Racism Is NOT A "Public Health" Issue

But ambitious governors emboldened by your failure to push back against "lockdowns" and "mask-mandates" are taking the next logical step through the opening you have given them.

C19 "LOCKDOWNS" AND MASK-MANDATES BY STATE GOVERNORS are all illegal, as I have shown with sample analyses of eight state constitutions which all expressly prohibit the "executive orders" by which the offenses are committed. However, so far no one-- not a single business owner, nor a single legislator in any of these states or any other-- has had the balls to defy the illegal orders and tell any of these criminal governors to shut up and stand down.

The reason would appear to be that claiming a big- and dire-sounding threat like a "public health crisis" as the hob-goblin grounds for the illegal government behavior, and portraying it as universally-recognized as a deadly peril by all the right people, muddies the water in many peoples' eyes. That packaging makes insistence on a close look at the details, and being slow to quaff the Kool-Aid, seem practically unpatriotic.

It then becomes difficult for such people to reject assertions of authority, however black and white the law. They think, "Well, somebody's got to do SOMETHING! Don't you know there's a virus goin' 'round?!!"

Defending against precisely this sort of panic-induced, easily-exploited passion of the mob is what was spoken of by James Madison when he said,

"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. We revere this lesson too much soon to forget it."

Unfortunately, modern Americans have forgotten this wisdom, and so...

THE NEXT STEP FOR THESE WEAK-MINDED FOLK is to head for the mental "off" switch and begin mumbling nonsense like, "After all, the Constitution's not a suicide pact..." The "reasoning" is that the only answer to the crisis du jour is despotic action by the state, and therefore such action is ok.

It never occurs to these people, and wouldn't slow them down anyway, to reflect on the fact that it is only by virtue of the Constitution involved that "the state" can claim authority to do anything. Upon stepping outside the state Constitution's limits, a governor is not governor of anything, and has no more authority to mandate masks or shut down businesses than does your Uncle Jim.

Nor would such folks ever imagine that a crisis could be addressed by anything other than the state (something about which those doing nothing on any of several fronts concerning offenses by the state, and who are instead biding their time until another revolution erupts, might reflect). These folks are captive supporters of every "crisis management" edict.

They can even be made to denounce and harbor actual anger for anyone who doesn't drink the Kool-Aid with them and meekly obey the edicts as well. Such deniers are (so they are made to believe) endangering everyone by refusing to wave the mask and dress their lines to six-foot intervals.

This last bit of shepherding is right out of the Nazi playbook, as articulated by Hermann Goering:

“Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

Substitute "maskless" for "peacemakers" (and maybe "spreading the virus" for "lack of patriotism") and you've got it.

WITH ALL THE FOREGOING TRACK RECORD IN MIND, it is to no reasonable surprise that those aggregating power and money through the exploitation of the foggy "public health" hob-goblin are eager to find new opportunities for more of the same. The latest of these is the pronouncement by Michigan's Gretchen Whitmer that "racism" is a "public health crisis".

Whitmer has learned that sheer brass will be endlessly rewarded while those being ruined and disenfranchised by her power-grabs are paralyzed by confusion and intimidated by the Nazi-esque tactics deployed against them. She sees herself as having a "unipolar moment", and is sufficiently contemptuous of the rule of law as to milk that moment for all its worth.

As noted, even the Republicans who control both houses of the legislature in Michigan can't manage to stagger to their feet and point out that Whitmer has no actual "emergency powers"-- indeed, is prohibited from such powers by the state Constitution.

Hence, Whitmer seeks to keep the pot boiling and her opponents and victims thereby neutralized, while cementing into place pet political positions that couldn't possibly make the cut honestly, in a proper contest of ideas, and which really are just panders to the kind of burn-down-the-world supporters on which she and her party rely these days.

OTHER ROGUE GOVERNORS can be expected to follow Whitmer's lead for as long as the alleged grown-ups in the room persist in their contemptible fits of natal regression. Indeed, Iowa's governor Kim Reynolds has already upped the ante on this game.

