A Truly Remarkable And Very Important Document From Six State Attorneys General

...by which a line is drawn in the sand and much uplift of spirit and toughening of resolve is delivered.

A FEW DAYS AGO THE EXCELLENT Adolfo Montero forwarded to me a letter signed by the Attorneys General of West Virginia, Arkansas, Indiana, Mississippi, Montana and Texas and addressed to Joe Biden. I was pretty astonished at what I read.

The five-page letter amounts to a line-in-the-sand declaration by these state officials of their intention to exercise both their options of lawsuit and their options of nullification in the face of overreach by the Biden administration. More particularly (and gratifyingly), this line in the sand actually yanks the Constitutional chain hard, setting boundaries of actual delegated power limits, which are far more stringent and circumscribed than have been honored by denizens of Washington, DC for many, many years.

These six state's Attorneys General aren't just telling Biden to stick within the scope of executive power and centralized governance practiced by Trump, or Obama, or Bush or Clinton. What they are saying is a whole lot closer to, "Stick within the scope recognized by Thomas Jefferson or Grover Cleveland" (or, at least, Eisenhower or Kennedy).

And they say it well. Indeed, the remarkable demeanor of the letter by the Attorneys General is matched in noteworthiness by the letter's sharp, bright, articulate and accurate presentation of the Constitutional structure within which the office of President is exercised, and by which it is strictly limited.

There are some things left unsaid in the letter which should have been addressed-- particularly matters concerning speech and privacy rights. The letter does focus on freedom of religion and the Second Amendment, but passes over the rest of the lately much-tattered Bill of Rights. And a bit too much acceptance of congressional abdication to administrative agency usurpation of legislative and judicial authority is on display (albeit while urging Biden to hold agencies firmly to the supposedly-mitigating requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act).

But as a Constitutional scholar and longtime activist on behalf of the rule of law, I am accustomed to much frustration with documents of this sort and harbor generally low expectations of both the knowledge and the fidelity of people in political office in regard to the law at any level. In this case, even taking into account the caveats just mentioned, I found the Attorneys Genderals' letter a genuine pleasure to read.

You will enjoy it, too. Read the letter here.

ALL OF THE POSITIVE OBSERVATIONS ABOVE NOTWITHSTANDING, several cautions must accompany this letter.

First and foremost, no one should view this statement of resolve by these Attorneys General as the cavalry riding in to save the day. Dire straits like those we face today are never solved by such means. Even the most heroic intentions and efforts by handful of state government officials-- as welcome and hugely important as they are and would be-- could not possibly be anywhere even close to enough to deal with the Hydra presently assaulting our liberties and our true rule of law.

There is an unfortunate tendency in America to count on someone else doing the hard work, and consequently waiting passively for that rescue. This disastrous perspective is preyed upon with endless exploitive fictions injected into potentially-activist communities by their enemies intended to encourage just such counter-productive complacency-- such as the ridiculous "Q Anon" fantasy by which many folks were made to sit like lumps during recent critical periods, certain that a secret plan was about to unfold by which everything would be made right without them personally having to bestir themselves.

Secondly, and even if the actions of a handful of politically-vulnerable state government officials were capable of much more serious heavy-lifting than they actually are, substantial uncertainty exists as to the ability of these good folks to not only engage in all the ways needed to slay the monster, but even to recognize the true nature of its assault. Just to begin with, the one brief reference made in the letter to "the pandemic" suggests that the signers do not recognize the true nature of the C19 ploy as an agent of destabilization in service to a hidden agenda.

Blindness to the C19 scheme suggests a similar and related failure to understand just what might well be involved in Biden's "Build Back Better" proposition for making use of the C19 "crisis"-- which is likely summarized in the rhetorical question by Maurice Strong, father of the Great Reset project:

“What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries? And if the world is to survive, those rich countries would have to sign an agreement reducing their impact on the environment. Will they do it? The group’s conclusion is ‘no’. The rich countries won’t do it. They won’t change. So, in order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”

The "Great Reset" is now pretty clearly in the implementation phase under the oversight of Strong's equally odious protegé, Klaus Schwab, Chairman of the World Economic Forum (about whose psycho fantasies you'll learn more in the 'Other Voices' portion of this newsletter, further down this page).

