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Current Events and Continuing Education for July 22, 2024

"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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Our interesting times continue to deliver...

The Assassination Attempt, The J.D. Vance Pick, And The Biden Withdrawal

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In light of its condemnation of it everywhere else,

Why Does Washington Support Racism In The Middle East?

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

NATO'S Endgame Appears To Be Nuclear War

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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:

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.

 

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.

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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.

Indeed, Zionist Judaism may be the only extant ideology which is explicitly racist under terms of its own foundational and scriptural documents. Per those writings and the positions they espouse, Jewish people are expressly declared to be-- by virtue of their parents' ethnicity (hence, "racially")-- the sole, uniquely favored (and hence inherently superior), "chosen" people of God Himself, qualified thereby to engage in the extermination of other, inherently lesser peoples, as well as the seizure of other, lesser people's lands-- as is now being done to the population of the most recently seized land, Palestine, with the moral cover of an explicit invocation of the purported "chosen people" mandate and with the massive assistance of American resources.

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.

(See more on the Israeli Palestinian conflict here.)

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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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Use this evidence in all your outreach efforts.

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

-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson

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Regarding Trolleries

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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How To Be A Leader In The CtC Community

It's simple:

KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX IN DETAIL

LEAD BY EXAMPLE

KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE RESOURCES

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

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

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

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

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Are You Having Trouble Spreading The Word?

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

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

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

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The Liberating Truth About The 16th Amendment

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

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

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

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

-Thomas Paine

 

OUTREACH!!!

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

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

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

-George Orwell

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Other Voices (followed by an important afterword)

NATO's Endgame Appears To Be Nuclear War

by Chris Wright

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.

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

 

Afterword

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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A Little Extra

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

Held over great reading recommendations:

Disinformation-How it works

by Brandon Smith

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The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

by Étienne de la Boétie

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

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

-Mark C. Phillips, JD

 

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

-Jerry Arnowitz, JD

 

"Your book is a masterpiece!"

-Michael Carver, JD

 

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

-John O'Neil Green, JD

 

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

-Eric Smithers, JD

 

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

-Nancy "Ana" Garner, JD

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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:

Gotta love it:

The Supreme Court Gives It All Away In Moore

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It's been a busy last couple of weeks, so...

Regarding A Few Other Recent Events

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

How Did A Small Group Do This?

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A new video resource:

The Income Tax Is An Excise Tax, And Excise Taxes Are Privilege Taxes

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The video above is meant to make this unnecessary, but in the meantime...

Dealing With A Little Tax Agency Corruption

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Among other thoughts on current events, including the still-persistent MSM denial of election-rigging in 2020,

Does Everyone Know That Nuclear-Armed Russian Subs Have Taken Up Positions Off The US Coast?

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Israel And War Crimes

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Never needed more than now:

One Of The Best And Most Important Speeches I've Heard In A Long Time

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In an otherwise pretty dark time, let's enjoy some

Victories With Which To Warm The Heart

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Among other thoughts on current events, including the Trump trial and verdict,

From Ron Paul To RuPaul

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Gloat While You Still Can

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Among other thoughts on current events,

An Important Message To The Christian Community

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

The Distortion Of Campus Protests Over Gaza

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Among other thoughts on current events,

Support For Israel Is Giving Christianity A Bad Name

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

The FBI and CIA Are Enemies of the American People

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Since the Swamp isn't able to discipline itself voluntarily in accordance with George Washington's wisdom,

It's Time For A New Law

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Further...

It's Time To Demand The Courts Show Respect For The Fourth Amendment

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Would Israel Go Nuclear Against Iran?

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Back in the saddle after my extended hiatus, I am pleased to start with:

A Couple Of Notable New Victories

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I must share a few more thoughts on current events, since...

The Dangerous Craziness Continues

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Can Ukraine and Gaza be Saved?

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Apologetically,

So, It's Been A While Since I Last Posted...

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Of Course We Should Mock The State

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Amongst comments on other current topics...

A Prescription Against Today's Dangerous "DEI" Infection

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Yemen Strikes: Biden Knows Only Congress Can Declare War

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A couple of recent wins over the obnoxious "partial refund" ploy means...

