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Current Events and Continuing Education for December 12, 2022

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

-James Madison

 

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It's still a proper season in which to report:

Nice Victories By CtC-Educated Americans

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Let's talk about the nicest kind of present you can give this Christmas...

Make Someone You Love Sweat Bullets This Year!

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With winter coming on, it's a good time to remember:

The Biggest Snow-Job In History

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Americans Dumbed Down on Russia

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

Illuminating Anniversaries for this week

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

-Thomas Paine

 

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

Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

December 12- In 1787, Pennsylvania becomes the second of the several states to ratify the United States Constitution and authorize the new version of the federal government.  In 1812, the French army turns back from its invasion of Russia.  In 1870, Joseph Rainey, the first black elected to the U.S. House, begins the first of four terms.  In 1901, Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal.  In 1963, Kenya gains its independence from the United Kingdom.  In 2000, the United States Supreme Court issues its ruling in Bush v. Gore, overruling the Florida Supreme Court's decision concerning the certification of voting results in the presidential election.  In 2012, North Korea successfully launches its first satellite into orbit around Earth.

 

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

 

NOTE: I don't even try to include in these anniversary compilations items involved in the "COVID-19" scam, hysteria and exploitation. There would be way too much to say about all that to suit this format. But find my summary of that history, and related observations posted throughout 2020 and 2021, here.

  

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

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

-Samuel Adams

HEY, People!

Please don't just read what I post here (or anywhere), and nod your head sagely or approvingly and then move on to other things. I don't post in order to affirm your sense of things. I post in order to equip you with perspectives and arguments with which to educate others, and in the expectation that you will forward my posts to other people (or direct them to those posts). PLEASE do those things, 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.

As Noted Last Edition, 'Tis The Season For Victories By The Good Over The Bad...

...so let's close the year with a few more!

LAST NEWSLETTER, I WAS PLEASED TO POST a nice CtC-educated win in Tax Court. This time, for this last edition of 2022, I'm going to share some also very nice but merely run-of-the-mill victories-- which is to say, victories in enforcing the rule of law by individual Americans of the sort secured all the time in this community but only dreamt-of everywhere else.

Enjoy, and please, share widely!

Jaroslaw & Emilia Lausz

JAROSLAW & EMILIA share a nice victory in securing respect for the law by the state of New York. These good folks, armed with a complete understanding of the income tax provided by 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America', recovered everything withheld from them and given over to the state during 2021 on the false notion that all earnings are "income" subject to tax:

Here is the educated filing by which this victory was invoked.

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Christopher Brenner

CHRISTOPHER HAS JUST SECURED his second victory this year. This time it is a substantial-- but only partial-- recovery of property improperly withheld and given over to the feds during 2021:

Annoyingly, Christopher is being made a target for an occasional IRS scam of admitting that nothing taxable was done by the filer, but nonetheless trying to keep part of the money withheld (the portion withheld as FICA surtaxes). This is a flat-out, corrupt defiance of the law by the tax agency.

HERE'S HOW THE SCAM GOES: The agency is pretending that Christopher's 1040 claimed a smaller amount than it really did, and waiting to see if he will demand the rest or just play along with the falsehood and let sleeping dogs lie, so to speak. As seen in the following excerpts from the CP12 Christopher received, the agency admits that he did nothing taxable, received no "income", and owes no tax for 2021:

This welcome and accurate admission is followed, however, by a bald-faced lie about the amount withheld as reported on Christopher's Form 1040, line 25d:

As can be seen on Christopher's 1040 (and the accompanying and supporting Form 4852), the actual amount withheld, and reported on line 25d, is $12,160.00-- an amount certain to also have been reported to the IRS by the party that did the withholding, btw.

The difference between what was actually withheld from Christopher and what the agency acknowledges is the amount withheld as FICA surtaxes (Social security and Medicare taxes). The tax agency proposes to keep this money for no reason whatever.

The IRS appears to be hoping that Christopher is unaware that it is required by law to return those amounts, at 26 U.S.C. § 3503:

Any tax paid under chapter 21 or 22 by a taxpayer with respect to any period with respect to which he is not liable to tax under such chapter shall be credited against the tax, if any, imposed by such other chapter upon the taxpayer, and the balance, if any, shall be refunded.

The agency also appears to be hoping that Christopher won't understand that its admission that Christopher had no "wages" under Chapter 24 of the IRC (an admission expressed not only in the agency's black-and-white statements in the CP12 above, but also by its having returned to Christopher everything withheld from him pursuant to that chapter) is also an admission that Christopher did nothing by which any FICA tax liability can be measured and established. This point is recognized by the US Supreme Court in Rowan Cos. v. United States, 452 US 247 (1981), in which it is held that "wages" under Chapter 24 are the same thing taxed as "wages" under Chapter 21 and 22, meaning that if one hasn't had the former, one cannot have had the latter. (See that all explained in detail here.)

CHRISTOPHER may have to go to a little more trouble to be properly made whole. And the already over-worked federal courts may end up a bit more clogged at everyone else's expense-- all because some bad apple at the IRS wants to play games and try to evade the law. How scandalous.

I wonder if any of the journalists who focus on tax subjects will raise a little noise over this outrageous agency behavior, and if the responsible party will get sanctioned? Both certainly ought to happen.

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Kristie Cloin

KRISTIE HAS ALSO JUST SECURED a substantial-- but only partial-- recovery of property improperly withheld and given over to the feds during 2021:

Like Christopher Brenner, whose case is discussed above, Kristie is being made a target for an IRS scam.

As with Christopher, the tax agency is pretending that Kristie's 1040 claimed a smaller amount than it really did, excluding FICA withholding, even while admitting on its own CP12 that she did nothing taxable, received no "income", and owes no tax for 2021:

Kristie, too, may have to do some suing to be made whole. But as in Christopher's case-- at least she starts off with every key fact of the matter having been admitted in her favor by her opponent, and with the law entirely on her side, as well.

