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May 20- In 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob
Davis receive a patent for blue jeans with copper rivets. In 1902, Cuba is
granted limited "independence" by the United States. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh
heads for Paris. In 1932, Amelia Earhart heads for Ireland. In 1940, the first
prisoners arrive at the Auschwitz death-camp. In 1949, the United States
"National Security Agency" (NSA) is established (under its original name, the
"Armed Forces Security Agency"). In 1989, the Chinese state declares martial
law in the face of the growing demonstrations against government corruption
which would lead to the Tiananmen Square massacre a few weeks later.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter
below.
Please don't just
read what I post here (or anywhere), and nod your head sagely or
approvingly and then move on to other things. I don't post in order
to affirm your sense of things. I post in order to equip you with
perspectives and arguments with which to
educate others, and in the
expectation that you will forward my posts to other people (or
direct them to those posts). PLEASE do those things,
especially in recognition of the fact
that my posts are heavily suppressed. They will NOT get out
if you don't get them out.
Remember, we won't win by only YOU knowing what I
present. We will win by LOTS OF OTHERS knowing what I present.
***
BTW, join me on The Shields Report
the first Saturday of every month at 5PM EDT!!
...from a pastor with the kind of good
sense and sand rarely seen in that
crowd in recent years; and a little history lesson
to debunk an Israeli narrative myth.
CHUCK BALDWIN HAS POSTED
a pretty powerful rebuttal to the
"Israelis-as-God's-Chosen-People" narrative by which
certain Christian sects here in America are easily
exploited for the benefit of Israeli (and American
neocon) interests. This is a big deal because
Israeli (and neocon) interests are rarely, if ever,
aligned with legitimate American interests.
It is also a big deal because that
"Chosen People" narrative appears to be in direct
conflict with the teachings of Jesus Christ. As a
result, it seems to me, all those seduced by it are
(however inadvertently) thereby led to betray their
professed Christian faith.
I'll let Baldwin explain:
[A]s I have shown in my Israel and Prophecy messages,
Christ’s New Covenant has completely abolished the
Old Covenant made with Biblical Israel; in fact, the
remnant of Biblical Israel in Jerusalem and Judea
was completely destroyed
in 70 AD by the Roman army in fulfillment of
both Old and New Testament prophecies.
Zionist Israel is a
complete counterfeit, and the modern city of
Jerusalem is NOT the Jerusalem of the Bible. Under
Christ’s New Covenant, the
“Jews” are NOT God’s chosen people. God’s elect
are people of every race who come to faith in
Christ.
Therefore, it is absolutely
untrue that modern Israel is promised any sort of
“blessing,” “protection” or “perpetuity” in Holy
Scripture. Israel is just another pagan antichrist
state that opposes Jesus Christ, Christian people
and everything the New Covenant stands for. As such,
it sits under the judgment and condemnation of
Almighty God.
I challenge people to read
again the books of the Major Prophets: Isaiah,
Jeremiah and Ezekiel. The vast majority of what they
wrote pronounced God’s judgment and destruction upon
the wicked, apostate nations of Israel and
Judah—prophecies which ALL came true.
The Assyrian Empire
completely destroyed Israel (the ten northern
tribes) in 721 BC, as prophesied by God’s prophets.
The Babylonians destroyed Judah (the two southern
tribes), including the city of Jerusalem and the
temple, in 586 BC, as prophesied by God’s prophets.
The remnant of the
Judahites was completely annihilated by the Romans
in 70 AD, as prophesied by God’s prophets, the New
Testament apostles, John the Baptist and Jesus
Himself.
Bottom line: The covenant
with national Israel has been abolished for 2,000
years. There are no more prophecies for Old Covenant
Israel. There are no “Jewish signs” portending
Christ’s Second Coming. And the Roman city of
“Jerusalem” in Palestine today (originally named
Aelia Capitolina, meaning “The City of Hadrian and
Jupiter,” in 135 AD) has nothing whatsoever to do
with the Bible, prophecy or the return of Christ.
NOTHING.
NOW, I AM BY NO MEANS a Biblical
scholar, nor intimately familiar with Chuck
Baldwin's work or credentials. I cannot
independently argue in any depth for or against much
of Baldwin's wide-ranging reasoning and the
authorities on which he claims it is based (either
in the excerpt above or
the totality of his column).
