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.
*****
"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
***
No one can guarantee
success in all they do in life. But anyone can
guarantee that they DESERVE success in anything they
do.
Bakersfield, Baby!! November 10!
Be there for a CtC Seminar in the
heart of the Golden State!!
The Only Real Issues In Any
Income Tax Legal Contest
This is a very simple matter...
FIFTEEN YEARS INTO
constant tax agency acknowledgements of the
accuracy of
CtC, two unsurprising things have happened. Some
folks have become impatient with the occasional
drawn-out tax-agency resistance to a refund claim,
and the beleaguered tax agencies are struggling to
contrive more effective pretexts for resisting
claims.
As a result of these developments, there are now
several lawsuits to compel the issuance of resisted
refunds in the works throughout the
CtC community, and some Tax Court actions can be
expected, as well (such as in response to the
amazing and amusing
$0 Notice of Deficiency, for instance). It seems
to me that a few words about what is involved in
contests of this kind, and the ploys upon which the
government relies when trying to defend its bad
behavior, might be of interest.
TO BEGIN WITH, let me observe that
confrontational situations are never pleasant. This
fact is relied upon by officials intent on evading
the law, who hope challenges to their malfeasance
will thus be discouraged.
Members of this community are not going
to be discouraged of course-- they are already
self-selected as grown-ups. But the stress associated
with confrontational situations can make it
difficult for even the most narrow-eyed to stay on point and focused. This is
especially true of those involving a hostile and
unscrupulous adversary who
relies on
misrepresentations, strawmen and other fallacious
arguments due to having no actual case to make--
that is, one who relies on keeping you off-point
and un-focused.
However, should it happen that a legal
contest becomes necessary for a
CtC-educated filer, the actual issues involved
are very simple and very straightforward. They can
be summed up in two-and-a-half sentences:
1. WHAT QUALIFIES AS "INCOME" (as in,
the thing(s) that qualify for the income tax).
2. HAS THE GOVERNMENT PROVEN that you
had some (if using shorthand) or did some (if being
technically precise).
2a. HAVE YOU REBUTTED
ALLEGATIONS by others that you had some (or did
some) in a legally-meaningful manner?
There is nothing beyond these two
things (unless the answer to #2 is yes, at which
point other legal issues arise relevant to the
amount of proven "income", such as the availability
of deductions, the proper rate of tax, etc., etc.
ad nauseum).
OF COURSE, A GOVERNMENT ADVERSARY will
do everything possible to divert attention from
these fundamentals. As much as possible, these
issues will be talked-past as though they are not
live issues in the contest
and otherwise evaded (even though they are
ALWAYS live issues, and always the PRIMARY issues).
The primary evasion effort will be a
pretense that one's alleged receipt of "income" can
be treated as a settled thing. This will be
occasionally be attempted by the argument (either
vaguely-direct, or, more often, much less than
direct) that because one does not deny having
received money one therefore admits to having had
"income".
Again, this argument that one's
agreement to having received money (something never
to be eschewed, and outright necessary when suing
for the return of improperly-withheld amounts) is an agreement
to having had "income" is only occasionally
attempted. This is because no one in the "ignorance
tax" scheme, whether tax agency workers or up
through the ranks to judicial officers, will ever go
on record as declaring that "all that comes in" is
tax-relevant "income".
Thus, when push comes to
shove, the pretense from one's agreement to merely having
had receipts is unsustainable. (But see the
discussion of sub-ploys below...)
THE MUCH MORE COMMON government
argument rests on a resort to third-party "income"
allegations. The government spokesperson will act
(in filings and trial proceedings) as though
whatever the third-party alleged can and must be
taken as infallible truth and therefore need not be
proven.
This latter "pass-the-buck" play is
just as lame and ultimately indefensible as the
"agreement to X is agreement to Y" thing, but
doesn't rest on an outright false legal statement or
legal implication for which a government actor will
be liable. Instead it just rests on a ridiculous proposition for which
the backing party can be found guilty of being a
moron, but not guilty of fraud.
The only other play available to bad
government actors in a legal contest with a
CtC-educated
filer (meaning one who has made an accurate and
proper filing, conforming to-- or at least not
dramatically variant from-- all the points listed
here) is an equally strained effort to argue that
the filing should not be recognized because it is
insincere: "It's gotta be insincere, yer Honor.
Everyone knows that everything comin' in gets taxed! (After all, we've been playing
it that way for decades, so who could really doubt
that's what the law says?)"
THESE OVERALL PLOYS will be supported
by sub-ploys. Gratuitous pretenses of
misunderstanding the filer's testimony and arguments
are the most common.