Last week Reynolds issued an "executive order" that convicted felons shall be allowed to vote in November, in plain defiance of Iowa's Constitution. That Constitution says, at Article II, Sec. 5: "A person adjudged mentally incompetent to vote or a person convicted of any infamous crime shall not be entitled to the privilege of an elector."

Per Reynolds, "Nahhh!"

Reynolds claims that Article IV, Sec. 16 "grants the governor the power to restore the rights of citizenship that were forfeited by such a conviction", and relies on this assertion as the basis for her "order". But actually, Article IV, Sec. 16 says no such thing:

Section 16. The Governor shall have power to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons, after conviction, for all offences except treason and cases of impeachment, subject to such regulations as may be provided by law. Upon conviction for treason, he shall have power to suspend the execution of the sentence until the case shall be reported to the General Assembly at its next meeting, when the General Assembly shall either grant a pardon, commute the sentence, direct the execution of the sentence, or grant a further reprieve. He shall have power to remit fines and forfeitures, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law; and shall report to the General Assembly, at its next meeting, each case of reprieve, commutation, or pardon granted, and the reasons therefor; and also all persons in whose favor remission of fines and forfeitures shall have been made, and the several amounts remitted.

While this language allows for gubernatorial "pardons", it is clear from the very express prohibition on felon voting in Article II, Sec. 5 that relief from that particular consequence of conviction cannot be an effect of such a pardon. Reynolds herself has implicitly admitted this, having lobbied for the last several years for a Constitutional amendment to undo the prohibition.

Though it is common to imagine "pardon" to mean the absolute erasure of a conviction and all its consequences, this is not true as a matter of law. Black's Dictionary of Law, 7th ed., puts it this way:

pardon, n. The act or an instance of officially nullifying punishment or other legal consequences of a crime. • A pardon is usu. granted by the chief executive of a government. — Also termed executive pardon. -- pardon, vb. See CLEMENCY. Cf. COMMUTATION (2); REPRIEVE.

absolute pardon. A pardon that releases the wrongdoer from punishment and restores the offender's civil rights without qualification. — Also termed full pardon; unconditional pardon.

conditional pardon. A pardon that does not become effective until the wrongdoer sat­isfies a prerequisite or that will be revoked upon the occurrence of some specified act.

general pardon. See AMNESTY.

partial pardon. A pardon that exonerates the offender from some but not all of the punishment or legal consequences of a crime.

Since Article IV, Sec. 16 of Iowa's Constitution in which the pardon authority is granted does NOT specify that such authorized pardons are "absolute", "full" or "unconditional", and Article II, Sec. 5 says felons cannot have the franchise restored, it is clear that Iowa's Governor is Constitutionally-prohibited from fully restoring a convicted felon's civil rights, no matter what Reynolds and the Iowa legislature might wish.

It is also clear from the historical record that the prohibition on felon voting is very much solidly the will of the People. Article II, Sec. 5, in Iowa's Constitution from the beginning, was amended, twice, within the last 20 years (making changes in the language, such as to replace "idiots and the insane persons" with "a person adjudged mentally incompetent"). But the People's prohibition on the franchise for "persons convicted of any infamous crime" has been preserved.

I personally oppose conviction-limitations on the franchise. Often those hampered by such limitations are the very folks sensible people would most want to be exercising the franchise. Let's remember, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Samuel Adams and other outstanding and indispensable architects of our liberty-grounded America were all felons in the eyes of the government of their time. Indeed, Jesus was a felon, in the eyes of the government of the day.

But Iowa's Constitution says such folks "shall not be entitled to the privilege of an elector". In Iowa, that's the law.

THE SAD FACT IS, politicians-- unlike rare-as-hen's-teeth statesmen-- loathe and fear Constitutions. If politicians could have their way, there would be no Constitutions. Instead, there would only be laws passed by the politicians themselves.

