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Current Events and Continuing Education for October 25, 2021

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

-James Madison

 

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Putting the lie to a vicious narrative theme:

Those Saying "NO!" To "Vaccine" Mandates Are NOT Quitting Their Jobs

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Liberty in Peril'

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Spotlights on the past that help bring clarity to the present:

Illuminating Anniversaries for this week

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"There are two distinct classes of men...those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes."

-Thomas Paine

 

You can't understand the present if you don't understand the past...

Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

October 25- In 1760, George III becomes King of Great Britain.  In 1917, the 'October Revolution' takes place in Russia with the capture of the Winter Palace in Petrograd by the Bolsheviks.  In 1936, Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini enact a treaty creating the "Rome-Berlin Axis".  In 1983, the United States invades Grenada.

 

Anniversaries of interest for each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter below.

  

Fear nothing but God's judgment as to your honesty and your courage

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"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

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.

Those Saying "NO!" To "Vaccine" Mandates Are NOT "Quitting Their Jobs"

These good and true Americans are being forced out of (often) public service for refusing to pay homage to a lie.

 

"There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men."

-Edmund Burke

Let's Start With Some Relevant Facts

I'M GOING TO BEGIN THIS OBSERVATION ABOUT "VACCINE" MANDATES with some illuminating data posted by the CDC which shed light on some of the very key factors guiding many sensible people to refuse the jab. Let's start with this general US fatality distribution breakdown from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) as of October 20, 2021:

So, 75.9% of all declaredly C19 deaths-- that is, of all the deaths included within the scary number hypnotically-repeated by the MSM and many government sources (723,880 at the time of this breakdown and up to 735,717 reported by Johns Hopkins University as of 7 p.m. Saturday, October 23, according to the October 24 Detroit Free Press)-- have occurred within the 65-and-over age group. Only 20.3% have involved people between 45 and 64 years old; and only 3.8%-- 27,476-- have involved people under 45 years old.

Even with just this modest set of data, and even if we pretend that all deaths declared to be C19 deaths are actually from C19 (more on that in a big way in a moment) it is clear that for the 191,060,000 American residents under 45, C19 is a minor hazard. Remember, we are talking about a declared death toll of 27,476 over the course of nearly two years.

For the 82,760,000 American residents between 45-64, the threat is a bit more serious (or so it would appear), but still not even close to a raging plague. Frankly, even for the 65+ group, the number here is more a (notable) statistical uptick than a legitimate fear factor. After all, more than 3 million Americans die each year, and the vast majority of them are from the 65+ demographic. Here, we speak of only 549,716 deaths among a population group consisting entirely of people statistically expected to be steadily dying in large numbers at all times, and again, over the course of not just a year but 22 months.

HOWEVER, TAKE ALL OF THE ABOVE AS YOU WILL, it is just the scary facade of the actual data. The numbers presented are nothing but the sleazy tools of a crass and illiberal political agenda. Nowhere near the numbers cited above have actually died from C19.

Digging a bit further into the NCHS data reported by the CDC, we find some very seriously-clarifying data showing the ACTUAL causes of death for the vast majority of these 723,880 deaths attributed to C19 by those wanting to foment and maintain panic. I'm going to share the charts showing the incidences of the most common of more than 20 non-C19 causes of death involved in the numbers given above (you can click on the link above to see the rest if you wish).

In the top center of the following charts you will see the cause of death being illustrated. On the left side of the body of the chart is shown the number of persons from among the 723,880 to have died from that cause, with C19 allegedly (and in many cases, only assumedly) present (per the fudging guidelines promulgated by the government as shown here and here; highlighting on those docs is mine).

Note the scale on the extreme left of each chart indicating the number of persons from among each age group among the 723,880 in which the given cause of death was involved. The right side of the charts show the comparative prevalence of each individual cause of death and the rate of incidence-- itself a very revealing presentation, with three categories each being involved in well over 200,000 of the reported deaths and the other seven shown being involved in ~70,000 to ~150,000 each.

A lot to take in, I know. But I hope everyone noted that huge numbers of both the 45-64-year-old and 65+ categories, especially, which represent 96.2% of the total fatalities ascribed to C19 and making up that scary 733,880 figure breathlessly repeated by the panic-mongers, were afflicted with kidney failure, diabetes, heart failure, stroke, hypertension, the flu or pneumonia, and so on.

Also significant are the incidences of these diseases within the cohort of under 45-year-olds making up the 3.8% of alleged C19 fatalities included in the scary 733,880 figure. Taken together, the number of those incidences well exceed the number of deaths making up that 3.8%.

