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Current Events and Continuing Education for November 25, 2024

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."

-James Madison

 

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In order to overcome a lifetime's worth of propaganda, I'm...

Turning Down The Gaslight

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Make sure your kids know

The Real Story Of Thanksgiving

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A cautionary commentary:

The Delusional Style In American Politics

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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:

November 25- In 1783, the last British troops leave New York City.  In 1867, Alfred Nobel patents dynamite.  In 1874, the "Greenback Party"-- a pro-inflation political organization-- is established.  Ten years later it is dis-established, but not before occupying 25 seats in the U.S. House, in the aggregate, over that decade.  In 1950, the People's Republic of China commits troops to the Korean War on the side of the North Koreans.  In 1952, Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London.  It goes on to become the longest-running play in history.  In 1986, Edwin Meese announces that money from arms sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the "Contra" rebels in Nicaragua.

 

Anniversaries of interest for each day of this week will be found throughout the newsletter below.

 

NOTE: I don't even try to include in these anniversary compilations items involved in the "COVID-19" scam, hysteria and exploitation. There would be way too much to say about all that to suit this format. But find my summary of that history, and related observations posted throughout 2020 and 2021, here.

  

Fear nothing but God's judgment as to your honesty and your courage

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"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."

-Samuel Adams

HEY, People!

Please don't just read what I post here (or anywhere), and nod your head sagely or approvingly and then move on to other things. I don't post in order to affirm your sense of things. I post in order to equip you with perspectives and arguments with which to educate others, and in the expectation that you will forward my posts to other people (or direct them to those posts). PLEASE do those things, especially in recognition of the fact that my posts are heavily suppressed. They will NOT get out if you don't get them out.

Remember, we won't win by only YOU knowing what I present. We will win by LOTS OF OTHERS knowing what I present.

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Turning Down The Gaslight

...with the necessary receipts, in order to help overcome a lifetime's worth of propaganda.

OVER THE LAST ~14 MONTHS I have been writing more often than usual on the Israeli effort to exterminate the Palestinians (in an act of self-defense defined as: "Eliminating all those with claims and grievances against you-- or who might "harm" you by thwarting your ambitions"). A collection of these recent articles can be found here.

Dealing with this subject has presented some particular challenges. This is especially true in my efforts to argue and educate in the mosh pit of X where the "debates" are conducted with bumper-sticker-length posts, and ignorance and obfuscation are endless.

Chief among these challenges is the need to debunk fact-related lies-- that is, lies told about factual matters, which is done in order to change the landscape on which the persuasive debate takes place. Changing the landscape in this way allows the liar to control the outcome of the debate.

This fact-lie practice is a form of what Orwell means when he points out, "Who controls the past controls the future"-- an insight darkly acknowledged in the vanishing of history as a seriously-taught subject in government schools. It is a disturbingly successful ploy.

The sad fact is that too few Americans any longer harbor reflexive skepticism-- especially toward "official" or "expert" pronouncements (or even just those made with sufficient confidence or fervor), and even fewer are equipped with competent analytical or research skills-- thanks in large part to the equally-dark vanishing of logic as a seriously-taught subject in government schools.

So, I must devote myself, as I am able, to debunking fact-lies on which the propaganda is overlaid, and thus, "turning down the gaslight".

TODAY I AM GOING TO FOCUS on the lie deployed on behalf of the supposed geopolitical legitimacy of the state of Israel superimposed on the country of Palestine-- that Israel appeared as a poetic, "Land without a people for a people without a land," a favorite assertion of Benjamin Netanyahu and others of his ilk.

The idea is that if it can be believed that Palestine was basically an uninhabited place, the grievances of those "Palestinians" today claiming to have been wrongfully dispossessed of the land by the Jewish terrorists armed and facilitated by the British between 1917 and 1948 can be rightly ignored and those people can instead be properly treated as aggressors.

In light of the incredibility of this "empty land" nonsense, it is astonishing how successful it has been-- indeed, this one has even gone so far as to nurture a secondary fiction that the land now occupied by the Israelis only began being called "Palestine" when the British "mandate" began in 1917-- at which time many in official circles and the academy began calling the area "Mandatory Palestine". (My simple response to this one has been pointing the ignorant to Mark Twain's 1869 "The Innocents Abroad", recounting, among other things, Twain's tour through Palestine.)

But, successful it has been, so getting to the business at hand, in a word: No.

Palestine was, in fact, a relatively populous and thriving country in 1917 when Britain's Lord Balfour agreed to compel the Palestinian people to sit quietly while massive immigration of foreigners took place with the object of giving these foreigners more than half of Palestine. British troops occupied Palestine to enforce the imperial decree, and to-- perhaps knowingly, perhaps not-- overlook the steady smuggling by these immigrants of arms into the country while embargoing any arms for the native population.

