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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.
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...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").”
“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.”
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.
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.
Now, do you want this
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do so if YOU PASS IT ON TO OTHERS.
Please do that.
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Share these all, everywhere you can. Be your most
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gifs; respond to everything in the news that would be or have been
better had the state been small, or if Americans kept their money
for their own uses.
If you pay attention to the news and train yourself to
apply these perspectives, you will see a dozen things of which you
can make use in awakening other Americans to the virtues of having
the income tax correctly administered. Please, for my sake, for your
own sake, for the sake of your children and their future, make that
use.
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*****
Not Letting This "Crisis" Go To Waste...
...an important action item opportunity.
FRIENDS, THE SPORADIC EASINGS of the despotic measures to
which most of the country has been subjected under
since the onset of the
COVID-19 hobgoblin narrative should not be
allowed to bleed off the head of steam you probably had been developing.
The offenses happened, and they're far from over. Stay hot.
And while you are all warmed up, and while others, if
they're smart, are just as hot, I'd like you to send an email (and
Facebook post, or whatever) with the following content to everyone you
can (with a request that they pass it along, in turn):
[Name], since March of 2020 you've
watched as over-fed state power has been used to literally destroy
classical Western civilization and impose a new despotic paradigm. No
dissent or debate permitted-- no permission or agreement sought.
YOU KNOW where this will end up if the arrogant
state power being used to make this happen isn't radically diminished in
size, influence, resources and popular support, and exposed as an
opportunistic exploiter of legal ignorance (an ignorance which it has
been nurturing in the average mind for decades).
Those things having not yet happened, you
should be quaking in your boots-- and you probably are.
Isn't it time-- and past time-- for you to
begin helping to make those desperately-needed defensive changes take
place? There is only one way these things can happen short of a
who-knows-what we'll-end-up-with explosion of violence. I'm going to
show it to you.
When you're done with that reading, you'll know
what to do next.
BTW, REMEMBER, ALSO, THAT EVERY AMERICAN has lately been given a stark lesson in the fact
that government officials at all levels will lie to you and violate the
law without batting an eye. They will do so any time it serves their agenda, and
you don't call them out for it.
If you know anyone who has been persisting in denial on the
truth about the income tax, you know such nonsense is usually be
grounded in some version or another of, "That can't be true..." or "They
would never do something like that...". Now's the time to put a pin in
that delusional bubble.
As the C19 hoax has starkly shown, "that" certainly CAN be true, and they
certainly WOULD do something
like that.
Use this evidence in all your
outreach efforts.
"It is not the function of our Government to keep the
citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to
keep the Government from falling into error."
-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
(Deceitful efforts to discourage Americans from
learning the truth about the "income tax")
FOR ALL THE YEARS SINCE 2003 when
CtC was first published, the government has engaged in a
concerted effort to frighten people away from its truths. This
effort involves official government websites and press releases
touting an occasional court ruling that appears to be at odds
with some
CtC-revelation (but without details sufficient to expose the
real substance of the ruling)--
and sometimes even more mendacious behavior.
Are the presentations and
resources offered on this site and in my other work of any value to you?
Tim Kendrick has posted
a video
on YouTube regarding donations. I didn't know what to do about
it to begin with; I don't do what I do intending for anyone to
feel obligated in any way.
But of course, no one IS obligated. I will continue
to make my work freely-available here, and in my books for only
the cost of a cheap paperback.
Thus, even though I post it here below, Tim's very
thoughtful personal resolution and encouragement to others is
just an invitation for consideration by those who may not be
conscious of the fact that I can't do what I do without support.
No one is to feel any pressure from it; if it moves anyone to
act let it be solely because it seems right.
All-in-all, just be the sort of person for others
that you would go to yourself for trustworthy leadership.
Leadership is a challenge. But it's not
complicated, and you can do it.
*****
Are You Having Trouble Spreading The
Word?
SKEPTICISM (SOMETIMES INVOKED BY FEAR) IS TO BE
EXPECTED when you're trying to explain to someone that
everything they've been encouraged their whole lives to
believe about something as entrenched and significant as the
income tax is basically nonsense. So here's a way to help
cut through the resistance:
Ask your listener how he or she would react if
you were to show an announcement from the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue admitting that the tax doesn't apply to the
earnings of most Americans and is misapplied most of the
time because people don't understand how it works? Or how
about if you showed a ruling from the Supreme Court saying
the same?