As shown by the work of Dr. Genevieve Briand, summarized here, the normal annual fatality figures for these various diseases actually was replaced wholesale over most of 2020 (the period on which her research focused) by ascribed C19 deaths. That is, where a normal week of reporting in previous years would show, say, 8,000 deaths from heart disease, in 2020 heart diseases fatalities vanished from the reports. 8,000 C19 deaths appeared in their place.

Here's how that would go: "Uncle Harry had had a bad ticker for years, and we all knew he could go at any time. When he felt chest pains and was rushed to the hospital no one was surprised that he died of a heart attack that night. The weird thing is that the hospital listed Covid-19 as the cause of death..." Those interested in some background on the incentives involved should read the discussion here.

Finally, just to put the greasy icing on this unappetizing cake, I hope too that everyone noted the last chart I have posted. This one shows the inclusion in these C19 death stats of 15,000 or so people who are ascribed as C19 deaths but are actually victims of intentional or unintentional injury, poisoning, etc...

But you know, they had had a cough, or a bit of a fever, or maybe a "positive" from a notoriously unreliable PCR test at some point within a week or two of shooting themselves, or falling off that ladder, or being hit by that car. So we'll call it a C19 fatality, right?

Okay, keep that evidence of the actual insignificance of the C19 threat in mind. To summarize it all, the number of deaths over the last 22 months which can plausibly be laid at the feet of the C19 virus is actually a tragic but hardly panic-worthy 44,032 (that being the 6% of the declared total which is quietly distinguished as such by the CDC itself, as explained in this statement accompanying a "comorbidity" table published in late 2020). This is a figure well under the typical toll of a mild seasonal flu if sustained over the same period.

Now Let's Talk About Those Refusing The "Vaccine" Injections

ONE TRULY NAUSEATING THEME lately appearing across America and being glossed-over without comment or criticism by the pressitute MSM is the pretense that police, firefighters, health-care workers and others who have been barred from working, and from being paid, for refusal to get "vaccinated" are voluntarily leaving their jobs, and therefore are not eligible for unemployment or other benefits. This is false, outrageous, and deeply corrupt.

Plainly, those declining a suddenly-demanded drug injection and being ordered off their jobs as a consequence are not "voluntarily" abandoning those jobs. Rather, they are reacting to an un-negotiated and dramatic change in working conditions being imposed by the employer. Receiving the injection was not part of the job description upon hiring, nor ever agreed to as a condition for keeping the job.

Further, receiving the injection is not in any way a routine imposition, such as taking a training course, complying with a new work schedule, and so forth. In fact, taking the injection has a permanent, lifelong effect, for good or ill, the scope and nature of which is not, and cannot be, known by those demanding compliance.

Further still, the drug involved is dangerous, ineffective (see reports here, here and here, for instance-- and also this) and unnecessary for most people, as shown in the data presented above. It offers at best only very limited benefits to a small portion of the population (attended by significant risks) and does nothing to protect anyone other than the recipient, since those receiving the drug can and do continue to contract and transmit the virus against which the drug is supposed to protect, simply (perhaps) with a less severe outcome to the injected person in some instances (as discussed in detail here).

Even the insignificant and exclusively personal benefit described above, which offers no public health benefit whatever, is so poorly engineered as to already be requiring additional injections. There is no apparent end in sight, and even murkier long-term consequences for the victims allowing themselves to be used as guinea pigs in this manner.

IN LIGHT OF ALL THE FOREGOING, let's put this in perspective. Imposing the requirement to accept the injection of a drug when doing so was never in the job description in the first place-- and especially a drug with this one's track-record of public-health uselessness and personal danger from adverse effects, not to mention its uselessness to most people in good health and below the age of 75+ (and especially those who have already contracted the virus against which it is supposed to protect, and who have thereby developed naturally-acquired-- and actually durable and robust-- immunity) is akin to requiring workers to cut off a little finger in order to keep their jobs.

Pretending those who decline the "vaccine" are voluntarily leaving is like pretending those of whom a severed finger is demanded leave voluntarily when they refuse THAT similarly absurd and improper imposition. It is outrageous and fraudulent.

All told, no one being described as "quitting a job" by refusing this new, never-agreed-to and draconian condition of employment should tolerate that pretense. Nor should he or she tolerate being refused any and all benefits available to anyone else being fired from a job without good cause.

The courts in this country should already be flooded with lawsuits against every local, state and federal government office which has forced anyone out of work on the basis of refusing these dangerous, medically-useless injections which from which the vast majority of people-- especially those in the generally fit, healthy and below 65 work-forces affected by the mandates and firings-- would receive no benefit even if the "vaccines" actually prevented infection.

