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Muster the courage to push past the Hallowe'en chorus long enough to recognize
that,
September 7- In 1776, the American revolutionary forces conduct
the world's first submarine attack-- deploying the submersible "Turtle" in an
failed attempt to attach a time-bomb to British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship
in New York Harbor. In 1876, Jesse James and the Younger gang attempt to rob
the bank in Northfield, Minnesota but are defeated by the armed townspeople, who
kill or capture all but two of the gang. In 2008, the United States takes
control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter
below.
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.
Fear Is The Mind-Killer
The challenge is to muster the courage to push past the
Hallowe'en chorus and recognize this truth.
FRANK HERBERT COINED THE TITLE of this observation in his
epic novel Dune, a sweeping tale of deeply-entrenched
institutional corruption being met and overwhelmed by an insurgency
armed with religious-grade confidence in the rightness of its cause.
Herbert's formulation nicely encapsulates fear's super-power: Like a
well-evolved parasite, fear, by supplanting cognition and objectivity, creates the very
conditions under which it is most difficult for the victim to fight
back against its influence.
This is not to say that fear and its mindless responses are
always a bad thing. If the threat is such that simply running away as
fast as possible is the optimal response, fear is your friend. It'll
make you run hard and long. Sometimes fear will prompt the "fight"
reflex, instead, and this can also be the best response.
But whichever is chosen, "fight or flight" are generally
the best responses only to overt and immediate physical threats. Pretty
much every other kind of threat calls for thoughtful analysis of the
real source and true nature of the danger, and thoughtful formulation of
the optimal response.
In other words, for everything other than an immediate
physical threat, the mindlessness induced by fear is the worst thing
that can happen-- for individuals.
ON THE OTHER HAND, GOVERNMENTS LOVE the mindlessness
of fear. By preventing thoughtful consideration of the situation, and
inducing instead a panicky casting-about for protection or escape from
the perceived threat, fear makes individuals prone to surrendering their
own decision-making to that of any confident demagogue who promises
protection.
In fact, fear and the mindlessness it induces is so useful
to governments that it is a routine practice of those running and
benefiting from state power to regularly menace the people with alleged
threats to their safety and well-being, in the certain knowledge that
many, perhaps most, of the people will respond by surrendering more
power from their own sovereign hands into the hands of the state's
operators, who can then use that power for their own interests and
benefit.
H.L. Mencken summarized this sordid dynamic concisely: “The
whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and
hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless
series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
Over the course of long experience, the political class and
its apparatchiks have learned, as well, that maintaining the
surrender-inducing panic for a certain amount of time will make the
transfer of power it encourages nearly impossible to reverse, due to
acclimation, fading memories of the past paradigm, and the arising of
influential commercial and institutional beneficiaries of the "new
normal".
THIS WEEK SEES THE 19th ANNIVERSARY of the most acute
example of the fear-formula available to living memory-- the "9/11"
hoax. In this sophisticated hobgoblin-flog, the American people were
induced to mindlessly buy in to the proposition that we were all targets
of foreign terrorists whose deadly plans could only be thwarted by the
erection of an American panopticon into which we must all be confined
and against the intrusions of which we have no recourse; the pouring of
wealth into the bank accounts of arms manufacturers; the embrace of
torture and indefinite detention as state policy; and many, many other
impositions by which the People are diminished and the state is swollen.
The necessary fear-production was successfully sustained in
the 9/11 theatrical for long enough that even though
subsequent, thoughtful
investigation and analysis has shown that the entire "threat-event" was
a calculated misrepresentation of the truth-- if not an even greater
state crime-- the American people are still plagued by the diminishments
of their liberties and the aggrandizement of the state committed under
its influence nearly 20 years ago. As Robert Higgs brilliantly explained
in Crisis and Leviathan, it is by these ratchet-events that our once
shining example to the world of a republic erected on behalf of liberty
and the rule of law has become the 8,000 lb. gorilla eating out
America's substance and engendering fear and loathing of Americans
throughout the world.
I just recently saw the calculation that fully 1/4 of the
population of the world is now suffering to a greater or lesser degree
under United States sanctions. Think about that.
And then add to that thought due consideration of the
millions of widows, orphans and refugees produced by the aggressions of
our homegrown Leviathan in other parts of the world under one ridiculous
pretext or another over the last nineteen years. These are the among the
horrendous immoral and self-destructive outcomes of surrender to
mind-killing fear.
