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Current Events and Continuing Education for September 16, 2024

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-James Madison

 

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Regarding the immigrant invasion:

Whether Or Not They're Killing Our Pets Is Small Potatoes, 'Cause They're Definitely Killing Our Constitution

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To many agenda-driven people, it's

America, The Candy Store

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Russian Collusion? I Predicted The Tenet Media Psy-Op Way Back In 2014

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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:

September 16-  In 1920, a bomb in a horse-drawn wagon explodes in front of the J.P. Morgan Building on Wall Street, killing 38 and injuring 400.  In 1991, the drug-trafficking trial of one-time CIA-asset and Panamanian "strongman" Manuel Noriega begins.

 

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.

  

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-Samuel Adams

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Whether Or Not They're Killing Our Pets Is Small Potatoes, 'Cause They're Definitely Killing Our Constitution

The immigrant invasion MUST be stopped.

LAST WEEK'S PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE featured an assertion from candidate Donald Trump that Haitian immigrants introduced in great numbers by the Biden/Harris administration into the small Ohio town of Springfield over the last several years have been behaving like Haitians. Most particularly, Trump asserted that these illegal aliens (more on that legal status below) have been taking pets belonging to the local citizenry, along with wildlife normally considered protected (either by law or by convention), to be slaughtered and used either for food or rituals.

Trump's assertion was disputed by so-called debate moderator David Muir, who for some reason had contacted the city manager of Springfield in advance and secured his weaselly denial (to the effect of, "we haven't seen any credible evidence of such events"). Since then, a great deal of evidence supporting Trump's claim has appeared.

I think that it can be said that while the scope of these barbaric acts is yet unknown, they are, to some degree or another, taking place, although Democrats and their MSM tools continue to deny or downplay it.

As structured, then, the controversy over the animal abuse  is a mirror image of what it should be. It is the denials by Democrats and media that are remarkable and worthy of skepticism, since, as observed above, Trump's assertions simply describe behavior that is common in Haiti and is to be expected of a completely unassimilated large group of Haitians dumped into a town too small to overawe the newcomers into conformity with local laws and norms.

Trump is crying a "dog bites man" story. It is the Democrats and their media shills who are arguing a "man bites dog" position.

THE FACT IS, ALL MIGRANTS OVER THE AGE OF TEN from places not thoroughly grounded in Western Civilization bring with them barbaric habits, behaviors and/or perspectives. These cultural pathologies were taken in with their very mother's milk and are likely to be ineradicable for life. Poetry about foreigners yearning to be free notwithstanding, only migrants whose native culture partook of the Enlightenment can be reliably assimilated, and all others will stress and fray our American social and political fabric.

Ominously, that social and political fabric is already pretty tattered. Years of corrosion from divisive "identity politics" cynically injected into schools, workplaces and mass entertainment for the short-term benefit of its grifters has been having the long-term effect of cultural destabilization (which is likely the outcome intended by the shadowed initiators of the whole dynamic).

America can no longer absorb and survive these ongoing and escalating stressors. An immediate halt to all "third-world" immigration is critically-important, and even immigration from what would normally be seen as Western Civilization countries should be severely curtailed.

Those who raise the bug-a-boo argument that without immigration our workforce will be too thin to sustain our economy are directed to turn their energies toward discouraging abortion. A million American-born-and-raised workers are killed in the womb each year. End that holocaust, and add in the additional births that would result from a competent cultural and governmental-policy campaign to encourage more, and more fruitful, marriages, and there is no "shortage of workers" problem.

A FEW YEARS AGO, WHEN THE "BORDER CRISIS" first took center stage in American politics and many libertarians went on record categorically opposing any kind of border control, I felt compelled to organize some thoughts on the subject. I am, by general disposition, a libertarian. But I am also, by intellectual bent, a Constitutionalist (which is also to say, a realist), and so there were things I felt the need to say.

Those older organized thoughts will round out and clarify some of those above, and so I will share them below, followed by another older article in which I discuss the legal issues involved in the Biden/Harris administration's border policies and practices.

Altogether, this may amount to a lot of reading. But this is a very serious matter. Please take the time; and please share widely.