"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

For more on the subject of "vaccine" mandates, see this and this.

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Tools For Leveraging The CtC Superpower

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The Income Tax 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.

Click here for the rest of this article

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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)

Liberty in Peril

by George Leef

I finished reading Prof. Randall Holcombe’s book Liberty in Peril: Democracy and Power in US History during the 2020 election. I have yet to hear any candidate say the word “liberty” and would be shocked if I did.

We are bombarded with messages for candidates and messages merely imploring us to vote. Some Americans relish what they think they’ll get as a result of the election; others dread what they fear will happen. In any case, we accept that, for all its flaws, democracy is the way the United States is supposed to work. We almost never think about whether the policies the candidates favor are consonant with the freedom Americans were supposed to have — freedom to live their lives as they choose.

In his book, Holcombe (professor of economics at Florida State) argues that democracy was not the way the country was supposed to work. Our founding philosophy was not that democracy should prevail, but instead that liberty should prevail — that the reason for government was to protect the individual’s freedom, not to subject him to the will of the majority. Over time, the philosophy of liberty has been shoved aside and today democracy rules to the point where, as the author puts it, liberty has an almost quaint air about it.

As the book’s subtitle suggests, this is a work of history, looking at the shift from the ideology of liberty to the ideology of democracy. Holcombe observes that there is a tension between the two. Under the ideology of liberty, the important question is how to put limits on government so that it can protect individual rights, while under the ideology of democracy, the question is who will hold power to do what the public wants. Where the former prevails, the people tend to have a healthy wariness about government and desire to keep it in check; where the latter does, the people eagerly listen to politicians who promise them benefits from the government.

Unanimity

Holcombe begins his history not with the Constitution or even with the colonists, but with the Iroquois, the largest confederation of Indians that European settlers had to deal with. The Iroquois had an unwritten constitution and its key principle was unanimity. Colonists who became familiar with the Iroquois system commented on its “absolute notion of liberty.” The Iroquois had a “Great Council” composed of tribal chiefs, but it did not act like we expect legislatures to act — imposing decisions on the people.

Instead, the Great Council facilitated the building of consensus among the tribes. Questions were debated and then the chiefs would return to their tribes to assess the sense of their members. Not until a proposal (and I wish Holcombe had said what kinds of issues the Iroquois dealt with) was acceptable to all the tribes was it adopted. That “debate it until we have consensus” mode meant that little was done, but that was, to the Iroquois, preferable to forcing people to abide by rules they had not agreed to.

The British colonists found it frustrating to deal with the Iroquois because their representatives always said, “We must take this proposal back to our Great Council for consideration,” but they incorporated the unanimity principle into their own Albany Plan of Union, drafted in 1754. That Plan was never put into effect, but it called for unanimous consent among the colonies for any action to be taken. Consensus was required, not majority rule.

The first government formed in the United States was the Articles of Confederation, adopted in 1781. Most historians brush right on past the Articles, but Holcombe thinks them worth analysis. Under the Articles, we had a unicameral legislature without any federal executive or judiciary. Proposed amendments required unanimous consent. The central government had little power, as you would expect from a people who had just waged a long war to be rid of a government with, most thought, too much power to violate individual liberties. The central government could not levy taxes directly, but had to request funds from the states. Holcombe finds virtue in that arrangement, since each state could decide whether the expected benefit of turning funds over to the central government was worth giving up the best use of those funds within its own borders.

Life in the United States under the Articles was less than ideal, particularly in the way some states interfered with interstate commerce, but those problems might have been dealt with by amending them. Indeed, that was the very purpose of the convention called in 1787 that we call “the Constitutional Convention.” It was supposed to be a convention, however, for considering amendments to the Articles, and more than a few of the delegates objected to the way certain leaders decided to draft an entirely new plan of government instead.

For all the Constitution’s restrictions on federal authority and its famous “checks and balances,” Holcombe finds that liberty was much more secure under the Articles. That was especially so because the federal government was no longer accountable to the states, but was a power center unto itself. Furthermore, consensus was diluted because the Constitution could be amended with only two-thirds of the states agreeing, rather than all. And most troubling of all, the powers given to the federal government were vaguely worded, such as to “regulate commerce” and “promote the general welfare.” While the drafters of the Constitution were fearful of democracy, they opened the door to its growth.

Gaining Ground

Continued...