MINDLESS FEAR IS WHAT'S BEEN ON OFFER all year in 2020
through the endless scary hype about the "C19 pandemic". Any rational
examination of the facts--
as here-- makes clear to anyone whose brain is not paralyzed by fear
that C19 is not even remotely a threat so dire as to justify
extraordinary responses above and beyond our routine responses to every
other flu virus over the decades. Indeed, on the evidence, C19 is an
extraordinarily mild coronavirus.
The fear has been given a chance to take hold because the
scare-tactics-- frightening stories about just how terrible this mystery
virus was-- began well before any actual data was available to be
studied. By the time that evidence HAD accumulated in late March, many
Americans were already too far gone in the "mindless" mode to take in
that evidence and realize that the hype was just that-- hype, and, as
became increasingly obvious, deliberate hype.
That fear-induced shut-down of so many American minds has
since then been ruthlessly exploited for political and monetary benefit
by a growing list of cynical and unscrupulous actors, all at YOUR
present expense and the eventual expense of your children.
IF YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE who has been afflicted by the fear,
I beg you to shake it off!
Muster your courage long enough to raise your head, open
your eyes, and look around you at what has been done while you have
"been away". That look-around is itself going to take a lot of courage
once you begin, because today's American landscape is truly frightening.
It is not too late to recover, though.
Organize a meeting of your state group. Invite your friends
and family. Plan and execute visible protests of the illegal executive
order regime that is being imposed on you-- make sure to get media
coverage, which might best be achieved by holding the protest in front
of your local fear-mongering radio, TV or newspaper offices, and
including their complicity in the panic-attack as an object of your
protest.
Use your "social media" accounts to broadcast
recommendations to everyone you can reach to abandon any platforms that
censor information about the "pandemic" or anything else. Who the hell
is Mark Zuckerberg to decide what is or is not "mis-information"!
You might end up de-platformed for putting out those calls,
but if that's the reaction from the company involved, you're better off
moving elsewhere anyway. After all, you'll have just been told that if
you stay, you're going to get nothing but propaganda from that venue
anyway. Honorable alternatives exist and should be happily embraced.
Fight any effort to make proper response to the
panic-attack a partisan political thing. Both the mainstream Democratic
Party apparatus and the mainstream Republican Party apparatus and the
office-holders of each are equally guilty in this hogoblin-flog. They
each have just tried to pretend that they take different views. But
until you see Donald Trump in a national press conference telling all
Americans to peel off the masks, re-open their businesses and start
prosecuting state officials who have usurped authority through
"executive orders", there isn't a dimes worth of real difference between
the two.
And so on...
I'll close reminding everyone of the uplifting words of
Samuel Adams, architect of the first American Revolution, with which
every LHC newsletter
has always ended:
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of
servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from
us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and
lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and
may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
...and also those of another great and wise firebrand from
a few generations closer to our own:
"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."
The Sublime Harmonies Of Social Justice In The
Upcoming Worker's Paradise
(A Laborious Mental Exercise)
Imagine that you’re a homeowner and over the years you’ve
had some landscaping done to your property: a few decorative trees
planted, a stone wall built, a flagstone path installed, etc.. All the
work has been done by what had been your favorite contractor, Joe’s
Landscaping Service.
Joe and his guys have done good work, for the most part,
but as time has passed, Joe has been a bit reluctant to invest in new
equipment, so his speed has gone down, and his hourly rate has been
inching up at the same time. You’ve brought this to Joe’s attention more
than once, but he’s just shrugged and said, "Hey, a guy’s gotta make a
living. But I’ll try to get the boys to move a little faster."
Eventually, when Joe announces that he’s raising his rates
yet again you pull out the Yellow Pages and find a new outfit, Sam’s
Quality Landscaping. The ad claims that Sam has all the latest gear, and
a crew of hard workers. You meet with Sam, and even though his hourly
rate is the same as Joe’s, Sam is energetic and sharp, and gives you a
good feeling about his work ethic. So, you make a deal, and then give
Joe a call. "Don’t bother to schedule that re-sodding that we were
talking about," you tell Joe, "I’m going to have someone else do it."
Joe glares at the phone as he hangs up, and mutters, "We’ll see about
that!"
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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FRIENDS, THE SPORADIC BITS OF EASING of the despotic measures to
which most of the country has been subjected this year 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.
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
(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.
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.
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.
*****
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...
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."
Are You Ready For The "No One Could Have Known"
Routine?
by Thomas Harrington
Ready for another rendition of the “no one could have
known” routine made famous by all the self-proclaimed liberals who shamelessly
went along with the Neo-Cons planned and lie-supported destruction of the Middle
East nearly two decades ago?
