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August 1- In 1291, the Swiss
Confederation is formed. In 1619, the first African slaves arrive in Jamestown,
Virginia. In 1834, slavery is abolished in most of the British Empire by act of
Parliament (but the emancipation won't be completed until six years later). In
1876, Colorado is admitted to the union as the 38th of the several states. In
1902, the Unites States buys the rights to the Panama Canal from France. In
1944, Anne Frank makes her last diary entry. In 1957, the United States and
Canada form NORAD. In 1960, Islamabad is named the capital of Pakistan's
federal government. In 1967, Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter
below.
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,
especially in recognition of the fact
that my posts are heavily suppressed. They will NOT get out
if you don't get them out.
Remember, we won't win by only YOU knowing what I
present. We will win by LOTS OF OTHERS knowing what I present.
A Welcome IRS Admission
Debunking A Long-Running
CtC-Suppression Scheme
Though no one should need to see this
in print, it's good to have it that way,
nonetheless.
WAY BACK IN EARLY 2014 the fake
"frivolous position" list and its "ARG44" entry had
emerged as the leading last-ditch effort of an IRS
desperate to slow the swelling tide of
CtC-educated Americans. This hoax (or fraud,
depending on how harsh one might be feeling), as
most reading this page will remember, was, and is,
designed to suggest that simply disputing W-2s and
1099s with Forms 4852 and otherwise as described in
CtC-- rather than mindlessly (or slavishly)
transcribing their assertions onto one's 1040-- is
somehow a "position" subject to penalty under the
law.
44. Zero Wages on a Substitute Form:
Taxpayer generally attaches either a substitute Form
W-2, Form 1099, or Form 4852 that shows "$0" wages
or no wage information. A statement may be included
indicating the taxpayer is rebutting information
submitted to the IRS by the payer. Entries are
usually for Federal Income Tax Withheld, Social
Security Tax Withheld, and/or Medicare Tax Withheld.
An explanation on the Form 4852 may cite "statutory
language behind IRC 3401 and IRC 3121", or may
include some reference to the company refusing to
issue a corrected Form W-2 for fear of IRS
retaliation.
(If you are not already fully
up-to-speed on this sleazy little pretense and ploy,
go here and read the page through.)
In those early days, and
despite the uninterrupted flow of CtC-educated
refunds hitting mailboxes across the country
(among
other indisputable admissions of the truth), the
"frivolous penalty" thing was successfully sowing
confusion and concern among newly-educated folks.
These folks hadn't had the time (or, in some cases,
the temperament) to put to rest their
deeply-conditioned, reflexive presumptions that
government officials are honest and competent. They
were still struggling to really grasp the fact that
what they had learned in
CtC is the absolute truth and that anything at
odds with
CtC is wrong-- even though
CtC is itself at odds with everything they had
believed all their lives about the income tax.
The then-active and open-access
national forum, especially, became a bit of a
mess with anxious posts from newbies targeted with,
or simply fearful of, these bogus penalty threats.
The anxious posts were exploited with malicious
posts designed to fuel those anxieties by the many
IRS trolls (and
useful idiots) with which the forum had, by that
point, become infested.
EVENTUALLY, THE POSTED "ARG44"
ANXIETIES and the trolleries which it enabled so
compromised the forum that I closed it down for a
few years until a reopening with restricted
membership rules. But first I proposed to those
anxious souls a simple exercise with which to
assuage their fears, in the hope of settling things
down.
What I suggested was a straightforward
inquiry of the tax agency as to how exactly
a filer who felt that a W-2 or 1099 was in error
should rebut the disputed allegations.
Plainly there had to be a way to do so, it being
absurd on its face to pretend that all such
"information return" allegations were inherently and
indisputably correct, and if the agency was going to
behave as though doing so with Forms 4852 and other
rebuttal mechanisms was so wrong as to merit a
penalty, it had to be able to explain the more
proper alternative.
I drafted two inquiry templates and
posted them on the forum for use by anyone concerned
about the "frivolous penalty" and not yet
well-enough rooted in their new knowledge of the tax
and of the "ignorance tax" scheme. (Later I
incorporated these templates into a discussion about
the natural legal dynamics of allegation and
rebuttal,
which can be seen here and should be read by
everyone.)
To my disappointment, no one stepped-up and ran
with this opportunity. Or, if anyone did, the effort
was thwarted by a stone-walling IRS or never shared
publicly. Until now.
