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Current Events and Continuing Education for September 30, 2024

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Folks aren't taking this seriously enough, so...

Back Again To Moore

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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 30-  In 1882, Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant begins operation (in Appleton, Wisconsin).  In 1901, a patent is issued for the vacuum cleaner.  In 1927, Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of that season, setting a new record.  In 1935, the Hoover Dam is dedicated.  In 1954, the first nuclear-powered vessel is commissioned-- the USS Nautilus.  In 1986, Mordecai Vanunu, the man who revealed details of a covert Israeli nuclear weapons program to the British press, is kidnapped in Italy by Israeli agents.

 

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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Back Again To Moore

...because folks don't seem to be grasping what I've been trying to make clear about this ruling.

ON AUGUST 15, 2024, A TAX COURT JUDGE, Ronald L. Buch, ruled against a student of my book, 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America' (CtC) in a litigation over an IRS Notice of Deficiency. CtC is the book in which I reveal the long-hidden truth about the legal nature of the income tax. I also explain in CtC how the tax has been successfully misapplied on a massive scale for decades; what victims of the scheme can do to make things right; and why all of this is so important to the health of our now-deeply-wounded Constitutional republic.

Buch made his ruling, in part, with the following language summarizing the student's key contentions and then archly dismissing them out of hand:

"Mr. ____ offers only frivolous arguments in response to the information in the Commissioner’s documents, arguing ... that [sic] income tax is an excise tax, it cannot be imposed as a non-apportioned direct tax under the 16th Amendment, and liability only can result in relation to taxable activities. We have addressed these frivolous arguments in Waltner v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2014- 35, affd, 659 F. App'x 440 (9th Cir. 2016), and we need not address them further. See Crain v. Commissioner, 737 F.2d 1417, 1417 (5th Cir. 1984) (“We perceive no need to refute these arguments with somber reasoning and copious citation of precedent; to do so might suggest that these arguments have some colorable merit.”)."

This language, and the snarky dismissals of the argument that the income tax is an excise, rather than a non-apportioned direct tax, and can only fall upon a distinguished class of taxable activities, is in harmony with not only the cases cited by the tax court, but many other lower court rulings over the last several decades, such as these:

 “[T]he income tax is a direct tax,... See Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Co., 240 U.S. 1, 19, 36 S.Ct. 236, 242, 60 L.Ed. 493 (1916) (the purpose of the Sixteenth Amendment was to take the income tax "out of the class of excises, duties and imposts and place it in the class of direct taxes").”

United States v. Francisco, 614 F.2d 617, 619 (8th Cir. 1980)

...and:

“The Supreme Court promptly determined in Brushaber v. Union Pacific Ry. Co., 240 U.S. 1, 36 S.Ct. 236, 60 L.Ed. 493 (1916), that the sixteenth amendment provided the needed constitutional basis for the imposition of a direct non-apportioned income tax.”

Parker v. Comm'r, 724 F.2d 469 (5th Cir. 1984)

For decades the IRS has published and distributed in hard copy and, more recently, maintained on websites, the same claims about the Brushaber decision, and the nature of the income tax, as those shown above. For instance (fifth entry on this page):

Contention: The Sixteenth Amendment does not authorize a direct non-apportioned federal income tax on United States citizens.

Some assert that the Sixteenth Amendment does not authorize a direct non-apportioned income tax and thus, U.S. citizens and residents are not subject to federal income tax laws.

The Law:

The courts have both implicitly and explicitly recognized that the Sixteenth Amendment authorizes a non-apportioned direct income tax on United States citizens and that the federal tax laws as applied are valid. In United States v. Collins, 920 F.2d 619, 629 (10th Cir. 1990), cert. denied, 500 U.S. 920 (1991), the court cited Brushaber v. Union Pac. R.R., 240 U.S. 1, 12-19 (1916), and noted that the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized that the "Sixteenth Amendment authorizes a direct nonapportioned tax upon United States citizens throughout the nation."

All pretty grim for that student of CtC and his "tax is an (indirect) excise which can't be imposed as a non-apportioned direct tax under the 16th Amendment, and liability can only result in relation to taxable activities" argument, right?

Well, no, not really.

Three months ago, as though quoting CtC itself in every particular, the US Supreme Court unanimously declared that,

The Civil War income tax was recognized as an indirect tax “under the head of excises, duties and imposts.” Brushaber, 240 U. S., at 15; see also Springer v. United States, 102 U. S. 586, 598, 602 (1881).

