"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.
Getting The Numbers
Right, Part II
The push for "vaccinating" kids
relies on deception and ignorance.
LAST WEEK'S NEWSLETTER focused on
correcting the widespread misimpression of
the actual C19 fatality totals that is
promoted by certain interests which
benefit from widespread public panic and
which, accordingly, strive to perpetuate
that liberty- and rule-of-law-eroding state
of affairs. In this mid-edition update, I'm
going to devote attention to one small part
of that deception campaign, in response to
Joe Biden's announcement last week of the imminent
approval of mRNA "vaccines" for injection
into children ages 5-11.
That approval would NOT be a good thing.
Such injections into yet
another new batch of American children would be
totally unnecessary and is totally contra-indicated by
the data. That this is not immediately
obvious to everyone is only
due to the suppression of the relevant facts
(and/or the irresponsible failure of
officials and the MSM to report those
relevant facts).
Let's take a look at those data
and facts.
TO BEGIN WITH, please take in
the fact that only 605 deaths have
been ascribed to Americans ages 0-18 over
the entire course of the pandemic (add the
two numbers in the third column):
You can see the breakdown of
the portion of that 605 which is ascribed to
each specific age within that range (also
distinguished by sex)
in the table here (composed of
screenshots from the National Center for
Health Statistics, as presented by the CDC
here). As you will note, the
total of ages 5-11 is only 90.
Keep in mind as well that the
numbers presented are aggregates of those
declared to have died from C19 and
those declared to have died merely with
C19 as a supposed or alleged comorbidity (an
important distinction discussed in some
detail in the lead article from last week,
which can be reviewed here).
In order to do so we must
exclude the tragic deaths among these 90 in
which C19 was merely deemed to be present,
or in which its influence on the outcome, if
any, was a simple complicating factor just
as would have been the onset of a common
cold, influenza, pneumonia, or any other
respiratory illness.
We can accomplish this
refinement of the data by applying the CDC's
"6%" rule, as explained here (from a table
generated in late 2020):
Applying that rule, we can seen
that only 5 or 6 of the 90 child fatalities
listed in the 5-11-year-old cohort can be
said to have died from C19. Each
one of these half-dozen deaths over the last
two years is a tragedy, of course, but an
infinitesimally small number from amongst
a population of more than 28 million in the
age-range, and an especially tiny number
against which to weigh
the certainty of many, many, many adverse
and possibly fatal reactions to the
"vaccine" injections amongst those 28
million+, both immediately and as a
consequence of unknown future side-effects.
WE CAN ALSO LOOK at a more
detailed set of data on comorbidities. These
data are only available as to the somewhat
larger cohort of 0-24-year-olds, rather than
the 0-18-year-old cohort of which we have
been speaking so far, however, so a little
cognitive hiccup will need to be dealt with.
(But there's a fine Easter egg to be
revealed as a consolation prize for your
trouble, as you will see, so hang in there.)
Let's begin this supplemental
exploration by looking at an expanded year-by-year and
sex-separated list of reported "from" and
"with" fatalities,
which can be found here. Adding up
that list yields a total of 1,954
fatalities in the 0-24-year-old cohort.
Now we can look at the
corresponding comorbidity table specifying
the existing diseases by which were
afflicted 94% or so of the C19-related
fatalities reported among these children and
young adults:
Totaling them up, we find 2,934
comorbidities afflicting the 1,954 victims
aged 0-24 reported as dying either from
or merely with, C19.
These data do not yield exact
figures as to how many of the 90 dead
5-11-year olds which make up the total
fatality figure were afflicted with fatal or
potentially-fatal diseases even without
regard to the presence of C19 (and thus, how
many actually died from C19 itself). But
they strongly support the conclusion that
the number of actual deaths from C19, which,
the injection-enthusiasts argue could
theoretically have been spared by injection
with a "vaccine" (at the cost of an unknown
but certain number of dangerous and possibly
fatal adverse reactions to the injections)
and yet might not have been anyway (since
the "vaccines" are NOT proof against
catching and dying from C19, even if no
adverse reactions occur) IS TINY.
Vanishingly tiny.
And when the vanishingly-tiny
danger of C19 to that cohort of
5-11-year-olds reflected in these numbers is
measured against the grave-- even if
intermittent-- dangers of the "vaccines", it
is clear that prudence and good parenting
must forcefully conclude that subjecting
more children to these injections would be
criminal.
OKAY, NOW TO THE "EASTER EGG": I hope everyone noticed that
the table excerpt above, accompanying the
CDC's "6%" rule explanation, predates the
"vaccine" roll-out (it's from
December 12, 2020). Notice further that it reports only 585
fatalities for the cohort of 0-24-year-old
Americans up to that publication date, which
included the entire pandemic period up to the last three
weeks of 2020 (the first official report of
C19 fatalities
was February 8, 2020).