NOT LONG AGO, the excellent
John Gartner
sent me an email containing the inquiry letter he
had sent to the IRS asking how he was to rebut
1099-R allegations with which he disagrees (the only
variety of 1099s to which a Form 4852 is suited, and
for which John very capably customized the first of
the inquiry templates I have posted), here in major
part:
...and
here in its
entirety. John also sent the very pleasing IRS
admission in reply, here in relevant part:
As seen, John's embrace of my "action
item" has at long last yielded a nice admission by
which the always-ludicrous proposition of the bogus
"ARG44" hoax-- that the rebuttal of disputed
"information return" allegations is somehow
prohibited and legally liable to penalty, including
if done by way of the treasury department's own Form
4852 despite it being published for the express
purpose of rebutting erroneous W-2s and/or 1099-Rs:
Btw, the boilerplate characterization
in this IRS reply of the amounts in question as
"income" is to be expected, of course, and is to be
disregarded, of course. Whether those amounts are or
are not "income" is the heart of the matter in
dispute, and something of which the IRS has no
independent knowledge whatever, unless they're the
creator of the W-2 or 1099 at issue (and even then,
they could be misinformed or lying).
Remember, agency SOP requires the IRS
to presumptively treat all amounts that change hands
as being effectively connected with a taxable
activity, and so it does. That's fine-- the IRS is
permitted to engage in this kind of push-propaganda
and exploitation of the gullible. Understanding of
the law and the agency's limitations is the
responsibility of the public (fulfillment of which
is, of course, the mission of
CtC):
"Whatever the form in which the
government functions, anyone entering into an
arrangement with the government takes the risk of
having accurately ascertained that he who purports
to act for the government stays within the bounds of
his authority. ... And this is so even though ...
the agent himself may be unaware of the limitations
upon his authority."
United States Supreme Court, Federal
Crop Ins. Corp. v. Merrill, 332 US 380-388 (1947)
"Persons dealing with the government
are charged with knowing government statutes and
regulations, and they assume the risk that
government agents may exceed their authority and
provide misinformation."
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Lavin
v. Marsh, 644 f.2d 1378 (1981)
"The Tax Code represents the genius of
legal fiction... The IRS has never really known why
people pay the income tax... The IRS encourages
voluntary compliance, through FEAR."
Jack Warren Wade Jr., former IRS
officer in charge of the IRS Nationwide Revenue
Officer Training Program, in his book ‘When You Owe
The IRS’
"If the taxpayers of this country ever
discovered that we operate on 98% bluff, the entire
system will collapse."
Reported remark by an internal revenue
service officer to Sen. Henry E. Bellmon (R. Okla.)
on April 15, 1971.
I hope everyone will see to it that
this article gets to the eyes of everyone who has
suffered confusion, timidity or discouragement from
the "ARG44" frivolous return penalty hobgoblin.
There's a lot of madness and corruption manifesting
in Washington and throughout too many American
institutions, private and public, and right now
would be an especially good time to help refresh the
CtC tidal wave of good, upstanding American men
and women armed with state-restraining,
individual-empowering knowledge, the swelling of
which years ago had prompted the "ARG44" hoax in the
first place.
"Like a muddied stream or a polluted
fountain is the righteous man who gives way before
the wicked."
-Proverbs 25:26
"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
"Power concedes nothing without a
demand. It never did and it never will. Find out
just what any people will quietly submit to and you
have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong
which will be imposed on them, and these will
continue till they have been resisted with either
words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants
are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they
suppress."
-Frederick Douglass
"A nation of sheep begets a government
of wolves."
-Edward R. Murrow
"Be
the change you want to see in the world."
-Mohandas Gandhi
***
Now, seriously. Do you want this
article to make a difference? It only will
do so if YOU PASS IT ON TO OTHERS.
Please do that.
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someone else by that method.
What The Evidence Suggests
Is REALLY Going On In
Washington, And Why
...along with a few other topical observations,
such as on the Biden ease-out, immigration, the
anti-depressant fraud revelations, and more.
"There is no safety for honest men but
by believing all possible evil of evil men."
-Edmund Burke
I AM INCREASINGLY DISTURBED BY punditry
on the Right (especially) which speaks of the
actions of Democrat-controlled federal agencies and
overall policy in Washington with a quizzical or
condescending air, apparently being of the view that
those making the policy-- however destructive these
pundits recognize it to be-- are simply senile or
otherwise incompetent. Would
that it were so!