As in “no one could have known” that by
shutting down life as we know it to focus obsessively on a virus mostly
affecting what is still a relatively small number of people at the end
of their lives (yes, oh squeamish ones we must summon the courage to
talk about Quality Adjusted Life Years when making public policy) we
probably would:
1. Cause economic devastation and hence excess
deaths, suicides, divorces, depressions in much larger numbers than those
killed by the virus.
2. Provide an already monopolistic and
predatory online retailing establishment with competitive advantages in
terms of capital reserves and market share that will make it virtually
impossible at any time in the near or medium future for the country’s
and the world’s small and even medium-sized businesses to ever catch up
to them. And that this will plunge huge sectors of the world-wide
economy into serf-like ruin, with all that this portends in terms of
additional death and human suffering.
3. Cause greatly increased misery and countless
additional deaths in the so-called Global South where many people,
rightly or wrongly, depend on the consumption patterns of us relatively
fortunate sit-at-homers to make it through the week.
4. Destroy much of what was attractive about
urban life as we know it and lead to a real estate collapse of
extraordinary proportions, turning even our few remaining showplace
cities into crime-ridden reserves of ever more desperate people.
5. Force state and local governments, already
struggling before the crisis, and unable to print money at will like the
Feds, to cut their already insufficient budgets at a time when their
broke and stressed constituents need those services more than ever.
6. Push “smart” monitoring of our lives,
already intolerable for anyone still clinging to memories of freedom in
the pre-September 11th world, to the point where most people will no
longer understand what people used to know as privacy, intimacy or the
simple dignity of being left alone.
7. Train a generation of children to be
fearful and distrustful of others from day one, and to view bending to
diktats “to keep them safe”, (no matter how empirically dubious the
actual threat to them might be), rather than the courageous pursuit of
joy and human fullness, as the key goal in life.
We will also no doubt be told that no one could
have imagined or known at the time:
THOMAS HARRINGTON DOES A GREAT JOB framing several important aspects
of the C19 hoax. My only critique concerns the statistics with which he ends his
article purporting to show the percentages of certain American age groups that
have died from the virus.
Harrington apparently buys into (or has yet to be disabused
of) the patently bogus death stats which have been inflated far beyond
reality under CDC directives guaranteed to produce scarily-high C19
fatality reports. Those directives instruct doctors to report as C19
deaths any in which certain characteristics are observed--
characteristics which are also common to normal flu and pneumonia, among
other ailments-- even without any actual testing to determine so much as
the presence of the virus, much less to determine that it contributed in
any way to the morbid outcome. See the directives and
some related discussion here.
In fact, Harrington's percentages should all be discounted
by a factor of ten, at least. Which, of course, just underscores the
excesses in every other respect to which he points our attention.
HERE'S THE BIGGER POINT: 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 any of it to go on--
especially 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, for instance, 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 (which there
most emphatically and demonstrably is not), 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.
I AM COMPELLED TO OFFER SOLUTIONS, even though I sense too
often that they fall on deaf ears. So...
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.
Let your recipient make his or her OWN mind up on whether
the sharing was worthwhile. You might end up pleasantly surprised--
people grow under the right conditions, and these are now very much the
right conditions.
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..."
Lawyers:
It's Way Past Time For You All To Queue Up!
[Y]ou really need to familiarize yourself with Pete
Hendrickson's absolutely magnificent work at his website and in
his book(s). He has, brilliantly and lucidly, "cracked the
code" regarding the federal income EXCISE tax(es)."
-Mark C. Phillips, JD
"...I find your work fascinatingly simple to understand."
-Jerry Arnowitz, JD
"Your book is a masterpiece!"
-Michael Carver, JD
"Received your book yesterday. Started reading at 11
PM, finished at 4 AM." "I have 16 feet (literally 16'
4.5") of documents supporting just about everything in your
book." "Your book should be required reading for every lawyer
before being admitted to any Bar." "I hope you sell a
million of them."
-John O'Neil Green, JD
“Thanks again for your efforts, Pete. They mean an awful lot
to a lot of people.” “…as an attorney, I am humbled by your
knowledge and ability in navigating the law. THANK YOU for
your hard work and sacrifice.”
-Eric Smithers, JD
"I am an attorney and want to give a testimonial to your
book, which I find to be compelling. I am exercising these
rights for myself and my adult children. I'm even considering
making this my new avenue of law practice."