But it certainly is my understanding
that core principles behind the Christian redemption
message include universalism and the realization of
the promise behind Christ's sacrifice lying in faith
and adherence to Jesus' teachings rather than in
mere ethnicity or tribal connections-- especially
ethnicity or tribal connections in which Christ's
divinity is denied.
In accordance with these principles,
the New Testament, as Baldwin says, inarguably
presents a new covenant which necessarily
dissolves and replaces the old one. In accordance
with that fact, adherence to the trappings
of the old covenant-- such as the notion that
today's state of Israel is somehow special, rather
than just another nation or society with a good
propaganda machine and a gullible audience in
certain quarters, is a rejection of the new covenant
and thus, profoundly UN-Christian.
Still, as said, I am no great Biblical
scholar. I leave conclusions to be reached by each
of you on your own, recognizing this to be a highly
personal matter for anyone with whom any of the
foregoing resonates.
But if you agree with my
conclusions, it seems to me that the properly
Christian thing to do is to share those conclusions
and the admonition they entail with others--
especially including people like Mike Johnson and
other members of Congress, and those who might be
tempted to support them in their reflexive (or
performative) prostration before Bibi Netanyahu and
crew.
***
Secondly, contrary to an
Israeli-flogged myth meant to confuse discourse on
the "Israel-Palestine" situation...
...PALESTINE WAS NOT "GIFTED" to the
Jewish people out of sympathy for the horrors of the
Holocaust. Rather, in
a heinous exercise of arrogant
colonialism, an extra-large helping of Palestine was
offered by the British to Zionists, in response to
their persistent requests for someone else's land,
in 1917-- decades before World
War II.
Over the intervening years-- most of
which preceded WWII-- Jewish
settlers who chose to take advantage of the offer and
relocate to Palestine
smuggled large caches of
weapons into the country (and
see this for some further insight into pre-1948
Zionist expansionist ambitions), even while the UN
eventually formalized the British offer with an
explicit division of Palestine into a Jewish portion
and a native Palestinian portion:
The division was still being argued
about by the native Palestinian side even though
they had reluctantly come to terms with the idea of
giving up much of their country to a foreign colony,
due in large part to the fact that its population
was far greater than that of the Jewish immigrants
at that time, and yet the immigrants were being
given 57% of the Palestinian's lands (only 10% of
which had been actually paid for by immigrants) with
only 43% left for the native Palestinians.
However, in May of 1948, immediately
upon the withdrawal of the British forces that had
administered the country since World War I (a
withdrawal hurried along by Jewish terrorism against
those administrators, most notably
the bombing of the King David hotel), the
well-armed Jewish immigrants erupted in
a
sweeping surprise assault on the native Palestinians.
Over the course of the subsequent 12 months or so a
large percentage of that native population was
killed or driven into refugee status outside the
country, with the remainder herded into imprisoning
enclaves in Gaza and the West Bank.
Since that initial prolonged assault,
those now calling all of Palestine "Israel" have
continuously and with increasing violence and
brutality encroached further and further upon the
remaining native Palestinian population, in a slow
but steady program of land theft and ethnic
cleansing until October 7 of 2023, when the pedal
was put to the metal after the suspiciously
convenient total failure of the Gaza prison
apparatus and the slow-walk Israeli response that
day.
At the same time, over all those years
from 1948 on, the Israelis have been systematically
abusive of America's ill-considered good will toward
them. A by-no-means exhaustive list of examples of
those villainous abuses can be found in "The
Relevant Facts" section of
this
article, right after the discussion of 22 U.S.C.
§§ 2799aa and 2799aa-1 and its specific mandate for
presidential action in regard to states like Israel
(a mandate of which Joe Biden is currently in
violation).
NOW, IT MIGHT STILL BE ARGUED that the
Holocaust influenced some decision-making by those
who chose to recognize the newly-declared state of
Israel upon (or despite) that violent seizure of
Palestinian land in 1948-- people like the
wide-ranging disaster that was Harry Truman, for
example. But by no means does the current state of
Israel exist or have a "right" to do so as
recompense for abuses visited upon the Jewish people
during WWII or at any other time.
