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Current Events and Continuing Education for February 13, 2023

"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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You'll want to sit down for this one, and then afterward, stand up.

The Ugly Face Of Gender Confusion Disorder

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"Social distancing" originated as a middle-school science project. There's another such juvenile notion being enthusiastically promoted...

A Few Words About "Chatbots", And AI In General

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Guns: When "Constitutional Carry" Isn't

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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:

February 13- In 1866, Confederate soldier Jesse James and his gang commit their first bank robbery, targeting a Union militia officer's institution in Liberty, Missouri.  In 1899, Tallahassee, Florida records a temperature of -2 degrees Fahrenheit.  In 1935, Bruno Hauptman is found guilty of kidnapping and murdering Charles Lindbergh's baby.  In 1960, France tests its first atomic bomb.  In 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is exiled from the USSR.  In 1996, CtC Warrior Thomas Jefferson Hendrickson is born.  In 2021, a winter storm kills 246 Texans in the western part of the state where wind turbines, with which reliable fossil-fuel electric generators had foolishly been replaced (and those which remained were left undersupplied with fuel reserves), froze up.

 

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.

The Ugly Face Of Gender Confusion Disorder

...and the even greater ugliness of its promoters and exploiters.

LAST WEEK AMERICA WAS TREATED to a disturbing display of disturbed Americans occupying the Oklahoma state Capitol. These folks, all afflicted with Gender Confusion Disorder (GCD), seized the building in an effort to intimidate the Oklahoma legislature and governor Kevin Stitt into backing down on the criminalization of "medical" exploitation of the syndrome, which involves the lucrative but appalling practice of chemical and surgical mutilation of the deluded victims, in manifestly futile and counter-productive efforts to convert males into females (or provide the appearance thereof), and vice-versa.

Among the long-term effects of these horrendous abuses is the sterilization of the victims-- who are often young children induced into the disorder and led to believe that its remedy is "affirmation" of the confusion, rather than its correction, by pushers with a financial or psychological self-interest in swelling the numbers of these poor sufferers. Even when falling short of that level of irreversible tragedy, the mere encouragement-- active or passive-- of GCD sets its victims up for long-term psychological harm as critical adolescent growth of comfort and confidence in a young person's true identity-- sexual and otherwise-- is lost in the fog of the illness.

I'LL FOREGO THE OPPORTUNITY to compare the governmental and media reaction to this GCD "insurrection" and the reaction to the much more peaceful and respectful behavior in the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 of folks there to see evidence of now well-established election-rigging given a fair hearing in front of the whole of Congress before the certification of disputed election results (see here, here and here). My focus here is on the so-called "trans" community and its agenda and its recent adoption of a militant demeanor.

I had no personal experience with militancy among the GCD-afflicted during the first few years of its eruption. Indeed, my only direct experience with such folks at all was by encounter now and then with a man pathetically and futilely pretending he is a woman, or a woman pretending to be a man at some business. Off-putting and creepy, but quiet.

Lately, however, the GCD "community"-- fortified by a now familiar, seemingly coordinated, campaign of ubiquitous exposure and celebration in the mainstream media-- has taken a page from the "loud and proud" gay playbook, escalating rapidly into in-your-face confrontations like the one seen in Oklahoma. And lately, I have had some personal experience of that.

BACK IN OCTOBER, my daughter and I participated in a rally at the Nashville War Memorial in support of legislation in Tennessee to ban the mutilation and other "affirmational" abuses of children under 18 in the name of gender confusion. I've attached a video, below, consisting of several segments I recorded with my phone during the affair, stitched together into about ten minutes of total footage.

My recordings weren't taken with an eye toward exposing or illustrating GCD militants. Rather, I meant simply to memorialize the impressive size of the turnout by supporters of the legislation-- about 10,000, it is estimated-- who gathered with little prior notice. This is important, in my view, as activism and visible support for a virtuous position encourages more of the same, and the position being supported here is VERY virtuous.