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

 

Afterword

I WOULDN'T NORMALLY OFFER A BOOK REVIEW as an 'Other Voices' column, especially one reviewing a book I've not yet read (and one which appears to contain at least some elements with which I would likely take issue). But I'm a longtime fan of George Leef, an excellent and insightful writer whose heart is firmly in the right place, and his summary line early in this piece-- "...the reason for government was to protect the individual's freedom, not to subject him to the will of the majority"-- can't be said often or widely enough.

Sadly, we live in a country now awash in not merely ill-educated young adults, but deliberately mis-educated young adults (with no small number of older Americans equally threatening liberty). A major element of the mis-education is its elevation of "majority rule" as a social good with a corresponding memory-holing of the real purpose of American government, the securing of the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.

To the degree that Randall Holcombe's book helps to correct the "majority rule v. individual liberty" mis-education problem it is most welcome, and George Leef's presentation of it is worth sharing.

I MENTIONED THAT I LIKELY HAVE ISSUES with some of the material Holcombe presents. I speak particularly of his apparent critiques of US Constitutional provisions, which he seems to imagine are baked-into-the-cake flaws authorizing the arrogant federal sprawl lately causing such harm both at home and abroad.

My own well-studied view of the matter is quite different. The Constitution is, after all, just a piece of paper, which is incapable of enforcing itself. It actually doesn't authorize the excesses of the last 85 years, and actually prohibits most of them. But it does the latter successfully only when American men and women stand up and put some teeth behind the words on that piece of paper.

The Constitution hasn't failed us. We've failed it (or at least, we have failed the expectations of the spirit that created the Constitution and perforce left to us, the ones who came after, its proper understanding and its preservation as the law of the land).

I offer comments here, here, here and here regarding what we have done wrong as the heirs to the Founders and Framers, and what can be done to set things right (something we absolutely have within our power). Click on Saruman, below, for another very concise analysis and prescription.

The Constitution is designed to protect sober Peter from drunk Peter and his unwise but widely popular enthusiasms, as brilliantly put by Justice David Brewer. And it really is so designed.

We just have to sober up and man up and stand up and put things right.

 

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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..."

Held over great reading recommendations:

Disinformation-How it works

by Brandon Smith

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The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

by Étienne de la Boétie

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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

 

"Your book is a masterpiece!"

-Michael Carver, JD

 

"Received your book yesterday. Started reading at 11 PM, finished at 4 AM." "I have 16 feet (literally 16' 4.5") of documents supporting just about everything in your book." "Your book should be required reading for every lawyer before being admitted to any Bar." "I hope you sell a million of them."

-John O'Neil Green, JD

 

“Thanks again for your efforts, Pete. They mean an awful lot to a lot of people.” “…as an attorney, I am humbled by your knowledge and ability in navigating the law. THANK YOU for your hard work and sacrifice.”

-Eric Smithers, JD

 

"I am an attorney and want to give a testimonial to your book, which I find to be compelling. I am exercising these rights for myself and my adult children. I'm even considering making this my new avenue of law practice."

-Nancy "Ana" Garner, JD

Learn what these colleagues already know, then step forward and become part of a coordinated, mutually-supportive squadron focused on developing strategy and deploying the law in courtrooms across the country. There's a lot of suing that needs doing right now.

Are you ready for a challenge that'll put some real meaning behind all the effort you went through to get your credentials? Send me an email.

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"Peter Hendrickson has done it again! 'Upholding The Law' does for individual liberties what 'Cracking the Code' did for tax law compliance: exposes the reader to the unalienable truth!"

-Jesse Herron, Bill Of Rights Press, Fort Collins, Colorado

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And don't miss:

Was Grandpa Really a Moron

picks up where 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About The Income Tax' leaves off.

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If you're working on one, and just getting stonewalled or speed-bumped, you can still be recognized! Go here to learn what to do.

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Do you know someone truly steeped in the Kool-Aid?

 

I mean someone who finds it easier to believe that the far-better-educated, far-more-suspicious-of-government Americans of a hundred years ago were complete morons who granted authority to the state to take whatever it wished from themselves and their posterity than to imagine that they themselves simply misunderstand the true nature of the income tax? Even while knowing that their beliefs about the tax are derived entirely from the representations of those who profit from those beliefs (like tax bureaucrats and "tax professionals")?

 

Do you know someone like that? Shake them awake with the latest (sixteenth) edition of CtC!

C'mon! CtC can't be right! You're crazy!

If CtC were actually right, it would mean the government's been concealing and denying and suppressing the truth for years on end, and everybody knows THAT would never happen...

(Edward Snowden, come home! It was all just a bad dream; there really is No Such Agency!)

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Resources:

Selected Features From Recent Editions:

Here's a good way of knocking the pins out from under the evil narrative:

Getting The Numbers Right

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There's a lot out there to choose from...

