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In order to overcome a lifetime's worth of propaganda, I'm...
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.
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.
***
BTW, join me on The Shields Report
the first Saturday of every month at 5PM EDT!!
...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.
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.
***
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.
Enjoy!
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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.
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.
***
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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Share these all, everywhere you can. Be your most
creative self in sending and "selling" these links. Do memes; make
gifs; respond to everything in the news that would be or have been
better had the state been small, or if Americans kept their money
for their own uses.
If you pay attention to the news and train yourself to
apply these perspectives, you will see a dozen things of which you
can make use in awakening other Americans to the virtues of having
the income tax correctly administered. Please, for my sake, for your
own sake, for the sake of your children and their future, make that
use.
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*****
Not Letting This "Crisis" Go To Waste...
...an important action item opportunity.
FRIENDS, THE SPORADIC EASINGS of the despotic measures to
which most of the country has been subjected under
since the onset of the
COVID-19 hobgoblin narrative should not be
allowed to bleed off the head of steam you probably had been developing.
The offenses happened, and they're far from over. Stay hot.
And while you are all warmed up, and while others, if
they're smart, are just as hot, I'd like you to send an email (and
Facebook post, or whatever) with the following content to everyone you
can (with a request that they pass it along, in turn):
[Name], since March of 2020 you've
watched as over-fed state power has been used to literally destroy
classical Western civilization and impose a new despotic paradigm. No
dissent or debate permitted-- no permission or agreement sought.
YOU KNOW where this will end up if the arrogant
state power being used to make this happen isn't radically diminished in
size, influence, resources and popular support, and exposed as an
opportunistic exploiter of legal ignorance (an ignorance which it has
been nurturing in the average mind for decades).
Those things having not yet happened, you
should be quaking in your boots-- and you probably are.
Isn't it time-- and past time-- for you to
begin helping to make those desperately-needed defensive changes take
place? There is only one way these things can happen short of a
who-knows-what we'll-end-up-with explosion of violence. I'm going to
show it to you.
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."
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.
P.S. DO YOU WANT THIS
ARTICLE to make a difference? It only will
do so if YOU PASS IT ON TO OTHERS.
Please do that.
Use the permalink address
below to post on social media. Or use the
"e-mail this article" link to send it to
someone else by that method.
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!
[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.
Are you ready for a challenge that'll put some real meaning
behind all the effort you went through to get your credentials?
Send me an email.
*****
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.
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".
*****
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.
*****
Hey! If you're not getting the newsletter delivered
to your email inbox every Monday, go to
this link
and subscribe to the group-- leave all options in their default states.
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.
*****
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.
Every victim of the "ignorance tax", 'cause it's all
just statist consent-engineering propaganda.
*****
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!
*****
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:
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:
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!!
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.
*****
"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
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.
*****
*****
'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:
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.
*****
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.