THESE ARE REMARKABLY bad times, presenting us with remarkably high-stakes challenges. The letter by the six state Attorneys General to Joe Biden is a remarkable expression suited to these times and those challenges, as far as it goes.

That said, we must recognize that the resolve of these six statesmen-- admirable and welcome as it is-- cannot meet today's challenges on its own. And, it may be tested when the true scope of those challenges comes to be understood.

Thus, none of us can stint in our own efforts with or without these good folks, and we must be ready to support them against what is likely to be daunting pressure against their virtuous stand.

“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

-Frederick Douglass

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A Low-Hanging-Fruit Salad

Brief comments about a selection of current events and topics of immediate importance, in no particular order...

Immigration

I HAVE ALWAYS APPRECIATED George Will's dry wit and general erudition, and at one time often agreed with his opinions. Sadly, though, four years ago Will fell prey to Trump Derangement Syndrome in a big way and has now become a reactionary Biden apologist (probably helped down that path by the fact that for the last seven years he's been answering to Jeff Bezos).

One recent expression of Will's unfortunate clockwork-orange realignment is a January 22 column in favor of more-or-less open borders and mass amnesty for the 11 million+ people who defied our existing laws and either entered the country illegally in the first place or violated the terms of their visas and remained here illegally. Will's argument boils down to this: We've allowed lots of immigration in the past, and look how great things have turned out; and besides, because of our declining birth rate and aging population, we need more young workers on hand to be taxed in order meet Social Security and Medicare commitments.

Strangely-- and, it must be feared, perhaps because his employer favors foreign wars and a well-fed deep state-- Will doesn't see (or declines to admit) that things have NOT turned out great, at least not since our immigration generosity shifted from concentration on applicants from within Western Civilization to those from other cultures. (See this for some general thoughts on the immigration issue.)

Further, the proper answer to "entitlement" financing is not to bring in a bigger workforce to be exploited. The proper answer is to cut $900 billion from military spending for redeployment, with the concurrent release of 75% of uniformed (and dark) service personnel back into the productive sector where they can go from being net consumers of public wealth to being net producers of wealth to the gain of both the private and public purse.

January 6 at the Capitol

I AM SICK TO DEATH of seeing and hearing the term "storming" in regard to the events at the Capitol during the Electoral College proceedings. Likewise "insurrection" and even "riot" (and I am especially sick of seeing and hearing these terms from what are supposed to be grown-up conservatives or even Libertarians, who I suspect are using them out of fear of seeming insufficient in their appearances of condemnation and denunciation and at risk of drawing frowns from Democrat narrative managers).

Unless a video surfaces showing a mass of invaders deploying battering rams against the doors behind which cower AOC and her terrified colleagues, at the very least, or ripping art off the walls and smashing furniture and maybe even setting a fire or two, "storming", "insurrection" and "riot" are all ridiculously hyperventilated expressions.

Yes, a number of people from the rally for Trump entered the Capitol-- most of them through doors opened for their convenience by the Capitol Police, after which they behaved like a typical tour group, staying within the velvet ropes and leaving quietly after looking around for a while. A tiny handful broke a few windows in the back of the building and climbed in-- apparently they didn't know the front doors were open.

This latter group was rowdy, tossing around some papers and putting their feet up on other peoples' desks. Suspicions exist that they were whipped up to the violent-ish entry and rowdy behavior by agents-provocateur, and perhaps more will emerge on that front. One of them, an unarmed, entirely unthreatening Air Force veteran, was shot dead by a Capitol cop while climbing through a window. Whether that unjustifiable shooting escalated things to the point of someone striking an officer with a fire extinguisher and killing him is beyond my knowledge, but perhaps someone with more knowledge of the sequence of events can sort that out.

