"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.
Potpourri
Brief touchdowns on a selection of current issues.
The Russians Appear To Have A Viable Vaccine...
...AS
REPORTED LAST WEEK IN THE LANCET
and elsewhere. Thus, it is past time for us
all to get busy thoroughly embedding into
the narrative the fact that such
prophylactics are only for the coronaphobics.
They are NOT to be forced upon, or even
obnoxiously urged upon, anyone else--
because there is no rational justification
for such a thing.
Remember, a vaccine protects
the one taking it from the relevant
pathogen. Once vaccinated, that person is no
longer in danger from the feared organism,
regardless of whether others are vaccinated,
masked, whatever.
Once vaccinated, even the most
timid coronaphobic lacks a pretext for
attempting to selfishly control the behavior
of others for the sake of the phobic's peace
of mind, either through coerced vaccinations
or through the masking, "social distancing",
and so forth that have been demanded of
everyone for months now.
EXPECT SOME PUSHBACK in the
form of arguments that those who don't
vaccinate impose a burden on the health care
system (or create a danger of the health
care system being overwhelmed with
unvaccinated C19 "cases"). Be prepared to
bat these softballs away.
Using the seasonal flu as a
model offers a rebuttal for both arguments.
The reasoning would be the same, since the
flu periodically has hospitalization and death
rates comparable to even the
politically-inflated C19 numbers (and always
comparable to, or greater than, the real C19
numbers). But because the flu hasn't had a
related hysteria campaign put into place, no
one will successfully sustain an argument
for the same panic response.
Since the panic and "new
normal"-required argument can't be
successfully made to the American people as
to the flu, it can't survive rational
resistance when made in regard to C19.
As noted above (and
shown in exhaustive and broadly-informative
detail here), C19 is now
shown by the data to be not only no more of
a health threat than the flu. But the same
data show that the C19 threat it is actually
much less. After all the flu afflicts
everyone, whereas people who are otherwise
healthy or are under 65 are very nearly
immune to C19, and under no threat of fatal
outcome even if infected, without any
treatments or precautions at all. See
here and
here.
The flu is easily handled by
the existing healthcare infrastructure, and
C19 proved to be just as easily handled. I
imagine that many reading these words saw
the same evidence of this as Doreen and I
did, when a local convention hall was
hurriedly converted into a high-capacity C19
hospital (to much grim fanfare), only to
quietly be decommissioned a month later
after never being needed to handle even a
single case.
IF THE FLU DOESN'T SEEM a
strong enough rebuttal tool, consider
tuberculosis-- a disease which orphaned my
father 86 years ago. TB is transmitted in the same way as
flu or C19, comes in drug-resistant flavors,
has no truly effective vaccine and killed
1.5 million worldwide in 2018, as usual.
And yet, we are and always have
been comfortable with no mask-mandates,
blanket immigration bans, or "sheltering in
place" in response to TB. As with the
seasonal flu example, the fact that we have
managed just fine for all the past decades
with the TB threat at hand and yet without
draconian responses makes untenable any
claim that C19 justifies such responses.
***
IN ADDITION TO THE FOREGOING
COMMON SENSE ARGUMENTS and the difficulty
they present to those advocating universal
vaccination mandates and more, there is a
fundamental legal matter (or matter of
principle and logic). No one is (or can be,
if a viable society is to be sustained)
under a duty to "protect others" in the
sense involved in mandatory vaccine and
isolation arguments (i.e., masking, "social
distancing").
The range of things against
which some members of society can be
afraid-- or by which they can be
distressed-- is limitless. This is why a
functioning, sustainable society imposes
nothing more upon members than prohibitions
against the hindrance of another's exercise
of his/her individual rights, roughly
defined as those choices of action that can
be taken without interfering with the
similar freedoms of others.
As this definition is
summarized by Thomas Jefferson: "Rightful
liberty is unobstructed action according to
our will within limits drawn around us by
the equal rights of others."
The only alternative to such a
proper structure of society and its
supporting governmental form is a war of all
against all, at all times until it spirals
into chaos and ruination. In this dystopian
alternative, each seeks to impose on others
whatever behaviors suit the imposer's
agenda, or delusions, or cupidities--
usually by struggling to take command of the
state and then use its power against the
uncooperative.
That alternative is, in
fact, the direct democracy under which
whatever passion or lust seduces the
majority-- however unwise or improvident--
is imposed upon everyone, at the price of
prosperity as well as liberty. Our brilliant
and deeply-educated Founders (and their
intellectual heirs) strenuously warned us
against this mistake:
"Remember, democracy never
lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and
murders itself. There was never a democracy
yet that did not commit suicide."