At risk of offending with stridency, I
must argue for a correction of this view, and urge
all such pundits to open their eyes to what I
believe to be the much more serious truth: The
policies they decry are not the products of senility
(or incompetence from other causes). The policies they
decry are part of a deliberate, concerted effort to
literally destroy America, under the cover
of senility (or other incompetence).
I could go on all day in this vein. The
point is that what we're seeing from these folks
isn't just a huge and sustained screw-up. Instead,
it is systematic, with the common element of these
listed policy issues and all the other bad behavior
we are seeing from those in power in Washington and
those in control of the mainstream media being the
promotion of chaos, disunity, breakdown of the rule
of law, and the denigration and dismantling of the
tenets of Western Civilization, from which are
derived the principles of liberty by which those in
power are (or could be) constrained.
The fact is, evidence suggests that a collection of sociopaths
with too much time and money on their hands for the
safety of the rest of us are advancing a very
deliberate and relentless program of depopulation
and the enserfment of the remnant, the secure
accomplishment of which requires that the American
experiment with individual liberty and autonomy be
scuttled. Destabilization of American society and
our
political norms, along with the gutting of the rule
of law, are tools toward these ends.
DOES THIS SOUND HARSH, or overheated?
Well, I said it would...
But consider. The billionaires of the
world don't know you, and don't need you. Reasonably
(in a manner of speaking), to them you are just
clutter on what would otherwise be their pristine,
empty beaches and parks, as well as being perpetual
and pointless engines of waste, noise, clamor,
impositions and strife.
These folks would plainly be better off
with about 6.5 billion fewer people on island Earth.
You would, too, frankly.
Of course, you aren't so sociopathic as to hold other people's
live in such complete disdain that you would, for
example, force
(or trick) medically-useless, directly dangerous,
long-term-immunity-destroying and reproductive-system-damaging drugs on
them-- which evidence suggests will end or prevent
hundreds of millions of lives-- under the pretense
that a more-or-less standard annual respiratory
virus was an existential threat, and while
suppressing actual known cures for that virus. Nor
could you afford to do anything like that even if
you DID hold everyone you don't personally know in
such reptilian disdain.
But some folks
can afford to do so. And some, at least, have shown
themselves
willing to do so, with the help of the
sycophantic courtiers in the media and corporations
and public offices who serve that sort of arrogant
plutocrat.
Likewise, you can't devise, sell with a
massive and sustained propaganda campaign which has
been targeting children in elementary school for
decades and fills the mainstream media at all times,
support with "science" produced by researchers whose
access to grants you control, and impose by
executive fiat a ruinous "climate change" scheme
based on the absurd proposition that the current
routine climatological behavior is 1. human-activity
driven, and 2. a deep threat to human well-being--
in particular, more of a threat to human well-being
than the prosperity- and liberty-destroying measures
being advocated and adopted for its supposed
mitigation.
But they can. And they are
doing so, even while brazenly telegraphing their own
understanding that the whole
hobgoblin
flog is just that.
Consider, for instance, the tonnage of
private jet fuel expended by these folks every time
they gather somewhere for well-cushioned meetings
from which to issue dark warnings of impending
climate disaster. Flying commercial would use far
less per attendee, with corresponding reduction in
"greenhouse gas" production. But plainly, they don't
really worry about "greenhouse gas".
Consider, for instance, Barack Obama's
2019 purchase of
a
$12 million oceanfront estate on Martha's Vineyard.. Plainly, Obama, despite leading the
charge to scuttle the productive and prosperous
American economy in the name of "climate change"
concerns, doesn't really believe in
the sea-level elevating threat he and his
fellow-travelers describe when urging the rest of us
to "lower our expectations" and turn more
control of our lives over to him and his friends.
Again, they don't know you (or me);
they don't need you (or me). We're just pollution,
in their eyes.
Maybe I'm wrong about all this, of
course. I would like to think that I am.
But I don't.
***
AS I POINTED OUT
HERE
several months ago (and
more
comprehensively and importantly here before
that, in a piece which VERY MUCH needs re-reading
RIGHT NOW), Biden is about to be tossed overboard.
It is very important that everyone immediately stop
referring to anything being done in Washington as
a "Biden policy".
First of all, no such policy is a "Joe
Biden" policy anyway-- the man has been incapable of
formulating policies for years. They are policies of
Biden's handlers and those put into office during
the last 20 months.