Politicians feel that way because Constitutions are the law laid upon THEM, by WE, the People. These folks don't WANT any laws laid upon them by others.

Likely to be sociopaths to a far greater degree than the general run of the population, politicians view Constitutions the way petulant and spoiled children view parental commands-- as best evaded or misinterpreted whenever such things can be gotten away with. But just as undisciplined children can burn down the house, so politicians left undisciplined by the People's law can wreak havoc and bring great evil down on entire societies.

It was not idly that Thomas Jefferson thundered,

"[L]et no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."

BUT I'VE LET MYSELF GET CARRIED AWAY on the more general when this column is meant to focus on the more particular. Let me return to the ridiculous notion that "racism" is a "public health crisis"-- by which Gretchen Whitmer (to be followed soon by her counterparts) seeks to equip herself with another pretext for dictatorial power grabs.

It is a dangerous absurdity to propose that an attitude can be a "public health" matter of any kind-- or indeed, can be a "public" matter at all. It is, in fact, not merely akin to the "Red Scare" arguments of the 1950s, but is exactly those pernicious, First Amendment-violating arguments, by which Americans' interest in the ideas of communism was declared to be a threat to the country's safety.

That proposition was wrong in the 1950s, and it is wrong now, just as would be the Chinese government's treatment of respect and advocacy for individual liberty as a "public health crisis".

Racism is a vile and shameful reflection of ignorance, ill-breeding, low self-esteem and difficulty with rational thought. Expressions of that particular mental defect which extend outside the inviolable sanctuary of the mind and heart-- such as assault-- are crimes, exactly as are assaults committed out of anger, envy, lust, avarice, sloth, and so on.

But just as "anger" is not a "public health crisis", neither is racism.

WHITMER HAS ATTEMPTED TO SUGGEST that racism can be characterized as a "public health crisis" because according to the current C19-panic-scam narrative, the virus has taken a disproportionate toll on blacks. This, goes the subtext, is an expression of racism-- as in, blacks get less quality care in hospitals, because apparently some number of the "heroes" elsewhere celebrated under the same narrative are vicious racists.

Additional, more palatable and more overtly articulated arguments in the same vein are that blacks are disproportionately victims of comorbidities rendering them more vulnerable to dire outcomes from illness, with the higher comorbidity prevalence being caused by lower status on the "affluence ladder"-- due, goes the argument, to racism. (As a side note, the plain and, to the narrative managers, unwelcome implication that it's the comorbidities that are really taking the toll, not C19, and the corresponding C19 death-count should be discounted accordingly is coyly left unremarked.)

But all these arguments really amount to is a revisit to the "war on poverty", which we have been waging at enormous expense for 56 years-- a fact which underscores Whitmer's "public health crisis" nonsense as the pure, venal opportunism it really is.

HERE'S THE BOTTOM LINE (or, at least, my end-point to this long observation): As long as the American people are going to stand down and allow demagogues and sociopaths like Gretchen Whitmer to have their way, rather than be bound down by the chains of the Constitution, such demagogues and sociopaths will poison the landscape in ever wider swaths.

The people of Michigan need to stand up like soldiers for liberty and the rule of law. They need to realize that they don't have to wait on anyone else to read and understand Michigan's Constitution for them before recognizing that Whitmer is in violation of that fundamental law with every "executive order" threatening anyone outside the executive branch of Michigan government with anything (all as concisely laid out here).

In issuing such orders, Whitmer is bereft of any authority of office. An unconstitutional order has no more authority behind it than the bark of a junk-yard dog.

In fact,

The General rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of it's enactment and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it. An unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed. Such a statute leaves the question that it purports to settle just as it would be had the statute not been enacted.

No repeal of an enactment is necessary, since an unconstitutional law is void. The general principles follow that it imposes no duties, confers no rights, creates no office, bestows no power or authority on anyone, affords no protection, and justifies no acts performed under it.