Here are some stats about Palestine from the '1925 World Almanac and Book of Facts':

  • About the size of of State of Vermont with twice as many inhabitants;

  • Population as of October 23, 1922, 755,858, consisting of 589,564 Mohammedans, 83,794 Jews (27,000 of whom are new immigrants during the preceding 4 years), 73,026 Christians and small numbers of several other diverse religions and ethnicities;

  • 50 town schools and 263 village schools [maintained by the Palestinian government] (with more than 300 private schools operating, as well);

  • Substantial agricultural industry, primarily exporting oranges, soap, wines, melons, apricot port and almonds;

  • 474 miles of government-operated railway, with another 125 maintained by the Palestinian government on behalf of the British occupation;

  • 594 steam ships totaling 1,213,247 tons of capacity along with 1,822 sailing ships of 80,128 tons;

  • Etc., etc.

Hardly an uninhabited wasteland free for the taking...

So, let's tolerate no more lies about a "land without a people...".

On the contrary, in any debate on the matter of Israel vs. Palestine, let's recognize and react to the fact that Palestine WAS a thoroughly inhabited and developed land that was coldly and imperiously stolen from its proper people by an invading army with the assistance of a superior foreign military power, and compel those arguing on Israel's behalf to do the same.

Let's remember, with no hesitation or uncertainty, that those proper people were murdered in large numbers by the invaders using their smuggled weapons in an eruption of violence in the 1940s, with the survivors driven from the land into refugee camps or starvation-rationed open-air prisons where they have been kept ever since, watching the children of the invaders thrive while their own languished.

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SPEAKING OF THAT 1940s eruption of violence, I want to finish here with some additional resources not likely to have had too many eyeballs even while the Israel-Palestine debate has raged with particular intensity over the last 14 months. Posted below will be found newspaper pages from a couple of dates during that period which offer both authoritative evidence of the facts and some color to the tenor of the times.

These pages are from the District of Columbia Evening Star. While I had hoped to find at least some neutral coverage when I dug in to finding this sort of resource, I was surprised to discover how little of this sort of material is readily and publicly available. Of what little there was, I found nothing that was not tinged with approval for the implantation of Israel onto Palestinian land. Doubtless other such resources are out there, for those willing to pay for access, or visit actual microfiche archive locations.

Nonetheless, the articles on these pages are worth reading. For those unfamiliar with the history of the Israel implantation, the Stern Gang, Irgun and Hagana that you will see mentioned are Jewish terrorist organizations that formed and operated in Palestine as the violent agents of the Zionist ambition.

Click on the images to bring up the readable .pdfs of each page.

         

         

         

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The Real Story Of Thanksgiving

Do yourself and society a favor-- read this to your kids.

THANKSGIVING DAY IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE special days of the year, and not because of the great food. The real virtues of this unique American celebration lie in the lessons in humility and maturity offered by its history.

The virtuous lessons to which I refer are offered only by Thanksgiving's true history, however. That true history is the exact opposite of the bogus, "Thank God (sorry... politically incorrect... make that, "Thank Fortuitous Random Chance") we were saved from starvation by the generosity of our neighbors-- see how wonderful socialism can be!" nonsense which too many Americans have been misled into imagining to be the truth.

In fact, the feast we commemorate on the fourth Thursday of November had nothing whatsoever to do with "generosity". What we actually commemorate on Thanksgiving is the Plymouth Rock colonists' recognition of the evils of socialism and the goodness of Adam Smith's "invisible hand" of profit-motivation unleashed by security in property rights.

It was that 11th-hour epiphany after a disastrous experiment with communitarian soulfulness that saved the colony from starvation. Thanks be to God, indeed, for that merciful and timely grant of wisdom.

IN VERY BRIEF SUMMARY, the Plymouth Rock colony began as a commune, organized under the principle that the proceeds of every individual's labors would be claimed of right by the community as a whole, and then redistributed in equal measure to every member. This system lasted for several years, during which the colony grew ever more hungry and impoverished.

Unable to keep the fruit of their labors for themselves, and with the unproductive receiving the same out of the communal resources as those who worked hard, soon no one worked hard. To do so was a fool's game.

The only competition un-smothered by the communitarian rule was the race to the bottom in the avoidance of labor. Every year the crops were thinner; every year the shares distributed to each colonist were more meager.