That virtue is found in that "affirmation", rather than correction of GCD is pernicious, and a great evil to those individuals upon whom it is practiced-- especially the children among them. It is also found in that allowing the persistence, and worse, the growth, of delusional notions like the existence within a female body of what really is a male person-- and all the assaults on language and logic and the rational foundation of civilized society that necessarily proceed from the toleration and embrace of such delusional notions-- are a grave danger to all the principles and practices that have elevated Western Civilization to the inestimably-valuable engine of liberty and prosperity that it had been prior to the onslaught of progressivist assaults over the course of the last 85 years or so, of which the "affirmational" ambitions of the GCD-afflicted and their exploiters are but the latest wave. Those of us who love liberty and the American experiment on its behalf must draw a line, and this is now the place to do so.

Again, I did not focus on the GCD militants who crashed the Nashville rally-- indeed, to have done so would have been near intolerable, as they made a point of being as noisy and obnoxious as possible, in the hope of drowning out or distracting attention from those on hand to address the gathered crowd in support of the legislation at issue. It was not possible to get too close to that unpleasantness and cacophony, and I had my quite pregnant daughter to keep safe from both hooliganism and excessive noise.

But something like 50 to 75 disrupters were in attendance, armed with bullhorns and boom-boxes and practiced chants. These annoyances, amongst whom were a contingent wearing some form of body armor and masks and who strove to appear menacing, did everything they could to hinder the organizers of the rally, despite a considerable police presence who were rigidly oblivious to the fact that the rally organizers had a permit and the disrupters did not.

I actually made this point about permits to a couple of the statue-like cops, and was told that they were simply doing as instructed in doing nothing. It appeared that they were on hand to ensure that the protestors didn't get driven off by the vastly-larger crowd of rally attendees...

YOU WILL HAVE HEARD some of the disruptions during my little film segments, and references to them by the speakers they were meant to hamper. As I said, I did not attempt to capture footage of these creatures specifically, but I did pull a snapshot from one of my segments which I think nicely illustrates this contingent of disruptors:

The people involved can't be readily distinguished here, I know. But take note, please, of the sign in the middle left. "Nazi lives don't matter", with a graphic image of an execution about to take place. The opposite side of that sign read, "F*ck around and find out" (without the muting asterisk). This sign, depicting the attitude of these nutcases toward the rest of us, is representative of many on hand.

It is also representative of the political position solidifying around us, in which any application of judgment, or standards of comportment or rationality are condemned and denounced, and Americans find themselves increasingly resident on the island in Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'. It's not a healthy place to be.

Across the country in pockets, so far, but growing pockets, grown-ups are rising to do something about this madness, as are the legislators in Tennessee on whose behalf the rally in October was held, and those in Oklahoma where the mob descended last week. Utah, Arkansas and other oases are also emerging.

I hope that every good American rises to support to these efforts and helps roll back the onslaught of this corrosive "trans" madness.

For too long the good among us have let our natural courtesy and generosity of spirit dictate our behavior in this regard, and that restraint has been exploited to our ever-more-serious and enduring, deeply-rooted harm. It's time to remember that while the chivalric code calls for soft words, it also calls for hard knocks, when appropriate.

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

-Edward R. Murrow

  

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

-Voltaire

 

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

– Edmund Burke

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A Couple Of Brief Additional Comments...

...related to the foregoing by perspective at least, if not necessarily much else...

WE HEARD A LOT ABOUT "TOXIC MASCULINITY" a few years ago. I think now it is clear that what was really meant by that, even if not fully realized by the purveyors of the trope, is that masculinity is toxic to "wokeness" and squishiness and most of the other progessivist pathologies with which our culture is lately infested. This means that rather than being a toxin, masculinity is actually medicine, and America plainly needs a lot more of it.

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HAVE YOU EVER REFLECTED on the fact that if you have a $billion to invest toward making more than a $billion by hook or by crook, you are equipped to deliver fully a thousand million dollar bribes to key folks who occupy public and private positions which can be useful in committing or covering up the scheme? Or ten thousand bribes of $100,000 each, for that matter-- still likely more than enough to get what you want from a whole lot of folks, especially those who recognize the ability of a motivated billionaire to successfully take control of the narrative and pull off a cover-up?