Target Shooting

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'"Programmable Digital Currency": The Next Stage Of The New Normal?'

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You're familiar with the "stopped clock" metaphor, yes?

W. Is Right-- January 6 REALLY IS Just Like 9/11. Let's Talk About That.

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Julian, Beverly and Scott offer inspiration, uplift and the solution to today's dire peril to all with eyes to see and ears to hear...

Three Powerful New Video Testimonials To Share

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Covid, 9/11 & Forever War'

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Let's take a break from the C19 Kool-Aid madness and get pumped with the good stuff:

New Victories In Enforcing The Rule Of Law, Including A Nice One Over A Typically-Bogus Notice Of Deficiency

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Picking some of the low-hanging fruit on offer this week...

A Few Comments-- Nuclear And Otherwise-- On Selected Current Events

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'On Track For Calamitous Policy Outcomes'

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This should turn the tide, if shared around sufficiently:

Two Reports Tear A Gaping Wound Into The COVID-Coup Narrative

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Indian Bar Association Charges WHO Chief Scientist For Mass Murder'

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Offered in the hope of equipping an army of dissenters to the COVID death-cult:

A Quiver-Full Of Common Sense

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'We Will Not Comply: A Campaign Against Medical Tyranny'

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Among other ways in which the Biden/Harris claim to the White House is unraveling...

The COVID-19 - Election Fraud Connection

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Checking in on the true Americans who are standing up and starving down the dangerous beast:

More CtC-Educated Victories For The Rule of Law

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Because something really needs to be said...

Brief Comments On Selected Subjects In The News

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'The FBI Is Orchestrating Its Own Terrorism Plots'

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Among other ways in which the Biden/Harris claim to the White House is unraveling...

New Evidence Emerges Of Election Fraud In Georgia

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Those just sitting on the sidelines and spectating had better get up and suit up.

The Assault On Liberty And The Rule Of Law Under The C19 Pretext Accelerates

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In rebuttal of a despicable and agenda-driven calumny:

A Few Words About Thomas Jefferson

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Pseudopandemic'

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Here's a very serious, very important question:

Declaration Day. Did You Do It?

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Hurray for the heroes!

More Victories In Upholding The Law And Defunding The Increasingly Rogue State

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You can't throw a stone blindfolded anymore without hitting five things that richly deserve it...

Random Comments On The Current Madness

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'The 'Conspiracy Theory' Charade'

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No culture can long survive the embrace of delusions and denial...

Speaking Plainly About "Transgender" Madness

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People too often get this backwards:

The Second Amendment Is NOT For "Peaceful, Law-Abiding Citizens"

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Was There A Wuhan Lab Leak?'

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The CtC-educated keep leading America away from business-as-usual political corruption...

New Testimonial Videos To Share, Along With A Very Handsome $158K Victory And A Very Obnoxious IRS Dodge

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In the news:

The Fauci Emails Are Being Furiously Spun By The Usual Suspects

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Dr. Anthony S. Fauci: America's Angel Of Death'

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There's a chance right now for a welcome reversal of a long-standing corrupt practice in Washington...

Clinton, Bush, Obama And Trump All Committed This Crime; Will Biden Do The Same?

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Why is it that...

Challenging Questions On A Few Selected Current-Event Topics

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Switching gears and going for some uplift:

It's Time To Celebrate Some More CtC Victories

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'The Ignorant World And What To Do About It'

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A disturbing little exercise in reverse engineering:

Have American Educators Decided To Throw Real Teaching Under The Bus?

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It's all about staying on subject...

Dealing With IRS Opportunism

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Sorting out facts and despicable fictions:

On "Vaccines" And "Variants"

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'The Political Economy Of Fear'

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It's a street-fight, with no rules honored by the opposition. So...

Are You Counting On The 2022 Elections To Set Things Right? Don't Be Naive.

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Why are Biden and the MSM not asking you this question:

Are You Ready To Die For The Neo-Nazis In Kiev?

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'We Must Never Forget The Old Normal'

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Nothing gets done without a reason, and when something appears inexplicable, that's often just because you haven't been sufficiently hard-nosed in your analysis.

Why Gretchen Whitmer Sent Sick People Into Nursing Homes Last Spring

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Do you know why some folks are so enthused about them? It's because...

"Universal Mail-In Ballots" Are The Perfect Set-up For Election Fraud

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Cancel Public School'

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Those getting vaccinated are signing their own death warrants, and possibly setting up the world for a real plague, says Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche.