IN ANY EVENT, as much as even the group entering illegally did wrong, there certainly was nothing even remotely approaching a "storming" of anything, and absolutely nothing I have heard suggests that any member of Congress was at any time even threatened, much less harmed. Indeed, the outcomes tell the tale-- had the event been an attack on Congress, there would be either dead or captive congressmen and women, or dead invaders killed while attempting to kill or capture congressmen and women.

At a minimum, the Capitol would have ended up resembling any of the urban areas in which "peaceful" BLM and Antifa "protests" took place during the summer-- that is, a burned-out, heavily-looted ruin.

I urge everyone to stop mischaracterizing the January 6 events by reflexively using the fake news-mongers' mendacious terms.

Further...

WE HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED over the last year to a monolithic media drumbeat about C19 as the Black Plague reborn (and the monolithic suppression of competing voices, such as all those tens of thousands of doctors trying to alert us to the existence of cures, and to the fact that the ailment is being wildly overblown, and so forth). This sustained "in-one-voice" behavior is quite unusual for American media.

Even where deeply-invested state interests have been at stake in the past, such as during the 9/11 aftermath and the drive to a completely unrelated invasion of Iraq, a bit of daylight leaked through here and there from within the MSM. But no longer.

Likewise, the very same media monolith beating the destabilizing C19 drum has, over the last several months, been relentlessly repeating the "no evidence of fraud" mantra (after having looked for none themselves and while suppressing every exposure of the massive evidence at hand).

It all brings to mind that staple tactic of Banana Republic coups with which we all grew familiar during the '60s and '70s: Job One is seizing control of the radio station (and other media outlets). How else to explain the seamless uniformity of message regardless of the competing and contrary facts?

Finally,

THERE IS THIS: I find intriguing all the barking by Democrats (well, Biden supporters, anyway) meant to intimidate and silence their political opponents. It conveys the image of someone trying to browbeat superior numbers into passivity by dint of an aggression blizzard, as a cop might be trained to do in an effort at crowd control. As such, it in no way seems to reflect the proposition that Biden was actually elected by a majority, much less than by millions more than voted against him...

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Tools For Leveraging The CtC Superpower

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The Law, In Seven Pages

Really.

HERE IS THE LAW, IN 7 PAGES.

HERE IS HOW THE SCHEME WORKS, IN 8 PAGES.

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

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

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

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Not Letting This "Crisis" Go To Waste...

...an important action item opportunity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Use this evidence in all your outreach efforts.

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

-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson

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Regarding Trolleries

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

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

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

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

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

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

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How To Be A Leader In The CtC Community

It's simple:

KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX IN DETAIL

LEAD BY EXAMPLE

KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE RESOURCES

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

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

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

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

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Are You Having Trouble Spreading The Word?

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

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

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

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The Liberating Truth About The 16th Amendment

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

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

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

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

-Thomas Paine

OUTREACH!!!

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

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

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

-George Orwell

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Other Voices (followed by an important afterword)

Covid Odyssey

“Wherefore we find our adventurer Odysseus stirring, his patience at an end. His black ship is run down to the water. He calls for mariners”

by John Griffin

Who else senses the world shrinking around them? Was it only a year ago we could twirl a multi-hued globe and contemplate a trip to one of those inviting islets of colour?

Now, such goals have become uncertain, hazardous, forbidden even. We are confined to our country, our state, our town, a backyard. An immemorial freedom is being curtailed. We began as a freewheeling species, nonchalantly strolling out of Africa. A hundred millennia later and a trip to the local supermarket will soon be a grand day out, and even this dependent on the whims of a president, a prime minister, a mayor.

Are we destined to settle for Hamlet’s fancy, a world ‘bounded in a nutshell’?

That feeling of confinement and frustration brought Melville’s Ishmael to the point of knocking people’s hats off in the street. Today, it’s masks.

And so, to sea.

I propose a new Odyssey. In the spirit of Tennyson’s ‘To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield’, it shall be a voyage to discover the origins of Covid. In time, the story may evolve to become an epic to rival Homer’s. For now, we will have to be content with a synopsis.