In 1895, however, in Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co., this Court held that a tax on income from property equated to a tax on the property itself, and thus was a direct tax that had to be apportioned among the States. 158 U. S. 601, 627–628. The Pollock decision sparked significant confusion and controversy throughout the United States.

Congress and the States responded to Pollock by approving a new constitutional amendment. Ratified in 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment rejected Pollock’s conflation of (i) income from property and (ii) the property itself. The Amendment provides: “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.” U. S. Const., Amdt. 16 (emphasis added).

Therefore, the Sixteenth Amendment expressly confirmed what had been the understanding of the Constitution before Pollock: Taxes on income ... are indirect taxes that need not be apportioned. Brushaber, 240 U. S., at 15, 18.

Moore v. United States, 602 U.S. ___ (2024)

The excerpt above is from the majority opinion; the concurring opinions and even the dissenting opinions in the case all echo this declaration. J. Jackson's concurring opinion goes a bit further, expressly describing the tax as applied in the case as "an excise tax on the privilege of doing business through a controlled foreign corporation".

Jackson's addition puts a finer point on the Moore court's acknowledgements, underscoring that because the tax is an indirect excise it cannot be a capitation, which is a tax on all that comes in (or some portion thereof) simply because it comes in, and is expressly in the category of direct taxes. (Click on the link and learn the meaning of this often misunderstood term.)

Further, because the tax cannot be a capitation, and therefore can only fall on distinguished, special varieties of "what comes in", and because it is an excise tax (as the Brushaber court also holds expressly), it is necessarily and inescapably a tax on the specialized category of gainful, privileged activities (measured by the dollar value of the gains therefrom), because an excise tax IS a privilege tax. (Click on the link and learn the meaning of this often misunderstood term.)

Following from these two facets of the Moore-affirmed nature of the tax is the fact that in order for the government to validly establish tax liability (in the face of a properly-made dispute thereof) it must show that any gains by which it proposes to measure such a liability are the product of qualifying privileged activity. (That requirement is expressly specified in tax law, but has been routinely ignored by courts in denial about the excise-character of the tax.)

ALL-IN-ALL, THE DECLARATIONS IN MOORE are rather strikingly different from the assertions of all the lower courts (and the IRS) cited above, and especially that obnoxiously snarky one made in the ruling against that CtC-educated filer with which we began, right? In fact, the Moore court unanimously says exactly the opposite of what those lower courts have said-- while being exactly what CtC has told you is the case, in every particular, since way back in 2003.

The fact is, rather than operate from their own research-- even when presented with chapter and verse by a disfavored litigant-- those lower courts have relied upon government-serving wrongly-decided prior lower court decisions. Such decisions form an ever-more massive chain that began with one long-ago case, apparently badly briefed, and argued before a corrupt judge and against a corrupt DOJ lawyer-- very possibly with the deliberate connivance of all parties involved-- and which was never appealed for correction.

That first case was then cited in the next case involving an ill-prepared litigant against the government, with the bad decision echoed and then perhaps affirmed in a circuit court. Those outcomes will have been widely published into the legal community of the day (by then some years removed from the Brushaber decision, which is, sad to say, written by a Chief Justice White who was fond of 100-word sentences and circuitous reasoning sure to discourage impulses to verify) and will quickly have become the reigning precedent.

And yet it is, and always has been-- as the Moore decision now re-instructs the country-- a steaming pile.

SO, TO SUM UP, THE SUPREME COURT just unanimously bitch-slapped every tax court judge who has ever made an adverse ruling against an educated filer or claimant in defiance of the FACT that the income tax is an excise and cannot lawfully be applied as any kind of non-apportioned direct tax, and the FACT that in order to sustain an asserted tax against a filer who has disputed it on his or her return in a consistent and appropriate manner, as explained in CtC, the tax-hungry government has to prove that the activities which produced the targeted gains were actually of the special variety liable to the tax.

Likewise, the Supreme Court has bitch-slapped every federal district court which has acted as described above, and every appellate court that has sustained any such ruling or any Tax Court ruling of that sort. Again, likewise, the Supreme Court has bitch-slapped any tax agency assertion that such educated filings qualify for "frivolous return" penalties.

Any and all of the adverse judicial (or agency) determinations described are manifestly fraudulent and abusive, the product of raw corruption.