For instance, a litigant's agreement of
having received pay for labor will be repeated by
the government shill as "Mr. ___ admits to having
received "wages"...". Like all such ploys, this one
contains the germ of its own undoing in the hands of
a capable litigant, because such a deliberate
"restatement" would be pointless unless there is a
key legal difference between what the litigant
actually said and what the shill is pretending he
said. But it is often used nonetheless, for lack of
any better alternative in the government's
fog-and-mirrors collection.
Another sub-ploy, intertwined with the
"Information return creators are infallible"
nonsense is the "argument" that because amounts were
withheld, what they could properly be withheld from
must have been being paid. That is, that because
"wage"-appropriate withholding was done, one must
have been receiving "wages".
Again, the very resort to this kind of
fallacious nonsense reveals and underscores its
absurdity and indefensibility. But resort to it WILL
be made, because, again, they've got nothing better.
AS CAN BE SEEN, while a legal contest
with those who would resort to these ugly fallacies
might be stressful and as much fun as a root canal,
what is deployed against
CtC-educated litigants is hopelessly empty of
substance. More than empty, in fact, since every
reliance on a fallacy actually illustrates the
government's lack of any real arguments on behalf of
its opposition to the educated filer's claims.
Leviathan's courts are not
cheerily-disposed toward those whose claims will
diminish Leviathan. But the opposition on offer is
more Keystone Kop than Star-Chamber.
Legal contests will not be cakewalks
for educated litigants, because the opposition will
struggle vigorously on the hook. The struggles,
though, will be as those of
Proteus-- lots of eyewash, but all illusory, and
all in vain against a hero who holds on tightly.
***
BTW, those interested can access a
fully-prepared brief nailing down the two actual
issues in any tax-related legal contest-- needing
only a modest bit of case-specific customization--
here. Those interested in getting a suit going
can find a complaint template
here.
Access to either or both of these files
requires a qualifying video. See more on that
here, and please read that post and the guidelines
to which you are directed from that post carefully
and thoroughly. Many people make incorrect
assumptions about the content and purpose of
these videos.
***
BTW II, the subjects and material in
the article above, and in the indicated links just above,
will be among those discussed in depth at the
Bakersfield Seminar
in November. Get your RSVPs in early to ensure your
seats.
...sharing cold, hard facts that should be
tattooed on every Congresscritter's forehead.
The Living Reality of
Military-Economic Fascism
by Robert Higgs
"The business of buying weapons that
takes place in the Pentagon is a corrupt business —
ethically and morally corrupt from top to bottom.
The process is dominated by advocacy, with few, if
any, checks and balances. Most people in power like
this system of doing business and do not want it
changed." – Colonel James G. Burton (1993, 232)
In countries such as the United States,
whose economies are commonly, though inaccurately,
described as "capitalist" or "free-market," war and
preparation for war systematically corrupt both
parties to the state-private transactions by which
the government obtains the bulk of its military
goods and services.
On one side, business interests seek to
bend the state's decisions in their favor by
corrupting official decision-makers with outright
and de facto bribes. The former include cash, gifts
in kind, loans, entertainment, transportation,
lodging, prostitutes' services, inside information
about personal investment opportunities, overly
generous speaking fees, and promises of future
employment or "consulting" patronage for officials
or their family members, whereas the latter include
campaign contributions (sometimes legal, sometimes
illegal), sponsorship of political fund-raising
events, and donations to charities or other causes
favored by the relevant government officials.
Reports of this sort of corruption
appear from time to time in the press under the
rubric of "military scandal" (see, for example,
Biddle 1985, Wines 1989, Hinds 1992, "National
Briefing" 2003, Pasztor and Karp 2004, Colarusso
2004, Calbreath and Kammer 2005, Wood 2005, Babcock
2006, Ross 2006, and "Defense Contractor Guilty in
Bribe Case" 2006). On the other, much more important
side, the state corrupts business people by
effectively turning them into co-conspirators in and
beneficiaries of its most fundamental activity —
plundering the general public.
Participants in the
military-industrial-congressional complex (MICC) are
routinely blamed for "mismanagement," not
infrequently they are accused of "waste, fraud, and
abuse," and from time to time a few of them are
indicted for criminal offenses (Higgs 1988, 1990,
xx-xxiii, 2004; Fitzgerald 1989; Kovacic 1990a,
1990b).
All of these unsavory actions, however,
are typically viewed as aberrations — misfeasances
to be rectified or malfeasances to be punished while
retaining the basic system of state-private
cooperation in the production of military goods and
services (for an explicit example of the
"aberration" claim, see Fitzgerald 1989, 197–98). I
maintain, in contrast, that these offenses and even
more serious ones are not simply unfortunate
blemishes on a basically sound arrangement, but
superficial expressions of a thoroughgoing,
intrinsic rottenness in the entire setup.