The initial motive for the first Odyssey was the whisking away to Troy of that exemplar of beauty, Helen. This inducement is going to be harder to conjure today. Leonora in my local farmácia has seductive eyes. But the rest of her is obscured by a black mask. If her ancient namesake were similarly attired, I fear the Greek fleet would still be sitting on the sands.

We must picture a fresh scenario. A mysterious visitor to Ithaca’s port brings news of a deadly foe. The people gather round, imagining the imminent invasion of the cyclopes, or gorgons, or a chimera. They are informed that a nasty cold, of the sort that carries off some of the elderly and sick each year, is on its way and everyone should take cover.

Chuckles all round? A sound drubbing of the newcomer? Alas, within a short time this startling account of an epidemios has subdued a hitherto sane land. Wherefore we find our adventurer Odysseus stirring, his patience at an end. His black ship is run down to the water. He calls for mariners.

But this expedition is not for everyone. Before we enter the wide salt sea, how best to decide our crew? Most of our islanders have determined Covid a krisis. We have no time to review or debate their savage reasonings. While the mast is stepped, the sails carried aboard, and the long oars looped to the tholes, Odysseus’ wife Penelope has distributed the following multiple-choice questionnaire.

RECRUITMENT TEST (UK Version)

BASIC KNOWLEDGE

1. How many viruses do we have in us?

a) 1 or 2

b) 150

c) 380 trillion

2. How many people are likely immune to SARS-CoV-2?

a) None, how could they be?

b) 5-10%

c) More than 50%

3. When did Covid first appear?

a) Wuhan in December 2019

b) A U.S. military base a few weeks earlier

c) Iberia in March 2019

4. Sending your 10-year-old off to school, you would be most concerned about them

a) not having the ferry fare for Charon after succumbing to Covid-19

b) being attacked by a hippo or Nile crocodile

c) being struck on the head by a tortoise like Aeschylus

LOGICAL REASONING

1. If I have Covid when I die, does that mean I must have died from it?

a) Obviously

b) Very likely

c) No

2. If a study found that 1.8% of people wearing masks caught Covid, compared to 2.1% of a control group that didn’t, you would conclude masks are

a) 98.2% effective

b) about 50% effective

c) as effective as a bronze Corinthian war helmet

3. Is the following syllogism valid?

“All residents of nursing homes are mortal. Socrates is a resident of a nursing home. Therefore, Socrates is mortal”.

a) No, and the question is discriminatory

b) Under certain circumstances

c) Absolutely

4. What do the following figures tell you?: The average age of death is 81.5, while the average age of Covid deaths is 82.4.

a) One of those curious coincidences

b) I’d be better off with Covid

c) There is little to worry about

5. If PCR tests come up with 97% false positives, identify inoperative fragments of virus, and artificially amplify a minute sample 2 to the 40th times to make it look more impressive, does it make sense to test?

a) Of course, it helps us see what otherwise wouldn’t be noticed

b) Yes, any test is better than no test

c) No

COMMON SENSE QUESTIONS

1. If an epidemiologist, calculating death rates, had got it wrong 4 times in a row, you would

a) trust him this time

b) be somewhat wary

c) call down the wrath of Zeus

2. Given that excess deaths occurred after lockdown began, you would conclude lockdown was

a) a sensible approach

b) better than doing nothing

c) bloody useless

3. If you found the same people promoting the official Covid narrative were also associated with pharmaceutical companies, health-tech companies, or vaccine manufacturers that could make a killing out of Covid, you would conclude

a) it was just a coincidence

b) there might be a conflict of interest

c) half the government is probably corrupt

INTUITIVE REASONING

1. If you found that common influenza had disappeared after Covid emerged, you would conclude

a) it was a wonderful piece of luck in gloomy times

b) it shows what a marvellous thing lockdown is

c) we are now counting the common flu as Covid

2. Noticing that prominent and respected scientists, academics, journalists, and intellectuals all take Covid to be a serious threat, you would

a) take their word for it

b) doubt your own sanity

c) doubt their sanity, and wonder what else they’d got wrong

3. Shown a photograph of Bill Gates you would

a) see a respected philanthropist and humanitarian

b) be relieved that someone with no qualifications was an expert on health policy

c) think of a naughty schoolboy up to no good

SCIENTIFIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL REASONING

1. According to the Law of Covid Stupidity, the force of intelligence is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the centre of a Covid hotspot. The law—often summarized as ‘the fewer the deaths, the greater the panic’—shows that when there are no deaths at all, stupidity approaches infinity. Indicate your response to the panicked lockdown in South Australia and Sydney after zero deaths were registered.