I think we all should give this some thought...

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I WANT TO GO ON RECORD here and now in favor of legislation-- or even just widespread resolution-- providing for the public hanging of anyone guilty of bloviating, blustering or blundering the US into-- or even just meaningfully closer to-- nuclear war under any pretext or in any circumstance short of an actual military attack on American citizens on American soil. How do you feel?

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WITH THE RECENT RELEASE OF ITS FILM VERSION of the "1619" project, it is time for everyone with any self-respect and respect for academic accuracy, and who recognizes the importance of protecting America's children from rank propaganda and false history, to cancel their Hulu subscriptions. The risible fictions of the "1619 Project" are so egregiously wrong, and so thoroughly denounced by actual historians from all ideological perspectives, that Hulu's production and airing of this nonsense can only be deliberate malfeasance, and a conscious assault on American political and social stability and domestic tranquility.

Such actions may or may not rise to the level of treason (surely giving aid and comfort to America's enemies, if not an explicitly-declared enemy), but they are so heinous, and so seemingly-calculated to exacerbate an already volatile and sporadically-violent disharmony present in this country based on false assertions of institutionalized white racism that condemnation in the strongest possible form is called for. Do you agree?

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A Few Words About "Chatbot", And AI In General

Another juvenile and dangerous infestation.

THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN WITH ME for at least the last few years are aware that the obnoxious and harmful notion of "social distancing" by which we were all afflicted during the most destructive years of the C19 hobgoblin was originally conceived as a middle-schooler's science fair project (as discussed and documented in this detailed presentation on the "pandemic"). Now we have another enthusiasm of the same juvenile character but with much more dangerous potential taking root: "Chatbots" (and other AI "content creators").

The problem is that these programs will be deployed to produce content on all manner of subjects, much of which will be relied upon by citizens/consumers/moral actors, etc. (often-- or even mostly-- without knowing it is the mere and unadulterated output of software). Much of that content will be wrong, misleading or outright disinformational.

For instance, Rod Schmidt tested the thing recently, with this question:

"What is IRS form 4852?"

The answer produced was as follows:

"Form 4852 is a tax form used by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the United States. It is used as a substitute for a lost or missing W-2 form, which is a statement provided by an employer to an employee that shows the employee's total taxable earnings for the year.

Form 4852 is used when an employee does not receive their W-2 form in time to file their tax return. The form requires the employee to estimate their total taxable income and tax withholding for the year based on information from their pay stubs or other records. The employee then submits the completed form to the IRS along with their tax return.

Form 4852 is not a permanent replacement for a W-2 form, and the employee should still request a copy of their W-2 from their employer if it has not been received."

Plainly an incomplete explanation, and as such, completely misleading.

Rod tried again-- this time couching the matter as only someone who already knew the answer could do:

"What IRS form is used as a substitute for an incorrect W-2 form?"

This pre-knowledge-grounded question got a better answer:

"The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) form used as a substitute for an incorrect W-2 form is Form 4852. This form is used when an employee receives a W-2 form that contains incorrect information and needs to file their tax return before receiving a corrected W-2 form from their employer.

Form 4852 requires the employee to estimate their total taxable income and tax withholding for the year based on information from their pay stubs or other records, and submit it to the IRS along with their tax return. Once the corrected W-2 form is received, the employee should compare the information on the corrected form with the information they provided on Form 4852 and make any necessary adjustments to their tax return."

A better answer, yes, but still not optimal, as any CtC-educated person can see. The problem (or a problem, at least) inherent in "chatbots" and other AI products is a lack of actual understanding of what is being asked about-- not understanding of an IRS form, but understanding of the the whole point of any such inquiry.

Always absent from the overall assembly of information/assertions that will be had from such software is context-- the context of the inquiry. Robots don't pay taxes, for instance, or receive W-2s, correct or incorrect. They can have no clue as to what might truly be relevant-- or necessary to be completely relevant-- for an answer concerning that subject.