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Gerald & Vicki Langwell

GERALD & VICKI SHARE THEIR SECOND victory this year-- a complete recovery of everything claimed from the feds of what had been improperly withheld from Gerald and Vicki's earnings in 2021, plus interest:

I'm sorry to say that as in Christopher and Kristie's cases, there's a little fly in this ointment as well. But this time it was filer error, which should quickly enough be resolved by amendment.

As will be seen by examining Gerald & Vicki's return, the amount reported as the total withheld and to be refunded falls short of what was actually withheld. It turns out that in completing the return some docs from 2020 got mixed up with those from 2021, and it was the older year's withholding total that found its way onto the 2021 1040, even while the Form 4852 accompanying the return remained correct.

These things happen.

More interesting is the fact that the IRS actually spent a bit of extra time and attention scrutinizing Gerald & Vicki's filing before choosing-- corruptly, in my opinion-- to let the mistake pass as though unnoticed. This resulted in the issuance of the partial refund w/interest shown above. See this venal behavior documented here.

(In fairness, and to add extra shame to the agency's bad behavior in this case, there are several cases posted on these pages in which the IRS has done the opposite-- catching mistakes made by the filer and graciously correcting them, even though this meant issuing bigger refunds than had been sought.)

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ALL-IN-ALL, let's keep things in perspective and recognize that despite some Grinchy behavior by the tax agency, $44K+ in recovered property in these four cases still adds up to a pretty merry Christmastime...

Let's also keep things in much more importantly proper perspective and doff our caps to these six American heroes: Jaroslaw & Emilia, Christopher, Kristie, and Gerald & Vicki.

Gotta love and admire them all.

These good folks are standing tall and doing the Founders' work by binding down an out-of-control state with the chains of the Constitution.

The victories of all these fine folks join those of the tens of thousands of other awakened and activated Americans represented here. Each constitutes another critical step toward the restoration of the republic and the true rule of law.

Don't you wish your victories were proudly posted, too?

It's easy. Stand up on behalf of the law, and then share the evidence.

That's all there is to it!

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

"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

 

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

-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson

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Make Someone You Love Sweat Bullets This Christmas!!

...and show them how much you respect them.

I THINK WE'D ALL AGREE that sometimes the truth can be a pesky thing-- demanding, disturbing, and seriously inconvenient. The fact is, when you know the truth, you have to act on it, or be party to a lie; and when that lie is old, entrenched, vigorously defended and comfortingly familiar, the correcting truth can be very hard to learn, and even harder to act upon.

That's why one of the most challenging gifts to receive this holiday season is a copy of 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America'.

Learning the truth about the income tax means setting aside misconceptions nurtured for a lifetime. Acting on that truth means abandoning lifelong servility to the state through the offices of the IRS-- the one organization whose carefully cultivated reputation as a rabid junkyard dog is feared by everyone in America.

Both of those things are really hard!

However, those very same challenges also make 'Cracking the Code-...' the most rewarding gift to get or give this holiday season.

After all, how better could you communicate to those you love the high degree of esteem in which you hold them? How more certain of your high regard could they be made, after such a display of your faith in their character?

(Helping them stop unnecessary losses of up to 40% or more of their earnings each year goes over pretty well, too, by the way...)

So, pass out a little panic this year.

Then stand back and watch your special someone stand tall, like the real American he or she was born to be.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

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The Income Tax Law, In Seven Pages

Really.

HERE IS THE LAW, IN 7 PAGES.

HERE IS HOW THE SCHEME WORKS, IN 8 PAGES.

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

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

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

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The Biggest Snow-Job In World History: The Myth That 1913 America Adopted A Marxist Progressive Tax On "All That Comes In"

Thank goodness the sun is now shining...

YOU'VE GOT TO ADMIRE THE CHUTZPAH of the state-loving, Americanism-hating Fabian socialists who infiltrated our schools and media in the early decades of the 20th century. These intellectual saboteurs pitched a truly absurd notion-- that in 1913 America adopted the kind of broad-application income tax advocated by Karl Marx. And they pitched this nonsense in the face of direct contradiction by every authority imaginable.

But the saboteurs did their work relentlessly, and with the clever exploitation of current events and the co-option of two powerful special interests. Over the course of 30 years, from 1913 to 1943, the saboteurs successfully "memory-holed" what had been universal public understanding of the 16th Amendment and the tax laws with which it was concerned in America.

In place of an accurate understanding of the income excise the saboteurs implanted a myth that the 16th Amendment was some kind of transformational political and legal event. According to this myth our great-grandparents inexplicably abandoned the core governmental structure under which they had grown to be the freest and most prosperous society in world history-- a strictly limited federal tax authority-- and replaced it with the most puissant foundational element of a communist social structure-- an authority allowing the state to reach into every pocket to take whatever the collective deems necessary for re-distribution to whomever the collective imagines needs it more (or for any other purpose dreamt up by those in public office).

The success of the myth-mongering saboteurs ushered-in a sustained period of widespread historical and legal delusion-- the healthiest environment for the flourishing of the Leviathan they serve. And flourish it did.

The myth is easily recognized as a transparent lie, once you know to look...

THE MYTH PROMOTED BY THE FABIANS-- that when early 20th century Americans revived the then-51-year-old United States income tax from dormancy imposed by an ill-conceived 1895 Supreme Court ruling, they weren't reviving the existing income excise at all but were instead initiated a new form of taxation-- was (and is) a flat-out lie. Indeed, it is quickly revealed as an outright ridiculous lie when even just the most rudimentary consideration is devoted to the proposition.