-Nancy "Ana" Garner, JD
Learn what these colleagues already know, then step forward and
become part of a coordinated, mutually-supportive squadron
focused on developing strategy and deploying the law in
courtrooms across the country. There's a lot of suing that
needs doing right now.
Are you ready for a challenge that'll put some real meaning
behind all the effort you went through to get your credentials?
Send me an email.
*****
Are You Ready For More Power?
"Peter Hendrickson has done it again! 'Upholding The
Law' does for individual liberties what 'Cracking the Code' did
for tax law compliance: exposes the reader to the unalienable
truth!"
-Jesse Herron, Bill Of Rights Press, Fort Collins, Colorado
NEW! Orders of twelve or more books now come with a free DVD
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*****
*****
Do you
know someone truly steeped in the Kool-Aid?
I mean
someone who finds it easier to believe that the far-better-educated,
far-more-suspicious-of-government Americans of a hundred years ago were
complete morons who granted authority to the state to take whatever it
wished from themselves and their posterity than to imagine that they
themselves simply misunderstand the true nature of the income tax? Even
while knowing that their beliefs about the tax are derived entirely from
the representations of those who profit from those beliefs (like tax
bureaucrats and "tax professionals")?
Do you
know someone like that? Shake them awake with the latest (fifteenth)
edition of
CtC!
If
CtC were actually
right, it would mean the government's been concealing and
denying and suppressing the truth for years
on end, and everybody knows THAT would never happen...
(Edward Snowden, come home! It was all just a bad dream; there really is
No Such Agency!)
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.
September 8- In 1900, a hurricane hits
Galveston, Texas, killing around 8,000 and wreaking massive property damage.
Unhindered by FEMA, the survivors quickly rebuilt. In 1935, Senator Huey
"Kingfish" Long is assassinated in the Louisiana Capitol Building. In 1974,
Gerald Ford pardons Richard Nixon for "any offenses he may have committed
against the United States."
*****
A Few Words About "Climate Change" Fraud
You NEED to defend yourself and your kids against this
now-high-inertia effort to destroy liberty.
H/T to Jonesy for circulating this fun little meme and video link.
*****
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September 9- In 1543, Mary Stuart is crowned Queen of Scotland
at the seasoned age of nine months. In 1776, the Continental Congress names the
new union of sovereign states the "United States". In 1850, California is
admitted to the union as the 31st of the several states. In 1926, NBC (the
National Broadcasting Company) is founded. In 1956, Elvis Presley makes his
first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. In 1993, the Palestinian Liberation
Organization (PLO) formally recognizes Israel as a legitimate state. In 2016,
North Korea conducts its 5th nuclear weapons test.
******
A Two-Minute Review Of CtC
David Bindel reminds us that there's either the rule of law, or
there isn't.
HEY! SAYING IT AGAIN!! DON'T YOU WISH YOUR INSPIRING
BEING-THE-STORM VIDEO was posted? This is easy to do, and very important
(plus it can get you some great LHC swag!). See
(and carefully read)
these guidelines and encouragements.
*****
Some Good Perspective From The Delightfully Sardonic John Prine
Another guy who's always had his head screwed on pretty straight,
even though with a decidedly whimsical tilt.
Every victim of the "ignorance tax", 'cause it's all
just statist consent-engineering propaganda.
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Hey, Gamers!
WAKEN TO THE REAL-LIFE ADVENTURE IN WHICH YOU
ARE UNKNOWINGLY IMMERSED! Put down your controller and
listen!
You are surrounded by an actual battle between
villains, monsters and true heroes, all simply concealed
from you by
sophisticated spells which also keep you from
engaging in the fight.
There are real great deeds to be done,
and real treasures to be had for your efforts, and
frankly, your real future
is at stake. You just have to gain "the sight" in order to
penetrate the illusions.
Visit
losthorizons.com to get the counter-spells and get onto
the real field of battle!
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PRO TIP: If I were the IRS and I wanted to
discourage people from rebutting allegations that
they had done things I can tax, and wanted to keep them from
successfully reclaiming withheld or paid-in money, I
would salt the "tax honesty" community with
passionate-seeming "legal researchers" who would
warn anyone whose ear they captured that filing a
1040 is a bad idea for one reason or another...
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Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:
September 10- In 1823, Simón Bolivar is named President of
Peru. In 1951, the United Kingdom begins an economic boycott of Iran. In 1977,
Hamida Djandoubi becomes the last person executed by guillotine in France after
being convicted of torture and murder. In 1988, historians take note that it
was the 149th 10th of September since Iran last initiated military aggression
against anyone.