16 Am Jur 2d, Sec 256

The same is true of Kim Reynolds' orders, and those of Greg Abbott in Texas, and every other governor who has issued orders as their state's Constitution says they may not (seven examples of which, in addition to Michigan's, can be found here).

In short, YOU'VE GOT TO STAND UP, PEOPLE!!

Here's a thought: Download your state's "Lockdown Liberty Key" (again, available here, for those of you in Michigan, Virginia, Kentucky, Georgia, Wyoming, Texas, Louisiana and Wisconsin). Print a few hundred copies. Or a few thousand.

Pin them up on every grocery store bulletin board. Put them under windshield wipers in parking lots. Hand them out in front of restaurants and bars and anything else your local dictators have deigned to allow to remain in business.

Hand them out at every political gathering. Post the .pdf links everywhere you can throughout cyberspace with an insistent message that they need to be read, and why.

As hyperbolic as it sounds, there is a coup underway. It is not necessary to explain or even consider the end desired by those responsible-- the acts already taken are themselves fully sufficient to qualify for that label.

Like pregnancy, there's no such thing as nearly despotic. One step across the Rubicon is the whole crime, and look about you! Many more steps than one have been taken, and as Gretchen Whitmer's latest experiment on our liberties makes clear, these criminals aren't even close to stopping, and won't ever be until YOU STOP THEM.

Hendrickson out (mic drop).

"It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error."

-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."

-I. F. Stone

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It's Time For An American "Pivot to Jorgensen"

Despite-- or perhaps especially because of-- the ongoing current effort to neuter you politically.

TWO WEEKS AGO, I published my simple little list of ten acts or pledges to act that I require of either Donald Trump or Joe Biden's puppet-masters. Neither has responded, and I knew before I wrote the list that neither would agree to anything on it in a million years, anyway.

Really, my purpose was just to illustrate why no one should be hoping for another four years of Trump. The first four years of Trump's presidency has been a disaster in nearly every possible respect, with Neil Gorsuch and some regulatory reform being the only upticks in what otherwise was a 24/7 downward plummet. Four more would be likely worse, with Trump and his nutcase associated Pompeo, Haspel, Pence, and so on, freed from the constraints of re-election considerations.

Thus, everyone should be fearing such an outcome just as much as they wisely fear four years of Joe Biden's puppetmasters in power.

HOWEVER, I'M HAPPY TO SAY THAT THIS YEAR, ESPECIALLY, no one need settle for either of these two bad choices. There are three reasons this is so.

First, as I pointed out at the beginning of the year, CtC's revelations empower the American People to radically downsize the federal and state governments to the point that even if Attila the Hun were to take up residence in the White House or any statehouse, he would be incapable of doing great harm, as explained here.

Second, in this year of rampant and unsettling insanity in the form of Covidiocy scams and the race-and-"wokeness"-victims-hustle and assault on Western Civilization (that'd be the civilization that gave the hustlers the i-phones with which they organize their rioting), a whole lot of Americans are very ready to say, "A pox on both your houses" to the two major parties that have either brought this all on or at least whose fecklessness has prepared a fertile bed of soil in which it could flourish.

Third, Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen, PhD-- a person of far more impressive education and accomplishment than Trump and Biden combined-- is a pretty attractive and credible alternative to Trump or Biden, and on the ballot in all fifty states.

Put all three of those things together and it is impossible to say that a vote for Jorgensen would be wasted vote. Instead, there's every reason to expect that not only would a vote for Jorgensen be an honest vote-- that is, one genuinely for a candidate as opposed to a vote against another candidate (and perhaps the first one ever cast for a presidential candidate by many folks)-- but it might very well be a vote for the winning candidate.

Certainly it would be a vote for someone with people that can make a good warm-up video:

...and isn't Jo about 100% less creepy and sociopathic-looking than "The Donald" or Sleepy Joe?