Rather, it exists as a consequence of
brutal, abusive acts by the Zionist immigrants
themselves against another people, with the help of
arrogant Brits who themselves came to regret what
they had done. Please help set the record straight
whenever you encounter the myth, so we can all have
the honest and informed discourse in all respects
that is called for in regard to the ongoing madness
and escalating danger to the world which is
festering in the Middle East today.
***
Now, 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
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"e-mail this article" link to send it to
someone else by that method.
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 EASINGS of the despotic measures to
which most of the country has been subjected under
since the onset of the
COVID-19 hobgoblin narrative should not be
allowed to bleed off the head of steam you probably had been developing.
The offenses happened, and they're far from over. Stay hot.
And while you are all warmed up, and while others, if
they're smart, are just as hot, I'd like you to send an email (and
Facebook post, or whatever) with the following content to everyone you
can (with a request that they pass it along, in turn):
[Name], since March of 2020 you've
watched as over-fed state power has been used to literally destroy
classical Western civilization and impose a new despotic paradigm. No
dissent or debate permitted-- no permission or agreement sought.
YOU KNOW where this will end up if the arrogant
state power being used to make this happen isn't radically diminished in
size, influence, resources and popular support, and exposed as an
opportunistic exploiter of legal ignorance (an ignorance which it has
been nurturing in the average mind for decades).
Those things having not yet happened, you
should be quaking in your boots-- and you probably are.
Isn't it time-- and past time-- for you to
begin helping to make those desperately-needed defensive changes take
place? There is only one way these things can happen short of a
who-knows-what we'll-end-up-with explosion of violence. I'm going to
show it to you.
When you're done with that reading, you'll know
what to do next.
BTW, REMEMBER, ALSO, THAT EVERY AMERICAN has lately been given a stark lesson in the fact
that government officials at all levels will lie to you and violate the
law without batting an eye. They will do so any time it serves their agenda, and
you don't call them out for it.
If you know anyone who has been persisting in denial on the
truth about the income tax, you know such nonsense is usually be
grounded in some version or another of, "That can't be true..." or "They
would never do something like that...". Now's the time to put a pin in
that delusional bubble.
As the C19 hoax has starkly shown, "that" certainly CAN be true, and they
certainly WOULD do something
like that.
Use this evidence in all your
outreach efforts.
"It is not the function of our Government to keep the
citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to
keep the Government from falling into error."
-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
(Deceitful efforts to discourage Americans from
learning the truth about the "income tax")
FOR ALL THE YEARS SINCE 2003 when
CtC was first published, the government has engaged in a
concerted effort to frighten people away from its truths. This
effort involves official government websites and press releases
touting an occasional court ruling that appears to be at odds
with some
CtC-revelation (but without details sufficient to expose the
real substance of the ruling)--
and sometimes even more mendacious behavior.
Are the presentations and
resources offered on this site and in my other work of any value to you?
Tim Kendrick has posted
a video
on YouTube regarding donations. I didn't know what to do about
it to begin with; I don't do what I do intending for anyone to
feel obligated in any way.
But of course, no one IS obligated. I will continue
to make my work freely-available here, and in my books for only
the cost of a cheap paperback.
Thus, even though I post it here below, Tim's very
thoughtful personal resolution and encouragement to others is
just an invitation for consideration by those who may not be
conscious of the fact that I can't do what I do without support.
No one is to feel any pressure from it; if it moves anyone to
act let it be solely because it seems right.
All-in-all, just be the sort of person for others
that you would go to yourself for trustworthy leadership.
Leadership is a challenge. But it's not
complicated, and you can do it.
*****
Are You Having Trouble Spreading The
Word?
SKEPTICISM (SOMETIMES INVOKED BY FEAR) IS TO BE
EXPECTED when you're trying to explain to someone that
everything they've been encouraged their whole lives to
believe about something as entrenched and significant as the
income tax is basically nonsense. So here's a way to help
cut through the resistance:
Ask your listener how he or she would react if
you were to show an announcement from the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue admitting that the tax doesn't apply to the
earnings of most Americans and is misapplied most of the
time because people don't understand how it works? Or how
about if you showed a ruling from the Supreme Court saying
the same?