Now you just have to explain that
you're going to show exactly those things-- but because
the state really doesn't want people to know this, these
things haven't been said quite as forthrightly as we would
all wish. It's going to take a bit more work to take these
admissions in than is sufficient for just reading a press
release. But it'll be worth the effort...
IF YOU'RE NOT SPREADING THIS LINK with every bit of
energy you can, to school libraries, homeschool
families and community groups, your neighbors, your
family members, your pastors and
co-congregationalists, journalists, lawyers, CPAs,
members of congress, tax-agency workers, Wikipedia,
Anonymous, WikiLeaks, the Tax Foundation, everyone
in the "tax honesty" movement, the 9/11 truth
movement, other activist movements and everyone
else,
you have only yourself to blame for your
troubles with the tax, and a whole lot else of which
you might complain. It's on you.
WRITE A NICE, FRIENDLY AND BRIEF introductory note
explaining what will be seen at the link-- cryptic
is bad; excited is good-- and then send this WMI
(weapon of mass instruction) far and wide.
Remember: Real Americans don't accommodate fog, lies and a sliding scale of
adherence to the rule of law. Real American men and women stand up for the
truth and the law, come what may, knowing that it is only by setting the bar
at the top and enforcing it, come what may, that liberties are secured.
"Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be
strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be
highly rated."
-Thomas Paine
OUTREACH!!!
JOB ONE, PEOPLE!!! SPREAD. THE. WORD.
ONLY ONE THING WILL WIN YOU YOUR LIBERTY:
Spreading the truth. Accordingly, I've assembled
outreach resources into a new, dedicated page. Find it
here, and please, USE THESE TOOLS!! I can't
do this all by myself.
"In a time of
universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary
act."
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.
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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Please do that.
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EVEN AS ARDENT A STATIST as Abraham
Lincoln, in announcing his willingness to burn the Southern states to the ground in order to
keep them paying the tariff for the benefit of Northern interests in
his first inaugural address on March 4, 1861, paid at least lip
service to the Founders design of leaving control over the fuel
available to feed the fires Washington wants to light in the hands
of the individual citizenry when he said, "Doing this I deem to
be only a simple duty on my part; and I shall perform it, unless my
rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite
means..."
Lawyers:
It's Way Past Time For You All To Queue Up!
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-Mark C. Phillips, JD
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-Jerry Arnowitz, JD
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�Thanks again for your efforts, Pete. They mean an awful lot
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knowledge and ability in navigating the law. THANK YOU for
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-Eric Smithers, JD
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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
Do you
know someone truly steeped in the Kool-Aid?
I mean
someone who finds it easier to believe that the far-better-educated,
far-more-suspicious-of-government Americans of a hundred years ago were
complete morons who granted authority to the state to take whatever it
wished from themselves and their posterity than to imagine that they
themselves simply misunderstand the true nature of the income tax? Even
while knowing that their beliefs about the tax are derived entirely from
the representations of those who profit from those beliefs (like tax
bureaucrats and "tax professionals")?
Do you
know someone like that? Shake them awake with the latest (sixteenth)
edition of
CtC!
If
CtC were actually
right, it would mean the government's been concealing and
denying and suppressing the truth for years
on end, and everybody knows THAT would never happen...
(Edward Snowden, come home! It was all just a bad dream; there really is
No Such Agency!)
Btw, a copy of
CtC from anywhere except the link above may not
be a current edition. CHECK. It matters. Also, there ARE no
e-book, Kindle or .pdf versions of
CtC.
Don't get taken in by efforts to sell you-- or even give you for
free-- any such thing.
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.
*****
A Few Words About "Climate Change" Fraud
You NEED to defend yourself and your kids against this
now-high-inertia effort to destroy liberty.
H/T to Jonesy for circulating this fun little meme and video link.
*****
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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.
*****
A Two-Minute Review Of CtC
David Bindel reminds us that there's either the rule of law, or
there isn't.
HEY! SAYING IT AGAIN!! DON'T YOU WISH YOUR INSPIRING
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Every victim of the "ignorance tax", 'cause it's all
just statist consent-engineering propaganda.