More importantly, tossing Biden
overboard will be done in large part in the hope
that Democrats can then persuade voters in the
upcoming election that all the horrendous assaults
on American well-being and the rule of law over that
last 20 months will shuffle off with old Joe, so the
rest of them can be safely left in office. They
can't, but it'll be harder to keep that clear to
especially the Democrats and independents who right
now are champing at the bit to change horses big
time if all those pointing the finger at the bad
policies keep ascribing them to Biden.
Those bad policies are not "Biden
administration policies" or "Biden's policies". They
are Democrat policies, and should be called nothing
but that.
***
IMMIGRATION ISSUES continue to occupy a
big place in public discourse right now, as well
they should. The essentially open Southern border
being maintained by the Democrats over the last 20
months is an unhealed wound doing considerable harm.
I have posted two relevant discussions
on these pages over recent years.
The other explains,
through a comprehensive legal analysis, why
there is actually no such thing as "birthright
citizenship" under US law-- the 14th Amendment and a
flawed ruling in
United States v. Wong Kim Ark (169 US 649, 1898)
notwithstanding (and in case you missed it, the
second link in the preceding item on "Biden
policies" applies this analysis to Kamala Harris's
invalid claim to US citizenship under the
"birthright" fiction...).
I'd be very
pleased if everyone would read through both of those
discussions, and share them as widely as possible.
That's big news-- even if it isn't
being treated as such by big media.
Equally (if not more) important than
the fraud is the fact that while no evidence
indicates that these powerful psychotropic drugs
(like Prozac and Zoloft, for instance) do anything
for depression, they DO have significant and
dangerous side effects (which perhaps should simply
be called "effects", since they are "side" to no
other effects). One such effect is
the observed
potential to induce suicidal thoughts in their
victims. Another is
the prompting of violent rage.
Being suicidal (not to mention
violently enraged) would seem likely to create a
welcoming environment to disregard the
interests and well-being of others. Perhaps it might
even create
a sense that if the drug-addled victim's world is so
crappy as
to prompt a desire to leave it, then some of that sh*t
world might properly be taken down with him, at the same
time.
Doesn't this sound like roughly the mental
dynamic of the average random mass shooter?
I make no diagnosis here, being
entirely unequipped by relevant facts in the case of
such shooters to do any such thing. But I think my
speculation here might be worth consideration by
others with that knowledge of the pharmacological
history of shooters over the last few decades-- a
time when not only have many people been taking
these useless but powerful drugs directly, but many
folks have been ingesting increasingly steady doses
of the stuff as it bleeds into water supplies in
various ways over all those years.
***
FINALLY, IT WAS RECENTLY SUGGESTED (in
a Tucker Carlson segment last week) that "Monkeypox"
be renamed "Mid-term variant". I like that idea a
lot.
BTW, here's a little something on the
subject of "Monkeypox" generally.
That disease flourishes in the Western
world almost exclusively amongst homosexuals, and is
spread from one to another by sex acts.
Even the WHO and CNBC admit these facts.
Why, then, are we not seeing the
long-since absurd and widely scoffed-at drumbeat of
tax-funded PSAs promoting unsafe and ineffective
COVID-19 vaccinations being replaced with PSAs
urging homosexuals to refrain from sexual contact
with each other for a month or two?
During that month or two, the spread
would stop and "Monkeypox" would largely (and
perhaps entirely) die out here in the United States.
This seems a glaringly obvious and incontestable
no-brainer as a matter of public policy.
Why is this not happening?
***
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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 under
the fraudulent mantle of
COVID-19 mitigation 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], since March of 2020 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.
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
(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.
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.
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.
*****
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...
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."
It was a very bad year for
the flu. The pathogen came in two large waves. This
is only obvious in retrospect. At the time, not so
much. Life went on as normal. There were gatherings.
There were parties. There was travel. There were no
masks. Doctors treated the sick. Traditional public
health reigned as it had during the flu pandemic ten
years earlier. No one considered lockdowns.
It’s a good thing because it was in the thick of
this that many “super-spreader” events took place,
among which was Woodstock itself. That event
influenced all popular music after, and continues to
do so today. No one was denied schooling or worship
or separated from loved ones while they were dying.
Weddings took place as normal. Indeed, hardly anyone
remembers any of this.