Why I'm Not An "Open Borders" Enthusiast

There are very good reasons for a conservative policy.

IT'S THIS SIMPLE: To the greatest degree possible, I want to be amongst people who have been raised from age zero steeped in cultural reverence for the foundational principles of the American Revolution.

I want the fewest possible people around me who were raised in a place in which government corruption is considered either unremarkable or consistent with traditional or acceptable norms. I want to deal as little as possible with folks who didn't get told as children that all warrantless searches and seizures-- of data or anything else-- are illegal; who don't aspire to rugged individualism; or who harbor competing affections for any legal/political/philosophical tradition other than the one that inspired and informs the Declaration of Independence.

I'm OK with a handful on a citizenship path in America (and thus a path to voting, and possible public office) whose earliest and most deeply-embedded sensibilities were formed where graft is a feature of normal life; where "the rule of law" means nothing more than "the law of whoever is then in power"; or where the "presidency" is a lifetime office. If such immigrants join a society of unadulterated bedrock Americanism, to which they are only barely-noticeable exceptions, they-- and more particularly their children-- will be safely assimilated. But only if their numbers amount to no more than a relative handful.

FRANKLY, THE LEGAL/POLITICAL/PHILOSOPHICAL CULTURES of most of the rest of the world suck by comparison with America's (as established and still embedded, even though subject to a ferocious assault by its domestic enemies in recent decades). It is that cultural tradition which makes for actual American exceptionalism.

But our cultural tradition is demanding. Our American tradition requires us to stand up even just as lone individuals against power-grabs by the powerful-- a risky and costly business. Our tradition expects us to be vigilant and jealous of our liberties, and not lolling in the arms of the state, counting on it to provide for our well-being while we amuse and indulge ourselves.

Our tradition is frostbite on the banks of the Delaware in defense of our rights; facing down billy-clubs and police dogs in Selma in defense of our rights; and sacrificing the good life in Hawaii to expose massive government crimes in violation of the Fourth Amendment, in defense of our rights. Our tradition is the tradition of heroes.

THE CULTURAL TRADITIONS OF OTHERS are easy, by comparison. They are comfortable with compromise of principles; moral relativism; corruption and a "You can't fight City Hall" perspective.

Where rights are claimed in these other cultures, it is usually a petulant insistence on state-granted privileges, like upkeep and other material benefits which are merely the doling out of largesse taken from their fellows. These claims are to the "right" to be given someone else's fish, not to the right to be left alone to do one's own fishing.

Non-American cultural traditions typically embody a peasanty, servile and simple view of life. A "Do what you're told" and "Go along and get along" view. Many have had genuinely admirable heroes of one kind or another rise up within them nonetheless, of course. But very few have American-style heroism as the core concept around which all their legal, political and philosophical traditions and institutions are constructed.

SADLY, IT IS THE WAY OF THINGS that shortsightedness is also easy, and taking the long view is hard. Thus, where other cultural traditions are well-represented, offering easy-path answers to challenges where the American culture would require hard ones, the pressure is toward the bottom.

Over time, the typical easy-answer cultural paradigm will overwhelm the exceptional hard-answer paradigm. Over time, America will become merely typical-- just one amongst all the rest in the new world order whose heritage of liberty secured by a Constitutionally-limited government of the people is subsumed and outvoted and kicked into the dust-bin of history by the majority of what will then be her peers.

I don't want that. Accordingly, I don't want 'open borders'.

INSTEAD, I WANT strictly-controlled immigration, in small, assimilable numbers, favoring applicants from places with legal/political/philosophical traditions whose roots are most akin to those of our own. I don't care one little bit about race, ethnicity, religion or geography per se-- no one should be declined or disfavored for such considerations, and no one should be admitted or favored for them, either.

But "diversity" of cultural tradition SHOULD be disfavored, and the expectation upon the admittance of any immigrant should be that whatever foreign legal/political/philosophical tradition is brought with them will be burned away into nothingness, and 100% replaced with our own, as expeditiously as possible. This applies equally to refugees, seekers of political asylum and work-visa applicants as well as those seeking permanent residency or citizenship.