It is regrettable in any event for
people to suffer under the weight of a state and its
military apparatus, but the present arrangement — a
system of military-economic fascism as instantiated
in the United States by the MICC — is worse than
full-fledged military-economic socialism. In the
latter, the people are oppressed, because they are
taxed, conscripted, and regimented, but they are not
co-opted and corrupted by joining forces with their
rapacious rulers; a clear line separates them from
the predators on the "dark side."
With military-economic fascism,
however, the line becomes blurred, and a substantial
number of people actively hop back and forth across
it: advisory committees, such as the
Defense Science Board and the
Defense Policy Board and university
administrators meet regularly with Pentagon
officials (see Borger 2003 for a report of an
especially remarkable meeting), and the revolving
door spins furiously — according to a September 2002
report, "[t]hirty-two major Bush appointees are
former executives, consultants, or major
shareholders of top weapons contractors" (Ciarrocca
2002, 2; see also Hamburger 2003, Doward 2003,
Stubbing 1986, 90, 96, and Kotz 1988, 230), and a
much greater number cross the line at lower levels.
Moreover, military-economic fascism, by
empowering and enriching wealthy, intelligent, and
influential members of the public, removes them from
the ranks of potential opponents and resisters of
the state and thereby helps to perpetuate the
state's existence and its intrinsic class
exploitation of people outside the state. Thus,
military-economic fascism simultaneously strengthens
the state and weakens civil society, even as it
creates the illusion of a vibrant private sector
patriotically engaged in supplying goods and
services to the heroic military establishment (the
Boeing Company's
slickly produced television ads, among others,
splendidly illustrate this propagandistically
encouraged illusion).
Garden-variety Military-Economic
Corruption of Government Officials
After taking in all of Higgs'
illuminating information, give yourself a salute for
having the brains and the courage and the true love
of the true American way to be implementing what you
have learned from
CtC and thereby acting to
restore the republic.
A Lost Horizons Voter's
Guide For The Upcoming Elections
Shields up, people...
THE FOLLOWING RECOMMENDATIONS apply to
all races at every level and in every location:
Do NOT vote for any candidate who touts
military service as though it is a credential for
public office. If given an alternative with
acceptable positions and not disqualified under this
specification or those below, vote for the
alternative. Otherwise don't vote in that race.
Do NOT vote for any candidate with a
history of imposing government power on anyone, such
as any history as a prosecutor, a bureaucrat or an
executive-branch officer, in any jurisdiction or at
any level.
If given an alternative with acceptable positions
and not disqualified under this specification or
those above or below, vote for the alternative.
Otherwise don't vote in that race.
Candidates with histories as
legislators should have their voting records in
office carefully scrutinized to determine whether
they consistently voted to reduce state power (vote
for them!) or did otherwise (vote against them, or
if not viable candidate is running in that race,
don't vote in that race).
Do NOT vote for any candidate who is a lawyer,
even for judicial offices, except those
rare-as-hen's-teeth types whose histories show
consistent performance defending fellow citizens
against the state (and not by just doing plea
bargains for criminal charges).
View all incumbents with suspicion--
with very, very few exceptions, they are responsible
for the way things are now, to a greater or lesser
degree.
ALL OF THE ABOVE NOTWITHSTANDING, DO
show up and vote-- even if just to write-in yourself
or other more desirable candidates for office. It
sends a good message to have, for example, 100
voters turn out but the undesirable winner only
getting 25 votes. Otherwise, whoever wins gets to
argue that everyone who just let it happen by not
showing up was OK with the prospect of their
victory.
The wise voter with poor choices will
do what (s)he can to delegitimize the outcome. It is
inevitable that someone will end up in each office,
but be sure they aren't morally-enabled by the illusion
of a mandate.
Remember,
politics is NOT the answer to the problem of the
state. Politics is what has CAUSED the problem that
is the state, and both politics and the state have
been aptly described as diseases which masquerade as
their own cures.
DON 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."
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?
An old joke, but in regard to this deceiver,
not a laughing matter at all.
““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.
Looking For A Litigator Who
Wants To Do Well While Doing Good
THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENT presents details
of a long-running (and still-ongoing) violation of the
speech, conscience and due-process rights of two Americans.
The offenses, in a nutshell, involve a federal district
court attempting to dictate to these two folks-- word
for word-- sworn "testimony" they are ordered to make
in a legal contest with the government.
Click the link below to read the brief.