-John Adams
"Between a balanced republic
and a democracy, the difference is like that
between order and chaos.
-John Marshall
"A Democracy is the vilest form
of Government there is."
-Thomas Paine
"[D]emocracies have ever been
spectacles of turbulence and contention;
have ever been found incompatible with
personal security, or the rights of
property; and have, in general, been as
short in their lives as they have been
violent in their deaths."
-James Madison
"A democracy is a volcano which
conceals the fiery materials of its own
destruction. These will produce an eruption
and carry desolation in their way. The known
propensity of a democracy is to
licentiousness which the ambitious call, and
ignorant believe to be liberty."
-Fisher Ames
"We have seen the tumult of
democracy terminate . . . as [it has]
everywhere terminated, in despotism. . . .
Democracy! savage and wild. Thou who wouldst
bring down the virtuous and wise to thy
level of folly and guilt."
-Gouverneur Morris
"[T]he experience of all former
ages had shown that of all human
governments, democracy was the most
unstable, fluctuating and short-lived."
-John Quincy Adams
"A simple democracy . . . is
one of the greatest of evils."
-Benjamin Rush
"In democracy . . . there are
commonly tumults and disorders. . . .
Therefore a pure democracy is generally a
very bad government. It is often the most
tyrannical government on earth."
-Noah Webster
"Pure democracy cannot subsist
long nor be carried far into the departments
of state, it is very subject to caprice and
the madness of popular rage."
-John Witherspoon
...which is not only NOT
provided-for by our Constitutions but is
prohibited thereby, as acknowledged by even
the otherwise odious and ardent lover of
government power, Alexander Hamilton:
"We are now forming a
republican government. (Liberty) is found
not in "the extremes of democracy but in
moderate governments. . . . If we incline
too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot
into a monarchy."
We will do well to listen, and
promptly chuck overboard notions like
"responsibility to protect", with a
cannonball strapped on tightly.
***
THERE'S ONE ADDITIONAL POINT TO
MAKE about a Russian vaccine: To the degree
it becomes apparent that people like Bill
Gates and Anthony Fauci will not end up with
vaccine $billions in their pockets because
the Russians are going to get that business,
instead, the relentless drumbeat for
universal vaccination will fade away.
That drumbeat has never been
about health-- as shown above (and by
anyone's common sense), the only people for
whom vaccination is appropriate are those
with phobias or special vulnerabilities due
to existing conditions of co-morbidities
and/or extreme age, and in either case as a
choice made by the affected party. The push
for universal vaccination has always just
been a ploy by which some hope to acquire
money and power.
So, follow the news about the
Russian vaccine closely (it's
already being given to folks in Moscow)
by attention to honest (non-US MSM)
reporting, and when appropriate, make a lot
of noise about this being the end of the
"vaccine hunt". Step in and denounce the
jingoistic smears and insults and other
reflexive and calculated Russia-bashing sure
to issue forth from agenda-driven interests
on both the left and the right.
Again, as with the rest of the C19
contrivance (and as with most other
hobgoblins), take the prospect of
advantage for the well-connected off the
table and the flogging of the hobgoblin
fades away.
Plus, we'll get the additional
benefit in this case of putting a bullet in
the insane and even longer-running drumbeat
of Russia-bashing by which THAT
hobgoblin-flogging funnels huge piles of
public money into the pockets of the
vastly-overgrown and steadily more dangerous
military-industrial-congressional complex. A
nice twofer.
JUST A QUICK THOUGHT on this
item: It seems to me that those facing
damage to property or person at the hands of
the "protestors" in various places around
the country are well-equipped by the facts
to act in any fashion minimally to
moderately necessary in defense of either.
In the places to which I refer,
the local governing authorities, including
the police, have stood down, meaning that no
protection is to be had from that quarter.
Such circumstances seem exactly those
contemplated by the legal doctrine,
'Quod est necessarium est licitum',
that is, "What is necessary is lawful".
This doctrine will be
especially helpful in grown-up states which
recognize that no free and sovereign human
being is under a valid obligation to retreat
in the face of aggression against his or her
person, property, or another individual. But
I think it would be hard to argue against it
anywhere that the police have been told to
let the crazies carry on unhindered.
TAKING IT A STEP FURTHER, I
think the same doctrine would stand
defenders of public property, such as
statuary and so forth, in equally good
stead, since such property is community
owned and thus each member of the community
is possessed of an interest. Further, the
mere authority of any citizen to exercise
the police power in the presence of a
criminal act being committed applies in this
case (and the others mentioned here), as
well.
