"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
***
HEY, PEOPLE! Please don't just
read what I post here (or anywhere), and nod your head sagely or
approvingly and then move on to other things. I don't post in order
to affirm your sense of things. I post in order to equip you with
perspectives and arguments with which to
educate others, and in the
expectation that you will forward my posts to other people (or
direct them to those posts). PLEASE do those things.
We won't win by YOU knowing what I
present. We will win by LOTS OF OTHERS knowing what I present.
So, Saturday Was Declaration Day...
Did you do it?
DECLARATION DAY.
That is,
"NO MORE PARALYSIS Day"
"NO MORE DENIAL Day"
"NO MORE, "I DON'T DARE..." Day"
"NO MORE, "THE BAD MEN WILL NOTICE ME SO I'D BETTER NOT!" Day"
"NO MORE, "I'LL WAIT FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO GO FIRST..." Day"
In short, we've just had,
"GET OFF YOUR ASS Day"
"GET LOUD AND PROUD AND UN-COWED Day"
I'm talking about,
"DON'T STOP 'TIL YOU'VE GOT LIBERTY AND THE RULE OF LAW Day"
"FACE THE FACTS Day"
"NO TIME TO RELAX Day"...
MORE THAN ANYTHING, we've just had "PUT ASIDE DELUSIONS Day".
That's what the original "Declaration day" was all about. It was
the day the American colonists finally acknowledged that the people they had
been entreating to respect their rights actually didn't want them to have
their rights.
It was the day the American colonists finally acknowledged
that the
government operatives they had been petitioning and politicking and lobbying and
arguing with weren't misled or mistaken or suffering from misunderstanding,
needing only to have things explained a bit better, or argued a bit more
authoritatively.
Instead, as the colonists realized and finally admitted by way of
the Declaration, those operatives were their competitors. Those
operatives were the colonists' opponents. Efforts to persuade them were
pointless-- they admitted to no limits on their power and had no interest in
curbing its abuse, which was being practiced for their benefit.
IT WAS HARD for the colonists to reach that epiphany about their
government. Because states exercise power (and partly also because they maintain
an elaborate apologia dedicated to justifying that exercise as being for the
good of the citizenry, or at least the way things must or are supposed to be),
they come to be viewed as virtual parents in the hind-brains of those subject to
that power.
It is very hard for people to recognize and acknowledge that actual
Mom and Dad are bad people. It is nearly as hard for people to recognize that
the state under the influence of which they have been raised is corrupt and
malicious.
But of course, sometimes Mom and Dad are indeed bad, and states
usually are. And while Mom and Dad can and often do become remorseful, and
proceed to reform and redemption, states are institutionally-incapable of
remorse.
The only remedy against a bad state is taking away its power.
Eventually, after wasting all that time and effort on petitioning, politicking,
lobbying and arguing, the American colonists admitted this truth on Declaration
Day and said, "No more talking-- it's time for walking!"
Bless them for abandoning their child-like view of the state and
becoming grown-ups at last.
IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN if we modern Americans are equally deserving
of blessings. We should be up to the task; after all, we have a much easier row
to hoe than the colonists did.
While we, too, must adopt a grown-up understanding of the true
character of the dangerous servant against which we have been wisely warned, our
state is already bound down by the written law, thanks to the blood and
sacrifices of our ancestors. All we have to do is recognize that the state is
constantly struggling to escape any limitations placed upon it by that law, and
to suppress and marginalize anyone revealing its bad behavior and anything
showing how it can be put back into its chains.
Particularly, we have to recognize that the biggest and most
important limitation put upon the state concerns its ability to take resources
from individual citizens for its own use. It's this simple-- the one who
controls the disposition of property is the one in charge.
Because it is so important, for decades the United States has been
engaged in the cultivation and exploitation of myths about what limitations are
placed upon it in regard to resource acquisition. Sadly, for most of those
decades most Americans have fallen for the fictions.
Chief among these state-serving, people-harming myths is the truly
absurd proposition that our grandparents amended the Constitution in 1913 to
authorize the state's exploitation of their resources at its will, in defiance
and rejection of the previous tax-limiting Constitutional rules under which the
American people had become the freest and most prosperous in the history of the
world.
