"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.
Walter Williams: The Passing Of A Giant
A great voice, a great
American, and a good man, who will be missed
very sorely.
I HAD THE PLEASURE and benefit
of reading every one of Walter Williams'
many hundreds of brilliant, insightful and
uplifting columns on which my eyes were
fortunate to fall over the last twenty years
and more. But I also had the great pleasure
of spending time with Walter Williams on a
number of occasions.
This latter good fortune allows
me to supplement the admiration for Dr.
Williams' work issuing forth from all
liberty-and-reason-loving quarters since his
passing last Tuesday with an observation
less commonly heard amongst the words of
honor and respect: Walter Williams was a
genuinely good man.
IT WAS ALWAYS PLAIN that
Williams was a devoted husband and father.
He was also a hard worker who demanded effort and
accuracy and honesty from himself.
All told, Williams was an
upright, masculine gentleman with a
confident, steady, look-you-in-the-eye
demeanor not tainted by bluster or false
pride. As I said in
my debunk of the "systemic racism" hustle
a few months ago, Walter Williams was the
solid sort of guy you want to have as your
neighbor.
If Williams had any personality
weakness of which I ever saw sign, it was
only in that he never suffered fools
gladly-- a failing that many (myself
included) are disinclined to condemn very
harshly. The fact is, most apparent
foolishness in the public policy realm which
was William's chief concern is no such
thing, but is instead willful blindness at
best, if not outright corruption and
mendacity.
I'M VERY SORRY that Walter
Williams'
powerful voice for eyes-open thinking and
simple common sense fortified by
diligently-acquired and humbly-applied
knowledge has gone silent. There are too few
such voices.
Thank goodness we had this good
man for as long as we did.
A Former Pfizer
VP Determines There Have Been No
Excess Deaths In The UK
...adding to Johns Hopkins' Dr. Genevieve Briand's research to the
same effect in the USA.
DR. MICHAEL YEADON has been VP and Chief Scientific Officer
(Allergy & Respiratory Research) of
Pfizer. This is merely one of his truly
impressive array of credentials as an expert
voice on the subject of virology, immune
system function, and the proper and correct
view of the C19 "pandemic".
Dr. Yeadon recently taped a
statement and an interview deeply critical of current
governmental assertions about C19's
prevalence and level of threat, and of
public policies implemented as supposed
defenses against it. Among those critiques
and Dr. Yeadon's other conclusions based on
his truly expert analysis of the data will
be found:
a measured,
thoroughly-expert explanation of why the
purported number of C19 "cases" is
grossly inaccurate,
the reason widespread
exposure to the virus beginning around
this time last year led to no
significant number of deaths,
that in fact, no excess
deaths have occurred (in the UK--
Yeadon's area of focus) this year at
all, and
that no vaccine is
necessary...
...all of which making it no
great surprise that "brave new normal"
propagandist YouTube deplatformed Dr.
Yeadon's statement video within just a few hours of it
being posted on November 11. (Happily, good
folks elsewhere have given it a new home, at
least for the moment--
find the video here, along with an
unfortunately machine-made transcript of
Yeadon's statement. Yeadon's interview with
journalist Anna Brees can, surprisingly,
still be found on YouTube,
here-- at least
for the moment.)
DR. YEADON'S POSITIONS nicely
parallel the USA-focused conclusions of Dr.
Genevieve Briand (discussed
here) in regard to the fact that no
excess deaths have appeared in the stats all
year. That is, the research of both these
objective experts shows that C19 is NOT
actually a killer epidemic, the hyperbolic
screeching by invested media and political
voices to the contrary notwithstanding.
Yeadon's expert views, again, like
Briand's, fully support and affirm
everything I have been presenting about the
virus and related policy issues for months
now, here (to a world which has
apparently been paying no attention).
Indeed, Dr. Yeadon's analyses add his
insights into "cross-immunity" to the
picture, a factor plainly contributing to
the extremely low fatality rates but which I
(lacking Dr. Yeadon's vastly greater
knowledge of immunology) had not considered
in my own analysis.
I so much wish EVERY
ONE OF YOU would go and
read that article through!!! Then smack
every other person you can reach-- Kool-Aid
toss-pot or not-- and demand that they read
it through carefully, as well.
This C19 insanity
must end!
LET'S NOT MINCE WORDS. This
insanity is a
cancer, eating away at the health of
our rule of law, our prosperity-- even our
ability to think rationally.