a) The number of deaths is not always the issue

b) They were just being cautious

c) I’d be concerned about being seen with an Australian passport

2. Indicate your response to this ontological argument:

Covid is something than which nothing greater can be conceived. That which exists in reality must be greater than that which exists only in the mind. Therefore, Covid must exist outside the mind as well as inside. For, if it existed in the mind only, and not in reality, it would not be ‘something than which nothing greater can be conceived’.

a) Absolutely proves it

b) I’d have to mull it over

c) The silliest thing I ever heard

3. Argument from Design: If, walking over a heath, you came across a fully working Matt Hancock, you would conclude

a) there must be a Designer

b) it had evolved from something much simpler

c) it had devolved from something more reasonable

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Circumspect Penelope has done well: the correct answers are all (c).

More than 99.5% of people who contract Covid survive it. Which makes a mockery of the oft-quoted dictum, Covido ergo sum infirmum; that is, ‘There is Covid, therefore I am sick’. Ironically, 99.5 % also happens to be the number of people who take Covid seriously, consider Penelope to be a conspiracy theorist, and are petitioning Odysseus for a recount.

The crew is picked. Along with some experts in Very Small Invisible Things, and a mysterious grey-eyed woman, we are surprised to find we are mostly journalists, not a profession Odysseus is familiar with. But we assure him of our worth. We are, we say, like a sort of Delphic oracle: busybodies who are keen to reveal the truth, but grossly misjudged.

Churning the salt sea to foam, setting sail, our small fellowship of heroic souls, independent thinkers all, leaves this Mediterranean paddling pool. Out through the Pillars of Heracles, into the Atlantic, we head north. Even as Dawn’s rosy fingers light the morning of the seventh day, we come across our first island and our first chance to fathom Covid.

1. LAND OF THE FOOLS

Continued...

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...and then proceed to the afterword below...

Afterword

EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T click on the link above and continue to read the rest of Griffin's entertaining and informative essay, Penelope's Q&A above is enough by itself to make the piece hugely worthwhile. I heartily congratulate John Griffin on a job well done.

But the rest of Griffin's essay is very much worth your time, even though quite long. The journey of Odysseus and his mariners to the ultimate source of the "C19 pandemic" is artful in its presentation and ends with an introduction to Klaus Schwab and company, and the real nature of the Great Reset. Now that America has its own "Uncle Joe" issuing decrees in service to that project (under the "Build Back Better" label, for improved domestic consumption), it's more important than ever that we all clearly understand its nature.

So, if you haven't yet, read the rest of Griffin's piece. You'll be glad you did.

AT THE SAME TIME, I will continue to remind everyone that a key defense for the people against despotism is the power individual Americans have over the purse from which all bad state behavior is financed.

That defense was put in place by the Founders in anticipation of just the sort of corruption that reigns today. They knew that if you can control the amount of damage that can be done by bad actors, society can survive the inevitable presence within its ranks of naifs and fools.

Here is an introductory 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.

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A Little Extra

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

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Lawyers: It's Way Past Time For You All To Queue Up!

[Y]ou really need to familiarize yourself with Pete Hendrickson's absolutely magnificent work at his website and in his book(s). He has, brilliantly and lucidly, "cracked the code" regarding the federal income EXCISE tax(es)."

-Mark C. Phillips, JD

"...I find your work fascinatingly simple to understand."

-Jerry Arnowitz, JD

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Was Grandpa Really a Moron

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