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July 22- In 1937, the Senate votes down
FDR's scheme to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court in order to start
getting favorable rulings on New Deal legislation after having his socialist
programs ruled unconstitutional over and over. (Roosevelt soon replaced enough
retiring justices with his own men to start getting more congenial readings of
the "living Constitution" anyway...) In 2011, a terrorist bombing of government
offices and shooting attack on schoolchildren is committed in Norway by a man
apparently filled with a mindless hatred of Muslims.
Anniversaries of interest for
each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter
below.
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approvingly and then move on to other things. I don't post in order
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The Assassination Attempt,
The J.D. Vance Pick, And The Biden Withdrawal
We live in interesting times, indeed
(in the "Chinese Curse" sense of the phrase).
IN THE LATE AFTERNOON OF JULY 13th I
received a cryptic phone call from my son asking if
I had heard the news. That's all I got before the
call was cut off, because I was at that time
traversing Monument Valley in Northern Arizona and
cell service was sketchy at best. A good friend and
I were touring and hiking in
Utah's Grand Circle, and were off the grid
completely most
of the time.
Before long, upon reaching the quirky
little place we were to spend that night, and
finding the one spot in its environs in which one
could make or receive a call, I got the story about
the shootings at Trump's Butler, Pennsylvania rally.
And a pretty amazing story it is. Of
course, it is not at all surprising that an attempt
has been made on Trump's life-- many of us have long
seen that as the predictable next step after the
failure of every prior effort to thwart his run for
a return to the White House. But the outcome of this
attempt!
The thing was about as near fatal as it
possibly could be without success, and thus
provided the unique opportunity for Trump's
impressively gutsy response and that amazing photo
of the fist in the air over a blood streaked but
defiant face, with the flag behind him and
grim-faced Secret Service agents struggling to get
him off the stage.
Aside from the very real tragedies of a
dead husband and father and two other serious
woundings from what are presumed to have been missed
follow-up shots at Trump, this assassination
attempt-- while, again, predictable-- was remarkable
for the benefits it has provided the Trump campaign
directly, and for the sharpness of the rebuke it has
delivered to every oppositional voice which has been
calling Trump a reincarnation of Hitler for the last
eight years or so.
But there are some further things to be
said about this.
ONE OF THOSE THINGS is that talk
of Trump's escaping death in the dramatic way that
he did as being a miracle (as in, a literal act of
God) needs to be squelched, hard. Trump being seen
in some quarters (including, perhaps, his own mind)
to have been anointed by God is a very dangerous
proposition.
Donald Trump is just a man. He is now
more likely than ever to be the next president, and
the last thing any wise person wants is traction for
the notion that any idea in the mind of any man in
office is divinely inspired or endorsed. We already
are too prone in this country to cults of
personality, in which the prudent practice of
subjecting the ideas of leaders to independent
skeptical scrutiny before coming to conclusions
about them is foregone.
Trump is not himself a deep thinker. He
is excessively vulnerable to flattery, and has a
record of surrounding himself with people with an
agenda of their own. Unskeptical embrace of whatever
notions the man cares to articulate could be very
dangerous, and if the idea that he is divinely
appointed to the presidency is allowed to take
root in that broad swath of his supporters which I
suspect is capable of such views, that unskeptical
embrace is what we will get.
(Btw, I readily admit that I can't say
for sure that the missed assassination attempt
wasn't a miracle, of course. But let's remember
that Adolph Hitler narrowly escaped an assassination
attempt by having stepped to where the heavy leg of
a table protected him from the blast of the
briefcase bomb planted in his conference room-- a
sparing very much like that enjoyed by Donald Trump
on the 13th. I think few would embrace the notion
that Hitler was the beneficiary of divine
intervention, and no more should anyone think that
about Trump-- the simplest and most reasonable
conclusion is that now and then even
miraculous-seeming escapes happen by mere chance.)
THEN THERE IS THE MATTER OF the
"mechanics" of the attempted assassination. Much has
already been said by others about the apparent gross
incompetence/negligence of the Secret Service (or
the only alternative, its complicity in the
attempt), so I won't get into that arena of what is,
in any case, self-evident, other than to observe
that we are obviously being heavily gaslit by the
MSM, as usual, and stonewalled by the Biden
administration. A continuing hue and cry against all
this seems to be called-for.
It is also to be observed that the
reporting on the matter is bizarre-- I, at least,
have yet to see an interview with either parent of
the purported shooter-- Thomas Crooks-- or any of
his classmates or co-workers. A few things have just
lately emerged in the form of FBI claims about a
handful of items said to have been found on his
cellphone, but frankly nothing said by the FBI can
be taken seriously. Here, again, our voices should
be raised, and the narrative managers, now on the
back foot, should be pressed hard and relentlessly.