After all, the 16th amendment-- "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration"-- says nothing whatever about repealing or modifying the two Constitutional provisions prohibiting capitations and other direct taxes except by the mechanism of apportionment (Article 1, Section 2 cl. 3 and Section 9 cl. 4). Thus, the amendment works no such modification or repeal, and this has been observed and declared as the law of the land repeatedly in the most definitive way possible.

Here, for instance, is an explanatory portion of the unanimous Supreme Court ruling in Brushaber v. Union Pacific RR Co., 240 U.S. 1 (1916) in which the court construes the amendment and its effects three years after its adoption. The court expressly rejects litigant Frank Brushaber's contention that the amendment created a hybrid direct-yet-unapportioned tax:

"We are of opinion, however, that the confusion is not inherent, but rather arises from the conclusion that the 16th Amendment provides for a hitherto unknown power of taxation; that is, a power to levy an income tax which, although direct, should not be subject to the regulation of apportionment applicable to all other direct taxes. And the far-reaching effect of this erroneous assumption will be made clear by generalizing the many contentions advanced in argument to support it...”

United States Supreme Court, Brushaber v. Union Pacific RR Co., 240 U.S. 1 (1916)

The court goes on to declare that the 16th Amendment did not modify or repeal the apportionment requirements for capitations or other direct taxes elsewhere in the Constitution, and could not be construed to have done so, while again flatly stating that the amendment did not create or permit a direct, yet unapportioned tax:

“But it clearly results that the [erroneous] proposition and the contentions under it, if acceded to, would cause one provision of the Constitution to destroy another; that is, they would result in bringing the provisions of the Amendment [purportedly] exempting a direct tax from apportionment into irreconcilable conflict with the general requirement that all direct taxes be apportioned."

Ibid.

Two leading law school journals contemporaneously reviewing the Brushaber decision each put it succinctly:

"The Amendment, the [Supreme] court said, judged by the purpose for which it was passed, does not treat income taxes as direct taxes but simply removed the ground which led to their being considered as such in the Pollock case, namely, the source of the income. Therefore, they are again to be classified in the class of indirect taxes to which they by nature belong."

Cornell Law Quarterly, 1 Cornell L. Q. 298 (1915-16)

"In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., Mr. C. J. White, upholding the income tax imposed by the Tariff Act of 1913, construed the Amendment as a declaration that an income tax is "indirect," rather than as making an exception to the rule that direct taxes must be apportioned."

Harvard Law Review, 29 Harv. L. Rev. 536 (1915-16)

The Supreme Court says the same again and again, with both executive and legislative branch experts re-affirming it all over the years:

“[B]y the [Brushaber] ruling, it was settled that the provisions of the Sixteenth Amendment conferred no new power of taxation, but simply prohibited the previous complete and plenary power of income taxation possessed by Congress from the beginning from being taken out of the category of indirect taxation to which it inherently belonged, and being placed in the category of direct taxation subject to apportionment by a consideration of the sources from which the income was derived -- that is, by testing the tax not by what it was, a tax on income, but by a mistaken theory deduced from the origin or source of the income taxed.”

U. S. Supreme Court, Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co., 240 U.S. 103 (1916)

"If the tax is a direct one, it shall be apportioned according to the census or enumeration. If it is a duty, impost, or excise, it shall be uniform throughout the United States. Together, these classes include every form of tax appropriate to sovereignty. Cf. Burnet v. Brooks, 288 U. S. 378, 288 U. S. 403, 288 U. S. 405; Brushaber v. Union Pacific R. Co., 240 U. S. 1, 240 U. S. 12.

U.S. Supreme Court, Steward Machine Co. v. Collector of Internal Revenue, 301 U.S. 548 (1937)

"[T]he amendment made it possible to bring investment income within the scope of the general income-tax law, but did not change the character of the tax. It is still fundamentally an excise or duty..."

Treasury Department legislative draftsman F. Morse Hubbard, quoted in testimony to Congress in 1943

"The Supreme Court, in a decision written by Chief Justice White, first noted that the Sixteenth Amendment did not authorize any new type of tax, nor did it repeal or revoke the tax clauses of Article I of the Constitution, quoted above. Direct taxes were, notwithstanding the advent of the Sixteenth Amendment, still subject to the rule of apportionment…"

Legislative Attorney of the American Law Division of the Library of Congress Howard M. Zaritsky in his 1979 Report No. 80-19A, entitled 'Some Constitutional Questions Regarding the Federal Income Tax Laws'

Properly understood-- which means, understood as anyone would understand its plain words if not conditioned by a lifetime of distorting myth-monger nonsense-- the 16th Amendment says nothing about modifying or repealing anything, and says nothing suggesting a definition of "incomes" as "all that comes in" or anything like it. Instead it simply says that what is meant by "incomes" as used in the amendment can be taxed without apportionment.

The meaning of that term, "incomes", was, at the time of the amendment, already thoroughly established by 51 years of consistent statutory usage and judicial construction. Enacted in 1862, the income tax had been the focus of a dozen large and elaborate pieces of legislation between then and 1913, all of which used the term in a completely consistent fashion, and were consistently construed by the courts in the same way.

The meaning of "incomes" as used in the 16th Amendment is also necessarily dictated and controlled by other relevant provisions of the Constitution already in place when "incomes" became a Constitutional term in 1913. Those provisions, Article 1, Section 2 cl. 3 and Section 9 cl. 4, lay down the rule that only non-capitations (and only non-direct taxes generally) can be collected without apportionment.

Because of the apportionment rule, which is nowhere declared as modified or repealed by the 16th Amendment, the "incomes" being considered in the 16th Amendment and declared collectable without apportionment must be confined to objects of indirect taxation (and particularly cannot be anything which is the object of a capitation as defined by Adam Smith, per the historical records and the express finding of the US Supreme Court). And that this is the case is exactly what is uniformly said by that tall stack of authorities quoted above.