THIS IS A MYTH! It never happened. Even the premier organs
of the state itself have said so endlessly-- but quietly, so as to preserve the
on-the-books harmony of the law while allowing the state (and its clients and
cronies) to ruthlessly exploit anyone who doesn't know to look and remains in
ignorance.
See what Department of Treasury experts admit about the income tax.
See what the Supreme Court continues to say about the amendment and the tax over
the decades. Learn the real history of the tax and its antecedents.
AFTER YOU TAKE THESE enlightening little excursions, recognize that
every single person or institution that would lose prestige, power or profits by
acknowledging the truth about the tax can be expected to lie about the subject
if queried (even those in high
office). So will every interest that sees itself benefitting from the
existence of a mammoth state (which might even include those who make their
living complaining about the mammoth state, or the supposed evils of the income
tax).
Every one of these co-opted voices are today's equivalents of the
invested promoters and defenders of the "divine right of kings" myth that kept
people enthralled and exploited in the colonists' time.
But also recognize that now knowing the truth, the power is in
your hands. The responsibility is, too.
Rise to deserve the blessings of posterity.
Make this year's "Declaration Day" real. Make it a personal
Declaration Day-- a day of resolution to act on behalf of liberty and the rule
of law.
What's your sign, Baby? How about this one:
"Like a muddied stream or a polluted fountain is the righteous man
who gives way before the wicked."
-Proverbs 25:26
"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
"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
"A nation of sheep begets a government of wolves."
-Edward R. Murrow
"Be the change you want to see
in the world."
-Mohandas Gandhi
Speaking of Declaration Day...
DOREEN AND I want to express our appreciation to all
those who joined us Saturday for the Thirteenth Annual Declaration Day party and
helped make it a special occasion. You all were great company!
One Last
Thing
...with an eye toward the
ongoing "Covid-19"-predicated assault on the
rule of law:
"It is proper to take alarm at
the first experiment on our liberties. We
hold this prudent jealousy to be the first
duty of Citizens and one of the noblest
characteristics of the late Revolution. The
free men of America did not wait till
usurped power had strengthened itself by
exercise and entangled the question in
precedents. They saw all the consequences in
the principle, and they avoided the
consequences by denying the principle."
It is an hour of truth power,
by which you will come to understand the
falseness of the alleged C-19 death toll by
which the panic and all its attendant evil
is being sustained.
As you watch keep in mind that
New York, in which this whistle-blower
worked and on which she concentrates, is
responsible for fully 25% of the supposed
C19 deaths making up the current scary
national total. Other states like Michigan,
for instance, which have engaged in the same
vile practices exposed here, have kicked in
other big chunks of that total.
THIS VIDEO PROJECTS THE PROGRESS of a nuclear exchange between Russia and
the United States. It's frightening, as it should
be, as well as sobering and instructive. My only
criticisms are, first of all, that it fails to
account for the imbalance that will now be present
in any such exchange due to
the new Russian
hypersonic weapons.
Secondly, the video fails to account
for China's contribution to the exchange against the
US, which is a virtual certainty. China knows that
if Russia goes, and the US survives, it goes soon
after. So, that will not be allowed to happen.
CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE how abysmally
stupid someone would have to be to continue to doubt
or deny that
CtC has revealed the actual, complete and insurmountable
truth about the income tax in light of the overwhelming
mountain of
historical,legal,
practical and
logical evidence to the contrary? (Not to mention
the
outright lies and even
ludicrous hoaxes the executive and some corrupt
members of the judiciary have been caught at in desperate
efforts to conceal the truth...)
Plainly any such denier must either be
abysmally stupid or be an abysmally corrupt government
official or other person who sees him or herself as
benefitting from the lies about the tax by which America
has suffered for 75 years now.
Isn't this true?
"A slave is one who waits
for someone to come and free him."
-Ezra Pound
*****
Did you know…
…The US may be
the only country in the world where people working
in the non-federal private sector must commit
perjury in order to owe and pay ‘God’s things
to Caesar’?
If you work in the
private sector, stop falsely swearing that your
private-sector earnings are federal “income”1.
Perjury is a crime. Exercise the law’s
provision for protecting your private-sector
earnings from the 154-year-old2 indirect
excise known as the federal income tax.