But there is one other thing
which was brought to my attention in a brief remark
by, I think, George Galloway, in a podcast last
week, that relates to both matters above and which
appears to be borne out after a little rudimentary
investigation: Thomas Matthew Crooks seems unlikely
to have been the actual shooter, in that where shot
by a Secret Service sniper immediately after the
shots aimed at Trump, Crooks is lying well below the
peak of the roof over which he would have to have
been leaning his rifle in order to target Trump.
Look at this image of Crooks' body
after the head shot that killed him:
The peak of the roof (the one the
head of the Secret Service said was so dangerously
sloped that agents couldn't be asked to risk life
and limb by being stationed upon it)-- on the
opposite side of which lay the stage at which
Donald Trump was speaking and over which a targeting
rifle would have to have been aimed-- is well beyond
Crooks' position.
Simply put, Crooks could not
have fired on Trump or the assembled crowd from, or
even from within yards of, the position at which he
was immediately killed-- with no time to
have backed up-- after the six or eight shots which
someone fired toward Trump's stage (by a Secret
Service sniper on a taller and more highly-peaked
roof behind Trump's stage, who reportedly says
Crooks was still facing forward toward the roof peak
of the building on which he lay at the time of the
shot, just as is indicated by the position of his
body in the photo above).
Based on this evidence, I think it can
be definitively said that Thomas Matthew Crooks,
though inexplicably present on a convenient roof on
July 13th while equipped (so we are told) with a
rifle and after having spent an hour or two creeping
about the site doing odd things, did not
shoot Donald Trump or anyone else that day. Someone
else took those shots, and it doesn't seem that any
effort is underway to identify that actual shooter.
Further, and, perhaps, most
importantly, the "authorities" must know all this.
And yet, they pretend that Crooks is the shooter.
I may be proven wrong about all this in
the end, of course. I wasn't there, and somehow
despite how common it is these days for great videos
of urgent events to be made by random people acting
on the fly, no one at this rally seems to have been
alert enough to get at it, or was capable of keeping
the target onscreen or in focus for more than an
occasional second now and then-- reminding me of
every purported UFO video ever offered up on behalf
of those claims.
For now though, I'm offering this
evidence and these thoughts for anyone to consider
as he or she sees fit.
Relatedly (since a VP pick is
long-term assassination protection),
I'M GENERALLY PRETTY PLEASED that DJT
ended up choosing J.D. Vance as his running mate
(although of the "short-list" possibilities, I'd have preferred Vivek Ramaswamy). Vance
seems pretty good on most issues, and is smart
enough to be expected to continue so on those issues
not yet on the burner. He is likely to appear even
less desirable in the oval office to Trump's deepest
critics than Trump himself, and so qualifies as a
credible insurance policy, as well as a good
replacement for Trump should one become necessary
over the next four years or afterwards.
One caveat, though-- Vance appears to
be in the thrall of Israel-worship, just as is Trump
himself. With Israeli aggression in the Middle East
(and especially the genocide against the
Palestinians in their own country) likely to ignite
a major regional war which could quickly escalate
into world war if not checked by the United States,
prostration before Likud lunatics by both Trump and
Vance is a dangerous thing, indeed.
All in all, Vance is a good pick, but
he needs to be straightened out on his views of
Israel. At one time Vance explained those
views by observing that the United States of America
is a Christian nation, and it is in what is
currently called "Israel" that critical events in
Christian theology took place. True enough, but that
truth doesn't hinge in any way on whether the
natives of that land over the last few thousand
years remain in control of their own olive groves or
if those groves are in the hands of
Western-sponsored invaders.
Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land
were just as common and unmolested before 1948 as
they have been since-- indeed, if anything, the
tranquility and future safety of the sites and
artifacts therein are much less secure
since the Israeli seizure and occupation of
Palestine. Vance should be encouraged to think about
that.
Breaking...
YESTERDAY EVENING, Joe Biden was
withdrawn from the 2024 presidential contest-- by
whom, we do not know, since the announcement was
made by tweet. This comes as a surprise to no one;
Biden already had no chance of a performance that
could credibly support another rigged outcome
declaration in his favor, and would have been losing
ground on that front from now until November. In
short, that dead horse had begun to stink.
Replacement options for the Democrats
all have their own defects, but this will complicate
things for the Trump campaign. Biden was an easy
target, and allowed Trump's campaign to largely keep
the focus on his opponent's personal flaws. A new
candidate won't offer that easy a distraction.
The Republicans will be compelled to
engage on issues, with details. They will no longer
get get away with little more than platitudes and
blustery, over-stated claims about how great things
were during Trump's first term.
That's a good thing.
Let the games begin.
***
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Why Does Washington Support
Racism In The Middle East...
...while strenuously condemning it
everywhere else?