Finally, in 1623 and on the verge of the colony's failure (that is, the death of all the colonists), the feel-good socialist lunacy was recognized as the deadly mental virus that it is. The ruinous pretense that the community had a rightful claim on the food produced by each member was abandoned, and the colonist's rights to their own production was secured.

As it was recounted (in third-person format) in 1623 by William Bradford, Governor of the Colony:

...so they began to think how they might raise as much corn as they could, and obtain a better crop than they had done, that they might not still thus languish in misery.

At length, after much debate of things, the Governor (with the advice of the chiefest amongst them) gave way that they should set corn every man for his own particular, and in that regard trust to themselves; in all other things to go on in the general way as before. And so assigned to every family a parcel of land, according to the proportion of their number, for that end, only for present use (but made no division for inheritance) and ranged all boys and youth under some family.

This had very good success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been by any means the Governor or any other could use, and saved him a great deal of trouble, and gave far better content. The women now went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn; which before would allege weakness and inability; whom to have compelled would have been thought great tyranny and oppression.

Thus, the deadly madness of socialism was replaced with a pragmatic expression of two natural laws: 1. no person (and no group of persons, acting under whatever title or label or pretense it may) can rightfully dictate the disposal of the product of another's labor; and 2. no society can violate a natural law without suffering the harmful consequences. It was only then that the colony had its first bountiful harvest, for which the members properly gave thanks.

IT IS THE BENEFICIAL CONSEQUENCE of the Plymouth Rock Colony's epiphany concerning the destructive follies of socialism and the rewarding virtues of natural law that we have celebrated on Thanksgiving over the years. Here is William Bradford again, expressing the lesson taken by these ancestors of the American revolutionaries of a century-and-a-half hence:

The experience that was had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanity of that conceit of Plato's and other ancients applauded by some of later times; that the taking away of property and bringing in community into a commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing; as if they were wiser than God.

Needless to say, the experience of the Plymouth Rock Colony was firmly in the American memory at the time that our founding principles were spelled out. It is unsurprising that the colonists' hard-won wisdom deeply informs the Declaration of Independence, the principles enshrined in which are declared to be the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God.

It is unsurprising that the Articles of Confederation and our federal and various state Constitutions are constructed around the core principle that no government (which is, in theory, the agent of the community acting as a whole) has a claim of right to any property other than its own, or that which is produced by the exercise of its own unique prerogatives. The Plymouth Rock Colonists taught us the fatal folly of having things any other way.

THE VIRTUOUS LESSONS LEARNED by the Plymouth Rock Colony's near-disastrous experiment with a fancied and prideful "alternative" to the basic reality of natural law is well-worth the giving of thanks. So is the wisdom of our Founders in taking those lessons to heart and hardwiring them into our American legal structure.

With these things firmly in mind as the real reasons for celebration, I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving. I hope that it finds you all well, and leaves you all comfortably stuffed with the good food and good cheer for which this holiday is casually and warmly known.

But I also hope that you all dwell for a few minutes on the more sober aspects of this commemoration. I especially hope you see to it that your children understand the truth (rather than the warm fuzzy fictions that they have been taught in their government schools and through the mindless popular culture).

The real lessons of Thanksgiving are very important lessons. Our societal well-being depends on those lessons remaining embedded in our American consciousness and institutions.

It has been famously and wisely observed that those who allow themselves to be ignorant of history lessons are doomed to repeat them, and we don't want our children or grandchildren to have to repeat this one. The good Lord might not be so forgiving of their arrogance the second time around.

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P.S. THANKSGIVING IS NOT ONLY A GOOD TIME to reflect and instruct on the evils and delusions of socialism, and the enormous virtues of well-secured liberty and property rights of so, in an academic sense. It is also a great time to think about these things from a practical and personal perspective. Here's a picture-worth-a-thousand-words on that point. Click on it for more:

Cheers!

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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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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)

SO, THE 'OTHER VOICES' ARTICLE TODAY is not from an "other voice". Instead, its just one of my own old rants which I wrote not long after Trump took office last time.

I am offering these thoughts again now in reaction to the disturbing batch of war-mongers, neo-cons, Israel Firsters, Covid/vax co-conspirators and other establishment hacks being forwarded for appointments by Trump this time around-- just like last time around.

"Meet the new Boss, same as the old Boss." 'Cuz we DID get fooled again.

How it all shakes out in the end remains to be seen, of course. But as many learned the last time, personnel is policy, and with rare exceptions (of unknown sincerity or durability) Trump is again surrounding himself with people comfortable (and, in many cases, complicit) with way too many of the evils of "establishment Washington".

Everyone should have been expecting this, of course. It is always thus.