Remember, what the Supreme Court has just said in Moore is only a re-iteration of long-in-the-books black-letter law. That long-in-the-books, black-letter law is knowable to anyone who went to the trouble of looking, as I proved 21 years ago by going to that trouble and publishing it all in CtC.

It is especially knowable and, in fact, is KNOWN by any jurist or agency officer to whom the information from CtC has been presented as a brief or in any other way. But many of these judges, who had been left to their own devices and had been unable to be schooled by a freshly-minted re-iteration of the law such as that now offered up by the Moore court, have been perfectly happy to behave badly, nonetheless.

IN MY OWN 2009 "trial" on accusations of not believing what I wrote 21 years ago in CtC, and which the Supreme Court just re-iterated in Moore, the outrageously corrupt judge, Gerald Rosen, upon hearing me articulate my conclusions about the nature of the tax and cite to the authorities on which they are based, actually announced with a smirk of disdain to my jury that he, lawyer and judge and graduate of law school, had never heard any such things.

(And the judge did so just prior to refusing a juror request to see the actual words of statutes relevant to the case, and to which I had referred in testimony. He then proceeded to give the jury prosecution-written substitutes for that statutory language, from which the acknowledgements of the excise-nature of the tax, which had been built to the statutory language in by the legislature, had been removed and replaced with false language presenting the tax as a non-apportioned capitation.)

It gets uglier still. The nonsense relied upon by lower courts in tax cases over the years-- even most cases involving CtC-educated Americans-- involves misrepresenting the Brushaber decision as treating the income tax as a non-apportioned direct tax rather than an excise. Still, some, or even most of the judges in these cases, may actually not know any better and may have simply relied on the precedents presented to them in government briefs (while less forgivably ignoring the briefing by the private citizen litigant).

But the judge initially cooperating with the corrupt government efforts to suppress CtC by attacking me (and my wife, too, eventually)-- Nancy Edmunds-- did know the truth, or had every reason to, while proceeding against us anyway.

This is evidenced by Edmund's deliberate mischaracterization of CtC as arguing that only government workers are subject to the tax. She treated that falsely-ascripted argument as the problem with the book, rather than disputing and denouncing what the book really says-- and which the Moore court has just affirmed.

Edmund's only possible defense, it seems to me, is that she simply, and improperly, took the word of the corrupt DOJ operative who wrote that false-ascription, which she then signed, despite it having been categorically disputed and denounced under oath; despite her having never held a single hearing in the case before issuing her ruling; and despite, as she was later compelled to admit, never having even read CtC.

HAPPILY, OF COURSE, AND ALL THE FOREGOING NOTWITHSTANDING, most students of CtC-- even though operating in this troubled, pre-Moore environment-- have seemingly dealt with tax agency personnel who DO know the truth. This has been steadily shown over the last two decades+ by way of the endless river of refunds flowing out of state tax agencies and the IRS and into the mailboxes and bank accounts of CtC-educated filers and claimants.

But out of the hundreds of thousands of unmolested victors, some educated filers have been harmed. Mostly this harm has been modest in its practical effects, such as diversion of acknowledged refunds owed back to the filer being diverted against a pretended "frivolous return penalty" for another filing (or even, sometimes, the same filing by which the refund was secured!). Again, the practical harm in such cases is light, but the crime is heinous nonetheless, involving as it does a deep violation of the public trust, and being purely and high-handedly abusive of its victims.

A handful have faced worse still, being accused of filing forms they did not believe to be true.

I urge every victim of any of these crimes to seek redress. Every victim should find competent legal assistance (and share with counsel the voluminous tools available here), or use those tools themselves and go solo.

FURTHER, EVERYONE, WITH A LEGAL GRIEVANCE OR NOT, should consider how clear it lately is that the Leviathan state has crossed the threshold into being a serious, imminent threat to their well-being and that of those they love-- with no recourse available through institutional checks. Starving the beast is the only peaceful remedy remaining, and that can only be practically done through individual action making use of CtC's information and inspiration (see this for more on that).

The Moore opinions have made deployment of that remedy much smoother for the educated American, and much more easily encouraged among others-- even people who would previously never have dreamt of standing so tall and saying, "NO!" so effectively.

All told, for political purposes as well as for legal redress, Moore is a rare penetration of bright sunlight through the fog usually maintained with great care around the subject of the tax by a government that has grown fat and dangerous on its too-rarely-challenged misrepresentations. It needs to be used, and right now, while it is still fresh.