CORRUPT EFFORTS TO ERODE THE FIRST
AMENDMENT under the pretense of a rising tide of "anti-semitism"
in the US have long been underway by American
officials with apparently divided loyalties.
Generally, these efforts involve the false
conflation of opposition to Israeli policy and
behaviors with a generalized hatred of Jewishness,
most notably taking the form of
various state laws denying public contracts and
employments to those who will not take oaths against
boycotting Israeli businesses, and recent
abominations like the "Antisemitism Awareness Act"
by which colleges are coerced into suppressing
criticism of Israel.
As well as being blatantly
unconstitutional, these purportedly "anti-racism"
efforts are tinged with more than a hint of irony.
After all, the ideology on behalf of which they are
undertaken-- Judaism, particularly in its modern
"Zionist" form-- is itself inherently racist.
That any given person or people have a
right to quietly and peaceably harbor whatever
nonsense they like about themselves is undisputed.
But delusional notions of superiority cannot serve
as justification for active abuse of other people.
That is also beyond dispute.
It's time and past time for all
Americans of good character to divorce themselves
from all forms of racism and all those who practice
it.
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Share these all, everywhere you can. Be your most
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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."
The world is at its most
dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis of
1962. Back then, however, the fear of total
destruction consumed the public; today, few people
seem even to be aware of this possibility.
It is easily imaginable
that nuclear war could break out between Russia (and
perhaps China) and the West, yet politicians
continue to escalate tensions, place hundreds of
thousands of troops at “high readiness,” and attack
military targets inside Russia, even while ordinary
citizens blithely go on with their lives.
The situation is without
parallel in history.
Consider the following
facts. A hostile military alliance, now including
even Sweden and Finland, is at the very borders of
Russia. How are Russian leaders—whose country was
almost destroyed by Western invasion twice in the
20th century—supposed to react to this? How would
Washington react if Mexico or Canada belonged to an
enormous, expansionist, and highly belligerent
anti-U.S. military alliance?
As if expanding NATO to
include Eastern Europe wasn’t provocative enough,
Washington began to send billions of dollars’ worth
of military aid to Ukraine in 2014, to “improve
interoperability with NATO,”
in the words of the Defense Department. Why this
Western involvement in Ukraine, which,
as Barack Obama said while president, is “a core
Russian interest but not an American one”? One
reason was given by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in
a recent moment of
startling televised candor: Ukraine is “sitting
on $10 to $12 trillion of critical minerals… I don’t
want to give that money and those assets to Putin to
share with China.”
As The Washington Post has
reported: “Ukraine harbors some of the world’s
largest reserves of titanium and iron ore, fields of
untapped lithium, and massive deposits of coal.
Collectively, they are worth tens of trillions of
dollars.” Ukraine also has
colossal reserves of natural gas and oil, in
addition to neon, nickel, beryllium, and other
critical rare earth metals. For NATO’s leadership,
Russia and, in particular, China can’t be permitted
access to these resources. The war in Ukraine must,
therefore, continue indefinitely, and negotiations
with Russia mustn’t be pursued.
Meanwhile, as Ukraine was
being de facto integrated into NATO in the years
before 2022, the United States put into operation an
anti-ballistic-missile site in Romania in 2016. As
Benjamin Abelow notes in
How the West Brought War to Ukraine, the missile
launchers that the ABM system uses can accommodate
nuclear-tipped offensive weapons like the Tomahawk
cruise missile. “Tomahawks,” he points out, “have a
range of 1,500 miles, can strike Moscow and other
targets deep inside Russia, and can carry hydrogen
bomb warheads with selectable yields up to 150
kilotons, roughly 10 times that of the atomic bomb
that destroyed Hiroshima.” Poland now
boasts a similar ABM site.
American assurances that
these anti-missile bases are defensive in nature, to
protect against an (incredibly unlikely) attack from
Iran, can hardly reassure Russia, given the missile
launchers’ capability to launch offensive weapons.
CHRIS WRIGHT does a good job presenting the crisis of
Washington's bat-sh*t crazy insistence on a game of nuclear chicken with
Russia (and China at the same time, let's not forget). His concluding
observation: "It is downright puzzling that millions of people aren’t
protesting in the streets every day to deescalate the crisis and pull
civilization back from the brink" is right on the money, too-- such
protests ARE what should be happening.
The continued lurching of the headless
Biden/Harris regime into provoking nuclear war and
killing us all is the most important thing going on
in the world. This is a very real danger, right
now, and it should be on everyone's minds and
everyone's lips.
Accompanying what should be a clamor of
protest and a flurry of corrective activity in
response to the insane, nearly diabolical, and
increasingly-frenzied war-mongering of the
Washington blob should be an urgent and robust
effort on everyone's part to spread the word about
the income tax as widely and rapidly as possible. It
is a matter of survival, so that the shrinking of
that insane blob back down into its Constitutional
chains can be accomplished in the little time we
have left.