If this insanity doesn't end,
and quickly (which would just require
everyone who has been going along with the
"shutdown" and "mask" and "social
distancing" edicts--
all of which have no force of law and are
illegally issued, btw-- to BELLIGERENTLY
STOP GOING ALONG), the insanity will end us.
On the other hand, if we DO all
stop "going along" right away, there's still
time for a nice normal Christmas, with an
exciting New Year on tap salted to taste
with the disgracing (and perhaps indicting)
of lots of politicians and media
personalities and scientific and medical
"experts" at whose feet can be laid all the
ruination of the last ten months.
Here's some good relevant
advice from two different "Captain
Americas"-- first the real one and then a
fictional version:
"In matters of style, swim with
the current; in matters of principle, stand
like a rock."
-Thomas Jefferson
***
BTW, I HAVE TO PASS ALONG a
nice wicked little light-bulb moment my
wife, Doreen, had the other day on hearing
a recent news report about staffing
shortages in area hospitals due to the
staffers coming down with alleged
C19 infections. As Doreen wryly observed: "Aren't these the folks who
religiously wear high-grade masks and gloves, and wash
everything in sight 53 times a day with
sterilizing agents? How can they be getting
sick?"
"Does this mean...," Doreen said with
feigned astonishment, "...that
these masks and all the rest don't do squat?! It
sure looks that way...!!"
Yup. Maybe those masks have
holes in them... SOMETHING does.
"Necessity is the plea for
every infringement of human freedom. It is
the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of
slaves."
-William Pitt
"I would rather be exposed to
the inconveniences attending too much
liberty than those attending too small a
degree of it."
-Thomas Jefferson
"A nation of sheep will beget a
government of wolves."
...cause if he doesn't start
listening, he's toast.
WAKE UP, PAL! You've got
very little time, and you are blowing it.
Your desperate hope of gaining
any kind of traction in your quest to
overcome the monolithic media/Democrat/RINO
election fraud meant to put you out of
office rests on you distinguishing yourself
from what is to be expected from a
Biden-Harris administration in the eyes of
independents. No one new is going to the
ramparts for you while you persist in
business as usual, and without new support
from folks suddenly feeling that there's
actually something at stake that's worth
fighting for, you're going down.
Your worshipful base is not
enough. They've been doing all they can for
more than a month and getting nowhere. With
one week to go before Electoral College
certification, you've got to shake things up
and add strength to your team with some
dazzling, attention-getting lightning
strikes. Here are my suggestions:
Announce an immediate end
to all sanctions and other abuses of the
Iranian people.
Announce that all US
military missions in Afghanistan and the
Middle East are finished and all US
military personnel and related
contractors and other mercs are to
return home before Christmas, either
through organized institutional means or
on their own steam if the Defense
Department doesn't make it happen
briskly enough.
Announce your repudiation
of your deeply-corrupt "Peace Plan" for
Israelis and Palestinians, and declare
yourself to have awakened to the need
for legitimate justice for the
dispossessed Palestinians.
Announce your intention to
resume an intermediate missile treaty
with Russia and leave the "Open Skies"
treaty intact.
Pardon Julian Assange and
Edward Snowden.
Inform your Twitter
followers of the independent-server
website to which they should turn for
your uncensored communiqués and
then use that newly-created personal
platform to debunk to C19 hoax by
reading this document and showing its
exhibits to those many millions of
Americans, with instructions that they
pass it all along to others.
Oh, and fire Christopher
Rey, Mike Pompeo, William Barr, Gina
Haspel and all the other swamp creatures
someone fooled you into surrounding
yourself with (and then fire that
person, too...).
It's the eleventh hour, and
more, Donald. Way past time to stop doing the
same crap over and over while expecting
different results.
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
Coming Soon From Joe And Kamala: Hooray For The
Revolution!
by Phil Giraldi
There is something quite
scary about the way leading Democrats have
persistently wrapped their attempts to control the
American people in platitudes and self-righteous
drivel. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who are
currently pulling their team together, are no
different than the Clintons and Obamas who preceded
them and are already on course to establish
conformity by diminishing the fundamental rights
that have been hitherto enjoyed by the American
people.
