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"Woke" Lunacy Makes Michigan Democrats' Pro-Abortion Amendment A Self-Inflicted Wound

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Illuminating Anniversaries for this week

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"The preservation of a free government requires, not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained, but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great barrier which defends the rights of the people. The rulers who are guilty of such encroachment exceed the commission from which they derive their authority, and are TYRANTS. The people who submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them and are slaves….."

-James Madison

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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.

"Woke" Lunacy Makes Michigan Democrats' Pro-Abortion Amendment A Self-Inflicted Wound

Likely due to being unable to say "woman", the amendment's authors use language sure to destroy support, if loudly pointed out by the rest of us.

MUCH IS BEING MADE IN MICHIGAN this summer of the effort by pro-abortion interests-- allies of Democrat officeholders and wannabes, in particular Gretchen Whitmer, Dana Nessel and Jocelyn Benson, each of whom faces a resolute challenger from within the Republican party-- to pass by popular referendum an amendment to the Michigan Constitution meant to enshrine a "right" to abortion therein.

The proposal faces a minor speedbump at the moment due to numerous typos in its petition text, over which the state Canvassing Board failed to approve it for the November ballot on a 2-2 partisan split, but that won't last. The issue will now go to the Michigan Supreme Court, which was switched from majority "conservative" to majority "progressive" as one of the alleged outcomes of the compromised 2020 election, and it can be expected that the court will overrule the Canvassing Board and allow the proposal to go forward.

The amendment is playing a big role in statewide politics because Democrats are heavily relying on the abortion issue to energize their base and pro-abortion independents and make a difference in an election otherwise likely to be very hard on them. These are, after all, the folks who (illegally) subjected Michigan to double-digit unemployment and the permanent closure of huge numbers of businesses during 2020-2021, while spending much of that time endorsing violent urban riots and bad-mouthing the police in an effort to menace political opponents prior to committing massive election-rigging on their behalf and that of national Democrat candidates.

These are the folks who threatened doctors who delivered life-saving treatments for COVID-19 and packed nursing homes with infection vectors, who continue to burn state resources promoting "vaccines" known now to be not only utterly ineffective but seriously dangerous to their recipients, who have been working hard to diminish Michigan's energy security and who have announced enthusiasm for drag-queen story-hours in schools, among so much else that rubs normal, sober Americans the wrong way.

But as it turns out, the "abortion rights" amendment (formally labeled the "Right to Reproductive Freedom" amendment) has a fat, juicy fly in its ointment. If publicized promptly and thoroughly through the distribution of this article, this defect will make the issue backfire on its supporters and political beneficiaries in a very big way.

You see, the language of the amendment empowers the fathers involved to compel the mothers to have abortions whether they want to or not, or to prohibit them, even while empowering the mothers involved to also make these choices.

The amendment, in short, sets up an impossible legal conflict, making it useless for pro-abortion interests, while dramatically highlighting one of the seldom-recognized great evils inherent in the "abortion rights" concept. Let me show you how...

HERE IS THE RELEVANT TEXT of the "Right to Reproductive Freedom" amendment:

Article 1, Section 28 Right to Reproductive Freedom

(1) Every individual has a fundamental right to reproductive freedom, which entails the right to make and effectuate decisions about all matters relating to pregnancy, including but not limited to prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, sterilization, abortion care, miscarriage management, and infertility care. An individual's right to reproductive freedom shall not be denied, burdened, nor infringed upon unless justified by a compelling state interest achieved by the least restrictive means. Notwithstanding the above, the state may regulate the provision of abortion care after fetal viability, provided that in no circumstance shall the state prohibit an abortion that, in the professional judgment of an attending health care professional, is medically indicated to protect the life or physical or mental health of the pregnant individual.

(2) The state shall not discriminate in the protection or enforcement of this fundamental right.

(There are three further sections in the amendment which prohibit retaliation by the state against anyone for acting under the foregoing provisions, define a "compelling" state interest and "fetal viability", and make the section self-executing and severable, respectively. None of them save the amendment from the problem I'm pointing out.)

Whether due to an inability to say the word "woman" in light of recently embraced "trans-gender" insanity or for other less amusingly ironic reasons, the amendment confers its powers on "every individual". At the same time, it prohibits discrimination in its application, which under Michigan law, means discrimination on the basis of sex.

Taken together, "every individual" and "no discrimination" mean that under this Constitutional amendment the fathers involved in any pregnancy are fully as empowered to "make and effectuate decisions about all matters relating to [that] pregnancy, including, but not limited to prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, contraception, sterilization, abortion care, miscarriage management, and infertility care" as are the women they have impregnated.

Making and effectuating decisions about "abortion care" (sic) plainly encompasses decisions about whether to abort a pregnancy or to not abort a pregnancy (and most of the other specified powers similarly confer authority over decisions to abandon or reject a pregnancy or to preserve and protect it), and as said, fathers plainly acquire these powers under this amendment.

NEEDLESS TO SAY, those behind this amendment-- and those hoping to ride its coattails to more promising political outcomes in November than they are likely to face without it-- will scream and shout that "Of course" the amendment isn't meant to empower fathers to have a say-- and an equal and possibly paralyzing say-- in the disposition of babies in whose production they have participated. Too bad.

That's what the amendment says: Fathers can no more properly be forced to reproduce, or prevented from reproducing, than can mothers (and here we leave aside for the sake of simplicity the fact that actually, both have already reproduced at the point at which abortion becomes an issue...).