Now you just have to explain that
you're going to show exactly those things-- but because
the state really doesn't want people to know this, these
things haven't been said quite as forthrightly as we would
all wish. It's going to take a bit more work to take these
admissions in than is sufficient for just reading a press
release. But it'll be worth the effort...
IF YOU'RE NOT SPREADING THIS LINK with every bit of
energy you can, to school libraries, homeschool
families and community groups, your neighbors, your
family members, your pastors and
co-congregationalists, journalists, lawyers, CPAs,
members of congress, tax-agency workers, Wikipedia,
Anonymous, WikiLeaks, the Tax Foundation, everyone
in the "tax honesty" movement, the 9/11 truth
movement, other activist movements and everyone
else,
you have only yourself to blame for your
troubles with the tax, and a whole lot else of which
you might complain. It's on you.
WRITE A NICE, FRIENDLY AND BRIEF introductory note
explaining what will be seen at the link-- cryptic
is bad; excited is good-- and then send this WMI
(weapon of mass instruction) far and wide.
Remember: Real Americans don't accommodate fog, lies and a sliding scale of
adherence to the rule of law. Real American men and women stand up for the
truth and the law, come what may, knowing that it is only by setting the bar
at the top and enforcing it, come what may, that liberties are secured.
"Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be
strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be
highly rated."
-Thomas Paine
OUTREACH!!!
JOB ONE, PEOPLE!!! SPREAD. THE. WORD.
ONLY ONE THING WILL WIN YOU YOUR LIBERTY:
Spreading the truth. Accordingly, I've assembled
outreach resources into a new, dedicated page. Find it
here, and please, USE THESE TOOLS!! I can't
do this all by myself.
"In a time of
universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary
act."
How the Right Has Weaponized
Antisemitism to Distract from Israel's War
By Helen Benedict
Helicopters have been
throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police
are swarming the streets of Broadway, many in riot
gear. Police vans, some as big as a city bus, are
lined up along side streets and Broadway.
Outside the gates of the
Columbia University campus, a penned-in group of
pro-Israel demonstrators has faced off against a
penned-in group of anti-genocide and pro-Palestinian
protesters. These groups are usually small, often
vastly outnumbered by the police around them, but
they are loud and they are not Columbia students.
They’ve been coming every day this April to shout,
chant, and hold up signs, some of which are filled
with hateful speech directed at the other side,
equating protests against the slaughter in Gaza with
being pro-Hamas, and calls to bring home the
hostages with being pro-genocide.
Inside the locked gates of
the campus, the atmosphere is entirely different.
Even as the now-notorious student tent encampment
there stretches through its second week, all is
calm. Inside the camp, students sleep, eat, and sit
on bedspreads studying together and making signs
saying, “Nerds for Palestine,” “Passover is for
Liberation,” and “Stop the Genocide.” The Jewish
students there held a seder on Passover. The
protesters even asked faculty to come into the
encampment and teach because they miss their
classes. Indeed, it’s so quiet on campus that you
can hear birds singing in the background. The camp,
if anything, is hushed.
The Real Story on
Campus
Those protesters who have
been so demonized, for whom the riot police are
waiting outside — the same kinds of students
Columbia University’s president, Minouche Shafik,
invited the police to
arrest, zip-tie, and cart away on April 18th —
are mostly undergraduate women, along with a smaller
number of undergraduate men, 18 to 20 years old,
standing up for what they have a right to stand up
for: their beliefs. Furthermore, for those who don’t
know the Columbia campus, the encampment is blocking
nobody’s way and presents a danger to no one. It is
on a patch of lawn inside a little fence buffered by
hedges. As I write, those students are not
preventing anyone from walking anywhere, nor
occupying any buildings, perpetrating any violence,
or even making much noise. (In the early hours of
April 30th, however, student protesters did occupy
Hamilton Hall in reaction to a sweep of suspensions
the day before.)
As a tenured professor at
Columbia’s Journalism School, I’ve been watching the
student protests ever since the brutal Hamas attack
of October 7th, and I’ve been struck by the decorum
of the protesting students, as angry and upset as
they are on both sides. This has particularly
impressed me knowing that several students are
directly affected by the ongoing war. I have a
Jewish student who has lost family and friends to
the attack by Hamas, and a Palestinian student who
learned of the deaths of her family and friends in
Gaza while she was sitting in my class.