Hence, these words of warning, and reminder that a real solution is always at hand-- it's just not one that comes out of the political process:

The Delusional Style In American Politics

We should be so lucky as to have an actual "paranoid style" motivating voters...

A LOT OF INTERESTING QUIRKS in the American political psyche were highlighted during the 2016 presidential campaign. The one most interesting to me is the widely-held notion that it's possible to have a big, rich and activist state which, despite these attributes, nonetheless humbly respects and protects individual rights and subordinates itself to the rule of law.

Accompanying this peculiar notion of a humble and respectful superstate is another silly idea-- that Americans can persistently send large amounts of money to Washington and their local statehouse and yet simultaneously be rescued from having to do so by people from Washington and their local statehouses. Both of these crazy ideas are expressions of the Delusional Style of American Politics.

The recent "repeal Obamacare" debacle should prove to all that no remedy for Leviathan will be found in the political process. Even just this one recent statist offense-- a takeover of the healthcare market not fully in place until only two years ago and which is widely despised and considered a harmful wreck by Democrat and Republican voters alike-- is so invulnerable to a political remedy that a "reform" was the best the political process could muster, and even that half-assed effort largely failed.

I BELIEVE DELUSIONAL EXPECTATIONS of a humble Leviathan and saintly office-holders are the result of a relentless campaign by every political hack of the last 119 years to misconstrue the concept of "American Exceptionalism". Under the misconstruction, America-- or the American structure of government-- is imagined to be inherently incapable of elevating scoundrels, incompetents and outright criminals to office, or, at a minimum, is imagined to be self-correcting should this have happened by means of the same mechanisms that allowed the problem to arise in the first place.

But this is crazy-talk. Incumbents in high office have enjoyed re-election odds of over 90% for decades, with only few and slight occasional dips down to the upper 80s for the House and little more volatility for the Senate. The bureaucrats that actually interpret and administer policy are in office for life, as are the judges and justices that write and re-write and interpret and enforce whatever they fancy as the law.

Under no circumstances does the American structure contain meaningful self-correcting mechanisms by way of the political process. Quite the contrary, in fact.

Like any other, the American political process tends to cement into place the status quo generally. Also like most any other, the American political process tends to steadily raise the bar of political-class bad behavior which will be punished-- or even remarked at all-- by their fellows, who conveniently reserve unto themselves the power of punishment.

AGAIN, THE VIEW THAT AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM LIES in our political structure, which somehow can be counted on to produce good rulers or at least discipline the bad ones, is the source of delusion. In fact, that delusional notion is nearly the precise opposite of the truth.

American exceptionalism actually lies in the fact that key areas of power and decision-making are Constitutionally-withheld from our governmental organs and those who find their way into office, no matter how good or bad they may be. As Jefferson said, explaining this point, "Let no more be heard of confidence in [any officeholder], but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."

Areas from which politicians and their cronies and appointees are kept by the chains of the Constitution are left to states (themselves bound down by their own Constitutions), and, more broadly and more importantly, to the rule of individual Americans. The Founders understood that individual Americans, and ONLY individual Americans, would, in exercising their power on behalf of their own self-interest in each such area, further the well-being of all in a natural "invisible hand" ripple-effect dynamic of sobriety and prosperity as first (or at least, most famously) spelled out by Adam Smith in his 1776 masterwork, 'The Wealth of Nations'.

Chief among the areas of power withheld from unreliable office-holders is the disposal of the wealth of individual citizens. The Constitution is carefully designed to prevent the state-- that is, the organ embodying the aggregate will of the majority-- from exercising control over any individual's wealth or means of acquiring wealth.

The Founders well understood that control over the means by which a man satisfies his wants is control over his will-- which is to say, despotism. Our federal and state Constitutions proscribe all means by which governments and those who run them can exercise despotism.

Thus we have the great rules of federal taxation by which any and all capitations and other direct taxes (click here to see what this means-- it's not what you think) are confined to application by the mechanism of apportionment. Only indirect taxes (click here to see what this means-- it's not what you think), which by their nature leave regulation of their burden in the hands of the individual (click here to see what this means-- it's not what you think), can be applied without this insulating device.

IT IS THESE CONTROLLING PROVISIONS RELATED TO TAXATION, along with other strict limits on government power and authority, that make America exceptional. It is not our political structure; rather, it is what we keep from being vulnerable to the products of our political structure.

Reliance on the political process, and hoping that White Knights will be produced thereby who will save us from the corruption and criminality of the last products of the political process, is just the usual delusional stupidity that has plagued and paralyzed mankind since the first naif hoped the new king would have lesser appetites than the one just departed. Only the exceptional withholding of power from any and all office-holders will do the trick.