HERE IS A SUMMARY OF JORGENSEN'S POSITIONS on a number of significant issues, as posted on Wikipedia:

Social Security

Jorgensen is critical of the current system and supports replacing it with individual retirement accounts. She supports an option to opt out of Social Security, allowing anyone who took this route to invest 6.2% of their future payroll taxes in individual retirement accounts and receive prorated Social Security benefits for existing contributions as zero coupon bonds for retirement.

In the final debate of the primaries, candidate Jacob Hornberger accused Jorgensen of "support[ing] the welfare state through Social Security and Medicare". In response, Jorgensen called Social Security a "Ponzi scheme" and said that she would allow people to opt-out of the program on her first day in office. However, she emphasized the constitutional inability of a president to unilaterally end the program without the support of Congress, as well as the need for the government to fulfill existing Social Security obligations.

Criminal justice reform

Jorgensen opposes the seizure of property through federal civil asset forfeiture and the use of qualified immunity to protect police officers. She is also critical of the United States' incarceration rate. She also wants to work with Congress to end the War on Drugs and other victimless crime laws. She has said she would pardon anyone in prison who has been incarcerated for a victimless crime. Jorgensen opposes the private prisons, solitary confinement for juveniles, mandatory minimums for people charged with drug possession, and the death penalty for drug traffickers. She also supports amnesty for whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning, viewing them as an essential and necessary check on government corruption.

War on drugs

Jorgensen opposes the war on drugs. Jorgensen has called the drug war a "failed" policy, and supports abolishing drug laws, promising to pardon all nonviolent drug offenders.

Gun rights

Jorgensen supports the right to bear arms. She has stated she would abolish the ATF whose purpose, she believes, is to enforce "unconstitutional laws".

Police demilitarization

Jorgensen promotes the demilitarization of police, saying that the police's duty "is to go after specific perpetrators of violent crimes, not to act as a force against the people."

Environment

Jorgensen favors Generation IV nuclear power to reduce carbon emissions and she wants to remove barriers to replacing coal-burning and oil-burning power plants in the United States with nuclear power plants, in addition to allowing off-grid use of solar power. She supports removing "subsidies of all forms of energy production, allowing emissions-free nuclear power a chance to compete on a level playing field" and supports the use of hydraulic fracking while holding "fracking companies responsible for damages."

Foreign policy

Jorgensen opposes embargoes, economic sanctions, and foreign aid. She favors the withdrawal of American troops from foreign wars. She favors non-interventionism and free trade with other nations.

Government spending and debt

Jorgensen supports the Constitutional authority to block any new borrowing. She has pledged to veto any spending that leads to a deficit and any debt ceiling increases.

Poverty

Jorgensen believes that the most effective way to help the poor is through the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals paired with deregulation. She wants to eliminate policies that, she argues, increase the costs of housing and health care, as well as those creating barriers to creating new businesses or entering professions.

Education

Jorgensen favors the decentralization and localization of education, and has proposed slashing or altogether eliminating the budget of the Department of Education, leaving the education of children to the states.

Neutrality and Peace

Jorgensen opposes US involvement in foreign wars. Advocating armed neutrality similar to Switzerland’s, she has promised to “bring the troops home.”

Taxes

Maintaining that taxes currently are not voluntary, Jorgensen supports the abolition of the Internal Revenue Service and the elimination of federal income tax.

Healthcare

Jorgensen supports a free-market healthcare system financed by providing individuals with a spending account and allowing individuals to keep any savings, which she believes would create an increased incentive for healthcare providers to compete by meeting consumer demand for low cost services.

Immigration and trade

Jorgensen believes that American citizens should be free to travel anywhere they choose and to buy and sell anywhere in the world. She believes in eliminating trade barriers and tariffs and repealing quotas on the number of people who can legally enter the United States to work, visit, or reside. In a Libertarian presidential primary debate, Jorgensen said she would immediately stop construction on President Donald Trump's border wall. During another primary debate she blamed anti-immigration sentiment on disproportionate media coverage of crimes by immigrants. She argued that immigration helps the economy and that the blending of cultures is beneficial.