Since fathers should never have been precluded from legal standing to prevent the mothers of their children from murdering those children, that aspect of this idiotic and ill-meant amendment is a lonely positive.

In practice, although the entire amendment will necessarily fail (either fail to be passed, should enough Michiganians read this article, or fail in the courts as incomprehensible and unenforceable), highlighting the grotesque discrimination against men under existing pro-abortion regimes is an even more robust positive, for which we owe a wry thanks to the evil creatures responsible for this bungled effort.

SHARE THIS ARTICLE AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE! And use the "comment" function below to build up its throw-weight and help it migrate into other communities for maximum impact.

Even if you don't live in Michigan, the issues here will affect you, for good or for ill, depending on your efforts to help spread this insight and crash the amendment effort in flames (which will, in turn, deflate Democrat prospects in general).

C'mon, people! Let's get busy!!

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BTW, while we're on the subject of "backfires", I can't help but share another example of how the capture of Democrats by their own "woke" insanity can be used against them (in the hope of inspiring more of the same):

(For those who don't recognize these sterling examples of Democrat sensibilities, the one on the left is Richard Levine (who now goes by Rachel), appointed as a four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Services Commissioned Corps and the Assistant Secretary for Health in the US Health and Human Services Department. He not only deludes himself with pretenses of being a woman, but is also the lovely piece of work who ordered infected persons to be housed in Pennsylvania's nursing homes while Health Secretary in the commonwealth, but only after quietly removing his own mother from one such facility.

The one on the right is Sam Brinton, the current deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the US Energy Department's Office of Nuclear Energy. In addition to enjoying his office of trust and honor under the Democrats currently in control in Washington, Brinton is a prominent dog-lover.)

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The Only Thing You Really Get Out Of Wearing A Mask:

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Some Observations Regarding Any Government's Alleged "Emergency Powers"

How Stupid Do They Think We Are?-- A Comprehensive Walk Through The COVID Hysteria

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Remember 'War Games'?

THIS VIDEO PROJECTS THE PROGRESS of a nuclear exchange between Russia and the United States. It's frightening, as it should be, as well as sobering and instructive. My only criticisms are, first of all, that it fails to account for the imbalance that will now be present in any such exchange due to the new Russian hypersonic weapons.

Secondly, the video fails to account for China's contribution to the exchange against the US, which is a virtual certainty. China knows that if Russia goes, and the US survives, it goes soon after. So, that will not be allowed to happen.

See important related comments here.

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The Entire Legal And Practical Truth About The Income Tax In Three Short Sentences

Focus on these simple points and you can teach anyone the truth about the tax.

1. The income tax is an excise.

2. Excise taxes are taxes on the gainful exercise of privileges.

3. You probably didn't earn your money by exercising any taxable privilege (or earned very little that way).

Inarguable (and nowhere disputed) proof of the first two statements above can be found concisely spelled-out in this little 7-page document. Whether the third is true for any particular person can be determined by consulting this guide to understanding "income-taxable privilege".

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Daft And Despicable Deniers

What the hell is wrong with these people?!

CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE how abysmally stupid someone would have to be to continue to doubt or deny that CtC has revealed the actual, complete and insurmountable truth about the income tax in light of the overwhelming mountain of historical, legal, practical and logical evidence to the contrary? (Not to mention the outright lies and even ludicrous hoaxes the executive and some corrupt members of the judiciary have been caught at in desperate efforts to conceal the truth...)

Plainly any such denier must either be abysmally stupid or be an abysmally corrupt government official or other person who sees him or herself as benefitting from the lies about the tax by which America has suffered for 75 years now. Isn't this true?

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"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him."

-Ezra Pound

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Did you know…

…The US may be the only country in the world where people working in the non-federal private sector must commit perjury in order to owe and pay ‘God’s things to Caesar’?

If you work in the private sector, stop falsely swearing that your private-sector earnings are federal “income”1. Perjury is a crime. Exercise the law’s provision for protecting your private-sector earnings from the 154-year-old2 indirect excise known as the federal income tax. Rebut fraudulent allegations made by your payers regarding the legal nature of your work and the earnings derived therefrom, so that you pay only your fair share. Join the hundreds of thousands of honest, law-abiding Americans who have been doing so for more than a decade. Learn how for free at losthorizons.com.

1--“We must reject… …the broad contention submitted in behalf of the government that all receipts—everything that comes in—are income…”.

United States Supreme Court, So. Pacific v. Lowe, 247 U.S. 330, (1918)

2—The income tax in the United States was first instituted into law on July 1, 1862, during Lincoln’s presidency under the excise laws of the United States. The preamble to the 1939 Internal Revenue Code traces its roots to this original income tax law.

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Other Voices:

Important guest observations and commentary with an important afterword by Yours Truly

 

Fear and Loathing in Washington

The Biden Administration’s Crimes Against Humanity

by Philip Giraldi (held over from the March 7, 2022 edition)

One can frequently disagree with government policies without necessarily regarding them with disgust, but the Joe Biden Administration has turned that corner, first with its senseless promotion of a new Cold War that could turn hot with Russia and, more recently, with its actions undertaken to undermine and punish Afghanistan. The fact that the White House wraps itself in the sanctimonious, self-righteous twaddle that is so much the hallmark of the political left is bad enough, but when the government goes out of its way to harm and even kill people around the world in pursuit of an elusive global dominance it is time for the American people to rise up and say “Stop!”