"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him."

-Ezra Pound

 

...and now proceed to the afterword below...

 

Afterword

SO, LET'S GET GOING and ensure that a large-enough portion of the American population quickly learn the truth about the income tax and begin saying "NO!" along with the CtC community, such that even though Washington remains in the hands of establishment hacks and self-servers (if not outright nutcases) it becomes bereft of the resources for its myriad evil ways to persist.

Such an effort is easier than ever 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.

Remember, 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. Each such act makes use of state-restraining tools baked into the Constitutional cake by the Founders and Framers, and each such act WILL make a difference, however small. Most important, each such act will absolve the actor from the dishonor of participation in the heinous crimes their resources would otherwise finance.

All that is required is some knowledge (which can be gotten here), 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.

You can find all of this explained here, along with links to some additional relevant resources.

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?

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

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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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Do you have a victory to share? Click here to learn how to do so.

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:

Well!

About Last Tuesday...

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Along with a pet-peeve about the "college educated" demographic distinction, a few comments

Regarding Trump's Mandate

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Here's a good question:

How Long Can Christians Continue To Turn A Blind Eye To Israel's Atrocities?

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Though it may sound odd to begin with, hear me out:

BRICS Might Be America's Best Hope

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A few comments, and endorsements of a sort,

Regarding Next Week's Elections

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Word to the West:

If Israel Attacks Iran, Russia Is Not Going To Stay On The Sidelines

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

One Moore Try...

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A nice little connect-the-dots historical review:

From 9/11 To 7/10: The Fake 'War On Terror' Collapses

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

Back Again To Moore

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Regarding the immigrant invasion:

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

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To many agenda-driven people, it's

America, The Candy Store

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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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Our interesting times continue to deliver...

It's A Good Time For Some More Victory Posts

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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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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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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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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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Never needed more than now:

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

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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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Among other thoughts on current events,

An Important Message To The Christian Community

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Among other thoughts on current events,

Support For Israel Is Giving Christianity A Bad Name

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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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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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Apologetically,

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

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Amongst comments on other current topics...

A Prescription Against Today's Dangerous "DEI" Infection

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

Good-Bye, Ron DeSantis

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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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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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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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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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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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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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The lesson to learn from...

Why Tucker Carlson Got Fired

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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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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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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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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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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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So...

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

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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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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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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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With winter coming on, it's a good time to remember:

The Biggest Snow-Job In History

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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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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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Because they seem necessary:

Cognitive Inoculations Against Selected Misunderstandings, Misinformation And Madness

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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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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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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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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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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:

November 26- In 1778, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui, Hawaii.  In 1789, a national Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in America upon the recommendation of George Washington.  In 2021, the COVID-19 theatrical gets revived with the WHO's declaration of the "Omicron variant".

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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:

November 27- In 1870, the New York Times dubs baseball America's National Game.  1924, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held in New York City.  In 1965, Pentagon officials inform the Johnson administration that a "surge" is necessary for success in Vietnam.

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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:

November 28- In 1895, the first American automobile race is run-- 54 miles of thunder and speed.  The winner hit the finish line after approximately 10 hours of hard driving.  In 1907, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.  In 1979, an Air New Zealand DC 10 crashes at full speed into Mt. Erebus, Antarctica, due to a navigation error, killing all 257 on board.  As can be plainly seen from the image below, actual high-speed large-commercial-aircraft crashes leave a whole lot of obvious wreckage:

Click here for related material.

In 1991, South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.

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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:

November 29- In 1947, the UN General Assembly votes to partition Palestine into separate Jewish and Palestinian states.  In 1963, the Warren Commission is established to investigate the assassination of JFK.  In 1967, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara resigns.  In 1972, 'Pong' makes its first appearance, in a tavern in California.  In 1983, the UN General Assembly resolves that the Soviet Union should end its occupation of Afghanistan.

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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:

November 30- In 1782, Representatives of the United States and Great Britain sign preliminary articles of peace as the first step toward the 1783 Treaty of Paris in which Britain relinquishes all claim to each of the 13 sovereign and independent American states.  In 1804, impeachment proceedings are begun against United States Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase for allowing political bias to influence his judicial decisions.  In 1872, the first-ever international football (soccer) match takes place, between Scotland and England.  In 1999, large-scale protests against a WTO meeting in Seattle force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.

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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:

December 1- In 1913, Ford introduces the moving assembly line; Crete, having just secured independence from the Ottoman empire, is annexed by Greece.  In 1955, Rosa Parks stands her ground.  In 1969, the Vietnam war draft lottery begins.

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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.