As Biden would say, "No joke!"
In fact, it's serious as a heart
attack.
Remember clearly that the ultimate
underpinning of the bad behavior by the US deep
state and assorted other swamp creatures lies in the
exploitation of the ignorance tax*. Ending that
exploitation by educating the American public is the
solution to all of it.
After all, the proper American attitude
toward the state-- not just as regards foreign
policy but in all respects-- should be 1. skeptical
tolerance under a watchful eye, and 2. a very
deliberate keeping of the thing on lean rations,
unable to ever grow to dangerous size.
The Founders set things up with that
skeptical, jealous regard, and left baked into the
Constitutional cake all the tools by which
individual Americans can enforce that "lean rations"
part.
The simplest and most peaceable of
those tools is the power provided to each individual
American to restrict, within the law, the resources
he or she provides to the co-opted state with which
it would otherwise grow like Topsy and escape its
proper limits. This requires nothing more than a
little education and a little courage, as is
explained
here.
Read that material, and then become an
agent of change. Urge everyone you know to do both
of these things, as well.
Seriously, people. It's time to stop
whistling past the graveyard and start using the
powerful and important tools with which our wise
ancestors equipped us.
*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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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
become part of a coordinated, mutually-supportive squadron
focused on developing strategy and deploying the law in
courtrooms across the country. There's a lot of suing that
needs doing right now.
Are you ready for a challenge that'll put some real meaning
behind all the effort you went through to get your credentials?
Send me an email.
*****
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.
July 23- In 2002, the Bloomberg
administration of New York City announces that it will not make public audio and
written Fire Department records of the events of September 11, 2001. In 2007,
historians took note that it was the 169th July 23 since Iran initiated military
aggression against anyone.
*****
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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and subscribe to the group-- leave all options in their default states.
July 24- In 1847, after 17 months of travel, Brigham Young
leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley. In 1929, the Kellogg-Briand
Pact, renouncing war as a tool of foreign policy and approved by the Senate
85-1, goes into effect. In 1974, a unanimous Supreme Court rules that Richard
Nixon has no authority to withhold recordings of conversations in the Oval
Office in the face of a Congressional subpoena.
*****
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.
Every victim of the "ignorance tax", 'cause it's all
just statist consent-engineering propaganda.
*****
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!
*****
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:
July 25- In 1861, the Union Congress passes the Crittendon
Resolution, admitting that the war against the seceding Southern States was not
being conducted to end slavery, but rather to forcibly maintain an ongoing
relationship that the North found beneficial and that the South did not. In
1868, Wyoming is organized as a United States territory. In 1898, United States
troops invade Puerto Rico. In 1920, the first transatlantic two-way radio
exchange takes place. In 1952, Puerto Rico adopts a United States-approved
"Constitution". In 1959, a hovercraft takes a trip over the English Channel for
the first time. In 2010, WikiLeaks publishes a huge batch of documents
revealing previously withheld information on United States military activities
in Afghanistan.
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!!
July 26- In 1788, New York becomes the 11th of the
several states to authorize the existence of the federal government by
ratification of the United States Constitution. In 1947, President
Harry Truman signs the National Security Act, creating the Department of
Defense, the CIA, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the National Security
Council.
*****
"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
July 27- In 1694, a royal charter is granted to the Bank of
England. In 1789, the first United States federal agency is formed- the
Department of Foreign Affairs (later renamed the Department of State). In
1940, Bugs Bunny make his screen debut. In 1964, a "surge" policy brings
the total U.S. military presence in Vietnam to 21,000. In 1974, the first
article of impeachment against Richard Nixon-- obstruction of justice--
clears the House Judiciary Committee. In 1990, Belarus secedes from the
Soviet Union.
*****
*****
'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:
July 28- In 1868, the Fourteenth
Amendment to the United States Constitution was declared ratified, despite
considerable irregularities in the process. As this amendment is a source of
much misunderstanding within the "tax honesty" community, I refer those
interested in the subject to the discussion
here. In 1914, World War I begins. In 1945, a B-25 bomber crashes into the
79th floor of the Empire State building.
The building does not collapse.
In 2010, an Airbus A321-231 jetliner crashed in the hills north of Islamabad,
Pakistan, killing all onboard, and producing a wreckage site of the kind ALWAYS
produced by an actual crash, as is seen in the photos at the beginning of
this page. In 2017,
Pakistan's Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, then serving his third
(non-consecutive) term, was found guilty of corruption by a unanimous Supreme
Court and barred from office for life. This resulted from a 2016 document dump
of millions of leaked internal files from a law firm handling Sharif's private
business dealings by the Washington, DC-based imitator of WikiLeaks known as
'The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists'.
*****
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.