COVID-19

Jorgenson has characterized the U.S. government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic as overly bureaucratic and authoritarian, calling restrictions on individual behavior such as stay-at-home orders and corporate bailouts, "the biggest assault on our liberties in our lifetime".

NOT A PERFECT set of positions, admittedly. For instance, Jorgensen appears to suffer from a strangely-common blind-spot in Libertarian Party circles concerning the nature of the income tax.

I don't agree with her immigration policy (for reasons explained here). And the described healthcare policy seems at least somewhat contradictory, being labeled "free market" yet apparently involving government-provided "spending accounts".

There are a few other weak spots, as well.

BUT ALL THAT SAID, at the same time most positions described here are just what they ought to be, or as near as could be hoped for in any candidate with a chance at the widespread acceptability needed for electoral success. (Further, some of Jorgensen's position may be more nuanced in detail than is offered in this Wikipedia summary-- see Jorgensen's own website, here).

In any event, every one of these positions are a million miles further down the road to virtue than the zombie alternatives offered by Donald Trump, Joe Biden, or the party of either. That can be readily said of even those with which I take specific issue above, as well as those I find pretty solid as they are.

Jorgensen's getting my vote...

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Tools For Leveraging The CtC Superpower

You've got magic in your hands, if you will use it...

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The Law, In Seven Pages

Really.

HERE IS THE LAW, IN 7 PAGES.

HERE IS HOW THE SCHEME WORKS, IN 8 PAGES.

HERE IS HOW TO OVERCOME THE SCHEME AND ENFORCE THE LAW, IN 256 PAGES.

Share these all, everywhere you can. Be your most creative self in sending and "selling" these links. Do memes; make gifs; respond to everything in the news that would be or have been better had the state been small, or if Americans kept their money for their own uses.

If you pay attention to the news and train yourself to apply these perspectives, you will see a dozen things of which you can make use in awakening other Americans to the virtues of having the income tax correctly administered. Please, for my sake, for your own sake, for the sake of your children and their future, make that use.

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Still Timely: Not Letting This "Crisis" Go To Waste...

...an important action item opportunity.

FRIENDS, THE BIT OF EASING of the despotic measures to which most of the country has been subjected this spring should not be allowed to bleed off the head of steam you probably had been developing. The offenses happened, and they're far from over. Stay hot.

And while you are all warmed up, and while others, if they're smart, are just as hot, I'd like you to send an email (and Facebook post, or whatever) with the following content to everyone you can (with a request that they pass it along, in turn):

[Name], over the last several months you've watched as over-fed state power has been used to literally destroy classical Western civilization and impose a new despotic paradigm. No dissent or debate permitted-- no permission or agreement sought.

YOU KNOW where this will end up if the arrogant state power being used to make this happen isn't radically diminished in size, influence, resources and popular support, and exposed as an opportunistic exploiter of legal ignorance (an ignorance which it has been nurturing in the average mind for decades).

Those things having not yet happened, you should be quaking in your boots-- and you probably are.

Isn't it time-- and past time-- for you to begin helping to make those desperately-needed defensive changes take place? There is only one way these things can happen short of a who-knows-what we'll-end-up-with explosion of violence. I'm going to show it to you.

Read this little two-page document. Click on the links at the end.

When you're done with that reading, you'll know what to do next.

BTW, REMEMBER, ALSO, THAT EVERY AMERICAN has lately been given a stark lesson in the fact that government officials at all levels will lie to you and violate the law without batting an eye. They will do so any time it serves their agenda, and you don't call them out for it.

If you know anyone who has been persisting in denial on the truth about the income tax, you know such nonsense is usually be grounded in some version or another of, "That can't be true..." or "They would never do something like that...". Now's the time to put a pin in that delusional bubble.