This flu strain (H3N2)
spread from Hong Kong to the United States according
to the predictable timetable, arriving December 1968
and peaking a year later. It ultimately killed
100,000 people in the US, mostly over the age of 65,
and one million worldwide.
Lifespan in the US in those
days was 70 whereas it is 78 today. Population was
200 million as compared with 328 million today. If
it would be possible to extrapolate the death data
based on population and demographics, we might be
looking at a quarter million deaths today from
this virus. (As for precisely how many died from
Covid, we are not really in a position to know yet
due to confusion between cases and infection,
forced mass testing, inaccurate testing, and widely
admitted cause-of-death misclassification.)
So in terms of lethality,
it was deadly and scary. “In 1968/69,”
says Nathaniel L. Moir in National Interest,
“the H3N2 pandemic killed more individuals in the
U.S. than the combined total number of American
fatalities during both the Vietnam and Korean Wars.”
It was not as
grim as 1957-58 but it still carried a 0.5% case
fatality rate.
And this happened in the
lifetimes of every American over 54 years of age.
You could go to the movies.
You could go to bars and restaurants. John Fund has
a friend who
reports having attended a Grateful Dead concert.
In fact, people have no memory or awareness that the
famous Woodstock concert of August 1969 – planned in
January during the worst period of death – occurred
during a deadly American flu pandemic that only
peaked globally six months later. There was no
thought given to the virus which, like ours today,
was dangerous mainly for a non-concert-going
demographic.
Stock markets didn’t crash
because of the flu. Congress passed no legislation.
The Federal Reserve did nothing. Not a single
governor acted to enforce social distancing, curve
flattening (even though hundreds of thousands of
people were hospitalized), or banning of crowds. The
only school closures were
due to absenteeism.
No mothers were arrested
for taking their kids to other homes. No surfers
were arrested. No daycares were shut even though
there were more infant deaths with this virus than
the one we just experienced. There were no suicides,
no unemployment, no drug overdoses attributable to
flu.
Media covered the pandemic
but it never became a big issue.
"Those who can make you believe
absurdities can make you commit atrocities."
-Vol-Voltaire
SO, I LIVED THROUGH the Hong Kong Flu pandemic-- I was 13
at its onset. Everything Jeffrey Tucker says about it in his well-taken
article is exactly correct. So much so, in fact, that
as much as I've written about
the COVID-19 affair over the last two-and-a-half years that
usefully-comparison-rich subject never crossed my mind. As Tucker says,
back then, we addressed periodic virus outbreaks-- even serious ones--
with a mature perspective.
We rode them out. We employed sensible,
hysteria-free mitigations and practices; we let
doctors operate independently and share information
with each other unhindered; and we went on with our
lives.
No one back then would have dreamed of
shutting down businesses or normal freedom of
movement or congregation-- indeed, Americans would
never have allowed such things, at that time.
We did two years ago in large part
because in the intervening decades between 1968 and
2020, the state has grown like Topsy. Today's state
has far greater control of public opinion, research
and published "science", and today's American
population is far less accustomed to standing up and
putting its foot down on matters of public policy.
Hence, the destruction visited upon us
under the mantle of the dread C19 virus.
OUR VULNERABILITY TO THAT HARM
has arisen
from one simple factor-- the enormous resources
handed over to the federal government, which are far
higher today than they were even just 54 years ago:
Those
resources pay for all of Washington's bad behavior,
and also finance the
politically-driven control of information and
inquiry, resulting in a largely ignorant or
misinformed population, vulnerable to manipulation.
One simple act by each individual
American will do the trick, and it needs no approval
or agreement from any institutional authority. That one
simple thing will function as a catalyst, compelling
the beneficial reorganization of our whole societal
and political structure as a natural and inevitable
process.
You can see a learn all about this
solution in
this little two-page paper. Read it, think about it,
share it.
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EVEN AS ARDENT A STATIST as Abraham
Lincoln, in announcing his willingness to burn the Southern states to the ground in order to
keep them paying the tariff for the benefit of Northern interests in
his first inaugural address on March 4, 1861, paid at least lip
service to the Founders design of leaving control over the fuel
available to feed the fires Washington wants to light in the hands
of the individual citizenry when he said, "Doing this I deem to
be only a simple duty on my part; and I shall perform it, unless my
rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite
means..."
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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!
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!)
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.
August 2- In 1610, Henry Hudson sails
into a North American Bay. In 1790, the first census of the USA is conducted.