The current war
being waged against the United States and
its constitution hinges on the expressed
desire to extirpate “white supremacy” aka
“white privilege” aka “systemic racism.” It
is a convenient campaign slogan as it
immediately creates guilt and apprehension
in those white people who are foolish enough
to believe it. It also is a vague enough
term that it becomes possible to wrap a lot
of other issues into it, like gun control,
destruction of traditional education,
reparations and affirmative action, and even
de-policing urban areas. As minorities
allegedly suffer disproportionately from
coronavirus it might even be expanded to
include mandatory national lockdowns every
time a pandemic appears, as Biden has
suggested in the past.
We are already
seeing how some crimes are no longer crimes
if they are committed by sanctimonious
social justice warriors. Prosecutors in a
number of states are
dismissing charges against rioters
because they have “concluded the protesters
were exercising their basic civil rights.”
It is generally being claimed that
prosecutions continue for the “real” crimes
of arson, looting and destruction of public
property, but at least one liberal
California District Attorney
will not charge anyone who maintains
that he or she was doing what they did to
combat racism or feed their families. She
calls it considering the “needs” of the
looters. The looted shops that will as a
result go out of business and whose
employees become unemployed evidently have
no “needs.”
The Democrats have
long been adept at playing identity
politics. They believe that appealing to a
number of groups with grievances to create a
voting majority is good for the country,
which it is not, because sooner or later the
ticket has to be paid for and deals that
abridge the freedom of most Americans must
be consummated. That will certainly take
place with Biden and Harris.
And Biden and
Harris will likely get away with much of
their divisive domestic agenda, if only
because it will be carefully hidden behind
fear of the Coronavirus and of more civil
unrest, but the one area where they will
meet real resistance is the Second
Amendment.
One critic describes how “There is much
overlap between Biden’s platform and
Harris’s previous presidential campaign
proposals. They both emphasize holding gun
manufacturers accountable, enacting
universal background checks, banning the
manufacture and sale of semiautomatic rifles
and higher-capacity magazines capable of
holding more than 10 rounds, [and]
prohibiting those convicted of domestic
violence from buying guns…” And that is only
for starters, with national gun registration
and some confiscation certainly being
considered.
Many Republicans as
well as Democrats own guns and will resist
any attempt at registration, much less the
seizure of certain types of firearms. The
death by shooting numbers
have indeed risen dramatically,
particularly in urban areas, but the victims
and perpetrators are largely black-on-black
and the weapons used are obtained illegally.
Ironically, the rise in crime is in large
part attributable to Democratic Party
pandering to movements like Black Lives
Matter with their message that violence is
acceptable to bring about change. To argue
that somehow controlling the legal owners of
weapons is a “safety measure” is a
convenient fiction.
To help the
Democratic Party agenda along there will
also of necessity be restrictions on free
speech. One can expect greater political
control over the propagandistic state media
like Voice of America and it is perhaps
inevitable that already censorship-heavy
social media and news sites will also be
regulated for content. Biden has appointed
as one of his transition team for
“regulating” news reporting
one Richard Stengel who has argued that
there is a flaw in the First Amendment of
the Constitution’s Bill of Rights. He
believes that free speech cannot be allowed
in some cases and that anything that
constitutes a “hate speech” should be
criminalized. Stengel explains somewhat
confusingly “I’m all for protecting thought
that we hate, but not speech that incites
hate.” This is, of course, yet another
Democratic Party gimmick to secure the
support of groups with grievances but it
will impact on every American who believes
that free speech is a fundamental right.
Yet another
brilliant appointment by Biden is Ezekiel
Emanual, bioethicist brother of former Obama
Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Ezekiel is on
the Biden administration’s COVID transition
team. He has a lot of
interesting things to say, notably that
the United States should give any newly
developed and in short supply COVID vaccines
to countries with younger populations so
that the young could live while older
Americans die. He has also said that
everyone should die by age 75.
I THINK GIRALDI COVERS A LOT OF SOLID
GROUND HERE... The one thing with which I will take
issue is his happy notion that gun control measures
will be met with "real resistance".
Right now, the folks Giraldi
imagines will offer that resistance to the
Biden-Harris agenda are all "masked up", and
many have been sitting on their thumbs
watching their lifetime investment in their
small businesses evaporate because state
governors have issued plainly
unconstitutional orders telling them to do
so. Why on earth should it be imagined that
these same people will suddenly get up on
their hind legs to defend their right to
keep weapons they won't use to defend
themselves against other crimes of just as
heinous and harmful a character?