An Eminent Virologist Sounds An Urgent Alarm Against Current Vaccines

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Even though other things continue to demand attention, it is "tax time" again, so,

It's Time To Celebrate Some More CtC-Educated Victories For The Rule Of Law!!

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Why I Believe That Covid Derangement Syndrome Is Real'

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We've been given a powerful tool, if we are smart enough to use it:

Brian Sicknick Was NOT Bludgeoned With A Fire Extinguisher On Jan. 6. What Does That Tell You?

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'The (New Normal) War on Domestic Terror'

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It's nice to be able to share a bit of uplift right now:

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

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I have a few things to say about a few different topics of immediate importance, so...

A Low-Hanging-Fruit Salad

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There's omelet to be made from the broken eggs littering the devastated American landscape, friends...

Not Letting This Crisis Go To Waste

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Covid Odyssey'

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The "pandemic" is a lie and the official response is unlawful, so...

A Stinging Rebuke; And A Shameful Hypocrisy

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The "pandemic" is a lie and the official response is unlawful, so...

Resolved: No More Playing Along With The "Lockdowns"

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There's omelet to be made from the broken eggs littering the devastated American landscape, friends...

Not Letting This Crisis Go To Waste

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Let's Play A Disinformation Game'

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Not wanting to sound strident here, but we have to talk about...

Sleepwalking Down The Nightmare Road To Serfdom

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Coronavirus Scandal Breaking In Merkel's Germany'

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A big, welcome crack has appeared in the ice.

Is The Jig Up For The C19 Hoax? Could Be...

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The propaganda drumbeat continues...

Regarding Overtaxed Hospitals, And Upcoming Vaccine Pressure

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Persisting with the "Iranian nuke pursuit" pretense, we have been presented with:

Another Israeli Murder

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'The Germans Are Back!'

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The excellent Glenn Greenwald steps up as a sterling example to all the rest.

How A Real Journalist Comports Himself

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Republicans And Democrats Will Never Deliver Peace'

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A presentation of simple, indisputable facts that will change many answers to this question:

Have You Been Tolerant Of "Lockdowns" And Mask Mandates?

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A nice new CtC-educated victory; a change in Form 4852; and an entertaining IRS evasion.

On The "Income Tax Front

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'The Absurdity Of Covid "Cases"'

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A hundred-year-plus accomplishment which is still paying huge dividends:

The Big "Income" Con

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A national embarrassment; and two much better things...

Regarding Last Week's "Presidential Debate", South Park Pandemic Special, And Outstanding Ruling By The Michigan Supreme Court

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See Prior Editions In Their Entirety:

Newsletter Archives

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Get All Newsletters As They Are Published:

Newsletter Delivery Options

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My My interview by Lana Lotkeff for Radio 3Fourteen can be found here.

Find my YouTube channel here.

 

The upgraded Sixteenth Edition of CtC is Now Available!

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.

Get The Short, Easy Intro To The Liberating Truth About The Tax

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

October 26- In 1776, Benjamin Franklin heads for France to enlist its support for the American revolutionaries.  In 1825, the Erie Canal opens between Lake Erie and Albany, New York.  In 1881, there is a gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.  In 1947, Britain removes the last of its military forces from Iraq, 15 years after granting the country "independence".  In 1977, the last naturally-contracted case of smallpox is diagnosed, causing this date to be described as the anniversary of the eradication of this horrific killer (estimated death toll during the 20th century: 300 - 500 million).  However, the United States military establishment (and possibly its Russian counterpart) have maintained live cultures of the virus to this day.  In 2001, the USA PATRIOT Act is signed into law by George W. Bush.  In 2014, Britain withdraws from its more-than-12-year involvement in the failed US invasion of Afghanistan, which had been launched on the false pretext of Afghani complicity in the events of 9/11/2001.

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A Few Words About "Climate Change" Fraud

You NEED to defend yourself and your kids against this now-high-inertia effort to destroy liberty.

Watch this fascinating 12 minute video on how climate data are misrepresented.

Then share this link with everyone you can

H/T to Jonesy for circulating this fun little meme and video link.

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Hey! If you're not getting the newsletter delivered to your email inbox every Monday, go to this link and subscribe to the group-- leave all options in their default states.

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Which Storm Is It Going To Be For You? 1776's? Or 1984's?

Choose wisely and well, and may the FOURCE be with you.

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No one can guarantee success in all they do in life. But anyone can guarantee that they DESERVE success in anything they do.