Given how horrific this war
is, it’s not surprising that there have been a few
protesters who lose control and shout hideous
things, but for the most part, such people have been
quietly walked away by other students or campus
security guards. All along, the main messages from
the students have been “Bring back our hostages” on
the Israeli side and “Stop slaughtering Gazan
civilians” on the antiwar and pro-Palestinian-rights
side. Curiously enough, those messages are not so
far apart, for almost everyone wants the hostages
safe and almost everyone is calling for Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take a
different direction and protect the innocent.
Unfortunately, instead of
allowing students to have their say and disciplining
those who overstep boundaries, Columbia President
Shafik and her administration
suspended two of the most vocal groups
protesting Israel’s war on Gaza: the student chapter
of Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice
in Palestine. This only
enraged and galvanized students and some faculty
more.
The Right Seizes
and Distorts the Narrative
Then the right got
involved, using accusations of
widespread antisemitism to take eyes off the
astronomical
death toll in Gaza — more than 34,000 reportedly
dead as I write this, more than 14,500 of them
children — while fretting about the safety of Jewish
students instead.
The faculty of Columbia
takes antisemitism seriously and we have methods in
place to deal with it. We also recognize that some
of the chants of the protesters do make certain
Jewish students and faculty uncomfortable. But as a
group of Jewish faculty pointed out in an
op-ed for the student newspaper, the Columbia
Daily Spectator, it’s absurd to claim that
antisemitism, which is defined by the
Jerusalem Declaration as “discrimination,
prejudice, hostility or violence against Jews as
Jews,” is rampant on our campus. “To argue that
taking a stand against Israel’s war on Gaza is
antisemitic is to pervert the meaning of the term,”
we wrote. “Labeling pro-Palestinian expression as
anti-Jewish hate speech requires a dangerous and
false conflation of Zionism with Jewishness.”
Sadly, that’s exactly what
the right has succeeded in doing. Not only is the
slaughter in Gaza getting lost in the growing fog of
hysterical speech about antisemitism on American
college campuses, but so is the fact that Arab and
Muslim students are being targeted, too. Some
students even reported they were
sprayed with a Mace-like material, possibly
manufactured by the Israeli military, and that, as a
result, several protesters had to go to the
hospital. My own students told me they have been
targeted with hate mail and threats over social
media. I even saw a doxxing truck sponsored by the
far-right group Accuracy in Media driving around the
Columbia neighborhood bearing photographs of Muslim
students, naming them and calling them terrorists.
Again, it’s important to note that most of the
harassers have been outsiders, not students.
No, the real threat to
American Jews comes not from students but from the
very white nationalist MAGA Republicans who are
shouting about antisemitism the loudest.
I AM VERY CONSCIOUS OF THE FACT that I have been spending a
lot of pixels over the last several months on the subject of Israel and
Palestine, largely to the exclusion of other subjects. Aside from sheer
revulsion at the murderous rampage by which the Palestinians are being
victimized, the reason for
this is simple, but profound: the insidious effort to capture and exploit
the support of the Washington blob on behalf of the foreign country of
Israel is doing bull-in-a-china-shop damage to the invaluable American
experiment.
That effort takes the form of bribery
(through campaign contributions and institutional
donations mostly, I assume-- and often, if not
always,
paid
with our money), threats (to massively finance
political opponents of those who don't knuckle under
or withhold donations), blackmail (perhaps-- see the
revelations about the transfer of all domestic NSA
spying data to Israel since at least 2009 shown in
"The Relevant Facts" section of
this
article) and cynical-- indeed, despicable--
false charges of anti-Semitism. All of this is
accompanied by an endless mind-numbing drumbeat in
the media, all on behalf of the initiating and
ongoing aggressor in the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, complete with shameless contortions and
distortions of facts, historical and current (such
as those so ably and usefully exposed by Helen
Benedict in the article above, despite her somewhat
leftist bent).
Most significantly, perhaps, that
effort involves an attack on America's crown jewel--
the First Amendment-- the likes of which it has
never faced. Damage has already been done to that
cornerstone of liberty, and should this assault not
be thwarted right now, the damage will continue.
Soon, the American experiment will have failed.