As the C19 hoax has starkly shown, "that" certainly CAN be true, and they certainly WOULD do something like that.

Use this evidence in all your outreach efforts.

"It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error."

-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson

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Regarding Trolleries

(Deceitful efforts to discourage Americans from learning the truth about the "income tax")

FOR ALL THE YEARS SINCE 2003 when CtC was first published, the government has engaged in a concerted effort to frighten people away from its truths. This effort involves official government websites and press releases touting an occasional court ruling that appears to be at odds with some CtC-revelation (but without details sufficient to expose the real substance of the ruling)-- and sometimes even more mendacious behavior.

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Are the presentations and resources offered on this site and in my other work of any value to you?

Tim Kendrick has posted a video on YouTube regarding donations. I didn't know what to do about it to begin with; I don't do what I do intending for anyone to feel obligated in any way.

But of course, no one IS obligated. I will continue to make my work freely-available here, and in my books for only the cost of a cheap paperback.

Thus, even though I post it here below, Tim's very thoughtful personal resolution and encouragement to others is just an invitation for consideration by those who may not be conscious of the fact that I can't do what I do without support. No one is to feel any pressure from it; if it moves anyone to act let it be solely because it seems right.

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How To Be A Leader In The CtC Community

It's simple:

KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX IN DETAIL

LEAD BY EXAMPLE

KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE RESOURCES

BE FAMILIAR WITH THE SCAMS, THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS, AND THE TROLL-POLLUTION

TAKE CHARGE IN YOUR STATE FORUM, HELPING EVERYONE TO THINK CLEARLY AND STAY ON TOPIC

All-in-all, just be the sort of person for others that you would go to yourself for trustworthy leadership.

Leadership is a challenge. But it's not complicated, and you can do it.

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Are You Having Trouble Spreading The Word??

SKEPTICISM (SOMETIMES INVOKED BY FEAR) IS TO BE EXPECTED when you're trying to explain to someone that everything they've been encouraged their whole lives to believe about something as entrenched and significant as the income tax is basically nonsense. So here's a way to help cut through the resistance:

Ask your listener how he or she would react if you were to show an announcement from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue admitting that the tax doesn't apply to the earnings of most Americans and is misapplied most of the time because people don't understand how it works? Or how about if you showed a ruling from the Supreme Court saying the same?

Now you just have to explain that you're going to show exactly those things-- but because the state really doesn't want people to know this, these things haven't been said quite as forthrightly as we would all wish. It's going to take a bit more work to take these admissions in than is sufficient for just reading a press release. But it'll be worth the effort...

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The Liberating Truth About The 16th Amendment

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

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

Remember: Real Americans don't accommodate fog, lies and a sliding scale of adherence to the rule of law. Real American men and women stand up for the truth and the law, come what may, knowing that it is only by setting the bar at the top and enforcing it, come what may, that liberties are secured.

"Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated."

-Thomas Paine

OUTREACH!!!

JOB ONE, PEOPLE!!! SPREAD. THE. WORD.

ONLY ONE THING WILL WIN YOU YOUR LIBERTY: Spreading the truth. Accordingly, I've assembled outreach resources into a new, dedicated page. Find it here, and please, USE THESE TOOLS!! I can't do this all by myself.

"In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

-George Orwell

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Other Voices (followed by an important afterword)

Crossing The Rubicon: The UK Slips Into A Repressive State

by Mark Chapman

Julius Caesar’s crossing the Rubicon River in 49 BC in defiance of Roman law placed him and his army on a direct collision course with Rome, leading to the Civil War which established him as Roman dictator. It is a well-established metaphor for a point at which there is no going back and at which things will never be the same.

I predicted a few weeks ago that the UK Government would in the near future try to force everyone to wear facemasks in public. Leave aside the plethora of information that makes it clear face masks are of practically zero benefit in everyday circumstances, and may in fact be dangerous, the forced wearing of facemasks is a transgression so fundamental and of such significance that it is difficult to adequately express.