The simple, indisputable fact is, the "incomes" with which the 16th Amendment is concerned can only be excise-taxable-activities (measured and denominated by the gains the distinguished activities produce)-- not one whit different in character or scope from what they had been long before the amendment. Here's F. Morse Hubbard again, drilling down on that point in his 1943 testimony to Congress:

"The income tax... ...is an excise tax with respect to certain activities and privileges which is measured by reference to the income which they produce. The income is not the subject of the tax; it is the basis for determining the amount of tax.”

As is seen in Hubbard's words, the straightforward declarations of the Brushaber court, and those of all the other authorities cited, the 16th Amendment changed nothing about what is taxed or how the tax applies. The only meaning and effect of the amendment was to overrule the conclusion in an 1895 Supreme Court decision (Pollock v. Farmer's Loan & Trust) that the application of the tax to dividends and rent became legally a property tax by virtue of the sources (stocks and real estate) from which they were derived even though the dividends and rent were otherwise proper objects of an excise due to being privilege-based gains.

On the basis of that tax-on-the-fruit-is-a-tax-on-the-tree reasoning, the Supreme Court struck down 10 sections of the 1894 act reviving the income tax after 22 years of dormancy. The 16th Amendment was passed in order to nullify that ruling and allow the 51-year-old privilege excise to resume.

...but no one looked...

BUT WHO IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20th CENTURY READ THESE SUPREME COURT RULINGS and kept them in mind as the years passed, and how many folks attended those Congressional hearings? Too few, apparently. After 30 years of subversive lies that the 16th Amendment allowed for a Marxist indiscriminate federal tax on "all that comes in" (or on money, or gains, or economic activity generally, any one of which, or any variation of which, would be a capitation) without the discipline and limitations of apportionment, the American people fell for the myth in the early 1940s-- and in so doing, made the myth a reality.

75 years of darkness promptly descended upon America, a darkness which might well be described as the shadow thrown across the land by the cancerously-swollen state grown huge and terrible at the expense of individual liberty and prosperity. That cancerous growth, made possible by the widespread misapplication of the income tax which began in amidst the tumult and distraction of World War II, had been the goal of the Fabian myth-mongers the whole time, in the expectation that they and their ideological descendants would be the ones pulling Leviathan's strings.

It hasn't just been the Fabian socialists

AS I SAID EARLIER, the myth-mongers succeeded in part by persistence (and clever and forethoughtful self-emplacement in positions of intellectual and educational influence), and in part by pandering to the interests of two key groups, who were quickly co-opted into the disinformation campaign. These two groups consisted of people in government, and private-sector persons engaged in the distinguishable privilege-based activities to which the American "income" tax actually applies.

The interests of the myth-mongers themselves (some of whom were from among both of these other groups themselves) was the transformation of the political power structure in America from one of individual liberty and the sharply- and broadly-diffused distribution of power necessary to preserve individual liberty into a collectivist, centralized power structure they expected to dominate and exploit. But there is another side to the income tax issue.

The actual objects of the actual income tax lawfully in place in America are gains from the exercise of federal privilege. Gains from the exercise of federal privilege means, to put it bluntly, private benefits enjoyed from the use of public resources. Such privileges include ownership and profitable operation of national banks, subsidized railroads and federal land exploitation, certain armament industries, enjoyment of public office, certain categories of bond investments, and other specially-advantaged situations.

The revival of the income tax with the adoption of the 16th Amendment restored a taxation of these private benefits which had been on hiatus since 1895. All these generally well-heeled and influential beneficiaries of privilege who had been banking all their profits without returning a dime to the public till found themselves facing some serious haircuts.

These folks quickly realized, perhaps with the encouragement of the Fabian socialists, that it is personally less expensive to be one of a great many contributors to the public fisc than one of only a few being tapped to finance the state, at what would be correspondingly higher rates. Plus, most of these folks also realized that the benefits to be had from exploiting the privileges to which they had access are much greater when the privilege-granter is big and powerful than when is it small enough to drown in a bathtub, as is the case when the Constitutional tax rules are being properly respected.

In short, the "1%" of the early part of the 20th century saw a lot to be gained for itself by arranging for its special "privilege tax" to become misunderstood and end up being paid by everyone, rather than just by themselves.

Ultimately, whether by agreement or simply a confluence of interest, the political class and the plutocracy found common cause with the Fabian ideologues. All put their shoulders behind the wheel delivering the "direct tax on all that comes in" myth of the transformational 16th Amendment into the public mind.

When all is said and done, the myth-mongers of the Fabian socialists, the political class and the 1% plutocracy has proven to be the greatest snow-job in world history. Trillions upon trillions of dollars of wealth and power have been fleeced from the hard-working American men and women who created it and have gone to enrich smug thieves who doubtless laugh all the way to the bank.

It's not much fun being tick-food, is it?

SO HERE'S A DISTURBING THOUGHT FOR EVERYONE who continues to pay the "ignorance tax"-- that is, an unapportioned tax on their unprivileged earnings being paid under the erroneous belief that the 16th Amendment authorized such a rule-defying capitation: You're letting yourself be a tool and a victim of the "1%", feeding them more wealth than they otherwise would ever have-- entirely at your expense, while simultaneously sparing them from their proper share of a tax which is designed to fall on them alone.

How does that feel? Not so good, right?

Here's another disturbing thought: The successful implantation of the myth of a Constitutionally-authorized unapportioned capitation-- especially in light of the apparent contradiction that suggests with the perfectly clear apportionment requirements found in Article 1-- has led many of today's Americans to see the Constitution as fundamentally flawed. What a windfall this is to those who have promoted the unapportioned-capitation-authority myth!

These promoters had chafed under the restraints of the Constitution for 140 years before breaking free 75 years ago or so. Seeing even pundits who claim to be classic liberals (libertarians) now disparage and denounce what Gladstone described as "the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man," and what did indeed bind down the government by its chains effectively until the myth took hold, must send shivers of delight down the scoundrels' backs.