Ending The Year With A Nice Christmas Present

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Though I rather would do so, it would be irresponsible to speak of anything but the madness in the Middle East...

A Few Final Thoughts (For This Year) On Current Events

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

How Haley's Hawks Brought Carnage To Ukraine

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Though I rather would do so, it would be irresponsible to speak of anything but the madness in the Middle East...

Israel: It Gets Worse And Worse

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Uncle Sam Doesn't Have One Thin Dime For Joe Biden's $106 Billion War Package

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With a heavy heart, I find myself compelled to say:

Good-Bye, Ron DeSantis

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

The US Empire's PR Crisis in Gaza

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In the interests of inspiration and encouragement when Leviathan needs shrinking more than ever before...

It's Time To Share More Victories

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Although it is a subject so polluted by mis- and dis-information that I hate to even think about it, I feel compelled to offer...

A Few Comments On Israel And Hamas

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Government Evades The Constitution

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Continuing with my Twentieth Anniversary celebration, I offer:

Another Code-Cracking Freebie

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Re: cancel culture crimes; Newsom's "trans" admission; and selected observations from the debate...

A Few Comments On Current Events

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Blobitis

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As the assault upon it continues unabated, I offer:

A Word To Its Critics From Western Civilization

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A few weapons for fighting on behalf of Western civilization, including...

A Legislative Model For Dealing With The "Trans" Infestation

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

How To Start The Final World War

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It's the twentieth anniversary of the book's publication, and now it's time for:

CtC Online

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For the benefit of everyone in this community, I ask you all to participate in:

An Important Action Item

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Contemplating Russia's ban on destructive "trans" nonsense; a path to redemption for Disney; 'Oppenheimer'; and a little legal red meat, I have...

A Few More Thoughts On Selected Timely Topics

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Discarding Illusions, Ending Wars

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Out from beneath their concealing bushels, we have:

Some Bright Candles With Which To Illuminate The World

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Contemplating "national security" secrets; the need to call things by their right names: Section 230; and other matters, I have...

A Few More Thoughts On Selected Timely Topics

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

The Criminalization Of Dissent (Revisited)

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Pay attention, people!

It's Declaration Day

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A brief touch upon some of the many things that could be said...

On The 60th Anniversary Of The Deep State's Dark Awakening

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

The Cancer Of The National-Security State

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The lesson to learn from...

Why Tucker Carlson Got Fired

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

That Annoying W-2 Form

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To the counter-productive benefit of the war-mongers,

Even Well-Intentioned Commentators Persist In Getting The Ukraine Story Wrong

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While continuing to sit on the front porch and watch the world go by, I've had...

A Few More Thoughts I Believe Are Worth Sharing

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Memorial Service

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Recent revelations pose a serious challenge to American grown-ups:

The FBI Is Clearly Dirty And Rogue... What Are You Going To Do About It?

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While continuing to sit on the front porch and watch the world go by, I've had...

A Few More Thoughts I Believe Are Worth Sharing

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

The Impending Thermidor Reaction In Jacobin America

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More early educated filers have emerged, so...

Let's Enjoy A Few More Recent Victories, And An Excellent New Video

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While continuing to sit on the front porch and watch the world go by, I've had...

A Few More Thoughts I Believe Are Worth Sharing

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

There Is Cosmic Wisdom In This Simple Question

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Thanks to an early educated filer, even before "tax day" I can announce:

The First Victories For 2022 Are Posted

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While sitting on the front porch and watching the world go by, I've had...

A Few Thoughts I Believe Are Worth Sharing

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Nothing To Bragg About

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Mass murder in Nashville raises this disquieting question:

Do We Have More Time Bombs Walking Among Us?

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Democracy dies amid a din of state propaganda and narrative management. Hence,

America Needs A New Law

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

This Has Got To Stop

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So...

It's A Girl!! (Along With Other Good Things To Celebrate)

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

The Campaign Speech That Brandon Should Have Given

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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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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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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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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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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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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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This is not mere rhetoric:

What A REAL "Existential Threat" Looks Like

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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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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-- free!

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:

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.

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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:

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.

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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:

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.

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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:

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.

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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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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:

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.

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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:

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'.

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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.