. So, what is argued here is that as long as no reply is made to the "FRP proposal" letter (in which "proposal" is invariably replaced with the much more ominous-sounding word "assertion"), no supervisory approval of the penalty assessment is needed at all. Convenient, if there really is no reply made. Now look at the "Remarks" section on this Form 8278 recently secured by a FOIA request, concerning an "FRP assertion" against a CtC-educated filing. I happen to know personally that the "proposal letter" was answered with a reply:
Here's another example concerning a penalty assertion against a different CtC-educated filer, and again, one in response to which a reply was made:
I can't read minds. So, I can't say for certain that these false statements were made in order to evade a challenge to the legitimacy of this penalty assertion (perhaps even from law-abiding workers at the IRS itself?). But these lies certainly seem to serve that purpose, don't they? And I certainly can't think of any other reason they would be made... Here, by the way, is an example of an 8278 which both asserts no response (a claim I can't persaonally speak to, in this case) and also includes the declaration of the penalty being based on the pretense of the fake "ARG44 position":
WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE WILL COME TO LIGHT as the community-- and eventually litigants and law enforcement-- continue to drill into this FRP discouragement/suppression scheme? We'll see. Toward that end, I urge everyone victimized by the scheme to vigorously and diligently participate in the accumulations and consolidation of evidence relevant to a class-action suit, the utility of which evidence will be multi-dimensional. The details and procedures are here. Let's do this! "It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error." -U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
“The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.” ‑Louis Brandeis
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing." -John Stuart Mill Post a comment on this article Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend Repeal Obamacare. PERIOD! No replacement for this steaming pile of socialism is needed or wanted. See this to learn why. (And if you didn't get this as an easily-shared tweet earlier, click here and choose "follow"!) Even When Behaving Badly, The IRS Can't Help But Acknowledge The Truth VETERAN WARRIOR BRIAN S. has had his first effort to look back and correct past mistakes with an amended return met with a stonewall attempt by the IRS-- a "disallowance" notice. The assertion is that Brian improperly excluded "wage income". Brian's circumstances are a bit unusual, and may provide the basis for either genuine agency misunderstanding, or a pretense thereof. Brian's earnings include "wages" as well as non-federally-connected pay, as can be seen in the filing leading to his federal victory for 2015. The combination of both kinds of earnings and the inherent pretext for bad behavior of an original return that treated it all as "wages" is fraught with the potential for resistance. Having received an actual "disallowance" (a pretty unusual thing), Brian now has two years in which to file a suit in District Court to correct the IRS and get his property returned. But in the meantime, some of the language appearing in the disallowance notice Brian received is worth some attention. As always, the careful construction of tax agency language when circumstances compel accuracy is both ironically-amusing and pleasantly agreeable, as well. HERE IS THE LANGUAGE appearing in the form Brian received purporting to explain the reason for the disallowance:
We don't need to concern ourselves with the gratuitous assumptions about what Brian did or did not do, or whether he did or did not have "income" that should have been reported and wasn't (or earnings which had been originally reported as such but shouldn't have been). That will be worked out by actual presentations of evidence rather than mere meaningless assumptions and declarations by IRS workers who actually have no personal knowledge of the facts to draw on whatsoever. Our focus here will be on the careful wording with which the gratuitous are presented. Note, for instance, the statement that, "Gross income is all income you receive in the form of money, goods, property and services that isn't exempt from tax..." Now, isn't it interesting that this didn't get said much more economically, as follows: "Gross income is all money, goods, property and services you received that aren't exempt from tax..."? Think about the difference between these two constructions, and what truth about the tax would lead to the use of the first rather than the second. Then look, too, at the last line in the notice paragraph: "The income we are referring to is wage income." Leave aside the poor grammar. But do keep in mind that while we speak of "wages" as "income" with the use of alert quotes around here, this is just to distinguish two different kinds of wages.* One is the common variety that are nothing but pay for labor. The other is the pay for labor that is a measure of taxable activity realized under the label of "wages"-- a subclass of taxable activity that can be (as is) called "wage income". Now with that in mind doesn't the reveal/acknowledgement in the construction of that last line become clear? After all, if the agency could have honestly spoken as though all wages as "income", it could (and would) have much more economically and less clunkily said, "We are referring to your wages," or even, "The income we are referring to is wages." But it didn't, because it couldn't. Instead it has to telegraph the truth-- to those who know how to recognize it. One can't help but smile. *Congress also uses the "alert quotes" around the word "wages" in the law when referring to the kind that is a measure of "wage income". Post a comment on this article Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend
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Other Voices NORMALLY, THE 'OTHER VOICES' I POST appear only with the full newsletter edition. But I'm making an exception in this Mid-Edition Update, because the column that follows by Walter Williams is just too good to let go by without sharing. Enjoy. Let Us Fight Tyranny by Walter Williams For more than a half-century, it has become abundantly clear that our nation faces increasing irreconcilable differences. At the root is the fact that there is one group of Americans who mostly want to be left alone and live according to the rule of law and the dictates of the U.S. Constitution while another group of Americans wants to control the lives of others and ignore both the rule of law and constitutional restraints on the federal government. Should those Americans who favor the rule of law and constitutional government fight against or yield to those Americans who have contempt for the rule of law and constitutional government? Let’s look at a few of those irreconcilable differences. Some Americans prefer to manage their own health care needs. Others wish to have the federal government dictate their health care. Some Americans want their earnings to be taxed only for the constitutionally mandated functions of the federal government, which are outlined in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. Others think American earnings should be taxed for anything on which Congress can muster a majority vote. Though there is no constitutional authority for federal involvement in public education, some Americans want the federal government involved. The list of irreconcilable differences among the American people is nearly without end. These differences survive because of the timidity of those offended and the brute power of the federal government. I think reconciliation is impossible; therefore, separation is the only long-term peaceful solution. Separation and independence do not require that liberty-loving Americans overthrow the federal government any more than they required Gen. George Washington to overthrow the British government in order to secede or required his successor secessionist, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, to overthrow the U.S. federal government. You say, “All those government acts that you say violate the rule of law and the Constitution have been ruled constitutional by the courts!” That’s true. The courts have twisted the Constitution, but Thomas Jefferson warned, “To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions (is) a very dangerous doctrine indeed and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.” Continued... The Statist MSM Stay Corrupt And Get Creative A new spin-cycle is underway. I HAVE BEEN AMUSED (and disturbed) to see the defeated MSM shake it off quickly and get back to work. The presstitutes barely missed a beat before resuming efforts to control reality for the benefit of the statist-quo in the wake of the paradigm-shaking victory of Donald Trump. Here is an example of what I mean. In a story sourced to AP and the Washington Post and appearing in the papers on Saturday, November 19 concerning a conversation the day before between NATO head Jens Stoltenberg and Trump, we see this: NATO became a debated part of the presidential election after Trump suggested that the U.S. might abandon its NATO treaty commitments and pull out of the alliance if other countries don't contribute more. Note that the story asserts as true that all Trump proposed was to pull out of NATO if other countries didn't contribute more-- a proposal the statist-quo can tolerate and therefore wants to be what Trump declared. But in fact, Trump spoke of NATO as obsolete repeatedly during his campaign: I think NATO may be obsolete. NATO was set up a long time ago — many, many years ago when things were different. Things are different now. [Q]: But it’s possible that NATO is obsolete and should be gotten rid of? It’s possible. It’s possible. I would certainly look at it. And I’d want more help from other people. The one thing definitely — we’re paying too much. As to whether or not it’s obsolete, I’ll make that determination. March 23, 2016 Interview with Mark Halperin and John Heilemann of Bloomberg Politics And Wolf Blitzer asked me a question on television. He said, let me just ask you about NATO. And he asked me about it. Now, I haven’t been asked about NATO a lot, but I understand NATO and I understand common sense and I’m, like, a smart person, like many of the people in this room, hopefully all of the people in this room. But he asked me about NATO. I said it’s obsolete. This is my first thing. And you know what? I’m the first one. Guys that study NATO and good people, but they study NATO and they say, I don’t believe it, what he just said, I never thought of that. They study it because they’re so into it that they don’t realize. Because it was really put there — you had the Soviet Union and now you have Russia, which is different, but Russia is very powerful, so we can sort of say that’s a balance, so we’ll leave it. But it doesn’t really cover terrorism like it’s supposed to. It doesn’t have the right countries. I mean, many of the countries in there aren’t, you know, that you associate with terrorism. And so I said, number one, it’s obsolete. At an April 