As a former CIA operations officer, I departed government service in 2002 in part due to the impending invasion of Iraq, which I knew was completely unjustified by the web of largely fabricated information that was flowing out of the Pentagon to justify the attack. In the years since I have been appalled by the Obama era attacks on Syria and Libya as well as by the assassinations and cruise missile strikes carried out under Donald Trump. But all of that was a Sunday in the park compared to the hideous nonsense being pursued by Biden and his crew of reprobates. Trifling with the use of force as part of negotiations intended to go nowhere over Ukraine could well by misstep, false flag or even design escalate into nuclear war ending much of the life on this planet as we know it, and we are now also witnessing the cold, calculated slaughter of possibly hundreds of thousands of civilians just because we have the tools at hand and believe that we can get away with it. What we are seeing unfold right in front of us goes beyond appalling and it is time to demand a change of course on the part of a runaway federal government that is drunk on its own self-assumed unbridled right to exercise total executive authority over vital issues of war and peace.

I am most particularly shocked and dismayed over what the Biden Administration did to Afghanistan on February 11th, which is unambiguously a crime against humanity. On that day the President of the United States Joe Biden, still smarting from the botched departure from Afghanistan and low approval ratings, issued an executive order invoking emergency powers stipulating that the $7 billion in Afghan government money being held and frozen in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York would be retained by the US and divided in two.

Half of the $7 billion would be placed in a US government administered trust fund. The money would in theory go to fund humanitarian relief in Afghanistan to be carried out by agencies unidentified but presumed to be acting in coordination with the barracudas at the Treasury Department while the other half would go to benefit the victims of 9/11. This money is not just “frozen assets,” it is the entire reserve of the Afghan central bank, and its appropriation by the US will destroy whatever remains of the formal Afghan economy, making Afghanistan entirely reliant on small rations of foreign aid that come through channels unconnected with the Afghan government.

The other half of the story is that Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9/11 but instead became a victim of the US lust for revenge. After 9/11, the Taliban government offered to turn over Osama bin Laden to the United States if Washington were able to provide evidence that he was somehow involved in the attacks in New York and Virginia. The George W. Bush Administration was unable to do so, but chose to invade instead.

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

 

Afterword

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

-Voltaire

AS USUAL, GIRALDI MAKES GOOD POINTS, well-informed and on the right side of the issue. Also as usual-- of Giraldi and most every other pundit properly awake to the corruption in Washington and the peril it represents to us all if left unchecked-- though expressly declaring, "...it is time for the American people to rise up and say “Stop!”," Giraldi offers no prescription for how this "stopping" is to be done.

Every pundit ringing the alarm bell-- and they are now legion-- seems to imagine that merely encouraging a widespread discontent will somehow prompt a spontaneous (and beneficial) revolution. But time has proven this to be hoped in vain.

Just knowing the pot is growing warmer never prompts the frog to jump out, and especially when (if I might be forgiven for expanding the metaphor) the cooks have grown expert at tossing juicy flies into the water as needed to distract or take the edge off any awakening to the imminence of the peril.

Further, a substantial portion of any society will NEVER "rise up"-- some because they feel aligned with the cooks for whatever reason, and some because they just don't have that kind of character.

BUT EVERYONE WILL ACT to minimize the amount they contribute to the growth and maintenance of the Leviathan state which is-- either directly, or through the uses to which it is put-- the source of the peril of which pundits like Giraldi warn. That's universal human nature at work, and it marshals enormous energy, creativity and persistence on its behalf.

Happily, and unlike nearly every other solution to an overgrown state that might be dreamed up or advocated, the Founders and Framers-- who enjoyed a uniquely complete understanding of both the hazards against which they were providing and the nature of the state in which any solution must operate-- hardwired into the taxing provisions of the federal Constitution the means by which individual self-interest can be harnessed to suppress Leviathan's growth (or shrink it back down to safer dimensions).

For decades now, since the 1950s, in fact, a concerted effort to obscure that hardwired solution has been underway. For most of those decades the corrupt effort was an unmitigated success. But in 2003 the concealment scheme was revealed along with the state-restraining solution it was meant to neutralize.

We CAN effectively rise up and say “Stop!”. Tens of thousands have been doing so for many years now, and tens of millions-- enough to really put on the brakes before we all go over the cliff edge-- can be brought to join in simply by informing them how the law provides for their attention to their own self-interest, despite strenuous efforts by Leviathan-beneficiaries over the decades to pretend that it does not, and to convince the American people of this enervating falsehood.

ALL THAT THE GOOD AMONG US NEED DO is share this simple two-page document in the most vigorous and diligent way possible, with whatever creative words can be dreamed up to accompany it and induce the recipient to open it and read it through.

It's really that simple.

How long it will take before that effort really pays off is uncertain. It might be a while.

Or... maybe not.

After all, once some energetic and creative lovers of the republic and the rule of law see to it that all the Philip Giraldis and the Joe Rogans and the Matt Walshs and the Glenn Greenwalds and the Lew Rockwells read that simple two-page document and begin sharing it in turn, we'll see a groundswell become a tidal wave, virtually overnight. Leviathan-- and all it evils-- will stop like they hit a brick wall.

Make it happen, Cap'n.

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A New Policy

I HAVE DONE MY BEST to lead this country to liberty from the mis-applied income tax. I have labored hard. I've shed a lot of sweat, a fair bit of blood and more than a few tears. But I seem to be pretty poor at that kind of work.