All that is not to mention the
generalized corruption of our political and social
institutions, the waste of our blood and treasure,
or the high possibility that our continued shielding
of Israel from the consequences of its actions will
result in further escalation of hostilities in the
Middle East with the very real potential of leading
to widespread war between the tottering remnants of
Western Civilization against the other 80% of the
world.
So, figure my single-mindedness,
please.
NOW, MY USUAL ENDING to these "Other
Voices" segments is to explain that the answer to
the problem outlined in the guest column is the
widespread implementation of the revelations of CtC.
This will be no exception, but in keeping with my
focused voice lately, as and for the reasons
described above, I will let a column of mine from a
few years ago serve that purpose. Please read it
through.
What Breaking The Iran
Deal Is Really All About
In two words: Screwing Lebanon...
May 14, 2018:
EVERYONE REMEMBERS 'Master-Blaster', right? This was
the combination of the big, powerful and manipulable
hulk ('Blaster') and the malevolent dwarf ('Master')
who rode the brute's back and exploited his strength
for the bullying and domination of others in the
1985 film 'Mad Max- Beyond Thunderdome'.
Well, the real world has a version of
this same character. The United States, in the
person of Donald Trump, is "Blaster" to Israeli
Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu's "Master". (This is
not a role unique to Trump, of course-- the same was
certainly true of George W. Bush, and is and has
been also true of many similarly compromised members
of Congress.) Master says, "Jump"; Blaster asks, "On
who, boss?"
THE CURRENT "MASTER PLAN" which is
driving the United States' violation of the Iran
Nuclear Agreement is two-fold. First there is the
general Israeli program of achieving regional
hegemony by destabilization and destruction of all
competitors in the Middle East, preferably through
the expenditure of American blood and treasure,
rather than its own.
Second there is the particular Israeli
desire to seize Lebanon's oil and gas fields (see
here), and more importantly, its fresh-water
resources-- an ambition dating back to 1919, and
blocked now by Hezbollah, thanks to support by its
ally Iran (see
here and
here).
In order to realize that long-standing
ambition of seizing Southern Lebanese resources
(under some sort of "self-defense" pretext, of
course), Israel needs Iranian support for Hezbollah
thwarted. The effort to accomplish this by cutting
the Iranian supply-line to Lebanon through
regime-change in Syria having failed, Iran must now
be dealt with directly.
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..."
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
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Send me an email.
*****
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
Do you
know someone truly steeped in the Kool-Aid?
I mean
someone who finds it easier to believe that the far-better-educated,
far-more-suspicious-of-government Americans of a hundred years ago were
complete morons who granted authority to the state to take whatever it
wished from themselves and their posterity than to imagine that they
themselves simply misunderstand the true nature of the income tax? Even
while knowing that their beliefs about the tax are derived entirely from
the representations of those who profit from those beliefs (like tax
bureaucrats and "tax professionals")?
Do you
know someone like that? Shake them awake with the latest (sixteenth)
edition of
CtC!
If
CtC were actually
right, it would mean the government's been concealing and
denying and suppressing the truth for years
on end, and everybody knows THAT would never happen...
(Edward Snowden, come home! It was all just a bad dream; there really is
No Such Agency!)
Btw, a copy of
CtC from anywhere except the link above may not
be a current edition. CHECK. It matters. Also, there ARE no
e-book, Kindle or .pdf versions of
CtC.
Don't get taken in by efforts to sell you-- or even give you for
free-- any such thing.
May 21- In 1881, Clara Barton
establishes the American Red Cross. In 1904, the Fédération Internationale de
Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris. In 1917, a fire consumed some
2,000 homes and businesses in Atlanta, Georgia. Unhindered by FEMA, residents
of the city quickly recovered and rebuilt. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh touches
down in Paris after the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic. In
1932, Amelia Earhart lands in Derry, Ireland, becoming the first woman to fly
solo, non-stop across the Atlantic. In 1934, Oskaloosa, Iowa fingerprints
everyone in town. In 1961, Alabama's governor declares martial law in response
to rioting over civil rights issues. In 1981, IRA hunger-strikers Raymond
McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara die in occupying Britain's Maze Prison. In 2010, the
Japanese government's space agency launches a solar-sail-powered spacecraft for
a flyby of Venus (which took place on December 8, 2010).