It implicitly hands your body over to state control, and renders one of your most basic existential freedoms subject to state interference. For the first time, the right to exercise a choice of whether you should inhibit your respiratory faculties and hide your face in public is taken out of your hands. If you doubt the significance of this, try to remember the public outcry that followed a debate regarding banning the wearing of burkhas and hijabs in the face of Islamic terrorism, and the connotations this had for civil liberties at the time.

Facemask wearing is the visible hallmark of Asian states perceived in the West as repressive and authoritarian. It is a badge of serfdom, akin to the yellow star that Jews were forced to wear in Nazi Germany. There is no greater invasion of your person possible short of tattooing you with a number.

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Afterword

MASKS ARE A BADGE OF SERFDOM, just as Chapman says, and as I discuss in detail here, in an article responding to Gretchen Whitmer's issuance of a "mask mandate" in Michigan a few weeks ago. Between that article and Chapman's contribution here, little more needs to be said on that point.

WHAT DOES NEED MORE ATTENTION is the astonishing, disturbing and functionally-suicidal silence and paralysis of the American people (and, per Chapman, the Brits, as well) in response to these mask-mandates and the rest of the "lockdown" C19-hoax-crisis usurpations, impositions and manipulations. This behavior is shameful.

All I can imagine in explanation is that somehow many are not recognizing the peril. Instead, that "many" seems to naively expect everything to end up all right, perhaps by imagining that those who have been defying the law for the last six months-- to their steady aggrandizement and accumulation of power and wealth-- will suddenly stop misbehaving, and let things revert to normal all on their own.

But plainly, to articulate this fantasy is to expose its delusional character.

THE FACT IS, WE ARE SUFFERING A BRUTAL ASSAULT on everything which is crucial to the preservation and good health of our liberty and our prosperity. We mustn't allow the settling into place of the "principle" that those operating the state can rightly compel our subordination of individual views and decisions to what they see (or claim) to be the interests of the collective.

That "principle" has no limit. If you can be made to wear a mask in order to (supposedly) protect your neighbor from catching some illness you might be carrying (and if your children can be kept from playing with each other, and you all be compelled to have drugs injected into your bodies, and prevented from gathering even for purposes of discussing with each other in person-- where such discussion is actually potentially persuasive-- the rightness of such impositions), what can you not be made to do?

What will your neighbors not feel you can rightly be made to do? What will your children not have been conditioned to believe they (and you) can rightly be made to do?

Even if there really WERE a remarkably grave threat in this year's virus, the impositions being done in its name, and the consequences of letting them be done, are graver threats still. American paralysis in the face of those impositions is madness.

IN LIGHT OF THE MALAISE apparently afflicting the community I almost don't want to bother directing anyone to the solution to the threat, as I have done so many, many times now to no apparent effect. I see no indication that anyone is listening or acting.

No discussion or planning for outreach appears in the state fora. No increase in downloads of the proffered solution docs takes place. No word reaches me of businesses opening in defiance of the illegal mandates or lawsuits filed.

Nonetheless, because I cannot keep silent myself, here are the Constitutional analyses proving the mandates illegal.

Here is the fully-documented proof that there actually IS no dire threat from the current virus.

Here is the introduction document by which anyone can learn the critical importance, the promise and the unstoppable character of the "shrinking Leviathan" solution.

I wish that you would at least share them with others, even if you cannot see why you should bother.

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A Little Extra

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

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 I mean someone who finds it easier to believe that the far-better-educated, far-more-suspicious-of-government Americans of a hundred years ago were complete morons who granted authority to the state to take whatever it wished from themselves and their posterity than to imagine that they themselves simply misunderstand the true nature of the income tax? Even while knowing that their beliefs about the tax are derived entirely from the representations of those who profit from those beliefs (like tax bureaucrats and "tax professionals")?

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