When I have asked all of you for what I firmly believe is a necessary resource to move the ball downfield and give all of us the best chance at justice and an end to the assault on the rule of law-- simple testimonial videos requiring nothing from any of you but the phone in your pocket and three minutes of speaking from the heart-- I have had only a handful of people answer my call.

I CAN'T KEEP GOING THIS WAY. I have to be able to turn my attention away from writing new persuasive or skepticism-addressing articles week after week, and toward research, analysis and educational presentations that will benefit everyone already in this community. I need time to do some suing, and to bring together the resources and talent toward that end.

As said, it is my firm belief that your testimonial videos are the resource that I need to make big things happen, and they are unquestionably the thing I need to allow me to turn my attention away from trying to get horses to drink at the waterhole to which I have led them. Your words, in your great numbers and all in your own different ways, will do that better than anything I write possibly could.

And yet, you are not providing them. This, despite my having been asking you for them for many years now.

Therefore, with enormous reluctance, I am making portions of this website restricted access only. People have been urging me to do this for years now, telling me I should impose a charge to access my work-product, so as to enable me to keep producing.

I have never been inclined to charge fees for access. I ask for donations, and will continue to do that, and if they do not come, then I will conclude that my work is of no value to anyone, and I will close shop.

But I now WILL charge a special something for access to some key portions of that work.

Opening selected pages on LHC comprising higher level legal resources now requires the submission of qualifying testimonial videos, as discussed, described and demonstrated here. The videos must be accompanied by scans of a recent educated filing along with responsive documents from the IRS, whether in the form of a check, a notice identifying and reflecting the filed return, or "return" and "account" transcripts for the year for which the return was filed. Names must be shown in full.

Similarly, if an email comes my way asking for guidance or assistance, I had better already have your video posted.

I HATE TO PLAY IT THIS WAY. But I want to win.

I'll tell you a story from when I was coaching my kids in soccer. Both of my kids at a certain age in their careers had run into a wall common to all but the very exceptional. They had gotten to be pretty good, and they wanted to enjoy the benefits of their hard work. But the arrival of this interest coincided with a new self-consciousness which made them reluctant to risk failing and looking foolish. So, they were hanging back from seizing the main chance when it appeared, and driving for the goal.

My solution was to post on the wall of our dining room a couple of simple points about self-discipline, the chief of which is this: You can't score a goal if you don't take a shot.

That's how it is here, too. If you don't stand up, you are laying down, and you'll never score that goal.

Here is what my kids live by now, in their own version of that lesson. I hear it from them all the time as they excel (accompanied by the sound of a father's breast swelling with pride): Go hard, or go home.

You, too. Go hard, or go home. Send those videos.

Do I ask for a lot? I want your victories to post, your financial support, your efforts at spreading the word, and your beautiful faces and inspiring words, too. It IS a lot.

But it's not too much. I'll let Thomas Paine explain:

"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”

Fear nothing but God.

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What Makes YOU A Warrior For The Truth?

We each have our reasons, and our story. It's time, and it's needed, for you to share yours with the world.

P.S. READ EVERYTHING THAT FOLLOWS, CAREFULLY AND THOROUGHLY!!

 

"The day we see truth and do not speak is the day we begin to die."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

What does it for you?

Is it simply because no moral and upstanding person has any choice when it comes to telling the truth over his or her signature, whether on tax forms or anywhere else?

Is it recognition of the critical importance of the rule of law, and the knowledge that if everybody leaves its caretaking to someone else, it will soon be lost to us completely?

Is it the money?

Maybe it's just simple respect for your own rights as a human being, who is not and cannot be not involuntarily subordinated to others?

Maybe it's just simple respect for your general civic responsibility to be the grown-up and enforce frugality and restraint on a big, powerful creature of our own devising which otherwise is like a badly-raised teenage boy given whiskey and car keys and let loose on the road to wreak havoc?

Or is it, perhaps, a more acute anxiety that if our bonfire of a state isn't damped, and quickly, it'll soon burn down the house around us all?

What IS it that firms up your jaw and stiffens your resolve?

It's time to take off the bushel and share your light!

I would like you to think about what it is that motivates you for a few moments (or all day, if you like), and then send me your thoughts. I want to put YOUR reasons to work inspiring folks who don't yet understand what this is all about.

In this day and age, the most effective way for you to share your thinking for the benefit of others is to video-record yourself talking about how you feel, and explaining what inspires and motivates YOU.

All you need is a webcam or cell-phone equipped with a camera. If you don't have, or know how to use, one of these, have a friend help. (And if you use a cell-phone, please have the orientation horizontal, not vertical-- that is, so that the screen of the phone on which you are watching yourself while taping looks like a TV or movie screen.)

If needed, write a little script for yourself. Better, though, to just speak extemporaneously, after spending a little time sorting out your thoughts and getting down into your heart. Perhaps make it a video of someone in your family, or a close friend, interviewing you.

Dress "business casual". Be well-groomed.

Keep yourself to no more than 2 or 3 minutes, and keep in mind that the purpose is not to educate, but to INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE and ENERGIZE. Your video will be one of many to be shared. If you need to go longer to really say your piece, go for it (but long or short I may edit if something strikes me as wandering or off-key or unacceptable).