Plainly, if gun control takes
center stage on the agenda in the "new
normal", we'll just be told with hypnotic
repetition that the prevalence of guns is a
public health crisis, and their possession
by anyone is a threat to everyone. When
squads begin seizing them from individuals
one-by-one, there will be no rallying in
mutual defense. Potential supporters will be
unable to find and communicate with each
other, and the atmosphere of denunciation
will be so thick that most won't even think
of trying.
There's a reason James Madison
explained that the only safe course in
defense of fundamental liberties is
immediate resistance at the first
encroachment, without worrying about
nuances:
"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."
We've just had a year of
accepting "the principle" under which
experiments have been made on our liberties
(and it's just the most recent and audacious
of many such incrementally-more-severe
experiments conducted during the last 80
years.
SO, A PRETTY DARK ASSESSMENT,
no? But all is not lost, not yet.
If those who love liberty climb
to their hind feet NOW, and throw off this
"COVID-19" delusion, and this sleepwalking
acquiescence to all the blandishments and
bullshit of its purveyors, America can
regain at least some degree of its proper
footing. Otherwise, we just sink deeper into
the clinging and ultimately smothering mire.
Every day that we abide the
infringements and leave un-denounced and
un-refused the complete fraud which is the
C19 narrative, our children grow more
acclimated to "the new normal" and more
forgetting of actual liberty and rule of
law-- and frankly the adults do, too. Even
those who chafe at the recognized outrage of
it all become acclimated and pacified as
time goes on.
Get up and start roaring
now, while you can still raise your
voice above a whisper (or a whimper).
AT THE SAME TIME THAT YOU ROAR
against the C19, don't neglect the overall
solution to the abuse of state power against
your liberties, no matter its ambitions or
pretexts. That just requires
behaving like a grown-up and using the
Leviathan-shrinking solution put in place
by America's Founders in anticipation of
just the sort of corruption that reigns
today.
Implemented on a sufficient
scale, that solution shrinks the state and renders
those in control of the gnarly thing incapable of
doing great harm, regardless of the
weaknesses of the political class.
Here is the introduction document by
which anyone can learn the critical
importance, the promise and the unstoppable
character of the "shrinking Leviathan"
solution.
Read it through, yourself. Then
share it as widely as you can.
I HAVE DONE MY BEST to lead this country
to liberty from the mis-applied income tax. I have labored
hard. I've shed a lot of sweat, a fair bit of blood
and more than a few tears. But I seem to be pretty poor
at that kind of work.
When I have asked all of you for what I
firmly believe is a necessary resource to move the ball
downfield and give all of us the best chance at justice
and an end to the assault on the rule of law-- simple
testimonial videos requiring nothing from any of you
but the phone in your pocket and three minutes of speaking
from the heart-- I have had only a handful of people
answer my call.
I CAN'T KEEP GOING THIS WAY. I have to
be able to turn my attention away from writing new persuasive
or skepticism-addressing articles week after week, and
toward research, analysis and educational presentations
that will benefit everyone already in this community.
I need time to do some suing, and to bring together
the resources and talent toward that end.
As said, it is my firm belief that your
testimonial videos are the resource that I need to make
big things happen, and they are unquestionably the thing
I need to allow me to turn my attention away from trying
to get horses to drink at the waterhole to which I have
led them. Your words, in your great numbers and all
in your own different ways, will do that better than
anything I write possibly could.
And yet, you are not providing them. This,
despite my having been asking you for them for many
years now.
Therefore, with enormous reluctance, I
am making portions of this website restricted access
only. People have been urging me to do this for years
now, telling me I should impose a charge to access my
work-product, so as to enable me to keep producing.
I have never been inclined to charge fees
for access. I ask for donations, and will continue to
do that, and if they do not come, then I will conclude
that my work is of no value to anyone, and I will close
shop.
But I now WILL charge a special
something for access to some key portions of that
work.
Opening selected pages on
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.
December 7- In 1787, Delaware becomes the first of the several
states to ratify the United States Constitution. In 1917, power-hungry nutcases
running the United States, hating the thought of missing all the military action
going on 3000 miles away and
having arranged for a pretext, declare war on Austria-Hungary. In 1941,
power-hungry nutcases running the United States, hating the idea of missing all
the military action going on 3000 miles away, arrange for the bombing of the US
naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by the Japanese as a pretext for entering
World War II. In 2005, distraught and unarmed passenger Rigoberto Alpizar is
shot and killed by federal "air marshals" in an otherwise empty jetway at Miami
International Airport. "Homeland Security" claims that Alpizar said something
about having a bomb in order to justify the murder. All independent witnesses
declare this allegation to be a lie.