Rebut fraudulent allegations made by your payers
regarding the legal nature of your work and
the earnings derived therefrom, so that you
pay only your fair share. Join the hundreds
of thousands of honest, law-abiding Americans
who have been doing so for more than a decade.
Learn how for free at losthorizons.com.
1--“We must reject…
…the broad contention submitted in behalf of
the government that all receipts—everything
that comes in—are income…”.
United States Supreme
Court, So. Pacific v. Lowe, 247 U.S. 330, (1918)
2—The income tax in
the United States was first instituted into
law on July 1, 1862, during Lincoln’s presidency
under the excise laws of the United States.
The preamble to the 1939 Internal Revenue Code
traces its roots to this original income tax
law.
Important guest observations
and commentary with an important afterword
by Yours Truly
Julian Assange In Limbo
by Patrick Cockburn
(Held over from two weeks ago for second
airings in this edition, along with an
updated 'Afterword', because both are
hugely important but are getting way too
little attention...)
Julian Assange was running
WikiLeaks in 2010 when it released a vast hoard of
US government documents revealing details of
American political, military and diplomatic
operations. With extracts published by the New York
Times, the Guardian, Der Spiegel, Le Monde and El
País, the archive provided deeper insight into the
international workings of the US state than anything
seen since Daniel Ellsberg gave the Pentagon Papers
to the media in 1971. But today Ellsberg is
celebrated as the patron saint of whistleblowers
while Assange is locked in a cell in London’s
Belmarsh maximum security prison for 23 and a half
hours a day. In this latest phase of the American
authorities’ ten-year pursuit of Assange, he is
fighting extradition to the US. Court hearings to
determine whether the extradition request will be
granted have been delayed until September by the
Covid-19 pandemic. In the US he faces one charge of
computer hacking and 17 counts under the Espionage
Act of 1917. If he is convicted, the result could be
a prison sentence of 175 years.
I was in Kabul when
I first heard about the WikiLeaks
revelations, which confirmed much of what I
and other reporters suspected, or knew but
could not prove, about US activities in
Afghanistan and Iraq. The trove was immense:
some 251,287 diplomatic cables, more than
400,000 classified army reports from the
Iraq War and 90,000 from the war in
Afghanistan. Rereading these documents now
I’m struck again by the constipated
military-bureaucratic prose, with its
sinister, dehumanising acronyms. Killing
people is referred to as an EOF (‘Escalation
of Force’), something that happened
frequently at US military checkpoints when
nervous US soldiers directed Iraqi drivers
to stop or go with complex hand signals that
nobody understood. What this could mean for
Iraqis is illustrated by brief military
reports such as the one headed ‘Escalation
of Force by 3/8 NE Fallujah: I CIV KIA, 4
CIV WIA’. Decoded, it describes the moment
when a woman in a car was killed and her
husband and three daughters wounded at a
checkpoint on the outskirts of Fallujah,
forty miles west of Baghdad. The US marine
on duty opened fire because he was ‘unable
to determine the occupants of the vehicle
due to the reflection of the sun coming off
the windshield’. Another report marks the
moment when US soldiers shot dead a man who
was ‘creeping up behind their sniper
position’, only to learn later that he was
their own unit’s interpreter.
These reports are
the small change of war. But collectively
they convey its reality far better than even
the most well-informed journalistic
accounts. Those two shootings were a
thousand times repeated, though the reports
were rare in admitting that the victims were
civilians. More usually, the dead were
automatically identified as ‘terrorists’
caught in the act, regardless of evidence to
the contrary. The most famous of the
WikiLeaks discoveries concerned an event in
Baghdad on 12 July 2007 during which the US
military claimed to have killed a dozen
terrorists. But the incident had been filmed
by the gun camera of the US Apache
helicopter that had carried out the
shootings, and the people it targeted were
all civilians. Much was known about the
killings because among the dead were two
local journalists working for Reuters. It
was known, too, that such a video existed,
but the Pentagon refused to release it
despite a Freedom of Information Act
request. Appalled by what the video revealed
about the way the US was conducting its war
on terror, and appalled by the contents of
the thousands of reports and cables it was
stored alongside, a junior US intelligence
analyst called Bradley Manning, who later
changed her legal gender and became Chelsea
Manning, released the entire archive to
WikiLeaks.