You needn't feel any obligation to be profound, and you shouldn't try to explain anything about the law, other than to say that you have read it and you know it's on your side. You just need to be sincere, and uplifting. Your object is to make your audience want to have what you have, and to be where you are in your heart.

Don't talk to ME, or to others in the CtC-educated community. Make remarks that are suited to the NON-CtC-educated community, and at the same time, be mindful that you're speaking to an audience that doesn't yet know ANYTHING about the subject, and whose first reaction is, "This must be illegal; this must be dangerous; this is too good to be true." You want to pull that audience right past such things, and straight to a focus on truth, morality, and our American heritage of liberty and the rule of law, but without getting technical in any way.

Reassure as though you were reassuring your children about something-- not condescending or preachy, but staying out of the weeds. Speak of principles, not statutes.

Remember: INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE, ENERGIZE.

Speak about rights. Speak about morality, and the obligation of a grown-up and responsible person to speak the truth and to enforce the Constitution. Speak about everyone's duty to give to God what is God's, always, and to Caesar only what is really Caesar's. Speak of your obligation to respect yourself, and to look out for the current and future well-being of your children and your fellow citizens. Speak of CtC, and what its information has done for your understanding and resolve. Show the book.

If you have had victories, describe them. Better still, show them, if possible.

Be clear about just what you accomplished: EVERYTHING back-- Social Security, Medicare and all; a "notice of deficiency" closing notice; an on-paper agreement or acknowledgment that your earnings weren't subject to the tax and everything withheld or paid-in was an "overpayment"; a transcript showing all $0s; or whatever happened.

When you speak of state victories, name the state. If you had to overcome balkiness from a tax agency before winning any victory, describe that, too!

If you're in a battle now, speak of your resolve to uphold the law, come what may-- why you're not discouraged, and why you are not standing down, not slinking back into the barn, and not choosing to endorse the lies. Don't get into details-- your audience is going to have no idea what a "LTR3176" is, and you will NOT be capable of explaining it adequately. This is an subject area concerning which you should speak from the heart, not the head.

If you haven't yet begun to act, share the reasons for your decision to do so, and your plans.

Remember, your purpose is to INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE and ENERGIZE.

Watch your own video after you record it and ask yourself: Putting yourself in the place of someone completely immersed in "the matrix"-- oblivious to any notions that you might have been a victim of an "ignorance tax", and comfortable with the status quo-- would the video you just made encourage you to push aside your comforting illusions and learn the liberating truth? If not, try again.

Identify yourself. Anonymity is for criminals and self-doubters, not CtC warriors. Naming yourself is a requirement, and your name will appear as a subtitle on the video when I prepare it for posting, in any event.

Mention what you do for a living, whether you're a doctor, homemaker, lawyer, trucker, IT guy or gal, retiree or student. Help people understand that the company of grown-up activist Americans they are being invited to join cuts across all demographics and all interests-- with the common denominator being respect for the law and love of the principles on which this great country was founded.

This is your chance to get a LOT accomplished.

We've all had frustrating occasions of trying to explain all this to a friend, neighbor, family member or co-worker, only to pile up against the wall of a mind not yet ready to listen and learn. Here is your chance to address a self-selected audience of folks who have themselves decided that it's time for them to begin paying attention, and have clicked on your testimonial for exactly that reason.

Further, think about this: You want judges, bureaucrats, CPAs, lawyers, the HR people where you work, your pastors, your neighbors and everyone else to acknowledge the truth about the tax openly and straightforwardly. How and why would these folks do this if YOU won't?

You want these folks to learn the truth. Why would they even recognize that there is a truth to be learned if you won't attest to having learned it yourself? You've got to stand up, face forward and chin up and tell these folks that you have studied and checked and verified and seen the evidence and seen the government evasions and you know that the tax is not the capitation that the beneficiary government wants everyone to think it is but a benign, strictly limited thing, and that they need to study and learn that, too.

Again, if you have victories to show, that's nice, and powerful, too. But you don't have to have victories to display in order to declare your knowledge of what the law says. I've never flown around the world, but I've seen the evidence and considered the arguments, and I'm not hesitant to declare it a sphere...

Even those of you who haven't yet studied CtC have surely read this short document, and have verified everything in it for yourself. You should therefore be declaring its veracity and its message, loud and proud. Again, if you won't say it, how can you hope that others will ever even bother to look at the facts?

Be the change you want to see in the world, or there won't be any change.

So, please make and send those videos right away! You can share them with me via a cloud-based drive space like DropBox, OneDrive.Live.com or GoogleDrive (if you do GoogleDrive you MUST give access permission to stategroups@losthorizons.com), or mail DVDs to me at 232 Oriole St., Commerce Twp., Michigan 48382, or even email to me if each file is no more than 20 megs (and you can break a video up if need be-- I can reassemble them). Render as .mpg or mp4, if possible; if not, send them how you have them and I'll make them work.

BTW: An encouraging and inspiring video will earn you access to the restricted pages on losthorizons.com and membership in the National Forum if you have also sent me a recent educated federal filing and IRS response (or relevant "return" or "account" transcript). I will be the judge of whether your submissions qualify for access, but if you do your best you should do fine.

Remember, the restoration of institutional respect for individual rights and the rule of law depends on enough individuals insisting upon it. Do your part to let those starting to rub the sleep from their eyes know that there is a community already waiting for their fellowship with open arms and open hearts and shining spirits.

See how some of your fellow warriors for the truth have done their parts in videos sent over the years, many of which are posted here.

"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."