Certainly all of the above
would be true in regard to my vote if I were
on the jury judging anyone acting rationally
in circumstances described above...
Does
Everyone Understand That "Cases" Doesn't
Mean Sicknesses?
ANOTHER QUICK NOTE: I hope that
everyone is on top of the fact that the
"cases" of C19 being tallied and used as the
pretexts for continued "lockdowns" and
testing regimes and all the rest of the
C19-hysteria-claptrap are NOT instances of
people sickened with C19. Rather, these are
instances in which evidence of the virus is
found-- in most cases with no actual illness
manifesting at all--
and sometimes even just evidence of a prior
encounter with the virus indicated solely by
the presence of antibodies.
In other words, these "cases"
do NOT represent or imply any burden on the
healthcare infrastructure whatever, nor any
portent of fatalities to be added to the
existing numbers.
IT'S TRUE THAT WHEN TEST
RESULTS INDICATE an active presence of live
virus the affected party is capable of
spreading the same unthreatening condition
to other people, but so what? This is of no
greater significance than discovering the
prevalence of the common cold virus.
The essence of this
critically-important point is distilled in
the fact that the majority of the current
testing is done on people exhibiting no
symptoms whatever. People exhibiting no
symptoms-- that is, people who are
"asymptomatic"-- ARE NOT SICK.
Treating such people as grounds
for continued hysteria about the virus which
is manifestly harmless to those persons is
an act of insanity. And the discovery of
large numbers of such people is hardly a
valid basis for persisting in the wholesale
violation of Americans' liberties and the
continued erosion of the American economy...
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
The Stalinist Trial Of Julian Assange. Whose Side
Are You On?
by John Pilger
When I first met Julian
Assange more than ten years ago, I asked him why he
had started WikiLeaks. He replied:
“Transparency and accountability are moral issues
that must be the essence of public life and
journalism.”
I had never heard a
publisher or an editor invoke morality in
this way. Assange believes that journalists
are the agents of people, not power: that
we, the people, have a right to know about
the darkest secrets of those who claim to
act in our name.
If the powerful lie
to us, we have the right to know. If they
say one thing in private and the opposite in
public, we have the right to know. If they
conspire against us, as Bush and Blair did
over Iraq, then pretend to be democrats, we
have the right to know.
It is this morality
of purpose that so threatens the collusion
of powers that want to plunge much of the
world into war and wants to bury Julian
alive in Trump’s fascist America.
In 2008, a top
secret U.S. State Department report
described in detail how the United States
would combat this new moral threat. A
secretly-directed personal smear campaign
against Julian Assange would lead to
“exposure [and] criminal prosecution”.
The aim was to
silence and criminalize WikiLeaks and
its founder. Page after page revealed a
coming war on a single human being and on
the very principle of freedom of speech and
freedom of thought, and democracy.
The imperial shock
troops would be those who called themselves
journalists: the big hitters of the
so-called mainstream, especially the
“liberals” who mark and patrol the
perimeters of dissent.
‘Due
Revenge’
And that is what
happened. I have been a reporter for more
than 50 years and I have never known a smear
campaign like it: the fabricated character
assassination of a man who refused to join
the club: who believed journalism was a
service to the public, never to those above.
Assange shamed his
persecutors. He produced scoop after scoop.
He exposed the fraudulence of wars promoted
by the media and the homicidal nature of
America’s wars, the corruption of dictators,
the evils of Guantanamo.
He forced us in the
West to look in the mirror. He exposed the
official truth-tellers in the media as
collaborators: those I would call Vichy
journalists. None of these imposters
believed Assange when he warned that his
life was in danger: that the “sex scandal”
in Sweden was a set up and an American
hellhole was the ultimate destination. And
he was right, and repeatedly right.
The extradition
hearing in London beginning this week is the
final act of an Anglo-American campaign to
bury Julian Assange. It is not due process.
It is due revenge. The American indictment
is clearly rigged, a demonstrable sham. So
far, the hearings have been reminiscent of
their Stalinist equivalents during the Cold
War.
Today, the land
that gave us Magna Carta, Great Britain, is
distinguished by the abandonment of its own
sovereignty in allowing a malign foreign
power to manipulate justice and by the
vicious psychological torture of Julian – a
form of torture, as Nils Melzer, the UN
expert has pointed out, that was refined by
the Nazis because it was most effective in
breaking its victims.