*****
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villains, monsters and true heroes, all simply concealed
from you by
sophisticated spells which also keep you from
engaging in the fight.
There are real great deeds to be done,
and real treasures to be had for your efforts, and
frankly, your real future
is at stake. You just have to gain "the sight" in order to
penetrate the illusions.
Visit
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the real field of battle!
*****
PRO TIP: If I were the IRS and I wanted to
discourage people from rebutting allegations that
they had done things I can tax, and wanted to keep them from
successfully reclaiming withheld or paid-in money, I
would salt the "tax honesty" community with
passionate-seeming "legal researchers" who would
warn anyone whose ear they captured that filing a
1040 is a bad idea for one reason or another...
*****
Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:
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.
If you're not talking this one up everywhere and
helping generate a buzz, you don't really want liberty and the
rule of law...
*****
In light of
the actual evidence, those
who doubt or
deny the accuracy and correctness of
CtC just because some government officials
denounce it are like the 16th-century Europeans who
were mystified by
Copernicus getting all those
astronomical predictions right even though the
church had said he was wrong.
*****
Did you miss the 'Set Your Church Free'
commentaries?
Ignorance of the true nature of the "income" tax
has gagged, gutted and seduced-into-disgrace America's
ministerial community. This must change.
*****
You're a
passenger on a riverboat that relies on regular
contributions of fuel from the passengers to
keep moving forward. You see an unsurvivable
waterfall ahead, and note a
soon-to-be-irresistible current growing stronger
each day. What does common sense suggest?
*****
Test Your
"Income" Tax IQ!
CtC Warrior
SanDiegoScott has put together a great little 20-question quiz
to test your knowledge of the law regarding the United States
"income" tax. Test yourself, test your friends and family!
Test your accountant and tax attorney, and help them learn the
liberating truth!!
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.
*****
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a
people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power
which knowledge gives."
"It is not the function of our Government to keep
the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the
citizen to keep the Government from falling into error."
-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
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.
*****
*****
'The BOSTONIAN'S Paying the EXCISE-MAN, or
TARRING & FEATHERING' (1774) (How our forefathers responded to arrogant
"Rule of Law defiers"...)
*****
The willingness of some people to trade liberty for
convenience is without limit...
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed,
second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident."
-Arthur
Schopenhauer
*****
Illuminating Anniversaries of this week:
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.
*****
Last Word
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We
seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that
feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget
that ye were our countrymen."
-Samuel
Adams, Architect of the first American Revolution
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Hendrickson is also a widely-read essayist on
matters of politics, public policy and law; many of these works
are collected in his second book, �Upholding
the Law And Other Observations�. He is a member of Mensa;
an
award-winning artist; and has paid his dues as a youth
soccer coach. He is a long-time political activist as well, and
has served as co-chair and platform convention delegate of
Michigan�s largest county Libertarian Party organization; as a
consultant to the National Right to Work Foundation and Citizens
for a Sound Economy; as a member of the Heartland Institute; and
as a member of the International Society for Individual
Liberty. He is a frequent radio-show guest on stations across
the country.
Hendrickson's business career has included nearly a
decade-and-a-half at the leading edge of the renewable-energy
industry, both as Director of Purchasing and Materials
Management and member of the R&D board at Starpak Energy
Systems, the mid-west's then-largest solar heating and
energy-recovery-and re-utilization company; and as founder and
president of AFJ Inc., a high-efficiency lighting design,
manufacture and installation firm.
Beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing for the
twelve years before his present full-time focus on the
restoration of the rule of law in America, Hendrickson directed
purchasing activities for the $84 million-a-year
multi-family-housing division of the Farmington Hills, Michigan
branch of Edward Rose and Sons, with responsibility for 18,000+
apartments, direct supervision of 35 technicians and agents, and
incidental authority over several hundred divisional workers.
He also ran the division's 10 cable television earth-station and
distribution systems in four states, and designed and
administered the company's website.
On rather the other end of the spectrum, amidst
these more mundane pursuits Hendrickson co-founded and was the
primary creative force behind a small
board- and
card-game company that enjoyed a modest success for several
years.
Hendrickson makes his home in southeast Michigan,
with his wife and two children. He is currently working on his
next book.
� All written and graphic material on this page and
website are copyrighted by Peter E. Hendrickson, unless otherwise attributed.
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.
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