-Samuel Adams

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Was Grandpa Really A Moron?

Critical Inquiries for a New American Century

Bob’s Bicycles

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Getting Free Of The "Income" Tax Scheme Is As Easy As Falling Off A Bike

To get an idea of how today's "income" tax scheme works, try this little exercise:

Think of the federal government as a guy named Bob, who lives down the street from you in a town that is really big on bicycles. Bikes get used for commuting, deliveries, shopping, etc.. In fact, other than walking, bicycles are the exclusive form of transportation in your town.

Your neighbor Bob has a by-the-mile bicycle-renting business-- "Bob's Bicycles". Bob's Bicycles is far and away the biggest business in town.

Part of Bob’s success is because he does a lot of contract business. However, Bob doesn't just get paid by riders who have signed an agreement with him, or even just those using Bob's bikes. Bob gets something every time anybody in town does any riding at all, through an odd combination of circumstances that took many years to come together.

Here's how it happened...

Bob's Bicycles was launched long ago by the great grandfather of the present Bob (Bob IV). Great Grandpa Bob started out not only with a main location for his contract business-- he also had the bright idea of setting up spots around town where he parked some of his bikes for use by the more occasional rider, on an "honor system". Anyone could take and use one of these bikes, but they were expected to keep track of their mileage, and send Bob a "1040 Mileage Ridden/Rent Due Form" (and the appropriate rent), periodically. The initial design of the form was like this:

I, ______________, rode a Bob's Bicycle a total of _____ miles this year.

At Bob's rental rate of $.15 per mile, I owe Bob $______

I said that Great Grandpa Bob planned to deal with these occasional riders on the "honor system", and that's true. But he liked his money, too, and didn't want to miss anything that was due him. So, after setting up the "self-serve" locations, Great Grandpa Bob went around handing out "W-2, 1099 or K-1 Rider Reporting Forms" to every other business in town. The forms-- accompanied by notices that if Bob didn't get his rent from someone riding a bicycle in connection with any business, he would sue the company involved-- said:

Click here to enjoy the rest of this illuminating little parable

(...and if you want to see a liberating transformation take place THIS YEAR, forward this file to everyone in your address book.)

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You Can’t Fight Well When You Don’t Know What You’re Fighting About

If you are having an argument with the IRS or any other tax agency,

  • You are NOT being presumed to have made “corporate profit”.

  • You are NOT being alleged to have received “foreign income”.

  • You are NOT entangled in an invisible “adhesion contract”.

  • You are NOT being obligated by a law whose subject is never identified.

You are being targeted because REAL EVIDENCE exists that YOU PERSONALLY HAD “INCOME” to which the revenue laws apply-- even though that evidence is almost certainly incorrect, and CAN be corrected.

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Do You Know What Happens When YOU Decide To "Let Someone Else Do It"?

NOTHING.

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do."

-Everett Hale

(...and every other person who ever really deserved liberty)

 

"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."

-Daniel Webster

 

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."

-Edward R. Murrow

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Doing A Little High-Payoff Math

IF EACH PERSON receiving this newsletter each week distributed as few as 100 of any of the great outreach tools featured here to co-workers, friends, neighbors and family members (or just strangers on the street, in the mall, etc...), we could have SEVERAL MILLION new Americans suddenly introduced to the liberating truth about the tax!

Just like that! In one week!

C'mon, people, let's roll on this!

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

‑Dale Carnegie

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A Few Tips For Making Best Use Of This WebSite

USE THE SITE MAP!!!

USE THE SITE SEARCH!!!

When directed to a page by topic or link, read everything.

I know that this can mean the investment of a lot of time, attention and effort, but although some may imagine otherwise, I don't write as much as I do because I can't think of any other way to spend my time...

Furthermore, when you encounter a hyperlink within, or associated with, the text you are reading, follow it!

It is pretty common these days for web-based material to be littered with hyperlinks. Sometimes the purpose is to provide definitions or examples, in order to ensure that folks reading the original material aren't presented with a word or reference which they don't understand. Sometimes the links lead to illustrations pertinent to the original text.

It is common-- and perfectly understandable-- for folks who are confident that they are familiar with language or references within the main text they are reading to get in the habit of skipping over included links. I do it all the time, myself!

However, I very rarely include links for definitional or explanatory purposes; and when I DO make a link out of text in one page it is generally to another self-contained page, rather than merely illustrative material. These other pages contain material the clear understanding of which I deem highly important for the proper and complete understanding of the original page. (Links to CtC, the Victories pages, CtC Warriors and so on are obvious exceptions to this general rule. On the other hand, a link to the victory Highlights or 'Every Which Way But Loose' pages, which might seem like such exceptions, are not. The special selection of victories on those pages, and the filed docs and tax-agency correspondences included therewith, themselves constitute highly instructive material which merits careful attention. Thus care needs to be taken in all cases.)

Please make a habit of clicking on all provided links and at least looking briefly to ensure that the linked page is one with which you are completely familiar from another study session.

Finally, please keep in mind that, annoying though it may seem at first blush (but not, I trust, upon reflection), I constantly tweak material already posted. Obviously this doesn't mean that every page is in flux at all times, but it does mean that if you are directed to a page that IS familiar, it's worthwhile to read it through again if it's been a while since your last having done so.