4 campaign rally in Milwaukee IT'S TRUE that over the course of subsequent months of campaigning, Trump waffled on the "obsolete" thing, eventually retreating into the essentially empty "if they don't start paying for themselves we'll leave" threat by itself. But honest journalism would have had the AP/WP story reporting it this way: NATO became a debated part of the presidential election after Trump suggested that the U.S. might abandon its NATO treaty commitments and pull out of the alliance if other countries don't contribute more, and even spoke repeatedly of the alliance as obsolete and best abandoned regardless of who was paying what. This, after all, is the only true description of when and how "NATO became a debated part of the presidential election." But these media hacks-- and those they serve-- don't WANT the alliance abandoned, and so are seeking to control the terms of the debate with the false suggestion that nothing but the "who pays the bills" thing has ever been in play. They want us all to forget about the "obsolete" thing, and hope to push it down the memory-hole by fudging in their reportage. I hope everyone keeps the antennae up for this sort of dissemblage (and I hope you all share with me whatever examples catch your eye). We're all going to see a lot of it, as the swamp creatures try to box Trump in to choices with which they are comfortable, knowing that this will eventually result in nothing important changing, despite the national call for dramatic change reflected in the outcome on November 8. Post a comment on this article Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend ***** Found on a facebook page-- apparently the "Millenials" aren't as disengaged as rumor sometimes has it...
BTW, those interested can see the latest motion filed in Doreen's case here 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. The Civil Rights Lawsuit Documentation "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." -Samuel Adams Post a comment on this article Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend If You Lie Down With Dogs, You Get Up With Fleas Or, "If you lie down with swamp creatures, you get up with scales and leeches." MITT ROMNEY? REALLY? Mr. Trump, I fear that the giddiness of victory is generating some memory loss. Even the RINOs didn't much like Romney, and the portion of the party on whose shoulders you rode to victory from the start despise him-- they all supported Ron Paul in 2012. Do you think you outdid Romney earlier this month with pretty-much every demographic because you've got better hair? You don't, and that's not why. You beat Romney because everyone recognized him as a war-monger, and believe you are not. War-mongers like Romney are swamp creatures-- big-state-loving parasitic death-machines. Like most of them, Romney's well-coiffed and good at the ooze and schmooze. Like most of them, he talks a good game, and sounds sincere and thoughtful. But in reality, Romney's power-hungry, and he has no respect for the Constitution. If he had any, he'd have spent his public career grinding bits off Leviathan at every chance. Instead, Mitt feeds Leviathan and helps it grow bigger, so it can, in turn, feed him-- whether it be his ego, his power-lust or his purse-- more lavishly. Please, Mr. Trump, stay away from these swamp creatures. If nothing else, recognize how vulnerable you are. Half the country hates you already. Alienate the 50% of your electoral supporters who gave you a vote believing that you would NOT be just another Mitt Romney, but would instead be the "anti-Mitt", and I suspect that you will prove to be the most impeachable president to ever hold office for a year. HERE'S THE THING-- we elected you because we don't want business as usual. We don't want ANYTHING done the way Mitt Romney would do it. More, and more accurately put, we don't want anything done that Mitt Romney would do. We want respect for the Constitution, and that means shrinking the federal government down to about the size and scope it had around 1897. WE DON'T WANT WAR WITH IRAN. Or anybody else. You've got to stop elevating people who do. They are swamp creatures. WE DON'T WANT TO BE SPIED UPON-- more pointedly on this one, we want the Fourth Amendment fully respected. Read this, Mr. Trump. It'll tell you what that means. When you're done reading, here's something else: We want law enforcement personnel, DoJ lawyers, and judges who have violated the Fourth Amendment-- even secretly-- charged accordingly. Is Jeff Sessions going to see to that? WE DON'T WANT TORTURERS holding office, at the CIA or elsewhere. Torture is a crime (as well as a moral depravity), even if you call it something else. Torturers are swamp creatures. Here's the long and the short of it: We don't want anyone to end up holding office who would have been considered acceptable by an incoming President Mitt Romney, or John McCain, or Barack Obama, or George W. Bush, or Bill Clinton. You were NOT hired to do the same crap done by ANY of these other administrations, only "better". You were hired to UNDO the crap these people have done. If you don't end up four years from now with a federal government half the size, cost, arrogance and reach of the one you are inheriting, you will have violated our trust. And if we don't see you set a course for that downsizing right out of the gate, you are going to lose support and get a now-seriously-aroused American people very upset very quickly. Don't lie down with the dogs (or the swamp creatures). Instead, dance with the ones what brung ya. Post a comment on this article Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend ***** Would You Do It?