The video still has
the power to shock. The two helicopter
pilots exchange banter about the slaughter
in the street below: ‘Ha, ha, I hit them,’
one says. ‘Oh yeah, look at those dead
bastards,’ the other says. They have
mistaken the camera held by one of the
journalists for a rocket-propelled grenade
launcher, unlikely though it was that armed
insurgents would stand in the open in
Baghdad with a US helicopter hovering
overhead. They shoot again at the wounded as
one of them, probably the Reuters assistant
Saeed Chmagh, crawls towards a van that has
stopped to rescue them. When the pilots are
told over the radio that they have killed a
number of Iraqi civilians and wounded two
children, one of them says: ‘Well, it’s
their fault for bringing their kids into the
battle.’
SO, LET ME PUT THIS IN THE MOST concise
terms possible: I would trade every single
adversary, persecutor and denigrator of Julian
Assange into prison in exchange for his release, and
consider the deal an incalculably positive gain for
America and the world. Clear enough?
I stand foursquare with Thomas
Jefferson, in his remark that, “Were it left
to me to decide whether we should have a
government without newspapers or newspapers
without government, I should not hesitate a
moment to prefer the latter.”
By this observation Jefferson
was speaking of real newspapers--
independent, courageous, informative and
honest, or so I take it. Julian Assange and
WikiLeaks are the gold standard for such
journalism in this century-- meant to inform
and empower the people against the
corruption and danger of the secretive
state, as nicely encapsulated in Cockburn's
quote of Robert Lowe from the NYT
in 1852.
The enormous good Assange has
done even just in the brief window he had
before the attacks on him began in 2010 and
while trapped in the Ecuadorian embassy is
the direct reason the US swamp population
hates, fears and wishes to crucify him.
Assange has shone a bright
light upon these vile creatures, both
through the 2010 document and video dump and
his subsequent revelations of DNC corruption
in favor of Hilary Clinton at the expense of
Bernie Sanders, the Vault 7 Releases-- and
who knows what else that has yet to appear?
The monsters want Assange destroyed, both to
pay him back for their embarrassment and
unwelcome sense of vulnerability, and as a
deterrent to other truth-tellers and
ugly-secret-revealers.
Indeed, Assange continues to
expose monsters even in his imprisonment.
For instance, everyone afflicted with
illusions about Donald Trump as a "swamp
drainer" can and should abandon them in
light of the current despicable mistreatment
of Julian Assange.
That mistreatment is
administered at the hands of Trump's
subordinates (and could be ended by Trump
either reining in those subordinates or
issuing a presidential pardon). Trump's
behavior in this one thing alone is enough
to prove him nothing but a well-camouflaged
swamp creature, and an enemy of the People.
I WRITE OFTEN ABOUT
ASSANGE because with him rests a great deal
of our security in our liberties. If Julian Assange is shut away and others like him are
thereby deterred into silence, we resume the
status of mushrooms-- kept in the dark and
fed shit.
Mushroom people are the
furthest thing from sovereign and
self-governing; indeed, mushroom people are
serfs at best, however much they may harbor
delusions about being free. Mushroom people
won't ever see the emails and memos
exchanged between officials responsible for
all the C19 bs with which we've been "locked
down" and seen our economy and way of life
ruined this past spring.
Mushroom people won't ever see
the real records of concerning the "Russiagate"
assault; or the truth about the bogus claims
of Bashar Al Assad using chemical weapons;
or the real backstory of the assassination
of Quasem Soleimani.
I WANT TO SEE ALL THOSE THINGS,
AND MORE. You should, too.
Defund the state.
If we can't put all of Julian
Assange's persecutors in prison, we can at
least put them on the street, where they can
do no more harm.
Don't just close your
eyes and dreamily smile at the thought. Get
up and make it happen.
Spread the knowledge you
already have about the true nature of the
income tax. The simplest way to do this is
to share
this little document with everyone you
can, in every way that you can.
I HAVE DONE MY BEST to lead this country
to liberty from the mis-applied income tax. I have labored
hard. I've shed a lot of sweat, a fair bit of blood
and more than a few tears. But I seem to be pretty poor
at that kind of work.