Now, remember that during the
time since that report of 585 total
C19-related fatalities among 0-24-year-olds,
ever-increasing numbers of Americans have
been being "vaccinated"-- with even those as
young as 16 being injected beginning last
April. And yet, as shown in
the table of fatalities within the cohort to
date, over that basically identical
length of time the number of fatalities in
the cohort has more than tripled--
to 1,954.
It is, of course, a fallacy to
automatically equate correlation with
causation. But these additional data, if
ranked on either side of the rightness or
wrongness of rolling out the injections of
"vaccines" into another 28 million Americans
arms-- and little American arms, at
that-- certainly stand against
the proposition.
They also, of course,
underscore at least the abject failure of
the "vaccination" campaign overall, if not
the more sinister possibility that the
"vaccination" campaign is an active disaster
in its own right.
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On "booster shots",
universal audits, Amazon's upcoming
exploitation of Tolkien, and "Building Back
Better".
THE DRUMBEAT FOR "VACCINE BOOSTER SHOTS" make me
think of nothing so much as Einstein's
observation that doing the same thing over
and over again in the hope of getting
different results is the very definition of
insanity...
***
SPEAKING OF "BOOSTER" SHOTS
and insanity,
evidence has been steadily growing for some time that
the COVID "vaccines" are damaging the immune
systems of those who get them, as reflected
in the fact that "vaccinated" people have
lately outpaced unvaccinated people in
hospitals and morgues due to C19. (And as
reflected in the "Easter egg" in the article
above and
the "Other Voices" and Afterword further
down this page ...)
That is, not only do the
"vaccines" not protect against C19
themselves, but they appear to be
diminishing your natural immune system's
ability to do so (and by implication, its
ability to protect you against other
pathogens, like the flu, TB, pneumonia,
etc.). This appears to be a universal
adverse reaction, though not reported as
such to VAERS.
What sane person would let this
toxic injection be put into their arm? Or
into those of their children?
***
I'VE BEEN ASKED BY A NUMBER OF
FOLKS to comment on the Biden regime's call
for universal bank account monitoring by the
IRS. Needless to say (to the
CtC-educated community, anyway) the idea
that transactions can be monitored without
sworn allegations-- or at least evidence of
some kind-- that they involve or reflect
taxable activity (which is NOT the mere
acquisition of money, of course) is the most
fundamental problem with the proposition.
(And in fact, this fundamental
problem is being tacitly acknowledged in
some way, as indicated by the choice in the
new legislation of the $600.00 threshold
which has long been built into the 1099
reporting rules in 26 USC. One wonders
whether the unread 2100-page bill in which
this endless audit proposal appears actually
calls for the banks to somehow report these
transactions by way of "information
returns"...)
BUT THERE'S A BIGGER-PICTURE
ISSUE HERE, which is easy to address and
easy for even the non-CtC-educated
to grasp. Monitoring of bank accounts absent
a warrant is a violation of the Fourth
Amendment.
The stock answer to such a
charge is that having put the transactions
in the hands of third parties like banks one
has foregone any "expectation of privacy",
and therefore the government can poke
through them just like anyone can poke
through the trash you put out on the street
for pickup. But this doctrine is wrong, and
always has been wrong.
In fact, that "expectation of
privacy" doctrine stands the Fourth
Amendment on its head. The doctrine assumes
that any scrutiny by government (search,
seizure, or what have you) that is not
expressly forestalled by the citizen
involved (by taking special steps of
concealment) is therefore permitted. But
actually, the Fourth Amendment, properly and
accurately read, bars the government from
conducting scrutiny unless IT has expressly
undertaken some specific steps by which its
interest and attention can be authorized.
This is all made clear as day
by a simple examination of the historical
underpinnings of the amendment-- that is,
the various versions of the amendment
enacted within Constitutions of the several
states before being mimicked with a version
in the federal Bill of Rights.
I commend to everyone the
presentation and analysis of that history,
which
will be found here, and I strongly
encourage a careful read and wide
dissemination of the material. The
application of this knowledge offers many
benefits to a liberty-loving people which
extend well beyond the simple matter of
quashing groundless "forever audits" by the
IRS.
***
THE REAVERS AT AMAZON are about
to subject J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of The
Rings masterpiece to "woke" destruction
in the form of a series based on the classic
trilogy (and perhaps the related books such
as The Hobbit and The
Silmarillon). I don't know how bad it
will be, but I can condemn the effort sight
unseen simply for its exploitative
character.