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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.
Post a comment on this article Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend ***** 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:
You can also find this film on YouTube at https://youtu.be/V3_MViZDvo0 and on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/175424277. 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? Post a comment on this article Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend A Housekeeping Note OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS I've heard from a number of folks that a firewall known as "Comodo" blocks access to this website. This is apparently a glitch in that program. This site is safe, as can be seen by going here.Please share this info with others in your own address book so it gets around-- obviously those suffering the ill effects of this defect in Comodo won't be able to see it here themselves until they go into their firewall settings and manually whitelist losthorizons.com. ALSO!!! Please go to the trouble of sharing the email you got alerting you to this new newsletter posting with as many people as possible. Over the course of time the ISP I use (Yahoo) is periodically put on "spam" blacklists. If I do a sending of newsletter announcements during such an interval, my address can get tagged that way, too, and my email can then end up disappearing into spam folders in the email systems of what are actually newsletter subscribers. Unless told to look for them and whitelist mail from @losthorizons.com, some of these folks won't ever know that this has happened. Pasted below are some how-to guides for several of the more popular email programs. Yours might be listed; if it is not, these steps might guide you through doing the whitelisting anyway, since there will be basic similarities among programs. Failing that, your program's "help" files or online info should be able to walk you through the whitelisting process. Yahoo: There are two things you can do: 1. Check your Yahoo! Bulk folder. If you see email from losthorizons.com, highlight it and click Not Spam. 2. Create a filter to automatically send email from losthorizons.com to your Inbox.
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WANTED! Your Article!! Sharpen those pens, people! 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:
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. BTW, CtC Warrior Greg Sutton has just had a good educational/inspirational article published here.
Post a comment on this article Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend ***** Why Aren't People Suing? SO, I WONDER HOW MANY FOLKS have thought about the fact that the First Amendment prohibits even a bogus "frivolous return penalty" threat, such as the customized "3176C" notices that a few educated filers have received over the years (see here, here and here for some examples)? After all, a "frivolous penalty" threat amounts to a threat by the government to punish someone for saying what the government wishes they would not say (or for not saying what the government wishes they would say). Even when the threat is entirely reliant on the timidity and cooperation of the target for its effect or an outright hoax, the object of the exercise is to control the target's speech. Thus even when technically toothless it remains a gross violation of the Constitution and the victim's rights. The threat is also intended to influence the target into at least withdrawing a claim to the refund of withheld or paid-in property, which would then default to government ownership (and really, the threat is meant to coerce an active endorsement of a government claim to the property, giving the appearance that the government's taking control of that property is proper and beyond legal challenge). Thus, these "frivolous penalty" threats are doubly criminal. AFTER ALL, PROHIBITING INHERENTLY CORRUPT exercises of state power of precisely this sort is the reason we have a "freedom of speech" element in the First Amendment. Americans can't be made to say things for the government's benefit, nor punished for saying things the government finds inconvenient or at its expense-- this is perhaps the most thoroughly-settled aspect of Constitutional law there is. See a nice summary of Supreme Court case-law on this point in sections A., B. and C. of this paper. Plainly, there is no exception to the amendment's provision whereby the government can simply argue, "We can punish you until you say what we want you to say, either directly or by being silent in the face of the allegations of others, as long as we call your expressions "frivolous", or exercise the coercion in the context of taxation..." I think people subjected to this rights violation should be furious and in a suing mood, don't you? (BTW, as an interesting side note, consider the limiting factor built in to the legitimate application of the 'frivolous return penalty" provisions, confining their application to those who are speaking not for themselves, and not as sovereign individuals in their own capacity, but on behalf of someone else, and as a legal duty, not an elective act: 26 USC § 6671 - Rule for application of assessable penalties (b) Person defined The term “person”, as used in this subchapter, includes an officer or employee of a corporation, or a member or employee of a partnership, who as such officer, employee, or member is under a duty to perform