When I have asked all of you for what I
firmly believe is a necessary resource to move the ball
downfield and give all of us the best chance at justice
and an end to the assault on the rule of law-- simple
testimonial videos requiring nothing from any of you
but the phone in your pocket and three minutes of speaking
from the heart-- I have had only a handful of people
answer my call.
I CAN'T KEEP GOING THIS WAY. I have to
be able to turn my attention away from writing new persuasive
or skepticism-addressing articles week after week, and
toward research, analysis and educational presentations
that will benefit everyone already in this community.
I need time to do some suing, and to bring together
the resources and talent toward that end.
As said, it is my firm belief that your
testimonial videos are the resource that I need to make
big things happen, and they are unquestionably the thing
I need to allow me to turn my attention away from trying
to get horses to drink at the waterhole to which I have
led them. Your words, in your great numbers and all
in your own different ways, will do that better than
anything I write possibly could.
And yet, you are not providing them. This,
despite my having been asking you for them for many
years now.
Therefore, with enormous reluctance, I
am making portions of this website restricted access
only. People have been urging me to do this for years
now, telling me I should impose a charge to access my
work-product, so as to enable me to keep producing.
I have never been inclined to charge fees
for access. I ask for donations, and will continue to
do that, and if they do not come, then I will conclude
that my work is of no value to anyone, and I will close
shop.
But I now WILL charge a special
something for access to some key portions of that
work.
Opening selected pages on
losthorizons.com comprising higher level legal
resources now requires the submission of qualifying testimonial
videos, as discussed, described and demonstrated
here.
The videos must be accompanied by scans of a recent
educated filing along with responsive documents from
the IRS, whether in the form of a check, a notice
identifying and reflecting the filed return, or
"return" and "account" transcripts for the year for
which the return was filed. Names must be shown in
full.
Similarly, if
an email comes my way asking for guidance or assistance,
I had better already have your video posted.
I HATE TO PLAY IT THIS WAY. But I want
to win.
I'll tell you a story from when I was coaching
my kids in soccer. Both of my kids at a certain age
in their careers had run into a wall common to all but
the very exceptional. They had gotten to be pretty good,
and they wanted to enjoy the benefits of their hard
work. But the arrival of this interest coincided with
a new self-consciousness which made them reluctant to
risk failing and looking foolish. So, they were hanging
back from seizing the main chance when it appeared,
and driving for the goal.
My solution was to post on the wall of
our dining room a couple of simple points about self-discipline,
the chief of which is this: You can't score a goal if
you don't take a shot.
That's how it is here, too. If you don't
stand up, you are laying down, and you'll never score
that goal.
Here is what my kids live by now, in their
own version of that lesson. I hear it from them all
the time as they excel (accompanied by the sound of
a father's breast swelling with pride): Go hard,
or go home.
You, too. Go hard, or go home.
Send those videos.
Do I ask for a lot? I want your victories
to post, your financial support, your efforts at spreading
the word, and your beautiful faces and inspiring words,
too. It IS a lot.
But it's not too much. I'll let Thomas Paine explain:
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered;
yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder
the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we
obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows
how to put a proper price on its goods; and it would
be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as freedom
should not be highly rated.”
We each have our reasons, and our story.
It's time, and it's needed, for you to share yours with
the world.
P.S. READ EVERYTHING THAT
FOLLOWS, CAREFULLY AND THOROUGHLY!!
"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. (And if
you use a cell-phone, please have the orientation
horizontal, not vertical-- that is, so that the
screen of the phone on which you are watching
yourself while taping looks like a TV or movie
screen.)
If needed, write a little script for yourself.
Better, though, to just speak extemporaneously, after
spending a little time sorting out your thoughts and
getting down into your heart. Perhaps make it a video
of someone in your family, or a close friend, interviewing
you.
Dress "business casual". Be well-groomed.
Keep yourself to no more than 2 or 3 minutes,
and keep in mind that the purpose is
not to educate,
but to INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE and ENERGIZE. Your video will
be one of many to be shared. If you need to go
longer to really say your piece, go for it (but long
or short I may edit if something strikes me as
wandering or off-key or unacceptable).