If you're not talking this one up everywhere and
helping generate a buzz, you don't really want liberty and the
rule of law...
*****
In light of
the actual evidence, those
who doubt or
deny the accuracy and correctness of
CtC just because some government officials
denounce it are like the 16th-century Europeans who
were mystified by
Copernicus getting all those
astronomical predictions right even though the
church had said he was wrong.
*****
Did you miss the 'Set Your Church Free'
commentaries?
Ignorance of the true nature of the "income" tax
has gagged, gutted and seduced-into-disgrace America's
ministerial community. This must change.
*****
You're a
passenger on a riverboat that relies on regular
contributions of fuel from the passengers to
keep moving forward. You see an unsurvivable
waterfall ahead, and note a
soon-to-be-irresistible current growing stronger
each day. What does common sense suggest?
*****
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!!
Time, unfortunately, is on the side of the
well-funded disinformation specialists class
*****
Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:
September 11- In 1789, Alexander Hamilton is made the first
United States Secretary of the Treasury. In 1922, the British Mandate of
Palestine begins. In 1941, ground is broken for the construction of The
Pentagon. In 1973, a CIA-backed coup deposes the elected Allende administration
and place Augusto Pinochet in power. In 2001, three skyscrapers inexplicably
collapse, the U.S. air defense system inexplicably fails to launch a single
plane, the Pentagon's surface to air defense system and surveillance systems
inexplicably fail, etc., etc., etc.. Learn all about this monumental-- and
monumentally-important-- charade here.
*****
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a
people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power
which knowledge gives.”
"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
September 12- In 1848, Switzerland adopts federalism- a
weak, highly limited-authority national governing entity serving the
aggregate interests of a coalition of sovereign states (Cantons). In 1990,
plans for the reunification of Germany after 45 years of division are
formalized by the signing of the 'Treaty on the Final Settlement With
Respect to Germany'.
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*****
'The BOSTONIAN'S Paying the EXCISE-MAN, or
TARRING & FEATHERING' (1774) (How our forefathers responded to arrogant
"Rule of Law defiers"...)
*****
The willingness of some people to trade liberty for
convenience is without limit...
“All truth
passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently
opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident.”
-Arthur
Schopenhauer
*****
Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:
September 13- In 1788, New York City is
designated as the temporary capital of the United States by the Constitutional
Convention. In 1899, the first American automobile-accident fatality occurs.
In 1923, Miguel Primo de Rivera seizes control of Spain in a military coup. In
2001, civilian air traffic resumes in the USA after a brief hiatus due to the
events of September 11.
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Last Word
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We
seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that
feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget
that ye were our countrymen."
-Samuel
Adams, Architect of the first American Revolution
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Hendrickson is also a widely-read essayist on
matters of politics, public policy and law; many of these works
are collected in his second book, ‘Upholding
the Law And Other Observations’. He is a member of Mensa;
an
award-winning artist; and has paid his dues as a youth
soccer coach. He is a long-time political activist as well, and
has served as co-chair and platform convention delegate of
Michigan’s largest county Libertarian Party organization; as a
consultant to the National Right to Work Foundation and Citizens
for a Sound Economy; as a member of the Heartland Institute; and
as a member of the International Society for Individual
Liberty. He is a frequent radio-show guest on stations across
the country.
Hendrickson's business career has included nearly a
decade-and-a-half at the leading edge of the renewable-energy
industry, both as Director of Purchasing and Materials
Management and member of the R&D board at Starpak Energy
Systems, the mid-west's then-largest solar heating and
energy-recovery-and re-utilization company; and as founder and
president of AFJ Inc., a high-efficiency lighting design,
manufacture and installation firm.
Beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing for the
twelve years before his present full-time focus on the
restoration of the rule of law in America, Hendrickson directed
purchasing activities for the $84 million-a-year
multi-family-housing division of the Farmington Hills, Michigan
branch of Edward Rose and Sons, with responsibility for 18,000+
apartments, direct supervision of 35 technicians and agents, and
incidental authority over several hundred divisional workers.
He also ran the division's 10 cable television earth-station and
distribution systems in four states, and designed and
administered the company's website.
On rather the other end of the spectrum, amidst
these more mundane pursuits Hendrickson co-founded and was the
primary creative force behind a small
board- and
card-game company that enjoyed a modest success for several
years.
Hendrickson makes his home in southeast Michigan,
with his wife and two children. He is currently working on his
next book.