In the same vein, also lacking will be any underlying research informing the answer given. Lacking the context of an inquiry, for which an artificial answerer can have no perspective-- no skin in the game, as it were-- that answerer cannot recognize what might need to be researched in order to provide a complete answer.

The bottom line is that in every case except the most rudimentary, "chatbots" will provide incomplete answers (hence, misleading answers), and to where tasked with producing "journalism", as is now going on in some quarters, they will be little or nothing more than stenographers for "official" (hence, assumedly "authoritative") assertions and perspectives. That this will be little different from what we usually get from the MSM in the way of alleged "journalism" already is no comfort, since in addition to being routinely misleading, "chatbots" will be entirely unaccountable, and hence there will be not the slightest motivation at any level to strive for accuracy or honesty.

"I didn't write that, the machine did..."

At a minimum, every post or writing (or painting, or other thing produced by this sort of technology) should be required to come with a bold-print, top-of-the-piece statement that the content which follows is the product of a computer program, and, if concerning a text product, cannot be assumed to reflect any research or actual knowledge of the subject matter.

A sensible people will demand legislation imposing this requirement.

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Tools For Leveraging The CtC Superpower

You've got magic in your hands, if you will use it...

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The Income Tax Law, In Seven Pages

Really.

HERE IS THE LAW, IN 7 PAGES.

HERE IS HOW THE SCHEME WORKS, IN 8 PAGES.

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

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

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

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Not Letting This "Crisis" Go To Waste...

...an important action item opportunity.

FRIENDS, THE SPORADIC BITS OF EASING of the despotic measures to which most of the country has been subjected 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.

Click here for the rest of this article

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

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

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

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

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How To Be A Leader In The CtC Community

It's simple:

KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX IN DETAIL

LEAD BY EXAMPLE

KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE RESOURCES

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

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

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

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

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Are You Having Trouble Spreading The Word?

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

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

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

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The Liberating Truth About The 16th Amendment

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

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

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

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

-Thomas Paine

 

OUTREACH!!!

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

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

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

-George Orwell

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Other Voices (followed by an important afterword)

Guns: When "Constitutional Carry" Isn't

by Thomas L. Knapp

On January 30, several Florida legislators introduced HB 543, “Concealed Carry of Weapons and Firearms Without a License.” If passed, it would “allow” anyone — Floridian or not — who “meets specified requirements” to carry concealed firearms in the state.

Many gun rights supporters laud HB 543 as not just a good step, but something called “constitutional carry,” even though among other defects, it doesn’t seem to legalize “open” (that is, unconcealed) carry. Let’s review what restrictions the US Constitution empowers government at any level to impose on the possession or carry of firearms:

THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK

It’s difficult to get more clear or prescriptive than “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” See that period at the end there?

The Florida bill ever so slightly lightens one specific unconstitutional burden on one specific right, while imposing at least one patently unconstitutional burden on those exercising that right: They “[m]ust carry valid identification at all times when he or she is in actual possession of a concealed weapon or concealed firearm and must display such identification upon demand by a law enforcement officer.”

Suppose that one does not meet the law’s unconstitutional “specified requirements” — for example, having never been convicted of offenses related to “controlled substances” — but decides to carry  concealed (as is his or her right) anyway.

Requiring that person to provide “valid identification” (“valid” seems to be undefined in the bill) is a requirement that the person incriminate himself or herself, a requirement forbidden by the Fifth Amendment.

Unless a police officer has probable cause to believe that you’re committing or have committed a crime, who you are is none of that police officer’s business. And if  he or she DOES have such probable cause, it’s his or her job to identify you, not your duty to identify yourself.

HB 543 isn’t “constitutional carry.” It’s a partial relaxation of unconstitutional restrictions, combined with new unconstitutional restrictions.

Real “constitutional carry” would look something like this:

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

 

Afterword

KNAPP'S CONTENTIONS SEEM PRETTY STARK and simple and lacking in nuance, don't they? To which I say, "How refreshing!"... and how absolutely virtuous and correct.