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.
Want to get these Lost Horizons
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*****
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
December 8- In 1941, the U.S. Congress declares war on
Japan. In 1980, John Lennon is assassinated in New York City. In 1991,
Russia, Belarus and Ukraine formally dissolve the Soviet Union. In
1993, the "North American Free Trade Agreement" is signed into law by
President Bill Clinton. In 2010, SpaceX becomes the first private
company to launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft. On the same day, a
Japanese solar-sail propelled spacecraft makes a close (80,800 km.) pass
of Venus.
*****
A Wise Warrior With An
Uplifting Message
DON 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."
-Proverbs 25:26
"A nation of sheep begets a government
of wolves."
-Edward R. Murrow
*****
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
December 9- In 1835, revolutionary
forces of what would become the Republic of Texas capture San Antonio from
Mexico. In 1946, the trial of Nazi "doctors" who had engaged in human
experimentation begins in Nuremberg. In 1958, the John Birch Society is
founded. In 1979 the eradication of smallpox is declared by the World Health
Organization. This is untrue, as both the United States and the then-Soviet
Union (and perhaps other states) retain supplies of the virus for possible "use"
at a future time. In 2016, the president of South Korea is impeached and
removed from office (largely for being a nutcase, although ostensibly for abuse
of power).
An old joke, but in regard to this deceiver,
not a laughing matter at all.
*****
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
December 10- In 1817, Mississippi
becomes the 20th sovereign American state and is admitted to the union as such.
In 1869, Wyoming grants women the right to vote. In 1936, Edward VIII abdicates
the British throne. In 1949, the People's Liberation Army of of China begins
its siege of Chengdu, forcing Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to
Taiwan. In 1981, the UN General Assembly approves a Pakistani proposal to make
South Asia a nuclear-free zone. In 1995, 37.9" of snow fall in Buffalo, New
York. In 2019, Democrats in the House of Representatives announce impeachment
charges against President Donald Trump, based on allegations of Trump having
threatened to withhold military aid to the government of Ukraine if it did not
resume investigation of corrupt behavior in that country by former Vice
President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. Ironically, the investigation had
originally been halted when Biden, while Vice President, had demanded it--
on pain of withholding aid to the
same government of Ukraine.
*****
“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."
December 11- In 1792, King Louis XVI of
France is put on trial for treason by the revolutionaries. In 1816, Indiana
becomes the 19th sovereign American state and is admitted to the union as such.
In 1971, the Libertarian Party of America is founded. In 1975, the price of
first-class postage rises from 10 to 13 cents. In 1985, General Electric
acquires NBC. In 1997, a federal judge orders Microsoft to unbundle Internet
Explorer from its "Windows" operating systems. In 2008, Bernie Madoff is
arrested and charged in connection with an alleged $50 billion "Ponzi" scheme,
even while the perpetrators of the "Social Security" Ponzi scheme remain at
large.
December 12- In 1787, Pennsylvania
becomes the second of the several states to ratify the United States
Constitution and authorize the new version of the federal government. In 1812,
the French army turns back from its invasion of Russia. In 1870, Joseph Rainey,
the first black elected to the U.S. House, begins the first of four terms. In
1901, Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal. In 1963, Kenya
gains its independence from the United Kingdom. In 2000, the United States
Supreme Court issues its ruling in Bush v. Gore, overruling the Florida Supreme
Court's decision concerning the certification of voting results in the
presidential election. In 2012, North Korea successfully launches its first
satellite into orbit around Earth.
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:
December 13- In 1636, the Massachusetts
Bay Colony organizes the first American militia regiments. In 1862, Robert E.
Lee defeats Ambrose E. Burnside in the Battle of Fredericksburg. In 1937, the
Japanese army begins the Rape of Nanjing, China. In 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts
begin the final traversing of the lunar surface by human beings (so far). In
1981, General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland in response to
Solidarity's threat to the security of the existing communist regime. In 2003,
Saddam Hussein of Iraq is captured by units of the United States occupation. In
2004, former Chilean Decider Augusto Pinochet is arrested over crimes committed
while in office years earlier.
*****/p>
"Those who will not reason, are bigots; those who cannot,
are fools; and those who dare not, are slaves."