Seriously, my friends. Like every window of opportunity, this one will only be open to its fullest extent for a little while.

Don't miss it.

P.S. For those new to all this, CtC can be ordered here, or read online free, starting here. A vast array of resources related to the book's revelations, and much else, can be found 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

 

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."

-Edward R. Murrow

P.P.S. Those interested in learning more about the several Kangaroo "trials" through which my wife Doreen and I have been put in government efforts to suppress my work can do so here.

P.P.P.S. My first article on the Moore ruling can be found here; my second can be found 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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A VERY IMPORTANT NOTE FOR EVERYONE!!!

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NOTE II: PLEASE help ensure that others in the CtC community know about this change in newsletter delivery!!

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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:

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...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.

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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

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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Are You Ready For More Power?

"Peter Hendrickson has done it again! 'Upholding The Law' does for individual liberties what 'Cracking the Code' did for tax law compliance: exposes the reader to the unalienable truth!"

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

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 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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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:

October 1- In 1800, Spain cedes Louisiana to France.  In 1908, Ford Model T's go on sale at $825.  In 1910, the Los Angeles Times building is destroyed by a bomb set by Ironworkers union members upset at the position of the paper on unionization. It was one of many similar bombings during that period (more than 100), but perhaps the most dramatic, with 21 dead and scores more injured. No anti-terrorism measures gutting the Constitution were enacted, and yet life went on.  In 1928, the Soviet Union introduces its first "Five Year Plan" for the bureaucratic control of the national economy.  In 1946, the "Nuremburg Trials" of Nazi leaders for engaging in wars of aggression come to a close with death sentences for most of the defendants.  In 2017, Catalonia votes overwhelmingly (more than 92% in favor) to secede from Spain.  The Spanish government had already declared the vote illegal and attempted to interfere with the voting process, but without much success, as shown by the outcome.  Less than a month later the Spanish government declared the Catalan parliament dissolved after it formally voted to declare independence.

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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:

October 2- In 1835, freedom-loving Texans begin their war for independence from Mexico.  In 1950, "Peanuts" is first published.  In 1959, 'The Twilight Zone' airs its first episode.  In 1998, historians take note that it is the 160th 2nd of October since Iran initiated military aggression against anyone.  In 2002, the "Beltway Sniper" attacks begin.  In 2018, journalist Jamal Khashoggi is last seen alive, entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

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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:

October 3- In 1849, Edgar Allen Poe is found in a gutter in Baltimore, an apparent victim of "cooping" (being drugged into incoherence and then taken from polling place to polling place and made to repeatedly vote as instructed).  He dies four days later.  In 1863, the fourth Thursday of November is officially specified as Thanksgiving Day by Abraham Lincoln.  In 1908, 'Pravda' is founded.  In 1932, Iraq gains its independence from Britain.  In 1981, the hunger strike by PIRA and INLA prisoners at the Maze prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.  In 1990, Eastern and Western Germany are reunited.  In 2008, George W. Bush signs the first $700 billion "bailout" bill, starting an ongoing process of looting the American people under the amazingly bold pretext that these further offenses will somehow ameliorate the effects of previous governmental abuse of the American financial and monetary structures.

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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:

October 4- In 1537, the first complete English-language Bible is printed.  Two of the three translators suffer burning at the stake.  In 1777, George Washington's assault on the British garrison at Germantown, Pennsylvania is defeated by Sir William Howe.  In 1957, Sputnik 1 is launched.  In 1988, "televangelist" Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.  In 2004, SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X prize for the first private craft to successfully reach space and return twice within two weeks time.

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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:

October 5- In 1143, Portugal is recognized as an independent kingdom by the Spanish throne.  In 1910, the Portuguese citizenry overthrow the monarchy and declare a republic.  In 1970, PBS begins broadcasting.  In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu's revelations about the secret Israeli nuclear weapons program are published in Britain's Sunday Times.  In 2001, the first victim of the post-9/11 anthrax attacks dies.

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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:

October 6- In 1889, Thomas Edison hosts the first motion picture screening.  In 1927, The Jazz Singer-- the first widely-screened "talking" picture-- opens.  In 2007, the first human-powered circumnavigation of the world (using a pedal boat, kayak, roller-blades, bicycle and simply walking) is completed 13 years after commencement.

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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.