Immigrants of any kind (and their kids) can dress how they want, celebrate the holidays they want, and live in enclaves, if they want. None of that bothers me at all. But they must speak and read English, so they can partake of, and participate in, our entire tradition in all its depth, and they must adhere to the principles and practices of law, politics and philosophy that make up that tradition.

FINALLY, TO ADDRESS THE LEGAL QUESTIONS, everyone has complete liberty to move about the world as they can and will generally, and no one has the right or valid authority to hinder them. But no one has the right to move on or across someone else's property.

Leaving the arguments about the rightness or wrongness of ancient claims of land ownership to late-night hair-splitting sessions in college dorm rooms where they belong, the several states of the USA have delegated to the United States certain authorities over the hairline ribbon of property making up the border of the aggregated whole. The United States is thus arguably equipped to control inbound crossings of that border, and under what conditions (and if there is any doubt about that, the states themselves, and/or the individual property owners within the states, surely have authority to determine who is allowed to set foot on their land).

No valid legal principle obstructs strict limits to immigration volumes, and strict and discriminatory control over who is allowed in. Very good philosophical and practical reasons support such limits and controls. They should be implemented.

RELATED: Click here for a debunk of the "14th Amendment Birthright Citizenship" nonsense which has played a big role in immigration policy debate and in administrative and judicial practices for far too long.

Aliens Wandering Around Texas ARE Illegals, Judge Napolitano

...and Abbott and DeSantis should be lauded, both for their faithful regard for their duty and for their political acumen.

I'M GENERALLY APPRECIATIVE of Andrew Napolitano's contributions to the public discourse. But in a recent article, Napolitano has aired a criticism of Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis with which I am compelled to take issue.

In his article Napolitano angrily accuses Abbott and DeSantis of crimes-- including kidnapping and human trafficking. The alleged offenses occur in connection with the transport of small numbers of illegal aliens from the random locations in Texas where they have found themselves after sneaking across the US (and Texas, and private property) borders to other places within the United States (most notably to Martha's Vineyard, to which DeSantis famously flew 48 or 50 of these aliens).

Napolitano is quite correct, I believe, in asserting that the relocations are done to make a political point, rather than out of direct concern for the well-being of the aliens. But he misses (or disregards) the point that the relocations are done out of concern for the well-being of American citizens, to whom Abbott and DeSantis have a duty.

Napolitano also overstates his case concerning the legal status of the aliens and the legal character of the relocations, asserting that the aliens are in the USA legally and asserting without evidence that their willing participation in the relocations is somehow accomplished by at least fraud (which Napolitano equates with "force"), if not worse.

I can't address the particulars of how the aliens were enticed to take the transports offered by Abbott and DeSantis. I imagine that these enticements involved pointing out to the aliens that as things stood, they were languishing in a harsh climate in districts without much available hospitality and in which they were decidedly not wanted, while elsewhere could be found "sanctuary cities" in which they would declaredly be welcome and which offered far greater opportunities for jobs and social services. As said, though, I can only speculate on this issue.

But I can say a few things about the legal status of these aliens.

TO BEGIN WITH, while US law at 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a)(1) provides that anyone who is physically present in the United States or arrives therein may apply for asylum, there are several significant qualifiers that apply.

Under 8 U.S.C. § 1225 (a) and (b) and related additional provisions of Title 8, aliens arriving in the USA under the circumstances of those involved in the relocations must be inspected by immigration officers. If such aliens do not declare an intention to apply for asylum on the basis of "fear of persecution" under the provisions of 8 U.S.C. § 1158, such aliens shall be removed from the United States without further hearing or review.

If the alien does declare an intention to seek asylum, such alien is to be referred to an asylum officer for an interview to determine of the credibility of the alien's persecution claim. If the asylum officer finds the claim credible, "the alien shall be detained for further consideration of the application for asylum." (8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(ii), emphasis added). Determination that the claim is not credible shall result in removal from the United States without further hearing or review (although if the alien balks at that determination he or she is entitled to an immigration court review of the determination under subclause III of the same subsection "to the maximum extent practicable within 24 hours, but in no case later than 7 days after the date of the determination under subclause (I)" (emphasis added).