Selected Features From Past Mid-Edition Updates:

Laying Blame For The Carnage

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Fear and Loathing in Washington

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The CDC Has Begun Running Scared

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Getting The Numbers Right, Part II

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Points To Ponder

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All You Need To Know About Vaccine Failure In One Incredible Chart

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There Is No Public Health Utility To The Current COVID "Vaccines"

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Why Do So Many Still Buy Into The Narrative?

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A Little More Common Sense

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The Propaganda War (Part II)

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A Mature Perspective On "The Pandemic"

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Why Are The Domestic Terrorists Being Ignored? (And A Few Other Inquiries And Observations)

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Declaration Day, 2021: "Small Gathering"? I Don't Think So!

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'The 'Unvaccinated' Question'

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The Old Man In The Chair Echoes Geert Vanden Bossche

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'On The Psychology Of The Conspiracy Denier'

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Exposing The Vaccine Hustle

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With Sleepy Joe Nodding Out, Kamala Harris's Awkward Citizenship Problem Becomes Acute

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The Real Reason For The Attack On Dr. Seuss

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Reaping The Whirlwind

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A Few Observations About Bitcoin, TDS, "Gender Dysphoria" And Section 230

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'The Decline of the West: American Education Surrenders to "Equity"'

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Thinking Of Getting "Vaccinated"?

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'The Mainstream Bubble'

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Ideological Discrimination Is ILLEGAL. Been "De-Platformed"? Start Suing

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'The New Normal'-- An Eye-Opening Documentary Film

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Today's Red-Alert Crisis Is Brought To You By...

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'Covid Is An Orchestration Serving An Agenda-- The Destruction Of Freedom'

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As 2020 Limps To A Close...

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A Summary Of Genevieve Briand's Research

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Walter Williams: The Passing Of A Giant

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A Former Pfizer VP Determines There Have Been No Excess Deaths In The UK

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What Might Be My Final Words For Donald Trump

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'Coming Soon From Joe And Kamala: Hooray For The Revolution!'

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A Few More Voices (Including An Appellate Court) Talking Sense About C19

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The REAL Story Of Thanksgiving

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'Six Factors Which Point To A Rigged Election'

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A California Court Upholds The "Liberty Key" Doctrine Against Gavin Newsom

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I'm No Fan Of Donald Trump, But I've Got Some Advice For Him Nonetheless...

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'Imperial Overstretch Arrives: Americans Do Not Need The Empire'

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Plugging The PCR Test Into The C19 Panic-Mongering Picture

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Regarding The "Militia" Arrests In Michigan Last Week

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'Lockdown: The New Totalitarianism'

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Shame The Devil

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On "Ideological Balance" And The Courts

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'The Planet's Not Angry, But The Climate Howlers Are Truly Dangerous'

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Potpourri:

The Russians Appear To Have A Vaccine...

A Doctrine Suited To The Unrest In Many American Cities Today

The Meaning Of "Cases"

Lest We Forget

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'The Stalinist Trial Of Julian Assange. Whose Side Are You On?'

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New Victories Offer A Little Relief In An Otherwise Very Dark Time

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If YOU Don't Start Acting, We Will End Up With A Permanent Dystopian "New Normal"

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'Four Months Of Unprecedented Government Malfeasance'

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The Joker's Latest Caper

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The Wisconsin "Lockdown" Liberty And Accountability Key Is Posted

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'Media Mask-Mania, or Covid19 Groupthink'

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Louisiana's AG Steps Up, And A Liberty Key Has Been Created To Lend Him A Hand

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A Few Words About Recent Federal Kidnappings

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'Social Distancing' And Masks Have Done NOTHING-- A Handy, Concise Analysis

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'Notorious Fourth: Independence Day in the Land of the Captive, the Home of the Cowed'

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So, Saturday Was Declaration Day. Did You Do It?

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'Julian Assange In Limbo'

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Rearranging The Deck Chairs While The Titanic Sinks

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A Few Bits Of Dryrot That Have Caught My Attention This Week

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An Existential Threat Is Eating Away At America

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A Few Words About The George Floyd Murder

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David David Denning Shares His CtC Story, And His Shining Spirit

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Other Voices: 'German Report Denounces C19 As 'A Global False Alarm''

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"Lockdown" Liberty, And Its Larger Message

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On The "Chinese Virus" Spin Machine

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Other Voices: 'Trump Derangement v. Trump Enablement'

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A Salute To Three True American Heroes

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The Hysteria Supplement-- Updated!

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A Salute To Three MORE True American Heroes

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Other Voices: 'What Happened to the Land of the Free?'

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The Current State Of The Covid-19 "Crisis"

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The Hysteria Supplement-- Updated!

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Another Characteristically Law-Defying Ruling By The Sixth Circuit

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Other Voices: 'Trump Should Sign An America First Stimulus Plan'

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Victories To Chase Away The "Lockdown" Blues!

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The Hysteria Supplement-- Updated!

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An Especially Important Anniversary This Week

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Other Voices: 'Bill Gates Crosses The Digital Rubicon...'

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A Clarification

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The Hysteria Supplement

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Why Did Everyone Miss The Very Shiny Pearl I Tossed Out Last Week?

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Other Voices: 'Punishing America's Enemies'

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April 4, In Manchester, NH! Be There!!

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The First 2019 Victories Are Posted!

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Celebrating The Irish

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A Few Calming Stats On Covid-19

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BREAKING NEWS: A Cure For Covid-19 Has Apparently Been Found

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A Testimonial Video Taking A Novel Tack

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Other Voices: 'Where's The Liberal Outrage Over Tulsi?'