Let me fortify the substance of Knapp's position-- which essentially is that per the terms of the Second Amendment governments have no authority to determine or impose limits-- "reasonable" or otherwise-- on the ownership, possession or carrying of weapons-- with a deep dive into the history of the amendment, the express views of those who promulgated and adopted the amendment, and the specific meaning of the words of the amendment, which will be found here.

Upon studying those facts, it will become clear to anyone and everyone that under no circumstances can any imposition be Constitutionally made by any government upon anyone's exercise of this right. To tolerate such an imposition, no matter how enthusiastically or forcefully advocated, is to fatally undermine the whole point of the amendment.

America is just waking up (I hope) from a long period since the time of FDR in which idiotic and indefensible state-serving declarations have been common to the effect of, "All rights have limitations..."-- meaning, the state has the authority to determine (or set limits upon) what "rights" people have.

Actually, no. The whole idea of a "right" is that insofar as it extends, it is proof against any tempering or limitation. Its exercise is solely and 100% at the discretion of the individual in whom it inheres.

Misunderstanding on this point arises because the extent of a right is-- in some cases-- limited, a point summed up nicely in the observation that, "your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins." Such limits are not due to some overriding authority of a state to impose such limits, though, but because everyone has and must have equal rights with everyone else.

Courts are tasked in this country with determining when such "fist" and "nose" conflicts arise and how they must be resolved. But where a right is spelled out in explicit terms, as in those of the Second Amendment, and its exercise as spelled out cannot conflict with the rights of anyone else (there being no such thing as a right to an environment or circumstance outside one's own home in which others cannot have or carry guns, for instance, or any like that) no limits exist to be found.

Our culture today has been trained to think otherwise about rights, by a state which hungers to exercise authority over everything. But this ambition of the state is not only ungrounded in any actual authority, it is at war with the principles and purposes of American states as conceived and as constituted.

We need to regain our understanding of the nature of rights and the limitations of states. Here is a good place to start, and here is a good place to continue.

Beyond the matter of refreshing our own understanding of our rights and the limitations of state authority, it is important to dampen the state's illegitimate ambitions by restricting the resources with which it pursues them.

In that regard, let's remember (or come to understand, in some cases) that individual Americans CAN stand up and pull the plug on an overly ambitious state. Individual Americans CAN defund the state that has become more a danger to our rights than their champion.

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 and learn all about this solution-- and how it will play-out under its own relentless logic-- in this little two-page paper. Read it, think about it, share it.

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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!"

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-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."

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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.

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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:

On a proper reading of the civil rights laws,

If Any Discrimination Is To Be Illegal, Ideological Discrimination Surely Qualifies

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It's time the grown-ups go on offense and get America on the path to...

Recovering From The Madness

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

This Time It's Different

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As this year's "tax season" commences...

A Few Words About Corruption And American Civic Responsibility

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A bad idea born of ignorance has once again reared its ugly head.

Regarding The So-Called "Fair Tax"

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The issue of Kamala Harris's qualification for office is becoming very important, because...

It Looks Like Joe Biden Might Be Getting The Hook

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

DeSantis Hammers NHL Over Discriminatory Job Posting

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It's that time again...

So, Here We Are At Another "Resolution Day"

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The folks who have been using it to disenfranchise and manipulate us think so, but what about you?

Do You Think The FBI Deserves A New HQ?

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Biden's Latest JFK Document Dump Is A JOKE

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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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It's a proper season in which to report:

A Nice Victory In Tax Court

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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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See Prior Editions In Their Entirety:

Newsletter Archives

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Get All Newsletters As They Are Published:

Newsletter Delivery Options

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

Find my YouTube channel here.

 

The upgraded Seventeenth 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:

February 14- In 1779, James Cook is killed in Hawaii.  In 1803, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall acknowledges that any act by Congress in conflict with the Constitution is null and void.  In 1859, Oregon is admitted to the union as the 33rd of the several states.  In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray each apply for a patent for the telephone.  In 1899, Congress approves the use of voting machines in federal elections.  In 1903, the United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established.  In 1912, Arizona is admitted to the union as the 48th of the several states.  In 1929, Al Capone's gang commits the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.  In 1989, the first GPS satellite is put into orbit.  In 2011, a popular uprising against the US-backed dictatorship of Bahrain begins.