IT'S TRUE THAT THE PROVISIONS for initial credibility review by an asylum officer of an asylum claim do not specifically state that such review shall take place promptly. Indeed, those provisions don't even say that the initial inspection of aliens by an immigration officer upon arrival (or discovery) in the United States be done promptly. I suspect it is those omissions of the obvious that are being corruptly exploited by the Biden administration as the rationale for just leaving the illegals wandering around Texas with an alleged court date to which they will supposedly self-report sometime in the distant future.

But those omissions ARE of the obvious, as is made clear by the language that is found in the statutes. This includes the obligation for the detainment pending further proceedings of an asylum seeker deemed credible, and the provision specifying that judicial review of a determination that an asylum review is not credible take place "to the maximum extent practicable within 24 hours, but in no case later than 7 days".

Plainly, Congress means for aliens arriving in the United States to be immediately inspected by an immigration officer, who will immediately deport any not claiming asylum, and immediately turn any claiming asylum over to an asylum officer. That asylum officer is plainly meant to promptly make an initial determination of whether the asylum claim is credible.

If the claim appears credible, the asylum officer is to immediately detain the alien, pending further proceedings. If not, the asylum officer is to immediately deport the alien, with no latitude other that to afford the alien a hearing before an immigration judge within no later than 7 days.

SO, AGAIN, AN ALIEN arriving in the United States by simply walking across the border is to be deported out of hand unless seeking asylum. The only exception is if the alien declares a claim of asylum, upon which he or she is to be detained pending further proceedings-- even if the asylum application is deemed credible upon first consideration.

In every case, no alien who has waded across the Rio Grande should ever be left wandering around Texas. Those who are doing so do so illegally-- even if the offense is primarily that of the Biden administration officials who have failed in their obligation to faithfully administer the laws described above.

But that's not all...

In addition to all of the above, which establishes that those crossing the border and wandering about loose do so based on somebody's defiance of the law, there is the validity of the asylum claims I suspect every alien crossing the border is instructed to make. Very, very few such aliens, I suspect, can honestly make such claims.

Asylum claims under the provisions of 8 U.S.C. § 1158 rest on the claimant being a "refugee" as defined at 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(42)(A). Here is that definition:

(42) The term “refugee” means (A) any person who is outside any country of such person’s nationality or, in the case of a person having no nationality, is outside any country in which such person last habitually resided, and who is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of, that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.

Virtually no one crossing the Rio Grande (or the border elsewhere in the southwest) can legitimately claim to be doing so to escape persecution from their home government because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.

Seeking to move to a better economic climate obviously checks none of the required boxes. Nor even does a desire to escape a vicious dictatorship, or the aftermath of a natural disaster, or an ongoing war.

Unless a claimant can show themselves to have been a visible and vocal political dissident and targeted for persecution for those activities (or that others engaged in the same activism have been so targeted), the "political opinion" option won't apply. "Membership in a particular social group" won't work even for the LGBT-yadda-yadda-yadda types (or those who might claim to be such for the sake of asylum)-- at least not without renunciation of the "genetic hardwiring" argument they like to use as the explanation for their behavior. Membership in a social group is a chosen thing, and being genetically queer (or born into the wrong body, or whatever other such nonsense is alleged) doesn't qualify.

All-in-all, due to the specifics of asylum eligibility, pretty much every alien found wandering around Texas (or Arizona, or wherever) is dong so under false pretenses, and the willingness of the border authorities to turn a blind eye to that fact doesn't relieve the alien from culpability.

These aliens are ILLEGAL aliens. I hope Andrew Napolitano-- and other commentators who have leveled the same charges against Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis-- read this article and replace criticisms of these good and faithful governors with the compliments they actually deserve.

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I'M GOING TO CLOSE this immigration comment with a renewal of my prior call for Texas (or just some Texans) to stock the Rio Grande with crocodiles. As I wrote on this page in November of 2021,

CROCODILES IN THE RIO GRANDE. How about it?

Not namby-pamby alligators or caimans. Crocs.