Now, the good news!

HAPPILY, FREEING YOURSELF from the 1%'s parasitic grasp (and changing those shivers of delight to shivers of another kind) is easy. All you have to do is read 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America'.

In as short a time as you can read that small book, you will become the master of your own wealth and power in the fashion intended by the Founders of this great country. Those Founders set up the taxation rules in the Constitution for one simple reason: to protect your liberty by restraining the dangerous servant they were creating at the same time. Their plan simply counts on you to look after your own interests in order to make it all work.

In as short a time as you can read that small book, you will join tens of thousands of your fellow Americans as part of the solution to the problem of Leviathan.

In as short a time as you can read that small book,, you will take a big step on behalf of all of us toward the restoration of the limited-government republic which was America's real claim to legitimate exceptionalism.

"Be the change you want to see in the world."

-Mohandas Gandhi

P.S. For a detailed discussion of the adoption of the 16th Amendment from the standpoint of the political considerations at the time, see this. For a drill-down on the meaning and effect of the amendment, see this.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

Use this evidence in all your outreach efforts.

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

-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson

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Regarding Trolleries

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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How To Be A Leader In The CtC Community

It's simple:

KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX IN DETAIL

LEAD BY EXAMPLE

KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE RESOURCES

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

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

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

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

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Are You Having Trouble Spreading The Word?

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

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

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

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The Liberating Truth About The 16th Amendment

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

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

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

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

-Thomas Paine

 

OUTREACH!!!

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

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

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

-George Orwell

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Other Voices (followed by an important afterword)

Americans Dumbed Down on Russia

by Ray McGovern

Five years ago today, Congress learned from sworn, horse’s-mouth testimony that there is no technical evidence that Russia (or anyone else) hacked the DNC emails showing how the DNC had stacked the deck against Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton’s rival for the Democratic nomination.

I can almost hear readers new to this website cry out in disbelief: "That cannot be. Official Washington and the media assured us that the Russians hacked those emails in order to help Trump win. And didn’t Obama throw out 35 Russian diplomats in reaction? And what about those 12 Russian intelligence agents indicted for hacking?" Were U.S. officials and media mistaken?

No, not mistaken. They were lying.

"But … but, does this mean Special Counsel Robert Mueller knew there was no concrete evidence of Russian hacking just six months into his 22-month investigation into Trump-Russia collusion?"

Get Him Under Oath

On December 5, 2017, Shawn Henry, head of the cyber security firm CrowdStrike, testified to the House Intelligence Committee that there was no technical evidence that Russia hacked the DNC emails that WikiLeaks published in July 2016. CrowdStrike had been hired by the DNC and the Clinton campaign (with the FBI’s blessing) to investigate "Russian hacking".

Shawn Henry is a protégé of former FBI Director Robert Mueller (from 2001 to 2012), for whom Henry served as head of the Bureau’s cyber-crime investigations unit before he went to CrowdStrike. What are the chances that Shawn Henry did not keep his former mentor, the Special Counsel, informed of this critical factoid?

Why are some of you readers just now learning about this – five years after that testimony? Short answer: Adam Schiff (D, CA), chair of the House Intelligence Committee was able to keep Henry’s unclassified testimony secret from Dec. 5, 2017 until May 7, 2020, when he was forced to release it. Schiff gave the silencer-baton to friends in the corporate media, who have now suppressed Shawn Henry’s testimony for longer than even Schiff could.

In sum, five years (and counting) after Henry’s testimony, the corporate media are still keeping viewers/listeners in the dark. Were we Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) not banned from corporate media, those interested in the "hacking" hoax could have learned what was going on by reading our Memorandum "Allegations of Hacking are Baseless", of December 12, 2016 – a year before Shawn Henry, under oath, came clean. Henry’s confession came as no surprise to us. (Updates are available here and here.)

Yet, the New York Times, for example, keeps up the drumbeat. Charlie Savage was careful last week to insert the following, in an article about Julian Assange (don’t miss what the New York Times itself embedded):

His [Assange’s] public image shifted significantly after WikiLeaks published Democratic emails that had been hacked by the Russian government as part of its covert operation to help Donald J. Trump win the 2016 presidential election.

Thus the words of Charlie Savage and the Gray Lady. There is always some clown who does not get the word – but Charlie is no clown. He knows what the narrative still has to be, and adheres to it (and, thus, to his job).

The reasoning behind suppressing Shawn Henry’s testimony appears to have gone something like this: The truth about "Russian hacking" cracks the centerpiece of Russia-gate; it pulls the rug from under what we corporate media have been saying about the evil Putin and what we label Trump’s "bromance" with him. Worse, the truth could deny the MICIMATT the image of the threatening "enemy" it needs to "justify" building and selling weapons. Besides, Americans probably can’t handle the truth. And what they don’t know won’t hurt them.

What Americans Don’t Know

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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

RAY MCGOVERN HAS LONG BEEN an important voice for truth and sanity. He's in fine form in this timely commentary/wake-up call.

Right now, the effort to permanently silence Julian Assange for revealing massive war-crimes by the United States and the UK during the early part of the century and the CIA's "Vault 7" illegal surveillance and false-flag toolbox is coming to an ugly head, limned by a few half-hearted, brief and belated protests by voices in the MSM meant to allow for false claims of having tried. The fraudulent demonization of Assange by way of the "DNC hack" fiction has long been a big part of this evil assault.

At the same time, the fraudulent demonization of Russia, which is, of course, intricately intertwined with the attack on Assange, fuels endless mind-boggling and deeply-dangerous irresponsibility by both Democrats and Republicans in Congress in regard to events in Ukraine, based on a further pack of lies about the origins and history of the current conflict.