WHAT IS BEING DONE TO JULIAN ASSANGE--
and what has been done to him for years-- is
appalling and shameful and worthy of outcry and
uprising just as a crime against one good man. But
it is doubly worthy of all these things as a crime
against all of us, for the object of the assault on
Assange is to put a blindfold on the sovereign
American people and keep them from being able to
exercise oversight of their public servants.
In that latter aspect, the
assault on Assange is an act of treason,
meant to subvert the Constitutional
structure of government in America.
BUT OF COURSE, the assault on
Julian Assange and the American Constitution
is neither, if no one stands up and says so.
That's how this sort of thing works.
Just as rights and authorities
unexercised wither away into impotence over
time, so, too, crimes of the state which are
not denounced become mere blips on the
landscape constantly receding into
invisibility in the rear-view mirror.
Follow the latest events in the
pretense of an extradition "trial" as
reported
here,
here and
here. See my comments and analysis of
certain key issues in the legal arguments
which I posted soon after the first week of this farce
back in February,
here.
Make some noise.
And as part of that noise use
the assault on Assange and on the
Constitution to awaken others to the
desperate need to defund and thereby
shrink the Leviathan state.
We should not have to be
constantly putting out the fires of state
misbehavior, and the way to that happier
condition is to take away its firewood.
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
LHC 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.
September 14- In 1814, Francis Scott Key composes 'The Star
Spangled Banner' after watching the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore by
British warships during the War of 1812. In 1847, American forces led by
Winfield Scott capture Mexico City during the Mexican-American War. In 1901,
President William McKinley dies and is succeeded in office by Theodore
Roosevelt. In 1948, ground is broken in New York City for the headquarters of
the United Nations. In 1959, the Soviet 'Luna 2' becomes the first man-made
object to reach the Moon. In 2003, Sweden, by national referendum, rejects
adoption of the 'Euro'. In 2019, Yemen's Houthi population, whose struggle for
liberation from Saudi-imposed puppet dictators had been being viciously
suppressed for years by the Saudi military with assistance from the United
States, successfully attack Saudi oil-production infrastructure and take out
half of its capacity.
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:
September 15- In 1789, the United States Department of
Foreign Affairs (now the Department of State), is commissioned. In
1916, tanks are used in battle for the first time. In 1997, historians
take note that it was the 158th 15th of September since Iran last
initiated military aggression against anyone. In 2008, Lehman Brothers
files the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history (to that date).
*****
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:
September 16- In 1920, a bomb in a
horse-drawn wagon explodes in front of the J.P. Morgan Building on Wall Street,
killing 38 and injuring 400. In 1991, the drug-trafficking trial of one-time
CIA-asset and Panamanian "strongman" Manuel Noriega begins.
An old joke, but in regard to this deceiver,
not a laughing matter at all.
*****
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
September 17- In 1787, the final draft
of the United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia by participants in
the Constitutional Convention. In 1908, the first airplane fatality occurs when
Orville Wright crashes The Wright Flyer, killing passenger Thomas Selfridge. In
1916, 'The Red Baron' wins his first aerial combat. In 1939, the Soviet Union
joins in Germany's invasion of Poland. In 1993, the last Russian troops leave
Poland. In 2011, the 'Occupy Wall Street' project begins. In 2018, a Russian
aircraft being unknowingly used as a shield by two Israeli fighters making an
unprovoked attack on Syrian targets is mistakenly struck by a Syrian air defense
missile, killing 15.
*****
““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."
September 18- In 2001, the first
post-9/11 "anthrax letters" are mailed to ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, the New
York Post and the National Enquirer, successfully keeping the
"terrorism"-hysteria pot boiling. A second set of anthrax-laden letters were
mailed to a pair of influential United States Senators three weeks later during
Senate "consideration" of the draconian 'USA PATRIOT Act'. Click
here for
more on this subject. In 2014, 44.7% of Scots voted to secede from the United
Kingdom. In 2019, Edward Snowden's book, 'Permanent Record' becomes the world's
best-selling book (at the time), one day after the United States launches a
lawsuit against its publisher for failing to allow the CIA and NSA to redact
from the manuscript things they wish kept from the light of day (and the eyes of
their owners, the American people).
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:
September 20- In 1633, Galileo Galilei
is tried before the Inquisition for teaching the disfavored truth that the Earth
orbits around the Sun. In 1891, the first gasoline-powered car hits the road in
America. In 1990, South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia. In
2001, George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror". In 2011, the "Don't ask, don't
tell" policy in the US military ends, allowing openly gay men and women to
serve.
*****
"Those who will not reason, are bigots; those who cannot,
are fools; and those who dare not, are slaves."