20 ft. long, 2,000 lb. crocodiles-- the kind that keep alligators as pets.

Don't you think that might help stem the flood of illegals pouring across what is supposed to be a border? I do.

What's more, crocs in the river is a cheap, easy and very, very fast remedy to the illegal immigration problem. It could even be administered proactively by private, individual Texans if the state authorities drag their feet once the proposal is brought to their attention (responsibility for which I charge the very large, active and excellent Texas CtC communities-- both the state group overall and the especially vigorous Dallas/Ft. Worth buzzsaw brigade).

I suspect that once the scaly apex predators are first seen in the water human border patrol force-strengths could be cut by 99% everywhere except at designated, legitimate entry points. Upside after upside!

Let me know if you agree...

P.S. ON A RELATED NOTE, learn how the truth about so-called "birthright citizenship" affects Kamala Harris's eligibility for office, here.

"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

 

"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."

--I. F. Stone

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America, The Candy Store

...and you thought it was America, the Beautiful.

TO ZIONISTS-- even those born and raised in America, the United States (that is, the federal entity created by the united States) is just a resource to be exploited in service to the ambition of "greater Israel" or the sparking of Armageddon. To grievance-nurturing Americans of Eastern European descent, the United States is a weapon to be deployed against what they see as the object of their hatred (even though the real author of their grievance-- the USSR-- was put down by the Russian people against whom they clamor and make war, people who themselves suffered more than anyone at the hands of the now thirty-five-years-in-the-grave communist regime).

To social reformers, the United States is a hammer with which cultures not on board with the reformers' enthusiasms are to be beaten into conformity, or at least, acquiescence. To the casually corrupt, the United States is a giant honey-pot waiting to be exploited for their personal gain.

I could go on, but this is enough to make the point: Being the pelf-swollen owner of vast wealth (and the power that it buys), the United States is a plum to be fought over by means fair and foul, and then used by the victor to suit that victor's personal agenda at the expense of everyone else.

It was not meant to be this way, and "this way" is a very bad thing, both for Americans and for the rest of the world.

The United States was meant to be a small thing, just enough to take care of a very short list of delegated tasks, at minimal expense and with minimal interference or involvement in the lives of average Americans. And so it was for the first 140 years or so. with only a few brief exceptions. As was observed by a pundit shortly after the dawn of the Twentieth Century, for the most part the only federal official ever encountered by an American throughout an entire lifetime was the guy who delivered his mail.

This graph illustrates that idyllic past-- while explaining what changed things:

This paper explains what can be done about the current problem, returning to us the limited government designed by the Founders and Framers.

Please read that less-than-two-page explanation, and the supporting or supplemental material offered at the end. Then share it around.

We now live in very perilous times, and solely because we have slept at the wheel and let the United States become a weapon against our own well-being. We need to move swiftly and surely in righting our course.

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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.

Click here for the rest of this article

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

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

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

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

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How To Be A Leader In The CtC Community

It's simple:

KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX IN DETAIL

LEAD BY EXAMPLE

KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE RESOURCES

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

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

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

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

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Are You Having Trouble Spreading The Word?

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

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

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

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The Liberating Truth About The 16th Amendment

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

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

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

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

-Thomas Paine

 

OUTREACH!!!

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

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

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

-George Orwell

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Other Voices (followed by an important afterword)

Russian Collusion? I Predicted The Tenet Media Psy-Op Way Back In 2014

by Brandon Smith

As a liberty writer and economist I have been working within the alternative media for almost 20 years now. I was there at the inception of what we consider the modern counter-media movement, when a scattering of radio hosts, writers and video bloggers started to come together to create perhaps the greatest unsung information revolution in decades. It was this era in which the mainstream corporate news started to lose their audience by the millions.

This was also the advent of the Ron Paul movement and the return of a more true conservatism that would eventually shake up the Republican Party and the “Uniparty” paradigm. Neo-cons are not conservatives, they are leftists and globalists in disguise. We all know that now, but back then it was an uphill struggle to get the average conservative voter to understand they were being duped.  Today, most Neo-cons are abandoning the Republican Party to vote for Kamala Harris.