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Why CtC Is The Only Remedy To Leviathan

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Thwarting Judicial Corruption With 'Constitutional Avoidance' Doctrine

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Why Congress Will Never "Just Pass A Law" Enacting The "Ignorance Tax"

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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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BTW, Don't Miss These Items Of Interest:

Regarding State Group Membership

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The Educated American's Tax Filing Flow Chart

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Why Are You Not Doing This?

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Project Paradigm-Shift

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Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!

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A "Pragmatic" Perspective On The Tax And The Rule Of Law

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And Hey! Don't miss the great stuff in the main page of this edition!

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

Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

September 5- In 1698, in an early example of "social engineering" through tax policy, Tsar Peter I imposes a tax on beards, in order to discourage their growth.  In 1774, the Continental Congress first convenes.  In 1836, Sam Houston is elected president of the Republic of Texas.  In 1969, Lt. William Calley is charged with six counts of murder in connection with the deaths of 109 Vietnamese men, women and children in the village of My Lai.

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

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The upgraded Fifteenth 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.

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A Very Serious Question For Everyone

One that is very hazardously going unanswered...

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

September 6- In 1522, the first ship to circumnavigate the world completes its historic voyage.  In 1901, President William McKinley is fatally wounded by an assassin.  In 1991, the Soviet Union recognizes the independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and Leningrad is renamed St. Petersburg.

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A Wise Warrior With An Uplifting Message

DON LA VIGNE, a long-time warrior and real American grown-up, shares a nice and inspiring testimonial on what CtC has done for him for over nine years now:

"Like a muddied stream or a polluted fountain is the righteous man who gives way before the wicked."

-Proverbs 25:26

 

"A nation of sheep begets a government of wolves."

-Edward R. Murrow

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

September 7- In 1776, the American revolutionary forces conduct the world's first submarine attack-- deploying the submersible "Turtle" in an failed attempt to attach a time-bomb to British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship in New York Harbor.  In 1876, Jesse James and the Younger gang attempt to rob the bank in Northfield, Minnesota but are defeated by the armed townspeople, who kill or capture all but two of the gang.  In 2008, the United States takes control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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See Who's Been Lying About The Tax

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How Do You Know When The State Is Lying?

An old joke, but in regard to this deceiver, not a laughing matter at all.

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

September 8- In 1900, a hurricane hits Galveston, Texas, killing around 8,000 and wreaking massive property damage.  Unhindered by FEMA, the survivors quickly rebuilt.  In 1935, Senator Huey "Kingfish" Long is assassinated in the Louisiana Capitol Building.  In 1974, Gerald Ford pardons Richard Nixon for "any offenses he may have committed against the United States."

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“When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith."

-Abraham Kuyper

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Assessing The Damage From The Misapplication Of The Income Tax

Man, are young Americans getting ripped off...!

"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

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A Michigan Version Of The "Watching The Watchmen" Amendment Has Been Proposed

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

September 9- In 1543, Mary Stuart is crowned Queen of Scotland at the seasoned age of nine months.  In 1776, the Continental Congress names the new union of sovereign states the "United States".  In 1850, California is admitted to the union as the 31st of the several states.  In 1926, NBC (the National Broadcasting Company) is founded.  In 1956, Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.  In 1993, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) formally recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.  In 2016, North Korea conducts its 5th nuclear weapons test.

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Poisonous Pieties

Now click here to learn the truth about the myths that have kept you from knowing the truth about the income tax

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Trolls Against The Truth: A Dis-Information Campaign

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A Few Good Folks With Good and Important Things To Say:

Find this film on YouTube at youtu.be/K0CYo57I3ks

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WANTED! Your Article!!

Sharpen those quills, people!

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Why Aren't People Suing?

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Give Yourself A 30% Raise: A New Flyer

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The Crime of the Misapplied Income Tax

Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

September 10- In 1823, Simón Bolivar is named President of Peru.  In 1951, the United Kingdom begins an economic boycott of Iran.  In 1977, Hamida Djandoubi becomes the last person executed by guillotine in France after being convicted of torture and murder.  In 1988, historians take note that it was the 149th 10th of September since Iran last initiated military aggression against anyone.

There IS "A Law" By Which You Can Be Made Liable, And This Is How It Works

Now Learn How To Be Master Of The Situation

See the Proof

Photographed on 1-70 in Missouri. America is waking up.

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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

Find more quizzes here

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CtC Videos And Audio Resources

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"Never must thou take up a false cry, or join hands with the guilty by giving false witness in their favor. Never must thou follow with the crowd in doing wrong, or be swayed by many voices so as to give false judgment; even pity for the poor must not sway thee when judgment is to be given."

-Ex-Exodus 23:1-3

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

September 11- In 1789, Alexander Hamilton is made the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.  In 1922, the British Mandate of Palestine begins.  In 1941, ground is broken for the construction of The Pentagon.  In 1973, a CIA-backed coup deposes the elected Allende administration and place Augusto Pinochet in power.  In 2001, three skyscrapers inexplicably collapse, the U.S. air defense system inexplicably fails to launch a single plane, the Pentagon's surface to air defense system and surveillance systems inexplicably fail, etc., etc., etc..  Learn all about this monumental-- and monumentally-important-- charade here.

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"Those who will not reason, are bigots; those who cannot, are fools; and those who dare not, are slaves."

-George Gordon (Lord) Byron