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Rick Van Camp's Excellent Outreach Letter

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Notes And Tips For Educated Filers

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Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

October 27- In 1553, Michael Servetus, the first European scientist to describe pulmonary circulation, is burned at the stake as a heretic for disputing the orthodox Christian doctrine of the Trinity.  In 1810, the United States annexes the Spanish colony of West Florida.  In 1904, the New York Subway opens.  In 1958, 20 days after being appointed the enforcer of martial law in Pakistan by President Iskander Mirza, General Ayub Khan deposes Mirza in a coup.  In 1964, Ronald Reagan launches his political career with his 'A Time For Choosing' speech on behalf of "Robert Taft Republican" presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.  In 1997, stock markets around the world crash over fears of a global economic meltdown; the Dow plunges 554.26 before the NYSE is closed early.  In 2004, the Boston Red Sox win their first World Series in 86 years.  In 2017, Catalonia declares independence from Spain.

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A Two-Minute Review Of CtC

David Bindel reminds us that there's either the rule of law, or there isn't.

HEY! SAYING IT AGAIN!! DON'T YOU WISH YOUR INSPIRING BEING-THE-STORM VIDEO was posted? This is easy to do, and very important (plus it can get you some great LHC swag!). See (and carefully read) these guidelines and encouragements.

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Eric Copenhaver With A Great Video Testimonial

SEE MORE GREAT VIDEOS.

Learn how (and why) to share YOUR testimony, here.

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The Best Response To Tax Agency Bad Behavior

This simple step will make a world of difference in how things end up.

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IRS Desperation Gets Truly Bizarre As CtC Warriors Continue To March Forward

A "Notice of Deficiency" for... $0. The most imaginative writer in Hollywood couldn't dream this stuff up.

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JFK conspiracy? No problem... Income Tax conspiracy? C'mon, man, don't be silly! How could that ever happen?!

Cognitive dissonance in action.

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Do You Know Who Pays For All That "Patriot Theater" At The Stadium?

Every victim of the "ignorance tax", 'cause it's all just statist consent-engineering propaganda.

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Hey, Gamers!

WAKEN TO THE REAL-LIFE ADVENTURE IN WHICH YOU ARE UNKNOWINGLY IMMERSED! Put down your controller and listen!

You are surrounded by an actual battle between villains, monsters and true heroes, all simply concealed from you by sophisticated spells which also keep you from engaging in the fight.

There are real great deeds to be done, and real treasures to be had for your efforts, and frankly, your real future is at stake. You just have to gain "the sight" in order to penetrate the illusions.

Visit losthorizons.com to get the counter-spells and get onto the real field of battle!

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PRO TIP: If I were the IRS and I wanted to discourage people from rebutting allegations that they had done things I can tax, and wanted to keep them from successfully reclaiming withheld or paid-in money, I would salt the "tax honesty" community with passionate-seeming "legal researchers" who would warn anyone whose ear they captured that filing a 1040 is a bad idea for one reason or another...

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Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

October 28-  In 1886, the Statue of Liberty is dedicated by President Grover Cleveland.  In 1918, Czechoslovakia is granted independence from Austria-Hungary.  In 1919, Congress passes the Volstead Act over Woodrow Wilson's veto, by which Prohibition would begin two months later.  In 1922, Mussolini's fascists march on Rome and take over the government of Italy.  In 1929, the markets keep falling (Black Monday).  In 1962, US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev reach an agreement for the removal of American-targeted nuclear missiles from Cuba, in exchange for a pledge of no American invasion of the island nation and the eventual removal of American missiles targeting the Soviet Union from Turkey and Italy.  In 2005, Lewis (Scooter) Libby is indicted on perjury and obstruction of justice charges over his efforts to shield Bush administration officials from consequences related to the Valerie Plame affair.  Eventually convicted, Libby's prison sentence was promptly commuted by George W. Bush.

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The 'Watching the Watchmen Amendment'

If you're not talking this one up everywhere and helping generate a buzz, you don't really want liberty and the rule of law...

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In light of the actual evidence, those who doubt or deny the accuracy and correctness of CtC just because some government officials denounce it are like the 16th-century Europeans who were mystified by Copernicus getting all those astronomical predictions right even though the church had said he was wrong.

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Did you miss the 'Set Your Church Free' commentaries?

Set Your Church Free

Ignorance of the true nature of the "income" tax has gagged, gutted and seduced-into-disgrace America's ministerial community. This must change.

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You're a passenger on a riverboat that relies on regular contributions of fuel from the passengers to keep moving forward. You see an unsurvivable waterfall ahead, and note a soon-to-be-irresistible current growing stronger each day. What does common sense suggest?

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Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!

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!!