The success of Donald Trump is a symptom, a side effect of this burgeoning liberty activism. Trump didn’t start it, he just rode the wave that we created many years ago. It’s important to remember that it existed before him and it will exist after him.  That said, it’s undeniable that Trump has come to symbolize a big middle finger to the establishment on the part of the conservative and even moderate population. His campaigns have indeed helped to bring culture war awareness to the forefront. Furthermore, I would dare say we are winning that war.

The political left used to deny that the culture war existed.  Today, woke ideology is now thoroughly exposed in entertainment, in corporate journalism, in public school curriculum, in the military and within our own government agencies.  The alternative media made this victory possible.

A lot of people also had a “come to Jesus moment” during covid.  The political left grasped so desperately for total authoritarianism during the covid mandates that they rushed ahead and flew too close to the sun.

They went after our basic freedoms, they tried to ban us from public places, they tried to force us to act as guinea pigs for experimental vaccines, they censored our free speech, they threatened to take our jobs away, take our kids away, and throw us in covid camps.  All of this happened only a few years ago and it shocked large numbers of Americans out of apathy.

The covid agenda failed in part because of the tireless efforts of the alternative media spreading scientific facts and evidence that contradicted government propaganda. The mandates were defeated. The vax passport plan was defeated. The CDC was forced to inflate the numbers of people who actually took the first vax and they had to hide the reality that almost no one took the boosters.

What this means, though, is that the globalists will simply try something new; a new disaster with a new enemy and a new agenda to take what’s left of our freedoms away. Algorithmic censorship of the alternative media on search engines and YouTube didn’t work and kicking us off social media helped them little. We found other ways to get the truth out there.

They are coming after us directly next time, and the attacks have already started…

I’m speaking mainly of the Tenet Media controversy in which the Department of Justice has accused alternative journalist Lauren Chen of acting as a middleman (or middlewoman) for Russia Today (a Russian state funded media organization) to feed millions of dollars to unwitting conservatives and pro-Trump personalities like Dave Rubin, Tim Pool and Benny Johnson.

To be clear, the U.S. Justice Department doesn’t allege any wrongdoing by influencers, some of whom it says were given false information about the source of Tenet’s funding. Instead, it has indicted two employees of RT under the Foreign Agents Registration Act for funneling nearly $10 million to the Tennessee-based content creation company in exchange for Russia-friendly content.  However, the DOJ is in my view knowingly giving the corporate media and the DNC ammunition to attack and marginalize the alternative media right before the US elections.

Let’s cut to the core of this situation:

Click here to read the rest of this article

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

 

Afterword

THIS IS A WELL-THOUGHT-OUT PIECE by Brandon Smith (as usual). It does a nice job of framing a typical narrative-management mind-game played by the modern Leviathan state (either our own local version or the more diffuse "globalist" version).

Such a shame that America isn't on rations too lean to be maintaining the resources necessary for initiating and sustaining such gaslighting, especially as would be needed to do so on a population near-universally skeptical of governmental hobgoblin-flogging.

Of course, that could be fixed... Especially now, with the US Supreme Court having just reaffirmed its 108-year-old ruling in Brushaber v. Union Pacific RR. Co., acknowledging the truth about the income tax revealed in CtC...

The arising and sustenance of the Leviathan state monster is a direct result of the successful mis-administration of the US income tax laws. This began primarily in the early 1940s with the adoption of the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943 amidst the tumult of WWII, and after a couple of decades of corrupt misrepresentation of the 16th Amendment's purpose and effect, despite that misrepresentation being squarely in defiance of the history of the amendment and multiple express Supreme Court rulings on the subject.

Shrinking that Leviathan state monster merely involves the reversing of that misadministration-- something that can be done by individual Americans, acting one-by-one, with no help or approval of any government official.

All that is required is some knowledge, and some courage-- the latter of which naturally blooms in the hearts of real Americans when given the nourishment of the former. As the saying goes, America is the Land of the Free because it is the Home of the Brave.