*****
A Few Words About "Climate Change" Fraud
You NEED to defend yourself and your kids against this
now-high-inertia effort to destroy liberty.
H/T to Jonesy for circulating this fun little meme and video link.
*****
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May 22- In 1377, Pope Gregory issues five papal bulls
denouncing the teachings of John Wycliffe, a lay preacher and theologian who
opposed the secular power of the Roman Catholic Church and its practice of
demanding tribute, and advocated the translation of the Bible into versions
readable by the average person, laying important foundation stones for the
upcoming Protestant Reformation. In 1807, former Vice President Aaron Burr is
indicted by a grand jury for treason (Burr was subsequently acquitted). In
1826, the HMS Beagle sets off with Charles Darwin on board. In 1906, the Wright
brothers are granted a patent for their "flying machine". In 1980, Namco
releases 'Pac-Man'. In 1990, Microsoft releases Windows 3.0. In 1992, Johnny
Carson hosts his last 'Tonight Show'. In 2012, the Tokyo Skytree, the tallest
tower in the world at 2,080 ft. (634 m.), opens for business.
*****
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
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Every victim of the "ignorance tax", 'cause it's all
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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
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the real field of battle!
*****
PRO TIP: If I were the IRS and I wanted to
discourage people from rebutting allegations that
they had done things I can tax, and wanted to keep them from
successfully reclaiming withheld or paid-in money, I
would salt the "tax honesty" community with
passionate-seeming "legal researchers" who would
warn anyone whose ear they captured that filing a
1040 is a bad idea for one reason or another...
*****
Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:
May 23- In 1568, the Netherlands declare their independence
from Spain. In 1788, South Carolina becomes the eighth of the several states to
ratify the current United States Constitution. In 1813, Simón Bolívar leads
enters Mérida, Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador. In 1934, Bonnie and
Clyde Barrow are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana. In
1934, the 'Battle of Toledo', a five-day clash between 1,300 Ohio National
Guardsmen and 6,000 striking workers at the Electric Auto-Lite plant begins. In
1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is demolished, 34
days after being rocked by explosions on the anniversary of the Waco massacre.
In 2003, the Euro exceeds its initial trading value against the US Federal
Reserve note for the first time since its introduction in 1999.
If you're not talking this one up everywhere and
helping generate a buzz, you don't really want liberty and the
rule of law...
*****
In light of
the actual evidence, those
who doubt or
deny the accuracy and correctness of
CtC just because some government officials
denounce it are like the 16th-century Europeans who
were mystified by
Copernicus getting all those
astronomical predictions right even though the
church had said he was wrong.
*****
Did you miss the 'Set Your Church Free'
commentaries?
Ignorance of the true nature of the "income" tax
has gagged, gutted and seduced-into-disgrace America's
ministerial community. This must change.
*****
You're a
passenger on a riverboat that relies on regular
contributions of fuel from the passengers to
keep moving forward. You see an unsurvivable
waterfall ahead, and note a
soon-to-be-irresistible current growing stronger
each day. What does common sense suggest?
*****
Test Your
"Income" Tax IQ!
CtC Warrior
SanDiegoScott has put together a great little 20-question quiz
to test your knowledge of the law regarding the United States
"income" tax. Test yourself, test your friends and family!
Test your accountant and tax attorney, and help them learn the
liberating truth!!
May 24- In 1798, a popular rebellion against the
British puppet "Kingdom of Ireland", inspired by the American Revolution
and supported by Protestants and Catholics alike, begins. In 1830, the
B & O Railroad, the first revenue-generating federally-subsidized
railroad, began service. In 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge opens to traffic
after 14 years of construction. In 2000, Israeli troops begin leaving
Southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation. In 2001, the Democrats
regain control of the Senate for the the first time since 1994 when
James Jeffords becomes an independent. In 2022, a gunman walks into
Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and
systematically murders
19 children and two adults over the course of more than an hour
while a large contingent of heavily-armed local police cower outside the
unlocked door of the classroom-turned-abattoir in which the killings
were being committed, with other police outside preventing parents from
rushing in to save their kids.
*****
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a
people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power
which knowledge gives."