Unmentioned by McGovern but very much worthy of note is that both of these corrupt projects of which he writes-- the lies about Julian Assange and those about Russia-- highlight the enormous significance, harm, and ongoing threat of the Orwellian "narrative management" by which much of America has been manipulated for years, as is now being laid out for all to see in undeniable, fully-documented granular detail thanks to Elon Musk and his release of the "Twitter files". The entire "Russiagate" fraud and all other frauds associated with it were products of that "narrative management".

Attention right now is focused on manipulation and suppression of speech inconvenient to certain interests concerning the "pandemic" and the 2020 election. But think about the name "Seth Rich", and how successfully that subject of interest and inquiry disappeared from public discourse, while the lies about a Wikileaks hack as a part of a Russian disinformation campaign were amplified, instead.

Further, think about treatment in the digital public square (and MSM) of dialogue concerning police shootings, racism hoaxes, and indoctrination of children in public schools into vicious sexual and social delusions over the last seven or eight years...

I DON'T THINK IT OVERSTATES THE MATTER to say that all told, Americans (and Westerners, generally) are at a potential inflection point, thanks to the momentary bright light being afforded us by those "Twitter file" revelations. From here, we can blithely and blindly continue undisturbed in our manipulated and managed slouch down the road to dishonor and thus, much deserved destruction. Or, we can bestir ourselves, take in those revelations and all they imply with hard and angry eyes.

From here, we can subside back into our matrix-pod-slumber. Or, we can recognize that we have been being played for fools and bled dry by enemies of liberty and the rule of law-- enemies who live among us, occupying positions of power, trust and honor, and who grotesquely preen themselves in their self-perception as virtue-filled social justice warriors even while eating away at all that makes this country great and worthy of our love and loyalty.

So, I've really gotten myself wound up, here...

But, wound up is the right way to be.

As a man from a state in which a massive election fraud was almost surely just conducted-- in part, it appears, through manipulation of the public dialogue-- once said very well: "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." Regarding accountability, that same man also said equally well: "Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue."

HOWEVER, AT THE SAME TIME that we muster anger at those who have abused large-scale public power we must also look in the mirror. The ugly fact is, we are not just the victims of these malefactors. We are their enablers, as well-- if we have not stood up and taken control of how much of our wealth facilitates their offices and their actions.

Happily we CAN stand up and take control. We can boycott and ghost private sector trolls and propagandists. We can also defund the state from which the rot most often spreads, using a Founder-provided means for imposing a much-needed corrective on those who do bad things in our names and with our resources.

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.

P.S. DO YOU WANT THIS ARTICLE to make a difference? It only will do so if YOU PASS IT ON TO OTHERS. Please do that.

Use the permalink address below to post on social media. Or use the "e-mail this article" link to send it to someone else by that method.

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A Little Extra

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

Held over great reading recommendations:

Disinformation-How it works

by Brandon Smith

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The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

by Étienne de la Boétie

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

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

-Mark C. Phillips, JD

 

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

-Jerry Arnowitz, JD

 

"Your book is a masterpiece!"

-Michael Carver, JD

 

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

-John O'Neil Green, JD

 

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

-Eric Smithers, JD

 

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

-Nancy "Ana" Garner, JD

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

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

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Are You Ready For More Power?

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

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

Click here for more information

And don't miss:

Was Grandpa Really a Moron

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

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Do you have a victory to share? Click here to learn how to do so.

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

Learn The Liberating Truth About The Tax

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

 

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

 

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

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

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

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

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Resources:

Selected Features From Recent Editions:

It's a proper season in which to report:

A Nice Victory In Tax Court

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Let's talk about the nicest kind of present you can give this Christmas...

Make Someone You Love Sweat Bullets This Year!

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The assault on liberty and the rule of law continues apace...

A Few Observations On Current Events

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

The Road To Totalitarianism (Revisited)

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A post-mortem, of sorts:

So, Last Tuesday Was Election Day...

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Two new entries in the Site Map Legal Resources section:

Responding To Tax Agency "Proposals"

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Republicans And The Growth Of Government

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As Americans prepare to go to the polls...

A Final Word

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Complications Of The Ukraine War' and 'The Authorities Are Our Enemies'

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As Americans prepare to go to the polls...

It's A Good Time To Share Some More Victories

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The madness continues, and worsens:

Again, On The Situation In Ukraine

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Slouching Toward Endgame

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Among other clarifications and corrections,

What Pro-Lifers Mean By "No Exceptions For The Life Of The Mother"

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The madness continues, and worsens:

On The Situation In Ukraine And The Nordstream Sabotage

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Though only responsible themselves for one of two crimes being committed,

Aliens Wandering Around Texas ARE Illegals, Judge Napolitano

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"Trans care" crimes; mislabeling abortion; "identity politics"; and so-called "emergency powers"...

More Comments And Observations, In Brief

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Uncle Sam's Long Trail Of Wreckage

 

Because they seem necessary:

Cognitive Inoculations Against Selected Misunderstandings, Misinformation And Madness

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Global Uprising

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Humbly offered:

A Legislative Agenda For The Protection Of America's Kids And Culture

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A few comments on crickets, lesser meal worms, and the like, along with some great...

Pictures Worth A Thousand Words

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Mike Pompeo and CIA Sued for Illegal Surveillance of Assange's Visitors

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It may seem strange to hear this, but,

A "Right To Abortion" Is NOT A "Right To Kill An Unborn Child" (Or Fetus, Or Whatever Label You Prefer...)

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With all the darkness out there it's a good time to lighten things up, so...

Let's Celebrate Some Victories By The Good Guys!

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

White Slaves And Other Inconvenient Historical Facts

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It's about time...