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.
Don't talk to ME, or to others in the
CtC-educated community. Make remarks that are suited
to the NON-CtC-educated community, and at the same
time, be mindful 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--
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. Don't get
into details-- your audience is going to have no
idea what a "LTR3176" is, and you will NOT be
capable of explaining it adequately. This is an
subject area concerning which you should speak from
the heart, not the head.
If you haven't
yet begun to act, share the reasons for your decision to do so, and
your plans.
Remember, your purpose is to INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE
and ENERGIZE.
Watch your own video after you
record it and ask yourself: Putting yourself
in the place of someone completely immersed
in "the matrix"-- oblivious to any notions
that you might have been a victim of an
"ignorance tax", and comfortable with the
status quo-- would the video you just made
encourage you to push aside your comforting
illusions and learn the liberating truth? If
not, try again.
Identify yourself. Anonymity is for criminals and self-doubters, not
CtC
warriors. Naming yourself is a requirement, and your
name will appear as a subtitle on the video when I
prepare it for posting, in any event.
Mention what you do for a living, whether
you're a doctor, homemaker, lawyer, trucker, IT guy
or gal, 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, 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 DropBox, OneDrive.Live.com or GoogleDrive
(if you do GoogleDrive you MUST give access permission to stategroups@losthorizons.com), 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.
BTW: An encouraging and inspiring
video will earn you access to the restricted pages
on losthorizons.com and membership in the National
Forum if you have also sent me a recent educated
federal filing and IRS response (or relevant
"return" or "account" transcript). I will be the
judge of whether your submissions qualify
for access, but if you do your best you should do
fine.
Remember, the restoration of institutional
respect for individual rights and the rule of law depends
on enough individuals insisting upon it. Do your part
to let those starting to rub the sleep from their eyes
know that there is a community already waiting for their
fellowship with open arms and open hearts and shining
spirits.
See how some of your fellow warriors for
the truth have done their parts in videos sent over
the years, many of which are posted
here.
"It does not take a majority to prevail...
but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting
brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."
Getting Free Of The "Income" Tax Scheme Is As Easy As
Falling Off A Bike
To get an idea of how today's "income" tax scheme works,
try this little exercise:
Think of the federal government as a guy named Bob,
who lives down the street from you in a town that is
really big on bicycles. Bikes get used for commuting,
deliveries, shopping, etc.. In fact, other than walking,
bicycles are the exclusive form of transportation in
your town.
Your neighbor Bob has a by-the-mile bicycle-renting
business-- "Bob's Bicycles". Bob's Bicycles is far and
away the biggest business in town.
Part of Bob’s success is because he does a lot of contract
business. However, Bob doesn't just get paid by riders
who have signed an agreement with him, or even just
those using Bob's bikes. Bob gets something every time
anybody in town does any riding at all, through an odd
combination of circumstances that took many years to
come together.
Here's how it happened...
Bob's Bicycles was launched long ago by the great grandfather
of the present Bob (Bob IV). Great Grandpa Bob started
out not only with a main location for his contract business--
he also had the bright idea of setting up spots around
town where he parked some of his bikes for use by the
more occasional rider, on an "honor system". Anyone
could take and use one of these bikes, but they were
expected to keep track of their mileage, and send Bob
a "1040 Mileage Ridden/Rent Due Form" (and the appropriate
rent), periodically. The initial design of the form
was like this:
I, ______________,
rode a Bob's Bicycle a total of _____ miles
this year.
At Bob's rental
rate of $.15 per mile, I owe Bob $______
I said that Great Grandpa Bob planned to deal with these
occasional riders on the "honor system", and that's
true. But he liked his money, too, and didn't want to
miss anything that was due him. So, after setting up
the "self-serve" locations, Great Grandpa Bob went around
handing out "W-2, 1099 or K-1 Rider Reporting Forms"
to every other business in town. The forms-- accompanied
by notices that if Bob didn't get his rent from someone
riding a bicycle in connection with any business, he
would sue the company involved-- said:
You Can’t Fight Well When You Don’t Know
What You’re Fighting About
If you are having an argument
with the IRS or any other tax agency,
You are NOT being presumed to have made “corporate
profit”.