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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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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:

February 15- In 1898, the USS Maine explodes in Havana Harbor, Cuba, providing a pretext for the United States to declare war on Spain.  In 1933, an assassin bungles an attempt to shoot FDR during a speech in Miami, Florida, but does shoot and fatally wound the mayor of Chicago, who was in the car from which the president was speaking.  In 1946, ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled.  In 1971, the first celebration of Washington's Birthday takes place on the third Monday of February, rather than the actual anniversary of February 22. Although Lincoln idolaters have sought to mischaracterize the new schedule as somehow making the occasion a combined celebration of Washington and Lincoln, the holiday is still officially dedicated exclusively to Washington's Birthday.  In 1989, the Soviet Union announces that all its troops have left Afghanistan.  In 2003, protests against the impending U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq take place in 800 cities worldwide.  BBC News estimates the participation of between 6 and 10 million people in what proves to be the largest peace demonstration in history.  The Bush administration pays no attention...  In 2005, YouTube is launched.

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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:

February 16- In 1804, Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held USS frigate Philadelphia in the First Barbary War.  In 1852, the Studebaker Brothers Wagon Company is founded.  In 1918, Lithuania declares its independence.  In 1923, Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Tutankhamun.  In 1937, nylon is patented.  In 1959, Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba.  In 1985, Hezbollah is founded in Lebanon. In 2011, protests fomented against the regime of Moammar Ghaddafi by western interests disturbed by extensive oil-production deals being made between Ghaddafi and Chinese organizations, and unhappy about Ghaddafi's decision to cease selling Libyan oil solely for US dollars and instead sell for a new gold coin currency he intended to introduce and encourage as a regional competitor to the dollar and the euro, begin.  In Bahrain, the US-backed dictatorship conducts a violent suppression of that country's nascent uprising, on what becomes known as "Bloody Thursday".

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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:

February 17- In 1621, Myles Standish is appointed commander of the Plymouth Colony.  In 1801, Thomas Jefferson is elected President of the United States.  In 1819, the U.S. House passes the Missouri Compromise.  In 1865, the Union army burns Columbia, South Carolina to the ground.  In 1867, the first ship passes through the newly-opened Suez Canal.  In 1996, after losing to the machine a week earlier, Garry Kasparov beats Deep Blue at chess.

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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:

February 18- In 1841, the first filibuster begins in the United States Senate.  It will last until March 11.  In 1885, 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' is published.  In 1930, Pluto is discovered.  In 1930, a cow named Elm Farm Ollie makes the first bovine flight in a fixed-wing aircraft.  In 1943, the members of the White Rose anti-Nazi movement are arrested in Germany.  In 1979, snow falls in the Southern Algerian portion of the Sahara Desert.  In 1991, the IRA explodes bombs in Paddington Station and Victoria Station in London.  In 2014, the US-instigated coup by neo-Nazi factions in Ukraine against the existing elected government, which was balking at following a US-charted foreign-policy course calling for distancing itself from Russia, began to boil into its final days.  Mysterious sniper fire indiscriminately killed both police officers defending the government and rioters whipped up by the plotters of the coup amidst steady, increasingly violent clashes between the two sides.  Scores are killed and hundreds wounded.

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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:

February 19- In 1674, England and the Netherlands make peace in their third war, a provision of which hands New Amsterdam over to the British, who rename it "New York".  In 1807, former vice-president Aaron Burr is arrested for treason.  In 1846, the Republic of Texas government relinquishes power in favor of the new government of the state of Texas.  In 1878, Edison patents the phonograph.  In 1881, Kansas goes "dry".  In 1942, FDR asserts the authority to confine Americans of Japanese descent to prison camps.

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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.

� All written and graphic material on this page and website are copyrighted by Peter E. Hendrickson, unless otherwise attributed.