In 1934, Adolph Hitler becomes Führer of Germany. In 1937, the Marihuana Tax
Act is passed, effectively criminalizing marijuana possession and consumption.
In 1964, the Johnson administration deploys the 'Gulf of Tonkin Incident' as a
pretext for the escalation of US military activities in Vietnam. In 1990, Iraq
invades Kuwait.
*****
A Few Words About "Climate Change" Fraud
You NEED to defend yourself and your kids against this
now-high-inertia effort to destroy liberty.
H/T to Jonesy for circulating this fun little meme and video link.
*****
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August 3- In 1492, Christopher Columbus sets sail. In 1914,
Germany declares war on France. In 1948, Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss
of being a communist and spy for the Soviet Union. In 1977, the US Senate holds
hearings on the CIA's MK-ULTRA involuntary mind-control and drugging project,
which the agency claims has been abandoned, though at least one former operative
in the program has disputed this claim.
******
A Two-Minute Review Of CtC
David Bindel reminds us that there's either the rule of law, or
there isn't.
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*****
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There are real great deeds to be done,
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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...
*****
Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:
August 4- In 1790, a tariff act creates the 'Revenue Cutter
Service' (now known as The Coast Guard). In 1821, 'The Saturday Evening Post'
begins publication as a weekly newspaper. In 1873, George Custer's 7th Cavalry
has its first clash with the Sioux. In 1977, the US Department of Energy is
created. In 1987, the FCC rescinds the 'Fairness Doctrine'.
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...
*****
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.
*****
Did you miss the 'Set Your Church Free'
commentaries?
Ignorance of the true nature of the "income" tax
has gagged, gutted and seduced-into-disgrace America's
ministerial community. This must change.
*****
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?
*****
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!!
August 5- In 1305, Scottish
patriot William Wallace is captured by English forces. In 1735, John
Peter Zenger is acquitted of charges of seditious libel against the royal
governor of New York (on the grounds that what he had said was true).
In 1861, the first United States "income" tax takes effect (it will be
replaced the next year with the version of the tax still in operation
today). In 1884, the cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid.
In 1914, the first electric traffic light is installed, in Cleveland, Ohio.
In 1943, Mount Etna erupts. In 1957, 'American Bandstand' premiers.
In 1962, Nelson Mandela starts serving what will end up being 28 years in
prison. In 1981, Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic
controllers. In 2021, Victoria, Australia is ordered into its 6th
self-destructive "lockdown" by its increasingly tyrannical government in
response to a reported half-dozen new cases of COVID-19 among its population of
6.5 million persons.
*****
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a
people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power
which knowledge gives."
"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
August 6- In 1825, Bolivia gains independence from Spain.
In 1914, Serbia declares war on Germany and Austria declares war on Russia.
In 1945, 70,000 Japanese are slaughtered in an instant in Hiroshima by a
United States nuclear weapon-- tens of thousands further from ground zero
die more slowly over subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning
suffered during the attack. In 1991, the World Wide Web goes online.
*****
*****
'The BOSTONIAN'S Paying the EXCISE-MAN, or
TARRING & FEATHERING' (1774) (How our forefathers responded to arrogant
"Rule of Law defiers"...)
*****
The willingness of some people to trade liberty for
convenience is without limit...
"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
*****
Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:
August 7- In 1782, George Washington
orders the creation of what will be ultimately named the Purple Heart. In 1789,
the United States War Department is created. In 1794, the 'Whiskey Rebellion'
begins, when Pennsylvanian farmers refuse to pay a federal tax on corn liquor.
In 1944, IBM introduces the first modern calculator-- the Harvard Mark I (aka
the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator). In 1945, Truman announces the
obliteration of Hiroshima to the world. In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl's balsa raft 'Kon
Tiki' makes landfall 4, 375 miles from its launch point, proving that the
inhabitants of the South Sea Islands could have migrated from South America. In
1955, the precursor to Sony begins selling transistor radios in Japan. In 1964,
the U.S. Congress passes the 'Gulf of Tonkin Resolution', giving Lyndon Johnson
free rein to escalate U.S. military activity in Vietnam. In 2008, trained and
encouraged by the Bush administration, the state apparatus in Georgia invades
South Ossetia in an effort to crush its aspirations of independence.
*****
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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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.
� All written and graphic material on this page and
website are copyrighted by Peter E. Hendrickson, unless otherwise attributed.