"It is not the function of our Government to keep
the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the
citizen to keep the Government from falling into error."
-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
May 25- In 1787, the convention called to revise the
Articles of Confederation-- primarily by authorizing the federal creation to
claim a piece of the action when its property, powers and privileges were
profitably exploited (duties, excises and tariffs), to impose apportioned
taxes on the states, and to regulate the commerce of state governments with
each other, with foreign nations and with the Indian tribes-- begins. In
1837, Quebec revolts against British rule. In 1961, John F. Kennedy
proposes landing an American on the moon before the end of the decade. In
1977, 'Star Wars', the first installment in a wildly-popular six-part story
of rebellion against an arrogant imperialist Leviathan, is released. In
2012, SpaceX's 'Dragon' becomes the first private spacecraft to reach the
International Space Station. In 2018, political prisoner Doreen
Hendrickson, suffering her second prison imprisonment
for refusing to
swear to belief in the truth of government-serving false statements on
orders of a federal court at the request of the Department of Justice (sic),
is released. In 2020, a man named George Floyd dies while in police custody
in Minneapolis. Floyd had several times a toxic dose of fentanyl in his
system, and chronic heart problems as well, but his death, which came after
he resisted arrest and was restrained on the ground pending the arrival of
EMS (at his own request), was ascribed to the restraining officer(s). Riots
erupted across American in response, under the leadership of members of the
Democrat Party and an organization called 'Black Lives Matter'.
*****
*****
'The BOSTONIAN'S Paying the EXCISE-MAN, or
TARRING & FEATHERING' (1774) (How our forefathers responded to arrogant
"Rule of Law defiers"...)
*****
The willingness of some people to trade liberty for
convenience is without limit...
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed,
second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident."
-Arthur
Schopenhauer
*****
Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:
May 26- In 1868, President Andrew
Johnson escapes impeachment for allegedly disregarding a Congressional enactment
(the Tenure of Office Act) by a single vote. In 1879, the invading British
military gained control of Afghanistan, formalized under the Treaty of Gandamak.
In 1896, Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia, begins his reign. In 1927, Ford
ceases production of the Model T. In 2004, the New York Time publicly admits to
contributing to Bush administration lies about Iraq being in possession of
"weapons of mass destruction".
*****
Last Word
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We
seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that
feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget
that ye were our countrymen."
-Samuel
Adams, Architect of the first American Revolution
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Hendrickson is also a widely-read essayist on
matters of politics, public policy and law; many of these works
are collected in his second book, �Upholding
the Law And Other Observations�. He is a member of Mensa;
an
award-winning artist; and has paid his dues as a youth
soccer coach. He is a long-time political activist as well, and
has served as co-chair and platform convention delegate of
Michigan�s largest county Libertarian Party organization; as a
consultant to the National Right to Work Foundation and Citizens
for a Sound Economy; as a member of the Heartland Institute; and
as a member of the International Society for Individual
Liberty. He is a frequent radio-show guest on stations across
the country.
Hendrickson's business career has included nearly a
decade-and-a-half at the leading edge of the renewable-energy
industry, both as Director of Purchasing and Materials
Management and member of the R&D board at Starpak Energy
Systems, the mid-west's then-largest solar heating and
energy-recovery-and re-utilization company; and as founder and
president of AFJ Inc., a high-efficiency lighting design,
manufacture and installation firm.
Beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing for the
twelve years before his present full-time focus on the
restoration of the rule of law in America, Hendrickson directed
purchasing activities for the $84 million-a-year
multi-family-housing division of the Farmington Hills, Michigan
branch of Edward Rose and Sons, with responsibility for 18,000+
apartments, direct supervision of 35 technicians and agents, and
incidental authority over several hundred divisional workers.
He also ran the division's 10 cable television earth-station and
distribution systems in four states, and designed and
administered the company's website.
On rather the other end of the spectrum, amidst
these more mundane pursuits Hendrickson co-founded and was the
primary creative force behind a small
board- and
card-game company that enjoyed a modest success for several
years.
Hendrickson makes his home in southeast Michigan,
with his wife and two children. He is currently working on his
next book.
� All written and graphic material on this page and
website are copyrighted by Peter E. Hendrickson, unless otherwise attributed.