You are NOT being alleged to have received “foreign
income”.
You are NOT entangled in an invisible “adhesion
contract”.
You are NOT being obligated by a law whose subject
is never identified.
You are being targeted because REAL EVIDENCE exists
that YOU PERSONALLY HAD “INCOME” to which the revenue laws apply--
even though that evidence is almost certainly incorrect,
and CAN be corrected.
*****
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
*****
Doing A Little High-Payoff Math
IF EACH PERSON receiving this newsletter each week distributed as
few as 100 of any of
the great outreach tools featured here to co-workers, friends,
neighbors and family members (or just strangers on the street, in
the mall, etc...), we could have SEVERAL MILLION new Americans
suddenly introduced to the liberating truth about the tax!
Just like that! In one week!
C'mon, people, let's roll on this!
“Most of the important things in the
world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when
there seemed to be no hope at all.”
When directed to a page by topic or link, read everything.
I know that this can mean the investment of a lot of time, attention
and effort, but although some may imagine otherwise, I don't write
as much as I do because I can't think of any other way to spend
my time...
Furthermore, when you encounter a hyperlink within, or associated
with, the text you are reading, follow it!
It is pretty common these days for web-based material to be littered
with hyperlinks. Sometimes the purpose is to provide definitions
or examples, in order to ensure that folks reading the original
material aren't presented with a word or reference which they don't
understand. Sometimes the links lead to illustrations pertinent
to the original text.
It is common-- and perfectly understandable-- for folks who are
confident that they are familiar with language or references within
the main text they are reading to get in the habit of skipping over
included links. I do it all the time, myself!
However, I very rarely include links for definitional or explanatory
purposes; and when I DO make a link out of text in one page it is
generally to another self-contained page, rather than merely illustrative
material. These other pages contain material the clear understanding
of which I deem highly important for the proper and complete understanding
of the original page. (Links to
CtC, the
Victories pages,
CtC Warriors and so on are obvious exceptions to this general
rule. On the other hand, a link to the victory
Highlights or 'Every
Which Way But Loose' pages, which might seem like such exceptions,
are not. The special selection of victories on those pages, and
the filed docs and tax-agency correspondences included therewith,
themselves constitute highly instructive material which merits careful
attention. Thus care needs to be taken in all cases.)
Please make a habit of clicking on all provided links and at least
looking briefly to ensure that the linked page is one with which
you are completely familiar from another study session.
Finally, please keep in mind that, annoying though it may seem at
first blush (but not, I trust, upon reflection), I constantly tweak
material already posted. Obviously this doesn't mean that every
page is in flux at all times, but it does mean that if you are directed
to a page that IS familiar, it's worthwhile to read it through again
if it's been a while since your last having done so.
July 6- In 1415, early Protestant reformer John Huss is burned
at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church. In 1535, Sir Thomas More is executed
by English King Henry VIII for refusing to countenance Henry's decision to
formally transform the Church of England into a Protestant church. In 1785, the
dollar of silver-- 27 grams-- is chosen as the official American currency. In
1854, the first Republican Party convention is held. In 1887, the King of
Hawaii is forced at gunpoint to sign a new Constitution written by Americans
living in the islands which transferred power to the foreigners and set the
stage for Hawaii's annexation by the United States.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter mid-edition update
below.
Btw, a copy of
CtC from anywhere except the link above
may not be a current edition. CHECK. It
matters. Also, there ARE no e-book, Kindle
or .pdf versions of
CtC. Don't get taken in by efforts to
sell you-- or even give you for free-- any
such thing.
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*****
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
July 7- In 1863, The Union institutes a draft during
the War Between The States-- exemptions are available for $100. In
1898, Hawaii is annexed by the United States. In 2005 four explosions
occur in the British mass-transit system, duplicating in remarkably
precise detail the storyline of a "training
exercise" against possible "terrorism" being conducted in exactly
the same locations at exactly the same times. The event briefly raises
Prime Minister Tony Blair's abysmal approval rating to it's highest
point in two years, before it drops again back into the low 30s.