A Welcome IRS Admission Debunking The "ARG44" Hoax

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Selected observations on current topics, starting with:

What The Evidence Suggests Is REALLY Going On In Washington, And Why

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

The 1968-69 "Hong Kong Flu Pandemic Revisited

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This is not mere rhetoric:

What A REAL "Existential Threat" Looks Like

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Insight into one of the more important contests in this year's election, and,

A Showcase Of Today's Republican Political Spectrum

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Congress Showers The Pentagon With Cash While Americans Pinch Pennies

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This is not mere rhetoric:

It's Declaration Day

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Regarding the inherent anti-Americanism of EVs and the illegality of "preferred pronoun" punishments,

A Couple Of Quick Comments

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

How Sex Became Gender

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Sharing interesting information about a few things, including:

Key Facts About "Fossil Fuels"; A Miracle Medical Treatment; More...

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Purveyors of gender confusion have succeeded in a disturbing imposition of,

Life Imitating Art

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Going To War For Globalism

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As I celebrate more real American heroes, I have to ask,

How Many Times Does This Have To Be Said?

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The Founders understood, and we should, too:

Why Americans Need Weapons Of War

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Monkeypoxmania

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In a classic "disinformation" campaign,

'2000 Mules' Is Attacked With Shameless Lies

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Col. Douglas Macgregor Shares Important Truths About Ukraine

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Let's discuss something that doesn't exist under the rule of law...

A Few Words About Executive Department Latitude

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Now more than ever America needs to learn how to,

Bring 'Em Out Alive

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Brief comments on selected subjects of interest:

Potpourri

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Is There Any Chance of Restoring Our Lost Freedoms?

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I've explained this before but it matters more than ever now:

Kamala Harris Is Not Legally Qualified For Office

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Now that corruption has come to a head in the UK...

Lawyers For Julian Assange Must Be Sent This Material

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Kramatorsk Train Station Attack

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The brainwashing of the American people is deep in the spin cycle, and calls out loudly for some countervailing, truth-based,

Narrative Management

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

The Magic Kingdom Is Coming For Your Kids

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As lunatics in Washington and many statehouses attack the civilization that made us prosperous and free,

Let's Celebrate Some New Victories By Americans Who Are Saying "NO!" To The Madness

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

The US Press Again Becomes A Conduit For Pro-War Propaganda

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Along with some housekeeping notes, the Irish Letter, and a salute to Greg Abbott for a recent virtuous act:

Cutting Through The Mind-Numbing War-Monger Drumbeat

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

It's Always About Fear

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Three things, starting with:

I Keep Saying This-- Why Don't I Hear Anyone Saying "Amen"?

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Why Die for Ukraine?

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At long last... but with caveats...

The CDC Finally Admits The Superiority Of Naturally-Acquired Immunity

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On "playing it safe"...

It's A Good Time To Remember That In The End, It's All On Us

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

A Tale Of Two Authoritarians

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At long last...

I Believe We Are About Ready To Turn The Corner

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Farewell, 2021, year of weird speaking

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It's that time again:

Resolution Day

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It's time to get serious; it's time to get angry.

A Recap Of The Recent Past And A Prescription For The Future

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

The Malicious, Historically Illiterate 1619 Project Keeps Rolling On

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An uplifting poem by William Cullen Bryant which is especially fit for the times in which we find ourselves:

The Antiquity Of Freedom

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Winter is upon us, and we must take action against it.

Some Sober Observations-- Dark And Light-- To Consider As We Go Forward

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Biden's Bounty On Your Life: Hospitals' Incentive Payments For COVID-19'

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Virtue can be found all over this wonderful country of ours:

A Small But Bright Point Of Light

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Short takes on selected items in the news...

Comments In Brief

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This is important, especially now...

The REAL Story Of Thanksgiving

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'The First "Climate Change" Diagnosis Is Here. It Will Not Be The Last'

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Catholic Archbishop Viganò calls for a halt of the goose-step march to madness and death.

A Thoughtful And Persuasive Rejection Of mRNA "Vaccines"

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Short takes on selected items in the news...

Comments In Brief

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'"The Public Good" Isn't Mark Zuckerberg's-- Or Congress's-- Priority'

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Putting the lie to a vicious narrative theme:

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

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Liberty in Peril'

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

Getting The Numbers Right

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

Target Shooting

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

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

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

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

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

Three Powerful New Video Testimonials To Share

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

''Covid, 9/11 & Forever War'

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

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

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

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

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'On Track For Calamitous Policy Outcomes'

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This should turn the tide, if shared around sufficiently:

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

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

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

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

A Quiver-Full Of Common Sense

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

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

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

The COVID-19 - Election Fraud Connection

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

More CtC-Educated Victories For The Rule of Law

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Because something really needs to be said...

Brief Comments On Selected Subjects In The News

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'The FBI Is Orchestrating Its Own Terrorism Plots'

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

New Evidence Emerges Of Election Fraud In Georgia

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

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

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In rebuttal of a despicable and agenda-driven calumny:

A Few Words About Thomas Jefferson

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Pseudopandemic'

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Here's a very serious, very important question:

Declaration Day. Did You Do It?

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Hurray for the heroes!

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

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

Random Comments On The Current Madness

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'The 'Conspiracy Theory' Charade'

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

Speaking Plainly About "Transgender" Madness

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People too often get this backwards:

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

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'Was There A Wuhan Lab Leak?'

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

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

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In the news:

The Fauci Emails Are Being Furiously Spun By The Usual Suspects

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

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

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

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

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Why is it that...

Challenging Questions On A Few Selected Current-Event Topics

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Switching gears and going for some uplift:

It's Time To Celebrate Some More CtC Victories

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'The Ignorant World And What To Do About It'

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A disturbing little exercise in reverse engineering:

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

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It's all about staying on subject...