the act in respect of which the violation occurs. The relevant speech of those within this specialized sub-class of "person" can perhaps be deemed outside the First Amendment's ambit. By this mechanism the "frivolous return penalty" is harmonized with the Constitution. By the same token, the First Amendment prohibition of government speech-violations against undistinguished persons means that the sub-class defined at 26 USSC § 6671 must necessarily be confined to those described in that definition, per CtC scholarship. If that sub-class were not so confined, but deemed to extend to any kind of persons other than those circumscribed by a "limited-expansion-only" construction of the definition, the "frivolous penalty" would be unconstitutional.) "Like a muddied stream or a polluted fountain is the righteous man who gives way before the wicked." -Proverbs 25:26
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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. LIKE HENRY BELLMON WAS TOLD, the "ignorance tax" scheme relies on bluff-- pretending that the truth is what the government suggests that it is (despite what the law and the courts and every other authority have actually been saying about it for 150 years). And like Jack Warren Wade, Jr. says, the scheme relies on fear-- doing everything possible to make people afraid to act on their scheme-shattering knowledge of the truth. 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. And THAT's why the deep state fears CtC. "Be the change you want to see in the world." -Mohandas Gandhi
Post a comment on this article 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, because... Right now, having just been forced to deliver my beloved bride to a prison camp, I'm bleeding pretty heavily. And yet, when I have asked all of you for what I firmly believe is a necessary resource to move the ball downfield and give my darling wife (and all the rest 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, even despite my having been asking you for them for many years now (I renewed my entreaties as a front-page item just lately, in response to the media skepticism over what has been done to Doreen, but I first posted my request for these something along the lines of eight years ago...). 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 do so. 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. STARTING TODAY, SELECTED PAGES CONSTITUTING primarily "legal resources" pages will 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 spreading the word, and your beautiful faces and inspiring words, too. It IS a lot. But I'll let Frederick Douglas explain: "Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation…want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters…. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." Fear nothing but God. Post a comment on this article Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend ***** Give Yourself A 30% Raise: A New Flyer
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Post a comment on this article Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend What Makes YOU A Warrior For The Truth? 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." -Margaret Mead
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Bob’s Bicycles or 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 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:
Click here to enjoy the rest of this illuminating little parable (...and if you want to see a liberating transformation take place THIS YEAR, forward this file to everyone in your address book.)
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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 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.
There IS "A Law" By Which You Can Be Made Liable, And This Is How It Works
Now Learn How To Be Master Of The Situation
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Do You Know What Happens When YOU Decide To "Let Someone Else Do It"?
NOTHING.
"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 ever really deserved liberty)
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."
-Daniel Webster
"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
-Edward R. Murrow
TOOLS FOR SPREADING THE LIBERATING TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX
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Test Your "Income" Tax IQ! 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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"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."
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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!
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A Few Tips For Making Best Use Of This WebSite
USE THE SITE MAP!!!
USE THE SITE SEARCH!!!
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.)/p>
Please make a habit of clicking on all provided links and at least looking briefly to ensure that the linked page is one with which you are completely familiar from another study session.
Finally, please keep in mind that, annoying though it may seem at first blush (but not, I trust, upon reflection), I constantly tweak material already posted. Obviously this doesn't mean that every page is in flux at all times, but it does mean that if you are directed to a page that IS familiar, it's worthwhile to read it through again if it's been a while since your last having done so.
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