Click here to take the test

Click here for more Tax IQ tests

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Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

October 29- In 1929, Black Tuesday marks the completion of the manifest onset of the Great Depression-- the first major symptom of the disease known as "The Federal Reserve".  In 1969, the first computer-to-computer link is established in the ARPANET (precursor to the internet).  21-year-old Al Gore, in his third month in the Army, is busy learning to spin stories for 'Stars and Stripes' at the time.

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“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

-James Madison

How About You?

Are You Governing Yourself?

Get The Knowledge, Reclaim Your Power, And Stand With The Founders

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There is little more important to the long-term health of America than how our children are educated...

HOMESCHOOL YOUR KIDS!

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Some Observations Regarding Educated And Accurate Filing

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Have You Taken A Military, Law Enforcement or Public Office Oath To Uphold And Defend The Constitution?

Renew Your Promise

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IGNORANCE TAX: An unnecessary income tax exaction suffered out of ignorance as to lawful objects of the tax and the means of its application by someone too lazy, frightened or misled to learn how it really works and to what it really applies.

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"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

The Choice Is This Stark

Wear this new T-Shirt proudly, and tell the enemies of the law that if they don't like Constitutional limits, they should find someplace else to live!

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Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

October 30- In 1922, Benito Mussolini is named Prime Minister of Italy.  In 1938, Orson Welles broadcasts his 'War of the Worlds' hoax about an invasion from Mars causing a certain amount of panic and proving that some people will believe any outlandish nonsense if it's asserted with enough audacity and via established mainstream media channels.  In 2014, Sweden becomes the first European Union country to recognize the State of Palestine.

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'The BOSTONIAN'S Paying the EXCISE-MAN, or TARRING & FEATHERING' (1774) (How our forefathers responded to arrogant "Rule of Law defiers"...)

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The willingness of some people to trade liberty for convenience is without limit...

Regarding "Tax Reform"

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HELP SPREAD THE LIBERATING TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident.”

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

October 31- In 1517, Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. In 1864, Nevada is admitted as the 36th of the United States of America.  In 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle publishes 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'.  In 1913, the first transcontinental highway in the USA is completed.  In 1968, claiming progress in the Paris peace talks, Lyndon Johnson announces a halt to most military activity in Vietnam in order to improve the electoral chances for the Democratic ticket in the upcoming election.  In reality, the war will go on for another six-and-a-half years.

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Last Word

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

-Samuel Adams, Architect of the first American Revolution

 

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About The Author

Pete Hendrickson is possibly the most effective lawyer in history, even while never having set foot in a law school, nor ever being a card-carrying member of "the bar". He is the first American in history to secure a complete refund of Social Security and Medicare ‘contributions’ withheld from his earnings (along with all other property taken for federal taxes); further, since 2003 students of his legal analyses and arguments in ‘Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America’’ (CtC), and its sequel, 'Was Grandpa Really a Moron?' have been routinely retaining and recovering billions of dollars which otherwise-- wrongly, but as a matter of course-- would have gone to federal or state government treasuries. This despite concerted efforts by government to suppress his work, and in some cases vigorously oppose the claims by his students.

Hendrickson is also a widely-read essayist on matters of politics, public policy and law; many of these works are collected in his second book, ‘Upholding the Law And Other Observations’. He is a member of Mensa; an award-winning artist; and has paid his dues as a youth soccer coach. He is a long-time political activist as well, and has served as co-chair and platform convention delegate of Michigan’s largest county Libertarian Party organization; as a consultant to the National Right to Work Foundation and Citizens for a Sound Economy; as a member of the Heartland Institute; and as a member of the International Society for Individual Liberty. He is a frequent radio-show guest on stations across the country.

Hendrickson's business career has included nearly a decade-and-a-half at the leading edge of the renewable-energy industry, both as Director of Purchasing and Materials Management and member of the R&D board at Starpak Energy Systems, the mid-west's then-largest solar heating and energy-recovery-and re-utilization company; and as founder and president of AFJ Inc., a high-efficiency lighting design, manufacture and installation firm.

Beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing for the twelve years before his present full-time focus on the restoration of the rule of law in America, Hendrickson directed purchasing activities for the $84 million-a-year multi-family-housing division of the Farmington Hills, Michigan branch of Edward Rose and Sons, with responsibility for 18,000+ apartments, direct supervision of 35 technicians and agents, and incidental authority over several hundred divisional workers. He also ran the division's 10 cable television earth-station and distribution systems in four states, and designed and administered the company's website.

On rather the other end of the spectrum, amidst these more mundane pursuits Hendrickson co-founded and was the primary creative force behind a small board- and card-game company that enjoyed a modest success for several years.

Hendrickson makes his home in southeast Michigan, with his wife and two children. He is currently working on his next book.

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