CtC provides that knowledge, showing definitively that the Founders and Framers set this country up in the foreknowledge of the inevitable tendency of every state toward centralization, swollen growth and despotism. Those brilliant and liberty-loving men baked into the Constitutional cake all the tools by which individual Americans can stem or reverse those destructive and despotic tendencies.

The simplest and most peaceable of those tools is the power provided to each individual American to restrict the resources he or she provides to the ambitious 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.

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

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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!

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-Mark C. Phillips, JD

 

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

-Jerry Arnowitz, JD

 

"Your book is a masterpiece!"

-Michael Carver, JD

 

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-John O'Neil Green, JD

 

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

-Eric Smithers, JD

 

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

-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.

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

Click here for more information

And don't miss:

Was Grandpa Really a Moron

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

Click here for more information

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

Learn The Liberating Truth About The Tax

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

 

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

 

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

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

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

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

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Resources:

Selected Features From Recent Editions:

Regarding a thus-far unopened gift:

A Bit More About Moore

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Getting back to basics:

That To Secure These Rights...

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It's outrageous, but it's undeniable:

The Virtual Certainty Of Foreign Interference In The 2024 Elections

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Europe's Plot To Regulate Political Speech In America

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Our interesting times continue to deliver...

It's A Good Time For Some More Victory Posts

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Israel And The Nullification Of The Constitution

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Our interesting times continue to deliver...

Illegal War, The Orgy In Paris, Riots In The UK, And More

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Other Voices (with an important afterword)

Enter Harris, Stage Left

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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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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:

September 17- In 1787, the final draft of the United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia by participants in the Constitutional Convention.  In 1908, the first airplane fatality occurs when Orville Wright crashes The Wright Flyer, killing passenger Thomas Selfridge.  In 1916, 'The Red Baron' wins his first aerial combat.  In 1939, the Soviet Union joins in Germany's invasion of Poland.  In 1993, the last Russian troops leave Poland.  In 2011, the 'Occupy Wall Street' project begins.  In 2018, a Russian aircraft being unknowingly used as a shield by two Israeli fighters making an unprovoked attack on Syrian targets is mistakenly struck by a Syrian air defense missile, killing 15.

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A Few Words About "Climate Change" Fraud

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

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

Then share this link with everyone you can

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

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

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

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

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

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Rick Van Camp's Excellent Outreach Letter

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Notes And Tips For Educated Filers

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Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:

September 18- In 2001, the first post-9/11 "anthrax letters" are mailed to ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, the New York Post and the National Enquirer, successfully keeping the "terrorism"-hysteria pot boiling.  A second set of anthrax-laden letters were mailed to a pair of influential United States Senators three weeks later during Senate "consideration" of the draconian 'USA PATRIOT Act'.  Click here for more on this subject.  In 2014, 44.7% of Scots voted to secede from the United Kingdom.  In 2019, Edward Snowden's book, 'Permanent Record' becomes the world's best-selling book (at the time), one day after the United States launches a lawsuit against its publisher for failing to allow the CIA and NSA to redact from the manuscript things they wish kept from the light of day (and the eyes of their owners, the American people).

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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:

September 19- In 1778, the Continental Congress passes the first United States budget.  In 1796, George Washington's farewell address is published as an open letter to the American public; see the discussion of this important speech here.

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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:

September 20- In 1633, Galileo Galilei is tried before the Inquisition for teaching the disfavored truth that the Earth orbits around the Sun.  In 1891, the first gasoline-powered car hits the road in America.  In 1990, South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.  In 2001, George W. Bush declares a "War on Terror".  In 2011, the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy in the US military ends, allowing openly gay men and women to serve.

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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:

September 21- In 1780, Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.  In 1792, the French National Convention votes to abolish the monarchy.  In 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' is published.

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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:

September 22- In 1776, Nathan Hale is hanged by the British for spying on behalf of the American Revolutionaries.  In 1795, the first U.S. Gold Eagle was minted-- a 1/2 ounce coin valued at $10.  It takes around 1290 of today's (9-16-24) Federal Reserve "dollars" to equal the still-unvarying buying power of that 1/2 ounce of real money.

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Last Word

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

-Samuel Adams, Architect of the first American Revolution

 

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About The Author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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