The object of these efforts is
to use the enormous well-established
fan-base (or righteous fame) generated by
the amazing power and virtues of the
original work to draw lots of eyeballs to
the "new version"-- including many with no
real knowledge of the original work other
than the esteem in which it is widely held.
That new version will be subtly laced with
political and social propaganda-- propaganda
especially notable in most cases for being
of a sort that Tolkien (and any other
original author whose work is abused in this
manner) would have found abhorrent, as well
as harmful to the quality of the story being
told.
In the hope of discouraging
this abuse I urge everyone to avoid this
program when it appears, and to encourage
others to do the same.
***
FINALLY, one quick word about
Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" title for
his destructive $3.5tn "great reset"
legislative package: That title is
calculated to suggest that America has been
victimized by some kind of enormous natural
disaster from the rubble of which we need to
arise and reconstruct.
"Build Back Better" suggests
that an unprecedentedly-massive hurricane
blew down all those small businesses that
closed over the last 19 months, and is
responsible for the short-staffing at
hospitals and police departments and
the destroyed economy generally.
No.
The fact is, all the "building
back" that needs to be done is a consequence
of imposed state and federal executive
diktats. All that needs to be done to "build
back" is for those edicts to be rescinded,
abandoned or ignored by judges and cops
(until when those responsible for them begin
to be prosecuted accordingly).
We don't need any "building".
We just need some open-eyed, grown-up grade
"tearing down".
(And by the way, "Let's go,
Brandon!")
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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
*****
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private-sector earnings are federal “income”1.
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provision for protecting your private-sector
earnings from the 154-year-old2 indirect
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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
All You Need To Know About Vaccine Failure
Not in Israel, in the US- in
one incredible chart.
by Alex Berenson
So researchers
decided to look at whether heavy use of
cocaine, cannabis, and other drugs increases
the risk for breakthrough Covid infections.
(They found having a cannabis use disorder
does; other drugs don’t, once you control
for comorbidities. Tell Your Children.)
Anyway, that’s not
the news.
This study was
large and well-conducted. It used a database
that covers 85 million Americans in 63
health-care organizations. It was published
Oct. 5 in World Psychiatry, a peer-reviewed
journal. People were included if they’d had
no Covid infection before vaccination and
had been “fully vaccinated” – that is, 14
days after the second dose.
The researchers
wound up examining medical records of about
580,000 Americans, 30,000 with a substance
use disorder, 550,000 without. They found
that just over 7 percent of people with a
use disorder wound up with a breakthrough
infection between January and August,
compared to 3.6 percent of those without.
Okay. Set aside the
small group of users and focus only on the
550,000 people in the non-using group. They
had a 3.6 percent chance of infection for
fully vaccinated people over eight months,
January to August.
But eight months is
really about four months. Why? These are
BREAKTHROUGH infections, and the average
vaccinated American was not “fully”
vaccinated until mid-April. (Remember, too,
that “breakthrough” infections do not
include the two weeks after the first dose,
when vaccine efficacy is somewhere between
zero and negative.)
So 1 in 28 “fully
vaccinated” people was infected over the
four months when the vaccines were at peak
effectiveness. Because vaccines work!
--
But story gets
worse. Much worse.
The researchers
stratified the risk of infection by month,
January through August.
Here’s that chart -
for the 550,000 people WITHOUT a substance
use disorder, in other words the vast
majority of the sample:
"Those who can make you believe
absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
-Voltaire
BERENSON FAILS TO PROVIDE A
LINK to the study of which he speaks--
find it here. The thing is well worth
reading. In fact, it contains a number of
gems beyond what Berenson presents in his
nonetheless valuable article (including
some, in my mind, more accessibly
compelling).
For instance, at the end of
page 3 (and just after the discussion by the
researchers of the rate of increase in
infection-likelihood made much of by
Berenson and illustrated by the chart he
copies from the report) we find this:
Within the SUD [substance use
disorder] population, the overall risk for
hospitalization was 22.5% in the
breakthrough cohort compared to 1.6% in the
matched non-breakthrough cohort (RR=14.4,
95% CI: 10.19- 20.42). The overall risk for
death was 1.7% in the breakthrough cohort,
compared to 0.5% in the matched
non-breakthrough cohort (RR=3.5, 95% CI:
1.74-7.05).
Within the non-SUD
population, the overall risk for
hospitalization was 17.5% in the
breakthrough cohort compared to 0.5% in the
matched non-breakthrough cohort (RR=34.2,
95% CI: 28.05-41.67). The overall risk for
death was 1.1% in the breakthrough cohort
compared to 0.2% in the matched non-breakthrough cohort (RR=6.0, 95% CI: 4.20-8.66).
Study, page 3.
Did you read that carefully?