You'll find it thoroughly supported with relevant testimony
by the chief perpetrator and other similarly unambiguous
exhibits.
"Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never did and it never will. Find out just what any
people will quietly submit to and you have the exact
measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed
on them, and these will continue till they have been
resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The
limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of
those whom they suppress."
-Frederick Douglass
"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."
-Samuel Adams
*****
"A slave is one who waits
for someone to come and free him."
…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.
Trolls Against The Truth: A
Dis-Information Campaign
UNLESS YOU'VE LOOKED, you can have no idea
of the volume, intensity and mendacity deployed in the
government's efforts to discourage Americans from learning
what is revealed in
CtC. It's truly astonishing.
A lot of folks are aware of the show-trial
events in which my wife and I have received state-engineered
public beatings meant to scare people away from the
truth about the "ignorance tax" scam. But many are unaware
of the overall campaign. This is a shame, really, because
a focused propaganda effort like this one is a very
powerful acknowledgement of the significance of
CtC's revelations.
While the majority of Americans do not
yet know how
CtC protects them from the vampire state, the vampire
itself certainly does. Dis-information campaigns like
this one make that very clear.
FORMER CBS REPORTER SHERYL ATKISSON describes
some aspects of this sort of dis-information campaign
in the following video. Despite the annoying preliminary
15 seconds or so of advertising, her presentation is
very much worth watching:
(H/T to Greg Belcher for finding
and forwarding this great presentation.)
Losthorizons.com is one of those websites specifically-targeted
by the corrupt interests at Wikipedia described by Atkisson.
The behind-the-scenes folks at that site won't allow
links on their pages to anything posted at
losthorizons.com, nor even just text corrections
of misinformation in their pages about the income tax.
That's the least of it. Click
here for some specific discussion of the enormous
scare campaign that's been actively spreading false
information in hope of discouraging legitimate media
attention, as well as men and women simply seeking the
truth about the tax and liberty from the scourge of
the "ignorance tax".
PLEASE GIVE SOME SERIOUS THOUGHT to the
fact that YOU being secure in your own freedom rests
on others learning the truth as well, and recognize
that it falls to you to help overcome the dis-information
campaign. Post and share
your videos;
share your victories; help silence the agents-provocateur
and distraction-injectors whose nonsense is discussed
and debunked
here; and widely (and frankly, impatiently) share
this page,
this page and
this page, challenging everyone in your address
book to disconnect the phone and the TV for an afternoon
and get educated.
Doing these things will be what makes it
happen, Cap'n.
An Excellent New Video About
The Government Effort To Suppress
CtC Has Hit YouTube!
DEREK CUSHMAN HAS POSTED a powerful presentation
on government lies, propaganda and misinformation about
CtC designed to discourage more Americans from reading
the book and getting free of the misadministration of
the tax:
Watch it and share it, folks. This film
will help a lot of people who have been taken in by
the lies understand how they've been manipulated, and
prompt a proper desire to learn the truth about the
tax.
Well done, Derek!
P.S. If there were a thousand videos out
there debunking government lies and encouraging Americans
to learn the truth like this one does, the "ignorance
tax" scheme would collapse in a month. So,
where's yours?
Please Help losthorizons.com
Be As Effective As Possible!
OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS I've heard from
a number of folks that a firewall known as "Comodo"
blocks access to this website. This is apparently a
glitch in that program. This site is safe, as can be
seen by going
here.
Please share this info with others in your
own address book so it gets around-- obviously those
suffering the ill effects of this defect in Comodo won't
be able to see it here themselves until they go into
their firewall settings and manually whitelist
losthorizons.com.
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-- testimonial
videos, as discussed, described and demonstrated
here.
SELECTED PAGES CONSTITUTING primarily "legal
resources" pages now require passwords for access, and
to get a password, I need your video. Similarly, if
an email comes my way asking for guidance or assistance,
it had best have a video attached, if I don't already
have yours 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 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.
"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.
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.
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.
Keep in mind 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. If you haven't
yet begun to act, speak of your decision to do so, and
your plans.
Remember, your purpose is to INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE
and ENERGIZE.
If you're dealing with ongoing balkiness,
describe that, too, if you wish-- but be sure to explain
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.
Mention what you do for a living, whether
you're a doctor, homemaker, lawyer, trucker, IT guy
or gal, or a 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, but 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 OneDrive.Live.com or GoogleDrive, 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.
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.
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."
-Exodus 23:1-3
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.
relies on
misrepresentations, strawmen and other fallacious
arguments due to having no actual case to make--
that is, one who relies on keeping you off-point
and un-focused.