*****
A Wise Warrior With An
Uplifting Message
DODON LA VIGNE, a long-time warrior
and real American grown-up, shares a nice and inspiring
testimonial on what
CtC has done for him for over nine years now:
"Like a muddied stream or a polluted fountain
is the righteous man who gives way before the wicked."p>
-Proverbs 25:26
"A nation of sheep begets a government
of wolves."
-Edward R. Murrow
*****
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
July 8- In 1775, the Continental
Congress sends its final appeal to King George to redress the colonists'
grievances. The King pays attention as respectfully as today's federal
government does to the Constitution. In 1776, the Declaration of Independence
is read aloud to the people of Philadelphia, and the Liberty Bell is rung. In
2011, the United States Space Shuttle program runs its final mission, and
private operators take over providing transportation services of this kind. In
2014, Israel launches another pogrom against displaced and dispossessed
Palestinians trapped in the Gaza ghetto.
An old joke, but in regard to this deceiver,
not a laughing matter at all.
*****
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
July 9- In 1810, Napoleon annexes the
Kingdom of Holland. In 1816, Argentina declares independence from Spain. In
1900, the Commonwealth of Australia is created. In 1922, Johnny Weissmuller
sets a new world record with a 58.6 second 100 meter freestyle swim. In 1958, a
524-meter tsunami-- the highest wave ever recorded-- strikes Lituya Bay,
Alaska. In 2011, South Sudan secedes from Sudan.
*****
““When principles that run against your
deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle
is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must,
at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions
bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your
faith.
"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."
July 10- In 988, the city of Dublin,
Ireland is founded. In 1832, President Andrew Jackson vetoes the chartering of
the Second Bank of the United States. In 1890, Wyoming is admitted to the union
as the 44th of the several states. In 1913, the highest temperature ever
recorded in the USA is hit- 134 OF (in Death Valley). In 1925, the 'Scopes
Monkey Trial' begins in Dayton, Tennessee. In 1938, Howard Hughes completes a
record-setting 91-hour flight around the world. In 1962, Telstar-- the world's
first communications satellite-- is launched.
July 11- In 1804, Revolutionary War
hero and then-Vice-President Aaron Burr rids the world of Alexander Hamilton by
fatally wounding him in a duel. Hamilton dies the next day. In 1914, Babe Ruth
plays his first first major-league game. In 1921, former President William
Howard Taft is sworn-in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, the
only American to ever serve in both offices. In 1944, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt announces his intentions to seek a fourth term in office. In 1987,
the United Nations claims that world population has crossed the 5 billion mark.
In 1995, full diplomatic relations are established between the United States and
the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
CtC WARRIOR SanDiegoScott has put together
a great little 20-question quiz to test your knowledge of the law
regarding the United States "income" tax. Test yourself, test your
friends and family! Test your accountant and tax attorney, and help
them learn the liberating truth!!
"Never must thou take up a false cry, or join hands
with the guilty by giving false witness in their favor. Never must
thou follow with the crowd in doing wrong, or be swayed by many
voices so as to give false judgment; even pity for the poor must
not sway thee when judgment is to be given."
-Ex-Exodus 23:1-3
*****
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
July 12- In 1543, King Henry VIII
marries his sixth and final wife: Catherine Parr. In 1962, the Rolling Stones
perform their first concert. In 1973, a fire destroys the sixth floor of the
National Personnel Records Center of the United States. In 2007, U.S. Army
Apache helicopter crews are caught on tape gunning down civilians-- including
journalists and children-- in a series of unprovoked daylight attacks. The tape
is released to the world by WikiLeaks in 2010.
*****
"Those who will not reason, are bigots; those who cannot,
are fools; and those who dare not, are slaves."
Instead, as the colonists realized and finally admitted by way of
the Declaration, those operatives were their competitors. Those
operatives were the colonists' opponents. Efforts to persuade them were
pointless-- they admitted to no limits on their power and had no interest in
curbing its abuse, which was being practiced for their benefit.
Eventually, after wasting all that time and effort on petitioning, politicking,
lobbying and arguing, the American colonists admitted this truth on Declaration
Day and said, "No more talking-- it's time for walking!"
recognize that
every single person or institution that would lose prestige, power or profits by
acknowledging the truth about the tax can be expected to lie about the subject
if queried (