It is possible that I am
missing something here in what was,
admittedly, a quick look at this
densely-worded report when I found it
shortly before my publication deadline. But
it appears that what we are told in these two
paragraphs is that "vaccinated" subjects
["breakthrough cohort"]
with substance use disorder have an overall
risk for hospitalization (that is, severe
infection) of 22.5% compared with only 1.6%
in what I am assuming to be the corresponding unvaccinated group
["non-breakthrough cohort"].
The
overall risk of death for the "vaccinated"
group is 1.7% versus .5% in the unvaccinated
group.
Likewise, in the non-SUD
subjects, it appears that we are being told
that the risk of severe infection
(hospitalization) in the "vaccinated" group
is 17.5%, while in the unvaccinated group it
is only .5%. Risk of death for the
"vaccinated" is 1.1%, but only 0.2% in the
unvaccinated group.
Yes, having a "substance use
disorder" leads to slightly worse outcomes
than not having one, but the real killer
factor appears to be "being vaccinated".
If I am reading
this correctly, this
research loudly echoes that of
recent British and Israeli studies
showing that getting "vaccinated"
dramatically
increases one's odds of becoming sick with
C19, of becoming dangerously sick, and of
dying from the infection.
(And even if I AM
missing something, of course, Berenson's
take-away makes this report a significant
goring of the "vaccine" efficacy myth all by
itself.)
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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.
October 18- In 1867, the United States takes possession of
Alaska after buying it from Russia for 2 cents an acre. In 1898, the United
States is ceded "legal" possession of Puerto Rico by Spain as a consequence of
the Spanish-American War. In 1954, Texas Instruments introduces the transistor
radio.
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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Click here and subscribe to the group. Leave all
options at their default settings. Done!
*****
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
October 19- In 1935, the League of Nations imposes
economic sanctions on Italy over its invasion of Ethiopia. In 1943, the
first antibiotic treatment for tuberculosis is isolated in a lab. In
1960, the United States imposes an embargo on Cuba. In 1973, the Nixon
Whitehouse defies an appeals court order to turn over the Watergate
tapes. In 1987, a world-wide stock-market crash begins in Hong Kong and
spreads throughout the world. The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by
22.6% that day (Black Monday)-- several major markets lose more than 40%
of their value, with New Zealand's losing 60% . In 2005, Saddam Hussein
goes on trial in Baghdad for "crimes against humanity".
*****
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:
October 20- In 1803, the U.S. Senate
ratifies the Louisiana Purchase. In 1947, the House Un-American Activities
Committee begins its investigation of communist infiltration of Hollywood. In
1955, 'The Return Of The King', the last book in Tolkien's 'Lord Of The Rings'
trilogy, is published. In 1973, the "Saturday Night Massacre" takes place, with
Richard Nixon firing Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney
General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire Watergate prosecutor
Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Robert Bork. In 2011, Moammar Ghaddafi
was killed as part of a United States coup intended to thwart Chinese
investments and development of oil interests in Libya, as well Ghaddafi's move
toward eliminating the US dollar as the sole currency accepted for oil sales.
An old joke, but in regard to this deceiver,
not a laughing matter at all.
*****
Illuminating anniversaries of this week:
October 21- In 1879, Edison tests the
first practical version of his incandescent lightbulb (which lasts 13.5 hours
before burning out). In 1945, women are able to vote in national elections in
France for the first time. In 1959, Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum
opens.
*****
“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."
October 22- In 1797, the first
parachute jump is made-- a 3,000 foot drop from a hot-air balloon to the delight
of a crowd of onlookers in Paris, France. In 1836, Sam Houston is inaugurated
as the first president of the Republic of Texas. In 1907, a bank run on the
Knickerbocker Trust Company causes its collapse and sparks the "Panic of 1907".
In 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but
declines the honor. In 2008, India launches its first spacecraft to the moon.
October 23- In 1707, the parliament of
the United Kingdom meets for the first time. In 1861, Abraham Lincoln declares
habeas corpus suspended for all war-related cases in certain parts of the Union
territory, in furtherance of his suppression of widespread dissent against his
policy of making war on the seceding Southern states.
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:
October 24- In 1861, The first American
transcontinental telegraph line is laid, ending the 18 month run of the Pony
Express. In 1926, Harry Houdini performs for the last time. In 1929, the New
York Stock Exchange crashes (Black Thursday). In 1931, the George Washington
Bridge opens to traffic over the Hudson River between Fort Lee, New Jersey and
Manhattan Island. In 1945, the United Nations comes into formal existence. In
2008, many of the world's stock exchanges suffered their worst day in history up
to that point, with most dropping around 10%.
*****
"Those who will not reason, are bigots; those who cannot,
are fools; and those who dare not, are slaves."