Dealing With IRS Opportunism

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Sorting out facts and despicable fictions:

On "Vaccines" And "Variants"

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'The Political Economy Of Fear'

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

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

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

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

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

'We Must Never Forget The Old Normal'

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

Find my YouTube channel here.

 

The upgraded Sixteenth Edition of CtC is Now Available!

Btw, a copy of CtC from anywhere except the link above may not be a current edition. CHECK. It matters. Also, there ARE no e-book, Kindle or .pdf versions of CtC. Don't get taken in by efforts to sell you-- or even give you for free-- any such thing.

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

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

December 13- In 1636, the Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes the first American militia regiments.  In 1862, Robert E. Lee defeats Ambrose E. Burnside in the Battle of Fredericksburg.  In 1937, the Japanese army begins the Rape of Nanjing, China.  In 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts begin the final traversing of the lunar surface by human beings (so far).  In 1981, General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland in response to Solidarity's threat to the security of the existing communist regime.  In 2003, Saddam Hussein of Iraq is captured by units of the United States occupation.  In 2004, former Chilean Decider Augusto Pinochet is arrested over crimes committed while in office years earlier.

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A Few Words About "Climate Change" Fraud

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

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

Then share this link with everyone you can

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

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

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

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

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

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Rick Van Camp's Excellent Outreach Letter

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Notes And Tips For Educated Filers

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Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

December 14- In 1819, Alabama becomes the 22nd sovereign American state and is admitted to the union as such.  In 1902, the first Pacific telegraph cable is laid, from California to Hawaii.  In 1903, the Wright brothers make their first attempt in Kitty Hawk.  In 1911, Roald Amundsen and his team become the first to reach the South Pole.  In 1947, NASCAR is founded.  In 2008, an Iraqi journalist hurls his shoes at George W. Bush in a gesture of contempt and defiance during a news conference in Baghdad.

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A Two-Minute Review Of CtC

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

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

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Eric Copenhaver With A Great Video Testimonial

SEE MORE GREAT VIDEOS.

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

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The Best Response To Tax Agency Bad Behavior

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

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

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

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

Cognitive dissonance in action.

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

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

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Hey, Gamers!

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

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

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

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

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

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Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

December 15- In 1791, ratification by Virginia effects the first ten Articles of Amendment to the Unites States Constitution: The Bill of Rights.  In 1891, basketball is born, with the nailing of peach baskets on opposite walls of a gymnasium at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts.  In 1960, Richard Paul Pavlick is arrested for an effort to assassinate newly-elected president John F. Kennedy by car-bomb four days earlier, which was aborted at the last minute due to the unexpected presence of Jacqueline Kennedy.  In 2011, the bulk of US regular military forces withdraw from a devastated Iraq after 9 years of invasion and occupation.

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The 'Watching the Watchmen Amendment'

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

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

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

Set Your Church Free

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

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

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Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!

CtC Warrior SanDiegoScott has put together a great little 20-question quiz to test your knowledge of the law regarding the United States "income" tax. Test yourself, test your friends and family! Test your accountant and tax attorney, and help them learn the liberating truth!!

Click here to take the test

Click here for more Tax IQ tests

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Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

December 16- In 1773, patriots in Boston brew tea in the harbor.  In 1965, General William Westmoreland asks Defense Secretary McNamara to send 243,000 more young American men to Vietnam.  In 1989, Robert Smith Vance becomes the third United States federal judge killed during the 1980s in response to his judicial rulings.  In 1998, the United States and Britain do a little gratuitous bombing of Iraq in an effort to distract public attention from the impeachment proceedings going on against Bill Clinton.  In 2007, Presidential candidate Ron Paul raises a record $6 million+ in 24 hours.

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

-James Madison

How About You?

Are You Governing Yourself?

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

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

HOMESCHOOL YOUR KIDS!

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Some Observations Regarding Educated And Accurate Filing

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

Renew Your Promise

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

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

-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson

The Choice Is This Stark

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

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Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

December 17- In 1862, Major-General Ulysses S. Grant issues an order expelling all Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky for alleged participation in a black market of Southern cotton being sold to Northern mills.  Public outcry forces the rescinding of the order a few weeks later-- Grant sheepishly claims that a subordinate had written the order, and he had signed it without reading it.  In 1903, the Wright brothers make it happen at Kitty Hawk.  In 1957, the United States successfully launches the first Atlas ICBM.  In 1969, the first Strategic Arms Limitation Talks begin between the United States and the Soviet Union over controlling the proliferation of  ICBMs.  In 2007, the Republic of Lakotah, comprising territory from North and South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and Nebraska, declares its independence from the United States. In 2010, Mohammed Bouazizi sets himself on fire in protest at the US-supported despotic regime of Zine El Abadine Ben Ali, sparking a revolution which ousted the Ben Ali and his government 29 days later.  In 2014, the United States, having acknowledged that its 55-years of sanctions against Cuba were an abject failure at their ostensible goal of prompting regime change by revolution, re-establishes normal relations.

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

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

Regarding "Tax Reform"

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HELP SPREAD THE LIBERATING TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX

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

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

December 18- In 1787, New Jersey becomes the third of the several states to ratify the United States Constitution and authorize the new version of the federal government.  In 1912, the "Piltdown Man" hoax begins.  In 1932, the Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans 9 - 0 in the first-ever NFL Championship game.  In 1972, Richard Nixon announces that the United States will spend the Christmas season bombing North Vietnam.  In 2002, California governor Gray Davis admits that the deficit faced by the state is actually about double the $17 billion or so he acknowledged during his re-election campaign a month earlier.  In 2019, the US House impeaches President Donald Trump on a spurious charge of bribing the president of Ukraine to re-open an investigation into influence-peddling by former Vice President Joe Biden which Biden had bribed Ukraine's president into closing a few years earlier.

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Last Word

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

-Samuel Adams, Architect of the first American Revolution

 

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About The Author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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